Chapter 109
Looking back, I saw that the person behind me, who seemed to have a feather in his throat, was the temporary captain of the Enge school team.
The senior student coughed heart-wrenchingly and deliberately.
Next to the senior, there stood Xie Shi, who had been there for some unknown period of time.
Xue Zhanxing did not avoid anyone. He maintained the same posture as when he whispered to Jiang Yunu, and glanced towards the porch steps with a bit of curiosity.
"Do they have something to talk to you about?" Master Xue said, "I've already said everything I wanted to say. If you have something to say, please go back quickly. I can't stay in Engel's dormitory for too long."
The teachers and students from other schools who came to participate in the league might not know Xue Zhanxing, and did not know the identity and family background of this little golden retriever, but whenever he came to the temporary place for foreign visitors, he would always be noticed by Songnan’s own students.
Under the current circumstances, it is not convenient for the young master of the Songnan school director's family to stay in the friendly school's base for too long - especially if this friendly school is Enge.
Xue Zhanxing said goodbye to Jiang Yunu, and smiled at the two people on the porch of the western-style building. He received an awkward smile from his senior and an expressionless face from Xie Shi respectively, and then he left from the front of Enge's dormitory building.
After the little golden retriever disappeared from the garden path, Shesh asked from the steps in front of the porch, "Is that golden retriever really your friend?"
For some reason, Jiang Yunu felt that Young Master Xie's tone did not sound like he was describing a person. "Golden Retriever" sounded more like he was referring to a breed of dog.
This made Jiang Yunu pause for a moment, and after he cleared away the strange feeling in his heart, he said, "I guess so."
Shesh immediately said, "'Sort of'?"
Not only did the young master repeat the words in a subtle and sarcastic tone, he also paused between two words and read out Jiang Yunu's statement word by word.
Jiang Yunu: "...It's the kind of relationship where we're actually quite familiar with each other, have met each other a few times, and have helped each other out a little. I think this can be considered a friend."
Jiang Yunu was confused by Xie Shi's sarcasm, but out of kindness, she was afraid that given Young Master Xie's interpersonal relationships, the other party had never encountered such a light friendship, so she explained to him her definition of "friends".
Xie Shi listened without any expression and replied to Jiang Yunu with a tone she was very familiar with: "Humph."
Jiang Yunu: "..."
Jiang Yunu: "What's wrong, Master? Is it so unacceptable that I have a friend from another school?"
Master Xie said sarcastically, "I'm just a little surprised by your definition of 'friend'. It turns out it's something that seems to have almost no threshold."
After saying that, Xie Shi turned around and went into the western-style building, leaving Jiang Yunu with a proud back.
Jiang Yunu turned to the senior who had been watching from the side for quite some time and asked in confusion, "Young Master, what on earth are you following me for? To see if I've leaked any of our school's secrets to students from other schools?"
The steady former temporary captain coughed again, thinking to himself that there are no secrets in our school that can be leaked, and what secrets can a group of us students know.
He had just seen Xie Shi coming towards the door in a threatening manner from inside the house, and he felt that his junior was in a strange mood, so his caring nature kicked in and he subconsciously followed him out - but he ended up running into his junior, who was watching Jiang Yunu talking very closely to a strange golden retriever with a sneer on his face.
What's going on?
The good-natured senior was just as confused as Jiang Yunu at the moment. He even felt like he had followed the wrong person. In his attempt to care for his juniors, he'd strayed into a small field of growing melons—and unripe melons weren't tasty either!
But the Eng people still support their younger classmates.
So the senior coughed a few times, and coughed away the little golden retriever and Jiang Yunu, who he also found a little strange.
Facing Jiang Yunu's bewildered gaze, the kindly senior thought for a moment and said sincerely, "Maybe Xie Shi is just a little possessive of his friends. You know, with his personality, he doesn't have many close friends in his grade, so he's very bothered by things like 'friends having friends he doesn't know about.'"
The senior felt that his explanation was correct, and he became more and more confident as he spoke.
When Jiang Yunu heard this, she felt that it was true, and she suddenly realized: "So that's it!"
It turns out that Master Xie was just feeling jealous of his friends, a common feeling among teenagers!
Everything makes sense.
After figuring out the reason, Jiang Yunu's doubts were gone. She returned to the western-style building and saw Xie Shi, who seemed to be still angry with the cat. She looked at the other party with a bit more kindness and tolerance, which made Xie Shi puzzled and embarrassed for the extra attention.
Xie Shi simply went back to his room.
Jiang Yunu also returned to the room.
She needed a private space to make a video call to each of her two family members.
During the days when Jiang Yunu was away participating in the inter-school competition, it was not that she had "lost contact" with Joyson and Aunt Daisy. It was just that her free time was really limited, and it was difficult for her to contact them every now and then like she did when she was in normal school in Enge, and to regularly video chat with Aunt Daisy.
These days, she and the two of them basically found time to send messages in their busy schedules. She often said something to them early in the morning, and by the time she was free again and could go back to check the replies, it was already evening.
Joyson and Qiao Daisi were both very caring and considerate of Jiang Yunu. Seeing that she replied so late, they usually tacitly urged her to rest and not stay up late, so as not to affect her classes and training the next day.
The mother and son are so consistent that they can have the same thoughts and opinions even though they are not in the same chat box. This is a kind of parent-child connection.
Jiang Yunu is very free tonight. She is going back to Enge Primary School of Supernatural Powers and going home.
So she came to make a phone call before going home.
In this world, she is really lucky to have someone to call home and a place to report the news in advance, to tell others loudly "I'm coming back!"
The first call was to Joyson.
Joyson basically answered it in seconds.
The red-haired boy not only answered the phone immediately, he also interrupted Jiang Yunu's opening line: "Are you coming back?!"
Joyson spoke excitedly, his voice so loud and clear that it felt like his voice instantly filled the entire room.
Jiang Yunu had to move the call window further away. At the same time, she felt it was very pleasant to hear a loud voice like Joyce's.
She smiled and said, "You are well-informed."
"That's right." Joyson said, as if to say, "I've been looking at the date since you left. I thought you were supposed to be back last week."
As a result, those who were counting the days did not expect that the inter-school competition could be delayed, which delayed the original schedule for several days.
It took Joyson almost a semester to become more familiar with his senior Hu Bambi, who was his "one-on-one mentoring" role. Senior Bambi was well-informed on campus and when he learned that the school team was about to return, he immediately conveyed the news to his junior.
Just as Joyson was happy about the new news at school, Jiang Yunu called him via video.
Double happiness!
"Come back soon," Joyson said. He should have had more words to express his longing, but he was actually on the phone with Jiang Yunu. The red-haired boy racked his brains and came up with something like, "If you don't come back, I don't think you'll have time to review for the final exam."
Jiang Yunu: "..."
Jiang Yunu sighed: "Indeed."
It’s really hard not to think about the final exams and review when calling each other among peers during this critical period of the final semester!
When Joyson talked about this topic, he found a stronger feeling of being a brother.
"If you are worried that you won't be able to connect with the new learning process after you come back, let's go to the study room in the multi-purpose building together on the weekend and I will review with you," he said.
Jiang Yunu immediately said, "Thank you, brother."
Joyson's hair turned even redder. "Why are you being so polite to me?"
After finishing the video call with Joyson, Jiang Yunu skillfully switched the communication target and sent a video call request to Qiao Daisi.
Qiao Daisi was a little slow to answer the phone. She was probably busy at home and had turned on the Do Not Disturb mode on her personal terminal. Unlike children, she could not play with the terminal screen all the time.
Because I was a little slow to answer the phone, when Aunt Daisy's face first appeared on the screen, her expression was filled with a hint of gentle apology.
"Sorry, Xiaonu," said Jodaisi, "I was busy just now and just saw you were calling me."
Jiang Yunu immediately shook his head: "What's there to be embarrassed about? I didn't give any advance notice before calling."
Jiang Yunu was very concerned and asked, "Auntie, are you done with your work? If you need more time, I can call you back later."
Qiao Daisi laughed and said, "Don't do that. Nothing is more important than calling you. We can do it later."
After saying that, the red-haired lady looked at Jiang Yunu carefully on the other side of the video, and suddenly frowned.
"Have you lost weight?"
Jiang Yunu immediately said, "No."
Qiao Daisi said nothing, but looked at Jiang Yunu with a more rigorous gaze. Then she raised her eyebrows and said, "I can see that you have lost weight! The inter-school competition is so busy that you don't even have time to eat properly?"
Jiang Yunu didn't feel that she had lost weight. She felt that she had eaten three meals a day normally, and even ate a lot, which was well known among the Quan Enge school team.
Even Lucy and Reiss Daniel knew that the white-haired girl cared a lot about eating and was a big eater.
Jiang Yunu touched his face and said, "Are you okay? I eat normally every day."
Ms. Qiao Daisi's eyes were like a ruler. She examined Jiang Yunu's chin and said, "Nonsense! The little flesh you managed to grow on the tip of your chin is gone again. Now it looks like a chin that can be used as a spike to poke someone to death."
Jiang Yunu subconsciously rubbed the tip of his chin.
Aunt Daisy's description of her chin reminded her of a peculiarly styled cartoon she had once seen, in which a male character had a very pointed chin, and he killed himself by stabbing himself with it when he lowered his head.
Jiang Yunu: "...Are you really okay?"
She couldn't tell for herself whether she had lost weight, and under Qiao Daisi's stare, she became unsure.
"No." Aunt Daisy's face remained stern for ten seconds before she said seriously, "I'll have to make up for it this weekend when you come back."
Jiang Yunu didn't dare to question a woman who was obsessed with fattening her up, and said very obediently: "Okay, Aunt Daisy."
When the ten-second stern expression on Jodaisi's face was up, she relaxed automatically and returned to a gentle expression.
"Rest well for two days after you get back," Jodaisi said softly, "There's no need to rush anything else."
Jiang Yunu: "Yeah."
The day when the team of Enge Primary School of Supernatural Powers returned to school after playing in the league was also the day when the Seventh District approved the application of the Linglu Supernatural Power Association to act as a guarantor and officially agreed to give Jiang Yunu the opportunity to take the exam by surpassing three levels.
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