Fu Seng was driving the carriage, flying over forests and towns. He seed nervous as he kept looking around.
"Fu Seng? Do you do any cool tricks?" Jingxuan asked with excitent.
Fu Seng made a noise in beast language while shaking his head. His voice sounded extrely deep.
Jingxuan and Jingsheng looked at each other, curious how such a huge creature couldn’t speak well.
"Can’t you speak when you’re in your beast form?" Juanxin inquired.
"He can, I think he just doesn’t want to be bothered with us." Li Jingsheng said coldly.
A long sigh ca from within the beast. After a few seconds he answered:"I can speak. But the Boss told to be careful not to speak in front of others while in my beast form, to avoid unnecessary trouble."
"When Dad said that, I’m sure he didn’t an for you to be wary but his children. Besides, we’re in the air, if you lower your voice, I’m sure no one would hear you." Li Cheng said calmly.
"Alright then, Little Master." Fu Seng thought what they said made sense and lowered his guard: "What do you want to ask? For starters, I can’t do tricks."
"I know that, I just wanted to see how you’d respond." Juanxin rolled his eyes
He was almost eight years old and apart from his brothers and father, he didn’t want to be treated like an ignorant child by others.
"Where are you from?" Jingsheng asked
"Sowhere very far from here. I can’t rember the exact na. After all, I’ve been on the run for many years now." Fu Seng answered,
"But you’re really good at riding." Juanxin added
Fu Seng smiled slightly: "That I am, I am a rare species after all...haha."
Li Cheng spoke up and asked: "Then can I ask you sothing?" he paused and continued: "How do you et father?"
"I know that one, we picked him up from in the forest, between Qingyuan Town and Fengwu City. Father saw that he was injured badly and told to heal him." Juanxin replied.
"Oh right, Little Master Juanxin. Thanks for your help that day. If you hadn’t helped , I wouldn’t have survived till today. " Fu Seng’s voice beca sincere.
"Don’t ntion it." Juanxin turned around and gave a shy smile to Fu Seng.
Although he only did it to show off to his Dad that doesn’t an he can’t accept gratitude.
"Fu Seng, since you were once a spirit beast, does that an you have a master?" Jingsheng asked curiously.
"I do, well... at least I did have a master’s degree." Fu Seng said with sadness in his tone.
"Who is he? Can you tell us?" Li Cheng asked
."I was given to my five years old master when I was still an egg. We both grew up together and he was very valued by the family. Unfortunately, all of that changed when his parents died in an accident.
Those that were once good to him, suddenly changed their attitude toward him and hated him. They converted his parents ’ remains and when he refused, they saw him as an obstacle and wanted to kill him." Fu Seng said sadly.
The expression on everyone’s faces changed, even Li Cheng and Jingsheng look at Fu Seng with a shocked and complicated expressions:
"If that’s the case... then he’s..."
"My master used his life and body to protect , he’s a man full of determination and bravery. They kill him and bring back his corpse but I know he’s still alive and haven’t stopped searching for him yet. That’s what led to this place, but I fell into their traps."
"Are you saying that you found your master?" Juanxin asked softly.
"Yeah."
"How can you be so sure?"
"The master and servant contract we had was forcefully broken and I feel like there’s no trace of him left. But just a few days ago, I felt his presence and the contract was also renewed."
"Your master wouldn’t happen to be my Dad right?" Li Jingsheng asked, he felt like everything Fu Seng was saying was pointing towards his dad.
"What? The Boss? No No, you’re mistaken, little master." Fu Seng shook his head repeatedly.
"That’s good." Li Jingsheng said relieved.
When the carriage reached Azure Cloud Academy, Jingsheng was dropped off alone. When the security guard saw him, he was puzzled: "Young Master, you ca alone today?"
"Ah yes, my brother is not feeling we so it’s just ." Li Jingsheng replied and hurriedly walked inside.
The security guard sighed. Looks like this Young Master must’ve had so kind of problems to go against him.
But he wasn’t scary looking . Just a bit taller than most guys. Why were the kids still afraid of him?
Sighed...
At Moonstone Scholar’s Institute, Fu Seng dropped off Li Cheng and Li Juanxin and headed back ho to Qingyuan Town. Although he doesn’t know why Zhou Lifen is pretending not to know him, he is determined to get to the bottom of things.
He hasn’t given up over the past thirty years and he won’t give up now either.
As soon as Xu Tian saw Juanxin coming from a distance, he ran forward to et him:
"Hey! You finally showed up."
He held Juanxin’s hand but Juanxin shook him off: "Let go."
"It feels weird when you’re acting so close. We’re not friends, stop bothering ."
Xu Tian was stunned then glared: "Who wants to be friends with you?" He paused and said unnaturally: "But if you insist, I don’t mind considering it."
"Keep dreaming." Juanxin scoffed and started walking again, Xu Tian trailed behind him.
Xu Tian is the na of the green haired boy that got in a fight with Juanxin on the first day of school. Since then, they’ve been having an awkward relationship. They weren’t friends and definitely not enemies either.
After a few minutes, he stopped in his tracks and turned to face Xu Tian: "Look at what happened last ti you tried doing that."
Xu Tian was caught red handed and quickly explained: "Ok Ok, it’s my fault. I shouldn’t have done it. But you’re not innocent either, if it wasn’t because of you, how..."
"Oh, Li Xin, what a coincidence to et on such a vast road." Instructor Ye said with a smile.
Li Xin is Li Juanxin nickna given by the teachers who were too lazy to call his full na.
Li Juanxin looked around suspiciously: "Teacher Ye, you’re a teacher and I am a student, as long as you co out from your office, we’ll et here. How is it a coincidence?"
’Besides, I saw you looking at through the window since I got here.’ Juanxin thought amusingly.
Instructor Ye coughed awkwardly after being caught right handed. What to do? Children this young don’t know how to follow the script and play along.
"Alright, alright. Listen to your teacher. I know you just got here, but your teacher is a bit hungry. I’ve been looking forward to that breakfast." He patted her stomach in frustration.
Hearing the sound of soone’s tummy growling, Juanxin was surprised and imdiately said with a smile: "Ok then, I won’t disturb the teacher’s breakfast, I’m leaving first. My brother also gets fussy when he doesn’t have breakfast on ti."
Instructor Ye cleared his throat and pulled Juanxin back gently: "Ahem, Juanxin you are the person I was waiting for, you have my breakfast with you."
"No, I don’t." Li Juanxin said without thinking: "I only bring you lunch, not breakfast."
"Did you give the note to your father like I instructed?" The instructor asked.
Juanxin thought for a mont and nodded his head: "Yes, I handed it over as soon as I got ho yesterday."
Instructor Ye was happy and pulled him aside: "Well, then it’s settled. Your father must have put another set of dishes for , just check."
Li Juanxin was hesitant but then again the teacher bought the food, he was just acting as the delivery guy. It wouldn’t hurt to check.
He unzipped his bag and looked in it. As expected, there was a huge bow there, as big as the pot his Dad cooked in. He grit his teeth and used both hands to pick it up. After struggling for a while to lift it up, he finally succeeded but he still couldn’t lift it all the way out.
"How... much food is in this?!" He exclaid .
With that said, he looked at Teacher Ye with confusion and wonder.
"This thing isn’t light at all. Let help you." Instructor Ye said embarrassingly.
He can already imagine what Juanxin was thinking. His image was already ruined as the foodie teacher. Now it will beco worse.
It wasn’t his fault for putting in such a large order. The other teachers couldn’t bring themselves to openly order and had to go through him, making him the bad guy.
When Instructor Ye took out the food, the students around were all shocked.
"Is there any special event today?" A bold student ca forward and asked.
"Special event? Nothing important." Instructor Ye said smiling.
The students didn’t believe him and continued asking: "Then what’s that big food box for? Or are you treating us to breakfast?"
"Don’t even think about it. This is only for the teachers.
Instructor Ye quickly took the food box and ran to the teachers office, leaving the students dissatisfied.
Juanxin quietly took his bag and slipped away.
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