Chapter 517
Xue Guohua blinked and blinked again, a little confused.
He pinched himself to death and then patted Li Han’s shoulder, “Little, little cold ah, you help me see, am I old and dizzy, is it hervin?”
Li Han was also a bit stunned: “No, no, your eyes are broken I am not broken, I can see very clearly.”
Hervin’s popularity in the international research community had reached the point where even students who were not professors in this field of physics knew him.
A truly international top professor, he is also known as a modern day Simon Brand.
Ying’s schoolmate had actually given her Helvin’s experimental project?!
Li Han suddenly remembered the project presentation that had shocked the entire scientific research community in June on o continent.
The cosmic aircraft carrier experiment project!
Ever since the venus group and the Laurent family had invested together, how many researchers around the world had wanted to squeeze in.
What she had been asking for, and Ying had just given it to her?
Li Han was a bit confused.
Was this called asking her for a favour?
“Little Han, you’re rich!” Xue Guohua was overjoyed after confirming that he had read it correctly, “Professor Helvin gave you all the experimental content for this part of the maneuvering device, you’re definitely the core group of researchers here!”
Even if they weren’t core, an experimental project of this level, even if it was just a titular project, would be able to gain a complete foothold in the international research community.
Li Han spoke quietly, “Didn’t you say that you couldn’t rob your closed disciples?”
“Nonsense, how can this be called robbery?” Xue Guohua didn’t feel the slightest bit embarra*sed and spoke righteously, “This is to contribute to the development of humanity in the cause of science, Xiao Han, I am granting you special permission to suspend other experimental projects.”
Li Han walked away, clutching the experimental documents.
Xue Guohua coughed and called the physics department on the landline, pretending to speak without thinking, “Xiao Zuo, let me ask you about Ying’s cla*smate.”
Zuo Li was wary: “What do you want to ask?”
“I’m just asking if Ying has asked your physics students to help with any experimental projects?”
Hearing this, Zuo Li let out a sigh of relief: “No, why?”
“Fine, fine, that’s fine.” Xue Guohua hung up the phone decisively, completely ignoring Zuo Li’s bewilderment.
He left the office with his hands behind his back, happy.
It was good that in this aspect, they had finally overpowered the Physics Department by a mile.
The Department of Computer Science, it was the top of the three faculties!
**
On this day, October 3, Xiu Yu returned to the Xiu family with the people sent to her by the Manson family.
The news that the Xiu Family’s racing team had won first place had also long since spread throughout the Xiu Family.
The older generation of the Xiu Family, the various factions as well as the shareholders of the Xiu Group, all personally came to welcome Xiu Yu back.
Even Master Xiu, who no longer cared about Xiu Yan’s younger brother, came out in his wheelchair to receive Xiu Yu first.
He also had a rare smile on his face, “Little Yu, where is the contract from the Manson family? Let grandpa take a look.”
With the Manson Family around, the Xiu Family could immediately soar to the heavens.
“Old man, I’m so sorry.” Xiu Yu clapped his hands and smiled, it was cold, “The Manson Family made a deal with me that as long as the Xiu Family’s principal is not me, they will withdraw all resources and will definitely not cooperate with the Xiu Family.”
The moment these words came out, everyone in the living room paled.
Master Xiu’s face was even more gloomy, his voice squeezed out from between his teeth, “Xiu Yu! I am your grandfather!”
If this was the case, how else could he pa*s on the Xiu family to his grandson?
“This time you know to say you are my grandfather? What have you been doing?” Xiu Yu wrapped his arms around him, “I don’t have a grandfather like you, now, please take that grandson of yours and you can get the hell out of the Xiu family.”
Master Xiu’s face turned blue: “What did you say?!”
Xiu Yu didn’t say anything more, instead he looked at the rest of the Xiu family and the shareholders of the Xiu Group.
Without even having to weigh the pros and cons, someone immediately spoke up, vocalizing their agreement.
“Old master, you’re getting old, it’s time for the Xiu family to be pa*sed on to younger people.”
“Yes old master, if you can pull in the Manson family’s investment, we will naturally still support you.”
Old Master Xiu was shaking with anger, “You, you guys ……!”
How could he not have expected that Xiu Yu would actually want to take away his power.
And now all these people in the Xiu family were also on her side.
“Oh, I forgot, old man you can’t roll with your broken leg.” Xiu Yu smiled again, “You guys come, help him roll.”
The two bodyguards were sent by the Manson family, and just listening to Xiu Yu’s words, they quickly stepped forward and just like that, they legged Old Man Xiu out with his wheelchair.
Naturally, Xiu Yu also gave Master Xiu’s grandson to him, so that the grandfather and grandson could go together.
“Don’t squeeze in the villa when it comes to business.” Xiu Shaowan spoke up, “Go to the company and talk about it.”
The shareholders excused themselves one by one.
The Xiu family became one from today onwards, solid as gold.
Xiu Yu would be the real head of the family.
After finishing sorting things out, Xiu Yu turned his head and looked at the girl with a serious expression, “Ying Dad, in the future, the Xiu Family, too, will be your backing.”
Although she knew that the current Xiu Family was just a big family here in the imperial capital.
Not to mention the ancient martial arts world, it couldn’t even squeeze in internationally.
But with the Manson family’s investment, the Xiu family would soon be able to break into the international arena.
Ying Zidian held her shoulders and smiled very lightly: “I need it very much.”
After a pause: “You didn’t apply to the Imperial University?”
“Hmm.” Xiu Yu nodded and said softly, “I enrolled in a foreign school and chose two majors, business administration and finance, and I couldn’t let the Xiu family fall before I found my father.”
She had declined and avoided it for five years, and now she had to face it head on.
“That’s right, Ying Dad.” Xiu Yu looked solemn and pulled out an object, “Look at this, I suspect it has something to do with my father’s disappearance, this is what I found later.”
It was a fragment of a gla*s, only the bottom of which was left.
Ying Ziji took it and looked at it, and his eyes abruptly changed.
The design on the bottom of the gla*s was a bit blurred, but a black skull symbol could be seen clearly.
But after the bombing in the university city of O Chau, IBi and Norton University had joined hands to track it down, but the logo had not appeared again.
The group of people had gone to nowhere and there was no trace of them.
Moreover, it was able to hire so many hunters at will.
The enemy was far more powerful than they thought.
“Can you give me this?” Ying Zigui paused, “I want to give it to ibi.”
“Okay, here you go.” Xiu Yu nodded, “There’s no use for me to keep it.”
Ying Zidian put the gla*s fragment away, his eyes sunken.
“Finally, I’ve cleaned up this old man who was an eyesore.” Xiu Yu stretched out, “Ying Dad, are we going out for dinner tomorrow? There’s a new restaurant opening on the west street of the empire.”
Ying Ziji shook his head, “I’m not free tomorrow, the day after tomorrow.”
“Huh? What are you going to do?”
“To be a magus.”
Xiu Yu: “????”
**
Li Han and Ying Ziji made an appointment to go to a specific place the next day to relieve her of this awful matter of borrowing luck.
She touched the tarot card again to make sure it was correct before she left the Imperial University.
Li Han had not planned to go home, but it was only when Li’s mother called her and said she was sick that she had to go back.
As soon as she entered the house, she was greeted by a tea cup.
Li Han easily avoided it and looked at the person who had started it, her eyes going cold: “Li Wenxuan!”
Li Wenxuan rolled his eyes and just sneered, “Yo, the high achiever from the Imperial University is back?”
Li Han’s face was expressionless.
As soon as she saw this look, she knew she had been tricked and turned around to leave.
“Little Han, aren’t you eating at home?” Mother Li hurriedly came out of the kitchen and called out to her, “You haven’t eaten at home for a long time.”
“Isn’t it enough that you have a son? Don’t pretend to be sick and lie to me in the future.” Li Han didn’t even look at Li’s mother and went straight out the door.
Li’s mother was embarra*sed, and a little embarra*sed.
“Don’t mind her.” Li’s father came out of the study smoking a cigarette, very indifferent, “Going to an imperial university is a big deal, if you ask me, you should have watched her properly at that time, why did you let her apply for a job? I should have let her go straight to work.”
The daughter was to be married off, and in the end, she would not be a member of their Lai family, nor would her honour be theirs.
“Okay, stop it.” Mother Li wiped her hands, “Wenxuan, let’s eat, Mum made you the sweet and sour pork you like.”
“I think what Dad said is quite right.” Li Wenxuan grunted coldly and walked over.
When he wasn’t paying attention, he stepped on the teacup he had thrown out, slipped and fell straight down with his head on the ground.
With a “bang”, he instantly fell into a coma.
“Wenxuan!” Li’s mother panicked and rushed forward, “Honey, quick, call 120!”
It was strange, ever since they borrowed the luck from Li Han for Li Wenxuan, there had never been such a situation again.
Wasn’t the luck borrowed enough?
Chapter 518
But the master they went to at the time said that as long as this borrowed luck was still there, the further they went, the better Li Wenxuan’s luck would get and there would never be such bad luck.
And so it proved to be.
Since the start of the borrowed luck, that year, Lai Wenxuan took the mid-term exams and succeeded in getting into the secondary school affiliated to the Imperial University with the same level of excellence as the next generation.
But the master also said that borrowing luck would not change much.
Lai Wenxuan did not like to study, not only that, he often fought and skipped cla*ses to bully girls.
The reason why he had never been expelled from school was still because of the nine years of compulsory education in place.
Therefore, even though he got into the secondary school affiliated to Teito University through a loan, he was discouraged from attending the school halfway through the first term of his senior year.
The Imperial University High School did not need such a rubbish student.
Later, Li’s father and mother had no choice but to pay for Li Wenxuan to be sent to a private high school.
But the family’s financial situation was not good, and if Li Wenxuan had not won a lottery, Li’s parents would not have been able to support him.
At first, Li’s mother was worried whether this borrowed luck would affect Li Han, who was her daughter after all.
Later she found that there was no big problem and Li Han was still very good.
She was relieved that her son and daughter were doing well in the past three years.
No one expected this to happen again.
Li’s father was also panicked: “I’ll go and ask Master Lou to come and ask what this is about.”
His son was his life, what could he do without it?
“What kind of Master Lou do you want to invite now?” Lai’s mother grabbed the phone out of Lai’s father’s hand, “Call 120!”
**
It hadn’t been long since he left the Li family, when Li Han received a call from Li’s mother at one point.
She hung up straight away and pulled it into the blacklist.
As a result, once she got up until after the next day, there were hundreds of additional calls on her phone from several unfamiliar numbers.
Li Han didn’t need to check, she knew that it was definitely Li’s mother calling again.
She ignored them all and put on her coat and went to meet Ying Zigui.
The two of them met at a cafe in the city centre.
After ordering two cups of coffee, Ying Zidian called a taxi and went to the fifth family’s ancestral home.
Li Han looked up, saw the ancient and elegant plaque and was intrigued: “Is this an attraction?”
“No.” Ying Ziji pushed open the door, “It’s just a residential house.”
This ancestral home of the Fifth Family was indeed well chosen.
She could break her borrowed luck here and it wouldn’t affect her at all.
After all, borrowing luck isn’t that difficult, as long as any trigonometer with real skills knows how to do it.
Ying Ziji sits down at the stone table and spreads out the tarot cards once more.
After choosing the cards, she looked up: “The person who borrowed the fortune, Lai Wenxuan, your brother.”
“Schoolmate Ying, you said the other day that you knew my eight characters to be able to borrow luck, in fact I thought of who it was.” Hearing this, Li Han took a deep breath, “I was sure after they called me more than a hundred times today.”
If Li’s mother had called her so many times, it must be Li Wenxuan that something had happened.
In Li Han’s memory, Li Wenxuan really didn’t have much luck growing up.
He was the kind of person who would hit a tree and faint when walking on the road, and had been admitted to the hospital many times.
Li Han added, “Li Wenxuan doesn’t know anything about this, so it should be my parents who did it for him.”
Ying nodded slightly and went on to choose his cards, “Your parents’ family has the throne to inherit?”
Li coldly laughed, quite contemptuously, “Do they deserve the throne? The two of them together don’t have as much inheritance as my scholarship in a year.”
Ever since she had moved out of the house when she went to university and was able to take care of herself, she had not
She really hadn’t expected that Li’s father and mother would actually lend her luck to Li Wenxuan, without the slightest consideration for her death.
Li Han’s eyes were cold and hostile.
It was as if Ying Ziji had seen her thoughts, “Maybe your parents shouldn’t know that you can’t keep borrowing luck.”
“Tsk, it’s impossible, sacrificing me for their son, they’re more than willing.” Li Han tsked, “Anyway, if they want to retire in the future, they can rely on their son, I won’t give a single cent, not even if I beg.”
Ying Ziji’s hand paused, lit an incense stick and inserted it into the incense burner.
“Schoolmate Ying, I’m actually quite well.” Li Han was calm, “There was a girl in my old village, she was the one who was miserable, she didn’t even have a real brother, only a cousin, and her father even told her not to think of asking the family for a penny.”
“It’s a patriarchal culture in my village, I can’t help it, but I escaped.”
Ying didn’t say anything, just dipped her finger in water and drew a pattern on the stone table similar to the eight trigrams.
Three minutes later, the incense burned out in the incense burner.
“It’s done.” Ying Zigui stopped moving, “From now on, no one will be able to borrow your luck either.”
Li Han was stunned, “That’s it?”
“It’s not hard to borrow luck, just know the birth date and eight characters.” Ying Ziji leaned back in his chair, lazily, “Of course, to be able to borrow luck is indeed a true trigonometer.”
The art of trigonometry is mysterious, but there are rules to follow.
Borrowing luck uses the eight characters of the birth year to step down a simple formation, the duration of the formation is one year.
Li Han had been borrowed for three years, and this formation had changed several times.
One time was more powerful than the other.
If her calculations were correct, at the end of the year, the formation would change again.
After the change, all the luck that Li Han had left would be snatched away by Li Wenxuan.
That was why he was bound to die.
Ying Zidian pondered for a long time and then stood up.
Li Han raised his eyes: “Elder sister Ying, where are you going?”
“To see the master.” Ying Zidian held her mobile phone and sent out a weibo message. “Don’t leave here until I come back, Sister Li.”
Li Han nodded, good-naturedly: “Okay.”
She watched the girl leave and inadvertently glanced at another young girl’s figure.
Rihan’s hand lurched.
Why did she seem to see, the godly man who had snubbed her a month ago?
**
Outside the fifth family’s ancestral home.
“P*ssed me off.” Fifth Moon also counted out what had happened to Li Han, “Miss, I’m going to move on the eight characters of that young lady’s parents, so they’ll know what it means to be sinister on earth!”
Ying Ziji glanced at her, “Borrowing luck isn’t what they move, they’re ordinary people, you’re doing this, you want something to happen?”
Ordinary people, using ordinary methods.
There’s no need to involve yourself in this.
Fifth Moon muttered and gave up on the idea, “So who’s the so-called master?”
Ying Zidian tossed the tarot cards, his phoenix eyes narrowed, “To the east, on Yusong Mountain.”
“Yusong Mountain?” Fifth Moon froze, “Ah ah, I know about Jade Pine Mountain, lots of trigram tellers go there to meet, a few from the Feng Shui Alliance go there too.”
“There’s one today, and grandpa and I have been invited, but we’re not really interested.”
Ying Zidian hmmed, “So you were called.”
The world of trigonometry was now very different from before; the trigonometry families were basically gone, and only the Fifth Family remained.
Since Fifth Moon had finally entered the path, Fifth Chuan had also taken her to meet many other trigonometric practitioners in the trigonometry world.
So Fifth Moon’s fame is not small now.
The administrator of Jade Pine Mountain also knew Fifth Moon, and when he saw her with a girl with a mask, he didn’t ask too many questions and let her go straight away.
Halfway up the mountain was a garden where many people, both old and young, gathered.
Fifth Moon swept a glance at the laughing crowd and lowered her voice: “Which one is it, young lady?”
Ying Zigui raised her eyes, her eyes locked on an old man and faintly: “Lou Wenhai.”
“Lou Wenhai?” Fifth Moon was startled, “It’s actually him?”
“He what?”
“My grandfather said that Lou Wenhai has formed a school of his own, with countless disciples under him, and is so strong in this line of trigonometry that the ancient martial world side has even hired him specifically.”
“Because my grandfather is not much out of the mountain, so Lou Wenhai is now more famous than him instead.” Fifth Moon scratched her head, “No wonder there are so many people here today, they should be here for Lou Wenhai.”
Ying Zigui didn’t ask any more questions, he just said, “Go.”
Fifth Moon immediately followed.
Up ahead, that old man was surrounded by a group of young people and was talking endlessly about knowledge related to trigonometry.
This was Lou Wenhai.
He was seventy-two years old this year and was highly respected.
“Master Lou, dare I ask about the eight characters ……”
“Master Lou, there’s more and more, I want to ask about the mansion.”
Master Lou stroked his beard and spoke, very much used to these boasts.
A clear and faint voice sounded, not big, but very clear.
“Since when, knowing this, can you also say you know the trigrams and forget about it.”
“……”
All the voices suddenly fell silent.
Many of them turned back, their brows furrowing as they saw it was a girl who didn’t show her face.
A newcomer?
But a newcomer, how dare she provoke Lou Wen Hai?
Master Lou was used to being pushed around, and had never met anyone who would say that about him.
Especially when it was just a maiden.
Master Lou turned his head and his face instantly sank: “I’m not worthy of trigonometry? You say I’m not worthy of trigonometry?”
“Do you know what is called ‘Eight Trigrams’, what is called ‘Zhou Yi’, and what is called ‘Plum Blossom I Ching’ again?!”
“I’ve read the Pushing Back Diagram eighty-eight times and recited it backwards, and I’ve read the Poor Tong Bao Jian sixty-six times, and all you have to do is give me a word and I’ll be able to know which paragraph it is.”
“I’ve also comprehended all of The Divine Sign of Ma Yi, and now the book they use for those who have just entered the path of divination is compiled by me!”
With each sentence Master Lou said, he took a step forward.
He was aggressive and imposing.
“Last century the Mu family in the Imperial City, invited me to read the feng shui of their ancestral home.” Grandmaster Lou was condescending, “Those famous directors and producers in the entertainment industry also asked me to read their eight characters.”
“I, Lou Wen Hai, entered the Tao at the age of six, the five evils and three deficiencies were chosen to be deficient in power, so far in this line of trigonometry, there has never been any mistake, they respectfully call me Master Lou!”
Master Lou laughed coldly, “And you, what are you capable of? I see you can’t even recite the I Ching! How dare you say I can’t do trigonometry?”
“Little girl, you don’t know the sky is the limit!”
There is indeed such a saying in the art of feng shui and trigonometry.
It is said that the older the master, the higher his ability in trigonometry and the more respect he is able to gain.
Lou Wenhai had been in this circle of trigonometry for decades and had long since made a name for himself and was revered by many people.
“I don’t have much ability.” Ying Ziji’s pupils were light, as cool as snow, and she smiled very lightly, “It’s still possible to deprive you of all your luck.”
There must be a cause and an effect.
Li Han helped her with her experiments, and she helped Li Han to undo the matter of borrowed luck.
It was Lou Wen Hai who had laid the borrowed luck formation.
With this cause planted, she could do something about it.
Hearing this, Master Lou snorted and all but heard a laugh: “Luck? What do you know about luck? Throughout the ages, there is only the term borrowed luck, where is the stripped luck?”
“If you don’t know trigonometry, don’t disgrace yourself here, who the hell did she invite in, why don’t you tell her to leave?”
Today was a gathering of the trigram tellers and the juniors they had brought with them, and Master Lou was indeed one of the strongest among these trigram tellers now.
The others were also a little angry and looked mocking.
“Little girl, you don’t want to anger Grandmaster Lou, if he moves something on your eight characters, you’ll be miserable for the rest of your life.”
“No? Who does this girl study under? One word from Grandmaster Lou and her master will be sealed off.”
A trigram teller like Lou Wenhai did have such ability.
A single change could make a person poor for life.
That was why the nok forum also always had this theorem that if the number of divinators could be put together into a ranking, they would be the most terrifying hunters.
Much more terrifying than a poisoner.
“Fine, since you won’t go, I’ll let you go.” Grandmaster Lou’s gaze was like a torch, and his essence burst out.
“Puff!”
In his hand, a wooden sword was sheathed from its scabbard and headed straight towards the girl.
Ying Ziji gently raised her hand, using just two fingers, and stopped the wooden sword that Master Lou had stabbed at her.
She did not use any force in her hand, but the wooden sword did not move at all, not even an inch.
At this moment, Master Lou’s expression finally changed and he lost his voice: “You-”
This wooden sword of his was not an ordinary wooden sword.
Even an ordinary ancient martial artist would not be able to catch it.
How did this ……
Ying Zidian raised his eyes indifferently, “Formation up.”
“Buzz!”
Suddenly, a wind came.