353 Calligraphy, the Calligraphy Addict and the Academy (2/2)

He was just saying it without giving it much thought, but it was really nice to hear. If they stayed together forever, then they would experience more things together. Mo Shanshan was not used to such sweet words yet, she lowered her head and felt a little shy.

Ning Que was always shameless, he didn't feel shy at all. He led her to the lake and said, ”I will introduce you to my Seventh Sister, as apart from her, other Brothers all enjoy playing hide-and-seek, it is difficult to find them.”

Mo Shanshan was a little nervous as she was going to meet people closest to him at the Academy. While she was walking after him on the mountain path, she asked mildly, ”Is it fine that you let people outside of the Academy come here?”

As a man, the best answer at this moment was just to say, but you were not someone outside, you were with me.

Ning Que wouldn't be too shy to say words of this kind, but he had never been in a relationship, so he was not aware of this answer at all. Seeing that she was worried, he said honestly, ”Since you and Eldest Brother are sworn brother and sister, it is totally fine. And he had told me to show you around, if not so I wouldn't have taken you in today.”

Then they chatted with Seventh Sister when passing the lake and went to visit Fourth and Sixth Brother at the smithy near the stream. Sixth Brother, who was used to be topless, was startled when seeing Ning Que come with a beautiful girl. He put on a coat at a speed quicker than that of him swinging the hammer. But Fourth Brother was still concentrated on his deduction, as if he didn't see them at all.

The temperature in the smithy was extremely high and the room was full of vapor. Considering that Shanshan was a girl after all, Ning Que thought he would just chat with them then leave shortly. But when Shanshan saw Fourth Brother deducting, she didn't want to leave, instead, she squatted next to him and started studying the talisman lines on the sand table carefully, her face became very serious.

Ning Que felt surprised, he also walked to the window to study the sand table. After a while, Fourth Brother looked up and glanced at the girl, he said expressionlessly, ”You know talisman?”

Asking the Calligraphy Addict whether she knew talisman was like asking whether a butcher knew how to kill a pig, or whether a hunter dared to walk in a mountain. Ning Que knew that Fourth Brother didn't mean it, but worrying that Shanshan would feel humiliated, he said, ”Senior Brother, she is the Calligraphy Addict.”

”Oh, so you are the Calligraphy Addict,” said he, ”but do you understand talisman?”

Ning Que didn't know what to say at all.

Among the three Addicts, Mo Shanshan was noted for being kind and elegant. At this moment, she didn't become angry at all, but she did feel a little confused. Looking up at Ning Que, she remembered his answer to the same question in the Wilderness, and said with a smile, ”I know a little.”

Fourth Brother pointed to Ning Que and said, ”How is your level comparing with that of him?”

Without any thinking, she said immediately, ”I am far better than him.”

Ning Que felt a little sad, not knowing what to say.

Fourth Brother nodded with satisfaction, ”Then you surely are qualified to watch me deducting.”

Looking at the talisman lines moving slowly, she asked with doubt, ”Is it really deduction?”

Fourth Brother answered, ”If not, why are you studying it so carefully?”

Mo Shanshan said with surprise, ”But my master said the World Plate deduction has been lost many years.”

Fourth Brother shook his head and said, ”It did get lost in the Kaiyuan period of Tang, but about forty years later, the seventh master of Black Ink Garden, Master Ying, analyzed six years with a wise man from the Academy and re established the rules of deduction, and then they spent the whole life rebuilding the World Plate. How come your master, the successor of Master Ying doesn't know this?”

Mo Shanshan looked at the seemingly normal sang table with great surprise. There were two parallel lines which seemed interfere with each other somehow. She frowned and said, ”Are you deducing the number of lines existing at the initial time when the primordial Qi started interfering with a still talisman?”

Fourth Brother didn't expect that this girl could know what he was doing at one look. His expression changed a little and said with great interest, ”Do you also know something about it?”

Looking at the sand table concentratedly, she said, ”I studied a little about it, but I never thought you can deduct without relying on anything.”

Fourth Brother liked the concentration of Mo Shanshan very much. Then he turned to Ning Que and said with dissatisfaction, ”Hurry to move a chair over here, you don't want Shanshan to keep squatting like that, do you?”

Ning Que felt very wronged, he went to move a chair without saying anything.

Mo Shanshan seated herself in the chair without thanking him or looking at him. She continued to study the sand table carefully and talked with Fourth Brother occasionally.