Naming Technique of the Night

Chapter 442: 305, Article 10 Dragon Fish (Request for monthly tickets)_2

However, graduation still wasn’t the end; next, he would add extra training courses like “altitude”.

After a while, Li Ke brought the braised fish to the table.

“Go hang the ‘Do Not Disturb’ sign for me, and lock the door tightly, or else today might get a bit lively,” Qing Chen said with his eyes closed.

Li Ke was taken aback, but complied nonetheless.

No sooner had the sign been hung than there came a knocking at the door, and someone outside called out, “Sir, I’ve brought my child to apologize to you. Please open the door.”

Li Ke looked to Qing Chen, only to find his instructor already picking up his chopsticks and starting to eat the fish, completely ignoring what was happening outside.

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Outside the Autumn Leaf Courtyard, the parents and students didn’t leave, and in a short while, more parents and students arrived at the door.

Gradually, over ten students and their parents were waiting outside, while Li Ke noticed his own instructor eating the Dragon Fish as if nothing was amiss, calmly and deliberately.

“The fish is salty today, are you preoccupied?” Qing Chen asked while eating.

Li Ke thought about it and ultimately decided not to voice his grievances. He replied, “Sir, I owe you an apology. Last night, someone came looking for me, wanting me to plead on their behalf. I said that it’s not up to me, and that it would have to be you to decide.”

“What you said wasn’t wrong,” Qing Chen shook his head, “no need to blame yourself.”

Li Ke spoke earnestly, “It’s not like that. Later on, my mother scolded me. She said that since you entrusted such an important matter to me, it was my duty to shield you from all trouble, instead of pushing all responsibility onto you.”

“Your mother isn’t wrong either,” Qing Chen said, “but still, no need for self-reproach.”

At this moment, Qing Chen thought to himself, no wonder Li Ke is more likeable than the other children; it’s because he has an excellent mother, as well as good family values.

Qing Chen glanced at Li Ke, “Have you cried?”

“Yes,” Li Ke answered honestly.

“Did your classmates scold you?” Qing Chen laughed heartily.

“How did you know, sir?” Li Ke was curious.

“I could guess. Sit down and eat. Once everyone outside has left, then you can go,” Qing Chen said.

He didn’t ask whether the other person was feeling all right, seeming not to care at all.

However, at that moment, the sound of a parent scolding came from outside: “Kneel down in front of the sir’s door. If the sir doesn’t come out to see you, you’re not allowed to get up.”

It appeared that the parents were resorting to extreme measures.

Initially, only one parent did this, but soon others followed suit, and a row of students ended up kneeling at the door, crying bitterly.

The once quiet Autumn Leaf Courtyard suddenly became noisy.

Qing Chen looked at Li Ke, “What are you standing around for, come and eat.”

Knowing that the clamor at the door was due to his own mistake, Li Ke shook his head and said, “Sir, I made a mistake today, I won’t eat. I’ll go wash your clothes for you.”

Saying this, Li Ke didn’t look back as he entered the west wing, silently taking clothes out of the basket and starting to scrub them by hand.

The winter water was cold, but he didn’t use a washing machine, as if he was punishing himself.

Qing Chen just smiled at the scene and continued to eat his fish down to the clean bones, leaving no meat on them.

When he ate the last piece of fish eye meat, he suddenly felt as if the warmth of every bite he had ever consumed burst forth anew from deep within his bones.

It was as if small streams had finally come together into a torrent, breaking through the mountains, rushing forth like a mighty river!

A parent muttered outside, “Is there anyone at home? The children have been kneeling and crying at the door for half an hour, and this sir is so heartless he won’t open the door?”

As they spoke, they pressed their ear against the red door.

But as soon as they did, a thunderous sound seemed to explode by their ear, a deep, muffled thunder as if hiding behind clouds.

The parent was startled and looked up at the sky, only to see it clear with scattered stars, no cloud or thunder to be seen.

“It’s the Dragon Fish, he ate the last Dragon Fish,” a student’s father exclaimed in shock. “I heard that eating nine Dragon Fish would cause one’s bones to make thundering sounds, I thought it was just a legend…”

“Where did you hear that from?” someone curiously asked.

The male parent said in a low voice, “Back then, my Seventh Brother always wanted to steal fish from Dragon Lake; when someone asked him why, that’s what he said.”

At this very moment, Li Ke, who was scrubbing clothes with cold water in the west wing, turned in astonishment towards his instructor.

In his gaze, he saw no sign of abnormality on Qing Chen, but his hair was falling out strand by strand.

The fallen hair turned to dust as it hit the ground, and Qing Chen’s head was instantly bare.

But as Li Ke watched, he couldn’t help thinking that even if the sir became a Monk, he would likely be the best-looking Monk there was.

Qing Chen’s baldness was short-lived, as new stubble quickly grew back on his head.

In a mere two seconds, his hair had returned to its original state.

The change was so swift that Li Ke was left stunned, without enough time to even open his mouth before it was over.

“Sir, you’ve grown taller,” Li Ke said, dumbstruck.

“Yes,” Qing Chen nodded, “I’ve grown two centimeters taller. I was 181 before, now I’m 183.”

So it turned out that the creatures from the Taboo Land were indeed so miraculous.

If anyone were to tell him again that the Taboo Land contained things that could bring the dead back to life, Qing Chen would believe them.

However, the mutated animals and plants from the Taboo Land were more likely to be toxic and harmful, rather than beneficial.