Night's Nomenclature
Chapter 283: Establishing Rules

Bieyuan Courtyard occupies a large area, while the Martial Arts Hall is located in a separate courtyard on the west side.

A ginkgo tree stands in the center of the courtyard; the previous two heavy snowfalls had stripped it of all its leaves.

The Martial Arts Hall has been abandoned for a long time.

Qing Chen walked inside, carefully inspecting it. He found that it had been cleaned thoroughly, even the windows had been wiped.

If Li Ke had started working at 6 a.m., it would only be 9 a.m. now. It would be a fool's dream for one person to clean a courtyard in three hours.

It seems that Li Ke was lying.

At that moment, Headmaster Li Liheng, unable to tolerate Instructor Zhou Xingwen's nagging in the office, followed him to the Martial Arts Hall.

He looked at the Martial Arts Hall in surprise and said, “That child named Li Ke didn't leave last night; he stayed in the Martial Arts Hall overnight. I wondered what he was doing here, it turns out he was cleaning the courtyard.”

Qing Chen was stunned. Although Li Ke was lying, he didn't want him to think that he was trying to gain sympathy.

He curiously asked, “Headmaster, how long has the Martial Arts Hall been uncleaned?”

“More than ten years,” Headmaster Li Liheng said indifferently, “It's the age of technology now, I don't think martial arts are very useful, so I haven't paid much attention to it.”

Qing Chen shook his head, “Cultivation cultivates the spirit, energy, and mind.”

“Suit yourself,” Li Liheng said, “Sometimes you want to teach, but the students may not be willing to learn. Today's children don't want to endure hardship; they cry and shout at the slightest bit of suffering. If you beat them, their parents will come to make a fuss. I'm their elder, so it's fine, but you're an outsider; you may not be able to withstand it. However, since you've taken over the Martial Arts Hall, teach well; what kind of students you train is your own ability.”

Qing Chen said, “When I first came, I heard that the academy had many rules; I was quite pleased. Now it seems that's not quite the case.”

Li Liheng was angry, “Then teach them; let me see what you can do.”

After saying that, Li Liheng turned and left, Qing Chen was thoughtful.

The Headmaster was reminding him that the students he was teaching were children of important figures in the Li Clan, and he might not be able to control them.

In the past, there were rulers in the academy, but now no one dares to use them anymore.

The status of the Li Clan academy instructors is indeed high, but the Leaders are not blindly unreasonable. They can do supplementary lessons and extra classes, but the Leaders cannot tolerate beating the children.

But without punishment, the Li Clan children are truly unruly and undisciplined.

The Li Clan children are different from ordinary students. They have lived in privileged families since childhood, and some of them may not even treat the instructors as human beings.

These children cannot be taught without discipline.

Moreover, more than 20 years ago, the mothers of some students were Li Liheng's sisters, and even Li Liheng couldn't do anything to them.

Thinking of this, Qing Chen called Li Changqing and then broke a branch from the ginkgo tree.

The branches of this old ginkgo tree are surprisingly flexible, similar to a belt.

During the first class in the morning, the Li Clan children happily came to their ‘physical education’ class.

They had heard that the physical education classes in public schools were like free entertainment, no need to memorize, no need to do exercises, and they could move freely.

However, as soon as they entered the Martial Arts Hall, they saw Qing Chen holding a branch, smiling and waiting at the door.

For some reason, when the students saw his appearance, they all shuddered and stood quietly to the side.

The bronze bell in the depths of the academy rang, but after another minute, four or five people still hadn't arrived at the Martial Arts Hall.

Li Tongyun walked to Qing Chen's side and whispered, “They ran to the entrance of the academy to get Ling food from the servants. The academy doesn't allow servants to come in, so many people have the servants wait outside with the Ling food. They can eat a little during each break; their preparation is quite complete.”

Qing Chen raised an eyebrow, what is this called going to school? These Li Clan children are here to study or to enjoy themselves?

Qing Yi laughed. He didn't expect that Qing Chen would Face^[-] this on his first day of class.

However, he understood. Not only is the Li Clan like this, but this is the situation in all the Conglomerate academies now.

If there is no respected instructor to control the students and Leaders, the academy will be in chaos.

The Li Clan originally asked Li Liheng to manage Bieyuan Courtyard in the hope that he could control the situation.

However, Li Liheng is a good-natured man who doesn't care much about things.

Qing Chen glanced at Qing Yi and then said to Li Ke, “Take your classmates and wait for me in the Martial Arts Hall.”

Then he rushed to the door. When he looked, he saw the five students eating snacks at the entrance. The servants were taking snack boxes from the car, and the Ling food inside was abundant.

Qing Chen smiled and walked over, raising his hand to whip the five students' buttocks with the branch.

The ginkgo branch made a crisp sound as it moved, causing the five students to cry out in pain.

Nowadays, Inner World heating technology is advanced, and even in winter, students only wear two thin pieces of clothing, so the branch was extremely painful.

As soon as Qing Chen started, the servants next to the students became angry, “What are you doing? Dare to beat our young masters and misses?”

Qing Chen sneered, “What? You dare to fight with the academy instructor? Are you not afraid of being buried in the garden as fertilizer? Now get out of here, tell your families that from today onwards, all students in Bieyuan Courtyard are not allowed to bring servants, not allowed to be sent by car, and must walk here! If you think I'm wrong to beat the students, come and argue with me!”

Saying that, he whipped the few students and drove them into the academy, as if driving a few piglets, “At such a young age, you haven't learned much knowledge, but you've learned how to be lazy and gluttonous.”

This scene was witnessed by the instructors and students who had heard the commotion, and they were all shocked.

Bieyuan Courtyard hadn't beaten students for more than ten years. It wasn't that the teachers didn't want to beat them, they just didn't dare.

Zhou Xingwen stopped the other instructors and sneered, “Don't mind him, young people don't know the severity of things, thinking that everyone can be beaten. In a while, when the children's mothers come to make a fuss, he will know what's going on.”

At this moment, Zhou Xingwen's first reaction was to use a knife to kill someone!

Since they couldn't drive him away, couldn't beat him, and his teaching content was also superior.

They couldn't deal with Qing Chen, so let those who could deal with him deal with him.

The other instructors understood and went back to their offices.

On the way back, geography Instructor Luan Fengfeng was a little worried, “He is also an instructor in Bieyuan Courtyard now, shouldn't we stand together? I also think those students should be disciplined; there are too few self-disciplined students, they are all spoiled by their parents.”

Zhou Xingwen sneered, “Then go and discipline them, see if you can control them. Besides, this is his own fault, he used a branch to whip the students on the first day of class; he is asking for trouble, how can we help?”

“Okay,” the instructors sighed.

Li Liheng watched this scene and shook his head. He didn't return to his office, nor did he step forward to stop Qing Chen.

When Qing Chen drove the students past him, he curiously asked, “Headmaster, you look worried.”

Li Liheng said angrily, “You've beaten the students, of course, I'm worried. Forget it, go to your class, I'll deal with this matter, the students need discipline.”

“No need,” Qing Chen chuckled, “I will definitely solve the problems I create myself. If such a small matter bothers you, what kind of instructor am I?”

Li Liheng was stunned. At this moment, Qing Chen's confident appearance was exactly the same as when he took the instructors' desks yesterday.

He couldn't understand why this young man was always so confident; did he really have sufficient confidence?

In the Martial Arts Hall, the few Li Clan children who had been beaten by Qing Chen cried, “Do you know who our parents are? You actually dare to beat us! Even our Third Grandfather doesn't beat us!”

The Third Grandfather they were referring to was Headmaster Li Liheng...

However, Qing Chen had realized that the biggest problem with the Li Clan academy's decline in discipline was Li Liheng.

He seemed to be the most respected elder in charge of the academy, but Li Liheng's temper was too good, and everyone could bully him.

Qing Chen sneered, “To teach you class, I must first establish rules, so that you won't disgrace me when you go out in the future. Today, I will eliminate your desire to cause trouble.”

Qing Yi sat on the gnarled roots of the ginkgo tree; he knew very well what would happen next, and he was happy to see Qing Chen fail.

However, after a while, the first person to inquire at the academy was not the students' parents, but Li Changqing's secretary, Yue'er.

She handed a box to Qing Chen, “The Boss is out, he is not at Ban Shan Mountain Estate, be careful.”

“It's okay,” Qing Chen happily walked to the entrance of the Martial Arts Hall; the students didn't know what he was doing.

Ten minutes later, several Flying Cars arrived like thunder and landed at the entrance of Bieyuan Courtyard.

Several elegantly dressed women got out of the car and went straight to Bieyuan Courtyard.

The good-natured Li Liheng stepped forward, “You go out first, this is the Li Clan academy, you are not allowed to make a scene here.”

But a shrewish woman frowned and said, “Third Uncle, you don't help your own family, but how can outsiders bully your children, and you still stop us?”

“Exactly!” another woman echoed.

As they spoke, they pushed Li Liheng aside.

The Headmaster was stunned for a moment, “What a sin!”

In the Martial Arts Hall, the students were crying incessantly, and the mothers' hearts broke when they heard their children's cries.

However, when these women reached the entrance of the Martial Arts Hall, they all froze.

They saw... a whole fishbone hanging in the center of the gate with conspicuous red rope.

The fishbone was forty centimeters long and had been eaten clean, but judging from the bone color, it should have been braised.

“Why is there a fishbone hanging here, to ward off evil?”

“Wait, look at this fish head... does it look a little like a Dragon Fish?” a woman with vision said.

“It's not like, it is. But the problem is, why is a Dragon Fish bone hung here?” someone muttered.

“No, no, where did this Dragon Fish bone come from?”

The women were silent for a moment at the entrance, and one of them said, “I heard that a Dragon Fish thief was caught in the manor yesterday, but the Secretariat directly called and asked the Guardhouse to release the person.”

“The Secretariat made the call?” The woman thought for a moment, and then called from the entrance of the Martial Arts Hall, “Honey, I'm asking you something, did your Secretariat release a Dragon Fish thief yesterday?”

The man on the other end of the phone coldly asked, “Don't ask what you shouldn't ask.”

The woman was stunned, and then she started to make a fuss on the phone, “Our child was beaten, you don't care, why are you yelling at me? I'm at the entrance of the academy now, and I'm going to find that instructor to settle the score, but there's a Dragon Fish bone hanging at the entrance…”

The man on the other end of the phone coldly said, “Go back.”

Then he hung up.

The woman was stunned. Usually, as long as she made a fuss, the man would satisfy her request, and she could buy whatever she wanted.

Today was different, the tantrum trick didn't work!

In the Martial Arts Hall, students cried, “Mom, save me, the instructor is beating me!”

However, this woman turned around and left without hesitation.

Even though her son was almost crying to the point of fainting inside, the woman didn't look back.

Making a fuss is her way of taking the initiative in communication, but she is not stupid.

The people who can eat Dragon Fish and be fine are rare in the Li Clan for more than ten years.

Things that make her husband, who holds a high position in the Secretariat, dare not support her are also rare.

What is Dragon Fish? Dragon Fish is the treasure of the Li Clan's Old Master.

The other women who came to make a fuss saw her make a call and hurried away.

They looked at each other and followed closely behind.

Headmaster Li Liheng was shocked by this scene. The last time he beat students with a ruler was more than ten years ago, when he was still middle-aged, not old.

As a result, the mothers of the students, his sisters, almost pulled out his beard, and a piece of his scalp was bald.

Why did the mothers of several students come to the entrance of the Martial Arts Hall this time but suddenly leave dejectedly?

Headmaster Li Liheng walked closer to the entrance of the Martial Arts Hall; when he saw the fishbone, his eyes widened.

...

...

In the Martial Arts Hall.

Qing Yi sat under the ginkgo tree and waited for a long time, but he didn't wait for the students' parents to come and make a fuss, which made him feel something was wrong.

The boy with the watermelon head quietly slipped to the entrance of the Martial Arts Hall to see the situation, but it was empty outside, only a fishbone hanging on the porch, swaying...

“What are you looking for?”

Qing Yi was startled. He turned his head and saw Qing Chen smiling behind him.

He quickly said, “Uncle Qing Chen, your teaching methods are excellent. I didn't expect you to be able to control the situation on your first day. It's amazing.”

“Go back to class,” Qing Chen smiled, “You'll have many more amazing days to come.”

Qing Yi felt that Qing Chen's words were meaningful; his back felt as if it had been swept by cold wind, and his hairs stood on end.

Qing Chen turned back to the Martial Arts Hall. When he guessed Qing Yi's identity again, he felt that even if he was a Time Traveler, he was not like Huan Yu.

Although Qing Yi is precocious and cunning, he is still limited to the scope of a child and is not particularly worrying.

But Huan Yu is different. That Time Traveler hides behind the scenes, and the pressure he puts on other Time Travelers is far more terrifying.

At this moment, the students in the Martial Arts Hall, seeing that no one came to rescue them, had gradually stopped crying.

Qing Chen saw that they were no longer crying, and said with a smile, “You actually want your parents to trouble me? You've really gotten into big trouble this time. From today onwards, I'll set rules for you. Whoever dares to bring servants to school will be whipped five times; whoever dares to come to school by car will be whipped five times.”

As soon as he finished speaking, the students started crying again, and the Martial Arts Hall became a mess in an instant.

Qing Chen didn't care about this; he would let the students talk to their parents after school today, and they would know the severity of the situation.

The other instructors in the academy were all eavesdropping in the next courtyard at this moment.

Zhou Xingwen muttered with a heavy Face^[-], “That's it? Ah?”

“But I think this is a good thing,” Luan Fengfeng muttered, “Isn't it a good thing that the academy's atmosphere is getting better?”

“It is a good thing, but this can't be done by a newcomer, a young man,” Zhou Xingwen said uncomfortably.

“Do you dare to do it?” the biology instructor asked.

Zhou Xingwen hesitated for a long time, “Why not? Don't you all dare either?”

At this time, Luan Fengfeng said, “I think this young man coming is a good thing. Think about it, the Headmaster is from the Li Clan, and many of the students here are related to him. Before the students come to school, their mothers and grandmothers tell them: Don't be afraid of anyone in school, the Headmaster is your great-uncle, what are you afraid of?”

“Yes,” Liu Junkui muttered, “The Headmaster is also a good-natured person, and anyone can manipulate him. In this situation, who dares to be strict with the students? I think that the Headmaster should be replaced by an outsider with a higher position and a stronger hand.”

Zhou Xingwen's brows were furrowed, “You wouldn't want that young man to be the Headmaster, would you?”

Liu Junkui glanced at him and whispered, “It's not impossible…”

The first class in the Martial Arts Hall ended.

Surprisingly, Qing Chen didn't teach anything; he spent the entire class trying to discipline these students. All that came from the Martial Arts Hall was crying...

After class, Qing Chen swaggered to Dragon Lake, leaving the Headmaster and other instructors to pacify the situation and restore teaching order.

Qing Chen walked to Dragon Lake along the route in his memory. No one stopped him, and no student Leaders blocked him.

When he arrived at Dragon Lake, the Old Man was quietly sitting on the broken bridge fishing, still using an underwater monitor, slowly searching for Dragon Fish.

This time, Qing Chen brought a small stool from the academy and sat calmly beside the Old Man, “You heard about this morning's incident, right?”

The Old Man sighed, “I didn't expect you to eat the fish meat, and you can even use the fishbones.”

“Making the most of everything,” Qing Chen said calmly, “The Li Clan academy's atmosphere is not correct, and this is not good for the Li Clan.”

“Suit yourself,” the Old Man said slowly, “It's just an academy; I don't believe you can make a big fuss out of it; whatever you can't destroy.”

“If you say so, I'll feel relieved,” Qing Chen said indifferently, “By the way, how's your fishing skills? If I don't catch any fish today, won't I be able to eat Dragon Fish?”

The Old Man glared, “So you want to eat it every day? If you don't catch it, you want to blame my poor fishing skills?”

Qing Chen thought for a moment and said, “It's mainly useless to eat only one.”

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