Chapter 87 – Break the School (Part 3) (1/2)

There was a knock on the door. Xuan Yuan Po went to take a look. After a short while, he came back and although the youngster had a big beard, it couldn’t hide his red face. He was nervous and shy because of the young girl holding an umbrella who followed him into the library.

Tang Thirty Six looked at the pretty, young girl and said a little surprised, “Where did this flowerlike girl come from?”

Xuan Yuan Po rubbed his hands nervously and said, “I don’t know which mansion’s miss she is. When I asked, she didn’t answer me.”

Tang Thirty Six said, “Then how can you let her in like that? Although last night was the seventh of the July(the Chinese Valentine’s Day), you still should not do so.”

Xuan Yuan Po immediately explained, “She said she knows Chen Chang Sheng.”

Chen Chang Sheng was reading. After hearing this, he put down the Scroll and looked up. He actually knew her. She wasn’t the miss of any mansion, she was the maid of the Dong Yu General’s Mansion. Her name was Shuang Er.

He obviously wouldn’t point it out to Xuan Yuan Po. He stood up, walked out and said to Shuang Er, “Long time no see.”

Indeed, long time no see. Since the last time Shuang Er came to the Tradition Academy to look for him, several months have passed.

Shuang Er closed the umbrella and indicated him to follow her to the corner.

“What’s happening?” he asked.

Shuang Er looked at him and recalled what she heard about the Ivy Festival last night. She had a complicated feeling. After thinking a bit, she said, “I heard about you. I must admit that you certainly shocked many. Madam and I didn’t make a correct evaluation of you.”

Chen Chang Sheng said, “You have your standpoint, so you don’t have to apologize.”

He spoke truthfully right from the start. He could only speak truthfully.

Shuang Er’s thin eyebrows lifted up a bit and she said, “Don’t misunderstand. Maybe my view towards you is incorrect, but that doesn’t mean I support you and miss staying together. Even though you are knowledgeable, you can’t xiuxing. After all, you are still…..”

Although she didn’t like Chen Chang Sheng, she wasn’t a mean person. She restrained herself from saying the two words, “useless trash.”

Yet everyone knew her meaning.

Chen Chang Sheng said, “Whether you support it or not, your opinion holds no meaning in this marriage.”

Shuang Er felt a little angry, she said, “I and miss are like sisters. I care about miss’s happiness more than everyone else. You took out the engagement at the Ivy Festival and acquired your reputation, but have you ever considered that miss and Qiu Shan Jun were the best match originally? You ruined it, how could you?”

“So, you are here to defend Qiu Shan Jun?”

Chen Chang Sheng looked at her said, “You should know, in the Ivy Festival last night, your miss let the white crane bring a letter.

In the letter, she admitted the engagement herself, but now you seem to have a different viewpoint on it. Are even trying to defend another man?”

“Does your miss know what you are doing here?”

Shuang Er couldn’t say a word. She didn’t know why miss would do that.

Chen Chang Sheng said, “Is there anything else?”

“Indeed I shouldn’t have said my last sentence.” Shuang Er now calmed down. She lifted her arm to wipe off the raindrop in her hair and said, “Miss has a sentence for you.”

“What sentence?”

“Please don’t misunderstand.”

Hearing this sentence, Chen Chang Sheng remained silent for a very long time. Previously, Shuang Er had said similar words which hurt his feeling a lot. So what did Xu You Rong mean by that?

He asked, “Misunderstand what?”

“I don’t know.” Shuang Er looked at him and said, “You should understand it yourself.”

Last night, the white crane carried the letter over ten thousands miles back to the capital. In the letter, Xu You Rong revealed her attitude towards the marriage clearly. Although he understood it clearly, it was impossible for Xu You Rong to actually want to marry him. There must be a hidden meaning. Regardless, he hated her less because of this.

However, after hearing the message sent to him, he didn’t feel too good.

“That’s all?” he looked at Shuang Er to suggest her to leave.

Shuang Er said, “Miss also said, if you have anything to say, you can write a letter to her directly.”

With a flutter, a white crane flew down from the sky. While flapping its wings, it landed outside of the library. Water slowly flowed down from its feathers.

Chen Chang Sheng looked at the white crane and nodded.

The white crane moved near him and touched his right arm using its neck. It appeared to be very affectionate towards him.

“Did you live well all these years?” he spoke to the white crane.

White Crane tweeted as if it was answering.

Seeing this image, Shuang Er was very surprised.

Last night when the white crane flew back, Chen Chang Sheng felt that he had forgotten something. Back then, he thought it was the black dragon under the abandoned garden but now he recalled that he should write a letter and let the white crane take it to Xu You Rong. There were many things to say so it’s better to communicate directly.

Shuang Er had been playing a role in the communication between Xu You Rong and him, he didn’t like that.

From the time he arrived at the capital, he had only received one letter from Xu You Rong. In this letter, there were only three words and it was very concise, “Please behave yourself.”

Chen Chang Sheng held pen and thought for a while about how determined, meaningful, and arrogant the words he wrote should be, so that he could reply to her without losing his honor.

This was the first letter he wrote to her after ten years.

However, after all this thought, he only wrote a normal letter, with normal words about normal things.

He didn’t really want to get in a fight(not physical) with little girl.

Even if she was Xu You Rong, even if she was only three days younger than him, he considered her a little girl.

In the South, ten thousands miles away, it was the Mountain Virgin.

The land under the Mountain Virgin was all forbidden. But three hundred miles away, there was a small town. The inhabitants were all commoners. There were blacksmiths, a liquor store, a meat store and a casino. Usually, people play dice or dominoes, but in the depths of this casino, there was a simple room. In the room there was a table.

People were playing Mahjong there.

Sitting at the East hand was a beautiful girl.

The girl was around fourteen. She was so beautiful that it seems as if she wasn’t a regular human.