“Xiao Li!”
Yu Rui felt terrible when he saw Yu Li dragging Xie Li, but unfortunately, he was one step too late to stop her. Yu Li finished talking to the old Taoist priest excitedly before she heard her brother’s voice.
“Brother?”
Yu Rui slightly furrowed his eyebrows and stepped forward to take Yu Li’s hand, “Have you forgotten what I taught you?”
Yu Li blinked, and after a few seconds, her eyes turned slightly red, and she lowered her head with a grievance.
The old Taoist priest had halted awkwardly, but when he saw that the girl was about to cry, he couldn’t bear it, “Children don’t know what they are doing, don’t be mean to her. Although the old Taoist sign is a marriage sign, it can also calculate brotherly love and others. I will do it for free.”
Yu Rui restrained himself, “He and I are not brothers. We are not related by blood.”
“Huh?” The old Taoist priest was dumbfounded, “Didn’t the girl call him brother too?”
“… just classmates.”
“Oh-oh, classmates.” After thinking about it, the old Taoist priest could only bite the bullet and said, “Affinity in friend relationship also counts.”
Yu Rui, “No, we-”
“Go ahead.” A voice cracked with laughter and interrupted Yu Rui’s words.
Yu Rui frowned and turned his head. He saw Xie Li leaning over and putting his left hand on his shoulder, “Don’t be so angry, Class President.”
Yu Rui frowned, “I don’t believe in this.”
“If you don’t, then it doesn’t matter.”
“You-”
“Or is it because…” Xie Li suddenly leaned forward and chuckled in Yu Rui’s ear, “… you can’t afford to play, Class President?”
Yu Rui looked at him indifferently.
Xie Li lowered his voice, “In the class before, who was the one who spoke callous words to me, saying that we would see who would run away like a dog in the end?”
Yu Rui looked at Xie Li for a few seconds expressionlessly, and suddenly the corners of his mouth curved slightly, and he faintly smiled, “Good.”
Xie Li slowly straightened up, “What information do you need?”
The old Taoist priest reacted to see that it was a question to himself and said, “The date of birth and the eight characters.”
Yu Rui kept silent for a while and said his year, month, day, and time of birth. After the old Taoist priest wrote it down, his gaze turned to Xie Li.
Xie Li raised his eyebrows, “The year, month, and day are known, time not.”
Yu Rui gave him a look.
Xie Li seemed to notice and said calmly, “My mother didn’t care, and surely no one remembers. How about changing the numbers to something else?”
It was the first time the old Taoist priest had seen such a casual customer and hesitated before asking, “What number should I change?”
“How about a lucky number?”
“…. ??”
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
Wlf Ol rdejaafv, “zz4546, ajxf ktjafnfg sbe kjca ogbw atfgf.”
Ktf biv Kjblra qglfra kjr fnfc wbgf qehhifv jcv mbeiv bcis cbv raloois, “Ktf olgra akb atfc?”
“Slatfg bcf.”
Te Ol rabbv ralii, gfjmtlcu bea ab aeu Te Eel’r riffnf, “Dgbatfg, Dgbatfg Wlf Ol’r iemxs cewyfg wjamtfr sbeg qtbcf.”
Rjaegjiis, Te Eel rbbc gfjilhfv la, jcv ja atlr wbwfca, tlr fsfr ibbxfv ja Wlf Ol lc j mbwqilmjafv wbbv.
Xie Li stood up and returned to Yu Rui’s side.
When he met Yu Rui’s eyes, he smiled, “Do you regret giving me your number?”
Yu Rui averted his eyes, “If I had known, I wouldn’t have told you a second time then.”
Xie Li raised his eyebrows, “Actually, I remembered it instantly that time.”
“Then why did you ask again?”
“At that time, the Class President rarely talked to me. I wanted to listen to you for a while longer, 11 digits are enough.”
“… psycho.”
“Certainly.” Xie Li put his hands in his pockets and bowed his head, smiling, “Psycho as hell. I depend on you. Class President, sacrifice your life to save me.”
Yu Rui was about to respond when the old Taoists’ process of muttering and chanting ended, and a piece of arithmetic fell off and landed on the Bagua Diagram.
“There it is” The old Taoist picked it up and shook his head, “Wait for me at Sang Zhong, come with me to Shang Gong and send me to Qi Shui.”
The old Taoist finished reciting mysteriously, opened one eye to look at the two of them, and asked without petulance, “Do you know what this means?”
Yu Rui raised his eyebrows and looked sideways at Xie Li, “Listening to the style of the words and the context, it sounds like <<The Book of Odes>>…”
Xie Li raised his eyes and lazily replied, “<<The Book of Odes- Feng Feng- Sang Shong>>.”
Old Taoist,”….”
Yu Rui frowned.
He turned around and mentally pondered how to schedule time: it was time to study those three hundred poems in detail.
The old Taoist priest stood dumbfounded for a few seconds before stroking his beard and smiling awkwardly, “You are young but quite knowledgeable.”
Yu Li squatted in front of the table and curiously studied the eight trigrams on it, looked up, and said, “Grandpa, my brother is second on the list in his course, and Brother Xie Li sleeps all day and is still first on the list.”
Old Taoist, “….”
Yu Rui, “….”
After Yu Li, who didn’t know that she had poked her brother again, finished speaking, she asked curiously, “But what does this verse have to do with them?”
The old Taoist coughed slightly, at last, a little grateful to be back on his ground, “According to the marriage interpretation, this marriage is a lifelong event. It must not be by excess, illicitness, or force. It must be by properly winning the heart with the consent of both parties. If it is violenting on the above principles, even if they come together and appear in harmony, both will be at odds, and their marriage destroyed.”
Yu Li listened while nodding her head, but after listening, she was still confused and turned around, “Brother, what does grandpa mean by this?”
After asking, Yu Li noticed that Yu Rui’s expression was not the same as usual; it was still the same as the one he put in front of others, and there was not much emotion, but his eyes seemed to have changed a little subtly.
Xie Li’s expression, on the other hand, was even…
The old Taoist did not notice it, and continued, “This, if it is changed in a relationship between friends, then…”
“There is no need to change it.” Xie Li suddenly spoke up to interrupt.
“Eh?” The old Taoist was confused.
Yu Rui also came to his senses at that moment, looking a little uncomfortable, and reached out his hand to lift Yu Li, “Alright, now you’ve satisfied your curiosity, right? Say thank you to grandpa. We should go.”
Yu Li could only thank the elder warmly before Yu Rui pulled her to leave in a hurry.
Xie Li didn’t hurry. He took out a bill, and pressed it into the trigram stand, “Thank you.”
The old Taoist priest said with a guilty conscience, “Hey, I said it was free, and it doesn’t take that much.”
“I should.”
Xie Li stood up, put the rest in his pocket, and followed the figure unhurriedly.
“Thanks for the reminder… otherwise, I really would have been unable to resist.”
“??”
The old Taoist priest looked blankly at the young man’s back, and when he looked again, he scratched his head. Was it an illusion?
He felt that the young man’s words before he left carried grinding of teeth as if he was hungry.
What is it that he covets?
The old Taoist priest was perplexed and closed his stall.
…
A new Monday has arrived.
Xie Li arrived at school late today, almost at the same time the bell for the second-period rung.
He entered through the back door. The professor was used to it, so he ignored him and continued with his class. Yu Rui glanced at him and seemed to want to say something, but in the end, he held back. Because as Class President, he had to set an example.
When the bell rang, Yu Rui put down his pen. He hesitated for a few seconds, about to turn away when he saw the member of the Cleaning Committee walking cautiously.
“Xie-Student Xie Li?”
It’s rare the day when Xie Li’s school uniform jacket doesn’t cover him like a sack, but it still didn’t stop him from sleeping.
The Cleaning Committee member didn’t know whether he was afraid or ashamed, and his voice was getting lower as he called out.
Yu Rui couldn’t listen anymore and turned sideways with a faint smile and asked, “What do you want from him?”
“Ah? The slate cleaning rotation in last week’s row is over. Xie Li starts today.”
Yu Rui glanced at the blackboard. The last class was language. The teacher liked to write on the blackboard the most and didn’t like to use multimedia. At this moment, all the words on the board were big pieces of chalk.
Yu Rui stood up, “I will do it for him.”
“… Huh?” The member of the Cleaning Committee looked at Yu Rui in surprise.
Yu Rui smiled kindly, “Student Xie Li hurt his right arm last week, so he won’t be able to clean the blackboard.”
“Ah, then, thank you Class President.”
“It ‘s nothing.”
Yu Rui closed the exercise book on his desk and put it aside, then left his seat and walked over to the podium.
He picked up the whiteboard cleaner and began to “work.”
The classroom was silent at first, but later, some Sherlock Holmes discovered from the Cleaning Committee or himself that Yu Rui was cleaning the blackboard instead of Xie Li.
Before long, half of the class was looking at Master Yu’s back while he was wiping the blackboard they were talking about it.
“Isn’t it Xie Li’s turn today, is Yu Rui helping Xie Li wipe the blackboard?”
“Are they friends or enemies? I don’t understand.”
“Yu Rui is too kind, isn’t he? Xie Li provoked him before, is he still not angry?”
One after another, “Yu Rui” was drilled into his ears, and when no one was looking, a man in the back row, whose radar automatically went up when he heard the word, slowly sat up.
Xie Li’s eyes were dark and sleepy, and his excellent hearing picked up a few key information from the talk before he leaned on his desk, stood up, and walked lazily.
At the podium, Yu Rui merely pretended not to hear the chatter of the class.
The blackboard was wiped clean.
The language teacher was very tall and liked to start writing against the top edge of the board; when he was too close to the board, the chalk dust would hit his face; when he was half a step behind, even with his height, he needed to stretch his arms to reach the top row of words.
Yu Rui was frowning and thinking about how to advise the language teacher when he suddenly heard a whisper behind him.
Yu Rui’s hand stopped and unconsciously tried to look back. But before he could do so, a figure approached and completely covered him.
A warm palm covered the back of Yu Rui’s hand, and his long, strong fingers grabbed the slate eraser.
“!!”
Yu Rui suddenly froze in place.
And someone’s breath rushed past the back of his neck, with searing heat and the hoarse voice of a sleeping man waking up.
“As soon as I woke up, I saw you wiggling in front of the board…”
The voice laughed.
“Too exciting, isn’t it, Class President?”
THE AUTHOR HAS SOMETHING TO SAY:
Xie Li is flirtatious.
The off-stage perspective is up to your imagination.
The old Taoist must be author in disguise reminding Xiexie to keep calm!
Xie Li’s lust scared a Taoist Grandpa into shutting down his stall on a money making night…or maybe he was just there to pass on a reminder 😄. Meanwhile here’s Yu Rui slowly working off that debt one blackboard at a time.
Thanks for the chapter ❤️❤️