Chapter 121

Chapter 118It wasn't just Old Xue who was having a bad time; the ancestral graves of the Zeng and Zheng families had also cracked open from the excitement.

Although these three masters had no regrets dying, Li Zhuiyuan couldn't just leave their corpses exposed in the wilderness.

Everyone had to spend quite some time repairing their ancestral graves. The cracked coffin lids were renailed with array flags as pegs.

Li Zhuiyuan even went to all three mountaintops, adding a handful of soil to each family's grave.

After finishing, everyone prepared to descend the mountain and return to Min'an Town.

Tan Wenbin leaned on his shovel and glanced towards the back of the mountain slope, immediately amused.

The six students, who had been awakened by a fart, were still in their original spots. Some were crying, some were dazed, and some were arguing.

If ordinary people experienced such a nightmarish journey, a mental breakdown would be normal. But these six were an adventure team, and they had deliberately ignored advice to go to Zhengmen Village. Now they were all rescued, yet they were still in this state, which was truly a bit comical and laughable.

The town was very close by. Finding a high point allowed them to see the town's outline. If something happened to them here, they deserved it.

Li Zhuiyuan was too lazy to pay attention to them anymore and led everyone directly down the mountain.

By the time they returned to town, it was already afternoon.

The old storyteller was just heading towards the corridor with his instrument and a small stool. After seeing this group of people, the old man's eyes widened. He immediately quickened his pace, first staring at Li Zhuiyuan, then Runsheng, then Yinmeng, and finally Tan Wenbin.

The old man was very anxious. He forcefully grabbed Tan Wenbin's hand, his lips tightly pursed, looking as if he had something important but couldn't quite remember.

Finally, it was Tan Wenbin who hooked the old man's shoulder and talked to him for a while, which allowed the old man to muddle along towards the corridor.

Li Zhuiyuan walked to the small store and saw the big aunt of the small store shouting at a delivery person:

"I ordered one batch of goods, and you directly brought me three! How am I supposed to sell all this by the time monkeys fly and horses swim!"

Li Zhuiyuan indicated he wanted to make a phone call. The big aunt nodded, then continued arguing with the county delivery person.

First, he called the pager station, then asked the pager station to help call Xue Liangliang.

After putting down the phone, Li Zhuiyuan looked at the candy on the counter, picked up the plate, and handed it to the fool.

The fool happily came forward, stuffing candy into his pockets. As he stuffed, he kept dropping them, and soon the nearby children were attracted to pick them up together.

The phone rang, and Li Zhuiyuan answered.

"Hello, is that Xiao Yuan?"

"It's me, Liangliang bro."

Xue Liangliang was silent on the other end, not speaking first again. When the situation was unclear, anything he did elsewhere wouldn't help. It was best not to say anything extra.

"Liangliang bro, everything at home is fine now."

"Hoo..."

From the other end of the phone came a long exhale, then deep breaths. When he finally spoke, it was with a slight choke:

"Thanks, Xiao Yuan."

"Liangliang bro, there's a fool in your town, do you know him?"

"I do."

"Have your parents take him in and raise him at home."

"Okay."

Xue Liangliang didn't ask why and agreed directly.

Li Zhuiyuan hung up the phone and paid for both the call and the candy.

Afterward, he turned to his partners and said:

"We're not staying overnight here tonight. We'll go straight back to Jinling. If there's anything else you need to do, hurry up and do it."

Everyone separated.

Yinmeng and Zheng Jiayi returned to Old Zheng's house.

The family of three in Old Zheng's big room had all exploded.

They were innocent, including Zheng Jiayi's parents. Who would have thought that living a good life would lead to suffering the magical hands of an ancestor from three hundred years ago?

However, Yinmeng didn't return to mourn them, but went to the second floor, entered a bedroom, and smashed the vegetable jar she had packed earlier.

Just as she went downstairs to the courtyard, she saw the neighbor who had borrowed her kitchen earlier. She was standing at the door peering inside.

Zheng Jiayi asked: "Auntie, you are..."

"I came to ask, is that jar okay?"

Yinmeng: "I smashed it. I left the money in your kitchen before I left, including that pot."

Yinmeng had even deliberately poked several holes in the cook pot before leaving with the vegetables.

"I got the money, I got it, hehe."

The woman was a bit embarrassed. People had already compensated several times, but for a farming family, it wasn't considered taking advantage. They just thought they could save money if they could.

Yinmeng held Zheng Jiayi's hand and left.

Tan Wenbin returned to Old Zeng's house. To his surprise, the courtyard was very clean.

Stepping onto the hall steps, Hu Yiwei sat there with a stubbled beard, holding a photo in his hand. Many wine bottles and jars were placed in front of him.

Hearing the sound, Hu Yiwei looked up, his eyes bloodshot.

"Brother... you're back."

Honestly speaking, Tan Wenbin and Hu Yiwei's relationship wasn't deep. The so-called 'brothers of several decades' was more of a case of mutual need under special circumstances.

However, looking at Hu Yiwei's current appearance, Tan Wenbin also felt he was somewhat pitiful.

Tan Wenbin: "I thought you had already gone back."

Hu Yiwei waved his hand, his eyes filled with desolation: "Can't go back, really, can't go back."

"Learn to let go. If you need time, take it. Don't always carry it; it's tiring. Perhaps Miaomiao also wouldn't want to see you like this."

After leaving these words of comfort, Tan Wenbin walked to the well and leaned down to look.

The well wall and bottom were all white, as if a layer of lime had been sprinkled. The efficacy must have been completely used up that night.

Taking out a tool from his backpack, Tan Wenbin rubbed down the patterns around the well mouth.

Xiao Yuan bro didn't instruct him to do this. Perhaps Xiao Yuan bro also looked down on this small home protection array.

Tan Wenbin planned to rub them down and take them back to study. After all, he had personally experienced the harm of this array and could better integrate theory and practice.

"Looks like I need to get a camera."

After doing this, Tan Wenbin waved to Hu Yiwei and walked out of the house.

Li Zhuiyuan returned to the Xue family.

Xue dad sat in the courtyard smoking a pipe, and Xue mom also didn't go play cards. She sat opposite Xue dad, touching her fingers in a daze.

The courtyard was clearly full of longevity couplets and longevity characters, a festive atmosphere, but the two old people looked worried.

"Xue uncle, Xue aunt."

When they heard Li Zhuiyuan's voice, the two old people were first stunned, then immediately ran over. Xue aunt even reached out and pinched Li Zhuiyuan's body several times, seeming to confirm that the teenager was intact.

Xue dad: "Child, you're finally back. We were still worried you went to..."

Li Zhuiyuan had left a note when he left, but it was clear that the two old people didn't completely believe it and were guessing in their hearts whether the teenager had also gone to Zhengmen Village.

"Xue uncle, how would I dare to go to such a dangerous place?"

Xue dad gently nudged Xue mom: "Hurry, go make food for the child."

"Ai, okay." Xue mom immediately smiled and nodded.

"Xue uncle, Xue aunt, I've been out for too long this time. I need to rush back to Jinling school now, otherwise the teacher will fail me. I won't eat food.

I specifically came to say goodbye before leaving and thank uncle and aunt for your care these past few days."

"You're like our own child, no need to be so polite."

"That's right. Liangliang has been to Nantong so many times this year, and each time you've taken care of him. We owe your family a lot of favors."

Liangliang bro did go to Nantong often, but he didn't go to his great-grandfather's house many times. The vast majority of the time he came to Nantong, he couldn't wait to jump into the river.

"Right, Xue uncle, there's one more thing. I just talked to Liangliang bro on the phone. Liangliang bro asked me to tell you first to adopt the fool at home."

Li Zhuiyuan pulled the fool forward.

Xue dad and Xue mom's brows furrowed upon hearing this.

Usually, if there was leftover food or during festivals, they would give the fool something to eat and drink, which was no big deal.

But to actually bring someone into their home and care for them... the vast majority of people couldn't accept this.

This wasn't adopting a laborer, nor was it just an extra pair of chopsticks. With someone mentally unstable at home, how much effort would you have to put into looking after them?

However, even within a family, one's status was determined by their income. This was also why Xue dad and Xue mom couldn't forcefully urge Xue Liangliang to get married and have children like other parents.

"Then... just live at home for now." Xue dad planned to leave the fool here first, then call his son to ask what he really meant.

Li Zhuiyuan, of course, knew how troublesome it was to care for a fool, but he did it not purely to repay the fool's favor.

The fool might not be an ordinary villager. Keeping him at home could not only protect the home but might even bring good luck.

This kind of person was like a human form of auspiciousness, something others couldn't find even if they searched.

"Then I'll leave first, no need to see me out. Goodbye, Xue uncle, Xue aunt. Goodbye, fool."

Li Zhuiyuan walked to the courtyard door and went into the alley with Runsheng, who was standing at the door.

The fool, peeling open candy wrappers and putting candy into his mouth, smiled and muttered with saliva flowing:

"Hehehe, Dragon King, hehehe, Dragon King..."

...

The five of them first took the small store's delivery truck back to the county, then found a black minivan and rushed back to Jinling overnight.

By the time they reached school, it was already noon. Everyone ate at Old Sichuan before dispersing.

Li Zhuiyuan and Tan Wenbin returned to the dormitory, Runsheng and Yinmeng went back to the store, and Zheng Jiayi went to the counselor's office to find Wu Fatty and conveniently cancel Tan Wenbin's leave.

After washing with cold water in the washbasin, Tan Wenbin returned to the bedroom and considered building a simple shower room in the room, similar to Li big bro's house. He would hang a bucket above, connect a shower head below, put a large basin under his feet to stand in while washing, and surround it with rain cloth.

Finally, he would ask Lu Yi to help connect a wire so they could use a heater to boil water in the bedroom.

Anyway, he was already familiar with the new dorm aunt, so he didn't need to worry about inspections.

After getting Li Zhuiyuan's approval, Tan Wenbin acted immediately. He first went to the store to get things, and conveniently called over Runsheng, who had just finished washing, and Lu Yi, who was at the counter, to help.

Li Zhuiyuan packed his things, carried his backpack, and went to Liu Yumei's house.

Qin uncle was back.

He was sitting in a chair in the corner of the courtyard, leaning forward with both elbows resting on his knees.

Liu aunt held a large sea bowl in her left hand and a pair of sharp silver chopsticks in her right, taking out things embedded in Qin uncle's body one by one.

Each time she took one out, she would throw it into the sea bowl, emitting a crisp 'ding dong'.

"Xiao Yuan." Qin uncle looked at Li Zhuiyuan pushing the door open and entering, a smile on his face.

Liu aunt asked with concern: "Xiao Yuan is back."

"Um, I'm back." Li Zhuiyuan responded and walked over.

Inside Liu aunt's sea bowl were all nails and teeth, each pitch black. The nails were very long, and the teeth were very sharp with barbs.

There were still many remaining in Qin uncle's body, some deeply embedded.

Some spots even oozed purple pus, showing a combination of old and new injuries.

During the wound treatment, Qin uncle's face was as usual, very calm.

Liu aunt's eyes showed a playful smile.

Li Zhuiyuan stood by for a while before tactfully entering the house.

Qin uncle's body was no longer tense and he couldn't help but remind Liu aunt on the side: "Be a bit lighter with your hands."

"Why were you pulling just now? You just care about your face."

"This isn't about face, this is about rules."

"That's strange, why didn't I hear you mention these rules before?"

"There were no new pillars in the house before."

Liu aunt nodded upon hearing this and didn't ask any further. She turned and reminded: "But you can't keep doing this. If you continue like this, this body will be ruined."

"It's my duty."

"Didn't the old lady say? After you come back this time, just rest more. Don't go out for a while."

"I still have to go out. There's a new pillar standing in the house, but outside, there can't be no one from our family running things."

"Then according to you, shouldn't I also untie my apron and go run around?"

"The old lady is the beam of the house. You have to stay by her side and take care of her."

"Alright, I can't argue with you." Liu aunt looked in the direction of the house door, "Speaking of which, the way our Xiao Yuan goes out and the way you initially went out, it feels really different."

"How is it different?"

"Every time you went out before, it was a whirlwind, and you'd come back full of injuries. I even had to wipe tears while treating your wounds. But look at Xiao Yuan, it's really like he just went out, handled things, and came back."

Qin uncle laughed: "How can you compare me and him? If we were truly the same, how could the old lady not be worried all day, unable to eat or drink?"

"Was the old lady worried about you any less initially?"

"That's not what I mean. Xiao Yuan and I are different after all. At the same age, I was far behind Xiao Yuan. When I was his age..."

Qin uncle paused for a moment, saying with some doubt, "When I was the same age as Xiao Yuan, the old lady only allowed me to build foundations, not practice martial arts."

"Isn't Xiao Yuan the same now? His body hasn't fully grown, and he's not anxious either. He always has a plan."

"It's a shame. If Xiao Yuan were twenty or thirty years old now, or even seventeen or eighteen, even just over sixteen, he could polish his fully grown body well and practice some kung fu.

Then this outing, no matter where he goes or who he faces, it would be much smoother and easier."

"In this world, how many things can you fully prepare for? You didn't see what happened that day. Since the lamp didn't light up first and then become bright, it means..."

Liu aunt looked up at the sky,

"Perhaps the heavens feel that Xiao Yuan is already qualified to go out. Perhaps it's even afraid that if Xiao Yuan is allowed to continue building a solid foundation safely, in the future, there might be no one on the entire river who can stop Xiao Yuan's waves."

After entering the house, Li Zhuiyuan first went to A Li's room.

He never needed to knock when entering the girl's room because she could sense his arrival early.

Pushing open the door, the girl was lying on the bed, asleep, with a neatly folded quilt covering her belly.

Li Zhuiyuan laughed.

Because last time he had said, when I come, you can pretend to be asleep, let me also experience the feeling you had when you first came to my room to find me.

But it was afternoon now. The girl rarely slept even at night, so when would she sleep a noon nap?

Li Zhuiyuan put his backpack on the table and softly said to A Li: "I just came back. I'll go say hello to grandma now, and then come back to talk to you."

Closing the door, he went to the second floor.

Liu Yumei held a teacup in her left hand and a book in her right, reading.

Walking closer, he saw it was 'Dream of the Red Chamber'.

The old lady had already sensed the teenager's arrival and put the book face down, asking back: "What, I'm old, so I can't read this?"

"Of course you can! It's best if you have this leisure interest."

"Indeed, it's been many years since I read it. I just suddenly thought of it recently, and asked A Ting to find it for me to flip through again. You boy, guess who I'm substituting myself with when I read this book?"

"I wouldn't be able to guess that. Among the various 'vivid' characters in this book, there's really no one who has your wisdom, Grandma."

"Hehehe, you boy, you're easiest to make people happy when you're not trying."

Li Zhuiyuan walked to the edge of the tea table and started brewing tea.

Liu Yumei lightly tapped the book surface with her fingertips and sighed: "At my age, I relate more to Jia Mu now. She's stupid, yet she's not completely useless. It's just that all her efforts are in vain, and she's also resigned to it, living one day at a time."

"Grandma, have some tea."

"Xiao Yuan, who do you think our A Li is like among the characters in the book?"

"There's no old lady like you in the book, so how could there be a granddaughter like yours?"

"I feel our A Li is like Lin Daiyu."

Saying this, the old lady reached out, gently pinched the teenager's chin, and playfully said,

"Her family left early, and in the end, even the family property was cheaply given to the Jia family."

"Grandma, no matter how bad I am, I can't be compared to that inexperienced Bao Yu, can I?"

"That Bao Yu himself can't compare to you. At least he first mentioned 'this sister seems to have been seen somewhere before' before throwing a tantrum with his jade.

You boy, you just walked over and pulled A Li away to sit with you and read a book."

"This is different. I really saw A Li in a dream before."

"Alright, alright, I'm just joking." Liu Yumei turned and asked with concern: "Was this trip smooth?"

"Very smooth, very smooth."

"I can tell, you're full of energy. You really didn't suffer much on this trip."

"I still met an ancestor."

"From our side?" "Um, your own family."

"Go upstairs and get him, and I'll talk to you about it."

"Okay, wait a moment."

Li Zhuiyuan walked up to the third floor, came to the room where the altar and A Li's collection box were placed, glanced at the various tablets, and took down Liu Qingcheng's tablet.

Returning to the second floor, he handed the tablet to Liu Yumei.

Liu Yumei looked at it, her expression furrowing. She didn't reach out to take it, but waved her hand, signaling the teenager to take it away.

Li Zhuiyuan: "Is there a story?"

Liu Yumei: "There was an incident."

"Can you tell me?"

"Don't want to tell."

Alright, I see!

"Then our two families don't have detailed genealogies or books recording various lives?"

"Our two families don't need to record it ourselves, because other families will help us record it very detailed."

Li Zhuiyuan said somewhat helplessly: "You really know how to bring up a topic and then not continue talking."

"It's all in the past. I'm also tabooing this ancestor."

"Okay, I understand."

"No need to keep accompanying this old woman. Go find A Li and play."

Li Zhuiyuan walked out of the room and at the top of the stairs, saw A Li who had just walked up.

A Li looked at the tablet in Li Zhuiyuan's hand and reached out to take it.

"A Li, pick someone else's. This one is for the next batch to reuse."

Li Zhuiyuan and A Li returned to the third floor. After A Li picked five tablets, Li Zhuiyuan put Liu Qingcheng's tablet back.

The two returned to the first-floor room. After putting down the tablets, Li Zhuiyuan leaned against the edge of the bed and sat on the carpet. A Li also sat down beside him in the same posture.

This time, Li Zhuiyuan narrated the original story to A Li, especially the scene where the big fish swallowed Yuxuzi whole, describing it in great detail.

He knew the girl was going to draw, and this was the scene he thought was most suitable to be drawn this time.

A Li listened with great interest.

After finishing, Li Zhuiyuan took out the fish bone. It was crystal clear and surpassed jade in quality.

"A Li, can you carve jade?"

The girl nodded, reached out to take it, lightly stroked it with her fingertips, made several cutting motions, and then virtually drew several lines.

Li Zhuiyuan could see that A Li was preparing to make an array flag for him with the fish bone. An array flag made from this special material was very suitable as an array eye.

"My current array flags are enough and convenient to make. It's not a heartache if they can't be recycled." Li Zhuiyuan reached behind and touched A Li's hair bun, "How about this, I'll draw the design, and then you can carve a hairpin."

Upon hearing this, the girl's eyes showed hope.

"Originally, I should carve it well and then give it to you, but I can't help it. My hands are really clumsy."

The teenager could make tools by hand based on the illustrations and simple descriptions in Wei Zhengdao's book. His craftsmanship was naturally not bad, but compared to the girl, there was a significant gap.

A Li pulled out a large wooden box from under her bed. When the box was opened, inside was a huge and exquisite drawing frame.

"It's really beautiful." Li Zhuiyuan praised as he reached out to touch the crystallization of the wisdom of generations of ancestors.

Opening it, the first page was Grandma Yu, already completed and bound. There were many empty spaces next, waiting to be filled one by one.

Li Zhuiyuan flipped through the blank pages one by one, and the girl sat beside him, seriously looking with him.

Although it was still clean and empty,

It was the path the teenager would take in the future.

...

The simple indoor shower room didn't take long to build. After it was done, Tan Wenbin boiled four more bottles of water and put them in the bedroom for backup.

Then, he left the dorm to go to the store to pick up some fruits.

"Yi, why is there an extra book stall?"

Lu Yi said: "I suggested it. Before, we only did some photocopying. I felt it wasn't as complete as adding supporting items. Those magazines and novels sell very well."

The top layer of the book stall had newspapers, the middle had novels, mainly romance novels. At this moment, many students were still choosing books to rent.

The books weren't expensive, but college students had plenty of time to read. Even in class, if you put a novel on your desk to read, in the teacher's eyes, you were still a good student with a proper attitude, much better than sleeping and snoring in the back two rows.

Tan Wenbin simply patrolled a bit, then pulled Lu Yi aside and softly asked: "Do you have any exciting magazines?"

"Exciting? How exciting do you want?"

"Of course, the more exciting, the better."

"Yes, yes. Quite a few students have asked for this, but those magazines and books can't be sold openly. I send them all to the male and female dorm representatives."

"Damn, Lu Yi, you're good. You know how to do business."

"Hehe, I quite like doing business."

"Alright, you operate this store well. After the turnover goes up, we'll calculate your share."

"No, no, no, no need, really no need. I'm not doing it for this."

"Sigh, as long as you can do it, you deserve it. I don't have the energy to bother with these things, so I'll just leave it to you. Go for it!"

"Okay, I will." Lu Yi nodded forcefully.

Tan Wenbin went to the medical room to see Lin Shuyou. He carried a transparent plastic bag of fruits in his left hand and a black plastic bag of exciting magazines in his right.

It was gradually getting dark at this moment. Walking into the ward, he didn't see Lin Shuyou inside. Tan Wenbin went to Fan Shulin's duty room, gently pushed the door with his foot, and the door opened.

Lin Shuyou was sitting in front of Fan Shulin, listening to Fan Shulin narrate his love story from university.

Calling it a love story was a stretch; it was just two segments of unrequited love, one for a senior sister, and one for a junior sister.

He didn't even confess, and the girls might not even know that Fan Shulin liked them. But it didn't matter; it didn't stop our big doctor Fan from imagining a world of love with many twists and turns for himself.

Only facing Lin Shuyou, he would be willing to sit opposite and very cooperatively listen to Fan Shulin's narration.

"Bibin bro."

"Ah, Bibin, you're here."

Tan Wenbin put the fruits on the office table and threw the black plastic bag to Fan Shulin.

"What is it?"

"A banner."

"Oh... oh!!"

Fan Shulin opened the bag, glanced at the covers of the magazines, immediately swallowed, and then put the magazines into the bottom drawer of his desk.

Lin Shuyou curiously asked: "Bibin bro, was your trip smooth?"

Tan Wenbin shrugged: "Of course, after all, I was there. I put in a lot of effort and made a big contribution this time."

"Bibin bro, then next time, can't..."

"The moon is nice tonight, suitable for a walk under the moon." Tan Wenbin glanced at Fan Shulin and asked: "Fan bro, when do you plan to end your single life?"

"Work is still the most important thing right now. Work is important."

"Fan bro, I'm worried that if your leader continues to cultivate you so much, and you continue to be on night duty, your hair will likely become bald first. Look at your hairline, it's clearly receding."

"Really?" Fan Shulin was startled and reached out to touch his hair.

"So, Fan bro, while you're young and in your prime, find someone if you can."

"Are you saying I can find someone just by looking? Do you have a partner now?"

"No."

"Then have you ever confessed to a girl? Or has a girl confessed to you?"

"No."

"Then you still have the nerve to talk about me."

At this moment, Lin Shuyou said very sadly: "The girl my Bibin bro likes is no longer here."

Tan Wenbin: "......"

Fan Shulin was stunned for a moment, then immediately apologized: "Sorry, Bibin."

"Are you crazy?" Tan Wenbin slapped Lin Shuyou on the back of his head, "Is your injury healed, boy?"

"It's basically healed. I'll go back to school for classes tomorrow."

"Tomorrow's the weekend, what class?"

"The group secretary came to visit me this morning and told me there's a joint activity tomorrow, also with other schools. Fan bro heard it and is telling me his story to persuade me to participate."

"Joint?"

Tan Wenbin had only been class monitor for a few days before going on a business trip, so this joint activity was naturally not arranged by him.

In some majors, the male-female ratio is easily imbalanced. Their own class, department, or college basically cannot internally solve it, and some universities themselves have serious imbalances.

At this time, joint activities with other schools are inevitable, like monks going to find a spider cave.

Generally, this type of joint activity happens with high frequency during the freshman year. During this period, male and female students have high hormone levels, and everyone is full of yearning for love.

"Right, Bibin bro, you should come too? After all, the best way to forget someone is to start a new relationship... Ah!"

Lin Shuyou was pulled up by his hair by Tan Wenbin:

"Be normal!"

"Okay, okay, I won't say it."

Tan Wenbin patted his hands, annoyed: "You go to the joint activity. I won't participate, but you can take some drinks and snacks from the store as my sponsorship as class monitor. But you have to make two sponsor banners. Go find Lu Yi to make them."

"Oh, okay."

At this time, Fan Shulin seemed to have just thought of proper business and asked: "Bibin, since you're back, Hu Yiwei should also be back, right?"

"He's not."

"Not back? So his matter is resolved?"

"His ex-wife was resolved."

"Oh, that's good, it's good that it's resolved. When will he be back?"

"He'll be back when he can walk out. Oh, right, it should be soon. That car was borrowed by him, so he has to come back to return the car.

Alright, Fan bro, you continue being busy. I'll leave first."

As soon as Tan Wenbin walked out of the office, Lin Shuyou chased after him in his slippers.

"Bibin bro, I don't understand some parts of the array you taught me before. Can I ask you?"

"Asking me is less reliable than flipping a coin."

"But I can't just go ask Xiao Yuan bro, can I? I'm afraid he'll think I'm stupid."

"Don't be afraid, child, because you've already been exposed."

"Then I..."

"You organize what you want to ask into written form, and I'll take it to help you ask. Oh, right, also write down some of your family's medium-level methods for me to take a look."

"Ah, won't Xiao Yuan bro know? And he's much more powerful than me..."

"My Yuanzi bro's things are too advanced. I don't understand them. I feel that your family's set is more suitable for me."

"That's true, there's nothing wrong with that."

Lin Shuyou didn't feel the slightest bit of insult to his family's learning. When your family's inherited skills can easily achieve double effectiveness in someone else's hands, you'll feel the same way.

When Tan Wenbin returned to the dorm, he saw Xiao Yuan bro sitting at his desk drawing things.

"I'm back, Xiao Yuan bro."

"Bibin bro, the shower room is very useful. Thank you."

"It's good that it's useful. I'll take a hot water bath before sleeping later."

After a brief chat, Tan Wenbin also sat down at his desk, first opening Wei Zhengdao's book, then taking out the well mouth patterns he had rubbed down from the Zeng family to carefully ponder.

Time passed by minute by minute, second by second.

"Bibin bro, I'm going to bed first."

"Good night, bro. I'll read for a while longer."

Tan Wenbin rubbed his eyes and continued to look down. He had to admit, he was starting to feel something. The patterns on the rubbing paper seemed to come alive in front of him, actually moving.

Yawning, he felt this must be his illusion. He was probably seeing things.

Never mind, keep looking, keep studying.

Anyway, the joint activity had nothing to do with his dorm.

Tan Wenbin kept looking until late at night, until his head swelled and felt dizzy. Finally, he decided to put it down and take a bath before sleeping.

He went to touch the hot water bottles and found that all four were full. This meant that after Yuanzi bro finished his bath, he had gone to the first-floor boiling water room and filled all the hot water bottles.

After taking a comfortable hot water bath, Tan Wenbin held an apple and went to bed.

He gnawed on it while looking at the starry sky outside the window.

Sometimes, he had also imagined what kind of life he would be living now if he hadn't met Xiao Yuan.

But each time, just after starting, he would immediately feel bored with this kind of thought divergence.

Because he really liked his current life.

He couldn't go back.

...

Sleeping early last night made Li Zhuiyuan wake up very early as well.

The horizon outside the window was turning slightly white, just enough to chase away the few lingering stars.

Bibin was still snoring in his sleep. Sometimes, the teenager didn't quite understand this habit of staying up late studying and then sleeping during the day to catch up.

After washing up, he returned to the dorm, put away the design he had drawn last night, carried his backpack, and walked out of the dorm building. The sky was already devoid of stars.

But it was still good; there was one on the ground waiting for him to find.

...

"This is the banner, and these are the remaining drinks and snacks. I brought them all back."

Lin Shuyou put the things down and wiped his sweat with the back of his hand.

Runsheng threw him a handkerchief. He caught it and wiped himself again.

Lu Yi asked with a smile: "How was the joint activity?"

"There were quite a lot of people in the large lecture hall. Many people went up to show their talents, and there were also various games. It was very fun."

Lu Yi: "What did you perform?"

Lin Shuyou said shyly: "I don't have any talent."

Lu Yi: "Which school?"

"Jinling Audit, lots of girls."

"Were there any good-looking ones?"

"Yes," Lin Shuyou laughed, "How could there not be?"

"I mean, was there a type you liked?"

"There really was one. When I was leaving to tidy things up, she specifically came to ask me which class I was in and also asked about my class matters. She was so gentle, looked very beautiful, and her voice was very delicate."

Lu Yi teased: "Are you falling for her?"

"I don't know if this counts as falling for her, but she did make me feel very亲切."

"Since you have a good feeling, just go try." Lu Yi suggested as an outsider, "Be brave and contact her, write letters, express your feelings."

"Write letters?"

"Um, just ask someone to help deliver it. Do you know her name?"

"Yes, her name is Zhou Yunyun."

"Then just write a letter to Zhou Yunyun. About meeting her at the library or walking in the park, slowly get to know her."

"Really? Then... I'll actually write it?"

Runsheng, who was standing beside and listening while drinking water, silently put down his water cup after hearing the name 'Zhou Yunyun' and said:

"Don't write."

Lin Shuyou asked in confusion: "Um, why?"

"Because if you write, you'll die a miserable death."

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