Naming Technique of the Night

Chapter 372: 281. Dragon Fish and Dragon Lake

“Instructor, how about I come back later to ask you about my questions?” Qing Chen looked toward the geography instructor, Luan Fengfeng.

He felt that the atmosphere in the office was a bit off, so he decided it was best not to hang around at this time.

The geography instructor looked at Qing Chen with a pleasant expression and said, “Hmm, you go back to the hall first.”

Qing Chen turned to leave but he was cautious and didn’t leave right away.

Outside the door, the 14-year-old boy hid under the window and began to eavesdrop.

In the room, the four instructors sitting in the corner got up to stretch their limbs as soon as Qing Chen left.

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The geography instructor wondered, “What exactly is going on with you all, why did you all go sit over there… and also, why is the new fighting instructor, Qing Chen, sitting in your seat, Lao Zhou?”

Lao Zhou, Zhou Xingwen, the math instructor.

At this moment, Zhou Xingwen stood up and said, “Didn’t we agree yesterday to teach him a lesson? So when he arrived, we didn’t prepare a desk for him, just to see his reaction. But who knew Li Changqing had brought such a monster? After just being quiet for a few dozen minutes, he flipped through all of the materials in Li’s School, then started attacking us.”

Zhou Xingwen continued, “We started with the hardest high school exam questions, which he all scored 145 on, and then he turned around and gave us questions to solve, and neither Lao Liu nor I could solve a single one.”

Lao Liu, Liu Junkui, the physics instructor.

Listening to the story, geography instructor Luan Fengfeng was baffled; he took one of the IMO math competition’s hardest questions ever from Zhou Xingwen and, after a long time, did not even understand the question.

Although they taught different subjects, at the very least, they were all higher education talents with Master’s degrees in education from Qinghe University, and solving a high school math problem should have been a breeze.

But now, they couldn’t even comprehend the question.

Crouching outside the window, Qing Chen’s heart was filled with shock, like an undercurrent churning beneath the sea’s surface.

Truth be told, he hadn’t expected Qing Chen to cause so much trouble in just one day.

First, he subdued the servants, and then he took over the instructors’ office, leaving the instructors without even a desk to sit at.

Impressive!

Young Qing Chen finally understood what true boldness was!

No wonder when he entered the office earlier, he felt Qing Chen’s presence dominating the entire instructors’ office!

With this in mind, Qing Chen sneaked back into the hall. How could he not share such joyous news with his brothers and sisters?

At this time, Qing Chen was walking on a small path leaving the Xinzhi Courtyard.

The half-mountain manor was lush with greenery, walking inside felt like being lost in a forest maze.

Simply put, Qing Chen got lost.

With his memory power, he had rarely ever gotten lost in his life.

However, he had been brought over by Li Changqing in a hover car from the back of the mountain, so he had never actually walked the path by the entrance of Xinzhi Courtyard before.

Using the position of the sun to discern the cardinal directions, Qing Chen walked towards the general direction of Feiyun Courtyard.

However, after walking for an hour, he hadn’t even caught a glimpse of Feiyun Courtyard.

Along the way, Qing Chen encountered more than ten checkpoints within the half-mountain manor, but thankfully, Li Changqing had given him an electronic pass beforehand, otherwise, he might have already been buried under some garden by now.

When he turned from a path, the view suddenly opened up; before him was a broad expanse of glistening water—it was a large man-made lake.

Unexpectedly, hidden within this half-mountain manor was such a massive artificial lake.

Looking around, one could see schools of fish swimming in the water.

Alongside the lake, a wooden bridge extended into the water, where an elderly man was sitting quietly on a small stool, fishing while wrapped in a thick fur cloak.

There was no one around the lake’s edge, and the water was as smooth as a mirror.

This was a picturesque scene, like the lone fisherman immortalized in a poem against the cold snowy river.

If not for the high-tech equipment in the old man’s hand, the scene would have been even more picturesque.

Qing Chen distinctly saw that the elderly man had a liquid crystal display next to him, showing the underwater view and even indicating if a fish was biting the bait.

Yet, what made Qing Chen curious was that, in the wild, the fish in waters had become extremely vicious.

However, the fish in this lake seemed to be normal.

There must be something unique about it.

He turned to leave, thinking that the sudden appearance of an elderly man fishing alone in this place was bound to be a significant figure in the Li Family.

But as Qing Chen turned, the old man spoke up, “Come here, help me pull up the fish! Quick!”

Qing Chen hesitated for a moment, and when he looked back, he saw that the old man had a fish on the hook, and he seemed too frail to hold onto the fishing rod.

The old man looked back at him and said, “I’m talking to you, what are you staring for?”

“Oh,” Qing Chen walked over, grabbed the fishing line, and with a strong tug, he pulled the struggling big fish out of the water.

“Youth has its advantages, strong hands,” the old man commented without getting up from his stool and asked with a smile, “Whose young man are you? Haven’t seen you around before.”

After thinking for a moment, Qing Chen replied, “I’m a new instructor invited to the Xinzhi Courtyard by Li Changqing. I’m not from the Lee family.”

“Oh?” The old man seemed surprised, “I thought so. The Lee family doesn’t have such good genes to produce a good-looking kid like you.”

Qing Chen was also taken aback, unsure if the old man was related to the Lee family based on his tone, “Aren’t you a member of the Lee family? Why would you speak about the Lee family like that?”