The Lucky Farmgirl
Chapter 1127 - 1106: Stunned and Speechless

Chapter 1127: Chapter 1106: Stunned and Speechless

Manbao lifted the curtain and jumped down, only to realize there were walls on both sides. She curiously asked, "Where are we?"

"This is the other side of the Imperial Academy. The Academy itself is behind the wall." Daji obviously had scouted the area before; after all, the young master was studying inside and he needed to be prepared for the day when he might not be able to retrieve someone from inside.

Manbao glanced at the wall that was a full head taller than the walls of the Yizhou Prefecture school, then stood on the carriage shaft to warm up her limbs before turning around to climb onto the horse’s back.

Daji’s eye twitched as he silently watched.

Standing on the horse’s back, Manbao rubbed her hands together, aimed for the top of the wall, and with a leap, she was clinging to it. The horse became agitated and took a few steps but was held back by Daji, who then snorted at it.

Manbao had already adeptly climbed to the top of the wall.

Sitting on the wall, Manbao let out a satisfied breath, touched the tuft on her head to make sure it was still intact, and then, grinning, she looked into the courtyard...

Turning her head, she met the gaze of a group of people. A group of young men holding bows and arrows were looking up at her with their mouths wide open.

Manbao saw Feng Zongping among them and immediately greeted him with a smile, "Young Master Feng, could you do me a favor?"

The young men uniformly stepped three paces away from Feng Zongping and turned to stare at him.

Feng Zongping, with trembling fingers, pointed at her and said, "You, you, you – don’t slander me, aren’t you Bai Shan... cough cough?"

"Yep, I am Senior Sister Bai Shan, we’ve met so many times now, you couldn’t have forgotten me, could you?"

Manbao, finding sitting astride uncomfortable, simply moved her other leg over the wall as well, and with a smile, said, "Could you help me call Bai Shan? Tell him I’ve come to take him home. Oh, and while you’re at it, call Bai Cheng too."

Feng Zongping let out a sigh of relief and patted his chest, "Why didn’t you ask the gatekeeper’s servant to come in and look for them? It would also do to ask a classmate at the front gate."

"I did, but the servants at your Imperial Academy aren’t friendly at all, unlike those at our Yizhou Prefecture school, who are so warm. There’s no one at the gate now so I couldn’t find anyone."

Feng Zongping talked to her with his neck craned back, "You couldn’t find anyone so you climbed the wall?"

"I wanted to find someone to help me call them."

Feng Zongping said irritably, "You’ve already climbed to the top of the wall, why find someone else to call for you? Just come down and call them yourself."

Sitting atop the high wall and gazing down at the Imperial Academy, with its lush trees, beautiful paintings, millet-like beams, and colorful murals even on the walls, Manbao was indulging in her longing for the place when she heard Feng Zongping say that. She instantly narrowed her eyes with a smile and asked, "So, can I come in too?"

Feng Zongping immediately had a bad feeling, and just as he was about to say she couldn’t, the person on the wall didn’t wait for his reply - she leaped down, took two steps with a thud, bounced off the wall, and landed right in front of him.

The young men promptly kept a distance of ten steps from Feng Zongping, as if they couldn’t wait to hold up a sign declaring: I do not know this person.

But although the young men backed away, their eyes shone brightly as they continued to stare, as if glued to them.

Feng Zongping felt the breath he was holding couldn’t be released. He nervously looked around, and seeing no faculty, immediately pulled her to hide under a nearby tree.

"You, you, if you get caught..."

"I came in myself, it’s definitely not because you called me in."

Feng Zongping exhaled, nodding, "Right!"

Halfway through nodding, he felt something was off, and the breath he tried to exhale got stuck, "What do you mean I called you in? I definitely did not call you in."

Manbao nodded, her eyes squinting with a smile, "Yes."

Feng Zongping felt like punching cotton.

He certainly didn’t dare let Manbao go to find Bai Shan for real; that would just be him being obstinate.

If Manbao really traversed half the Imperial Academy to look for Bai Shan in the classroom area, she’d probably get caught halfway.

Even though her climbing in had nothing to do with him, he couldn’t help but feel that if she got caught, he would not escape unscathed either.

So Feng Zongping turned back to the group of young friends and said, "You guys wait here and cover for me, I’ll go find Bai Shan."

The youngsters saw Manbao standing honestly under the tree, and since the trunk was quite thick, they assumed she wouldn’t be discovered, so they all nodded and let Feng Zongping go.

Once Feng Zongping had left, a group of youngsters surrounded Manbao, looking at her with great curiosity and asked, "What’s your relationship with Feng Zongping?"

Manbao: "Friends."

"Are you Senior Sister to Bai Shan from Class 1, Level A3?"

Manbao nodded.

"But you look younger than Bai Shan and Bai Cheng."

Manbao said, "Yes, I’m younger than them."

The youngsters had more questions, but Manbao, already curious, looked at the arrows in their hands and asked, "Are you practicing archery?"

The youngsters glanced down at the arrows in their hands, smiled, and nodded, pointing at the target in the distance, "Yes, we never place our targets under the wall. Otherwise, if you climbed in from the wall and our arrows went astray, you might turn into a hedgehog."

Manbao said, "Outside the wall is an alley; if your arrows can hit me, they can surely shoot outside too. Aren’t you afraid of hurting people?"

One youngster laughed, "You’re quite smart."

Another one asked curiously, "How did you climb up here, the wall is so high."

"That’s nothing, I can climb it too."

"Did you use a ladder?"

Manbao said, "I stepped on a horse to get up, my family’s carriage is outside."

The youngsters pondered for a while, "That’s a method."

Their gazes drifted, thinking that if they were late for school in the future...

The youngsters hehe’d with laughter.

Manbao also looked at them and smiled. It took Feng Zongping quite a while to find the person. It turned out Bai Shan and the others had run to the Book Collection Tower to read and do homework. He had gone to the classroom and found no one, so he asked around and went to the Book Collection Tower to bring them over.

Several of them ran over, Yin Huo still panting, his eyes widened looking at Manbao surrounded by the youngsters, "How did you get in?"

"Eh, didn’t Feng Zongping tell you?"

Feng Zongping said annoyed, "I’m not a blabbermouth, and walls have ears. With so many people in the Book Collection Tower, what if someone overheard?"

He waved his hand and said, "Alright, alright, I’ve brought the person you were looking for. Now you’d better leave swiftly. If the school officials catch us, none of us will get away with it."

Manbao: "Is the Imperial Academy really that strict?"

"Of course, didn’t you see who our libationer is?"

Then Manbao turned to Bai Shan and said, "Let’s go out, I have great news to share with you."

Bai Shan nodded, "Alright, you go first, we need to get our book baskets."

Liu Huan still looked confused and asked, "How will you leave?"

Manbao pointed at the wall and said, "Right here."

Feng Zongping said, "But let’s be clear, I’m not finding you a ladder, and I’m not giving you a boost."

Manbao gave him a disdainful look and said, "No need."

With that, she took a few steps back, started running, and went thud, thud, thud up the wall, grabbed the edge with one hand, and with the youngsters gaping in amazement, agilely flipped over the wall. Then she waved at them, turned, and disappeared from the wall top.

Bai Shan turned his head to see Feng Zongping’s mouth agape, lifted his chin with his hand to help close his mouth, then thanked him, "Thanks to Senior Brother Feng for calling us."

Feng Zongping said dazed, "No need to thank me."

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