A Time-Traveling Mishap: I Became an Ancient Nobleman

Chapter 28 Farewell, Senior Brother

Shen Moli laughed loudly, "Junior brother is not young anymore. Your family should be looking for a new wife for you, right? Your blood circulation is not good right now, which may affect your married life after marriage."

These words made Zhou Hanzhang's face turn dark. This person was indeed somewhat crazy, just as his cousin had said.

After Shen Moli finished speaking, he checked the time. "I'm leaving now. Are you really not coming to Qionghua Ridge with me?"

Although Zhou Hanzhang was somewhat tempted to see what the magnolia flower looked like when it bloomed, he resolutely shook his head.

Even if she was ignorant, she knew that Qionghua Ridge was on Dan Cliff Mountain. With her condition, it was already remarkable that she could reach Dan Cliff Mountain, let alone Qionghua Ridge.

"I'm still recovering from my illness, so I probably won't be able to make it to Qionghua Ridge. I won't take up any more of your time, senior brother."

Shen Moli looked at Zhou Hanzhang's petite figure and nodded in surprise, "Alright, then I'll go by myself."

"Farewell, senior brother," Zhou Hanzhang said.

Shen Moli found these words rather strange. What did he mean by "Farewell, Senior Brother"?

Forget it, the magnolia flowers are about to bloom. If we miss this one, we'll have to wait another year. He even hired people to wait for him at the foot of the mountain.

He didn't linger any longer and turned to leave.

As Zhou Hanzhang watched his departing figure, he thought to himself: His face was so pale that he didn't look healthy at all. How could he just go up to Qionghua Ridge like that? Moreover, Qionghua Dew has been around for many years, and he goes up to Qionghua Ridge to pick it every year like this?

That's quite difficult.

Thinking this, she unknowingly returned to the school dormitory.

When I passed by that pond, I saw that old man Mo Xuan was still fishing.

As she passed by Mo Xuan, she upheld the principle of respecting her teacher and the Dao, and greeted him.

Who knew that Mo Xuan would look directly at her this time? She thought it would be the same as before, that he would glance at her and then stare at his bamboo pole again.

To everyone's surprise, Mo Xuan suddenly said, "Boy, come sit with me for a while."

Mo Xuan magically produced another small stool and placed it next to Zhou Hanzhang.

Seeing that he had taken out his small stool, Zhou Hanzhang had no choice but to step forward, bow, and sit down.

When she sat down, she saw that Mo Xuan had placed the fish basket next to her, and there wasn't a single fish in it.

But it seems that Mo Xuan has been fishing here ever since he welcomed the new students. She looked at Mo Xuan's current posture and it seemed to be exactly the same as when she went out.

Her lips twitched slightly involuntarily.

It seems the dean's skills aren't very good.

Who is Mo Xuan? Just by looking at her expression, you can tell what she's thinking.

"Kid, you look down on me?"

"What are you saying, Dean? I'm just a freshman who just enrolled today. How could I possibly have the audacity to look down on you?"

"So you mean, even if you weren't a freshman, you'd have the nerve to look down on me?"

What kind of twisted logic is this?

Zhou Hanzhang was speechless, but could only pretend to be respectful, "How dare I?"

"Did you assume I'm bad at fishing just because there aren't any fish in my basket?"

Zhou Hanzhang dared not speak further and could only shake his head quickly.

Mo Xuan ignored her and said to himself, "In ancient times, there was Jiang Taigong who fished, and those who were willing would take the bait. I have only learned a little bit of his methods."

Zhou Hanzhang then remembered that this era also had the story of Jiang Taigong fishing, where those who were willing would take the bait, only that some historical events were different from his own world.

It seems that history has deviated, leading to the emergence of the Zhou Dynasty.

She was about to speak when Mo Xuan's pole suddenly moved.

Mo Xuan was so excited that he didn't care about her and quickly pulled the fishing rod back.

Suddenly, a strange phenomenon occurred: the fishing rod that Mo Xuan had been pulling forward suddenly stopped moving.

He gritted his teeth and used all his strength, but he could no longer move the fishing rod an inch.

Zhou Hanzhang quickly stepped forward and pulled the fishing rod with him. Everyone used all their strength and finally managed to pull the fishing rod a little closer.

Mo Xuan's face turned bright red, and he laughed heartily, "I never thought that after waiting all day, I would finally catch such a big fish."

The next moment, he saw what had been pulled up, his face turned ashen, and he wished he could throw the fishing rod away.

Zhou Hanzhang looked at what he had caught and couldn't help but chuckle; it turned out to be a greedy, large turtle.

The turtle was in pain, struggling as it became entangled in the fishhook.

The two could only pull the turtle ashore first, then slowly remove the fishhook from its mouth before putting it back into the water.

Mo Xuan glared at the turtle and said fiercely, "You'd better get out of here and not get in my way while I'm fishing. If I catch you again, I don't care if you're a turtle or a bastard, I'll still cook you!"

The turtle seemed to understand, and quickly swam away.

Zhou Hanzhang looked at the curved and sharp fishhook and remembered what the old man had just said about fishing like Jiang Taigong, hoping that those who wanted to take the bait would bite.

They're clearly not good enough, but they're trying too hard to save face.

I noticed his fishing posture and rod-lifting technique were both incorrect; I wonder where he learned them from.

Of course, Zhou Hanzhang wouldn't be so stupid as to expose him to his face.

"Dean, would you like to continue?"

"Of course I'll keep going! I won't leave until I catch a fish today!"

Zhou Hanzhang nodded, then looked at him and thought he would just lower the boom like that.

She spoke up promptly, "Dean, are you just going to lower the boom like this? Aren't you going to put any bait in?"

"What bait? I already said it's up to the willing to take the bait."

Although Mo Xuan said this, he stopped holding the boom bar and did not lower it.

He looked at Zhou Hanzhang, who didn't continue speaking, so he became somewhat annoyed and embarrassed, "What kind of bait do you usually use?"

Zhou Hanzhang: ? ? ?

So this old man didn't even know what bait to use and just sat here in the sun all day?

"Please wait a moment, Dean."

She turned and left, walked to the vegetable garden in the school, observed for a while, and then came to a slightly damp patch of soil and began to dig.

Mo Xuan followed her to the vegetable garden and became curious when he saw her doing this.

Not long after Zhou Hanzhang started digging, he unearthed a lot of large, fat earthworms from the soil.

Zhou Hanzhang looked at Mo Xuan behind him, "Dean, is there anything you need to pack?"

When Mo Xuan first saw the dense swarms of earthworms in the soil, he was already covered in sweat.

He's not afraid of anything except these soft, squishy things.

At this moment, his whole body was stiff and he could not move.

Zhou Hanzhang called out again, "Dean?"

"I...I'll go right away."

Mo Xuan snapped out of his daze and ran away.

Not long after, he came over with a small water ladle, but he didn't dare to go up to it. Instead, he threw the ladle to Zhou Hanzhang from a distance.

Zhou Hanzhang was overjoyed. It was rare to see so many fat earthworms. With these earthworms, fishing would be a piece of cake.

She picked up the water ladle the dean had thrown to her, and reached out to collect all the earthworms she could see in the soil into the ladle.

She stopped after picking up about half a spoonful, then walked up to Mo Xuan and handed the spoon to him.

"Dean, look, we've had a good harvest."