Phi-Fic Chapter 116 The Educated Youth Tricked into Going to the Countryside (10)
Chapter 116 The Educated Youth Tricked into Going to the Countryside (10)
Looking at Quan Biao, who was standing in front of him with reddened ears, Lin Jingyi frowned slightly and looked at him with a puzzled expression.
"Comrade Xia Lin, are you... are you going back to the mansion?" Quan Biao saw Xia Lin walking towards the mansion and, remembering what had happened to everyone else there the night before, felt a surge of fear.
Seeing that Xia Lin was about to go back, he suppressed his fear and tried to dissuade Lin Jingyi from going back.
Lin Jingyi nodded, still looking at him with a puzzled expression.
Quan Biao took a deep breath. He always couldn't help feeling nervous when talking to beautiful women, especially those he had feelings for.
“There’s something wrong with that house. We’re planning to move out.” Quan Biao said, then secretly glanced at Lin Jingyi’s expression.
"Whatever." Lin Jingyi knew that he was only doing this because he cared about him, and his displeasure at being stopped lessened a bit, but his tone of response was still indifferent.
Where they live is none of her business.
Upon hearing this, Quan Biao's face showed a conflicted expression. He simply didn't want Xia Lin to continue living in that strange house, but he didn't know how to express it tactfully.
Seeing that Xia Lin walked forward without waiting for him to finish speaking, he could only follow Lin Jingyi while thinking.
He pondered for a moment, then said to Lin Jingyi:
"Comrade Charlene, we all had nightmares last night. Isn't that strange?"
"Hmm, that's strange." Lin Jingyi walked forward without changing her expression. She understood the cause and effect of the matter, so she was not alarmed by Quan Biao's words.
Seeing this, Quan Biao became anxious. They were almost at the house, but Xia Lin was still walking forward, so he had no choice but to jump in front of her and stop her.
"Comrade Charlene, this house is very eerie. Living here might... give you a fright. So, we can all move out and not live here."
“I didn’t have what you call a nightmare, and I’m not afraid. If you’re afraid, you can leave. I will continue to live here.”
"Finally, thank you for your concern, comrade."
Lin Jingyi was getting impatient. Although the other person was acting out of concern, her continued walking forward showed her attitude. This person was wasting her rest time.
Seeing the man blocking her way again, Lin Jingyi stopped and said with a serious expression, thanking the man before walking straight past him.
"Okay..." Seeing Xia Lin like this, Quan Biao didn't know what to do. He could only stare blankly at Lin Jingyi's back, watching her walk into the house with a worried look on her face.
Actually, it's daytime now, so things rarely come out of the house. They only come out at night when everyone is asleep.
The Ding family members only wanted to scare the other party away so that they wouldn't dare to stay in the house any longer.
Even the people from Zhao Family Village who had once killed them, they only frightened them into a serious illness, and never intended to kill them.
As soon as Lin Jingyi entered the house, he immediately felt that it was much cooler than outside.
The summer sun is like a giant fireball hanging overhead, turning everything it shines on into a furnace.
The house is filled with yin energy and rarely gets any sunlight, making it much cooler than outside.
Lin Jingyi did not specifically use her divine sense to check the ghosts in the house, so she could not see them unless they appeared on their own and made her see them.
Lin Jingyi washed his face and went back to his room.
He took out a cream bread from his spatial storage, tore open the packaging, and prepared to eat it.
"Sister Xia, what are you eating?" Suddenly, a soft voice sounded beside Lin Jingyi.
Lin Jingyi paused in his act of biting into the bread, looked up at the two ghosts beside him, one big and one small, took a bite of bread, and answered while eating:
"bread."
Seeing Lin Jingyi eating with relish, Ding Shiyao swallowed hard, her face full of curiosity.
"Is it good? What does it taste like?"
The little devil next to her also looked on with curiosity.
Lin Jingyi: "...You guys try it yourselves."
Lin Jingyi didn't know what to say, so he broke off half of the bread and placed it on the bedside table next to him.
"Mmm...it's fragrant and soft, and the filling inside is so sweet!"
"Mmm...I like it!"
Two ghosts, one big and one small, approached the bread that Lin Jingyi had given to the two of them and sucked out the essence from the food.
Because Lin Jingyi had also eaten some porridge in the canteen, he was full after eating half a bread roll.
The two ghosts looked at the packaging bag in Lin Jingyi's hand, a hint of regret flashing in their eyes. Sister Xia ate too fast!
"You want it?" Lin Jingyi asked, holding up the packaging bag to the two of them as he noticed them staring at it.
"No need, no need, thank you Sister Xia~ Xiao Cheng, quickly thank Sister Xia."
"Thank you, Sister Xia."
Ding Shiyao waved her hand, thanked Lin Jingyi, and then spoke to the little devil beside her.
Upon hearing this, the little devil obediently thanked Lin Jingyi.
Lin Jingyi smiled and took out two cream breads from his spatial storage for the two of them.
"You're welcome. Consider it rent for this place."
The two accepted the two loaves of bread from Lin Jingyi, a hint of joy flashing in their eyes.
Seeing Lin Jingyi produce food out of thin air, the two ghosts were shocked, but they wisely refrained from asking Lin Jingyi, since such things could be considered a person's secret.
Grandpa said last night that we shouldn't ask about anything too private with this person named "Xia Lin".
Seeing the two of them so happy, Lin Jingyi felt a little sleepy and said to the two ghosts:
"I'm sleepy, and I have to get up and work in a bit. You guys go out and have some fun."
As he lay down, the two ghosts were about to leave when they heard footsteps outside the door and instantly disappeared.
Seeing this, Lin Jingyi also sat up and scanned with his divine sense. He saw that Liu Jia looked angry, her eyes were about to burst out with anger, and she was walking with fast and heavy steps.
"They're up to no good..." Lin Jingyi murmured, feeling quite annoyed at the thought of potential trouble ahead.
"Bang!" The wooden door was pushed open heavily by Liu Jia.
"Xia Lin, why did Tao Tao bring food to Song Xiaoxiao, but you didn't bring me any?" We're roommates, how come she has no sense of propriety at all?
That's why she's still hungry.
Lin Jingyi was speechless. What was with this person's condescending attitude?
"Who are you?"
"You... Xia Lin, don't play dumb with me." Liu Jia was somewhat embarrassed and angry at Lin Jingyi's attitude.
"Oh," Lin Jingyi said casually, his eyes inadvertently glancing at the half-eaten bread that Ding Shiyao and her two ghosts had eaten.
Liu Jia followed Lin Jingyi's gaze and saw something that looked like food on Xia Lin's bedside table. Her expression immediately softened.
She thought it was food that Charlene had left for her.
"Comrade Xia Lin, I'm so sorry about earlier. If you had told me earlier next time that you had saved some food for me, I... I wouldn't have misunderstood you."
As Liu Jia spoke, she picked up half a loaf of bread from the bedside table. It had no smell, but it was soft and fluffy.
Her attitude towards Lin Jingyi improved somewhat.
The two ghosts, concealed and standing to the side, said, "..."
"Okay, take your things and you can go now. I'm sleepy and I'm going to take a nap."
Lin Jingyi urged Liu Jia to leave quickly, as if shooing away flies, so as not to disturb her sleep. Excluding the time she needed to get up, she could only sleep for about fifty minutes.
"Okay, Comrade Xia Lin, please get some rest."
As she spoke, Liu Jia took the bread and went out. She took a bite, but it didn't taste like anything, and she didn't know what it was.
But as long as she could fill her stomach, Liu Jia, who had been hungry all morning, didn't dare to ask for anything more.
Two ghosts followed behind Liu Jia. As Liu Jia walked, she felt a chill down her back. Remembering the nightmare she had last night, she unconsciously quickened her pace as she walked away.
"Sis, why is she eating garbage..." The little devil named Xiao Cheng asked sincerely after seeing Liu Jia leave with the bread the two of them had eaten.
Liu Shijia had also seen some villagers come to offer sacrifices to them, and then the villagers would take the offerings and eat them, which he thought was quite normal.
"Maybe there's less food in the outside world..." Only this explanation can account for that person eating what they had already eaten.
Lin Jingyi lay on the bed with his eyes closed.
[System, wake me up in fifty minutes.] Lin Jingyi said to the system.
System: [Okay.] It's quite troublesome not having an alarm clock; I still need it.
Lin Jingyi fell asleep shortly afterward.
She was still a little groggy when she woke up. She felt that her life was becoming more and more like that of an ordinary person. She remembered that she used to never sleep.
There was no one alive in the villa now. Lin Jingyi said goodbye to the ghosts and then left the house.
[System, I have food and drink, can I stop working?] Lin Jingyi remembered that he still had a lot of supplies and seeds in his space, and felt that he could completely stop working to exchange for food coupons.
[That won't work~]
[Oh.] Lin Jingyi rolled his eyes. Thinking of the system, a big man in a black robe, speaking like that, he rubbed his arms, and goosebumps rose on his skin.
[If you can't, you can't. Oh, what?] Lin Jingyi felt he couldn't let himself be disgusted like this, so he asked in the system's tone.
The system claimed innocence, stating that it was its own freedom to say whatever it wanted.
"[It's none of your business.]" He was quite defiant; neither of them could really do anything about it now.
Upon hearing this, Lin Jingyi stopped paying attention to the system and continued weeding. In this small village, there were more than a dozen people weeding, and they quickly cleared a patch of land.
In the afternoon, Liu Jia and Song Xiaoxiao went to work in the fields. Song Xiaoxiao knew that it was Xia Lin's leftover porridge at noon, so she specially came over to thank Lin Jingyi.
Liu Jia felt a little resentful when she learned that the porridge was left over by Lin Jingyi. She felt that Xia Lin had specially saved it for her, and then Tao Tao had taken it and given it to Song Xiaoxiao.
Tao Tao is such a despicable person; all she knows is how to please others.
Charlene is a fool for letting someone use her food to please another person.
Throughout the afternoon, Liu Jia looked at Tao Tao with hostility, and from time to time she looked at Lin Jingyi as if he were an idiot.
Lin Jingyi pretended not to see it. Ever since he talked to the system at noon, Lin Jingyi would talk to the system whenever he had nothing to do.
Anyway, it was all pretty boring. I don't know if the two of them were just incompatible or what, but they would start arguing because of their differing opinions, and it would end with one of them going silent.
Then they changed the subject.
Lin Jingyi kept moving his hands and talking to the system, completely unaware of his surroundings.
Liu Jia didn't work all morning and only came to learn at noon. She hadn't even mastered it yet, and she looked distracted. Tang Feng noticed this and silently deducted one work point from Liu Jia's score.
She felt that Liu Jia was just there to freeload for dinner, while Song Xiaoxiao, although she hadn't done any work in the morning, had a good attitude in the afternoon and even apologized.
This Liu Jia not only refuses to apologize, but she also doesn't take her work seriously.
In short, Tang Feng had a very bad impression of Liu Jia.
When they finished work in the evening and had dinner, several educated youths pulled Lin Jingyi along, saying they wanted to go find the village chief to discuss changing their accommodations.