Take care of rabbits?
The corner of Zi Mu's eyes twitched. He subconsciously looked to the side and saw two rabbits in the bushes. After being disturbed by Zi Mu's gaze, the two rabbits immediately turned around and left.
If he could find two rabbits at a glance, then how many rabbits were there on this mountain?!
When Zi Mu thought of this, he could no longer support himself and sat down on the ground.
The Seven Star Competition, which was extremely important to every student in the North Style Academy, was in a month's time. The other new students went to the Seven Stars Valley to train, but he and Lu Ping had to take care of the rabbits here for a month. This was clearly a hindrance to the two of them. Furthermore, there was no room for mistakes. This was simply too easy to be used as a pretext.
Jiang He and Ding Feng were satisfied with Zi Mu's dazed look. However, the calm expression of the brat at the side, who could be said to be the mastermind of eating the rabbits that day, made the two of them uncomfortable. In the end, without waiting for the two of them to speak, Lu Ping took the initiative to ask.
"Oh." He first responded calmly, as if replying to Ding Feng's arrangements for the two of them to take care of the rabbits. After that, he asked, "How many rabbits are there on this Alkaid Peak?"
The two of them were startled. They did not expect that this brat did not even frown when faced with such an obvious task. Furthermore, he started his work very quickly. He had to take care of all the rabbits on this mountain without any mishaps. Of course, he had to find out how many rabbits there were.
But the problem was … … even Ruan Qingzhu did not know how many rabbits there were on Alkaid Peak. The rabbits were all left to fend for themselves. No one would pay attention to how many there were.
"Brat, are you trying to argue?!" Ding Feng glared at Lu Ping. From her point of view, Lu Ping was intentionally making things difficult for them. He wanted to use this as an excuse to escape punishment. But how could she let Lu Ping succeed so easily?
"How many rabbits are there on Alkaid Peak? Go and find out for me right now." Ding Feng said.
"You don't know?" Lu Ping frowned. His dissatisfaction was clearly written on his face.
"You … …" Ding Feng was about to flare up, but was stopped by Jiang He.
"Of course we know," Jiang He said with a straight face. "So you have to count the number of rabbits every day to see if it's correct. Remember, if anything goes wrong, you'll be held responsible. "
"Alright." Lu Ping nodded. He was dissatisfied, but he didn't reveal any awkward expression. He ignored the two of them and lowered his head to look at Zi Mu. "How are you?"
"Are we really going to count the rabbits?" Zi Mu asked with a sad face.
"What else?" Lu Ping asked.
Yes, otherwise what?
Merely two newbies, other than obeying the arrangement. Was there any other choice?
Zi Mu propped himself up from the ground and said dejectedly, "Let's go!"
"I saw two just now." Lu Ping was already walking in the direction that Zi Mu had seen earlier, the direction where the two rabbits had fled into the bushes. At this time, Zi Mu did not have any ideas and could only foolishly follow behind Lu Ping.
Seeing the two of them disappear into the forest, Ding Feng said to Jiang He, "How do we know how many rabbits there are on the mountain?"
"If we really say we don't know, then we'll let him do whatever he wants." Jiang He smiled proudly.
Ding Feng stared blankly for a moment, but she immediately understood this logic and nodded repeatedly.
"Let's count them first. Can he really take care of all the rabbits on the mountain? "Jiang He said.
"Even if he doesn't take care of the rabbits, nothing might happen to them." Ding Feng said.
"Hehe." Jiang He smiled and didn't say anything.
Ding Feng immediately realized something. "If you do this deliberately and the academician finds out … …"
"Do you really think the academician has the time to care about such a trivial matter?" Jiang He continued to smile.
"But teacher has already talked to the academician!" Ding Feng said.
"Because teacher knows the academician's temper. She won't refuse to teach these two newbies a lesson. But she won't take it to heart. "Jiang He said.
"Looks like you understand our teacher as well as teacher understands the academician!" Ding Feng sighed.
Jiang He smiled again and didn't say anything else. The two of them didn't stay here any longer. They walked towards the mountain path that Pei Ci had taken earlier. Moments later, they arrived at the residence of the Alkaid Peak's disciples. The houses were scattered densely on the hillside. Each house was different. Naturally, there were adjustments made according to personal preferences. But from the size of the houses, it was clear that there was a difference in status between the disciples. The higher up the hill, the bigger the houses. Almost at the peak, there was one that wasn't very big. It was a very unique bamboo house that stood alone at that height. It was the residence of Alkaid Planet's Ruan Qingzhu. High status didn't necessarily mean that the house was big. What was really big was the space they had to choose from.
On the hillside one level below the bamboo house, there were dozens of houses of various sizes. This was the location. They were basically all Ruan Qingzhu's disciples, the higher ranked disciples on the Seven Star Ranking. Jiang He and Ding Feng followed the mountain path in this direction. But they didn't belong here. They had already passed the height that belonged to them. Although the two of them belonged to Alkaid Peak, they were only Ruan Qingzhu's disciples.
But there were no rules in the North Style Academy. The teacher's teacher was still addressed as teacher. But the difference in seniority was something they had to be aware of.
When Jiang He and Ding Feng reached this height, they quickly arrived in front of a courtyard. The courtyard door was open. The two of them walked in and saw two people talking in the hall. Hence, they stopped outside the hall and greeted.
"Teacher, we are back." Jiang He said.
"Eh? So fast? "There were two people in the hall. The person on the left side of the main seat asked in surprise when he saw the two of them. It was Jiang He and Ding Feng's teacher, Ruan Qingzhu's disciple, Zhou Chongan. The person sitting next to him was not from Alkaid Peak, but Alioth Peak's Li Yaotian's disciple, Yan Zhen.
During yesterday's Newcomer Trial, Yan Zhen missed out on Lu Ping and Zi Mu. After that, the two of them received everyone's attention. The two of them finally passed the Newcomer Trial and made a name for themselves. To Yan Zhen, it was no different from a slap in the face. What annoyed him the most was that it would affect Li Yaotian's opinion of him. Li Yaotian was strict and serious when teaching disciples. Such a perfunctory and careless mistake hit his bad luck.
Li Yaotian did not look for Yan Zhen after that. This made Yan Zhen unable to explain. In the end, he came to Alkaid Peak overnight and looked for Zhou Chongan, who had a good relationship with him, to help him.
The Newcomer Trial was held at Alkaid Peak. Although Zhou Chongan was not there, he had heard about the two who were the most eye-catching in this trial. When he heard that his good friend was disgraced because of these two newcomers, he could not help but feel angry and amused.
"Are you here to complain to me?" He said at that time.
"No, I'm here to ask for your help." Yan Zhen said.
"How can I help you?" Zhou Chongan was surprised. His position in Alkaid Peak was not low, but compared to the seven academicians, he was still far from it. How could he affect Li Yaotian's opinion?
"Didn't those two brats eat one of Academician Ruan's rabbits?" Yan Zhen said. "With Academician Ruan's temper, doesn't she want to teach them a lesson?"
"She did say that when she was angry yesterday. But do you think she will really bicker with these two brats over such a small matter? "Zhou Chongan said.
"Of course not, but I'm sure Academician Ruan will be happy to think of a way to prank them. For example, let them take care of the rabbits for a month." Yan Zhen voiced out his idea.
Zhou Chongan pondered for a moment and immediately understood Yan Zhen's intention. He did not simply want to vent his anger on those two newcomers. Alkaid Peak was filled with rabbits, taking care of them was easier said than done. If they were busy for a month, their training would definitely fall behind. The Seven Star Trial was in a month. The other newcomers trained hard for a month under the best conditions in the North Style Academy. The results of the Seven Star Trial could be easily imagined. The more miserable the two were, the worse it would be. Yan Zhen's action of ignoring them at that time was even more reasonable, right? In the end, what this brat cared about was Li Yaotian's opinion of him. Putting in so much effort to come up with such a preposterous method, the final goal was rather important to him.
"I understand what you mean." Zhou Chongan nodded. In order to help his good friend gain favor with the teacher, he did not care about the two newcomers at all.
"Do you think it will work?" Yan Zhen had an idea, but he was not sure if it would work or not. The key to this matter was to borrow Ruan Qingzhu's mouth. Otherwise, these students would not be able to interfere with the North Style Academy's routine arrangements for the newcomers.
"We can try." Zhou Chongan understood his teacher better than Yan Zhen. If it was the other six out of the seven academicians, it would be impossible. But with Ruan Qingzhu's temper, no one would be surprised if she did something absurd. Of course, his true intention must be concealed.
Afterwards, Zhou Chongan tested Ruan Qingzhu's temper, and sure enough, Ruan Qingzhu spoke. With her speaking, this matter was settled in Zhou Chongan and Yan Zhen's eyes. But now, the two students who were called to bring Lu Ping and Zi Mu back to the Alkaid Peak had actually returned so quickly. Zhou Chongan could not help but feel a little strange.
"It's Senior Sister Pei Ci. She passed by Alioth Peak and brought the two back early in the morning." Jiang He said.
"She actually let Pei Ci bring them back early in the morning. Teacher, it seems a little urgent … …" Zhou Chongan's complexion turned a little ugly. If Ruan Qingzhu was too concerned about this matter, it would definitely not be a good thing for them. When he inadvertently mentioned this matter to Ruan Qingzhu, did he not grasp the propriety well? He pondered in his heart.
Yan Zhen did not speak at the side. After a long while, Zhou Chongan asked Jiang He and Ding Feng, "How did you guys arrange for those two?"
"According to teacher, we let them take care of the rabbits. Not a single one is allowed to go wrong." Ding Feng said.
"But that brat is playing tricks, so we let him count the rabbits on this mountain first." Shen He was a little proud of his plan.
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