Taoist Master and the Cat - Chapter 50
Xie Jingyuan smiled, as a tacit consent, otherwise Xu Shou might not accept his care.
There were at least seven years before the three demons graduated to work. During those seven years, Xie Jingyuan would try his best to help them truly integrate into the world.
When they were talking, Su Miaomiao was still comparing the dishes in several windows, and then picked a window with braised fish from the queue.
Xie Jingyuan came behind her, and Xu Shou was behind him.
Su Miaomiao ordered a dish of braised fish, a pair of chicken wings in honey sauce, and a dish of beef brisket with tomato.
When it was time to swipe the card, Su Miaomiao suddenly remembered something, turned to Xie Jingyuan and said, “Taoist Master, I forgot my campus card in my schoolbag.”
Xie Jingyuan directly swiped the card for her.
Xu Shou glanced at her quietly.
Su Miaomiao was used to it, so she went to find a seat first.
Xie Jingyuan ordered three vegetarian dishes.
Xu Shou wanted him to order for him.
Xie Jingyuan knew that Xu Shou also ate some pheasants and hares before going to Qingxu Temple, so he ordered two meat dishes for Xu Shou.
Xie Jingyuan: “In terms of eating, I hope you follow your nature.”
Xu Shou remembered.
When the two of them sat next to Su Miaomiao with their plates, she glanced at Xu Shou’s dishes, and said sarcastically, “Why did you break the precept?”
During her stay in Qingxu, she would catch fish and birds nearby to eat, while the big black dog followed the Taoist master to eat vegetarian food.
Xu Shou ignored her, picked up a piece of chicken wing, looked at Su Miaomiao, bit his lip, and snapped the bone of the chicken wing.
Su Miaomiao: …
The three including Gu Jialing ate Mala Tang, and Su Miaomiao finished eating a fish when they came late.
When Gu Jialing looked at their dinner plates, Su Miaomiao also looked at Gu Jialing’s Mala Tang bowl, there was everything from spinach and tomato to meatballs and duck blood.
“Taoist Master, do you have such a vegetarian diet?” Looking at Xie Jingyuan’s dishes, Gu Jialing asked.
The Taoist master still abided by the clear rules and precepts of Qingxu Temple, which meant, would the Taoist master continue to discipline them strictly?
“Hey, why are you also calling him Taoist Master?” Cheng Yue asked curiously.
Gu Jialing turned his head quickly, pointed at Su Miaomiao and said, “I learned it all from her.”
Cheng Yue and Feng Xiaoyu understood.
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Back in the teaching building, Feng Xiaoyu and Cheng Yue returned to their classes.
Xie Jingyuan asked Xu Shou and Su Miaomiao to go back to the classroom first, and he took Gu Jialing to the remote corner suitable for talking.
Gu Jialing became nervous.
Xie Jingyuan turned around and said to him, “Starting tonight, Xu Shou will move into my house. We still have a vacant room, do you want to come?”
The new house had a four-bedroom layout, with three bedrooms and a study room, which could be converted into a bedroom.
After listening to Xie Jingyuan’s introduction, Gu Jialing said tactfully, “Is the study room too small? Our house in the town is also a villa…”
The implication was that he was used to living in a big house and couldn’t stand a small one.
Xie Jingyuan looked at him, “So, you don’t want to live with us?”
Gu Jialing’s heart trembled, and he hurriedly said, “No, actually, I miss you very much too…”
Xie Jingyuan: “Then it’s settled.”
Gu Jialing: …
Why did he have to be hypocritical? Why didn’t he dare to refuse with confidence?
Xie Jingyuan: “You can move over tomorrow night, remember to call your grandpa to clarify.”
Gu Jialing suddenly had hope, and said, “How should I explain this to the old man? He…”
Xie Jingyuan: “Just say that you want to study with the top two in the class and improve your grades.”
Gu Jialing: …
After so many years, Gu Jialing had never studied hard. Fortunately, he was smart. The old man looked forward to him being a scholar. Gu Jialing only read books from time to time, and had always maintained a leading grade in the town’s primary and junior high schools. That made the old man very proud and he gave out pocket money very generously.
But in No. 1 High School and Class No. 9, Gu Jialing was suddenly reduced to the ninth from the bottom.
“If the old man doesn’t believe it, I can call him!” Looking at Gu Jialing who fell into silence, Xie Jingyuan said empathetically.
Gu Jialing quickly shook his head, “Believe me, he will believe everything I say.”
What a joke, if he really let the old man know that there were people like Xie Jingyuan in the world, he would hand over his pocket money to Xie Jingyuan for safekeeping.
Xie Jingyuan nodded.
When the two returned to the classroom, Su Miaomiao and Xu Shou found that Gu Jialing seemed to have lost his soul and turned into a listless bird with dull eyes.
In the afternoon, there was a military training theory class, and all freshmen in high school went to the gymnasium to attend classes.
The second day of school went by like that.
After the evening self-study, Su Miaomiao followed Xie Jingyuan to Xu Shou’s dormitory
It was dark, and there was light in each dormitory, and the street lamps next to them casted long shadows of the two on the ground.
Su Miaomiao was sleepy again, approached Xie Jingyuan, and put her head on his shoulder.
Xie Jingyuan avoided her, and said in a low voice, “Human women don’t casually have physical contact with men.”
Su Miaomiao looked at him, paused, and suddenly closed her eyes. Her fair face gradually turned red, and it became more red by time.
Xie Jingyuan was startled, “What are you doing?”
Su Miaomiao didn’t answer. After a full minute, she let out a long breath and said disappointedly, “I want to see if I can turn back into a cat. If I become a cat, you can hug me.”
Xie Jingyuan: “…”
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