Gu Hua is a fat man, a fat man who is quite talented.

His fat cheeks are lovely and honest, and those small eyes that occasionally flash a sly gaze reveal that he is not pure and ignorant of the world, but has a bit of unique cleverness, just such a person can be regarded as a leader among the many students in the Wenza Hall of Hidden Mountain Academy, otherwise it would not be possible to get the qualification of teaching assistant just after entering the academy to study.

But it's a pity that his family background is really ordinary, so although he became a teaching assistant, those hot or oily and promising positions basically have nothing to do with him, and he naturally understands it in his heart.

So when he was told to "assist" a very old but not famous old man, he was not surprised, but a little lost, the so-called "assistance" is simply to do chores on weekdays, run errands, similar to the function of a secretary.

And the combination of the words "old" and "voiceless" when used in a teacher of Hidden Mountain Academy actually means to return to seclusion, and for the rest of his life, he will honestly stay in a cold cave in Hidden Mountain, doing research that ordinary people can't understand. Then, finally, grow old and die silently.

With such a gentleman, it is destined that there will be no achievements, so such a seemingly beautiful but actually chicken-like errand will be Gu Hua's turn.

Gu Hua was so frustrated that he began to be responsible for "assisting" the old gentleman surnamed Bai, that old gentleman Bai was really old, so that Gu Hua was often worried that he would suddenly die one day, and almost no one in the academy knew that there was such an elderly gentleman hidden in the Wenza Hall, if the only bit of power he still had in his hands was that he was in charge of the library of the Hidden Mountain Academy.

The book pavilion is used to store books, many, many books, new and old, all broken, so many that the old man Bai didn't know how many books there were in this library, but what was the use of having so many books? Naturally, all the affairs of the academy could not be solved by turning two books. It is said that the book pavilion is a "clear water yamen", but in Gu Hua's opinion, I am afraid that there is no "water" in this book pavilion......

Mr. Bai didn't care about mundane affairs every day, he only liked to play chess with himself in front of the window on the second floor of the library, fiddling with the countless chess games he had collected, he did not teach in public, nor did he study privately, nor did he hear that he had received inner disciples. In short, this old white gentleman is a lonely and helpless eccentric.

When he was in the fourth month, the six people who were assigned to Mr. Bai Lao Bai's side at the beginning, there were only two people left, one of them was Gu Hua's junior brother, that was a stupid honest man, and the other one was Gu Hua, a fat man, he naturally wanted to go, but unfortunately there was no way, plus every time he saw Mr. Bai playing chess alone, he felt a little pitiful, so even if Gu Hua complained a lot in his heart, but when it came to affairs, he still handled it seriously and responsibly, and never dared to be sloppy。

He always thinks that although this old gentleman has never brought him any substantial benefits, he has never felt sorry for himself, even if it is just out of respect for the elderly, he should do more effort.

However, the good times did not last long, and Gu Hua finally failed to withstand the temptation of a senior brother who had a good relationship, and secretly took out a few rare and unique books from the library and entrusted them to the senior brother to sell. But he didn't want to, the East Window incident happened, and he was sold by that senior brother, he was arrested and locked up in the law enforcement courtyard, and if nothing else, he should be forcibly expelled from the academy in a few days.

Gu Hua thundered, at a loss, and didn't know how to go back to face his parents and relatives......

However, at this moment, the old gentleman Bai, who had never expressed his opinion on something, actually let his stupid junior go to the law enforcement court to bring a sentence, and to this day he still remembers the mocking laughter of those deacons and the indifferent words spoken by the law enforcement court judge that day, because in their eyes this thing is very funny, it is simply ridiculous.

However...... What's even more ridiculous is that in the afternoon of the same day, the only personal disciple of the dean, the senior brother Yi who saw the head and the tail and had a transcendent status, actually came to the law enforcement institute to pick him up in person, and conveyed the meaning of the dean very seriously - Gu Hua is not guilty, the lone book has been recovered, the senior brother who framed Gu Hua was expelled from the hospital and will never be hired, the law enforcement court improperly punished, making him introspect and so on.

This court order directly split everyone in the law enforcement court, including Gu Hua himself, into a scorched outward and tender inside, and panicked.

Gu Hua was puzzled, could it really be that the sentence that Mr. Bai handed over earlier had played a role? But thinking of Mr. Bai's usual appearance of not understanding the world, he immediately denied his conjecture.

......

When Gu Hua saw Mr. Bai again, the old man just said lightly, "Don't take it as an example" and said nothing else. It was also from that time that Gu Hua was allowed to serve as Mr. Bai's close attendant and handle some of his personal daily affairs.

Gradually, Gu Hua found that things seemed to be developing in the direction he couldn't believe the most, and Mr. Bai was definitely not as simple as it seemed......

For example, the dean would go to Mr. Bai's residence every month to drink a pot of good tea and play two or three games of chess.

For example, the hall master of Wenzatang, who used to be the scholar of Jingguo West Taichung, will personally send two cans of good new tea from time to time.

For example, some new government affairs and academic affairs reform regulations in Hidden Hill College will be sent to Mr. Bai's desk on time, although Mr. Bai never expresses his opinion on this.

Five years have passed, and today's Gu Hua knows and sees more and more, so he naturally no longer regards Mr. Bai simply as the owner of a book pavilion.

Old Mr. Bai had never been so strict with Gu Hua, but his attitude became more and more respectful and careless, and there was a little fear in his various subtle movements. He even sometimes thinks that if one day Mr. Bai asks the dean to demolish the Hidden Mountain Academy, he is afraid that the dean will think about it......

Take today as an example, the young man who looked ordinary and harmless to people and animals who went in before had been in the house for a long time, just waiting for Gu Hua to break out in a cold sweat, the dean had already sent someone to urge him twice, and there were as many as seven or eight students standing in front of the thatched hut waiting for the assessment, but the wooden door of the thatched hut still had no intention of opening.

It stands to reason that it is rare that Mr. Bai is really in such a good mood today, and he really shouldn't go in and disturb him, but if it drags on like this, he won't be able to take the exam...... If he waited a little longer, Gu Hua was afraid that there would be panicked teenagers and girls standing in front of this thatched house.

Gu Hua gritted his teeth, raised his fat hand and wiped the cold sweat on his fat face indiscriminately, and finally mustered up the courage to walk to the wooden door from the big bluestone, he ignored the flattering smiles of the teenagers waiting outside the house with a cold face, bowed slightly, bent his index finger, and swung his arms back and forth steadily, ensuring that every sound he knocked was of the same size and the interval was the same length.

"Knock Knock Knock"

No more, no less, just four times, the rhythm is stable and consistent, there is no difference, the sound is not big or small, like crying, and the knock on the door is turned into a noble instrument recital.

"Come in. The voice of Mr. Bai inside the door came, Gu Hua breathed a big sigh in his heart, quickly tidied up his clothes, turned his head and glared back at those eyes who were about to peep in secretly, and then pushed the door in.

......

Gu Hua entered the house, closed the door, lowered his head, and didn't even glance at Mei Wangchen, as if Mei Wangchen didn't exist at all.

"Sir, someone over there has been urging twice, and there are still seven or eight candidates waiting outside the door, so I want to come in and ask what you mean, I don't know when the game will be finalized?"

Could it be that this young man's chess skills are so high that he has already let Mr. Bai start the long exam before he even reaches the middle game...... Or is it already the second set?

Mr. Bai seemed to have just reacted at this time, and patted his forehead embarrassedly, "Look at me, I'm patronizing and playing chess, why did I forget about it, hehe, I'll take a look." After speaking, he took the green bamboo from Mei Wangchen and took a look.

"Hmm...... The book-copying kid gave you three horizontals, and the little doll in the military martial arts hall gave you three verticals, not bad, not bad......" After finishing speaking, he took a sunspot from the wooden box and played with it in his hand, as if he was thinking about what kind of rating to give Mei Wangchen a fair rating.

Mei Wangchen smiled and said a little scoundrelly: "Why don't you take a pebble out and let me test it?" I think the previous two did this. ”

Mr. Bai was a little unimpressed, shook his head and said: "What is there to measure, every day I only know how to label students with innate talent, what can I do, I said that this is not good more than ten years ago, but they still don't listen, and after a long time, I don't bother to care." Mei Wangchen listened to it, thinking that this old Mr. Bai was really a wonderful person, and was just about to make a joke, but he heard Mr. Bai say in a strange tone, "Besides, you have this piece of jade around your neck, and it is really not interesting to go through these forms." Oh, or do you think it's funny to play tricks on us poor teachers?"

Mei Wangchen's shameless smile froze on his face, it turned out that the other party had already seen himself clearly, but he didn't know where he had seen it.

Gu Hua had been following the old gentleman for five years, when had he ever seen a student speak to the old gentleman in such an equal tone? He tried his best to suppress his urge to look up at the hippie-faced young man, still looking down at his round belly.

However, when he heard the next sentence that Mr. Bai said with a smile, his head was raised uncontrollably, and he looked at the handsome young man sitting on the straw mat in a daze, and felt that this was really a monster......

"I don't have any great skills, but I've lived a few years longer than others, and I have some slight knowledge, if you don't dislike it, do you want to learn something from me?"

This is...... Do you want to accept inner disciples?

Gu Hua only felt that his heart and liver were trembling slightly, he didn't know if Mr. Bai had accepted disciples before, he just heard the dean who was playing chess with Mr. Bai when he poured tea by chance, and heard the dean who was playing chess with Mr. Bai say such a past event, a past event that he had never dared to tell others about......

Senior Brother Yi, who the dean regarded as a treasure, was originally going to worship under Mr. Bai's door, but Mr. Bai politely refused after thinking about it for a day, so Senior Brother Yi worshipped under the dean's door and became the only inner disciple of the dean.

You must know that Senior Brother Yi is known as the most amazing genius in the past hundred years of Hidden Mountain Academy, and with such a student, Mr. Bai politely refused.

In the past five years, he has never seen Mr. Bai have any intention of accepting inner disciples, although several students have visited in private, and also revealed the meaning of apprenticeship, but Mr. Bai has not nodded. And those students are also amazing in their talents and martial arts in Gu Hua's opinion, and they will definitely not be in the pool in the future, but ...... Mr. Bai couldn't even look at it.

What's going on today? It's just a matter of chatting and forgetting the time, Mr. Bai actually moved the intention of accepting inner disciples, and he also took the initiative to put forward it, what is the origin of this "monster", and what is the superiority?

Gu Hua, the fat man, really can't wait to pinch himself twice at this moment to see if he is dreaming.

But these are not what he cares about the most, what he regrets the most is that he really shouldn't come in, even if he waits for the dean to urge him, he shouldn't come in, because it is obvious that the conversation between Mr. Bai and this handsome young man who does not talk is forcibly interrupted by himself, which forces Mr. Bai to directly say his mind, there is no room for recovery, if this young man pulls his brain again, politely refuses Mr. Bai's sincere invitation, how can this make Mr. Bai come to the stage? If Mr. Bai can't come to the stage...... Then I had to stand with Mr. Bai on stage all my life......

"Previously, a senior brother surnamed Yi told me that after coming in, I should walk and see more, and I also think that this phantom array is really interesting, and I want to take a few more looks. Mei Wangchen said very decently, which can be regarded as a polite refusal, but the next sentence fully reflects the shamelessness of a scoundrel, "Of course, if I am not admitted to the academy in the end, you can take me in with great mercy, and I will definitely cry and throw myself into your warm embrace at that time!"

Mr. Bai smiled with some regret, but he didn't mention the matter of accepting apprentices, "In that case, then come and play chess with me when you have nothing to do in the future." ”

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At the beginning of the founding of Jingguo, a former sage once said: Don't always think that things will become the way you don't want to see, that's because the worst results often come faster than you expected, instead of praying that it won't happen, it's better to remedy it now.

I don't know if Gu Hua, the fat man, has listened to the earnest teachings of that former sage, but he must have a deep understanding at this moment.

According to Mr. Bai's instructions, Gu Hua stretched out his hand to lead the way, and "sent" Mei Wangchen out of the hut, politely with a little bit of caution and flattery.

This is by no means the attitude that a Tsing Yi student who has been enrolled in Tsing Yi for five years should have towards a teenager who has just come to take the entrance exam. But it's all so real.

It's funny, the distance from the straw mat in the house to the wooden door is very short.

Even if it is like a shy girl on a first date, graceful steps, step by step, at most, it is only about ten steps away. For such a short distance, although Mei Wangchen repeatedly refused, Mr. Bai insisted on letting Gu Hua send him out.

It can be seen that Mr. Bai loves and attaches great importance to Mei Wangchen......

Although Gu Hua was in pain at this time, he still maintained a kind smile on his face.

Over the years, he has only sent someone for Mr. Bai once.

One day, the dean was disturbed by the troubles, his mind was not quiet, and he was killed by Mr. Bai for three consecutive sets without leaving a piece of armor, and the dean's fingers trembled slightly and his beard trembled, and finally Mr. Bai smiled and asked him to send the dean out on his behalf, the dean's face was still a little blue, and it was the first and only time Gu Hua gave away for Mr. Bai.

I never thought that there would be a second time today, and it would be my turn to turn blue.

The wooden door closed behind the two, Gu Hua smiled like a docile raccoon, and whispered to Mei Wangchen intentionally or unintentionally:

"In the future, the junior brother must often come to the library to play chess with Mr., so that Mr. will be more happy. Of course, if there are some small things, you don't have to bother Mr., the senior brother is cheeky, he has been in the academy for two more years, and he has learned nothing, but if the matter is not big, he can always have a sentence or two of advice in his ears. ”

Mei Wangchen smiled, and said a little embarrassedly: "Look at what Senior Brother said, I have to say it if I can pass the exam or not, don't ask Senior Brother to watch the joke when the time comes, hehe"

Gu Hua was so sour by this shameless words that his brows furrowed slightly, in his opinion, this "monster" said this sentence was the real joke.

The two of them, one fat and one thin, one tall and one short, each with a ghost, bowed to each other in the curious eyes of many teenagers in front of the hut, and said goodbye.

The wind rises.

There was no longer Mei Wangchen's shadow in front of the door, Gu Hua rubbed his face that was sour, became indifferent again, glanced at the teenagers in front of the house, squinted, and said without any mood fluctuations: "Next ......"