The Farm Girl’s Charismatic Fortune
Chapter 126 - 123 Benefiting from Xuanbao’s Luck

Chapter 126: Chapter 123 Benefiting from Xuanbao’s Luck

Zhang Jie shook her head, "I don’t know either, I haven’t started studying and haven’t seen the master. But my mother told me the master is very strict, and she said I must listen to him carefully."

Xue Jiajie immediately patted his chest and promised, "No way, my master is so nice, he always goes along with me."

He wouldn’t dare punish me! If he dared, I’d tell my parents to fire him! Xue Jiajie silently added in his heart.

This is a typical second-generation rich kid.

With Xuanbao being so amazing, Xue Jiajie really wanted to study with Ruo Xuan, so he continued to tempt her, "Xuanbao, come to my family’s school and study with me. Our cook makes really tasty rabbit and lamb! He can whip up eighteen dishes from one lamb and three from a rabbit, it’s incredible!"

Ruo Xuan was quite tempted after hearing this, "Can I bring others with me?"

Xue Jiajie, "Of course, Xuanbao’s friends are my friends."

Xuanyuan Que only reminded, "Class time is almost upon us."

Then he lifted his foot and left.

Ruo Xuan quickly said, "Then I’ll ask them if they want to go and get back to you. Have fun!"

After speaking, Ruo Xuan hurried to catch up with Xuanyuan Que’s pace.

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The afternoon was a lesson on strategy games; Master Han first explained to them how to play pieces, capture stones, and determine win or loss. Then, he played a game against Xuanyuan Que, demonstrating to the children before letting them pair up and play against each other.

Princess Kangyi felt aggrieved and, unable to find the Empress Dowager to stand up for her, she skipped class that afternoon.

So just like that, the academic achievers Xuanyuan Que and Ruo Xuan were a team, the competent Yan Feng and Han Xiu were a team, and the struggling students Yan Huan and Yan Jiaojiao were a team.

Playing chess is a kind of game, and with Master Han providing guidance to the weaker side, all the children managed to successfully complete a game of Go. From his tips, they grasped the myriad possibilities of Go, learning to think flexibly and plan three steps ahead.

Through winning and losing, the competitive spirit of the children was ignited, and they spent the afternoon learning in high spirits.

The happiest of them all was Ruo Xuan.

Because she won every single game!

The most exhausted was Xuanyuan Que.

After an afternoon of play, Xuanyuan Que tiredly pinched his brows and heaved a silent sigh of relief.

Thank goodness the strategy game class only happens once every seven days.

This flower, though clever, is still a flower, innately simple-minded. Chess requires looking at the whole board and planning ten moves ahead, but while she’s clever enough to think things through if she applies herself, she doesn’t like to think hard, satisfied with planning just three moves ahead.

Xuanyuan Que, being a war god, is accustomed to planning the entire game from step one, leading enemies into his traps one step at a time.

But this flower is competitive, and whenever she seems about to lose, she quietly uses her Immortal Technique to turn black pieces to white, and white to black.

When her Spiritual Power runs out, she begins to ask for take-backs. If she gets reprimanded by the master for asking for take-backs, she kicks her own leg, prompting herself to use Immortal Technique to take back the move.

If he doesn’t help, she kicks him even harder.

He guessed his shins must be turning black from her little kicks.

Anyway, she just wants to win!

Alright, he let her win, but it’s hard on him when she’s too lazy to think and misses the deliberately exposed spots, leading to her doom after just a few moves!

He then has to rearrange the game so she can make it a bit further.

You talk about exhausting?

He sure didn’t want to play chess with this flower ever again in his life! Xuanyuan Que rubbed his shins.

Ruo Xuan, elated with her win, said to Yan Jiaojiao and Yan Huan when they all left the classroom, "I heard there’s a master who’s really nice and doesn’t punish students by making them write characters. Do you want to study with that master?"

Yan Jiaojiao immediately nodded, "There’s such a nice master? Where? Of course, we should learn from him!"

Yan Huan, "Who would want to be punished with writing characters? But Xuanbao, do you want to study with that master too?"

"I don’t really mind either way, but if you want to study with another master, I’ll join you." She is, after all, a very loyal flower.

"All right, I’ll go home tonight and tell my father that we are changing our tutor. Little cousin, what do you think?"

Ruo Xuan then remembered she hadn’t asked Divine Lord Xuanyuan and also asked, "Brother Xuanyuan, do you want us to go together to Xue Jiajie’s family school to study?"

"No." Xuanyuan Que declined indifferently.

Ruo Xuan didn’t insist and said to Yan Jiaojiao and the others, "Then let’s go."

Yan Jiaojiao: "But if little cousin doesn’t go, we can’t go either, right? We came to accompany little cousin in his studies."

Yan Jiaojiao certainly hadn’t forgotten they were little cousin’s study companions.

Ruo Xuan: "Yan Feng brother and Han Xiu brother are still here, aren’t they? Brother Xuanyuan has company! It’s fine for us to go."

Yan Jiaojiao also felt it made sense and said, "Then I’ll go back and tell my father. Anyway, my second brother and I are so dumb, we can’t be of much help to little cousin."

Yan Huan: "..."

Although it was true, was there a need to spell it out?

Forget it, a man shouldn’t argue with a woman, Yan Huan said, "I really hope we can change the tutor tomorrow. I haven’t finished copying the characters I was punished to write. If we get a new tutor tomorrow, I won’t have to copy anymore."

Ruo Xuan thought about her elder brother going to Dengfeng Academy for an entrance competition tomorrow and said, "I hope we can change tomorrow too. My elder brother is going to participate in the martial arts trials at Dengfeng Martial Arts Academy, and I want to go watch!"

Yan Jiaojiao nodded, "Right, I also want to go watch!"

Yan Huan: "Me too! I was planning to go back tonight and tell my father that I wouldn’t come to study tomorrow, and ask him to take me to watch the competition."

Yan Jiaojiao had a great idea, "Then let’s go home tonight and tell our parents to change our tutor, so we don’t have to go to class the next day. Then we can go watch the competition, and start classes at Xue’s place the day after. How about that?"

Ruo Xuan: "That works, I’ll tell my father when I get back."

The three children happily agreed to tell their parents as soon as they got home that they would change their tutor the next day.

However, plans can’t keep up with changes.

In the evening, at the back yard of the county government office

Mrs. Yao had received an invitation from the elderly lady of the Xuanyuan family, which made her excitedly tell the County Magistrate, "The Empress Dowager has asked for Jiejie and Lian’er to become study companions for the Ninth Prince. Should we send Jiejie and Lian’er?"

The County Magistrate looked at his wife, "If the Empress Dowager has issued an invitation, can we refuse?"

Mrs. Yao happily said, "That’s true! But how did the Empress Dowager think of letting Jiejie and Lian’er become study companions for the Ninth Prince? Isn’t Master Han the teacher of the Ninth Prince?"

Master Han was an imperial tutor. To become a study companion for the Ninth Prince and a student of Master Han—when they returned to the Capital City in the future, who would dare to belittle their children? The families proposing marriage for their daughter could certainly aim higher.

For their son on the path to becoming an official, this connection would also smooth the way.

After all, who would dare trouble a study companion of the Ninth Prince, a student of an imperial tutor?

The County Magistrate: "Xuanbao is studying with the Ninth Prince, and it seems our children have benefited from Xuanbao’s good fortune."

Mrs. Yao thought about it too, otherwise it was impossible that their children went to play at the Ruo Family during the day, and in the evening received the Empress Dowager’s invitation.

She couldn’t help but exclaim, "Xuanbao saved our Jiejie, and we haven’t even repaid the favor, and now we owe another big debt of gratitude."

Originally, she thought, given the status of her family, there would be times when they could help the Ruo Family, but it seemed she had overestimated herself.

The Ruo Family’s backing was much stronger than that of the Zhang Family.

Xuanbao truly is a treasure of good fortune!

The County Magistrate said, "We can repay it slowly over time. You help the children pack their things, and we’ll send them up to the mountain residence for school tomorrow. Remind them to be careful."

Mrs. Yao nodded, "I know. The invitation also mentioned the child from the Xue Family, I wonder if the Xue Family has received an invitation as well."

As the Xue Family were merchants, they might not receive an invitation from the Empress Dowager, so the County Magistrate said, "Send someone to invite Mrs. Xue over for a talk, but don’t reveal the identities of the Empress Dowager and the Ninth Prince."

Mrs. Yao nodded, "I understand."

Mrs. Yao immediately sent someone to invite Mrs. Xue with an invitation.