Chapter 179
The girl is looking at her ancient poetry book and silently reciting the lute lines. There was still one paragraph left that she had been unable to recite.
When she was grabbed by the shoulder, she was shocked by the pain.
She screamed, clutched her bag and subconsciously tried to run.
But her shoulders were firmly fixed and she could not move, even with the force of her feet.
The girl turned back with trepidation and was even more frightened when she saw the girl, who was almost a head taller than her.
Her voice trembled and was as thin as a mosquito’s, “Who are you? What do you want?”
“Take it out.” Ying Zidian repeated again, her eyebrows chilling, “Wen Huilan’s pa*s.”
Hearing the last few words, the girl’s expression changed sharply and her body cowered.
She forced down the panic inside her heart, strong and calm, and her voice gradually grew louder: “What did you say? I don’t even know any Wen Huilan, how could I have his pa*s?”
“You let go of me now! Today is my entrance exam, if you disturb me, you’re a sinner!”
At the end of the sentence, the girl’s voice grew louder and louder, very justified.
It was eight o’clock at this time, and there was a huge crowd outside the examination hall, all parents escorting their children to take the exam.
After seeing this scene, the generation was very angry.
“Is this a candidate too? Why are they still pulling others strongly? It’s almost time to enter the examination hall, what if it delays people’s exams?”
“How can you do that when time is delayed and your mind is broken?”
The girl saw that people around her were speaking for her and got smug.
“See? You get off me!” She lifted her chin and shouted up in one direction again, vaguely crying, “Mum, look at her, she’s stopping me, not letting me take the exams!”
“What are you doing?” From the other side of the resting booth hurriedly came the angry to the extreme, angrily shouted, “Let go of my daughter!”
“She’s taking her exams today, can you afford to do any damage?”
“I don’t want to make a move on a girl.” Ying Zidian’s hand increased in strength, “This is your last chance, take it out and nothing will happen.”
There were more and more people around, the girl wasn’t afraid at all: “I told you, I didn’t take anyone else’s pa*s, you’re obviously trying to disturb my exams!”
She turned her head and said to the woman beside her, “Mom, the police uncle is just outside to maintain, she is going to be arrested for disturbing the order of the examination hall!”
Everyone in the college entrance examination was taking it seriously, and the officers maintaining order were alarmed and rushed over.
“This student, please let her go immediately.” A police officer looked serious, “Otherwise you will be expelled for disturbing the order of the entrance examination hall.”
Ying raised her eyes, “It’s your choice.”
The girl’s heart inexplicably panicked, but she wasn’t afraid at all, and she sneered in a condescending manner, “What choice is mine, I think you are-”
“Whoa!”
The clear stationery bag she was holding tightly to protect was ripped off with one hand.
The force was mutual, and the girl’s body leaned back uncontrollably.
The woman caught her just in time to keep her from falling.
Seeing the pens thrown all over the floor again, she couldn’t help but be shocked and angry: “You’ve gone too far! Comrade officer, such a bad person must be taken away, so vicious at such a young age, what else will you do when you grow up?”
“Yaoyao!”
“Sister!”
Wen Fengmian and Wen Huilan came over from the other side and were both a bit stunned when they saw this scene.
Fu Yunshen stepped forward and blocked in front of Ying Zidian, smiling, “What’s too much?”
Ying Zidian bent down and picked up the stationery bag.
The girl’s expression changed again, but before she could stop her, Ying Zidian had already taken out her exam pa*s from the bag.
The college entrance examination pa*s is just a piece of paper, but many schools will put a transparent bag on the outside to prevent it from being damaged.
The girl’s heart thumped and she tugged at the woman’s clothes, crying, “Mum! She must have picked a fight on purpose, she yao tore my pa*s.”
At these words, the few policemen responsible for maintaining order also turned pale.
The officer who had spoken earlier could only wave his hand, “Take her out of the examination hall first.”
There were still people around taking pictures.
What the girl didn’t expect at all was that at this point in time, Ying Ziji was still calm.
Not one, but two.
She put the other one back into the stationery bag and raised the pa*s in her hand: “You didn’t take it, why did you find my brother’s pa*s here?”
The girl’s face turned white with a swish, her lips trembled and her body kept shaking.
The cla*s teacher rushed over and took a look, “It’s Listen Lan’s pa*s.”
Wen Huilan was stunned: “Sister?”
He still didn’t know what had happened earlier.
Ying patted him on the shoulder, signalling that he was fine, and turned his head: “Excuse me, officer, what is the penalty for stealing an exam pa*s from a college entrance exam candidate?”
“……”
No one around was expecting this.
This girl looked so harmless, and she turned out to be a thief?
The woman’s face was also ugly: “How could my daughter do something like stealing an exam pa*s? Maybe they were accidentally mixed up when they were issued.”
“Nonsense, you’re not even in our cla*s.” The cla*s teacher became even angrier when the pa*s was recovered, “How could I have given it to you?”
A slap in the face, the woman’s face was on fire and she was embarra*sed to the core.
At that moment, the bell rang, signifying that it was time to enter the examination hall.
The girl pursed her lips and was about to grab her stationery bag and run to the school.
But she couldn’t run out, and Ying Zigui lifted her collar.
Then she gave her pa*s to Wen Huilan and said, “Xiaolan, go to the exam first.”
Wen Huilan also knew that now was not the time to ask, and after nodding, she went inside.
The girl’s face held red: “I said I didn’t steal it, who knew it would be in my stationery bag, I have to take the college entrance exam, what do you mean you wronged me and stopped me?”
“What about this matter, you say we wronged you, then wait for the evidence.” The company’s main business is to provide a wide range of products and services to its customers.
Seeing that all the candidates had already gone in, the girl cried anxiously, “I want to take the test, let me take the test!”
Ying Zidian was unmoved.
The officer in charge of maintenance was a bit unforgiving: “Hey, little girl, why don’t you let her go in first, after all ……”
Before he could finish the latter words, he was interrupted by a young man who had arrived in a hurry.
He held his computer and opened a video, “This is the surveillance.”
The video wasn’t very long, and because it was street surveillance, the clarity wasn’t too high, but the girl’s dress could be clearly identified.
She was accompanying another female student to collect her pa*s, this one from the cla*s of Excellence and a cla*s officer.
The cla*s teacher, who was also handing out to other students, had the female student help distribute the points because there were more people.
And it was at this time that the girl took advantage of the situation and secretly took away Wen Huilan’s pa*s and put it in her own stationery bag.
The officer’s expression changed all of a sudden.
The woman was also stunned, obviously not really knowing that her daughter would do such a thing.
The girl’s face went pale: “No, I didn’t mean to do it!”
She had thought that she would tear up Wen Weilan’s pa*s and rush into the toilet once she got inside the school.
This way, Wen Weilan would not be able to take the entrance exam without her pa*s.
The street surveillance is not that easy to transfer.
But the girl didn’t expect that she had only hidden Wen’s pa*s for a short time before it was discovered.
“Stealing a college entrance exam pa*s will result in the cancellation of your college entrance exam results.” The officer looked serious, “Moreover, it will be recorded in the record, please ask this student to come with us.”
The girl’s eyes went black and she almost pa*sed out.
The woman was also anxious: “Comrade officer, how can it be so heavy? Besides, we have returned the examination card, the entrance examination is very important to our children, and we already know that we are wrong.”
“The situation is so bad that the exam results are cancelled for sure.” The officer didn’t relent, “The record will not be recorded, you have to ask the victim if she accepts the settlement.”
The girl’s gaze rekindled with hope.
“Reconciliation, of course.” The woman was also busy saying, “It’s already okay, what’s the point of not reconciling.”
“Sorry, no reconciliation.” Ying Ziyang raised her hand and pressed her baseball cap, her eyes cold, “I gave you a chance.”
Even though she was ready for Wen Huilan to go to Norton University, that didn’t mean the entrance exams were going to be ruined.
The girl’s body trembled, remembering her earlier brutal pestering and sophistry, she couldn’t say a word, and just kept on shedding tears.
“It was Bai Shaoshi who told you how to do that.” Ying didn’t look at the girl again, but the name she said made her even more frightened, “Uncle police, check her financial dealings, the instigator is an adult.”
The officer was serious, “Definitely, the instigator is more guilty.”
He waved his hand and told his colleague to take the girl away.
**
The two days of the entrance exams were soon over.
Once the English exam bell rang, the students were running out like mad.
Wen heard Lan still did not have any feelings, but the cla*s president pulled him: “Go go go, listen Lan, this graduation will go their separate ways and not see each other, how must we get together today.”
Then he turned his head happily, “Ying Shen, Seventh Younger, come along.”
In the end, a group from the Senior Excellence cla*s chartered a few large tables outside the barbecue stall, just down the road from Qingzhi.
They ordered barbecued meat and beer, along with a large plate of chicken and shrimp-tailed field snails.
“Listen Lan, how’s it going?” The cla*s president asked, “You’re sure of the top prize, right?”
“Yes.” Wen heard Lan say succinctly, “I didn’t write my essay properly, so I have no hope of getting a perfect score.”
Cla*s president: “……”
He shouldn’t talk to perverts.
“Looks like we’ll see you at Imperial University.” The cla*s president patted his shoulder, “Maybe we’ll even get sorted into the same dorm.”
As soon as those words fell, a mocking voice rang out from not far away.
“Yeah, isn’t this the only way to go to Teito University without the Norton University interview?”
The cla*s leader turned his head and saw He Xun with two students from the international cla*s and a boy who had taken Wen Huilan’s place, waiting for the bus.
Today they were leaving for the airport, heading to O Chau.
The one who opened his mouth to speak was the boy.
He Xun’s gaze paused on the girl before moving away.
“It’s tragic, if you weren’t not to Mr. He’s liking, this interview qualification wouldn’t have reached me.” The boy tsked, “Don’t worry, I’ll definitely get the invitation to the D-level academy for you.”
Wen Hanlan looked cold and didn’t say a word.
“An invitation from Norton University?” Fu Yunshen looked sideways and suddenly smiled, “Coincidentally, I was just about to give it to my younger brother.”
He took out a card from his pocket and placed it on the table.
It was black, with a stamped gold border.
Very close to the barbecue table, He Xun saw two lines on the card.
Norton University.
Ss level.
Chapter 180
“……”
In an instant all sound was gone.
It looked no different from an ordinary greeting card, and could even be called the word rough.
But the kind of pattern outlined by the gold-stamped edge indicated the extraordinary nature of this black cardboard.
Ying Zidian’s eyes were fixed.
She recognised the pattern.
It was on the second card of the Great Arcana of the Tarot, the card of the magician with the serial number “1”.
Also, it was indeed the kind of pattern commonly used at Norton University.
It was also true that only a certain alchemical madman could write such ugly characters.
After Fu Yunshen placed the card on the table, not to mention Wen Weilan, the other students in the senior elite cla*s were also a bit stunned.
An invitation from Norton University?
Or from an SS level college?
Although they knew nothing about the inner workings of Norton University, they all knew that the two letters ss, stood for the highest level.
“And an invitation from an ss-ranked college?” The boy froze at first and almost laughed, “Is there an ss level college at Norton University? Don’t just open your mouth.”
He Xun, however, pursed his lips and stayed silent, his expression also a little frosty.
He hadn’t gotten an invitation, after all, he had gone to a d-rank college, which could only be considered a hangover.
But he had seen the invitations from A-rank colleges.
Nothing so rudimentary, much less just two simple lines, but the paper used, it seemed, was one of a kind.
This kind of paper, too, he had only seen in his tutor’s office.
It was said to be so precious that fire could not burn it and water could not soak through it.
He had also heard his mentor mention that every invitation issued by Norton University also came with a miniature positioning system, in order to prevent loss.
He Xun’s gaze shifted down and landed on the middle of the black foil card, and he indeed saw a tiny particle protruding there.
His pupils contracted violently, and his facial muscles twitched slightly in disbelief.
When the boys and the two students from the international cla*s saw this expression on his face, they couldn’t help but feel a little alarmed.
It was hard to believe that this was really an invitation from Norton University’s ss-level academy?
It couldn’t be.
Whoever got an invitation from Norton University would not go there themselves and give it away?
The first thing you need to do is to get a letter of invitation from Norton University.
The boy opened his mouth, “Teacher He, then ……”
“Time’s up.” The corners of He Xun’s lips tensed straight, suppressing the doubts in his heart, “Let’s go.”
The odds are that it’s an imitation.
He had been at Norton University for four years and had never heard of an invitation from an SS level college.
Seeing that He Xun didn’t give an answer either, the boy was relieved instead and gave another cold and sarcastic sentence, “If this is really an invitation from Norton University’s ss-level college, I’ll see you at Norton University if you have the guts.”
Only when she heard these words did Ying Ziyi lift her eyes and raise her eyebrows.
He Xun’s pupils shrank again.
Lip-syncing was a compulsory course at Norton University, and he read what the girl said.
–Then I’ll see you at the Norton University interview.
He Xun immediately averted his eyes and stopped looking.
When the exclusive shuttle bus arrived, the four went up.
The barbecue table was still quiet and no one was talking.
The cla*s leader subconsciously swallowed and carefully touched the black card, “Seven, seven youngsters, is this really an invitation from Norton University?”
The handwriting was too scribbled.
Fu Yunshen’s eyelashes lifted, lazily: “What do you think?”
“I think it’s real.” The cla*s president was so sure of himself that he swore, “Even if I’m blind, it’s still true.”
The study member shook his head and lowered his voice to the sports member, “He’s drunk again.”
“Exactly!” The cla*s president vigorously patted Wen Listen Lan’s shoulder and burped, “Where does our cla*s Listen Lan still need any interview qualifications, the invitation will come straight to them and sour them.”
“By then they’ll be gone after the interview and can only watch us listen to Lan study in Norton University.”
“……”
The sports commissioner sighed, “Really drunk.”
Wen Listenlan was silent.
He didn’t really care if this invitation was real or not.
Although he was interested in Norton University, it wasn’t his only option.
Imperial University’s ranking on the qs world university rankings in recent years had also been rising again and had already entered the top ten.
Norton University was still far away in continent O. If he went, there would be no one to take care of Wen Fengmian.
“Thanks.” Wen heard Lan push that invitation back, “I can’t take it.”
“Hm?” Fu Yunshen didn’t take it and raised his eyebrows, “It’s just for you, why can’t I take it?”
“It’s too expensive.” Wen Huilan hugged her bowl, “Dad and sister both said that I can’t take expensive things given by others.”
“It’s nothing expensive.” Fu Yunshen smiled, “It’s just a piece of paper.”
He was lazy and seemed to be pitying, “I have turned down a big business deal for you.”
Divination by diviners is important, but it is always more important than the people around you.
Hearing these words, Ying Ziji’s expression also gave a pause, her pupils moving slightly.
The post she had made a few days ago could be said to have been seen by nine-tenths of the users in the nok forum.
The first time she heard the name nok forum, she heard it from Fu Yunshen.
It was normal for him to have an account.
Because of the last ice jade, he also knew that the number Coke Milk Tea Fries was hers.
But there was no need for her to hide this number.
Ying Ziji’s eyelashes dropped slightly.
But she hadn’t really thought that Fu Yunshen had the invitation to the SS level academy in his hands.
However, apart from getting the invitation, she did have to make a trip to Norton University.
It wasn’t a waste of posting.
Wen Huilan was still holding her bowl, not saying anything.
“This way.” Fu Yunshen raised his hand and knocked on the table, curving his lips, “I will keep it for you first, when you become the top student in the college entrance exam, you will take the invitation away.”
Hearing these words, Wen Huilan looked at the man for a long time.
He hesitated for a moment and used a very small voice: “Do you have any intentions towards my sister?”
Fu Yunshen: “?”
The teenager’s face was expressionless: “Don’t you think, this is impossible, I will stop you.”
Fu Yunshen: “……”
He really didn’t have any intentions.
The only intention he had might be that he thought that the child’s fur was quite smooth and his face was quite squishy.
Sometimes like a kitten.
Fu Yunshen raised his eyebrows: “Well, it’s fine if you think so.”
Wen heard Lan frown slightly, raised his hand and tugged him: “You keep your voice down, what if my sister hears you and she gets shy?”
“It’s very small, but -” Fu Yunshen was interested, “What do you think this shyness is all about, listen?”
Ying Ziji picked up a skewer of grilled platelets, her tone was light and unhurried, “No need to be small, I can hear you, speak up.”
“……”
**
o Continent, Filippo.
The very heart of Laurent Castle.
The room is so luxurious that even the floor is made of gold.
The only colour that was different was the velvet-covered bed.
On the bed leaned a young man with handsome features and deep features like an ancient Roman sculpture.
His hair was also as brilliant as gold and his eyes were a deep blue, as deep and vast as the sea, seemingly adorned with stars.
The young man’s fingers traced casually over the tablet, looking worse and worse the more he looked.
This was Cesar Laurent.
The most distinguished and honourable controller in the centuries-old history of the Laurent family.
So much so that when he was a*sa*sinated and killed at the time, the entire Laurent family withdrew from the Villefranche with him as a sign of their pledge to follow him to the death.
The few old men who were left knew that he would wake up later.
But they lived only as long as a normal human being, so they pa*sed the secret down from generation to generation.
Once pa*sed on, it has been pa*sed on to the present.
Jobe Laurent, is one of the servants who serves Cesar today.
It was he, too, who sent the ice jade to the Chung family side last time.
As for the rest of the Laurent family, none of them knew that the man in power was centuries older, let alone that the man in power was actually older than the oldest man in the family.
A body that has been transformed by alchemy also looks forever.
That’s how powerful alchemy is.
That is why the alchemical world is, in some ways, stronger than the ancient medical world.
It was also because of Cesar Laurent’s special status that the core of the castle where he lived was not allowed to be set foot in by other family members.
Jobe knocked on the door and was granted permission before walking in.
He bowed respectfully, an old medieval salute.
“Master, it is time for you to go into hibernation.”
Cesar put the tablet down, looked at his pale skin and tsked, “What a waste.”
Thanks to his boss, he was reawakening, but every month, he had to sleep for fifteen days.
Otherwise his heart would collapse and he would die again.
Since the night of May 31, when his boss had appeared, he had sent her a number of private messages, but they had all sunk into the sea, with no reply.
It was clear to Cesar that the Divine Reckoner wanted to hide, and even if she was standing in front of you, you wouldn’t be able to find her.
He stretched.
It would have to be cheap for that dog Norton to meet the boss before he did.
**
After the entrance exams were over, Ying booked herself a flight ticket for the 9th.
Although Wen Fengmian had asked her to find someone to follow him, but she was too much trouble.
By the way, make this trip to O Chau and bring back the stove she used to use for making medicine.
The converted electric pressure cooker was still too much work.
The potency would still be lost and it wouldn’t be able to withstand the highly poisonous herbs.
Ying picked up her bag and was about to head out without taking anything with her.
A message popped up on her phone at that moment.