"Eh, look, look..." a student hurriedly pulled a companion to look at something.
"I wonder if the invitation has been sent in this time."
"I heard it was Ding Rui who delivered the invitation this time, it's Ding Rui, so it should have been sent in, right...?"
"Oh... So he's still not coming?"
As Lin Suqing was contemplating the statue that always remained hidden, the chatter of the students reached his ears, the volume of their discussion rising and falling opportunistically with the cadence of the court music's gong, shang, jiao, zhi, and yu. If one was close enough, they could hear every word clearly.
Lin Suqing paid attention to the phrase "still not coming," could it be that this was...
"Hey, do you see the one wearing the three-peaked phoenix cap, could that be the Eminent Sage True Gentleman?"
"That's him, look at the black dog with a slender waist lying at his feet! No mistake, it must be the Eminent Sage True Gentleman!"
