Her guards

Chapter 49 The Powerful Miss

Yang Hui's arrival made the hall noisy, and the palace women had to remind her to be quiet.

Princess Heisei also explained, "I asked Miss Yang to help me organize my notes."

"Oh dear, I told you not to bring maids. Are you a princess and therefore special?" Princess Nangong's eyes flickered from behind.

A more accurate description would be that I'm rather slow-witted, so I asked someone for help.

But it's clear that the proud Princess Heisei would never say that about herself.

Princess Nangong glanced at Princess Wuyang, who had always been at odds with Princess Pingcheng and was resentful of her. She was sure Princess Wuyang would seize this opportunity to mock Princess Pingcheng.

Princess Wuyang merely pursed her lips and remained silent.

Princess Nangong's eyes flickered. It was strange. Although she was afraid of Princess Heisei, it was not like Princess Wuyang's style not to speak up when she had such a reasonable opportunity, unless... she did not want to offend Yang Hui.

Princess Nangong's gaze involuntarily fell on Yang Hui.

She didn't know much about this young lady from the Ding'an Duke's mansion because she didn't come to the palace often.

Is it really that amazing?
"What is the background of this young lady?" she couldn't help but ask Princess Wuyang in a low voice.

Princess Wuyang replied with a stiff face, "I don't know."

"Of course I know!" Princess Nangong murmured aggrievedly, "My birth mother was a lowly concubine who knew nothing and couldn't teach me anything..."

Princess Wuyang interrupted her impatiently: "Shut up."

She genuinely didn't know, but before leaving home, her birth mother, Consort Li, had instructed her not to be disrespectful to Yang Hui. She immediately jumped up and down, saying that the Empress and Princess Pingcheng had violated the rules first, so why couldn't she say anything?

"How foolish!" Consort Li playfully smacked her on the head. "How could they break the rules without His Majesty's permission?"

Then they wouldn't let her ask any more questions.

"Just remember this: you can make Princess Heisei unhappy, the Empress unhappy, but you can't make your father unhappy."

That's why she refrained from mocking the two of them today.

Princess Wuyang had been instructed not to ask too many questions, and the other young ladies knew without being instructed that they should not question any of the royal family's decisions. Even if the selection of eleven companions turned into twenty-one, it was still not something they could interfere with.

"That's wonderful! It will be even more lively with Miss Yang here."

Joyful congratulations immediately filled the hall.

"Alright, alright, ladies," the palace maids gestured to everyone, "Let's stop chatting and take our seats."

Because they had to attend a class, the princesses no longer sat alone at the top, but instead sat in the very front row.

The others were listed in the order in which the list of selected individuals was announced.

Yang Luo was the eleventh, last in line, but another table was brought over behind him.

She was tasked with organizing the princess's notes, but couldn't actually sit next to her like a maid. Since she wasn't officially selected, she was only given a seat at the end.

Yang Hui was not dissatisfied with her position, but she was somewhat dissatisfied with Yang Luo, who was sitting in front of her.

Yang Luo turned his head and met her gaze.

With a hint of smugness, Yang Hui whispered, "You only got to sit here by luck, I..."

Yang Luo looked away and sat up straight.

Was this ignoring her? Yang Hui was embarrassed and angry, staring hatefully at Yang Luo's back.

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"That lady who got pushed off is back. Is your lady alright?"

Ling Yu held the book in her hand and looked behind her.

"Do you want to go take a look?"

Mo Zheng, carrying Ling Yu's book bag from behind, smiled and said, "No need, my young lady is quite capable too."

Ling Yu had no interest in his mistress, so he nodded and didn't ask any more questions.

"Would you like to go to the library to read some books?" he asked. "The teacher is over there."

Mo Zheng looked in the direction of the library on the hillside ahead. There were several hundred students in the National Academy. Although most of them were in class, quite a few people were also walking around. There must be many people in the library as well.

"No, I'm a guard after all, it wouldn't be good if someone saw me," she said, smiling at Ling Yu. "Senior Brother Ling, find me a place to rest."

Ling Yu smiled and said, "Then let's go to my dorm."

To make reading easier, he chose a place in the middle that was closest to the school and the library, which was not quiet at all, but rather noisy.

Pushing open the door, the small room was filled with books on the table and every corner of the floor. A small bed was squeezed into the corner, with neat bedding that seemed to have not been used for a long time. In another corner, separated by a partition, were placed toiletries and a small cabinet.

"Seeing a place like this, who would guess that you come from a wealthy family with silver mines and mountains of gold?" Mo Zheng said, pulling a cushion out from under the pile of books and sitting down.

Ling Yu laughed and said, "There are golden houses in books, and I am sitting on a gold mine." After saying that, she looked at the empty teapot on the table and said, "You sit down first, I will go and get you some tea and snacks."

Mo Zheng smiled and thanked him, "I'm sorry to have kept you from studying, Senior Brother."

Ling Yu waved the book in her hand: "It's just walking, it won't take any time."

As he walked out, he hesitated for a moment, glancing back to see that Mo Zheng had already picked up a book from the ground and was reading it.

He loved reading, his eyes never leaving his books. This young man was the same, though he couldn't read all the time because of making a living. But whenever he had free time, he would read. Ling Yu smiled slightly, gently closed the door, returned her gaze to the book in her hands, and then walked briskly towards the dining hall.

Mo Zheng sat indoors, her eyes on a book, listening to Ling Yu's footsteps recede into the distance. Occasionally, other people's footsteps would pass by outside the door, accompanied by laughter and chatter.

Her gaze swept intently over the lines of text, her hand turning the pages repeatedly, until she heard footsteps approaching in the distance, footsteps...

Mo Zheng suddenly raised her head.

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"Why is Wei Jiao here again?"

"It's already annoying enough to come once a month."

"You used to come in the evening, why are you here in broad daylight?"

The chatter that followed was incessant, but Wei Jiao didn't seem to care. However, perhaps because it was her first time in broad daylight and she wasn't used to it, she appeared listless and walked sluggishly.

Suddenly he stopped and glanced to the side with his eyes gleaming.

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Mo Zheng suddenly shrank back through the window crack.

This person is incredibly perceptive!
She was discovered after only one glance.

Of course, she had already experienced Wei Jiao's keenness in Zhao County, but at that time she had deliberately sought to be noticed in order to create new wounds before Wei Jiao could examine them.

That won't work now.

She can't let Wei Jiao see her now, or she'll be dead.

The footsteps suddenly disappeared.

Oops.

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The students watching Wei Jiao from a short distance felt a sudden blur as Wei Jiao, who had been walking in the courtyard, disappeared.

With renewed focus, Wei Jiao stood in front of a school building.

A wooden fish hung above the school gate, spinning rapidly due to a sudden gust of wind.

Although everyone dislikes Wei Jiao, they all like Ling Yu.

"Dr. Ling has gone to the cafeteria!" a student couldn't help but shout.

Wei Jiao did not want to intrude into Lingyu's school and defile Lingyu's peaceful place.

Wei Jiao raised an eyebrow as he looked at the half-closed door in front of him.

He knew it wasn't Ling Yu.

He knew what Ling Yu's gaze was like.

If it weren't to reprimand him, Ling Yu wouldn't have given him a second glance; that bookworm only knows how to read.

There are other people in this house.

It's not surprising that others look at him.

He walked into the academy, where he was surrounded by eyes that were fixed on him.

but……

This perspective is different.

Wei Jiao ignored him and kicked the door open.

The view was of a messy pile of books, a small bed squeezed among them, empty, but behind the partition, a shadowy figure could be seen.

Wei Jiao held a small, shimmering blue snake sword in his hand, which was hanging at his side.

"Ling Yu, are you blind?" he asked. "Are you too ashamed to face people?"

As the speaker instantly stood beside the lattice door, a low gasp rang in her ears, and the next moment a patch of white breasts rushed towards her.

Wei Jiao was stunned for a moment.

The woman's loose, black hair cascaded down like a waterfall, obscuring her face, and she hurriedly wrapped her robe around herself.
It was a man's robe.

Her chest was covered, but her fair calves and bare feet were exposed...
"Young master, please, please don't, don't make a sound." The woman's voice trembled as if she was about to cry.

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With a spit, the figure beside the partition disappeared. The door that had been kicked open was not closed, but the footsteps moved away.

Mo Zheng straightened up from her curled-up position, her long hair swaying in front of her face, obscuring her expression that she hadn't had time to change.

Mo Zheng let out a soft breath.

They managed to get away with it.

(End of this chapter)