Textbooks?
Cheng Ze set down the meat cleaver. The Dangyang Eastern Suburbs had undergone thirty years of rapid development, and had truly flourished and prospered.
Especially the Cadre School, which enrolled the children of military families, senior employees, and frontline workers.
All sides had poured in resources. From the Tai'an Education Commission to the Hengzhou Martial Arts Association, everyone had contributed heavily.
The older generation on Old Factory Street often reminisced about those days; the story was always on their lips.
"Village Chief Qin sure had a way with things. After those textbooks went missing, the Inspection Department searched high and low, turning the place upside down, but recovered less than a third. They nearly tore the Dangyang Eastern Suburbs apart looking for them."
Cheng Ze took out a cigarette and put it in Luo Ji's mouth, then lit it for him:
"If the Inspection Department couldn't find them, yet Qin Renying could, he really is Smoke City's local king.
"I heard that in Smoke City, even the district chief has to watch the head of the Qin family's mood. At dinners and social functions, they have to stand up and toast him.
"Brother Ji, do you know which textbooks they were? I remember there was one SSS-grade, two A-grade, and seven or eight B-grade textbooks that hadn't been recovered."
The SSS-grade textbook was naturally the legendary Void Meditation Method, one of the countless versions of He Lanchán's legacy.
The two A-grade textbooks also had impressive origins: Startled Blade and Record of Bright Gods.
They were the last glimmers of the era after the First Generation Ten Prodigies.
After that, it became nearly impossible for any legacy of the Old Martial Arts Faction to be included in the Martial Arts Association's official textbooks.
The scent of tobacco acted like a