Chapter 65 Lessons (3)

"I'm so sorry, classmate Jiang, it's me who has troubled you."

A moment later, when the two were enjoying lunch in the restaurant, Baimaner showed a guilty expression.

"Brandon is an old aristocrat, and the whole family is a villain who must be punished. I'm afraid he will treat you..."

Jiang Jianming put down his knife and fork, shook his head and said, "Don't worry about me, actually... I don't know if Tang Zhen has told you something about me. Actually, I have something to do with the empire."

Beimaner only sighed when Jiang Jianming was comforting her. She took a bite of the steak on the plate: "By the way, classmate Jiang, are you free tomorrow night?"

Jiang Jianming: "Tomorrow night? I have a lot of free time this time."

There is still more than half a month before His Majesty's birthday. This time is his holiday, and after the holiday is over, it is when he faces Old Marshal Chen.

At that time, he will face a test - how to convince the old marshal to agree to his continued stay in Yin Beidou.

Beimaner said: "There will be a banquet tomorrow night, although it is a boring entertainment... But our family, the Brandon family, and the Tang family should all attend."

Jiang Jianming nodded in understanding: "Noble gathering."

"Yes," Bermaner touched the knife and fork in her hand, "if it is convenient for you to come along, I will convince Dad. In this way, Brandon will also be concerned when he sees you with us at the banquet. three points."

Jiang Jianming smiled. He actually didn't like such boring and expensive social occasions, but he also knew that she was kind, so he just said, "Thank you, please let me think about it."

"Come on, classmate Jiang!"

With shining eyes, Beimaner insisted, "You can eat all the snacks at the banquet for free!"

Jiang Jianming's ears were hot: "Cough...Thank, thank you."

...

After lunch, the two walked towards Kaios Military Academy.

Newly manicured artificial flower beds come into view as you walk through the streets. It was a golden rose symbolizing royal glory. The water droplets sprayed hung on the soft petals, and you could smell the faint fragrance without getting close.

In the distance, the Amorphous Race Protection Association was distributing their pamphlets; on the street corner, young people in groups seemed to be arguing passionately about something. On the bench, a pair of elderly people looked up at the high sky...

Jiang Jianming suddenly realized that the atmosphere of the empire seemed to be subtly different.

Is it because the emperor's birthday is approaching?

Or...

A distant bell sounded. A flock of white pigeons fluttered and flew off the spire of the church.

Jiang Jianming and Beimaner stopped. Looking back, they just passed by - the Brilliant Cathedral.

Ringing the bell, this age no longer needs such an ancient way of telling time, so the rest of the bell is more symbolic.

Beimaner said with a "huh": "Is it a day of ethics? There are so many people there."

Jiang Jianming: "Someone is preaching."

The church was crowded with people. The bishop standing in the center preaching turned out to be a beautiful girl with a snow-white cloth skirt, snow-white long hair, snow-white skin, and his feet without shoes and socks stepped on the ground. Her expression was pure and sincere, like a mortal angel.

"The brilliance of the crystal particles will benefit you and all sentient beings..."

The girl put her hands on her chest reverently, "In the name of the brilliance of crystal particles, I bring the ultimate gospel from the depths of the universe, the interpretation of truth..."

"His Excellency!"

A young man squeezed out of the crowd excitedly, kneeling on his knees, his hands facing the sky: "His Excellency Bishop Margaret! Please give me the wisdom root of truth, please clear the confusion of fools like me..."

There were tears in his eyes, and there were no crystals condensed on his raised wrist. "Why, why don't the divine crystal particles soak up His grace and rain? Are we, such disabled humans, born inferior species?"

Bishop Margaret turned to look at him slowly, and said in a singing tone: "The brilliant grace of the crystal particles and thousands of souls, we are deeply unfair, just because we are walking in the sin of the earth."

"It's people who create the three, six, nine, and so on, it's people who create oppression and injustice... It's people's emotions and desires that reject the divine grace and the ultimate coming..."

The white-haired girl turned her head up and closed her eyes. The sun fell on the bridge of her delicate nose. She made a prayer gesture and whispered while pacing:

"Strengthen your faith and wash away your sins. For those who believe in the ultimate from the bottom of your heart, when your body is freed from the bondage of this filthy world, the ultimate will allow your soul to be truly free..."

After the young bishop said, the crowd knelt on the ground in tears, or raised their hands to whimper, or kowtowed and muttered, as if they were a group of sinners who sincerely repented.

"My God." Baimaner's goosebumps rose, "This group of people is crazier than before."

Jiang Jianming shook his head.

...Since the end of the old blue mother star era, various ancient religious beliefs have also disappeared in history.

However, the more they suffer, the more human beings are eager to seek support in nothingness. The crystal religion, which believed in crystal particles, flourished in the old empire, and now it is the only remaining religion in the new human interstellar empire.

Jiang Jianming was not very fond of this god-given religion.

Not to mention anything else, now even the royal family doesn't need to throw their bodies on the ground in front of them, and to meet His Majesty the Emperor is nothing more than kneeling on one knee, stroking his chest and bowing his head. Like the little highness, someone who acts recklessly and is even willing to have him rubbing his hair and peeling apples for him...

Only when the Crystal Sect preached, a group of people were kowtowing and begging. This atmosphere always made him dream back to the feudal period of the old blue mother star in the history books.

But he did not refute on the spot.

Saying "your beliefs are unscientific" to people with religious beliefs is something that guys with negative emotional intelligence do.

The two left the Brilliant Cathedral and went straight back to the Kaios Military Academy along the route they remembered.

At this time, the military school is in the second class in the morning and afternoon, and the two of them are there.

campus

Nei strolled around at random and greeted several teachers who did not have classes. Unfortunately, it didn't take long for Beiman'er to receive a communication from home, saying sorry and leaving first.

Jiang Jianming knew that it was probably the commotion on West Yinhe Street that reached the Bei family's side, and the family members were eager to find out the situation. In his impression, Miss Pei's family atmosphere was pretty good, probably because she was more worried than blamed, so she didn't hold back.

He was alone until the end of get out of class, and just happened to walk to the first courtyard, and unexpectedly met a black-faced officer who was walking out of the courtyard gate.

Jiang Jianming greeted him: "Teacher Luo Hai."

For some reason, Luo Hai frowned and seemed to be thinking about something when he came out, so he was even more shocked when he saw the former student: "Jiang Jianming? Are you still in Aslan?"

Jiang Jianming smiled lightly: "I just returned to Aslan. I'm sorry, can I delay your time?"

Soon, the two of them sat together in the reception room of the first courtyard and sat on the sofa facing each other.

——Instructor Luo Hai, a civilian-born officer of the new human race, holds the rank of colonel in the Imperial Guard of the Jin Ilun Empire, and has taught courses related to strategy and tactics at the Kaios Military Academy for more than 20 years. He is a well-known super teacher.

"So you're still going to join the army."

After chatting for a while, Luo Hai looked at Jiang Jianming with a complicated expression, the student he used to be extremely proud of.

"I knew for a long time that you were not an ordinary person. When you said you wanted to teach after graduation, I didn't believe you kid. I just didn't expect..."

Having said that, Luo Hai's frown and the corners of his mouth twitched together.

...I didn't expect this brat to be so fat!

The old marshal dared to cheat, and the big frontline of Yin Beidou dared to go. What the hell was he actually cheated on him, he did it!

"Remember when you were in school," Luo Hai took a sip of tea and suppressed his boiling emotions, "There are rumors that you and the royal family..."

At this point, Jiang Jianming also confessed: "Yes. It is indeed a somewhat complicated relationship."

The corner of Luo Hai's mouth twitched again, remembering the days when he thought this child was born in extreme poverty and frequently invited him to dinner and coffee, only to feel that his conscience and coins were wrongly paid.

Forget it, students are still good students...

Luo Hai shook his head and sighed, then asked, "Tell me, what's the matter with you coming to school this time?"

Jiang Jianming: "Two things. One is... I want to find Diana, she should still be in the third hospital."

Luo Hai: "Lance's younger sister? Unfortunately, she's not here for the past two days. Tomorrow night, there will be a big noble banquet at her house, and this young lady needs to show her face."

Jiang Jianming was stunned, thinking: The banquet that Beimaner mentioned was actually hosted by the Lance family?

Then he seems to really have to go.

Luo Hai: "The second thing?"

"Ah," Jiang Jianming returned to his senses, then lowered his eyebrows and smiled.

He leaned forward and seemed a little embarrassed, but he said very sincerely: "Teacher Luo, can I have a room in your staff dormitory?"

Luo Hai: "?"

Jiang Jianming: "It's not long, I'll just stay for half a month. I don't have money to book a hotel."

"..."

Same day, five o'clock in the afternoon.

A brown-haired, dark-eyed teenager in old clothes washed white with a hostile face turned his back to the door, sitting in the tactical confrontation simulation classroom of Kaios Military Academy.

Jiang Kaiwen, seventeen years old, a poor man, is currently a second-year student in the First Academy of Kaios Military Academy.

However, the word "student" is now a question mark. Just because three days ago, he called on a group of classmates who were also civilians with excellent grades, and who had been bullied by the noble students recently, to hold a vigorous strike movement.

There is only one appeal: they hope that Kaios, the first military academy of the empire, can be more equal in recruiting, and expel those aristocratic children who have poor grades and only rely on family background.

If the military academy does not agree for one day, they will not come to class for one day.

In the early winter evening, it was already dusk at this point. The glowing red sunset hung between the buildings in the distance, and only a little afterglow was still warming the windows.

The classroom door opened.

Kevin didn't turn around, he knew who was coming in, it was the one who called him here.

"Teacher Luo?" Kevin said coldly, "I know what you want to say, thank you for your kindness. But you don't have to persuade me, and you can't persuade me, because I have made up my mind..."

The boy's voice suddenly stopped.

Because he suddenly heard the footsteps behind him not only belonged to one person.

Kevin couldn't help but turn his head to look.

Sure enough, two people came in through the door.

The first person who came in was indeed Teacher Luo Hai, but behind him was a strange young man.

I don't know why, obviously that young man just followed the teacher in a low-key manner, but Kevin's eyes first fell on this person's face——

This stranger with a unique temperament is thin and pale, and seems to be weak, but he has a pair of quiet and deep black eyes, which reminds the young man of the cosmic starry sky he looked up to in his childhood.

Now, those black eyes silently landed on the boy's face.

Kevin's chest felt hot, and his heart beat faster.

In the next second, he saw the young man turn his head slightly, and said something to Teacher Luo, and the teacher answered immediately.

... Later, Jiang Kaiwen will recall this early winter evening countless times in his life.

When the setting sun was about to sink in the window, the still too young commander of the empire once cast his gaze on him, and in a unique way, recognized such an ordinary existence as him.

Yes. Although Jiang Jianming and Luo Hai spoke in a really small voice, Kevin always believed that he heard it right.

The two asked and answered in a low voice, and the words they said were clearly—

"Who is this?"

"Your accommodation fee."