Chapter 44 Wu Yu
The next day, Tan Xiao woke up to the sound of the alarm clock. He drowsily turned off the alarm on his phone and wanted to take another minute to take a nap. But Kong Xuan couldn't wait and shouted as if he had caught him: "Don't sleep in! Get up and go to school!"
Tan Xiao: "..."
He woke up with a start and lost all sleepiness. He almost forgot that he had a new roommate. He looked up and saw Kong Xuan sitting on the desk, looking down at him, as if saying, how can you sleep at your age.
Tan Xiao was a little confused as to why Kong Xuan was not active in studying but was active in school. He got up to clean up and found that Kong Xuan had been staring at his phone on the bedside table.
"Don't you have a cell phone?" Tan Xiao seemed to be thinking about something. He remembered that when Kong Xuan just transferred to the school, some people said that his family conditions were not good. He wondered if that was because he didn't even have a cell phone.
Kong Xuan didn't expect Tan Xiao to be so smart. He guessed the message from his eyes immediately and nodded modestly.
"It's better not to have it." Tan Xiao recalled the teacher's tone, "So as not to get addicted to the Internet and mobile short videos, which will be extremely harmful to the spirits of young people with low self-control."
Kong Xuan: “…”
Kong Xuan was furious: "You didn't recognize me for the whole semester!"
Tan Xiao: “…” As soon as he heard Kong Xuan bringing up the past, he knew what he meant. He probably didn’t want the phone, no wonder he was staring at it. He seemed very interested in computers last night. I just don’t know why he only remembered to study these things after being in the mortal world for so long.
"Stop talking about offerings, right? But most of my pocket money was spent on fixed-term financial products, and I can't withdraw it yet." Tan Xiao has followed Tan Chunying in performing rituals since he was a child, and he has been learning how to manage the remuneration from small to large amounts by himself. He didn't expect there would be a large expense, so he bought closed-end financial products.
Kong Xuan was full of resentment.
"But if you just want to use a communication tool, I have an old one at home that should be able to work." Seeing that Kong Xuan seemed to be reluctant, Tan Xiao rummaged through the drawer and took out a children's phone watch, which was co-branded with the Paw Patrol and was the one Tan Xiao used before.
Tan Xiao hasn't spoken yet.
Kong Xuan looked at Tan Xiao with murderous eyes.
"Hahaha!" Tan Xiao put the watch back and suddenly remembered, "Oh, there is also a mobile phone that came with the broadband, but I haven't used it." He went downstairs to look around. At this time, Tan Chunying was still asleep, so he searched quietly and found another mobile phone.
The reason why this mobile phone has never been used is because it is an elderly phone with a large screen, large fonts, loud volume, and dual SIM cards and dual standby. Although it is a smart phone, it is too heavy.
As expected, just after he took it out, Kong Xuan said unsatisfactorily: "You don't have that model anymore?"
Tan Xiao was about to say something when Kong Xuan snatched it away and said, "Use it first."
Tan Xiao: "..."
After all this trouble, it was getting late, so Tan Xiao quickly packed up and said, "Let's go, let's go to school."
He hurriedly picked up his things, put on his shoes, and ran to the yard, then shouted, "I didn't bring the test paper!" He rushed back to look for it, and Kong Xuan also followed him up.
"Let's go, let's go." Tan Xiao tied his shoelaces that had been loosened and jumped out of the yard.
Kong Xuan followed beside him. It was his first time to immerse himself in the chaos and turmoil before going to school, and he found it quite novel.
Tan Xiao seldom went to school with others. Looking at Kong Xuan beside him, he felt that everything was very different after just one night.
On the way to school, Tan Xiao suddenly remembered something and asked:
"Speaking of which...your identity is fake, you used magic to sneak in, so are your parents also in disguise? Were there a parents' meeting after the midterm exam? Did you invite the great god Yuanfeng to come down?"
I don’t know if Master Yuanfeng can raise a child.
"I didn't invite her. I didn't ask Yuan Feng to come." Kong Xuan said.
"How could it be..." Tan Xiao suddenly remembered the mess Kong Xuan made when he first transferred to the school, and asked, "No, how did you fill in your family information when you were lying? The teacher should have asked you, right?"
"Just fill it out truthfully. When the school started, the head teacher asked me about my parents, and I said I didn't have a father, so my mother was on the list." Kong Xuan thought about it, and his expression became a little subtle as he spoke. "Then he never asked again, and didn't ask my parents to attend the parent-teacher meeting."
Tan Xiao: “???”
What the hell! Kong Xuan had just descended to the lower world at that time, and he probably didn't know what he said had any ambiguity - Yuan Feng gave birth to Kong Xuan under the influence of the five elements, a pure single birth that couldn't be purer. And she was really up there!
No wonder the head teacher was so concerned about asking everyone to take care of Kong Xuan... I originally thought it was just because Kong Xuan's grades were not good.
When they arrived at school, the students passing by noticed the two of them and stared at them, but they didn't dare to say hello. However, they were used to it, and Tan Xiao had been avoiding the possibility of recognizing people for many years, so they didn't think it was a big deal.
It’s more lively when you enter your own class because you sit next to your familiar classmates.
As soon as the two entered the room, squad leader Yu Zhenzhen stood up and asked sternly, "Why are you here so late?!"
"Class monitor?" Tan Xiao was startled. He was a little late today because he went out to look for his cell phone, but he was not late. He looked up at the clock in the classroom and confirmed that he was not late, at most he was just late.
Yu Zhenzhen raised her hand and clapped slowly: "I just want to say that you two are a perfect match. A perfect match!"
At this moment, everyone started to applaud and scream. But the monitor would say that this was not a wonderful performance, but a perfect match, and the costumes were so well matched!
Tan Xiaoxin said that Yu Zhenzhen was even more excited than the last time he collaborated with Zhurong Band. Kong Xuan’s “dress-changing magic” was amazing, right?
"If you had known earlier that your show was like this, I would have borrowed a telephoto lens to take pictures!"
"Wow, I guess I understood correctly. The characters in the show are wizards and gods."
"Of course. I was reading materials about Wu Wu Dance all night last night. When I saw the analysis of 'Nine Songs', I saw a lot of content about human love. I knew I had understood it correctly. I said that dance was so romantic no matter how I looked at it!"
"...Am I the only one who feels that I have missed several episodes? When did you two become so close that you even play a couple." Previously, it was only rumored that Kong Xuan was just Tan Xiaomazai, but there was still some distance between them and acting together.
Tan Xiao almost coughed up his lungs: "No, we're not playing a couple, we're a god and a witch."
The student who said this was even a straight man, pretending to wipe away tears: "What's the difference?"
When Tan Xiao decided to perform, he had never thought about the relationship between Kong Xuan and Kong Que. Years of performing had made him not feel that it was strange at all. Now that someone else mentioned it, he suddenly realized that if he wanted to analyze the stage relationship between him and Kong Xuan, it was really... He actually stuttered and didn't look at Kong Xuan: "That's not what I meant."
After the performance yesterday, Tan Xiao just slipped away without saying a word to the head teacher and at most said hello to Lin Yang. He didn't even bother to see other people's reactions.
What impressed him most was the duel at the end of the performance. He even didn't expect that everyone would see Kong Xuan.
Therefore, Tan Xiao never imagined how exciting his classmates were watching the performance. Just like their teacher in the next class said, this was not a school anniversary-level performance, it was impossible not to see it.
As their deskmate, Lin Yang looked at them with a loving smile, thinking that it was worth it for me to have eaten melons for a whole semester and see this day. Especially today, Lin Yang actually saw Tan Xiao and Kong Xuan coming to school together on the road.
"I say! You two are actually childhood sweethearts, I just didn't recognize you at first." No matter how Lin Yang thought, it was like this.
Tan Xiao thought about it and admitted: "Indeed, we knew each other before..."
Guessed it right! Lin Yang slammed the table excitedly. It was not unfair for him to lose. Although we had been deskmates for more than a year, we were childhood sweethearts after all.
Kong Xuan also walked to the side of the seat at this time and said to Lin Yang: "Get up."
Lin Yang: “?”
Kong Xuan said confidently: "I want to be his deskmate."
Lin Yang: “…”
Kong Xuan and Tan Xiao have already recognized each other, so who else could sit at the same table with him? Kong Xuan thinks Lin Yang should be more conscious and sit away.
"That's not how it's done. The teacher didn't ask us to change." Tan Xiao was also upset. "Besides, if you sit like this, what's the difference between you and my deskmate?"
Lin Yang was in a daze, still talking about their old love. He said with emotion: "That's right, you can't just not have a childhood sweetheart and then not have someone fall from the sky."
"...What a mess." Tan Xiao thought to himself, if there is a drop from the sky, it should be Kong Xuan, a pure drop from the sky , "Anyway, it's almost the end of the semester, let's change it next semester."
Lin Yang: “…”
Woohoo, I still need to change it.
How cruel. Lin Yang took out a bouquet of flowers from under his seat. These were collected by Tan Xiao during his performance last night. Tan Xiao handed them to Lin Yang when he left. Lin Yang helped him take them back to the classroom.
"It was a wrong choice after all." Lin Yang placed the flowers on Tan Xiao's seat with resentment.
The bunch of flowers was quite large, and Tan Xiao was thinking of taking it back to arrange flowers for Tan Chunying. It would be a bit of a hindrance if he put it on the seat, so he thought about it, picked it up, and stuffed it into Kong Xuan's arms. Kong Xuan's seat was not like his, so it was much more empty.
Kong Xuan didn't understand what he meant for a moment, "What for?"
Tan Xiao smiled at him and whispered, "Offer incense and flowers."
"Oh..." Kong Xuan stuffed the flowers into the gap of the drawer, next to his pile of books. All the bright and delicate petals showed out, like flowers blooming from the drawer. He carefully sat back a little to avoid bumping into them.
…
Kong Xuan was halfway through his self-study class when he turned around and called Yu Zhenzhen, "Class monitor."
Yu Zhenzhen was startled and looked at Kong Xuan in surprise, because this was the first time Kong Xuan took the initiative to talk to her...
Kong Xuan shook his wrist and took out his cell phone, which he had urgently charged before going out. He held the phone under Yu Zhenzhen's eyes and said, "Send me the photos you took."
The photo actually also had it in Tan Xiao's place. Kong Xuan was mainly looking for an opportunity to show his phone to outsiders. He wanted Yu Zhenzhen to see that he really had a phone.
Yu Zhenzhen was indeed shocked when she saw it.
This, this...
"What a large font size!" Yu Zhenzhen wanted to wonder if this was a phone for the elderly, but because it was also a smart phone and looking at Kong Xuan's expression, she felt that it was unlikely. In other words, Kong Xuan's temperament was too noble... This phone seemed a lot more classy in his hand.
Could it be that this is the latest fashion trend? Yu Zhenzhen thought that maybe she didn't quite understand it.
When Kong Xuan heard Yu Zhenzhen boast about the size of the characters, he was also very pleased. It was really big, right? "Yeah!"
Yu Zhenzhen sent all the photos to Kong Xuan. Seeing that Kong Xuan was turning the phone lightly in his hand, she thought it was strange. This phone seemed to be getting more and more beautiful the more she looked at it?
While brainwashing herself, Yu Zhenzhen did not forget to remind Kong Xuan: "Put away your phone."
"Yeah." Kong Xuan said perfunctorily.
Tan Xiao and Kong Xuan stood in the corridor basking in the sun. The soft sunlight shone through the tall trees, casting mottled shadows on the boys' school uniforms.
Tan Xiao turned his head and stared at Kong Xuan. The boy's pupils were a thick amber color in the sunlight, showing a glass-like texture. He looked at Kong Xuan for one second, three seconds, ten seconds, until Kong Xuan panicked.
"Can you promise me that you will pass all the final exams, and get at least 75 points in physics?"
Kong Xuan didn't know what to say for a moment.
After a long while, he murmured, "It took you a whole semester to recognize me..."
"Stop, you can't use this excuse three times a day, right?" Tan Xiao wanted Kong Xuan to think about his phone. "Also, the mission given to you by Yuan Feng is to get into college, and there is no restriction that you cannot repeat a year. But you don't want to be in the same class as me, right? If I'm a freshman and you're still a senior, and I'm a senior and you're still a senior, and I'm applying for a senior professional title, you're still a senior..."
Kong Xuan shuddered.
"Don't say anything, I promise you!" Kong Xuan is now in the same class as Tan Xiao. He thinks the campus is pretty good. If it turns out to be just like what Tan Xiao described, it would be too tragic.
"Also, since you gave me a cell phone, I have something for you too." Kong Xuan took out something and put it in Tan Xiao's hand, indicating that he was not taking it for nothing. He came from the lower world, so he was not penniless.
Tan Xiao took a closer look and found that it was actually a piece of jade in the shape of a C, carved into curled bird feathers. It was definitely ancient jade, with simple lines outlining its lively posture.
"... Really beautiful." Tan Xiao looked at the light and knew that the jade must be valuable. It was not surprising that Kong Xuan had jade. In ancient times, jade was used to worship gods and was also considered to be a divine object. The crowns of great witches were all made of jade. Even the first stage of Chinese jade use was called the witch jade era. After that, jade became a symbol of the king, until it went from the altar to the common people.
In the case of Kong Xuan's family, the best jade wares are indispensable.
However, it is said that jade is used to worship gods, which means that jade is generally offered to gods by people.
"This, this is a sculpture of me when I was a child." Kong Xuan's cheeks were slightly hot from the sun.
Tan Xiao's slender white fingers held the jade and played with it. His fingertips slid down from the outer edge. Because he had been with Kong Xuan for too long, he actually felt as if he was caressing some kind of extension of Kong Xuan...
"Am I the first one to ask the sect master to give jade to the wizard?" After a moment, Tan Xiao said with sudden realization.
"It's an exchange." Kong Xuan emphasized. He took out his own mobile phone as well and couldn't help but stretch his hand out to let passers-by know that he had a mobile phone.
Tan Xiao opened his mouth, but before he could say anything, Ji Huiming, who was passing by, took Kong Xuan's phone away smoothly, as if it were a silky combo for the head teacher, "You can't bring your phone. Come to my office after the final exam to get it."
Kong Xuan: “………………”
Tan Xiao closed his mouth and sighed .
No, you, who brings a cell phone to school and dares to play with it openly in the corridor? You think there are not enough teachers passing by.
Ji Huiming wanted to go back to the office, but when he saw the jade in Tan Xiao's hand, he took two steps back. "Oh, Tan Xiao, this jade of yours looks very powerful. Is it passed down from your family?"
Ji Huiming didn't really know much about jade, he just heard about it from others, but Tan Xiao's jade was so lively, after all, it was worn by Peacock all year round. Even he, a layman, thought it was not simple, the style reminded people of the instruments used by Tan Xiao.
Ji Huiming had seen something similar when watching short videos before, but that one was a cultural relic. Jade itself is very valuable, not to mention it is an antique, which is priceless.
"It should be very expensive. It's better not to bring it to school casually." Ji Huiming said seriously. If it is really a valuable thing, it would be very dangerous to bring it to school casually. If it was passed down from Tan Xiao's family, it must have a history of several hundred years.
"No, no, these are props for performance." Tan Xiao glanced at Kong Xuan, "They are all handicrafts."
As he spoke, he tied together the jade artifact and the pile of talismans and seals he was wearing.
"Is that so? Is it because I have a bad eye, or is it because the technology is too advanced now?" Ji Huiming said in amazement, "Okay."
He glanced at Kong Xuan again, who had a dark face. When Kong Xuan first entered school, he was quite scary, and even the teachers couldn't suppress his aura. But after a while, he knew that he was still very obedient to school rules. Ji Huiming didn't know that this was just like Kong Xuan's inability to cheat, which was an unspoken rule for him to enter school.
Ji Huiming was so excited that he said earnestly, "Kong Xuan, don't blame the teacher. The teacher is doing this for your own good. Your performance last night was wonderful. The teacher saw that you have a great talent for magic, but you can't completely give up your cultural studies, right? A good magician must be cultured, otherwise how can you design a magician, right? Tan Xiao is the descendant of a wizard, he must know."
Tan Xiao: "...Uh, right."
Look at how these two are mixed up as a pair of sorcerers. It's okay for him, but Kong Xuan has become a magician.
Ji Huiming encouraged him, "Kong Xuan, prepare well for the exam. If your grades improve at the end of the semester, the teacher will give you magic props, okay?"
Hela Kong Xuan: "..."
Kong Xuan was only one step away from being twisted, and gritted his teeth: "Okay."
"Okay," Ji Huiming reminded Tan Xiao again to take care of Kong Xuan, and then left with Kong Xuan's cell phone which was still hot.
The two were silent for about ten seconds.
Kong Xuan turned around and said, "Go and explain the question to me."
Tan Xiao didn't expect that he would say this: "Have you figured it out?"
Kong Xuan said calmly: "I have thought about it. I must graduate on time to pass the school."
Tan Xiao: "..."
The two of them sat back down. Kong Xuan held his chin in his hand with a listless look. He fiddled with the flowers in the drawer with his fingers. This was the only one left...
Lin Yang came to the rescue in time, "Hey, Kong Xuan, I heard from the squad leader that you bought a cool new cell phone? Can you show it to me?" Unexpectedly, Kong Xuan also developed a new hobby like him, secretly playing with his cell phone.
Kong Xuan: “…”
Kong Xuan flipped open the textbook vigorously. Before going to school, he should do the exercises first! !
