"Hey, wake up!"

"Chen Ji, wake up!"

Chen Ji was patted heavily on the shoulder. In his sleep, he subconsciously grasped the palm of his hand and held the opponent's right hand behind his back.

The person being captured cried out in pain: "It hurts, let go!"

Chen Ji suddenly woke up, this was not an inner prison, not the sea of ​​fire beside the Peony Bridge, nor the dangerous city gate.

His breath was filled with the strong smell of books and rosin ink from Zhixing Academy. There were only rows of bookshelves here, and there were no murderous swords.

Chen Ji quickly let go, and when he took a closer look, he suddenly realized that the person he had just captured was Zhang Xia, who was dressed in fiery red.

broken.

How did you capture this person!?

Zhang Xia rubbed his wrists and frowned: "What's your habit? You don't care if you sleep standing up, but you hit people when you wake up?"

Chen Ji explained: "Sorry, sorry, I was very sleepy. I was having a nightmare just now and was being chased. When I was woken up, I subconsciously resisted."

Zhang Xia looked at Chen Ji suspiciously.

When she recalled the scene just now, she felt that the opponent was extremely fast, and her right hand was grabbed before she could react at all, making her unable to move.

Chen Ji asked politely: "Miss Zhang Er, why don't you come with me back to Taiping Medical Center later? I'll ask Master to prescribe you some medicine for bruises."

However, Zhang Xia waved her hand: "No need, I'm not that squeamish!"

Chen Ji asked again: "Miss Zhang Er, what's the matter with calling me just now?"

But Zhang Xia got straight to the point and said: "I misunderstood what my father said earlier and thought we were going to get engaged. I ran to you and said something incomprehensible on impulse. I came to you just now to apologize to you, but you teased me today. Arm, we are even!"

Chen Ji was confused: "Apologise?"

Zhang Xia hummed: "If you really want me to apologize, it's okay for me to apologize."

Chen Ji looked at Zhang Xia, his eyes were like two lancets, extremely sharp.

He thought for a while and said: "It was just a misunderstanding before. There is no need to apologize to me, just let it go. I wish Miss Zhang Er finds a good match."

Zhang Xia looked at Chen Ji: "Weren't you angry before?"

Chen Ji didn't want to get too entangled: "I'm not angry, let's just let this matter go."

"Okay," Zhang Xia turned around when he saw the matter, but then said: "Why are you late today? Why do you look like you have been up all night?"

Silent and silent.

Zhang Xia changed the subject: "I heard from my father that you are having trouble with Mr. Chen and do not want to return to the Chen family. But you have the ambition to start your own business, and now you have the opportunity to learn from Mr. Wang. You should cherish it." , why are you still giving up on yourself?”

Chen Ji said seriously: "I do have something important to attend to, so being late was not my intention."

Zhang Xia asked in confusion: "What's the matter?"

"Sorry, I can't say."

Zhang Xia solemnly said: "Today is the first day of school. Even big things should be postponed. This is not only responsible for your own future and destiny, but also respect for Mr. Wang. Mr. Wang is highly respected and ordinary.

It is not easy for a scholar to meet him, so I hope you can correct your attitude and learn from him."

Chen Ji said softly: "It is indeed wrong to be late on the first day of school. I will apologize to Mr. Wang in person later."

Zhang Xia looked at the red blood in his eyes and said suspiciously: "You're not really going to a gambling house like the rumors say, are you?"

Chen Ji said calmly: "Whatever Miss Zhang Er thinks."

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a voice from the side: "If he wasn't going to gamble, why would he be late?"

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Chen Ji looked around and saw Chen Wenzong and Chen Wenxiao coming out side by side. Chen Wenxiao continued with a sneer: "Zhang Xia, he must have gone gambling last night. You must be careful, just in case Mr. Zhang really wants to

Marry you..."

Zhang Xia suddenly interrupted Chen Wenxiao: "How can you be so arbitrary without evidence? What does it have to do with you whether I marry someone or not?"

Chen Wenxiao was startled.

Zhang Xia said disdainfully: "Even if I really get engaged to him, it is between me and him. I say he can do it, but you say he can't. Don't think that I don't know how you got the Qiu Wei Jingkui, I beg you

My father has copied several of your articles, and Chen Wenzong and Lin Chaojing are well-deserved, but the article "Governance Policy" you wrote is nonsense, and I don't know what you have learned in Donglin Academy in the past three years?"

Chen Wenxiao's face flushed instantly: "You... why don't you know what is good and what is good? I was just speaking for you."

"I still need you to speak for me?" Zhang Xia sneered: "I heard that you have been going to banquets and accepting congratulations from others recently. I advise you to stay at home honestly so as not to make others laugh when you talk about your article.

Big teeth!"

Chen Ji was also stunned. Miss Zhang Er opened her mouth so fiercely.

The other party is not targeting himself, but looking down on everyone who is uneducated fairly!

At this time, Princess Baili and Prince Fang said goodbye to Wang Daosheng. As soon as they walked into the front hall, they saw Zhang Xia saying something menacingly.

Bai Li stepped forward and stopped in front of Chen Ji, raised his thin eyebrows and said, "Zhang Xia, what are you going to do again?"

Zhang Xia looked at Bai Li, then at Chen Ji, and let out a light sigh.

Before she could speak, she saw a carriage stop at the door.

Zhang Zhuo opened the curtain and leaned out to greet everyone in the front hall: "Everyone is here."

The Crown Prince, Bai Li, Chen Wenzong and others all bowed their hands and said, "Master Zhang."

Zhang Xia came to the door and asked curiously: "Father, why are you here?"

Zhang Zhuole chuckled and said, "I happened to be passing by and will pick you up and take you home."

Zhang Xia frowned: "I am not young anymore, you don't need to pick me up! If others see it, they will think that I am spoiled!"

"It's just a matter of course. It's only natural for a father to pick up his daughter. Others won't say anything." Zhang Zhuo jumped off the carriage, crossed Zhang Xia's figure, and pulled Chen Ji aside.

Everyone in the front hall looked at each other in confusion. Zhang Xia looked at his father's absent-minded back and suddenly felt that the other party was not here to pick him up, but had made an excuse to find Chen Ji!

Behind a bookshelf, Zhang Zhuo lowered his voice and asked, "Do you need me to explain something to Wang Daosheng?"

Chen Ji looked at Zhang Zhuo with a strange expression: "When did Mr. Zhang discover my identity?"

Zhang Zhuo stroked his beard proudly: "I have a photographic memory. I can recognize a person just by looking at the way he walks or even by listening to his footsteps."

Chen Ji sighed inwardly, cupped his hands and said, "I hope Master Zhang can help keep it secret."

Zhang Zhuo smiled and said: "Don't worry, don't worry."

As he spoke, Zhang Zhuo's expression darkened: "It's a pity that you didn't take the right path of the imperial examination. Otherwise, you would have come to help me after the palace examination next year, which would have made me even more powerful. Now that you have entered the ceremonial department, you will be castrated in one day."

If you are a member of the Party, you will be castrated for life, and those civil servants will never accept you again."

"Thank you, Mr. Zhang, for your kindness. It's okay."

Zhang Zhuo asked: "Do you need me to explain to Wang Daosheng that you are late today?"

"No need," Chen Ji shook his head: "I'll go and apologize to Mr. Wang myself, and Mr. Zhang don't stay here anymore, it will easily arouse suspicion."

"Okay," Zhang Zhuo turned around and walked out, took Zhang Xia's wrist and got into the carriage.

In the carriage, Zhang Xia looked at his father: "You're not here to pick me up, are you? You're obviously here specifically to find Chen Ji!"

Zhang Zhuo thought for a while and explained: "Yesterday you acted recklessly and went to say a bunch of nonsense to Chen Ji. I will go and explain to him."

Zhang Xia hurriedly said: "Don't worry, father. I have made it clear to him that he and I are not engaged. However, this trace is also very strange. He was late on the first day of school. No wonder everyone said that he can't hold up the wall with mud."

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Zhang Zhuo was speechless for a moment.

He gently opened the car curtain and looked at Chen Ji standing at the entrance of the academy, preparing to watch the carriage go away.

It was clear that this young man had done a great job last night and saved thousands of people in front of the west city gate, but he could not tell the people around him about it.

Zhang Zhuo sighed softly: "I'm afraid it feels uncomfortable to be misunderstood."

Zhang Xia asked strangely: "Father, what did you say?"

Zhang Zhuo lowered the curtains and said casually: "Daughter, when looking at people, don't listen to what others say, you have to understand it yourself."

Zhang Xia said: "Never mind him. Anyway, from now on I will be on equal footing with him. It's none of my business what kind of person he is."

After saying that, she jumped out of the carriage and shouted: "Zao Zao!"

The next moment, a group of maroon horses galloped out of the alley.

Zaozao didn't stop when she passed by Zhang Xia. She saw the girl quickly grabbed the saddle with quick eyes and quick hands, and jumped on the horse with a slight jump: "Father, go home by yourself. Don't come to pick me up in the future!"

Zhang Zhuo was sitting in the car, looking at the girl's back as she rode away, and said quietly: "Daughter, it's too early to talk."

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In the front hall of Zhixing Academy.
To be continued...