Chapter 93 Happy 19th birthday, Zhuyue.
Lin Zhuyue turned away guiltily, trying to justify her deliberate act of revenge:
"...I'm just worried that you might not faint completely enough and get up and stab me."
Shi Can was almost laughing because of her.
After a moment, Shi Can said:
"Ask the chef to make me some porridge. Does the family have any fresh clams? If so, ask them to add some to the porridge."
Lin Zhuyue took Shi Can's cell phone and called the chef in the Shi family mansion. After hanging up, he said to Shi Can:
"There are clams. I'll make the porridge and bring it to you in a bit."
Shi Can raised his hands, both of them resting under his head. He looked at the white ceiling, his mind returning to the mission in Meishui City, and asked about what happened after he lost consciousness:
"How's the victim doing?"
"I went back to work at the hospital yesterday morning."
Lin Zhuyue took an apple from the fruit basket and said,
"She went back to her rental apartment last night. She seemed hesitant to sleep at first, but eventually fell asleep in the second half of the night. She contacted me this morning and said she slept soundly."
Shi Can nodded and said, "Mission report..."
"It's a fake."
Lin Zhuyue went to the bathroom and washed the apple. Then she returned to sit by the bed and peeled the apple with a fruit knife. The peel separated from the flesh and was cut into long strips, the tail of which fell into the trash can.
"The Kunlun branch didn't report the mission failure to the Spiritual Master's Mansion. Ming Hui also bypassed the Spiritual Master's Mansion and secretly intercepted the mission. The Spiritual Master's Mansion had no idea what kind of ghost cultivator we were dealing with. In the Spiritual Master's Mansion's eyes, we were just like Ming Hui's fabricated report, investigating the haunted hospital in Meishui City, only to discover it was a misunderstanding and return after a few days of fun."
Shi Can was not surprised and said:
"He was right to fake it... He knew the mission involved ghost cultivation, but he still sent an apprentice spiritual master there. If the Spiritual Master House knew about this, they would definitely remove him from his position as class teacher."
Lin Zhuyue cut the peeled apple into pieces, put them on a plate, and handed them to Shi Can along with a cinnamon dog fruit fork.
Shi Can took the plate, put the apple into his mouth, chewed it a few times, swallowed it, and said:
"It's very sweet, worthy of being an apple peeled by the sweeper himself."
"It should be Bingtangxin."
Lin Zhuyue stood up to wash the fruit knife and said,
"Gong Yongyuan sent it to me. Remember to thank him."
The clam porridge at home was not yet cooked when the doctor came. The doctor briefly checked Shi Chan's condition and after confirming that Shi Chan was fine, he urged Shi Chan to be discharged as soon as possible and not to occupy the bed.
Shi Chan had no choice but to call the driver to pick him up.
It had rained for the past two days in Tiancheng, but it had finally cleared up today. The sky was a brilliant blue, without a single cloud. Seagulls landed on the beach, their heads lowered to feast on the delicacies washed ashore by the waves, like shattered pearls. Once their bellies were full, they spread their wings and flew away.
The driver took Shi Can's luggage and the fruit basket from Lin Zhuyue's hand and put them in the trunk.
Shi Can opened the backseat door for Lin Zhuyue, raised his hand to the door frame, and politely invited the sweeper into the car. Then, he walked around to the other side, opened the door, got in, and sat next to Lin Zhuyue.
Afterwards, I don’t know if Ming Hui had a change of heart, but he didn’t assign any tasks to Lin Zhuyue for a long time.
Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can were able to spend a normal summer vacation.
Shi Can accompanied Lin Zhuyue to and from the driving school, and sometimes even offered his own car to take Lin Zhuyue for practice on the coast. However, Lin Zhuyue's driving skills still made Shi Can feel an indescribable fear.
"…She was in third gear and managed to reverse."
Shi Chan added a spoonful of soy sauce to his ramen and said depressedly,
"How did you do that?"
“It’s incredible!”
Ye Yangjia gave a thumbs up and praised,
"This is genius! Even the driving school instructor can't do it!"
Less than ten days before the end of summer vacation, the amazing Lin Zhuyue successfully passed all the exams and was ready to get her driver's license.
Lin Zhuyue wore a white skirt, a sun hat, and a pair of sandals and walked to Shican's house.
She was carrying two boxes of wontons, which An Ning's mother had personally wrapped and sent to her dormitory. Lin Zhuyue was worried that the wonton wrappers would crack if they were frozen for too long, so she planned to take them to Shican's house and eat them together.
When Lin Zhuyue arrived at Shi Can's house, she happened to see Shi Can parking a red BMW X5 outside. The car looked brand new, both inside and out, and it had no license plates. It must have been a new car that the young master had just brought home.
Shi Chan opened the car door and got out.
He and Lin Zhuyue went into the house together and handed the wontons to the kitchen, asking the chef to cook them.
Lin Zhuyue went straight to the cat room on the fourth floor.
Baguette and Xiaoyu were both crouched on the cat climbing frame, huddled in a cat bed. A couple of days ago, Shican had taken them to a veterinary clinic outside of Tiancheng for a checkup. They'd lost their belly hair and heart hair. The two cats seemed to be feeling a bit cold without their fur, and neither of them lay on the ground.
Lin Zhuyue played with the cat for a while and noticed some movement on the balcony. She went over to see a magpie, quietly and comfortably perched on a clothes-drying pole, with a food box filled with mealworms next to it.
Lin Zhuyue: "...?"
Shi Can went upstairs to look for Lin Zhuyue and entered the balcony. Seeing Lin Zhuyue's complicated eyes, he explained:
"Three days ago, when I was cleaning the house, I opened the window and it flew in and refused to leave. So... let's keep it for now. It has a big appetite, and if it keeps eating like this, it will eventually become too fat to fly."
Lin Zhuyue raised her hand, and the magpie flew onto her hand, its claws gripping her fingers tightly, even causing a little pain.
Lin Zhuyue was a little worried:
"Isn't it unsafe to keep it in the cat room?"
"Fortunately, the balcony door is always locked."
Shi Can looked back at the two sisters lazily huddled in the cat bed and said,
"They both get so exhausted after playing with a cat teaser for just two minutes that they gasp for air. They can't even reach a slightly higher climbing frame, so catching birds is probably a real challenge for them." Lin Zhuyue tried to let the magpie go, but as soon as she opened the window, it flew out of reach. This bird was determined to secure a stable job at Shican's house.
Lin Zhuyue hadn't been in the cat room for long when the phone hanging next to the door rang.
Shi Can picked up the phone, said ok, and hung up again, then said to Lin Zhuyue:
"Lunch is ready, let's go down and eat."
Lin Zhuyue nodded and went downstairs with Shican.
Shi Chan deliberately slowed down his pace and let her walk in front.
Lin Zhuyue felt something was wrong, but she was not too worried - this was Shi Can's home, one of the safest places in the world, and there would be no danger.
With this belief in mind, Lin Zhuyue stepped into the restaurant.
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
There was a shocking explosion on each side of my ears.
By the time Lin Zhuyue reacted, colorful pieces of paper were already flying all over the sky. They fluttered up and down, landing messily on her hair, shoulders, feet, and the ground.
Wen Miyan and Ye Yangjia stood on either side, holding fireworks cannons. Those beautiful, sparkling pieces of paper had just been blown out of the cannon barrels.
Wen Miyan smiled and said, "Happy birthday, Zhuyue."
Lin Zhuyue was stunned: "...Huh?"
On the round table in the dining room sat a cake with a single candle. It wasn't huge, but it was incredibly cute. It depicted a little girl with black hair in twin ponytails, holding a kitten with perfectly bangs. Lin Zhuyue had stopped wearing pigtails after elementary school, but the girl on the cake was so lifelike that she knew it was herself the moment she saw it.
Birthday……
By the way, today is her nineteenth birthday.
Lin Zhuyue didn't have the habit of celebrating her birthday. When she was younger, Lin Lang still remembered to celebrate her birthday. But after entering high school, every birthday fell during class, and with the heavy workload, it was difficult to ask for leave, so he simply forgot to celebrate.
Wen Miyan pulled Lin Zhuyue to the innermost chair, opened the chair, and pressed Lin Zhuyue's shoulders to let her sit down.
Then, she handed Lin Zhuyue a box and said:
"This is the birthday gift I prepared for you. It's a watch... Don't be disgusted. It's hard to give gifts in a fancy way."
Ye Yangjia took his gift out of the bag hanging on the back of the chair, placed it in front of Lin Zhuyue, and said:
"I've also prepared a watch. You can wear the one Wen Miyan gave you on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, the one I gave you on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, and your own on Sundays."
Lin Zhuyue accepted the gift with a helpless smile.
Shi Chan handed over a car key:
"In Tiancheng, most people who have just passed their driving test will be given a car. The red BMW you just saw is the birthday present I prepared for you. I think it drives quite well. Tomorrow we will go to the beach to test drive the car. If it doesn't suit you, I will buy you another car."
Lin Zhuyue didn't dare to take the key: "Isn't it too expensive?"
Shi Can put the key into Lin Zhuyue's hand and asked:
"Do you think the watches they gave me are not expensive?"
Lin Zhuyue hesitated for a moment, but still accepted the gift.
The gifts her friends prepared were truly valuable, not just in price but also in the love and care they put into them. Later, on their birthdays, she would repay their precious affection with both her money and her love.
Shican lit the candles on the birthday cake, took the newly bought guitar and played a birthday song for her.
Lin Zhuyue closed his eyes and made a wish.
I hope our friendship will last forever, I hope the people around me will be healthy and safe, I hope everything will go well and my military fortune will prosper.
Lin Zhuyue blew out the candle.
She pulled out the candles and cut the cake.
The chef and the housekeeper brought the longevity noodles to the table. The bowl was garnished with green chopped green onions and a crispy fried egg. But the most commendable thing about this bowl of noodles was the thin, fine noodles. Rolling out noodles like this would be difficult without some skill.
"Master wasted several lumps of dough while rolling them out, and also wasted a lot while cutting them."
The housekeeper placed the chopsticks in front of Lin Zhuyue and said,
"We're going to have to eat noodles at home these days."
Shi Can turned his head away and said:
"My dad rolls it for my mom every year. I think he's pretty good at it. Who knew it would be so difficult?"
Lin Zhuyue's eyes sparkled. She wanted to laugh, but her nose felt a little sour.
How happy it would be to eat a bowl of noodles like this on your birthday?
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