Chapter 281: Asking For Guidance
Yanping City in the 1970s had more smoky scent compared to twenty years later, with everything waiting to be rebuilt, everyone feeling that life had hope, eyes sparkling with light in everything they did, all in a thriving posture.
It was much better than the social atmosphere three or four decades later, at least the people walking on narrow alleys and streets with sewage everywhere were all pursuing life, while under the gaudy lights and wine and tall buildings of future generations were all soulless walking dead driven by desire.
Even in Fang Mu’s eerie perspective, the people in this city were all rotting and changeable, but he felt they were more vital than himself, which made him feel liking and happy.
To understand a place’s culture, the more toward the city center of development, the lower the cultural level, but in this era… it was the opposite.
After abandoning the car he drove in the woods in the suburbs, Fang Mu walked into the city on foot, all the way to the city center, rested for a night, and then set off again.
“Sir, do you know where I can find Teacher Wang Zheng?” Fang Mu tidied himself up a bit, combed his hair shiny and smooth, although his clothes weren’t pretty, even somewhat torn, but overall he looked spirited, he stood tall with chest out when speaking, voice loud, and deliberately used a broadcasting tone to shout at the old gatekeeper on duty at the Yanping University door.
Fang Mu’s performance had a strong flavor of this era, plus his appearance didn’t look old to begin with, with a little dressing up, he looked even more like an active youth of this era.
The old man just glanced at Fang Mu and felt this person was very spirited, very safe, but still out of professional ethics asked: “What do you do?”
“I have a few questions about horse studies that I don’t understand, I heard Teacher Wang Zheng is extremely knowledgeable in this area, so I came specially to consult him!” Fang Mu’s eyes bright and piercing.
The old man nodded, clearly people like Fang Mu were quite common, waved his hand and said: “Come over for registration.”
“Alright!” Fang Mu shouted loudly, following behind.
After registration, the old man looked at the name Fang Mu filled in, read it out: “Fang Sen…”
“Here!”
“…No need to shout so loud, I’m not deaf.” The old man finally got tired of Fang Mu’s performance, felt a bit annoyed, hurriedly sent him off, saying, “You came at the right time, Teacher Wang just came back from lecturing the worker and peasant brothers outside today, he should be in the office preparing lessons now, just ask any student on the road, you’ll easily find him.”
Only then did Fang Mu drop his clumsy acting, smiled lightly: “Thanks.” Then he walked into the campus.
After some inquiring on the road, Fang Mu didn’t get the specific route, but ran into a group of like-minded students, somewhat bewilderedly got surrounded by this group of enthusiastic students, and went together to Wang Zheng’s office.
Wang Zheng’s office was indeed very conspicuous, on the first floor at the far right of the teaching building closest to the basketball court.
When they just arrived, they didn’t even need to knock, the door opened from inside, and coming face to face was a young woman in her early twenties with a honest face.
Fang Mu felt a bit dazed, staring at the other party who just came out of the office for a long while, the girl probably didn’t expect a handsome man to pay such attention to her, immediately blushed and ran away, not even responding to greetings from acquaintances.
“Little Wang came to bring food to your father again, hey.”
“Little Wang, go to the secretary when you have time, she has something for you!”
……
Everyone saw the girl run away shy and flustered, each stealing laughs and teasing.
Fang Mu shook his head secretly, thinking amusingly in his heart: Wang Ma more than twenty years ago was actually so innocent and naive, really don’t know how she turned into that bold and straightforward appearance later.
The honest-faced girl just now was exactly the nanny Fang Mu hired when he settled in Yanping City in his second life, just the young version, not yet fully grown into the auntie he was familiar with.
And the Wang Zheng he was looking for today was exactly Wang Ma’s father who once worked at Yanping University, teaching philosophy.
Being able to become her father’s daughter was probably the thing Wang Ma felt most glorious and fortunate in her life, when chatting idly with An Qin, she often talked about her father, always animatedly, but she always regretted that her father died too early, otherwise even if she had no prospects, her children could make something of themselves under her father’s guidance.
Today, Fang Mu who crossed spacetime finally had the chance to meet Wang Ma’s father in person.
Wang Zheng was sitting in the corner of the office, dressed similarly poorly to Fang Mu, but looked very spirited, wearing a pair of glasses, slim in appearance, refined and scholarly, completely unlike Wang Ma’s temperament, not even a bit similar.
The students who came with Fang Mu scrambled to talk and inquire with Wang Zheng, eager for knowledge, squeezing the innocent-faced Fang Mu to the wall.
Fang Mu was somewhat helpless, but chose to stand silently by the wall, until the class bell rang, the students reluctantly left the office.
By the time all students and teachers preparing for class had left, the office was left with just Fang Mu and Wang Zheng.
Wang Zheng finally noticed Fang Mu, somewhat surprised: “Eh, this…”
For Fang Mu, he seemed somewhat uncertain about the other’s age.
“I’m not a student.” Fang Mu immediately stepped forward, smiling as he introduced himself, “My name is Fang Sen, my father was once a soldier who gloriously sacrificed, I’m very curious about horse studies, always had some things I don’t understand, now came to Yanping, happened to hear others say you are very proficient, came specially to consult.”
Wang Zheng suddenly understood, after hearing Fang Mu’s identity, his gaze became even kinder and gentler, patiently said: “Don’t dare say proficient, but ask whatever you want.”
Fang Mu immediately consulted the other, Wang Zheng answered fluently.
Wang Zheng slowly noticed that the questions Fang Mu raised had depth, many not surface questions ordinary students would ask, but issues thought further, many questions he had to think carefully to answer, looking at Fang Mu again, his eyes already had a bit more unusual light.
However, soon Wang Zheng slowly found Fang Mu’s questions getting stranger, even somewhat anomalous, gradually touching “taboo areas”, even he was startled and repeatedly gestured hush to Fang Mu, then looked around, confirming no one in the surroundings.
Wang Zheng wasn’t a fool, at this point he also saw that Fang Mu not only had something on his mind, but came looking for trouble.
He lowered his voice, said gravely: “Who exactly are you? What exactly do you want to ask me?”
“Actually just a few simple questions.” Fang Mu looked at Wang Zheng with surprised gaze, his eye ability had lost control again, he saw Wang Zheng’s death as “unnatural death”.
This “unnatural” was not in the general sense, but specifically referring to death from special anomaly factors.
The currently displeased Wang Zheng still didn’t know, he would soon die an unnatural death, at death full of poisonous sores and pus, body swollen, tongue stuck out long, able to hang all the way from the mouth to the ground, just like a toad maliciously toyed to death by someone.
