Combat Emperor: Zhang Yu's Journey
Chapters... 46: Apology
"Order as you please. I'm the one who bought tonight." As he had said last night, the next morning Wu Zetian brought Zhang Yu to the tavern to treat him.
This shop was not outside the academy's territory, but was still in the outer court. It could be said that this place of eating was a canteen run by the academy and was specifically for students.
Wu Zetian waved at the servant. After the waiter came he directly asked Zhang Yu to order.
However Zhang Yu was not a greedy person. He ordered according to his portions and chose the famous food in the academy.
"It's just that?" Since Zhang Yu was confident in his choice, so he only added five kinds of food to himself.
"If you can't take too long. We're too hungry." He said "we" as if Zhang Yu really was already too hungry to wait. But it only talks about itself.
While waiting for the food to come Wu Zetian asked Zhang Yu about his cultivation base. However Zhang Yu only gave a hint of "Above your cultivation". He did not tell clearly making Wu Zetian growl annoyed.
"Excession! At least say clearly what level you are at now. Is it possible to be a six-star expert level?" He was currently at the level of a five-star expert. Above his level it meant a six-star expert level.
But with age under him, wasn't Zhang Yu more amazing than him?
At this time a woman approached after observing from a distance.
"Can I join?"
Zhang Yu and Wu Zetian turned their heads simultaneously. It turned out to be Meng Hua.
"May, of course I can." Wu Zetian did not let Zhang Yu give an answer. He instantly agreed to it and shifted his body to make room for Meng Hua.
But Meng Hua instead took a single seat from another table and sat down between Zhang Yu and Wu Zetian. "Thank you."
Not long after the food was ordered. The real Wu Zetian was extremely hungry but in the presence of a woman, moreover a beautiful woman like Meng Hua also had to take care of her image.
"Zhang Yu, the waiter seemed to have forgotten to remember the order clearly. We each ordered three meals, right?" He shifted two plates in front of Zhang Yu. It was actually very difficult to choose among the five foods, but this was for the sake of his survival.
Zhang Yu blinked his eyes a few times. He asked just a pleasantry. "Did Senior Meng Hua come just to see us eating?"
"You can eat it. I happen to have eaten so I'm just gonna sit here."
Zhang Yu shrugged his shoulders then ate the food in front of him. In that time Meng Hua really just stayed in place. But by just sitting there its existence has made the store so splashy.
No one did not pay attention to Zhang Yu's desk. Meng Hua who had been known to be cold and indifferent towards men, was now sitting together with the two male disciples. Moreover, these two disciples were new students who had not even been in the academy for two days. There was envy and envy in their eyes.
After finishing their meal, they left the store. Meng Hua was still coming along, making the hostile gaze feel even more real from the eyes of the disciples around.
"Zhang Yu, can we talk together?" Finally after thinking about it repeatedly, he would take this opportunity to apologize in person.
Zhang Yu and Wu Zetian compact spontaneously stopped the pace. Wu Zetian's gaze looked sad and envious. "Damn! It turns out Senior Meng Hua is not interested in me."
The fat man became heartbroken. Yet at the same time also felt proud of having a prominent friend like Zhang Yu.
"Ah yes, I just remembered having to go to the cultivation tower. Zhang Yu, you take good care of yourself." After saying that Wu Zetian left so quickly like being chased by a demon. Zhang Yu did not even have the time to reply, now that he was both with Meng Hua.
"Senior Meng Hua, what do you want to talk about?"
"We better get out of here first. Too many eyes are watching us."
Zhang Yu's face turned flat hearing Meng Hua's words. The disciples did not notice them. The disciples only watched Meng Hua.
But apart from that, it is very uncomfortable to be here with a look of hate from everyone.
"To my room."
...
Zhang Yu thought Meng Hua was just joking when he said they were going to his room. But now they are inside. Closing the door and sitting at a table.
"Drink," Meng Hua prepared a glass of water for Zhang Yu.
Yet instead of drinking it Zhang Yu simply stared at the glass with a complicated feeling.
"What exactly is he planning?" inner Zhang Yu.
It was undeniable that he was still very wary of Meng Hua. Last time this woman gave him a jug that was different from the others. Made his arms numb and his legs redden. Even if noticed it still looks red-red on the back of his legs, but it's been better than last night.
"Zhang Yu, my goal is to bring you here to apologize." Meng Hua was truly sorry for doing all that. If he thought back, he also did not know why he could do such a childish action.
Zhang Yu squinted his eyes.
Is this woman really apologizing?
Looking at Zhang Yu who was just silent, Meng Hua took out a token from his clothing pocket. There was engraved the name "Zhang Yu" with a small caption under it "Murid of the outer court".
"You don't have a token yet, do you? With this token you can access some academy facilities. Such as libraries, cultivation towers, sacred ponds and dragon stilts."
Zhang Yu who had never heard of those things was certainly confused by his words. The cultivation tower might have been a while ago Wu Zetian had already mentioned it, but Zhang Yu still did not understand much about the matters in the academy.
"This is the academy's guidebook and basic knowledge. Take it, you can learn it to get to know more about the academy and everything in it." Meng Hua pushed a black-colored book before Zhang Yu.
Zhang Yu looked at it and from the title on the front page made him able to think of a picture of its contents.
"Thank you for the lead. I'll be back."
"No need to thank me. Let's just say this is part of an apology. In the future there is no need to bring up what has happened. Forget it, I'm really sorry."
The more here Zhang Yu felt Meng Hua was not as bad as he had thought before. Although his actions yesterday were indeed outrageous, but he had apologized. So forget about the problem and open a new leaf.
"Senior Meng Hua, excuse me."
"Yes,"
After returning to his residence, Zhang Yu directly studied the basic knowledge books about the Imperial Academy.
Starting with the structure of the academy consisting of the head of the academy, master teachers, inner court elders, outer court elders, supervisors and lastly were disciples.
The students themselves are further divided into two. The outer court disciple and the inner court disciple.
The inner court disciple was an outer court disciple who had passed the ascension examination. After succeeding they will stay in the inner court and get a special robe as an identity of honor.
"In Senior Meng Hua's room earlier there was a white-colored robe. Could it be the same robe?" Zhang Yu stroked his chin and turned back the page.
After reading more about the structure of the academy he read about the facilities. And just like Meng Hua had said before. In the academy there was a library, a holy pond, a cultivation tower and a dragon stage.
Reading the description of the first three places Zhang Yu was still calm. But when reading about the dragon stage, the captions there made him very interested.
"Dragon stage, I have to go there."