CHAPTER 5: I WANT TO GO SCHOOL

This extremely busy schedule of eating, cultivating, playing, cultivating, sleeping and again cultivating continued his life went on for months. Unknowingly it’s almost been December.

Chen Zheng was meditating in his room. The snowflakes were floating outside of the window. Occasionally a dog could be seen trying to jump inside the room from the window, but because of slippery surface, the dog fell again and again.

‘This technique is really miraculous. The effect of this technique is growing day by day now my cultivation is about 60% faster than the last month.’ He thought to himself.

He again focused and cultivated diligently. After sitting in the same posture for about 4 to 5 hours now he was somewhat agitated. ‘Why didn’t she come today?’ He thought.

After waiting for almost 1 more hour he couldn’t contain himself and walked out of his room. After walking through several courtyards he stopped and asked an elderly woman who was sitting below a tree weaving a sweater. “Greetings, Granma Ru.” Chen Zheng said.

“So, who do we have today? Oh! So, its young master Zheng. What brings you here young master.” She said as she stood up and bowed a little.

“There is no need to bow to me, the one who should be bowing is me.”, said Chen Zheng quickly.

‘What a nice child. Mrs and Mr Chen would have done great deeds to have a child like him.’

“By the way grandma, have you seen Murong Jian here, I didn’t see her today.’’, asked Chen Zheng while scratching his head nervously.

“That girl hadn’t shown up today. Maybe she had something important going on so she didn’t came to play today.” He wandered around while thinking to himself.

“Hey, little child watch where you’re going.”

“ Sorry.Wu..Wu..”

“Why are you crying now, even after dirtying my clothes?” A boy of about 8 years said in an arrogant tone.

‘Hmm, what’s going on there?’ thought Chen Zheng and strolled toward the direction of shouting and crying.

“Do you know how expensive it was, it was woven from 20 years old feather silk. Now you dirtied it, I may send you to jail you know. So tell me how you want to compensate for it?” said the arrogant boy.

“What are you thinking of yourself to make an innocent child cry and asking for compensation for a fault which was not even his?”, said Chen Zheng in a righteous manner.

Both the crying child and the arrogant boy both moved their gazes toward the newcomer.

“Chen Zheng!.”, Xiao Li shouted as he went toward the direction where Chen Zheng was.

Seeing that his friend was here, he leapt towards him.

“What happened here Xiao Li?”

“He was bullying me.” , he directed his finger to the arrogant boy.

“Who are you?’’, asked Chen Zheng.

Even though the arrogant boy didn’t see Chen Zheng before, but from his clothing of Chen royal family, he could guess that he was that prodigy child whom everyone was talking about in the capital.

“Murong Feng’’. Even though Murong Feng was arrogant, he wasn’t arrogant to the point of offending the son of the future king.

“What are you doing here?”, asked Chen Zheng. Even though, Chen Zheng was asking it seriously. His voice makes it sound childish so even though Chen Zheng was asking Murong Feng in serious manner but Murong Feng didn’t get angry.

“I was coming to your home with the message of Lady Jian.”

Hearing the name of Murong Jian, Chen Zheng got interested.

“She asked me tell you that she would be going to school from tomorrow onwards and she wants you to accompany him to school.”, said Murong Feng.

“Did you tell it to my parents?”, asked Chen Zheng.

“No, I didn’t.”

“Okay”

After finishing this conversation Murong Feng left.

“Thank you, Chen Zheng.” Said Xiao li whose mucus and tears stopped flowing.

He then sent off Xiao Li to his mother and came to his own house. He then waited for his parents to come back home.

Since his last birthday, his parents became extremely busy. They left houses before sunrise and came to home after sunset. And in night they will go to the main hall and call various officers and businessmen to talk about their investments and financial conditions.

He knew that his parents were doing this for himself. All this hardship was just for a single trip to the Clear Sky sect.

It was almost the time for his parents to return home. On the front of a door. A title was written there. It said ‘Prince.’

It was the prince’s office. This meant that it was his father’s office. He knocked on the door and very soon a female attendant walked out of the office. “Oh! Young Master is here, I will inform His Highness.”, said the maid, as she walked deeper into the office. This office was familiar to him. Before his birthday he visited this place quite often. But after his birthday he neither has the time nor the need to visit it again.

“Our Highness, young master has come to the office,”

Hearing this Chen Wang was surprised. Because after Chen Zheng’s birthday, he never again visited it once.

“Okay, bring him here.”

“As you wish, your highness.”, said the maid as she quickly left.

After 5 minutes, Chen Zheng came to the room.

“What you want to discuss me about, son?”, his voice didn’t carry a deep affection. He knew his son was far more mature than other children of even higher age than him, so he didn’t want his son to be weak by showing him too much care because his knew it was his son’s destiny to go through hardships and be tempered.

From the tone of his father, he could guess that his father was not in a good mood. Although he wasn’t afraid of others, but when it came to his parents he becomes slightly nervous.

“Father, I want to go to school.”

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