Chapter 10
"Have you heard? Class 5 has two sleeping gods?"
"Hahaha, that's right, that's right. He can sleep a lot, you know? He can even fall asleep standing up... If the head teacher hadn't checked his breathing, we probably would have thought he was dead..."
People were talking about me on my way to school.
I almost blurted out, "I am but a humble man, the God of Sleep," but thankfully I'm socially awkward.
Fortunately, Wu Qi didn't hear it, otherwise I would have had to go up and ask if they wanted an autograph or something.
Wu Qi has been transferred here for a week.
She's completely adapted to the school schedule and has started competing with me to see who can sleep the most in class. What can I say? I can only say 6.
Occasionally, Meng Xiaoqiong would join the two of us, and the three of us would play cards near the Duke of Zhou's doorstep.
However, I always feel like I'm the one who's the landlord, because these two seem to be having some kind of improper relationship behind my back.
That day, after my PE class, Meng Xiaoqiong and I were walking back from playing basketball.
He didn't know how to play basketball before, but after coming to this world, he adapted to local customs and gradually learned to play the moves, and surprisingly, he was quite good at it. He told me that a coach had even taken a liking to him. I cursed him in my heart at that moment, thinking he was blind.
Meng Xiaoqiong held a bottle of Gatorade in her hand and presented it to Wu Qi while he was wiping his sweat.
I couldn't control myself at that moment, and my expression was even more shocked than Wu Qi's.
"For me?" Wu Qi asked.
"Yeah, otherwise who would I give it to?" Meng Xiaoqiong stammered, her face turning red again and again, before finally managing to squeeze out, "Hurry up and drink it, it'll get cold soon... oh no, I mean it won't be chilled anymore!"
This dialogue! This distance! This classic water delivery scene!
I was completely dumbfounded.
I almost went to check on Meng Xiaoqiong's marriage prospects and told her that this person was hopeless and not worth ruining.
But don't worry, Meng Xiaoqiong is the type to lose interest quickly. Didn't she have a crush on a sports student just a few days ago? It didn't work out; she thought he was too greasy, and they deleted each other after chatting for two and a half days.
To be fair, if she really liked Wu Qi, she probably wouldn't have lasted more than a few days...
Bar.
Meng Xiaoqiong snapped her fingers and jolted me awake. I jumped, "W-what's wrong?"
"What are you thinking about?" She pointed to the textbook on my desk. "We've already finished this part."
"Ah, oh."
I quickly flipped the page with my hamster.
Meng Xiaoqiong looked at me strangely, and I let her look at me, but I couldn't help feeling nervous.
I was even a little out of it. I read a paragraph three or four times, but my mind was still filled with Wu Qi and Meng Xiaoqiong. I couldn't understand what she saw in Wu Qi.
"Are you two just childhood sweethearts?" Meng Xiaoqiong asked.
I broke out in a cold sweat.
I don't understand why I'm so nervous. Then I realize I'm not having an affair with Wu Qi, so why am I so nervous?
I put on a nonchalant calm: "I can also be his father."
Meng Xiaoqiong was speechless.
After a moment, she suddenly laughed out loud: "Really? I thought you two were dating."
"How could I—"
I immediately jumped up, then, remembering I was in class, sheepishly sat back down, lowering my voice by three-tenths: "How could I possibly???"
Meng Xiaoqiong: "Then why are you so excited?"
"...Never mind that."
I turned my head away and listened attentively to the lesson, preparing to make the bystanders kneel and pay their respects.
As I listened, I realized something was off and blurted out to Meng Xiaoqiong, "Don't you like Wu Qi? Why do you suspect we're dating?"
"How could I—"
Meng Xiaoqiong's eyes widened, then she suddenly realized they were in class and plopped down in her seat. "How could I possibly steal your man???"
We held hands and looked at each other with tears in our eyes, and for a moment we couldn't even tune into the same channel.
The teacher on the podium probably thought we were playing a game of "carrot squat," and said, "Don't do useless things in class," before continuing with the PowerPoint presentation.
"Wait, wait..." Meng Xiaoqiong thought for a moment, "You don't think I brought him water because I like him, do you?"
Isn't that so?
"Bullshit!" Meng Xiaoqiong exclaimed, a little agitated. "That's because...because..."
"Why is it so difficult to ask a simple question?" I urged. "Why?"
Meng Xiaoqiong finally blurted out three words: "Because of you!"
I:"???"
"It's all because you became a god in one battle, and the teachers don't care about you in class anymore, they only catch me sleeping... Luckily Wu Qi came, he can sleep even more than you, so the teachers started catching him."
From the few sentences, I understood that Wu Qiyi was the one who started taking the blame, attracting the attention of the whole class who were dozing off, and the teacher only targeted him.
Meng Xiaoqiong, who escaped unscathed, felt guilty and had no choice but to buy a sports drink for this kind-hearted man surnamed Wu.
No wonder I felt Wu Qi was more popular; now I know why!
It was just a false alarm.
I breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that the matter was over. But two days later, I noticed that there was more and more water on Wu Qi's table.
There was Pulse, Nongfu Spring water, and a whole bunch of AD calcium supplements, all wrapped in a pink bow, like a gift stall.
I stood there dumbfounded in front of his table and asked Meng Xiaoqiong, "Are all of these gifts to repay a debt of gratitude?"
"Obviously not."
Meng Xiaoqiong thought for a moment, then called the class monitor over and pointed, "Bald Qiang, where did all this water come from?"
Bald Qiang's real name is Li Guangheng. He is called Bald Qiang probably because his hair is sparse.
This title was actually uttered by Meng Xiaoqiong, which has made Bald Qiang a sworn enemy of her.
“Where else could it be? My girlfriend, of course!” Li Guangheng said.
Meng Xiaoqiong was shocked: "Girlfriend???"
“That’s right.” Li Guangheng looked at the masterpiece on the table. “Haven’t you two heard of the ‘Fairy Peach Sisters’?”
I've actually heard of that.
As everyone knows, there are two beauties at Nancheng No.1 High School: Lin Xian'er from Class 1 and Jiang Taozi from Class 4. When the two stand together, they are so beautiful that they are known as the "Fairy Peach Sisters".
"It's said that these two are taking turns flirting with Wu Qi," Li Guangheng added. "Wu Qi is handsome, so it's normal for him to chat with her a bit on WeChat. These two are currently competing to see who can win Wu Qi over first."
He left after saying that, leaving Meng Xiaoqiong and me standing there, which was hard for anyone to believe.
It felt like half a century had passed before I spoke first: "Excuse me, what does 'flirting' mean?"
Meng Xiaoqiong mechanically explained it to me once more.
I remained frozen in place.
After most of the day had passed, Meng Xiaoqiong's reaction time finally returned to normal. "Wait a minute? I asked Brother Qi a few days ago, and he said he didn't even have a cell phone, so how could he have WeChat?"
When I heard that, I thought it made perfect sense.
Wu Qi has always looked down on human technology, which is understandable. Just like a modern person traveling to ancient times, someone with magic would only find technology clumsy.
Especially someone as lazy as Wu Qi, who's too lazy to even talk to me when he gets home, how could he possibly have time to flirt on his phone?
The more I thought about it, the more something seemed off, and I decided I had to ask him face to face. I held onto this thought until the last class ended, when Wu Qi got up and told me to go home.
"I'm leaving." He slung one shoulder over his shoulder.
"I……"
I chickened out on the spot.
How can I ask him that? What should I say if he admits it?
May you have a long and happy marriage?
Or should I have one of the Fairy Peach sisters?
Wu Qi raised an eyebrow, puzzled, and asked, "Oh what? Can't you talk?"
"..."
My anger spurred me on, but my courage returned: "I have something to ask you!"
Their attitude was extremely firm.
Wu Qi wasn't afraid at all. Hearing this, he took his bag off again, leaned against the table, and said, "Then hurry up and ask. The grilled cold noodles at the entrance will be sold out again soon. Don't get angry with me if you can't get any."
I:"……"
This moon spirit is absolutely not afraid; it's just that she wants to eat grilled cold noodles.
Twenty minutes later, I came out of the school gate carrying a steaming bowl of grilled cold noodles. The noodles were coated with egg and brushed with a layer of dark red sauce. The sausage next to it had been cut open, and all the meat was inside out.
I carefully picked up a piece with a bamboo skewer—it smelled so good, I could brag about this earthly delicacy for a thousand years.
Wu Qi witnessed the whole thing and chuckled, "Junk food, and someone is eating it with great relish."
“At least there’s a place in the world that I long for,” I said, completely absorbed in my grilled cold noodles, debating whether to eat the sausage or the noodles first, and blurted out, “It’s much better than you, unlike you, who’s always surrounded by two girls…”
I realized my mistake only after I said it.
The air suddenly fell silent.
After a while, Wu Qi suddenly stopped: "What two girls?"
"Well……"
I steeled myself, thinking that since I'd already said it, I might as well get to the bottom of it: "It's that 'Fairy Peach Sisters,' right? Aren't those two quite close to you lately?"
To Wu Qi's surprise, he was bewildered: "What 'immortal peach'?"
I said, "Those are the two who bring you water every day."
"Water? You mean the water on my desk?" Wu Qi frowned. "I thought someone had sent it to the wrong place and sent it all to the lost and found."
"..."
Listen to that, how kind of heart they are.
Shouldn't this be reported and the guy with the long face given a commendation?
Wu Qi: "So what's the deal with that 'Peach Brothers'?"
I was exasperated: "Their name is 'Fairy Peach Sisters,' and three out of four characters are wrong..."
I patiently explained it to him, perhaps embellishing a bit, saying that the two of them were completely infatuated with him, practically ready to debut and sing him a love song. I even very "helpfully" explained what "flirting" meant.
Unexpectedly, the more I talked, the darker Wu Qi's expression became, until he couldn't maintain his composure anymore and said seriously, "That's not true."
I rarely saw him with such a gloomy face, and I swallowed all the words I was about to say.
Wu Qi added in a low voice, "A-Yue, trust me."
The matter was dropped that very night. I was just curious and asked jokingly; I didn't want to upset Wu Qi.
I……
I've always believed in him.
But why was his first reaction to clarify things with me? Is it because I'm the matchmaker and have more experience in this area than he does?
However, if Wu Qi doesn't want to mention it, then he won't. Such unsubstantiated matters shouldn't be made a big deal out of nothing. Just treat it as a rumor, as if it were dog farting.
I kept my word and acted as if nothing had happened the next day. When Meng Xiaoqiong asked me, I explained my original words: "Nothing happened."
When I told him this, I avoided Wu Qi, afraid that he would be upset and secretly cry under the covers at night.
On that day, I became the wise man who turned a deaf ear to everything that happened outside the window, and I pretended to be deaf to everything that came to my ears.
But I never expected that after a normal day, my erratic behavior would suddenly turn out to be directed at Wu Qi.
He first skipped a self-study period, and no one knew what he did there. Then, as soon as the school bell rang, he broke into the classroom.
Before I could even pack my bag, he picked me up, bag and all, and shoved a bowl of grilled cold noodles into my hand: "Come with me."
"Wait a minute... no, wait!"
The whole class stared at us in silence, and I could only silently cover my face as he dragged and pulled me.
How embarrassing!
He walked up the stairs with the flow of people. Perhaps because he had a powerful aura as the God of Wealth, he even made room for us in the narrow stairwell.
Without stopping for a moment, he took me directly to the rooftop.
The last time I came here was with Yun Qi. My memories of this place aren't very pleasant. I instinctively tried to break free: "Wu Qi!"
"Don't move."
Wu Qi tightened his grip, inserting his index finger directly into the red string on my wrist and tapping the back of my hand to soothe me.
He placed me on a step, then sat on the step below. Below, the sounds of students leaving school were deafening, and the closest thing to the blue sky was our one-on-one seating arrangement.
I paused for a moment, then kicked him: "Are you crazy?"
“He’s not crazy.” Wu Qi’s hair was messed up by the wind, revealing a section of his forehead. “You eat the grilled cold noodles first. The first bowl that comes out of the stall is here.”
I asked again, "And what about you?"
Wu Qi: "I'm waiting to make things clear."
He didn't say anything more after I tried to explain, so I just held the grilled cold noodles in both hands and started eating, not caring that I would get a stomach full of wind.
A short while later, the iron gate to the rooftop creaked open.
I recognized the person as a newcomer and stopped chewing.
Two people arrived. One had her hair curled into doll curls, wore a large pink bow on her head, and had bright red lips, looking like she had stepped out of a comic book.
The other one had her hair tied in a high ponytail, her face was so white it looked unnatural, and she had bright, large eyes that anyone who looked at her for more than two seconds would probably fall for her.
Oh, these are the "Fairy Peach Sisters".
I glanced instinctively at the puddle on the ground—it had just rained last night, and my face instantly appeared on it.
It's not as good as it.
I lowered my eyes, feeling a little lost for some reason.
The two walked over awkwardly, and when I looked closer, I realized that their school uniform pants had been altered to be slimmer, making their legs look long and straight.
"Qi-ge...you asked us to come to the rooftop during self-study period..."
Is something the matter?
This month, the fortune teller is amazing again. Although they said that, I heard them both say "Pick me, pick me" in unison, along with three exclamation marks.
I took a big bite of grilled cold noodles.
It turns out that Wu Qi went to see the two of them during self-study period. He was just passing by when he brought me food!
Wu Qi: "Oh, it's nothing. I just wanted to let you know that I wasn't the one chatting with you these past few days."
Cough! Cough cough cough cough.
"I choked on a chili powder," that's way too blunt! Does this guy surnamed Wu have any emotional intelligence?!
The bow looked bewildered: "Ah...didn't you come here for a date with me...?"
Wu Qi smirked and pointed at me: "You bring a third wheel on your date?"
I:"……"
This is the first time I've ever been a third wheel this month.
Wu Qi coldly replied, "I don't have a cell phone, I don't even have an ID card. Don't come back next time. Did you even bother to ask around? Do you think I can't even afford to buy water?"
The bow was stunned: "How could this be?"
The girl with the high ponytail was also confused: "Just a few days ago, you were saying you needed money to buy sneakers..."
Upon hearing this, Wu Qi and I exchanged a glance across the distance.
Wu Qi's expression hardened: "You transferred money again?"
Overwhelmed by this imposing aura, the girl with the high ponytail cried out, "It spun... seven hundred times..."
Seeing this, the bow tie confessed: "I... I also transferred it... Bye-bye."
...
My first reaction: Awesome.
My second thought: They're both high school students, how come they're so rich?
The two girls left crying, having thought that at least one of them would find a boyfriend after their trip, but instead they ended up losing both their money and their partner.
Wu Qi probably didn't expect that just wanting to speak his mind would lead to him getting a job.
He asked for the fake "Wu Qi" WeChat account, wrote it on my palm with a ballpoint pen, admired it for a moment, and then suddenly smiled helplessly.
He asked me what I thought.
What can you say? You can only say that the swindler was incredibly unlucky.
Why borrow Wu Qi's name of all people?
They managed to swindle money from the God of Wealth...
"I can't say."
As I finished the last bite of my grilled cold noodles, I said frankly, "I can only say I was asking for trouble. [Unclear - possibly a brand name] mosquito repellent—it was the perfect match for my expertise."
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