Chapter 67: If there is a power outage tomorrow, I will throw you into the trash can
Shi Can took out the boiled Chinese medicine in a bag from the refrigerator and put it into the health pot which was set to the keep warm mode.
Doctors do not recommend boiling Chinese medicine and drinking it while it is hot. The best option is to heat it to a temperature that is not hot enough to burn your mouth, so that you can drink it in one breath without having to sip it mouthful by mouthful.
After a while, Shi Can took the Chinese medicine out of the health pot and went upstairs to find Lin Zhuyue.
Lin Zhuyue particularly likes cats. When he stays at his house for ten hours, he spends eight hours in the cat room.
Baguette is a social phobic cat. Knowing that Lin Zhuyue will give him cat strips and freeze-dried food, he clings to Lin Zhuyue's arms, rolling around and rubbing against her, trying to put on a cat fur coat for her.
"Take your medicine, sweeper."
Shi Can handed the bag of Chinese medicine to Lin Zhuyue, picked up the baguette in Lin Zhuyue's desperate and painful eyes, and said,
"Baby, you need to take medicine too. You should be dewormed."
Shican opened the child lock on the cabinet and took out the external repellent drops and internal repellent tablets.
He smoothed the cat hair on the back of the baguette's neck to the sides to expose the skin, applied the drops, picked out the pills from the medicine plate, and quickly pried open the baguette's mouth from the side and stuffed the pills into the baguette's throat.
Baguette had no idea what he had swallowed and sat next to Shi Chan's legs with a dazed look on his face.
Lin Zhuyue said, "How silly."
"It's better to be stupid. Foolish people don't hold grudges."
Shi Can took out the freeze-dried baguette as a reward and sternly warned Lin Zhuyue, who had only ten milliliters of Chinese medicine left, saying,
"If you ever dump the medicinal residue into the bitter melon field again, I'll have the chef prepare a bitter melon feast for you. You'll eat so much that you won't want to see bitter melon again in your life."
Lin Zhuyue decisively drank all the medicine in the liquid bag.
Shi Can handed Lin Zhuyue a strawberry-flavored candy and said:
"I'm going out of town tomorrow to go to Linhai City."
Lin Zhuyue asked: "Follow up on the mission of the magical deer?"
Shi Can nodded and explained the details to Lin Zhuyue:
"Chu Feiyu refused to leave, so according to the relevant regulations of the Spiritual Master's Mansion, I will shatter his soul. Originally, the Spiritual Master's Mansion allowed attempts to forcibly send souls to the afterlife, but after Ye Yangjia was injured, the Spiritual Master's Mansion expressly prohibited spiritual masters from forcibly sending souls away for the sake of their safety."
Lin Zhuyue rolled up the liquid bag and stuffed it into her pocket, planning to take it out and throw it away later. Baguette sometimes rummaged through the trash can, and Lin Zhuyue was afraid it might accidentally ingest the Chinese medicine, so she never threw bags into the cat room's trash can.
Lin Zhuyue lay on his back and said regretfully:
“It would be nice if we could discuss it.”
“It’s very common for negotiations to fail.”
Shi Can held the baguette in his arms and said,
"Situations like this where you have to shatter the souls of the dead have been quite common in the past, and will only become more frequent in the future."
Shi Can drove away from Tiancheng the next morning. In order to prevent Ming Hui from finding an opportunity to retaliate against him, he spent a large sum of money to hire Tu Shan Yunlin, an old fox, as his bodyguard.
Lin Zhuyue was directly banned from going out by the Spiritual Master's Mansion.
Lin Zhuyue cannot leave Tiancheng until the Lingshi Mansion and Minghui have reached an agreement on compensation and have negotiated that no more actions will be taken against the descendants of the Ling family.
She could only go to class obediently.
Wen Miyan is not in Tiancheng either.
Previously, Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can were kidnapped by Ming Hui, and Wen Miyan returned to Tiancheng overnight to attend an emergency meeting. After Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can returned to Tiancheng and were confirmed to be safe, Wen Miyan returned to Linhai City to continue her mission.
Ye Yangjia, who was sitting in the front row, sent a message to Shi Can:
[Hey, could you please take some omakase back?]
Shi Chan took a long time to reply:
"Brother, I'm here to complete a mission, not to enjoy a meal at a high-end restaurant."
Ye Yangjia: [Your girlfriend wants to eat.]
Shi Chan asked: "Are you serious? She's on medication and has a lot of dietary restrictions. The omakase menu isn't fixed, but it usually includes a lot of seafood, which she can't eat."
Ye Yangjia made a "tsk" sound.
Shican is such a hard bastard to fool.
At night, Lin Zhuyue was sleeping in the dormitory when she felt the heat and stuffiness become unbearable. She opened her eyes, fumbled for the air conditioner remote from her pillow, and pressed the button several times before realizing the power was out.
Xiaoyu also felt hot, so he got off the bed and slept on the floor, absorbing the coolness of the floor. He opened his mouth from time to time and gasped as if he was stressed.
Xiaoyu is a long-haired cat after all, and this kind of weather is no different from torture to it.
Since late May, whenever Xiaoyu was not fostered at Shican's house, Lin Zhuyue kept the air conditioner on, fearing that Xiaoyu would get sick due to the heat.
Lin Zhuyue sent a message to Shi Can:
Is there a power outage in your home?
Shi Can replied almost instantly:
[No, there is a power outage in the dormitory? ]
[I didn't receive any notification of a power outage. I'm not sure if it's just me or the entire dormitory building that's experiencing a power outage.]
Lin Zhuyue glanced at the little fish rolling on the ground and said,
Can I send the cat to your house? Xiaoyu can't stand the heat.
Shi Chan replied:
"Please send yourself over here too. In this weather, without air conditioning, you'll get heatstroke."
Lin Zhuyue rushed to Shican's house carrying the cat bag.
Shican had just arrived home not long ago and was drinking homemade Brazilian lemonade, eating a midnight snack, and watching the game.
After he received Lin Zhuyue's message, he turned on all the air conditioners on the fourth floor. After Lin Zhuyue arrived, he took the cat bag, picked up Xiaoyu, touched it, and put it in the guest room where Lin Zhuyue often lived.
"The water heater in the room is on."
Shi Chan asked,
"Would you like to take a shower? Change your clothes. You left your pajamas here earlier. They're in the closet."
Lin Zhuyue didn't try to show off and went to the bathroom to take a shower and change clothes.
After taking a shower, she dried her hair and walked into the living room on the fourth floor.
Shi Can poured her a glass of Brazilian lemonade without ice. The sour taste of perfumed lemon mixed with the sweetness of sugar and condensed milk stimulated Lin Zhuyue's taste buds.
"I bought you a koruri."
Shi Chan took out the box of dessert and said,
"I was going to send it to you with breakfast tomorrow, but since you're here, just treat it as a midnight snack. If I leave it out until tomorrow, it won't taste as good as it does now."
Lin Zhuyue took the box.
Lu Xun said it well, if a person does not like kalli, it must be because he has not eaten delicious kalli.
Lin Zhuyue loved croquembouche. Across from Yuancheng No. 1 Middle School, where she previously studied, there was a French dessert shop that made delicious croquembouche. However, perhaps because the desserts were made with such authentic ingredients and were so expensive, it closed down within two years.
Lin Zhuyue opened the box, which contained six bell-shaped Koluli.
She picked up one of them and took a bite.
The shell of Keluli made a crisp sound when it was bitten, but the inside was sweet and soft, which instantly made Lin Zhuyue's eyes light up.
This is the taste!
"As long as you like it."
Shi Chan leaned on the sofa and said,
"I bought a mold on a whim before, and I can make it at home later, but it won't be as delicious as this shop, after all, they have a professional pastry chef."
Because the taste of Koroli would deteriorate the next day, Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can sat on the same sofa, eating while watching the game, and ate all six Koroli.
After eating, the game was almost over.
Lin Zhuyue brushed her teeth and went to sleep with Xiaoyu in her arms.
The next day was Saturday, and since there was no need to get up early, Lin Zhuyue stayed in bed until noon. When she woke up, she looked around the room in a daze, and belatedly realized that Xiaoyu was gone.
She looked around the house and was about to pick up her phone to ask Shican for help when she saw the message Shican had sent her four hours ago:
[When I passed by your room door, I heard the little fish scratching at the door, so I let it out to eat.]
Lin Zhuyue replied: [I'm awake, where's the cat?]
Shi Can replied with a voice message:
"It's the bathroom in my room, just come over here."
Lin Zhuyue walked into Shi Can's room as if she knew the place well.
Shican's room is very lifelike. The sheets, pillowcases and quilt are all sky blue. There is a Stitch doll on the bedside that matches the bedding very well, and there is an unfinished miniature house on the desk.
Lin Zhuyue pushed open the bathroom door.
The bathrooms in Shican's house are separated into dry and wet areas.
He was in his pajamas, crouching under the shower head, stepping on the non-slip mat. In front of him was a basin, with a shrunken cat soaking in the dirty water. The little fish kept thrashing around. Shi Chan grabbed the cat's neck with his left hand, raised his right hand, and wiped the water off his face with his sleeve.
Lin Zhuyue asked through the glass door:
"Why do you suddenly want to wash the cat?"
"After I wiped its eyes this morning, I just wiped it all over with a wet wipe, and the wipe turned yellow."
Shi Can poured out the water, turned on the shower head, washed away the foam on Xiaoyu's body, and asked,
"You're a dirty little cat, aren't you? Oh, you're not dirty, not dirty. Be a good boy, and I'll clean you right away."
Long-haired cats are troublesome to bathe and blow-dry.
Shi Can first put the little fish into the dryer to dry. When it was almost dried, he took it out and combed its fur. After combing, he put it back into the dryer. He repeated this several times before the little fish was completely dried, completing the renovation of the old cat.
As soon as Xiaoyu was released, he crawled under the bed in Shican's bedroom.
Fortunately, Shican's house always has a robot vacuum cleaner, and the bottom of the bed was mopped clean, otherwise this bath would have been in vain.
Shi Chan lay on the ground, holding the torn cat strips, trying to coax Xiaoyu out.
"I'm sorry."
Shi Chan reached under the bed and coaxed,
"Don't be angry, okay?"
Lin Zhuyue stood beside the bed, her head lowered, looking at Shi Can with a strange expression as he just changed into a set of dry pajamas.
Shican's face-down posture is quite strange. Not only is his waistline exposed, but his butt is also very raised.
Lin Zhuyue wanted to touch it, and even more wanted to kick it.
Can you appease someone by transferring 100,000 yuan after kicking him out?
Just as Lin Zhuyue was fighting the demon in his heart, Shi Can's excellent inspiration made him feel that something was wrong. He retracted his hand vigilantly, got up from the ground, and looked at Lin Zhuyue who wanted to do something bad.
Shi Can couldn't get the angry Xiaoyu out from under the bed, so he simply gave up coaxing her and dragged Lin Zhuyue downstairs to eat.
We made minced meat and eggplant, and a fried egg soup with pea tips, both of which Lin Zhuyue loved. The steamed buns were also made with great care, adding blueberry jam while kneading the dough. They were a pink-purple color when they came out of the pan, and they tasted sweet.
While eating, Shican received a text message.
The corners of his mouth twitched downwards, and the heaviness in his phoenix eyes almost overflowed.
Lin Zhuyue felt that something bad might have happened and asked:
"What's wrong?"
"Principal Liang is in the hospital."
Shi Can replied to the message, asked about the specific situation, and said,
"Bring some things and visit the infirmary later."
Shi Can had no appetite. He ate the few bites of steamed bun that were left and didn't eat any vegetables. Then he got up and went to look for some health supplements that he could give away.
He drove Lin Zhuyue to Yunze Medical Clinic.
Lin Zhuyue recalled the only two times he had met Principal Liang and said:
"Principal Liang looks very healthy..."
"No matter how energetic he is, he's already an old man."
Shi Can turned the steering wheel to the full and said,
"And he had a mental block, which is quite devastating for a spiritualist. He was frequently hospitalized in the first few years, but later on, perhaps he adjusted better and no longer frequented the hospital. But you came back."
Lin Zhuyue pointed at herself: "Me?"
Mental obstructions, also known as inner demons, are obstacles that arise from a person's inability to let go of something. For ordinary people, mental obstructions can lead to mental illness. However, for spiritual masters, these obstacles are gradually materialized by spiritual energy into illness, potentially taking their lives.
"Principal Liang is the teacher of your father and my parents."
Shi Can turned up the air conditioner in the car and said,
"He was the one who assigned your father the last mission he undertook. He always felt that your father's death at such a young age was his mistake."
"After you come back, Principal Liang will definitely think of Ling Yan from time to time and reflect on his own mistakes."
Lin Zhuyue grabbed the seat belt, not knowing what to say.
Although she has accepted her life experience, because she has few memories, she does not closely associate herself with Ling Yan most of the time.
But in Tiancheng, in the Spiritual Master's Mansion, she was inseparable from Ling Yan and the Ling family. Many people would inevitably think of Ling Yan whenever they saw her.
Shi Can parked the car downstairs of Yunze Medical Clinic.
He and Lin Zhuyue each carried two boxes of health supplements into the clinic and were led into the ward by the doctor.
The ward was filled with the smell of disinfectant. A pale and quiet old man lay on the bed, with drops of disinfectant dripping down through the indwelling needle into his blood vessels.
"You guys are here?"
Principal Liang smiled kindly and said,
"Hurry up and sit down. Would you like some apples? Xiao Fu just came over and gave us some Red Fuji apples from Yantai. They should be delicious."
Shi Can put the gift box into the cabinet and said:
"I contacted my parents and they said they would be back as soon as possible."
"Just don't bother them, it's okay."
Liang Tianxing wanted to sit up, but it was difficult to move.
"Please help me adjust the bed. I'm really not used to lying down."
Shi Chan bent down and rocked the bed.
Shi Chan asked, “Can you eat?”
Liang Tianxing nodded.
Shi Can opened the gift box that Fu Xingwei had sent him, took out an apple, and went to the bathroom to wash both the apple and his hands. He returned to the ward, sat in front of the bed, and carefully peeled the apple with a knife, then cut it into pieces and handed it to the bedridden old man with a fruit fork.
Liang Tianxing ate a few pieces and couldn't eat anymore.
Liang Tianxing said: "It seems a little cold in the room."
Shi Can glanced at the air conditioner and said:
"The air conditioner is a little low. Where's the remote?"
He searched the ward but couldn't find the remote control.
Liang Tianxing said:
"Go to the first floor and borrow one. The air conditioner remote controls here are universal."
"OK."
Shi Chan stood up and said,
"I'll be right back."
After saying that, he left the ward and went downstairs to find the remote control.
Only Liang Tianxing and Lin Zhuyue were left in the ward.
The old man stretched out his hand towards Lin Zhuyue.
Lin Zhuyue moved a chair and sat closer.
Liang Tianxing held Lin Zhuyue's hands with both hands and said with emotion:
"It's true. Sometimes when I look at you, I have the illusion that Ling Yan is still here."
Lin Zhuyue said, "If he were still here, he would definitely be worried seeing you like this."
Liang Tianxing closed his eyes and said:
"If he were still here, you'd be in a much better situation."
Lin Zhuyue lowered his head and remained silent.
If Ling Yan were alive, her situation would probably be quite good. Her parents had finally gotten married, and they lived in harmony. She had grown up in this island city, having beaten Shi Can from childhood to adulthood.
But there is no if, Ling Yan would have left long ago.
"This morning, I discussed compensation with Minghui."
Liang Tianxing said in a somewhat incoherent manner,
"He told me that your spiritual weapon is the Ukiyo-e scroll."
Lin Zhuyue took a deep breath.
Liang Tianxing asked sadly, "Is this true?"
Lin Zhuyue knew that Principal Liang said this probably because he wanted to put the responsibility of unlocking the underworld on her.
However, she decided to do so last year.
She didn't deny it, but nodded slightly.
"My spiritual weapon can switch freely between Golden Amber Fire and Ukiyo-e Scroll."
Lin Zhuyue explained her lies to Liang Tianxing.
"I don't know who is trustworthy and who is not trustworthy in the Spiritual Master's Mansion. Director Yi is a good example. So, I lied and said that I awakened the Golden Amber Fire instead of the Ukiyo-e Scroll."
Liang Tianxing did not blame her and said:
"It's a very clever lie."
"I am Ling Yan's teacher and the head of the Spiritual Master's Mansion. Out of responsibility, I have always held high hopes for the Ling family and for you, their descendant. I hope you can break the blockade of the underworld and restore balance to the world."
Liang Tianxing held Lin Zhuyue's hand, the mist was like a thin veil covering his old eyes, he said,
"But I realized that I failed to protect Ling Yan back then, and now I seem powerless to protect you either, causing you to experience conspiracy, calculation, and hurt. Perhaps, lying is the right thing to do."
"That's it. Your spiritual weapon is Golden Amber Fire. It has never been a floating world painting. Living well is more important than shouldering responsibilities. You must live well, grow up well, and have a happy life."
Liang Tianxing is an old man with high power.
He is the most competent person in charge of the Spiritual Master's Mansion.
However, he also has selfish motives.
He also struggled between responsibility and selfishness.
Lin Zhuyue called out, "Principal Liang..."
"Let's talk about something light."
Liang Tianxing used his old, wrinkled hands to smooth down Lin Zhuyue's slightly messy hair and asked,
"Is there a boy you like?"
Lin Zhuyue shook his head.
"I can't seem to have any expectations for love."
Lin Zhuyue tried to describe his situation.
"The first love I experienced in my life was between my mother and my father. I felt that their love was very bitter and full of misfortune. I know that not all love is like that, but in my heart, love tastes bitter and unfortunate."
Principal Liang said, "Then let's not have a romantic relationship."
Shi Chan soon returned with the remote.
He turned up the temperature of the air conditioner and tucked in the corner of the quilt for Principal Liang. After he was done, he sat down in the ward and chatted with Principal Liang for a while.
He and Lin Zhuyue hadn't stayed there for long before people came to visit them one after another. In addition to visiting, they also had work to report to the old principal.
Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can didn't want to stay any longer, so they said goodbye to Liang Tianxing and left the ward.
Lin Zhuyue planned to leave directly.
But Shi Can took her to the first floor to see a doctor, who asked her to take her pulse to see how she was recovering. Fortunately, Lin Zhuyue was in good condition, so the doctor did not give her two more prescriptions of Chinese medicine.
On the way back, Lin Zhuyue told Shi Can about the conversation in the ward.
Lin Zhuyue asked, "Is he on the Ling family's side?"
"I have no idea."
Shi Chan started the car and said calmly,
"If what happened today hadn't happened, I would firmly tell you that he stood on the side of the Spiritual Master Mansion. What he wanted to do from the beginning to the end was to lead the Spiritual Master Mansion and the Spiritual Masters onto the right path for survival."
"But after this happened, I'm not sure anymore."
Shi Can drove Lin Zhuyue back home.
Xiaoyu came out from under Shican's bed and was carried to the cat room by the housekeeper. She squatted in front of the food bowl and showed off the cat food to him.
When Shi Can reached out to touch it, it rubbed Shi Can's hand.
“…Sometimes I really want to be a kitten.”
Lin Zhuyue sat on the mat in the cat room and said,
"Good food and drink, no worries, this kind of life is too happy, right?"
"It's been hard for the kitten too."
Shi Can stroked Xiaoyu's fur while saying,
"I want to be hugged and kissed by the two-legged beasts. Some of the two-legged beasts are particularly perverted. The kitten was sucked and couldn't seek legal assistance. It's really helpless."
Shi Can picked up the little fish, took a deep breath on its head, and said:
"I am such a two-legged beast."
There was a call from the dormitory.
Lin Zhuyue picked up her clothes and took the cat back to the dormitory.
Later, Shi Can's parents returned to Tiancheng and went to Yunze Medical Clinic to visit Liang Tianxing the next morning.
After returning home, the two of them began to urge Shi Can to invite Lin Zhuyue over for dinner. Cui Yi even claimed that she would cook herself and show off her cooking skills to Lin Zhuyue.
"If you want to invite her to dinner, invite her yourself."
Shi Can was lying on the sofa holding a baguette and said,
"It's not like you haven't added her as a friend yet. Why do you need me to send a message when you can contact her yourself?"
Cui Yi said disdainfully, "It would be worse to give birth to a barbecued pork than you."
Shi Can said faintly, "I found it from the trash can."
Cui Yi: “…”
Cui Yi said, "I'll throw you into the trash can tomorrow."
Shi Chan asked, "Dry garbage or wet garbage?"
Shi Yingshao decisively chose his wife over his son and chimed in:
“Hazardous waste.”
Shi Can said sarcastically:
"...It's such a blessing to be picked up and brought into this family."
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