Volume 1: Dan Xiang Academy Chapter 16 Who is the Top Scorer

  "What do you mean, don't be too excessive, are you mocking me for not being able to answer? Just because I can't answer now doesn't mean I won't be able to in the future. Today's matter is my fault, but you don't have to mock me like this."

  Lan Yu's face was filled with anger as he coldly said to Li Tu.

  "Huh?" Li Tu's face was filled with puzzlement as he looked at the girl, wondering when he had ever ridiculed her. It was truly inexplicable. So he said: "Please mind your tone and attitude when speaking, besides, when did I ever ridicule you? It's completely unfounded."

  "If you've done it, then you should dare to take responsibility. And yet, you clearly did the homework and knew the answers, but still pretended to be a genius, only needing to think for a moment before answering correctly. Is this interesting? Who are you deceiving?"

  "I'm telling you again, clearly, that I had never heard of those three questions you asked before, nor did I know the answers in advance. Also, just because you can't do something doesn't mean others can't either, don't think you're a genius and others are idiots. You, are simply unreasonable."

  This time Li Tu was really angry, coldly saying that he had never seen such an unreasonable and self-righteous person, thinking that if he couldn't do something, others shouldn't be able to either. What kind of logic is this?

  "Jade smoke, perhaps you're overthinking it, he didn't mean anything else. The sky is almost dark, we should head back too."

  Ding Taiji spoke up, and at this time, she also understood Lan Yuyan's feelings. As the daughter of a heavenly proud family in the Imperial Academy, she was pursued by many people, and the appreciation of her teachers naturally formed an arrogant mentality, like a goddess high above the clouds. However, today she was defeated in front of an unknown blind person, and it was the kind where she had hurt her own foot with a stone, severely damaging her face and that proud heart, just like being kicked off the clouds by someone, and her mood naturally couldn't be good.

  Moreover, she had always thought that Li Tu had already done the problem and knew the answer in advance, but still tried to deceive her. If Li Tu had taken a moment or two to think about it and reason it out, she might have admired his talent, but he had just finished stating the problem when he casually gave the answer, which was impossible in her opinion, and the only possibility was that he knew the answer in advance.

  "Hmm! Tomorrow I'll figure out the answer. Your nine-grid question just needs some time to solve, it's not even a difficult problem."

  Lan Yu smoked coldly and hummed a sound, also unwilling to start another dispute with the other party, took up the nine-palace grid diagram and walked down the bamboo building.

  Li Tu shook his head, this is simply inexplicable.

  "I'm sorry to have disturbed you so much today, please forgive me, young master Li."

  Ding Taiji didn't expect things to develop to this point, the relationship between the two had become very awkward. So, he slightly bowed his head and said with a hint of embarrassment.

  Nothing happened.

  Li Tu faintly spat out two words, suppressing the anger in his heart, then sat down with an ancient zither, practicing finger techniques.

  Dantai Ji saw Li Tu practicing the qin and knew it was a gesture of sending off guests. He let out a faint sigh in his heart, unsure if today's visit was a mistake, and also walked down from the bamboo building.

  The gentle breeze blows, and her white clothes flutter, as if a fairy has descended to earth, beauty beyond compare.

  "Inexplicable!"

  Li Tu suppressed the anger in his heart, adjusted his emotions, and slowly calmed down, starting to focus on practicing the guqin.

  Within a year to become a fifth-grade piano teacher, the pressure is not small, and his piano skills have many defects and shortcomings, which need to take a lot of time to improve, so it's even more urgent, so I must seize the time to practice.

  The next day at noon, Li Tu was still practicing piano in the corridor.

  At this time, a fifteen- or sixteen-year-old maid came to the bamboo building and bowed to him.

  "Excuse me, sir, are you Li Tu, young master Li?"

  "What's up?"

  Li Tu stopped practicing piano upon hearing the sound and felt a little surprised, not knowing why the other party came to find him. He didn't know anyone in Tanxiang County anyway.

  "My young lady has me inform you, sir, that because the Royal Academy is about to start classes soon, Miss Blue departed for the capital this morning. When the Nine Palaces Grid puzzle is solved, she will have someone send the answer to you. My young lady also says that regarding yesterday's matter, please forgive her."

  "It turned out that the girl was a student of the Royal Academy, no wonder she was so arrogant, arrogant to the point where she thought others couldn't do what she couldn't."

  Li Tu was shocked to hear that the girl was a student of the Royal Academy, the Royal Academy was the number one academy in the dynasty, its reputation spread far and wide across the country, it gathered talents from all over the dynasty, it was a place where dragons and tigers hid, not something he, a blind man, could look down on.

  That girl was able to become a student of the Royal Academy, and it's also not a simple matter, otherwise she wouldn't have been admitted to the Royal Academy.

  Li Tu felt a sense of disgust towards the arrogant Miss Lan, but towards the other girl who had been quietly standing by and remaining calm, he didn't feel any particular affection or dislike, so he asked: "Who is your young lady?"

  "My family's young lady is Miss Ji."

  "Oh, so it's Miss Ji from the Hou Mansion, no wonder."

  Li Tu was slightly stunned and couldn't believe that she was actually Tan Xiang Jun's talented lady, Han Tai Ji, a 9th-grade zither player.

  "If Master Li has no further instructions, I will withdraw." The maid said with a curtsy.

  Early in the morning, the old servant got up early and went to the school because today is the day when the admission results of the school are announced.

  The release of the admission results at the Imperial Academy is a grand event for the people, witnessing the growth of one genius after another. Many have been waiting in front of the academy gates to see who will be the first on the list and lead the way.

  In their eyes, the top of each list is an outstanding genius who can become a great figure in the future.

  The candidates who took the exam also came out from inside the county town, anxiously waiting under the list, occasionally raising their heads to look at the gate of the academy, whether they can enter the academy depends on today's results.

  Sandalwood Academy is the best academy in Sandalwood County, which student doesn't want to enter? However, the quota is limited, and the academy can only select the best students for admission, so it's destined that a large number of students will be eliminated.

  Many students are now praying and seeking blessings from gods, hoping to be selected.

  By the riverbank of Wei Shui, in a bamboo building, came the intermittent and ear-piercing sound of a guqin. Li Tu was quietly practicing his guqin and didn't go to the academy to join in the commotion. The results of the exam were no longer important to him at this time because he had already been recommended by Gong Yang to enter the academy, but on the condition that he become a fifth-grade guqin master within a year.

  So he must seize the time to practice piano, entering the academy is his long-held dream, and he doesn't want to be expelled from the academy after a year.

  If he is really driven out of school after a year, he can only blame himself, because the school has given him opportunities, but he doesn't cherish them.

  At this time, the front gate of the school was almost crowded with people, and the noise was endless.

  "I heard that this time in the entrance examination of the Academy, a genius zither player appeared, and at a young age, he has already become a sixth-grade zither master."

  "I've also heard that the pianist is actually blind, and he's incredibly talented."

  "I also heard from those students who took the exam that the blind man on stage played a piece called 'Zhu Li' which brought tears to everyone's eyes, and even gained recognition from Master Gong Yang, saying that he might become a national scholar in the future."

  "Really? I've never heard of it?"

  "Because that blind man performed too well, many students are unwilling to mention him, and the reputation of that blind man has not spread widely yet."

  "Is that blind man really so formidable, even more outstanding than Miss Ji?"

  "Unfortunately, Miss Ji may not be able to get first place on the music chart, what a pity."

  The old servant's thin and slightly hunched body was also squeezed in the crowd, anxiously waiting. Hearing many people around talking about his young master, he had a smile on his face and extreme joy in his heart, but when he heard others say that his young master was blind, he became somewhat unhappy.