Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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The little girl seemed to understand their mockery. She stomped her feet on the ground a few times, her red leather shoes stomping, and her lips pursed even more.
Guo Xing’s classmates felt someone moving their hands again, grabbing a pen and writing on a piece of paper: Won’t go!
This time the force was so great that it almost tore the paper.
His classmates seemed to sense something was wrong. “Huh…”
Why is the dragging so strong, as if someone really forced the pen to move.
“Wait a minute, I’ll play for a while too.” At this moment, Xie Lingya spoke up.
This sentence interrupted everyone’s thoughts. Although they didn’t know Xie Lingya, Guo Xing had just said he was a friend and even helped them get the food back, so of course they would give him face. “Come on.”
The pen spirit was wearing red shoes and a bright yellow dress, which, although not as bright as red and green, was still quite eye-catching. Clearly, a primary school student venturing out into the world was not to be underestimated.
Xie Lingya stepped forward and grasped the pen as well. “Pen Fairy, let’s continue playing, okay?”
The little girl looked up at Xie Lingya, then suddenly laughed. She stood in front of him, looking up at the little wooden figure on his shoulder, and jumped a few times trying to touch it.
Xie Lingya glanced at her out of the corner of his eye; the little girl was pale, with large, dark eyes, but otherwise quite cute. After jumping a few times without touching it, she went back to the table, slumped down, and wrote: “Okay.”
Children were playful, and this remained true even after becoming spirits. Although they may not be as ferocious as some adult spirit Ouija boards, they were still persistent and unrestrained, making them quite difficult to deal with. That’s why Xie Lingya took the initiative to play along, taking the responsibility upon himself; he wasn’t afraid of being pestered.
Xie Lingya: “Hmm… then, Pen fairy, let me ask you, Uncle Wang next door raises 82 roosters and 558 hens. The number of chickens he raises is five times the number of ducks. How many chickens and ducks are there in total?”
Guo Xing: “………………”
Guo Xing’s classmate also laughed, “Damn, if Old Wang can’t answer this, he might as well die.”
Old Wang said angrily, “I want to see if that illiterate person can solve this problem.”
They felt that the pen which seemed to be gripped tightly, stopped in the distance, with only the pen tip trembling slightly, as if the person was thinking.
The little girl lowered her head and thought for a long time. Then she opened her mouth, her white teeth biting the pen tip, and continued to think hard. After a full minute, she wrote on the paper: 768.
Her classmate said seriously, “Your mental calculation speed is a bit slow. Haven’t you memorized the multiplication table well enough?”
Everyone burst into laughter.
The little girl looked aggrievedly and resentfully at Xie Lingya.
Xie Lingya glanced at her, seemingly unintentionally, and continued, “Pen Fairy, second question: Each box of juice contains 14 packets and costs 50 yuan. If the salesperson sells 20 boxes, how much money did they make in total?”
The little girl continued chewing on her pen, and… it took another forty seconds for the Pen fairy to write down the answer.
By now, the Pen fairy’s playfulness had diminished considerably, and its gaze towards Xie Lingya was filled with fear.
Guo Xing’s lips twitched; he was finally convinced. Master Xie had a unique method for dealing with a primary school student Pen Fairy…
Xie Lingya got excited and asked several questions in a row. Seeing that the Pen Fairy was still somewhat stubborn and wanted to continue playing, he said: “In a cage, there are 64 chickens and rabbits in total, and 184 legs in total. How many chickens are there, and how many rabbits are there?”
Through the little test just now, he had already realized that the Ouija board’s level wasn’t very high. It was quite young and had neglected its studies for some time.
As soon as the “chicken and rabbit in a cage” problem was presented, and while the other students were still discussing with great interest which student had the weakest ability, the little girl chewed on her pen, then finally let out a grimace, put down the pen, covered her face, and started crying, stomping her feet as she sobbed.
Liu Lingtong weakly said, “My master is very powerful, you’d better leave quickly.”
The little pen fairy gave Xie Lingya, whose expression remained unchanged, a few resentful glances, but seeing Liu Lingtong, she knew Xie Lingya was very powerful and didn’t dare to provoke him. So she gripped the pen resentfully and scribbled on the paper, writing outside the lines, which meant the pen fairy was leaving.
The students teased her a few more times, never expecting that there were still college students who couldn’t solve the “chicken and rabbit in a cage” problem.
Xie Lingya smiled and said, “I’d like to give the person who answered the question a set of math papers.”
He glanced at the little girl diagonally below.
The little girl: !!
The little girl pushed Xie Lingya a few times, then ran away crying.
Guo Xing, standing to the side, instinctively moved aside.
At this moment, Guo Xing’s classmate exclaimed “Holy crap!” and picked up the pen they had been using for the game to examine it closely. He said, “Why are there so many teeth marks on this pen? Who, who the hell bit my pen?”
“Let me see, there really are… It wasn’t here before we started playing the game!”
“Don’t scare me, I don’t remember having these either. Did you guys pry them off when I wasn’t looking?”
“Who the hell could pry these off?”
This unsolved mystery sent a chill down everyone’s spine. Although they were puzzled, unlike Guo Xing who had witnessed it firsthand, they just discussed it in fear for a while. Could it really be the spirit of the Pen Fairy?
But why would the spirit of the Pen Fairy bite their pen tips?
….
When Xie Lingya left, Guo Xing saw him off down to the dormitory building.
Guo Xing: “I didn’t expect there to be such a way to exorcise ghosts…”
Xie Lingya laughed. This kind of deterrent method wasn’t effective for everyone, nor could it deal with every evil spirit. After all, evil spirits and people had different personalities.
Some Pen Fairies were more ferocious and tonight might have ended in a battle.
Just then, they heard a “rustling” sound behind them, like someone throwing sand.
Guo Xing turned around and looked, but there was nothing there.
It was late, and there were very few people in the dormitory stairwell.
Guo Xing stomped his foot, and the motion-sensor light on the next floor turned on. Then he heard a rustling sound. He found it strange, turned around, and took a few steps. “…Where did this sand come from?”
—There really was a puddle of sand on the ground.
He might have thought he misheard just from the sound, but with the actual object… Guo Xing looked up, but there was no one in sight.
Xie Lingya put his hands in her pockets and said, “I will really burn a set of exam papers for you.”
As soon as he finished speaking, the sound of leather shoes clattering on the ground echoed in the empty stairwell, fading away.
Guo Xing broke out in a cold sweat: “Was that the Pen Fairy…?”
“Who else could it be but her? After being the Pen Fairy, she’s now a sand ghost.” Xie Lingya said with amusement.
Ghosts that didn’t have much ability but only dared to play pranks, or like the Pen Fairy, who didn’t dare to offend their target but wanted to harass them, liked to throw sand and stones behind people’s backs to scare them.
But Xie Lingya wasn’t scared by this little brat; instead, he scared her away.
Seeing Guo Xing breathe a sigh of relief, Xie Lingya said seriously, “Don’t think she’s so easy to scare away and then go back and stop your classmates from playing with the Pen Fairy. If I weren’t there, you might not have been able to handle them playing around.”
Although Guo Xing had some talent, he hadn’t quite grasped the basics.
Xie Lingya took the opportunity to explain to him how to judge the ferocity of a ghost by its color before saying goodbye and leaving.
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