Chapter 5
In the following week, Li Yang experienced firsthand what kind of frost the wilted winter melon had experienced.
Lu Xiaoguo is not only talkative, but also a lover of girl literature. He is proficient in using the quotations of overbearing CEOs, and enjoys torturing others by occasionally blurting out a sentence in a neurotic manner.
No one could get away with that mouth of hers.
Including Zhou Du. But Zhou Du's daily routine was abnormal and disorderly. He was rarely seen during the day and his door was always closed.
So the only victim was Li Yang.
Li Yang tried to escape, but failed.
A romantic novel that has been played publicly on Lu Xiaoguo's audiobook app is:
He ran away, she chased him, and he couldn't escape even if he had wings.
If they fail to meet, Lu Xiaoguo will make even more extreme expressions:
Are you hiding from me? .jpg
Is this playing hard to get?
Very good, I like it.jpg
Li Yang blocked him silently, but since they lived under the same roof, Lu Xiaoguo could always catch him a few times.
By the end of August, several teachers had returned to the kindergarten, and Lu Xiaoguo decisively shifted his target.
The fire damage was shared, giving Li Yang some breathing space.
After the teachers were driven crazy by Lu Xiaoguo's Tang Monk-like nagging and literary quotes from girls, they looked at Zhou Du with an unspeakable expression: "How long has her symptoms lasted?"
"On the first day of summer vacation, I listened to a novel called "One Child, Seven Treasures: A Warm Marriage and Sweet Love." Zhou Du had just gotten out of bed and was making coffee.
"...Can't you take care of it? He was already seriously ill, and now he's even crazier."
This was unfair to Zhou Du. Zhou Du had ordered Lu Xiaoguo to stop being disgusting, and to deduct 200 yuan for saying it, but Lu Xiaoguo cited the labor law and said he could not deduct money.
It's not that I don't care, it's that I don't control it. Li Yang thought so at the dining table.
"You're just too idle. Everything will be fine once school starts and you're busy." Wu Qian, a teacher in one of the Tai Chi classes, gave Lu Xiaoguo a diagnosis.
The teachers have good relationships with each other and are willing to tolerate their colleagues' crazy behavior.
"Is everyone back?" Wu Qian counted the number of people and found a new face behind Zhou Du who was sitting at the bar.
A clean and innocent young man, with black hair, fair skin and rosy complexion. The oversized white T-shirt and black sports pants seemed too loose on him, but he looked very comfortable in them, adding a sense of youthful weariness to his whole person.
That face looks...angry, yet quite delicate.
"Boss, is this your relative's child coming here to visit during the summer vacation?" Wu Qian looked at the man with the same superior appearance and could only think so.
"No, no, this is the new school bus driver hired by our kindergarten." Lu Xiaoguo took the opportunity to introduce them to each other.
Wu Qian and others: “?”
I don't understand.
With this face, isn't debuting as an idol any better than being a driver?
Li Yang answered their doubts: "Being a trainee is too busy, there is no time for part-time work, and there is no social security for you."
“…”
Thanks, I'm even more confused.
"How old are you?" a male teacher with a crew cut asked him.
Li Yang had actually just gotten up not long ago and was rubbing his messy hair.
It looks plush and feels good.
Several teachers felt a little itchy.
He opened his mouth to reply and a cup of hot milk was placed in front of him.
"Nineteen years old, still old enough to grow taller." Zhou Du sat down opposite him and raised his chin to signal him: "After you finish drinking, go to the vehicle management office and drive the school bus back."
"I'll go now." Li Yang pushed the cup away with a cold face, got up and went out.
His height developed very well, and two years ago he jumped to 181cm, only half a head shorter than Zhou Du.
Lu Xiaoguo explained to the other teachers: "Don't worry, Li Yang is quite young but has a complete driver's license and can even drive a tractor!"
“…”
*
It was already 4:30 in the afternoon when Li Yang picked up the car from the vehicle management office. There were many people returning home from get off work on the road.
The eye-catching orange-yellow school bus was stuck in a busy section of the city. Lu Xiaoguo called and asked him to go to the East City Bus Terminal to pick up the last teacher who had not returned to the school.
"I'll send you the teacher's number. Contact him when you get there."
Li Yang responded and turned right at the next intersection and got onto the overpass.
When they arrived at the station, the sky had already darkened. Li Yang dialed the teacher's number. A hurried male voice came from the other end of the line: "Wait for me five more minutes, right away." Then he hung up.
Li Yang stopped opposite the ticket office and sat in the school bus waiting for someone.
Five minutes later, a chubby man in a gray-blue Taoist robe came out of the station. He was carrying a cloth bag on his back and had tied his long hair into a bun with a thin wooden stick.
He held a selfie stick in his right hand, and colorful gift effects and netizens' comments kept floating across the screen of his phone.
The man saw his school bus and walked over to it while saying to his phone, "Brothers, I need to get off the air. My company sent a car to pick me up."
"I didn't fight a ghost. I just performed it to the air for you to see. It was just to make you believe in science."
"Please tell the old viewers and newcomers that I don't sell talismans. The content of my live broadcast is all acting and promoting materialism."
"There aren't so many ghosts in the world. If you're really scared, just buy a collection of Marxist philosophy and put it on the bedside. It will be useful for dealing with all kinds of monsters and demons!"
"Thanks for the reward from the leaderboard! I'm here to do a split for you!"
The fat man who walked to the car door suddenly did the splits flexibly.
Li Yang: “…”
I pressed a button on the control panel and the automatic door slowly opened.
The fat Taoist priest turned off the live broadcast, put away his selfie stick and got in the car. When he saw the boy, his round face showed a wonderful and vivid expression: "Hey, so you are the new driver? How interesting."
The fat man was called Liang Tang. His Taoist robe was dirty, with mud stains on the hem, and his face was covered in dust. It looked like he had traveled to many places.
Liang Tang did travel a long way. This summer he traveled to several provinces and cities, including a small border town in the southwest.
He spent half of the trip on foot and half on hitchhiking, and every fellow traveler who was with him for a short time called him Fatty Liang.
Fatty Liang met Li Yang on the way to the small town in the southwest.
The small town is rich in mineral resources, but there is a mine among them. Not many people are willing to use the dirt road that is used to transport ore because of many strange things and frequent traffic accidents.
The miners had planned to build a new route a few years ago, but accidents occurred frequently and the plan was eventually abandoned. They had to continue using the old route. The remuneration of the freight masters in sports cars is twice as high as that of other mines.
But still few people dare to do so, unless they are really brave, or so short of money that they are willing to sacrifice their lives.
Li Yang was in charge of daily material transportation at the time. He was stopped by Fatty Liang on the roadside, paid for the gas and got on the back of the truck.
Fatty Liang just wanted to find out what was causing trouble on the mountain, and what could have dazzled the experienced driver in broad daylight.
As a result, I got into Li Yang's car and had a safe journey.
After going up the mountain, Fatty Liang wandered around and reported what he saw to the Taoist Association. At night, he took a ride with Li Yang going down the mountain. He sat in the passenger seat on the night road and watched the spirits that floated over one after another under the high beams and wanted to scare people being smashed to pieces by Li Yang.
Fatty Liang: So fierce.
He was not sure whether Li Yang could see those things or not, because the car had been driving normally. It was not so much that Li Yang hit the spirit, but rather that they were hitting themselves, trying to scare people and harm them, but they did not expect to actually hit them.
He can repel evil spirits without any help. Not to mention that he is born with a Taoist bone, he is also a good candidate for practicing Taoism, right?
Fatty Liang observed Li Yang excitedly, but apart from the fact that his yang energy was stronger than that of ordinary people, he couldn't see anything special about him.
He asked casually, "Little brother, when were you born?"
As soon as the car stopped, Li Yang said coldly: "Get out."
We have reached the foot of the mountain. There is a cement road ahead. Fatty Liang stopped the car here.
He looked at the small village with lights on not far away and said, "Have you ever heard of sending a Buddha to the west?"
"It's not on the way, just walk there by yourself."
The fat Taoist priest was driven out of the car, and as soon as the door was closed, the truck drove away towards the town.
*
"How did you become a school bus driver?" Fatty Liang sat in the first row, taking up two and a half seats for the kids. "You're still from our kindergarten. Fate, wonderful! All dharmas are empty, they come as fate dictates. When they arise, they stay. When they arise, they gather."
Why does this Taoist priest speak in a Zen-like tone?
The orange school bus drove into the kindergarten, and when Fatty Liang came back, everyone was there, and they held a brief meeting on the spot.
Director Zhou probably didn't care about anything and didn't even show up. The whole process was presided over by Lu Xiaoguo.
"The day after tomorrow is September 1st, and the kindergarten will open. In order to smoothly welcome the children back to the kindergarten, the tasks of disinfecting and cleaning various areas, collecting teaching materials, and arranging the new environment must be completed in the next two days." After assigning everyone's work, Lu Xiaoguo clapped his hands, "The children can grow up healthily in safe and clean sanitary conditions and receive education happily in a brand new warm environment. All of this is inseparable from the efforts of all teachers!"
At least at this moment, the Yangjian Zhengdao Sapling Kindergarten looks like a normal kindergarten.
"Okay, meeting adjourned!"
Fatty Liang was finally able to return to his room to put his luggage down and take a shower, but was stopped by Lu Xiaoguo again.
"Teacher Liang, can you draw a talisman for Li Yang to keep him safe?"
Fatty Liang glanced at Li Yang and asked, "Do you want to use it?"
"Need not."
Fatty Liang nodded, turned around and went upstairs.
"?" Lu Xiaoguo followed and walked around Fatty Liang to ask, "Why don't you use it? Driving a school bus is so dangerous!"
The voices gradually faded away. It was unknown what Liang Tang said, but soon Lu Xiaoguo came back to look for Li Yang.
She looked apologetic. "I was afraid you might be scared, so I planned to give you enough security before telling you, but you don't seem to need that... that is, you really only need to drive the school bus, but... I don't know if you've noticed that our kindergarten is a little special..."
Li Yang didn't know whether he should politely reply: No, you did a good job of keeping it secret, and it was almost exposed on the first day.
"Because of this special job, your job also carries a bit of danger. You may encounter some unnatural phenomena on the way to pick up children, such as auditory hallucinations, a voice in your ear telling you to crash the car or the railing, or you may see something and get scared and almost have an accident."
"You may also be in a state of mental control, with your mind full of thoughts of causing an accident. You think it's your own thoughts, but it's not."
"Every driver in the past has encountered such dangerous things, so most of them can't do the job for long. The kindergarten has to change drivers almost every semester." Lu Xiaoguo felt a little troubled when he said this. This meant that they had to spend time screening and recruiting people every winter and summer vacation. After finally finding a suitable one, they had to explain the situation. Some people couldn't accept it and refused, so they had to start all over again.
"In fact, with the presence of a driver, the driver's personal safety can be guaranteed. No real accidents have ever happened. It's just that he's not in a good mental state, prone to insomnia, dreaming, palpitations, hair loss... But Teacher Liang said that you used to drive freight on a mountain road with particularly bad feng shui, and you relied on your yang energy to dissuade countless demons and ghosts, so you can be said to be immune to all evil!"
"I recruited you because you have a lot of Yang in your horoscope. However, according to Teacher Liang, you should be a pure Yang man, and no bad things can get close to you... Oh, I'm sorry, I looked at your horoscope without your consent, but I only took the date of birth on your ID card and roughly calculated it, and there is no specific time..."
"Anyway, I'll have to thank you for your hard work in the future. I believe you can escort our little friend safely!"
Li Yang roughly understood what was said and nodded.
Hmm? Just huh?
The fixed plot in previous years is that the other party’s worldview is impacted, and he is shocked and steps back, shouting, “I don’t believe it!”
But this time, even the prepared reply draft has not been reviewed yet?
Lu Xiaoguo was immediately anxious and tried to CUE back to the process: "Do you have anything you want to ask? Or do you need some time to digest it? After all, this is quite unbelievable, right?"
"No. You've said enough."
"Aren't you curious why the kindergarten doesn't just ask someone else to drive the school bus, or the teachers themselves?" Teacher Guoguo made her last struggle, her face full of "ask me, ask me, I'll tell you, it doesn't matter who comes, Taoist priests and monks can't hold the steering wheel to exorcise evil spirits, it's best to suppress it directly with someone with a lot of evil spirits! For example, the master of the slaughterhouse! The boss who used to run a meat stall in the vegetable market!
Li Yang looked at her strangely, "If this happens, I will be out of work." So why was he curious about this question? Besides, the decision to choose an outsider should be made by them after careful consideration. No one else should interfere.
"Then do you want to know if those drivers spread the news about this kindergarten after they left?" No! They signed a confidentiality agreement! Even if they secretly talked about it online, it would be 404 in a second! It's not a mysterious power from the East, it's just someone behind it.
Li Yang was a little sleepy and rubbed his eyelids. "Hush money? Or a diagnosis from a mental hospital? Can you give me a copy of the hush money as well?"
Lu Xiaoguo was blocked completely.
She had participated in countless social events in the world, but this was the first time she fell into silence.
Man, it's you who made the Sahara Desert rainless.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
