Chapter 779: The Teacher Can Also Receive Guidance

“Peach blossoms? What do they symbolize?” Jiang Luofu frowned.

Qi Yaoguang shook her head. “I don’t know. My eyes just filled with pink.”

Zu An was equally puzzled. Could this young girl truly see people’s destinies, or was she just a little charlatan faking it?

“You can’t even see it?” Jiang Luofu asked, somewhat incredulously.

Qi Yaoguang scratched her head, then adjusted her slightly askew hat. “I find it strange too. I can usually discern something from others, but from him, I can’t see any information at all.”

Jiang Luofu’s expression suddenly turned peculiar. “Aren’t the peach blossoms you saw information? Does that mean this young man is destined to be entangled with various women his whole life, blessed with an abundance of romantic luck?”

Inside the wooden hut, the Crown Princess heard the conversation outside and felt a pang of irritation. No wonder such things happened when I met him, even my clothes were taken off. This fellow must be a reincarnation of a peach blossom spirit.

Qi Yaoguang shook her head. “Peach blossoms have many interpretations. They could signify a romantic disaster, or something else, but this has nothing to do with his destiny. Destiny is indicated by other forms… What exactly is going on?”

She circled Zu An as she spoke, her initially sleepy eyes now full of curiosity. “Senior Sister, I’m growing more and more interested in your friend.”

Zu An was utterly bewildered, feeling like the two women in front of him were talking nonsense. “I am a man with a family, young lady. Please maintain a respectful distance.”

“With a family?” Qi Yaoguang moved her astrolabe and made some calculations with her fingers. “Strange, my calculations say you shouldn’t have a family. Wait, it’s like a family but not a family, like a home but not a home… Ahh, what does this mean? My head is going to explode!”

Jiang Luofu quickly explained, “His situation is a bit complicated. He was initially married to Miss Chu, but then some things happened, and they had to nominally divorce. In reality, however, their feelings haven’t changed, and their daily interactions are no different from when they were a married couple.”

Zu An looked wary, wondering if the beautiful principal had been secretly spying on his life recently.

Qi Yaoguang had an ‘aha’ moment. “So that’s how it is, so that’s how it is.”

Inside the wooden hut, the Crown Princess secretly furrowed her brow. So his relationship with Miss Chu is still so good. I wonder what the Chu family thinks. They are a prominent aristocratic family, how could they allow their daughter to follow Zu An in such an ambiguous manner?

At this moment, Qi Yaoguang suddenly blinked at Zu An. “You no longer have a marital title, yet you’re still monopolizing her and living like husband and wife. Aren’t you quite the scumbag?”

Zu An was speechless.

To be accused of being a scumbag by a sweet-looking young girl in an innocent tone, honestly, it was quite disarming.

Inside the wooden hut, the Crown Princess secretly gave a thumbs-up. She suddenly felt a surge of goodwill towards this junior sister from the academy. This is exactly what I was thinking!

Jiang Luofu glanced at Zu An with a faint smile. It served him right to suffer a bit. Miss Chu is like a goddess, yet she’s been ambiguously involved with him every day. There has been no lack of gossip in the capital.

Of course, her purpose today was not to discuss this. While her junior sister examined Zu An, she took a step forward and bowed towards the wooden hut. “Teacher, your disciple has brought Zu An to seek an audience.”

Although she already believed her junior sister’s words, she still wanted to make a final effort.

A distant voice came from the wooden hut. “When it is time to meet, you will meet.”

The implication was that she would not meet them now.

Jiang Luofu bit her lip and quickly said, “Your disciple wishes to secure a teaching position at the academy for Zu An. I hope Teacher will approve.”

Inside the wooden hut, the Crown Princess was somewhat surprised. This woman had no direct relation to Zu An, so why was she helping him so much?

She knew perfectly well how valuable the identity of a National Academy teacher was. Countless people wanted to break their heads to get a teaching position at the academy, but the review process was extremely strict, akin to thousands of soldiers trying to cross a single-plank bridge.

This woman was actually directly petitioning the Chancellor for Zu An?

What exactly was their relationship?

The Crown Princess was a little displeased. It wasn’t necessarily that she had fallen in love with Zu An, but in her view, Zu An belonged to her, being from the Eastern Palace. In that instant, she felt as if her toy had been snatched by another woman, and that woman was her rival from many years ago!

(Bilinglong’s Rage value: 368368368…)

Outside, Zu An was utterly confused. How had he offended her again?

However, he couldn’t dwell on that right now. He was more concerned about the Chancellor’s response.

“This is not in line with the rules,” a long silence passed in the wooden hut, then the Chancellor’s voice came. “However, if you can obtain the consent of more than half of the remaining senior and junior brothers in the academy, an exception can be made for your admission.”

The Crown Princess beside him frowned. She had long heard about the Chancellor’s disciples; each one had an eccentric personality. Many high-ranking officials and nobles in the capital had tried to pull strings with them, but they paid no heed to anyone. How difficult it would be to get these people to make an exception!

Although she was unhappy about Zu An secretly flirting with other beautiful women, she also understood that if Zu An could become a teacher at the National Academy, it would be of immense benefit not only to him but also to herself. Therefore, she naturally hoped Zu An would succeed.

However, the more one cared, the more one worried. Thinking about the capital’s elite circle’s assessment of the Chancellor’s disciples over the years, she couldn’t help but secretly sigh. Zu An had no hope this time. She would have to think of another way to help him next time.

Who knew, at that moment, a surprised voice suddenly came from outside:

“Mr. Zu, Mr. Zu, I finally found you!”

The Crown Princess looked through the window and saw a short, stout man, like a rolling ball of flesh, coming up the mountain path. Wasn’t this Yin Shi, the Chancellor’s eleventh disciple?

His appearance was so distinctive that it was hard for the Crown Princess not to recognize him.

Zu An cupped his hands. “Brother Yin!”

Yin Shi quickly waved his hands. “I wouldn’t dare, I wouldn’t dare. Your knowledge is enough to be my teacher. Even calling you ‘Mister’ already makes me feel a bit uneasy. From now on, just call me Little Yin.”

The Crown Princess was dumbfounded.

She instinctively rubbed her eyes. Had she left the house the wrong way today? Yin Shi, the most famously difficult and unruly disciple of the academy, was actually being so respectful to Zu An? And even wanted to acknowledge him as a teacher?

If she hadn’t seen Yin Shi before, she might have suspected Zu An had hired an actor to put on a show.

At this moment, she felt a shadow fall beside her. Turning her head, she found that the Chancellor had also come to the window at some point, seemingly observing the situation outside.

The Crown Princess suddenly felt like laughing. Surely, the Chancellor, knowing that his direct disciple wanted to take someone else as a teacher, must be feeling a little unsettled.

At this point, Yin Shi outside continued, “Mr. Zu, I just heard your quantum theory and found it incredibly enlightening. Many of my confusions over the years have been cleared up. Now I have a ton of ideas I want to discuss with you…”

Jiang Luofu was startled. Her teacher was right there in the wooden hut not far away. Wasn’t he just causing trouble by saying that? She quickly interrupted, “Junior Brother, Ah Zu has important matters to attend to right now.”

“You want to see the teacher? No problem, I’ll wait here.” Yin Shi said with an expression of reverence, “Only the teacher is qualified to sit and discuss Dao with Mr. Zu.”

Zu An was speechless.

The Crown Princess was speechless.

Qi Yaoguang was speechless.

Jiang Luofu hurriedly said, “The teacher does not wish to see him.”

Yin Shi let out a surprised sound. “Has the teacher gone senile? Mr. Zu is a great talent! A conversation with him might even enlighten the teacher and help his cultivation advance further… Ah…”

Before he could finish, he suddenly let out a scream, as if kicked by an invisible force, and then rolled down the mountain like a ball of flesh.

The Crown Princess couldn’t help but glance sideways. Usually, the Chancellor appeared aloof and detached from worldly affairs, but she didn’t expect him to be so vengeful deep down.

“Huh, what happened to Old Eleven?” At this moment, another voice came from outside. A grizzled old farmer with a look of deep-seated resentment and an elegant scholar in a flowing robe appeared together, carrying a rolling ball of flesh between them. It was none other than Yin Shi.

Yin Shi opened his mouth to answer, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t utter a single word.

The scholar in the long robe stroked his beard and smiled faintly. “He must have been punished by the teacher again.”

The old farmer looked at Yin Shi’s comical appearance, and the wrinkles on his brow relaxed a little. “Finally, I don’t have to listen to Old Eleven’s incessant chatter.”

When the Crown Princess saw the two, she was secretly astonished. These were the Chancellor’s fifth disciple, Heibai Zi, and seventh disciple, Wang Shuyang, weren’t they? Usually, it was difficult to meet even one of them. Why were they all gathered here today? Could something significant be happening?