Years passed, the village has now started to develop more, even the school has now developed to a much larger school and got more teachers.
Xu Ning being the more experienced teacher taught some tips to the new teachers around.
To which the school now became known as a very famous school that produced more geniuses than the largest school, Thundering Roar school.
Now that the school was acknowledged, Mr. Fan could give the school a name, he then thought of Xu Ning who was the core of the school and named it the Golden Fierce Hound school.
Mr. Fan even repainted the school to a white and yellow theme.
He even made a statue of a majestic hound to commemorate Xu Ning.
Xu Ning was very flustered at the name and changes of the school.
The one day, while he was teaching as usual the bell for break time came around and the kids were overjoyed and quickly went to play or eat.
Xu Ning then left the class momentarily to go to the temple to grab some material that was left behind in his now renovated room.
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A few years ago, Xu Ning as usual was in his rotting room cell sleeping, until he was awoken by his best friend, Taoist monk, Ji Yan for important news.
"My dear brother! I have important good news"
Xu Ning woke up tiredly as he looked at Ji Yan.
"What is it?.. "
Ji Yan then showed a magic punch that could store a lot.
Xu Ning inspected it and looked inside.
He felt something hard but polished, and it had a round shape.
He then took it out and saw a gold coin.
Xu Ning was shocked at the shining gold coin before his hand that was worth more than his salary even if he worked his butt off.
Ji Yan was happy and gave the pouch to him.
Xu Ning was pretty confused as to why he gave the pouch.
"Why did you give me the pouch? You should keep it! It will be your future funds for renovating the temple! "
"Who knows what I might do with this! I could buy a lot of food and spent it all! "
To which Ji Yan only shook his head.
"No need, we already have enough funds, tomorrow renovation will happen, your room too, I am very sorry for the rotting room.. "
"No worries but what do you mean you have enough funds, and even enough to buy high quality vegetables?"
"Haha, my dear brother, we were given a donation of 3 punches filled with golden coins to the brim! "
"We were excited, we can use the first pouch for renovation funds, and the second for food funds, and this one was especially noted for you! "
"Wow! Seems like I have a fan don't I? "
Ji Yan laughed.
He then took out a note from his sleeves and gave it to Xu Ning.
Xu Ning opened the note see a letter for him.
' Dear, Xu Ning, I am very interested in meeting you one day, when I saw you, I knew you were the one I wanted to cherish and protect. And now that I am powerful, I will give you everything you want, including this gift of mine to help with your hunger. '
The note ended without a single mention or name of a person who gave him the pouch.
Xu Ning was clearly dumbfounded and confused on some parts of the letter, like how did the person know he had an insatiable hunger, only people in the village who interacted with him knew he had an insatiable hunger, like Ah Yen.
And how did the person even know his real name, Xu Ning instead of addressing him as Gou. Only people from the Xu family or from the capital knew about it, and how did they even know where he is.
He is utterly confused. But he saves the note in the pouch and asks for further details on the donation.
Ji Yan then narrated the donation.
"While I was as usual sweeping the gates, I saw a very tall handsome man, he was cloaked and wore black from bottom to top, he looked like an master cultivator but the thing is he looked very young, most master cultivators are already old. He then have me three pouches, he even pointed towards two pouch for the temple to use and one for you. We even inspected and inside it was all gold coins, we toalled the amount of coins and saw yours were even more than for the temple but even so we are still grateful towards the man.
Xu Ning was pretty happy he had more but was questioning who the identity of the fully black cloaked master cultivator is.
Thought he couldn't think of anyone besides Ah Yen who used to dream of becoming a cultivator.
He felt confused but accepted it and saved his money for later.
He then talked about the renovation with Ji Yan.
Then a few months later, the renovation for the temple and his room on the backyard was done.
Xu Ning saw his room, it looked simple but inside the interior resembled the Xu family's iconic design, a lot of it were all fancy and simple at the same time.
And the part that he loved was that was in the office, was a large window that showed the scenery of everything outside.
He was overjoyed and quickly placed all his belongings while the monks outside went to clean up.
•••
As he looked at the large window showing the scenery of the village, he grabbed some books and question sheets for the kids to answer.
Then suddenly while walking back he heard a commotion outside the city gates.
He went to check, seeing a large crowd cheering and happily screaming a familiar name he longed to see.
" Ah Yen!! " the crowd shouts happily.
A tall handsome young man, came in the city gate, his face looked cold, a scar was seen around his right eye, his emerald green eye felt familiar and comforting.
And something he noticed was that he was cloaked in all black, his cloak and robe was black although there was a noticeable accent of gold, he had a sword around his waist. Then he saw a lapis brouch around the chest.
He secretly looked at him amongst the crowd, he only silently watched. He didn't know how to confront and ask Ah Yen.
Suddenly, Ah Yen stopped in his track, he looked towards where Xu Ning was but he was hidden among the villagers who were in front of him.
Then he continued walking somewhere.
Xu Ning at that moment hold his breath.
He then snapped out of it and went to go to the school to continue teaching.
He ran to the school with a somewhat flushed face.