I Studied Abroad in Modern Times - Chapter 44

Chapter 44 Dropping out of school

No matter how hard Zheng Fa guessed, it was impossible for his wife to guess that from the fact that he had mastered the “Spiritual Crane Body”, she reasonably and outrageously deduced that there was a real Nascent Soul hidden behind him.

His problem now is that the old man behind him – Old Man Bai, is tired of studying.

No, he wants to drop out of school.

One night, after tutoring Tang Lingwu, he suddenly said to Zheng Fa: “Xiao Zheng, I probably won’t have time to practice martial arts in the future.”

Old Man Bai’s progress in learning martial arts was too slow, and he couldn’t see any results. His enthusiasm naturally faded day by day.

Zheng Fa had always seen it and had expected this day.

Looking at Old Man Bai, Tang Lingwu couldn’t help but wonder: “Grandpa Bai, you want to give up because you are too tired and in pain from practicing martial arts, right?”

“Why give up?” Old Man Bai said plausibly: “I have other important things to do, and I have nothing to do! Do you understand that you are busy with things?”

“What can you do to a retiree?” Tang Lingwu obviously didn’t believe it.

“Don’t believe it!” Old Man Bai raised his head and said, “Someone from the Capital University Press called me two days ago and said they were waiting for my new book!”

When Zheng Fa said this, both of them were a little surprised.

“You are always writing books and talking about it. I haven’t heard you say it before?”

“Can I brag with you two juniors?” Old Man Bai tilted his mouth: “I mean, I’m retired and I’m already helping out, but people are crying and asking me to write a book!”

When he boasted like this, Tang Lingwu was a little suspicious: “What kind of book do you always write?”

Hearing this, Old Man Bai sighed: “You don’t know, some of our university textbooks were written in the last century. It’s not bad, but they were all written by university experts. But now everyone has discovered, eh? It seems like It could be written better, and some new knowledge has not been updated.”

“So what you wrote is a textbook for Beijing University?”

Tang Lingwu’s tone was a little awed.

“One book, just one book.” Old Man Bai waved his hand and said in a very humble manner: “It’s not an important book, it’s just that I’m in a hurry, and I really don’t have time!”

Seeing that he didn’t seem to be bragging, Zheng Fa was somewhat impressed by the old man.

“So, it’s not that I gave up practicing martial arts, it’s just that I don’t have time.” Old Man Bai explained again, “When I think of those students who are still learning those outdated textbooks and waiting for food, I am so anxious! I can’t even sleep well!”

After hearing this, Tang Lingwu glanced at Zheng Fa, feeling slightly worried.

Sure enough, Old Man Bai then said to Zheng Fa: “Xiao Zheng, if you have any questions in the future, just come to my house on the weekend, and I will spend an hour or two on the weekend to talk to you. As for topology, you won’t need it for the time being. , It’s not impossible to study after the college entrance examination.”

Tang Lingwu opened her mouth and wanted to say something, but she didn’t know how to say it.

Zheng Fa nodded, but he didn’t blame the old man in his heart.

Zheng Fa really enjoyed Mr. Bai’s private tutoring for a period of time. Although he has not yet started with college mathematics such as topology, he is confident that he has learned a lot more about the knowledge points of college entrance examination mathematics.

As for Old Man Bai…he has been practicing “Songhe Zhuang” for a while, but he really hasn’t accomplished anything.

Speaking of which, he took advantage.

As for Old Man Bai’s current transformation, on the one hand, it must be that learning martial arts did not give him enough positive feedback.

On the other hand, Zheng Fa is indeed a slow learner.

A disciple chooses a master, and a master chooses a disciple, and this trend is even worse in the Xuanwei world.

After all, Old Man Bai teaches the proud students of Beijing University, so it is only natural that he feels a little disgusted by Zheng Fa’s learning progress.

And he is not without good intentions. In his opinion, Zheng Fa’s main task now is the college entrance examination, and he should not learn topology from him.

Zheng Fa was actually a little grateful in his heart: Old Man Bai asked him to come to ask for advice on the weekend, which was actually very affectionate. After all, he had nothing to ask for from Zheng Fa now.

Seeing him nodding with a normal expression, Tang Lingwu breathed out softly, and then, as if she had discovered something, she stared at Zheng Fa’s face with a very confused expression.

“Why are you looking at Zheng Fa?” Seeing her fixed gaze, the old man suddenly became angry and said with a tigerish face.

“He…seems to have changed?”

Old Man Bai squinted his eyes and looked at Zheng Fa up and down, but seemed to see nothing: “It hasn’t changed, one nose and two eyes.”

“Of course you can’t see clearly.” Tang Lingwu ignored him at all and stared at Zheng Fa’s face: “Zheng Fa, what skin care products have you used recently?”

Zheng Fa knew that this was Tang Lingwu’s change after she discovered the “Spiritual Crane Body”.

“I have made some progress in martial arts recently.”

He explained to Tang Lingwu. “Martial arts!” Tang Lingwu opened her mouth, as if she didn’t expect Zheng Fa to give her such an answer.

“What’s wrong?”

“I thought…” Tang Lingwu glanced at Old Man Bai who was looking for reading glasses: “You were fooling Grandpa Bai before.”

Old Man Bai walked up to Zheng Fa wearing reading glasses and observed him carefully, as if he was doing some research.

“Do you see any changes?” Tang Lingwu asked.

“No!” Old Man Bai replied.

“Then you keep watching for a long time.”

“I don’t know what he looked like before. What changes can I see?” Old Man Bai said confidently: “I’m not like a little girl like you, staring at little boys every day!”

“…”

“So, you are saying that after you practiced a martial art, your skin became better?”

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Tang Lingwu asked Zheng Fa curiously as if she had not heard what the old man said.

“Yes, when we got together one morning, my whole body seemed to have shed a layer of skin.”

“So what I said before about extending my life is true?” Tang Lingwu’s eyes were brighter than ever.

“Of course it’s true. Do you think I lied to you?” Zheng Fa asked her back, then turned to look at Old Man Bai standing aside: “Do you think I lied to you?”

They both nodded.

“Then what are you still practicing for?”

“This is not…retirement is boring, practicing for fun.”

Old Man Bai smiled awkwardly.

“It’s amazing…” Tang Lingwu stretched out her finger, as if she wanted to poke Zheng Fa’s face, but stopped again.

“No, is this the image I have in your minds?”

Zheng Fadu was a little depressed.

Were these two people playing house with him before?

“It’s not that there are too many scammers on short videos.”

Both of them smiled at Zheng Fa a little sheepishly.

“Do you believe it now?”

“Believe it, believe it!” Old Man Bai and the other two nodded wildly, staring at Zheng Fa’s face.

After a while, Old Man Bai’s face suddenly became twisted: “Xiao Zheng… I want to learn martial arts again.”

“Want to learn again?”

“think!”

“Then you are quite busy, aren’t you?”

“What are you busy with? You’re not busy! Who cares about you now that you’ve retired?”

“Don’t you want to write a book?”

“It’s okay to write slowly.”

Zheng Fa slowly shook his head: “This can’t be done. Those students of yours are crying for food every day.”

“Let them moan and starve to death!” Old Man Bai didn’t care at all: “Who am I? I’m not a great mathematician, but I really treat myself as a dish? My writing is hard enough to wipe my butt, it’s not important. unimportant.”

Zheng Fa didn’t even look at his flattering old face and turned to look at Tang Lingwu.

Tang Lingwu used one finger to push the unopened milk tea in front of Zheng Fa.

“?”

“I want to learn too.” Tang Lingwu’s eyes showed a rare passion in her: “I’ll treat you to milk tea in the future.”

(End of chapter)