Chapter 51: Undercurrents Surge. How come you're still vulnerable? ...
Dinner consisted of five dishes and one soup, plus a sliced roast duck and blueberry yam. From the perspective of entertaining guests, it was not very grand, but it was more than enough to fill the stomachs of three people.
The restaurant where you order food is not particular about details. The dishes come from all over the country. As long as the public thinks it tastes good, they will make it.
Shi Can especially likes his mother's pig's trotters. The trotters are stewed until they are soft and boneless, but they are not greasy at all. When dipped in oil, chili, garlic and soy sauce, they are even more appetizing and go well with rice. It makes people feel like they can eat three bowls of rice in a row.
Lin Zhuyue also likes this dish.
When she was about to pick up the last half of the pig's trotter, Shi Can's chopsticks arrived first and snatched the pig's trotter away in front of Lin Zhuyue's shocked eyes.
Just as Shi Can was about to put the pig's trotter into the dipping sauce bowl, he saw Lin Zhuyue lowering her head in disappointment. He paused holding the chopsticks and put the pig's trotter into Lin Zhuyue's dipping sauce bowl.
"If you like it, order it tomorrow."
Lin Lang took in every move of the two children.
"Let the restaurant make more so they don't run out of food."
After dinner, Lin Zhuyue took the initiative to put the dishes into the dishwasher. Shi Can was also busy, putting the leftovers in the refrigerator and washing the dishcloth, wiping the dining table clean.
Lin Lang didn't sleep well last night because of Lin Zhuyue's constant torment. He had to go to the company tomorrow, so he went to bed early.
Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can took the Samoyed out for a walk.
Shi Can tried to find a name for the dog. He squatted in front of the Samoyed with the freeze-dried food and called out:
"Milk Shell."
Every time it called, Shican would touch it and then take out freeze-dried food to feed it.
After a period of forced correction, Samoyed finally responded to the name Naibei.
Lin Zhuyue asked: "Can you train dogs?"
“I’ve never had a dog.”
Shi Can pinched Samoyed's face and said,
"But I feel like when it comes to naming, cats and dogs are trained the same way. Baguette wasn't originally called Baguette. The cattery called him Retarded. My mom said if I called him 'retarded' again, she'd throw me and the cat out."
Lin Zhuyue pulled the corner of his mouth and asked:
"Isn't Baguette's cattery a little too wild?"
"He's very wild. Baguette's mom is called Idiot, and Baguette's dad is called Idiot. But they say only cats kept by private owners have such wild names. Baguette is in very good condition. I was originally going to keep him, but I used my money power to rob him back."
Shi Can stretched out his hand to Nai Bei and said,
"Come on, shake hands, right hand."
Naibei placed her left hand on Shichan’s hand.
Shi Chan asked, “Why can’t your dog tell left from right?”
"Because my sister can't tell left from right."
Lin Zhuyue touched Naibei's dog head and said,
"In our family, shaking the right hand means shaking Xiao Yi's right hand."
Shi Can's eyes went dark when he heard this, and he sighed:
"Luckily, Milkbee is at your house and doesn't have to pull the sled, otherwise he'd get lost."
Later, Lin Zhuyue's cell phone rang.
The calling contact is Zhang Ma.
Lin Zhuyue answered the phone, and Zhang Ma asked with concern:
"Xiaoyue, have you finished dinner?"
"Yeah, I'm done eating. I'm walking the dog outside now."
Lin Zhuyue had a feeling that Aunt Zhang was probably not here to care about whether she had dinner or not, but something more important. Lin Zhuyue took the initiative to ask,
"What happened? Aunt Zhang."
"A number just contacted me and said that if I can provide your hair or something like that, they can help me with 600,000 yuan."
Aunt Zhang said with some alarm,
"I don't know much about this, but I understand that wanting your hair might be for the purpose of casting a spell on you."
Lin Zhuyue frowned and asked:
"Did you refuse?"
"No, I said I needed to think about it."
Zhang Ma said to Lin Zhuyue,
"I'll send you the number. You should find a way to check it out carefully. If there is anything, you must tell your mother. Don't force yourself to do it."
Lin Zhuyue followed Zhang Ma's instructions and hung up the phone.
After a while, a message popped up on the SMS interface. The sender was Zhang Ma, and the content of the message was a string of mobile phone numbers.
Shi Can sat down on a bench with the dog and called Fu Xingwei. After the call was connected, he described the situation in a few brief words and told Fu Xingwei the mobile phone number that Lin Zhuyue received.
"I will immediately submit the relevant information about this matter to the higher-ups, and we will quickly identify the owner of the number."
Fu Xingwei worriedly reminded the students,
"Don't stay out there any longer, both of you. Return to Tiancheng as soon as possible. They can even find Lin Zhuyue's nanny, so it won't be a problem for them to find you two directly. I know you two are powerful, but you are in the open, and they are in the dark. It's easy to avoid an open attack, but it's hard to guard against an arrow from the dark. It's easy to get into trouble."
Shi Chan agreed:
"Well, okay, we'll go back to Tiancheng tomorrow."
The phone was hung up.
Lin Zhuyue sat down next to Shi Can, sighed a little tiredly, and asked:
"Can you catch him?"
Shi Can raised his hand and touched Lin Zhuyue's head, saying:
"The owner of the number is most likely not the same person who called your nanny. If they dare to contact you, they won't be afraid of you investigating. However, the Spiritual Master Mansion is an official special department after all, and they are still capable of dealing with such matters. Whether they can find out depends on whether they want to investigate."
"Are you scared?"
"A little."
Lin Zhuyue's voice was relatively calm as he said,
"If I hadn't revealed to Aunt Zhang that Zhang Kai was dead, what would she have done? Between her own child's life and the life of her employer's child, surely the former is more important, right?"
"My hair is also easy to find. It falls out when I sleep, take a shower, or comb my hair. Aunt Zhang is my nanny. She only needs to pick up my hair during daily cleaning."
Shi Can grabbed Lin Zhuyue's hand and said:
"I don't know your nanny, and I don't know if she can resist threats and inducements. But I know that you have avoided the worst possibility with your actions."
Lin Zhuyue said: "Thanks for your suggestion."
"Yeah, well, it's all thanks to me."
Shi Can held Lin Zhuyue's smaller hand and asked,
"So, Sweeper-san, how are you going to thank me?"
Lin Zhuyue pondered for a moment and said:
"Tomorrow when Mom's pig's trotter has only one piece left, I won't fight with you for it."
"Didn't your mother say she would ask the restaurant to make more?"
Shi Can raised his head, with a smile in his eyes, and said,
"Also, Lin Zhuyue, I will never snatch the last bite of food from you. If there is not enough of something you like, I will not touch it."
Lin Zhuyue tilted her head slightly and met Shi Can's eyes.
Yuancheng is heavily polluted, and it is always difficult to see the stars.
But the weather was beautiful tonight, and when he looked up, he could see a few stars, some bright, some dim. Shi Can's eyes were like shimmering water waves, reflecting the tiny starlight when he looked up. Perhaps because of the smile in his eyes, the upturned corners of his eyes also became much gentler.
Shi Chan turned his head and warned:
"If you keep looking at me, I'll charge you."
Lin Zhuyue immediately took out his cell phone and asked:
"How much is it? A few hundred per view? Is there a self-service option? The kind where you pay to see as much as you want within a certain timeframe."
Shi Can: “…”
His partner is a total bitch.
As the night deepened, the two of them took Naibei home.
Shi Can was holding a plastic bag and followed Naibei to pick up the feces with great morality and patience. He didn't say he was disgusted, but Lin Zhuyue felt that with his level of cleanliness, he must have done a lot of psychological preparation.
Shi Can threw the plastic bag into the trash can near the villa and went home with Lin Zhuyue. He wanted to find an opportunity to pinch Lin Zhuyue's face, but when he remembered that he had picked up shit before, he restrained himself and didn't do it.
After locking the dog in the kennel, the two men washed up and rested.
Shi Can took a shower and lay on the bed. His phone beside him vibrated and he picked it up to find that the beast Ye Yangjia had created another small group of three people.
Wen Miyan: [@Shican, you weren't kicked out by her mother, were you?]
Ye Yangjia: [It's hard to say. This guy challenged me directly last time. He must have left a very bad impression.]
Shi Chan: [If I hadn't provoked you, I wouldn't even have a partner now!]
Shi Can actually felt a little regretful.
At that time, he had not yet lost himself in the underworld, and he had never imagined that in such a desperate situation, a savior would descend from the sky. After that, his heart was filled with joy and emotion. Even in his dreams, Lin Zhuyue's figure flickered before his eyes.
If he had known that this would happen, he would never have provoked Lin Lang, but would have chosen a gentler approach to communicate and persuade him.
Ye Yangjia: [Please stop it soon, buddy. I can tell I don't like you.]
Wen Miyan: [Do you remember what you said when he first came to the class? If you had known this would happen, why did you do it in the first place?]
Shi Chan exited the group chat.
But three seconds later, Ye Yangjia dragged him back.
Ye Yangjia: [How come you're still vulnerable? ]
Shi Chan set his phone to silent mode and lay down to sleep.
He had a nightmare that night. In his dream, he beat Ye Yangjia into a pulp. Lin Zhuyue quarreled with him because he treated his classmates violently, slapped him in the face, and insisted on breaking up with him.
When Shi Can woke up in the morning, he felt his throat was very dry. He went out with a cup to get some water and met Lin Zhuyue who was feeding the dog with a bowl of vegetable and meat paste.
The violent frown subsided slightly.
The idea of giving Ye Yangjia a good beating gradually dissipated.
Shi Can's eyes and eyebrows became gentle again, and he greeted Lin Zhuyue, who was wearing pajamas and holding a slow food bowl:
"morning."
His voice was hoarse and his tone changed.
"What's wrong with your voice?"
Lin Zhuyue was startled by Shican's voice and asked,
"Do you have a cold? I'll find you some medicine... You don't have a fever, do you?"
I did have a fever, a burning fever of rage.
"It's okay, maybe your heating is turned up too high."
Shi Chan found a suitable reason for himself.
"Yuancheng is too dry for me, and turning on the heating makes it even more unbearable."
Lin Zhuyue muttered:
"I think it's because Tiancheng is too humid."
Lin Zhuyue put food in Naibei's bed, changed the water and diaper, and went to find medicine for Shican. She found some anti-inflammatory drugs, took Shican to get some water, watched him swallow the medicine, and gave him a box of puffed sea throat lozenges.
The sweet and refreshing taste spread in his mouth, and Shican felt his throat feel better.
He went into Lin Zhuyue's kitchen and cooked two bowls of noodles, seasoning them with lard and soy sauce, and blanched pea tips. As Shi Can spread the pea tips on the noodles, he wondered if he should plant some pea tips when he got home; Lin Zhuyue seemed to like them.
After the noodles were served on the table, Lin Zhuyue picked up a piece of noodles with chopsticks and inhaled it because it was so hot.
"...Don't rush to eat it, it's very hot."
Shi Can handed Lin Zhuyue a glass of cold water and asked,
"How does it taste? Is it overcooked?"
“It’s delicious.”
Lin Zhuyue said very flatteringly,
“I like soft noodles.”
When Lin Zhuyue was ill, Shi Can would often ask his family to cook her porridge or soft noodles. Lin Zhuyue had no problem with soft noodles, and now it seemed that she had always preferred them.
After breakfast, the two went for a walk with the dog.
After walking the dog, they sat in the living room and played games together. Lin Zhuyue wasn't very good at Contra, often dying at the second level. Shi Can had no problem with this and played round after round with Lin Zhuyue.
When lunch was delivered, Lin Zhuyue discovered that Lin Lang had really asked the restaurant to make a lot of Lao Ma Pig's Trotter Flower. Six pig's trotters were split in the middle and cut into twelve pieces, which were served in a milky white soup with soft white kidney beans.
After lunch and clearing the table, Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can rushed to the airport together.
They returned to Tiancheng at night.
Baguette was playing with a ball in the cat room. When the door was opened, he ran over and pulled on Shican's pants, acting coquettishly and asking Shican to hold him.
Lin Zhuyue, who followed in, bent down and picked up the baguette, sucking it non-stop, making the baguette meow and want to run away.
After struggling for a while, the baguette successfully broke free from the shackles.
But Shi Can didn't follow the rules and stuffed a freeze-dried duck breast into Lin Zhuyue's hand. The baguette, which hadn't eaten freeze-dried food for two days, chose to give in to the delicious food and jumped into Lin Zhuyue's arms with a wronged look on its face.
Lin Zhuyue happily returned to her room holding the baguette.
Not long after, Shi Can knocked on Lin Zhuyue's door.
He took out four mobile phone cases, all with the theme of Zhulu making money, but in different colors: red, pink, blue and black. Shi Can asked Lin Zhuyue to choose one.
Lin Zhuyue chose a bright red phone case.
She took off the transparent phone case that came with her phone when she bought it and replaced it with the one that Shi Can had given her. The new phone case was not as tight as the old one, and after putting it on, Lin Zhuyue felt that the buttons on the side were much more flexible to press.
After Shi Can and Lin Zhuyue made their choices, he chose a black phone case for his phone.
Baguette ran over and bit his phone case, but after just two bites, Shican grabbed the back of his neck and put him on the ground.
Lin Zhuyue rolled over on the bed holding the phone, then quickly turned back over and asked:
"By the way, do you have any computer recommendations?"
“What are your needs?”
Shi Chan stretched out his hand to fight with the baguette and asked,
"I see you don't usually play games?"
"I didn't buy it for myself, I chose it for my mother."
Lin Zhuyue sat up and said,
"She doesn't play games, she only works on her computer, so she prefers a lightweight and portable computer. She doesn't seem to like using a Mac. Uncle Bao bought her a Mac, but it wasn't used for long and was left unused."
Shi Can always thought thin and light laptops were garbage, but it seemed that Lin Lang's needs depended on a thin and light laptop. He said he would research it and recommend a computer to Lin Zhuyue once he found out the trick.
The first breakfast after returning to Tiancheng was eaten with Wen Miyan and Ye Yangjia.
The housekeeper and the chef were both on vacation, so Shi Chan had to cook for himself. He fried pineapple jam and beat it with fermented butter to make pineapple butter, which he spread on the slightly crispy endless toast. It tasted sour, sweet and mellow.
The four people talked about someone calling Zhang Ma and offering 600,000 yuan in exchange for Lin Zhuyue's hair.
Lin Zhuyue held her face in her hands and sighed:
"I never imagined that a single hair of mine could be worth 600,000 yuan. When I first started high school, I had my hair cut once and sold it for 1,000 yuan. I really want to buy it back for three times the price."
"The nature of this matter is quite bad."
Wen Miyan swallowed the toast in her mouth and said,
"The Spiritual Master Mansion's top brass will definitely investigate this matter, but if aristocratic families are involved, they will likely try to smooth things over after they find out."
Ye Yangjia corrected him, "Remove the 'if'. This will definitely involve the aristocratic family."
"I know."
Shi Can handed Lin Zhuyue another piece of toast and said,
"So I plan to ask my parents to put pressure on the Spiritual Master Mansion."
Wen Miyan picked up the knife, scooped out a piece of butter and spread it on the toast, saying:
"Fortunately, the Spiritual Master Mansion didn't know that Zhuyue's spiritual weapon was a Ukiyo-e scroll. If it wasn't a Ukiyo-e scroll, it would have been like this. If they had found out it was a Ukiyo-e scroll, wouldn't they have hired a professional assassin to assassinate him?"
"Assassinations at home don't work."
Shi Can picked up the oolong tea and said,
"But if you go abroad, it's hard to say."
After breakfast, the four of them did their winter vacation homework together.
Shi Can, Wen Miyan and Ye Yangjia grew up together, but their childhood friendship did not foster a tacit understanding of teamwork, but almost crazy competition.
When they enter the training hall, they compete to see who can fight better. When they leave the training hall, they compete to see who has better grades, from childhood to adulthood.
While doing their homework, the three of them started talking about magic and a heated argument broke out.
Amidst the clamor, Lin Zhuyue looked at the winter vacation life handbook for a while, sweating slightly on his forehead.
Stop arguing! Can someone teach her how to do this crappy homework?
The crazy homework party ended at noon.
Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can ate lunch together, and after a break, they went to the Spiritual Master's Mansion. Regarding the matter of Zhang Ma and Zhang Kai, the Spiritual Master's Mansion asked Lin Zhuyue to describe the details so that they could handle and record the case.
Gong Yongyuan was also called over.
"It's really not easy for you."
Gong Yongyuan patted Lin Zhuyue's shoulder and said,
"You're still a newbie, yet you've run into all sorts of trouble. Well, speaking of which... since I've done you a favor, can you help me steal Shichan's blue fat man doll?"
Shi Can looked at Gong Yongyuan who was plotting loudly:
"I'm not deaf yet."
Gong Yongyuan rolled his eyes and said:
"If you hadn't said anything, I would have thought you were deaf."
Fu Xingwei typed on the keyboard, writing down the three students' words. He would then sort things out, record the incident in the Spiritual Master's Mansion's archives, and give the three children some extra credits.
Shi Chan asked without any hesitation:
"Teacher, regarding this matter, has the Spiritual Master's Mansion found out anything?"
"The owner of the phone number is an 80-year-old man with poor hearing. I have to shout a sentence at him over and over again before he can hear it clearly."
Fu Xingwei said,
"However, the Spiritual Master Mansion still verified the transaction information. The current user of the mobile phone number is a capable person in the martial arts world. I think he and some spiritual masters must have interests involved. However, this still needs to wait for a detailed investigation from above."
"I know the Shi family will put pressure on you. But I support the Shi family putting pressure on the Spiritual Master Mansion. Those who choose to stand by you may also be waiting for the Shi family to put pressure on you."
Shi Chan informed in advance:
"It might cause you trouble."
If the Shi family puts pressure on him, someone from above will definitely come to persuade Fu Xingwei, hoping that he will come forward to persuade Shi Can. After all, he is the class teacher, and Shi Can will definitely not listen to him.
"It's okay, I can handle it."
Fu Xingwei handed over the touch screen.
"Sign it. As a teacher, I really hope I can be of some help to you."
After saying goodbye to Fu Xingwei, Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can planned to return to the Shi family first. However, before leaving the gate of the Spiritual Master's Mansion, they were stopped by someone.
The person who called them was Yi Lanshan, the head of the advanced department. He had previously been suspended for investigation under pressure from the Shi family because he had concluded that Shi Chan had disappeared accidentally without a thorough investigation into the matter of Shi Chan getting lost in the underworld. He was only recently proven innocent and reinstated.
Shi Can felt a little guilty about this and said:
"Director Yi, I'm sorry for causing trouble for your family before."
"It's okay, it's true that I didn't handle it properly."
Yi Lanshan had no intention of blaming Shi Can, and said,
"I didn't doubt Bai Xiangyu. I gave up on rescuing you too early. I almost caused your parents to lose you."
"By the way, the higher-ups just assigned the Higher Education Department a mission that's a bit tricky. I think it might be a good idea to give it to you guys."
Shi Chan raised an eyebrow and asked, "Mission?"
"Come to my office and talk."
Yi Lanshan took the initiative to invite,
"Although it's a bit tricky, the mission rewards are good and the credits are high."
Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can looked at each other and followed Yi Lanshan to her office.
Yi Lanshan personally brewed tea for Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can. She brewed the ancient Pu'er tea that she had collected for a long time. The tea soup was clear and bright red, with a scent from the mountains and plains.
"Would you like some snacks?"
Yi Lanshan opened a tin box, which contained various cookies. She placed the tin box in front of Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can, then turned around and took out a blue folder from the desk drawer and said,
"The mission location is a bit far away, in the United States."
Lin Zhuyue asked thoughtfully, "Beautiful Country?"
Yi Lanshan nodded:
"This is a problem encountered by the local church. The nuns in the church are unable to handle it. We hope that spiritual directors can provide assistance."
Shi Can sneered and said:
"What a coincidence! I was telling my partner this morning that we couldn't go abroad. And just after noon, someone asked us to go to the United States, where Ling Yan died. Do you know what this means? It means that assassinating powerful spiritualists there is possible."
"Director Yi, after you trick us out of the country, how do you plan to get rid of us? Sniper? Poisoning? Accident? Or maybe just create some kind of incident that will land us in jail abroad, never to return?"
Yi Lanshan frowned slightly and asked:
"What do you mean by that?"
Shi Can poured tea on the tea pet and asked:
"What do you mean? Mr. Fu is at work. What kind of mission can he send to a student without going through the homeroom teacher? Are you trying to say that the mission is highly confidential and Mr. Fu doesn't have the authority?"
Lin Zhuyue raised his head and said:
"Director Yi, if something goes wrong with a person once, it can be said that they have been wronged. But if it goes wrong a second or third time, then there is a need for further investigation."
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