My Wife Is A Sword Immortal-Chapter 171 - 152 Are You Worthy

Chapter 171: Chapter 152: Are You Worthy?

Chapter 171: Chapter 152: Are You Worthy?

When Zhao Rong had assumed that he was the one who had completed the couplet, the blue-clothed girl glared at him in silence.

Zhao Rong felt that something was amiss.

At that moment.

Zhao Rong stared blankly at the blue-clothed girl in front of him, with her Liu Mei eyebrows turned upside down and her small face tensed up.

She was glaring at him angrily, her crisp voice of resentment still echoing in Zhao Rong’s ears…

He glanced at the couplet on the wooden door behind the blue-clothed girl, then slowly turned to look at the large group of scholars who had warmly applauded him just a short while ago but had now retreated to several steps away.

Over the past few days, the strange behaviors of the blue-clothed girl flashed rapidly through his Heart Lake, hmm, and also the reactions of his “hard-luck brothers” behind him.

Zhao Rong slowly inhaled a chilly breath.

The scene was quiet at this moment.

Everyone was looking at him with various expressions in their eyes.

He reluctantly turned back, his eyes slightly avoiding the blue-clothed girl’s seemingly murderous gaze.

Zhao Rong discreetly tugged at his foot that was being stepped on by a certain little foot, but couldn’t pull it free.

This little girl had quite the strength, huh, and that other clunky little girl as well, why does this young master keep encountering such peculiar girls?

He swallowed his saliva, “Young lady, this is a misunderstanding… a misunderstanding…”

“What did you call me?”

Zhao Rong’s words were abruptly cut off; he blinked, “Little…”

“Which part of me is little?”

The blue-clothed girl said indignantly, her eyes widening.

Zhao Rong’s eyelids suddenly lifted as he hurriedly spoke.

“Indeed, indeed, the young lady is in the prime of her life, in her flourishing youth, not small at all. That… young lady, the matter of the couplet is a misunderstanding. I just arrived yesterday and was unaware of the ins and outs of this affair. Today, when I saw that couplet was inauspicious, I presumptuously added on to it, it was my short-sightedness, I hope…”

The blue-clothed girl, hands on her hips, suddenly said, “Are you worthy?”

Zhao Rong paused mid-sentence, pursing his lips as he closely examined this firecracker-talking little girl.

The blue-clothed girl turned to look at the couplet she had brought excitedly this morning, and the more she thought about it, the angrier she became.

Although she had just followed the Teacher to Linlu Academy not long ago, she had long taken a dislike to those shameless scholar pests outside the Academy.

Initially, she also believed that there might be some overlooked Reading Seeds among them, and occasionally in her free time, she would come out to test them. But after a while, she became greatly disappointed; looking at them now, they were all afraid of her, heh, so afraid of losing face, then why are they still lingering around here?

Especially recently, after she had asked Teacher Zhu for a couplet to post on the wooden door, it would always disappear the next day.

Heh, according to the thinking of you lowly scholars, stealing a couplet is not stealing, but thievery, right?

Where is there even a hint of the noble moral stature Teacher Zhu spoke of?

Who knows what dirty deeds those scumbags were doing with Teacher Zhu’s writings.

The blue-clothed girl furrowed her eyebrows, staring at the “sleazy” scholar in front of her, her small chest heaving.

Today, she encountered another guy who continued to write behind the Teacher’s couplet, heh, the couplet was completed rather carelessly but neatly. But do you really think this young lady doesn’t know about those lewd thoughts of yours?

Writing a couplet together with my Teacher Zhu, does this act that you might find in books, where scholars and beautiful ladies romantically match wits, make you very proud?

Do you also dream of turning it into a lovely tale told within and beyond the Academy, to flaunt it?

Keep dreaming!

The blue-clothed Attendant Student stood with her arms crossed, her pretty white Attendant Student hat perched high upon her head as she glowered at Zhao Rong, her tone sharp.

“You think you’re worthy of adding characters after Teacher’s couplet?”

Zhao Rong suddenly narrowed his eyes, remaining silent.

The blue-clothed Attendant Student turned her head to glance again at the characters on the couplet, tossing her head dismissively.

“This isn’t proper regular script; it’s not true cursive script. What on earth have you written? You should perfect your regular script before showing off.”

Upon these words,

a burst of loud laughter came from the crowd behind, with many taking joy in Zhao Rong’s humiliation, eagerly watching the drama unfold.

There were also scholars whose eyes stayed on the several characters Zhao Rong had added, examining them closely without a word.

Zhao Rong’s mouth twitched slightly, but in the end, he just licked his lips and said nothing.

He really wanted to earnestly tell her this ‘non-cursive, non-regular’ script was called running script, not the indecipherable mess she was describing.

“Neither fully cursive nor fully regular, it is called running script.”

It falls between cursive and regular script, hence it can also be seen as an informal version of regular script or formalized cursive.

In fact, running script was created to address the illegibility of cursive and the slow pace of regular script writing.

Zhao Rong also really wanted to sincerely tell the blue-clothed Attendant Student that Teacher Zhu’s regular script was indeed well-written, even considered masterful in this world.

But.

In his opinion, it was merely “respectable,” “decent,” “not bad.”

It was just that the unique delicacy, finesse, and elegance typical of women’s writing made him take a longer look.

But aside from those qualities, the ‘Yan’ and ‘Ou’ styles of regular script he had mastered could easily make a mockery of it, not to mention the influence of Wei stele in his script and the style of the ‘Two Wangs.’

Ah, if only he had written in regular script; maybe then this little girl might have been able to barely understand it. But ignorance is still ignorance, and explaining it to an outsider is a waste of breath…

Zhao Rong slightly curled his lip and glanced at the blue-clothed Attendant Student with her head proudly held high, arms crossed, waiting for him to argue. After a moment’s thought, he didn’t refute her but instead said quietly,

“I apologize for any amusement or inconvenience my actions have caused you and the gentlemen here.”

He bowed his hands, letting out a light sigh, “I’m sorry for spoiling a couplet of the young lady’s. I was wrong, and I’m willing to make amends to the extent of my abilities.”

The blue-clothed Attendant Student glanced at Zhao Rong, noting how quickly he backed down without giving her a chance to challenge him. She found it rather dull, but her anger had mostly subsided, and she huffed lightly.

“Who needs your compensation? I only want my Teacher’s couplet. Can you return that to me?”

Zhao Rong frowned slightly, “That couplet by Teacher Zhu has already been continued by me, I can’t give the young lady an identical one. However, I’m willing to try writing another couplet to return to the young lady.”

The blue-clothed Attendant Student, who had just withdrawn her foot from stepping on Zhao Rong and was about to turn away, stopped at his words. She looked at Zhao Rong from the corner of her eye and tilting her head, said:

“Huh, from your tone, you’re quite good at writing couplets, huh?”

“Just average, nothing special.”

“Oh, such big talk?”

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The blue-clothed Attendant Student suddenly turned around, eyebrow cocked as she eyed Zhao Rong.

“The young lady is overthinking it, I…”

The diminutive blue-clothed Attendant Student abruptly waved her small hand, her voice imperious and crisp,

“Enough talk, I’ll give you a few couplets. If you can complete them, then I’ll consider today’s incident as nothing. But if you can’t, if you have only half-baked skills and are just loafing around here, then don’t ever come loitering around the Academy gates again; just roll on home!”