Chapter 29 goes one step further: “Murder is against the law.”…
Yu Xiang didn't have time to pay attention to Zhang Miao. He was only concerned with questioning Jiang Ci: "What are you doing???"
Jiang Ci's hand was still tightly grasping Yu Xiang's forearm, and he calmly replied: "There seems to be a cockroach on your chair."
Keyword trigger. This time, Jiang Ci didn't need to pull him. He fluttered over to Jiang Ci desperately, and turned back with a vigilant look on his face to carefully examine the chair he had just sat on from top to bottom: "Where are the cockroaches?!"
But after observing for a long time, he still couldn't find any creature that looked like a cockroach, so he started to feel around on his body again: "Is it possible that it got into my clothes?"
Zhang Miao and the others were stunned: "Brother Yu, are you...afraid of cockroaches?"
"I'm not afraid of cockroaches, I just hate every kind of insect equally." Yu Xiang corrected righteously.
Zhang Miao: “…Really?”
Are you sure it's equally hated rather than equally feared?
"Jiang Ci, please help me check if it got into my clothes. Why do I feel itchy all over?"
"It may just be your psychological effect, or maybe I saw it wrong." Jiang Ci cleared his throat calmly and said in a low voice.
"Did you see it?" Yu Xiang finally realized something was wrong. "How could there really be cockroaches in your room when it's so clean?"
Jiang Ci avoided his gaze without leaving a trace: "It's hard to say. Even if it's clean, it might have come from your room."
Yu Xiang was furious when he heard this: "Stop spitting blood! My room is clean too!"
Jiang Ci: "But it's messy."
Yu Xiang: “But it’s clean!”
Jiang Ci: "Cockroaches love messy environments; they're naturally suited to hiding."
"My god, this academic genius must have a poisonous mouth." The people who were listening to the voice through the screen looked at each other and sighed sincerely.
"These cultured people are the most terrifying when they get snarky. All sorts of words just ping out. Especially if they think fast, they don't have to worry about running out of words."
A few people whispered about it and finally agreed that they should never mess with him again.
"Wait a minute." Yu Xiang was arguing with Jiang Ci when he suddenly remembered something. He reappeared in front of the camera and said to them seriously, "The big adventure is done. If there's nothing else, I'll hang up first. Have fun—"
He finished his words in one breath and quickly hung up the video. He put one hand on his waist, straightened his back, and said to Jiang Ci condescendingly, "I'm not going to argue with you anymore. Let's get down to business."
"What's the matter?"
Yu Xiang picked up the math test paper and thrust it in front of Jiang Ci: "Teach me how to do it."
"Okay." Jiang Ci's gaze remained fixed on Yu Xiang's face. "Which question do you not understand?"
Yu Xiang: “Every question.”
Jiang Ci: "..."
"Hey, hey, what's with that expression on your face? I'm saying this because I've already done all the questions I know how to answer, so I don't know any of the remaining questions." Yu Xiang felt that Jiang Ci's contemptuous look must be due to a misunderstanding, so he explained angrily.
Jiang Ci sighed softly, took the test papers, glanced through them, and placed them in front of him: "Come sit closer."
Yu Xiang was stunned: "Do you want to talk now? Actually, we can wait until you finish your homework first--"
"No, right now."
"Oh." Yu Xiang dragged the chair closer to Jiang Ci and sat down again. "Let's get started, Teacher Jiang."
When the latter heard the name, he just looked at him and didn't express any opinion about it.
Although Yu Xiang said "every question", considering efficiency, Jiang Ci certainly couldn't explain every question. Instead, he picked out some typical questions to explain, and then let him think about the same type of questions by himself.
However, considering that Yu Xiang's high school mathematics foundation was really shaky, Jiang Ci had to explain most question types to him three times before he could fully understand them. Later, Yu Xiang couldn't help but start to worry whether Jiang Ci would get bored.
But the fact is that he is extremely patient and there is no sign of impatience in his words or actions.
"Do you plan to become a university teacher in the future?" Yu Xiang asked casually while drinking water.
Jiang Ci put away the completed test paper: "No. Why do you ask?"
"Just asking, I just think you're so good at explaining things and so patiently, you seem like a perfect fit to be a teacher." Yu Xiang habitually picked up his phone but quickly put it down. "But teachers' salaries are so low. If I think about it carefully, it's really not worth it."
"Actually, if you were a university professor, the salary wouldn't be bad. I don't plan to do that simply because I feel like teaching you alone is already exhausting."
"Why do I feel like this is familiar and seems like it's a subtle way of calling me stupid?"
"You're overthinking it."
"It would be best if - what do you plan to do in the future? Or consider starting a business or opening a company and then hiring me to work for you? The salary doesn't have to be too high, just enough for me to live on." When Yu Xiang said this, he actually began to fantasize and actually thought it was not bad.
Jiang Ci was probably shocked by his bizarre train of thought. He turned around and looked at him for a moment, then thought for a moment and asked, "Are you willing to work for me?"
Yu Xiang had expected Jiang Ci to respond with something like, "Dreams have everything" or "Stop daydreaming," but he hadn't expected him to ask that question. He was momentarily bewildered. "Ah. Oh, why don't you want to? With so much pressure to find a job these days, you're just a slave to others. At least if you were the boss, you'd know me well enough to know my background. You wouldn't feel comfortable exploiting me all the time...right?"
"I'm afraid that by then you'll be so arrogant that you'll ride on my head." Jiang Ci's lips curled up, "We'll talk about the future later. Let's finish the question first."
"So soon?! But I haven't rested enough." The topic changed so quickly that Yu Xiang sat up straight and looked at Jiang Ci firmly.
"I've rested for five minutes, that's enough."
"Only five minutes!"
So under Yu Xiang’s unreasonable quarrel, they rested for five more minutes, which was considered a normal time for the end of get out of class.
After it started again, it lasted until late at night.
Neither of them paid attention to the time, and Chen Xiaomie, who was downstairs, was too confident in Jiang Ci to urge Yu Xiang to go home. She went home and fell asleep first because she was sleepy.
However, they had consumed too much energy outside during the day, and they began to feel sleepy as midnight approached. Yu Xiang even propped up his face with one hand and fell asleep while sitting.
Jiang Ci tilted his head and looked at Yu Xiang's peaceful sleeping face for a while. After much hesitation, he reached out and gently pinched the other's elastic cheek, saying softly, "Yu Xiang. Wake up."
"Hmm..." However, this little force was not enough to wake Yu Xiang up. He agreed vaguely, then slapped Jiang Ci's hand away like a mosquito, and then used his arm as a pillow to continue sleeping on the table.
Jiang Ci once again silently lamented the man's horrible sleep quality.
Probably because he had been exposed to knowledge before going to bed, Yu Xiang slept particularly soundly.
He is used to sleeping in during holidays, but his inherent biological clock always makes him wake up when he should get up for school.
In his hazy consciousness, he heard the clear chirping of birds outside the window. He turned over habitually and put his arms on the quilt.
But after he put it on, he felt that the touch was not right - not only was it a little hard, but it was also warm and rose and fell regularly.
His brain hadn't fully switched on yet, so his first reaction was that the quilt had become a spirit. He didn't dare open his eyes for a moment, and only dared to touch it a few more times tentatively until he felt a hard protrusion. He suddenly woke up and found that his hand was resting on Jiang Ci's Adam's apple. "???"
Jiang Ci had already woken up. When he saw him open his eyes, he said slowly, "Murder is against the law."
Yu Xiang's brain was still in a state of stagnation, and he responded reflexively, "I know."
Jiang Ci glanced at Yu Xiang's claws, which had not yet been withdrawn: "Why don't you take them back?"
The latter finally woke up from his dream and quickly withdrew his hand. The sleepiness in his brain disappeared completely, but his IQ was still online: "Why are you in my bed?"
Jiang Ci propped himself up with one hand and sat up. After hearing this, he turned around and said expressionlessly, "This seems to be my bed. Why don't you think about what you were doing last night?"
Yu Xiang blinked quickly and began to retrieve his memories of last night.
They worked on their homework until very late last night, and then he was so sleepy that he took a nap... and then he fell asleep just like that?!
He clearly just wanted to take a nap for five minutes, how could this happen?
"Hmm... I seem to have forgotten to go home." After figuring out the whole thing, Yu Xiang looked away with a guilty conscience. "Hiss—why didn't my mom come up to call me?"
"When did she ever call you?" Jiang Ci asked back.
"Doesn't she always..." Yu Xiang got stuck in the middle of his sentence - he suddenly realized that Ms. Chen Xiaomie never seemed to urge him to go home when he was at Jiang Ci's house, but if he was at other relatives' or friends' houses, she would start calling to urge him every time the time came.
Jiang Ci: "?"
"It's nothing, you are right, but I still have a question." Yu Xiang tried to smooth things over.
"You ask."
Yu Xiang bit her lip lightly, her gaze first wandering to the desk, then back to the bed. Under Jiang Ci's calm gaze, she spoke: "I want to know the process of how I went from sleeping on the desk to sleeping on the bed."
"Hmm? The process?" Jiang Ci did not answer him immediately, but thought about it seriously for a while.
Yu Xiang asked cautiously, "You're not going to say you can't remember it either?"
"No. The process is that you are extremely sleepy and sleeping on the table is not comfortable enough, so you activate the automatic bed-finding function." Jiang Ci turned his face away and rolled out of bed and answered, "It's commonly known as sleepwalking."
Yu Xiang: “?”
Yu Xiang: "What nonsense are you talking about? How could I sleepwalk?"
"Believe it or not, this is my only answer. Or you can find another witness to verify it." After saying this, Jiang Ci walked straight to the balcony to wash up, leaving Yu Xiang alone lying on the bed with his eyes wide open.
Of course, there were no witnesses other than him, so there was no evidence at all.
And if Jiang Ci refuses to say it, then it is definitely not a very decent method.
In that case—
Yu Xiang opened his mouth and yawned, then decided to pretend nothing had happened and close his eyes to take another nap.
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