Taoist Master and the Cat - Chapter 27

It was almost half past eleven after watching the movie.

Cheng Yue invited everyone to eat hot pot at a nearby restaurant, “We were admitted to No. 1 High School together. My mother was very happy that she gave me 1,000 yuan in the morning to let us celebrate.”

Feng Xiaoyu: “Auntie is so kind, then we will not be polite!”

Cheng Yue: “You’re welcome, you’re welcome. Let’s go, it will take about ten minutes to walk there.”

The girls walked in front, Xie Jingyuan and Lin Xi walked behind them, one was cold and the other was quiet, there was nothing embarrassing about it.

When they arrived at the hot pot restaurant, Cheng Yue asked for a box space.

The air conditioner was turned on and eating hot pot in the air-conditioned room was the best.

There were eight seats at the round table, but the waiter removed two of them.

Su Miaomiao was the first to pick a chair, as she just sat down casually.

Xie Jingyuan sat second, on Su Miaomiao’s left.

Feng Xiaoyu still occupied the position on Su Miaomiao’s right.

Cheng Yue sat on the other side of Xie Jingyuan as if nothing had happened.

Neither Lin Xi nor Zhou Yao chose, and the remaining two seats were theirs.

The waiter brought three menus, Su Miaomiao and Feng Xiaoyu ordered together, Zhou Yao and Lin Xi shared one.

Cheng Yue put the menu on Xie Jingyuan’s side, and was just about to ask Xie Jingyuan what he wanted to order, but he said indifferently, “Su Miaomiao will order for me.”

He understood what the little girl was thinking, but Xie Jingyuan didn’t want her to go further down that fruitless wrong path.

At the age of fifteen or sixteen, she should focus on her studies and not be distracted by love, let alone fall in love with him.

Xie Jingyuan didn’t even look at Cheng Yue. His cold face turned slightly toward Su Miaomiao.

Su Miaomiao, who was named, looked over and saw Cheng Yue’s embarrassing appearance of a hot face pressing a cold butt. (showing warm feelings but meeting a cold rebuke)

Su Miaomiao was too familiar with that embarrassment.

Thinking back to when she was just captured by Xie Jingyuan and taken to Qingxu Temple, in order to show her loyalty to him and prove that she was a reformed cat demon, she specially hand-copied the scriptures and dedicated it to Xie Jingyuan. In the end, Xie Jingyuan still had that cold look, he asked, “Didn’t I say that you are not allowed to transform into a human form in the temple?”

Su Miaomiao said aggrievedly, “I did it to copy scriptures…”

Xie Jingyuan: “It is not acceptable even if you want to copy the scriptures either.”

So, according to Su Miaomiao’s experience, no one needed to think about flattering Xie Jingyuan, as he would not appreciate it at all. But there was no need to please him because Xie Jingyuan was a cold-faced and kind-hearted person. If one needed help, they just needed to ask him. That meant, as long as he could help, he would basically not refuse. Of course, outsiders couldn’t ask too much. For example, if a poor man asked Xie Jingyuan for a meal, he would give it to him. If the poor person asked Xie Jingyuan to give him a hundred taels of silver, that was just a dream.

“He is a vegetarian, just give him a few vegetables, such as spinach, lettuce, basil, and potatoes, he is not picky.”

After Su Miaomiao finished speaking casually, she tilted her head and continued to choose meat dishes with Feng Xiaoyu.

Cheng Yue lowered her head. Her face was still a little pale. No matter how thin-skinned a  person was, she would definitely cry a lot after being swept up in such a way.

Cheng Yue liked Xie Jingyuan, but he didn’t like her at all.

She had always fantasized about being the female lead in Xie Jingyuan’s love life, but she felt e that she was more like a poor and infatuated cannon fodder in an idol drama, who could only watch the indifferent male lead do various special deeds toward the female lead while treating her like air.

She would be unwilling to lose to someone else, but that person was Su Miaomiao.

Su Miaomiao was prettier than her. She was better at studying than her, and was inseparable from Xie Jingyuan as childhood sweethearts. She had no hope at all.

Cheng Yue was a little sad, but fortunately, the feelings of a fifteen-year-old girl were not so deep-rooted, and she quickly turned her grief into appetite.

The waiter who came back said, “Well, isn’t it too much? You can order a few things and eat first, then add more dishes if it’s not enough.”

It was shameful to waste food, and the waiters in hot pot restaurants had also been trained to properly remind customers to reduce wastage.

Zhou Yao also persuaded Cheng Yue, “Let’s order a little less. Xie Jingyuan doesn’t eat meat, so there is one less boy. How can the five of us eat so much?”

Only then did Cheng Yue remove a few dishes.

The waiter walked away with the menu.

Feng Xiaoyu looked around and sighed, “Although all six of us were admitted to the No. 1 High School, I heard that last year’s first grade was divided into 24 classes, and we probably will disperse.”

Cheng Yue said, “We were not in the same class for three years in middle school.”

After saying so, everyone looked at Xie Jingyuan and Su Miaomiao.

Feng Xiaoyu was also very curious, “Why are you two always in the same class? From kindergarten to middle school, you still stayed at the same table!”

Su Miaomiao felt guilty.

Of course, there was a reason for being together all the time, that was, her father thought that she would only study hard if she was in the same class as Xie Jingyuan, so he specially invited acquaintances from the school to help arrange it.

However, her parents said that the approach was inappropriate. If every parent went to the teacher to ask for class placement, the teacher would have a headache, so she was not allowed to speak it out.

Her dad could only interfere with the class division, and Xie Jingyuan’s request was for the deskmate. That guy wanted to keep an eye on her and forbid her to sleep in class.

“Probably fate,” Su Miaomiao said old-fashionedly.

Her fate meant that the cat demon was captured by the Taoist master, and then had to be obedient for the rest of her life.

Cheng Yue and Lin Xi automatically understood it as “fate”.

Feng Xiaoyu almost spat out a mouthful of the soda, and looked at Su Miaomiao in disbelief, “Didn’t you say you are not in love, but now you are willing to admit it?”