Chapter Ninety-Seven: Confrontation

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  A fluffy tail, bright as fire, stretched out from under Joana's skirt and dragged on the ground. It made people take a look and suddenly feel extremely strange, fearing that they would be scared to death and run away immediately. But Chen Jianchen just took a glance, calm and composed, as if he hadn't seen it at all.

  Huh?

  Jianna didn't hear the panicked voice, and she couldn't help but turn her head slightly to glance at Chen Jianchen, feeling shocked that this overly young man wasn't afraid. Was he blind? Or did he think her tail was fake?

  It didn't scare Chen Jianchen, but Jiona felt a bit uncomfortable. She also knew that the trick of her tail had failed, so she quietly withdrew her fiery red tail and disappeared without a trace.

  Chen Jianchen saw, hehe smiled: Just as the opponent exposed his tail for a moment, his heart was suddenly moved by the righteous energy, and his sword was extremely excited, eager to rush out.

  Fox spirit!

  Jiāo Nà, even Huáng Fǔ Yuán Wài and others, should all be fox spirits.

  No wonder this village is called "Hu Village" instead of "Huangfu Village", it turns out there's another meaning to it.

  Chen Jianchen suddenly understood in his heart and had a plan in mind, but he did not speak out or expose it.

  Huangfu's father and daughter can transform into human form, and they are no different from ordinary people. This shows that their cultivation is very high, at least above the golden elixir. More importantly, there is no bloody aura on their bodies, belonging to the orthodox Taoist school of cultivation, absorbing the essence of the sun and moon, not killing living beings, and being kind to humans.

  A little later, it was known from the actions of Huangfu's official. He transformed into a rural squire and established a villa at the foot of the mountain, running around doing business, eating and drinking among mortals. His various behaviors were already indistinguishable from those of ordinary people.

  Once you enter the Taoist gate, you must abide by the Taoist rules. They set foot in the mortal world, isn't it also to "experience life" and temper their Taoist heart?

  Chen Jianchen had heard Qingyun Daozhang say before: If the mind of the Tao is not tempered in the mundane world, it will never be able to achieve great enlightenment.

  This is the ultimate truth!

  Chen Jianchen suddenly thought that in many legendary stories, those enchanting fox spirits would often fall in love with poor scholars. Apart from the fantasy element of fallen literati, it's also possible that there are factual grounds for this.

  To know the worldly affairs, eating, dressing, walking, reading and writing are all routine practices. Emotions and love are the core, only then can it be considered profound, only then can it be considered etched in one's bones.

  In a flash of insight, Chen Jianchen suddenly understood another principle. He studied the eight-legged essay, which could be used as a kind of experience to temper his mind...

  "Sir, have some tea!"

  Jianna was so annoyed, holding the tea and coming over. Chen Jianchen didn't know when to stop, not understanding that it's better to retreat when things get tough, making her feel quite unhappy. So she didn't even bother using those little tricks she used to play on Mr.

  Directly exposed his tail, using his ultimate move. Who would have thought that Chen Jianchen was as calm as ever, without a hint of surprise, truly strange indeed.

  Has Father already told you the truth?

  It's impossible by all reason, Father shouldn't be so easily convinced by a mortal's whimsical thoughts, and Joana couldn't find the answer.

  Across from him, Chen Jianchen sat upright in his chair, accepted a cup of student tea, took a light sip, put it down, and said with an air of elderly elegance: "The tea isn't bad, good job!"

  Upon hearing this, Joana almost went ballistic, gritting her teeth: How dare you, actually daring to flirt with me!

  Chen Jianchen ignored her reaction, and slowly said: "Miss Huangfu, since Mr. Huangfu has asked me to be your mentor, I must take responsibility for you. As the saying goes, 'industry is diligent in study and lazy in play, success comes from thought and destruction from following'. Therefore, in order to effectively teach and guide you, I will strictly establish a set of rules and regulations to maintain our teacher-student relationship."

  Jianna didn't listen at all, her small mouth pouting, as if the words hadn't even entered her left ear before they had already flown out of her right ear.

  Chen Jianchen glanced at her and said calmly: "Miss Huangfu, I heard that many teachers taught you before. What did they mainly teach?"

  Jiao Na said lazily, "Nothing more than the 'Three Character Classic' and 'Thousand Character Essay'." Chen Jianchen hummed in response, "So to say, Princess Huangfu doesn't know many characters?" Jiao Na replied calmly, "It's not that I don't recognize characters, but rather Miss thinks recognizing characters is useless." "Absurd!"

  Chen Jianchen suddenly slammed his hand on the table, startling Yanna.

  "Miss Huangfu, you can't read or write, just like a clear principle?" Jianna was somewhat annoyed and said: "Principle is not spoken with the mouth, nor written with a pen, only with power there is principle."

  Chen Jianchen snorted: "A bunch of nonsense, your reasoning is nothing but fallacies, not the great way. The sword walks on a biased edge, and will eventually invite disaster. Heaven and earth are vast, with everything in them; ancient and modern times change, with countless transformations in an instant. Can these true principles be clearly understood and explained solely by relying on power?"

  Joanna snorted: "Sir, you don't have to keep showing off your knowledge, it's annoying."

  "You may have a belly full of poetry and books, but your worn-out clothes suggest that you're nothing more than a useless poor scholar. These words of yours might deceive some rustic fools, but they won't work on me!"

  Since we have to tear our faces apart and not accept so-called teachings, then there is no need to worry about anything else.

  Chen Jianchen said with a sneer, "Ignorant!" Joana was furious, her eyes wide open like an angry cat, and she stood up suddenly: "You poor scholar, how dare you call me ignorant?"

  "You don't respect your teacher, you deserve to be beaten!"

  Chen Jianchen took the initiative and flipped his hand, picking up a ruler that had been prepared in advance, and slapped it on Jiaona's buttocks with a loud "slap".

  This sudden, heavy blow left Jiao Na stunned. Last night, her father had personally instructed her not to play tricks on Chen Jianchen and not to misbehave, otherwise she would be severely punished.

  Father's attitude was unprecedentedly serious, Joana didn't think much of it, but she also knew her limits, thinking that just showing her tail would scare Chen Jianchen away, but unexpectedly the other party wasn't having any of it.

  Not only did he not eat, but he became even more aggressive, directly whipping over with a ruler, and it still hit his buttocks, burning with pain.

  Sir, have you eaten leopard gallbladder?

  Jiāo Nà's heart was filled with three thousand feet of raging fire, and she was about to unleash her wrath.

  "Miss Huangfu, I am the teacher your father invited. You show no respect to me, which means you are showing disrespect to your father. This is unfilial! You refuse to listen and stubbornly argue, this is impolite! You confuse right and wrong, unable to distinguish between reason and absurdity, this is foolishness! Since you are unfilial, impolite, and foolish, what do you want to achieve?" His thunderous voice was meant to intimidate. Little Mei, who was waiting outside, heard the commotion and didn't know what was happening. Afraid that something big had happened, she rushed in without even knocking on the door.

  "Miss...!" Xiaojie was a true commoner and didn't know the inside story of the Huangfu father-daughter duo. She entered the room, but some of Jianna's methods couldn't be used, so she had to endure it and retorted: "Don't put those hats on my head, you bookworms! I've seen many of your kind, each with a belly full of twists and turns, deep and hypocritical, fake kindness and righteousness, yet claiming to be gentlemen. Bah!" Chen Jianchen laughed loudly: "The way of the gentleman is not naive and foolish, not understanding human emotions and worldly affairs, allowing oneself to be deceived and cheated. Only those who blindly read books would be like that. That's not a gentleman, but a fool. A true gentleman is like jade, modest yet not humble, kind yet not foolish, brave yet not reckless, upright yet not rigid. These are the things that Huangfu Yuanwai wants me to teach you. Otherwise, with your impulsive and reckless personality, who knows how many losses you'll suffer when you go out into the world?"

  Jianna glared at him fiercely, saying word by word: "How much I lose is none of your business, Miss only knows that she really dislikes you, you're dead for sure!" Listening to her childish tantrum-like words, Chen Jianchen didn't take it to heart and laughed, saying: "If one doesn't do anything wrong, he won't be afraid of ghosts knocking on the door. Whatever tricks Princess Huangfu has, bring them on, Mr. will take them all!"

  How detestable, it's really too detestable...

  Jianna felt like she had never been so stifled in her life, and she couldn't really do anything to Chen Jianchen. She almost wanted to go crazy and scream, but instead turned around and stormed off with a fierce swing of her sleeve.

  "Huangfu young lady, please stay your step!" Chen Jianchen called out from behind.

  Jianna turned back, coldly saying: "What else do you want?" Chen Jianchen's face sank like water, slowly saying: "Miss Huangfu, tomorrow you must come to class on time, otherwise, this teacher will show no mercy with the ruler."

  Saying so, he took the ruler in his hand and gently patted it.

  Seeing that ruler, Joana inexplicably felt some soreness and itching in her buttocks, an indescribable discomfort: it was simply outrageous, humph, and still dared to give me a lesson tomorrow?

  Sister's butt, tonight if I don't make you scared to the point of pissing your pants and kneeling down to beg for mercy, then I'm not a fox spirit...

  No more words were exchanged, and he left.

  The first encounter between the master and the disciple ended with Chen Jianchen's complete victory!

  Xiao Ju looked at him with a gaze, her inner astonishment was hard to put into words: the eight masters before him, which one didn't look more mature and experienced than Chen Jianchen? But they all ended up miserably. This young master in front of her was quite something, she had no idea what kind of trick he used to make Miss swallow her pride and slink away with her tail between her legs...

  She didn't think much and quickly followed Miss's footsteps out.

  Chen Jianchen sat back down with a pleased expression, picked up a book, and sipped the fragrant tea that Jiao Na had respectfully served him. He read a page, took a sip of tea, and felt utterly carefree.

  Jiaonü stormed off, her fiery temper would not let her give up easily. However, she didn't dare to act rashly, at most she would just "make a strange move to scare people" as Huangfu said. The problem was that Chen Jianchen was least afraid of this trick, not because he thought "what's strange will defeat itself", but because he had a strong sense of justice to rely on. His foundation was solid, no matter how deep Jiaonü's cultivation was, there was nothing to be feared. He would face the situation calmly and respond accordingly.

  In the late afternoon, Huangfu returned home. During dinner, Chen Jianchen didn't hide anything and told everything that happened in the study today, but omitted the part where Jiao Na revealed her fox tail.

  When Old Master heard that Chen Jianchen had used a ruler to slap his daughter's buttocks, he couldn't help but laugh and almost spat out the food in his mouth. He gave a thumbs up and praised with three words: "Well done!"

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