Chapter 4: Poisoning (1)
(The calendars of all countries are uniform.) )
Two years later, on August 30th.
Long Tianxiang hadn't slept well for a few days, and this year he turned twelve, and this would be his only chance.
At this moment, Long Tianxiang was lying in the bushes of Louluo, and he wanted to capture the last butterfly king. Tomorrow the Royal Academy of Pangya will come here to select students. In this last moment, he was apprehensive, excited, and a little scared.
Be calm!he told himself. He took a deep breath and began to sort out all the things he had to do for the day.
First of all, the Pangya Royal Academy, the best institution in the Pangya Empire, admits twelve-year-old students in the outer courtyard, and graduates after three years, and those with excellent graduation grades can enter the inner courtyard to continue their studies. The most important thing is that every year there will be two places in the orphanage to enter the academy, and the first year is free!
Yes, the Royal Orphanage was built in the imperial capital precisely to enhance the image of the royal family and love the people, and giving such an opportunity to the orphans shows that the royal family not only cares about the orphans' food, but also cares about their future, and gives them the best educational resources for this! This is really good, I must win this place!
By the way, there's also the way they determine the quota. Let me think...... Well, they would come here early in the morning to select orphans, and then bring them back to the school, where they would be tested in the normal way (children of the nobility and those who had passed the entrance test), and the school would officially start on September 1.
It's in the details that matter. Now it is clear that they will only send one person, and the selection method is very random, just random from the person who clicks. There is, then, only one way for me to be chosen out of the three hundred orphans......
Long Tianxiang's eyes lit up with a feverish light, and his eyes suddenly sharpened.
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It's almost time for dinner. While thinking about it, Long Tianxiang poured the powder ground by the last butterfly king into a small cloth pocket and walked towards the cafeteria.
The doorman saw Long Tianxiang running over and shouted, "The meal has just started, go back and wait!"
Long Tianxiang didn't care about it, ran to the front, knelt down, and said with a sad face: "I'm dying of hunger, you can do well, give me some food first." ”
The doorman was here on an errand and was used to seeing this kind of thing, so he was unmoved: "Impossible, get out." ”
Long Tianxiang didn't listen to persuasion, just kept telling how hungry he was. Seeing this, the doorman sneered and ignored it.
Just when the doorman thought that Long Tianxiang was going to say this, Long Tianxiang suddenly got up, spread his legs and ran to the cafeteria.
Near the pot were a few old women who were cooking, and Long Tianxiang could be stopped there. When he came to the pot, he didn't care about any disguise, so he picked up the handle and dragged the cauldron to the ground. There was a "bang" sound, and the porridge given to the three hundred orphans all fell to the ground.
When the doorman saw this scene, he went crazy directly, and he didn't have time to think about why the first reaction of a hungry orphan when he encountered food was not to eat but to get the food to the ground, and cursed in his mouth, and rushed over to punch and kick, but found that before he could hit it, he lay on the ground and curled up in the shape of a shrimp. Well, to protect your ribs, Long Tianxiang remembered every word Sister Tina said.
What can you do, what else can you do? You can't kill him, can you? After a punch and kick, the doorman who kicked Long Tianxiang out of the door looked at Long Tianxiang who limped and disappeared into the night, helpless. Not only the loss of porridge, but also on his head, just now, he has to go to compensate a few chattering old women and sons, not ask them to show mercy and work hard to make a porridge.
As for that, saying that there is no food for the orphans? The doorman couldn't help but think of the black-haired and black-eyed guy who led a bunch of older children to beat himself up when he was eight years old, and now he still has the scars left on his body at that time. Alas, who can be blamed for this? I can only blame myself for not being optimistic. The doorman thought to himself.
Long Tianxiang walked slowly towards his residence, although his body hurt everywhere, he couldn't suppress the excitement in his heart.
He kept thinking in his mind: it was already past seven o'clock, and it would take at least two hours to prepare the meal again, and it would be ten o'clock.
The effect of the butterfly king powder will last for at least a day, and it will take half an hour for the effect to take effect, and if they finish their meal at half past ten and fall asleep at eleven o'clock, they will never wake up until eleven o'clock tomorrow. At this time, the orphans have already been selected. I've tried the effects of butterfly powder on many orphans, and these numbers are absolutely fine. Okay, everything is going well, and now it's time to get the drug.
A light suddenly appeared in front of Long Tianxiang's eyes. Is it already there?" he thought to himself, and walked into the lodgings.
At the time of the meal, the orphans have gathered here. Everyone was in groups of three or five, chatting with each other. Long Tianxiang has very few friends, and when he comes in at this moment, no one pays attention. Among the people chatting, there were the most orphans around the black eyes.
At this moment, it was already a long time past the meal, and the black eye, who had always regarded himself as a leader, asked someone to go to the cafeteria to see what was going on. Long Tianxiang could hear the words of the black eye on his bunk, but he was not worried at all that he would be found out about overturning the rice pot.
The doorman had been withholding the orphan's food for a long time, and it didn't stop until he saw that someone had beaten him up. Although he did not dare to do such a thing again, how could he still have a good face for the orphans? Therefore, the relationship between the two sides was very stiff, and they were in a state where they did not say anything to each other.
Long Tianxiang estimated that the person who looked at the situation would at most look outside the door to see how the food was doing, and he would never have any communication with the doorman. When he came back to report, he would only say that "the meal will be postponed".
As for why? In fact, Long Tianxiang believes that the main source of confidence that he will not be discovered is here. The doorman held a grudge against the beating, but he couldn't take revenge, so delaying the start of the meal and adding dirt to the meal became a method he often used to disgust the orphans. Therefore, orphans are used to this kind of thing, and Long Tianxiang is naturally not afraid of being discovered.
Sure enough, after the man came back, he just shouted to everyone, "The meal will take a while", and he didn't say anything else. Despite this, everyone didn't go out to play anymore, and they all waited with peace of mind. Of the three hundred orphans, who did not know that tomorrow was the day when the Royal Academy would pick people? Therefore, each of them wanted to rest so that he could show his best spirit tomorrow in order to be chosen.
Although everyone knows that most of the people who were selected in previous years had to drop out of school after only one year of study because they failed the assessment and had no money to repeat the grade, the superficial learning of just one year was enough to make those who were eliminated show off in front of the orphans, just to find some means of making a living, and it would be much easier because they had studied in the famous Royal Academy.
Therefore, this opportunity has a great temptation for every orphan. Of course, since it is a royal academy, there will be many nobles, and as the poorest commoners, the discrimination they will suffer can be imagined, so there are also orphans who are unwilling to be selected there, to be the first-to-last, and suffer all the eyes and ridicule.
As for the fact that orphans always have bad grades, that's understandable. In fact, the students that the Royal Academy can look at often have a good foundation, or family inheritance, or apprenticeship, and they already have a certain strength when they enter the school. The orphans had to start from scratch. Besides, how good can the talent be if you can become an orphan?
To be continued......