Chapter 157 Suspension May the mission be accomplished, the living stop fighting, and the dead rest in peace...
Before Shi Can finished his call, Lin Zhuyue received a text message from the Spiritual Master's Mansion.
Because the Spiritual Master House is fully cooperating with the Special Case Team's investigation, the four-school league organized by it has been suspended, with an indefinite resumption date. No Spiritual Master may leave Heavenly City without permission from the Special Case Team, or they will be held legally responsible.
Ye Yangjia looked at the text message interface on his mobile phone and said with emotion:
"This is to catch them all in one fell swoop."
"I finally got the chance to do it, so of course I have to deal with it right away."
Wen Miyan said,
"If this isn't handled properly, my family and the Shi family will be severely retaliated against. I'm afraid our fate will be no better than what happened to the Ling family back then."
Feng Yuansi scratched Meiqiu's chin and asked:
"Can't I continue to compete? I want to win the championship."
Wen Miyan and Ye Yangjia rolled their eyes and thought:
It’s already this late, and you’re still thinking about that crappy competition?
Lin Zhuyue leaned against the front door of the mansion, quietly waiting for Shican to call. She blinked, took a deep breath, and let it out, trying her best to relax.
Things don't seem to be going well -
Shi Can frowned and asked:
"Didn't you monitor the internal system of the Spiritual Master Mansion properly?"
Cui Yi's voice came from the microphone:
"We were originally going to conduct surveillance, but we attacked the Spiritual Master's Mansion earlier than expected. Furthermore, some Spiritual Masters are quite wary. When we were monitoring the internal system, our actions would have been detected."
Shi Chan asked, “Can you handle it?”
Cui Yi replied, "Team Leader Yin said it depends on the situation."
Shican hung up the phone and walked back to his classmates.
Wen Miyan asked: "What's going on?"
"Kang Huazong was well prepared. He encrypted some of the files in the database, including most of the documents related to the mapping of the underworld. The special case team is currently interrogating him, but he refuses to say anything."
Shi Chan explained the current situation.
"I don't know if he's tough enough... If he can withstand the massive memory restoration technique, then we can only place our hopes on the engineers responsible for deciphering the code."
"The large memory recovery technique may be difficult to perform."
Wen Miyan crossed her arms and expressed her own opinion.
"He's old and not in good health. The special case team needs to hold back when dealing with him, otherwise they might just send him away."
Shi Can nodded: "This is where the trouble lies."
At this moment, the entrance door of the mansion was opened.
"Master, Miss Lin..."
The housekeeper came out and said,
"Miss Wen, Master Ye, Master Feng, you are all here, do you want to stay for dinner?"
Shi Can did not chase the guest away, and followed the housekeeper's words and said:
"You guys should stay and have a meal to finish off the extra meat sauce."
None of the three refused and followed Shi Can and Lin Zhuyue into the Shi family's gate.
Shi Chan not only took care of the people's meals, but he also made sure the cat didn't starve. He brought down a package of freeze-dried chicken breasts from upstairs, unsealed them, and broke them into small pieces to feed the black briquettes cat Feng Yuansi had brought over. The chubby, furry little creature loved the freeze-dried food, and after only a few pieces, it began to rub against Shi Chan's hand affectionately.
Shi Can fed the cat a few bites before the freeze-dried bag was taken away by Wen Miyan and Ye Yangjia. Ye Yangjia petted the cat while wiping away tears that were out of control due to allergies, as if he was willing to pet the cat with his life.
Shi Can glanced at Wen Miyan, Ye Yangjia, and Feng Yuansi who were circling around the cat, then turned his gaze away from the three noisy people and looked at Lin Zhuyue who was sitting not far away and asked:
"Nervous?"
"I've imagined this day coming so many times in my mind, and sometimes I even dream about it. Then I get so nervous that I almost stop breathing."
Lin Zhuyue's face was extremely calm, and he said,
"But when this day finally came, I seemed to be much calmer than I had imagined."
Shi Chan extended his hand and said, “Hold my hand.”
Lin Zhuyue looked at the person who extended his hand in confusion and asked:
"Didn't I say I wasn't nervous?"
Shi Chan said, “But I’m nervous.”
Lin Zhuyue curled the corners of his mouth and grabbed Shi Can's hand.
Wen Miyan coughed twice and reminded:
"...Hey, you two, pay attention! I'm here to eat, not to eat dog food."
Feng Yuansi looked around: "Dog? Where is the dog?"
Ye Yangjia hooked his neck and said:
"The dog is right here, you single guy who can't speak Chinese well."
Not long after, Gong Yongyuan also arrived, leading two beagles.
Shi Can resolutely refused to let Bigger in and said:
"The dog is tied at the door, come in."
After some bargaining, Gong Yongyuan let the dog into the front yard and went into the house himself.
Wen Miyan, who was petting the cat, looked up and asked:
"Daxian, how is your brother?"
"fine."
Gong Yongyuan paused, trying to describe this "good" in words, he said,
"He was half dead, and then the dog climbed onto his bed and peed. He chased the dog around the house for two laps, jumping up and down. He didn't look like a patient."
Ye Yangjiarui commented:
"Your family is still in chaos as always."
"Can't you just have a normal pet?"
Shi Can asked Gong Yongyuan,
"Snapping turtles, snakes, spiders, lizards... Look at what kind of creatures you have at home? You even had an owl a while ago..."
Lin Zhuyue was surprised:
"Owl, isn't that Kouki-kun?"
"I don't know where it flew into his house from. It was raining and the owl was hiding under a landscape tree."
Shi Can explained the origin of the owl to Lin Zhuyue.
"He asked the Forestry Bureau and the police station to come and rescue it, but the Linhai Forestry Bureau and the police station didn't have permission to enter Tiancheng. It took a long time to apply for permission, and during this time the owl was fed by the immortal."
Lin Zhuyue asked, "Is it easy to raise?"
Gong Yongyuan shook his head and denied it:
"It's hard to feed it. It's old and stubborn. It won't open its mouth even when I feed it meat. I have to pry its mouth open and stuff it in."
Shi Chan said, “But she’s cute.”
Shican likes most round animals. The silly owl that flew into Gong Yongyuan's house fits perfectly in Shican's heart, and is so cute that he can't stop looking at it.
Not long after, the pasta was cooked.
After a noisy lunch, Shi Can and Lin Zhuyue took Jianguo and headed to the Ling family's old house. Wen Miyan and Ye Yangjia insisted on going, dragging Gong Yongyuan and Feng Yuansi along as well. Shi Can's new seven-seater hybrid car came in handy.
When they arrived at the Ling family's old house, they found that the door was half-open and the air was filled with the scent of sandalwood.
Is there anyone else coming?
Lin Zhuyue opened the door and saw two familiar people——
Liang Tianxing, the former head of the Spiritual Master's Mansion, and Shi Yingshao, Shi Can's father.
Two people sat under the eaves, with a bottle of wine and three small wine glasses in the middle.
Shi Yingshao picked up one of the wine glasses and poured the wine into the yard. He then changed another glass, handed it to Liang Tianxing, and asked:
"Teacher, can you drink?"
Liang Tianxing took the wine glass: "It's okay to drink less."
The two men clinked their glasses.
Liang Tianxing sighed: "I never thought this day would come."
"Yeah, I thought early on that everything was over."
Shi Yingshao put down his empty wine glass and said,
“I don’t know whether today’s arrival is a blessing from heaven to the Ling family or a mercy to the spiritual master.”
Shi Yingshao raised his head, looked at the door that was pushed open, and said:
"Come here, sit here. Is Shican here too?"
Before Shi Yingshao could finish his words, the door was pushed open and dozens of trainee spiritualists rushed in, along with two dogs and a cat.
Shi Yingshao: “…”
"You didn't come to the game, and you weren't at home. I thought you were outside Tiancheng."
Shi Chan got up and brushed off the dust on his body.
“So it’s here.”
Shi Yingshao replied:
"I went to visit Principal Liang, and then I learned about what happened on the field and in the Spiritual Master's Mansion, so I came here with Principal Liang."
The remaining few people greeted Shi Yingshao and Liang Tianxing obediently: "Uncle Shi, Principal Liang."
Liang Tianxing nodded and said, "Go and offer sacrifices."
Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can entered the house, and Wen Miyan, Ye Yangjia and Feng Yuansi followed. Only Gong Yongyuan was a little nervous, and his steps were a little hesitant.
"Go in, child. The ancestors of the Ling family will not hate you."
Shi Yingshao seemed to be able to read Gong Yongyuan's mind and said to him,
"The Ling family's efforts over generations have not been to surpass other spiritual masters, but to achieve a long-term consensus among all spiritual masters. Compared to hatred and disputes, reconciliation is what they desire."
Gong Yongyuan lowered his head: "But I..."
"To put it another way, you've never done anything to wrong the Ling family, so they have no reason to resent you. It's already quite remarkable that you can understand right from wrong."
Only then did Gong Yongyuan step into the house.
Lin Zhuyue picked up the sandalwood box on the table, took out three sticks and handed them to Gong Yongyuan.
Six young men of similar age lit sandalwood.
Lin Zhuyue thought in his heart:
"May the mission be accomplished, the living stop fighting, and the dead rest in peace."
They bowed three times and placed the sandalwood incense in the incense burner.
Shi Can walked out of the house holding Feng Yuansi's briquettes cat, sat down next to Shi Yingshao, and said:
"You'd better stop drinking here and go to the Spiritual Master's Mansion to help my mother. She's very busy. If she finds you so leisurely, she..."
"What can she do?"
Shi Yingshao asked,
"Deduct two months' pocket money from me? I have my own pocket money."
Shi Can turned his head to look at Shi Yingshao, he took out his cell phone and dialed Cui Yi's number.
“Hey!”
Shi Yingshao quickly pressed the hang-up button and said,
"Are you going to kill your father?"
Shi Can made a request concisely: "Call duck."
Shi Yingshao asked, "Isn't it enough to have a cat?"
Shi Chan had no intention of discussing it, so he pressed the call button again.
"Okay, okay, I'll buy you a Call duck! Do you want a white one or a green one? Do you want someone else to hatch it, or do you want to buy some eggs and hatch them yourself?"
Shi Chan hung up the phone contentedly.
Not far away, Ye Yangjia pointed at Shi Can and said to Lin Zhuyue:
"Look, you're here worshipping your ancestors, feeling sad, and he's smiling like he's having a second spring in his life. What a jerk! Listen to me, kick him out right away."
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