Chapter 540: The Secret of the Pope and the SaintessChapter 1334: Fu Minqing, Zou Chenglong

When Li Chen saw them, they also saw Li Chen.

Especially Fu Minqing and Zou Chenglong, caught off guard seeing Li Chen standing at a distance watching them, both froze. Zou Chenglong even rubbed his eyes, as if he felt he was seeing things.

After confirming that it was indeed Li Chen, the two rushed forward eagerly.

Seeing the excited Fu Minqing and Zou Chenglong about to kneel and kowtow, Li Chen waved his hand and said: "I came out this time incognito."

This sentence is clear and concise.

A new top scholar and a new second-place finisher, neither of them fools, immediately forced their knees to stop bending.

Zhou Chenglong swallowed nervously. Suddenly, an idea struck him. He extended his left hand, and with his right index finger and middle finger, he curled them together and pressed them into his palm.

bow with both hands and kneel.

Seeing this, Fu Minqing immediately followed suit.

Li Chen laughed and said, "You two have sharp eyes. Well, the two of you come with me, everyone else disperse."

The other students had only seen Li Chen from afar at the opening ceremony. Most people couldn't even make out his features. Besides, they couldn't have imagined that the current Crown Prince would appear here, so they didn't arouse any suspicion at all. They just thought he was a friend of Fu Minqing and Zou Chenglong. They chatted and laughed for a few words before dispersing, some returning to their academies, some going to the villages, and others going to Tongzhou to do their own thing.

After a while, Li Chen walked in the front with his hands behind his back, Zou Chenglong and Fu Minqing followed behind him. Further away were Wan Jiaojiao and Xiaoguangzi. As for Niu Bao, seeing that there was no more candy, he rode his ox to find his grandfather.

"You two are doing great."

Li Chen's words suddenly excited both Fu Minqing and Zou Chenglong.

They looked at each other, and it was as if they had done it unintentionally.

They came here, actually not intentionally showing any personal motives, but unexpectedly happened to be seen by the Prince himself.

What's truly remarkable is that you aren't deliberately putting on a show. If you were, someone clever would have made a name for themselves in the academies or the capital. Out here in the wilderness, even if flowers bloomed, news wouldn't reach the capital. And even if it did, most people down below wouldn't tell me about it.

Li Chen turned his head and glanced at the two of them. Zou Chenglong and Fu Minqing instinctively moved closer and leaned forward to listen attentively.

"No deliberate attempts to appear wise, unintentional actions reveal the truest nature. Not bad, not bad at all."

Continuous praise made Zou Chenglong and Fu Minqing feel light as a feather, as if they were walking on clouds.

"Why did you bring people here"

Zou Chenglong glanced at Fu Minqing. In terms of official position, they were equal, but in terms of status, Fu Minqing was a top scholar after all, so he didn't rush to reply, but gave this opportunity to Fu Minqing instead.

Fu Minqing gratefully glanced at Zou Chenglong, then respectfully replied to Li Chen: "Actually, it was Brother Zou's idea."

"My brother Zou and I were ordered to become instructors at the Royal Academy. While the textbooks contain a wealth of knowledge, as my brother Zou said, learning from books is always superficial. There's no substitute for firsthand experience. Coincidentally, this area is currently inhabited by disaster survivors, and with everything in ruins, we saw an opportunity. So, we rallied some like-minded individuals at the academy and came here together."

"We didn't do much, just helped people with what we could, but after a while, each of us made great progress."and strode towards the prisoner's cart.The Cao Zhi and Jing Erlang, upon seeing the menacing Yelu Guzanqi with eyes full of malice, let out tragic and fearful roars as if facing their imminent demise....