"Didn't I tell you? Weekends are my busiest time. All the work and paperwork I can't handle from Monday to Friday has to be finished on Saturday."
"That's the only way I have time on Sunday to visit my Uncle Enlightenment and read to him."
"I'm an old bag of bones, and you're still putting me through this."
The voice on the phone sounded a little aggrieved.
"But what's going on with the teachers in your Kindling Class lately? I got calls from Little Chen and Little Zhao this morning, too."
At that, the smile vanished from Sun Xingtian's face.
"Principal, what did they want from you?" Sun Xingtian blurted out.
"When are you going to kick that nasty habit of prying into other people's business?"
"But it's nothing serious. It was all about that student in your class, Lin Yuan."
"Little Chen applied to the school's research team for more funding. He said Lin Yuan's Courier Bird project needed more support. It hasn't even been a week, and he's already made an astonishing discovery."
"Tell me, what could come out of a Courier Bird project?"
"Don't tell me he's going to discover a new evolutionary form for it."
"If a high schooler figures out what nobody has managed in hundreds of years, won't our school become famous throughout the land?"
"Still, Little Chen practically got down on his knees over the phone. I felt sorry for him, so I reluctantly approved another three hundred thousand Alliance Coins."
"Little Zhao was even worse."
"He said our school had too few licensed Nourishment Arts and Beast-Taming Arts related to eye techniques."
"He claimed that at this rate, Lin Yuan would run out of new techniques to learn in two months."
"I asked if he couldn't learn something else."
"He said it