Chapter 86: The Guild Emblem of the Zither Society, and Gu Ci Takes a Master

The old man instinctively lowered his head to read the message.

At once, his excitement was no less than the boy’s.

Seeing the message from the little disciple he had been thinking about day and night, he replied immediately.

[Qin Jing: This is the Music Society badge. If you agree to become my disciple, you will have one too. Well, how about it, girl? Are you interested?]

Just as he was wondering what bait he should offer to tempt her into agreeing, she sent back a reply at once.

[GC: Okay]

He was overjoyed, automatically ignoring the second half of her message.

To him, as long as she was willing to take him as her teacher, nothing else mattered.

He stood up at once and instructed the young man beside him, “Quick, book me a flight to Songdu right now! We leave today!”

The young man stared at him in bewilderment.

Then the old man’s phone rang.

He was in high spirits now, brimming with energy. “Hello? Old Yuan?”

“No, you haven’t been blocked by someone, have you?” came the exasperated voice from the other end. The old man chuckled gleefully. “Hahaha, so you have a day like this too!”

Then he said generously, “It’s fine. My grandson just helped me solve this for a friend. I’ll have him help you too.”

“Of course it’s true. Don’t you know my grandson is among the top five on the hacker rankings? This is nothing to him.”

At that, the young man, who had just been drinking water, nearly喷ed it out in shock.

How had a lousy nobody who had only just squeezed into the top fifty become top five in his grandfather’s mouth?

But the old man’s call went on.

“No trouble at all. We’re old friends.”

“Alright, I’ll have him contact you in a moment.”

After hanging up, the old man was still in excellent spirits.

He instructed the young man to help Old Yuan solve his blocking problem as well, then went upstairs smiling to the storeroom to choose the apprentice gift he would give to her.

The young man rubbed his nose helplessly.

When he saw the account ID Old Yuan had sent him on messaging app, a number he had practically memorized over the past two months, his teeth began to ache.

He could not help wondering what kind of person she was, this one who had blocked even bigwigs of his grandfather’s caliber.

And when he discovered that even with his newest method, he still could not pull Old Yuan’s account out of the other party’s blacklist, he nearly exploded on the spot.

Of course, that was all later.

Meanwhile, when she got home from school, she found that Radish was asleep again.

According to what he and she had observed, ever since Radish had taken that pill, its daily sleeping time had gradually exceeded twenty hours.

And yet, no matter how thoroughly she examined Radish, she could find nothing wrong with its body, and when it woke, it was still lively and energetic.

Just as she was poking and fussing over Radish, he came in from outside yawning.

Seeing her with a schoolbag on her back, his eyelid twitched violently. He still could not accept that this fellow had really gone to high school.

But after moving his lips, he ultimately said nothing.

In slippers, he handed her the bag in his hand. “Here. What you wanted. For someone else?”

It was the skincare he had been asked to bring from the research institute.

This time, however, she had requested two different sets.

One was the one she usually used, while the other was aimed more at preventing early aging and repairing the skin. It was clearly not meant for someone her age.

“You started going to the institute today?” she asked as she took it, tacitly agreeing.

This was the first gift she had prepared for her meeting with Miss Su.

He gave a hum. “Didn’t you message me to report the issue with the RTC-1 extract? The director just shoved the matter at me, and I only finished the inspection these past few days.”

He shot her a somewhat resentful look. “I was supposed to have several days off. One message from you, and they were all gone.”

With that, he dropped unceremoniously onto the sofa, looking pitiable.

She coughed and tossed him a bottle of pills from her pocket. “Here. Hard work.”

She truly could not show her face at a time like this, so she could only let him handle it.

His eyes lit up. He took it at once, revealing a brilliant row of white teeth. “Sis is generous!”

In truth, that was only a casual remark on his part. He knew perfectly well.

Even if she had been the one to report it herself, he would still have had to do the inspection work.

And she would most likely have been hauled straight back to the research institute by Director Yuan.

“Is everything resolved now?”

He carefully tucked the bottle into his pocket. “Yeah. That dean still wanted to deny everything, but I and a researcher from the institute next door directly found the extract. The stuff was destroyed too.”

She did not ask further.

“Oh, right. The biological repair ingredient that Moxi Bio wanted to add tested as having a mutational change in properties, so don’t accidentally apply it to your face, Sis.”

“Okay.”

Thinking of the skincare set that had already been smashed by Mrs. Wang, she felt there was almost no chance it would ever end up on her face.

The two of them then discussed the biological repair aspect for a while, and he gained a great deal from it. In the end, he even pulled out a small notebook and wrote down several points she had mentioned.

Just then, the doorbell rang.

She lazily went to open the door, and when she saw the person outside, her scalp tightened reflexively. She nodded at him and turned around. “Then, I’ll head off first, Qinghuan. Have something for dinner yourself tonight.”

Biting on a pen, he turned around in confusion.

The man at the door raised a brow, reached out directly, and caught her arm, smiling faintly. “Why do you run every time you see me these past few days?”

She turned her head back, her expression cool and placid. “That’s not true. I just happen to be going to stay at my second uncle’s house for a few days.”

Originally, her parents had wanted her to stay at their place a few more days, but she had politely declined. Now she only felt that she might have made a mistake.