Chapter 24  : Slaps In The Face At The Wedding

Never in Xu Qianqian’s dreams would she have thought that the groom tonight would be Shen Lang.

“How could it be him? It’s impossible even if the sun rose from the west!”

What sort of person was Jin Mulan!? She was a goddess that was out of reach!

What sort of person was Shen Lang? He was a mentally challenged moron, ah! A useless fool who couldn’t even wear his clothes properly, ah!

She had just chased Shen Lang out of her house the day before and even framed him for theft and misconduct.

How could a distinguished place like the Palace of the Earl of Xuanwu pick a bum like this man, someone with a lowly standing, as their son-in-law?

No, she ultimately couldn’t accept an outcome like this.

“Shen Lang, since you’ve been chased out of my household, then you should return back to the dust in a lowly manner. It’d be best if you turn into a pile of dog sh*t on the ground, stepped on by everyone else.”

“Now, you actually married a woman who is more beautiful and distinguished than me?”

“How was that possible?”

“Heavens, is this a joke?”

Zhang Pu, who was beside her, was about to vomit blood because of jealousy.

“On what basis?”

Even Zhang Pu himself dared not wish to hope for an absolute beauty like Jin Mulan! Then, she ended up marrying a moron like Shen Lang?

“Hahahaha…”

Zhang Pu suddenly burst into laughter, and everyone couldn’t help but look over at him.

Zhang Pu said, “Miss Jin Mulan, your wedding is fake; it’s a conspiracy, isn’t it.”

Jin Mulan replied coldly, “What made you say this?”

Zhang Pu pointed at Shen Lang, “Does everyone know who this person is? He is called Shen Lang! He couldn’t even master a thousand words despite studying for ten years and was chased out by Hanshui Town College. After marrying into the Xu Family, he was banished for theft and indecency. Why would the Palace of the Earl consider a useless fool like this? Why would Miss Jin Mulan consider him? This wedding is fake.”

“That’s right! That’s right!” The young talents around couldn’t help but holler.

They also felt that this was fake. Why would Miss Jin Mulan marry a good-for-nothing like this?

When Zhang Pu started this topic, he gave a meaningful look at someone in the crowd.

He was the son of a governor, after all. It would be too rudimentary and unbecoming for him to personally engage in a catfight with Shen Lang.

A scholar stepped out from the crowd.

He thundered, “I can attest to this because I had studied in the same Hanshui College with him in the past. Shen Lang is a moron.”

Shen Lang could recognize this person. His name was Yan Xiong and was, indeed, a classmate from Hanshui Town College.

As expected, those that came out to stab one’s back at critical times were familiar acquaintances.

This Yan Xiong had come from a poor family and was not of suitable status to attend the wedding tonight. However, after becoming a scholar, he followed a good teacher-the previous City Lord of Xuanwu City who had already retired, Zhang Boyan. Thus, he followed along.

Of course, he didn’t only suck up to Zhang Boyan but Zhang Pu too. Thus, he did have some sort of connections to the Zhang Family now.

Back in Hanshui Town College, Yan Xiong was the top student, while Shen Lang was the worst. He wouldn’t even look at Shen Lang in the eye.

However, he had never imagined that Shen Lang would be marrying into the Palace of the Earl of Xuanwu at this moment! To marry the Princess of the Xuanwu City, Miss Jin Mulan, as his wife, how could he accept this?

Thus, he instantly forgot about being polite, plus with the meaningful look from Zhang Pu, he came charging out to him.

Shen Lang stepped out and said indifferently, “Yan Xiong, you said that I was a moron, do you have any evidence?”

“Haha! You’ve studied for ten years, but you couldn’t even read a thousand characters, isn’t this evidence? Alright, I’ll write a few characters, if you can recognize them, I’ll retract my comment of you being a moron. If you can’t, then you’re a moron! How’s that?” Scholar Yan Xiong said.

Jin Mulan instantly wanted to stop him, but Shen Lang agreed before she could do so. “Fine!”

“Bring some ink and paper,” Yan Xiong said.

At first, he was feeling a little uneasy. This was the Palace of the Earl, after all-it wasn’t a place where a mere scholar like him could act brazenly. Thus, both his legs were trembling.

However, right now, seeing how everyone else was supporting him, Yan Xiong no longer had any uneasiness left in him. All he could think about was pushing himself into the limelight; it would be best if he could break the marriage between Shen Lang and Jin Mulan.

Of course, the Palace of the Earl didn’t fetch any ink and paper, but some people were registering the gifts. Thus, someone went to fetch it immediately.

Yan Xiong picked up the brush and wrote some words on the red paper.

Everyone in the crowd leaned forward to look, but they only felt a chill behind their backs.

After all, these words look familiar, but they didn’t know them at all!

They were too rarely seen. Even some successful scholars couldn’t recognize the characters, what more those that practice martial arts. No one would go and familiarize themselves with these sorts of characters for no reason, ah! They wouldn’t even use it!

It could be said that in ten scholars, there were eight of them who couldn’t recognize the three words Yan Xiong had written.

It was indeed too difficult.

“Just these three simple words. If you could recognize them, then you’re not a moron. If you couldn’t, then admit you are a moron,” Yan Xiong said gleefully.

Jin Mulan glanced at the words and instantly frowned.

Of course, she could recognize these characters. Though she practiced martial arts, she also read widely. However, these words were truly too unfamiliar. If it weren’t because she had coincidentally seen these words in a book, she wouldn’t recognize them, for these words were barely used.

Shen Lang went forward to take a look. These three characters were: ?(é),?(sù), and?(gun).

“As expected, it’s complicated, ah.” Shen Lang may have graduated with a master’s degree in a medical university, but he could only recognize the first word amongst these three.

“Haha… You don’t know these characters, do you? It’d be remarkable if you could recognize a single word,” Yan Xiong said, “be honest and admit that you don’t recognize these words and admit that you are a retard. To not even know these three simple words despite studying for ten years…”

Many people present began to perspire. They had also studied for over a decade and also became scholars, and some of them even became first-degree scholars. However, even they couldn’t recognize some of these characters, ah.

Although Shen Lang didn’t recognize them, there was an Alienware laptop that transmigrated with him ah! There were all sorts of dictionaries in there. He found them effortlessly.

This Alienware laptop had advanced even more in his brain. Shen Lang only needed to scan with his eyes, and he could instantly get his answers and any other possible answers.

At this moment, everyone looked at Shen Lang, waiting for him to embarrass himself.

Shen Lang said, “This first character is pronounced the same as the character ‘goose,’ it is a type of plant and can be used in medicine. It came from one of the main divisions of the Book of Songs1, The Poetry about Enjoying Teaching.”

The moment this was said, Yan Xiong became stunned. This character might be the easiest, but a moron like Shen Lang shouldn’t be able to recognize it.

However, he was very confident that Shen Lang wouldn’t know the next two characters.

However, Shen Lang continued to speak without pausing, “This second character is pronounced as Su, it could mean a jade with a blemish, or the royal family.”

Before allowing Yan Xiong to be shocked, Shen Lang continued without stopping, “It is true that this third character is exceptionally rarely seen, and it can have various pronunciations. The first would be as ‘vertical’1, which means standing upright.”

“The second is to pronounce it as ‘roll,’ and it means linking up top and bottom.”

“And the third way of pronouncing it is to read it as ‘tui,’ which means moving back.”

“And the fourth is to pronounce it as ‘one.’ It is an ancient surname and has its origins in the ancient Jiang Clan.”

Many histories of this world were once destroyed, but people had managed to uncover many ancient Chinese records later and used it as the guide for civilization.

Thus, many ancient cities dug out all these books, which weren’t part of the history of this world but were recorded and made into history.

When he was done speaking, Shen Lang looked at Yan Xiong and said, “Am I correct?”

Yan Xiong looked at Shen Lang incredulously. He only knew two ways to read this last character, which were ‘vertical’ and ‘one.’ He didn’t know the other two forms of reading it!

“Wasn’t Shen Lang a retard? He was incredibly stupid when we were studying, ah! He couldn’t even read the most basic characters, what more, these unfamiliar words!”

Shen Lang looked at Yan Xiong’s teacher, the previous City Lord of Xuanwu City, “Sir Zhang, you are extremely knowledgeable and an all-rounder in martial arts and literature. Do tell, have I read these three characters correctly?”

That old City Lord whose hair and beard was utterly white glared at his disciple Yan Xiong and chuckled, “All of them are correct!”

Everyone was stunned when this was said.

Zhang Pu and Xu Qianqian were exceptionally dazed upon seeing this. Xu Qianqian was the clearest about what sort of person Shen Lang was.

She thoroughly knew how unfamiliar these three words were, especially the last one. Xu Qianqian didn’t even know it, while Shen Lang, who couldn’t even pass the elementary levels in a decade, could?

How… how could this be possible?

Shen Lang continued to say, “Yan Xiong, since we’re playing a game of recognizing words, I’ll also write a few words for you to recognize; what do you think?”

Yan Xiong laughed coldly, “Coming from you? What characters could I not recognize? Ridiculous!”

Shen Lang picked up the brush and dipped it in ink before writing many characters on the paper.

??? I ????.

?? Am ?????.

??? A ????.

???? Dumb*ss ???.

When he was done writing, Shen Lang asked, “Yan Xiong, which of these characters can you recognize? If you could recognize more than four of them, I’ll concede defeat.”

Yan Xiong looked at the characters and instantly felt dizzy. This… What are these words, ah…

However, there were some that he could clearly recognize, and he couldn’t help but read them out loud: “I am a dumb*ss1!”

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