Although he still didn’t understand why Zhuge Longjue only let Ouyang Yan go over, Feng Jiu didn’t have too many questions about the congee banquet this time.
If it was really announced that the Tantric Sect would be stationed in the Northern Zhou, do you think Zhuge Longjue would still be able to be so relaxed?
The Confucian Sect has long been a part of the Northern Zhou since it was established three hundred years ago. If the Confucian Sect is welcomed into the Northern Zhou, it will certainly lose the support of the Confucian Sect, but without its dominant nature, the Confucian Sect will not be able to enjoy its former glory.
Therefore, although he did not know how Zhuge Longjue knew that Feng Tianming would not welcome the Confucian Sect into his house, he was undoubtedly sure that the information would be 100% correct before he asked Ouyang Yan to go to the banquet on his behalf as the dean.
So, two hours later, as he and the ready Ouyang Yan were leaving the house, Feng Jiu secretly gave a wink to a student who was waiting outside the mountain gate.
And this wink caused the next scene ——
“Stop!”
The carriage of the academy was travelling on the streets of the divine capital when Feng Jiu, who had pulled up the curtains of the carriage, seemed to see something of great concern and immediately shouted to stop.
“Feng Jiu, what is so urgent?” Ouyang Yan, who was sitting opposite Feng Jiu, asked curiously.
Feng Jiu replied, “Sir, I have just seen a good friend whom I have not seen for a long time, so I am sorry for being rude.”
“Oh? Who is it?” Ouyang Yan asked with interest.
In the past, Ouyang Yan would have been more inclined to Feng Qiwu, who was his junior, but this time, the emperor suddenly ordered that the banquet be changed from a family banquet to a banquet for all officials, and announced that the Tantric priests would come to recite sutras and pray for blessings, so the first people to know about it were the imperial princes.
Among the princes, the ones with the deepest ties to the Mountain River Academy were the ninth prince, Feng Jiu, and the eighth prince, Feng Qiwu, and the only one who came to the Academy to report the news was Feng Jiu.
This is certainly because Feng Qiwu is well liked by the emperor and is not as isolated as Feng Jiu, so it is difficult to make up one’s mind to stand on the side of the Shanhe Academy, and one can only stand impartially in a neutral position. However, Feng Jiu’s action this time is what made Ouyang Yan feel good about him, making the close friend who is still asking about Feng Jiu get along a lot closer than before.
“This person is no other than Meng De, who participated in the literary competition for the position with the student before and fought for the glory of the school.” Feng Jiu said back.
This time, Ouyang Yan was really interested and said, “Can we refer to that Meng De who was injured and lost his hearing?”
In the literary competition at the beginning of the year, although the Shanhe Academy had won, it was a tragic victory, and the participants suffered heavy casualties. And among the surviving scholars, Meng De, who had left the academy reluctantly due to an injury that had left him deaf, naturally received the attention of the academy’s masters and dean.
“Quickly summon him.” Ouyang Yan hurriedly said.
“Yes, sir.”
Soon after Feng Jiu left the carriage, he returned with that senior Meng De who had fought for the glory of the academy.
As a carriage for the representative of the academy to go to the palace for the banquet, it would naturally not be small, sitting eight people could, and with one extra person, it would not look crowded at all, and still allow Qing Yu to make a small salute.
“Greetings, Mr. Ouyang.” Qing Yu curtsied.
“There is no need to be polite,” Ouyang Yan stalled Qing Yu’s attempt to curtsy and asked with concern, “Meng De, you left the academy earlier to seek medical treatment, now that you have returned, have you been cured of your deafness?”
At that, Qing Yu’s face was slightly gloomy and he sighed, “I’m sorry to worry you, sir, Meng De has visited many famous doctors, but they all said that it was the brain that was injured, but there was no trauma to the ear, this disease, it is almost difficult to cure, the only way to cure it is to advance to the divine origin in the future.”
“But you this ——” Ouyang Yan pointed to Qing Yu’s ear in surprise, meaning that you obviously know what I mean by what I said.
“Mr. Ouyang, just now the student noticed that while you were speaking, Master Meng De’s sight kept focusing on your lips, I think that Master Meng De was reading your meaning with his lips.” Next to Ouyang Yan, a young man wearing the white schoolboy uniform of the academy said.
After this young man finished, he also smiled at Qing Yu, “Senior Brother Meng De, it has been almost a year since we parted that day, hasn’t it?”
“Senior Brother Zeng Yue.” Qing Yu called out this young man’s name.
Zeng Yue was one of the students who had participated in the competition for the position in the literary world. He had a strong character and was the first one to respond to Lin Shenfeng’s call to fight for his life by using the forbidden style of the Confucian school, “The blue blood shines on the heart”.
After Zeng Yue’s struggle for position in the literary world was over, he was healed by Zhuge Long Su, a strong person of the Tong Shen realm, and there was no shortage of heavenly materials and treasures in the Shan He Academy, so he was lucky enough to not only be cured of the after-effects of using the “Blue Blood Shines on the Dan Xin”, but also to have his power greatly increased.
The most important thing is that he is also being cultivated by the academy. This time when he went to the banquet, Ouyang Yan brought Zeng Yue with him, which shows the importance the academy attaches to Zeng Yue.
“He had a sharp eye and saw that he was using his lips to read Mr. Ouyang’s words,” Qing Yu said with a bitter smile, “Since he could not be cured until the Divine Origin realm, he could not write down all his communication with others in the days before that, so he had taught himself to use his lips. ”
“Suffering you ——,” Ouyang Yan sighed.
The lip-synthesis is something that would not be so easy to learn if it were not for the fact that Qing Yu has excellent eyesight and can remember the movements of others clearly when they speak.
Ouyang Yan automatically made up a series of frustrations for Qing Yu in learning lip-speak, and felt guilty for the student who had lost his hearing for the sake of the academy.
After the end of the literary competition for the position, due to various changes, the academy had not paid any attention to this scholar. Only when the series of events were over did Ouyang Yan learn that the scholar had long since gone out to seek medical help, and that Wu Qu knew at the time that he had not told him. For this reason, Ouyang Yan even gave Wu Qu a severe scolding.
“Since you are back, stay and return to the academy to continue your studies at the beginning of spring next year.” Ouyang Yan said.
“Thank you, sir.”
“By the way, sir,” Qing Yu said with an air of sudden realization, “where are you and the two senior brothers going, don’t let the students miss things.”
As he said this, Qing Yu looked terrified, as if he was anxious about the fact that he had delayed Ouyang Yan’s errand.
“It’s not important, there’s no hurry, there’s no hurry,” Ouyang Yan waved his hand and said, “It’s just as well that you are at the right time, so come with us to the banquet.”
“A banquet? What banquet?”
“Senior brother ——” Feng Jiu came over and whispered the whole story to Qing Yu.
In fact, Qing Yu was fully aware of it, even if he didn’t know before that the Shanhe Academy was also invited to drink the congee on the eighth day of the lunar month, now he also guessed it. But in order to hide it from Ouyang Yan and Zeng Yue, he now heard Feng Jiu tell him again.
“So that’s how it is.” Qing Yu gathered his clothes and sat upright.
The carriage made its way forward, and after the guards in front of the imperial city confirmed it, it slowly marched into the palace of this Northern Zhou.
