Chapter 80: Paper Face Lin Zhuyue was so frightened that his hair stood on end
Lin Zhuyue originally went to Shi Can for extra lessons.
But as she continued to make up for it, she started to play with tea pets.
The tea pet is an old brown sugar-colored duck. Shi Can spent a lot of money to customize it. It was just delivered to his home today. Shi Can couldn't wait to put it on the tea tray.
Lin Zhuyue held the kettle and poured the freshly boiled filtered water on the duck. The duck then turned white and stood obediently on the tea tray with its big chest puffed out, its neck shrunk, and it stared at Lin Zhuyue with intelligent eyes.
Lin Zhuyue had a lot of fun, but she didn't forget to send a message to Wen Miyan and Ye Yangjia to complain:
How much does he love Call Duck?
Ye Yangjia: […He loves it so much.]
Ye Yangjia: [You don't know, I used his Switch to play Pokémon before, and when I opened his save file, he'd caught over a hundred Psyducks and ten Magikarp... And he actually used a Master Ball to catch Psyducks! It's better to use it to catch Red Mushrooms than Psyducks, right?]
Wen Miyan: [This guy is the kind of person who loves round things, always buying bear cats and Ranchu fish. When he was in first grade, he went on assignments and always had the boss make round-shaped pancakes for him.]
Lin Zhuyue: [...]
This is a bit outrageous!
"What are you laughing at?" Shi Can came closer and said, "Let me see."
Lin Zhuyue quickly hid her phone, raised her hand to press against Shi Can's face, and pushed him away.
Shi Can nodded and said confidently:
"I know, you're saying bad things about me."
Lin Zhuyue immediately denied it: "No."
Shi Chan insisted, “Of course I did.”
Lin Zhuyue shook her head like a rattle: "...Really not."
Her response was very firm, which was to refuse to admit it.
Lin Zhuyue lowered her head and looked at the baguette lying sprawled between her and Shican. She reached out and pinched the baguette's face, thinking:
The cheeks are indeed quite round, round and big.
Baguette shook his furry ears, but didn't wake up.
"The location and construction of a tomb chamber are closely related to astronomical geography and the Nine Palaces and Eight Trigrams. The ancients paid great attention to this. Tombs were generally chosen in locations with excellent feng shui, and their construction was also very particular. A good tomb chamber also benefits future generations."
Shi Chan picked up the book and continued teaching.
"...If there's something wrong with the tomb, the descendants will face academic and career setbacks, suffer from illness, or even die young. However, most of the robbed tombs we're dealing with no longer have any descendants."
Lin Zhuyue said thoughtfully:
"Gong Yongyuan should be quite good at this kind of knowledge, right?"
"Yeah, if the new head teacher didn't look difficult to get along with, he would definitely not even listen to the class. I beat him up and he'd be fine."
Shi Can was puzzled.
"Will someone who's good at the Nine Palaces and Eight Diagrams have a better time playing Connect the Dots than others? This guy was at level 1,700 a week ago, and now he's surpassed me."
"Don't I surpass you?"
Lin Zhuyue smiled embarrassedly.
"I'm not very good at learning the Nine Palaces and Eight Diagrams."
Shi Can: "...Kryptonian players, shut up."
By the time the tutoring was finished, it was already six o'clock in the afternoon.
Shi Can simply invited Lin Zhuyue to have dinner at home, and asked the chef to make some watermelon and brown sugar jelly. The weather was too hot, so he needed some cool dessert to cool down.
When the dinner cooled down to a suitable temperature for eating, Shican went downstairs first.
Lin Zhuyue stuffed her books into her backpack and gazed longingly at the Call Duck tea pet on the tea tray. Honestly, it was really adorable. She half wanted to take the tea pet with her, but seeing how much Shi Can liked the Call Duck, she felt it wouldn't be a good idea.
Desire is at war with conscience.
Lin Zhuyue suddenly heard Shi Can's scolding.
“Oh my god!”
She didn't bother to take her backpack, and ran downstairs and asked:
"What's wrong? What happened?"
Shi Chan reminded: "Don't look in the mirror——"
It's too late.
Lin Zhuyue rushed into the bathroom on the first floor and his eyes fell on the mirror.
Although Shican in the mirror is still tall and broad-shouldered, he is no longer a handsome guy.
On his neck was a pale paper face with round blush painted on both sides. The contrast between red and white was so obvious, and the paper face was so creepy under the dim bathroom light.
“Ahhhhh!”
Lin Zhuyue was so scared that his hair stood on end.
Shi Can quickly covered her eyes.
Lin Zhuyue didn't realize that it was Shi Can who was blocking her view, and said in horror:
"Help! Don't kill me! Jinbo——"
"It's okay, it's just a prop."
Shi Can said before the amber fire could burn him,
"It's the effect of the junk props I was trying out at the Yunlin Inn. It's not a ghost. Hurry and put away the amber fire! You're going to set my clothes on fire!"
Two minutes later, Lin Zhuyue sat at the table, scooping ice jelly into his mouth in shock.
Lin Zhuyue asked: "How can there be such a prop?"
"I tried it yesterday. Logically, it should have taken effect last night. Maybe the amount I tried was too small?"
Shi Can pushed his ice jelly to Lin Zhuyue,
"I'm sorry, I'll give you my ice jelly, don't be angry."
Lin Zhuyue took the ice jelly with a stern face.
She wasn't actually angry, but she wanted to eat two servings of ice jelly.
Because it's going to rain tomorrow, it's going to be a bit stuffy outside tonight. Shi Can was worried that Lin Zhuyue, a northerner, wouldn't be able to handle the high temperatures in Tiancheng and might get a heat stroke, so after dinner and dessert, he drove Lin Zhuyue back to the dormitory.
By the way, Shican’s tea pet was also taken away by her.
She took it openly in front of Shi Can, and Shi Can didn't dare to say a word. He could only find the contact information of the tea pet maker on the chat software and customized a new one. He also paid more money, hoping that the other party could help him cut in line and expedite it.
After sending Lin Zhuyue back to the dormitory, Shi Can went to the Yunlin Guesthouse.
The next morning, when Lin Zhuyue went to the classroom, Shi Can was friendly sharing his newly bought perfume with his classmates. He took the trouble to spray the perfume on their wrists. As if worried that his classmates would not be able to smell the beautiful scent of the perfume, Shi Can pressed the pump twice.
Shi Chan asked in a smug tone, "Does it smell good?"
Ye Yangjia frowned and asked:
"Why would a man like you buy such a sweet perfume?"
Gong Yongyuan carefully savored the perfume on his wrist:
"It's a little sweet, but it smells good."
Shi Can grabbed Meng Qi who was passing by and said enthusiastically:
"Come on, come on, have some too."
After spraying all the boys in the class, Shi Can finally returned to his seat. He supported his face with one hand and calmly opened the textbook with a faint smile on the corner of his mouth.
He had used up half the bottle of perfume, but he didn't feel sorry at all.
That night, a war of words broke out in the class group.
Meng Qi: [@Shican, fuck you!]
Shi Can: [I don't have an uncle, but you'd better be more polite. Constantly swearing will make girls stay away from you.]
Gong Yongyuan: [@Shican, if you have nothing to do, go find something to eat in the toilet. Don't come out and cause trouble for others.]
Shi Chan: [I've eaten it. Isn't it a good thing to share happiness and hardship together? Why don't I ask you guys to try it together?]
Ye Yangjia: [@Shican, I really should bring back that blue-gray flat-tailed sea snake I found at the beach so you two can have a good kiss.]
Shi Chan: [You can let it kiss you first, and then you can kiss me. If you do, I will definitely knock you down with a slap on the face and send you to the hospital for serum injections.]
…
Shi Can sat in Lin Zhuyue's dormitory, happily eating the watermelon that Lin Zhuyue cut for him, while single-handedly dealing with the verbal battle in the group.
He knew that he would be cornered and beaten as soon as he entered the classroom tomorrow, but he was not panicked at all. He was very confident in his fighting ability.
However, unexpectedly, before Shican was surrounded by his classmates, he was blocked by a boy from a lower grade.
The boy blocking the way wasn't very short, but Shi Chan was incredibly tall, standing a full half a head taller than him. He was nervous, his fingers tightly gripping the envelope in his hand, his fingertips rubbing against it until it softened even more.
Shi Chan asked, “What?”
He was stopped many times at school. The other party usually stopped him for the purpose of provoking him, and then Shican would challenge the other party to a fight and beat him up.
But the young man in front of him didn't look like he could fight at all. He had a slender body, wore a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, and looked weak.
The boy mustered up his courage and handed the envelope to Shican:
"Senior, can you help me give this to Senior Sister Lin Zhuyue?"
Shi Can glanced at the envelope held in the boy's hands, raised his eyebrows, and asked:
"A love letter?"
The boy blushed and said nothing.
"I don't do this kind of thing for you."
Shi Can walked past the boy and said,
"If you like her, go find her and confess your feelings face to face, or at least deliver the letter to her yourself. Otherwise, if she reads the letter, she won't know what you look like or what kind of person you are. Do you think such a confession will be successful?"
Shi Can waved his hand and walked into the teaching building without looking back.
Ye Yangjia, who had witnessed all this, was waiting in the teaching building. When Shi Can came over, he asked:
"Rival in love?"
"He's definitely an enemy, but not necessarily a love rival."
Shi Can and Ye Yangjia went upstairs together and said,
"The rumors about Lin Zhuyue and me are all over the academy. Even if someone likes her, they won't come to me even if they ask you to help deliver a love letter."
"I guess he's from some aristocratic family, helping the elders to test the relationship between Lin Zhuyue and me. I've memorized his appearance. After school, I'll go to the photo gallery on the exhibition board to identify him and find out who this kid is from."
The rejected boy stood there silently for a long time. Instead of entering the teaching building, he turned around, tore the envelope in his hand into pieces and threw it into the trash can.
Ye Yangjia sighed:
"You are quite tolerant. I thought you were going to curse and beat him up."
"By the way, Gong Yongyuan helped you throw the茭杯 last night."
Ye Yangjia hooked Shi Can's shoulders and said,
"The question is whether you and Lin Zhuyue can be together. I rolled the dice three times, and the answer was no each time."
"... Damn it."
Shi Can shook Ye Yangjia off and said angrily,
"Who asked him to help me throw the dice?"
Shi Can hurried upstairs and went to the classroom to settle the score with Gong Yongyuan.
This was Gong Yongyuan's own idea, as beating Shi Can up wouldn't necessarily break him, and he might even get beaten up in return. But since this matter concerned Lin Zhuyue, Shi Can would definitely break down.
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