Before taking his vacation, Gu Mingyuan applied for further study at Capital University, intending to obtain a doctorate degree during his retirement years.
School will start soon.
Whether he is an ancient noble with a profound family background or the commander of the Exploration Army with outstanding military achievements in the Empire...
Gu Mingyuan has the right to treat the school as his playground.
The kind that does whatever they want.
Even the professor himself did not expect that Gu Mingyuan would come to visit him specially.
Mu Le followed Gu Mingyuan into a western-style house.
Coming out to greet them was a small spherical household robot.
The robot led them to the door of the room, opened it, and left on its own initiative.
This is a very large study room - you can even say it is a library.
There are tall bookshelves standing in the room.
There are several sofas in the corner, and next to the sofas is a not-so-large desk with a pile of books on it.
The owner of the villa was sitting on the sofa.
When he saw Gu Mingyuan, he immediately stood up and walked over in two steps, his tail swaying slowly behind him. He smiled gently and held out his hand to Gu Mingyuan: "General Gu, I have heard a lot about you."
Mu Le looked at him curiously.
The professor was wearing a white shirt with a knitted vest over it and looked to be in his early thirties.
The professor has short, slightly curly blond hair and a pair of ears of the same color drooping on his head.
Mule is thinking...
Is he a golden retriever or a labrador
Just as she was thinking about this question, Gu Mingyuan and Professor Lu had finished their greetings.
Professor Lu glanced at her and asked gently, "Is this little friend the one you mentioned before you came?"
"Yeah." Gu Mingyuan hid her behind him, "She's very well behaved."
Before coming, Gu Mingyuan had already told Professor Lu about the situation, but he only said that he had a young cub at home and he was worried about leaving it at home, so he wanted to keep the cub with him.
Professor Lu readily agreed.
Gu Mingyuan took another look at Professor Lu's bookshelves and asked, "Professor, do you have any children's books here?"
Professor Lu laughed and said, "I have a son who is about the same height as him."
Professor Lu is a large dog, and the average height of an adult male is 1.9 meters.
His son was about the same height as Mu Le, and was actually just over six years old.
He found a few children's books from the table.
As expected, Mu Le held the book and sat obediently on the sofa in the corner to read.
Gu Mingyuan and Professor Lu went to the other side to discuss things.
Mu Le had just opened the book in his hand when he suddenly heard a rustling sound.
She touched her ear.
Two seconds later, I could clearly hear a laugh.
Mu Le: “…” It’s really a ghost.
She closed the book, and the tiny sounds immediately disappeared.
Mu Le opened the book again, and then he heard a little boy's curse: "You annoying bastard, don't turn the pages of my book so rudely."
Mu Le was surprised and asked in a very low voice: "... Can you understand what I am saying?"
soon.
She saw a little boy appear in the book.
The little boy stood in the middle of the pages, holding his head high and looking very proud: "Of course, I am a spirit that lives in books. What language can't I learn?"
Mu Le: "...Can they all see you?"
The little boy rolled his eyes at her: "Do I look like such an ordinary demon spirit?"
Mu Le: “…”
Quite similar.
Like there's one in every book.
"Only orcs who have been touching and loving books every day for decades can see me... uh." The little boy paused for a moment, then continued, "... and perhaps humans."
Mu Le probably understood.
This world is already a high-tech world, and there are not many real books.
Unlike the Earth she originally lived on.
Although she seldom read paper books after graduation, she had homework starting from kindergarten and continued doing it until graduation from college. Didn't she touch books every day for more than ten years
After graduation, I draw illustrations and create fan fiction... I also touch my works every day.
Well, if fan fiction can be considered books.
So she has been touching books every day for more than twenty years.
"I have no other reason to talk to you," the little boy said, "I am not lonely at all."
Mu Le: “…”
Isn't it just that you feel lonely because there is no one to chat with
"You are so amazing." Mu Le asked him, "Can you help me learn the language of this planet? I am having a hard time now. I can't understand anything every day..."
The little boy raised his head: "Of course I can."
Mu Le was deeply moved.
The next second, the little boy said, "Then let's start learning from the phonetic notation of the interstellar language."
Mu Le's feeling of being touched disappeared immediately.
"Isn't there that kind of magic?" Mu Le lowered his voice, "There are magic elves, but there is no magic!"
The demon blushed and stammered: "What magic elf? I am not..."
Mu Le covered his face.
She really didn't want to learn a new language.
Mu Le admits that he does not have a particularly high talent for languages. It turns out that he spent too much time learning languages when he was living on Earth.
She used to spend a lot of her extracurricular time learning Japanese, and after learning it, she enjoyed reading those fan fictions that had not yet been translated.
Later, in order to go to higher education, I racked my brains to learn English.
It was not until I registered for the college entrance examination that I found out that I could choose Japanese as the language of the exam.
This experience left Mu Le with a psychological trauma about language learning.
"You don't have anything else to do anyway." The little boy sat cross-legged among the books. "It's never a bad thing to learn more."
Mu Le: “…Woo.”
Okay, okay.
Anyway, there is no need to take an exam, so just give up if you don’t want to study!
Mu Le thought for a moment and said to the little boy, "But this book is not mine. I will return it later."
"Then sign a contract with me." The little boy stood up again. "Although the demon spirits serve the orcs... but humans, they should not be much different, right?"
Mu Le: “…”
Sign a contract.
It also feels like a very bad thing.
The two kids here were whispering and discussing their "contract", and the adults over there had also finished their discussion.
Mu Le pointed her index fingers at the little demon spirit and signed the contract, then let the demon spirit hide in her right "ear" first.
She saw Gu Mingyuan walking towards her, and she obediently put the book in her hand on the coffee table in front of her. She jumped off the sofa, ran to Gu Mingyuan, stretched out her little hand and took his hand.
Gu Mingyuan was stunned for just a moment before his little finger was grabbed by someone.
He lowered his head, his expression softened slightly, and asked in a gentle voice, "Want to go home?"
Mu Le didn't understand, so she could only smile at him foolishly.
Anyway, when humans keep pets and talk to them, they never think about what the pets can say in return.
Gu Mingyuan said goodbye to Professor Lu and took the child home.
…
The next morning, Mr. Peacock came to visit them again.
But this time it was Gu Mingyuan who took the initiative to ask for help and asked Mr. Peacock to help.
When Kong Hean came in, he was followed by an exceptionally tall, brown-haired middle-aged man.
He has a gentle appearance, looks very honest and kind, and has a pair of round ears on his head.
Mu Le guessed that he might be a bear.
She guessed right.
Bai Yan is a brown bear.
He had a good temper and greeted Gu Mingyuan in a warm manner.
"This is Mr. Bai, you should know him." Kong Hean introduced him to Gu Mingyuan. "Your brother was also in his first grade class."
Bai Yan paused for less than a second before he immediately recalled: "Ah... You are Gu Mingzhou's brother?"
Gu Mingyuan nodded: "My brother likes you very much."
"Thank you for the compliment." Bai Yan smiled naively, "Your brother is so smart, and the teachers like him very much."
The adults exchanged pleasantries for a long time before getting down to business.
Gu Mingyuan pulled Mu Le, who was hiding behind him, out a little and introduced her, "We want to ask Teacher Bai to see if our child can go to the kindergarten..."
Mu Le poked half of his head out from behind him and looked at Bai Yan.
The mold for the dragon horns that Gu Mingyuan customized had already been made, and a pair of trial pieces were sent over first.
Like the previous cat ears, they are worn directly on the head.
She now looks like a student of kindergarten age.
The race is that of ancient dragons.
"Mr. Kong has already explained the situation before we came. There is no problem." Bai Yan said with a smile, "Is the kid a little shy?"
Mu Le understood the word "shy" and nodded obediently.
She saw Bai Yan take out a small machine from his pocket, and after some operation, the machine unfolded a light screen.
… turned out to be a test paper.
Mu Le had already learned how to write numbers on this planet, and could easily tell that this was a math test paper.
And all the questions on the test paper are addition and subtraction within ten.
Mu Le: “…”
I feel like my intelligence has been insulted.
She sat at the table doing the test paper, and Bai Yan was beside her.
Mu Le didn't notice that while she was carefully filling in the addition and subtraction within ten, Gu Mingyuan and Kong Hean quietly retreated.
As he walked out of the room, Gu Mingyuan's worry was almost written on his face.
Kong Hean wagged his tail and said with a smile, "This is the first time I've heard of someone sending their pet to school. How fresh."
If it was just a test of math ability, Gu Mingyuan could just pick some questions for Mu Le to do.
Doing the questions is secondary.
The main thing is to find a teacher and get in touch with Mu Le.
On the surface, the teacher was asked to help judge whether Mu Le was suitable to go to school.
The actual situation is - to see if Mu Le can accept a strange teacher.
That's why he and Kong Hean withdrew.
Leaving Bai Yan and Mu Le alone in the room.
If she was afraid or unwilling, Gu Mingyuan would immediately give up the idea of sending her to school.
"Don't worry, Bai Yan is a very good teacher, and he will be my cousin's homeroom teacher next semester." Kong Hean tried to comfort Gu Mingyuan, "It's a pity that we don't have any familiar teachers from the kindergarten or elementary school... The first grade of junior high school is already the lowest."
The two adults were as anxious as if they were outside the intensive care unit.
What they didn't expect was that the children in the house were not afraid at all.
Not only was he not afraid, he even stumbled over the few words he had just learned and started chatting with Mr. Brown Bear.