Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Forgetting things happening far away in the provincial capital, in his spare time, Fang Zhe actually made a small bed for the Phytophthora God. It was made of willow wood and was an ancient canopy bed.
Although it was small, it was fully equipped with uprights, ceilings, and decorations. It was painted reddish brown and then dried in the sun. It was completely a miniature version of an adult bed, and it was extremely exquisite. Xie Lingya put the canopy bed on the table and admired it. He thought it was simply art.
It was also the first time for Xie Lingya to see Fang Zhe’s craftsmanship in person. Before, he had only seen pictures of some furniture made by Fang Zhe. He never expected that such a small object could be made so delicately.
“You are worthy of being the heir of “Lu Banshu”. I think when you first started your business, you should have chosen to open a furniture store.”
Fang Zhe said while hanging a curtain he cut on the small bed; “I also worked in a furniture store. The ones who did customization. But the styles I know are all the old ones taught in the book. When people come to get their beds customized, they either wanted the simplest modern style or asked me to design them. But they were always dissatisfied and wanted me to change them. They all thus collapsed later. Besides, my legs are not good at doing heavy work for a long time, so I resigned.”
“Designing is indeed a lot of work.” Xie Lingya nodded and asked Shi Changxuan to put the mattress on it. He had already put it away.
Shi Changxuan placed the Phytophthora God on the canopy bed. The Phytophthora God broke down in tears when it saw the bed. Fortunately, the Phytophthora God could not really cry or move, otherwise it would be unimaginable for Shi Changxuan.
“Are you still not talking?” Xie Lingya leaned on the table and approached the Phytophthora God and asked with a smile.
Every time he got close to the Phytolacca God, the Phytolacca God shut up. Except for that time when he joked about throwing the Phytolacca God away, the Phytolacca God only sang a few lines of songs, otherwise Shi Changxuan usually relayed his words.
The Phytophthora God held it back for a while and said shyly: “…chirp.”
Shi Changxuan stood aside and couldn’t hear what the Phytophthora God said. He only saw Xie Lingya burst into laughter after listening for a while, and then face Shi Changxuan and said: “Yeah.”
Shi Changxuan: “…”
He should have guessed what else the Phytophthora God could say.
Zhang Daoting came back from outside with fruits and an admission ticket in his hand. When he saw the bed, he said “Hey”, “This little guy has a much better life than us.”
Xie Lingya took the admission ticket from his hand that he had asked Zhang Daoting to help him get printed from the printing shop and thanked him. The preliminary examination for postgraduate students in December was coming soon. This was the second time he would be taking the examination this year. He missed the preliminary examination last year by a few points and failed.
Now there were three Taoist priests in Baoyang Temple, who could maintain the basic operation. Xie Lingya’s going to class would not have a big impact. Whether it was drawing talismans, taking on jobs, or looking for apprentices, he could still use his spare time. Moreover, Father Xie kept calling him to remind him, for fear that he would not take the exam.
“Mr. Xie, do you know why you are so good at Taoism but failed to pass the postgraduate entrance examination last time?” Hai Guanchao asked.
Hai Guanchao had mentioned this matter a long time ago. He had always been thinking about Xie Lingya learning alchemy like a sponge and absorbing it crazily. Only his failure in the postgraduate entrance examination could make him more balanced, so he brought it up again this time.
Xie Lingya hummed: “A ruler is short, an inch is long.”
“No, that’s because you didn’t use the right method.” Hai Guanchao said, “You have to make a method for yourself first before taking the exam. If you don’t pass the exam early, don’t tell me you don’t know how. Can’t you take ten minutes to learn? Wouldn’t be okay to do some divination?”
Although he hadn’t calculated it yet, he could do it himself or ask others to do it.
Shi Changxuan said at this time: “The Phytophthora God has predicted that there will be no near misses.”
“Near misses? It seems like they are crossing the line at low altitude.” Xie Lingya touched the Phytolacca God, “That’s really great. As long as I can pass it.”
….
In the blink of an eye, it was time for the exam, and Xie Lingya’s exam room was set up in Qiyang City No. 1 Middle School.
Father Xie called one day in advance and told Xie Lingya to pay attention to the exam and asked him to go to the examination room early. Xie Lingya said helplessly, I have already taken the exam once, this is the second time, how can I still not know?
However, he still followed Father Xie’s instructions and went to the examination room a little earlier.
Xie Lingya had breakfast near the school, and then found a flower bed to sit down and wait for admission. After a while, he went to a nearby building to look for a toilet, to sort it out before preparing for the exam.
On weekends, the school was also used as an examination room, and there were basically no high school students. Xie Lingya wandered around on the first floor and followed the signs to the toilet.
Because Xie Lingya arrived quite early and there was no one in the toilet, he went in and saw a few bloody words written on the mirror. When he looked carefully, he saw that it was “Those who see it will die” in traditional Chinese.
“??” Xie Lingya came up and took a closer look. Yes, it was blood and not red paint. It smelled of blood and had a faint yin energy.
Xie Lingya went to the toilet first, and when he came out, he washed his hands and continued to look at the crooked word “death”.
Queshan Province was mountainous, and many buildings in Qiyang City were built against the mountains. The No. 1 Middle School in Qiyang City also had its back against the mountains, which made the school very humid, especially in places like the first floor and toilets, where the air was even more yin heavy.
At this time, there were faint footsteps and conversations outside. Xie Lingya quickly took a photo, then picked up a rag nearby and wiped away the blood. When someone came in, he had just wiped it clean, then washed his hands and gone out as if nothing had happened.
These words looked like a curse, and it was particularly unreasonable – why, just because I went to the toilet early, will I die when I see these words?!
Xie Lingya thought to himself, the near miss mentioned by the Phytophthora God didn’t have anyhing to do with the score, so this was what he was referring to.
Damn it, no, no one can stop me from taking the postgraduate entrance examination!
At this time, Xie Lingya saw two people with proctor badges walking towards them. They just passed by, and Xie Lingya didn’t pay much attention.
The two invigilators whispered:
“It’s really written. Go and take a look. There was something knocking on the door of my cubicle last night. If my wife hadn’t given me a charm, I might have said it was there. I told the director that, but the director still didn’t let me take leave…”
“Well, just don’t go to that bathroom in the future. Don’t think too much about it.”
Xie Lingya called Zhang Daoting as he walked out.
At this time, the two invigilators in the toilet were also puzzled:
“Really, there were really words here last night, I saw them.”
“Well, you may really be hallucinating…”
“No, no, yes. Maybe it was wiped off by the cleaners!”
“The cleaners are not at work now.”
“It was definitely wiped off by others. I really saw it.”
Xie Lingya entered the examination room and scanned the questions. Then he felt happy. He glanced at them and found that he had come across several similar ones during review. His confidence immediately doubled and he started writing as if he was inspired.
After all, he had been studying for two years. After Xie Lingya finished the exam, he smiled and felt good about himself.
However, Xie Lingya did not go back immediately. Instead, he picked up something from the small shop next to the school. He had asked Zhang Daoting to send a bag to the small shop and store it in the small shop. It contained magical weapons.
Xie Lingya took his bag and ate near the school, and then returned to the school. He could not enter or leave the examination room at will, but he could still stay in other places.
Xie Lingya found a corner to sit and played with his mobile phone for a while. When night fell, he walked to the building in the morning.
Unlike normal times when there might be people studying in the evening, the building was empty at this time.
Xie Lingya carried his bag into the toilet and turned on the light. There was no one inside. He opened a cubicle and went in to use the toilet.
“Bah.”
The light bulb beeped slightly, and then the light began to flash.
Xie Lingya conveniently sent a text message to Zhang Daoting, telling him that he didn’t bring the key and not to lock the door.
Snapped.
The toilet was completely plunged into darkness.
The door of the cubicle seemed to be tapped by something, as if someone was knocking on the door.
However, when Xie Lingya turned on the light of his mobile phone and looked into the gap under the cubicle door, there were no feet and nothing.
Xie Lingya knew it well, lifted up his pants and took out cinnabar from his bag.
Because of Xie Lingya’s silence, the arrogant ghost outside seemed to feel even more arrogant.
The sound of knocking on the door became more and more urgent, echoing in the dark toilet, and even reaching the long corridor outside, making people’s hearts beat faster, as they sounded simultaneously.
Bang, bang, bang!
In the end, even while the door was being knocked, the simple door lock creaked.
Without raising his head, Xie Lingya quickly drew the eyes of the spiritual official, put his bag on his back, and suddenly pulled the latch to open the door.
A round, short and fat thing bumped in unexpectedly. It was only half a person tall, with two red eyes, drool dripping from its mouth, and a rope in its hand.
Xie Lingya, with quick eyesight and quick hands, stepped on the thing’s back and pressed his mahogany sword against its neck.
“…” The evil creature was caught off guard, its two red eyes widened, and it did not dare to move in the face of the threat of the Taomu Sword.
Xie Lingya grabbed him and threw him to the ground. Then he collapsed on the ground and ran towards the corner. Xie Lingya chased after him and stepped on him several times. He was a little surprised and said, “What the hell, it’s so ugly.”
He felt it the first time he saw it. It was just a conditioned reflex to restrain the opponent first, and then he had time to sigh.
You promised that I would die if I met you, and you spoke so loudly, why are you so ugly and cowardly now?
Xie Lingya thought for a long time before thinking that this might be a toilet ghost. Because the toilet smelt so bad, there would be some ghosts that spawned and looked at people secretly when they went to the toilet, taking the opportunity to scare people.
——How abominable. Fortunately, Xie Lingya was prepared. Ordinary people would pee all over themselves if they were frightened when they went to the toilet!
Over time, toilet ghosts may become proficient in causing harm to others and could strangle people’s necks with their belts. Moreover, toilet ghosts had different shapes and could not be quickly identified. The only characteristic of their appearance was that they were all very ugly.
The toilet ghost was stepped on by Xie Lingya until he screamed. In the end, he realized that he might not be able to escape. He lay on the ground and begged for mercy: “Master, master, I just want to scare you, please let me go!”
Xie Lingya stepped on him again, said angrily: “Get the hell out of here, don’t you want me to die? You’re still scaring me by writing on the mirror!”
The toilet ghost turned over, with his fat and short limbs facing up, crying: “I didn’t, I….No!”
“I wiped it off with my own hands.” Xie Lingya picked it up and threw it again. “You’re done. I’m going to take the postgraduate entrance examination in the next two days. My dad said I need to calm down.”
The toilet ghost held its head and cried, “No, Master, what I wrote last night was to scare another person! I really didn’t write it for you!”
It would be crazy for him to want to scare this person, it’s the one who was so scared. As soon as he opened the door, he was beaten violently without saying a word!
Xie Lingya: “…?”
Xie Lingya stepped on it to prevent it from moving. He resolutely refused to admit that he was being sentimental. He said coldly: “It’s even worse to harm my invigilator. What happened to the examination room and the crime scene? How can I take the exam? Is this not just to harm me.”
Toilet Ghost: “…”
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