Chapter 37 What a friend should say
Chapter 37 What a Friend Should Say
Night has not yet fallen, the evening fire is still burning in the sky, and the sunset is as beautiful as a painting.
Lin Wanyi lay on the windowsill, supporting her chin with her left hand, slightly raised her head to look at the beautiful scenery, and did not speak for a long time.
"Feel sorry."
Gu Zhuo's voice rang out.
He said: "This does go against the promise I made to you, so I can understand your anger."
What he meant was, of course, that he asked Chen Chi to keep the news of the dean's accident a secret as much as possible.
Lin Wanyi didn't look back, her voice was as calm as water: "You think too much. I won't be angry about this, because I still owe you a life."
Gu Zhuo thought, then he isn’t angry.
However, in his heart, countless voices were repeating the same sentence at the same time.
——She is just angry!
"There's just one thing I can't figure out."
Lin Wanyi said indifferently: "You did it, and I can't go to check it out. If you don't tell me, I probably don't know. Why do you have to come and tell me again?"
"respect."
Gu Zhuo looked at her back and said seriously, "I know very well that what I did will make you unhappy. Hiding it from you can reduce a lot of trouble, but since you and I are friends, we should be as honest as possible when it comes to matters concerning each other."
Lin Wanyi said: "Even if you knew I would definitely be unhappy?"
I don’t know why, her voice was still cold and her aura wasn’t any gentler, but it gave people a different feeling.
Before Gu Zhuo had the time to explain, he heard the next sentence.
"Yes, I am indeed unhappy. Do you know what makes me most unhappy?"
Lin Wanyi said coldly: "It's not because of what you are doing now, because I understand why you do this. Anyone who recalls the day you left the academy, the brothers and sisters who came to cheer you on, will know that you did this for them, not for the group of old immortals in the academy. So even if what you do will give Changzhou Academy a chance to survive, I am not angry. I am really angry because no one knows that you did this good thing!"
Before Gu Zhuo could open his mouth to refute, the girl in the white dress turned around, her skirt swirling in a majestic manner, exuding an imposing aura.
She looked down at Gu Zhuo and asked expressionlessly, "Also, when we first met, I told you that we shared the same ideals, and you corrected me, saying that you wanted to be in cahoots with me, because only harm can last for a thousand years. But now, how can you be in cahoots with me at all?"
Gu Zhuo didn't even have time to speak.
The more Lin Wanyi thought about it, the angrier she became. "I don't think it's wrong to be a good person, but can you think about it before you do good? Think about whether good people will be rewarded? Well, it doesn't matter if there is no reward, anyway, doing good things is not for reward. But now it's just that there is no reward? It's that others now regard you as an enemy and don't know that you are doing good things for them. Even if they know that you did the good thing, they will think you have ulterior motives! Aren't you just disgusting yourself by doing this?"
She spoke these words very quickly, like pearls falling on a jade plate, or like heavy rain hitting pear blossoms, because she was really angry.
She always thought that Gu Zhuo was a smart man and never thought that he would do such a thing. In her opinion, after learning that the dean of Changzhou Academy had an accident, he was kind enough not to spread the news, not to mention entrusting Chen Chi to help the academy conceal it.
This was totally incomprehensible. Lin Wanyi even wanted to call Gu Zhuo an idiot.
But this is not to vent his anger, but to make his only friend never do such meaningless good things again.
Until this time, Gu Zhuo finally had the time to speak.
He looked at Lin Wanyi, who rarely lost her composure, and at the girl who gently patted her chest but could not calm down her pride and generosity, and said, "Actually, I have thought about it."
"You've considered it all, but you just won't tell me, right?"
"...How could I have had the chance to speak?"
Gu Zhuo looked at her and asked with a helpless sigh.
"hehe."
Lin Wanyi suddenly became annoyed, then smiled coldly and said, "Then tell me now."
Gu Zhuo found her reaction more and more strange, and explained: "At the latest tomorrow, or at the earliest tonight, Changzhou Academy will definitely send someone to discuss the matter of Tongsheng Dan with me. By then, the dean's information can be used as my bargaining chip." Lin Wanyi understood, frowned slightly, and after a moment of silence, asked: "Do you want to show your skills through this matter and prove to the academy that you have the ability to influence the overall situation?"
Gu Zhuo said: "That's pretty much the truth."
Lin Wanyi said seriously: "But I still think that you just want to be a good person, these are just secondary."
Gu Zhuo did not deny it.
Lin Wanyi was still a little angry and annoyed, but she also felt that she shouldn't be like this and should calm down because this explanation made sense and was not just a spur-of-the-moment trick.
As a result, her mood became more and more complicated, and her emotions were inexplicably wrong, so she turned around and prepared to leave.
Even though this is actually her study.
At this moment, a servant suddenly came over and reported something in a low voice.
——Someone from Changzhou Academy has arrived.
……
……
There were two people coming.
Professor Liu, who had a good relationship with Gu Zhuo, and the vice-president of Changzhou Academy.
The meeting place was not the study, but a side hall.
"This time, I'm here to talk to you about the academy."
The vice president looked at Gu Zhuo and said, "Of course, if it can make you feel a little better, you can understand that I am here to seek peace."
After hearing this, Professor Liu thought, isn't this a bit too harsh?
How does this look like a request for peace?
Although he knew that he had to be tough in the negotiations, otherwise he would have to beg for mercy, he still felt uneasy.
Lin Wanyi said nothing and looked at Gu Zhuo quietly.
Gu Zhuo said: "Please speak."
"You have studied in the academy for three years, so you know a little bit about the academy's background. Even though there hasn't been a student like you in the academy for a long time since His Majesty moved the capital, there were students as outstanding as you before that."
"Some of these students are now at the center of power in the imperial court, have their own place, or have become elders of some large sects, reaching a transcendent level."
The vice president said expressionlessly, "It is undeniable that the senior members of the academy, including myself, do not want to use these relationships. After all, things like favors, if used a little bit, will be lost a little bit, and it cannot be made up."
This is indeed the case.
Changzhou Academy has such a long tradition that even if the current decline is difficult to curb, it can still rely on its profound foundation to solve most problems at critical moments.
Gu Zhuo looked calm and asked, "So?"
"Your performance in the past few days has proved that you are indeed very good, so now we can put those things aside."
The vice-president said slowly, "Publicly reconcile with the academy and make it clear that everything is a misunderstanding. At least get a top three place in the summer festival, and try your best to help your classmates get better grades, with at least one person in the top 30 and two people in the top 50."
"As long as you do all of this..."
The old man stared into Gu Zhuo's eyes and finally said, "The academy can give you the Tongsheng Pill after the summer festival."
There was laughter in the side hall.
It was Lin Wanyi who was smiling.
The laughter was harsh.
(End of this chapter)