The Prime Minister's Darling
Chapter 1299 - 1299 632 Xiao Jie Kong is here (Second Update)

Chapter 1299: 632 Xiao Jie Kong is here! (Second Update) Chapter 1299: 632 Xiao Jie Kong is here! (Second Update) Gu Jiao’s approach with Steward Liao didn’t work out, so she decided to think of another way.

The first person she thought of was Mu Qingchen. From what he told her that day, she guessed that Mu Qingchen himself couldn’t enter the National Master Hall, but that didn’t mean he didn’t know how to get in.

Lying on her bed, Gu Jiao rested a hand behind her head and gazed at the canopy above: “Fine, it’s up to you.”

The next day, Gu Jiao got up early to visit Gu Yan and then went to Tianqiong Academy with Gu Xiaoshun.

Gu Jiao had become famous after yesterday’s battle on the grassland, and upon entering the Academy today, she felt the stares coming from all directions. Students from Mingyue Hall and Mingxin Hall had seen her before, and though other students from the ten halls hadn’t witnessed it themselves, her birthmark on her face was too recognizable.

“It’s the red birthmark on her left cheek!”

Within a day, these words had spread throughout the entire Academy.

As a result, all the teachers and students in the Academy recognized her.

Among these people, some harbored wariness, some were merely curious, and of course, there were those who didn’t believe her abilities, thinking she had just gotten lucky and scoffed at her.

Gu Jiao paid no attention to them and went with Xiaoshun to their respective classrooms.

Seats in the classroom were basically fixed, but if one switched privately, the master wouldn’t say anything.

Mu Qingchen hadn’t arrived yet.

Gu Jiao didn’t know where he would sit, but Zhong Ding, at his usual seat, waved at her and patted the stool beside him, indicating he had saved a spot for her.

However, Gu Jiao didn’t go to sit with Zhong Ding, instead choosing a seat for herself in the last row.

The seat next to her was empty; Mu Qingchen would probably sit there, she guessed.

Gu Jiao settled her book bag, took out her pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, and tapped the shoulder of a classmate in front of her.

The classmate turned around, looking at Gu Jiao nervously: “Xiao… Xiao Liulang, is there something you need?”

Gu Jiao said, “Lend me your homework to copy.”

Classmate: “…”

The classmate handed over their homework to Gu Jiao.

Gu Jiao had taken leave yesterday afternoon, not knowing what Masters Gao and Jiang had taught, but still, she had to make up for the homework; she was a student who abided by discipline.

After copying, Gu Jiao returned the homework to the classmate ahead: “Thanks.”

“No, no need to thank me!” the classmate stammered.

Gu Jiao glanced at them: “Why so nervous? I’m not going to eat you.”

“Oh, I’m not nervous! Not nervous!” The classmate carefully placed Gu Jiao’s returned homework away, dipping the brush in ink and jamming it directly into the homework.

Gu Jiao: “…”

More people in the class originally ignored or looked down on her, but it seemed after they saw her taming the Horse King, they started to be a bit afraid of her.

Zhong Ding was okay, probably because he knew Gu Jiao earlier, and he stayed in the same dormitory as Gu Jiao’s brother-in-law, Xiaoshun, although Xiaoshun did not actually stay there. Regardless, their relationship was closer than that of ordinary classmates.

Zhong Ding came over, leaned on Gu Jiao’s desk, and whispered to her: “Xiao Liulang, how did you figure out that the answer to yesterday’s question was nineteen?”

He hadn’t believed it initially, but when Master Gao went over the answer in class, he knew Xiao Liulang had it right.

No, Xiao Liulang didn’t even calculate.

In a low voice, Zhong Ding asked, “Did you… did you sneak a peek at Master Gao’s answer?”

Gu Jiao looked at him indifferently: “Yes, I looked at the answer.”

Zhong Ding was relieved: “I knew it, how could such a hard question, that no one in the class got right, only be guessed correctly by you? Alright, nothing else, I’m going back to my seat.”

“Hold on,” Gu Jiao called out to him.

“What’s up?” Zhong Ding turned back and asked.

“Why hasn’t Mu Qingchen come yet?”

“You don’t know?”

“Know what?”

“He might not come today. Master Meng is playing chess with the Academy head in Xianluan Pavilion, and Young Master Qingchen went to observe.”

“Which Master Meng?”

“The Chess Saint of the Six Nations! Don’t tell me you haven’t even heard of his name! He’s from our Zhao Country! Because of his proficient chess skills, he was exceptionally invited by the king of Yan Country to reside in Shengdu.”

Oh, that Master Meng.

Gu Jiao had heard of him.

“Master Meng rarely leaves the inner city, and even when he does, there are hardly any people qualified to play chess with him. This is an opportunity that comes once in a blue moon; no wonder Young Master Qingchen went to observe and learn. I want to go too, but I dare not skip class, you get marked down for that.”

If there are demerits, then forget it.

She had originally planned to go to Xianluan Pavilion to find Mu Qingchen.

“Guys, Master Jiang has gone to Xianluan Pavilion! And this morning we have Master Wu’s class again!”

Mingxin Hall erupted in cheers.

Gu Jiao roughly understood; Master Wu’s class was probably like physical education in her previous life, everyone loved Master Wu’s class.

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