Chapter 51 – A Bit Messy (1/2)
The door of the library was opened but Tang Thirty Six preferred to enter through the window. It was hard to say if he was just lazy or had some other reason in mind. If he was in normal condition, jumping through the window would be an extremely easy task, but today it was kind of difficult. He sat on the floor, breathed heavily and coughed for two times.
“You really are wounded.” Chen Chang Sheng walked towards him and squatted down and wanted to check his wrist for him.
Tang Thirty Six blocked his hand and said, “I’m fine, I’m just a little tired.”
Chen Chang Sheng obviously knew he wasn’t speaking the truth, but it seemed that this guy was actually tired. He just laid against the wall, closed his eyes and slept.
The morning light was shining outside the window and landed on Tang Thirty Six’s face. It made his face paler than before.
Chen Chang Sheng shook his head, took out a thin blanket from the room and lightly covered him with it.
The light grew stronger as time moved on. Luo Luo brough Xuan Yuan Po to the Herb Garden. As the people of the same race, they needed to talk about some stuff.
Tang Thirty Six woke up, glanced at Chen Chang Sheng who was sitting on the floor concentrating on reading books and asked, “Why didn’t you go last night?”
Chen Chang Sheng put down the scrolls and asked, “Go where?”
“Heavenly Academy. Last night was the second night of the Ivy Festival.”
Tang Thirty Six put aside the thin blanket that was on him and stood up yawning. His mood seemed to be a lot better, “During the first night, the Tradition Academy really made a name for itself. Everyone was waiting for you last night.”
Chen Chang Sheng said, “We didn’t want to go, so we didn’t go.”
Tang Thirty Six looked at him and said, “You truly are a weird person.”
Not going to an event like the Ivy Festival just because he didn’t want to go; it did seem weird in the eyes of regular people.
“I think you are even weirder.” Chen Chang Shang responded.
Chen Chang Sheng remembered the time when he last entered the Heavenly Academy, Tang Thirty Six was xiuxinging hard. “You prepared for the Ivy Festival for such a long time but never appeared during the first night. What happened?”
Hearing this question, Tang Thirty Six was silent for a while and said, “I dislike that little monster of the Academy of Priests.”
Chen Chang Sheng asked, “And?”
Tang Thirty Six said, “And I once said that if I had the opportunity, I would handicap him.”
Chen Chang Sheng’s mood got worse as Tang Thirty Six continued, “If he actually appeared at the Ivy Festival, I was ready to injure him severely, but……some people didn’t dare let me harm him and so they didn’t allow me to join the festival that night and grounded me in the dorm.”
Chen Chang Sheng was silent; a person like Tang Thirty Six wouldn’t be so easily convinced by the rules of Heavenly Academy or the authority of his teachers. Therefore not allowing him to join the festival would only mean that the teachers of the Heavenly Academy interfered directly and locked him up in his room.
He could understand the carefulness of the Heavenly Academy because the Tian Hai Ya Er was too powerful. Besides finding a more powerful background, such as Luo Luo, there were not many ways to counter him. If Tang Thirty Six actually injured Tian Hai Ya Er in the Ivy Festival, no one would know the outcome.
But he could relate more to the anger of Tang Thirty Six.
“What was the situation last night? He looked at Tang Thirty Six’s pale cheeks and asked.
Tang Thirty Six answered, “Last night was an arena. The person who obtained the first place was a young officer from the Academy of Li Palace.”
Chen Chang Sheng switched the topic because he didn’t want Tang Thirty Six to continued drowning in the negative atmosphere. Chen Chang Sheng didn’t really care about the outcome of the Ivy Festival.
Tang Thirty Six raised his eyebrows and asked, “You are not going to ask?”
“Ask what?’
“Why the young officer of the Academy of Li Palace could obtain the first place?”
“The Academy of Li Palace……he was a student under the sect of Pope, what’s so out of place about him getting the first place?”
Tang Thirty Six pointed at himself and said, “It’s not outstanding if someone won against me?”
Chen Chang Sheng was speechless that he was still this prideful of himself. Chen Chang Sheng asked reluctantly, “Okay, then….why?”
Tang Thirty Six was satisfied, “Because I didn’t participate.”
This time Chen Chang Sheng was actually a little surprised. He asked confusingly, “Why?”
“The people who entered the Honor Roll of Green Cloud like Zhuang Huan Yu didn’t participate probably because they didn’t want to lower their status and prepare for the third night. But I didn’t participate because the school didn’t allow me to. They told me to stay in the dorm.”
Tang Thirty Six’s expression got darker.
Chen Chang Sheng didn’t understand. If the Heavenly Academy’s disallowing of Tang Thirty Six to fight with Tian Hai Ya Er was a little overboard but out of good concern, then the second night was too much. Was the school not afraid that Tang Thirty Six would grow hatred towards it?
“Why?”
“Because I wanted to challenge Zhuang Huan Yu.”
Nothing but silence filled the library.
Chen Chang Sheng made sure his ear was working and felt that Tang Thirty Six grew weirder and weirder or rather, more interesting.
He wanted to challenge a senior of the same school, the very person that represented the school.
If Chen Chang Sheng was a teacher of the Heavenly Academy, he wouldn’t accept this himself.
Plus there was no such rule in the Ivy Festival.
“Why?”
“Because I don’t like him.”
“This reason…..”
“What about this reason?”
“It’s a good one.”
Chen Chang Sheng was speechless, he knew there was probably a deeper reason for Tang Thirty Six to challenge Zhuang Huan Yu, but since this guy wasn’t willing to tell him, he had no way of forcing him.
“I used half of the night to break through the seal of the school but by the time I arrivedat the festival, the event had already ended.”
Tang Thirty Six thought about what happened last night and was silent for a while, “I was kind of disgusted by the smell of the school and didn’t want to stay there for a while. But I’m not familiar with the capital and had no where else to go, so I came to find you.”
Chen Chang Sheng realized that he was wounded from forcefully breaking the seal that the teachers of Heavenly Academy had set up.