When I was young, a year was as long as a lifetime.

In my memory, I always seem to have time to chase and fight in the courtyard, and I always seem to lie down in front of the desk to write the homework that can never be finished—a long winter vacation, a long summer vacation, a long time that seems to never see the end.

But the older you get, the faster time flies.

An hour, two hours, a day, two days, a week, a month, a year, time flows by in the blink of an eye.

The older we get, the stronger this feeling becomes, as if 'some kind of existence' is constantly accelerating in people's minds, quietly stealing our time without anyone noticing.

Just like now.

After the old professors disappeared, the happy times left for the young students passed quickly. It seemed like two weeks had passed in the blink of an eye. The calendar flipped to the end of November, and it was the fourteenth Monday of Zheng Qing's arrival at the university.

The feeling of winter is becoming clearer.

The cold wind howls across the campus, unleashing the power of winter unscrupulously. The plane trees on both sides of the bluestone pavement also turned bare, leaving only a few scattered dead leaves on the branches, shivering in the cold wind. There were no birds, no insects, and the tree spirits simply hid in the depths of the tree holes, hiding in thick, warm nests, and taking a lazy nap.

In this kind of weather, even the fish people in Linzhong Lake are too lazy to surface and pick up what the students accidentally fell into the lake.

The atmosphere of the moon hunt has completely disappeared from the Nine Talents Academy—the brightly colored banners, the signage guiding the way, the faded flags, and the shrubs that were once trimmed into strange shapes are all gone—not to mention the hunt before the moon, and even the traces of last Thursday's Thanksgiving are almost invisible.

"Dream for a thousand years, sit and forget the spring and autumn!" Xin Fatzi lay behind the desk, moaning lazily, and sighed for a long time: "The reason why the immortals in ancient times would say such things may be because their 'time acceleration' has reached a shocking point...... One of our nights is a thousand years in their eyes!"

"Interesting idea. Zheng Qing muttered, lowered his head and compared the answers to the two assignments on the left and right, and said casually: "You said that you are a wizard of the Germanic breed, what are you doing with the Araush Immortals...... Weird...... Also, fat man, is your '樛jiu木' character written incorrectly? The words are fallacious. The pronunciation is different! ”

He was talking about the class work left by the Charms teacher last week.

Although Lao Yao was not there, the new Charms teacher still taught the young wizards of Astronomy 08-1 class a transformed spell of the 'Bondage Charm' according to Lao Yao's teaching plan-'Nan has 樛木 (jiu), kudzu 痟纍之 (leilei)'.

Throughout the freshman year, the main idea of teaching Charms is to understand a basic spell, and then learn how to construct these spells and how they are transformed in the process of developing, transforming, extending, and expanding. This is very helpful in understanding the nature of the spell.

But because the old professors left halfway, everyone sounded a little dizzy in the last two classes. So much so that homework seems to be much more difficult to do - Zheng Qing believes that in the entire class, except for Liu Feifei, Jiang Yu, Xiao Xiao, Matthew and a few others, most of the other people's homework is written after referring to each other.

Including himself.

"You can copy the spell wrongly, what else can you do!" Zhang Jixin wasted no time in laughing at the fat man, and then turned his head to look at Zheng Qing: "Have you recently led the task of the school working committee?"

"Catch mice?" Zheng Qing finally lifted his head from his homework book and raised his eyebrows: "Who has time to catch that thing......! I can't finish my homework every day. ”

For some reason, since the school committee issued a notice to catch rats two weeks ago, more and more rats have begun to wander around the campus - lakeside forests, promenades around the lake, pet houses, morning exercise grounds, and so on. Zheng Qing had every reason to believe that if the entrance control of the Shushan Pavilion had not been so strict, the college's rich collection of books would have dropped to an appalling level within a week.

"You said that you are a cat and don't catch mice, isn't it a dereliction of duty?" Zhang Jixin said, poking at Dr. Xiao Da, who was taking notes on the other side: "Doctor, how about you say that our hunting team changed its training plan to catching mice this weekend...... It can also subsidize the use of the team. The hunting team had not prepared leather suits for winter training before, and I thought this was a problem. ”

"What?" Xiao Xiao seemed to have just woken up from his sleep, raised his head, glanced at the red-faced wizard blankly, and was stunned for a few seconds before he reacted, and said vaguely: "Oh, oh, the matter of the hunting team's training...... You look for him, he's the captain. ”

As he spoke, he pointed to Zheng Qing next to him.

Zheng Qing couldn't help but put his head in front of Xiao Xiao's notebook: "Are you writing a love letter?"

"Smack!" Xiao Xiao immediately closed his notebook hard, and even accidentally skewed his glasses: "You're still a student, can you put your mind on studying, don't think about those messy things all day long......

The young student was startled by the doctor's slightly agitated behavior, and his body couldn't help but lean back.

When he came back to his senses and straightened up, Dr. Xiao had already opened the textbook of the Charms class and was studying his homework angrily. Several young wizards silently exchanged glances, and a hint of teasing expression appeared on their faces.

If nothing else, Dr. Xiao should really be writing love letters. Although he dared to confess to Mr. Sima in public, in fact, he was still a very sensitive young man.

"Ahem. The young scholar cleared his throat, glanced at Xiao Xiao's notebook, and finally turned his head regretfully and looked at Zhang Jixin: "Elder Zhang's first suggestion is rejected...... The hunting team is for hunting demons, not for catching rats. ”

"As for the issue of winter clothing that you mentioned, it can be included in the next hunting team meeting. ”

"Money is not an issue. There is still a lot of the hunt that was sold in the Freshman Tournament, enough for each of us to change into a brand new dragon skin hunting suit...... Provided that we need to participate in a hunting tournament. ”

Zhang Jixin just raised his arm, ready to high-five and cheer with Fat Xin, but when he heard the prerequisites added by Zheng Qing later, he suddenly slowed down, turned around, and looked at the public scholarship student: "What do you mean?

"I mean, if there's a hunt that we do in the winter, think about winter clothes. What's the use of buying a dragon skin hunting suit if we don't need to participate in any hunting tournaments all winter?"

Zheng Qing raised his index finger and shook it unhurriedly at the two partners.