"Looks like someone's fighting in the distance."
Inside a crude wooden cabin, Xiao Wu stood by the window beneath the moonlight, gazing curiously toward the distant forest.
There really were occasional sounds coming from that direction, though they were faint. It was simply too far away.
"Maybe it's wild boars fighting wild dogs. Ignore it and come back to sleep, Xiao Wu. We have to get up early tomorrow, don't we?" Xu Changqing called from the large bed. Inwardly, he observed three seconds of silence for Zhao Wuji. Zhao had beaten Tang San into that state during the day; with Tang Hao's petty temperament, it would be a miracle if he didn't come to settle the score tonight.
But that had nothing to do with him.
The next morning.
Shrek Academy's cafeteria.
"Wait, this is all we're eating?"
Ning Rongrong pointed at the pickled vegetables, plain rice porridge, and several yellowing corn buns on the long table, her face full of disbelief. They were all still young, at the age when they were growing. Wasn't this food a little too terrible?
Eating this stuff first thing in the morning, how was she supposed to develop?
She secretly glanced at Zhu Zhuqing beside her, who was lightly frowning with her arms crossed beneath her chest. There was a trace of envy in Ning Rongrong's eyes.
So big! That was cheating!
So ridiculously cheating that her arms could only cross beneath her chest!
"Can't be helped. The Dean is a total miser. The academy's so poor that mice are running around in the granary. Having this much is already pretty good." Oscar gulped down a bowl of millet porridge, shrugged indifferently, and answered. He was used to it by now.
"Surely it's not that bad? You, Ma Hongjun, and Dai Mubai can