Chapter 28: Ghost Messenger, if you do this kind of mission, you have to compensate me for my mental damages...
Ye Yangjia couldn't stand Shi Can's sarcasm and turned away.
Lin Zhuyue was still very interested and asked:
"Are there any photos? I'd like to see them."
Shi Can could only take out his cell phone and open the photo album. It was very likely that one could tell how much a person liked something by looking at the photo album. Eighty percent of the photos in Shi Can's cell phone album were of his British dog named Baguette.
Baguette is a 12-color short-haired golden shaded cat with a large, round face, flat facial features, small ears with a wide distance between them, and a short, thick body, limbs, and tail. There is no doubt that his appearance meets the show-level standards.
It looks like it's very good to suck.
Wen Miyan was also looking at the screen and asked:
"Cats are much cuter than their owners, aren't they?"
Although Lin Zhuyue didn't say anything, she nodded.
Shi Can turned off his phone screen, turned his head and focused on reading the textbook, saying:
"No, you're not allowed to look at it. My cat is very valuable. I charge a fee to look at it. One look costs a hundred yuan."
Lin Zhuyue took out his mobile phone and operated it a few times.
Shi Can's phone dinged. He unlocked it and saw that Lin Zhuyue had transferred eight thousand yuan to him with the note "Master, the young lady wants to see a cat. Let her see the eight thousand yuan one first."
Shi Can: “…”
Shi Chan replied: "Why don't you just transfer 80,000 and buy the cat?"
Lin Zhuyue transferred another 72,000 yuan.
Note: Good idea.
Shi Can suspected that Lin Zhuyue was injured not only in the back but also in the head while performing the mission.
Her current written test scores are still far from the average score of the class, but her mental state has gradually become consistent, and she has a tendency to excel.
In less than half a minute, Lin Zhuyue transferred another 20,000 yuan, with the note: I have no place to keep the cat, so I will leave it at your house first. This is the boarding fee.
Shi Chan almost laughed out of anger.
He was thinking quickly, if he clicked on Lin Zhuyue's transfer now and accepted the entire 100,000 yuan, would Lin Zhuyue become more honest.
Fortunately, the teacher of the first class had arrived and the bell rang, interrupting Shi Chan's evil thoughts.
Because of her lack of basic knowledge, Lin Zhuyue still found it difficult to keep up with the third-year advanced classes. The lectures felt like she was listening to a foreign language. By the end of the morning, she was yawning profusely, and tears of sleepiness welled up in her eyes.
After the class, she went to the closet to get her sportswear, followed Shi Chan out of the teaching building, and walked towards the training hall.
As he walked, Lin Zhuyue looked up at the sky.
The sky is gloomy; a typhoon is approaching. Heavy rain will fall in Tiancheng this afternoon, or at the latest tonight. The Spiritual Master's Mansion has issued an announcement: everyone, except those on duty, must return to their residences by 3:00 PM this afternoon and remain indoors until they receive a text message from the authorities lifting the ban.
This is a good thing—
She was going to move back to the dormitory today. After finishing her training, she had to go to Wen Miyan's house to pick up her luggage and settle down in her own dormitory. She had to finish all this before three o'clock. Therefore, Shi Can didn't have much time to torment her in the training hall.
Lin Zhuyue followed Shi Can into the training hall. She went to the locker room and changed into her autumn sportswear.
Shi Chan took her to the archery hall, picked out a bow for her, and began to teach her archery.
Although constantly drawing the bow and adjusting the posture during archery is very physically demanding, this training is much more interesting than Lin Zhuyue had expected, and she is not averse to this sport.
The training ended at 1:15 pm.
Shi Can said to Lin Zhuyue who had changed back into her school uniform:
"The cafeteria is closed and won't open until the ban is lifted. My chef made some braised pork ribs with scallions. Come to my house for dinner and take some to go for dinner. I'll help you with your luggage after dinner."
"I have food in my dorm..."
Lin Zhuyue was halfway through rejecting it before she realized,
"Can I see the cat?"
Why is cats the only thing on his mind? Shi Can really wanted to ask Lin Zhuyue if she thought his house was a cat cafe.
"Okay, okay, look at the cat. You're not allergic to cats, are you?"
Shi Can took Lin Zhuyue out of the training hall and said,
"Don't be like Ye Yangjia. He was allergic but still insisted on sniffing. He almost went blind from sniffing the cat in my house. If he really goes blind, my family will be the sworn enemy of the Ye family in the future."
"Can allergies cause blindness?"
Lin Zhuyue was a little surprised and replied,
"I don't think I'm allergic. I've been to a cat cafe."
Shi Chan rolled his eyes inwardly.
It turns out that he treats his house as a cat cafe.
Shi Can drove Lin Zhuyue home.
The Shi family mansion is about the same size as the Wen family's. It is a detached three-story villa with a total of five floors including the basement.
There are courtyards in front, behind, and on both sides of the house, planted with many flowers and plants. The Shi family hired a gardener to manage the courtyards, who kept them beautiful.
There is also a pond with many koi. The edge of the pond is paved with stone slabs and an antique-style pavilion is built, which is very suitable for feeding fish and viewing.
Lin Zhuyue's eyes were glued to the flowers and plants after she emerged from the garage. Shi Can's home had a flower wall, planted with miniature roses called Juice Balcony, which bloomed year-round, their petals cascading in a gentle and charming pink-orange hue.
"If you like, I'll have the gardener cut some for you later. You can take them home and put them in a vase so they'll bloom for many days."
Shi Chan turned the door handle of the mansion and said,
"Stop looking and eat quickly. Aren't you hungry?"
Lin Zhuyue followed Shi Can into the house.
Shican took out a pair of blue cinnamon dog slippers wrapped in a transparent plastic bag from the shoe cabinet. These slippers were bought by his mother and were sent together with the wheelchair when it was delivered to Tiancheng a few days ago.
But Lin Zhuyue's clothes are not suitable.
She is tall, so she usually wears size 39 or 40 shoes, and the smallest slipper she wears is size 41. This number can already filter out many women's slippers. When Lin Zhuyue occasionally visits other people's homes, she even has to wear men's slippers.
"Master."
The housekeeper heard the sound at the door and came over quickly.
"Ms. Lin is here too? Your slippers don't fit? Can you wear disposable ones first? I'll buy bigger slippers when I go shopping for daily necessities."
"A one-time use will do!"
Lin Zhuyue took the disposable slippers that the housekeeper found,
"Well... there's no need to buy slippers specifically. I'm just a guest, I don't need them... This is really too much trouble..."
The butler showed a puzzled expression and asked:
"How come you're a guest?"
Shi Can, who was standing behind Lin Zhuyue, shook his head repeatedly and even put his finger to his mouth, signaling the housekeeper to shut up and not speak.
“Oh, oh…”
The butler made way a little and said,
"Lunch is ready, Miss Lin, please come this way."
Lin Zhuyue washed his hands in the bathroom.
The hand sanitizer in Shi Can's house is the most common Safeguard antibacterial type. After Lin Zhuyue rinsed her hands with water, there was still a very obvious fragrance on her hands, but it was not unpleasant.
She and Shi Chan sat down across from each other in the restaurant.
Besides the braised pork ribs with scallions, there were stir-fried shredded potatoes, stir-fried green beans with tea tree mushrooms, stir-fried black fungus with celery, and tomato and egg drop soup. As if taking into consideration Lin Zhuyue's current inability to tolerate spicy food, there was no hint of chili pepper in any of these dishes.
Shi Can pressed the lid of the rice cooker, picked up the rice spoon and bowl, filled a bowl with rice and handed it to Lin Zhuyue.
Lin Zhuyue took the bowl and asked, "Where's the cat?"
"In the cat room."
Shi Can handed over the chopsticks and spoon and said,
"Baguette sheds so much hair that if you were in a restaurant, you'd definitely end up with a belly full of cat hair. I don't have any cat hair remover tablets for people at home."
Lin Zhuyue ate with a little regret and said:
"Actually, I don't mind eating a belly full of cat hair."
Shi Chan refused: “I mind.”
His Baguette is a socially anxious kitten. The social anxiety in the social terrorist's sense comes down to the fact that the cattery's breeding screening and socialization training were too good, so good that Shi Chan was willing to use his financial power to buy this cat, which was originally going to participate in the cattery's breeding program, at an incredible price.
When the baguette sees people, it will rub against them and hug them, and will not stop until it sticks to them like a cat fur coat.
The scallion-fried pork ribs at Shican’s house are the chef’s specialty and are very delicious.
Lin Zhuyue originally thought that the rice was a bit too much, but as she ate the braised pork ribs with green onions, she could see the bottom of the bowl.
Shican eats more than her and eats two bowls of rice.
After dinner, Lin Zhuyue followed Shi Can upstairs to see the cat.
The cat room is on the third floor, and thanks to the excellent air purification, there's no cat hair flying around. A robot vacuum is sweeping and mopping the house, and Baguette, wearing a pink scarf, sits atop it, zipping along at lightning speed.
Shi Can took out a cat strip from the cabinet and gave it to Lin Zhuyue.
Baguette was always very clingy, and when he saw the cat strips, he went straight to Lin Zhuyue. After Lin Zhuyue sat on the lazy sofa, Baguette jumped into her arms and nudged her hand holding the cat strips with his head.
The baguette felt just as soft as expected. It wasn't overweight, but it looked plump due to its good physique. Lin Zhuyue soon buried her face in the fur on the cat's belly and sucked hard.
Shi Can washed the cat last night, and the cat still smelled of orange shampoo, which Lin Zhuyue became more and more addicted to.
The happy cat-hugging time soon ended.
Lin Zhuyue said goodbye to the cat reluctantly, took the roses cut by the gardener and the packed food, rolled the hair remover over her body twice, and went to Wen Miyan's house with Shi Can to move the luggage.
"Why don't you stay at my house first?"
Wen Miyan asked with some concern,
"You're not allowed to go out until the typhoon leaves. Eating will be very troublesome. Are you sure you want to live on compressed biscuits or instant noodles?"
The food that Lin Zhuyue packed from Shi Can's house can be eaten tonight, but the ban will probably not be lifted until the early morning of the day after tomorrow, so how to eat tomorrow is a problem.
"I brought some ingredients from his house."
Lin Zhuyue looked at Shi Can's back and said,
"I can cook for myself in the dormitory. I can still make simple meals."
Wen Miyan said regretfully: "Okay."
Lin Zhuyue didn't leave many things at Wen Miyan's house, and with Shi Can's help, they could move everything in one trip.
Shican checked in her dormitory and confirmed that the gas was working, then returned home on the edge of the 3 p.m. ban.
The wind outside is getting stronger.
Lin Zhuyue used tape to seal the door leading to the balcony, sat down at the desk in the room, took out the textbook and notes he had taken in class, looked through the materials, and tried to figure out what the teacher had said as clearly as possible.
The strong wind made the doors and windows rattle.
Lin Zhuyue had rarely experienced typhoons in her life before. She lived in the north, and when the typhoon reached her, it had basically turned into a light wind, which only temporarily lowered the temperature and caused some rain, and did not affect her daily life at all.
She was tired of studying, so she took out her phone and opened the chat app.
The chat group of Class 1, Grade 3 of the Advanced Department was unusually lively.
Meng Qi: [@Gong Yongyuan, what are you doing, bro? Screenshot.jpg]
The screenshot shows a city-wide notice. The person being notified is Gong Yongyuan. The reason for the notice is that he violated the Tiancheng ban and went out without permission during the typhoon.
Luce: [6.]
Gong Yongyuan: [My mom asked me to go pull some radishes in the yard, so I went. Does being active in your own yard count as going out? So, how did the Spirit Master's Mansion find out? It's this weather, can't they still be flying aerial photography?]
Shi Can: [Your yard is right next to the Spiritual Master's Mansion. From the Spiritual Master's Mansion, you can see everything clearly. You have no privacy at all. You must have been seen by the person on duty. I've been trying to persuade you to move, but you didn't listen.]
Gong Yongyuan: [This is our ancestral home. Do you think I'm renting a place and can just move out?]
Wen Miyan: [Can't you let someone else do something like pulling radishes? The Spiritual Master's Mansion can report you, but can they report your cleaning lady?]
The cleaning lady didn't care about the announcement from the Spiritual Master House. She was just a cleaner, not a Spiritual Master. The Spiritual Master House couldn't revoke her Spiritual Master certificate or deduct her salary, so their ability to attack her was basically zero.
Gong Yongyuan: [She's a cleaner, only responsible for cleaning. Pulling radishes is extraneous.]
Wen Miyan: [Wouldn't it be better to just give him a raise?]
Lin Zhuyue stayed in the dormitory for a day and a half. The typhoon gradually moved away, but the rain was still falling and the air was very humid.
She has been in Tiancheng for a month, but it is still difficult for her to adapt to the humidity in the south.
It's already uncomfortable on weekdays, and it's even worse on rainy days. My whole body feels uncomfortable, my hands and feet are cold, and I even sweat.
Lin Zhuyue soaked her feet in hot water, put foot patches on the soles of her feet, and used socks to help keep them in place. But even after doing this, her body still didn't feel much better, and she even felt the pain in her back start to reappear.
On the second night of my stay in the dorm, a typhoon was raging. The Spiritual Master's Office announced that the ban would be lifted at 6:00 AM, barring any unforeseen circumstances. Students were then sent a text message announcing the lifting of the ban and were expected to attend school at their normal school hours.
In the five days since the ban was lifted, Lin Zhuyue has been going to the training hall every day, even on weekends, where she trains even longer. She does some basic exercises daily, and in addition, she practices archery. Shi Can takes archery very seriously and teaches her very seriously and rigorously.
This kind of training was not interrupted until the mission arrived.
When Shi Can received the task from his class teacher Fu Xingwei, he was not very happy and stated the reason for his refusal directly:
"Teacher, you know my partner's injuries haven't fully healed yet? Although he's no longer taking medication, isn't it unsafe for him to carry out the mission in this state?"
"It's not too late to refuse after you look at the mission content."
Fu Xingwei handed the file bag to Shi Can and said,
"It seems a 'ghost messenger' appeared at the scene. If it really is a ghost messenger, it would be best for Lin Zhuyue to contact it."
Shi Chan took the file and asked:
"What if it's fake?"
"If it is false, we must not tolerate it easily."
Fu Xingwei answered Shi Can's question in a serious tone.
"If it's a fake 'ghost messenger', and we allow it to act and cause bad consequences, it will be the fault of the Spiritual Master's Mansion."
Shi Can opened the file, took out the document from it, and read it carefully. After reading the document, he frowned and said to Fu Xingwei:
"We'll take care of this."
Shi Can brought the file back to the classroom and pulled Lin Zhuyue out from the crowd. Wen Miyan, who was painting Lin Zhuyue's nails, was also dragged out.
Wen Miyan asked, "Are there any missions?"
"Well, putting aside the difficulty of the mission, given the conservative nature of the mission location, the more spiritualists who carry out the mission, the better."
Shi Can dragged Ye Yangjia over again and started negotiating terms without much ado. "You two will take 60% of the bonus."
Ye Yangjia said: "70%, otherwise forget it."
"Okay, 70%, 70%, and the rest will all go to my partner. I won't take a cent of this mission reward."
Shi Can handed the file bag to Ye Yangjia,
"Sign your names and give them to Lao Fu. I'll go drive. The car I drove to the college today isn't suitable. I'll go home and buy a cheaper one."
Ye Yangjia took out the document, took a quick look at the mission location, and asked:
"You're driving so far?"
"Dude, if you go to a place like this without your own transportation, how are you going to escape if something happens? Should you run away on horseback or in a bullock cart?"
Shi Can patted Ye Yangjia's shoulder and said,
"When I first got promoted to the Advanced Department, what did Old Master say? If you go to some outrageous place, you must be fully prepared. If something happens, run away if you can. If you can't run away, you must protect your own safety even if it means killing someone."
Ye Yangjia was speechless for a moment.
Shi Chan went to change the car.
Lin Zhuyue, Wen Miyan and Ye Yangjia found a temporary meeting room in the teaching building and sat together to study the task.
This mission is very special. The person who commissioned the mission is not the person involved, but the Spiritual Master Mansion.
In order to better maintain the balance of yin and yang in the world, the Spiritual Master's Mansion has set up a special profession called "Patrolman".
Patrolmen are not in Tiancheng all year round, but roam around outside. If they find any obvious abnormalities in a certain place, they will report it to the Spiritual Master Mansion. If the Spiritual Master Mansion also considers the phenomenon abnormal, they will send a spiritual master to deal with the abnormality.
Because they did not take the initiative to entrust the Spiritual Master's Office with the task, the parties involved are sometimes very uncooperative, causing considerable interference to the Spiritual Masters who go to solve the problem, making the task difficult to complete.
"It's broken. Seventy percent is too little."
Ye Yangjia really hates this kind of task.
"If I were to carry out such a mission, he would have to compensate me for my mental damages."
The abnormal phenomenon occurred in a small mountain village in Shangning Province. This year, many elderly people in the village have reached the end of their lives, and many funerals have been held.
Starting in March, when the body was laid to rest, the vigil-keepers would hear the rattling of chains. Sometimes, after smoking a cigarette outside and returning, they would see a scramble of footprints and the sound of chains on the dusty ground. The villagers said it was the ghost messenger arriving to take the body away.
Ye Yangjia said in surprise: "...Ghost Messenger?"
Lin Zhuyue asked: "There are ghost messengers in this world, right?"
"Ghost messengers do exist, but for some reason, they cannot appear in the world."
Wen Miyan explained in detail,
"Nine out of ten ghost messengers in this village are fake. But there are exceptions. For example, when the underworld was in trouble, this ghost messenger did not return and remained in the human world."
Lin Zhuyue asked doubtfully, "Something happened in the underworld?"
"This is confidential."
Wen Miyan deliberately kept the question a secret and said,
"But you'll find out sooner or later."
Lin Zhuyue became even more curious, and she decided to ask Shi Can privately. Shi Can might secretly tell her something that Wen Miyan and Ye Yangjia could not tell her.
Perhaps considering the mission location was deep in the mountains and forests, Shi Can drove his Porsche home and traded it for a Wrangler. He loaded the car with two boxes of instant noodles of different flavors, a box of compressed biscuits, three boxes of mineral water, and two sets of tents.
When Lin Zhuyue put her travel bag into the car, she couldn't help but ask:
"Is this a mission or a camping trip?"
“The living conditions are not much better than camping.”
Shi Chan put the food and water aside and said,
"Once you arrive at the mission location, do not eat anything the villagers give you."
"I'm not discriminating against anyone. There's a precedent. Two years ago, a senior from the fourth grade was nearly raped while on a mission in a nearly isolated village."
"That senior student wasn't even an adult at the time... The villagers were charged with attempted rape. Do you remember what the family told the defense lawyer? They said finding a wife wasn't easy these days, and their son had been single for years, and they desperately wanted a wife. They thought if they let their son sleep with the senior student, she'd lose her virginity and be forced to marry into their family for the rest of her life."
Wen Miyan opened the car door and said,
"Bad, old-fashioned, and disgusting."
Ye Yangjia added:
"Another time, the windows of the spiritualist team's car were smashed by villagers, and the tablets and laptops in the car were stolen."
"You want to help them solve their problems, but they only care about your fertility and your money."
Shi Can stuffed a black object into Lin Zhuyue's hand.
"Once you get there, stay alert and don't let anyone get away with it."
Lin Zhuyue: "This is..."
Shi Chan closed the trunk and replied:
"The stun gun. Put it in your pocket when you get to the mission location. If anyone approaches you with bad intentions, just shock them."
Lin Zhuyue pressed the button, and the electric light of the stun gun lit up, making a crackling sound.
"Stop playing around and get in the car."
Shi Can opened the back door for Lin Zhuyue.
"Let's go to the training hall first and grab your bows and arrows. Everyone should take a shower and clean themselves up, as there might not be enough room there."
Lin Zhuyue's life was not as refined as her companions, but she also loved cleanliness. In order to keep herself as tidy as possible without taking a shower, she washed her hair three times.
After taking a shower, the four drove towards Shangning Province.
The journey was long, and Shi Can and Ye Yangjia took turns driving. Wen Miyan also wanted to join the rotation, but was vetoed by Shi Can and Ye Yangjia.
"If you have nothing to do, you can play the electronic wooden fish."
Shi Chan suggested ruthlessly,
"The Muyu app on my phone recently released a beggar version. It's in the shape of a begging bowl, and it makes a loud clanging sound when you knock it."
Although the third year of high school and the third year of advanced studies sound similar, and Lin Zhuyue is about the same age as these three people, she has no time to learn how to drive.
Shi Can suggested that she take a month off during next summer vacation to find a driving school outside Tiancheng to learn how to drive. It would be best if she could find a gold medal coach so that her driving skills would not become as bad as Wen Miyan's.
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