Cultivation by Trial and Error
Chapter 84 - 84 84 Inquiring

84: Chapter 84: Inquiring 84: Chapter 84: Inquiring Dean Zhu, named Zhu Changfa.

He was the only principal among the one principal, two vice-principals trio of the Wuyang Town Middle School.

Telephones were still a rare commodity at the time, and ordinary families simply couldn’t afford to install one.

However, for Dean Zhu, this was certainly not an issue.

After all, spending some public funds to install a phone in his own house was for better work execution, wasn’t it?

Having hung up the phone, Dean Zhu sat on the sofa.

He pulled out a cigarette and lit up.

Although he had indeed helped Liu Jian a bit with his college entrance exam by pulling some strings, Secretary Liu personally inviting him to attend Liu Jian’s academic banquet was a sign of respect for him!

Going to Jinyuan Hotel in Liuyuan County tomorrow, he couldn’t possibly show up empty-handed.

How much gift money to give and what kind of gifts to bring – he still had to give it some serious thought!

Beside Dean Zhu, Chen Hai’s mind was already a tumult of waves and surge.

Listening to Dean Zhu, the Liu Jian who got into university was definitely a student of Wuyang Town Middle School.

In his class of seniors, with four classes and more than two hundred people, Chen Hai might not know everyone, but at least he knew there was only one person called Liu Jian.

If someone else scored a university spot and invited Dean Zhu to celebrate, it would be normal, and Chen Hai might not have cared much.

But if the successful student was indeed his roommate Liu Jian, he couldn’t help but ponder deeply.

After all, during the college entrance exam, Liu Jian was in the same examination room with him, and the seat he occupied was not far from Chen Hai’s.

During the exams, Chen Hai had specifically observed Liu Jian’s test-taking several times.

The fill-in-the-blank and essay questions were mostly left blank, and when it came to multiple choice questions, he filled in all A’s for single choice, and A, B, C, D for multiple choices.

Liu Jian’s method of answering made for a neat and tidy test paper, but to say he could get into university with that kind of blind guessing – Chen Hai didn’t believe it at all.

In his opinion, with a total score of 760 for six subjects, it would already be considered lucky for Liu Jian to score a hundred or two.

Wait a minute…

He could only score a hundred or two at most…

“Could it be that my college entrance exam score of 186 was actually Liu Jian’s exam score?”

“He managed to get into what’s-its-name Capital Political and Legal University because he replaced my achieved score with his own?”

This thought suddenly flashed into Chen Hai’s mind.

The more he thought about it, the more he felt that if Dean Zhu’s Liu Jian was indeed his roommate, then this would essentially confirm his suspicion.

“Tomorrow at noon, at Jinyuan Hotel in Liuyuan County, there’s an academic banquet?”

“Is it really the Liu Jian I’m thinking of?

I’ll go there tomorrow to see, and naturally, I’ll find out!”

Chen Hai thought silently.

He was somewhat eager, wanting to find Liu Jian right now to confirm his suspicions.

Unfortunately, despite being roommates, he knew next to nothing about Liu Jian’s circumstances.

Chen Hai didn’t even know where Liu Jian lived, so he had no starting point to look for him now.

“Even without this recent event, that Dean Zhu, he’s no good anyway!”

“He blackmails some of the female teachers about their regularization and grade promotion, uses his power for sexual favors…

I’ve already seen two or three cases of this recently!”

Dean Zhu, who was sitting with a cigarette in his mouth and one leg cocked over the other on the sofa, was becoming increasingly unpleasant to Chen Hai’s eyes.

As someone only in the Day Tour Realm, he was still very limited in what he could do against Dean Zhu, a living person.

As he was leaving, Chen Hai casually left behind several yin qi marks on him.

Though these yin qi marks wouldn’t take Dean Zhu’s life, they would cause him to become distracted and uneasy.

If he were unlucky and under a streak of bad fortune, the existence of these marks could potentially attract some indescribable unknown entities.

However, if such an unforeseen incident occurred, it would be Dean Zhu’s bad luck, and have nothing to do with Chen Hai.

Returning to his physical body, Chen Hai rested for a while in his room at the guest house.

Spending entire days with his Divine Soul departing his body and following those school leaders around was indeed an exhausting affair that could easily become wearisome.

He had originally planned on continuing for another ten days or so; if he still hadn’t found anything by then, he would give up this method and think of other ways to try!

Today’s discovery was actually a pleasant surprise for Chen Hai.

Leaving the guest room, he found that guy Zhang Yong in an arcade near the bridge in town.

“Brother Hai, what brings you here today?”

Zhang Yong had been playing an arcade game called Day Tour and greeted Chen Hai hurriedly when he saw him approaching.

“I want to ask you some questions, do you have time now?” Chen Hai patted him on the shoulder and asked.

“If Brother Hai needs help with something, no matter when, I definitely have time!” Zhang Yong said with a chuckle.

“Ermao, come here, I’m stepping out for a bit.

Play the game for me!”

He called out to a little kid behind him, who had been drooling over the game, and then Zhang Yong stretched lazily and got up.

At Chen Hai’s beckoning, the two walked into an alley next to the arcade.

“Brother Hai, just ask whatever you want!”

The alley was deserted, and after walking less than fifteen meters, they stopped.

Zhang Yong was the first to speak.

“Do you know Liu Jian from Class 105?

How much do you know about his situation, can you tell me?”

Taking out a pack of cigarettes, Chen Hai offered one to Zhang Yong before asking.

Zhang Yong, previously close to Qian Bing and being a local from the town, definitely knew more about certain matters in Wuyang Town than Chen Hai did.

Dean Zhu had mentioned that Liu Jian’s high school advancement banquet was tomorrow.

With time on his hands, Chen Hai sought out Zhang Yong to see if he could glean any useful information from him.

After all, as the ancients have said, knowing the enemy and knowing yourself, you can fight a hundred battles without defeat.

“Liu Jian from Class 105?” Zhang Yong was taken aback: “Brother Hai, you haven’t gotten into some trouble with him, have you?”

“What?

Is this Liu Jian that formidable, not someone to mess with?” Chen Hai curled his lips, smiling indifferently.

“It’s not that he isn’t easy to provoke; he’s simply impossible to provoke!”

Looking skeptically at Chen Hai, Zhang Yong continued, “Do you know about Liu Dagui?

The top leader in town, that’s Liu Jian’s dad!

“Do you know Liu Dafu?

Liu Jian’s uncle, the richest man in town, reportedly his family’s assets are worth at least several hundred million.”

“Do you know Liu Dafa?

On the street, who dares not to call him Brother Dafa?

That’s Liu Jian’s younger uncle…”

What Zhang Yong knew about all this was basically what he heard from Qian Bing.

One day, he saw Liu Jian slap Qian Bing several times, scolding him like a grandson.

He thought about stepping in to help but was stopped by Qian Bing, who then told him a few things about Liu Jian.

“That Liu Jian, his family’s influence is so strong…”

Hearing this from Zhang Yong, Chen Hai’s eyebrows were already knit together in a straight line.