The little dumpling put down the book box, slowly stood up, and looked at Mu Yanxiu blankly.

What did Zhou Xueguan just say?

The little dumpling looked at Mu Yanxiu with a questioning gaze.

Mu Yanxiu mouthed, "No pets allowed!"

The little dumpling chimed in, "We can't be idiots!"

A thunderous burst of laughter erupted in the classroom.

Mu Yanxiu covered her face, looking as if to say, "Oh my god, my little aunt's hearing is terrible."

The little dumpling knew she had answered wrong, and cautiously peeked at Zhou Xueguan.

Zhou Xueguan's face darkened. "I just said no pets! You're already daydreaming on the first day of school. You stand here and listen!"

The little dumpling breathed a sigh of relief; thank goodness, it wasn't a ruler.

Zhou Xueguan continued reciting the rules, while the little dumpling stood and looked at Zhou Xueguan.

She was so busy playing with Qiuqiu that she didn't even notice that Zhou Xueguan's face seemed different from yesterday!

On her originally fair and smooth face, small black dots seemed to have appeared. The dots were small and light in color, and not very noticeable.

The little dumpling only noticed because there were so many of them.

After class, the little girl asked Mu Yanxiu to look after Qiuqiu first, then ran out of the school and caught up with Zhou Xueguan.

"Zhou Xueguan, wait a minute." The little dumpling called out to her.

"What do you need?" Zhou Xueguan asked, turning around.

The little dumpling pointed at Zhou Xueguan's face and said:

"Zhou Xueguan, what are those little black spots on your face?"

Zhou Xueguan touched his face. "Small black spots? What small black spots?"

Little dumpling: "It's all those black dots on your face."

Oh? Did she get freckles?

Zhou Xueguan panicked and quickly took out a bronze mirror from his pocket, carefully looking at his face.

"Where are the little black spots? You scared me." After confirming that he didn't have any spots, Zhou Xueguan put away the bronze mirror.

“Yes, there are a lot on your face! And their color has darkened a bit!” the little dumpling said confidently.

As Zhou Xueguan walked towards his room, he said:

"I just looked in the mirror, and there are no black spots at all! Why do you keep saying there are? Are you trying to trick me?"

The little dumpling shook its head and said, "No, I really saw it!"

Zhou Xueguan opened the door, walked to the desk, sat down, and looked at himself in a larger mirror.

Her face in the mirror was as smooth as snow, without any of the little black spots the girl had mentioned!

Zhou Xueguan waved his hand at the little dumpling with displeasure.

"It's not right for someone so young to lie. Get out of here!"

"If you keep talking nonsense, I'll make you copy the lesson notes as punishment!"

Seeing that Zhou Xueguan didn't believe her, the little dumpling could only leave dejectedly.

After the little dumpling left, Zhou Xueguan carefully looked in the mirror again, examining himself from all angles to make sure there were no small black spots before he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"How annoying, they have to point out the small black spots on my face."

Zhou Xueguan took out the skin as white as snow from the drawer.

Although there were no black spots, Zhou Xueguan still felt very uncomfortable when people commented on her face, so she quickly applied some more Skin Snow to her face.

The little dumpling returned to the school and wanted to tell Qiuqiu about it.

But as soon as she returned to her seat, she discovered that Mu Yanxiu was gone, and Qiuqiu was gone too!

The little dumpling looked around but found that Mu Yanxiu and Qiuqiu were not in the school.

Not only that, Zhuang Yueyue and Chi Yuning have also disappeared, and even Meng Fei has vanished.

The little boy quickly grabbed the girl sitting in the first row and asked, "Did you see where Meng Fei and Mu Yanxiu went just now?"

The girl in the first row shook her head, but then seemed to remember something and said, "Meng Fei seems to have a stomachache and went to the toilet. Mu Yanxiu seems to have gone out with Chi Yuning."

It seems the three of them weren't together.

Thinking about Chi Yuning's sudden change in attitude that morning, the little dumpling felt that something was wrong and quickly ran out to find them.

...

Inside the outhouse, Meng Fei pulled up her pants and reached out to push the door open and leave.

But she discovered that the door seemed to have been locked from the outside, and she couldn't open it no matter how hard she tried.

"Is anyone there? I can't open this door. Can anyone help me?" Meng Fei called out.

But the next second, instead of a reply, she was doused with a bucket of cold water, which chilled her to the bone.

"ah!"

Meng Fei screamed in fright.

Hearing Meng Fei's pitiful voice, Zhuang Yueyue hugged herself with great satisfaction.

She winked at the woman next to her, signaling her to pour another basin of water.

The woman dressed as a servant then picked up another basin of water and poured it over the top.

Meng Fei screamed again, and Zhuang Yueyue laughed happily, handing a silver ingot to the woman.

Zhuang Yueyue felt it was a great deal that Meng Fei was drenched twice with just one silver ingot.

"Shut your mouth, don't tell anyone about this!" Zhuang Yueyue said to the woman.

She couldn't afford to provoke the little dumpling, but bullying a carpenter's daughter was more than enough for her.

Soaked to the bone, Meng Fei heard footsteps fading away outside the door. Trembling, she pounded on the door and cried out, "Help! Is there anyone who can help me?"

But the door was locked, and no matter how hard Mengfei pushed, she couldn't open it. It was quiet all around, and no one answered her.

Meng Fei gripped the door and cried out in fear. She didn't notice that a long, colorful, centipede-like worm was crawling rapidly toward her hand on the door.

It wasn't until a tingling, numb pain shot through her hand that Meng Fei looked up and saw a long, multi-legged worm crawling on her hand.

She was startled and quickly flung the worm away.

Immediately afterwards, a numbing sensation spread from her fingers to Meng Fei's entire body.

In a dizzying moment, Meng Fei collapsed to the ground, feeling faint.