Chapter 468 – A Single Blunder Ruins All
“Is that so?” Yao Cen raised his eyebrows.
“I’m not talking to you anymore, illiterate!” Xiao Shun said as he was about to get up and go to the bathroom to wash up.
Yao Cen lifted his foot and kicked him in the butt, gritting his teeth and saying: “You, someone who probably never even went to school, dare to call me illiterate?”
Early the next morning, Xiao Shun got up, pushed open the window, and a breath of air mixed with a hint of coolness surged into the room, extremely refreshing.
After simply washing up, he went downstairs.
Long San’s mother had already prepared breakfast, congee and small dishes, very tasty.
“Hu, did your teacher assign you any homework during the vacation? Why didn’t you bring your homework here?” Yao Cen asked at the table.
Hu buried his little head in the bowl, his pair of penetrating big eyes blinked around, and he replied: “No, the teacher said to let us have a good time playing during the vacation.”
“What your teacher said is right, little kids doing homework, vacation is to let them play well.” Xiao Shun said casually.
Yao Cen glared at him: “What do you know? Children nowadays are afraid of losing at the starting line. Hu started receiving education later than other children. He has to learn more than others.”
“What you said is wrong. When I was Hu’s age, I was still begging on the streets. Now I’m quite good, aren’t I?” Xiao Shun said with a smile.
For a moment, Yao Cen was at a loss for words.
Not everyone is as freakish as you, okay?
“It’s enough for a girl to recognize words. When she grows up, let her work in a factory. As long as she can support herself, that’s fine.” Long San’s mother said.
“Alright.” Yao Cen had to surrender.
“What’s your plan for today?” Xiao Shun asked Yao Cen.
“The formalities are almost done. I have to contact the construction company in advance to start work.” Yao Cen said.
“But the construction companies I contacted in the past two days seemed to be a little evasive when they heard it was our Starline Bio, as if they didn’t really want to take our job.”
Xiao Shun pondered for a moment and said, “I guess someone is making trouble again behind the scenes. I’ll contact Chairman Zhuang later. He has construction companies under him. Let them do it. Don’t worry about this.”
Zhuang Jin is quite righteous after all. Although the amount of work for the plant is not large, it still counts as not letting the profits flow into outsiders’ pockets.
“Um.” Yao Cen nodded.
After breakfast, Xiao Shun rested for a while before going to Riverland Bay.
When he arrived at No. 63 Riverland Bay, he saw Wen Yao pacing back and forth at the door, still seeming undecided.
“Have you been waiting long?”
Xiao Shun walked over quickly with a smile and asked. It was a gratifying thing to be trusted by someone.
“Brother Xiao Shun… no, just arrived.” Wen Yao pursed her lips and smiled lightly.
“It’s rare that you remembered my name this time. Let’s go, come in with me.” Xiao Shun joked.
Wen Yao looked a little embarrassed and nodded slightly.
Song Linger had given Xiao Shun the key to the villa gate. The solid gray gate slowly slid open, and the two walked in one after the other.
Xiao Shun took her straight to the alchemy room.
“This is caused by going berserk during martial arts practice, right?” He asked as they walked.
Wen Yao’s eyes lit up, and she said with some surprise in her tone: “How did Brother Xiao know?”
“Just a guess.” Xiao Shun said with a smile.
Wen Yao: “… Oh.”
The hope that had just ignited was extinguished again by his simple two words.
Obesity is a “fatal” blow to any young girl, especially since she used to be the number one beauty in Rivet Town and the pearl in the palm of the whole family.
Just because of a misguided berserk during internal exercises, her weight increased threefold in just a few days. Her original 100-jin weight suddenly reached more than 300 jin.
And in just one more year, she truly experienced what it meant for a single blunder to ruin everything.
Those young talents who used to send her text messages every day to ask warmly after her and talk sweetly about how they admired her, at first there were still one or two who hoped she could lose weight again, and they would often still come to see her.
But after a year, they seemed to have lost patience, and never showed up again.
Her grandfather who used to dote on her, her uncles who used to pamper her, gradually became indifferent to her. Even her parents began to often speak coldly to her.
Her brothers and sisters who used to fawn over her began to dislike her, and even occasionally kicked her.
Later, she became more and more inferior and more and more reluctant to go out.
If it hadn’t been for her parents’ patient persuasion for a whole day this time, asking her to go out and get some fresh air, she would have flatly refused to come to Harrow.
Her parents were worried that if she stayed in her room without interacting with people any longer, she might not even be able to speak someday.
So when Xiao Shun saw her, he felt her personality was very strange.
Wen Yao was originally a talkative and cheerful girl, but now she was more like a contradictory combination of multiple personalities.
If Xiao Shun’s villa in Lakeview Ranch was like a small manor, Song Linger’s place here was like a small garden.
And the alchemy room was located in a separate garden deep inside the villa.
As soon as the two walked through a moon gate into the garden, they heard a tender shout.
Pow!
Then they saw the water in the fish pond at the garden gate splashing several meters high.
Splash!
A three-colored koi fell at their feet, flopping around on the ground.
Wen Yao subconsciously dodged to the side, looking around in confusion.
Xiao Shun rubbed his brow and looked in the direction of the sound. He saw Song Linger looking proudly at her little fist, presumably having just broken through and gotten excited, trying out her new power on the fish in the pond…
By now Song Linger had also seen the two of them. She jogged over happily and excitedly asked, “Master, am I awesome?”
“F*cking awesome.” Xiao Shun bent down to pick up the fish on the ground and threw it back into the pond, replying briefly.
“You’re a master, you can’t use vulgar language.” She eyed Wen Yao behind Xiao Shun while saying.
“Freaking awesome.”
“…” Song Linger gave him a speechless glare and asked, “Who is this?”
“Oh, Wen Yao, a friend of mine. She came today to let me take a look at her illness.” Xiao Shun introduced, then turned to Wen Yao and said, “This is my disciple, Song Linger.”
Wen Yao looked rather restrained: “Hello.”
Song Linger, who was naturally outgoing, nodded to her and said, “Hello, since you are my master’s friend, you are also my friend. Come on, let’s talk inside.”
The garden was about the same size as the small courtyard in Stillwater. Song Linger’s range of activities was not large, and she basically spent every day here.
The alchemy room actually had three rooms. The one on the far left was the alchemy room, the middle one was a small living room, and the other side was the bedroom.
After the three returned to the living room, Xiao Shun took Wen Yao’s pulse and asked about her situation when she went berserk.
He pondered for a moment before saying, “This was caused by going berserk. It’s a little different from ordinary obesity. I need to prescribe you some herbal medicine first to repair your damaged body, then give you acupuncture to help you burn away the excess fat. This process will probably take about half a month. “Content protected by Nôv/el(D)rama.Org.