Chapter 8 Monsters also have lace edges
After a busy day of teaching, Fang Rui had the opportunity to go back to the office. As soon as he put down the textbook, Bai Jingjing took it out to find Hu Yue'e.
"I have found Hu Yue'e's residence in the employee files, let's go!" Bai Jingjing dragged Fang Rui out of the school gate.
"You can tell at a glance that Hu Yue'e is a vixen. Will she also tell that you are here?" Fang Rui was a little worried.
"Do you think bookstore clerks are all vegetarian?" Bai Jingjing glared at Fang Rui and then exposed a ring that looked like a ruby on the ring finger of her left hand. Fang Rui explained, "This ring is something that every clerk has. Of course, it is unnecessary for you as a person. Generally speaking, it can conceal its original identity and make others, including other ghosts, think that we are just ordinary humans."
"There is such a thing, then I'm relieved." Fang Rui nodded. At least Hu Yue'e didn't know Bai Jingjing's identity now, so she could always surprise her.
Although the small county town is not big, it took Bai Jingjing and Fang Rui more than 40 minutes to find Hu Yue'e's home, an extremely dilapidated yard, and even the gate was a small hole.
Hu Yue'e was just washing fish in the yard, just as Bai Jingjing said, not every vixen is a beauty. Hu Yue'e in front of her is just a woman with an ordinary appearance, and her skin is a little dark. An old woman with wrinkles was sitting on a chair with a kind face looking at her. The entry of Bai Jingjing and Fang Rui made Hu Yue'e nervously slide down to the ground. After a moment of stunnedness, she put the knife shaving the scales in front of her, and a hint of panic flashed in her eyes and said, "You... Why are you here?" Her fox Songfruit has never failed, why are these two people doing nothing? She clearly looked at Bai Jingjing and bitten a bite of the bun.
Bai Jingjing did not answer but spun the ruby ring in front of Hu Yue'e, and a look of fear immediately appeared on Hu Yue'e and the old lady's faces.
"This is not Xiaoyue's fault. If you want to blame me, the old lady!" The old lady stood up from the chair with difficulty and pulled Hu Yue'e behind her.
"Don't be nervous, you two have not killed anyone, and I don't want to care even if you kill someone. I just want to know why you did this? What's the fluctuation of the Book of Fate in school?" Bai Jingjing was simply. For her, life is far from the important thing about the Book of Fate. Moreover, those teachers who were fascinated by the Fate Fate are not in danger of life.
Hu Yue'e turned around and pressed the old lady back on the chair. She grabbed the corner of her clothes and patted her shoulder gently. The old lady let go of her hand helplessly, but her face was full of worries.
"Since you can see that I don't want to hide it anymore. Yes, the teachers who fell ill did eat the food I added to them with fox pine mushrooms. But they can't kill them and just lie in the hospital for a few more days. I did this just to let someone in the school do something. After all, this school is still very important to him." Hu Yue'e put the knife down and said.
"Who is he referring to?" Bai Jingjing asked.
"You are all here, and you must have noticed the fluctuations of the Book of Fate here. I have always been an employee of this school. After all, the vixen also needs to make money to support the family. Just three weeks ago, I felt the fluctuations of the Book of Fate in the school, and the fluctuations were on the principal Xu Kai. Every time he appeared within a hundred meters around me, I could clearly feel that this was the feeling of the activation of the Book of Fate. Unfortunately, although I am a vixen, I don't have much magic power. Moreover, our vixen's sixth sense of predicting danger is particularly strong. I dare not touch him, and I don't even have the courage to give him the fox mushroom." Hu Yue'e was still a little afraid when she told her, and her ears moved, and she really looked like a fox that was testing danger. Maybe this was the instinct of an animal.
"Then what's the use of giving those teachers?" Fang Rui felt very strange.
"Because Xu Kai is 59 years old and has a retired age, and his family has a grandmother in his 100s who needs to be taken care of. Usually, the school is chaired by the vice principal, and he rarely comes to the school unless something happens in the school. So, I ate the fox pine mushrooms for those teachers and wanted him to come to the school a few more times so that I can have a chance to start." Hu Yue'e explained.
"Didn't you say you dare not touch him?" Fang Rui asked.
"I can't wait any longer, because..." Hu Yue'e turned around and looked at the old lady sitting on the chair and then gently carried the old lady into her arms. "She can't wait anymore, and she will only have one week's life at most."
Fang Rui looked at Bai Jingjing strangely. What's the relationship between these two people? He always felt that it was not an ordinary mother-daughter relationship. Bai Jingjing seemed to have guessed something, and sighed before saying, "Even if you get the Life Book Loose-Leaf, you can only restore the magic power of one of you."
"I don't care about any magic power, as long as she can recover." Hu Yue'e's eyes were very firm at this time.
"I don't care either!" The old lady's voice was old but firm. She smiled and said to Bai Jingjing and Fang Rui, "You can persuade her. I don't care about magic power and are not afraid of death, as long as she doesn't take risks."
Bai Jingjing frowned. Such things cannot be persuaded by others in a few words. "Thank you for telling us about Xu Kai. You must know that once the bookstore interferes with the bookstore, there is absolutely no other mistakes allowed. I can't do anything about you two, so please do your own things."
After saying that, Bai Jingjing left without looking back, Fang Rui hurriedly followed. Before leaving, he looked back at Hu Yue'e and the old lady. The two hugged each other tightly, and the unknown petals and leaves that were rolling up in the night wind flew gently around them.
"They..." Fang Rui also guessed something but did not dare to confirm it, so he had to ask Bai Jingjing.
"They are both vixen, and Hu Yue'e's magic power should be sealed. The old mother-in-law seemed to have lost all her magic power, so she could not stay young like Hu Yue'e, and her vitality is almost exhausted. I think this is also the reason why Hu Yue'e has to take the risk to obtain the life book loose page. Only the life book loose page can regain vitality." Bai Jingjing said.
"Is the magic power sealed because... because they two love each other?" Although Fang Rui is a little introverted, it does not mean that he is stupid. The exchange of eyes and movements between Hu Yue'e and the old lady made him guess the relationship between the two, and it is not something that can only fall in love with each other.
"I guess it's right." Bai Jingjing was not sure.
"What's the matter? We human society has a lot of same-sex love each other, and we don't have to be sentenced and punished. At most, we won't be accepted by some people." Fang Rui felt very strange.
"Haha, that's you humans. For monsters, love between the same sex is absolutely not allowed, but being deprived of mana is considered to be an extra mercy. You humans are more open to this point." Bai Jingjing replied.
"It's rare to hear praise from you for us humans!" Fang Rui was a little proud. It seemed that humans were not Bai Jingjing's useless words, "What should I do next?"
"Look for Xu Kai!" Bai Jingjing replied.
"Go now? Do you know the address of Xu Kai's house?" Fang Rui asked.
"Of course, I have recorded the entire school teacher and staff contact manual. We must be a little faster. Even the vixen whose magic power is sealed can feel the fluctuations in Xu Kai's life book. I guess other monsters have noticed it." Bai Jingjing pulled Fang Rui and boarded a bus and went to the east district of the county town.
Xu Kai is worthy of being the principal. His living place is much more upscale than Hu Yue'e's house. A self-built small foreign building is Xu Kai's home. Unfortunately, before Bai Jingjing and Fang Rui could take action, there was a loud bang and then a fire was soaring into the sky. The small foreign building was already in the sea of fire.
The neighbors around the fire all came out to put out the fire, and soon surrounded the small Western-style building by the crowd. Bai Jingjing said to Fang Rui: "I want to chase that guy, you go back to school first."
Fang Rui followed Bai Jingjing's eyes and saw a middle-aged man standing in the crowd watching the fun. His black and white hair was raised on his head, and his nose was as big as a garlic, which was very eye-catching.
Who is he? Before Fang Rui could ask Bai Jingjing that he had walked towards the man quickly. The man seemed to realize Bai Jingjing's arrival and drove away the crowd and walked quickly into an alley. Bai Jingjing hurriedly followed.
Fang Rui stood there thinking for a few seconds and followed. Unfortunately, they had already turned around and walked into an alley before him. When Fang Rui followed, they had already disappeared. Fang Rui was frustrated and searched around for a while but still couldn't find them, so he had to return to the fireplace. The fire truck and the ambulance had already reached the door. A man was burned black on a stretcher carried out from a small foreign building. He was carried into the ambulance and roared away.
After standing in the crowd for a while, Fang Rui couldn't wait for Bai Jingjing to come back and had to return to school by himself. As soon as he arrived at the dormitory room, he received a call from Bai Jingjing.
"Fang Rui, I have something to do and I won't come back these days. Make up a reason to help me take a few days off. Stay at school and don't act rashly." After Bai Jingjing finished giving the instructions, she hung up the phone and didn't even have the chance to ask Fang Rui to ask.
Fang Rui scratched his head helplessly. He had to ask for leave for only a few days at work, which was too embarrassing for him. Besides, what Bai Jingjing did was more important than recovering the missing pages of the book of life? Although he had many doubts, Fang Rui chose to go to bed first. Anyway, the sky fell and the blanket was covered in front of him. Fang Rui, who had no lungs, seemed to have forgotten all the things about the man in the pink shirt, but he didn't know that the pool of water on the ground at the door was like a water snake hovering at the door for a long time and finally did not flow into Fang Rui's room.
Early the next morning, the news that the school principal Xu Kai and his 108-year-old grandmother were both buried in the fire spread throughout the campus. Xu Kai is really respected. His death made everyone very sad. Even the vice principal announced that classes would be suspended for three days and all teachers and students in the school went to Xu Kai’s funeral.
Fang Rui learned a trick from Bai Jingjing to chat with the aunts and uncles to get information. Fang Rui brought a lot of information about Xu Kai and his grandmother in his mouth with an old employee who had been in school for more than 30 years. Xu Kai's grandmother, Zhong Aimei, is a legend in this small county town. She had only one posthumous son, Xu Weiguo. Xu Weiguo later married and had children and had two sons, Xu Kai and Xu Xuan. Unfortunately, the youngest son Xu Xuan died in childhood. Xu Weiguo and his wife both died in a car accident, leaving behind Xu Kai, who was only 7 years old. From then on, Zhong Aimei treated Xu Kai as her second son, and raised Xu Kai very hard. Xu Kai became an old elementary school in the county.
Chapter completed!