Chapter 52: Are you finally going to force yourself on me on my birthday?
"Did you misunderstand something?"
Yi Lanshan frowned and tried to argue for herself.
"How could I possibly harm you? What good would it do me to harm you?"
"You should discuss these matters with the interrogator."
Shi Can took out a recorder from his pocket and said,
"If the higher-ups truly intend to send my partner and me on a mission abroad, you won't be held responsible. However, if this is just a decision made by a few people... your career as a spiritualist and the careers of those people will be over."
Yi Lanshan sighed.
She reached out and picked up the cup on the tea tray, muttering:
"I've already told the old man that this won't work. I'm out of control and outmatched. Hand over the recorder. I'll accept whatever the outcome. This is probably my karma."
Shi Can wanted to ask more questions, but Yi Lanshan refused to speak. Shi Can had no choice but to hand the recorder to Fu Xingwei and watch as the Spiritual Master's Office issued an order for the spiritual masters on duty to take Yi Lanshan into custody.
Shi Can drove Lin Zhuyue home.
Lin Zhuyue sat on the sofa and played with Shican's Capybara. When she pulled the drawstring, the doll's tail began to spin like a propeller.
The Flying Capybara's tail made some noises as it spun. Frightened, Baguette's ears turned into airplane ears. He sat on the coffee table, his head shrunk back until his face was flattened. He opened his mouth and uttered a warning sound:
"ha--!"
Shi Can held the baguette in his arms and said to Lin Zhuyue:
"You seem to be in a good mood. I thought you would be very unhappy."
"How should I put it? I have a feeling it's not surprising."
Lin Zhuyue put down the Capibara in his hand, supported himself on the sofa with both hands, stretched his legs, and said,
"When she was suspended for investigation last time, I felt that there might be something wrong with her. But I didn't dare to say it. Teacher Fu and Principal Liang seemed to trust her very much, and I was also afraid that I would wrongly accuse a good person."
"I have a suggestion for you."
Shi Can lowered his head, pinched the baguette's chubby cat paw, let it dance with seaweed in his arms, and said,
"Trust your feelings. For people like us who have strong inspiration, our feelings are rarely wrong. If you think there's something wrong with someone, then there's a high probability that they do."
Unable to bear the torture of his psychotic master, Baguette wanted to jump out of Shican's arms, but Shican, who was very skilled in controlling cats, held him and he could not escape.
Shi Chan held the cat in one hand and reached into the gap between the sofa cushions with the other hand, taking out a nail clipper like a magician.
Baguette wanted to escape even more.
"You're a house cat and you don't need to hunt, so why do you need such long nails?"
Shi Can pinched the pad of the baguette, brought it close to his nose and sniffed it, saying with disdain,
"You stink, you need to wash your feet."
Baguette pushed Shi Chan’s face away with the pad of his meat.
Shi Chan smiled and asked:
"If you don't let me smell it, it won't stink if I don't smell it?"
When Shi Chan talked to the kitten, his voice was much gentler than usual, even a little bit harsh, like coaxing a child. Shi Chan had argued that he didn't want to pick it up, but when he didn't, the baguette would simply ignore him.
Shi Can felt that perhaps kittens were animals that needed to be pampered and coaxed.
Shi Can handed the nail clippers to Lin Zhuyue and asked:
"Would you like to try cutting the baguette's nails?" "I don't dare to do it."
Lin Zhuyue waved his hand and asked,
"Weren't you scared when you first cut the baguette's nails?"
"I was scared. I was afraid of cutting the blood line, so I didn't trim the baguette's nails for a long time. Fortunately, it doesn't scratch people."
Shi Can pinched the cat's face and said,
"Later, it used its nails to hook the wallpaper and climb the walls of my room like a gecko. One morning, it fell from the ceiling and hit me. I couldn't stand it anymore, so I disarmed it. I didn't dare to cut it at all at the time, so I only cut a little bit."
The term "disarmament" is quite funny.
Lin Zhuyue took out some freeze-dried chicken breast, broke it into pieces and fed it to the baguette.
Baguette is not very honest when cutting nails.
Shi Can said to Lin Zhuyue:
"Don't feed it, I'm going to seal it."
Shi Can took out a cut bottle and put the upper half on the baguette's head. The bottle mouth was twisted open so as not to hinder the kitten's breathing.
After the baguette was covered by the bottle, its remaining intelligence disappeared. It sat blankly in Shican's arms, allowing Shican to pinch its paws and cut its nails. It was as obedient as a doll.
Lin Zhuyue: “…Wow.”
Shican cut the nails very quickly. After cutting, he took off the bottle on the baguette head, put the cat on the ground, and called the robot vacuum cleaner to clean the floor.
Baguette has the habit of riding on the robot vacuum cleaner. As soon as the robot vacuum cleaner comes over, it jumps on it.
Shi Chan grabbed the baguette by the scruff of the neck and lifted it off.
Baguette, with his perseverance, quickly climbed back up, and Shi Chan continued to carry him. The struggle between man and cat continued until the robot vacuum finished sweeping and returned to the base station. Baguette chased the robot vacuum to the base station and meowed at it while it was already cleaning itself.
Shi Chan went to wash his hands.
When he came back, he brought back some nuts.
Lin Zhuyue used a pry opener to pry open the macadamia nuts, but after only a few, she felt it was troublesome and leaned back on the sofa, stopping eating.
"You can be pretty lazy sometimes."
Shi Can picked up the opener, peeled a macadamia nut, handed it to Lin Zhuyue's mouth, and asked,
"Do you eat pine nuts?"
Lin Zhuyue replied, "Food."
After peeling the macadamia nuts, Shi Can peeled pine nuts for her.
Macadamia nuts and pine nuts are oily. Shi Can spent an entire afternoon peeling them, and his fingertips felt a bit greasy. He looked at Lin Zhuyue, who was eating nuts like a squirrel, and kept wanting to pinch her face, but gave up because of the oil on his hands.
Lin Zhuyue held the cat and ate nuts, almost forgetting about Yi Lanshan.
She always felt recently that there seemed to be some strange magic in Shican's house. As long as she stayed here, she could feel a feeling called happiness.
On the third day of Yi Lanshan's detention, the Spiritual Master's Mansion sent Fu Xingwei to the Shi family to explain the situation to Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can.
"Director Yi confessed to intending to murder you."
Fu Xingwei took the lychee black tea handed to him by Shi Can and said,
"But that's just her intention. Every time you were in danger, she didn't take any direct action. She just played a role in adding fuel to the fire."
"Why did Director Yi do this?"
Shi Can added milk to Lin Zhuyue's tea and asked in confusion,
"I remember her parents were ordinary people with clean backgrounds and no connections to any aristocratic families."
Fu Xingwei nodded and said:
"That's how it was originally...but she's in a relationship with a disciple of Old Master Xiao. So, she's also involved with the aristocratic family."
Lin Zhuyue held the teacup and asked:
"The person who offered my nanny 600,000 to buy my hair is also related to the Xiao family?"
"It was Director Yi's boyfriend who did it."
Fu Xingwei answered Lin Zhuyue's question.
"But that man was very stubborn. No matter how we asked, he refused to admit that this matter had anything to do with the Xiao family. He said that he saw that the master was in a bad mood and wanted to do something for him, so he made a mistake."
Shi Can asked, "Does the Spiritual Master House believe such words?"
"Of course not."
Fu Xingwei took a sip of red tea and said,
"The Spiritual Master's Mansion is already collecting evidence. If all goes well, they might be able to sentence the old man to a few years. But he's old, so the higher-ups probably won't let him go to jail."
Shi Chan sarcastically said, "Being older is good. You don't have to go to jail if you commit a crime. When I get older, I'll get into some big trouble too."
Shi Can invited Fu Xingwei to have lunch. He personally cooked a tomato meat sauce and pasta for three people. His tomatoes were heirloom varieties, much more flavorful than the more common varieties on the market. The meat was also black pork, and the meat sauce was very fragrant.
After dinner, Fu Xingwei began to care about his students' studies:
"How are you two doing with your winter vacation homework?"
Lin Zhuyue: "..."
Lin Zhuyue gritted his teeth and replied, "Not much."
"Take it out and show it to me."
Fu Xingwei saw something in Lin Zhuyue's eyes.
"Don't be afraid. I won't scold you no matter what you write. I just want to check on your learning progress."
Having said that, Lin Zhuyue could only go upstairs to find her winter vacation life handbook.
She took the homework down with a fearless attitude and handed it to Fu Xingwei. Not only did she write very little, but there were also many mistakes, and she did not correct them.
Fu Xingwei frowned as he watched.
Shi Can reminded Fu Xingwei:
"Teacher, we agreed not to scold her."
Fu Xingwei raised his head from his homework and said:
"I did say I wouldn't scold her, but I didn't say I wouldn't scold you. Shican, I asked you to tutor her, how exactly did you do that?"
Shi Can: “…”
It's like a fire in the city gate that affects all the fish in the pond.
For the next few days, Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can were both studying hard. Lin Zhuyue, who hadn't cried out loudly despite being framed, was like a dead fish in boiling water, lying on his homework, the little pearls in his eyes about to fall.
She didn't want to cry, she was just too sleepy. These past few nights, she had been dreaming about Fu Xingwei checking her homework. She hadn't slept well and was so sleepy she felt like dying.
At the same time, planning for Shican's birthday party also began.
This guy, who makes people want to slap him in the face as soon as he opens his mouth, was born on the romantic day of February 14th. He is an Aquarius man who is both rational and neurotic. He is the one who single-handedly caused Aquarius to be scolded to a new level in the forum.
Lin Zhuyue, Wen Miyan and Ye Yangjia were discussing what gifts to give.
"I bought him a Patek Philippe."
Wen Miyan handed Lin Zhuyue a small piece of cake and said,
"We usually give each other watches for birthdays. It's nothing new, but it's not hard to make mistakes."
Ye Yangjia shook the recliner slightly and said:
"I bought him a sailboat. It's not expensive, only about a million."
Lin Zhuyue: "...?"
What do you mean by “only” about one million?
Lin Zhuyue asked, "Has he ever received any cheap gifts?"
“Yes.”
Ye Yangjia said gloatingly,
"Last year, someone from Kunlun Branch gave Shi Can a gift, saying it was a homemade cake. After Shi Can unboxed it, he saw a moldy steamed bun with a candle stuck in it."
"I think you can just buy him something. Even if you give him a bag of dog food, he'll be so happy that he'll take off into the sky."
Lin Zhuyue showed a confused expression.
Is it too much to send dog food? After receiving the dog food, Shi Chan probably won’t be overjoyed, but will want her to be overjoyed.
Shi Can had always celebrated his birthday in Linhai City. This year, he was concerned that Lin Zhuyue was in a precarious situation and couldn't easily go out, so he planned to hold a birthday party at home.
Various gifts also arrived in Tiancheng one after another.
Cui Yi and Shi Yingshao bought Shi Can a flashy Lamborghini. Fu Xingwei gave him two ancient books containing some strange spells. Gong Yongyuan, quite unconventional, gave Shi Can a gold bar.
On the morning of Shican's birthday, Lin Zhuyue handed Shican a cup of Bawang Tea Ji's Boya Juexian.
"Where's the milk tea?"
Shi Can took the milk tea, opened the drinking hole on the cup lid, inserted the flat straw into it, and said,
"It's not easy to drink milk tea here."
Shican exercises almost every day, so his metabolism is high and he drinks a lot of water. He finished this big cup of milk tea in no time.
After drinking, he threw the cup into the trash can.
Lin Zhuyue grabbed his collar.
Shi Can was startled by Lin Zhuyue. He leaned back on the sofa and asked calmly:
"What's wrong? Are you finally going to force yourself on me? Lin Zhuyue, let me tell you, I have dignity. This price for a cup of milk tea is absolutely not acceptable. It should be at least two..."
Lin Zhuyue grabbed his collar with one hand and pointed at the milk tea cup in the trash can with the other, interrupting Shi Can's dirty talk:
"Pick it up."
Shi Can obediently took the milk tea cup back into his hands.
Lin Zhuyue loosened his collar and said:
"Open the lid."
Shi Can opened the black cup lid and saw a black ring in the gap between the cup lid and the sealing sticker. The ring seemed to be made of black jadeite and was very full.
Lin Zhuyue fished the certificate from her pocket and handed it to Shi Can. She then turned on the flashlight on her phone to illuminate the ring. The jadeite ring, illuminated by the light, revealed a pure green, without a trace of cottony grain. It was a truly perfect ring.
Shi Chan asked in surprise, "Birthday present?"
"Well, I asked my aunt to find someone to collect it."
Lin Zhuyue turned off the flashlight and said,
"It's not a very expensive item. Compared to the hairpin you gave me, it's not worth much... I originally wanted to buy a saddle ring, but when I saw this, I thought it looked better, so I decided to buy it."
"Don't be disgusted. When I make more money, I will definitely give you a more expensive one next year."
Shi Chan put the ring on his ring finger. The width was just right and it fit him perfectly.
"Thank you. I like it very much."
Shi Can raised his hand to look at the ring, then lowered his gaze to look at Lin Zhuyue, and promised in a very serious tone,
"I promise not to smear cake cream on your face tonight."
As night fell, Shican's birthday party began.
Although this year's birthday party was held at home, it was anything but ordinary. We decorated the house extensively and even bought some ambient lighting. The guests we invited this year were all familiar, so the atmosphere was exceptionally good.
As soon as Shi Chan blew out the candles, the cream war began.
Following the principle of killing familiar people first and beating teammates first, Gong Yongyuan scooped up a lump of cream with a plastic knife and smashed it on Meng Qi's face.
The battle began. Shi Can moved as fast as Spider-Man. He slid under the table at lightning speed, and then saw Lin Zhuyue under the table.
Shi Chan teased, "You're hiding so quickly?"
"I'm not hiding."
Lin Zhuyue calmly shook the jar in his hand.
"I hid my gear here."
Shi Can saw clearly the can in Lin Zhuyue's hand. It was Anchor's cream spray can, the kind that could spray out a lot of cream when you pressed the pump head.
Shi Chan: "...You really have no martial virtues."
What's the difference between carrying a spray can during a cream fight and carrying a gun during archery training?
"Lend it to me."
Shi Can took the spray can from Lin Zhuyue's hand, rushed out from under the table, sprayed Ye Yangjia and then Gong Yongyuan.
But no matter how good his weapons were, they couldn't stop him from asking for a beating. As soon as he got out from under the table, he was surrounded and covered in cream. Shi Can wiped his face and barely opened his eyes, only to be sprayed in the face by Lin Zhuyue holding the can.
Shi Can: “…”
Lin Zhuyue said proudly:
"Didn't expect that? I still have a can."
The partnership was completely broken. Shi Can ignored his promise in the morning, raised his hand and pressed the pump head, spraying cream all over Lin Zhuyue's face.
"Damn it! Meng Dake, how dare you dirty my ring!"
After Shi Can scolded Lin Zhuyue, he went to fight back against Meng Qi.
"Don't even think about going back if you don't turn into a snowman today!"
Meng Qi dodged the cream sprayed by Shi Can and said angrily:
"Why not just wash it? If you don't want it to get dirty, don't wear it out!"
The crazy birthday dinner lasted until eleven o'clock. After all the cake cream was used up, everyone was finally able to sit together peacefully and eat the cake base.
Shi Can handed Lin Zhuyue a wet wipe.
But Lin Zhuyue was busy eating and didn't have the wet wipes in his hand.
Shi Can took the wet wipes out of the bag, wiped the cream off Lin Zhuyue's face, threw it into the trash can, and then began to clean himself up with the wet wipes.
After eating the cake, everyone went home.
Lin Zhuyue and Shican went upstairs to take a shower.
Lin Zhuyue has long hair and was completely crazy tonight, so it took her a lot of effort to wash herself clean.
The mess downstairs was already being cleaned up. The driver, housekeeper, chef and gardener were all busy. The four of them worked very hard because doing these things in the Shi family would get a raise.
After drying her hair, Lin Zhuyue checked her phone for messages.
Lin Lang had been working overtime at the company today and had just returned home. She had received the computer Lin Zhuyue had bought her, a thin and light laptop costing around 13,000 yuan. However, something rather amusing had happened—Bo Yi and Bao Jiayou had also bought her a computer, and both Lin Zhuyue and Bao Jiayou had bought the same model.
A few days later, the Spiritual Master Academy started.
Lin Zhuyue handed in her winter vacation homework. Shi Can corrected it quite carefully. There were a lot of red crosses and correction marks on Lin Zhuyue's winter vacation life handbook.
After handing in the homework, the class started the class meeting.
After Yi Lanshan was dismissed, Fu Xingwei was promoted to the head of the senior department. After this semester, he will no longer be the class teacher.
The classmates in the class were all reluctant to leave.
Fu Xingwei was twenty-six years old this year. He was only twenty-three when he took over this class, making him the youngest head teacher in the senior division ever. However, he had been very capable since his student days, and the group of eccentrics in Class 1 respected him very much and got along well with him.
On the second day of school, Lin Zhuyue received the task.
Although they always felt that they had no chance to show their abilities when carrying out missions with Shi Can and their mission evaluations were very low, Wen Miyan and Ye Yangjia still joined the mission team without hesitation.
Four people were studying materials in a temporary meeting room.
The client of this mission is a woman in her fifties. Her daughter had been in a car accident. In the years after the accident, her eyesight was greatly reduced. Now she is almost completely blind and has difficulty taking care of herself.
Not long ago, the client discovered that his daughter would talk inexplicably while walking. She was not talking to herself, but more like there was someone next to her and the two were talking to each other.
The client initially thought her daughter had developed a mental illness due to the psychological trauma of losing her sight. However, after observing her for a long time, she felt that her daughter's mental state was normal, unlike those suffering from schizophrenia and multiple personality disorder.
When the client was welcoming the God of Wealth on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, she discussed the matter with a nun in a temple near her home. With her help, she contacted the spiritual master's house, hoping that the spiritual masters could help her daughter stay away from the invisible existence.
"Since they were able to contact the Spiritual Master's Mansion and send the case to us, it must be a supernatural incident."
After reading the mission file, Ye Yangjia said,
"How do we get there? By car or plane?"
"Piling City is not far away, let's drive."
Shi Can put the task file back into the file bag and said,
"Pack your luggage and meet at my doorstep in an hour. Bring enough clothes. Piling City is in the north and may not be as warm as Tiancheng."
Since returning from the underworld, Lin Zhuyue has been staying at Shi Can's house. She'd considered returning to the dorm, but it was the rainy season, and the room was incredibly damp. Even a dehumidifier wouldn't help, and every load of laundry had to be taken to Shi Can's house for drying. Living in these conditions was incredibly uncomfortable, so Lin Zhuyue stayed put.
Lin Zhuyue opened the suitcase and rolled up the clothes he was going to take with him and put them in.
Baguette stretched out his paws, stepped into the box, sat down, and looked at Lin Zhuyue obediently with his head raised.
Lin Zhuyue took the baguette out.
The baguette persevered and went back into the box.
Lin Zhuyue: "..."
The cat loves her and wants to go with her.
Lin Zhuyue picked up Baguette with tears in her eyes and locked the kitten back in the cat room. Before leaving the cat room, she fed Baguette some freeze-dried salmon. She wanted to open a bag of freeze-dried pork tenderloin to feed it, but Shi Can caught her on the spot and deprived her of the right to feed the freeze-dried pork loin.
Shi Can picked up the suitcase for Lin Zhuyue and said:
"Baguette has been eating too much freeze-dried food recently and doesn't like cat food anymore. Yesterday, when I fed it, I had to use a spoon to feed it so it would eat."
They went out together, packed their suitcases and basic tool kit into the car, and waited in the car for a while before Wen Miyan and Ye Yangjia came over dragging their luggage.
While refueling at the gas station, Shi Can said to Wen Mi Yan who had just returned from the toilet:
"Let's discuss it. I want to sit in the back row."
Wen Miyan said, "Then I'll drive."
"OK."
After the two of them talked for a few words outside the car, Shi Can went to the back seat and sat next to Lin Zhuyue. Wen Miyan got into the driver's seat, started the engine with a quick movement, released the handbrake, and drove away at lightning speed.
"What the hell! Why did you let her drive?"
Ye Yangjia held the seat belt tightly and exclaimed,
"Shican! You're a bastard who's obsessed with women and disregards human life! I curse you to sprain your ankle and get stuck in your teeth when you walk!"
Shi Chan poured out two motion sickness pills and accused, “You are so vicious.”
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