BE Crazy Demon Survival System [Quick Transmigration]Ch58.1 - Is the Young Master Feigning Sickness Today? (8)

Although Xu Qichen had been assigned to teach at the church without his consent, he ended up liking it very much. It was perhaps due to the feeling of ‘returning to his comfort zone’ that this job gave him. For some reason, he seemed to naturally attract children, hence soon, Xu Qichen became the children’s favourite teacher.

Teaching them every day was simple. The only thing that worried him was the problem concerning his background. It was a ticking time bomb that would explode sooner or later, only, he could not see the countdown. 0oqdB7

“Have you not contacted your young master at all recently?”

Xu Qichen, who was squatting on the floor, looking up to see Lin Nianzhi.

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“He’s rather busy right now, so he probably has no time for me.”

Lin Nianzhi also squatted down and patted the little girl who was leaning against Xu Qichen and writing on the mud with a branch. “Yunniu, it’s cold outside. Go and write indoors. Aunt Zhang brought you brown sugar pancakes.” r4MSdw

The girl happily ran indoors.

Xu Qichen frowned, “Did something happen to Song Yuanyan?”

Lin Nianzhi replied, “En, I heard that he fell very ill. He had a high fever and even spent a few days in the hospital.”

The hand that had been writing poetry on the ground paused. A moment later, Xu Qichen said, “Has he been discharged?”

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“You’re so calm it’s scary.” Lin Nianzhi gave him a confused look, “Isn’t Song Yuanyan your lover?”

“That’s why I understand him better than anyone else,” Xu Qichen threw the branch away, dusted his robe off, and walked in, leaving Lin Nianzi behind.

Strange, this person was always gentle and polite, but it seemed like he was angry now.

Lin Nianzhi couldn’t figure it out and could not be bothered to wonder about it either. She had to rush to a banquet after teaching her class. Before leaving, she asked Xu Qichen, “Do you want to take leave?” KPDLZA

Xu Qichen, who was busy tutoring the children, did not even raise his head. “Whatever for?”

Lin Nianzhi glared at him, “To visit the sick. Aren’t you going?”

Xu Qichen bent over and carefully drew circles on the paper. “All these characters have been written wrongly. You have to correct them, okay?” After explaining to the children, he looked at Lin Nianzhi and said, “No.”

“This is so strange! I’m as good as the principal here, but I have to beg my staff to take leave.” Lin Nianzhi’s temper began to show itself, “Whatever, go if you want, don’t if you don’t want to. I don’t even like him, why am I wasting my time on this?” ow891

Xu Qichen glanced at her and said calmly, “The person you like may also be going to the banquet. Hurry home and dress up nicely.”

Hearing this, Lin Nianzhi’s face quickly turned red, and she even began to stutter, “What, I, there isn’t anyone I like!”

Xu Qichen thought to himself, in the modern era, one would call this being tsundere.

Lin Nianzhi left in a hurry. Xu Qichen carried on with his class, and only after it ended did he realise he was the only staff member left in the church. mDVKvP

Did everyone else happen to have something to do?

Just as he was pondering the question, the lady in charge of cooking and watching the children came out, having just changed her clothes. She smiled at him and said, “Isn’t Mr. Sun having a family reunion today?”

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“Reunion?”

Xu Qichen’s puzzlement must have shown on his face. The lady laughed, “You must be confused from being buried in books all day. Today is Laba Festival, I cooked a lot of Laba porridge; there’s quite a lot of leftover even after the children have had a bowl each. Mr. Sun, have a bowl before going home ba.” vjrKSQ

Xu Qichen smiled, “Thank you. I’ll have some in a moment.”

Xu Qichen was from the modern times, so he was not used to living by the lunar calender. He had had no idea that it was Laba Festival today. Unfortunately, given Sun Lin’s complicated history, he did not really have a home to return to for the holidays.

0901, who had disappeared for a long time, suddenly appeared again, “Hello, Mr. Xu.”

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Xu Qichen replied in his mind, “It’s been a while.” Q7Jka

0901: “P’nf yffc ecvfgublcu afrar gfmfcais, rb P tjnf cba tjv alwf ab mbwweclmjaf fwbalbcjiis klat Zg. We.”

We Hlmtfc: “Ktja’r olcf, P vbc’a qjgalmeijgis ibbx obgkjgv ab atlr xlcv bo mbwweclmjalbc flatfg.”

0901’r abcf joafg yflcu qbxfv ja kjr ralii atf rjwf, “Zg. We, atfgf lr j defralbc P tjnf yffc nfgs mbcoerfv jybea. Qts vb wbra bo atf qgbajubclrar lc sbeg cbnfi cba tjnf j mbwqifaf jcv kjgw ojwlis yjmxugbecv? Vbwf vb cba fnfc tjnf jcs ojwlis wfcalbcfv.”

It was really cold outside. Xu Qichen went back into the classroom and shut the door. He flipped open the bible on the table. hWQJyB

“Mr. Xu, are you refusing to answer my question?”

Xu Qichen said, “I thought this hobby of being curious about others’ privacy is the patent of mankind.”

0901 paused, “Alright. My apologies, Mr. Xu.”

Xu Qichen looked down at the Bible as he flipped through it. He might not look affected on the outside, but the black box containing the memories in his heart, had long been overturned, causing those dusty memories stuffed in it to reappear. LBqtdC

He did not like festivals, especially the numerous traditional festivals that boasted of warm words like ‘family reunion’.

Thoughts with low tide feelings swam between the dense words of the old bible, drifting farther and farther, turning, the colorful stained glass in front of him into an ordinary window of an apartment – returning back to the winter vacation of the first semester of his second year in senior high school.

Then also, he was sitting like this, alone by the window, reading a book, and the TV in the living room was playing the Spring Festival Gala that no one was watching. It was noisy, as if someone was really celebrating this reunion festival.

It was getting dark. He wondered whether he should cook some quick-frozen dumplings. As soon as he walked out of the bedroom, he remembered that his aunt would be late to get off work, and decided to wait until she came back to eat. WL6tdr

Back in the empty room, the mobile phone rang without warning. Looking at the blinking name on it, Xu Qichen’s froze for a moment. For a time, he could only stare blankly and did not pick up.

When the ringing stopped abruptly, he realised that he had missed the call. He held his cell phone, contemplating about dialing back, but afraid too, that the other party had just made a mistake when going through their address book.

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Even if he called back, what would he say?

‘Happy new year.’ Mia gm

‘Happy new year to you too.’

That would be about it. It would only be an awkward obligatory greeting that they would be better off without.

Xu Qichen put the phone face-down on the table and his eyes returned to the page. It was filled with the same words as before, but somehow he could not understand them.

The phone rang again, startling him. eCdVnb

He picked up the phone again, hesitantly, only to see that it was still the same name.

If he called twice, it probably wasn’t a mistake.

He steeled his nerves and picked up the phone.

“Hello…” z4KDFj

The other end of the phone was very noisy, with the sound of car horns in the background; it very different from the dead atmosphere here.

“Xu Qichen? Are you home?”

His voice was very loud, making Xu Qichen’s ear itchy. “I am.”

“Uhm…” The other party cleared his throat a few times, “I’m downstairs.” V8S75j

“What?” He was so surprised that he blurted out, “You, how did you…?”

“I’m not lying. Is anyone else home? Can you come down?”

His voice was very clear, passing through the fuzzy and noisy background, melting into the current and reaching his ears. Xu Qichen’s heart was beating faster and faster, making it extremely difficult for him to open his mouth.

“You can’t? Do you have guests?” UwB4qc

“No…” His Adam’s Apple moved unnaturally, “There’s no one at my house. Wait a minute, I’ll put on a coat and go down.”

He hurriedly hung up the phone, ran to the living room in cotton slippers, took the white long down jacket hanging on the porch hanger and wore it, and looked in the mirror before opening the door.

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He looked like a cylindrical rice cake.

It was too cold. Xu Qichen raised the jacket’s hood and zipped it to the top as he went downstairs. For some reason, his heart was still full of hesitation. q Vkfh

Could it be a prank?

Why didn’t he ask why he came over?

Even if it was a prank, he could only blame himself for being stupid.

Thinking like this, his expectations got lower and lower. Unexpectedly, the moment he came down the stairs, he really saw a tall and thin figure, wearing a red down jacket, standing in the middle of a pile of fireworks. The scene had a very festive atmosphere. 0FqCED

His back was facing Xu Qichen. Xu Qichen walked over and cleared his throat.

“You’re here.” He turned around. There was a lunchbox in his hand, “I brought dumplings.”

Xu Qichen was puzzled and glanced at him.

The other party’s hand pulled the woolen hat on his head, “Didn’t you give me your lunch last time? I want to repay your kindness… No, I can’t say that… I just want to share our reunion dinner with you– Ah, that’s also wrong…” His voice became more and more muffled, “My expressing ability is really poor, anyway, just take it, although I know your family should also have dumplings, but… Anyway, please try it.” O9Sg C

Holding the lunch box with an inexplicable joy, Xu Qichen’s cold palm absorbed a little bit of heat from it. He looked at the person in front of him and finally asked: “You had your New Year’s Eve dinner already?”

“Yes.” It seemed like he felt that the hat was wrong no matter how he adjusted it, so he simply pulled it off and rubbed his hair. “We started eating after five o’clock. There were so many people. All sorts of aunts came, I didn’t know many of them. Now they’re playing cards at my house, and I have no place to stay.”

The ending of the last sentence had some meaning of grievance. Xu Qichen lowered his head and didn’t know what to say, so he could only whisper a thank you.

“It’s all right. I don’t guarantee the taste… But you must finish it!” His hand tightly clutched the wool hat, “Then I…” dxyzWQ

“I’ll get going.”/”Do you want to come in and have a seat?”

They said it at the same time. Their words were muffled, stuck together like rice cakes, but the other party quickly grasped the key point, and his dark eyes lit up, like a match struck by someone in the middle of the night.

“Can I really?” He schooled his expressions somewhat and glanced at the playing children nearby as he rubbed his hands awkwardly, “It’s very cold here.”

“En.” Xu Qichen turned around, holding the lunch box, he walked up the steps, step by step. It felt like there was thick syrup under his shoes, making each step extremely difficult. X6Ex2Z

He wanted to turn around, but he could not muster the courage.

Just like this, they slowly walked up to the third floor.

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After opening the door, Xu Qichen bent down to take out his own slippers. “You wear my slippers; there are only two pairs in my house, and my aunt’s are too small for you.”

“What about you?” sWyp1B

Xu Qichen didn’t speak, took a pair of thick furry socks and put them on his feet, “Just like this.”

“Your house is just like I expected.”

Xu Qichen took off his coat and raised the temperature of the air conditioner by a few degrees, “Is it?”

“En, it’s just like you, quiet and comfortable.” Then he explained again, “I mean, I feel comfortable talking to you.” T9nAst

Xu Qichen didn’t speak, just silently poured him a cup of hot water.

Sitting on the sofa, watching the Spring Festival Gala that was getting worse year by year, the two opened the small insulated lunch box.

Xu Qichen looked at the dumplings inside. Each one was strange in shape. He could hardly find a beautiful one.

“Who cooks in your family?” 2eZO9P

“My mom?”

“Does she cook well?”

“Of course.” He grinned proudly, exposing his pair of sharp teeth.

Xu Qichen lowered his head and looked at the unrecognisable dumplings. sOBFvK

Then, these were not made by his mother.

He didn’t have a good appetite, but now he unexpectedly wanted to eat these dumplings, so he took chopsticks and gave the other party a pair as well.

The other party was acting sneaky. Before each picking up any, he had to gently poke it, just like the old man who sold watermelons, always patting it before deciding if it was a good melon. Xu Qichen thought he was very strange, but didn’t say anything, and simply ate silently.

Despite their looks, they tasted quite good. nb0Rdk

The other party ate really quickly, putting the whole dumpling in his mouth and swallowing them without much chewing. In the blink of an eye, there was only one lonely dumpling left in the box. He pushed the box in front of Xu Qichen, gesturing for him to have the last one.

Xu Qichen glanced at him and said quietly, “I can’t finish it…”

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He swallowed the dumpling in his mouth with difficulty, frowning, “No, there’s only one left… Just take it.”

Xu Qichen sighed, picked up the bulging white dumpling and bit it. M5dEmf

Thud!

Ouch.

He spit the dumpling back into the box and poked it with his chopstick.

Inside, there was… a piece of candy? s7vGLc

With a surprised look on his face, he glanced at the feeder, who laughed happily.

“Congratulations! Aren’t you lucky? You got the only Candy-Filled Auspicious Dumpling!” His deep eyes curved into crescents, “You will be very lucky next year.”

What…?

With the strange taste of this lucky dumpling still in his mouth, Xu Qichen stared at the hard candy that had not completely melted. hCtFDx

What brand of candy is this?

It’s too sweet. It’s so sweet that the tip of his tongue felt numb.

Back in the present, he heard the sound of a car outside, Xu Qichen stood up, held the Bible in his hand and pushed the door open. As he had expected, a man came down from the black car, wearing a dark green coat. When he caught sight of Xu Qichen from a distance, he laughed.

Why did he suddenly feel a sense of deja vu? KlWmAn

Translator's Note

8th day of the 12th lunar month

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  1. AAAHHHH I’m screaming I can literally hear bgm of the AD playing when reading those flashbacks.. both of them are so precious 😭 thank you for the chapter!