Chapter 55: Sea Urchin Baguette, Do You Want to Break Up This Family? ...
Lin Zhuyue stood aside, picked up the blue hyacinths she had just bought from the flower market, and handed them to Fang Wenruo.
In her last letter, Fang Wenwen wrote that she hoped Fang Wenruo would visit her with a pot of blue hyacinths. Fang Wenruo fulfilled her sister's wish, and before each visit to the grave, he would buy a pot of blue hyacinths and place it in front of Fang Wenwen's tombstone.
This year, blue hyacinths will still be there.
Fang Wenruo took the flower and handed it to Fang Wenwen.
Wang Xiaolian groped her way over and said:
“Sister, sister…”
She had been with Fang Wenruo for so long, so long that the idea of having a sister had become ingrained in her mind. Now, she felt her "sister" was about to leave, and she felt a deep sense of trepidation.
"Xiaolian..."
Fang Wenruo turned her head and called softly,
"I'm sorry, I'm not actually your sister. Thank you for accompanying me during this time. I seem to have caused you quite a bit of trouble. Please allow me to make amends..."
Fang Wenruo stretched out her only remaining hand and gently caressed Wang Xiaolian's eye sockets. A tiny glimmer of light emanated from Fang Wenruo's body, flowing through her pale, transparent fingers and into Wang Xiaolian's eyes. Then, Fang Wenruo's soul became transparent and much weaker.
Fang Wenruo withdrew his hand and stopped looking at Wang Xiaolian.
She took Fang Wenwen's hand, closed her eyes, and smiled contentedly. Her and her sister's souls transformed into fireflies, melting into the breeze that passed by the window, which had been opened at some unknown time, and dispersed with the wind, never to be separated again.
The compass needle stopped moving.
Everything returned to calm.
Wang Xiaolian lowered her head in a daze, then raised her hand and opened and closed her fingers.
Jiang Zhilan showed a look of surprise and joy, and asked:
"Xiao Lian, could it be that you..."
"Mom, I think... I can see..."
Wang Xiaolian raised her hand, blinked, and said,
"Although I can only see a little bit...but I can see..."
Wen Miyan immediately contacted the Spiritual Master's Mansion, hoping that the Spiritual Master's Mansion could arrange for a doctor to re-diagnose Wang Xiaolian's eyes. After learning that the doctor appointed by the Spiritual Master's Mansion would arrive today, Wen Miyan hung up the phone with relief.
"She may not have completely lost her sight in the first place."
Wen Miyan wiped Wang Xiaolian's eyes with bamboo leaves dipped in rootless water and said,
"She stayed with Fang Wenruo's spirit for too long, being corroded by the Yin energy, which led to her almost complete loss of vision. Now that Fang Wenruo has left, and he has used part of his own soul to treat her, her vision will be much better."
"It's unlikely that I'll be able to pick up a brush again, but I might be able to take care of myself in daily life."
In addition to opening the eyes, bamboo leaves dipped in offered rootless water also have a most basic function, which is to improve eyesight.
Wang Xiaolian was not most concerned about her eyes. She asked cautiously:
"Will she be happy?"
"My soul returns to the heaven and earth, transforming into wind and snow, and from now on I am free."
Lin Zhuyue picked up the blue hyacinth that fell on the ground.
"I don't know what that feeling is like, but she and her sister will be together forever. She should be very happy in her heart, right?"
Wang Xiaolian showed a relieved expression: "That's good."
Lin Zhuyue wrote down the address of the cemetery where Fang Wenruo and Fang Wenwen were buried in a notebook and had Wang Xiaolian and Jiang Zhilan sign a confidentiality agreement. She then tucked the signed agreements into a file bag and left with her companions. Because Lin Zhuyue's psychic dream was the most crucial part of the investigation, she was also in charge of writing the mission report.
Lin Zhuyue asked while typing on the laptop keyboard:
"A ghost was blind during life, so it can't regain its sight after death?"
"Most of the dead souls remain in the state they were in before death."
Shi Can sat next to Lin Zhuyue, pulled the blindfold off and covered his eyes, and said,
"If you were nearsighted in life, you'll be nearsighted after death. If you were blind in life, you'll probably have little vision after death. However, after death, the soul's sensitivity may become stronger, so the fact that the afterlife is still dark is not as unbearable as you might imagine. By the way...is my hair a little curly?"
Lin Zhuyue raised her head and looked at the ends of Shi Can's hair and asked:
"It seems a bit. Are you naturally curly?"
Ye Yangjia, who was driving, answered for Shi Can without even turning his head:
"Young Master Shi's hair starts to curl when it grows to a certain length, and there's so much of it, he looks like a sheep."
Ye Yangjia's words were full of jealousy.
In this era of average hair loss, Shican actually has thick hair and refuses to lose his hair, which is really enviable.
"Go back and get it cut."
Shi Can lifted up the blindfold, reached out and lifted up Lin Zhuyue's hair, and said,
"You should get your hair trimmed too. The ends are split."
They returned to Tiancheng at night.
Shican handed the tropical fish he bought to the housekeeper.
Wen Miyan and Ye Yangjia simply stayed at Shi Can's house for dinner. The two of them were very purposeful and went straight to the cat room without any hesitation after entering the door. Wen Miyan hugged the cat and sucked it. Ye Yangjia rubbed his hands and asked Shi Can:
"Do you have any allergy medicine at home?"
Ye Yangjia is extremely crazy about kittens and would pet them even if it means taking medicine.
Shi Can rolled his eyes and handed over a tablet of loratadine. It seemed as if his loratadine was specially prepared for Ye Yangjia. At least seven of the ten pills were destined for Ye Yangjia's stomach.
After taking the medicine, Ye Yangjia rushed into the cat room.
Wen Miyan was rubbing the round face of the baguette. Ye Yangjia couldn't suck the cat's head, so he lifted the tail of the baguette and said:
"Your butt is so clean."
Shi Can couldn't stand it anymore and wanted to knock Ye Yangjia unconscious and throw him out:
"...I told you not to be so perverted, okay?"
How can a normal person become so abnormal when encountering a kitten? It is really to the extent that the traffic will be restricted if it is posted on the public platform.
Every time Wen Miyan and Ye Yangjia sucked on the baguette, it would become anthropophobic. It climbed to the top of the cat climbing frame, sat sideways, and used its tongue to comb its hair. As it was combing, a hand appeared in front of it.
Ye Yangjia stood in front of the cat climbing frame and asked:
"Can you help me comb my hair too?"
Baguette jumped directly onto the higher cat climbing frame next door.
After dinner, Wen Miyan and Ye Yangjia took the cat strips and tried to seduce Baguette. Shi Can chased them out of his house, brought the Baguette down from the height, and stuffed it into Lin Zhuyue's arms.
He sat in front of Lin Zhuyue's desk and read the task report she wrote in her notebook. It was written very carefully, with specific and comprehensive details, and there was nothing to change.
The next day, Shican called a barber to cut his hair.
After the hairdresser cut Shican's hair shorter, he trimmed the ends of Lin Zhuyue's hair and gave her a nourishing treatment. After the scalp care treatment, Lin Zhuyue's hair was soft and smooth, with a faint scent of orange blossom.
Lin Zhuyue felt so comfortable that she fell asleep.
But Shi Can was not a good person. After taking a shower to wash off the broken hair on his neck, he pulled Lin Zhuyue into the training hall.
They met Gong Yongyuan and Meng Qi in the training hall. Shi Can took the initiative to provoke them. He and Meng Qi shot sixty arrows in half an hour, and Shi Can narrowly won by one ring.
During the intermission, Shi Can turned around and winked at Lin Zhuyue who was sitting on the chair.
"That bastard Shichan is showing you how handsome he is."
Gong Yongyuan opened a bottle of drink and asked,
"Did you see it?"
Lin Zhuyue, who was addicted to playing Candy Crush and had spent twenty-four yuan in half an hour, looked up blankly and asked:
"I didn't see, who won?"
Gong Yongyuan: “…”
Sometimes he would feel sympathy for Shican. A sentimental man meeting a straightforward and insensitive girl is as unfortunate as a sensitive girl meeting a straight man.
I don’t know how much longer Shi Chan can hold on.
Gong Yongyuan decided to go back and secretly read Shi Can's fortune, but his expectations for the result were tinged with personal vengeance. He sincerely hoped that Shi Can would not be able to pursue Lin Zhuyue and would live alone until old age. A bastard like Shi Can deserved only a lonely ending.
The day after tomorrow when Wang Xiaolian went to school, the doctor who treated her sent back the news.
“The situation is better than expected.”
Wen Miyan relayed the story truthfully,
"Wang Xiaolian can distinguish colors, so it's possible for her to return to school. However, she has a severe physical disability and falls easily without a cane. Controlling a pen might be a problem."
Time passes by.
Tiancheng has officially entered the rainy season. The weather is gloomy and foggy, and it will rain lightly while walking on the road.
As a northerner, Lin Zhuyue doesn't have the habit of carrying an umbrella every day. She even thinks it's not worth it to carry an umbrella on such a drizzle. Her way to deal with drizzle is to run as soon as it rains. As long as she runs fast enough, the rain won't wet her.
“And I don’t have an umbrella.”
Shi Can held up an umbrella and stopped Lin Zhuyue at the bottom of the teaching building. He handed her a folding umbrella and said,
"Rheumatism is created little by little. Please be kind to yourself."
Lin Zhuyue took the umbrella.
This umbrella was custom-made by Shi Chan, and it's made of lavender fabric. The special thing about this fabric is that it changes color when it comes into contact with water. Just pour some water on it, and violets will bloom on the umbrella, creating a beautiful and romantic scene.
The two of them walked back holding umbrellas.
A boy's height sometimes stabilizes in his twenties, so Shi Can naturally grew taller. When he walked beside Lin Zhuyue, he was troubled to find that when he looked in Lin Zhuyue's direction, he could only see the violets on the umbrella cloth and Lin Zhuyue's chin.
If I had known earlier, I would have opened a bigger umbrella so that we could walk together holding the same umbrella.
He didn't hope that he wouldn't grow any taller. He knew very well that if his height wasn't good enough, he wouldn't be worthy of a girl who was over 1.7 meters tall.
"A batch of good quality sea urchins arrived at home today."
Shi Can dipped his finger in water and silently drew traces of violets on Lin Zhuyue's umbrella, saying,
"Do you like sea urchin?"
Lin Zhuyue's answer was quite standard:
“I like it if it doesn’t have a fishy smell.”
“It should taste quite sweet.”
Shi Can put down his hands covered with water and said,
"Did you put on lipstick?"
Lin Zhuyue's lips were rosy, soft, and pink. Her complexion was always not very good, and her lips usually had a pale hue. Every time Shi Can looked at her, he couldn't help but put wolfberries in her cup.
"Yeah, Miyan's lipstick."
Lin Zhuyue raised her hand and touched her mouth, and asked in embarrassment,
"It seems a bit thick. Do you have tissues?"
Shi Can touched the cream paper in his pocket, but in the end he didn't take out the paper and gave it to her. He said:
“It’s not thick, it looks good.”
Lin Zhuyue is at the age of learning how to put on makeup, and Wen Miyan likes to bring some makeup products to the academy and is happy to share them. Today she applies lipstick on Lin Zhuyue, and tomorrow she helps Lin Zhuyue curl her eyelashes.
Shi Can often finds that Lin Zhuyue wears dark brown cat eyeliner today, and orange blush tomorrow. Sometimes he feels that Lin Zhuyue's double eyelids seem to have become very deep. When he looks closely, he can find traces of double eyelid tape.
This thing has been updated so many times that they almost want to put the word "invisible" on it when advertising it, but why can it still be seen?
"Why are you staring at me?"
Wen Miyan scolded Shi Can while fixing her double eyelid tape.
"Hide your packet of cream paper. If her lipstick gets rubbed off, it's most likely because of you."
Shi Can was very angry about his injustice——
Is there a possibility that the lipstick is stuck to the cup?
Shi Can has seen Lin Zhuyue wiping the marks on the lid of the thermos cup with a tissue more than once.
One time, Lin Zhuyue was dozing off during class and drank water from his cup without realizing it, leaving a milky apricot lipstick mark.
He didn't know why he didn't wash the cup, but kissed the lip print left behind. As the water in the cup lid flowed into his mouth, the floral fragrance filled his mouth and nose, which seemed to ignite the fire in his heart, causing him to want to press Lin Zhuyue against the wall and kiss her all day long.
Don’t be so perverted, Shican.
He used this sentence to persuade himself all day long.
After returning home with an umbrella, Shi Can put a towel on Lin Zhuyue's head. After changing his clothes and coming out, he found Lin Zhuyue still wearing the towel. He grabbed the towel and rubbed it on Lin Zhuyue's head, wiping away the slight dampness.
Lin Zhuyue didn't comb her hair after drying it. After it dried naturally, it stood up and became curly, like a kebab of lamb that hadn't been shaved in time.
Shican has been nicknamed "Sheep" for more than ten years, and for the first time he feels that "Sheep" can also be cute.
Two people sat at the dining table.
Shi Can handed the peeled sea urchin to Lin Zhuyue and said:
"Be careful. When Ye Yangjia was eating sea urchin, he squeezed it too hard and got his hand pricked by the spines. The doctor spent hours picking them all out. He's traumatized. The sight of sea urchins makes his hand hurt."
“…I feel phantom pain just listening to it.”
Lin Zhuyue scooped out the sea urchin roe with a spoon and asked,
"What are you doing?"
Shi Can was holding his phone and sending a message to Ye Yangjia, saying:
"I'm inviting Ye Yangjia to come over and eat sea urchin."
Lin Zhuyue: "..."
There's a reason why everyone wants to beat Shi Chan.
Fortunately, Shican’s fighting power is high enough, otherwise he would be beaten into a brown sugar glutinous rice cake sooner or later.
Five minutes later, Ye Yangjia called and gave warm greetings to Shi Can's relatives, with a lot of swear words that were unbearable to hear.
Ye Yangjia came to the door soon after scolding Shi Can.
Shi Can opened the door with a cold face and asked:
"What are you doing here? You don't eat sea urchins."
"I get so excited just thinking about ruining your time alone with Lin Zhuyue."
Ye Yangjia raised his middle finger and said,
"There is retribution for being a slut."
Shi Can took the plum wine from Ye Yangjia's other hand and closed the door expressionlessly. After a while, Shi Can opened the door again and let Ye Yangjia in.
In front of Ye Yangjia, Shi Can poured wine for Lin Zhuyue, peeled sea urchin for Lin Zhuyue personally, and served Lin Zhuyue a bowl of sea urchin steamed egg.
Ye Yangjia wanted to slap himself in the face——
Why do you have to eat this dog food?
Ye Yangjia gritted his teeth and moistened it.
Five minutes later, Wen Miyan came to the door with a box of cookies. She said with a smile:
"I'm here to avenge my partner."
Shi Can wanted to use the same trick again to drive Wen Miyan away.
But Wen Miyan's level was much higher than Ye Yangjia's. She sat next to Lin Zhuyue, holding Lin Zhuyue's hand affectionately, scooped a spoonful of sea urchin and handed it to Lin Zhuyue's mouth. After a while, Lin Zhuyue scooped a spoonful of steamed egg and fed it to Wen Miyan's mouth.
Shi Can: “……?”
Shi Chan felt like the sky was falling.
He went upstairs to put the cat down, trying to get Fabao to distract Wen Miyan. But Fabao was a very sociable cat, and he lay lazily between Lin Zhuyue and Wen Miyan. The two girls even pushed their chairs together so that he could lie comfortably.
Shi Chan wanted to pinch the cat ears of the baguette and asked:
Baguette! Are you going to break up this family?!
After dinner, Wen Miyan slipped away.
Shi Can held Baguette and combed its hair. He combed Baguette's hair diligently, but the British Shorthair breed is like a dandelion, with endless hair. After a while, a lot of cat hair was combed out.
"Kittens shed all the time, but they're still furry."
Lin Zhuyue handed the freeze-dried food to the baguette and said,
“It’s really enviable.”
"I should get a Devon."
Shi Chan picked up a ball of cat hair from the comb, wiped his eyes with a tissue, and said,
"Although I'm not allergic, my eyes really can't stand it every time I comb my hair."
Lin Zhuyue asked, "But you prefer the ones with round faces, right?"
"Yes, when I first chose Baguette, it was because his face was rounder than the other kittens in the litter, and his ears were smaller."
Shi Can pinched the round face of the baguette and said,
"It has no neck yet, like a little golden pig..."
Before Shi Can finished his words, the baguette began to struggle in his arms, as if it was hot, and Shi Can couldn't grab it.
"Oh, you understand?"
Shi Chan put down the comb and picked up the baguette.
"Our baguette has become smart and can understand bad words. So eating too much freeze-dried food really can improve your brain? Then have another bite, and after that, cooperate a little and comb the hair, okay?"
Shi Chan's voice gradually became more pronounced.
Lin Zhuyue felt that Shi Can seemed to be coaxing a child.
Although Shi Chan is a school bully who is scolded by everyone, he is really kind to the kitten. The fact that the baguette is so shiny and has such a good personality is inseparable from the careful care of its owner.
Lin Zhuyue fell asleep in the cat room.
Shican finished combing the baguette and made a "hush" gesture to it.
The baguette jumped up and landed on Lin Zhuyue's chest.
Lin Zhuyue suddenly woke up: "......?"
Shi Can: “…………”
At the end of April, Lin Zhuyue received her own kitten. It was a six-month-old golden-white, long-haired cat named Xiaoyu, a gift from Shican's mother. Xiaoyu's bangs were beautifully and appropriately combed, and even someone with obsessive-compulsive disorder couldn't find fault with them.
The windows of Lin Zhuyue's dormitory have been sealed, and she has also prepared a cat climbing frame and various toys, which were approved by Tiancheng some time ago and transported to the island.
Lin Zhuyue moved out of Shican's house with the cat.
Shi Chan’s entire body was about to break apart.
Choi Yi sent a message to Shi Chan, trying to comfort Shi Chan who had been in a gloomy and rainy mood for several days in a row:
If you both have cats, you'll have a lot more common topics to talk about. Cat owners tend to receive a lot of large packages, and things like cat litter are pretty heavy, so you can help move them.
Shi Chan: [The cat litter she stockpiled will last at least a year.]
Cui Yi was so choked that she couldn't reply.
Shi Can lay on the table in the classroom, raised his eyes slightly, and looked at Lin Zhuyue who was talking about kittens with great enthusiasm.
He drank some chrysanthemum tea to reduce internal heat.
He has become very anxious recently.
Lin Zhuyue had not only moved out of his house, but she had also been able to keep up with her classes and get good grades on her exams. Although this was a good thing, Shi Can felt a sense of uncertainty—it seemed as if Lin Zhuyue was no longer in need of him.
"Are you in a gloomy mood?"
Ye Yangjia sat next to Shi Can and said,
"There's a very inspired sophomore who said he always felt like a certain bully in the third year was emitting a ghostly aura. That's a pretty accurate description."
"By the way, have you noticed? Gong Yongyuan isn't talking to you lately, fearing you'll beat him up."
Shi Can warned Ye Yangjia in a hoarse voice:
"When I get mad, I even beat up my childhood friends."
Ye Yangjia silently moved back to the front row and muttered:
"Why are you pretending to be so droopy? Do you think that's charming?"
Shi Can: “…”
He's pretending to have a duck voice! He's got a fever! His voice is hoarse! He's not a duck!
After school, Shi Can couldn't bear it anymore and asked Ye Yangjia to meet him at the training hall. Although his voice was not good, he was very energetic and had great physical strength when fighting. The bamboo sword in his hand was soon against Ye Yangjia's throat.
Shi Can knew when to stop, distanced himself from Ye Yangjia, and started a new round of confrontation.
Ye Yangjia was exhausted after several rounds of fighting. He threw away the bamboo sword in his hand, lay on the ground with his head raised, and admitted defeat:
"No, I won't fight anymore."
Wen Miyan placed the ice drink next to Ye Yangjia.
Shi Can also felt something cold poking his face. He turned his eyes slightly and found that it was Lin Zhuyue holding a bottle of Oriental Leaves that had just been taken out of a vending machine and pressing it against his face.
Lin Zhuyue asked: "Can I drink green tea if my throat is sore?"
“How do I buy this?”
Shi Can took the tea handed to him by Lin Zhuyue and said,
"This stuff tastes pretty bad."
Lin Zhuyue said unhappily:
"You can't drink tea with sugar. If you don't want it, give it back to me."
Shi Can unscrewed the bottle cap, took a swig, and said:
"I've drunk it, it's mine."
Not to mention the Oriental leaves, even if Lin Zhuyue bought him a bottle of white snake grass water, he would still drink it.
Wen Miyan substituted Ye Yangjia, stretched his muscles a little, and picked up the bamboo sword that Ye Yangjia had thrown on the ground.
"A round-robin battle?"
Shi Can was not afraid of fighting, he just asked,
"Do you have any respect for martial ethics?"
Gong Yongyuan added fuel to the fire on the sidelines:
"Hit him! If you lose, I'll take over!"
Lin Zhuyue returned to the sidelines and said:
“It feels like a boss fight.”
"Don't doubt it, this guy is the boss of the Spiritual Master Academy."
Ye Yangjia stood aside to recover his strength and said,
"From top to bottom, from young to old, there's no one in the academy who doesn't want to beat him up. Who cares about martial ethics? As long as they can beat him up, that's all that matters. He deserves a beating. How can someone live like this? Are you going to come up later?"
Shi Can said angrily:
"Ye Yangjia! Don't push me to be your partner!" Lin Zhuyue nodded: "Go ahead, of course I will."
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