Chapter 375 (2/2)

What he said sounded like useless words.

Ning Que remembered when he couldn't understand at the Ocean of Qi in the Snow Mountain and when he thought for a long time about talisman. He understood something roughly.

He was silent for a while, and then he said, ”How can I prove that I already understand?”

The master said, ”When you are clear about it, you understand it naturally.”

Ning Que looked at him in the eye and said, ”I think there should be a standard.”

Looking at this young student who insisted on finding the answer, the master's eyes lit up. His eyes

His eyes were like dew on the pine, s.h.i.+ning and reflecting the morning rays.

”There is a standard.”

”Who makes the standard? You?”

”It already exists.”

”Master, I can't stay at the Back Cliff for a long time though. His Majesty still wants to meet me, and I need to learn how to take charge of Chang'an city properly. And in a few days, it will be the 100th day since the death of my teacher Yan Se, I need to go to his tomb and kowtow. How about I go to retreat eight days of every ten days?”

The master's eyes turned brighter and brighter as Ning Que kept talking. And in the end, his eyes were even smiling. And the smile in his eyes was so big as if it could even flow out like water overflowed from a lake.

But suddenly, he stopped smiling and said slowly to Ning Que, ”Last night on the platform of the Building of Pines and Cranes, what did you say you were?”

”I was a person who was having a normal life on the Dragon Hidden Mountain,” murmured Ning Que.

The Headmaster said, ”I don't know where the Dragon Hidden Mountain is, but I do know what normal means.”

Ning Que understood his words and looked up at the white straw hanging down from the roof. He knew someone like the master would never become angry about his student just because of the debate they had on the Building of Pines and Cranes. Then why did he want to lock him up at the Back Cliff? Was it because he joined the Devil?

Youngest Uncle died because he got punished by Haotian. He also lost his fame and no one talked about him anymore. Maybe the master wanted to lock him up because he inherited the Great Spirit of Youngest Uncle and it reminded him of Youngest Uncle's story? Or maybe he wanted to maintain the good reputation of the Academy? Or maybe there were other reasons?

Ning Que kept thinking, he felt that the thing he understood roughly became a puzzle again. The Great Spirit in his body started moving around when he was thinking, like a knife, it stuck towards his throat. He said in a husky voice, ”Master... you are an unreasonable person.”

All people in the hut were very shocked. Second Brother looked serious and Eldest Brother sighed slowly. After all, no one dared to doubt or even criticize the master at such a formal occasion, despite that they got along very well.

The master didn't become angry, he said, ”You already said your master was the most unreasonable person in the Building of Pines and Cranes. Didn't you?”

Ning Que was silent for a while and then he said, ”Please allow me to talk with my handmaiden before I go to the Back Cliff.”

”No need. I asked you to take your handmaiden here today so that you can take her with you to the Back Cliff. After all, you still need her to cook for you and look after you on the Back Cliff,” said the master.

It was not until then did Ning Que see the real reason the master asked him to take Sangsang here; he was prepared to lock him at the back of the mountain. Suddenly he remembered what Sangsang was like. And he knew she would not leave the Back Cliff without him if he was there. Then it meant that both of them would be locked at the Back Cliff.

When he thought about that, the Great Spirit became as powerful as a sharp sword and stuck to his chest. He couldn't control his emotion anymore. Ning Que looked at the Headmaster in anger and clenched his fist.

But he didn't do anything, instead, he looked at the master peacefully and took a deep breath to restrain his anger. Then he said mildly, ”I will follow your order, master.”

The master watched his youngest and last student for a long time. He watched him thinking. He watched him feeling upset, then angry. He saw him losing control of the Great Spirit, and then trying to return to peace. And in the end, he saw him returning to normal.

”Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha...”

He burst into laughter and stood up from the chair. He stroked his black gown and walked out of the hut without informing any students there.

Outside the hut stood the Jinlan Tree that he and his Younger Brother planted many years ago. Looking at the green leaves in the tree, the old man said happily but with pity, ”There are no such things as two leaves exactly same leaves, then how can two people be exactly the same?”

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