Chapter 23: Affection, Patience and Sense of Responsibility
After a good sleep, they arrived at Tangjia Town.
Tang Zheng instructed the driver not to mention the robbery incident and returned to his own courtyard. He put down all his things and rushed into his bedroom immediately.
Under the night sky, the drunken and infatuated flower king is gently swaying on the windowsill...
Tang Zheng touched the deep wound on his neck.
Although the bleeding has stopped, the wound is a bit deep and Tang Zheng is unsure if there will be any aftereffects.
"Give it a try." Tang Zheng carefully plucked a petal from the Flower King and covered it up.
Zi Zui Jin Mi is a kind of demonic flower that connects the roots of all flowers. The Flower King's abilities are all derived from absorbing other flowers, and without the flower field, the Flower King's abilities will definitely be greatly discounted.
A faint golden light emerged from the petals and instantly enveloped the wound on Tang Zheng's neck.
As expected, the wound healed quickly and closed up, while the petal also withered quickly and finally turned into a pile of white powder.
Without the support of a whole field of flowers, the effect of Huawang is probably only two or three tenths of what it was last time. The wound on Tang Zheng's neck has healed and closed, but the scar is still quite obvious, and there is still some dull pain.
"It's almost done." Tang Zheng pulled the screen back and continued to block Huawang before returning to the table.
On a small table, a pile of things was neatly arranged.
Tian Meng's shattered jade soul pendant, a patterned ink used to preview the stars, a black unidentified pill, a fake identity plate, several flowing silver tokens taken from Little Gui's body, and also taken from Little Gui's body, a book.
By the faint moonlight, Tang Zheng barely made out a few words on the cover: "Kai Shan Axe Method".
"Skill book?" Tang Zheng flipped through two pages casually, "It's indeed a skill book... No wonder that guy was able to break through suddenly! It seems he's only one step away from breaking through to 1-star. He's even considered what to practice after advancing to 1-star."
Ordinary stellar power does not have extensibility and basically cannot form martial skills, so before Xiaogui's advancement tonight, this axe skill book has no use to him. After tonight, this axe skill book will be even more useless because he is already dead.
However, Tang Zheng can use this axe technique book to understand the principles of Star Power Extension in advance.
Apart from this, the book didn't have any other use for him - as an assassin by trade, he would never think of practicing such a flashy weapon like the axe.
"Tattoo ink, medicine pills..." Tang Zheng rubbed his neck and let out a big yawn. "Let's sleep first, we'll talk about it tomorrow."
A good night's sleep.
Although he had killed two people, Tang Zheng still dreamed of his unfinished half bowl of instant noodles.
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The next day, Tang Zheng got up very early.
It wasn't that he wanted to get up early, but because when dawn broke, he had a nightmare!
A very frightening nightmare!
He dreamed of his own astrological sign!
"Instant noodles! How could it be instant noodles?! And, to make matters worse, they're the moldy kind that's been left out for over ten days! Green stuff! Ugh!!" Tang Zheng sat up in bed with a green face.
Those wavy, puffy objects were like they had grown hands and feet, pinching his neck, rendering him immobile.
It's okay, he woke up with a start.
When he found out that the instant noodles were just a dream, he suddenly felt that the sunshine of Xingyao Continent was so bright and the life of Xingyao Continent was so colorful.
Unfortunately, he doesn't have time to determine his own astrological sign for now.
Because today is his first day of teaching at Tangjia Town!
After tidying himself up, he immediately rushed to Tangjiabao to arrange a place for lectures, the lecture hall.
Actually, there is still about half a time from now until the early morning class.
But Tang Zheng had to go and inspect the classroom's mechanisms in advance...
In his short school life, he had seen many such tricks as putting a basin of water on the door and pouring glue on the podium. Now that he has become a teacher, he certainly cannot suffer from this kind of trick.
"Little rabbits, I'm here!" Tang Zheng kicked open the wooden door of the lecture hall with one foot, carrying several books on his back.
There is no water basin falling from the door.
The moment he stepped through the door, Tang Zheng's face was even paler than if he had been drenched with a basin of water.
In the lecture hall, a middle-aged man was stiffly turning his head around, looking at him with great effort.
That middle-aged man was none other than Tang Xiaotang's father, Tang Bofar.
"Hubby... hubby arrived very early." Tang Bo Yuan didn't know what kind of great willpower and self-cultivation he used, but he faced Tang Zheng and said a simple "good".
"Hey, Uncle Tang is here early. Are you also here to attend the class?" Tang Zheng adjusted his expression and put on a smile as he greeted Tang Bo Yuan, making it seem like he wasn't the one who kicked the door just now, but rather some random passerby.
"The weather in spring is nice, I always casually go out for a walk in the morning..."
"Recognizing the face of east wind at leisure, ten thousand purples and thousands of reds are always spring!" Tang Zheng casually added two sentences, smiling, "It's just a pity that Tangjia Fortress has fewer flowers, so it also has less spring atmosphere."
"I heard Xiaotang say that Mr. Tang asked her for a flower pot. Who would have thought, Mr. Tang is actually a flower lover..."
And so, the topic of conversation between the two people was thus diverted by Tang Zheng's single sentence and went off on a tangent to flowers.
In fact, what kind of flower lover is he?
All his knowledge of flowers came from those life professions in the previous game, and apart from that, he didn't know anything.
However, Tang Zheng could tell that Tang Bo was not familiar with flowers either. Two people who didn't understand each other's topic were happily chatting away, if Tang Bo really understood flowers, he would have kicked Tang Zheng out of the Tang family mansion by now.
As they chatted, the students from Tang's family who came to attend the early class in the lecture hall also arrived one after another.
As soon as he spoke, the topic was pulled back again: "Actually, raising flowers and educating people are exactly the same..."
"Oh?" Tang Bo Yuan subconsciously glanced at the younger generation of the Tang family.
"Love, patience, and responsibility." Tang Zheng's finger pointed to the front row of little beans, "For seedlings, have love," he pointed to a pile behind, "for growing flowers, have patience," he pointed to the last few adults, "and for those with countless future blossoming flowers, one must have responsibility..."
Tang Bo Yuan's entire body shook violently.
Is it really true that people are like flowers?
"A teacher, as long as he has a loving heart, patience and a sense of responsibility, even if he is not very knowledgeable, he can still impart all that he knows to his students. But if he lacks these qualities, no matter how talented he may be, his students will learn nothing from him!"
Tang Zhengbo's sentence is already making excuses for himself, after all, he belongs to the category of being shallow and lacking in learning...
No choice, he's a poor kid, didn't even finish nine years of compulsory education.
Tang Bo'er listened to this sentence, almost as if he had been enlightened, and bowed deeply to him: "Then, the young masters of Tangjia Fortress will be handed over to you, Master!"
Tang nodded and smiled: "Alright."
Then, under the watchful eyes of dozens of young men from the Tang family, he threw a few books onto the red wooden low table in front.
Tang Bo-yuan had already retreated outside the lecture hall, but still stood at the window looking in...
"Today is the first day of my formal lecture!" Tang Zheng scanned the crowd of students from kindergarten to elementary school with a headache, only to realize that he hadn't thought about what to teach in this class yet.
All the students were quiet, and no troublemakers appeared as Tang Zheng had expected. The few kids who had found him in the training grounds last time also remained silent.
Tang Zheng cleared his throat: "Let me tell you a story first."
Tang Bohu outside the window let out a "hmm" and continued listening.
"Once upon a time, there was an old lady who ran an inn. She made the best soup in town, using high-quality lamb bones and over a dozen precious medicinal herbs, along with some spices and seasonings. Every day, as soon as her soup was ready, countless customers would rush to taste it. But on this particular day, when her soup was finally done, nobody got to drink it. Everyone wondered why. She hesitated before saying that just as she was about to serve the soup, a mouse dropping had fallen into the pot... That one little mouse dropping ruined the whole pot of soup..."
Those students who went to discuss the problem of skipping class last time all lowered their heads in embarrassment.
Tang Bo-yuan outside the window smiled and didn't say anything, then turned around and left.
Just as Tang Bo Yuan left, Tang Zheng continued: "So this story is the first lesson I want to tell you today - being a person, never underestimate your own strength!"
"Ah?" Several bigger ones in the lecture hall were stunned by this sudden turn of events.
"A single mouse dropping, is it insignificant or not?" Tang Zheng asked.
"Tiny..." Several crisp voices replied.
"A pot of soup, compared to a piece of mouse dung, which is bigger?"
"Very big..." were still several crisp and fresh voices answering.
"But a single rat turd can change the future of an entire pot of soup!"
As he spoke, Tang Zheng waved his brush, dipped it in ink, and turned around to write three words on the white paper hanging on the lecture platform.
I. Tang Family Fortress. Starlight Continent.
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