Taming beasts starts with understanding bird language

On the other side, outside Jiangnan Academy.

It was almost noon when Gu Chan came slowly over in a carriage.

After getting off the carriage, Gu Chan told the driver to wait outside before she walked into the gate of the academy.

After a while, Gu Chan arrived at the compound where the academicians lived with ease and found the old academician who was discussing matters in the study.

When the old academician saw Gu Chan coming, he hurriedly asked a few academicians to do their work first, and then he welcomed Gu Chan to sit in the first seat and ordered people to serve her fragrant tea.

Gu Chan laughed strangely and said, "Old Academician, what's wrong with you? Why do I feel like you are so afraid of me?"

"My Lord! How can I not be afraid of you! Last time, I knew nothing and was tricked by you into getting on the flower boat. I almost offended the old son of the emperor who was living away from home. I still feel scared when I think about it now!" said the old academician with a bitter face.

Gu Chan was so amused that she almost spit out her tea.

The old academician didn't want to mention the flower boat incident again, so he asked quickly, "By the way, Lord, you came here today. Do you have anything to tell me?"

"Two things. First, sign me up for the Jiangnan Poetry Festival tomorrow. I also want to participate." Gu Chan said.

"That's no problem. I'll ask someone to write your name right away so that you can go on stage and compete directly tomorrow." The old academician agreed without thinking.

Then he instructed an academician to quickly register Gu Chan.

After doing this, he asked, "Then, Lord, what about the second thing?"

"Take me to see Nangong Jin. I'm going to take him away today." Gu Chan said.

"Please, my lord. I will lead the way for you right away." The old academician said respectfully.

After saying that, he led the way, taking Gu Chan out of the study and heading towards the courtyard where Nangong Jin was imprisoned.

Soon the two arrived at the courtyard where Nangong Jin was imprisoned.

The two guards in charge of guarding Nangong Jin stood neatly at the door of the room, one on the left and one on the right. When they saw the two people coming, they hurriedly saluted and greeted them.

The old academician waved his hand and ordered, "Open the door!"

"Yes, Academician." The guard standing on the left answered, then he opened the big lock on the door and pushed open the door.

But as soon as the door was opened, a foul odor hit them in the face, making the four of them unable to help but cover their mouths and noses with their hands.

Gu Chan looked inside and was stunned for a moment.

The room was not only in a mess, but also smelled terrible. Nangong Jin was lying on the ground, almost fainting from hunger. He had lost a lot more weight than before!

"Woooooooo..."

The moment he saw Gu Chan, Nangong Jin burst into tears like a child who had suffered a great injustice.

Gu Chan tried to suppress her laughter and said, "You are a man, why are you crying? You have been starving for more than half a month. It's not like you will die."

"Why don't you try starving yourself for half a month? Before in the Censorate's Mansion, you kept me starving for three days. I finally got a few full meals, but that bitch Shuiyue starved me for another half a month. I don't know what I did wrong that you treat me like this." Nangong Jin said with tears and snot.

"Hahaha……"

Gu Chan couldn't hold it in any longer and immediately covered her stomach with her hands and laughed out loud.

The old academician said with a look of disdain, "What are you still standing there for? Go and prepare a bucket of hot water so he can wash and change his clothes. Then prepare a table of good wine and food for him so he can fill his stomach."

"Yes, Academician." The two guards responded in unison and hurried downstairs to prepare hot water, good wine and delicious food.

Gu Chan stopped smiling, pulled the old academician to the stone table in the courtyard and sat down to wait.

After an incense stick of time, the hot water was ready and Nangong Jin began to wash up in the room. The two maids brought the prepared wine table and placed it on the stone table in the yard.

At this time, the old academician remembered to ask Gu Chan, "By the way, Lord, who is this person? How did he offend you? Why do you want to starve him for half a month?"

"Ah? Don't you know? He is the little prince of Nancheng in Tiancang Kingdom, and his father is Nangong Song, the Nanxian King and a relative of the royal family of Tiancang Kingdom!" Gu Chan said in surprise.

She thought that the old man had known for a long time that Nangong Jin was the little prince of Nancheng!

The old academician froze where he was when he heard that. The next second, his body trembled and he slipped in fear and fell to the ground with a bang.

Gu Chan quickly reached out and helped him up and said, "Old Academician, what happened to you?"

"Oh my God! Lord! You are tricking me again... Oh my God! If I had known that he was the little prince of Nancheng, how could I dare to be so rude to him? You don't know that I let these two guards beat him up in the past half month!" The old academician cried.

He had no idea of ​​Nangong Jin's true identity and thought that this man was just a nobody who had suffered this misfortune because he had offended Gu Chan. He had never expected that this man had such an extraordinary identity. How could a mere academician like him dare to offend such a person?

Gu Chan was so amused that she laughed so hard that she fell backwards. She hurriedly comforted him, "Don't be afraid! I asked you to do this. If anything goes wrong, I will take the responsibility. Who would dare to cause trouble to you? Besides, you and I don't have to take the responsibility for this matter. General Shuiyue can handle it alone. What are you afraid of?"

"Hey...you..." The old academician was speechless.

It just so happened that Nangong Jin had finished washing up, changed into clean clothes and walked out of the house.

Seeing the delicious food and wine on the stone table, he immediately ran over like a hungry dog, sat down, grabbed the food on the plate and stuffed it into his mouth.

The old academician stood aside, looking at Nangong Jin who was so hungry, his old face turned pale as paper, and beads of sweat on his forehead rolled down one after another like pearls from a broken string.

At this moment, he could only pray in his heart that Nangong Jin would not bear a grudge against him, otherwise if he wanted to take revenge on him in the future, he would probably die without knowing how he died.

Gu Chan said with a grin, "Little Prince, eat slowly, no one is going to snatch it from you."

"It smells so good. I've grown up so much, but today I finally understand how happy it is for people to have enough food to eat!" Nangong Jin sighed as he ate.

Gu Chan laughed so hard that she couldn't close her mouth. For a moment she didn't know what to say.

Half an hour later, Nangong Jin finished eating all the delicious dishes on the stone table. Now he finally filled his stomach and felt satisfied.

Gu Chan winked at the old academician secretly, signaling him not to talk nonsense, and then said to Nangong Jin, "Let's go! Follow me back to the Lord's Mansion, your father will come to pick you up today, and don't blame the old academician, he is just following orders, otherwise he will lose his head."

"Hmph! Every wrong has its perpetrator and I know who to seek revenge on. There is no need to bother with a mere academician like him." Nangong Jin snorted disdainfully.

"That's enough of your words. Let's go!" Gu Chan said with a wry smile.

After saying that, she reached out and took Nangong Jin away quickly.

The old academician followed behind anxiously, and only after he saw the two of them off from Jiangnan Academy and watched them get on the carriage and leave did he finally breathe a sigh of relief and calm the weight of his heart.