If I don't have money to go to college, I can only go to slay the dragon

Chapter 771 Afternoon Tea

The tea in the bone china cup is steaming hot, and the golden halo is swaying in the undiminished water waves. From the reflection after the white light, you can see the skylight on the top of the central patio that has been cleaned of fallen leaves for a long time. The homely bird.

This is the principal's office, a two-story building with an extraordinary appearance but a world inside.Probably due to the limited height of the building and the stability of the project, this is one of the very few houses that did not collapse in the fierce campus battlefield that night.But the only pity is that most of the original green trees outside the building were taken away by the hot wind, and the whole building became a lonely black fortress in the wasteland.

In the quiet principal's office, only the melodious sound of running water hitting the porcelain can be heard. Hidden under the sound of the water are the delicate and faint footprints of squirrels as they climb over the bookshelves and the sound of sunlight streaming on the glass outside the skylight.

On the edge of the hollow carved guardrail on the second floor of the office, the principal is standing straight, with his left hand in his trouser pocket, and his right hand holding a teapot, pouring a half-full cup of black tea in front of the empty seat opposite him. The air is filled with a scent of musk The smell of grapes.

The sun shone on the principal's side. Today, he did not wear black as before, but put on a slim-fit brown suit and vest. The cuffs of the two white shirts were rolled up, revealing a little of the old beauty underneath.The warm golden light shining from the top of his head was particularly dazzling on his silver hair, and the light spots attracted the red squirrels on the bookshelves surrounding the four walls to stand and look at it frequently.

The warm and fragrant tea fell into the bone china cup on the opposite table. The headmaster watched the dazzling red tea flow down like a column in the sun. The reflection on the water vaguely reflected a figure downstairs outside the guardrail.

When the black tea in the second bone china cup was nearly half full, the teapot stopped pouring, and the brown tea flow disappeared, and the figure downstairs disappeared together with it.

"Qimen is exquisite, made in China, the best black tea, and the favorite tea species of the Queen of England and the royal family. There are also many people who would like to call it the 'Queen of Black Tea'." said the old man.

He put down the bone china teapot, looked at the boy not far away and nodded slightly, "You're late."

"The time for afternoon tea is two o'clock, isn't it?" the other party asked.

Angers didn't speak, just smiled lightly and raised his hand to signal not far away.

On the second floor of the office, Lin Nian, who was wearing a dark green spring school uniform of Kassel College, glanced at the vertical wooden clock next to the tea cabinet. The hour and minute hands on the dial were staggered by one grid, and the time had come to two o'clock in the afternoon. At zero and one minute, the second hand is slowly jumping down clockwise.

"Busy with schoolwork? Is the location of the new teaching building a little far from the dormitory?" The principal looked at Lin Nian with a smile while leaning on the chair with his right hand, "Or is it that the infirmary is a little far away from my office?"

"Sorry, Su Xiaoqiang vomited during lunch, I took her to the infirmary to delay a little time." Lin Nian walked to the glass tea table and sat on the chair that the principal had already opened for him.

"Oh!" The principal who just sat down was stunned for a moment by Lin Nian's explanation.

".headmaster?"

"Maybe you have been in Kassel College for two years, but I still have to explain that you won't get credits for giving birth while you are studying at our university." The principal leaned on the chair with his hands folded and hesitated, looking at Lin In [-], "Even the 'S' class is not an exception."

"headmaster."

The tone of the second salutation became depressed.

"It's just that she has a cold again, not any other messy reasons. Although it's hard for mixed races to get sick, hasn't the headmaster heard of seasonal flu?" Explain for Su Xiaoqiang.

But when he looked up and saw Ange, who was sitting opposite him, looking at him with a faint smile, he realized that the old man was just teasing and teasing himself with simple words.

"Afternoon tea is the leisure time after dinner, isn't it reasonable to say something for fun?" Anger picked up the teacup and took a sip, "The black tea is very good, the flavor is the best now, try it."

"Principal, you know that I don't know how to drink tea, just like I know whether you are a person who knows how to make such jokes." Lin Nian picked up the tea cup and put it down again, and his mentality seemed to have undergone some subtle changes.

"I don't want to leave a too rigid and serious image in the minds of my students. It is also necessary to properly increase your impression of me with the humor of this old guy."

"But your overall image, principal, has also been lowered a little in my impression at this moment."

"I think this impression point can definitely be added back in the future, as long as we have enough time to work together." Ange put down the teacup with a smile, "It was just a joke before, you should have never been to school before coming here Forum?"

"Night Watchman Forum?" Lin Nian smelled a bad feeling from the old guy's smile, he took out his mobile phone and started searching, while the principal continued to drink tea with a silent smile and waited for Lin Nian's reaction.

"Blast!This month, the double 叒叕 shocking explosion! 'S' class girlfriend retches in the cafeteria and rushes to the bathroom, 'S' class accompanied her all the way with a suspicious look on her face, what is the secret behind this.》

After reading the headline of the post on the night watchman forum, Lin Nian closed the mobile browser and turned off the screen, and then took a long breath, picked up the black tea cup and drank it down.

"If you want to find someone to trouble you after drinking tea, then there is no need. An afternoon tea will not be interrupted because of such a trivial matter. You should know his temperament after living with him for two years, right?" New year with hot black tea.

"I know, I know, but wanting to kill his whole family is another matter." Lin Nian looked at the gradually filling teacup and said, "And drinking black tea in a big gulp is not in a hurry to leave, but because I heard that black tea can reduce fire."

"Herbal tea reduces internal heat, and black tea does not have much effect on getting angry or reducing internal heat. Its main function is to nourish the stomach." The principal said, "Perhaps you have time to let your little girlfriend try it. I heard that she has been in poor health recently. how good."

"She has been suffering from insomnia due to illness recently, it's better to drink less tea." Lin Nian shook his head.

"Chinese medicine physiotherapy is recommended. Although western medicine has quick results, for a weak girl like Su Xiaoqiang, taking a lot of medicine will eventually wear down her body. At this time, the medicine from your hometown can gradually improve her lesions until she is cured." Ang Warm the tea noodles with a bone china cover, "I know a very good Chinese medicine doctor in XZ, who once gave the Empress Dowager Cixi a pulse, which is considered a 'dead legend' in the field of Chinese medicine."

"Dead legend?"

"If there is a professional course of health preservation, then he is undoubtedly the number one in the world or even the number one in human beings. There may be some blood factors that only rely on medicinal food conditioning, which made him live so long that he lived through the entire Qing Dynasty until today." Anger Said, "Countless emperors have sought him out and wanted him to be a court physician, but only Emperor Qianlong succeeded. He lived to be 90 years old as an ordinary person before passing away. He was also the longest-lived emperor in Chinese history, so there is also a "Shiquan The good name of "Old Man" is due to my friend who was able to do this. After the death of Emperor Qianlong, he retired to XZ and was no longer involved in the world. Afterwards, Empress Dowager Cixi's time has come to force him out of XZ. Find it and send it to the palace."

"Why XZ?" Lin Nian asked a question that didn't seem to be on point, but Ange nodded in affirmation, "I also thought about why it was XZ, so I went to XZ specifically, and that was my first time. When I met him once, I also understood the true meaning of the Chinese idiom 'hefatongyan'. If the 'immortal' in your Chinese legends has an entity, it is probably the myth of the predecessors' impression of him?"

After a pause, Angers shook his head lightly again, "But it's a pity that 'immortals' don't exist, at least those giants that move mountains and fill seas in history are dragons hiding in the shadows, the reason why my friend came to Going to XZ is not simply to avoid the world, but to seek real 'eternal life'."

"He is obsessed with the lifespan of the dragon race that is long enough to run through the entire human history, but he is not so crazy that he will spare no effort at all costs. He is constantly seeking the secret of life extension in ways other than purifying blood, and spares no time in trial and error, trying his best Excavating all the mysterious cultures of the dragon race, alchemy, alchemy, spirituality, etc., just to find an answer: Dare to ask whether the human body can achieve longevity in the world."

"Human body?" Lin Nian whispered.

"I also sighed about this." Anger looked at Lin Nian, "and he expressed admiration and shock for his ideal in front of him. He only answered me with one sentence, but that sentence The words are extremely obscure and difficult to understand. It seems to be some kind of lost ancient language that he learned from the dragon civilization when he was looking for the secret of longevity. Retelling. I am keenly aware that that sentence may be the essence and truth of his life, but I have no chance to understand it, which is actually a pity of mine.”

Seeing the curious light in Lin Nian's eyes, Ange bowed his head slightly for a while and then read out a very long language that was really difficult to understand. Lin Nian said in a daze, "It's probably this sentence , very long, I can only remember the pronunciation, but I can't decipher it. Hmm, what's wrong?"

Ange noticed that Lin Nian's expression was suddenly a little weird, and he stared at him straight away.

"No, it's nothing." Lin Nian shook his head, thinking that it's better not to tell the truth to the principal. If the principal knows that the essence of life left by the master XZ is just a sentence of Wenzhou dialect, the old man will probably feel lost in an instant. At last The point is that this sentence is still a foul word.

"Although I can't understand and seek to know the meaning of that sentence, I still understand the reason why my friend XZ escaped from the world through my exploration." Anger quickly let go of his obsession and regret and continued, "According to him In other words, there should be a dragon vein hidden in XZ, the largest and most mysterious dragon vein in the past and the present. During World War II, the German head of state used to rush for it after understanding the sporadic dragon civilization, but in the end he returned with regret. But I heard that he has made great breakthroughs in recent years, and it is estimated that it is only a matter of time before he finds that dragon vein, and it is not certain that you will be sent to the local area by the Executive Department to perform missions in the future."

"The principal knows such a powerful person?"

"I have lived a long time, so I have seen a lot. Although I am probably only a child compared to my friend, I have already lived a long life for normal people. But you know, the things we see are never necessarily certain. Linked to my age, if a child is forced by the current situation, he can encounter turbulent waves and turbulent winds, and then meet those soft fragrant red soil and Moshang grass. I have only experienced them, and there are still many unknowns. Wonderful things are still waiting for you." Angers looked at Lin Nian with a smile and seemed to mean something.

"It's a legendary figure who lived through the entire Qing Dynasty, an old man over 300 years old." After hearing everything, Lin Nian's voice became slightly lowered, and his eyes fell on the cup a little bit erratically.

"Does being old make you uncomfortable?" Angers asked.

"No, if that's the case, don't I feel uncomfortable with the principal too?" Lin Nian shook his head immediately.

"Then maybe you are just not comfortable with those old people who are too old, but believe me, my friend must be an exception." Anger's tone was a little flat, "He used to try and miss a lot in pursuit of longevity, and explored it as a technology for longevity. A cutting-edge tycoon, any failed products left by him will be as shocking masterpieces as the four great inventions to future generations. No matter what the reason is, those who discover these 'masterpieces' will be like rain Serve as the truth."

"Like orthodoxy." Lin Nian said, "The so-called 'Dragon Marrow' is also one of his trials and errors?"

"Probably yes, he used to be an orthodox member, even an 'elder', but unfortunately he chose to leave. Nothing can stop a man from going to the ideal sea. The white sail ripples blown by the sea wind are his whole life For him, longevity is the white sail." Angers turned the bone china cup with black tea, "Orthodox tried his best to save him, but he dismissed it. For him, for the older generation In terms of orthodoxy, there is no difference between hybrids and humans, hybrids and dragons, and even humans and dragons. What they value has never been the so-called "orthodoxy" or "family". What they value is the entire hometown, land, family, compatriots."

"But he still stayed away from everything and gave up everything." Lin Nian said.

Angers raised his head and smiled, "I met him after 1900 (the mourning of the summer), and I also had opinions and hostility towards the orthodoxy in the late Qing Dynasty. When I talked about this, I asked him why he didn't go back to help the orthodoxy. Correct everything wrong? He gave me a simple answer that left me speechless."

"He said: I am old. If I don't find longevity, I will die. The real enemy is still sleeping. If I can't bring longevity to every compatriot in my hometown, how can they compete with the sleeping horror How about the dragon clan fighting a protracted war across the centuries? The development of political power and the establishment of the ethos should be left to the young people. The older generation has no power to determine the direction of the future ethos. Just have a future."

Lin Nian was silent, but in his heart he also felt that he could say in Wenzhou dialect, "Dragon is born by the dragon's mother, and man is born by the man's mother. If the dragon can live forever, why can't the man not live forever? I can go to hell!" The old man who spoke did have such a free and easy spirit.

"But having said that, when the Second World War broke out and China became a battlefield, he still opened a refuge in XZ and got involved in world affairs, which almost brought disasters to him and killed him, and then met Some people have encountered some things that have further confirmed his ideal of seeking longevity. But I will not talk about it today." Halfway through the speech, Anger stopped fiddling with the tea set and stopped the topic.

"He gave me a way to contact him. It's very traditional. You don't have to worry about the signal on the vast XZ. I can give you this way. You can exchange letters and say that you are a friend of Hilbert Jean Angers. It's simple. Clarify some of Su Xiaoqiang's physical problems, and he will be happy to prescribe some recuperation prescriptions for you."

"The principal is so big on face?"

"We have not been together for a short time but we have experienced many things. In his words, he and I should be regarded as the 'three irons in life', although I still don't know what that means." The old guy smiled proudly.

"Hmm..." Lin Nian thought to himself that it was still the same as the Wenzhou dialect before, and he still pretended not to understand some things.

"Anyway, I've got Principal Lao." He didn't refuse Anger's kindness, and it was impossible to refuse, and nodded slightly, "It's true that Xiaoqiang's health has not been very good recently, and he gets sick easily, but the illnesses he gets are not serious, but they affect his mood very much. and everyday life."

"If Su Xiaoqiang needs to ask for leave due to illness, you can ask me for a note, and just submit it to the dean of the department directly. It will not affect the final grade." The principal also nodded.

"Is this considered going through the back door?" Lin Nian smiled wryly.

"Strictly speaking, it doesn't count. The heads of departments, professors and tutors are very busy, and they have to deal with hundreds of students every day, so individual factors may be mishandled or negligent, but I usually just talk to me directly about difficulties. There is a lot of time to deal with it properly, but few students are willing to bother me, in fact, I don’t bother most of the time, but I have a lot of time.” Anger tilted his head and said with a chuckle.

"It's not unreasonable for you to be able to talk about going through the back door and throwing your hands away from the shopkeeper so fresh and refined. It's not unreasonable for you to be able to come to this day under the supervision of the school board." Lin Nian gave great affirmation to the old man in front of him.

"Su Xiaoqiang will be fine. Compared with her, I think we need to worry about other people more at this stage." Anger said.

"Who?" Lin Nian asked.

But after asking, he found that Ange pushed the muffin sprinkled with rose dew on the table in front of him, and the answer was self-evident.

"I?"

"No, yes, all of you." Anger withdrew his hands and folded them on the table and looked at Lin Nian, "You who participated in the 'Kuimen Project' two months ago and came back with a complete victory."

Lin Nian was silent.

"By the way, you did a good job with that vote." Anger added, "Especially you, Lin Nian."

What does it mean that the vote was done well? The topic has turned too full of quack flavor, right?Lin Nian originally thought so badly in his heart, but after glancing at the faint beauty under the principal's cuff, he somehow felt that there was nothing wrong with it.
In short, the topic inevitably turned to the direction it should be.

(End of this chapter)