After becoming a mermaid, the group of friends exploded

Xie Zhiqing looked at him, then shifted his gaze to Zhao Zhengran, "Let him talk to you."

Zhao Zhengran smiled bitterly, and said, "After you disappeared, I returned to Chengde..."

After leaving Prince Jing's Mansion, although he was still entangled with Cheng Jing's affairs, his life still had to go on, so no matter how sad he was, he returned to Chengde Academy.

Chengde Academy is an open academy run by the royal family. It is designed to train outstanding talents for the imperial court. Therefore, it not only accepts children from aristocratic families, but also recruits students from the private sector.

This month-long test is also an annual tradition in Chengde. It is intended to allow students to experience the hardships of the people. During the test period, several officials will follow the students to record the students' conduct. They have already been bribed and bought by those aristocratic families, and they turn a blind eye to their recruitment of dancers and singers.

Chengde has a very strict punishment mechanism. Students are ranked one by one according to the level of their mistakes. If you are placed at the bottom and make mistakes again, no matter how good your family background is and how high your status is, you will be expelled from the academy. Chengde has a very close relationship with the imperial court. Once he is expelled from the academy, there is no hope for him to pursue an official career.

This is very cruel for aristocratic families who must take root in the imperial court, but lawless family members who understand the cruelty of this rule will use the loopholes in this rule to exclude dissidents.

Zhao Zhengran was that dissident.

There is no other reason, and it has a lot to do with Cheng Jing.

Cheng Jing has been in Chengde for five years. Since entering Chengde at the age of 15, he has not been promoted for a long time.

Chengde Academy is divided into six grades, and you need to go up the exam one by one. If you complete all the exams in Chengde, you can directly get an official position. For ordinary people who are not so talented, the temptation is naturally great. , even if this official position is sesame seeds, but it is still an official meal, so the hardest working people in Chengde are generally civilians.

And for the children of the aristocratic family, this is just a means to restrain or eliminate them. As long as they behave peacefully and don't make troubles, they will be fine. will be severely punished.

Cheng Jing was a little smarter when he was young, and passed the first three exams smoothly, but the older he got, the more difficult his brain seemed to be, and he couldn't pass the fourth exam no matter what.

That is to say, he is a relegated student. Zhao Zhengran is four years younger than him, but he is in the D grade like him. Zhao Zhengran is naturally talented and young, and he is already capable of handling the D grade courses. It's ashamed to say that Cheng Jing still needs Zhao Zhengran to help him in schoolwork.

As long as he is a student of Chengde Academy, he has the right to be exempted from the provincial examination. As long as Zhao Zhengran is willing, he can continue to take the imperial examination. The teachers in Chengde are all under the name of Xian Mansion, and they are very talented and character. They are quite good resources , with such capital, it won't be too difficult for him to continue climbing.

However, his close relationship with Cheng Jing has attracted the attention of many people.

Cheng Jing is actually not very popular in Chengde, and the children of the aristocratic family get together together, and Cheng Jing has been with Xie Zhiqing before the age of 17, and there is not much contact with others. After the age of 17, the relationship between Cheng Jing and Xie Zhiqing gradually developed. The change, Chengde didn't have any friends except Xie Zhiqing, and after he separated from Xie Zhiqing, those intentional or unintentional malice came to Cheng Jing.

Of course, he would not dare to blatantly bully, but there was never a lot of response, and Cheng Jing would never tell these things to his family. After getting acquainted with Zhao Zheng, he also inadvertently treated Zhao Zhengran, an unremarkable commoner, Pulled to the eyes of the family.

After Cheng Jing's accident, people who hated Cheng Jing began to attack Zhao Zhengran.

It's just a simple dislike and dislike, and they can be framed so unscrupulously. The methods are not clever and dirty, but they are very successful, because Zhao Zhengran is just a commoner.

Because of serious misconduct, he was demoted to the fourth class, only two classes away, and he would be expelled from Chengde and missed an official career.

Cheng Jing was furious when he heard this, Zheng Ran is so good, are those people blind! "Why did you get downgraded? No matter what, you can't be downgraded to fourth class at once, right?" he asked .

Zhao Zhengran smiled wryly and said: "Because of love and hatred, I intend to seduce Cui Yong'an, the grandson of Duke Ning."

"..." Cheng Jing blinked, "What did you say?"

"...You heard me right, because of love, I drugged Cui Yong'an in order to seduce him." Zhao Zhengran said.

"It's unbelievable, isn't it? It took those people a while to do this game, and I fell into the trap."

"...Did you do it?" Cheng Jing's throat was a little dry, and his words seemed to have been roasted on fire.

Zhao Zhengran shook his head, "No, but I was also in a daze that day, and when I woke up again, things had already become serious."

He still remembered that Cui Yongan was disheveled behind several teachers, and his eyes were red as if they were about to bleed.

Although he didn't have much memory, the only thing he was sure of was that he didn't bully Cui Yongan, because his body was clean and there was no trace, it seemed that he just slept on a bed.

But the teachers will not listen to his sophistry, seeing is believing, the tea in the room has been tested, and there are indeed drug residues, although Cui Yongan did not have an accident, but this kind of sleeve scandal, I wish I could suppress it all. In order to comfort Cui Yong'an, Zhao Zhengran was originally going to be expelled from Chengde, but because of Zhao Zhengran's excellent academic performance and the fact that he was a first-time offender, he decided to downgrade his punishment to four levels.

This was a harsher punishment than expelling him directly. After being demoted to fourth class, Zhao Zhengran's situation became more and more difficult. The psychological pressure of being expelled at any time tormented Zhao Zhengran's mind all the time, and his studies began to plummet.

At this time, Xie Zhiqing suddenly appeared in front of him and said that he would help him.

Xie Zhiqing, Cheng Jing had told him about it a long time ago, but he had never seen the friend Cheng Jing mentioned, and he never took it seriously. He didn't expect that something happened to him, and Xie Zhiqing was the first one to show up and say he would help him.

He also thought about Prince Jing at the time, but he couldn't get past his level, so he only thought about it once, and never thought about it again.

Having said that, Zhao Zhengran pulled his lips lightly and smiled, "Thanks to Mr. Xie, this matter is almost settled now."

Xie Zhiqing squeezed the teacup tightly with his fingers, and just nodded when he heard Zhao Zhengran's words.

Cheng Jing was silent for a while, reached out to hold Zhao Zhengran's hand, and said sincerely: "I'm the one who dragged you down, I'm sorry Zhengran."

Zhao Zhengran smiled, his eyes were full of tiredness, "It's not your problem, it's because I was defenseless."

When Cheng Jing was about to say something, the door was kicked open suddenly.

The slightly loud sound disturbed everyone in the room, the tall man brought by Xie Zhiqing moved and stood in front of Xie Zhiqing.

"Cheng Jing!" Accompanied by the sound of kicking the door came a muffled and deep voice, and one could hear the anxiety hidden in it.

Cheng Jing stood up suddenly, ran out of the inner room, and called out "Iron slave" in response.

The person who came was Tie Nu, and he was still carrying a bunch of things in his hand. It seemed that he saw the note left by Cheng Jing and came over without even having time to put down the things.

When he saw Cheng Jing, there was a look of surprise in his eyes, he stopped his movements, scanned Cheng Jing very quickly through the black veil, and said with a suppressed voice: "Cheng Jing?"

"...I am." Cheng Jing suddenly remembered that his face was not right, and he subconsciously reached out to touch his face.

He looked up at Tie Nu again, "You won't miss me, will you?"

Tie Nu shook his head, stepped forward and hugged Cheng Jing, and dropped the things in his hand, "I know you." He whispered.

After Cheng Jing turned back into a human, the height gap between him and Tie Nu became more and more obvious. When Tie Nu hugged him, his face was directly buried on Tie Nu's chest, and his whole body was shortened a lot.

Cheng Jing felt a little embarrassed, but Tie Nu hugged him so tightly, he grabbed Tie Nu's sleeve with his fingers, and then slowly hugged Tie Nu's back.

"How long are you going to hold each other?" Xie Zhiqing's calm voice with no emotion could be heard from behind, Cheng Jing was startled, and struggled to get out of Tie Nu's arms.

"Ha, this is my friend named Tie Nu." Cheng Jing introduced with a little helplessness.

Tie Nu stood silently on the spot, his eyes as deep as a cold pool were filled with flowing dark light, "Hello." He whispered, holding Cheng Jing's shoulder with his palm very possessively, and pulled him towards himself. I have a belt with me.

It was rare for Cheng Jing to be sensitive. He noticed that Tie Nu seemed a little restless. Although he didn't know why, he continued: "His name is Xie Zhiqing. I mentioned it to you."

Tienu glanced at him, but said nothing.

Xie Zhiqing couldn't see anything on his face, his eyes slipped from Tienu's hood, and he quickly looked at Cheng Jing, "Let your friends come and sit together." He said in a low voice, then turned and entered the room. room.

Cheng Jing watched him leave, reached out and hammered Tienu next to him, "Where have you been?" He asked.

Tie Nu pointed to the things on the ground, "I'm going to buy these." Then, he paused, bent down and picked up the things on the ground one by one, and put them on the table.