Chapter 625: 247 first prizes, you’ll get used to it_1
The Mu Family, Mu Xiangguang’s courtyard.
At eight in the morning, wafts of sandalwood scent drifted through the bead curtain.
When Mu Yining arrived, a servant was carrying out a stack of als, untouched. Seeing her, he stepped aside and bowed slightly.
Mu Yining extended her hand to part the bead curtain and entered; inside, the light was dim and smoke curled through the air.
She crossed the hall and walked into the adjoining room.
The small room had no windows, only a dim yellow lamp.
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Mu Xiangguang, donned in a grey monk’s robe, knelt with his back to her before a Buddha statue, murmuring, “Thirty-two features, eighty kinds of excellence, all perfectly possessed… to inspire imasurable beings to arise…”
Mu Yining, holding an envelope, knelt quietly behind him to the right, hands joined together, gazing at the Buddha statue.
After Mu Xiangguang finished reciting that section, he gently turned a page of the scripture in front of him.
Only when he stopped did Mu Yining speak, “Dad, a few days ago I t Uncle’s granddaughter. Her na is Bai Lian, and she looks very spirited.”
Mu Xiangguang rotated the Buddha beads, his voice deep and filled with vicissitudes: “Have they all returned to Jiangjing? Pick so gifts for them from the storeroom.”
“She is a freshman in the physics departnt at Jiang University this year,” Mu Yining watched his silhouette.
Mu Xiangguang continued to turn the Buddha beads without hesitation, only nodding.
“From Beicheng, she took the college entrance exam in Xiangcheng,” Mu Yining lowered her head to glance at the photo in her hand, “but this year, she surpassed the Liang family and beca the valedictorian of the high school exam.”
Most people, upon hearing the surna “Liang,” would think of it as a ceiling of intellect.
After all, the world knows of Liang Zewen.
Mu Xiangguang’s hand paused for a mont; his murky eyes fixed on the scripture in front of him, his voice wavering slightly, “The valedictorian, hmm…”
“Dad,” Mu Yining clenched the envelope, “please co out. And Zhaozhao too; we’re all still waiting for you.”
Mu Xiangguang once led the family forward; after the Mu Family’s catastrophe, it seed to take him away too.
“?” Mu Xiangguang’s self-deprecating voice erged as he closed his eyes, beating the wooden fish rhythmically: “Yining, I’m just a broken man now. What more can I offer the family? These young people… they can’t all be ruined by my hands.”
Mu Yining looked at Mu Xiangguang’s back, he never once turned around from beginning to end.
She placed the sealed envelope beside him and, after bowing three tis to the Buddha statue, she rose and left.
Outside on the path, the butler was still waiting for Mu Yining. Seeing her erge, his aged face was full of hope, “How did it go?”
Mu Yining looked up at the rising sun above and shook her head without a word.
The butler, reading her expression, understood the situation.
He saw Mu Yining out, and Assistant Wang was already waiting for her at the gate.
The butler placed a gift box into the car, “Miss, try to drink less,” and then instructed Assistant Wang, “Be smart and help Miss block more drinks.”
The butler stood still, watching Mu Yining’s car drive away.
Once she was gone, the butler turned to Xiaojie beside him and murmured, “Mr. Ji’s niece is the high school valedictorian, huh…”
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Jiang University has eight libraries.
Bai Lian visited the one at the intersection of Nani District and Rose District.
Just after getting off the school bus, she received a voice ssage from Ye Jingxian on WeChat.
“Senior sister?” Bai Lian, still wearing her Bluetooth headset, was very polite.
“Junior sister,” Ye Jingxian’s voice was gentle, “For this year’s welco party, why don’t you perform an act? There’s a formidable newcor in the finance departnt who is a student of a professor from Jiangyin. Other departnts are also preparing big moves. I’ve counted our departnt’s new students this year, and it’s only you and Xun Qian.”
“Senior sister, I’m a bit busy.” Bai Lian was not making excuses; she had exams for her Tongfeng class and also a mathematical modeling defense to prepare for.
“Junior sister~” Ye Jingxian pleaded over the phone, “could you just sing a simple song? Our departnt has always had more boys; it’s been years since we had soone impressive like you. You’re also our representative new student this year… Never mind, are you in your dorm? I’ll co to find you and we can talk in detail!”
Bai Lian stood under a camphor tree at the library entrance, looking at the address Tang Ming had sent, located in a small study room on the fourth floor, “Senior sister, I’m at the library, and I have things to do this afternoon as well.”
The library?
“You…” Ye Jingxian hadn’t expected her to hit the library on the first day of school; obviously, a top student, “Well, junior sister, I will co to visit you tonight to discuss this in detail; please help, junior sister.”
“Okay,” Bai Lian hung up the WeChat call, slowly removed a leaf that had fallen on her arm, and waited outside the library for a while.
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