Chapter 074 – Iron-Wall General! (1/2)

074 – Iron-wall general!

The s.h.i.+p gradually drifted away. Maple Forest Crossing disappeared from view, the scenery turning into gloomy lights, and before Li Muyang knew it his eyes were misted with tears.

Li Muyang does not like to cry.

When he felt weak, when he was bullied, he would not shed tears even more so than normal.

If someone bullies you, it just proves you're weak.

But the moment your tears fall when you're bullied, you're just too cowardly.

So, Li Muyang always gritted his teeth and borne with the pain to persist, to endure.

However, when he saw his mother Luo Qi's eyes glistening with tears as she tried her best to smile and wave to him, and the reddened eyes of father Li Yan, a reserved man, at a loss for words, and also Li s.h.i.+nian desperately leaping out of the crowd hoping to catch a glimpse of him——

Li Muyang could no longer endure.

Real men have tears that don't easily fall; but it's just that the moment of parting has not yet come.

“Muyang brother, men should have great ambition; going to Tiandu is a golden opportunity for you to spread your wings and fly, why are you so heart-broken? Weeping endlessly is just some little girl's att.i.tude.” A man in a blue-green scholar outfit cupped one hand in the other, looking at Li Muyang.

Li Muyang used his sleeves to wipe away the tears in the corner of his eyes, glanced over at the man and asked: “Do we know each other?”

“Jia County's Zhang Linpu, I think Muyang brother should have heard of it before. “Jia County is cla.s.sified as a wealthy county of Jiangnan city. Although Zhang Linpu sat the exams in the county but he achieved exceptional results. Among the thousands of scholar in Jiangnan City, Zhang Linpu was able to rise above the others and enter into West Wind University. This itself is already very impressive. The status of Zhang Linpu in Jia County is the same as Cui Xiaoxin's position in Jiangnan City.

So, he is confident that Li Muyang will certainly know who he is.

“No.” Li Muyang said bluntly.

Before he never properly studied, so he's not aware of any secret beauties and gifted scholars in other provinces and county. Now that he's starting to learn, he pays no attention to outside matters and just wholeheartedly studies.

“——–

Li Muyang also cupped his hand in greeting. “I'm still a little sad, I'll cry for a while. Please leave me.”

With that, he turned and walked towards the cabins.

“So arrogant.” Zhang Linpu pointed at Li Muyang from behind and flew into a rage, his face flus.h.i.+ng with anger as he roared: “so arrogant, he doesn't take notice of us just because he obtained the first place in the exams and because he has the backing of the Lord of the City, he considers everyone else beneath him——-”

“So what if he's first in the exams? Each year there's a first in the exam, but in the end how many people have a great future? Contrary to what everyone might expect those at the bottom of the list are much more promising——”

“Of those who'd met the government ministers how many were first place in the exams? Moreover, he's not even admitted into West Wind University but enrolled into Starry Sky Academy——”

——

Zhang Linpu seized the chance to launch an attack; the crowd also, one after another, echoed what he said, criticising the first place in the kingdom, Li Muyang.

The journey is long and boring, it's always good to have some sort of things to do. Since idle is idle, they might as well do something.

Then again, they indeed have a lot of complaints against Li Muyang. How did he obtain first place in the exam? What makes him good enough for the lord of Jiangnan City to see him off?

So what if he's first in the exams?

They crowded together for warmth, pus.h.i.+ng Li Muyang to the outside; when he reaches Tiandu he does not know even one fellow student and has no relatives or friends to help him. All alone, even if he did well on the tests, what's so good about him?

“A frog in a well, you do not know the vastness of Starry Sky?” A ridiculing voice echoed over.

Everyone turned around, at the corner of the deck was a short and chubby man dressed in a bright robe.

He did not try to hide his contempt, with a disdainful sneer he looked at the numerous scholars directly facing Li Muyang making cutting remarks.

“Who are you? What qualifications do you have to say that to us?”

“We are all scholars who pa.s.sed the imperial exams, what's so extraordinary about you?”

“Jia county's Zhang Linpu. In this exam I was ranked 179th, what about brother——what did you achieve?”

———

“I'm not a scholar.” The fat man said, smiling. “I always feel dizzy and fall asleep when I read, I really can't read. However, each person has different ambitions——-”

“So what high aims do you have, say it out loud for us?”

“I can't say. I can't say.” The fat man in bright clothes said, shaking his head. “However, I do not agree with your attacks on Li Muyang. By fighting bravely on the battlefield one could become a famous general, but of those well-known people in the history of Starry Sky, who did not have a compa.s.sionate heart? Encountered kindness yet was not happy and not even sorrowful at a parting. Are the consciences of all you people eaten by a dog?”

“Nonsense. Who are you? What right do you have to criticise us?”