Taoist Master and the Cat - Chapter 82

Su Miaomiao didn’t realize that her mother ate the apple Xie Jingyuan gave her, and because she didn’t pay attention to it, after all she came back with several apples the previous night.

It was Saturday and Christmas.

Under Gu Jialing’s strong suggestion, Xie Jingyuan agreed to have a treat at noon, which was regarded as a Christmas gift for the three demons.

The four of them still spent the morning in the gymnasium.

After the break, Xie Jingyuan received a call and went to the stadium alone to answer it.

On the green field, he was wearing a black sportswear, his figure was slender and tall, and he was a bit cold.

Gu Jialing took a sip of water, stared at Xie Jingyuan for a while, then suddenly sat down on the chair next to Su Miaomiao, and asked in a low voice, “He avoids us when answering the phone, does the priest have any secrets?”

Su Miaomiao did know one thing, and that was the fact that the Taoist master wrote a book. But she promised not to speak out.

Su Miaomiao shook her head.

Gu Jialing looked at Xie Jingyuan again, squinted his eyes and guessed, “Tell me, did the Taoist master meet some girl outside?”

Xu Shou said coldly, “Don’t slander the Taoist master’s innocence.”

Gu Jialing was afraid of the loyal dog, thought for a while, and then asked Su Miaomiao, “When we hadn’t met, what gift did the priest give you at Christmas?”

That was not a secret, so Su Miaomiao said casually, “Sometimes snacks, sometimes hair ties, and even chocolates.”

Gu Jialing rubbed his chin. Those things were very cheap, but a few years ago, the Taoist master was also a child, and his pocket money was limited.

“What did he give you last year?” Gu Jialing asked cleverly.

Just as Su Miaomiao was about to say something, Xu Shou suddenly reminded him, “If you tell him, he would ask for the same gift from the Taoist master.”

Su Miaomiao raised her hand and stroked Gu Jialing’s hair.

Gu Jialing struggled to run away, “It must be very expensive! The Taoist master is biased and will give you good things. We will only get a casual meal.”

Xu Shou: “The meal in this restaurant costs a thousand.”

Gu Jialing: “Isn’t it more than a thousand? Don’t you believe that the gift he gave her last year is worth tens of thousands?”

Xu Shou paused for a moment, then looked at Su Miaomiao quietly. Even if the Taoist master really gave such an expensive gift, it must be the cat who was not sensible and took the initiative to ask the Taoist master for it.

Su Miaomiao stared back at Xu Shou, “It’s not tens of thousands. I picked the crystal ball myself. I saw it when the priest paid the bill. It was less than two hundred.”

Xu Shou had seen the kind of Christmas crystal ball that could spray fake snowflakes and play music, and one could buy it for dozens of yuan.

He knew that the Taoist master would never indulge Su Miaomiao blindly.

“What are you arguing about again?” Xie Jingyuan put away his phone and walked over, sensing that something was wrong with the atmosphere.

Gu Jialing hurriedly said, “We are trying to guess who called you.”

There were only a handful of relatives and friends. He had seen the Taoist master answer Xie Rong’s phone call, and he did that in front of them then. He wouldn’t walk away on purpose.

Xie Jingyuan looked at Xu Shou.

Xu Shou: “He was guessing himself, slandering the Taoist master for having a woman outside.”

Xie Jingyuan’s eyes fell on Su Miaomiao’s face.

Su Miaomiao hurriedly clarified, “I didn’t say anything!”

Xie Jingyuan: “…”

Gu Jialing’s mouth was so wide open that it could fit a tennis ball, so Xie Jingyuan had no choice but to explain, “I wrote a book last year, and now a company wants to make it into a movie.”

Gu Jialing’s shock quickly turned into another kind, and he rushed over excitedly, circling around Xie Jingyuan, “What book? Will they pay you for making a movie? How much?”

Su Miaomiao was also very excited, the Taoist master’s money was Qingxu Temple’s money. It was the money to support them. The more the Taoist master earned, the better their life would be!

Only Xu Shou, who was not moved by money, admired the Taoist master’s talent.

Xie Jingyuan: “We’re still talking.”

Gu Jialing: “How many do you think you will get?”

Seeing his greediness, Su Miaomiao was not pleased, jumped up and pulled Xie Jingyuan behind her, glared at Gu Jialing and said, “How much he gets has nothing to do with you. You obviously have a mine, why do you want to rob the Taoist master?”

She was short, so Gu Jialing lowered his head and confronted her, “The mine is my family’s, whatever Taoist master has is his, and I am also a demon of the Qingxu Temple. If the Taoist master raises you, he must raise me.”

Xu Shou came over, grabbed one with each hand, and pulled the two away like chickens.

Xie Jingyuan was used to it, he just said, “Go and change clothes, it’s time to eat.”

On the way, Su Miaomiao and Gu Jialing were still fighting non-stop. For a while Su Miaomiao grabbed Gu Jialing with her hand, and for a while he stretched out his foot to kick her.

Sitting in the middle, Xie Jingyuan had to hold down Su Miaomiao’s hand, and then step on Gu Jialing’s foot.

Xu Shou looked at the taxi driver worriedly, afraid of revealing their identities.

The driver smiled.  It was normal for high school students to be noisy.

Arriving at the mall, Gu Jialing found that there was a game room on the same floor. The lights inside were flickering, and it was fun to watch.

He looked at Xie Jingyuan eagerly.

Xie Jingyuan: “After eating, you can play here for an hour.”

Gu Jialing jumped up happily, but was glared at by Xu Shou because he jumped too high.

After eating enough, the four of them went to the game room.

Xie Jingyuan applied for three cards, Gu Jialing took his and ran in. Xu Shou only at Xie Jingyuan’s insistence went to find the games he was interested in.

Su Miaomiao directly exchanged some game coins, and walked to the middle rows of claw machines.

She had come to that game city for the first time,  so she kept looking around. Suddenly her eyes lit up, she pointed to Xie Jingyuan and said, “Taoist Master, look quickly, doesn’t this look like Xu Shou?”

Xie Jingyuan had already seen it, the corner of his mouth slightly raised.

The doll inside resembled a police dog, with black fur on the back, top of the head, and nose, and brownish-yellow belly and limbs.