"Peter Fat! Why are you here? And why are you carrying things in your hands?" At lunchtime, Peter Fat came to Ethan's home with two boxes.
"Grace Feng! You are so lucky! There will be a top scorer in your family!" Peter Fat said to Grace Feng with a fawning smile.
"What top scorer? What are you talking about? Ethan has been expelled from school. How can there be a top scorer?" Grace Feng said, with a tinge of disappointment in her voice.
Her son had been studying for so many years and was about to graduate from high school. But because of the fight, there was a stain on his record and he was expelled from school. If this got out, it would be difficult for him to find a wife in the future.
"Expelled? That's all in the past! Now, not only has the school not expelled him, but they have also apologized to him. They asked him to study at ease and take the exam well! Everyone says he can be a top scorer!" Peter Fat said.
"He got the first place in Azure City this time, and all parties have high hopes for him!" Peter Fat continued.
Then, Peter Fat told Grace Feng about the school in detail.
"Oh, how can you let the principal apologize to Ethan! It is right to discipline children." Grace Feng hurriedly said, but her face was full of surprise and joy.
"Ethan got the first place in the county last time, the first place in the city this time. Will he get the first place in the province in the future?" Grace Feng felt it was incredible and could hardly believe it.
"Yes! The school has said that if he performs normally during the college entrance examination, there will definitely be no problem!" Peter Fat said.
Peter Fat talked a lot, and finally Grace Feng also understood her son's recent study situation. This was really an unexpected joy.
"Thank you!"
"Peter Fat..."
"Grace Feng, you don't need to be so polite. Just call me Xiao Lai."
"Oh, Xiao Lai, are you here for something?" Grace Feng asked Peter Fat.
"Grace Feng! It's like this. Ethan has been buying books from me all the time. I want to ask him to be an endorser! He doesn't need to do much. Just hang his photo in my bookstore! If he can write a few words, that would be even better!" Peter Fat said with a smile.
"Here are three thousand yuan! Take it first. If the bookstore's business improves significantly, I will give you more."
"I can't take this money! Besides, for this matter, you may have to talk to Ethan himself. For his things, we let him make his own decisions." Grace Feng said.
"Grace Feng, if you think it's too little, I will add more money, five thousand! Do you think five thousand is okay?" As he said this, Peter Fat took out another two thousand yuan and handed it to Grace Feng.
Grace Feng naturally refused repeatedly.
"Peter Fat, do you want to cheat my mother while I'm not here?"
"Ethan, you're back? Hehe..." Peter Fat grinned at Ethan.
"Why? Are you regretting it? Previously, I told you to accept my sponsorship, but you didn't want to! How about now?"
"Oh! I'm not that regretful! Before... I was just blind to your potential." It was okay if he didn't mention this matter. Once he mentioned it, Peter Fat couldn't help but want to slap himself.
"Ethan, look, we are also acquaintances! What do you think about this matter..." Peter Fat said expectantly.
"Are we that familiar?"
"Yes! Of course!" Peter Fat said to Ethan with a smile on his face.
...
But no matter how much Peter Fat pleaded, Ethan never relented.
"Humph! Sixty - six thousand? Dream on!" Peter Fat thought to himself, "My annual rent is not even sixty - six thousand! This kid actually asks me for sixty - six thousand! Isn't this cheating? Does he really think he is the top scorer in the five northern provinces!"
Let alone the top scorer in the five northern provinces, even if he was just the top scorer in Qingyun province, Peter Fat could accept it. But the problem was, was he? He wasn't!
"He really thinks that just because others praise him a few times, he will become the provincial top scorer!" Peter Fat said discontentedly.
Obviously, Peter Fat was very dissatisfied with Ethan's over - demanding.
Peter Fat left dejectedly.
It would be a lie to say that he didn't regret it.
"Today you ignore me, tomorrow I will be out of your reach!" Peter Fat couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly. This kid was really having a change of fortune and could actually get the first place in the city.
After walking a long way, Peter Fat couldn't help but stop and look back at Ethan's dilapidated small building again.
The small building was in a shambles and lifeless. It looked like a slum no matter how you looked at it.
"Could a top scorer in the five northern provinces, the number one among three million people, really come out of this shabby place soon?" Peter Fat couldn't help but mutter to himself.
After a long while, he denied it again.
"Only a fool would believe it!"
...
When the school results were completely announced, Ethan, who was at home, suddenly felt as if he had been enlightened. Two strong streams of Qi Yun flew from the southwest direction and rushed straight to his celestial spirit.
Then, Ethan felt that his Devouring Heaven Skill had been nourished by this Qi Yun and had made further progress.
The absorption ability, digestion ability, and devouring ability had all been greatly improved.
And just at this time!
The books Ethan bought online arrived!
A whole big box!
This was really like having a pillow when you want to sleep, or having a bun when you are hungry!
So timely!
There were a lot of books, of various types, including painting, carving, sculpture, etc. Everything was available.
Ethan casually picked up a book and started to read it.
Now, he had some achievements in calligraphy, painting, and carving. He could even be regarded as having the level of an ordinary expert, and his knowledge was naturally not comparable to that of ordinary people.
But when he picked up the book and read a few lines, he couldn't help but complain.
"These things... are too simple! Moreover, there are a lot of mistakes!" Ethan reached out and took out a book on bamboo carving. When he saw the first page, he couldn't help but frown.
The book was well - bound, a hardcover edition with gold stamping, but even so, it was still difficult to cover up the hollowness and scarcity of the content.
The content in it was either too simple, only suitable for beginners to start with, or full of loopholes, or even completely wrong.
This thing... is too unreliable!
Ethan was greatly disappointed.
Originally, he thought that with such advanced technology and fast information transmission nowadays, the information he needed should be available online. But now it seemed that he had thought too simply.
"It seems that if I want to make progress in this area, I still have to rely on Elder Chen!" Ethan said.
However, looking at this big box of things, it was a pity to throw them away.
And now he was hungry again.
"Why not give it a try!" Ethan thought to himself.
Huff!
Ethan blew a breath.
Whoosh!
The pages of the book flipped rapidly, like golden books and iron scrolls.
Ethan knew that it was not because of the book, but because of his Dust - Washing Wind.
The power of the Dust - Washing Wind had increased a lot, and its purification ability to eliminate the false and retain the true was also stronger.
Sure enough, originally it was a thick book, but after Ethan blew a breath, the whole book instantly lost more than half of its pages.
A book with hundreds of pages finally had only a dozen or so pages left in his hand, and they were also incomplete.
"This is so deceiving! Hundreds of pages in such a grand manner, but in the end, only these tattered dozen or so pages are readable?"
After being disappointed, Ethan still took a bite.
But as soon as this thing entered his mouth.
Puff, puff, puff!
Ethan spat it out immediately.
This thing had no taste at all and the texture was extremely bad.
"Forget it. It's better to learn from Elder Chen honestly! Obviously, it's impossible to become self - taught in this skill."