Chapter 22: The Moon Hunt Comes to an End
November 11th.
Tuesday.
The 14th day of the 10th month of the lunar
It is advisable to sacrifice, pray for blessings, open the market, and travel;
Don't, burial, digging wells, and buying property.
This is the eleventh Tuesday after Zheng Qing entered the school, and it is also the first full moon hunt he has experienced. From October 17 to today, including Saturdays and Sundays, a total of 26 days, the 2008 Academic Year 'College Cup' Hunting Tournament of First University will come to a successful conclusion today.
Although in terms of days, this year's moon hunting days are slightly shorter than in previous years, and the time is not yet a full moon - this is because on the one hand, the surrounding area of the school is not very peaceful, and the clouds are treacherous, on the other hand, the next Wednesday happens to be the Xia Yuan Festival, according to the regulations, the school has a day off, some classes of Atlas Academy have to hold a doom conference, many wizarding families also have to sacrifice the dead, and pray for the Xia Yuan water official to solve the troubles, and according to ancient customs, the wizarding alliance has a tradition of banning hunting, slaughtering, and postponing the date of the death penalty on this day.
In addition, today is an auspicious day, which is the most suitable day for worship and blessing, so the school has set this day as the day of the end of this year's Academy Cup hunting.
For this reason, this morning's divination class has been cancelled.
The closing ceremony of the hunt was scheduled for half past nine in the morning. After finishing the morning class, Zheng Qing did not go back to the dormitory, but quietly slipped to the Shushan Pavilion, picked a corner that sheltered from the sun, and sat down to study the production method of the two talismans.
Since he returned to the dormitory from Su Shijun's laboratory last weekend night, he has been greeted by endless inquiries, curiosity and unwarranted speculation - after all, in the fat man's opinion, except for Zheng Qing, there seems to be no second male student in the First University who has this honor and can be 'favored' by Su Da's beauty many times.
Yes, the fat man used the word 'pampering' in front of Zheng Qing.
If it weren't for the fact that there were a few pairs of fierce eyes next to him, Zheng Qing would have made that damn fat man pay for what he said.
However, there are many curious people, and Zheng Qing has to give a reasonable explanation after all. So he looked up and pulled out many other good reasons such as "two-dimensional experiments" and "shadow accidents" and prevaricated the past.
Although these reasons can stand up to investigation, and Zheng Qing's trip to Su Da Beauty's laboratory does have this reason, not everyone who hears this explanation believes it to be true.
In order to avoid these troubles, in the past two days, Zheng Qing has continued the routine of last week, and has become more and more intensified - stepping on the bell to enter the classroom in class, going straight to the library after class, taking lunch to the lakeside forest with few people to eat, and waiting for everyone to stare at night and quietly crawling back to their beds - in short, the word 'drag', use time to erase everyone's curiosity.
If it weren't for the fact that he was a publicly-funded student of Jiuyou Academy and the captain of the Hunting Team, he would have to attend the closing ceremony of the school hunting meeting, Zheng Qing wouldn't even want to go to this morning's ceremony.
Nine o'clock in the morning.
Zheng Qing took out his pocket watch, looked at the hands on the silver dial that rotated unhurriedly, and couldn't help but sigh deeply.
Time, time, is the most helpless concept. Whether you are an ordinary person or a magician, you can't escape those hands. I heard that the realm above the Great Wizard can intervene in time, but that is nothing less than a legend for a young public-funded student.
He put away his pocket watch, pulled all the reference books on the table into the gray cloth bag, and ran to the outside of the book mountain pavilion.
During the morning exercise, he asked Dr. Xiao to help him occupy a seat.
Go now, not sooner or later, just right.
The closing ceremony was held at the No. 1 Hunting Ground.
When Zheng Qing arrived at the venue, the surrounding stands were already full of spectators—including fourth-year students from four colleges, some spectators with invitations from outside the school, and VIPs on the podium.
Su Shijun should be sitting on the rostrum.
When squeezing towards the stands of Jiuyou Academy, Zheng Qing couldn't help but think of this thought. At the same time, he was a little annoyed. In the morning, he only cared about avoiding the eyes of others, but forgot to go to the pet farm to pick up Poseidon. It's been yelling and watching the excitement for a long time. I don't know if the next time I go to Qingqiu Hall, it will complain to Su Da Beauty.
With these chaotic thoughts, listening to the passionate and melodious hunting music in the trumpet flowers, in this fluctuating figure and sound, Zheng Qing finally squeezed through the crowd and came to the back of his seat.
It was a little quieter than the rest of the stands—because the trumpets behind the chairs were covered with cotton—and a few of the guys from the Sin Huntsteam were sitting in a small circle, chatting about something.
Zheng Qing leaned over silently, leaning his ears and eavesdropping for a long time, only to know that they were discussing the final outcome of the group fight between Jiuyou Academy and Alpha Academy a few days ago.
To be precise, it was Xin Fatzi, who was the reporter of the school newspaper, who was revealing some unreleased 'insider' information to several companions.
“...... The joint meeting of professors held three closed-door meetings and finally decided that what was happening in the hunting ground had nothing to do with us. Xin Fatzi whispered in a somewhat mysterious tone: "It is said that the professors confirmed that there was 'something' in the stands at that time......
"Things, making trouble?" Zhang Jixin snapped his knuckles, twisted his neck, and looked impatient: "Talking and spitting, grinding and chirping, twisting and pinching...... It's not cool at all!"
"You are cool, you say!" The fat man was suddenly unhappy and replied to Elder Zhang.
"But," Xiao laughed out loud to interrupt the two of them and questioned, "Who would make trouble at a group of students' hunting party, what good would it do him if the two academies fight!"
"Who knows...... Some experiments have been done too much, and the wizard is not mentally normal, and the Silent Forest is back in the water, who knows what strange guys will come in from the river. Xin Fatzi took out a bag of peanuts from his watch, squeaked and chewed, and added vaguely: "Of course, it cannot be ruled out that someone is really fishing in troubled waters...... According to the school pickets, many students lost their things when the two colleges were fighting..."
"In other words, the professors aren't sure if it's the wizard or the magical creatures in the Silent Forest?" Xiao Xiao concluded, biting the barrel of his pen.
"Bingo!" the fat man snapped his fingers with a dull snap of his greasy fingers.
"You haven't said what the final punishment will be!" Zheng Qing finally couldn't help it and asked out loud.
A few people from the Sin Hunting Team turned around in surprise and saw their captain.
"Yo, isn't this Captain Zheng...... You don't sit with Su Da Mei on the rostrum, why are you here in a remote corner like ours?!" The fat man asked with a smile as he chewed peanuts.
"Less nonsense. Zheng Qing snorted angrily and squeezed him away, sat down in his seat, and then tilted his head and asked, "The two academies threw evil spells at each other, what happened in the end?"