《Shanhai High School》


 CH 1

    Ji XingLing: Feeling so handsome at himself!


    The thunderstorms had suddenly struck by the end of summer.


    The damp fog had enveloped the whole of JinCheng. The cab driver parked his car at the entrance of the alley and pointed, ¡°Run two steps from here, then turn around the corner, and you¡¯ll reach the school rear gate. Hurry up ba.¡±


    Outside, the rainstorm was still raging with ¡°cracking¡± and falling, also spattering into the dirty muddy puddle below. When Lin Jing was looking out from the car window, he resolutely leaned back on the car seat. ¡°I just saw a convenience store on YangShu Street. Could you please take me there? I like to buy an umbrella.¡±


    ¡°You need to make a detour to get there.¡± The cab driver responded kindly, ¡°There is a grocery store in the alley where you can buy an umbrella.¡±


    But Lin Jing has already refastened his seat belt. He was wearing a light yellow t-shirt, and with his trimmed textured black hair covering his forehead, he appeared extremely youthful and vigorous, also pampered. The only thing that was missing from his face was the word ¡°mysophobia¡±. The cab driver had no choice but to turn the steering wheel and drive him again to buy an umbrella, which lasted more than half an hour, just by going back and forth.


    ¡°Aren¡¯t you afraid of being late ah?¡± the driver asked while he was returning his change.


    ¡°The class won¡¯t start till tomorrow.¡± Lin Jing opened the car door. ¡°I came over today to complete the school transfer procedures.¡±


    ShanHai High School was a provincial key school. If you were able to transfer to this school halfway, it was because either you were excelled in academic performance or had a prestigious family background, in which Lin Jing belonged to the former one. His original high school was no worse than ShanHai. This time, it was all because of his parents¡¯ job transfer that he had to transfer his second year to this high school.


    A strong gust of wind had blown toward him, and Lin Jing frowned at his pants legs which had gotten primarily wet. Just when he was going to take shelter under the eaves, he accidentally pushed open a half-covered wooden door.


    It was a grocery store.


    The shop¡¯s interior was dimly lit, and it can be passed as an antique hereditary house by changing the sign. A group of juvenile delinquents were smoking, and when they heard the wind chime at the door, they all looked back in sync.


    Lin Jing didn¡¯t spare a glance anywhere, not even to the Shamate11, as he opened the cold drink cabinet. The young scoundrels ignored him and continued to gather together to discuss how to ¡°give Ji XingLing a lesson¡± and carried out a series of illegal steps such as who bought hemp rope, who put on sack, who sap, and who extorted. Detailed the division of labor and ignored the innocent bystanders who were shopping at the scene. After Lin Jing scanned the QR code and paid, he was going to dial 110 as he turned and walked out. However, someone had bumped into him head-on that made him staggered and almost fell into the mud.


    ¡°Boss, run! Ji XingLing is here!¡±


    The other party screamed with trembling, without the joy of ¡°the kidnapping target had walked right into a trap¡±. Lin Jing held firmly onto the door frame, and when he raised his head again, those scoundrels had rushed out of the grocery store. They were running and disappearing into the alley as if they were fleeing for their lives.


    The fat boss of the grocery store was not surprised, shaking the fan in his hand and using his eyes to signal Lin Jing that it was already okay. At this time, the rain had eased off, as another group of people came from around the corner. The young man on the lead, who had his one hand put inside his pants pocket, also casually hung a school uniform over his shoulder, had his short hair slightly damp from the rain, which became a little messy, and revealed a pair of gleaming eyes. He was tall and lean with two long legs. The little brother, who was in charge of holding the umbrella by his side, had to run with him, asked breathlessly, ¡°Brother Xing, are we going to skip class and go to the Internet cafe?¡±


    With a lollipop dangled from his lips, the boy indifferently asked him, ¡°Even if you don¡¯t go to the Internet cafe, can you understand the math lecture?¡±


    The umbrella boy looked terrified. No, he was sure that he wouldn¡¯t understand.


    It was better to play games rather than try to understand math lessons.


    A group of people was noisily walking out. Lin Jing hesitated for a moment before calling out, ¡°Ji XingLing.¡±


    The other party stopped and looked at him hesitantly. ¡°Do we know each other?¡±


    ¡°No, we don¡¯t.¡± Lin Jing put his words in order. ¡°But just now there was a group of unemployed youth who had planned to kidnap you here.¡±


    ¡°puff.¡±


    ¡°¡­¡±


    When most people heard that they were about to be kidnapped, even if they hadn¡¯t panicked, they should at least feel nervous about it. Lin Jing couldn¡¯t understand what the other party¡¯s scoffing puff was doing. Still, anyway, he had already fulfilled the obligation to notify. He didn¡¯t want to have an in-depth conversation with this laggard in front of him who he had known with just a glance that his six subject tests were only getting 300 as a total score, so he once again opened up the umbrella and hurried to go to the school.


    The moment he brushed past him, Ji XingLing suddenly smelled a very faint fragrance on his body, which was clear and clean, like the misty mountains and forests in late spring and early summer.


    The person next to him felt puzzled. ¡°Brother Xing, what are you dumbfounded about?¡±


    ¡°It¡¯s nothing.¡± Ji XingLing regained his senses and continued to move on, but then he saw a small silver card with a fuzzy pattern engraved on it. It looked like an elementary school student¡¯s cheap five yuan toy, which was blown away by the wind into a sewer.


    Ji XingLing quickly stepped on it with his foot and looked back again.


    It was coincidentally that Lin Jing had turned around at that very moment. Initially, he was just wondering if the grocery store owner would remind the other party again. Unexpectedly his sight had bumped right into a pair of eyes. Amidst the fine rain drizzles in the mist, their gazes locked on each other. When Ji XingLing was about to open his mouth to call him back, Lin Jing had already taken two steps back and was rushing into the distance.


    Ji Xingling, ¡°¡­¡±


    What were you running for? Weren¡¯t you know that you lost your monster ID card?


    ¡°Brother Xing, hurry up! The car has arrived!¡± a group of people shouted at the alley.


    ¡°I¡¯m coming.¡± Ji XingLing picked up the card and stuffed it into the wallet. Another ID card was inserted there, shining with black metal light, and it looked a bit more advanced than an ordinary monster¡¯s ID card. It belonged to Ji XingLing¡¯s identification card. He was a young Qilin2 2who was about to reach adulthood, the majestic kind of monster.


    But at present, this kind of prestige was limited only to showing oneself in the mirror. The identity of monsters cannot be disclosed casually; otherwise, it will cause social panic. Therefore, even if the number of monsters in this city has constantly been swelling year after year, some experts even predict that in 50 years from now, there will be an explosion in the human population¡­ no, demon population, everyone was carefully safeguarded each other¡¯s identity, and no one will take the initiative to enthusiastically advertise it. In fact, my whole family was not human.


    Ji XingLing, who was sitting inside the cab, was still thinking about the monster ID card that he just picked up. According to the code, the other party should be a plant, and the plant¡¯s birthplace was generally in a sparsely populated mountain forest, that commonly known as a remote area, which can explain why he can¡¯t even lose the monster ID card ¨C it might be because he had not experienced life. Of course, he might don¡¯t even know how many cumbersome procedures that he had to go through and how expensive it was to reapply for a new ID card in a big city.


    Maybe he didn¡¯t even know where the Monster Management Committee was. Young Master Ji shook his head while he was thinking about it.


    Lin Jing currently wasn¡¯t aware that he had been imagined as a poor country monster who just had entered the city for the first time, and he was still busy filling out various information paperwork. The teacher in charge of class 2-1 was named Wang HongYu. He dressed in a blue shirt that is quite popular among middle-aged male teachers, and when he smiled, his eyes slit into a thin line. The colleague next to him quipped, ¡°Look at how happy Mr. Wang, that our school has arrived a progeny that is showing great promise.¡±


    ¡°Of course I¡¯m happy.¡± Wang HongYu sealed the information kit away and said to Lin Jing with a bright smile, ¡°Your former homeroom teacher and I are old classmates. He even specifically gave me a call to have a good chat about this matter. Come on. I will first give you a tour to familiarize you with the campus environment.¡±


    As a provincial key point, the equipment facilities of ShanHai High School are certainly top-notch, but because it was raining, Wang HongYu only took him around the teaching building. The after class bell had just rung, several girls were chatting about seeing Teacher Wang and their new classmate in the corridor just now.


    ¡°That boy is so handsome ah!¡±


    ¡°I heard that he ranked first place in NingCheng Third Grade Junior High School!¡±


    ¡°We met him when we participated in the English competition last year, and even the class president had taken a photo with him.¡±


    The class president of class 2-1 was called Wei Xue. He was reading the English test papers when everyone came to ask questions. He lazily supported his cheeks, ¡°Yes, I took a photo with him. If you want to see it, thirty for one time, and if you need to cut me out from the picture, and only look at handsome guys, add fifty more.¡±


    A group of girls were laughing and protesting, and were even condemning the class president for not showing beneficence toward people. The boys hadn¡¯t had much interest in Lin Jing. At most, they only caused an uproar at the current first rank in their grade, and were lamenting in unison that brother Li wouldn¡¯t be able to maintain his position for long. Upon seeing this, the math teacher, who came in with a stack of workbooks, knocked on the podium. ¡°Why are you all gathered around Li MoYuan? Was it because you know that next week¡¯s exam will be difficult, so you are all trying to curry favor with president Li in advance?¡±


    Once said, the students were immediately wailed. Not only they weren¡¯t in the mood to make any more trouble, but each of them had also sat back honestly in their seats to prepare for class. Wei Xue had found the photo that he took with Lin Jing and initiatively pass it over to Li MoYuan, ¡°Yo, Xueba33, come and take a look at the rival you are about to face.¡±


    The teenager on the screen narrows his eyes into a bright smile like the sunny sun in May. Li MoYuan was spinning his pen, and just when he was about to express some opinions, the math teacher coughed twice on the podium ¡ª good students always received preferential treatment, for example as now. Although the no.1 in our grade was still looking at his mobile phone just before the class, the teacher wasn¡¯t willing to reprimand him too much. And the same preferential treatment was also applied to Lin Jing. Wang HongYu not only accompanied him through all the tedious formalities, but also fully kept repeating three or four times ¡°If you have any difficulties, please find a teacher¡±, only just after that then he saw the person off onto the cab. Then he hummed a short piece of a song while he was on his way back to the office.


    The rain had stopped.


    In the meantime, Doctor Lin had called his son to inquire about the situation of his new school.


    ¡°The school environment is nice, and the teachers are also good. Uncle Liu is going to work today, so I didn¡¯t let him drop me off.¡± Lin Jing had given a detailed report, ¡°I just went to the bookstore for a while to spend some time, and I am going to eat now, how about you and mom ne?¡±


    ¡°I haven¡¯t got off work yet, and there are two surgeries to do.¡± Doctor Lin was wiping his hands dry. ¡°Your Uncle Liu also just called. In the next six months, your mother and I won¡¯t be in JinCheng, so you have to take good care of yourself.¡±


    ¡°Don¡¯t worry ba.¡± Lin Jing saw that there was a Haidilao on the street side, and signaled to the driver to pull over. When you come to Jincheng, you should have a hot pot first. The waiter warmly approached him. When he saw that he was eating alone, he also deliberately carried a giant stuffed animal to accompany him.


    So when Ji XingLing entered the store, at a glance, he saw Lin Jing was eating a hot pot with a giant panda sitting opposite him in the left corner. The table was littered with so many empty plates, while the pot was still gurgling and boiling. Boys of this age are still in the period of growth, and in addition, Lin Jing has been hungry all day long, so it was pretty normal that the food intake has doubled. But in the eyes of young master Ji, how should I say ne, a little country monster, who has never eaten good things, had wolfed down his food, also let¡¯s not forget that on the opposite side he was arranging one¡­ Maybe he needed a childhood playmate with him so that he could boost his courage? Just like that, a hint of compassion filled Ji XingLing while his mind was imagining all of it.


    Ji XingLing had two accomplices who skipped class with him. The name of the previous umbrella holder was Ge Hao, and the one who was currently scrolling through the menu was Yu YiZhou. Yu YiZhou raised his foot to the opposite side and kicked him, ¡°Brother Xing, what are you thinking ne, why is your expression so complicated?¡±


    Ji XingLing leaned back on the leather sofa and swiped his phone, ¡±So nosy, go order your dishes.¡±


    The sea wave app icon is the representation of ¡°Shan Hai Yi Wen¡±, this editorial department was located opposite of the Monster Management Committee. There were many push notifications for the news feed every day. The political version ¡°The Long Wang4 4 and XieZhi55 met cordially to jointly further the judicial reform of the East China Sea¡±; the sports version ¡°The Tortoise participated in a marathon and crawled out up to 50 meters in half a month¡±; the popular science version ¡°Why was the mysterious snake coil on the tree? Only because it didn¡¯t want to wear long johns¡± ¡­ This app covers all aspects of life and was very popular among the monsters.


    And the one Ji XingLing was looking at was a piece of social news. Recently, there was a monster that snuck out from YanZi Mountain. Because he didn¡¯t receive any systematic instruction in human society, he had caused a lot of trouble. He was finally sent to a refuge by the police as a homeless man. For this reason, the chairman of the Monster Management Committee solemnly appeals to all parents to do a good job of generalizing relevant knowledge before their children are in school, to maintain social stability jointly, and seek the harmonious development of the humans and monsters.


    The chairman of this session of the Monster Management Committee was an adult Qilin, Mr. Ji Minglang. As being his only son, Ji XingLing felt it was necessary to remind the careless little monster at the following table to not get into trouble in the future, because this is not only directly related to the performance appraisal of Monster Management Committee, but also directly related to Ji MingLang¡¯s feeling. Moreover, it was also directly associated with Ji XingLing¡¯s quality of life, as well as the amount of his pocket money.


    Lin Jing stared at the duck intestines inside the pot in high concentration for a few seconds.


    Ji XingLing sat opposite him while pressed the panda plushies into the corner.


    Lin Jing was slightly surprised by the sudden appearance of the truant, guessing that he probably wanted to ask about the kidnapping matter. So he voluntarily described, ¡°The groups of people are wearing green school uniforms, but I don¡¯t know which school it is. There is a surveillance camera outside the grocery store that the police can use to investigate and monitor.¡±


    Ji XingLing asked him point-blank, ¡°Where did you come from?¡±


    Lin Jing was confused when being asked, ¡°¡­Ning Cheng, what¡¯s the matter?¡±


    NingCheng. Ji XingLing promptly swift through his memory what towering mountains and steep ridges were there, but sadly there¡¯s nothing to recall ¡ª when you needed to use that geographical information and then regretted that you only know a little bit, so he could only vaguely hum, ¡°On the mountain?¡±


    The duck intestines in the pot were already boiled down into rubber bands. The only thing Lin Jing wanted whole heartedly was to get rid of this person quickly, so he perfunctorily answered, ¡°uh-huh.¡±


    Ji XingLing asked again, ¡°Are you rich?¡±


    What does this have to do with you? Lin Jing increased his vigilance, ¡°No.¡±


    Ji XingLing sighed deeply after hearing this. See that. I knew that you were poor.


    Seeing the other party¡¯s regret after failing to extort, Lin Jing unlocked the phone under the table and began to record for evidence calmly.


    Ji XingLing didn¡¯t realize that everything he said so far would become a testimony in court, and continued to question, ¡°How do you go home without money?¡±


    ¡°Take the bus.¡±


    ¡°Then do you know what to drop into that plastic box when you take the bus?¡±


    The question was rather roundabout. Lin Jing, from his peripheral vision, scanned the plate of nuts on the table and blurted out, ¡°Chinese chestnut.¡±


    The sympathy in Ji XingLing¡¯s eyes was almost overflowing. These years, there are still monster villages that use chestnuts as currency for circulation?


    How primitive ah!


    He stood up, ¡°Wait for me.¡±


    Lin Jing promised that, and after he went far away, he immediately packed his school bags and left. Who knew that Ji XingLing had come back so fast ¡ª in fact, he only went to the cashier. So when the escape attempt had failed, Lin Jing could only sit back and picked up the chopsticks to fish in the pot again.


    Ji XingLing put two coins of one yuan on his table, ¡°When taking the bus, dropped this into the box.¡±


    Then he took and put another five of a hundred yuan bills, ¡°When you buy something, use this to pay.¡±


    And a book, ¡°Study well.¡±


    Lastly was a silver-white card. ¡°Here¡¯s your identification. Please don¡¯t lose it again. Otherwise, there will be trouble.¡±


    After saying all of this, Ji XingLing who had shoved his hand into his pocket, was feeling very handsome at himself, and returned to the next booth seating, while giving no chance to the little country monster to bawl and shed grateful tears.


    Lin Jing was at a loss and didn¡¯t understand what kind of magical trend is this. In the end, he had no choice but to roughly summarized as ¡°Xuezha66 group heard that he had excellence academic performance, so they attempted to used the money to bribed to conveniently cheating in the future exams.¡±, as for the silver card was probably to displayed the symbol of Mr. Ji¡¯s delinquent gang second-grade junior high status, and as for the book¡­ The cover was impressively printed with the words ¡°Take You into the Trendy City¡±.


    This country bumpkin book title was actually the product of the hard work of the Monster Editorial Committee, because there were always careless monsters who will lose everything, so you can¡¯t use the name ¡°The Handbook of Monster Survival¡± as a title, which can cause the human race to feel uneasy. As for the content, of course, the kind and good-natured migrant worker Xiao Zhang was used to refer to the monsters, and with the detailed introduction of the series of fundamental survival issues such as what an elevator is, how to cross the street, and how to apply for a bus card, etc¡­ This huge and thick book was originally a tool for Ji XingLing¡¯s fight. The effect of this book, when loaded into a school bag and swung around, was comparable to bricks, and now it finally had put to good use.


    Lin Jing was closing the book silently, and with mixed feelings thinking that this boy must have a screw loose.


    2Qilin (÷è÷ë q¨ªl¨ªn) ¨C also known as Kylin, Kirin, or the Chinese Unicorn. A divine and auspicious beast, sometimes described as looking like a hybrid of a dragon and a deer or horse. Known for its great wisdom, nobility, benevolence, and magical powers.


    Qilin is sometimes translated as ¡°Unicorn¡±, but it¡¯s different from Western Unicorns. However, they¡¯re similar in that they¡¯re both good and ¡°pure¡± creatures. Also, Qilin horns and Unicorn horns are both considered to be very rare and magical.


    3Xueba (ѧ°Ôxu¨¦ b¨¤) ¨C In popular Chinese language, especially in Internet Chinese language, we use the word ¡°Ñ§°Ô¡± (literally meaning ¡°academic overlord¡±) to refer to someone who does very well in his/her study and who always achieve high grades in exams. The equivalent is straight A student or top student. It is used for students who always get high grades (to get straight A¡¯s). Derogatory alternatives are grind (US slang) and swot (BR slang).

 CH 2

    How¡¯d this misunderstanding of yours come to be?


    Ji XingLing¡¯s job was done and- done well at that. He¡¯d rather generously given out five large notes, footed the bill and had arranged things so the little country monster would have a proper chance at living independently. It¡¯s such a pity that this deed of his can¡¯t be displayed casually; he nonchalantly reclined on their couch and raised his chin to command, ¡°Praise me.¡±


    Ge Hao was experienced when it came to situations like these. He had no need to ask anything, he cupped his hands and with a straight face replied, ¡°Our brother Xing is bold, uninhibited, righteous, knives piercing both side1 and a matchless Xiaocao2. He is an awesome man!¡±


    Ge Hao¡¯s voice was rather loud.. Lin Jing, who was just around the corner, stopped waking. With this situation in hand, he was forced to choose between ¡°Going inside and returning the money to this member of society who seemingly wasn¡¯t quite right in the head and risking the member¡¯s rage out of humiliation¡± or ¡°Walk out first and then think about it.¡± He very obviously chose the latter. Then he continued to a cafe across Haidilao, and picked an isolated corner, away from prying eyes to sit.


    Lin Jing¡¯s The magic conch shell3, or WeChat, was connected with Liu Xu for communication. Liu Xu was one grade above Lin Jing in ShanHai High School.


    Ke Da: Hello, are you free now?


    Xu: Little Jing?


    Ke Da: Yup, my father and Uncle Liu are good friends.


    Liu Xu directly called and apologized as soon as the call connected. Then he explained that he was about to take an exam when he added the WeChat of Lin Jing two days ago, so he forgot to reply back.


    ¡°It¡¯s okay.¡± Lin Jing hurriedly said and politely replied, ¡°I¡¯m not bothering you, am I?¡±


    ¡°There¡¯s no class this weekend, so I¡¯m going home.¡± Liu Xu plugged in his earphones and said with a smile, ¡°Initially, at today¡¯s dinner time, I was planning to give you a tour around the school, but then uncle Lin said that you had other arrangements. So- how was it, everything alright with you?¡±


    The hot pot was relatively alright, but being forced into becoming a member by a delinquent gang was relatively weird. When he was thinking about the vast sum of bribe money, which was five hundred and two inside his pants pocket, Lin Jing wiped his non-existent tears and heaved a very long deep sigh. As, he stirred the fruit tea in the cup, he asked,  ¡°I wanted to ask about Ji XingLing, he seems to be very famous in ShanHai?¡±


    ¡°Not only in ShanHai, but he¡¯s also quite famous throughout JinCheng.¡± Liu Xu replied, ¡°The two laboratory buildings of our school are all donated by RenRui Corporation.¡±


    The CEO of RenRui Corporation was Mr. Ji MingLang, and he was a well-known business elite.


    ¡°Why are you suddenly mentioning him?¡±


    Lin Jing smoothly found an excuse, ¡°Nah, I was only asking. Who knows, I might need to pay my respects to Big Brother.¡±


    Lin Jing¡¯s words amused Liu Xu, ¡°Ji XingLing is usually quite low-key; also his results are not good ba, and there is nothing else to mention other than that, so you don¡¯t have to be so nervous or worry about it.¡±


    Lin Jing then asked a bit about several class matters. Liu Xu very patiently used all his two years of experience in ShanHai to answer and help him. From the examination pattern to the cafeteria meal distribution, too. All to ensure that the little newcomer manages to adjust to the new environment as soon as possible. Lin Jing also memorized the key points. Just as he was about to say his thanks and hang up, his ears carefully identified a keypoint, ¡°All exam rooms are arranged according to the student¡¯s results at the examination?¡±


    ¡°Yes ah.¡± Liu Xu replied, ¡°Surely you will always take the advanced level examination room with these scores of yours..¡±


    As for Ji XingLing, don¡¯t even need to think about it. He can only do repeat examinations between rooms Y and Z.


    There was a huge distance between their letters and therefore, rooms. So, it was pretty impossible to assist in cheating. Lin Jing pondered for a while and felt it was implausible that ¡°the delinquent gang was recruiting simple minions to prepare for times they might need extra manpower between fights¡±. After all, he wasn¡¯t as tall and big. Nor was he bold and powerful, to make the delinquent boss fall in love at first sight. If he was ever to be thrown into a gang fight scene, he reckoned that he would make a dashing escape on the spot. Afterward, he might even have to ask the delinquent boss for the dry-clean expense as reimbursement ¨C so actually, it was not worth investing five hundred to win him over, who had no combat BUFF and was a clean freak too.


    What had the other party wanted to do? Lin Jing kicked a pebble and continued to tread on the path lit by  moonlight, as he slowly walked back home from the cafe.


    He was currently living in Jiang¡¯An ShuYuan. A twenty minutes drive from the school, and with a school bus that will pick up and drop off on time every day. It was due to work that his parents were temporarily unable to come along, so they had asked a live-in aunty (nanny) to take care of him. The other party was known as the gold medal employee of the housekeeping company and had been working in this area for more than ten years. When Lin Jing entered the door, she was on the phone and answered with a strident (harsh) voice, ¡°Yes, I¡¯ve already signed a contract. Break the contract? I will not break the contract. After all, I aim to be a person that lives with integrity.¡±


    Aunt Jiang was hanging up the phone when she heard the door sound, and then greeted him with a smile, ¡°Xiao Jing, you¡¯re back.¡±


    ¡°Uh-huh.¡± Lin Jing was changing his shoes, ¡°Someone wants to steal you again with a high salary?¡±


    ¡°I¡¯m not leaving.¡± Aunt Jiang washed her hands and then complained as she was cutting fruits. ¡°Right from the start they were like- bla bla bla about how RenRui¡¯s chairman is very wealthy. Oh yo how arrogant, have I not seen enough rich men before, la?


    ¡°RenRui?¡± Lin Jing stopped his movement, as the superior self-conceited face of Ji XingLing immediately floated in his mind. How should I put it ne? On the first day of his transfer, firstly- there was the resentment of failing to win against the other. Then, later on, was the hatred of trying to snatching away the aunty. This was not a new beginning of a wonderful life together.


    The situation in the HuanXi Bieshu district. Mrs. Ji, who was sitting on a snow-like-white fluffy couch, had repeatedly confirmed with her younger brother, whether it was possible to find a second GuhuoNiao4 among the city¡¯s housekeeping staff.


    10GuhuoNiao (¹Ã»ñÄñG¨± hu¨° ni¨£o) Guhuo bird which is also a woman ghost called night-going leisure woman Ò¹ÐÐÓÎÅ® or TianDi young girl ÌìµÛÉÙÅ®, also known as ghost bird ¹íÄñand it later got popular in Japan in Japanese it is called Ubume. According to folklore, the part-bird, the part-human ghost, embodies a woman who died giving birth. It is a bird-woman. It transforms shapes by taking off or putting on the feather coat. It appears during nighttime and hides during the day.


    ¡°Ms. Jiang FenFang is the only one that is on the register.¡± Hu Lie replied ¡°She really likes her current employer, so she doesn¡¯t have any intention to break the contract. I have tried it.¡±


    GuhuoNiao had always been preferred to take care of well-behaved and adorable children. It was the result of a natural choice; it had nothing to do with the exorbitant price of salary. Although Mrs. Ji felt that it is a great pity, but seeing that her son really cannot be associated as well-behaved nor adorable.. She had decisively made a concession, ¡°Okay then, we will try to find someone else.¡±


    Ji XingLing was lying down on his bed in his room, as he was looking at WeChat with earphones plugged in his ears. Ge Hao had sent never-ending long voice messages, which expressed both his intense admiration and envy about the matter of the boss¡¯s upcoming move out to live alone ¡ª He was currently living together with a family of five generations under one roof in an old residence in the north of the city. As the youngest generation, when meeting with family members, he¡¯d be asked by them all, in true earnestness, ¡°What was your rank in the examination?¡±, which¡¯d make his head feel as if it was going bald.


    Young master Ji, however-  gave them a deadpan look, and responded indifferently with a simple ¡°oh¡± as reply instead.


    He was indeed going to move out, but he wasn¡¯t going to move alone; he also dragged both his father and mother with him, as a whole family, to move together to Jiang¡¯An ShuYuan. The domain was currently guarded by Baize Lion5, who was a top-notch Xueba from all over the world. According to Mrs. Ji¡¯s logic, the other party should be emitting a warm light no matter what the other party does. And the significant number of students within the administrative region that under indiscrimination treatment had advanced and shone gloriously, at least so that everyone¡¯s exam scores should not look too bad. Ji XingLing had initially wanted to lodge a protest. After all, he merely considered this matter was due to his poor grades; therefore, he still eventually had to pack up his luggage honestly and prepared to live in a group rented community.


    The minute hand repeatedly circled, overlapping with the hour hand on the number 12.


    Lin Jing had received a lot of problem sets from Wang HongYu when he reported. So- After finishing three sets at night, he was almost able to map out the examination pattern of ShanHai. Compared with his original high school, the progress of the course here is more advanced by 20%, which is not a big deal, and it can be worked out entirely within half a month.


    Aunt Jiang had brought a bowl of soup and urged him to rest early then. The freshly aired out quilt still has a trace of a soft sunshine scent. Which generally should help bring about a beautiful dream. Still, it may be because he was thinking again about the five hundred yuan inside his pants pocket before going to bed.. Which resulted in Lin Jing brandishing a cleaver and deformed rebar while he helped Ji XingLing all night in a gang fight, it was quite a grand scale action scene. Then the tattooed big brother¡¯s iron fist and the bedside alarm clock had pierced his head and woke him up in the morning, together.  Lin Jing stood in the bathroom with a toothbrush dangling from his lips, and it took him five full minutes to properly wake up.


    But fortunately, due to the flourishing period of young teenagers, who mostly had no shortage in staying-up-late privilege- he hadn¡¯t even needed a cup of coffee. He was able to rejuvenate his vitality by simply chomping on an apple. On the first day of school, the materials that he had to bring cannot count as few, and coupled with the addition of the huge and thick book of ¡°A Dummy¡¯s Guide to a Life in a Trendy City¡± from Ji XingLing..  Lin Jing simply had to schlep his carry-on luggage directly. When the homeroom teacher Wang HongYu helped him find his classroom, it happened to be just on time as the math class representative Li MoYuan had started to distribute the final examination papers of last semester.


    ¡°Please, move your attention towards the front for a bit.¡± Wang HongYu cleared his throat and stood on the podium with a big smile on his face. ¡°From today on, there is a new addition to our classroom. Everyone, let¡¯s welcome him.¡±


    The applause was very warm and welcoming. With the introduction of a handsome boy, the girls were a little bit more excited than the boys. After Lin Jing finished giving a simple introduction- he had officially become a high school member of class 2-1. There were several empty seats inside the classroom. After not seeing Ji XingLing¡¯s figure in sight, Lin jing had come up with two possibilities. First,  there was a sudden large-scale internal conflict that broke out in RenRui Corporation last night. The only heir had to temporarily take some time off of school and resolutely shoulder the heavy responsibility of saving the family. From then on, he devoted himself to the business competition, and had to say goodbye to high school life for once and for all. -Therefore, he had no time to recruit a new minion. Second, the young master was just late.


    Ji XingLing, who had a school backpack hanging off his shoulders, had punctually appeared at the classroom entrance as the bell rang. As he was about to shout ¡°here¡±, his eyes immediately fell on the little country monster on the podium, and he was slightly taken aback by the sight.


    Lin Jing and Ji XingLing stared at each other with innocent and amiable expressions.


    ¡°¡­¡±


    The seat that Wang HongYu had arranged for Lin Jing was on Li MoYuan¡¯s right-hand side. All Shanhai seats were single-seater school desks and chairs, with no desk-mates, meaning no distraction either, which was very suitable for single-minded hard-core studying. Ji XingLing threw his lightweight and flat school backpack into the space for books on the desks, hooped his right leg up, moved sideways while inclining to the rear and glanced. Then he saw Lin Jing was digging out stack after stack of books and placing them onto the desk.. the only thing left was for him to make those stacks of books into a circle and it¡¯d look more like a bunker than a stack of books on a student¡¯s desk.


    The last book he took out was ¡°A Dummy¡¯s Guide to a Life in a Trendy City¡±. Since, the title of the book was too country bumpkin-y.. Lin Jing had purposely used old newspapers to cover the book, he was full of a strong feeling of disgust when he did so. Of course, if one must say so, then it wasn¡¯t impossible to say that he had cherished and used this as a means of taking care of the book.


    Young Master Ji was very pleased with the sight, as the corners of his lips tilted up into an arc, and he then raised his eyebrows toward Lin Jing.


    Lin Jing, ¡°¡­¡±


    Yu YiZhou, who was starting to piece together the clues, reached out and tapped on Ji XingLing¡¯s shoulder that was sitting in the front of his seat, ¡°Hey, this newcomer, isn¡¯t he the one who said something about kidnapping yesterday?¡±


    ¡°Yes.¡± Ji XingLing was much too lazy to explain more, and while he was fishing out a Chinese book, YiZhou reminded in friendly-way, ¡°Brother, this period is mathematics, and Mr. Li is going to talk about the final exam test papers.¡±


    Mr. Li¡¯s full name was Li JianSheng; most of the time, he took on the aura of a taciturn famous teacher, and occasionally felt a sudden urge to share some dry humor from the internet on impulse. In the eyes of the students, they found it mildly endearing and kind of bewildering how the middle-aged man was trying so hard to keep up with the trends by some dry humor he¡¯d share on a whim.. Mr.Li placed the thermos mug in his hand down and then his eyes darted to look over the classroom. Seeing that Yu YiZhou and Ji XingLing were still talking in low whispers, he issued instructions, ¡°The new classmate has no test paper. Ji XingLing, move over to him so that you can share.¡±


    Facing this kind of genius arrangement, both parties fell silent. The main culprit had already leaned back and shrunk himself. Then firmly shut up.


    Five seconds later, Ji XingLing threw his test papers on Yu Yizhou¡¯s desk, then grabbed his test papers, carried his chair, and sat down next to Lin Jing.


    Yu YiZhou, ¡°¡­¡±


    Wocao6, What was this kind of operation?!


    The red ¡°x¡± sign had continuously plagued all over the test papers, eighty-six points, and failing. Thinking that this was actually the result of Ji XingLing¡¯s selection, Lin Jing was really curious, and looked ¡°offhandedly¡± to his right. It seemed that he and Yu YiZhou had a telepathic connection; with a straight face, he showed the test paper, which had the giant ¡°27¡± points in there.


    For the first time in his life, Lin Jing madly appreciated such a stunning score, and he was suddenly filled with profound reverence. How had he done it?


    Ji XingLing gritted his teeth, ¡°I had a fever that day!¡±


    Lin Jing observed his temporary desk-mate. He had long hands and feet, as he was tall and robust. He could slip into the cafeteria to work without a medical certificate. The possibility of fever was basically the same as the possibility of aliens holding Gatling guns making a surprise attack to raid ShanHai High School on the day of the examinations. So, he altered his expression to cooperate and comforted him, ¡°Then you should pay more attention to resting and taking care of oneself.¡±


    Ji XingLing snorted while he rested his head on one hand and then completely ceased talking. Mr. Li, on the podium, had already begun to speak about the multiple-choice questions. Lin Jing took out a mechanical pencil and helped Yu YiZhou by making correction notes next to his mistakes with great ease. He was writing at breakneck speed. When Ji XingLing had stopped daydreaming and came back to earth, Lin Jing was already writing a lot of step formulas neatly on the paper. Clearly, he kept on solving problems on his own, without listening to the teacher¡¯s lecture.


    His ability in his studies was pretty good. Young Master Ji has imagined the inspirational story of the little monster in the countryside, who was poor but ambitious, and to strive to succeed, he had to pierce the wall to steal a light7.


    ¡°Look at the thirteenth question carefully again; this is the key point of the exam.¡± Li JianSheng took a sip of water and walked down from the podium at the front of the classroom with his hands behind his back. There was a rustle as the sound of pen nibs filled the classroom. Ji XingLing kicked Lin Jing from under his desk to signal the other party to turn the test paper to Question #13, lest not be nagged by Mr. Li again.


    Too bad that Lin Jing had misread the signal, thinking that the other was dissatisfied with the place being too crowded, so he voluntarily shifted to the side to make more room to accommodate Young Master Ji to stretch his big long legs that had nowhere to rest.


    Seeing that Mr. Li had already come over, Ji XingLing could only reach out his hand to turn it over by himself, but it was still a step too late. Li JianSheng cast a glance at the test paper on the two people¡¯s desks and asked, ¡°Has NingCheng Third Grade Junior High School¡¯s course progress already finished learning random variables?¡±


    ¡°Almost.¡± Lin Jing stood up and replied.


    ¡°Sit down ba.¡± Li JianSheng nodded, then dropped another sentence, ¡°You should listen carefully to class in the future, so don¡¯t do it again.¡±


    Ji XingLing, ¡°¡­¡±


    That¡¯s it?


    Because Mr. Li¡¯s overall tone was too loving and peaceful, as a result, Lin Jing simply didn¡¯t regard it as a criticism at all. After sitting down, Ji XingLing had looked at him with a wocao8 face.. he was still quite astonished at how Mr.Li¡¯s tone changed so dramatically.  Just at the exact moment, the bell rang. As Li JianSheng was leaving the classroom, he specifically called Lin Jing, to ask him and Li MoYuan to visit his office.


    Lin Jing asked Ji XingLing in a low voice, ¡°Who is Li MoYuan?¡±


    ¡°That¡¯s me.¡± The boy on the left stood up with a smile, ¡°Let¡¯s go ba! Teacher Li¡¯s office is on the east side, so we should move fast.¡±


    The morning sunshine was golden and warm. Absolutely cozy and comfortable. The two walked out of the classroom one after the other, leaving behind a noisy discussion about whether this was to be considered a historic meeting between the two math leaders in this class. It was of epoch-making significance. When class 2-1 publishes a graduation book in the future, it¡¯s of the significance to be written over and over to cover the whole page.


    Ji XingLing was rather indifferent about this choice of discussion. He sat back to his original position and threw the test papers onto the desk in the rear row, ¡°Thank you.¡±


    Yu YiZhou looked at the detailed problem-solving steps on his test papers, then made a click sound, ¡°tsk tsk¡± with his tongue in admiration, ¡°The ranked first place of NingCheng Third Grade Junior High School is not only a bluff to brag but, actually-  truly awesome.¡±


    Ji XingLing registered something wrong when he mulled over the sentence, ¡°Is the place really that famous?¡±


    ¡°Do you mean Third Grade Junior High? It¡¯s not bad, right? It ranks among the top ten within the province.¡± Yu YiZhou unscrewed the water bottle and asked, ¡°Why are you asking about this?¡±


    Ji XingLing paused a bit, ¡°I thought the school building of Third Grade Junior High was in a remote, thick, forest-like mountain.¡±


    Yu YiZhou, ¡°¡­¡±


    How¡¯d this misunderstanding of yours come to be?


    Baize Lion (°×Ôó b¨¢iz¨¦) ¨C also called the Beast of the White Marsh. An auspicious beast which can speak human languages and is known for its great wisdom. It looks like a white lion with horns and (sometimes) multiple sets of eyes.


    wocao (ÎÔ²Û) ¨C The Chinese word ¡°ÎÔ²Û¡± is an interjection that comes from ¡°fuck¡± indeed. Due to the internet censorship of the Chinese government, people couldn¡¯t type ÎÒ²Ù&ÎÒ²Ý&ÎÒܳ such these words; it will be transferred as a series of asterisks, like**. So innovative Chinese netizens use ÎÔ²Û instead of ÎÒ²Ù12, these words sound the same. But there is still something different when we use ÎÔ²Û.ÎÒ²Ù is a very straightforward swear sentence to insult someone, it¡¯s only used when someone is furious,ÎÔ²Û is slighter in the literal sense. However, it sounds like the former; it doesn¡¯t contain the word ²Ù(fucking) in its word-formation. So the meaning of the word and the scope of the application both have changed, ÎÔ²Û no longer just involve the negative sense; it more often means awesome as a sigh word. For these reasons, ÎÔ²Û becomes a more popular word in modern China, even than the popularity of ÎÒ²Ù in the traditional Chinese world.


    The meaning of ¡°ÎÔ²Û¡± depends on the tongue. Typically ÎÔ²Ûit has 6 different meanings, but you need to say that word in 6 different tones.

 CH 3

    And the story has just begun


    The  design of the school building of NingCheng Third Grade Junior High School was both modern and striking. Decorated with a wall of glass, which coordinated with the airborne UFO ceiling. There was no need to be using sugar roasted chestnuts as currency to take the bus as Young Master Ji had once thought Lin Jing didn¡¯t know. Young Master Ji was in a bad mood. He had thought of  Lin Jing as a silly unctuous monster who had been separated from human society for many years, but in truth..Lin Jing was just pretending for the sake of receiving benefits at every opportunity¨C the more Young Master Ji was acquainted with such a person, the more he grew disgusted and the more he felt Lin Jing as unpleasant.


    In the math office, Li JianSheng was chatting with the two students. In fact, he didn¡¯t have any significant issues to talk about. He just routinely communicated about the study progress with Lin Jing, the transfer student, and emphasized the importance of mathematics, while conveniently introducing the class representative to Lin Jing, so that Li MoYuan could take care of his new classmate.


    ¡°The next week¡¯s exam is slightly beyond the scope of the current syllabus, but you have no need to worry.¡± Li JianSheng then said, ¡°The matter of the transfer student¡¯s score belongs to special circumstances due to his transfer and being new, so this time Lin Jing¡¯s results will not be shown on the big billboard.¡±


    ¡°Thank you, teacher.¡± Lin Jing nodded, but at the same time, felt slightly perplexed, ¡°What is the big billboard?¡±


    ¡°A board that shows the scores of everyone that took the exam.¡± Li MoYuan pointed out the window, ¡°Right next to the bulletin board.¡±


    Lin Jing looked in his pointed direction, where a group of school workers were busy posting scores. The new list should be the ranking of the last exam¡¯s final results.


    NingCheng Third grade Junior High School also had a similar top list, but only the top 100 in the grade were to be listed. The top 100 belonged to the honor category that students want to be in. ShanHai High School was way more brutal in this regard, the list featured the highest grade at the top to the lowest grade at the bottom, and the scores were detailed to the ranking of each individual subject. Lin Jing was standing in front of the tall wall made of glass, as his line of sight had landed on a familiar name at the bottom ¨C 27 in Mathematics, 38 in English?


    Li MoYuan, who was ranked first place in this grade, also found  this score to be unbelievable, but since Ji Xingling was usually well-behaved in the class, he still kindly was gentle in this regard, ¡°Maybe he was sick on the day of the exam ba.¡±


    Lin Jing felt from the bottom of his heart, ¡°Then he must have been really unwell, so much that he couldn¡¯t concentrate to such a degree.¡±


    As soon as the sentence had been said, a basketball hit the ground with a ¡°bang¡±, causing loud noises and dust to flutter all over! Both were startled; even Ge Hao, who wasn¡¯t far away, was also startled. He asked the person next to him dazedly, ¡°Brother Xing, why did you suddenly throw my basketball?¡±


    Ji XingLing coldly snorted, as he turned around and entered the teaching building.


    Ge Hao felt an urge to cry without tears. He looked at two people beside the bulletin board, and displayed a smile that looked to be uglier than an actual crying face¡ª I don¡¯t know anything, really.


    The poor basketball had tumbled a bit and finally stopped next to a pair of pointed leather shoes.


    After seeing who the other party was, Ge Hao gasped in horror and rushed back to the classroom on the second floor to inform, ¡°Brother Xing, Brother Xing! You were caught by Mr. Niu for throwing balls all over!¡±


    Mr. Niu¡¯s full name was Niu WeiDong. And Niu WeiDong had the habit of always using a large amount of hair spray to cover the front part of his head with hair from the more rear part.. as do many other men with hair loss troubles. Depending on different techniques, the hairstyle was always erratic between the old-school Hong Kong star and the Hualun tongxue15. His leather shoes were polished, shining bright, and he never wore leisure pants nor black sandals. He became the most fashionable middle-aged male teacher in ShanHai. It was said that in his early years, when he was a youth.. he was one that could dance break and disco with a foreign style, but it was only limited to his ¡°early years¡±. The current dean Mr. Niu was a true strict teacher, who even the chosen one, Li MoYuan, felt timid about when meeting.


    15Kazuhiko Hanawa (»¨Ý† ºÍÑåHu¨¡ l¨²n h¨¦y¨¤n) ¨C Kazuhiko Hanawa (Hanawa Kazuhiko, »¨Ý† ºÍÑå) is a male character and 3rd-grade elementary student in the Japanese manga and anime series Chibi Maruko Chan. He is frequently addressed as ¡®Hanawa-kun''(»¨ÂÖͬѧHu¨¡ l¨²n t¨®ngxu¨¦) by Maruko in the series.  Hanawa is famously known for his brown side-swept ¡®flicked¡¯ hair, in most cases sweeping to the left side.


    ¡°Are both of you okay?¡± Niu WeiDong was looking bad, as he picked up the basketball.


    Li MoYuan shook his head, ¡°It¡¯s okay, Teacher Niu, we¡¯ll go back to class right away.¡±


    Lin Jing asked in a low voice, ¡°Who?¡±


    Li MoYuan answered, ¡°Dean of students.¡±


    Lin Jing, ¡°¡­¡±


    The dangerous behavior of hurling the basketball at classmates, no matter where, will be punished. Ji XingLing went to the dean¡¯s office and successfully received the 3,000 words of handwritten self-reflection. The whole class 2-1 also suffered along, with half of their civilization points deducted, and honorably became the bottom of the entire grade.


    Wang HongYu was dizzy with anger, and called the culprit to his office during the big break, ¡°Why did you throw a basketball toward your classmates?¡±


    Ji XingLing replied in a neither light nor heavy tone, ¡°It was accidental, the ball slipped from my hands.¡±


    ¡°The security department has brought in surveillance footage to be investigated. Can you call it a hand-slip?¡± Wang HongYu turned the computer around and snapped, ¡°Take a good look at it yourself!¡±


    Ji XingLing glanced at the screen, feeling that his actions at the time had nothing to do with ¡°an accident¡±, so he corrected himself and changed his response, ¡°I was joking around with my new classmate.¡±


    ¡°And you¡¯re still saying that!¡± Wang HongYu raised his voice, ¡°I¡¯ll ask again, why did you use the basketball to try and hit Li MoYuan?¡±


    Ji XingLing: ?


    The students in class 2-1 knew fully well that though their homeroom teacher might appear to be kind and honest with a smile at first.. In truth, he is intelligent, wise and knows how to use his shortcomings to his advantage. There are rarely any times that trickery is allowed to pass under his nose. ..Though, even with Mr. Wang being so cunning and wise, it was truly impossible to be able to connect the dots and understand that the conflict was with Lin Jing, who had just transferred and came to class for the first time. Ji XingLing decided to just seize this as a chance to admit and get it over with, ¡°Because Li MoYuan got ranked first place in the exam, I was jealous of him.¡±


    ¡°You are jealous¡­¡± Wang HongYu was in a complicated mood and became unable to come up with a good way to reprimand for quite a while. Then the pre-class bell rang just in time, and he stood up while holding the notebook, ¡°Tell your parents to come to school on Friday, for now.. go apologize to Li MoYuan.¡±


    Ji XingLing eyebrows hopped imperceptibly, ¡°Okay.¡±


    ¡­¡­


    Hao getou16.


    16Hao getou (ºÃ¸öÍ·h¨£o ge t¨®u) ¨C okay, my ass/foot or Yeah, right! The meaning is contrarily, which it¡¯s not okay at all. These phrases with similar structures are all in a negative tone or express disagreement of the speakers, like some kind of retorts.


    The classroom was very noisy. Some were working on some questions, while some were chatting about celebrities. Li MoYuan  was sorting out the test papers with his left hand and was flipping through some books with his right hand, with half a piece of bread dangling from his mouth.. He was able to accurately embody and show what a ¡®race against time for learning¡¯ is. Just then, there came someone who knocked on his desk. ¡°Hey.¡±


    The surroundings suddenly went quiet; Li MoYuan raised his head, ¡°What¡¯s the matter?¡±


    Ji XingLing apologized without showing a change in his expression, ¡°I shouldn¡¯t have used a basketball to scare you just because I¡¯m jealous of your good grades. I¡¯m sorry.¡±


    Li MoYuan suspected that he was experiencing a deep auditory hallucination, as his eyes were filled with the sentiment of  ¡°Did you end up eating the wrong medicine today?¡± The rest of the classmates were also slightly surprised to say the least. Since when has Young Master Ji been so concerned about his grades that he could still be consumed by jealousy.. Even if he isn¡¯t able to get good grades.. shouldn¡¯t someone with this person¡¯s character and background have nothing to worry about since they only need to go back home to inherit hundreds of millions of fortune and the like ma?


    Wang HongYu was very satisfied with this example of a good apology Ji XingLing had just displayed, so he dignifiedly expressed, ¡°Don¡¯t do it again, now let¡¯s start the class.¡±


    Ji XingLing gave his promise to never do so again and walked back to his seat without even giving so much of a glance anywhere else.  Although Lin Jing, who was a newcomer, hadn¡¯t figured out the ins and outs of the incident for the time being, he knew that 80% of the basketball incident had nothing to do with Li MoYuan. Sure enough, as soon as the after class bell rang, Young Master Ji stepped over his place and stretched out his hand coldly, ¡°Give me back my things.¡±


    Lin Jing had already prepared for this moment and returned the guidebook together with the eight pink bills. After clearing his debt.. he planned to skillfully disappear.


    Ji XingLing glanced at the ¡°debt¡± that was returned and reminded Lin Jing disdainfully, ¡°The hot pot bill costs three hundred and five.¡±


    Lin Jing stared at the other person with a look that expressed how much he thought Ji XingLing was a good-for-nothing kind of guy, as he drew another hundred yuan from his wallet.


    Ji XingLing continued, ¡°I don¡¯t have change.¡±


    Lin Jing almost blurted out ¡°keep the change¡±, but since the young master seemed to be quite irritated at this time, he took out his mobile phone, ¡°Then I will transfer it to you by WeChat.¡±


    Ji XingLing looked around. He beckoned to Ge Hao and entrusted him to carry out the follow-up collection matters, with the apparent intention as ¡°I don¡¯t want this old unctuous monster to tarnish my noble circle of friends¡±. Unfortunately, Lin Jing wasn¡¯t savvy enough and can only simply interpret this as hostility from a crazy person. Instead, Ge Hao, who had to accept his guilt for his new classmate and also his reverence for Xueba.. took it upon himself to send an explanation.


    Yuan Shen: Brother Xing may be in a bad mood recently, don¡¯t take it to heart.


    After thinking about it, Lin Jing dismissed his original intention of ??deleting this newly acquired friend, and replied back with a smiling face emoticon.


    Finally, the long awaited after-class bell rang, signaling the end of the  five major classes in the morning. A large group of boys had gathered around Ji XingLing, while joking and chatting freely with him, then they all went to the cafeteria to eat. Lin Jing glanced at the tall and lean retreating figure in the crowd. He didn¡¯t expect him to be so popular. The mobile phone on the desk, which vibrated and made a buzzing sound, was a message from a small group of friends from NingCheng Third Grade Junior High School, who were all concerned about the new life of the Xueba that had transferred.


    Ke Da: A very nice experience, but I seem to have provoked some evil forces in the class accidentally.


    BEAST: Hahahahahaha, is it for real?


    Bu Lei: Big Brother, you wouldn¡¯t be isolated from the class on your first day of class, would you?


    Wei: Who is so shortsighted as to isolate you? Wait, Daddy will avenge you!


    BEAST: Transferring schools only to then offend school bullies. Such similarity to the  beginning of a fantasy love idol drama.


    Ke Da: ¡­


    Lin Jing shoved his mobile phone into his trouser pocket, while he reflected on his careless choice of friends. Li MoYuan asked him as he moved sideways, ¡°Wanna go to the cafeteria together?¡±


    ¡°Okay ah.¡± Lin Jing packed up his books, ¡°Let¡¯s go to the Nan Cafeteria.¡±


    ShanHai High School has two large dining hall buildings, which are called Furong Garden and Nan Cafeteria; both have a regular serving and dining area on the first floor. The only difference is that the Furong Garden has a second floor. One can order from a cart full of food and beverages that are not part of the school subsides; the price was high and the place quiet. Lin Jing thought that no matter what, a young master like Ji XingLing, who was too lazy to queue up, will head straight for Furong Garden¡¯s second floor, but life is as unpredictable as the weather at times. Today, it seems that Nan Cafeteria has a young lady serving food who bears a remarkable resemblance to a movie star, so a lot of boys had all ran there to join in on the fun. Therefore, at the window serving scrambled eggs with tomatoes, there was quite an unusual rush of students. The ignorant, staff lady who was serving rice bowls in a hurry.. She was truly amazed at how so many customers had lined up this suddenly and truly wondered how such cheap dishes could seem like delicacies in the students¡¯ eyes.


    Lin Jing wanted to leave right away.


    Li MoYuan was also very puzzled, ¡°Is Furong Garden closed today?¡±


    ¡°Of course not ah.¡± The male classmate who was passing by, wiggled his eyebrows as he explained, ¡°The young lady who serves food in the third window looks like the Little Dragon Maiden17.¡±


    17Little Dragon Maiden (СÁúÅ®; Xi¨£ol¨®ngn¨·) ¨C is the fictional female protagonist of the wuxia novel The Return of the Condor Heroes by Jin Yong. In the novel, her physical appearance is described as follows: ¡°skin as white as snow, beautiful and elegant beyond convention and cannot be underestimated, but appears cold and indifferent¡±.


    Lin Jing looked at the forefront of the army crowd, and found Ji XingLing, who seemingly, seemed to be working rather hard and vigorously, with an expression that was quite difficult to describe in a few words.


    At this very moment, Young Master Ji also wanted to curse. He was muddle-headed and confused when he was suddenly pulled over without even realizing what was going on.. He was pushed to the forefront by those out-of-control groups of class 2 bastards. This had truly made him lose his appetite. Plus, it took a lot of effort to jostle out while carrying an empty plate. Li MoYuan, who was holding a plate of fried noodles and drinks, sat opposite Lin Jing, and asked him, ¡°What are you looking at ne?¡±


    Lin Jing retracted his gaze, ¡°Nothing.¡±


    ¡°Ji XingLing ba?¡± Li MoYuan inserted a straw into his drink, ¡°He usually gets along pretty well with others, is there any conflict between the two of you?¡±


    Lin Jing took a meal, ¡°..How can you tell?¡±


    Li MoYuan laughed, ¡°My relationship with him is fine. The matter about his jealousy of my grades was just an excuse to deceive Mr. Wang.¡±


    Lin Jing recalled his meetings with Ji XingLing, and honestly felt quite baffled. Anyhow, the bitter matter wasn¡¯t worth talking about during the meal, so he just casually remarked, ¡°It¡¯s all good.¡±


    Ji XingLing walked past their table, coldly ¡°sneered¡±, and blatantly exposed the ¡°it¡¯s all good¡± lie then and there.


    Lin Jing almost choked on the mouthful of fried noodles; he really didn¡¯t want to talk to this person anymore.


    After Ji XingLing returned to the classroom, the student on duty who had just cleaned up the podium was flabbergasted at the sight, ¡°Brother Xing, why didn¡¯t you go to eat?¡±


    ¡°The cafeteria was packed with people, and I just wasn¡¯t hungry.¡± Ji XingLing pulled out his chair as he sent a WeChat message to Yu YiZhou, and asked him to help him bring back a bottle of soft drink while Yu YiZhou was at the dining hall. The huge and thick ¡°treasured¡± book of the little country monster was still crammed in the book box, and a few large bills were slightly peeking out from the corners too. As they were pulled out, a silver-white card fell out onto the ground with a ¡°click¡±.


    ¡°¡­¡±


    Ji MingLang was the head of the Monster Management Committee. Ji XingLing had been influenced by him since he was a child, and he had seen a lot of strange things, but even the most absent-minded monsters knew that an ID was something that must be kept hidden well. Someone like Lin Jing, who clumsily lost his ID, only for it to then be found by someone else.. and then lost once again by Lin Jing. It almost seems as if Ling Jing has a brain problem.


    The English teacher Ning FangFei then pushed open the door and walked in. She was holding a thick stack of lesson plans in her arms. Naturally, Ji XingLing, who was alone in the classroom, was asked by her to help and started to distribute workbooks.


    ¡°Don¡¯t achieve this kind of English score again ah.¡± Ning FangFei had a kind and gentle personality and also had no particular deterrent or stigma when it came to admonished students. ¡°Look at how tall and big you are; how can you get a fever like that during exams? You really need to strengthen yourself and properly exercise this semester.¡±


    ¡°Mhm. Thank you, teacher.¡± Ji XingLing listened to her gentle scolding, and to some extent, it was even more effective than the reprimand of the teaching director, Mr. Niu.


    In last semester¡¯s final exam, he really had a fever. Although.. Even without the fever, he wouldn¡¯t get a high score ba, but it definitely wouldn¡¯t go as far as not reaching a hundred, when the math and English scores were joined together. The reason for the fever had nothing to do with the quality of his physical condition. Whenever a growth spurt comes around, the young Qilin would become weak and sickly for quite some time. They would become dizzy and dazed, and it would feel as if a tender willow sapling was growing branches within their bones¡ªa sensation that was quite sore but refreshing.


    It is because of this reason that the adult Qilin, Mr. Ji, hadn¡¯t expressed any dissatisfaction with his son¡¯s final scores, but had signed the paper with a tremor of his hands as the old father in the family. The school report was so heartbreaking, that on the same day in the afternoon, Ji MingLang had agreed to his wife¡¯s proposal, which was to move to Jiang¡¯An ShuYuan as soon as possible when the new semester began, as to accept Baize Lion¡¯s unbiased care.


    Around half past one, the students who had finished their meal returned to the classroom one after another. Yu YiZhou put the chilled Coke on Ji XingLing¡¯s desk, ¡°Are you going to play ball after school?¡±


    Ji XingLing leaned back on the edge of the desk, ¡°I am moving today.¡±


    ¡°Really going to Jiang¡¯An ShuYuan ah?¡± Yu YiZhou and Ji XingLing were both noble young masters. He naturally avoided the group renting community, as the corners of his mouth twitched, ¡°What does Auntie think ne.¡±


    Yes ah, what was my mother thinking ne? Ji XingLing was also baffled. Can I possibly go to Peking University or Tsinghua University if I move? What¡¯s more, even Baize Lion himself had already come out three hundred times to refute the rumors, repeatedly stressing that he didn¡¯t have the ability to give everyone the blue buffs18 that can boost their combat effectiveness. The ¡°Scholars District¡± that those second-hand property agents came up with was not to be trusted; they¡¯re all liars. Then, was there still any need to move?


    18Blue BUFF ¨C Some creatures have certain status effects benefits (also known as ¡®buffs¡¯) which increase their hero¡¯s attributes. The blue buff is a specific kind of buff in games that reduces cooldown time and increases mana regenerate capabilities, which many mages and supports use to unleash their abilities.


    Yu YiZhou patted Ji XingLing on the shoulder to comfort him.


    The first two sessions from then on were English lessons.


    It¡¯s easy to get sleepy in the afternoon, and then, one gets even more sleepier when their stomach is full. No matter when the class bell rang, it wouldn¡¯t be able to stop the students from yawning. However, Ning FangFei had a particular method of ¡°Waking up the drowsy little whelps¡±, that was by arranging a group conversation or project on the spot. After fifteen minutes, three groups will be randomly selected to improvise and show on stage.


    Afterward, they all sober up in an instant, howling and begging Miss Ning to be merciful.


    Ning FangFei was amused, ¡°Divide each group according to the old rules, two by two, Hurry!¡±


    ¡°Old rules¡± referred to pairing the front and rear row desk. Lin Jing was sitting in the sixth row, but the hapless guy in the fifth row was said to have been infected with chickenpox, and had already applied for leave before the mid-term exam. He originally planned to take the initiative to go and seek refuge with Li MoYuan, but under Ning FangFei piercing eyes and pointed finger, ¡°Lin Jing, you are in a group with Ji XingLing, Yu YiZhou, you don¡¯t need to participate in dialogue practice, go to the office to help me get papers.¡±


    Ji XingLing, ¡°¡­¡±


    Miss Ning, you really know how to arrange things well.


    Although Yu YiZhou had often followed Ji XingLing to skip classes, and his overall grades were just average, but this boy was a representative of the English class, and his spoken English was very fluent ¡ª the kind of fluent in which he has actually spent time abroad during the winter and summer vacations from primary school ¡®till  junior high school.


    Lin Jing moved his chair and sat beside Ji XingLing.


    The two handsome guys were arranged to sit together, and the girls in the class didn¡¯t know who to envy for a while.


    But the handsome guys themselves were obviously not in a good mood. Lin Jing flipped open the workbook, raised his head, and asked, ¡°Do you have any suggestions?¡±


    ¡°You go practice yourself ba.¡± Ji XingLing was spinning the pen in his hand, slightly impatient, ¡°There are more than twenty groups; we may not be drawn.¡±


    ¡°Are you sure?¡± Lin Jing casually wrote on the paper, ¡°I¡¯m a newcomer, and the teachers are always curious about newcomers. According to the norm, there is a 90% probability of being drawn.¡±


    Ji XingLing: I don¡¯t want to say anything or object.


    ¡°How about this topic?¡± Lin Jing pointed casually, ¡°The discussion of a patient¡¯s discussion.¡±


    Young Master Ji agreed in a condescending attitude, and focused on the book.


    Two minutes later, Lin Jing pushed the written dialogue draft over, ¡°If you can¡¯t remember, just take the notebook, let¡¯s start ba.¡±


    Ji XingLing was disgruntled, ¡°Why should I start first?¡±


    Lin Jing, ¡°¡­¡±


    Lin Jing, ¡°Hello Doctor.¡±


    There wasn¡¯t much difference whether Ji XingLing started or Lin Jing, actually. Young Master Ji reluctantly accepted, glanced at the draft paper, and sloppily read, ¡°¡­Hi Mike, The lab sent back the results to your b¡­ blood work, and it doesn¡¯t look too good.¡±


    Lin Jing, ¡°What¡¯s wrong?¡±


    Ji XingLing, ¡°You¡¯ve developed a serious infle¡­ infection in your lungs, and you need¡­ you need¡­ you¡­¡±


    No?! How come every word of mine was so tama19 long?!


    19Tama (ËûÂèt¨¡ m¨¡) ¨C One version is that: in the old times (about the Warring States Period), people said something like ¡°ÄãÂèÊǼúÈË¡± (¡°your mom is a bitch¡±) as a swear word. But this being a whole sentence made it difficult to insert into other sentences to express the emotion. Thus, after a long time, ¡°your¡± became ¡°his¡± and ¡°is a bitch¡± went missing, making it ¡°ËûÂèµÄ¡±. As a result, just as the word ¡°f¡­¡±, it¡¯s very convenient to put into another sentence like ¡°ÄãËûÂèµÄ¸Éɶ£¿¡±, which can be translated to ¡°what the f¡­ are you doing?¡±.


    Unofficially, in oral, people also use ËûÂèµÄ equivalent to VERY. It¡¯s equated to the British ¡°bloody¡±. When used alone, it just means damn it, blast it, to hell with it, fucking, which usually just expressing anger. When not pointing to someone, it means someone is just complaining. Depending on contexts, it could be interpreted differently.


    Lin Jing pursed his lips, as his eyes gave off an innocent air, ¡°What¡¯s wrong?¡±


    Ji XingLing pulled the dialogue in front of him, and with facial paralysis said, ¡°Me first.¡±


    Fifteen minutes later, as expected, the first group that Ning FangFei had drawn was Lin Jing and Ji XingLing.


    Although Young Master Ji¡¯s lines were mainly as simple as What¡¯s Wrong, Lin Jing still spread the notebook on the podium to prevent the other party from getting stuck for words ¨C It showed clearly in his word and manner, his lack of confidence of Xuezha6. Ji XingLing was upset over the lack of confidence in him but he truly didn¡¯t know where this aid of the gods that Lin Jing had given him came from. It was so rare for him to be able to go as far as to try to make a good showing. In little to no time, they had successfully completed the situational dialogue.


    ¡°Very good.¡± Ning FangFei took the lead in applauding the duo. ¡°The next group, Wei Xue and Zhang TianMing, come ba.¡±


    Ji XingLing sat back in his seat and glanced at Lin Jing with some triumph.


    Lin Jing didn¡¯t know what there was to be so smug about for being able to say What¡¯s Wrong so fluently. Momentarily, he admired the narcissism of the other party.


    The whole afternoon passed quickly. After the school bell had rung, Lin Jing and Li MoYuan greeted each other and went to the parking lot while carrying their school bags. There were already a few girls on the school bus. Seeing Lin Jing was getting on the bus, they unconsciously lowered their tone of speaking. Although the news about ¡°a new handsome guy transferring to class 2-1¡± had spread throughout the school already, the girls still couldn¡¯t help but be a little excited when the ¡°Handsome guy¡± appeared as an actual person in front of them.


    Lin Jing sat in the second row, plugged in his earphones, and focused on listening to English. The driver turned his head away and drove off; the sunset was separated by tinted film glass, leaving only a warm glow, which enveloped the tidy boy in school uniform and dyed his eyelashes golden.


    The female voice from the earphones said, The story just begins.


    The chirping of cicadas in summer has already become a little weak as the wind blows the yellow leaves.


    -And the story has just begun.

 CH 4

    Unsuccessful in refusing, a failure that made others happy


    Jiang¡¯An ShuYuan gave off a strong homely-vibe. When Lin Jing returned home, the lights were already on in every household, and the aroma of braised pork ribs had wafted in all directions, enticing people¡¯s stomachs.


    The lift had stopped at the underground parking floor for quite a while, before it came up. It was packed with huge suitcases and wooden shelves. Lin Jing didn¡¯t want to wait for another trip, so he squeezed himself in through the gap sideways. There was no problem with the squeeze; the problem was that Ji XingLing was looking at him with a derisive expression in that cramped space.


    And Lin Jing was also stunned. How come you didn¡¯t live in a luxurious villa studded with diamonds but here?


    The atmosphere was awkward and quiet, and the door slowly closed with a ¡°ding¡± as the two stared at each other in disdain. The advertising screen on the left was in poor condition and was constantly making a thin, long, and piercing electric sound that caused the roots of people¡¯s teeth itchy, plus, the stifling hot air, this awkward moment seemed to stretch out to be infinitely long. The lift then stopped once in the middle. Aunt Zhang, who lived on the third floor, was going to the rooftop to collect laundry. Lin Jing had no choice but to move two more steps in to make it easier for her to get in.


    Ji XingLing had tugged off his sleeves, protecting the blue alternating with white country school uniform as if he was defending his circle of friends, and refused to have any contact with the unctuous monster. Lin Jing also had no interest in pointing out Ji XingLing¡¯s primary school student behavior, and continued to listen to English with his earphones plugged in. When the lift reached the eighth floor, another uncle hobbled along while holding a tea mug. In order to make way, the movers dragged the wooden shelf to the right, while bumped into Lin Jing, which- in turn, caused Lin Jing to stumble forward.


    The lift was narrow and small, Ji XingLing had nowhere to hide, so he could only hold back Lin Jing¡¯s arm, while impatiently commanding, ¡°Stand still!¡±


    ¡°Thank you,¡± Lin Jing adjusted well his schoolbag belt, ¡°Seeing that you student being so helpful, you wouldn¡¯t live on the 13th floor ba.¡±


    The movers beside him were a rather delinquent-like group, who didn¡¯t know how to apologize after bumping into people, but instead had a strong desire to chat, ¡°We are going to the 13th floor.¡±


    Lin Jing, ¡°¡­¡±


    Ji XingLing initially tried nitpicking. After all, even if he had put the Haidilao¡¯s incident aside, no xuezha would be eager to become a neighbor with a learning madman. But now, seeing the other person¡¯s defeated face, he suddenly felt¡­ actually quite happy, really refreshing.


    How to say it ne, the group renting community also didn¡¯t have beautiful scenery.


    Young Master Ji was whistling as he made his way back to 1301.


    Lin Jing closed the door of 1302 behind him; his mood and appetite both became poor, even his favorite fried shrimp became tasteless.


    The sky outside the window was a bit darker, and later the patter of rain had fluttered down, too, and it had yet to stop after 4-5 hours.


    Ji XingLing was reclining on the massage chair, with one foot stepped on the edge of the desk, and the discarded English book next to him as a pretense. It was ¡°Working the land¡± two hours ago. Two hours later, he was still in the same ¡°land¡± part of the English book, which meant- he¡¯d be stuck there no matter what. The window gauze of the bedroom balcony was pretty sheer, which can be penetrated by the wind and can also pervious to warm orange light -in this case, the light that came from the next door 1302.


    Lin Jing had done three sets of English papers in one go, until he was about to faint with blurred vision, then he went to the balcony to take a breath of fresh air. Although Wang HongYu and Li JianSheng both said that his results this time wouldn¡¯t be included in the overall rankings, still- not being ranked didn¡¯t mean that he wasn¡¯t taking the exam. The scores would still be announced. Suppose that he leave this matter alone, what other people would say can be put aside temporarily, Lin Jing can even imagine the look in Ji XingLing¡¯s eyes was bound to be filled with contempt and mocking, he would also keep ridiculing him while bouncing the basketball in all directions ¨Che wasn¡¯t so sleepy anymore. This awakening effect was comparable to ten cups of Espresso.


    At four o¡¯clock in the morning, Ji XingLing hazily walked to the bathroom with sleepy eyes. When he was passing the balcony, he saw that the light next door was still on and was lost into brief bewilderment.


    Wori20, are you still studying at this hour?


    20Wori (ÎÒÈÕw¨¯r¨¬) ¨C this word has the same meaning as I fuck (ÎÒ²Ùw¨¯c¨¤o), only it is mainly used by people in the northern part of China. Some said, this ¡°ÈÕ¡± (r¨¬) sounds like ¡°È롱 (r¨´), which means enter. But in a daily language is more like ¡°fuck me¡±.


    Lin Jing had wrapped the quilt tightly around his body; he fell into the dreamland that stretched endlessly. Although the ¡°Ji XingLing¡¯s mocking gaze¡± BUFF had a refreshing effect, but its battery life was subpar, and he would still be sleepy, and due to sleep too late, it was making his head spin, and even forgot to turn the lights off, so it was gleaming bright-lit all night.


    Ji XingLing had rested his head on his arm, as he thought, no wonder he studies well.


    It turned out that the monsters of this breed didn¡¯t need to sleep.


    In the early morning, the school bus had stopped at the east gate of Jiang¡¯An ShuYuan punctually. Lin Jing got on the bus and looked around. After he made sure that there were no delinquent members, only then, he found a vacant seat to sit on. The two girls behind him were talking. They were chatting continuously and mentioned that Ji XingLing had also moved to Jiang¡¯An ShuYuan.


    ¡°Really, is that true? Doesn¡¯t he live in the west of the city?¡±


    ¡°Of course it¡¯s true, it seems to be in Building A, but he certainly won¡¯t catch the school bus la.¡±


    ¡°Ah? I got excited for nothing. I thought I could go to school with the xiaocao.¡±


    Lin Jing lowered his head and blocked his ear with his earphones, as he cut himself off from any outside irrelevant discussion.


    The morning class started at 7:40 am. By 7:20 am, the classroom was almost full of people, and most of them were copying homework from each other ¨C they didn¡¯t know where Mr. Li got the papers from; it was as complex as it was abnormal.


    The phone on the desk was buzzing and vibrating, indicating that the new message had arrived.


    Yuan Shen: [Kneel down] Can I ask you about some math problems?


    Lin Jing was a little astonished, astonished that there were still people in the delinquent gang headed by Ji XingLing who cared about studying? The enemy camp took the initiative to rely on help from him. When such an incident was in a spy drama series, it would be reckoned to be a 30 episode magnificent epic series. However, for high school students, the reason was much more straightforward ¨C as simple as Ge Hao really can¡¯t do it, and Lin Jing was the only xueba who seemed to have a lot of free time.


    Ke Da: No problem.


    A minute later, Ge Hao pidian pidian21 ran over with his notebook and conveniently dragged the nearby chair, ¡°Thank you, Brother Lin.¡±


    21Pidian pidian (ƨµßƨµßp¨¬di¨¡np¨¬di¨¡n) ¨C lit. Jolting buttocks, you can imagine a puppy runs to someone with its butt shaking left and right.


    ¡°You¡¯re welcome.¡± Lin Jing swept a glance at the question and scribbled on the paper, ¡°Because knowing that a is the second quadrant angle, so x<0.¡±


    He listed the problem-solving steps very carefully and detailed. Ge Hao had read it three times as it suddenly dawned on him, ¡°It¡¯s like that ah.¡±


    ¡°Uh-huh.¡± Lin Jing turned to the second problem. ¡°Well, you can use a to be the internal angle, first get a¡Ê (0, ¦Ð), how about you formulate the formula yourself, that way, you will have a deeper impression.¡±


    Ge Hao nodded repeatedly, and immersed himself in writing.


    Ji XingLing was still the same as before. He stepped in to enter the classroom just in time, with the pre-class bell rang.


    He walked to his desk and saw that Lin Jing was lecturing Ge Hao, but he had nothing to comment on. He just threw the school backpack into the book box, then leaned against the edge of his desk, lowered his head, and played with the phone.


    Ge Hao was attentively taking notes and didn¡¯t notice that there was anyone behind him. Lin Jing didn¡¯t put his pen down on the desk until he finished lecturing three questions for him, ¡°What are you looking at?¡±


    Ji XingLing replied, ¡°Look at my chair.¡±


    Lin Jing, ¡°¡­¡±


    Ge Hao just noticed him and stood up quickly, ¡°Brother Xing, when did you come? I didn¡¯t even notice.. you should have told me.¡±


    Ji XingLing dragged back the chair and sat down, then turned around and asked Lin Jing, ¡°What do you think I¡¯m looking at?¡±


    Wang HongYu, who had already appeared at the classroom entrance, was aiming his gaze in this direction, just when Lin Jing amicably said, ¡°Looking at the paper, I thought you also have math problems; that you want to ask me.¡±


    When he said this, the classroom had just calmed down. According to the degree of confusion on the faces of the rest of the students, Lin Jing felt that the matter of ¡°Ji XingLing voluntarily asking math problems¡±, should have the same probability as ¡°Ji XingLing was actually a person from Cybertron¡±.


    Of course, Wang HongYu was gratified with this, ¡°In this case, Lin Jing, you should tutor Ji XingLing in his studies, and Ji XingLing, you also have to help a new student adapt to the new environment as soon as possible. There is just another thing; the track and field sports meet after the National Day in October. Today, the school will draw a few people from each class to take publicity photos. I think it¡¯s just you two ba, plus Wei Xue and Luo LinSi, two men and two women. You all don¡¯t have to go to the physical education class in the afternoon; go to the basketball hall to gather up there right on time.¡±


    Ji XingLing, ¡°¡­¡±


    Lin Jing had stood up without changing his expression, ¡°Teacher Wang, I have just transferred to this school for a few days, so it¡¯s better to give this rare opportunity to the other students.¡±


    Mamma mia, absolutely not! ¡°Other classmates¡± had vehemently refused, fearing that they would be the (un) lucky ones to be chosen. Who wants to have to use their spare time to have anything to do with taking publicity photos for the school sports meet ah, so silly. Last year, the amateur photographer came from- who knows where, and he took a photograph of Li MoYuan in which looked like a baboon, bared its fangs, and brandished its claws;the photo was even sent to the major media by the school¡¯s publicity department. The scope of shame had soared from ShanHai High School to the entire city and even the whole country. It had caused indelible shadow psychology on the xueba. This kind of matter.. who loved to do it, then welcome to do it, but it definitely wouldn¡¯t be me.


    Wang HongYu admonished with patience and sincerity, ¡°Because you have just arrived, you have to integrate yourself into the group actively. This matter has already been settled.¡± He said, while motioning Lin Jing to sit down, ¡°Everyone opens the book and reads ahead ¡¶Disquisition Finding Fault with Qin¡·.¡±


    The sound of reading aloud filled the classroom. Ji XingLing also read a couple of sentences ¡°Duke Xiao of Qin occupied the stronghold of Han-gu Gate and the lands of the state of Yong¡±, Yu YiZhou was puzzled, ¡°Brother Xing, what do you think ne, will you also undertake this job?¡±


    Ji XingLing put the book down, ¡°Or, I will go to Mr. Wang to let you have this rare opportunity?¡±


    ¡°¡­¡± Yu YiZhou leaned back, ¡°Pretend I never said anything and thank you for your effort.¡±


    Ji XingLing was spinning his pen. He was really not too repulsive about this matter. He thought that it was only to take a publicity photoshoot ma, surely just as bad as that. Plus, because of the matter of hurling the basketball carelessly last time, that had brought the whole class suffering by causing the civilized points to be deducted. Although Young Master Ji didn¡¯t like studying, he still had a sense of collective honor. Even skipping classes, he chose to slip away only when the gradeleader wasn¡¯t taking attendance, which was quite a show of the Xuezha¡¯s moral integrity. In his opinion, he felt obliged to earn those five points back to Mr. Wang and class 2-1.


    Actively participating in school activities can add five points and make up for a deficiency perfectly.


    Besides, there was another reason. Lin Jing seems to be very repulsive on this matter, but then unsuccessful in refusing.In all, this would be similar to Lin Jing being embarrassed and that made Ji XingLing very happy.


    Ji XingLing glanced at the rear left, and continued to read in a good mood, ¡°The Qin army opened the pass to meet the enemy, yet the troops of the nine states, resistant to¡­¡±


    The corner of Lin Jing¡¯s mouth twitched.


    Yu YiZhou kicked his chair leg from behind, ¡°Brother, hesitant, hesi.¡±


    Ji XingLing, ¡°¡­¡±


    You are really literate.


    Ji XingLing just threw away his book and read no more.


    In fact, Wang HongYu¡¯s ¡°two men and two women¡± weren¡¯t picked out so casually. A little bit of attention would reveal that Mr. Wang had chosen them by their faces. Both Ji XingLing and Lin Jing were xiaocao, and their level of handsomeness was above any other xiaocao. Wei Xue was also a beautiful girl with a sweet smile. As for Luo LinSi, it is said that she started to learn ballet at the age of three, and it was like a little swan was sitting there, which caused many boys in the class to like her.


    The physical education class was the first session in the afternoon. The two schoolgirls took the initiative to invite Lin Jing for lunch and said they could go to the basketball hall together later.


    ¡°I heard that it is the same photographer from last year.¡± Luo LinSi had a bitter face, ¡°It¡¯s over, he can even take photos of Li MoYuan with the result of him looking to be 1.3.. WIll I be made to look worse?¡±


    Li MoYuan¡¯s chest tightness, ¡°Sister Lin, I beg you, please don¡¯t bring up this matter of last year.¡±


    Wei Xue was amused, ¡°You should also have lunch with us bei, just so we can learn from the experienced people, like you.¡±


    Li MoYuan sincerely provided from his experience, ¡°Only one piece of advice, you must see the photos themselves after taking them. The photos that need to be deleted, have to be deleted, be merciless with it. Otherwise, you will be the next me.¡±


    ¡­


    At two o¡¯clock in the afternoon, the three people were led to the preparation area after signing in at the basketball hall. To prepare for what ne? It was preparing for makeup.


    Regardless of men and women, each person was assigned two high rosy cheeks equally, to treat everyone equally with favor.


    Before Lin Jing could digest this shocking scene, Ji XingLing, who had just come in from behind, had already digested it. He had calmly stepped back two steps, and walked away.


    Let Mr. Wang earn back the five points that he had deducted himself.


    I will take my leave now!

 CH 5

    I¡¯m evolving; I¡¯m about to bloom.


    Unsurprisingly, Ji XingLing attempted to run away. Right at that moment though, Nui WeiDong, who just came in from the east gate, came to intercept him, ¡°The shooting will begin shortly. Why are you still running around? Are you busy ma?¡±


    Ji XingLing didn¡¯t so much as blink, ¡°Busy, Teacher Sun is waiting for me in the sports field.¡±


    ¡°Okay.¡± Niu WeiDong patted his arm, ¡°You are busy, and so you will be the first one to take a picture, Xiao Zhou ah, quickly find someone to put makeup on him!¡±


    His voice was booming and clear. Wei Xue and Luo LinSi both bit their lower lip, as they turned their head to the side tacitly. There were also several freshmen female students around, who were on the verge of bursting out with laughter but didn¡¯t dare, with shaking shoulders.


    Young Master Ji¡¯s chest is stuffy, and he felt with deep understanding that he¡¯d taken the not-so-nice part of the deal with Wang HongYu.  Another girl with short bob hair, who glanced at him with a blush, had taken initiative to speak out to help, ¡°Teacher Niu, I think Ji XingLing is already very photogenic, so let¡¯s just take the photo ba.¡±


    ¡°No, last year, because there was no makeup on, in the end, the result of the photo that came out was rather bad, especially Li MoYuan¡¯s.¡± Niu WeiDong personally moved a chair to sit, then instructed, ¡°Make them all slightly pale this year, but don¡¯t be too pale either. Make it pale with a touch of pink-tinged complexion.¡±


    Ji XingLing was livid when he heard ¡°rosy-white complexion¡± so much so that he almost blurted out uncivilized words again.


    Lin Jing stood by and waited patiently for a long time. Seeing that the makeup artist had already begun to blend the foundation, yet, Ji XingLing still had not convinced Niu WeiDong, let alone demolished the basketball hall on the spot to stop the photoshoot from happening; it was his noble political consciousness that urged him to sacrifice himself to save the moment, so Lin Jing could only take personal charge of the matter by using some underhanded advantage for the sake of everyone, while also reaping some benefits for himself in passing.


    ¡°Teacher.¡± He raised his hand and suggested, ¡°Since some of my classmates have put on their makeup, it¡¯s better to try to take a few shots to see if it is white enough now.¡±


    Niu WeiDong pondered a while, then agreed. So he called the students who had finished their makeup to go to the side of the basketball goal posts and asked the photographer to take a few snapshots.


    ¡°Ji XingLing, Ji XingLing!¡± Lin Jing seized an opportunity to turn around while he was pretending to look at the photos, ¡°Do you want to take one snapshot too? Let the teachers make some reference between no makeup and makeup.¡±


    The tone was sincere, coherent, and not forceful, also full of emotions. Lin Jing had taken into full consideration to uphold the dean¡¯s position in all respects, as he was fully demonstrating what a well-behaved and sensible student was, and his acting skills were perfect.


    Your Brother Xing: ¡­conceded and smart.


    Lin Jing picked up a ball from the ground and tossed it to Ji XingLing, smoothly getting the opponent out of the clutches of the makeup artist. All the schoolgirls had gathered around the basketball court, waiting to watch the handsome guy shoot the basketball. The photographer also held up the camera to get ready ¡ª it was said.. photographers, in fact, were like makeup artists, they were enthusiastic parents who came to help for free of charge. There must be at least some skills. But it was also far from professional standards, especially when taking a people portrait in a single scene; the quality of footage shots basically depended on the quality of the model.


    Fortunately, Ji XingLing was a high-quality model, as he was not only tall and handsome, but also white. When he jumped into the air and flicked the ball onto the backboard and into the hoop, his thin almond-shaped eyes were slightly squinted. Every single of the sunlight that had penetrated from the top of the glass was gathered together within his hands, and a dazzling golden strand shone out from the space between his finger joints.


    The teenager was wearing a blue-white school uniform, as full of vigor and vitality as the entire summer.


    ¡°Obviously, it¡¯s better not to wear makeup ah.¡± After taking a photograph, a group of schoolgirls huddled around the camera, ¡°Teacher, let¡¯s not wear makeup ba, it¡¯s such a waste of time.¡±


    ¡°That¡¯s right, if the color tone of the picture is too dark, just edit it with Photoshop a bit, and it can be fixed la.¡±


    ¡°Photoshop can also adjust and enhance facial features.¡±


    ¡°I don¡¯t want to use a set of makeup tools with boys.¡±


    ¡°I also don¡¯t want to. I¡¯ll get acne.¡±


    Niu WeiDong was utterly dizzy because of the noises that sounded like a chirping sparrow, coupled with Ji XingLing¡¯s photo was captured perfectly, so he reluctantly took a step back, ¡°Hmm, let¡¯s take this shot first, and I¡¯ll check it out again.¡±


    The hapless students who had put on makeup before, cheered collectively, took out wet tissues, and roughly wiped the makeup off. Ji XingLing tossed the basketball to Lin Jing and whistled a little scornfully, ¡°It¡¯s your turn.¡±


    Lin Jing had relaxedly fired off a shot that arced through the hoop, ¡°No thanks.¡±


    ¡°Hey, if I put on makeup, you can¡¯t get away with it either.¡± Ji XingLing had stressed on, ¡°So at best, this is called mutual benefit.¡±


    ¡°But I can also wait until you¡¯ve been painted into a Mandrill, before I go to the teacher.¡± Lin Jing caught the ball, ¡°So, you¡¯re welcome.¡±


    Ji XingLing had waited until he was walking far away, and then took out his mobile phone to check on what was Mandrill.


    A giant monkey with a colorfully painted face had appeared suddenly on the screen.


    ¡­


    Kao22.


    22Kao (ÎÒ¿¿ W¨¯ k¨¤o) ¨C means I depend on, but it¡¯s used as a swear word as well. Initially, it was from the word ¡°åêk¨¡o¡± that has similarities in pronunciation, which means buttocks or the ass. Just say ÎÒ¿¿ as a mild swear word, that can mean Bosh!, Crap!, Damn!, Holy crap!, Fuck!


    Since there was no makeup required, the shooting progress had been speeded up a lot, and the work had ended perfectly in 30 minutes. Ji XingLing had picked up his school uniforms on the ground and bent his arms around each other¡¯s shoulder with the boys in class 3, as they all went to buy water. Lin Jing was helping the staff pack up the shooting props and wanted to go to the restroom to wash his hands. When he pushed open the door, he saw Ge Hao, who was standing in front of the mirror, had yanked his sleeves to smell it solemnly, with a serious-looking face.


    Evidently, this kind of place was not one that can produce a wonderful, pleasant, and amazing smell. So keep smelling it seriously¡­ Lin Jing inevitably had formed a negative mental association; whether Ge Hao just fell into the urinal or peed on the school uniform, Lin Jing quickly stepped back a few paces.


    However, Ge Hao took the initiative to issue an invitation, ¡°Brother Lin, just in time, you help me to smell it and see if it smells like anything.¡±


    Lin Jing¡¯s expression froze, as he didn¡¯t want to help.


    ¡°A few girls were spraying perfume just now, and they sprayed some on me.¡± Ge Hao waved his sleeves again, ¡°but it doesn¡¯t seem to have any smell.¡±


    ¡°Mhm, it doesn¡¯t smell.¡± Lin Jing stood by the wall and squeezed liquid hand soap. When he was just moving the basketball hoop, he accidentally touched a handful of slimy motor oil, which made him currently feel a bit psychologically shadowy.


    Ge Hao stood waiting for him, and was having words with him in passing. After finishing the exam next week, it seemed that the whole grade would have to change classrooms. Some time ago, due to the outdated electric circuit in the Fifth High School, it almost caused a major accident, so ShanHai had to conduct both water and electricity overhauls.


    ¡°Move to where?¡± Lin Jing asked.


    ¡°DongShan building, the former junior section of ShanHai High School, I heard that it was being cleaned up these past two days ne.¡±


    Lin Jing, who had just been here for two days, clearly didn¡¯t know where DongShan building was, so he merely made an ¡°uh-huh¡± sound. Ji XingLing had also just come in to wash his face; he was directed by the photographer to shoot the ball dozens of times in the basketball hall, and was sweating all over his body.


    Ge Hao was baffled, ¡°Brother Xing, you only take a promotional photo, but how come that you look even more tired than when I ran a 1,500-metre race?¡±


    ¡°Mr. Niu is practically an old society supervisor.¡± Ji XingLing lifted his undershirt to wipe dry his face twice. While he was turning around, he saw Lin Jing squeeze a lot of liquid hand soap ¡ª no, when I just came in, didn¡¯t you already just foam your hands with a handful of liquid hand soap?


    Ge Hao was also very surprised, ¡°Brother Lin, have you touched something that you need to wash your hands three times.¡±


    Ji XingLing tilted his head to give a quick glance, a slip of the tongue as he said, ¡°He fell into the toilet bowl?¡±


    Lin Jing¡¯s hand paused, while he was calmly locking eyes with him, ¡°Nah, I suddenly remembered that I seemed to have touched your basketball, so I need to disinfect my hand twice more.¡±


    ¡°¡­¡±


    The scene of ¡°stared at each other in disdain¡± was triggered again. Ge Hao, who had sensed the weird atmosphere in time, forced a chuckled ¡°hehe¡± to mediate the dispute, ¡°This kind of joke is indeed a bit cold.. Let¡¯s go, we¡¯re going to be late.¡±


    He pushed and pulled the two forcibly out of the restroom. The pre-class bell had already been sounded. Wang HongYu happened to be passing class 2-1, so he stood at the back door of the classroom and took a look inside. Ji XingLing carried an empty drink bottle to throw into a trash can in the back row, and walked back with ease and natural poise with one hand in his pocket, handsomely dashing. When he reached the sixth row, he was incomparably natural as he raised his hand and rubbed Lin Jing¡¯s head.


    It seemed that the relationship between the two of them was really good.


    Mr. Wang felt particularly pleased, and then returned to the office while he was holding his favorite thermos cup.


    Young Master Ji had accomplished the achievement of ¡°provocation of mysophobia towards Lin Jing.¡± He then dragged his chair, then sat in erwuba wan23 pose, as he was puffed up with pride and was greatly pleased, with a sense of achievement filled him.


    23Erwuba wan (¶þÎå°ËÍò¨¨rw¨³b¨¡ w¨¤n) ¨C lit. Two-five-eight million, are referring to the mahjong tiles ¶þÈf, ÎåÈf, °ËÈf, which obviously play significant roles in winning the game. The metaphor is used to describe someone who thinks that he/she is very important (as the mahjong tiles in the game) and acts cocky, arrogant, and annoying, a pompous ass, in short. ¡°¶þÎå°ËÍò¨¨rw¨³b¨¡ w¨¤n¡± has the same meaning as ¡°ÏùÕŵÄxi¨¡ozh¨¡ng de¡±. It¡¯s slang word of ¡°ÏùÕŵÄxi¨¡ozh¨¡ng de¡±, which means arrogance, aggressive.


    Lin Jing, who was expressionless, closed the pencil case with a ¡°bam¡±.


    You¡¯re.. looking for abuse, eh?


    The following session was politics class. The teacher¡¯s name was Ma Lie (Marxist Lenin), as his name was also very political, his lectures were full of wit and humor. He also had an elegant and intelligent aristocratic bearing in appearance. He was universally recognized as the number one handsome guy in ShanHai with schoolgirls.


    ¡°Oh, today, our Brother Xing looks in a good mood.¡± Ma Lie said, while he was standing on the podium, ¡°It¡¯s better to briefly analyze why the more thoughtless people are, the more they tend to be grandiloquent and initiate provocations. What¡¯s a point of view that this reflects?¡±


    Young Master Ji, who was mocked by a political question, ¡°¡­¡±


    ¡°I know you must not have looked at the worldview and methodology.¡± Ma Lie called another student again, ¡°The new student, I¡¯d like to get to know you; I heard that you are the father of the Third Junior High School?¡±


    ¡°Teacher.¡± Lin Jing did not know whether to laugh or cry as he stood up, ¡°I will have an exam next week, you say it like this, I will feel under a lot of pressure.¡±


    ¡°It¡¯s good to know that there¡¯s a little bit of pressure on politics, unlike president Li, who only knows to soak himself in mathematics all day long.¡± Ma Lie jokes, ¡°Alright, sit down ba.¡±


    Ji XingLing, who was still entangled, took advantage of this to turn around to ask one of his hupeng-gouyou24, while the teacher was inserting the USB flash drive, ¡°What viewpoint is reflected in proactive provocation?¡±


    24Hupeng-gouyou (ºüÅó¹·ÓÑh¨²p¨¦ng-g¨¯uy¨¯u) ¨C lit. Fox friend dog companion, it¡¯s an idiom of a pack of rogues or a gang of scoundrels, which means evil associates, depraved company, disreputable friend.


    Yu YiZhou blathered in an offhand way, ¡°It reflects that you really aren¡¯t very thoughtful¡­ Wocao, What are you kicking me for?¡±


    I had just kicked you, because you were tama thoughtless.


    When Young Master Ji turned back around again, he gave a furtive look to the side.


    And his sight happened to bump right into Lin Jing¡¯s eyes, which were profoundly reflecting over. Lin Jing was reflecting on himself, about for a fleeting moment before class; he actually with passion regarded this person as an opponent. This truly demonstrated that he must have eaten the wrong medicine to perceive Ji XingLing as a worthy opponent. Anyhow, it is better to stay far away, because although IQ was not contagious, but in this case of someone as dumb as Ji XingLing, one can never be truly sure.


    Ji XingLing was being stared at inexplicably. How¡¯d a spoiled nobleman like you look through the eyes of a saint with mercy and graciousness?


    Lin Jing silently averted his gaze away, and then with exceptional dedication promoted the ¡°keep away from Ji XingLing¡± as the number one criterion after transferring.


    ¡°Ge Hao.¡± Ma Lie knocked on the blackboard again, ¡°For five minutes in class, you have already smelled your school uniform five to six times. May I know what the matter is?


    ¡°I¡­ well, teacher, I have had rhinitis in the past two days,¡± Ge Hao replied. ¡°Always want to sneeze.¡±


    Ma Lie nodded, ¡°Then you can sit in the last row ba, because it is close to the window, it should be a little more comfortable.¡±


    ¡°Thank you, teacher.¡± Ge Hao held the book and changed his seat positions; Lin Jing also looked back to look at him.


    As soon as Ge Hao raised his arms, he was very stiff as he was getting caught in the act abruptly.


    Lin Jing, ¡°¡­¡±


    Excuse me; you can continue.


    After the class, Ge Hao came over in a dawdling manner. He first leaned against Yu YiZhou¡¯s desk to chat a few words, then asked Ji XingLing about the game matter, and finally stood next to Lin Jing, ¡°Brother Lin, don¡¯t you think that there¡¯s quite a lot of pollen in the past two days?.¡±


    There was a lot of pollen in autumn. This excuse is indeed in line with the average IQ of Ji XingLing¡¯s gang. Lin Jing consoled in confidence, ¡°Although you have a crush, dont worry- I don¡¯t even know who she is.¡±


    Ge Hao: ?


    But Xueba felt that it was pretty well-knit logic ¡ª he got sprayed with some perfume by a girl, then was so enchanted by it that he had kept on smelling it from the restroom to the classroom, and also has such a guilty conscience. If it wasn¡¯t a secret crush, then what was it?


    Ge Hao, ¡°¡­Nevermind, pretend I never said anything.¡±


    Before school was over, as expected, Wang HongYu came to inform everyone that in October,  there would be a matter of changing the classrooms. Luo LinSi raised her hand, ¡°Teacher, DongShan building is a small classroom, right?¡±


    ¡°It¡¯s slightly smaller, but certainly not to split classes,¡± Wang HongYu said, ¡°We will overcome it, and will soon be able to move back to here.¡±


    Between the noise, someone asked, ¡°Then if we are going to join the desks, can we choose our desks by ourselves ma?¡±


    ¡°The teacher will arrange the seating arrangement, so don¡¯t bother with it.¡± Wang HongYu smiled and slapped the podium, ¡°Alright, class dismissed, everyone, please pay attention to safety on the road.¡±


    NingCheng Third Grade High School had always had seating arrangements between multiple people, so Lin Jing didn¡¯t know why the matter of ¡°joint desks¡± event was worth the excitement of the whole class, therefore he was as lack of interest in discussion as Ji XingLing. As soon as the bell rang, Ji XingLing went with Yu YiZhou to the basketball hall and didn¡¯t leave until after 7 pm.


    ¡°Is Uncle Wang not going to come to pick you up?¡± Yu YiZhou asked.


    ¡°Something is going on with his family today.¡± Ji XingLing threw the ball back into the plastic basket, ¡°Let your driver drop me to Wan He on the way, and I just need to get something there.¡±


    ¡°Wan He?¡± Yu YiZhou frowned, ¡°That place has a foul atmosphere. Why do you think of going there?¡±


    ¡°My (maternal) grandfather had ordered a gift there for his birthday next month, and it has just arrived in these past two days.¡± Ji XingLing looked at the time, ¡°It¡¯s still early, so it¡¯s okay.¡±


    ¡°Wan He¡± was a residential-commercial hybrid building. It was a mixed-use building that includes both commercial and residential space that exceeds 30-storey, which was mixed with migrant workers, private underground restaurants, beauty salons, tattoo parlors, illegal small inns, and pornographic cinemas. The personnel composition was inherently complicated. Recently, it had been attracting attention due to a viral online building. Every day a large number of cyberpunk fans came to take photos; also, the environment became more chaotic and more uproarious. Before eight o¡¯clock in the evening, there were already several groups of drunken unemployed youths fighting on the street.


    The laneway was a bit dark. Ge Hao lowered his head and hurriedly quickened up his paces. The Wan He Building, which was not far away, had been lit up with neon lights, and it appeared to be floating quietly in the deep twilight.


    ¡°You wait, the one carrying the schoolbag in front.¡±


    A group of youth ruffians gathered around, their eyes glowing green ¡ª green, quite literally.


    ¡°Kao.¡± Ge Hao cursed a swear word and ran away.


    ¡°Stop!¡± The youth ruffians threw away the bottles, and the shadows suddenly stretched into a hideous beastly shape under the streetlights.


    The red fog and haze became entangled into something identical to a snake¡¯s tongue. It climbed onto his wrist wetly. Ge Hao stepped on the air in a panic. He was about to be swallowed by the miasma at any moment, but another black shadow billowed in from a distance, while wrapped in the thunder and lightning of the Qilin clan; it was fierce and doughty.


    ¡°BOOM!¡±


    This was a loud noise that humans could not hear.


    The red mist dissipated in an instant.


    Ji XingLing patted his face, ¡°Are you okay?¡±


    Ge Hao hadn¡¯t yet recovered from the fright and was still badly shaken, ¡°Xing, Brother Xing.¡±


    Ji XingLing said, ¡°Those bastards have already run away.¡±


    ¡°Okay, okay¡­¡± Ge Hao stammered; his chest was rising and falling violently. Then, he vaguely felt that this matter seemed to have another critical point.


    Three seconds later.


    ¡°Wocao!¡±


    ¡°Brother Xing!¡±


    ¡°Brother Xing!¡±


    ¡°Brother Xing¡­ you just¡­ you too¡­¡±


    Ji XingLing pulled him to his feet, ¡°Why is that ferocious beast trying to capture you?¡±


    Ge Hao was still immersed in the shock of discovering ¡°Brother Xing isn¡¯t a human, after all¡± for quite a while, before he confessed, ¡°Maybe they want to use me for winemaking.¡±


    Ji XingLing was taken aback, ¡°Are you a snake?¡±


    ¡°No, no, no.¡± Ge Hao hastily waved his hand disapprovingly, ¡°I am a plant.¡±


    There was a herbaceous grass on the hill of Niu Shou, which was called Gui (Ghost) Grass. Its leaves were ovate shapes that were similar to sunflower leaves and had reddish-purple stems. It looks like grain seeding puts forth ears and flowers, not needing to be concerned about its acclimation.


    ¡°I¡¯ve smelled it for a whole day today.¡± Ge Hao swallowed his saliva hard, ¡°Brother Xing, I think I¡¯m growing, and I¡¯m about to bloom.¡±

 CH 6

    Don¡¯t let me see this broken card again!


    Two high school students sat in a caf¨¦, while they were discussing developmental issues together.


    The blooming of Gui1 Grass was a very troublesome matter; not only had to face a series of physiological changes, but also had to face the hunting of ferocious beasts ¡ª it was an enormous underground gang, and the level of harm to the monsters was equivalent to that of human traffickers. The Monster Management Committee had sent out spirit beasts on many occasions to carry out large-scale suppression and thoroughly cleaning out, and though in many cases it had vanished without a trace at that time, but after a while, it had risen again from the ashes2, like an incurable of vexed rotten scar, which caused the public to be very distraught.


    However, in JinCheng, which was personally guarded by the Qilin clan, there were few vicious monsters who dared to engage in kidnapping directly. At most, like tonight¡¯s ruffians, relied on people more to surrounded Ge Hao, to trapped and hold him down, while grabbing a handful of flower buds or roots that were used for winemaking from his spirit form, then sold them to the black market to rake in for ill-gotten wealth.


    But this was enough for him to suffer a nervous breakdown! Ge Hao had scowled miserably, ¡°I really don¡¯t have any rare and precious medicinal value. Those people are morons, don¡¯t you think so?¡±


    ¡°There¡¯s also no medicinal value in Pangolin (Manis Pentadactylata) either. But look at what happened ne?¡± Ji XingLing leaned back on the chair, ¡°And you are also called forget worrying flower.¡±


    Forget worrying flower, just with these words of good and happiness were enough to fool a large number of uncultured outburst country bumpkin monsters scrambling to offer their wallets. Otherwise, you can ask for an ¡°after drinking weeping bitter tears flower on the spot¡± to have a try, and it was guaranteed no one was harassed.


    Ge Hao heaved out pain, long moan, and groans, the blooming period of plants was generally around twenty-five years old, which was also had a little meaning of ¡°you can better protect yourself when you grow up¡±, but he was so unlucky, who would have thought that his blooming period had come ahead of time at the age of sixteen.


    Not an adult yet ne.


    No university entrance examination yet ne!


    Ji XingLing suddenly remembered an important thing, ¡°Have you ever lost your monster ID ma?¡±


    ¡°Of course not.¡± Ge Hao fish out a silvery-white card from the inside layers of his schoolbag, ¡°There¡¯s no way I would ever lose it.¡±


    The application for a report on the loss of monster ID required at least three months to be done, so it should have nothing to do with the monster ID he had picked up. Ji XingLing had motioned to the other party to keep it well, and then he stood up as he carried two schoolbags in one hand, ¡°Let¡¯s go, I¡¯ll take you home first.¡±


    ¡­


    The deeper the night, the quieter it was still in Jiang¡¯An ShuYuan.


    If you stood in the garden and gazed up, there were only neat rows of orange eye-protection lamps.


    Ji MingLang¡¯s wife was a former famous movie star who was voted as the ¡°No. 1 beautiful woman on the movie screen¡± for three consecutive years. Now, she was a good wife and loving mother, lady Hu MeiMei, who at this very moment was sitting on the sofa in the living room, and staring at her wristwatch in a bad mood. The nine snow-white big tails behind her were swinging back and forth, that was almost about to set off a small-scale hurricane.


    It¡¯s half past eight pm.


    Nine o¡¯clock pm.


    Thirty minutes to ten pm.


    When ten o¡¯clock pm was approaching, the door lock finally emitted a ¡°click¡ª¡ª¡± sound.


    Ji XingLing, who had caught the oncoming sofa cushions with agility, had promptly stated, ¡°I¡¯m sending Ge Hao home today.¡±


    Hu MeiMei¡¯s thoughts trail off to peculiarly, ¡°Did you break someone¡¯s leg?¡±


    Young Master Ji was in a very complicated mood. What kind of lousy image as I reflected in my Mom¡¯s mind in the end?


    ¡°Forget it. I don¡¯t want to listen to your excuses.¡± Hu MeiMei stood up and ordered her son, ¡°Hold well the gift box on the table and follow me to 1302.¡±


    Ji XingLing¡¯s eyes widened, ¡°Why are we going to 1302?¡±


    ¡°Your (maternal) uncle just told me in the afternoon that it turns out the Guhuo Niao is working next door.¡± Hu MeiMei said, ¡°Let¡¯s go and see if we can poach.¡±


    ¡°Not going.¡± Ji XingLing remarks righteously, ¡°How can uncle do this ne, using his position to retrieve the monster records, he is so unethical.¡±


    Hu MeiMei retorted sarcastically, ¡°You every time get three hundred on the exam, which angers your mother, actually really had morality.¡±


    Ji XingLing, ¡°¡­¡±


    I was wrong. Please continue.


    ¡°Even if you can¡¯t poach, you must have a good relationship with the next door.¡± Hu MeiMei put her tail away. ¡°The child who can be liked by Guhuo Niao will certainly not be bad in the study. If you communicate a lot with others, you may be able to score 700.¡°


    Ji XingLing: ?


    ¡®Mom?¡¯


    ¡°Okay, I know you won¡¯t be able to achieve 700 points, so score 400 points ba, you can do it, right?¡± Hu MeiMei stuffed the gift box into his arms, ¡°Happy!¡±


    Young Master Ji was reluctant to move even a half step; what was in his heart was a conflict.


    ¡°Mom, next door is my classmate, who has just transferred this semester.¡±


    ¡°Extremely reckless, his monster ID is littered around.¡±


    ¡°He is also unctuous, and likes to deceive people!¡±


    ¡°He talks too much hypocritical and mysophobia!¡±


    ¡°I¡¯m not going!¡±


    Hu MeiMei found a new point of penetration, ¡°They are all monsters. How come others be able to take the test of 730, while you can¡¯t even simply score 370?¡±


    Ji XingLing emphasized, ¡°I passed the test of 380. It¡¯s not terrible!¡±


    Hu MeiMei felt an ache in her chest.


    Finally, she said, ¡°Are you sure you do not want to go? Then from next month, you will have no pocket money.¡±


    Ji XingLing, ¡°¡­¡±


    Ji XingLing, ¡°Just go for five minutes.¡±


    Your brother Xing knew when to be humble and when to be assertive.


    Lin Jing was eating a midnight snack.


    The slightly sweetened walnut lotus seed soup, was nourishing for the brain as well as relieving inflammation. Aunt Jiang, while she was cleaning up the kitchen, reminded him, ¡°Don¡¯t read while eating. It¡¯s not good for your eyes.¡±


    ¡°Mhm.¡± Lin Jing agreed, while his hand was continuously flipping and looking through the English materials. For next week¡¯s exam, because of the difference in the progress of two school curriculums, the math may be slightly more challenging, and just in case he accidentally lost points, then filled in with English scores was his most foolproof method, so he had been brushed up his English test papers for the past two days.


    At the age of sixteen-seventeen years old, there will always be some unknown sensitivity and vanity. After all, who didn¡¯t want to be a blockbuster in the exam and became the envy, also discussion object of the rest of the students ¡ª let alone since the first day of kindergarten, the little boy Lin Jing had started constantly achieving outstanding praises and awards.


    He put down the empty bowl, ¡°Auntie, I¡¯m going back to the bedroom to continue reading.¡±


    ¡°Rest early¡ª¡±


    Before she finished speaking, the doorbell rang ¡°Ding Dong¡±.


    Who will come at this hour? Jiang FenFang pressed the intercom questioningly, ¡°Who is it?¡±


    ¡°Hello, we are the new neighbors who just moved in next door.¡± Hu MeiMei¡¯s tone was radiant with joy, ¡°We aren¡¯t bothering, right?¡±


    Lin Jing, ¡°¡­¡±


    Jiang FenFang opened the door.


    Hu MeiMei had full smiles all over her face.


    Jiang FenFang felt that this lady, who resplendent with jewels, was somewhat familiar, as if she had seen her somewhere in a magazine.


    The identities of monsters were strictly confidential. Even for the Monster Management Committee, which was relatively bustled with activity, the outside reception window was also small, dark, and concealed. More than a dozen Yaksha3 who had taken turns in a shift had a sharp, ferocious and impatient tone, in which making every monsters folk who came to do things, had wished they could flee at express speed, that they were even more in no mood to clutched the window to scrutinize inside. When it was indispensable to communicate face-to-face, the staff would also appear as in a spirit form, should be the Flying Raindragon4, Black Tortoise5, LuDuan6, and other renowned monsters had gathered together all at once; there wouldn¡¯t be able to make a clear distinction for who was a teacher, a doctor, or other social identities. Of course, there were not many monsters who had known that the Jincheng¡¯s guard Qilin and RenRui Group¡¯s Ji MingLang were actually the same person.


    So even if Jiang FenFang racked her brains, she could only think of Mrs. Ji¡¯s identity as a movie star.


    Seeing Lin Jing sat by the dining table, Hu MeiMei immediately became more enthusiastic.


    ¡°You¡¯re Xiao Jing ba. Are you still studying in this late hour ah?¡±


    Lin Jing obediently greeted her in a well-behaved manner, ¡°Hello, Auntie.¡±


    ¡°I heard Xiao Xing say that you are both classmates.¡± Hu MeiMei instructed her son to put the gift box away, ¡°His grade ah¡­ Auntie is thinking just so, if you are free at school, can you help in tutoring some of his math problems?  A perfect score of one hundred and fifty, at least this fraction of the score must be achieved ba?¡±


    Upon hearing that, Jiang FenFang was very sympathetic; children who can satisfy their parents with a half score were indeed made people sad.


    ¡°Mom.¡± Ji XingLing, who couldn¡¯t stand the house which was full of the brilliance of Xueba, had taken the initiative to lodge an appeal, ¡°I want to go back to study.¡±


    Lin Jing¡¯s expression was visibly twisted.


    Ji XingLing, ¡°¡­¡±


    What the fuck are you laughing at? Can¡¯t I study ma?!


    Hu MeiMei was overjoyed, and felt that the effect of Baize Lion plus the grade first-ranking treatment was immediate. So she might as well continue to redouble her efforts, ¡°Xiao Jing, can you let Xiao Xing study together with you tonight?¡±


    Lin Jing: Why?!


    Indeed, Young Master Ji¡¯s first reaction was also ¡®Wocao. I¡¯m not coming!¡¯


    But before he blurted out any rejection, he caught Lin Jing¡¯s daunting and resisting look in time.


    That would be very interesting.


    So he said very sincerely, ¡°Auntie Jiang, Student Lin, may I come over ma?¡±


    Student Lin was tongue-tied; every pore in Lin Jing¡¯s body was oozing NO.


    Ji XingLing had succeeded in provocation again, and turned around in a good mood, ¡°Mom, I think he is also very busy¡ª¡°


    ¡°I¡¯m not busy. Really, it¡¯s very welcome.¡± Lin Jing cut him short, ¡°What do you want to learn, English?¡±


    Ji XingLing, ¡°¡­¡±


    Ten minutes later, Lin Jing, who took the book and test papers, had appeared in 1301.


    As for why he changed places, because Lin Jing had never liked letting others into his bedroom, how should I say it ne, in fact, Ji XingLing didn¡¯t like it either. Yes, but the Xuezha had no human rights.


    Hu MeiMei had personally cut a plate of fruit and brought it in.


    Lin Jing flipped open the English book, ¡°How many words did you recite for the college entrance examination?¡±


    Ji XingLing casually said, ¡°One to two thousand ba.¡±


    ¡°What is the meaning of abnormal?¡±


    ¡°¡­¡±


    Lin Jing cued, ¡°The prefix ab- means away and separation.¡±


    Ji XingLing attempted to save face, ¡°I haven¡¯t memorized the one behind.¡±


    ¡°But this is the word on the first page.¡±


    ¡°¡­¡±


    Hu MeiMei felt that if she stayed here any longer, she might be dizzy with anger on the spot.


    Ji XingLing snatched away the vocabulary book, and the abnormal was indeed on the first page.


    He protested disgruntledly, ¡°No, how come you choose the longest one to test me?¡±


    ¡°Do you choose the length of the words that you need to recite?¡±


    ¡°Of course ah, otherwise you ask me what¡¯s the meaning of ¡®a¡¯, I definitely understand what ¡®a¡¯ means.¡±


    Hu MeiMei weakly returned to the bedroom.


    She had urgently needed to call her husband, who was away on a business trip, so that she could share with him this shockingly parenting road.


    ¡°Okay, you write out the vocabulary to memory. I will do my test paper.¡± Lin Jing threw the rough paper and pen at him, ¡°One hour, these three pages are okay ba?¡±


    Ji XingLing, ¡°There is a problem.¡±


    ¡°Suit yourself.¡± Lin Jing was plugging in a single earphone, ¡°But if Auntie asks, I won¡¯t lie for you.¡±


    At the thought of pocket money, Young Master Ji had to endure humiliation for the sake of the pocket money and flipped open to the first page.


    The silence wall clock on the wall had repeatedly circled.


    The desk was very large, and the two of them occupied one side of each other and did not interfere with each other.


    But someone was pretty active.


    In the first half an hour, Ji XingLing had first finished eating an orange, and then forcibly took a pen away from Lin Jing¡¯s pen case. Finally, felt too tired to sit; he simply half-lain on a chair as he was studying hard while holding a book in both hands.


    Lin Jing was doing a reading comprehension, the content of the essay was too abstruse, there was some part that he couldn¡¯t understand, and he temporally was not in the mood to deal with the troublemaker on his opposite side.


    Ji XingLing had simply pulled his chair to sit beside him.


    ¡°Hey, why did you agree to help in tutoring me?¡±


    ¡°I didn¡¯t agree to help you in tutoring. I just study together with you.¡±


    ¡°Why?¡±


    ¡°I don¡¯t want your provocation to succeed.¡±


    ¡°¡­¡±


    His competitiveness was quite strong.


    Lin Jing finished filling out the multiple-choice questions, then checked it with the answers key, and got four wrong.


    ¡°What does your depressed face stand for?¡±


    ¡°It stands that I made mistakes in these four questions.¡±


    Ji XingLing gave a thumbs up, ¡°There are only four wrong with this so many questions. It¡¯s fucking great.¡±


    Lin Jing, ¡°¡­¡±


    He was very exasperating.


    Ji XingLing continued to write out the vocabulary to memory, and the swift movement and lively style of his terrible handwriting, nearly flew out of the paper.


    Lin Jing happened to be writing an essay, neatly like a printing block letter. Ji XingLing stared at it for a while and successfully found the next topic, ¡°I found your hands are pretty good-looking.¡±


    Lin Jing didn¡¯t even raise his head, ¡°Is there any part of me that doesn¡¯t look good?¡±


    Young Master Ji fell into silence, ¡°How come you good student is not modest at all?¡±


    ¡°Have you finished memorizing the vocabulary?¡±


    ¡°¡­You sound recorder7.¡±


    ¡°You beep pager8¡±


    ¡°You resorted to name-calling!¡±


    ¡°Pager is a big leap forward in the history of human communication. Why should it be used to attack you who don¡¯t even know what abnormal means!¡±


    ¡°I know! Pervert!¡±


    ¡°You are perverted!¡±


    ¡°Wocao, I said this word means pervert.¡±


    ¡°¡­¡±


    Lin Jing was rendered speechless, profoundly reflecting on whether he had drunk too much fake alcoholic beverages and why he had even lost in such a mentally retarded quarrel.


    Ji XingLing was smugly grabbing his school backpack, and then dug out that monster ID card, ¡°Here, take it back ba, it¡¯s your things.¡±


    Lin Jing¡¯s psychological shadow had suddenly added another layer, with the distribution of ID cards to the gang members that were already very silly, and still so diligently to quarreling with such a person, even to go so far as actually to bicker and lose, it was simply unreasonable.


    ¡°Let me see this broken card again.¡± He pointed to the monster ID card, ¡°I will stare at you every day when you recite vocabulary.¡±


    Ji XingLing was utterly unable to understand, ¡°What the hell is wrong with you?¡±


    The time had already passed midnight. Lin Jing felt that time flew by in a flash, with the clock ticking and how time was slipping away, he should go to bed earlier, instead of having this silly topic of ¡°whether or not to join a delinquent gang headed by Ji XingLing¡± to progressed into double boredom issue of repetitious discussion.


    So Lin Jing was yawning, while he was holding the books and test papers in glistening teardrops, and went back.


    ¡°Thank you for the fruit and Goodbye, Auntie.¡±


    ¡°Xiao Jing, why don¡¯t you drink a glass of milk then¡ª¡ª¡± Hu MeiMei watched him pushed the door and leave, then turned around with her eyebrows raised. ¡°Ji XingLing, you bullied your classmates again, didn¡¯t you?¡±


    Young Master Ji felt like vomiting blood9, ¡°I didn¡¯t.¡±


    ¡°Why are his eyes so red?¡±


    ¡°How should I know? It may be that my study has achieved remarkable results, so he shed tears of joy.¡±


    Hu MeiMei, ¡°¡­¡±


    She did not want this son anymore.


    Flying Raindragon (Ó¦Áú y¨¬ngl¨®ng) ¨C also known as Yinglong or the Responding Dragon. A mighty, winged dragon with power over rain.

 CH 7

    The Invisible Force, The Most Deadly.


    In order to avoid being besieged by ferocious beasts on the way after school, Ge Hao had submitted the dormitory application form, and was planning to reside on campus honestly within the next two years. In addition, he also prepared a large jar of super-strength stay awake pills and a large bottle of pungent eau de cologne, to solve a series of troubles such as drowsiness during the flowering period, or uncontrollable fragrance wafting out, etc.


    Plants were quite troublesome. Ji XingLing thought so, while he was shooting a glance at the left rear side.


    He was also wondering if this variety would ever bloom.


    The last session of the morning class was Wang HongYu¡¯s Chinese literature class. Lin Jing, for the purposes of preventing the unfortunate thing as ¡°I had to read a copy together with Ji XingLing because there was no test paper or workbook¡± from happening again, so he had gone to the school gate ahead of time and copied a complete set of materials. Still, you never know what is going to happen in life. He brought it, but someone did not bring it.


    ¡°Teacher Wang.¡± Ji XingLing, who had rummaged around his school backpack, had raised his hand. ¡°My workbook seems to be at home.¡±


    Lin Jing felt an ominous premonition in his heart.


    Sure enough.


    A minute later, Ji XingLing dragged his chair over to sit in the sixth row, furthermore promptly pleaded innocence, ¡°This is Mr.Wang¡¯s mistake, and it has nothing to do with me.¡±


    ¡°Did you not do your homework at all?¡±


    ¡°I did¡ª¡±


    ¡°You did but didn¡¯t bring it.¡± Lin Jing opened the workbook, ¡°Listen to the lecture!¡±


    Ji XingLing felt so suffocated with chest distress that he couldn¡¯t draw out the following sentence for a long time.


    Where on earth did this grass actually grow? How come it was so fierce?


    It was a struggle to pull through until the after-class bell rang.


    The fast students had immediately rushed out to the cafeteria. Lin Jing tidied up the table, opened his schoolbag, and wanted to take out the books to use for the afternoon, but saw a curly-edged rotten pickles-like workbook.


    ¡°¡­¡±


    Ji XingLing was about to go back. Seeing Lin Jing, who was perfectly alright, then he suddenly froze, so Ji XingLing spouted out a word, ¡°Hey?¡±


    Lin Jing recalled last night¡¯s situation at 1301, when his sleepy eyes hazily sorted out things.


    ¡°Ji XingLing.¡± He raised his head, ¡°Are you free at noon? I¡¯ll treat you to lunch ba.¡±


    Young Master Ji was bewildered and uncertain, ¡°Why?¡±


    Lin Jing silently handed back the workbook.


    Ji XingLing: ?


    Until he sat on the second floor of Furong Garden, Ji XingLing was still in a wildly arrogant tone carrying out the full range multi-dimensional condemnation of this kind of immoral behavior of ¡°possessing classmates¡¯ workbooks illegally¡±. Lin Jing put the soft drink bottle in front of him with a ¡°bonk¡±, which was splashing a tiny fizz bubble within it, ¡°Shut up!¡±


    ¡°Hey, what kind of a bad apology attitude that you have here!¡±


    Lin Jing altered his expression, ¡°Otherwise, how about this. I will help to tutor you with math for free tonight.¡±


    ¡°¡­¡± Then you better continue to be bad ba, I think it was really OK.


    Lin Jing was actually embarrassed, so he had ordered many dishes, and the whole table was completely packed to pile up with dishes. He had intended to use the food to pay off his debts. The small TV in the cafeteria was broadcasting the interviews with the previous students who came up top scorer in the college entrance examination. One of the boys was more exaggerated. He came up to say that he was used to being the first-ranking since childhood. Once, when he was in his third grade of high school, his grades had dropped to second-ranking in the whole grade, and his mentality suddenly collapsed. He hid behind the sports field, while wailing bitterly for three hours; he felt very sorry for both his parents and teachers, and even more for the national training. Ji XingLing was really unable to comprehend Xueba¡¯s profound ideological attainment of learning to dominate, so he asked the person who sat opposite, ¡°Do all of you who are doing well in studies, will cry when getting the second-ranking?¡±


    ¡°I don¡¯t know.¡± Lin Jing took a mouthful sip of the soup, ¡°I never get second-ranking.¡±


    Unintentionally showing off did the best effect.


    Your Xing brother: conceded.


    There were also fish filets in hot chili oil and hot pepper chicken that had not yet been served, but both of them were already full. When asked that the kitchen had not yet started cooking the dishes, Lin Jing exchanged the refunded money of canceling the order for a few boxes of butter cookies, and prepared it to be distributed to their female classmates.


    While the auntie in the cafeteria was still packed into a bag, he went to the restroom again, leaving Ji XingLing alone to wait in front of the window. Several boys from Class 5 happened to be passing by, and when they saw Young Master Ji was carrying a pink dessert bag in his hand, they were shocked on the spot, ¡°Brother Xing, what do you have here?¡±


    ¡°Which girl ah?¡±


    ¡°Zhang LuWen from Class 2 ba.¡±


    ¡°Oh!¡±


    ¡°Oh, getou!¡± Ji XingLing kicked over and said impatiently, ¡°I can¡¯t tama eat it by myself?¡±


    ¡°Yes, you can. My Brother Xing is such a boy of innocent love, either don¡¯t eat at noon or eat strawberry cake when you want to eat.¡±


    Ji XingLing snorted, and I don¡¯t know if it was because he and Xueba had discussed the unfathomable topic of ¡°The first-ranking and second-ranking in the grade¡± when they were having a meal just now. His realm of thoughts had improved a bit, and he didn¡¯t really want to listen to these people¡¯s garrulous. Just in time, as Lin Jing came out of the restroom, he passed the cookie bag over, and then both of them returned to the classroom together, leaving only a group of bewildered people on the scene.


    ¡°Wokao, why does Brother Xing give cookies to a boy?¡±


    ¡°Who is that person ah?¡±


    ¡°Newly transferred, I heard that he is the Xueba of NingCheng Third Grade High School.¡±


    ¡°Can Brother Xing still have a good relationship with the Xueba ne?¡±


    The crowd fell into silence collectively.


    Question: What was more horrifying than ¡°Ji XingLing likes strawberry cake¡±?


    Answer: It was that Ji XingLing had a good relationship with Xueba.


    It¡¯s an illusion, too unpredictable.


    Lin Jing, who had just transferred, wasn¡¯t familiar with the people in the class. While the Young Master Ji was very cool and impatient, he didn¡¯t seem to be competent for the gentle work of ¡°distributing cookies¡±, so the little pink paper bag was finally handed over to Li MoYuan¡¯s hands, ¡°When Wei Xue comes back, you can let her share it with the other girl¡¯ classmates ba.¡±


    ¡°She was called by Teacher Wang to get the schedule.¡± Li MoYuan said, ¡°You will get the WuTong Building for the exam next week, but it¡¯s okay. It was only for this one time.¡±


    Lin Jing didn¡¯t understand, ¡°What¡¯s wrong with the WuTong Building?¡±


    ¡°It¡¯s the Z examination room ah. You just transferred to this school, so you don¡¯t have any grades yet. That¡¯s why you will be added to the bottom position.¡± Li MoYuan explained, ¡°The environment there is not that good. I heard that there are still people who hand in the test papers within ten minutes. When the last bell rings, I surmise that you will be the only one left in the classroom, so you must prepare yourself and remain to have a calm mind.¡±


    ¡°¡­¡± Lin Jing had recalled the matter of Haidilao¡¯s huge sum of 500 yuan of bribed money.


    Ji XingLing, who had cushioned an arm under his forehead, with his left hand clasped the edge of the table, was taking a nap with arrogant posture ¡ª the aisle on the left was blocked by his long legs, so his classmates who wanted to come and go, could only walk around. When Yu YiZhou came back from his lunch, he tugged Ji XingLing¡¯s hoodie hood forward. Young Master Ji was obviously startled by it, and his sleepy eyes hazily showed like he wanted to chew him out with a sentence. Are you tama insane?


    ¡°I just passed by Mr. Wang¡¯s office, and I glanced at the exam seat arrangement, by the way.¡± Yu YiZhou handed over a bottle of water, ¡°This may be the only time you can be ranked in front of Xueba. May I know your impression of this matter?¡±


    Upon hearing this, Lin Jing also turned his head instinctively.


    Ji XingLing was still feeling sleepy and didn¡¯t have the slightest bit of interest in the content of this conversation. After hoarsely cursing the word ¡°get lost¡±, then he changed directions of his sleeping posture and continued to sleep. He rested his right hand on the back of his head, as if to completely isolate himself from the noise around him; his slender fingers passed through his black hair, slightly bent, exposing the slim joints of a young man.


    Lin Jing retracted his gaze.


    Well, I was overthinking.


    The other party didn¡¯t seem to care about the exam at all.


    That night, Ji XingLing ended up coming to the door in person while holding three boxes of fruits in his hands.


    ¡°Can you help in tutoring me?¡±


    Then before Lin Jing refused, he forestalled by claiming the moral high ground, ¡°See it in the face of the Chinese literature workbook.¡±


    ¡°¡­¡±


    Lin Jing asked, ¡°Tutor what?¡±


    ¡°Teach me in general how to take the exam.¡± Ji XingLing raised his hand to ensure, ¡°I certainly won¡¯t make trouble, just half an hour, half an hour, okay ba?¡±


    Hu MeiMei, who stood at the entrance of 1301, with an apron fastened around her waist, had looked toward here, and brimmed with anticipation.


    Lin Jing changed his shoes, ¡°Okay.¡±


    Hu MeiMei was overjoyed, thinking that the first-ranking grade was good, and his moral character was noble. So she sent an endless array of batches of fruits, milk, brain supplement oral solution, peanut soup, and stewed bird¡¯s nest to her son¡¯s bedroom. It was an uninterrupted supply.


    Ji XingLing, who had reached the limit of patience, ¡°Mom!¡±


    ¡°Okay, okay, you all study well.¡± Hu MeiMei gently and quietly closed the door, ¡°If you need something, just call your mother.¡±


    Lin Jing poured out a piece of chewing gum, ¡°Why are you suddenly concerned about your exam results?¡±


    Ji XingLing felt discriminated against, ¡°Why can¡¯t I care about the test scores?¡±


    Lin Jing locked stares with him, ¡°What do you think ne?¡±


    Ji XingLing, ¡°¡­¡±


    Actually, this was how things were. In the evening, Hu MeiMei went out to do beauty treatments and met three-four parents in the same community. When everyone talked about their children, the poorest scores could be over 500, and there were even the honorable mothers whose child was among the top ten. Hu MeiMei, who listened to them, was so incomparably envious that she went home and launched a critical education for up to 20-minute to her son, and said that if the total score was not 400 points in the exam next week, then your pocket money will be gone.


    So Brother Xing, who knew when to be bent and when to be unbent1, had to be bent again.


    He urged, ¡°Don¡¯t ask so much, and just teach me how to learn.¡±


    ¡°No.¡± Lin Jing demanded, ¡°Reason.¡± In case you have any bad intentions ne, for example, if the exam was not good, then blame my teaching method was wrong.


    Ji XingLing was staring dumbfoundedly and tongue-tied, realizing for the first time the low-level status of Xuezha in the biology food chain. Why should I fabricate a reason if I want to learn? Can¡¯t I actively yearn to swim in the ocean of knowledge ma?!


    Tch, indeed it seemed a bit fake.


    He could only admit, ¡°Examination scores are linked to pocket money.¡±


    Lin Jing reluctantly accepted this excuse, and stretched out his hand, ¡°Let me see your last semester final test papers first.¡±


    Ji XingLing, ¡°¡­Why!¡±


    ¡°Look at your basics.¡± Lin Jing frowned, ¡°Hurry up, don¡¯t you just score 27 on the test ma, what¡¯s with the embarrassment.¡±


    ¡°Who said I am embarrassed!¡±


    ¡°Then are you still very proud with a test score of 27?¡±


    ¡°¡­¡±


    Not really.


    Ji XingLing gave him the test papers, and sat beside Lin Jing while, in sheer boredom, he was playing on his smartphone. Fortunately, Xueba didn¡¯t turn on the mocking mode for the full red ¡°¡Á¡± sign this time. After reading it, he beckoned him to sit over, ¡°Your Chinese literature is actually still passable. English and Maths are a bit crappy. Geography and History should be able to pass, if you make an effort for it.¡±


    Ji XingLing asked offhandedly, ¡°What about politics?¡±


    Lin Jing replied, ¡°Multiple-choice questions all depend on a wild guess, the fill in the blanks copy the choices, as for short-answers questions copy fill in the blanks, how do you plan to let me evaluate?¡±


    Way to be hoisted by your own petard, your Brother Xing.


    Lin Jing continued, ¡°I will help you cover one of these math tests first, and then find a few sample questions, so that you can learn the sample question by heart.¡±


    Ji XingLing¡¯s Adam¡¯s apple bobbed in his throat.


    Lin Jing wondered, ¡°What are you going to say?¡±


    ¡°No, I just want to ask why mathematics can be relying on memorizing.¡± Ji XingLing propped his head with one hand, ¡°but I just guessed that you will criticize me again, so it automatically silences.¡±


    Lin Jing didn¡¯t know whether he should laugh or cry, ¡°This is an emergency solution. I will teach you how to use it after you have memorized it.¡±


    After a while.


    ¡°Can I score four hundred after I memorized it ma?¡±


    ¡°Dunno.¡±


    ¡°Then why should I memorize it?!¡±


    ¡°Don¡¯t memorize it. Let¡¯s forget about it.¡±


    ¡­


    Fine, let¡¯s just memorize it then.

 CH 8

    The fighter aircraft in Xueba, the quarrel way amongst plants.


    With only a few days left before the exam, Lin Jing, who had thoroughly evaluated Ji XingLing¡¯s learning ability, did not give him too much complicated content.


    ¡°You find a new notebook, copy all the key points, and that¡¯s it for tonight.¡±


    Ji XingLing flipped through the book, as he forcibly spread the pressure, ¡°You said ah, I can keep my pocket money after memorizing these.¡±


    ¡°I never say that.¡± Lin Jing threw a pen to him, ¡°And do you think that if you threw the responsibility to me, then you will be able to score four hundred ma? If you have time to babble nonsense, it¡¯s much more practical to recite two vocabularies.¡±


    Agile response, articulate words with precision, each sentence stabbed through the other person¡¯s pain points straightforwardly, worth being called as combat aircraft in Xueba, a quarrel way among plants.


    Even summer bugs were also kept silent.


    The silence was Brother Xing tonight.


    He opened the notebook and genuinely began to copy the formula.


    ¡°I¡¯ll come over at half-past one to check.¡± Lin Jing stood up, ¡°If there are any that you don¡¯t understand, you can fold the corner of a page out first.¡±


    Ji XingLing sounded the word ¡°Mhm¡±, and it was very rare that he didn¡¯t raise an objection about the inhumane time of ¡°half-past one¡±.


    Firstly, it was because of pocket money, and secondly, it was because Your Brother Xing didn¡¯t want to court a sharp rebuff.


    Hu MeiMei was painting her nails in the living room, ¡°Huh, Xiao Jing is going to leave so soon?¡±


    ¡°I¡¯ll go back and do the math for a while.¡± Lin Jing said, ¡°I have just finished marking the key points of the exam, and Ji XingLing is copying it. I¡¯ll come back here again at half-past one.¡±


    1:30? Hu MeiMei was surprised, ¡°Oh¡­okay.¡±


    ¡°Then I¡¯m leaving first, and see you later, Auntie.¡± Lin Jing was polite.


    Hu MeiMei walked him to the door, while still feeling very unrealistic regarding the matter of ¡°my son was going so far as to be willing to study until 1:30¡±, so she stood at the bedroom door as she sneakily peeked inside, Ji XingLing was holding a pen in his hand, with sitting posture seemingly in need a bit spanking; also his distressed expression vividly revealed that he genuinely didn¡¯t know what the hell was he currently copying, but¡­ was really studying, not playing his smartphone, not sleeping, but actually studying.


    Your dear mother had shed tears then and there.


    At 1:25 am, Lin Jing, after taking a shower, showed up on time at the door with moistish short hair, and still had a light scent of green grass fragrance on his body.


    Ji XingLing was still quick in writing, ¡°Hey, I¡¯m telling you, I¡¯m really not lazing about, but this is too much. I have only copied two-thirds of it until now.¡±


    ¡°I know.¡± Lin Jing dragged over the chair, ¡°Give me the notebook first.¡±


    Ji XingLing stretched his wrists a bit. He had a sore waist and an aching back (aching all over), dizzy of the head with dim of sight, which were commonly known as after-effects of studying.


    Lin Jing diligently identified the paper, which was full of terrible handwriting, and had pointed to a line, ¡°What is this?¡±


    Ji XingLing glanced at it, and replied in an unceasing torrent, ¡°The x-axis and y-axis in the Cartesian coordinate system¡ª¡±


    ¡°Okay.¡± Lin Jing cut him short. Although his handwriting was indecipherable scrawls, it could still be read out after copying it; it was grudgingly considered qualified.


    ¡°Copy the rest tomorrow night ba.¡± He said, ¡°After you finished copying, come find me in 1302.¡±


    Maybe because of being abused too many times during the day, Young Master Ji had actually felt that the phrase ¡°copy the rest tomorrow¡± was very warm. He was brimming with strong friendships between classmates.


    Lin Jing returned the notebook, ¡°Then you go to bed early.¡±


    ¡°I ain¡¯t that sleepy.¡± Ji XingLing had drunk too much coffee and was presently filled with energy, ¡°Why don¡¯t you teach me about the coordinate calculation of plane vectors.¡±


    Lin Jing was yawning, ¡°I¡¯m sleepy.¡±


    Ji XingLing hooked his shoulder affectionately, ¡°What¡¯s so sleepy about you? You don¡¯t need to sleep. It just so happens that I¡¯m also going to study tonight. You know no time to lose ba? Come, come, and sit.¡±


    Lin Jing, who was dragged by him, had to backhand him with a punch.


    Young Master Ji, who threw precautions to the winds, ¡°Wokao!¡±


    ¡°If you are not sleepy, just copy the rest of the politics and bring it to school tomorrow morning.¡± Lin Jing put the book in front of him.


    ¡°Is there any such teacher who acts like you ma?¡± Ji XingLing, who covered his nose, had accused with glistening teardrops in his eyes, ¡°Do you know that administer corporal punishment to students will be punished by the Education Bureau ba?¡±


    ¡°I know that administer corporal punishment to students will be given a demerit by the Education Bureau.¡± Lin Jing locked eyes with him, ¡°Do you know the correct writing format of the complaint letter?¡±


    Ji XingLing, ¡°¡­¡±


    Xuezha had utterly lost any dignity.


    Subtract one more point.


    On this night, the light of 1301 had stayed on until three o¡¯clock in the early morning. Hu MeiMei, who couldn¡¯t restrain the joy in her heart, had followed by almost staying up all night. She got up at 5:30 am and personally made breakfast. She was so eager to go to the parent group in the community immediately and flaunted, again and again, to show off that my son studied till three o¡¯clock last night! But she then just remembered in time that there was an exam next week. What if, by chance, that even learning till 3 am can only result in the same test score as three hundred. Then it was better to test three hundred while playing a game, although the latter sounded just a bit rebellious, and it couldn¡¯t count as a good things ba, but at least it wasn¡¯t the same with the former, which made people question his IQ.


    After eating breakfast, Ji XingLing asked sincerely, ¡°Mom, are you in a good mood now?¡±


    ¡°What kind of trouble are you getting into again?¡± Hu MeiMei was vigilant.


    ¡°It¡¯s not a big deal.¡± Ji XingLing rubbed his nose. ¡°It was on the sports field two days ago. I hurled a basketball to Lin Jing. As a result, Mr. Wang scolded me for being jealous of good students. Mom, you know how annoying he is, right? He kept nagging, so I just admitted it without much thought.¡±


    Hu MeiMei, ¡°¡­¡±


    Ji XingLing said, ¡°Then he asked you to go to school on Friday afternoon.¡±


    Hu MeiMei took a deep breath, ¡°You¡ª¡±


    ¡°That¡¯s it! I¡¯m going to be late!¡± Ji XingLing grabbed his school backpack with lightning speed, ¡°Mom, don¡¯t forget ah, I¡¯m off, see you later.¡±


    The living room door was closed with a ¡°bang¡±, Hu MeiMei weakly propped her forehead, and began to reflect over why she had to retire from acting so early for the eight hundredth time. Why did I have to give birth to such a son?


    Finally came to the conclusion that it was all her husband¡¯s fault.


    Then she dialed the phone and angrily rebuked Ji MingLang for five minutes.


    ¡­


    During the major class, Yu YiZhou kicked the wooden bench in front of him, ¡°There is a girl in Class 2, whose smartphone is full with your pictures. It¡¯s widely rumored in all corners of the school campus.¡±


    ¡°Oh.¡± Ji XingLing was now sleepy and lethargic, not wanting to say even a word.


    Yu YiZhou wondered, ¡°Did you go out to become a thief last night?¡±


    ¡°Scram!¡± Ji XingLing snatched his Coke and drank half a bottle in one go, ¡°What do you know, I have been studying.¡±


    Yu YiZhou was spinning the pen in his hand, ¡°Yeah, right.¡±


    Then followed by the next second, Lin Jing dragged his chair and sat beside Ji XingLing.


    ¡°Where is your math workbook ne? Take it out.¡±


    Young Master Ji was dumbfounded, ¡°What are you doing?¡±


    ¡°Didn¡¯t you want to learn the coordinate calculation of plane vectors last night ma?¡± Lin Jing tore off two pages of rough paper, ¡°It happens that I have time now.¡±


    ¡°No ah!¡± Ji XingLing refused, ¡°Let¡¯s talk about it after we go home.¡±


    Lin Jing was inexplicable, ¡°Why? You are also doing nothing right now.¡±


    ¡°But I¡¯m so sleepy.¡± Ji XingLing insisted, ¡°I didn¡¯t go to bed until three o¡¯clock last night!¡±


    ¡°Okay then.¡± Lin Jing had yielded an inch, ¡°Then you sleep first, I¡¯ll write the formula and sample questions, then you can take a look at it yourself later.¡±


    Ji XingLing, ¡°¡­¡±


    This picturesque scene of two handsome guys huddled together was quite eye-catching, and so many girls had taken notice here. Ji XingLing forcibly took the pen from Lin Jing¡¯s hand, ¡°Anyway, when I said I can¡¯t do it mean I can¡¯t do it.¡±


    Lin Jing was staring at him for a while, and said in a complicated mood, ¡°I have only seen that there is someone, who is sleeping in the class then going home to study hard, and display ostentatiously as the grade first-ranking genius. But it never occurs to me that you, who are first-ranking from the bottom, would have the same idol baggage.¡±


    Ji XingLing, ¡°¡­¡±


    Yu YiZhou had precisely butted in by asking at this moment, ¡°Brother Xing, what are you guys whispering about? Let¡¯s share it.¡±


    ¡°None of your fucking business!¡±


    Ji XingLing pressed Lin Jing¡¯s shoulder with one hand, as he kept his voice as low as possible, ¡°If I am keeping my nose to the grindstone for a long time, ultimately still score three hundred in the exam, wouldn¡¯t it be a disgrace to put it that way?¡± So that¡¯s why, they were biological a mother and a son.


    Brother Xing was keen on face-saving.


    Lin Jing pondered about it for a while, and found it was indeed humiliating, then doing it at night would also be acceptable.


    The late-night small class in room 1301 would be open for business as usual.


    After Lin Jing finished a set of test papers, he turned his head to see that Ji XingLing was not lazing around. It was just that the whole page was full of crooked scrawls that truly sting the eyes, so he frowned, ¡°Can you write a little more neatly?¡±


    Young Master Ji forcefully explained, ¡°I call this cursive script (Chinese calligraphy style).¡±


    ¡°Then you may want to squander all your pocket money.¡±


    ¡°You are not allowed to curse me!¡±


    ¡°You already can¡¯t answer the question. At least you have to write the words neatly ba?¡± Lin Jing grabbed his notebook and ripped it off ¡°RIP RAP!¡±, ¡°Rewrite!¡±


    ¡°Wocao!¡±


    ¡°Write it twice!¡±


    ¡°¡­¡±


    Man¡¯s life was about being able to bend and bend and¡­ bend.


    Hu MeiMei, who leaned against the door entrance, overflowed with motherly love, as she watched the scene of two children studying under the lamplights for a while, then went back to her bedroom to call her husband. Thinking that, in fact, my son was quite good, and now I didn¡¯t want to send him over to next door GuHuo Niao, instead to continue to keep it ba.


    Mr. Ji huffed deeply, ¡°No problem.¡±


    ¡­


    The first examination was a Chinese literature test, which was held on Monday at 9:30 am.


    WuTong Building was a three stories tall brick-red building with a sense of classic vintage. Ji XingLing, who was familiar with doors and roads (things that one knows well), led Lin Jing up to the second floor. As soon as he arrived at the entrance of the Z examination room, he was greatly astonished by the sentence that he heard came from a buddy inside the room, ¡°What? Isn¡¯t it the English test this morning?¡±


    The whole room burst into a roar of laughter that had transmitted from the classroom, and to be mingled with ridicules as ¡°Mr. Yue, did you tama drink again last night¡± and ¡°Is there a difference between English and Chinese to you ma¡±, the atmosphere was jubilant. There was not a shred of tension in the exam. Actually, it was more in contrast with the New Year¡¯s Day party.


    ¡°Hey, let me tell you that there is a top student in our examination room this time.¡±


    ¡°The one who just transferred ba, I heard about it too.¡±


    ¡°I said how Brother Xing invited him to have a meal. It turns out to be to bribe the Xueba, awesome!¡±


    ¡°You¡¯re all so damn noisy!¡± Ji XingLing leisurely strolled into the classroom with one hand in his pocket, then raised his chin at Lin Jing, ¡°There, your place.¡±


    In the last row of the last column, the perfect spot of a little nook, and the rest of the students were lamenting, why the living body answer key was so far away from us. Only the boy on the right-hand side had winked at him, ¡°Hey, take care of me later.¡±


    Lin Jing threw the pencil case on the table, ¡°Did you not review it ma?¡±


    ¡°I reviewed it .¡± The other party grinned mischievously, ¡°But the subject that I reviewed became English. When you helped Brother Xing, you picked me up, too.¡±


    Lin Jing glanced at Ji XingLing on the podium. He really couldn¡¯t figure out how Ji XingLing¡¯s test scores were unable to pass, over someone as repulsive as him. Judging from the table number, the other person was still ranked tenth from the bottom. Compared to the lowest-ranking one, the other person¡¯s score results should be considered as well ahead in score points.


    Seeing that Lin Jing hadn¡¯t picked up his cue, Yue Sheng simply moved his chair and walked over. Just as he planned to continue befriending him for benefits, the two invigilators teachers had already entered the classroom with their test paper packages.


    ¡°Stop talking, put everything off the table, and put it on the podium. We are taking the exam now.¡±

 CH 9

    Dragons and Snakes Follow the Writing Brush, Your Brother Xing.


    There was no air conditioner in the old classroom, only the electric fan on the ceiling, which was whirling by making a ¡°buzzing¡± sound, while the air movement from the fan was blowing the test paper upside down.


    In the three major courses other than English and Mathematics, Chinese literature was already regarded as Ji XingLing¡¯s better subject. When he was lucky, he could even pass for a passing score. This time, he was caught by Xueba to grasp and memorize the main points of writing composition several times, by knowingly that ¡°While sticking closely to the topic simultaneously, it would be best to integrate it with the current events, and then demonstrate viewpoints from both personal and social aspects¡± was commonly used as stealing points tricks. So he was very confident that he could secure his pocket money, after all.


    At the end of summer, the morning sun had remained unchanged on offending the eyes and was as dazzling as ever. Lin Jing pulled the curtain to block out some of the scorching light.


    Half an hour after the exam started, one of the invigilators had gone out to answer the phone. There was a commotion in the classroom suddenly, and the other invigilator had slapped the podium displeasedly, ¡°Don¡¯t look around, just answer your own papers!¡±


    Lin Jing turned the test paper over to the second page and began to read the next big reading topic. Yue Sheng opportunistically turned sideways and called him with a light ¡°psst¡±, motioning the other party to shift the test paper to the right.


    The invigilator teacher was walking to the other side and overlooked this side for the time being.


    ¡°Choose.¡± Yue Sheng urged again. He didn¡¯t expect to copy five hundred, but more test points were always good to go back and explain with parents.


    To prevent catching a cold from the blowing wind of the electric fan, Lin Jing sat very close to the left, which was almost attached to the wall. Yue Sheng, who had called out to him several times, saw that Lin Jing didn¡¯t respond to his calling, and wondered if Lin Jing really didn¡¯t hear it, so he simply took out half of the eraser from the pencil case and threw it over.


    The tiny eraser, which had drawn a pitch arc in the air, first rolled over Lin Jing¡¯s test paper, and then bounced forth, hitting Ji XingLing¡¯s back accurately.


    Lin Jing frowned slightly, when he just about to speak, the Young Master Ji in front had already moved his chair heavily, and turned around impatiently as he scolded Yue Sheng, ¡°Can¡¯t you tama do and answer it by yourself?¡±


    ¡°¡­¡±


    Even in the relatively noisy Z examination room, Ji XingLing¡¯s sentence could be said to be rumbling as it jolted people in the class. Even the invigilator teacher was startled and strode over quickly to reprimand, ¡°What¡¯s the matter!¡±


    Lin Jing glanced to the right, ¡°It¡¯s nothing. Someone threw an eraser on my table and hit Ji XingLing.¡±


    The invigilator teacher was a senior assistant in the third year of high school. She glanced at Lin Jing¡¯s neat examination papers, and then remembered that the other party should be the top student who had transferred from Ning Third High School, so she whispered, ¡°Move the table by yourself and change your seat next to the podium ba.¡±


    Several people around had heard what was said, and snickered lowly. They didn¡¯t know whether to laugh at Yue Sheng, who was making a fool of himself in trying to be clever (outsmarting himself), or to laugh at Xueba, who was moved to the Glorious Throne. Lin Jing set his desk and raised his hand, ¡°Teacher, can you let Ji XingLing change his seat, too? I see that the right side of the podium is still empty.¡±


    This time, the following was not a muffled laugh, but the whole room was rocking with laughter. Ji XingLing himself was also dumbstruck. No, I just helped you diss back people. What kind of plant behavior was this that would bite the hand that fed him?


    ¡°What¡¯s all the fuss!¡± The invigilator teacher who answered the phone before pushed the door and entered. He had a pretty fierce appearance, and his voice could shake the whole class so silent as to be able to hear a pin drop.


    ¡°The curtain can¡¯t be pulled, and the sun will be bigger later.¡± Lin Jing explained patiently, ¡°It¡¯s still quite sunny.¡±


    The teacher walked over and tried it, and found that the curtain slide rail was indeed jammed halfway, and the sun, which had slipped in through the gap, had just encased itself to trap the rear two rows.


    ¡°Then this student, you change your seat too, faster, and don¡¯t disturb other people¡¯s examination.¡±


    Ji XingLing: To be quite honest, I can really bask under the sunlight for a while.


    Two people, one on the left and the other on the right, occupied both sides of the podium perfectly. For the first time in his life, Young Master Ji sat in such a silly position, and when he saw that the few bastards below were still schadenfreude, with their shoulders were shaking with mirth, and his heart suddenly filled with indignation even more. He darted a look to the right, but saw that Lin Jing was also looking at him coldly, inside his eyes were fully described as ¡°What are you looking around for, have you finished writing your test papers ma, you still want your pocket money, don¡¯t you?¡±


    ¡°¡­¡±


    Your Brother Xing made vigorous and graceful strokes of calligraphy style1.


    The Z examination room had lived up to its ¡°prestige¡±. The examination room had already been emptied by two-thirds, when the exam only began for just over half an hour. Several boys wanted to wait for Ji XingLing to play together, but no one came out for a long time. They stood at the door and peeked in. What they saw was that the people on the podium were still writing hard, even pinched the rollerball pen halfway, thinking long and hard by considering all angles for a while.


    Hence they were collectively petrified.


    Brother Xing was possessed by Xueba, the ninth wonder of the world.


    Ji XingLing handed in the paper five minutes ahead of schedule. It was not to maintain the public persona of ¡°Xuezha would never sit until the last second¡±, but he really wanted to go to the restroom. When the bell rang, Lin Jing had walked out of the classroom while stretching his wrist, and he saw Ji XingLing was leaning against the railing, playing with his smartphone with his head bowed down.


    ¡°Here.¡± Lin Jing handed him over the manuscript answer sheet in his hand.


    ¡°What?¡± Ji XingLing was inexplicable.


    ¡°The answer to the Chinese literature exam.¡± Lin Jing looked at him, ¡°Are you not going to check it out ma?¡±


    Ji XingLing, ¡°¡­¡±


    It turned out that you good students still had this stage after the exam.


    Lin Jing went on to ask, ¡°You should be familiar with the surroundings of this area ba, are there any restaurants that have private rooms?¡±


    Ji XingLing picked up his school backpack that was on the ground, ¡°There are a lot of private rooms, don¡¯t you want to eat at the cafeteria?¡±


    ¡°The exams in the afternoon didn¡¯t start until three o¡¯clock, and it¡¯s still early.¡± Lin Jing reminded, ¡°Find a place where no one disturbs you. You can still study secretly for another two hours.¡±


    Ji XingLing was struck speechless.


    There was some matter that you were well aware of, and that would suffice, needlessly to put into words, really.


    There was no restriction for taking a lunch break out of school during the exam. Armed with an odd as well as the somewhat unfathomable heart-warming motive of ¡°finding a quiet place to study secretly¡±, the two had finally chosen a Japanese cuisine restaurant, which was considered to be a relatively upscale existence in this area, and the environment was quiet. Ji XingLing was familiar with the road and doors. When he came up, he ordered the live crab and live eel, tempura, foie gras, beef, sea urchin rice, and also two bottles of ice-cold soft drinks.


    Lin Jing said, ¡°No wonder you stay up late to study to protect your pocket money.¡±


    ¡°I¡¯m here to please you.¡± Ji XingLing protested as he took out the answer sheet, and read it carefully. ¡°Don¡¯t say it. I seem to have done an excellent job in the exam.¡±


    Lin Jing twisted open the soft drink, and the bottleneck made a ¡°pop¡± sound, ¡°I know, otherwise, why do you think I asked the teacher to change seats?¡±


    Ji XingLing incomprehensibly, ¡°What¡¯s about changing seats? Isn¡¯t it because it¡¯s too sunny ma? Speaking of this, sitting on the podium is really silly. It¡¯s better to be sunbathing ne. As soon as you look up, you can see that bastard Qi Peng was sleeping, and there are several others, who had furtively cheated. Their expressions were exceptionally stunning. They really do think the teacher is blind, don¡¯t they?¡±


    Lin Jing swallowed back the words on the tip of his tongue, and finally broke off the crab leg by himself, ¡°Forget it, just eat your meal.¡±


    ¡°No, looking at your desperate look at my IQ, there must be a story.¡± Ji XingLing pressed his hand, ¡°Spit it out.¡±


    ¡°You just read that big question two days ago, and you have memorized similar model essays.¡± Lin Jing said, ¡°I¡¯m afraid you did too well in the test, that it will make others actually think that you were cheating on a small cheat note.¡±


    Moreover, according to the noise of ¡°cafeteria bribery of Xueba¡± before the exam, apparently in their view, Your Brother Xing was not an upright young man with integrity nor righteousness, so it would be better to bring over the person to the podium directly, as to isolated and cut him off from help, while being under the supervision of the teacher and the whole class in answered the question.


    Ji XingLing, who was ruminating over a bit of what he said, had digressed from the essential points, ¡°Can I still do too well in such this time?¡±


    ¡°As long as both your Mathematics and English are no longer so horrible, the probability of a total score of four hundred is not without it.¡± Lin Jing poured soy sauce, ¡°Alright, finish the meal within half an hour, and then memorize the sample questions again one more time.¡±


    Probably because of this morning¡¯s Chinese literature, that had slightly triggered his arrogant self-confidence. Ji XingLing, who was giving him an inch and he would take a mile, had asked, ¡°Then do you think that I might be able to score more than five hundred points?¡±


    Lin Jing, ¡°¡­¡±


    ¡°Hey, hey, I¡¯ll just say it casually!¡± Before the insult was dropped, Ji XingLing had rushed to issue a warning, ¡°I just finished one subject of examination, I still need encouragement.¡±


    ¡°I think you are very likely to be up to five hundred this time.¡± Lin Jing said.


    Ji XingLing stared at him for a moment, ¡°No, you are too apparent in your hypocritical show of friendship, right? Can you be a little more sincere?¡±


    ¡°What counts as sincerity? Is it possible that I have to make poems with tears filling my eyes to sing the praises of your yearning for five hundred points?¡±


    ¡°¡­¡±


    The waitress came in just in time to serve sea urchin rice. Seeing that there were two tall and handsome boys in the private room, both dressed in ShanHai uniforms, the waitress had asked while serving the food, ¡°You are taking an exam today ba, how did you fare in the exam?¡±


    Lin Jing was smiling, ¡°It¡¯s quite okay.¡±


    After her reminder, Ji XingLing just remembered that he didn¡¯t seem to ask Lin Jing whether he was doing well in the exam or not, but then thought better of it. Xueba still got 600 points even if he flunked an examination. With different levels, Brother Xing, who was still accumulating experience in Novice Village, decided not to humiliate himself.


    After the meal, the waitress removed the dishes, then replaced them with a pot of bitter and astringent tea, which was said to be refreshing and invigorate the brain.


    Lin Jing didn¡¯t like tea very much, so he newly ordered a bottle of soft drink. There was a smooth, round bead stuck in the bottleneck of his soft drink bottle, which was his favorite toy when he was in his childhood years. Just when Ji XingLing was about to get drowsy due to memorizing some formulas and sample questions, he heard a crisp sound of ¡°ding¡± from the other side. Then he lifted his head, and saw Lin Jing had finished his drink and scrutinized how to tweak the glass bead out.


    ¡°¡­¡±


    Lin Jing asked, ¡°What are you looking at?¡±


    ¡°I didn¡¯t see anything.¡± Ji XingLing was quick-witted, ¡°You go on.¡±


    ¡°Memorize your notes well.¡±


    ¡°I¡¯m memorizing it ah, but I don¡¯t understand this one question.¡±


    Lin Jing put his soft drink bottle aside and motioned for him to bring in the question.


    ¡°Such as this variable, you need to find x-value first, then y-value.¡±


    ¡°Why do we need to find the x-value first, but not the y-value?¡±


    ¡°Because x is daddy.¡±


    ¡°Got it.¡±


    The method that Little Teacher Lin gave lessons was roughly simple and easily understood.


    Outside the window, the scorching sun was obscured by the dense thicket shade of trees, leaving only the coolness and tranquillity in the afternoon.


    The gentle breeze which slipped between the window gap, had carried along with a very faintly light floral fragrance.


    When returning to school, Ji XingLing suddenly said, ¡°Stretch your hand out.¡±


    Lin Jing dubiously, ¡°What are you going to do again?¡±


    ¡°Stretch your hand out. Hurry up.¡±


    ¡°Don¡¯t wanna.¡±


    ¡°Stretch it.¡±


    ¡°Walk faster!¡±


    ¡°Ugh, why are you like this? Wait for me.¡± Ji XingLing, who caught up with him in two steps, was unfurling his palms in front of him.


    There was a rounded glass bead that refracted light under the sunlight.


    ¡°Here, the tuition fee.¡±


    Lin Jing, ¡°¡­¡±


    Childish.


    In the sports field, some people were playing ball, and some were chatting and laughing.


    Even the sunlight had a touch of a sixteen-year-old feeling.

 CH 10

    He has a demonic black fire under his eyes.


    Ge Hao and Yu YiZhou were also walking to the examination room. Both of their scores were slightly better than Ji XingLing¡¯s. Even though their ranks were still inferior and in the below middle-level positions, it wasn¡¯t as bad as needing to be banished to the WuTong Building.


    ¡°Isn¡¯t that Yue Sheng ma?¡± Ge Hao saw a person from some distance away. ¡°I heard that when he was taking the Chinese literature test in the morning, he almost fought with Brother Xing, as it was because of throwing things, which ended up hitting Brother Xing.¡±


    Yu YiZhou unscrewed the bottle of water, ¡°What, you didn¡¯t call to ask?¡±


    ¡°It turned off, but I sent a WeChat message to Brother Lin, and he replied with a sentence that said, it¡¯s alright.¡± Ge Hao said, ¡°They didn¡¯t eat in the cafeteria at noon, and both of them have been gone outside the school.¡±


    Yue Sheng was also a perennial incorrigible lowest-ranking person in the exam. Whether internally or externally, he developed a developmental anomaly into a powerful and savage person. Fighting, smoking, and blackmailing the junior grade students, with the girlfriends changed one after another, habitually spendthrift, popular in the outside school, also act like a tyranny overlord and do whatever he wishes in ShanHai ¡ª well, as long as he hadn¡¯t provoked trouble with Ji XingLing and Yu YiZhou, the two noble young master. They were considered on both sides as the well-water would not intrude upon the river water1.


    Yu YiZhou had no slightest bit of interest in this person, ¡°C¡¯mon. Let¡¯s go back to the classroom.¡±


    ¡­


    While Ji XingLing went to the restroom, Lin Jing was leaning against the horizontal bar, and intermittently flipped through the practice questions on his smartphone. Perhaps it was thanks to stifling hot, sticky days that always made him not only feel a bit drowsy, but also quite listless.


    A black cat appeared quietly unnoticed, coiled around to circled him twice, while making a coquettish ¡°miaow¡± sound, and moved closer to rub its head.


    Lin Jing had quite liked small animals, but being a germaphobe didn¡¯t allow him to stroke them directly, so he just bent down over and teased for a moment.


    ¡°Meow.¡± The furry tail swept across the sleeves, and then willingly revealed his belly.


    Lin Jing turned on the camera and was ready to take a picture of it, but the black cat seemed to be frightened. It suddenly landed on four paws and plunged into the shrubbery like a sharp arrow being shot out.


    ¡°What are you doing?¡± Ji XingLing asked.


    ¡°There was a stray cat just now. It was quite playful and cute.¡± Lin Jing clapped his hands and stood up. Probably due to the excessive movement and the briefly insufficient blood flow to the brain, which made him squat down again, ¡°Pull me up.¡±


    Ji XingLing was grabbing his sleeve, but when he saw a few black furs on it, he frowned, ¡°What stray cat, is it black?¡±


    ¡°How do you know?¡± Lin Jing sniffed, ¡°Oh, no! I seem to have really caught a cold because of the stupid fan.¡±


    ¡°You go back to the exam room first ba.¡± Ji XingLing released his hand, ¡°I¡¯ll go to Mr. Wang¡¯s office. He has Huoxiangshui (Chinese medicine).¡±


    Lin Jing nodded, the feeling of dizziness to boarding a pirate ship by comparison.


    The pre-exam bell had rung, and the sports field had become deserted. Deep in the shade of the forest, a black cat was lazily lounging in sunbeams. It used its forepaws to fiddle with the reward that it had just received from Qiongqi2, while making a comfortable ¡°purr¡± sound from its throat. Seeing that it was about to fall asleep at any moment, yet, its ears were still keenly aware of the deeply low and dull sound ¡ª it was very far away at first. But the pressure instantly arrived nearby, just like those sudden claps of thunders that blast in the sky in the summer nightfall.


    The black cat lost its sleepiness, and its snow-white demon¡¯s pupils tightened, ¡°Ouch!¡±


    ¡ª¡ªJinhua Cat3, after the cat had been kept domestically in the house for three years, every midnight, the cat would jump onto the roof of the house, then squatted there while opening its mouth towards the moon. So the cat could absorb the essence of the moon. Day after day, and over time, the cat could become a monster.


    The fiercely black mist had engulfed the cat demon violently and drove over it all the way to the outside of the school with a roar.


    The gatekeeper uncle was an enlightened beast who was in his old age, and his movements were relatively slow to act. He just looked up and saw the thunder cloud coming. He still hadn¡¯t had the time to carry out an interception against it, and his hair in his crown of the head had been singed, while he remained stupefied.


    ¡­


    The students nowadays ah.


    And why did you use the original body for skiving off? It was a little too grand, wasn¡¯t it? Was it because either the wall was not easy to climb over or the lock on the back door was not easy to pick?


    In the back alley, the chubby grocery store owner was counting the cash bill, when the door suddenly slammed open.


    The wooden wind chime, which couldn¡¯t withstand the brutal test, fell to the ground with its body shattered to pieces, and died the most horrible death.


    The fat boss, who was in an unpleasant mood in the first place because of losing money, suddenly became even more simmering with rage, ¡°I say you¡ª¡±


    Before he finished speaking, a Jinhua Cat had heavily hit the counter again.


    CRASHED!


    Even the glass was smashed into pieces now.


    The fat boss¡¯s voice trembled, ¡°¡­you..you..you.¡±


    ¡°I want a dispel antidote.¡± Ji XingLing threw him a glittering golden monster coin, ¡°Quick!¡±


    The fat boss, who had turned his losses into profits, had his attitude changed 180 degrees, and changed his tune as he cordially expressed, ¡°No problem.¡±


    He was a medicinal beast.


    ¡ª¡ª During the Shennong period, The people of Bai paid tribute to a kind of divine beast called the medicinal beast. People who were sick with diseases, told the medicinal beast in the unidentified language that was taught and passed on by the people of Bai, and the words were unknown. After speaking, the medicinal beasts went and returned from the wild with some particular herbal medicine. By pounding the herbs into juice and taking it, the diseases could be fully cured. Later, after the Yellow Emperor called the wind, he recorded which herbs corresponded to the pharmacy. Over time, they treated the diseases according to the pharmacy, and all was highly efficacious. There were rumors in ancient times that the Yellow Emperor had tasted all kinds of herbs, but it was not so. Therefore, Yu Qing remarked, ¡°The Huangdi (Yellow Emperor) worships the medicinal beast as his teacher and knows the art of medicine.¡±


    Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon4, in a small slummy alley.


    The Jinhua Cat trembled, hoarsely and exhaustedly, shouting out a confession by naming his accomplice, ¡°¡­It was Yue..Yue..Yue Sheng that Qiongqi asked me to do it!¡±


    ¡°Are you saying that you are the old adult monster who apparently cast a charm to confuse high school students? This is a violation of ¡®The Penalty Law of Peace and Order in Monster¡¯, don¡¯t you know it?¡± The fat boss knocked on its stiff spine, ¡°Better honestly contribute your life so that you can bear in mind this lesson ba.¡±


    ¡°OUCH!¡±


    ¡­


    The math exam had already begun.


    Lin Jing was frowning slightly, when he looked at the empty seat on the right side of the podium. The invigilator teacher noticed his discomfort and asked in a low voice, ¡°Student, are you not feeling well?¡±


    ¡°I have got a cold.¡± Lin Jing rubbed his temples, and with a solid nasal voice, said, ¡°It¡¯s okay.¡±


    The teacher found him a disposable paper cup and gave him a cup of warm water.


    Yue Sheng propped his head with one hand, and whistled with a touch of epicaricacy, which predictably caused him to be scolded loudly, ¡°Answer the question well!¡±


    Lin Jing wasn¡¯t in the mood to respond to the opponent¡¯s provocation, and his current state was somewhat a bit terrible.


    It was partly because of ill-health, whereas the other part was caused by Ji XingLing¡¯s absence from the exam. Logically speaking, it takes less than five minutes from Wang HongYu¡¯s office to WuTong Building, and it was unlikely to go so far as to not come back till now.


    He found it hard to concentrate all along, and came to a halt in the second multiple-choice question. Lin Jing clenched the pen tightly, trying to shake off his lethargy and make himself soberer, but the double image in front of him had worsened, even followed by his stomach churning up and down.


    The sweat trickled down from his forehead, and when he finally couldn¡¯t hold on anymore, and decided to give up the exam to go to the hospital, Ji XingLing, who was out of breath, finally appeared in the classroom entrance, ¡°Report!¡±


    ¡°How do you come now? If it¡¯s the university entrance examination, you won¡¯t be able to enter the classroom anymore.¡± The invigilator teacher reproved displeasedly, ¡°Go and answer the examination paper quickly ba.¡±


    ¡°Thank you, Teacher.¡± When Ji XingLing returned to his seat, he conveniently put the school infirmary paper bag on Lin Jing¡¯s desk, and whispered, ¡°Eat it now.¡±


    It may be that he was worried that the patient was too dizzy to hear. Before entering the classroom, he deliberately bolded the three scribbled block letters on the paper bag¡ª eat it now, as well as a series of exclamation marks for emphasis.


    The white pill was without its packaging. However, the school infirmary often prescribed this kind of large bottle for repackaging. Lin Jing didn¡¯t think too much about it, so he swallowed one pill with water.


    Ji XingLing heaved a sigh of relief, then pulled his chair away and sat down.


    In the last row, Yue Sheng looked at the stupid cold medicine that was obviously not useful, and sniggered the ¡°pfft¡± sound again. He grabbed the pen in a good mood and intended to fool around with a few multiple-choice questions then leave. Yet, his sight accidentally bumped into Ji XingLing¡¯s gaze¡ª in the young man¡¯s long and narrow eyes, the cold black was surging with demon fury, and filled with warnings and threats.


    Qilin¡¯s nature of deterrent value against evil beasts was innate, which made Yue Sheng panicked, and the pen in his hand fell onto the ground.


    It never crossed his mind to think that the other party was actually not even a human being.


    ¡­


    Because he was twenty minutes late for the exam, this time, Young Master Ji finally didn¡¯t turn in the paper ahead of time, and he had earnestly sat down to the last second.


    The teachers sealed the brown kraft paper bag and went back to the office together with it, while leaving only two people in the classroom.


    ¡°How do you feel?¡± Ji XingLing walked over to him.


    ¡°It¡¯s much better after taking medicine.¡± Lin Jing rubbed his face. ¡°Didn¡¯t you say you were going to Mr. Wang¡¯s office ma? Why did you go to the school infirmary?¡±


    ¡°There was no one in Mr. Wang¡¯s office.¡± Ji XingLing remarks nonchalantly, ¡°C¡¯mon, let¡¯s go home.¡±


    ¡°Thank you for today.¡± Lin Jing felt a little sorry for him. ¡°If you didn¡¯t get 400 because of mathematics, I could lend pocket money to you; I, too, will explain it to aunty.¡±


    ¡°Hey, hey, don¡¯t you jinxed me.¡± Ji XingLing promptly refused. ¡°I think I did quite well in the exam. Really, I figured out even the last big question. The answer is 36, right?¡±


    Lin Jing restrained the words which sprang to his lips. The last question was to find the range of values of t. How did you come up with the unrelated answer of 36?


    Out of consideration for the self-confidence of the Xuezha students, Little Teacher Lin didn¡¯t say anything at all, ¡°Maybe, I am actually not sure either. Do you drink soft drinks? I will treat you. Also, I will drop in at the school infirmary to get some medicine, by the way.¡±


    ¡°¡­¡±


    Considering that there will be an exam tomorrow, Ji XingLing had no intention to let the plants know about the cat demon¡¯s matter, lest it affected his mood. So he forcibly grasped the other party¡¯s shoulders, and walked outside the classroom with him, as his mouth plausibly and volubly started educating him, ¡°What kind of medicine should you take when you already get better? Don¡¯t you know that you can¡¯t take too much medicine? Move, move, move, the driver has been waiting outside for a long time. Let¡¯s go home!¡±


    Lin Jing, who stood unsteadily, was staggeringly dragged away by him, ¡°How do you know that I am fully healed?¡±


    ¡°Because the school doctor who cheated neither old nor young5, had guaranteed ah, that it was an instant effect, and it will cure dizziness, headache, and indigestion.¡±


    ¡°¡­Why does this school doctor speak in the same style as a quack doctor?¡±


    ¡°No matter what the other people¡¯s speaking style, the doctor is only responsible for treating the illnesses .¡±


    ¡°Ji XingLing, Ji XingLing, why are you running around? My schoolbag is still in the classroom!¡±


    ¡°¡­¡±


    The service of Brother Xing picking up schoolbags was swiftly in action, conveniently quick, and free of charge.


    This evening, Lin Jing took another cold medicine and fell asleep very early. Next door, room 1301, Ji XingLing was calling the fat boss of the grocery store owner, ¡°How is that Jinhua Cat?¡±


    ¡°What else can I do? I handed it over to the monster vigilante squad bei. I heard that Qiongqi¡¯s parents also received a call from the department of public security. Tsk tsk, evidently the trouble stirred by the little devil this time is not small.¡±


    ¡°One more thing.¡± Ji XingLing was laid on the massage chair, with one foot stepping on the edge of the table, ¡°Do you have a talisman pouch for repelling evil?¡±


    ¡°Well, it¡¯s not impossible to find it, if you want it.¡± The fat boss became vigorously, ¡°but this thing isn¡¯t cheap.¡±


    Evil-shielding blessing pouch was referring to that each of guardian divine beasts individually contributes some spirit tools, consisted such as rhinoceros horns la, dragon pearls la, reflame burning fire la, and then unified all these things to be compressed into small pockets made of tulle silk, and to be worn them as amulets, that could subdue eighty percent of the evil beasts, and which were very suitable for plants that do not have the ability to defend themselves against evil.


    The fat boss jabbered on in unsparing detail, ¡°You can get a 20% discount with your student ID, that is, 240 monster coins, with a 50% deposit, and it is non-refundable.¡±


    It may be rated as the sky-high price among exorbitant prices.


    But the standard fee rate of the evil-shielding blessing pouch was really just that expensive, because it was not a cushy job to knock on the door of the auspicious beasts from house to house. The boss could offer a 20% off already been regarded as giving due consideration to the underage monster. He was very generous and had a clear conscience.


    Young Master Ji was counting the remaining of his lucky money, in which only one hundred and forty monster coins were left.


    ¡°Mom.¡± He stood at the door of the main bedroom, ¡°How can you give me a hundred monster coins?¡±


    Hu MeiMei, who had applied a facial mask, replied, ¡°If you can score 500 points in the exam, I will give you 500.¡±


    Ji XingLing¡¯s eyes lit up, ¡°Really?!¡±


    ¡°Really.¡± Hu MeiMei turned around, ¡°Let¡¯s talk about it first. What sort of trouble have you caused again this time?¡±


    ¡°I didn¡¯t get into trouble.¡± Ji XingLing explained, ¡°I wanted to buy a talisman pouch to ward off evil spirits for Lin Jing. Today, Jinhua Cat and Qiongqi are coming looking for trouble with him at school.¡±


    Hu MeiMei frowned upon hearing this, ¡°Is he alright?¡±


    ¡°It¡¯s okay. The medicinal beast in the back alley has already notified the monster vigilante squad.¡± Ji XingLing said, ¡°I heard that Qiongqi¡¯s parents have also been summoned to the office of public security.¡±


    Hu MeiMei immediately felt that her son was apparently truly not that bad, and served as a foil to the hapless children of other families. Although she, as a parent, was often summoned to the school by teachers, she herself at least had not been humiliated to enter the public security office.


    So she graciously wrote out a cheque, and paid in advance one-fifth of the five-hundredth reward.


    And Young Master Ji also smoothly evolved from the rich second generation to miserable minors that weighed down with huge debts overnight.


    Hu MeiMei asked while brimming over with motherly love, ¡°When can you give your mother a 500-point test?¡±


    Brother Xing proposed a new idea for solving the problem, ¡°I can also save five years of lunar New Year¡¯s lucky money and pay it off all at once.¡±


    Hu MeiMei, ¡°¡­¡±


    You¡¯d better go back to your bedroom quickly ba.

 CH 11

    Why are you going through the test paper now? What the hell are you listening to?


    The heavy rainfall had always occurred at the end of the autumnal equinox in JinCheng, and followed by the coldness and chilliness in the air increased a bit during the early morning. Even people like Ji XingLing, who hardly ever put on his school uniforms nicely, would be well-behaved by pulling the zipper to the neckline. When Lin Jing came out from 1302 with an umbrella, the young master was leaning against the elevator entrance, with a carton of milk dangling from his mouth, as he casually scrolled the news at ShanHai Yi Wen (strange news) app of the international version. After staying up late for several days doing some cramming for an English exam, he found that the result was still a foregone conclusion, as he was completely unable to read it.


    Most of the names of foreign monsters were mainly unfamiliar. Either the cow¡¯s stomach beast with fire in its eyes1, Butatsch-ah-ilgs, or Kojiki¡¯s Yamata no Orochi, the eight-forked head and tail giant serpent2. All was so long that it nearly overflowed the screen for as far as the eye could see. After such a comparison, Brother Xing had decided to go back and recite the words for the college entrance examination, such as the kind and simple word as ¡®abnormal¡¯.


    ¡°Morning.¡± Lin Jing greeted.


    ¡°How is your dizziness? Are you already feeling okay?¡± Ji XingLing threw the milk package into the trash can and pressed the down button of the elevator casually. ¡°My driver isn¡¯t here today, so I¡¯m going to take the school bus with you.¡±


    Lin Jing sounded ¡°Mhm,¡± and then asked, ¡°Are you free after the exam? I invite you to dinner.¡±


    ¡°Not tonight. I have to go to Wan He.¡± Ji XingLing said. Last time, because Ge Hao suddenly bloomed, the matter of pick-up the goods was delayed. The boss had called three-four times to remind him.


    ¡°Is it Wanhe Building ma?¡± Lin Jing felt that the name was somewhat familiar to him. ¡°Is there a trendy store that sells Air Jordan? It should be quite famous.¡±


    ¡°Are you talking about Brother Xu¡¯s legend shop?¡± Ji XingLing was taken by surprise, ¡°I was going to find him tonight. Did you order some stuff too?¡±


    ¡°No, there is a friend who has his birthday coming soon, and I want to pick a gift for him.¡± Lin Jing said, ¡°Last time, I saw him post this store on WeChat Moments, and it seems there¡¯s a pair of sneakers that he likes very much.¡±


    Both the Lin family¡¯s parents were doctors, and they were too busy to get out of their work, so the JinCheng¡¯s house and the housekeeping aunt were all entrusted to friends for help. This time I just used Liu Xu to pay back some favors by celebrating his birthday.


    ¡°Then you can come with me.¡± Ji XingLing said, ¡°Me and Brother Xu are old acquaintances. Actually, there is also a bullfrog shop that does a good job. Do you eat ma?¡±


    ¡°Either way, anything is fine.¡± Lin Jing stood at the lobby entrance and opened an umbrella, ¡°Duck in.¡±


    The drizzling rain was mild, and it only had a very tiny delicate ripple when it had dropped into the community¡¯s pond, which was basically the same as nothing. Ji XingLing pushed the umbrella that came in his direction away as he said in a cool manner, ¡°Block yourself, I don¡¯t need it.¡±


    No sooner had he finished talking, the extremely light rain had turned into a big bean, raining cats and dogs¡­ bucketed down, as it downpoured, which was the huge one, anyway.


    Lin Jing asked, ¡°How about now then?¡±


    Brother Xing silently moved under the umbrella and raised his middle finger towards the sky.


    Wori, Flying Raindragon, are you crazy?


    The school bus, which was full of people, was a bit too noisy, but it was expected for there always had to be extra excitement before and after the exam. However, since the appearance of Ji XingLing, all the chattering has automatically become silent. Don¡¯t know whether it was too shocking for the young master who condescended to simple men, had degraded honor to take the school bus in his own accord, or it was the fear of being beaten if someone had spoken too loudly.


    Ji XingLing felt perplexed, ¡°Why does the driver keep looking at me? Do we need to buy a ticket ma?¡±


    ¡°No need.¡± Lin Jing passed him along the other side of his earpieces, ¡°Listen to the song.¡±


    ¡°What song?¡± Ji XingLing plugged it on easily.


    The female voice transmitted from the earphones was very familiar, and it was English listening comprehension.


    Little Teacher Lin was still very cautious and conscientiously, when it came to the matter of ¡°helping the bottom ranking of the grade to maintain an eight-grader public persona3 that hardly ever studies¡±.


    As the weather turned colder, the old electric fan in the WuTong Building was finally able to stop working. The slight wispy breeze slipped in from the window, and blew into the classroom, making people very comfortable.


    The invigilator teacher changes once a day, when he entered the door, and saw there were two school desks on the podium. He thought they both were disobedient troublemakers who needed special precautions, so they weren¡¯t allowed to move back.


    ¡°Mr. Sun, why do we have one fewer examinee in our class?¡±


    ¡°That¡¯s Yue Sheng ba. He¡¯ll take a year off because of sickness. I just met Teacher Liu in the morning and talked a few words about it.¡±


    ¡°Really, that should be a severe illness.¡±


    Upon hearing what was said, Ji XingLing had knitted his brow slightly. The adult monster who had been bribed to make trouble on the school ground, had indeed violated the ¡°Monster Peace and Order Penalty Law¡± and was required to be educated and pay fines. Still, it seemed very unlikely that he needed to take a year of school leave. Is it recidivism, so it should be dealt with strictly?


    He planned to find the grocery store owner to inquire after the exam.


    The grade director had personally made up the English test. Lin Jing briefly scanned it roughly and found that the difficulty was not low. There were many consecutive readings in the first big question of listening, and you would lose and stray far from the main points if you didn¡¯t pay good attention to it. He hadn¡¯t done the two questions that were beyond the scope of yesterday¡¯s mathematics test, so there was no room for losing points in English. He had to concentrate while writing shorthand on the manuscript sheet.


    Next to him, Ji XingLing smartly chose ¡°C¡± with one stroke of the pen, and then confidently prepared to listen to the next question.


    Ji XingLing just caught a glimpse of Little Teacher Lin in this scene from the corner of his eye, ¡°¡­¡±


    Why were you going through the test paper at this time? What the hell had you been listening to?


    Two hours passed by quickly. When the teacher left, Ji XingLing came knocking on Lin Jing¡¯s desk, ¡°Same place, Japanese cuisine restaurant?¡±


    ¡°Sure, I¡¯ll treat you this time.¡± Lin Jing packed his schoolbag, ¡°What do you think of the English test?¡±


    ¡°It¡¯s okay.¡± Ji XingLing swelled, ¡°Although I didn¡¯t understand the composition very well, I wrote it fully, and it was also very neatly.¡±


    ¡°Can you pass ma?¡± Lin Jing asked.


    ¡°More or less, if the grading examiners can be merciful.¡± Ji XingLing had something good to imagine about for a moment, ¡°At least, I have somewhat written a lot, like the way you taught me in mathematics that overwriting ¡®solution¡¯ steps can get some points, too. And also, on the listening, it seems David likes carrots. I heard about baby carrots being mentioned several times, so I chose the agriculture one as my answer ba. David came to China to learn how to grow carrots, didn¡¯t he?¡±


    ¡°¡­¡­Um.¡±


    ¡°Really, how come when I look at your expression, it doesn¡¯t seem right.¡±


    ¡°Ji XingLing.¡±


    ¡°What?¡±


    ¡°Otherwise, I treat you to an expensive meal.¡±


    ¡°¡­¡±


    Until he got into the Japanese cuisine restaurant, Brother Xing remained unreconciled about how he just bent over to pick up a correction fluid. The listening question had shifted from the second question to the third question; it was from David, a German expert who came to China to learn high-speed rail technology, which had changed into the story about a chef who instructed how to produce the yummy carrot puree.


    Lin Jing consoled him anyway since English was tough this time, and everyone was definitely not doing very well.


    ¡°You better seize the time to recite the comprehensive liberal arts, and even if the total score is less than 400 points, as long as your grade ranking has improved, auntie will still be delighted.¡±


    The young master, with a crab leg dangled from his mouth, fell into a dispirited mood, ¡°Oh.¡±


    David, when he heard his name, he knew he was not a good person.


    Go back to Germany and continue growing carrots ba.


    When they were done eating, the boss replaced the barley tea with the new one, as it was ¡°gurgling¡± cooking with the small fire boiling underneath it.


    After reading several pages of history, Ji XingLing looked up and saw that the person opposite was already asleep on the table, so he asked the waiter for another blanket.


    At half-past two, the phone alarm clock ¡°buzzed¡± on time. Lin Jing loosened up his muscles and joints to sit up, then stared hazily at the person opposite him for a long time with sleepy eyes, while asking doubtfully, ¡°Why are you in this kind of the wandering of gypsy women¡¯s look?¡±


    ¡°Hey, you really know how to offend people.¡± Ji XingLing, who was in short sleeves, had thrown the woolen blanket aside, then thrust out his hand, ¡°Give me back my clothes.¡±


    Lin Jing just realized that he was covered with another school uniform.


    ¡°Aren¡¯t you a cleanliness OCD ma? I think many customers should have used this woolen blanket, and the side edges are dirty.¡± Ji XingLing picked up his schoolbag, ¡°Let¡¯s go.¡±


    ¡°¡­Oh.¡±


    The rain outside the door was still pouring, pitter-pattering continuously, and unknowingly, the summer had been wrapped up.


    Compared with the English test papers that just looked like gobbledegook in the morning, the comprehensive liberal arts was much more friendly. It could be called a relaxed and pleasant one hundred and fifty minutes. After the bell of handing over the test papers rang, Ji XingLing took the answer copied by Xueba to compare and check each of it, and once again reignited his confidence in the pocket money.


    ¡°How are we going to Wan He?¡± Lin Jing asked.


    ¡°By taking the subway, otherwise the section of Huiquan Street at this hour is too congested.¡± Ji XingLing said, ¡°I will first send WeChat to ask Old Xu, which pair of AJ do you want?¡±


    ¡°This one, Travis Scott co-branded.¡± Lin Jing would send him the picture, but remembered that the two hadn¡¯t been added as friends yet.


    Ji XingLing took the initiative to hand the phone screen to him, ¡°Here, you scan mine.¡±


    The friendship between classmates had gone further, and it was very worth eating a spicy bullfrog to celebrate.


    Metro Line 1 had to pass through the Jinrong Yuan, and it was crowded to death regardless of the time. When the two were pushed off the car by the crowd, the Yeezy 350 on Lin Jing¡¯s feet had been trampled into black gypsophila (baby¡¯s breath flower), which made its value doubled smoothly.


    Ji XingLing defended, ¡°I really didn¡¯t know it was so crowded.¡±


    ¡°I know.¡± Lin Jing tidied his school uniform.


    ¡°Do you know it? Why don¡¯t you remind me?¡±


    ¡°I mean, I know that you have only taken the subway a few times. I don¡¯t mean I know that Line 1 is crowded. Why do you think I know that Line 1 is crowded? After all, who are we to be the locals one?¡±


    ¡°¡­¡±


    ¡°Does your expression mean that you¡¯ve been misunderstood and fooled by me again?¡±


    ¡°Wokao, you better not discriminate against people, okay!¡±


    ¡°Then you repeat it, since you understand.¡±


    ¡°Shut up.¡±


    ¡°You just took the subway, don¡¯t touch my head!¡±


    There was no way I would simply stop! Young Master Ji relied on himself for being taller just a little bit, so that he wouldn¡¯t let go once he grabbed hold of others, and the nature of the school bully was fully revealed.


    The two were squabbling all the way, arousing the envy of countless office workers.


    At this age ah, even silliness couldn¡¯t cover the beauty of youth.


    It takes about five minutes to walk from the subway entrance to Wanhe. The sky after the rain was very dark, so the street lights had been lit up in advance, and they were in the shape of a lovely Yulan Magnolia ¡®Yellow River¡¯ flower.


    ¡°Brother Xu said that the AJ you want is out of stock, but you can order it, and you can get it within a week.¡± Ji XingLing shook his phone, ¡°Is that okay with you?¡±


    ¡°No problem.¡± Lin Jing looked ahead. ¡°There seems to be a drugstore there. I will buy a box of anti-inflammatory drugs first. My throat is uncomfortable because of the cold.¡±


    ¡°You really have a cold?¡± Ji XingLing asked nonchalantly.


    Lin Jin didn¡¯t understand. What did you mean by I really have a cold?


    ¡°That black cat is a cat demon.¡±


    ¡°What?¡±


    ¡°Jinhua Cat, you might have heard of it, haven¡¯t you?¡± Ji XingLing said while walking backward with his hands in his pockets, ¡°I didn¡¯t mention it before because I was afraid of scaring you. After all, that old monster can eat people, and It¡¯s easier for it to handle small plants like you. But don¡¯t worry, it has already used one life to help you solve the enchantment, and it is now under the temporary supervision of the monster vigilante squad. The next step should be handed over to Bi¡¯an Tiger4.¡±


    ¡°Ji XingLing.¡±


    ¡°Hmm.¡± Compliment me, right now.


    ¡°What the hell are you jibber-jabbering about? Why can¡¯t I follow the words you said?¡±


    ¡°¡­¡±


    Lin Jing tested the temperature of his forehead. Oh, it was normal.


    Perhaps you were fine, and I was the one who had a fever.

 CH 12

    Changed out this stupid COSPLAY suit!


    The¡¶Monster¡¯s Law¡·clearly stated that you couldn¡¯t be forced to disclose your monster¡¯s identity if you didn¡¯t want to disclose your monster¡¯s identity.


    Although it sounded a little tongue-twisted, this law was still instrumental in protecting the monster¡¯s rights, as well as maintaining the stability of the monster¡¯s world.


    There were indeed some monsters who always liked to lie about by calling themselves as humans. According to the expert analysis, this group of monsters was either because they genuinely liked humans, or because their original form was too damn ugly. After all, the mountains and seas were vast, and not every monster could be as majestic as a Qilin; there were still many odds-shaped species.


    Ji XingLing had briefly fallen into doubt; could it be that it was a stunted seedling of a self-abased green foxtail (Setaria Viridis).


    Meanwhile, Lin Jing was thinking about another problem. Since neither of them had a fever, what about the story of the cat demon and the monster administrator¡­ But then again, previously, he thought that the problematic teenager who didn¡¯t like to study, was recruiting people to form a gang, and their daily activities might also be jumping over the wall to go to Internet cafes, which also involved smoking, barbecuing, and gang turf fights. He certainly never expected that there would be such a type that was enthusiastic in the fantasy of subduing or defeating monsters and demons. No wonder Ji XingLing had to customize some monster cards for the minions.


    ¡°I don¡¯t think you need to play truant at all, really.¡± Lin Jing sincerely suggested, ¡°You can apply to the school to form a drama club.¡±


    Ji XingLing: ?


    Little Teacher Lin continued to walk on the path of saving the problematic student, and stuck out his hand, ¡°Where¡¯s the card?¡±


    Now you¡¯re talking. Young Master Ji suddenly felt at ease and put the silvery-white monster ID in Lin Jing¡¯s palm, ¡°So what kind of monster are you?¡±


    ¡°Before answering, I have one more request.¡± Lin Jing said with heartfelt words, ¡°Can you also send one to Li MoYuan?¡±


    With this overwhelming sense of eight-grade syndrome, he had desperately needed someone to share the pressure. If another first-ranking of the grade were willing to lower his IQ, that couldn¡¯t be better!


    Ji XingLing: What the hell are you talking about?


    ¡°Then, while you consider my proposal, I¡¯ll go buy a box of amoxicillin first.¡± Lin Jing put the monster card into his trouser pocket and turned around to enter the drugstore.


    Ji XingLing, ¡°¡­¡±


    Question: What was more challenging to understand than the English language?


    Answer: Plant language.


    At this moment, Old Xu from Legend Shop called and asked when the two would come by.


    ¡°We¡¯re almost downstairs.¡± Ji XingLing said, ¡°Ten minutes.¡±


    ¡°The other kid who bought AJ is a monster, too?¡± Old Xu yawned, ¡°Then I¡¯m not going to change into a human ah, I drank too much wine in the afternoon, so my whole body is all exhausted, and there are no customers in the store anyway.¡±


    ¡ª¡ªThe first mountain of the Nan mountain system was called the Que mountain range, and its first mountain of the Que mountain range was Zhao Yao mountain, which stood on the west coast. There was a wild beast that looked like a long-tailed ape, but it had white ears. It crouched as it moved along, ran like a human, and its name was Xing Xing1.


    Old Xu, the Xing Xing, was the owner of this famous trendy shop. His main business was selling shoes and while selling wine was his side business. A throng of beautiful women constantly flocked around him, and he lived a relatively comfortable life.


    Lin Jing put the anti-inflammatory medicine into his schoolbag, ¡°Let¡¯s go. I just heard from the cashier¡¯s sister that the bullfrog is quite in demand; we should finish earlier so that we can go queue up soon.¡±


    ¡°Hey.¡± Ji XingLing followed behind him, ¡°Why don¡¯t you even ask me what kind of monster I am?¡±


    ¡°Before you bring Li MoYuan into the group, don¡¯t discuss this topic with me.¡±


    ¡°¡­¡±


    The difficulty in understanding the plant language +1.


    There were only four elevators in the Wanhe Building; it was crowded with a motley group of people. The elevator had to stop at almost every floor for those who entered and exited.


    There were no internet connections on the smartphone, and next to them, there was also a lovebirds couple who maybe just entered a love bubble. They had embraced and couldn¡¯t even be apart from each other, never letting go even for a moment. They were stickily smooching, and the smell of the perfume on their bodies was so pungent. After finally reaching the 28th floor, Lin Jing had sneezed non-stop three-four times, feeling that he almost fainted at the stench of the odor that was permitted in the air inside the elevator.


    ¡°It¡¯s always like this here. It¡¯s dirty and messy.¡± Ji XingLing bought three bottles of soft drinks. ¡°You bring a bottle for Old Xu first. He is waiting for us in front of that store. By the way, Old Xu is the Xing Xing of Zhao Yao mountain; although his appearance is fierce-looking, he has a pretty good personality though, so you don¡¯t need to be afraid when you see him. There was no signal in the elevator, and I¡¯m going to return a missed call.¡±


    ¡°Oh.¡± Lin Jing took the passing soft drink, still dizzy in his head, and had trouble understanding.


    Around the corner, the Legend Shop¡¯s sign was in red neon lighting; it was flickering, flashing brightly on and off, which was eye-catching.


    Ji XingLing leaned against the wall and called, ¡°I was in the elevator just now. What¡¯s wrong?¡±


    ¡°Nothing.¡± On the other side was the fat boss of the grocery store, ¡°it¡¯s just that you who asking me to check the reason of Yue Sheng suspension from school ma, because he is instigating monsters to threaten human being and needs to be dealt with strictly, so they were forced to send them to a juvenile monster rehabilitation school, where they had to stay there for a year.¡±


    Ji XingLing stood up straight in an instant, ¡°Human?¡±


    ¡°Yeah, the person that was bewitched by the Jinhua Cat.¡± The fat boss was still rambling, ¡°You talk about that Qiongqi, he can¡¯t even make a distinguished whether the classmate is a human or a monster, and dare to bribe the cat demon to cast a spell, does he think that the other party is also a little monster, so he only needs to frighten him a little bit and at most to be pay fine as punishment? This is considered to suffer a setback¡­ Hello? There is no sound on your side, no signal again?¡±


    Ji XingLing, who was holding his smartphone, watching from a distance, staring helplessly, and stunned, watched as Lin Jing pushed open the door of the Legend Shop.


    Wocao¡­


    There were no customers in the shop, and it was hushed.


    ¡°Brother Xu?¡± Lin Jing stood by the shoe rack and tried to say, ¡°I¡¯m Ji XingLing¡¯s classmate, are you in the store ma?¡±


    ¡°Make yourself comfortable.¡± The curtain moved, and a¡­hairy, horrifying Xing Xing came out from inside?


    Lin Jing, who didn¡¯t take any bit of precautions, had his soul flown away and scattered (be frightened out of one¡¯s wits), while his heart almost stood still, and he almost threw away the drink in his hand.


    ¡°Old Xu!¡± In the next second, a roar exploded behind Lin Jing, ¡°You tama go and change out this stupid COSPLAY suit of yours!¡±


    Xing Xing, ¡°¡­¡±


    Lin Jing¡¯s shock was multiplied by two by this yelling, which made him also go weak at the knees.


    Ji XingLing put his arm around Lin Jing¡¯s shoulders, as he forced himself for a calm pretense, ¡°I forgot to remind you, Brother Xu always loves this kind of bizarrely costume, his taste is very abnormal.¡±


    Old Xu bit his tongue, then silently turned and returned inside.


    One minute later, a fashionable cool guy with a Mohican hairstyle with bright red AJ stepped out.


    ¡°Sorry for frightening you, student.¡±


    ¡°It¡¯s okay.. It¡¯s okay.¡± Lin Jing had recovered quite a bit, ¡°I¡¯ve never seen such realistic props. If you go to the comic show, you will definitely get first place. Did you make it yourself ma?¡±


    ¡°¡­You could say that.¡± More likely that he was born and grew with it.


    Ji XingLing sat on the couch and drank a whole bottle of ice-cola in one go, his fingers still trembling slightly.


    Lin Jing was puzzled, ¡°Are you alright?¡±


    ¡°It¡¯s okay. It¡¯s too stuffy in the elevator.¡± Ji XingLing was not in the mood to sort out the cause and effect, so he diverted the topic and said, ¡°Go to the cashier first to place the order, then you pay a 30% deposit, Old Xu¡¯s shop is always like this.¡±


    ¡°No need! What¡¯s the deposit for, as you are all so familiar. Let¡¯s talk about it next week when the goods arrive.¡± Xing Xing, the cool guy, also had a very racing heart at the moment; he just wanted to dismiss these two little kids away quickly, ¡°I¡¯ll get your things.¡±


    Lin Jing asked nonchalantly, ¡°What kind of shoes did you order?¡±


    ¡°It¡¯s not shoes. Old Xu has a¡­ wine cellar. My (maternal) grandfather will have his birthday next month, so I asked him to buy a small bottle of.. that.. wine.¡±


    ¡°Ji XingLing, you are really uncomfortable, aren¡¯t you? You are all sweaty. Why don¡¯t we just go home, and I will treat you to eating bullfrog next time.¡±


    ¡°¡­That¡¯s fine, too.¡±


    The way back home was silent.


    The taxis stop and go, go and stop, the red lights were constant, blocking a long way up and very winding driveway (streets).


    Lin Jing got a bit of motion sickness, so he listened to music with earphones on. It just so happened that Ji XingLing didn¡¯t really want to talk either at the moment.


    He carefully recalled the entire process of the encounter between the two, and finally found out where the problem lay on ¡ª from the beginning to the end, he unilaterally determined that the monster ID belonged to Lin Jing. As for the reasons, one was that he was the only stranger at the scene, and another point, which was also the critical point, was that the refreshing and clean scent of the other party¡¯s body had indeed resembled the fog in the deepest of monster mountain forest, which wrapped in the wind amidst the drizzle, and saturated between flowers and blades of grass.


    So¡­ could it be some kind of shower gel that was a collaboration produced by monsters and humans? Ji XingLing rested his right hand on his forehead and exhaled deeply; both of his mental and physical strength was exhausted.


    Lin Jing caught a glimpse of it with his peripheral vision, so he handed over a box of peppermint candy, ¡°Do you want some?¡±


    Ji XingLing poured out seven to eight pills absent-mindedly, and threw them all into his mouth.


    Lin Jing was surprised, ¡°This is the super-strong icy-cold version. Don¡¯t you feel spicy?¡±


    Your brother Xing with a cool look, ¡°Not bad.¡±


    Though his tongue was numbing and hurting so much that he couldn¡¯t speak.


    The road was jammed tight for nearly two hours before both of them had finally got home.


    Lin Jing had long since become the eggplant that was beaten by cold winter2. He listlessly greeted and just wanted to go back to 1302. Ji XingLing called out to stop him from leaving, ¡°Hey, that monster¡­ No, the broken card. You better give it to me first.¡±


    ¡°Have you changed your mind again? You don¡¯t plan to bring me into the gang ma?¡±


    Ji XingLing bit the bullet, ¡°Yep.¡±


    It may be because of looking at his expression that was too rigid, as if he was looked so beaten, and Lin Jing was a little soft-hearted, ¡°Actually, I think your organization is quite interesting. Really, how about this instead? You don¡¯t have to look for Li MoYuan anymore. I can join in.¡±


    Ji XingLing, ¡°¡­No, I can¡¯t force you.¡±


    ¡°I¡¯m not being forced at all.¡± Lin Jing opened the door of 1302, ¡°See you at school tomorrow; you should go to bed early.¡±


    Ji XingLing, ¡°¡­¡±


    You better get back here!


    Jiang FenFang was knitting a scarf in the living room. When autumn passed, winter was coming soon ne.


    ¡°Auntie, is there anything to eat at home ma?¡± Lin Jing put down his schoolbag, ¡°I had something to do and didn¡¯t get to eat a bullfrog today, so I am hungry.¡±


    ¡°Yes, there is. I¡¯ll cook you a bowl of fine noodles in chicken broth.¡± Jiang FenFang stood up, ¡°Fifteen minutes.¡±


    The kitchen soon heard the clattering of pots and pans.


    In terms of taking care of children, Guhuo Niao could be called a master. She mixed the side dishes with one hand, while stirring the noodles in the pot with the other hand, and could even manage to find time to tap the phone accept call icon with the tip of her wing, and inserted her earphones to her ear as she whispered softly, ¡°Xiao Jing has adapted well with the life here, Mrs. Lin, you don¡¯t have to worry¡­ Yes, he has also made a lot of friends. Today, he went out to play with his classmates next door¡­ The exam results haven¡¯t come out yet, but he is studying very diligently¡­ Mhm¡­¡±


    The great rattle and bang of kitchen utensils were also sounded in the kitchen of 1301. It was Hu MeiMei who was making souffl¨¦ biscuits. This was a new recipe that she learned from the community¡¯s parent group.


    Ji XingLing locked his bedroom door and called Hu Lie, ¡°Uncle, help me look up a monster ID number.¡±


    ¡°No!¡± The nine-tailed fox on the other end of the phone line exploded vigilantly, ¡°Don¡¯t you even think about it. This will lead to expulsion.¡±


    ¡°I¡¯ll keep it secret.¡± Ji XingLing urged, ¡°Besides, you also helped my mom find the Guhuo Niao!¡±


    ¡°For whom do you think that I check the Guhuo Niao? Do all Qilin are like this, which bite the hand that feeds you?¡±


    ¡°Don¡¯t vent your complaints about my dad to me.¡±


    ¡°¡­¡±


    The quarrel lasted for half an hour.


    Finally, Hu Lie, who felt reluctant and unwilling, had said resentfully, ¡°You know how to keep it confidential, do you? If you dare to spread it out, I will post your stark naked photo on the homepage in the ShanHai App. This serial number is Zhongqu mountain¡¯s Gui Tree3, a juvenile little monster, the student of JinCheng No. 18 High School, his name is Zou FaFa. I won¡¯t check the photo. If you want to see it, find it by yourself. How did he provoke you?¡±


    ¡°No, I picked up a monster ID card, and was curious about it.¡± Ji XingLing feebly said.


    Hu Lie heaved a sigh of relief, ¡°Say it earlier ah. I thought something serious had happened. You should remember to hand it to Qingji when you have time. It¡¯s an infringement to withhold other people¡¯s ID cards. Of course, this little monster, who carelessly loses his ID, has to pay a forfeit and circulate a notice of criticism.¡±


    Ji XingLing wasn¡¯t in the mood to listen to his incessant nagging, so he effortlessly threw his smartphone onto the table, after he thought for a while, then took it back and redialed a series of numbers.


    The fat grocery store owner found it very unusual, ¡°Do you miss me so much today?¡±


    ¡°Is this month¡¯s surveillance still there?¡±


    ¡°Of course.¡±


    Half an hour later, Ji XingLing knocked on the door of 1302.


    Lin Jing said, ¡°Eh, you still haven¡¯t slept yet?¡±


    ¡°Suddenly, I remembered something.¡± Ji XingLing  looked around, ¡°Where is your aunt ne?¡±


    Lin Jing helped him get a bottle of soft drink, ¡°Go to the supermarket downstairs to buy fruits.¡±


    ¡°Are these people planning to kidnap me that day?¡± Ji XingLing handed the phone over to him.


    Lin Jing took a closer look, ¡°Yes, in the back alley of the grocery store, did you go to check the surveillance?¡±


    Ji XingLing calmed down a bit, ¡°Yeah.¡±


    The forest was huge, and there were all kinds of wonders of exotic flowers.


    For instance, David, a German, had come to China to learn high-speed rail technology, instead of developing agriculturally planted carrots.


    For another example, even the tama monster ID card could be lost, Zou Fafa, the Gui Tree from Zhongqu Mountain, who lost it but didn¡¯t rush to find it.


    It would be best for you not to appear within ShanHai¡¯s vicinity.


    Otherwise, Brother Xing would beat and give you a shit once he saw you.

 CH 13

    Ji XingLing, come and share your experience of learning English.


    Zou FaFa was the little brother of the kidnapping gang that had bolted out from the school back alley, and who had collided head-on with Lin Jing. After discovering that his monster ID card was missing, he had combed through all the places he frequented, but found nothing as a result. He was currently in the state where he was in fear and trepidation, not knowing what to do and in the nerve-racking stage of whether he should confess to his parents or not.


    Although Ji XingLing had always looked down upon the group of bastards in the No.18 High School, however, the fight was always a fight. He couldn¡¯t do this sort of action of lowering his dignity as ¡°I found the opponent¡¯s monster ID card, then deliberately hid and didn¡¯t return it¡±, so he planned to return and hand it over to the Monster Management Committee.


    Lin Jing asked, ¡°You have already checked the surveillance, so aren¡¯t you going to report it to the police?


    ¡°They don¡¯t have the guts to play for real.¡± Ji XingLing shrugged it off. ¡°They had a fight with me in the barbecue restaurant before and lost, then often took a group of people to the back alley.¡± According to the memories of the fat boss of the grocery store owner, every time they were all made well-conceived planned, as they seemed to be able to ¡°make a big kill¡±, but every time Ji XingLing was just going to appear, this gang of ¡°No.18 High School sought gathering place league¡± would fall apart instantly. The members were scattered away like the herd of birds and beasts one after another (×÷ÄñÊÞÉ¢ zu¨° ni¨£o sh¨°u s¨¤n ¨C to flee helter-skelter; head-off in various directions). After all, he didn¡¯t know how much psychological shadow was cast out that made them so traumatized.


    After barbecues plus fights, Lin Jing finally found a little bit of an impression of ¡°skip class bad student¡± in Ji XingLing¡¯s person, but it was not obnoxious. On the contrary, in the past few days of getting along, this young master had always performed well and had good conduct. Even if it was just for the sake of helping to buy cold medicine before the exam, Little Teacher Lin decided to work diligently to get him out of the bottom ranks of the grade.


    ¡°We are still going to study together tonight, right?¡±


    ¡°¡­okay.¡±


    Hu MeiMei was extremely pleasantly surprised. It never occurred to her that her son was still willing to study, even though the exam was already over. So she had personally called Baize Lion to extend her sincere thanks to him for half an hour, and furthermore heartfeltly expressed that.. you must keep your body healthy, don¡¯t just read books at home all day long, and learn to go out and exercise more when you are free. Of course, also, don¡¯t go too far, since the scenery in the area of ??Jiang¡¯an ShuYuan was very beautiful. Do you want to come to my house as a guest?


    Baize Lion: ¡­Thanks for the invitation, I don¡¯t want to.


    In the bedroom, Lin Jing finished a set of math test papers, and asked the person across from him as he was stretching his muscles and joints, ¡°How was your vocabulary memorizing?¡±


    Ji XingLing returned to his senses and glanced at the vocabulary book that hadn¡¯t been turned over on the table, ¡°Oh, I was just thinking about¡­ the drama club.¡±


    Lin Jing was a little surprised, ¡°Are you really planning to apply?¡±


    Ji XingLing hastily refused, ¡°The clubs are all formed by freshmen in high school. We will be in the third year of high school next year, and the teacher will definitely not agree.¡±


    He coughed under the guise/ coughed covertly twice, and continued to bite the bullet, and said, ¡°So I plan to give up this hobby, it¡¯s better for you to give me the card back.¡±


    ¡°Is that so?¡± Lin Jing felt a bit pity, but he did not have much time to squander in the second year of high school, so he readily handed over the monster ID, and reassured, ¡°When you enter the university, you will have a lot of time to form a club.¡±


    Ji XingLing was totally unwilling to discuss whatever the hell with the drama club anymore, and just wanted to hand over this broken card to the organization as soon as possible. After Lin Jing went back home, he dialed Qingji Express delivery. In less than five minutes, a little monster in a yellow windbreaker jacket courteously knocked on the window to pick up the goods, ¡°Excuse me, do you want to get parcel insurance? Oh, this is the return of the monster ID card. Then you don¡¯t need to pay any fees, just sign it directly. In addition, here are our advertising brochures. In the late autumn, all kinds of precious spirit fruits are on big sale. Buy one box and get one box free. Of course la, we can also find human fruits if you want to buy them. Also, the SF Express won¡¯t know about it anyway.¡±


    He talked and talked and talked for about five minutes, and he probably finally realized that the customer¡¯s face in front of him was getting worse and worse, while also not even listening to what he said. Then he regrettably ceased talking, and pedaled the small yellow tricycle, flying away swiftly toward the headquarters distribution center.


    Ji XingLing had lain on the sofa, with one hand resting on his forehead.


    It can be called a panicked day.


    ¡­


    The test results will be released next week.


    As a matter of fact, Ji XingLing, who was still under the huge impact of ¡°he told mankind several times about monsters¡¯ stories¡±, had made him no longer care about his achievements, so when Yu YiZhou passed on to show the screen of his smartphone in front of him, he was still puzzled, ¡°You are a terrible photographer, what the hell is it?¡±


    ¡°I went to Teacher Ning to get my homework, and I just happened to see your test paper.¡± Yu YiZhou slipped his arm around his shoulders, ¡°You can do it ah, Brother Xing, how did you manage to get the test of eighty-two points ne.¡±


    Ji XingLing, ¡°¡­¡±


    The test was about 99% of ability, plus 1% of luck, or the proportion of luck was even higher. This time, the English exam was too difficult, so everyone¡¯s scores were generally low, and the listening section was even more terrible. Although he didn¡¯t understand the composition¡¯s contents, he even imposed on the German to plant a few acres of carrots, and the multiple-choice questions were mostly wrong, too. However, Brother Xing was considered very fortunate.


    During class, Miss Ning had specifically named, ¡°Ji XingLing, do some preparations to share with the class of your learning methods in the English self-study for tomorrow evening.¡±


    Your Brother Xing was caught off guard: ?


    The bastard Yu YiZhou was bent over the desk, almost fainted with laughter. Ning FangFei was knocking on the desk, ¡°The representative of the class who regressed to sixth-ranking in English, you seem to be very happy ah. Would you like to tell everyone about your experience?¡±


    ¡°Sorry, Teacher Ning, I was wrong. I was really wrong.¡± Yu YiZhou surrendered with his hands raised up, ¡°I will shut up immediately.¡±


    ¡°Come and work, distribute all these to the classmates.¡± Ning FangFei scolded with a smile, as she handed him a pile of test papers. The reason why the students in class 2-1 liked Miss Ning was, not only because of her good lectures, but also because of her considerate and gentle personality. The failing test papers were always distributed quietly, unlike the teachers of the other subjects that would declare openly by pronouncing every word clearly from one hundred and fifty points to fifteen points, which did not spare nor consider even the slightest bit of feelings.


    Lin Jing was spinning his pen, while on the surface, he tried to act by looking calm, but he was actually quite nervous inwardly. On the podium, Ning FangFei had already started distributing the test papers by calling out names. The several names that were being called out at first were the test papers that scored above 90 points, the later she called, the higher the scores mark. Another spell of silence had fallen upon the classroom. Except for a batch of the poor unfortunate ones who flunked, the rest of the people were all silent, as to how they wished they could be the last to hear their name.


    Luo LinSi scored 110 in English, which was already a relatively high score. Yu YiZhou ranked sixth at 121 points, followed by Wei Xue, who ranked third. She had always performed very steadily, and this time she scored 133 points on the test. When only the last two test papers were left, the silence in the classroom was gradually broken, and everyone began to whisper about the outcome of whether Li MoYuan or Lin Jing would get first-ranking.


    ¡°President Li, behold and win the glory for ShanHai ah!¡± Immediately after someone at the rear back of the classroom voiced out, the others roared with laughter. Ning FangFei, not knowing whether to laugh or cry, ¡°Why, you all still put Lin Jing¡¯s registered permanent residence in NingCheng No. 3 High School? Stop talking all of you.¡±


    Perhaps her voice was so gentle that the students below the podium were still buzzing. Ji XingLing looked back at Lin Jing and saw that he had been drinking water all along, as if a little embarrassed, so he single-handedly slapped the desk, ¡°Be quiet!¡±


    It was silent instantly.


    Not only were the classmates perplexed about why Young Master Ji had suddenly taken the concurrently ¡°Keeping a quiet classroom¡± post, but also Ning FangFei was stupefied. At this critical moment, Hupeng-Gouyou seemed to have shown his helpfulness. Yu YiZhou, who only just leaned against the table, had already actively raised his hand, ¡°Teacher Ning, today my throat is uncomfortable, so I asked Ji XingLing to help to maintain classroom order.¡±


    Ning FangFei nodded, ¡°Li MoYuan has performed well with a score of 147 points.¡±


    The whole class was in a small uproar again. Miss Ning might also be relatively helpless as she had no strategies to quiet down this rowdy group of little boys who went crazy when she announced the score results. So, while taking advantage of the sound wave that hadn¡¯t risen yet, she beckoned Lin Jing to come on the podium to take the test paper, ¡°Congratulations, the whole class first-ranking.¡±


    ¡°Teacher Ning, what scores did the first-ranking get ah.¡± Someone asked in a trailing tone.


    ¡°Two points have been deducted for the composition, which is also the first place in the whole grade this time. President Li and the class 2-2 Ma SiWen tied for second place in the whole grade.¡± Ning FangFei glanced at the time, ¡°Okay, I¡¯ll give you all 30 seconds to congratulate all the students who have achieved good grades, but I must warn you beforehand that if the voice is too loud in which attract the grade director to come over, I will not compensate the deduction of class points, so how about changing to warm applause?¡±


    Ji XingLing quite cooperatively took the lead and clapped his hands, turned around, and waggled his eyebrows at Little Teacher Lin.


    Later after class, the desk around Lin Jing and Li MoYuan was being surrounded by a group of people. This was a large-scale traditional misled behavior in class 2-1. It was said that if you touched the exam papers of Xueba, you would be able to advance triumphantly next time. Of course, Ji XingLing certainly would not participate in such a foolish activity. He threw a bottle of iced water to Yu YiZhou, ¡°You free on Friday, aren¡¯t you? A new barbecue restaurant has opened in the back alley. You can ask Hou YueTao to organize the class to have a meal together ba. It¡¯s my treat.¡±


    Hou YueTao was the vice-monitor of the class, nicknamed Old Hou, the simple and honest Big Brother of class 2-1, the kind that modesty combined with the spirit of willingly helping the young and weak selflessly (The origin of the old poem of citation from Lu Xun is ºáüÀä¶Ôǧ·òÖ¸£¬¸©Ê׸ÊΪÈæ×ÓÅ£ h¨¦ngm¨¦i l¨§ng du¨¬ qi¨¡nf¨± zh¨«, f¨³sh¨¯u g¨¡n w¨¦i r¨²z¨«ni¨² , lit. Fierce-browed, I coolly defy a thousand pointing fingers; Head bowed, like a willing ox I serve the children. A metaphor, stride boldly forth, knowing in your heart that your actions are correct¡ª modestly, willing to help the young and weak selflessly. ) . Yu YiZhou nodded, and then asked, ¡°Why do you suddenly want to treat? Is it to have everyone join in celebrating that you only need to have eight more points to get a passing score in the English exam?¡±


    ¡°Scram!¡± Ji XingLing slapped Yu YiZhou on the head with his palm, ¡°You talk too much! If I tell you to go, then you just go.¡±


    In the classroom, Xueba¡¯s exam papers were no longer known where it was passed, and only Xueba themselves were left on the seat. Li MoYuan smiled and turned his head, ¡°Before Wei Xue told me that our class was going to be transferred a guru (´óÉñ d¨¤ sh¨¦n ¨C an honorific ¡®on the web/ internet slang¡¯ for someone who is highly accomplished in a particular field- a master), I still don¡¯t think so, in the end, I was utterly defeated and convinced in the first exam.¡±


    ¡°A point higher in English is purely good luck.¡± Lin Jing said, ¡°I couldn¡¯t answer the two big questions in math at all. It won¡¯t be easy even to assess the scores of 130 points.¡±


    Upon hearing this, several students with distressed grades who happened to hold the papers to return, were dampened down into not wanting to talk.


    The world of Xueba was so difficult to understand.


    We, the students with hardship issues of grades, still decided to zip our mouths ba.


    After English class, it was followed by a Chinese literature class. According to an analysis of Wang HongYu¡¯s face which was radiant with happiness, the exam results should not be bad.


    ¡°Ji XingLing.¡± He said, ¡°You stand up.¡±


    Yu YiZhou had tama collapsed into fits of laughter again. He didn¡¯t know why, but he always felt that once Ji XingLing got involved with the fact that he was nominated and praised by the teacher for scoring too good in the exam, he would be filled with a sense of humor in a way that could not be described.


    ¡°Guess how many points you have scored?¡± Wang HongYu asked.


    Brother Xing was all balled up again. He didn¡¯t want to guess.


    He never knew that it turned out that there was this kind of annoying part where the whole class made a monkey out of himself (someone had made a fool out of someone) by getting slightly better results in the exam.


    ¡°You shall keep up to redouble your efforts.¡± Wang HongYu did not announce the score; instead, he directly passed him the test paper, and then glanced towards the back row, ¡°Lin Jing, why do your neck stretch so long? Do you want to know Ji XingLing¡¯s score?¡±


    ¡°¡­¡±


    ¡°Of course, you also have done well in the exam. Overall speaking, our class has generally scored very good in Chinese this time. We have achieved the highest grade point average, as well as first place in the entire grade.¡± Wang HongYu was satisfied, ¡°Finally, I¡¯m not losing any face.¡±

 CH 14

    Ji XingLing, you are here to comfort me, are you not?


    The whole class was anxiously waiting for their exam results. Still, Wang HongYu had a lot of words to say, as he said slowly as well as methodically, ¡°This time examination is still simple when compared to the university entrance examination, so you who get good results, don¡¯t need to be too proud about it. You must strive to continue to work hard.¡± and so on and so forth, for quite a long time. A broken thermal cup that ended up being held up then put down, after he put it down, it was being held up again. Until he saw that the whelps below the podium had a meltdown in which provided him a tremendous sense of contentment, then he asked the class representative to distribute the test papers, ¡°Since everyone is doing well in the exam, I won¡¯t announce the score individually. I will focus on a few results only. First-place in the grade is Wei Xue with a score of 130, 128 for Li MoYuan and Lin Jing, and Ji XingLing is the one who has made the most progress by getting the score of 109. This time, his composition is very crafty, so everyone can circulate it to read it when in the major self-studies.¡±


    Ji XingLing, ¡°¡­¡±


    What bizarre aspect is this?


    ¡°Come on, let me have the honor of perusing your masterpieces, you great writers.¡± Yu YiZhou, who was always looking for a chance to stir up trouble, took the lead by extending out his hand first to demand it, while he got a smoothly returned with retaliation of harsh words ¡°piss off¡±. Ji XingLing struck aside the dog¡¯s paw behind him, then turned his head, and glanced at Lin Jing. Seeing that Lin Jing was talking to Li MoYuan in a low voice, and didn¡¯t seem to be depressed because of ¡°Short of two points and blunder away the first place¡±, then Ji XingLing sat back in peace.


    The bright red of 109 was jotted down in the score¡¯s column of the test paper. So what was the notion of 109 scores? It was only 21 points away from the first-ranking, and while looking at a broader range, last year, the champion of JinCheng¡¯s college entrance examination, had only scored 115 in the Chinese exam.


    Although there was definitely a differentiation in the complexity of the questions, Brother Xing was indeed still qualified to float appropriately at the present moment.


    Wang HongYu was in a good mood, and it was rare for him not to delay the class; he had generously dismissed the class as soon as the after-class bell rang.


    Yu YiZhou was stretching out, ¡°Go to lunch? By the way, pass on your advanced learning experience.¡±


    ¡°The experience is to steer clear as far as possible from a less advanced person like you.¡± Ji XingLing threw the book into the book box, too lazy to banter tediously, ¡°Go with Ge Hao ba, I have something to do.¡±


    Yu YiZhou forcibly hooked his arm around Ji XingLing¡¯s neck, ¡°Hey, what¡¯s the matter with you lately? You are busy with whatever important matters every day. If you don¡¯t say it clearly, I will just follow you around ah.¡±


    ¡°Let me go!¡±


    ¡°Never!¡±


    ¡°Yu YiZhou!¡±


    ¡°Frankly confess, where do you want to go after leaving Daddy at mid-noon?¡±


    ¡°Wocao!¡±


    The two were gripping and struggling on their seats, and Ge Hao stood beside them, looking very miserable, ¡°The first session of the afternoon is mathematics. Teacher Li always comes fifteen minutes earlier.¡± So when exactly could we all go to the cafeteria?


    Ji XingLing had finally managed to wriggle himself free from Yu YiZhou, and when he looked up, the classroom had long been deserted. He actually wanted to invite Lin Jing to have a meal. After all, this time, his composition could be passed off as a high score, all relying upon Little Teacher Lin in finding a suitable model essay before the exam. Yet, he was disturbed by the bastard Yu YiZhou, so the shared lunch meal could only be postponed temporarily, then he gave a kick to the other party disgruntledly, ¡°Let¡¯s go to Furong Yuan, this lunch will be your treat.¡±


    Yu YiZhou wondered, ¡°You just say you have something to do, aren¡¯t you?¡±


    ¡°I¡¯ve changed my mind.¡± Ji XingLing pulled his back collar and dragged Yu YiZhou outside the classroom, ¡°I¡¯ve decided to give you a chance to treat Daddy to lunch.¡±


    ¡°Kao, get lost!¡±


    ¡­


    The two subjects¡¯ results that were out in the morning were Chinese in which everyone joined in the celebration, and English as it was considered flunked. Nevertheless, because of Miss Ning¡¯s thoughtfulness and gentleness, she didn¡¯t scold them at all. Instead, she had comforted the poor unlucky ones who had failed. Therefore, the mentality of the masses was basically stable.


    However, there was a different situation in mathematics.


    Li JianSheng initially already had a face of a strict teacher who was under the guise of enjoying state subsidies, not to mention his silent, sullen face and the corners of his mouth drooped down, while standing behind the podium with a pile of test papers in front of him, He looked terrifying.


    It was a true horror story of ShanHai.


    Today, Yu YiZhou was rather unlucky. He was still joking around with Ji XingLing when he entered the classroom. As a result, just as he turned his head, his gaze had bumped right into Mr. Li¡¯s smiling face, and he came to a screeching halt, ¡°Teacher Li!¡±


    Ji XingLing, who had no time to retract his legs, had his nose directly hit the back of Yu YiZhou¡¯s head, ¡°Hiss¡­¡±


    Ge Hao, who stood at the end, was holding onto the two people¡¯s school uniforms in front of him, ¡°Re-report.¡±


    Even though there were still seven-eight minutes left for the pre-class bell to ring, the classroom was already so quiet you could have heard a pin drop.


    ¡°The three of you have a good relationship ah.¡± Li JianSheng asked, ¡°Do each of you know how many points that you scored this time ma?¡±


    It was the same question of ¡°Guess what score you got on the test¡±. If the Chinese literature in the morning belonged to an inspirational youth movie, then the math in the afternoon was an American psychological horror-thriller TV series of who will die next, with the blizzards hovering over the entire mountain village as the background setting, and whoever spoke first would die first.


    Of course, no one was idiotic enough to take the initiative to rejoin.


    So Li JianSheng continued, ¡°One is 47, one is 57, one is 67, leaving aside, it¡¯s quite well allocated.¡±


    Afterward, someone murmured and muffled a laugh, but then quickly hushed.


    Li JianSheng probably also didn¡¯t want to look at the awful score anymore, lest his blood pressure would continue to rise, so he released the three people back to their seats after a few words of criticism. Ji XingLing originally didn¡¯t think there was anything. After all, he had taken a test of 27, and 57 was already rose doubled. Still, when he returned to his seat, he found Lin Jing was looking at him, unknowingly to which nerve was being pricked, and while Ji XingLing was inexplicably being stared at, unexpectedly, for some reason, he had some kind of feeling¡­ It was similar to the feeling of a guilty conscience. This was really an absurdity and inconceivable. You must know that Mr. Li, who was burning candles weep, till no more tears they can shed1, had taught the young master for a year, but had not been able to let him produce even the slightest thought of ¡°Couldn¡¯t test too lousy to let the teacher disappointed¡±, and he went with him. However, his peer, Little Teacher Lin, could complete this impossible task within three or five days, which was a miracle in the history of education.


    When the test papers were distributed, Ji XingLing had scored 57, plus Chinese and English scores; he got a total score of 248 points. The total score of 400 was starting to look hopeful and promising. On the podium, Li JianSheng glanced at the paper in his hand, ¡°Lin Jing 127, you have just transferred, and your results are very good. You can make further progress if you catch up with the progress.¡±


    This score was similar to the previous assessment, and Lin Jing was not too disappointed. Ji XingLing took a glance at Mr. Li¡¯s hand. At least ten people still hadn¡¯t been announced yet, so 127 points were not even the top ten in the class.


    That made people very unhappy.


    The highest grade score was Li MoYuan¡¯s with a full score of 150 points, and this belonged to the regular operation of President Li. Ji XingLing wasn¡¯t in the mood to listen to Li JianSheng¡¯s topic of lectures, as he didn¡¯t understand it anyway, so he simply sent a WeChat message to Little Teacher Lin to show his comfort.


    Brother Xing: Are you okay?


    Lin Jing¡¯s smartphone that he forgot to turn off to put on the mute before the class and had been tossed into the book box, vibrated, with the vibration effect that was quite startling. Li JianSheng coughed twice, discontentedly, and darting over a warning gaze, Lin Jing earnestly bowed his head as he admitted his mistake, then quickly shut it down and stuffed it into his schoolbag.


    ¡°¡­¡±


    A few minutes later, Yu YiZhou couldn¡¯t help it, ¡°Brother Xing, did you get a stiff neck last night? Why did you keep twisting your head around? I almost get nausea from you doing that.¡±


    Ji XingLing, who was at a loss for words, sat up stiffly straight.


    Are you dictionary savvy? So much nonsense.


    After finally waiting for the end of the two periods of mathematics classes, class 2-1 once again spontaneously carried out a large-scale group activity to touch the test papers, but this time, it was only Li MoYuan¡¯s desk was being surrounded by everyone. Ji XingLing knocked on Lin Jing¡¯s desk with a hand in his pocket, ¡°Go buy water?¡±


    ¡°Help me bring a bottle of water ba. I¡¯ll WeChat transfer the money.¡± Lin Jing was busy copying the formulas.


    ¡°Hey, you.. that.. I think 127 points is already very high, really.¡± Ji XingLing had straddled the chair, sat across him, and with well-reasonable analysis, ¡°Besides, you haven¡¯t learned the two major questions, after deducting and rounding it up, it¡¯s almost a full mark, right ba.¡±


    Lin Jing¡¯s hands paused and looked up at him, ¡°Ji XingLing, you are here to comfort me, right?¡±


    ¡°¡­¡­¡± What¡¯s wrong! I couldn¡¯t ma! A test score of 57 couldn¡¯t comfort a test score of 127!


    ¡°I don¡¯t feel that I have poor grades.¡± Lin Jing put down the pen, ¡°Also, after I just finished copying these, I will help you by looking through your test papers. You didn¡¯t do well on the math test this time. It is because you have wasted 20 minutes of test time, so I will take responsibility for it.¡±


    Ji XingLing was alert, ¡°How are you going to be responsible?¡± Absolutely don¡¯t say that you have to go to Niu WeiDong, to use reason to make him understand, also to make him emotionally moved, so he would apply for a separate exam for me to test.


    ¡°I will find three nights a week of time to help you by tutoring you in math, and I will definitely have you reach 80 points in the midterm exam.¡± Little Teacher Lin had initially intended to say that he would be guaranteed to pass the exam. Still, after considering the students¡¯ current¡­ incredibly tragic level, he decided that it was better to deduct 10 points.


    Ji XingLing: ?


    No way ba, mathematics was the same as Mr. Li¡¯s Hong Kong Star pompadour haircut, which was all very spicy to the eyes2. I think 57 was already fine.


    Just when he was about to find an excuse to refuse, the classroom was in turmoil once again Ò» Hou YueTao, who just went to the head office, had brought back the political and historical test papers, saying that the teacher would deliver it down first and further elaborate on it in class tomorrow.


    Ji XingLing, ¡°¡­¡±


    Lin Jing patted him on the shoulder, ¡°Wait. I¡¯ll get your test papers.¡±


    The Xuezha public image couldn¡¯t collapse, and never took the initiative to look at the results.


    In this regard, the burden of the Brother Xing idol¡¯s baggage3had reached 1,500 tons.


    The surroundings of the podium were so packed and in a complete mess, with the test papers were also constantly flying out. The boys who finally got their test papers, turned their heads, and when they saw that Lin Jing and Li MoYuan were standing side by side behind them, suddenly the drama addiction attacked. They pinched their throats and shouted like eunuchs, indicating that the losers in front were all to be out of the way and let the Xueba come first.


    Ji XingLing propped an arm on the desk, while absent-mindedly scrolling his smartphone. Ge Hao, who stood behind him, looked at it for a moment, and asked inexplicably, ¡°Brother Xing, this page is already on the last page. Why do you keep refreshing it repeatedly?¡±


    ¡°¡­¡±


    Go bloom your flowers!


    After a while, Lin Jing came back with the test papers of the two of them, and without keeping him in suspense, ¡°Your total score is over four hundred.¡±


    Ji XingLing stroked his chin, as he refrained himself as best as he could without showing delightfulness overflowing from his face, ¡°Oh.¡±


    ¡°Really, you get 172 points, and the total score was just 420.¡± Lin Jing passed him the test paper, ¡°Next time you can get 500 points, when you get a better score in math.¡±


    Although this sentence was obviously mostly a component of encouragement, next time I would say whether English would be so lucky or not, Brother Xing still felt very happy. He arbitrarily held the paper in his hand and asked, ¡°What about your score?¡±


    ¡°252.¡±


    ¡°What about Li MoYuan¡¯s score ne?¡±


    ¡°247.¡±


    Good mood +1.


    Little Teacher Lin wouldn¡¯t lose.


    When school was over, the grade list had been posted. Li MoYuan ranked first place in the whole grade with a total score of 672 points. This time, Lin Jing didn¡¯t participate in the ranking because he was a transfer student. Wang HongYu was very sorry for this. He rambled about it for a long time in the office. If he had known earlier that the application was made in advance, it was completely unnecessary to not be put into the ranking list ma. Otherwise, our class would account for half of the top ten this time.


    Hu MeiMei also received the exam results from the school. When she looked at 420, her face was beamed with joy, as she couldn¡¯t wait for her son to go home; she called him while he was still on the way home. After five minutes of eloquent boasting, she remembered and asked, ¡°How many points do Xiao Jing¡¯s get in the test?¡±


    ¡°654, ranked among the top ten in the whole grade.¡± Ji XingLing added promptly after saying that, ¡°But he hasn¡¯t learned two major mathematics problems at all, which was beyond the scope of the current syllabus. Otherwise, he must get 150, and his total score will be slightly higher than Li MoYuan.¡±


    As expected, Hu MeiMei praised, ¡°That¡¯s really amazing.¡±


    Because of Little Teacher Lin had scrupulously in safeguarding to maintain Young Master Ji eight-grader syndrome of ¡°Never studied, didn¡¯t care about scores at all, but could seriously make progress despite taking the exams casually¡± all the way, that¡¯s why Young Master Ji¡¯s public persona had never collapsed. So, in turn, Ji XingLing conscientiously repeatedly emphasized that ¡°He hasn¡¯t learned that mathematics. Otherwise, he definitely got 150¡±, so Lin Jing¡¯s image in the eyes of the parents of the community first and foremost had always been a reliable and experienced one.


    It was deeply touching where they both helped each other.

 CH 15

    Ji XingLing, I think you are really amazing ah!


    In order to express her gratitude, Hu MeiMei originally planned to invite Lin Jing to have a meal at home, but when she came knocking on the door, and only to find out that 1302 had a guest¡ª they were a gentle-looking couple.


    ¡°They are Dr. Lin¡¯s friends in Jincheng. They especially come to see Xiao Jing tonight.¡± Jiang FenFang smiled and invited, ¡°I have cooked plenty of dishes. Does Mrs. Ji want to come to join us for a meal together? It just so happens that Mr. Liu¡¯s son is also in the third year of high school in ShanHai. Let the children talk about their studies.¡±


    When the two were talking, Liu Xu happened to come out of the kitchen with fruits. He was wearing a pair of silver-framed glasses. His figure was tall and thin, and his hair was light reddish-brown, which was the most popular color among the little stars nowadays. Hu MeiMei immediately got the impression. She had seen a photo on the Hall of Fame last year when the parent meeting was held. At that time, there was an excellent student¡¯s testimonies under their pictures. Others are like ¡°Someday, with my sail piercing the clouds; I will mount the wind, break the waves, and traverse the vast, rolling sea¡±1, only the red-haired boy was quirky, that he had come out with an unconventional quote as ¡°Our school does not allow hair dyeing, it is natural¡±, which had attracted many parents to laugh and take pictures of it.


    Hu MeiMei had no interest in ¡°dining with stranger couples¡±, but once the ¡°stranger couples¡± had preceded by a definite attribution, which it became ¡°stranger couples who have cultivated outstanding student representatives.¡± Then let alone one meal, ten meals were also completely OK.


    In 1301¡¯s living room, Ji XingLing was lying on the couch while playing games, with one of his feet stepped on the armrest and the backrest with the other leg, which vividly interpreted to what is meant by ¡°just sprawled about and loafed about.¡± In fact, the Young Master had just scored a glorious four hundred points in the test. Well, by rights, it seems as though he ought to play with his smartphone arrogantly for a while, so he did not even rectify his pose promptly, when he heard the door ring afterward. As a result, he successfully greeted with a good admonish right to his face, ¡°Ji Xing Ling, you see what you look like now. It¡¯s fine if you can¡¯t get on the honor list. Why can¡¯t you even sit properly?¡±


    ¡°¡­¡±


    Brother Xing silently sat up straight, while he was infuriated that the shelf life of 400 points was outrageously short.


    What kind of phony feeling of filial love of mother-son relationship is this?


    ¡°Get up, change your clothes and follow me to 1302 for dinner.¡± Hu MeiMei ordered, ¡°It just so happened that Xiao Jing¡¯s friend is also there. I heard that he is a top student in ShanHai third grade of Senior High School. Be sure to listen carefully to others¡¯ learning experiences.¡±


    Ji XingLing lay back on the couch in seconds, ¡°I won¡¯t go, don¡¯t know him.¡±


    ¡°It¡¯s true that you don¡¯t know each other, and you are not at the same level.¡± Hu MeiMei kicked his slippers over, ¡°Do you still want five hundred monster coins?¡±


    Precision strikes.


    The deposit for the fat grocery owner had been paid, and he had a huge debt and couldn¡¯t get on the honor list. After scoring four hundred points in the test, he started playing games. Anyway, he didn¡¯t want to rest on his laurels. He had utterly no human rights¡­ monster rights, also didn¡¯t have the qualification to bargain, so he could only obediently hold the red wine and desserts to go next door to receive the influence of Xueba.


    The dining table was vivacious.


    Uncle Liu¡¯s name was Liu DaQi. He and his wife Lu Yu were college classmates. They get married after graduation and work in the same unit. They were standard model couples. It was just that their working place was too solemn and serious. JinCheng Oriental Funeral Home was not suitable for the topic of conversation. So the topics of several parents¡¯ talks have been around the advice on learning improvement throughout the whole process. Liu Xu had already won the first physics province in his second year of high school, and he joined the provincial team smoothly at the start of the third year of high school. According to the policy of unconditional reduction of points, he could enter Tsinghua University as long as he can pass the first line. Hu MeiMei first gave a proper compliment, and then asked, ¡°Then where do you live?¡±


    Ji XingLing was wary, ¡°Mom!¡±


    Don¡¯t say you were going to move again.


    ¡°It¡¯s at the Jiangnan Coast, that¡¯s across here.¡± Lu Yu said with a smile, ¡°We should have come to see Xiao Jing earlier, but Xiao Xu said that the entrance exam will be coming soon and he won¡¯t let us bother his younger brother, so it has been delayed until today.¡±


    Jiangnan Coast and Jiang¡¯An ShuYuan were separated by a road, and both belong to the guardian of Baize Lion. There was no expectation for her son to get five hundred by moving house. Hu MeiMei could only pin her hopes on Little Teacher Lin again.


    ¡°Actually¡ª¡± Lin Jing originally wanted to say that, in fact, Ji XingLing was stil very diligent. He had been stayed up late to recite the text for a few days before the exam, and he had not been idle, but then he remembered in time that Liu Xu was at the dinner table, so he promptly shut his mouth and calmly changed the topic, ¡°The ribs are delicious, you should eat some more.¡±


    Ji XingLing was absent-minded, uninterested, as he crunched on those tiny bones.


    If he knew that it would be so damn dull, he might as well go out to have a barbecue with Yu YiZhou.


    However, Ji XingLing just remembered another thing, at the mention of barbecue. After dinner, the parents sat in the living room chatting. He leaned against the study cabinet, ¡°Hey, on Friday night, the whole class will have dinner together. It¡¯s at the barbecue restaurant in the back alley. Remember to spare your time for it.¡±


    ¡°Is this Friday?¡± Lin Jing checked his smartphone, ¡°but I¡¯m going to Jincheng University to listen to a literature lecture. I have already signed up, and it starts at 7:30.¡±


    ¡°¡­¡±


    ¡°Otherwise, I won¡¯t go to the barbecue.¡± Lin Jing continued, ¡°If the whole class is going by AA system2, then I will transfer the money to the class monitor tomorrow. Next time, I will definitely go.¡±


    ¡°Forget it. It¡¯s my treat.¡± Ji XingLing put the book in his hand back to its place, as he felt a little bored, ¡°Go back to sleep first.¡±


    ¡°So early?¡±


    ¡°Sleepy.¡±


    Young Master Ji inserted one of his hands into his pocket, with the corners of his eyes drooped slightly, as lazy and inattentive as ever. Lin Jing sent him out; when he returned to the study room, Liu Xu asked him, ¡°After you¡¯re transferred, have you invited the whole class to eat ma?¡±


    Lin Jing was taken aback, ¡°No, why?¡±


    ¡°Why else can this be?¡± Liu Xu was amused. ¡°After the school transfer, treating each other to have a meal can strengthen mutual affections. In fact, even if you invite the whole class, not all the people in the class can go too. At most, only a dozen or twenty people are willing to join in the fun. But they are all active members in the class, and getting acquainted with this group of people will help you accelerate your integration into the group.¡±


    Lin Jing had never thought about this before, but through this reminder, he also felt that now he is still a bit of an intruder in class 2-1. Although he would not be isolated, but according to the sentence of ¡°President Li must-win glory for ShanHai¡± in the English class. It was as Miss Ning said that, 80% of Lin Jing registered permanent residence was still placed in NingCheng No.3 High School.


    ¡°I have to go home too.¡± Liu Xu exhorted, ¡°If you really don¡¯t have to listen to that lecture, you¡¯d better go to have a barbecue with your classmates ba. Anyway, there¡¯s definitely no loss to you either.¡±


    Lin Jing nodded, ¡°Okay.¡±


    ¡­


    Ji XingLing, who had thrown himself onto the massage chair with a lollipop dangled from his mouth, was playing a game with Yu YiZhou. He was in poor condition tonight, which caused his teammates into bleeding madly3, and the voice in the headset was noisy and frantic, ¡°Wocao, brother, what¡¯s wrong with you, left side, left side, you¡¯re on ah¡­ me, me, bro, that¡¯s me!¡±


    Lin Jing patted him on the shoulder, ¡°Ji XingLing.¡±


    A person appeared in the room out of thin air. The level of horror was close to Sadako from the Ring movie. Young Master Ji was so frightened that his smartphone almost covered his face.


    ¡°When did you come in?!¡±


    ¡°A minute ago, Auntie opened the door for me.¡± Lin Jing explained, ¡°I called two-three times, and you didn¡¯t hear it because you were wearing headphones.¡±


    ¡°What¡¯s the matter?¡± Ji XingLing stood up.


    ¡°I¡¯m not going to the lecture anymore. Add me to the barbecue list on Friday.¡± Lin Jing asked, ¡°The list shouldn¡¯t have been handed in yet, right?¡±


    ¡°What the hell is an official list for? It¡¯s a class get-together meal. Whoever wants to go, they only need to remain after school.¡± Ji XingLing rubbed his nose, ¡°Old Hou is in charge of booking the place, then I will let Yu YiZhou tell him tomorrow.¡±


    ¡°Okay.¡±


    After a while.


    ¡°Ji XingLing, do you often invite the whole class to a meal?¡±


    ¡°¡­Why should I invite the whole class to a meal so often?¡±


    ¡°Just asking.¡± Lin Jing glanced at the smartphone on the couch, ¡°Then, you resume playing your games. See you tomorrow.¡±


    The teammates in the public in-game chat room were still frantically insulting people verbally, and it was the younger brothers who were suddenly suspended in the middle of the insults. Ji XingLing had simply logged out immediately without ethics and lacking in moral character. When he looked up and found that Lin Jing was still standing at the door. There were alarm bells suddenly ringing in his head. Was it possible that you would give me a math make-up lesson now?


    Little Teacher Lin pondered carefully for a long time. He felt as if there was something that he had forgotten, but no matter what, he couldn¡¯t remember it, so he asked, ¡°Ji XingLing, do you think there is still anything else that you haven¡¯t done?¡±


    Young Master Ji was at a loss, ¡°What kind of baiting questions is this?¡±


    ¡°Nevermind, maybe I¡¯m dizzy tonight.¡± Lin Jing kneaded his temple, ¡°Then Good night, also, thank you for the barbecue.¡±


    ¡°Don¡¯t mention it.¡± The tone was very calm and bland.


    That night, Little Teacher Lin was upset and anxious, until before he was going to bed, he still kept thinking about what kind of unfortunate thing that he had forgotten in the corner.


    And this question was not solved until the next day¡¯s English self-study.


    Miss Ning stood on the podium, ¡°Ji XingLing, are you ready? Come to the podium, when you¡¯re ready.¡±


    There was a ¡°boom¡± sound in Lin Jing¡¯s mind!


    I¡¯m screwed. It was an English learning experience.


    Ji XingLing, ¡°¡­¡±


    Since he honestly didn¡¯t have any earth-shattering wonderful methods to share, he had to confess truthfully, ¡°I am making a wild guess.¡±


    The class roared and laughed, and Ning FangFei also bent over and laughed for quite a while, ¡°Even wild guessing, you should also explain to the classmates specifically on how you make a wild guess, and strive to give me the first place average score in English like Chinese in the midterm.¡±


    I don¡¯t know which bastard who started it; the crackling applause sounded enthusiastic, and didn¡¯t stop for quite a long time, as it was similar to the jubilation of New Year. Ji XingLing choked wordlessly, no, he was fucking serious on made a wild guess, so what the hell were you guys cheering for. Yu YiZhou, I dare you to make your voice louder. Yu YiZhou was laughing, while leaning back heavily against the chair.


    The scene was out of control for a while, and in the end, Ji XingLing still had to rely on Little Teacher Lin to take personal charge of the matter to rescue him.


    Seeing Lin Jing had raised his hand, Ning FangFei nodded and motioned, ¡°You say.¡±


    ¡°Teacher, Ji XingLing doesn¡¯t seem to have really studied hard. I often see him go downstairs to play ball at night.¡± Lin Jing stood up, ¡°On the day of the exam, when I looked at the reading comprehension and composition, outside the examination room. He came over and asked me about how to answer the question, so we talked about it for a few minutes.¡±


    Ning FangFei was a little surprised, ¡°Do you live together?¡±


    ¡°Neighbors, often drop by.¡±


    ¡°Then you can replace him to share the answering method with everyone.¡± As expected, Ning FangFei had let him go, ¡°Ji XingLing, you should return to your seat first ba, and you must maintain this score next time.¡±


    Lin Jing was empty-handed on the podium. Although he wasn¡¯t prepared, his English answering skills could still be casually be dragged on for a full ten minutes. After the class was over, many classmates ran over to ask in detail. Ji XingLing finally found the opportunity to hand him a bottle of water, ¡°Thanks.¡±


    ¡°You¡¯re welcome.¡± There were a lot of people around the seat. Lin Jing thought for a while, and suddenly said sincerely, ¡°Ji XingLing, I think you are truly awesome. Really, I have never seen anyone who can get nice several more points in the test, just by only studying for more than ten minutes, which is amazing ah.¡±


    Your Brother Xing:?


    There was no need to be so boasting and exaggerating.

 CH 16

    Little Teacher Lin¡¯s cram school was a class with quality and conscience.


    Young Master Ji was already famous in ShanHai, coupled with Lin Jing¡¯s exaggeration that seemed to be quite an excessively force blow, by the time the school was over in the afternoon, Ji XingLing¡¯s mighty deeds of ¡°study for ten minutes before the exam, and the result suddenly soaring by a hundred points after the exam¡± was spreading like wildfire throughout the grade, and, what¡¯s more, the rumor tended to become more and more uproarious.


    ¡°Ji XingLing can get the result of four hundred in the exam just by a slight bit of studying!¡±


    ¡°Ji XingLing can achieve four hundred points in the exam without studying!¡±


    ¡°Ji XingLing can get any hundred scores as long as he wants it!¡±


    ¡°¡­¡±


    It was so develop, till later on, even Yu YiZhou was a bit baffled, and made a special trip to run over to ask Ji XingLing about it, ¡°Are you making a brand new public image?¡±


    ¡°This public image, I give it to you if you want it?¡± Ji XingLing propped his head with one hand, not wanting to explain even a word, ¡°Forget it, just shut up ba.¡±


    The next day, Ge Hao reported, ¡°Brother Xing, now everyone is saying that it¡¯s useless to learn from Li MoYuan before the exam. They should learn from you.¡±


    Ji XingLing, ¡°?¡±


    Ge Hao continued to explain, ¡°Because if you want to get President Li¡¯s results, it requires a cumulative process over time, but you are different. You are an overnight instant result.¡±


    The upstart often sounded like they needed to be more time-saving and labor-saving, also a little sudden windfall that descended from the sky, which was in line with the reasonable expectations of the broad masses of people who wanted to gain benefit from it without putting the effort in.


    Yu YiZhou, ¡°Hahahahahahahaha¡­¡±


    Ji XingLing was listless; what the fuck were you laughing at.


    Thus it proved that Little Teacher Lin¡¯s after-sales service was too satisfactory, which was also a problem.


    After school on Friday, there were 17 or 18 people left in the classroom, half boys and half girls, just as Liu Xu said, they were all active members in the class. They already start chattering while on the way to the barbecue restaurant.


    ¡°Hey, have you heard that? Our school is going to change to a new vice-chancellor.¡±


    ¡°Change then change ba. The vice-chancellor doesn¡¯t teach the class himself.¡±


    ¡°But he is from the No.9 High School. The Academic Affairs office of the No.9 High School is super abnormal ba. If nothing else, I think we will have to say goodbye to our smartphones soon.¡±


    There was wailing at the scene, but Lin Jing did not understand, ¡°What happened to the No.9 High School?¡±


    ¡°The No.9 High School and ShanHai are the two best high schools in Jincheng, but the styles on both sides are not the same.¡± Li MoYuan explained, ¡°The No.9 High School is extremely strict, and in the first year of high school, the students are required to live in the school and, while also have evening self-study classes1, almost semi-militarized, while on the other side, we are a bit more relaxed. But to be honest, ShanHai¡¯s college entrance examination scores in the past two years are not as good as those of the opposite. So maybe the principal from No.9 High School has to transfer to our school to improve the scores.¡±


    ¡°I see ah.¡± Lin Jing didn¡¯t have much reaction to this. Anyway, whether there was a smartphone or not, it was the same for learning. Even if the management was strict, someone still could also skip a few lessons ¡ªalthough sitting in the classroom didn¡¯t mean that you truly listened. But it could be considered as having received a bit of knowledge, which was beneficial and harmless.


    So he asked, ¡°When will the new principal come?¡±


    ¡°After the sports meeting ba.¡± Luo LinSi butting in, ¡°My dad isn¡¯t quite sure right now, but it should be


    pretty much around that time.¡±


    Ji XingLing was still chatting with Yu YiZhou, and didn¡¯t realize that Little Teacher Lin was already planning a new round of tutoring plans with great pride. The newly-opened barbecue restaurant in the back alley was huge. The boss had difficulty walking, as he limped a little while walking. His appearance resembled that upright mafia big brother, as his personality was also very much similar to that respectable mafia big brother attitude. He himself had personally grilled the skewers while shirtless. Furthermore, he also took advantage to clinked a few glasses with the little brothers, when he came to serve the dishes.


    ¡°You are all minors ba, so I can¡¯t sell beers to you all, since you are all underage.¡± With his tongue out, the Boss gulped the beer straight to the bottom at one glance. ¡°It would be best if you obeyed human¡­ No, obey the law, obey the law, and protect the minors. Come on. I¡¯ll give you some squeezed watermelon juice instead.¡±


    Ge Hao shifted closer, and stealthily secretly lowered his voice, ¡°Brother Xing, was he just about to say that he should abide by the laws of mankind?¡±


    Ji XingLing made an ¡°uh-huh¡± sound, then said, ¡°It¡¯s a one-legged bird.¡±


    Ge Hao asked in surprise, ¡°How do you know it?¡±


    ¡°Guessing.¡± Ji XingLing said, ¡°There always have one-legged birds nearby school. Before, one just had moved away.¡±


    TuoFei2could help the underage monsters to keep them away from the fight. So the school authorities were also willing to give them preferential policies, which the surrounding good shops were all handed over to this group to operate. It was regarded as mutually beneficial.


    There were rather a lot of customers in the restaurant on Friday, and several waiters were extremely busy. Lin Jing, who had kept in mind Liu Xu¡¯s advice that he needed to ¡°make a good relationship with his classmates¡±, so he voluntarily took on the task of going to the kitchen to rush them up to make and serve the dishes. As soon as Lin Jing lifted the curtain, he was stunned, when he saw a giant downy bird was squatting in the backyard.


    ¡°Student, how did you get in here¡­ No, why did you come to the back kitchen?¡± The boss¡¯ madam appeared quickly, as she affectionately held him on the shoulder and brought him back to the restaurant. ¡°That¡¯s a fresh ostrich which has just been delivered. Do you eat it? If you eat it, I will sharpen the knife right about now.¡±


    The Boss, Tuofei, was drunk, ¡°¡­¡±


    Lin Jing hastily refused. He thought it was alive and well now, so it was better to raise it for two more days.


    Luo LinSi asked curiously, ¡°What are you two talking about?¡±


    ¡°Oh, I just saw an ostrich in the backyard. It¡¯s rather big.¡± Lin Jing gestured, ¡°It¡¯s bigger than the one in the zoo.¡±


    ¡°Wow!¡± The girls stood up one after another, ¡°Let¡¯s go see it too.¡±


    The boss¡¯ madam, ¡°?¡±


    She hurriedly blocked the door, ¡°Better not ba, Xiao Sun, Xiao Sun, hurry up and secure the damn bird which is your dad¡­ bought, and don¡¯t let it bite the students!¡±


    Xiao Sun, who seemed to be only seven or eight years old, was leaning on the back of the cash register while doing his homework. He was foolish-lookingly and was slow to act. Before he walked to the backyard with his short legs, a few boys in the class who liked Luo LinSi had already helped and swarmed the girls to burst through towards the madam¡¯s blockade. It was to show that everyone just needed to watch and leave everything to the boys, who could undertake all the things, with our (the boys) protection, there was no problem even if ten ostriches had rushed over.


    When Ji XingLing came back from the bathroom, and found the seat was half empty, he inexplicably asked, ¡°Where have the people gone?¡±


    ¡°They went to see an ostrich in the backyard.¡± Lin Jing pointed at the back, ¡°It¡¯s a big one, but it looks a little strange. Do you want to see it too ma?¡±


    Ji XingLing, ¡°¡­¡±


    Wocao!


    He ran off at once to the backyard, only to bump right into Yu YiZhou, who was just walking back from the backyard. The other party gave a piteous cried, while squatting on the ground, and clutching his nose, with tears that were about to burst out, ¡°Why the fuck are you going looking at an ostrich so enthusiastically?¡±


    Young Master Ji couldn¡¯t care less about comforting Hupeng-gouyou3for the time being, so he continued to run outside the door to see, when he stepped into the yard and found it that it was really an ostrich, which was standing motionless, and its eyes both blurred with sleep, also had two muscular, strong solid legs.


    ¡­


    Fortunately, it was merely a false alarm.


    When he returned to the restaurant¡¯s private room, Yu YiZhou was covered with the ice pack. His voice was trembling, with an expression that was complicated and not easy to express succinctly, ¡°You really don¡¯t care about me. Did you run to see the ostrich yourself?¡±


    The fragile friendship was once again cruelly tested. The Young Master Ji coughed twice and clapped his two palms together as a symbolic way to apologize. Then he took the time to drag Ge Hao aside, ¡°What¡¯s going on?¡±


    ¡°It¡¯s an ostrich, not a Tuofei.¡± Ge Hao whispered, ¡°I thought it was the barbecue restaurant owner who drank too much, so I was shocked.¡±


    In the backyard, the boss¡¯ madam looked at the ostrich in front of her, and asked in horror, ¡°Old Sun, you, you, why have you become like this?¡±


    Tuofei Boss was tipsy, ¡°Huh?¡±


    ¡°Did you know that you had turned into an ostrich?¡±


    The boss looked down at himself, feeling perplexed, ¡°What ostrich, am I not still me?¡±


    ¡°But what I see here, you are an ostrich ah!¡±


    ¡°Are you sure you aren¡¯t already reaching an old age that you are dim-sighted?¡±


    ¡°Sun ZhiFu, do you want a divorce!¡±


    A few minutes later, the barrier floating in the air was erratic, then fluttered and was blown away by the wind.


    Revealed that boss Tuofei was still that cool single-footed boss, and had not become an edible ostrich.


    The boss¡¯ madam breathed a sigh of relief, ¡°¡­You haven¡¯t changed, but who created the illusion just now?¡±


    ¡°I don¡¯t know ah.¡± The boss wasn¡¯t fully somber yet, ¡°Which life coach happens to be nearby? You know, the one that has an obligation to protect the physical and mental health of the underage human monster.¡±


    ¡°What human monster, it¡¯s an underage human and an underage monster, so Old Sun, if you ever drink during working hours, our business license will be confiscated, don¡¯t you know it!¡±


    ¡°Yes, yes, yes, I know, I know, I won¡¯t drink, I won¡¯t drink anymore.¡±


    In order to successfully cover this incident, the boss¡¯s madam also specially purchased a batch of expensive ostrich meat online to add to the new menu, to show that they really had this stuff, and the squatting scumbag was not my husband. However, a few days later, Old Sun¡¯s barbecue shop still received a rectification notice from the Office of Industry and Commerce of the Monster Management Committee, which began with the words ¡°According to the public¡¯s anonymous report¡± and so on and so forth, with the fine needed to be paid up within a three days deadline.


    Boss Toufei was furious, ¡°It wasn¡¯t even brought to light. Why should we get fined? Which people who are so bored that need to snitch, I want to complain!¡±


    ¡°Sun ZhiFu, do you have any face that you have the right to complain about? All the fine this time will be deducted from your pocket money!¡±


    ¡°¡­¡±


    However, fortunately, Old Sun¡¯s barbecue restaurant was good and inexpensive, and the business was booming. The place was booked out early for the November holiday, and it shouldn¡¯t take long to earn back the loss.


    The holiday schedule of ShanHai High School has also been posted. Except for the third year of high school, all other grades have eight full vacation days. Ji XingLing was going back to his hometown to celebrate his elders¡¯ birthday, while Lin Jing, who had no plans, intended to seize the time to study, just to make up for the mathematics that had fallen behind.


    Ji XingLing couldn¡¯t understand, ¡°You won¡¯t go anywhere? And you will stay at home only, and look at mathematics for eight days?¡±


    Lin Jing, ¡°Is there a problem ma?¡±


    ¡°No problem.¡± Little Teacher Lin was great, and Little Teacher Lin was fucking awesome.


    ¡°Then I¡¯m going home.¡± Lin Jing packed up the papers, ¡°You go to bed early.¡±


    ¡°Hey, wait a minute.¡± Ji XingLing stopped him, then rummaged through the drawer for a long time, and finally fished out a ticket, ¡°Didn¡¯t you want to go to Jincheng University to listen to the lecture before ma? I have a ticket for the musical, which is also in the auditorium. I give this to you.¡±


    The musical¡¯s title was ¡°Fairy Mountain Village¡±, which was said to have fantastic vivid visual effects, and it had recently been so hyped up that it had become so hard to get the ticket. Lin Jing asked, ¡°Why don¡¯t you go?¡±


    ¡°I¡¯m going back to my hometown.¡± Ji XingLing said, ¡°stay with (maternal) grandpa for a few days.¡±


    ¡°Alright, I won¡¯t insist and take it then, thank you.¡± Lin Jing used WeChat to transfer the par price to him, ¡°Accept it.¡±


    ¡°This was given to my dad by someone else, and I am not an inter-dealer broker.¡± Ji XingLing leaned on the table, ¡°Well, you don¡¯t need to pay for it. Count it as you owe me a meal.¡±


    ¡°¡­Okay then.¡± Lin Jing held the book, ¡°See you after the National Day holiday.¡±


    Before leaving the house, he added, ¡°Oh, yes, I will send you the homework later. Remember to download and print it out.¡±


    Brother Xing was not only confused, but also said aloud, ¡°What homework?¡±


    ¡°Mathematics and English. The papers that the teacher issued are a bit difficult for you, so I searched for a few suitable sets for you.¡±


    ¡°¡­It¡¯s too much for me to finish!¡±


    ¡°You only need to finish the one that I assigned to you.¡±


    ¡°What about the homework that Mr. Li and Teacher Ning assigned?¡±


    ¡°I¡¯ll do it. You can come back on the 7th ba, and finish copying them in one night.¡±


    ¡°You honor student, how can you instigate others to copy homework!¡±


    ¡°Ji XingLing, which of your previous homework that you did not make a last-minute copying!¡±


    ¡°¡­¡±


    ¡°Don¡¯t even think of being lazy!¡±


    Little Teacher Lin¡¯s cram school was a quality class, also a responsible class.


    It¡¯s a promise that under Little Teacher Lin¡¯s instruction, he will ensure Ji XingLing would have achieved a result of four hundred. It¡¯s safe, reliable, and trustworthy.


    Hu MeiMei, who had used it, had found it to be good and praised it.

 CH 17

    The questions are too easy, and Brother Xing is swelling!


    During the National Day holiday, Dr. Lin and his wife were transferred by the hospital to a remote mountainous area clinic for free consultations. They couldn¡¯t fly to JinCheng in person. They could only make a video call to their son every night to remind him not to be bored at home all day long, or to go out and walk around more.


    ¡°I know. I¡¯ll go to JinCheng University to watch the musical tonight.¡± Lin Jing said, ¡°It¡¯s the most recent super-popular ¡®Fairy Mountain Village¡¯. The ticket was given by the classmates.¡±


    ¡°Are you alone?¡± Mrs. Lin interrogated, ¡°What time does it end? Is it safe?¡±


    ¡°It¡¯s safe. Aunt Jiang will come to pick me up.¡± In fact, a 16 or 17-year-old boy could already completely pretend to be an adult and did not need a parent to pick him up and walk the night. Still, even though he couldn¡¯t stand it because he had ethical consciousness ¡ª Lin Jing had repeatedly attempted to refuse and could only accept.


    ¡°It just so happens that the night market near Jincheng University is very famous, and we can go to have a late-night snack together after.¡±


    Dr. Lin was initially brushing his teeth. When he heard his son say this, he immediately took a gargle cup to wash it away, and then forced himself into the screen, ¡°The night market is full of junk food and illegal additives; also the E. coli there must exceed the standard, and you are not allowed to eat. After watching the musical, go home, let Aunt Jiang stew some soup for you, otherwise don¡¯t watch the musical. Just hear the name of this fairy, you will know that the content is shallow. Dad will give you some in-depth lectures¡­hiss!¡±


    ¡°Old Lin, how come you have so much nonsense!¡± Mother Lin pulled his ear to give him an earful, ¡°My son only occasionally eats at the night market and watches a musical. I think it¡¯s a good thing to relax his nervous brain.¡±


    ¡°Shang WeiWei, as a doctor, how can you keep such sharp nails!¡±


    ¡°In order to pinch you, I just cut it five minutes ago.¡±


    ¡°¡­¡±


    Lin Jing put the phone on the bracket, and while packing his school bag, he listened to the quarrel between the two people on the other side ¡ªthe kind of flirtation of argument.


    ¡°Mommy, daddy, then I¡¯m going out.¡±


    ¡°Go ahead.¡± Mother Lin threw her husband aside and waved her hand lovingly, ¡°Be careful on the road. Your father and I will also move to JinCheng as soon as possible.¡±


    ¡­


    There were beasts in the mountains of Qingqiu, which resembled foxes with nine tails.


    In the evening, the fog filled the whole mountain and forest, allowing the petals also to glaze in translucent dew.


    Ji XingLing, who was lying on the grass in the moonlight, with an expressionless face, and under his crooked arms, chest, and legs, all lying down the fluffy nine-tailed fox cubs.


    Rolled down for a moment.


    A moment later, the cubs climbed up again.


    It rolled on again in a moment.


    When one tiny paw ignorantly stepped straight on the young master¡¯s nose, he finally reached the limit of his patience. He dragged over the big bamboo basket to put these distant little brothers into it, and hugged them back to the old mansion like a baby chick, ¡°Mom, I¡¯m going to go do my homework!¡±


    Hu MeiMei was chatting with a room full of nine-tailed fox sisters. After hearing this, she asked in surprise, ¡°Didn¡¯t you just finish it?¡±


    ¡°There are still papers that Lin Jing gave me without writing in English.¡± Ji XingLing said, ¡°Then I will go to study first.¡±


    ¡°Wow! Xiao Xing loves to study so much now ah.¡±


    ¡°Yes, I won¡¯t play with my little brothers anymore.¡±


    ¡°He has grown up and is sensible.¡±


    ¡°Indeed, handsome and well-behaved he is.¡±


    The praise and envy came without any hint of warning. Hu MeiMei was surrounded by the crowd¡­ in the middle of the fox group, for the first time in her life to possess that legendary ¡°son of someone else¡¯s family¡±, she was temporarily dazzled by immense joy, and didn¡¯t slow down for a long time.


    Qingqiu had no wifi, and the mobile phone signal was also very weak. It seems that it could only rely on studying to kill time.


    Ji XingLing sat in front of the desk lamp, writing and scribbling on the test paper one after another without a moment¡¯s hesitation.


    The questions that Lin Jing picked out were elementary, and it was barely enough for the basic entry side, and even the scum of the bottom of the grade could brush down without pressure. Little Teacher Lin probably wanted to take a step-by-step approach, first letting students enjoy the sense of accomplishment that went smoothly all the way. Still, Young Master Ji had many issues; if it was too difficult to do, he couldn¡¯t do it; if it was too simple, then it wasn¡¯t good either, and he always felt that every question was mocking his IQ in all-around aspects ¡ª I¡¯m not so bad in my studies that I don¡¯t even know what the sequence of one, three, and five is, okay!


    So Ji XingLing simply dropped the pen and didn¡¯t do it.


    Too easy!


    Brother Xing was swollen!


    The study room was filled with the smell of old sandalwood. Ji XingLing laid on the rocking chair, rocking ¡°squeak squeak¡± boringly, and rocking himself to sleepiness.


    In a daze, Little Teacher Lin suddenly pushed the door and let himself in, picked up the test paper without saying a word apart from anything else, and then criticized him with his hands on his hips after checking, ¡°Ji XingLing, why don¡¯t you even know how to do such simple math problems? Do you have any brains? Come here and copy the ninety-nine multiplication table three hundred times!¡±


    Young Master Ji was jolted up from his dream and sober on the spot.


    Wocao, it was quite a fright indeed.


    He weighed it up, between ¡°he didn¡¯t finish his homework and was ridiculed¡± and ¡°he didn¡¯t have anything to do anyway, and the question was so easy, so it was better for him to do it¡±¡­ Okay ba, let¡¯s do the homework.


    Outside the window, the stars were obscured by clouds.


    The curtain slowly rose in the JinCheng University Auditorium, and ¡°Fairy Mountain Village¡± had officially begun.


    According to the pamphlet¡¯s introduction, the entire plot of the musical would centre on the supernatural murder case, and followed a suspenseful line of reasoning. As a result, in the first minute of the opening, a group of people dressed as birds was singing. The first five minutes of the opening were still the same scene.


    The ten minutes of the opening.


    Fifteen minutes.


    ¡­


    Lin Jing was drowsily lulled by the song, and the elder brother next to him had already started snoring, while some sisters in the back row whispered complaints, what¡¯s an absurd plot? How can this be so viral?


    As soon as the voice fell, fire fell from the sky, ¡°soaring¡± the kind of fire that illuminated the entire theater.


    The audience was instantly in an uproar. The snoring big brother, who didn¡¯t know the situation, stood up in a daze and was about to run, but was angrily scolded by the aunt behind him, ¡°That bald head, sit down quickly!¡±


    ¡°¡­¡±


    The flames light passed over through the theater like a dragon, and the high-row audience could even feel the scorching heat temperature.


    The special effects were too realistic.


    Sleeping, undoubtedly, that no one would ever sleep again, and it was all replaced by thunderous applause.


    And then there would be more fantastic spectacles to play out.


    Gou Mang1hastened the birth of all things on earth.


    Huan Cat2was chanting songs in unique languages.


    Bi Fang Crane3engulfed the village with flames, and a dozen Firebirds4flew out of the thick smoke with their wings waving.


    Ji Meng5had rained down a thunderstorm.


    The gleaming ManJin Moss6 was slithering all over the stage.


    This was such a grand and eerie dream. It wasn¡¯t until the actors took turns to come out and close the curtain, that the audience finally woke up from the dream and gave them standing ovations.


    Lin Jing¡¯s seat was in the upfront row, so the shock was also the most direct. He finally figured out why netizens¡¯ comments of this musical mainly were ¡°fucking amazing¡±, ¡°must watch¡±, ¡°Stage design, I respect you as a father¡±, and the like of other passionate speeches. It turned out that it wasn¡¯t that everyone was virtuous and didn¡¯t want to give the spoiler, but after such a toss down, no one simply could remember what the plot of the play was, because their head would only be filled with special effects of the stage lighting.


    In this respect, it was indeed worth the fare.


    The security guards held seven or eight bouquets of flowers sent by the audience and went backstage to hand them over to the cast and crew. After pushing the door, the lounge was pitch black. Someone was complaining discontentedly, ¡°Why have you closed your eyes again, Torch Dragon7? I haven¡¯t finished removing the makeup.¡±


    ¡°I¡¯ve been staring at the lighting you cast for two hours today, and my eyes are aching. Let Ye Ming8 do it in your place.¡±


    ¡°Giant-Gale Bird9, what about the gale then. The stage effect is good today. Next time, continue to blow from this angle.¡±


    ¡­


    Therefore, it was very reasonable that the crew of ¡°Fairy Mountain Village¡± strictly prohibited non-staff from entering backstage.


    Otherwise, the flower-giving audience may doubt life on the spot.


    The sky was drizzling. At 10:30 in the evening, Jiang FenFang appeared at the dispersal site on time. She was holding a big umbrella in her right hand, with a thick coat under her arm, and a thermos cup in her bag. As soon as she saw Lin Jing, she rushed forward, first shook open the coat, and ¡°swoosh¡± to wrap the person tightly, and then handed the umbrella over, and finally unscrewed the lid, ¡°Come on, drink the red jujubes and white fungus soup to drive away from the cold and nourish the lungs.¡±


    The whole set of actions flowed so smoothly, and it was done in one go. Before Lin Jing realized it, the warm mouth of the cup was already on his lips.


    ¡°¡­¡±


    The night market junk food plan was brutally wrecked. Lin Jing could only drink the healthy, nourishing soup honestly, and better started to pay special attention to maintaining his good health regimen from the teenagers.


    In fact, Jiang FenFang was also very distressed. Of course, she knew that she was a bit over-spoiled her employer.


    But this was the nature of GuHuo Niao10. When it saw cute well-behaved children, it couldn¡¯t help but want to clasp them under its wings.


    On the empty street, two Hundun11 disguised as stray dogs were baring their fangs at each other. As soon as they were about to fight, and get on one of them, Jiang FenFang just simply fanned her wings, and both were tossed onto the garbage dump heap.


    Filthy, don¡¯t you scare my kid!


    With a banana peel on their heads, the Hundun dogs were stunned!


    What kind of unexpected misfortune was this? Aunty, you were having menopausal early, weren¡¯t you?


    Lin Jing was puzzled and turned back, ¡°What is that sound?¡±


    ¡°I didn¡¯t hear anything ne.¡± Aunt Jiang smiled guilelessly, ¡°Maybe the theater is too noisy, and you haven¡¯t gotten over it yet. Take a rest early tonight.¡±


    Lin Jing said, ¡°Oh¡±. While waiting for the bus, he sent a WeChat message to Ji XingLing to express his gratitude, overemphasizing that the performance was truly wonderful and the special effects of wind, rain, thunder, and lightning were astonishing.


    It was already two days later that Young Master Ji finally received his WeChat messages. As soon as he left Qingqiu, his smartphone started to prompt notifications and alert the news frantically. Yu YiZhou, Ge Hao, the class group, and other Hupeng-Gouyou12had sent messages that almost got his phone to hang, and most of them were nothing important and useless bullshit, so whether they were being read or not read were all the same. Only Little Teacher Lin was not very ruthless. He only sent two messages in seven days. One, said that the musical was wonderful, and the other was, asked questions directly to his conscience ¡ªhave you finished and done the test paper, and are there any questions that you aren¡¯t able to do?


    Ji XingLing first rapidly typed a sentence line: I finished it!


    Later then, he felt that the exclamation mark had shown how overly excited he was, which made him feel more like a fool, so he deleted that punctuation mark.


    When he looked at the words again, and still felt it was offensive to the eye, he simply cleared all of it, then replaced it with the ¡°mhm¡± word, which was cool and indifferent, also very nice and very much like Brother Xing¡¯s style.


    A few seconds later.


    Ke Da: What do you mean by ¡®mhm¡¯, Ji XingLing, you didn¡¯t do the paperwork, did you?


    How do you still look down on people ne? Xuezha also has dignity! So Ji Xing Ling rapidly refuted it: I have finished writing all of them completely!


    After pressing send, Brother Xing realized later that he was not very okay about it. Not only was there no lack of exclamation marks, but it also emphasized ¡°all completely¡±, all my ass, which seemed that I actually cared about it very much, so he was going to withdraw it again, but instead, he accidentally deleted it by hand sliding.


    ¡°¡­¡±


    Qilin was swearing.


    The phone screen was lit up again.


    Ke Da: Have you really done it all? You are so amazing!


    Ji XingLing was so embarrassed that his scalp exploded, and he sincerely doubted whether the other party had a wholesale box of ¡°You are so amazing¡± cards, or else how he could throw that soulless one on his face without any conscience nor feeling every now and then.


    ¡°Lin Jing, if you are talking deliberately ambiguous, I will delete you from being my friends!¡±


    ¡°I can¡¯t praise you ma!¡±


    ¡°Are there any people who praise like you ma!¡±


    ¡°Then how shall I praise?¡±


    ¡°You are not allowed to praise!¡±


    ¡°¡­¡­okay then.¡±


    Anyway, Little Teacher Lin was not able to exaggerate his true feelings when facing 400 points, which was Ji XingLing.


    ¡°You already got off the plane ba. What time will you come home?¡±


    ¡°What do you want again?¡±


    ¡°You are coming to my house to copy the homework, aren¡¯t you?¡±


    ¡°¡­Copy, be there in half an hour.¡±


    ¡°Then I¡¯ll wait for you.¡±


    Ji XingLing hung up the phone, then dragged over his schoolbag, and touched a pack of tissues, then he felt that something was off.


    Two minutes later, he slowly turned his head, ¡°Mom, where are my printed papers ne?¡±


    ¡°How would I know?¡± Hu MeiMei was confused when asked, ¡°You sure that you weren¡¯t pretending when you said you did it?¡±


    Ji XingLing, ¡°¡­¡±


    I really fucking had finished them all!


    The author has something to say: ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª


    The basic introduction of the Monster Opera Troupe

 CH 18

    Ji XingLing, let me treat you to an expensive meal!


    There was only one landline had been installed in the entire Qingqiu¡¯s old mansion, and it was in the living room. After receiving the call, the housekeeper went to the study room to look for it. When he got there, he saw seventeen to eighteen little cubs were frolicking and rolling on the ground, surrounded by fragments of test papers like snow, that spread and filled in a thick layer.


    A group of elders shifted the blame onto one another, and finally, the fox (maternal) grandma tottered to pick up the telephone receiver, ¡°Well, Xiao Xing ah¡­¡±


    At eight o¡¯clock in the evening, the car was parked steadily at Jiang¡¯An ShuYuan.


    Hu MeiMei patted her son on the shoulder, ¡°How about this, your mother goes to Xiao Jing to testify that you are really done and finished it this time.¡±


    ¡°He¡¯s not a teacher, so what can I say specifically.¡± Young Master Ji ¡°snorted¡± and got out of the car exhaustedly. ¡°I¡¯m sleepy. Go back to take a bath and sleep.¡±


    Of course, Hu MeiMei knew her son¡¯s habit very well. When he was upset, depressed, emotionally down, in a bad mood, unwilling to talk anymore, or aggrieved, it was all referred to as sleepy.


    The room in 1301 was huge, and the bathroom was bigger than most.


    Ji XingLing had thrown himself into the bathtub while boringly counting bubbles. Recently, Hu MeiMei had indulged in aromatherapy essential oils, and the male siblings in the family had to succumb to the fragrance of roses in this full bathtub, so as to soothe their nerves. The more he soaked, the more sleepy he was.


    An hour later, Hu MeiMei finally couldn¡¯t help but knock ¡®tock tock¡¯ on the door, ¡°Ji XingLing, did you fall asleep in the bathroom? Xiao Jing has been waiting for you for a long time!¡±


    Ji XingLing instantly sat upright, ¡°Where is he waiting for me?¡±


    Lin Jing stood next to Hu MeiMei, ¡°¡­Otherwise, you wash a little longer. I¡¯m not in a hurry.¡±


    There was a crisp ¡®crash¡¯ sound from the bathroom, and who knew which hapless bottle was killed by the non-slip floor.


    Hu MeiMei was not surprised, and went to the kitchen to continue tinkering with desserts. Ji XingLing wiped his hair dry quickly, then unscrewed the door with one hand, and found Lin Jing was sitting behind the desk.


    The young master protested, ¡°Can you tell me in advance, the next time you come here. What if, by any chance, I¡¯m too lazy to put on clothes after the bath then?¡±


    ¡°I thought you might be tired, and you need to have a relaxing soak for a while.¡± Lin Jing rolled the pen around with his fingertips, ¡°Okay ba. I¡¯ll do better next time.¡±


    Ji XingLing sat on the edge of the bed, ¡°Is there something you want to talk to me about?¡±


    ¡°Aunty asked me to come over.¡± Lin Jing replied, ¡°She said that your test paper was taken by your cousin to cushion the kennel, and you were depressed and needed comfort.¡±


    Brother Xing was silent after hearing this.


    This excuse that my mother came up with was simply superb.


    ¡°Then do you have any questions you don¡¯t understand and want to ask me?¡± Lin Jing brought the computer with him when he came over.


    ¡°¡­Just a question in mathematics ba, about the quadrant.¡± Ji XingLing rubbed his nose, ¡°Everything else is fine.¡±


    ¡°Only this one?¡± Lin Jing zoomed in on the screen while casually said, ¡°Then, after all, you are very¡ª¡±


    Half of the words ceased abruptly. Ji XingLing waited for a long time and still didn¡¯t hear the finished sentence, so he took the initiative to ask, ¡°I am, after all, very what?¡±


    Lin Jing reminded him, ¡°You don¡¯t let me praise you.¡±


    ¡°No, you can appropriately praise this.¡± Ji XingLing dragged a chair to sit next to him, ¡°What I said was that I wouldn¡¯t let that kind of embarrassingly blowout praise. Do you understand the awkward overblown praise?¡±


    ¡°I don¡¯t understand.¡± Lin Jing helped him by writing the problem-solving steps on the paper, ¡°Ji XingLing, I found that you have quite a lot of requests.¡±


    ¡°This is obviously a reasonable request!¡± Ji XingLing held his shoulder with one hand and urged, ¡°Hurry up, praise me!¡±


    ¡°No praise.¡±


    ¡°Lin Jing, why are you like this!¡±


    ¡°So you¡¯re going to complain to the Education Bureau again, aren¡¯t you?¡±


    ¡°¡­¡±


    ¡°Have you remembered the format of the report letter?¡±


    ¡°You better shut up ba.¡±


    After a while, Hu MeiMei brought in a tin of freshly baked biscuits. Lin Jing propped his head with one hand, and watched Ji XingLing copy his homework while eating, ¡°This is C. You copied it wrong.¡±


    ¡°It¡¯s an international practice to copy two wrong answers randomly. Don¡¯t you know that?¡± Brother Xing had a rich experience in this regard, ¡°Otherwise, it is very lacking in morality.¡±


    Lin Jing did not know whether to laugh or cry. Ji XingLing, you still had quite an ethical consciousness.


    The freshly baked souffl¨¦ had a strong fragrance. Ji XingLing, who didn¡¯t eat much on the plane, had his stomach hooked by the smell and started grumbling. When he also reached out to touch the biscuits, the hands of the two met in the cookie jar, Lin Jing didn¡¯t take it seriously, but Ji XingLing stared at him with a great interest for a long time.


    ¡°What are you looking at?¡±


    ¡°Aren¡¯t you a cleanliness addict? I just copied my homework and didn¡¯t wash my hands.¡±


    Lin Jing paused and put the cookies back expressionlessly.


    Ji XingLing, ¡°?¡±


    ¡°who would have thought that you really dislike me?!¡±


    ¡°Mhm.¡±


    ¡°Mhm, my ass, I¡¯ve even finished taking a bath!¡±


    ¡°But your pencil case is dirty.¡±


    ¡°No, you must eat it!¡±


    ¡°I¡¯m stuffed.¡±


    ¡°Open your mouth!¡±


    ¡°Do you still want to copy homework!¡±


    ¡°¡­¡±


    In the kitchen, the oven sounded ¡®ding¡¯, and a freshly baked snack came out.


    The whole 1301 room was filled with the smell of sweet milk.


    Later, Lin Jing remembered another thing, ¡°Are you free tomorrow? I want to treat you to a meal. Thank you for the musical¡¯s ticket.¡±


    ¡°Okay, it just happens that Old Xu said that the shoes are here today.¡± Ji XingLing was not polite, ¡°still want to go to that bullfrog shop?¡±


    ¡°Actually, let¡¯s have the bullfrog for the next time. I¡¯ll treat you to eat something else.¡± The average price for dry pot1 was only a little over 80, but the ticket for ¡°Fairy Mountain Village¡± had already been speculated to be 1300. Lin Jing didn¡¯t want to take advantage of the other party too much, ¡°Do you prefer Japanese food or Western food, or there is also this restaurant for Chinese food.¡± He handed over his smartphone, all of which contained a list of newly-collected restaurants in the past few days, and the per capita could barely make up for the ticket fare.


    ¡°All of them are fine, then what about this whatever ¡®River¡¯ restaurant ba, it¡¯s the closest one.¡± Ji XingLing randomly pointed at any restaurant, ¡°I made an appointment with Yu YiZhou to play basketball in the afternoon. Do you want to join us?¡±


    ¡°Uncle Liu will treat me to a meal at noon tomorrow. So I don¡¯t think I can make it.¡± Lin Jing closed his pen cap, ¡°Well, Let¡¯s meet at the dinner place at half-past five.¡±


    ¡­


    ¡®The River¡¯ was located on the 20th floor of JinCheng Hotel. It was regarded as the most famous of old and well-established western restaurants here, which could conspicuously show Little Teacher Lin¡¯s sincerity. It just so happened that the shop where Liu DaQi invited him to eat at noon was also nearby, and there was a local library next to it, so killing time was a breeze.


    Ji XingLing was five minutes late, and there were frequent traffic jams in the city center. He asked the driver to go home first and take the subway by himself. Young people always capitalize on not being afraid of the cold wave. He only wore a short-sleeved T-shirt in the thick and fast drizzle, with the jacket that was casually put on the shoulder. His short hair was also moistened with a bit of clear water mist, and the whole person looked coldly, which was pretty cool.


    ¡°Ji XingLing.¡±


    ¡°What¡¯s up?¡±


    ¡°You will catch a cold if you dress up to strike a model pose.¡±


    ¡°¡­I¡¯m not feeling cold!¡±


    The two were arguing in jest all the way, and the elevator lady was also affected by this exuberant happiness, ¡°Excuse me, are you going to go to the swimming pool on the eighth floor?¡±


    ¡°The River, we have already made a reservation.¡± Lin Jing said, ¡°Thank you.¡±


    The elevator lady pressed the floor¡¯s button and asked with a smile, ¡°Have the parents of the two arrived?¡±


    Ji XingLing, ¡°?¡±


    Lin Jing didn¡¯t really understand much either, ¡°Do we have to be accompanied by parents?¡±


    ¡°¡­Of course not.¡± The elevator lady was obviously taken aback, but she soon resumed her professional smile. ¡°The twentieth floor is here. I wish the two of you a pleasant meal.¡±


    There was also a long corridor outside the elevator, paved with thick carpets, which looked solemnly as well as grand. The welcoming guests who were greeting them at the door had obviously never seen such a combination of two high school students coming to dinner. The usher slightly hesitated when escorting the guests to their tables, and still did not arrange them to the tables that were seated on a reserved couple deck, but placed them by a relatively bright window side.


    Ji XingLing, ¡°Why is everyone looking at us?¡±


    Lin Jing, ¡°I don¡¯t know.¡±


    Ji XingLing, ¡°I think this is a couple¡¯s restaurant.¡±


    Lin Jing, ¡°Mhm.¡±


    ¡°Did you not find out?¡±


    ¡°¡­¡± I found out, as soon as I walked in the door, so would you just shut up?


    But before coming, Little Teacher Lin had already ordered some dishes by phone and had also paid the lobster deposit.


    It was costly and must be eaten.


    Ji XingLing was wearing a napkin, puzzled, ¡°Why is this restaurant on your shortlist?¡±


    Lin Jing swallowed back the words on the tip of his tongue.


    ¡°What are you going to say?¡±


    ¡°I intended to quibble and pass the buck to you.¡±


    ¡°Wocao, what does this have to do with me?!¡±


    ¡°Right, so now I¡¯m going to confess and be more lenient. I didn¡¯t meticulously read the introduction at all when I chose it.¡± It was all based on the price and the star-rated charts images.


    ¡°¡­¡±


    ¡°But there are some who are not lovers.¡± Lin Jing looked around as he consoled himself, ¡°You just treat it as a business dinner.¡±


    Ji XingLing, who had exercised for a whole day, had long been famished, and he didn¡¯t have the strength to be picky or choosy. He took pre-dinner bread as a meal. In fact, if you don¡¯t talk about the environment, the foods in ¡®The River¡¯ were quite good. After all, the old and well-established restaurant foods were delicious; whether it was the fresh shrimp salad or the pan-fried scallops with butter, the slightly charred cod, the pastry-wrapped cream soup was also delicious. Lin Jing had ordered steak and lobster in advance. Out of consideration for Little Teacher Lin¡¯s wallet, Ji XingLing only added a portion of traditional pasta. In theory, it should be pretty much enough for two people, but as it was said before, this restaurant was exclusively for couples dating. The chef may think that no customers would come to dine with the purpose of filling their stomachs, so the amount of dishes that were served was simply outrageous. The pasta was a small roll, and the after-meal dessert was only half a piece of nougat plus a scoop of ice cream, which was served on a plate with a diameter of 20 cm. Here, the visual effects were excellent, and you feel hungrier even after eating.


    Lin Jing felt very sorry for the invited guest, but if he had to treat all-you-can-eat buffet of M9 Wagyu beef2in this restaurant, he might have to live in the cold and go hungry for a long time in the future, so he had to come up with a compromise and offered, ¡°Otherwise, I will treat you to have another meal. Dry pot bullfrog?¡±


    ¡°The road from the city centre to Wanhe is blocked dead at this hour.¡± Ji XingLing grabbed his coat, ¡°Let¡¯s go ba. There is a Haidilao across the street. Save your bullfrog until next time.¡±At the entrance of the restaurant, a waiter was distributing red roses, which was supposed to make every guest have a good memory of the meal. Lin Jing, thunderstruck (like a bolt from the blue came to him), had quickly refused, grabbing Ji XingLing with one hand, and like a thief entering the elevator.


    And until they left the JinCheng Hotel and breathed in the lively and slightly cold air on the street, the two of them breathed a sigh of relief in unison.


    Ji XingLing originally thought that the meal experience was difficult to describe, but seeing Lin Jing look dumbfounded, and thought it was funny, he leaned over, ¡°Are you feeling particularly embarrassed now?¡±


    ¡°Why should I be embarrassed?¡±


    ¡°Because you took me to a couple¡¯s restaurant to have dinner.¡±


    ¡°I obviously found five restaurants, and you chose this whichever ¡®River¡¯ yourself.¡±


    ¡°Hey, you man, you just said you wouldn¡¯t pass the buck to me.¡±


    ¡°I¡¯ve changed my mind, can¡¯t I?¡±


    ¡°Of course not!¡±


    ¡°Let¡¯s go.¡± Lin Jing pulled the man into Haidilao.


    Compared with ¡®The River¡¯, the hustle and bustle of the hot pot restaurant was obviously more suitable for high school students. The odd embarrassment caused by the couple¡¯s restaurant was finally diluted. The two ate and drank enough, and no one wanted to move on the sofa.


    ¡°Ji XingLing, my stomach is about to burst.¡±


    ¡°Me too.¡±


    ¡°Let¡¯s take a cab later after walking a bit ba.¡±


    ¡°Okay.¡±


    Outside, the rain had stopped at the beginning of the night.


    The orange-red street lights reflected wet shadows on the ground; though it couldn¡¯t turn the city upside down, it could also give people the illusion of momentary scenery and space-time.


    Lin Jing put his hands in his pockets as he strolled along the edge of the raised flower bed.


    There was an old tree on the side of the road. It was so old that it almost forgot what kind of monster it was, so it often bloomed vaguely regardless of the season. Fortunately, it was growing very high and tall, so it would not be easily discovered by humankind.


    And that night, another flower, which was light silver, bloomed. Being blown by the wind, fleetingly fluttered in the breeze and just happened to land on Lin Jing¡¯s shoulder.


    Obviously, there shouldn¡¯t be this species in human plants. In order to avoid trouble, Ji XingLing caught up with him in two steps, came in contact with Lin Jing¡¯s shoulder in a shameless manner, and kept his fingers together while remaining calm and collected, ¡°You wait for me.¡±


    The petals scattered into a fine powder between Ji XingLing¡¯s fingers, and then flickered and floated away in the air.


    Lin Jing turned to look at him, ¡°What did you say?¡±


    Those tiny shimmers were as light as dust, and instantly covered his eyelashes in a split second, ¡°Huh?¡±


    ¡°I said close your eyes.¡± Ji XingLing pulled him to stand in the dark shadows, ¡°It¡¯s shiny, and I don¡¯t know where the decoration floated from. Don¡¯t move. I¡¯ll clean it for you.¡±


    Lin Jing was very cooperative, ¡°Oh.¡±


    The slightly hot and dry fingertips, move carefully.


    A moment later.


    ¡°Ji XingLing.¡±


    ¡°Don¡¯t move. It will be done in a minute.¡±


    ¡°That¡¯s not what I¡¯m going to say.¡±


    ¡°Then what are you going to say?¡±


    ¡°It seems like you really have a fever.¡±


    ¡°¡­¡±

 CH 19

    In the early autumn drizzle, a rebel who wore short sleeves without an umbrella always had to pay a small price. Young Master Ji had a fever of 38 degrees that night and was lying on the bed weakly with an ice pack to cool down; also not interested in talking either.


    Lin Jing came to visit the sick patient before going to bed, and comforted him, ¡°You have a good rest tomorrow. I¡¯ll bring back all the homework.¡±


    Ji XingLing, ¡°¡­¡±


    With a thermometer dangled from his lips, he protested hoarsely, ¡°This is so wrong. Is this how you visit a sick person ma?¡±


    Lin Jing was pursing his lips, then touched Ji XingLing¡¯s forehead with the back of his fingers, ¡°Good night.¡±


    ¡°Wait a minute.¡± Ji XingLing sat up with support, ¡°Tomorrow, Zheng BuFan will fill in for the sports events; you help me keep an eye on it.¡±


    ¡°Okay.¡± Lin Jing nodded and asked again, ¡°Keep an eye on what? Is it to help you fill out and submit the entry form?¡±


    ¡°Keep an eye on them. Don¡¯t let those bunch of bastards write groundlessly for me.¡± Ji XingLing laid back down, ¡°the running, the high jump, the long jump or anything, you can help me pick one at will, up to two at the most. Last semester, I was also absent when I signed up, and I ended up filling up in a bunch.¡±


    In ShanHai High School¡¯s sports meeting, there were not only regular track and field, but also many inexplicable ¡°fun¡± athletics that were not interesting at all, such as running with leggings and blindfolded dribbling. The original intention of the school leaders might have been to create the atmosphere, and then make everyone happy to win the award. Still, because the games were too outdated and very unsophisticated, every time, it must rely on a mandatory allocation that could barely fill the quota.


    In fact, for activities such as sports events or school art festivals, the main active force was all the freshman students in high school, and there was definitely no time to participate for those in their third year of high school. At the same time, the high school sophomores had also entered a period of decline in interest. After the class meeting the next day, Zheng BuFan, the representative of the physical education class, took the registration form and wandered around through half of the class. He tried his best to fill it up, but he couldn¡¯t successfully fill it; and finally moved his chair and sat in the sixth row, ¡°Dude, can you also pick a game?¡±


    ¡°Let me take a look.¡± Lin Jing looked at the sign-up sheet. Seeing that the popular or simple track and field events above had already been filled out and were nearing completion. Zheng BuFan might really be at his wit¡¯s end, so he could only go against his conscience to egg on his new classmates, ¡°What do you think of this ball on the head running around in circles? I think it¡¯s quite simple.¡±


    Only the men¡¯s 1500 meters were left in the remaining sports event, which looked a little more pleasing to the eye. Lin Jing helped fill in Ji XingLing¡¯s name, ¡°Okay, here it is.¡±


    ¡°Isn¡¯t this Brother Xing? What about you?¡± Zheng BuFan clasped his fists with tears in his eyes, and switched over to get things done through the influence of selling miserable feelings, ¡°Please, I beg you, sign up for a fun event ba, or you can persuade Brother Xing to sign up for one, just thinks of as saving my wretched life.¡±


    ¡°¡­Otherwise, this event then.¡± Lin Jing was a newcomer, and he didn¡¯t want to appear too difficult to get along with, so he cooperatively chose a multi-person team to dribble. Although it must be pretty silly, but was not stupid and was not qualified to be called ¡°interesting¡±. Zheng BuFan was satisfied with this, and continued to take the registration form to continue to fool others. Lin Jing photographed the track and field list and sent it to Ji XingLing, reporting the 1500-meter long-distance running.


    Brother Xing: How about you?


    The author has something to say:


    Fan Valley tree (ÃÔ˜b m¨ª g¨³) ¨C Migu is a kind of tree that grows on the Zhaoyao mountain, the shape is very similar to the structure of the tree, but the wood grain is black, and the light emitted by the flowers can shine brilliantly in all directions, so people wear their flowers as ornaments to prevent getting lost.

 CH 20

    Little Teacher Lin is an emotionless brag machine.


    Perhaps because the lingering afterglow of the National Day holiday had not disappeared, even the early morning school bus had been more lively than usual on these past two days. When Lin Jing came up, a group of people was getting together to discuss the change of classrooms, saying that the seating chart had already been posted in the Dongshan Building. There was also someone in the WeChat group of class 2-1 who had put a picture, which was taken secretly through, across the front door¡¯s glass. Although the pixels were super blurry as well as reflective, still, it did not affect the enthusiasm of the masses for download. In a minute, hundreds of messages were posted quickly on the screen.


    Lin Jing saved the picture into the photo album, zoomed in, and looked at it carefully for a long time. Before he could find his name, someone put his butt to sit next to him with a yawn and said, ¡°What are you doing? What¡¯s with that thievish-look1.¡±


    ¡°¡­¡±


    How come someone like you get 109 on the Chinese language test?


    Ji XingLing was a typical scar that forgets the pain as soon as it heals. Yesterday, he was at home coughing and wheezing to recover from a cold. Today, he came to school in a loose school uniform with his neckline crooked open. He was so handsome that even Little Teacher Lin disdained it that he had to casually pull the zipper to drag it up, with the actual intent was to remind the other party to keep warm. However, Ji XingLing just happened to look down at the smartphone again, and just like that, the zipper arrived precisely, and there was a bloodstain on the eldest young master¡¯s chin, which made the young master¡¯s chin get a bloodstain because got caught by the zipper.


    ¡°Hiss¡­¡± Ji XingLing, who was unguarded, was stunned by the pain on the spot.


    Lin Jing¡¯s hands shook, ¡°I¡¯m sorry.¡±


    ¡°Do you know that your three words are very soulless?¡±


    ¡°¡­but you can forgive me with a great soul.¡±


    Young Master Ji made a ¡°tsk¡± snorted sound, went to the driver himself to ask for a Band-Aid, sat back, and threw it to Lin Jing, ¡°Help me.¡±


    The wound wasn¡¯t deep, and it was a bit ignorant to say that it was completely fine either. So Lin Jing helped him stick a Band-Aid on nicely, and then pressed it carefully with his fingertips, ¡°Okay, you¡¯re very handsome, really, I found that you are really handsome in any style, wow.¡±


    Ji XingLing was silent for three seconds and applauded silently. Your ¡°wow¡± word was so hypocritical to the extreme.


    Little Teacher Lin, an emotionless brag machine.


    After being disturbed by him, Lin Jing also forgot about the seating chart matter, ¡°Why did you think of taking the school bus today?¡±


    ¡°I woke up at four o¡¯clock.¡± Ji XingLing exercised his muscles and bones a bit, ¡°Sleepy. I¡¯ll sleep again.¡±


    Ji XingLing was tall and thin, and naturally, he took up a lot of space. He was usually used to sitting in a crooked and twisted position. The narrow seat of the school bus was obviously not enough to give free rein to his movements, so not long after, he squeezed his head over and forcibly propped it onto Lin Jing¡¯s shoulder. It was also in line with the consistency of the image of the young master who ignoramus had always been indolent.


    Lin Jing clicked on the English audio, and before he could listen to a word, one of his earphones was snatched away.


    Ji XingLing stuffed the earphones well, and with a husky voice, said, ¡°hypnotizing¡±.


    ¡°¡­¡±


    The female voice in the earphones spoke,


    Do you see the fruit buried in the fallen leaves?


    It is the flavor of autumn.


    Have you seen the red fruits buried in the fallen leaves? That is the flavor of autumn.


    There always have lots and lots of sours, also lots and lots of sweets.


    ¡­


    When the two entered the classroom, they just happened to run into Hou YueTao, the deputy class monitor, who was coming back with the craze hot seating chart, which was not a high-pasted version, but a high-definition version. A group of enthusiasts immediately rushed forward to join in the fun. Ji XingLing called out to Ge Hao, ¡°Who am I sitting with?¡±


    ¡°Wei Xue ba, looks like.¡±


    Ji XingLing, ¡°¡­¡±


    What the hell is this arrangement?


    Although Brother Xing wasn¡¯t very interested in with whom he was sitting at the same desk, however, the matter of sitting next to the class leader was also not okay. Just in time that Mr.Wang was walking by, so he tidied up his collar and took the initiative to go find the class teacher, ¡°Teacher Wang, can I change my deskmate?¡±


    ¡°Why?¡± Wang HongYu was perplexed.


    Ji XingLing¡¯s tone was sincere, ¡°I think my studies are too poor, and I also make many small movements when in the lessons, which will disturb others.¡±


    ¡°Recently, your grades have improved significantly, so you must have confidence in yourself.¡± Wang HongYu was earnest and persuasive, ¡°Also, you¡¯ll be sitting together with Lin Jing. Ordinarily, if you have any questions you don¡¯t know, you can also ask him more; I notice that your relationship with him seems to be rather good.¡±


    ¡°Okay teacher, then I¡¯ll go back.¡±


    The attitude of the young master changed too swiftly, and Wang HongYu, who was brim with earnest and well-meaning advice to admonish, only had enough time to give an opening speech. He was very speechless when he didn¡¯t have the opportunity to elaborate fully.


    The people around the podium had dispersed. Ji XingLing glanced at the seating chart when he returned to his seat. He was in the seventh row of the third group, and so was Lin Jing. At the front table were Li MoYuan and Wei Xue. And Ge Hao probably had been blossoming so ecstatically to the point of oblivion of himself recently, that his eyesight became pretty poor; that¡¯s why he was confused by seeing one line with another.


    ¡°Brother Xing,¡± Yu YiZhou was kicking his chair, ¡°I found that your seat is also absolutely superb, surrounded by Xueba. Did Mr.Wang discover your potential in the last exam, and think you can still be salvaged?¡±


    ¡°Who¡¯s behind me? I just didn¡¯t notice.¡±


    ¡°¡­¡­Me.¡±


    ¡°Then maybe Mr.Wang has no intention of saving me and has already given up the treatment.¡±


    ¡°Damn, get lost!¡±


    The class was buzzing, and they were all discussing the deskmate¡®s matter. Wang HongYu has been in charge of the class for many years and had known that these little brats would definitely not be able to calm down for a while, so he had simply requested the school for the classroom moving to move in this afternoon after the class, and there was no need to wait till Friday, also it would save trouble with moving earlier.


    The Xueyuan Building was quite a distance away from the new classroom. Lin Jing belongs to the type of problem-solving maniac. He dragged his suitcase on the first day of school, and now he only needed to take a few more trips to carry it all. Ji XingLing had just packed up his light, fluffy backpack, and before he had time to stand up, several girls stood at the table and asked, ¡°Ji XingLing, can you help us move the book ma?¡±


    ¡°Yes, wait a moment ah.¡± Ji XingLing glanced at the classroom and said languidly, ¡°Hou YueTao!¡±


    ¡°¡­¡±


    The Old Hou was modestly willing to help the young and weak selflessly. He personally went to the convenience store to ask for a blue trailer, and asked the girls to pile up the books and exercise books, and get it all settled in one trip. Ji XingLing, who put his backpack on one shoulder, walked to the sixth row and then stretched out his hand, ¡°Give it to me.¡±


    ¡°Hou YueTao has left?¡± Lin Jing sorted out the last stack of papers, ¡°I plan to cadge a lift in his trailer.¡±


    ¡°Well, he¡¯s gone.¡± Ji XingLing picked up his book, ¡°Hurry it up, I need to go to the sports field later.¡±


    ¡°Going to play ball again?¡±


    ¡°Mr. Song asked the people who signed up for the sports meeting to stay and practice for an hour every day after school.¡±


    When Lin Jing heard this, he was very alert, ¡°formal events or for all events?¡±


    ¡°Formal events, and fun activities are so silly. There¡¯s nothing to practice for playing fool?¡±


    ¡°¡­¡± You better shut up ba.


    The two people had to go back and forth three times before they had finished moving all of Xueba¡¯s belongings. Lin Jing looked at the time and asked him if he wanted to have dinner together in the evening.


    Ji XingLing was surprised, ¡°Aren¡¯t you going home?¡±


    ¡°I¡¯m on duty today.¡± Lin Jing said, ¡°Besides that, I still have to move things, it must be quite late, so I told my aunt that I¡¯ll eat outside.¡±


    ¡°Okay, you can find me on the running track when you¡¯re done.¡± Ji XingLing threw his backpack over and went alone to the sports field to assemble.


    The other two students on duty were both girls. Faced with the floor full of garbage just after moving the classroom, they had a meltdown. The only thing that would prevent them from falling apart was the probability of ¡°sweeping the floor with a handsome young man as a partner¡±. Lin Jing gave full play to his fine tradition by taking the initiative to undertake most of the dirty and strenuous work, and then asked, ¡°Is Taoli Building still open?¡±


    ¡°It¡¯s open. The lights are still on.¡± Wei Yue assumed he would ask a math problem, ¡°but I don¡¯t know if Mr. Li is still there or not.¡±


    ¡°Yeah.¡± Lin Jing carried up two schoolbags, ¡°Then you both go home early and be careful on the road.¡±


    Taoli Building is the teacher¡¯s building, and several teachers were correcting homework in the main office.


    ¡°Teacher.¡± Lin Jing was knocking on the door, ¡°Can I pour a cup of hot water? There is no water dispenser in Dongshan Building, and the convenience store is also closed.¡±


    ¡°The water dispenser is in the corner.¡± A second-year high school teacher who knew Lin Jing asked with a smile, ¡°Looking at your miserable face. It must be hard to do today¡¯s duty ba.¡±


    ¡°Yeah.¡± Lin Jing took a thermos of water, and after thanking him, he brought it directly to the sports field. Just as was expected, the young master, who had just finished running 1,500 meters, was picking up clothes and preparing to buy drinks outside the school.


    ¡°Here.¡±


    ¡°What?¡±


    ¡°You caught a cold.¡±


    ¡°I¡¯m already recovered.¡±


    ¡°Hurry up!¡±


    ¡°¡­¡±


    There were also a few strands of honeysuckle soaked in the thermos cup, and Brother Xing conceded.


    ¡°What¡¯s in the hell with this secret of maintaining good health for middle-aged and elderly people?¡±


    ¡°Drink your water well.¡± Lin Jing was checking the nearby restaurants, ¡°You can¡¯t eat spicy food for these two days, so pork tripe chicken porridge stewed in an earthenware pot or pork ribs stewed in medicinal herbs cuisine, which ones?¡±


    ¡°¡­I choose to go on a hunger strike.¡±


    ¡°Okay.¡± Lin Jing put the phone back in his trouser pocket, ¡°Then I¡¯m going to dinner, and you¡¯ll go back alone.¡±


    ¡°Hey, you still owe me a bullfrog, aren¡¯t you?¡± Ji XingLing followed behind him, ¡°You need to be a little sincere when inviting guests, don¡¯t you know it?¡±


    ¡°Do I really have to visit your house three times2?¡±


    ¡°It¡¯s not necessary.¡± Ji XingLing emphasized, ¡°But what to eat is up to me.¡±


    The two jostled all the way, strolled around the school for a long time, but couldn¡¯t find any standard formal restaurant ¨C in the words of Little Teacher Lin. They were all oily, spicy, and worrisome hygienic; eventually, Young Master Ji was really at his wit¡¯s end, ¡°Then what about a Japanese restaurant?¡±


    ¡°I glanced at it when I passed by, and it was already closed.¡±


    ¡°¡­Okay, then I¡¯ll take you to eat elsewhere.¡± Ji XingLing chose to give in, so he took a taxi and walked a little further, leading him into a small alley, ¡°Go down.¡±


    Lin Jing, ¡°?¡±


    In front of it was a pitch-black staircase, which was long and steep, with flashing lights hanging on the walls on both sides. He felt sorry for this haunted scene if there was no murder at all.


    ¡°Ji XingLing, are you going to take me to prostitution?¡±


    ¡°Cough!¡± The great young master¡¯s throat was a little dry, so he was drinking water from a thermos cup, and now he sprayed it all back into the thermos cup after hearing those words.


    ¡°¡­The thermos cup is for you.¡± You¡¯re welcome.


    ¡°Why do you, a good student, have such an impure mind?¡± Ji XingLing rubbed his head, ¡°This is the restaurant opened by Uncle Tao. It¡¯s very popular, don¡¯t you know, be careful not to fall.¡±


    Uncle Tao was a Taotie3. He was pretty oppressive when he was young. He was always thinking of uniting the ferocious beasts in the city to cause some trouble. Later, he was beaten to the brink of collapse by Mr.Ji, the adult Qilin. So he had to honestly go on the road to becoming rich through hard work, and opened this private restaurant that looked like a fraudulent store.


    ¡°Are you sure there¡¯s really something to eat down there?¡± Lin Jing walked unusually tangled, ¡°Otherwise, It¡¯s better for me to treat you to a barbecue, or a hot pot, grilled fish, dry pot, anything will do.¡±


    ¡°No, I have a cold, so I can¡¯t eat spicy food.¡±


    ¡°You already well.¡±


    ¡°I¡¯m not well.¡±


    Ji XingLing grabbed the shoulder strap of his backpack with one hand, while pushing open the heavy store door with the other hand.


    A huge sound wave surged out, and Lin Jing was almost deafened on the spot.


    More than a dozen ball lamps swirled on the ceiling simultaneously, illuminating the faces of each restaurant¡¯s customer in red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet.


    Little Tao¡¯s eyes popped behind the counter, ¡°You said that he was human?¡±


    ¡°What¡¯s wrong with humans? It¡¯s not like your dad doesn¡¯t host humans.¡± Ji XingLing forcefully asked for a VIP room, then turned around and saw Little Teacher Lin, who was standing at the door just now, was gone.

 CH 21

    Are you not a good student? Have you ever seen a fight?


    The private restaurant of Mr.Tao the Taotie had a fascinating decoration style. It looked like a disco as well as a bar. At the same time, it could presently drift into the TV drama and pass it off as a pornographic massage room, if you change it into the dimly red fluorescent light tube. It just wasn¡¯t like a typical standard restaurant. Lin Jing stood at the door for less than two seconds before being forcefully driven to retreat by a group of wild dancers. He planned to retreat to the ground before calling Ji XingLing, yet, when he was going upstairs with his schoolbag, he happened to walk onto another group of people going down there, or rather and to be exact, it was another group of drunken monsters.


    ¡°I don¡¯t want to go to the Monster Management Committee for a meeting anymore. Every time I have to copy out many petty rules, which make me really annoyed to the point of death.¡± The erroneously glamorous beast kicked off her high heels and shoved them into the arms of the Chang Gui1next to her, when her hazy, dimmed eyes raised, ¡°Hey, when did Old Tao have a handsome little guy here, who is underage and working as an illicit employee?¡±


    ¡°Sorry, excuse me, please.¡± Lin Jing hurried his steps, and moved sideways a bit to go upstairs, yet, his schoolbag was jerked by the ChangGui beside him, ¡°What are you running for? Didn¡¯t you hear someone asking you?¡±


    ¡°Don¡¯t, don¡¯t scare the little brother.¡± The blackmail beast2was sizing him up and down, and smiling maliciously, ¡°How much does Old Tao give you a day ah? Why don¡¯t you follow and work for me?¡± She said while bringing her blood-red eyes with her drooped fluffy ears closer. She wanted to touch the other¡¯s face.


    Lin Jing had no objection to her bizarre cosplay style, but he had strong objections and a plus point on ¡°a strange big sister was going to stroke him with her hand that just took off her shoes¡±. However, he was dominated by sheer force of numbers, and only a fool would make a face-to-face confrontation then and there. He maintained his composure by turning his head sideways to avoid her, then suddenly, he yanked his schoolbag back and ran upstairs to escape them.


    However, as you know, life is full of suspense, and everything is unpredictable. Lin Jing wasn¡¯t foolish, but the next second, the fool was coming.


    As soon as Ji XingLing walked out of the restaurant, he saw Lin Jing was being blocked by a group of scoundrels, and he suddenly flew into a rage. He rushed up to grab the chang gui in quick steps, and punched backhandedly, ¡°You¡¯ve got great fucking nerve!¡±


    Little Teacher Lin, who had successfully reached the top landing stairs and regained his freedom immediately, ¡°¡¤¡¤¡¤.¡±


    The sound waves in the restaurant were too strong, so Old Tao and Little Tao didn¡¯t know that a fight was taking place in the stairwell for the time being. Although the Qilin clan¡®s ability to deter evil beasts was innate, when a juvenile Qilin faced seven or eight adult evil beasts simultaneously, it was still evident that he would be at a disadvantage. The other party might have really got stupid drunk, and couldn¡¯t remember in time that, there was often a father behind the cub. They were going to strike violently by shoving Ji XingLing around rudely to the middle. Lin Jing promptly finished dialing 110, then just single-handedly picked up a chair and was about to go down to help, but he collided head-on with the schoolbag that Ji XingLing flung away. It smashed and made Lin Jing stagger back two steps, and he almost fell into the raised flower bed on the sidewalk.


    The next second, there was a ¡°bang¡± sound reaching his ear, and the iron door at the entrance was tightly closed.


    ¡°Ji XingLing!¡± Lin Jing¡¯s mind was blazing with anger, and then, he raised his foot to kick the door twice, ruthlessly. Seeing that the door didn¡¯t even budge an inch, he took out several decorative bricks from the flower bed behind him, lifted his hand, and threw it with all his might, severely smashing the glass transom window above the iron door, and was intending to step on the chair to get in.


    ¡°What are you doing!¡± A screeching berated voice suddenly sounded behind him.


    The other party was a middle-aged man in his fifties, who was in a suit and leather shoes with glossy hair, such a criterion appearance of a successful person.


    ¡°My friend was being surrounded by a bunch of rogues inside.¡± Lin Jing stuffed the bricks into his schoolbag, not intending to waste more time here.


    The uncle was also deeply distressed about the problem of how present-day teenagers tended to raise their fists when they had the slightest disagreement. He handed over the briefcase, ¡°Hold this. I¡¯ll go take a look.¡±


    Lin Jing reminded, ¡°There are quite a few of them.¡±


    Regardless, the uncle had wrapped his arms in a suit three or two times, to prevent and ward off the bits of broken glass from breaking through, then getting in. He was pretty agile ¨C in fact, he could be unstoppable, and he could even fly directly, but, it was not inevitable that the divine beast could be overdone. Nevertheless, he required to be appropriately disguised, just so as to avoid frightening the little friend.


    In the narrow stairway, Fei3and Huo Dou4suddenly drew out of their actual bodies. Just as they were about to plunge this ignorant cub before their eyes into the sea of flame illusion, they were frightened out of their wits by the blast of the clear resounding cry. The Chongming bird5roared in the wind, rolled the little Qilin under his own wings, and waved his wings again. All the monsters on the scene were completely panic-stricken and turned back to human form.


    And Lin Jing also happened to be stepping on the chair, tiptoeing with half of his head out from the transom, ¡°Ji XingLing!¡±


    ¡°¡¤¡¤¡¤.¡±


    The sound of a police car was faintly heard in the distance, and the middle-aged uncle opened the door, ¡°Leave, run!¡±


    Lin Jing didn¡¯t understand. Wondered, why should he, as the victim, have to flee, when he even planned to wait until then to go to the police station to record a statement. However, Ji XingLing, who had a lot of experience in this area, Without demur, pulled Lin Jing in the opposite direction and threaded his way through and crossed two streets running before coming to a halt.


    ¡°No, wait, hold on a second.¡± Lin Jing puffed and panted while trying to shake him off, ¡°We didn¡¯t do anything wrong, so why are we running?¡±


    ¡°It¡¯s going to be troublesome if you get in, not to mention that it¡¯s going to be a waste of time, but also, the parents have to come and bail you out.¡± Ji XingLing, who sat on the ground, was terribly tired out, then he raised his head, and asked, ¡°Hey, are you alright?¡±


    ¡°¡­ alright.¡± Lin Jing looked at his wounded face, and automatically reduced the sound of ¡°actually you didn¡¯t need to charge up just now¡± altered into ¡°thank you.


    ¡°I was careless too. I never thought that you might be unable to adapt to the environment there.¡± Ji XingLing, who grimaced in pain, stretched out his hand, ¡°Help me up.¡±


    In the one vs. eight brawl just now, although he didn¡¯t gain the upper hand, he didn¡¯t suffer either. He only got beaten up in the face and looked somewhat cut a sorry figure.


    Lin Jing bought ice creams and towels from the convenience store, and made them into a simple and easy small ice pack temporarily, ¡°Would you like to go to the hospital?¡±


    ¡°Abrasions, it¡¯s not that bad.¡± Ji XingLing hailed the cab, ¡°Let¡¯s go home first.¡±


    The taxi driver perhaps was accustomed to seeing delinquents. Without asking much, he stepped on the accelerator pedal the whole time, and it seemed he wanted to get these two unlucky bastards to their destination as soon as possible. The street lights illuminated the dapple shadow of a tree, and the elongated light continued to shine on the back row, making the compartment seem quiet all the more.


    After a while, Ji XingLing couldn¡¯t help but speak first, ¡°Did it scare you tonight?¡±


    ¡°No.¡± Lin Jing turned to look at him, ¡°I was wondering, why did you lock me outside there just now.¡±


    ¡°Aren¡¯t you a good student? Surely you¡¯ve never seen a fight.¡± Ji XingLing had thoughtlessly elaborated, ¡°Flesh and blood are flying in every direction, not suitable for children.¡±


    The cab driver was noticeably shocked and frightened, as resolutely as ever, stepped on the accelerator pedal again.


    ¡°It¡¯s so noisy down there. I just thought of getting some air out of the street. I never thought I¡¯d run into a bunch of drunkards.¡± Lin Jing said, ¡°I¡¯m sorry.¡±


    ¡°What are you apologizing for? Those people are not good things in the first place.¡± Ji XingLing, who leaned onto the back of a chair languidly, still had some indignation and vicious tendencies in his countenance by losing the fight, ¡°It¡¯s just right to teach them a lesson.¡±


    Lin Jing said, ¡°uh-huh¡± and emphasized, ¡°But it¡¯s really amazing that you can fight so many at once.¡±


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    ¡ª¡ªThere was nothing in this world that could be inexhaustible, except for Little Teacher Lin¡¯s ¡°You are amazing¡± card.


    Still, this time, it was probably because of a different mood. Ji XingLing felt that not only was it not exaggerated, but also it was even to the extent that it was a little pleasant to the ear, and had a little bit of feeling happy. His mouth just broadened into a grin, but the pain of the wound hurt so much that it made him gasp cold air.


    Lin Jing also laughed, took the ice pack, and gingerly placed it next to the bruised side, ¡°Don¡¯t move.¡±


    ¡°¡­¡­Ugh.¡±


    The white alternating with the green sedan traveled its way through the city, and in every puddle of water splashed along the road, there were shadows of flowers and trees.


    The two teenagers sat side by side in the back row of the car, while occasionally speaking in low voices.


    It had nothing to do with the fight. As a matter of fact, it was a nice lovely autumn evening.


    Because of the wind, the stars brightened all over the sky.


    ¡­


    1301 of Jiang¡¯An ShuYuan, when Ji XingLing returned home, Hu MeiMei had just finished answering a call.


    ¡°Auntie.¡± Lin Jing stood at the door with two schoolbags in his arms and preemptively said, ¡°Today, I asked Ji XingLing to go out to eat. He saw a group of delinquents looted in the street, so he righteously and courageously rushed over to help, while he accidentally wounded his face.¡±


    After he finished speaking, he added, ¡°But he won and helped others get their wallets back.¡±


    Young Master Ji looked bewildered. What kind of dramatic stage was this? Why didn¡¯t you discuss it with me in advance if you wanted to make up a story?!


    Lin Jing returned the schoolbag to Hu MeiMei with both hands, ¡°Auntie, I¡¯m sorry, I couldn¡¯t restraint Ji XingLing back in time.¡±


    When he said this, the corners of his eyes drooped slightly, his head slumped, looking crestfallen and resigned, and he had a well-behaved attitude of sincerely admitting his mistake.


    ¡°Well¡­it¡¯s okay. It¡¯s good that you both are not injured.¡± Hu MeiMei took a long time to contemplate and was compelled with a sentence.


    ¡°Then I¡¯ll go back first.¡± Lin Jing glanced at Ji XingLing again, ¡°You must pay more attention to have a good rest, goodbye.¡±


    His eyes twinkled, and he perfectly portrayed ¡°a common person whose heart was deeply touched after bearing witness to the hero acting heroically in just cause with his own eyes ¡±, and he was just only short of bowing 90 degrees to show respect. Hu MeiMei watched him return to 1302 all the way, and asked her son in a complicated mood, ¡°You know it was Uncle Chongming who saved you, right?¡±


    ¡°I know.¡±


    ¡°You know he and Dad are good friends, right?¡±


    ¡°I know.¡±


    ¡°You know he¡¯ll be calling to tell me about what happened tonight, right?¡±


    ¡°I know.¡±


    Hu MeiMei was incomprehensible, ¡°Then what¡¯s the point of you making up this absurd story of righteousness and bravery?¡±


    Ji XingLing also tried to weep, but failed to shed a tear. He really didn¡¯t know anything about this.


    ¡°Come here. I¡¯ll help apply some medicine for you.¡± Hu MeiMei took him to the sofa and sat down, and then urged, ¡°Taotie¡¯s store staff is very motley, don¡¯t bring Xiao Jing there next time, so as to avoid accidents.¡±


    ¡°I¡¯m used to eating there, so I didn¡¯t think much about it.¡± Ji XingLing reflected for a moment and felt that tonight was a bit of an adventure, so he readily admitted his mistake, and said casually, ¡°But every time I see Uncle Chongming, he¡¯s all gaudy in his original body. I didn¡¯t expect that he would be quite dark when he takes after a human form.¡± His face had a dark complexion, his suit was darker, and his seriousness was probably Niu WeiDong multiplied by n6, and that n tends to be infinite.


    Ji XingLing¡¯s phone on the sofa was buzzing.


    Ke Da: How is the situation?


    Ji XingLing replied with one hand while nibbling on the apple.


    Brother Xing: It¡¯s okay. Have you eaten yet?


    Lin Jing replied with an ¡°mhm¡±, and then sent pictures of a half, fried steamed bun.


    What kind of poor meals is this? Ji XingLing called, ¡°Your aunt isn¡¯t there?¡±


    ¡°She¡¯s here, but I don¡¯t want her to know.¡± Lin Jing lowered his voice while unpacking the milk, ¡°Otherwise, she will cross-examine me for a long time, and maybe she will even tell my parents about it. it¡¯s troublesome.¡±


    Five minutes later, the young master came to the door in person, under the guise of homework, secretly sent a box of claypot rice (Cantonese casserole rice), a box of fresh shrimp rice noodle rolls (Cheong fan), a box of wok-fried bok choy with Cantonese sausages, and a box of soup, all the foods were steaming hot.


    Lin Jing was struck dumb by looking at it. Your backpack could really fit¡­


    ¡°It¡¯s all made by my aunt. Although it¡¯s reheated once, it¡¯s so much better than this fried steamed bun.¡± Ji XingLing helped him move the remaining pieces of steamed buns to the side, ¡°Then I¡¯ll go back. You can eat slowly.¡±


    ¡°You have come to find me because of homework, haven¡¯t you?¡±


    ¡°Hey, don¡¯t you have any humanity? Why do I still have to do my homework after I¡¯ve been beaten like this?¡±


    ¡°But when we were in the car just now, someone told me that he was fine.¡±


    ¡°I¡¯m bragging, truly, my head is so dizzy right now. I even want to pass out on the spot.¡±


    ¡°Don¡¯t pass out on my bed since you haven¡¯t taken a bath. Okay then, you go back ba.¡±


    ¡°I simply won¡¯t go back! I want to study!¡±


    The young master stood by his word on this matter, took out his English book then and there, and threw himself onto Little Teacher Lin¡¯s bed with a perfect posture.


    Comfortable!


    Lin Jing fell into a long silence as he looked at the arrogant slippers thrown and flew in front of him.


    ¡°Ji XingLing.¡±


    ¡°What?¡±


    ¡°Don¡¯t even think of getting out of bed until you finish ten pieces of reading comprehension articles.¡±


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