The salty life in Life of Pi

Chapter 66: Ying Zheng Eats Peppercorns - Ying is Numb

Although he was cursing in his heart, Wu Xianyu felt that it was nothing special. Bungee jumping was not as scary as he had imagined. Instead, it provided a feeling of falling, as if he had woken up from a dream. His mind suddenly became quiet and everything was so peaceful. But it also made Wu Xianyu realize one thing: he was not in a dream and Lin Miaomiao really existed.

After getting on, Lin Miaomiao fastened her seat belt and asked Wu Xianyu nervously:

"how are you feeling?"

Wu Xianyu thought about it and smiled brightly.
"I want to do it again, what do you say?"

"I can rest assured that"

Lin Miaomiao gave a thumbs up, took a deep breath, and without asking any staff to help, she just leaned back and jumped down.

"Wuhu~~"

Unlike Wu Xianyu who jumped in silence, Lin Miaomiao was like a monkey in the forest, cheering so loudly that Wu Xianyu even wanted to cover his face.

With Lin Miaomiao's constant encouragement, Mai Ju went down screaming, but after coming up, her face turned red with excitement, and she looked a lot brighter, as if she had gotten rid of a shadow.

Finally it was Jiang Tianhao's turn. Jiang Tianhao was very confident. He boasted to the others:
"I've done bungee jumping many times, so I'll just jump casually this time."

But Wu Xianyu couldn't stand him showing off, so when Jiang Tianhao jumped back, he suddenly spoke

"Hey, why isn't this safety buckle fastened?"

Jiang Tianhao had already leaned back at this time, with a wonderful expression on his face, showing doubt, confusion, pain, fear and a hint of relief. Wu Xianyu felt that it could be included in an acting textbook.

After coming up, Jiang Tianhao's legs were shaking. If looks could kill, Wu Xianyu would have been poked with hundreds of transparent holes.

Wu Xianyu put on his seat belt again, ignored Jiang Tianhao's pretentious performance, and gave him a thumbs up.

Wu Xianyu leaned back, closed his eyes, and carefully felt the feeling of his body falling. That feeling was really addictive.

After bungee jumping, everyone was on their way to eat. Before reaching the restaurant, they saw a small food truck surrounded by a lot of students, and they laughed from time to time.

Lin Miaomiao, who loves to watch any fun, would definitely not miss it. After watching for a while, she found out that it was the man selling Turkish ice cream who was teasing the students. Wu Xianyu had seen this kind of short video. If the person being teased was also happy, then everyone was happy. But if the person being teased was unhappy, then it was hard to say.

Seeing Lin Miaomiao eager to try, Wu Xianyu whispered behind her
"Would you like to go and play too?"

Lin Miaomiao was a little hesitant

"But I can't seem to catch that ice cream, won't that be embarrassing?"

"Don't you think the ice cream cone tastes good? Don't you want to eat a few more?"

"Hey?"

Lin Miaomiao's eyes suddenly lit up. Mai Ju turned to look at Wu Xianyu in disbelief. How could this man take advantage of others so confidently? What made her even more unbelievable was that Lin Miaomiao actually thought this was very promising.

When the student got his ice cream, Lin Miaomiao walked up and pretended to be a silly student. Sure enough, the staff member started to tease Lin Miaomiao. An ice cream stuck on the shovel was put into Lin Miaomiao's hand. Seeing that Lin Miaomiao held it, the man smiled ghostly and picked up the shovel directly. He thought he would see Lin Miaomiao being frustrated, but his ghostly smile froze.

Lin Miaomiao ate the cone without any hesitation. While biting the cone, Lin Miaomiao raised her chin and looked at the staff provocatively. The students around her also cheered. Finally, someone could punish this annoying ice cream.

The staff member realized at this time that he had been outmaneuvered and was now in a difficult situation, so he simply handed the intact ice cream to Lin Miaomiao, indicating that he did not want to play anymore.

But Lin Miaomiao was not so easy to fool. She didn't take the ice cream, but pointed at the cone.
"Give me two more, or we can continue playing."

"Okay, I accept it. I'll give you two crispy cones for 25 yuan."

"Damn, just an ice cream is so expensive"

Lin Miaomiao was shocked. Is this ice cream made of gold or silver? It is so expensive.

"Tease you is also a service, and it costs money."

The staff all had smiles on their faces, with a hint of gloating.

Lin Miaomiao turned around and saw 25/copy clearly written on a small blackboard, so she resigned herself to the fate and scanned the money.

Walking out of the crowd, Lin Miaomiao still looked unhappy while biting the crispy tube

"I'm the one being teased, why do you still charge me money?"

Mai Ju comforted her
"Well, you see, others spent 25 bucks to buy an ice cream, and you got three extra cones. Compared to others, you are the winner."

"Yes, that's really like Ying Zheng eating peppercorns - Ying Zheng is numb."

Wu Xianyu said, and although it was a compliment, Lin Miaomiao always felt that the meaning of the words was not right.

While eating in the restaurant, Jiang Tianhao's cell phone suddenly rang. He picked it up and looked at it. His brows frowned slightly and then quickly relaxed.

Wu Xianyu stretched his head to take a look, and spoke before he saw what was about to come out of his mouth.

"What's the matter? What's the fun?"

"Well, it's also fun."

Jiang Tianhao put his cell phone on the table so that everyone could see it. Several people leaned over to take a look. There was a photo in the phone. It should have been taken secretly by someone at the Ferris wheel. This was not important. What was important was the content of the photo.

The protagonists of the photo are Qian Sanyi and Deng Xiaoqi. In the photo, Qian Sanyi is pale with his eyes closed, curled up in Deng Xiaoqi's arms. Deng Xiaoqi is hugging Qian Sanyi, and the two are tightly pressed together. Although there is no ambiguous feeling, the fact that the two are hugging each other is already big news.

Wu Xianyu took a look at who sent it to Jiang Tianhao and found that it was sent by their science class group. He shook his head.

"It's over now. This photo will soon spread all over the school."

Never underestimate the speed at which news spreads among students. Although a teacher quickly came out to explain that Qian Sanyi was suffering from acrophobia, Deng Xiaoqi was just comforting him.

But we are not fools. The fact that two people were in the same car of the Ferris wheel was worth writing about, and hugging each other was just the icing on the cake.

Originally, everyone just speculated that the two were in love, but now that the photos came out, it basically confirmed the matter. Anyway, when Wu Xianyu and the other three were watching the show in the amusement park theater, they heard some girls secretly saying bad things about Deng Xiaoqi. An afternoon passed, and everyone returned to the school bus. On the bus, Lin Miaomiao and Mai Ju could still hear people gossiping about Deng Xiaoqi and Qian Sanyi from time to time. Some girls who had a filter for Qian Sanyi were whispering and cursing Deng Xiaoqi.

Back at the hotel, just as they were about to go to the restaurant for dinner, Jiang Tianhao called Wu Xianyu

"Hey, Xianyu, I just heard that we can go out for dinner tonight, how about we go out for dinner tonight?"

"Huh? Who told you that?"

Jiang Tianhao pointed at his phone
"Sun Chuanchu just told me that I only need to tell the teacher on duty at the hotel entrance and leave my contact information and name."

"Then let's go out to eat. There's nothing good to eat in the hotel restaurant. It's too bland."

If he could eat out, he would definitely go out to eat. Wu Xianyu still couldn't adapt to the light diet here.

He called Lin Miaomiao, and when he heard that someone was treating them, he dragged Mai Ju downstairs. After registering their names, they walked out of the hotel. Unfortunately, they met Qian Sanyi who was returning to the hotel. He was holding a bag in his hand. The bag was not transparent, but Wu Xianyu guessed that it was canned beer based on its shape.

When something like this happens, one really needs to drown one's sorrows in alcohol. The few of them passed each other without saying hello. Jiang Tianhao looked at the map on his phone, trying to find where to eat good food.

"Hey? There's a barbecue restaurant here, in Xu City, do you want to go check it out?"

Lin Miaomiao's voice was heard, and she pointed to a barbecue restaurant across the road. Wu Xianyu suddenly became alert and turned to look across the road. There really was a barbecue restaurant. After discussing it, they went there.

Although the taste had been modified, Wu Xianyu was still very happy that he had finally tasted something flavorful. The few of them also had a drink, but because a teacher was on duty at the hotel, no one dared to be too presumptuous.

After a hearty meal, the group returned to the hotel, reported to the teacher, and went back to their respective rooms. At this time, Wu Xianyu looked at his class group, which was basically talking about who had problems with whom. After flipping through the chat records, it was still related to the matter of Qian Sanyi and Deng Xiaoqi.

There were a few restaurants recommended by students in between, and some people mentioned Wu Xianyu and Lin Miaomiao, but almost no one agreed, thinking that the two were too familiar with each other and there was no point in eating this melon.

After looking through the chat records, I found that there were indeed quite a few unusual relationships. After chatting with Jiang Tianhao for a while, the teacher's voice came from outside the door to notify them to take a break, so they simply turned off the lights and went to sleep.

On the last day, we came to Xixi Wetland Park in Yuhang. Although it was not as fun as yesterday’s amusement park, the scenery was really nice and very suitable for taking pictures.

After playing for a morning, I took the bus back to school in the afternoon and arrived at school just in time for dinner.

Many people felt at ease after eating the familiar canteen meals and returning to the familiar environment.

With the end of the school trip, the rest of the time will no longer be relaxing and leisurely for the senior high school students, but will only become more and more tense.

But these have nothing to do with Wu Xianyu and Lin Miaomiao, who are still sophomores in high school. They brought Yuwan and Laotie to the pet hospital on the weekend, with the purpose, of course, to have them sterilized.

Arriving at the veterinary hospital, the doctor first examined the two cats and confirmed that there was nothing wrong with them.
"They can be sterilized now. Do you want to put on a show later? Pretend that they were taken away and not given by you. This way, the cats will at least not hate you."

"what?"

It was the first time that Lin Miaomiao heard such a statement. She looked at Wu Xianyu, but Wu Xianyu was also raising a cat for the first time, so he shrugged.
"This is my first time raising a cat, so let's just pretend. I think Yuwan and Laotie are pretty smart. If they hate us, there won't be anything we can do."

"Yeah"

Lin Miaomiao thought it was very amusing, so the two took the cats and pretended to be going home. Suddenly, two pet doctors snatched the cats from their arms, one on the left and one on the right. The two pretended to be reluctant and followed the two doctors, watching them being taken into the operating room.

When the door was closed, Lin Miaomiao stopped and sat on the stool in the hospital, smiling.

"Oh, acting is so much fun"

"Your acting is a bit exaggerated, it's okay to fool a cat."

"Brother, don't laugh, brother. You just laughed. Don't think I didn't hear it."

The two sat in the hospital chatting, waiting for the operation to be over.

About half an hour later, the two were notified that the operation was over and they could take the cats home. When they received the cats, it looked like the anesthesia had not yet completely worn off and they could barely stand. But even so, the two cats were still meowing in the direction of the operating room, and their meows were filled with a sense of irreconcilable hatred.

The two of them tried to hold back their laughter and took Yuwan and Laotie, who were wearing Elizabethan collars, home. When they got home, Wang Shengnan was already waiting for them. Seeing the miserable look of the two cats, she couldn't help laughing.

Put the two cats in the utility room of Wu Xianyu's house, and then just observe them. As long as there are no problems in the first few days, the Elizabethan collars can be taken off in about half a month.

Because Wu Xianyu was still a boarding student, the task of observing the cats was given to Wang Shengnan and Lin Miaomiao, mother and daughter. Fortunately, they both enjoyed it.

However, the school was not peaceful during this period. Almost everyone in the school knew about the photo of Qian Sanyi and Deng Xiaoqi, and the principal had to talk to the two again. They insisted that they were not in a relationship, and that they were riding in the same elevator just by coincidence, and that they hugged each other because Qian Sanyi was afraid of heights.

The principal was also very troubled. He had no choice but to let them fend for themselves. The two of them kept a low profile for a while. However, Qian Sanyi forgot one thing. He put the photo of the Ferris wheel in the compartment of his suitcase and did not take it out and hide it. Unfortunately, or perhaps it was destined, it was discovered by Qian Sanyi's mother, Pei Yin, when she was packing up.

Pei Yin came to school angrily, threw the photo on the table, and looked at Zhao Rongbao standing opposite him.
"Teacher Zhao, can you explain to me what this photo is about?"

Seeing this photo, Zhao Rongbao also had a bitter mouth. Standing next to Pei Yin, he said helplessly

"Qian Sanyi's mother, we can't do anything about this. Qian Sanyi said this in the principal's office. Being in the same elevator was a coincidence, and hugging each other was because he was afraid of heights. They both said they were not in a relationship. We can't just punish them at will."

Pei Yin looked up at Zhao Rongbao, her body shaking with anger, but her good upbringing still allowed her to maintain a bit of rationality.

"Then you contact Deng Xiaoqi's parents now, and I will personally ask them how to deal with this matter."

"Okay, OK, I'll contact you right away."

Zhao Rongbao felt relieved. This kind of thing was really a thankless task. The best way was for the parents to come forward. After calling Deng Xinhua several times, Zhao Rongbao finally got a hold of him. Zhao Rongbao didn't specify what the matter was, but just said that there was something that required the parents to come over.

After confirming that he would be there soon, Zhao Rongbao called the principal again.

"Hello, principal, I'm Zhao Rongbao. Qian Sanyi's parents are here because of the photo. Deng Xiaoqi's parents will be here soon. Do you want to come over and take charge of the situation?"

Xie Weizhou in the principal's office hesitated for a moment after hearing this, but finally agreed.

"Okay, I'll go over there in a bit. You should appease the student's parents first and try to resolve the issue this time."

After hanging up the phone, Xie Weizhou sat in a chair with his eyes closed, wondering whether he should use his connections to send Deng Xiaoqi to another school. Qian Sanyi must not make any mistakes, as he is about to go to the junior class of USTC. This is his last journey, and there must be no mistakes.

(End of this chapter)