Chapter 71 The Song of the Electric Mosquito Swatter You'll Have a Secret Love for a Lifetime
Shi Can retrieved the results of a myocardial enzyme spectrum test from a medical recorder. One of Lin Zhuyue's enzyme levels was low. But when Shi Can took the results to a doctor, the doctor said it was nothing serious. A low value was fine, but a high value would be a problem.
Not long after, the porridge shop clerk brought over the vegetable and mushroom porridge that Shi Chan ordered, as well as two barbecued pork buns and two golden lava buns.
Shi Can opened the boxes and placed them one by one in front of Lin Zhuyue.
At this time, Wen Miyan's message also came.
"The situation over at An Ning is good."
Shi Can opened his phone, read the message, and told Lin Zhuyue, who was sitting on the hospital bed, about An Ning's condition. He said,
"Although the injury is serious, it's not fatal. With proper treatment and a few days of observation, he will be transferred to an inpatient ward."
Lin Zhuyue nodded silently.
After a while, Lin Zhuyue asked:
"Was I too harsh just now?"
Lin Zhuyue hates the feeling of losing control of his emotions.
"It was a bit fierce, but it's normal to get angry and have outbursts. Just witnessing someone jumping off a building is enough to make someone devastated."
Shi Can tore open the packaging of the tableware and handed it to Lin Zhuyue.
"You've done well. If you hadn't reacted then, An Ning's fate would have been even more miserable. Eat well, fill your stomach, and then get some sleep. Once reinforcements arrive from the Spiritual Master's Mansion, we'll set off back to Tiancheng."
Lin Zhuyue took a spoon, scooped up some hot porridge, lowered his head, and asked:
"Why can't I understand?"
Shi Can knew she wanted to ask why Du Jicui couldn't understand An Ning's situation. She probably also wanted to ask why Lin Lang had such a hard time understanding her.
"Even though we all live in the same world..."
Shi Can sat on the bed with his electrolyte water and said,
"However, what the eyes see is very different. How can a spiritual master seek understanding from ordinary people? If they could be understood, the Spiritual Master House would likely not have to work so hard to maintain secrecy as it does now."
"Even if Du Jicui knew that her late husband was a spiritual master, her understanding of spiritual masters would only be slightly better than others."
Lin Zhuyue turned his head to look at him and asked:
"Is it hard for you to understand the feeling of seeking understanding?"
"Not really."
Shi Can shook his head and said,
"From your perspective, I grew up in Tiancheng. My family, friends, and classmates are all spiritual masters, the same kind as me. I don't need to seek understanding."
"But I don't think they understand me. My innate spiritual power and inspiration, which are superior to others, make it difficult for me to feel that I am one with the people around me, even when I am surrounded by spiritual masters. My ideals, the goals I pursue, and my unwillingness to accept the 'ordinary' and the 'status quo' are all seen by them as heresy, and I need psychological treatment."
Shi Chan's tone was calm as he analyzed himself:
"The person who is most similar to me in this world is probably Minghui. After my life ends, I will definitely become the second Minghui."
He was unwilling to be ordinary when he was alive, but was restricted by the laws of nature and the times. After death, he turned into a ghost cultivator, pursuing a realm that he had never reached when he was alive.
Shi Can once talked about this with Lin Zhuyue.
But at the time, they were not very familiar with each other, and Shi Can was very defensive, so they did not discuss the topic in depth. If Lin Zhuyue had not seen through him at a glance with her inspiration, Shi Can would not even admit his unwillingness.
Lin Zhuyue tilted her head and looked at Shi Can seriously. After a moment, she directly fed a spoonful of porridge into Shi Can's mouth.
Shi Can was caught off guard and said, "...What are you doing? It's hot!"
"You won't be the second one to do that."
Lin Zhuyue took out the spoon again and said,
"The people around you will stop you. Family, friends, and even the baguette will not let you go to extremes."
Shi Can swallowed the porridge in his mouth with difficulty and corrected:
"Baguette is a cat, right?"
He felt a burning pain on his tongue, as if it had been burned. He didn't know how to blame Lin Zhuyue, so he could only unscrew the bottle of ice-cold electrolyte water in his hand and pour it into his mouth.
But Lin Zhuyue seemed to do it on purpose. Shi Can just saw that Lin Zhuyue deliberately scooped the porridge at the bottom of the lunch box.
"Don't you hold me in your arms and call me your good daughter every day?"
Lin Zhuyue did not feel guilty about doing something bad, and said,
"Just treat it as a human. It's important to you anyway, and its status should be no less than a human's."
Lin Zhuyue went to sleep after dinner.
Shi Can held a barbecued pork bun she had left in his mouth, put away the lunch box, removed the dining table board that was resting on the guardrail of the hospital bed, and then pulled Lin Zhuyue up and wiped his hands and face with a wet wipe.
After falling asleep, Lin Zhuyue saw Zhaoan again.
This time it was in a valley, with green leaves swaying and water gurgling. There were a few small black fish in the water, and a crab walked sideways out from the crack of a stone and walked under another stone covered with green algae.
Beneath an ancient tree, an old man in black sat at a stone table, fiddling with a chessboard. Beside the board sat an incense burner, from which a wisp of smoke rose, though it was an ominous gray-black.
"Play chess with me, old man."
Zhaoan looked up at Lin Zhuyue who had entered the valley and said,
"If you win, I'll let that little girl go."
Lin Zhuyue did not agree, but did not refuse either.
She lowered her head, looked at Zhao An, and asked:
"Where did you take me?"
"This is your dream."
Zhao An raised his hand to touch the drooping branches and said,
"It's really clean, but if it stays in this dye vat of Tiancheng for a few more years, it will probably become dirty."
Lin Zhuyue walked to the stone table and sat down opposite Zhaoan. She picked up the chess piece and was about to put it on the chessboard.
There was a hint of joy in Zhaoan's eyes.
He set the rules of the chessboard. If Lin Zhuyue lost the game against him, her and An Ning's spiritual power and vitality would become his.
As long as Lin Zhuyue agreed to his chess game, it was equivalent to acknowledging this rule.
But the next moment, Lin Zhuyue overturned the chessboard.
Zhaoan's expression changed.
Lin Zhuyue praised calmly:
"Your ability to invade the sea of consciousness is truly powerful. My partner and I should be exceptional among many spiritual masters, but we were unable to discover you before you appeared."
Lin Zhuyue tilted his head slightly and asked:
"But, after all, the Sea of Consciousness belongs to me. You can come whenever you want. Do you think this is your own home?"
Zhao An felt that something was wrong. His figure turned into black smoke, wrapped around the incense burner on the table, and quickly blended into the wind, trying to escape from the valley.
However, thousands of tiny golden petals flew out from Lin Zhuyue's body, interweaving into a web that covered the entire valley.
Zhao An knew that if he didn't fight hard, he would never be able to escape.
He struggled hard to crash into the web woven by amber fire.
But Lin Zhuyue's spiritual power is overwhelmingly powerful, and the golden amber fire is an extremely yang fire, which is very restraining to the dead souls.
Zhao An tried his best but failed to break a hole in the net. Instead, his soul was ignited by the golden amber fire, and he let out a hoarse, painful scream.
He fell into the water in the valley, wanting to use the water to extinguish the flames on his body, but the water suddenly turned into dry and hot yellow sand, burning under the dazzling and scorching sunlight. As soon as Zhaoan's soul touched the sand, it made a "sizzling" sound.
Pair after pair of blue-gray stone hands emerged from beneath the yellow sand, grabbing Zhao'an's arms and legs, pulling him forcefully in different directions. But just as he felt his soul shatter, the stone hands vanished. He reappeared in the humid rainforest, a massive python coiled around him, tightening its long body, ready to strangle him in its fetters.
He fell again and again during the night, hitting the hard concrete ground, hitting the car, and being pierced through the chest by thick tree trunks, nailing him tightly.
When Lin Zhuyue woke up, it was already dawn.
Shi Chan lay on the extended accompanying chair, covered with a towel blanket. He turned over, his back facing the window that let in the sunlight. A strand of hair stubbornly stuck up at the crown of his head.
Lin Zhuyue crept up and poured herself a glass of water. She sat on the bed, holding the glass, sipping it slowly, tilting her head to look at Shican, whose back was turned. She kept wanting to poke the cowlick at the top of Shican's head with her index finger, but she kept telling herself it was rude, and only then did she hold back.
At about six o'clock, Shican's phone rang.
"Sweeper, start!"
"I'm sweeping and mopping the house, rolling over the carpet, crawling under the bed, and rubbing against the lazy cat sleeping in the corner. Today is also a happy day~"
Lin Zhuyue: "..."
Lin Zhuyue had never heard the lyrics before, but the singing voice was very familiar, it was Shi Can. This guy had recorded a song with a very off key at some point and set it as his phone alarm.
Shi Can opened his eyes, swiped up his phone screen, and turned off the alarm. He turned around and calmly faced Lin Zhuyue's complicated and tangled gaze, and greeted:
"Good morning, sweeper."
Lin Zhuyue: “Delete it quickly——!”
"Are you hungry? I'll go buy you breakfast."
Shi Can sat up and said to Lin Zhuyue,
"Last night I saw a shop selling fried dough sticks wrapped in steamed buns. They looked delicious."
"Don't change the subject!"
After breakfast, Shi Can arranged for Lin Zhuyue to be discharged from the hospital.
The reinforcement team from the Spiritual Master's Mansion also arrived. The lineup was quite luxurious. The new principal Feng Xincheng personally took part in the battle. The person in charge of the elementary department was also sent over. Even Tushan Yunlin, the old fox from the Yunlin Guest House, was kidnapped as well.
"Don't get me into this kind of trouble."
Tushan Yunlin followed the reinforcement team and said,
"I'm just checking on the little girl. Don't involve me in the arrest of Zhao An. I don't want to get into trouble with Ming Hui."
Shi Can asked, "Are you afraid of Minghui?"
"Afraid? How many years have I been a spirit? How long has he been a ghost? How can I be afraid of him?"
Tushan Yunlin put his hands in his pockets and said,
"I'm just afraid of being targeted by him and having an uneasy life. He has a huge family and countless subordinates. What do I have? I just run a small shop."
Shi Can looked at Tushan Yunlin.
The old fox was wearing beach pants, a floral shirt, and slippers, and his leg hair was growing wildly.
Shi Can couldn't stand it anymore and asked:
"...I'll pay you, please change your outfit. Don't you look a bit like a vixen?"
"What's wrong with being a vixen? Do vixens have to be incredibly beautiful and have an outstanding temperament? But you know what, I'm actually quite good-looking. It's just that the idiot who offered himself up has a bad appearance and has ruined my image."
Tushan Yunlin said,
"Looking like this, it's useless to dress up. You might as well buy me some boiled chicken with less galangal."
Feng Xincheng and Lu Jing, head of the primary department, have already visited An Ning.
Although An Ning wasn't fatally injured, her condition wasn't good and she still needed treatment. It would take some time before the Spiritual Master's House could take her to Tiancheng and transfer her to the elementary school for her education.
Before this, the spiritual masters will stay to protect An Ning, arrest Zhao An, and negotiate with Ming Hui. Zhao An is very powerful, and the capture process will not be smooth, so the spiritual master's house needs Tu Shan Yun Lin's help.
Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can returned to Tiancheng early under Feng Xincheng's arrangement.
Lin Zhuyue witnessed someone jumping off a building and needs psychological intervention.
The Spiritual Master House has hired psychologists. These doctors have a certain understanding of the secret existence of spiritual masters, and they are also very excellent. They have treated and intervened for many traumatized spiritual masters and have rich experience.
It seemed that because An Ning was still alive and had all his limbs intact, Lin Zhuyue was not affected as much as other spiritual masters who witnessed the accident scene, and he recovered well.
One morning, Shican discovered that his alarm clock had changed.
"Even if you climb over mountains and cross seas, you can't catch up with your mosquitoes."
Lin Zhuyue's voice rang out from the phone.
"Good morning, classmate with the electric mosquito swatter! The sun's out, time to get up. I want some pea tips. Pick me a handful and bring them to the kitchen of Dormitory Building 2. Make me a bowl of noodles and put five hundred yuan in the bottom of the bowl."
Shi Can: “…”
Shi Can lay on his back on the bed, holding a baguette, trying hard to think about when Lin Zhuyue touched his phone.
It seemed like yesterday afternoon?
He was taking a shower in the bathroom, and his cell phone was on the bed in the room.
Lin Zhuyue couldn't access the Internet because her phone was in arrears. When she used his phone to pay the bill, Shi Can told her that the password was Baguette's birthday.
Shi Can sighed and went downstairs to pick pea tips in the small vegetable patch in the back garden.
He put the cleaned pea tips in a plastic bag, carried the bag and a cake box out the door, and drove to dormitory building No. 2 where Lin Zhuyue was.
When Lin Zhuyue opened her eyes, she heard some noise in the kitchen and thought there was a thief in the dormitory. She got up from the bed, carrying a hammer and walked to the kitchen. After pushing the door open, she saw Shi Can, wearing an apron with a teddy bear on it, cooking noodles.
Lin Zhuyue was surprised:
"...Why did you really come?"
"Because the pea tips at home will become old if we don't pinch them off soon."
Shi Chan put the fresh pea tips into the pot and boiled them.
"Would you like some layer cake? I made it last night, mango."
Lin Zhuyue nodded: "Food."
After the noodles were cooked, Shican sat at the table, picking up noodles with chopsticks in one hand and teasing Xiaoyu with a cat toy in the other.
After finishing the noodles, he cut some mango lasagna for Lin Zhuyue.
Lin Zhuyue took the cut crepe cake and asked:
"Did An Ning catch Zhao An?"
Shi Can covered the remaining crepe cake with a box, stuffed it into Lin Zhuyue's refrigerator, and said:
"No, Zhaoan is very good at concealing his presence. The Spiritual Master's Mansion has searched everywhere they could these past few days, but they haven't been able to find him. Old Master said that if we can't find him today, I need to go to Linxi City again to see if I can follow the 'fate' to track Zhaoan down."
Lin Zhuyue was a little confused: "Well, actually..."
Shi Chan put the cake away, returned to the sofa, and asked:
"What's wrong? What do you want to say?"
Lin Zhuyue raised his hand, and the golden amber fire gathered in his palm, gradually condensing into a light golden scroll. Lin Zhuyue unfolded the scroll and spread the stick figure on it in front of Shi Can.
Lin Zhuyue's Ukiyo-e scroll is no longer blank.
Her Ukiyoe scroll had two swords and a mirror, which were all things she had copied from the scroll before. And now, there was one more item on the scroll.
A short, fat old man with a cane.
Shi Chan asked: "This is..."
Lin Zhuyue replied, "Zhao'an."
Shi Can put down the water cup and waited for Lin Zhuyue to explain.
"The night I was in the hospital, he invaded my consciousness and I taught him a lesson. It was probably around that time that he was included in the Ukiyo-e scroll."
Lin Zhuyue said to Shi Can,
"Last night, I checked the Ukiyo-e scroll and found him there. What should I do? How should I explain Zhao'an's disappearance to the Spiritual Master's Mansion?"
Compared to explaining to the Spiritual Master's Mansion, Shi Can was more worried about Lin Zhuyue.
Shi Chan asked nervously:
"After including him in the Ukiyo-e scroll, did you feel any discomfort?"
Lin Zhuyue shook his head and replied:
“Not at all.”
Shi Can rearranged the barrier in Lin Zhuyue's dormitory and asked Lin Zhuyue to release Zhao An from the Ukiyo-e scroll.
However, Zhao An, who was released, could neither speak nor move, he was completely like a piece of wood. Only after Lin Zhuyue used his spiritual power did Zhao An move obediently. He was completely under Lin Zhuyue's control and had no self-identity.
"I finally understand why Ukiyo-e scrolls are feared. They're incredibly powerful."
Shi Can sighed and said,
"Don't explain to the Spiritual Master's Mansion. Let them think Zhao An ran away. If the fact that your spiritual weapon is a floating world scroll is exposed, you will definitely be in trouble."
Lin Zhuyue nodded and put Zhaoan back into the scroll.
Time quickly entered late June.
Lin Zhuyue's classmates in Class 1 of Yuancheng held a graduation banquet the day before the results were released. They also warmly invited Lin Zhuyue to come back and attend, and also asked about how Lin Zhuyue performed in the college entrance examination.
Lin Zhuyue could only prevaricate with the two words "it's okay" and told his classmates that he had something to do and could not attend the graduation banquet.
They were celebrating after the college entrance exam, but classes at the Spiritual Master Academy were still going on. There was even a 20-day third semester in July. The thought of having to attend classes in such hot weather made Lin Zhuyue wilt.
On Monday morning, Shi Can and Gong Yongyuan entered the classroom cursing at each other.
"It's all your fault!"
Shi Chan's voice was filled with anger.
"It's June, and the UV rays are so strong, why are you asking me to go swimming at the beach? My cool white skin has been tanned to warm white skin!"
"If you don't agree, can I still drag you into the sea?"
Gong Yongyuan said to Shi Can,
"Warm skin is much healthier than cool skin, okay? With your original skin color, I wanted to ask which state you were from."
Ye Yangjia's voice was relatively lazy:
"That's great! The doctor won't let me go into the sea."
Lin Zhuyue, who was sitting in the classroom, asked:
"For guys, is there a big difference between cool white skin and warm white skin?"
"In previous years, it wasn't that big. Every year when the weather gets hot, we jump into the sea at every turn. We're lucky if we don't turn into red potatoes."
Wen Miyan and Lin Zhuyue shared snacks and said,
"But this year is special. Like a peacock spreading its feathers, people are more concerned about their appearance. He even asked me for sunscreen yesterday and took away the Anessa I just bought. But guys can be a bit naive sometimes, thinking sunscreen is a panacea. Sigh."
Shi Chan entered the classroom and sat down on a chair.
He had been arguing fiercely with Gong Yongyuan in the corridor, but fell silent once he entered the classroom. He sat next to Lin Zhuyue, looking very quiet and well-behaved.
Lin Zhuyue turned her head and looked at him.
It's become a little darker, but still very white.
Shi Can turned his head away, trying to avoid Lin Zhuyue's sight.
Lin Zhuyue poked his hand and handed the mint box to Shi Can. Shi Can turned around awkwardly, took the box, and poured a mint into his palm.
Lin Zhuyue asked: "Can we eat crabs for lunch?"
"A mint candy in exchange for a crab meal?"
Shi Can put the candy into his mouth, and instead of returning the candy box to Lin Zhuyue, he put it directly into his backpack and said,
"That's a nice thought."
Wen Miyan took Lin Zhuyue in her arms and said, "Let's go to my house for dinner."
Lin Zhuyue nodded: "Okay."
Shi Can: “…”
He turned his head and looked at Wen Miyan expressionlessly.
Wen Miyan ignored him completely. She grabbed Lin Zhuyue's hand, trimmed Lin Zhuyue's nails beautifully, and painted her nails with the candy-colored gel she had just bought. Lin Zhuyue liked the color that was similar to avocado green very much.
During physical education class, Shi Chan sat in the stands in a depressed mood.
"You're quite persistent."
Ye Yangjia threw the water he bought into Shi Can's arms and said,
"You've been having feelings for her for about half a year now, right? You've been cooking and making desserts for her, accompanying her when she's sick, and even helping her when we're fighting. You want to cling to her completely, but why don't you confess? You're not usually this cowardly."
Shi Chan unscrewed the water bottle and said, "Secret love dies from confession."
Ye Yangjia was convinced: "...Then you will have a secret crush on her for the rest of your life."
Ye Yangjia left with his water bottle.
Shi Can looked across the playground at Lin Zhuyue, who was arm wrestling with Wen Miyan on the other side.
He has been very arrogant since he was a child. He knows that his personality is not pleasing to others, but he still remains the same and has never tried to please anyone. If someone doesn't like him, then they don't like him. He doesn't need to be liked by anyone.
But he finally met his nemesis.
Lin Zhuyue was like a meteor, suddenly and unexpectedly crashing into his life.
The pride he had maintained for nineteen years was shattered to pieces.
Is this retribution?
Shi Can pulled his Bluetooth headset out of his pocket, put it on his ears, and played the song "Electric Mosquito Swatter Song" that Lin Zhuyue had sung to him. As he listened, he couldn't help but want to laugh. But before he could laugh, he felt a little silly and tried hard to suppress the corners of his mouth.
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