The Ye Family has a long-standing Legacy, and every medical book brought by Ye Cixin is the hard work of generation after generation of the Ye Family.
The herbs recorded in the books are numerous, extremely detailed, and number in the tens of thousands; it is simply impossible to finish reading them all at once.
“Aunt Ye, I can’t finish reading all these books at once.
Could you let me bring them back to the academy to read slowly?
I guarantee that I will return them completely intact after reading them.”
Meng Chen pointed at that pile of medical books and pleaded.
Ye Cixin smiled faintly and said, “Alright, Sister Lingling is also at Heaven Dou Academy, so you can ask her if there is anything in the books you don’t understand.”
“Mm, thank you, Aunt Ye.” Meng Chen nodded and stored the batch of medical books into his bone dragon ring.
Ye Cixin’s smile grew even wider.
Although the medical books were precious, in her view, it was worth it if it could strengthen the friendship between the Ye Family and Meng Chen.
Furthermore, with these medical books acting as a bridge, Meng Chen would come to find Ye Lingling or her whenever he didn’t understand something.
With more frequent contact, their feelings would naturally grow deeper.
In the future, when Meng Chen achieved Titled Douluo and remembered this favor from the Ye Family, the Ye Family would also have a guarantee.
Thinking of this, Ye Cixin became even more enthusiastic toward Meng Chen.
That surging appearance made Meng Chen cry out that he couldn’t withstand it.
After lunch, Meng Chen did not stay long.
Finding a random excuse, he left the Ye Residence.
Ye Cixin watched Meng Chen’s receding figure, which carried a slight sense of fleeing in panic.
The corners of her lips curved up slightly, sketching a playful smile on her mature and beautiful face.
Handling a boy who was still growing up was as easy as pie for her.
After leaving the Ye Residence, Meng Chen drove Dahei and returned to Heaven Dou Imperial Academy.
The academy had a designated place for boarding mounts, costing one gold coin a month.
Meng Chen directly paid the fees for a whole year and asked the caretaker to take good care of Dahei.
“It’s been so long, Xiao Wu should be awake by now.”
Thinking this, Meng Chen walked along the white jade mountain steps and returned to the Heaven Dou campus.
Along the way, he didn’t see many students.
Most of them were Tianwei-grade students, and even Tianzhi-grade ones were rare.
One could only say that the quality of the students in Heaven Dou Imperial Academy was truly poor.
If not for the rule guaranteeing direct admission to the Soul Master Competition finals, solely based on the strength of the Royal Fighting Team, they probably wouldn’t even be a match for Shenfeng.
Meng Chen returned to the small building and did not sense Xiao Wu’s aura.
After glancing around the living room, Meng Chen’s gaze fell on the coffee table, where a note was lying quietly, its handwriting not yet dry.
[A-Chen, I’m going to the cafeteria.]
A cute rabbit pattern was also drawn on the note.
“The cafeteria, huh.” Meng Chen thought about the location of the cafeteria and turned to leave the small building.
The cafeteria was not far from the dormitory, only two or three li away.
After walking for a short while, Meng Chen saw the silhouette of the cafeteria.
However, a group of students was surrounding the outside of the cafeteria, seemingly watching some commotion.
Faintly, Meng Chen heard a familiar crisp shout.
His expression changed slightly, and his steps involuntarily sped up.
“Make way, make way…”
Meng Chen squeezed into the crowd.
The students who were pushed aside showed dissatisfied expressions, but considering that the students in the academy were all nobles, it was hard for them to flare up.
After managing to squeeze to the front, Meng Chen raised his eyes to look and saw Xiao Wu confronting several greasy-faced youths.
The leading youth had an arrogant expression, looking completely like a prodigal son, pointing and making comments about Xiao Wu.
“You’re the commoner student specially recruited by the academy.
Your appearance is quite good, but your status is too lowly.”
“Our Heaven Dou Imperial Academy is a noble academy after all; it’s not a place that a lowly commoner with a bit of talent like you can attend.”
“I advise you and that other guy to voluntarily drop out and not stain the nobility of our Heaven Dou Imperial Academy.”
The leading youth’s words caused the surrounding students to nod successively and join in the jeering.
“Your Highness Xue Beng is right.
Our Heaven Dou Imperial Academy has always only recruited nobles.
A lowly commoner like you who doesn’t know what country bumpkin place you came from is simply unworthy of sharing a room with us.
Why aren’t you getting lost yet?!”
“Right!
This isn’t a place that you plebeians can come to.
Do you really think that having a bit of talent allows you to cross classes?
A plebeian is a plebeian!”
“Plebeian, get out of Heaven Dou!”
“Get out…”
Hearing the abuses and humiliations from the crowd of Heaven Dou students, Xiao Wu’s pretty face flushed with anger, and her fair, tender hands clenched into fists.
If she weren’t afraid of causing trouble for Meng Chen, she would have already smashed her fist onto Xue Beng’s face.
Seeing Xiao Wu’s fists clenched tightly but failing to act for a long time, a trace of disappointment flashed in the depths of Xue Beng’s eyes.
Immediately afterwards, he added fuel to the fire, a lewd smile appearing on his face.
“However, seeing that you don’t look half bad, this prince can give you a chance to stay.
Why don’t you follow this prince from now on?
This prince will…”
However, before Xue Beng finished speaking, Xiao Wu could no longer hold it in.
The anger in her beautiful eyes was almost overflowing, her pink lips parted slightly, and she cursed angrily.
“If Sister Xiao Wu doesn’t show her might, you really take Sister Xiao Wu for a rabbit!
Like hell I’ll follow you!”
Amidst the sneering gazes of the surrounding students, Xiao Wu’s beautiful legs wrapped in white silk bent slightly, and then she suddenly sprang up into a catapult-like jump.
With a heavy punch mid-air, she fiercely smashed it onto Xue Beng’s face!
Bang!!!
The next second, before Xue Beng even reacted, his face felt a wave of intense pain, feeling top-heavy as he flew backward like a badminton shuttlecock, smashing into the crowd and knocking over several onlookers in a row, causing a chorus of wails.
“Your Highness Xue Beng!”
“My waist!
Who’s going to help me up?!”
“What’s going on?
My arm seems numb, could it be broken?!”
“You fucking hit your funny bone!”
Seeing that Xue Beng was actually beaten by a plebeian, a few lackeys hurriedly helped him up from the pile of students.
They wouldn’t have known if they hadn’t looked, but looking gave them a huge scare.
Xue Beng had already passed out.
Deeply branded onto his originally quite handsome face was a delicate fist print.
His nose was crooked, nosebleeds flowed freely, and several teeth had fallen out.
Fortunately, there were students acting as human cushions for Xue Beng, otherwise he would have been even more severely injured.
The lackeys were both shocked and furious, looking at Xiao Wu in unison.
Just as they were about to scold and accuse her, a slender figure appeared in front of Xiao Wu.
It was none other than Meng Chen.
Meng Chen protected Xiao Wu behind him, coldly looking at those lackeys.
His sharp gaze fell like knives, deterring Xue Beng’s lackeys.
“Y-You, who are you?!”
A lackey mustered his courage and questioned Meng Chen with a fierce look but a weak spirit.
Seeing that Meng Chen had arrived, a look of joy appeared on Xiao Wu’s exquisite and delicate face.
She hurriedly hugged Meng Chen’s arm, her eyes turning red as she grievance-fully said, “A-Chen, when you weren’t here, they all bullied me.”
Hearing this, Meng Chen’s gaze became even colder, like the wind and snow of the twelfth lunar month’s winter, sweeping towards Xue Beng’s lackeys and the surrounding students watching the show.
Swept by that icy gaze, the students all felt a chill penetrating to their bones.
Their hearts tightened, and they subconsciously stepped back a few steps.
Realizing that Meng Chen’s Soul Power was formidable, Xue Beng’s lackeys also began to back down in their hearts.
But looking at the disfigured and unconscious Xue Beng, they hesitated again.
Xue Beng was a prince, after all.
He had been beaten, yet they remained indifferent and even shrank back.
If the royal Family found out, the families behind them would inevitably punish them severely.
The lackeys gritted their teeth, and the previous lackey spoke up again in a stern voice:
“Do you know who you just hit?
This is the Fourth Prince of Heaven Dou, Your Highness Xue Beng.
By hitting His Highness the Prince, you are slapping the royal Family in the face.
Heaven Dou Imperial Academy cannot accommodate you!”