My Wife Is A Sword Immortal
Chapter 402 - 288 Teacher Zhao is really busy

Chapter 402: Chapter 288 Teacher Zhao is really busy

Wu Peiliang once again became the focus of everyone in the academy.

Although everyone knew he definitely didn’t want to be the focus in this way.

The people in Shuaixing Hall, those with a bit of empathy, felt embarrassed for him.

They even somewhat couldn’t bear to look at him.

After all, being slapped down so quickly wasn’t easy; usually, only the well-known villains in bookstore novels experienced such treatment.

So it seems, the villain is myself?

However, this scene, rarely seen in ordinary days, was still quite surprising to everyone.

So now, everyone was no longer concerned about camaraderie or saving face, all eyes eagerly fixed on Wu Peiliang, whose expression was very unpleasant.

Try again?

Yet, the seemingly delicate-featured Wu student standing in the middle of the hall appeared as if someone had cast an Immobilization Spell on him, standing there unmoving.

For a while, there was no movement at all.

It was as if he was competing in a stamina contest with all the people around him.

Wu Peiliang’s low profile at this moment, compared with his earlier activity, was somewhat stark.

People who didn’t know better would think nothing had happened, only the changing colors on his face reminded everyone that something indeed had just occurred.

Although the current scene was very awkward, no one took the initiative to break the silence.

Yet, the thoughts of many students within Shuaixing Hall were still quite active, mostly digesting the fact that the two ’uninvited guests’ had just arrived.

Regarding the ’Teacher Zhao’ currently on the platform, who was also leading the Calligraphy class in Justice Hall, they had heard about it.

But on ordinary days, Zhao Rong seldom mentioned Justice Hall during classes, let alone make any comparisons.

There were no comments like "look how Justice Hall is doing this or that."

Thus, students of Shuaixing Hall didn’t really understand what Zhao Rong’s relationship with Justice Hall was, um, nor did they want to know.

But, from the words of that well-known senior from Justice Hall just now,

it seemed like Zhao Rong was quite popular in Justice Hall?

That senior from Justice Hall was ’jealous’ that Zhao Rong was giving them an additional lesson?

What’s there to be envious of, there’s something off with you, Justice Hall...uh, or is it us?

Apart from that, what also caught the attention of Shuaixing Hall students was the speech by Li Jinsu not long ago.

At this moment, quite a few Shuaixing Hall students silently ended the boring game of ’if you don’t move, I won’t move, and whoever moves is embarrassed,’ shifting their gazes from the ’if I don’t move, then the embarrassed ones are you,’ Wu Peiliang to the young Confucian Scholar on the platform.

Regarding this ’transfer student’ and new fellow student, the students of Shuaixing Hall also had some understanding before.

Like another student, Fan Yushu, he used the recommendation letter from a Mochi Academy Teacher because of his specialty to get admitted through the back door, bypassing the entrance assessment.

Such specialty students, on normal days at Mochi Academy, naturally ranked a notch lower.

It was not explicitly stated, but such hierarchy existed wherever people gathered.

In a group, especially when newly formed, everyone mentally has a ’ruler’ sizing up the people around them into ’firsts, seconds, and thirds,’ and precisely identifying their own position, determining who they can and cannot befriend.

In the new session of Mochi Academy, the primary ’ruler’ was, of course, the academic performance in the seven arts of the Confucian Scholar.

However, Cultivation Talent, family background, and appearance could also be considered secondary criteria, supplementing the primary ’ruler.’

Thus, a certain Zhao-named student was thoroughly measured by several ’rulers’ as soon as he entered Shuaixing Hall.

For instance,

Zhao Rong was a specialty student nearing eighteen.

This could be easily measured by the ’rulers.’

He was about the same age as everyone else, an appropriate peer.

Regarding academics, which was the most important aspect, Zhao Rong made a ’remarkable’ impression during Teacher Si’s class when he first entered Shuaixing Hall, something that the students still remembered.

As for Cultivation and family background,

the former doesn’t need much explanation; at this age, unless one has reached the Vast Realm, there wouldn’t be any exceptional or outstanding talent, just like most students in the academy.

Within that, again, one has to differentiate between those who can practice Cultivation and those who cannot...

Regarding family background, Zhao Rong came from a noble family of a minor dynasty at the foot of Wangque Continent in the Southern Continent, which was quite ordinary, even somewhat lacking.

Only slightly better than someone like Jia Teng Ying, who came from a humble rural family.

Hence, the fact that Zhao Rong could be admitted as a specialty student through the back door was somewhat surprising to everyone.

But there are thousands of hidden connections between the mountain tops and mountain feet, and the lingering affections left by academy Teachers in the outside world, who could tell for sure?

In addition, the ’Zhao’ surname did attract some attention among Shuaixing Hall students.

Inside Du You City, there was a Zhao surname powerhouse known by those with some knowledge; it was common knowledge that all Zhaos in the world come from one lineage, and with a traceable family tree, they were quite united.

Thus, Zhao Rong also had quite a few distant and influential relatives, but the benefits were minimal.

These commonly accepted intricacies and rules, encapsulated by the ’rulers’ and filled with numerous considerations, were hard to describe in detail.

However, Zhao Rong had already gone through this informal process on his first day in Shuaixing Hall.

It’s just that he hadn’t realized it.

In the hearts of Shuaixing Hall students, this ’Zhao’ named student’s position was roughly the same as that of the honest Jia Tengying, um, even their housing allocations were in the same courtyard within the student lodgings.