His Highness the Crown Prince Always Wants to Marry Me

Chapter 137: Little Girl Understands

Si’tu Luo brought the six people to a room where there were many things for smithing.

After entering the room, the heat coming from the floor made everyone feel strangely suffocated.

“Instructor, the first mission you asked us to do isn’t to forge is it.” Huo Li Ruo said jokingly as he looked at the pile of forging tools.

Si’tu Luo turned around and nodded very seriously: “You’re very smart, you guessed it right immediately.”

Hearing his words, the six people present looked surprised. They were actually asked to forge, what was the rationale for this?

“Reason?” Huo Li Ruo asked, somewhat unable to accept.

A strong and slightly elderly voice sounded outside the door, “This old man will tell you the reason.”

“Greetings Department Leader.” The six people addressed respectfully.

The elderly man in white walked in with a smile and nodded: “I asked you to forge to hone your patience and perseverance.”

He passed the six people and walked to the pile of forging tools, picked up an iron stone about three or four times thicker than his fist and said: “Each of you will be assigned such a piece of iron stone. As long as it’s struck to the size of an embroidery needle, you’re qualified.”

“Ah!” Two of them couldn’t resist gasping.

“Ah what ah?” The smiling face of the elderly man in white suddenly turned serious, “Listen carefully, whenever you complete this mission, that’s when you’ll start to officially learn plant inscriptions. Xiao Luo Luo won’t go easy on you.”

“…” Si’tu Luo had a forehead of deep creases—either way he was always the bad person.

“Even if we want to practice our patience, there’s no need to forge.” Huo Li Ruo glanced at the iron stone with disgust, “Not to mention polishing such a large piece of iron stone into an embroidery needle. How long will that take? Department Leader, you’re not toying us are you?”

This damned old man must be deliberately messing with them.

The serious face of the elderly man in white once again displayed a smile and he snorted coldly: “Even if this old man’s toying with you, so what?”

“You…” Huo Li Ruo choked.

“Don’t you, you, you. Little fellow’s just so rude.” The elderly man in white raised an eyebrow, “In order for you to learn to respect the old and love the young, the five of them can polish one piece each, but you need to polish two pieces to pass.”

Huo Li Ruo sucked in a deep breath—he just knew that this damned old man wanted to deliberately mess with him.

Just as he was about to counterattack, Yu Qing Qian spoke first, “Who was the student previous who took the shortest time?”

Her question stunned the several people present, then they realised that she was probably asking the shortest time it took the old students to complete the mission.

“As expected, little girl understands.” The elderly man in white rolled his eyes at Huo Li Ruo who could only glare, then walked up to Yu Qing Qian with a grin and said: “Among the many students who entered the Plant Inscription Department, Feng Chen spent the shortest time. It took only half a month for him to polish this piece of iron ore into the size of an embroidery needle and complete the mission.”

“Then what’s the longest time?” Another boy couldn’t resist asking.

The white-clothed elderly man glanced at him with a look as if he was exasperated that he wasn’t living up to expectations, “No future, if you want to compete, you should compete to obtain the shortest time.”

The boy smiled awkwardly, thinking that Feng Chen was famous for his perversely abnormal talents, and wasn’t like a mortal at all. He’d be crazy to compete with that person.

The elderly man in white looked sideways at Si’tu Luo and asked: “What’s the longest time it took? This old man never remembers those useless things.”

Si’tu Luo twitched the corner of his lips—so he liked to remember those useless things then.

“The longest time it took was more than two years.”

The elderly man in white looked disgusted, then turned to look at the six people: “If any of you dare to take more than a year to complete this mission, pack up your things and get out of here immediately for lao’zi.”