Chapter 68: The Most Special Mission: There May Be No One But You...
That night, Cui Yi made scrambled eggs with tomatoes, and Shi Yingshao handed her salt and eggs.
Shi Can stood between the two of them, took the egg handed to him by Shi Yingshao, cracked the egg into a bowl, stirred it well, and handed it to Cui Yi.
Cui Yi and Shi Yingshao thought he was in the way and had no tact, so they kicked him out of the house.
Shi Can: “…”
Shican was about to leave with the baguette in his arms.
Cui Yi stopped him and said:
"You don't have to roll the baguette, just roll it yourself."
Shi Chan was hurt and felt that he needed to heal.
He drove around Tiancheng twice and finally went to dormitory building No. 2 where Lin Zhuyue was.
Only when the concentration of Lin Zhuyue's scent in the air is higher than 30% can the wound in his heart begin to heal.
As a result, as soon as he opened the door, he saw Lin Zhuyue holding a spicy strip covered with red oil and white sesame seeds.
Lin Zhuyue froze.
Shi Can: “…”
Came across the crime scene.
Shi Can walked into the dormitory, locked the door, and asked:
"You knew I was coming, so you brought it just for me, right?"
Lin Zhuyue walked down the stairs, nodding his head.
"Yes, yes, this one is super delicious. Would you like to try it?"
She walked to the entrance and handed the spicy strips to Shi Can's mouth.
Shi Can bit the spicy strips, and the spicy and hot taste burst between his lips and teeth.
He actually doesn't like eating spicy strips, just like he doesn't like eating hot pot and malatang. He doesn't understand why his peers love these things.
But the spicy strips I put in my mouth today seemed to taste pretty good.
Shi Chan asked, "It's delicious. Do you have any more?"
Lin Zhuyue took out the packaging bag he had just opened.
Shi Can narrowed his eyes and shook his head.
"These are not enough, is there anything else?"
Lin Zhuyue went to the corner of the living room and rummaged through the boxes.
Shi Can followed her to the corner, held the lid of the box, and said to Lin Zhuyue:
"Okay, I'll confiscate this box of spicy noodles. I'll move it to the car and take it away. I'll return it to you after you've finished all the Chinese medicine."
Lin Zhuyue: "..."
The longest road she has ever walked in her life is Shican's routine.
Shi Can carried the box of spicy noodles to the door, then turned around and looked at Lin Zhuyue, who was sitting on the sofa in despair, gnawing on plain pork jerky, and asked:
"Have you taken the medicine?"
"Not yet. I haven't even had dinner yet."
Lin Zhuyue held a piece of pork jerky in his mouth and said,
"I'm planning on having a cheese bagel to make do with it, but if you cook for me, I won't eat the cheese bagel."
Shi Can felt that Lin Zhuyue had changed a lot.
In the past, she would politely ask him if he wanted to eat, and if he did, she would cook an extra portion.
But now, she would directly ask Shican if he wanted her to help cook. If he did, she would eat, and if not, she would eat bagels.
But what can Shi Chan do to her?
If Wen Miyan and Ye Yangjia had done this, Shi Can would have left long ago. However, the person who did this was Lin Zhuyue.
Shi Can sighed, went to look through Lin Zhuyue's freezer, and asked:
"What kind of steamed bun do you want?"
Lin Zhuyue thought for a moment and replied, "It smells like milk."
Shi Can took out the milk-flavored steamed buns and put them on the steamer. He then found the vegetables he had washed and prepared in Lin Zhuyue's kitchen and made shredded cabbage and cream of mushroom soup.
Halfway through the meal, Shi Can received a message from Ye Yangjia.
Ye Yangjia: [I am the descendant of Chi You, the Yan Emperor. V me 888 and help me revive the spiritual energy of this world. Then you will be my right-hand man. No one in the world will dare to disrespect you.]
Shi Can; 【Climb.】
Shi Can thought the news was very interesting and forwarded it to Lin Zhuyue.
Lin Zhuyue took out his phone and operated it for a few times, then called 8888.
Lin Zhuyue: [I want to eat pistachio Basque.]
After Shi Can cleaned up the dishes, he went home to bake Basque for Lin Zhuyue. Before leaving, he took Lin Zhuyue's cat with him, saying that Baguette would sleep with his parents tonight and he needed to hire another cat to sleep with him.
When Shican first got Baguette, he decided that his beloved Baguette would always be the only cat in the house. But in the past two years, he has gradually come to understand the concept of a multi-cat household – sometimes one cat just isn't enough.
On Monday morning, Shi Chan took Basque to the classroom.
The six-inch Basque cake was quickly divided up. Wen Miyan, who came later, didn't even get one, but she was able to eat it. She took a fork and shared the same piece of Basque cake with Lin Zhuyue.
"If this happened in ancient times, I would definitely take that bastard Shi Can into the palace to be a royal chef."
Ye Yangjia savored the smooth Basque and said,
"But he must be castrated, so that he won't use his face to seduce my concubines."
"...You still want to be emperor?"
Shi Chan rolled his eyes and said,
"Let's heal your old wound first. Otherwise, with your frail body and strong will, sooner or later your concubines will cuckold you."
After Ye Yangjia returned to school from the hospital, he was tacitly protected by everyone.
Wen Miyan didn't even compete with him for the cake.
Shi Can just scolded him at most, but didn't challenge him to a fight.
So Ye Yangjia has been very arrogant recently. He attracts cats today and fights dogs tomorrow, which makes many people in the class so angry that they want to beat him up.
In the last class of the afternoon, Fu Xingwei entered the classroom with a dozen documents, knocked on the podium, and said:
"I'll take a moment to tell you about the recent changes in the Spiritual Master Mansion and the Spiritual Master Academy."
All the students in the class sat down, looked up seriously, and waited for Fu Xingwei to speak.
"Principal Liang is preparing to retire due to health reasons."
Fu Xingwei opened the document in his hand and said,
"The person who will take over his job will arrive at the Spiritual Master Mansion and complete the handover before this Sunday. The positions of the head of the Spiritual Master Mansion and the principal of the Spiritual Master Academy will fall into the hands of two different people. Both of them have decent tempers, but everyone should be careful and behave properly, and not cause trouble at this critical juncture."
A new official has three things to do when he takes office, and some students in the class, especially Shican, can easily be burned by these three things.
After school, Lin Zhuyue followed Shi Can home.
She was invited by Cui Yi to dinner, and she felt rude to refuse, but was a little embarrassed to agree. Finally, under Shi Chan's urging, she bit the bullet and went to Shi Chan's house.
Lin Zhuyue had seen photos of Shi Can's house, so she recognized at a glance that the person playing with Xiaoyu in the living room was Shi Yingshao.
Shi Can's parents are both well-maintained and don't look like they are in their forties. They look to be around Fu Xingwei's age.
Shi Yingshao and Lin Zhuyue greeted each other: "Good afternoon."
Lin Zhuyue said awkwardly, "Good afternoon, uncle."
Shi Yingshao's eyes were very gentle. He looked at Lin Zhuyue as if he was looking at an old friend whom he had not seen for a long time, his eyes full of nostalgia and reluctance.
As soon as Shican entered the house, he was grabbed by Cui Yi:
"There are mosquitoes in your father's and my room. Please use the Small Five Thunder Curse to help shock them."
“Is it difficult to buy an electric mosquito swatter?”
Shi Chan directly rejected his mother's request and asked,
"Are we really that poor? We have some scent-free electric mosquito repellent at home. I'll have the housekeeper install it in your bedroom later. It's quite effective and you won't get bitten anymore."
Cui Yi said, "It's so easy to just give it an electric shock."
Shi Chan was speechless:
"...If my ancestors had known that I would use the Small Five Thunder Curse to electrocute mosquitoes, they would never have given me the curse."
Shi Yingshao supported Cui Yi:
"Since it's a gift, I might as well make good use of it."
Shican went upstairs to help his parents electrocute mosquitoes.
"Xiaoyue, come here."
Cui Yi waved towards Lin Zhuyue and said,
"I'll peel some water chestnuts for you to eat."
Lin Zhuyue sat next to Cui Yi:
"Thank you, Auntie. I can peel it myself... well."
Before she could finish her words, a water chestnut was stuffed into her mouth.
For some reason, Choi Yi always takes care of her like a child, and Shi Chan seems to do the same.
When Lin Zhuyue stayed at Shi Can's house, she always felt like she had not grown up yet. She had the privilege of eating water chestnuts without peeling them, dipping dumplings without help in peeling garlic, and being able to eat pistachio Basque the next day if she wanted to.
"No wonder you two are bitten by mosquitoes."
Shi Can came down from upstairs and said,
"Why open the windows in the middle of summer? There's no need to open the screens for fresh air, right? And isn't there an air purifier in the room?"
Shi Can sat in the living room, looked at the water chestnuts on the coffee table, and said:
"I bought this thing again. It's so hard to peel."
Cui Yi handed the peeled water chestnuts to Lin Zhuyue and said:
"But Xiaoyue seems to like it."
Lin Zhuyue nodded: "Yeah, I like it."
Shi Chan's expression immediately changed and he asked:
"...How much did you buy? Is there any left? Should I ask the chef to buy some more?"
Dinner was quickly prepared in the kitchen.
Taking into consideration that Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can, one is on a diet and the other doesn't like hot pot seasoning, a plain hot pot was prepared for dinner.
For the vegetables that need to be blanched, only the freshest and tenderest parts are picked, and the remaining parts will be sent to the Feng family who live on the other side of Tiancheng to feed the chickens, and buy some eggs by the way.
While eating, the topic of Ling Yan inevitably came up at the table.
"He raises a lot of chickens at home."
Shi Yingshao recalled the events of more than 20 years ago and said,
"Those chicks were raised on a diet of grain and vegetable leaves. Your grandfather thought chickens raised that way must be delicious, so when he wanted to kill a free-range chicken to eat, your father protected him and refused to let him. As a result, after he returned from a few missions, all the chickens in the house didn't recognize him anymore."
Cui Yi put the chicken leg into Lin Zhuyue's bowl and added:
"And I had a goose that chased you two miles."
Shi Yingshao felt chilled when he thought of this:
"I fed it so much food, even sharing cookies with it. Cookies were so valuable back then... I never thought it would treat me like that."
Shi Can felt that the opportunity had come, and said cautiously:
"I want to raise a Call duck at home."
Shi Yingshao: “No.”
Cui Yi: "I think you look like a Call duck."
Shi Can showed a puzzled expression and couldn't help but said:
"Just refuse? Why are you starting with personal attacks?"
He is tall, his neck is not short, and he doesn't walk with his feet turned inward. How does he look like a Call duck?
Later, Shi Can talked to his parents about Liang Tianxing's retirement.
Cui Yi and Shi Yingshao knew about this matter earlier than Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can. Even when Principal Liang was unsure whether he should retire, Cui Yi and Shi Yingshao advised him to rest early and enjoy life.
"Teacher Liang is quite old."
Cui Yi filled Lin Zhuyue's half-finished bowl with soup, and seeing that Lin Zhuyue only took the dishes in front of him, she turned the table from time to time so that Lin Zhuyue could eat everything he wanted. Cui Yi sighed and said,
"He doesn't come from a wealthy family, so he faces a lot of pressure in his job. It's not easy for him to persevere until now."
No one thinks Liang Tianxing has it easy.
He's over seventy years old, still at his job, managing a bunch of messy shit. The aristocratic families put pressure on him every now and then, and as long as he hasn't lost all his hair, he's considered to have a good attitude.
Lin Zhuyue drank another half bowl of soup and asked curiously:
"When my dad was a student, was he a good student?"
Cui Yi and Shi Yingshao both sighed.
Cui Yi said: "Even more naughty than Shican."
Lin Zhuyue thought, that must be really naughty.
"I used water to clean the old bronzeware at home, and the antique was almost rubbed into pieces. I broke into my neighbor's house to catch cicadas, but was bitten by their dog, and the magic circle was broken. It took us two four or five days to repair it."
Shi Yingshao shook his head and said,
"When we were little, we always thought he was doomed, a troublemaker. Unexpectedly, he grew up to be a pretty good adult. What a pity..."
He stopped talking here and didn't continue.
Cui Yi said: "I want to open a medical beauty clinic recently."
"You've run a lot of businesses that lost money: a flower shop, a restaurant, a dessert shop... a flower garden, a karaoke bar..."
Shi Yingshao calculated and said,
"We can't make back our capital, and even after deducting costs, our daily revenue is still not enough to pay our employees."
Cui Yi said slowly:
"You've opened quite a few losing businesses."
"... Let's talk about opening a medical beauty clinic."
After dinner, Lin Zhuyue planned to take Xiaoyu back to the dormitory.
Cui Yi called her and said that she had brought her a gift when she returned home this time.
Cui Yi selected a set of skin care products suitable for her age.
Shi Yingshao didn't quite understand these things, so he bought her some expensive handmade chocolates and told her to keep them safe so that the cat wouldn't eat them.
Shi Yingshao's worries were not unnecessary.
Cats and dogs will die if they eat chocolate, and they are very likely to accidentally eat chocolate - probably because chocolate has a fragrance, and cats and dogs will think it is delicious food as long as they smell it.
Lin Zhuyue accepted the gift and thanked him politely.
Shi Can helped Lin Zhuyue carry her things and sent her back to the dormitory.
"Sweeper, is your dust bag full?"
Shi Can was walking on the road and said to Lin Zhuyue,
"I see you don't pick up much food."
Lin Zhuyue counterattacked:
"Because your mother fed me a lot of water chestnuts and macadamia nuts before dinner, electric mosquito swatter classmate."
Shi Can: “…”
Electric mosquito swatter...
After being called a sweeper for half a year, Lin Zhuyue finally seized the opportunity to fight back, and Shi Can has since had his own nickname.
Forget it, let her call.
Shi Can remained silent all the way.
When they were almost at the dormitory building, Lin Zhuyue suddenly said:
“It feels so good to be at your home.”
There was a strong sense of envy in her words.
Many people have said that people who grew up in unfortunate families will easily shed tears once they come into deep contact with a happy family.
Although Lin Zhuyue didn't cry, the word "happy original family" finally took shape in her mind. She couldn't help but think, it would be great if she could have such a family.
"Then come often."
Shi Can handed the cat bag to Lin Zhuyue and said,
"As long as it's still the season for eating water chestnuts, there will be water chestnuts every time I come here, and there are also pea tips. There's a piece of land in the backyard where I plant peas, and I can pick the pea tips to eat."
"If my mother isn't home, I can peel water chestnuts and macadamia nuts for you."
Lin Zhuyue waved her hand: "Thank you, I can peel it myself."
On Friday, the new principal of the Spiritual Master Academy took office.
The new principal's surname is Feng, and his full name is Feng Xincheng. He is a relative of Feng Wuye, who drives a boat back and forth between Tiancheng and Linhai City. However, unlike Feng Wuye who is easy-going, Feng Xincheng is a rather old-fashioned and serious person.
On the day he took office, he inspected the school several times and listed many items that needed rectification.
Lin Zhuyue didn't like him very much because he asked the dormitory manager to conduct a surprise inspection and take away Lin Zhuyue's hair dryer.
"How come I'm already studying at the Spiritual Master Academy, and the school still takes my hair dryer away? My hair dryer isn't a three-no appliance, it's an official authentic product, and it costs over two thousand yuan."
Lin Zhuyue angrily ate the chocolate chip cookies that Shi Can brought over and said,
"How do I blow dry my hair after washing it? Should I use the dryer I bought for the kitten?"
"I have some at home. I'll get it for you."
Wen Miyan took the cookies from the box in front of Lin Zhuyue.
"Put it away when you're done using it, and don't put it where you can see it."
Later, Lin Zhuyue, Shi Can, Wen Miyan and Ye Yangjia were called into Fu Xingwei's office together.
Ye Yangjia knew that he was most likely going to go out on a mission, and he was so happy that he was almost beaming.
After entering the office, Fu Xingwei invited the students to have tea.
Shi Can said, "Huangshan Maofeng."
"You still have a very sharp tongue."
Fu Xingwei took out the file bag and said,
"Ye Yangjia has almost recovered and should be able to go on the mission. As for Lin Zhuyue, I actually prefer you to stay in Tiancheng. However, the situation of the person involved in this mission is very special. Apart from you, no one else may be able to gain their understanding."
Lin Zhuyue took the file bag, untied the cotton rope, and took out the documents inside.
The parties involved are a mother and daughter, the mother's name is Du Jicui and the daughter's name is An Ning.
An Ning's biological father, Du Jicui's husband, was named An Zhexin. He was a spiritual master who graduated from the Tiancheng Spiritual Master Academy. He tragically passed away during a mission fourteen years ago, leaving behind his wife, who was of an ordinary background, and a daughter who had just learned to walk.
Du Jicui raised her daughter alone with the financial support of the Spiritual Master's House. Throughout her daughter's growth, she repeatedly warned her daughter not to become a spiritual master, not to follow in her father's footsteps, and not to leave her life like her father.
"Last October, this little girl named An Ning awakened and was able to see the souls of the dead and even talk to some of them."
Fu Xingwei sighed and introduced the victim's situation.
"Lin Zhuyue grew up without any interference from the Spiritual Master House, as the Spiritual Master House remained unaware of her existence. But An Ning was different. The Spiritual Master House would remind Du Jicui every year that An Ning's spiritual power might awaken, and that she must contact the Spiritual Master House after awakening."
"Perhaps because she was truly afraid that her daughter would follow in her father's footsteps, Du Jicui chose to conceal the Spiritual Master's Mansion after An Ning's awakening and contacted the 'Master' to seal An Ning's spiritual power."
Ye Yangjia asked: "Is this master serious?"
"The good news is that the master has real skills. The bad news is that the master is a wanted criminal by the Spiritual Master's Mansion. The Spiritual Master's Mansion didn't catch the master, but they found Du Jicui's phone number in the master's address book."
Fu Xingwei seemed to feel regretful and spoke in a low tone.
"After careful investigation, An Ning's condition seems to be not good. The Spiritual Master House wanted to provide assistance, but Du Jicui refused to allow the Spiritual Master House to contact An Ning, let alone interfere."
"The Spiritual Master's Mansion held a meeting. In order to protect the Spiritual Master's bloodline left in the world, the Spiritual Master's Mansion will bypass Du Jicui and contact An Ning directly. But some people also think that before going that far, they can send someone with a similar life experience to talk to her first."
Fu Xingwei said to Lin Zhuyue:
"During our recent communication, we mentioned your situation and our desire to send you to check on An Ning. Du Jicui didn't show the usual resistance."
Fu Xingwei pushed the task execution application in front of the students and said:
"The Spiritual Master Mansion hopes that you can gain Du Jicui's understanding and bring An Ning back to Tiancheng to enroll in the Spiritual Master Academy."
Shi Can asked, "Why didn't you leave him to live in Tiancheng back then?"
"I stayed, but Du Jicui disagreed."
Fu Xingwei explained,
"An Ning didn't show any talent as a spiritual master, so the Spiritual Master Mansion decided to observe her regularly and then let the mother and daughter leave."
Lin Zhuyue signed the task execution application without much hesitation, and the remaining three people also signed one by one.
She took the mission file and went back to the dormitory to pack her luggage.
Shi Can also followed her to the dormitory, packed Xiaoyu into the cat bag, and walked home with Lin Zhuyue's kitten.
About an hour later, Lin Zhuyue and his companions gathered at Tiancheng Wharf and took a boat to Linhai City.
Lin Zhuyue sighed:
"This is the first time I've encountered this kind of mission."
"Although it doesn't appear to require combat, this kind of mission might be difficult to complete."
Shi Can took out his phone and replied to the text message from his parents who had just landed at the airport in Inner Mongolia, saying,
“Prejudice in people’s hearts is like a mountain. Once opinions and ideas are formed in the mind, they can sometimes be as difficult to shake as a mountain.”
Ye Yangjia gritted his teeth and pressed the phone screen:
“I wish I had parents who cared about their children this much.”
Wen Miyan asked, "What's wrong?"
“My parents immigrated.”
Ye Yangjia collapsed and said,
"They forgot to take me with them, and I'm the only one left on my family's household registration book!"
Lin Zhuyue: “…Ah?”
Wen Miyan was also stunned by this operation.
Only Shi Can laughed out loud, unkindly: "...Pfft."
"What the hell are you laughing at?! Don't laugh!"
After arriving in Linhai City, the Lingshi Mansion’s special car took the four-member team to the airport and boarded the plane through the VIP channel.
Shi Can shamelessly exchanged seats with Wen Miyan and successfully sat next to Lin Zhuyue. He used his mobile phone to play "In the Night Garden" which he had cached in advance for Lin Zhuyue.
But Lin Zhuyue was not interested in "In the Night Garden" and just wanted to sleep.
She slept until the plane landed.
They took the bus to the exit and prepared to pick up their luggage.
While waiting for the luggage, Shi Can, who was walking behind, suddenly came forward and patted Lin Zhuyue.
Lin Zhuyue turned around in confusion.
Shi Can took off his thin coat, tied the two long sleeves around Lin Zhuyue's waist, and asked:
"Do you have a change of clothes? Do you have a sanitary napkin? Let's go to the bathroom and take care of it later."
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