The Villainous Classmate is My Lucky Star Chapter 144
Translated by Pure (ko-fi)
Chapter 144 The Senior Ministers and Generals Watched with Relish (3)
As soon as Wen Yantong sat down, she saw Chi Jingxi still standing there. His eyes swept over everyone's position one by one and finally fell on Wen Yantong.
When the two looked at each other, Wen Yantong smiled at him, showing her pearly white teeth. Chi Jingxi looked indifferent as usual, and after a short pause, he also took his seat.
There were still two empty seats in the first row, but no one dared to occupy them.
After waiting for about half an hour, the drums sounded, and the play began.
The overhead lights were dimmed, the spotlight was now focused on the stage. As the percussion instruments continued to play, the chatter below the stage gradually quieted down.
The first song was a classic: <The Injustice to Dou E [1]>. Because they were sitting in the front row, they could hear the vocals very clearly. Wen Yantong also learned some operas before. When she was very young, she followed her second uncle as a street performer. At that time, she still couldn't hold a xiqin, so she learned a few opera songs, and would sing to accompany her second uncle's instrument.
Although she stopped studying chinese opera when she grew up, Wen Yantong always loved listening to it, so she didn’t find these performances to be boring
At the end of the play, someone rushed into the building. When he saw an empty seat next to Wen Yantong, he sat down immediately and asked, "Child, what was the last opera?"
Wen Yantong tilted her head and replied, "The Injustice to Dou E."
When she turned her head, Wen Yantong finally realized the person who came in just now was actually Mu Yuan! She subconsciously turned her head to look at Fu Sheng. What kind of miraculous coincidence was this? Was the clash of enemies inevitable?
Mu Yuan didn't seem to realize that his arch enemy was sitting so close to him, and only sighed, "Why did they pick that one as the opening play?"
His tone was full of disappointment.
Wen Yantong didn't dare to speak anymore, and curled up into her seat.
Mu Yuan sat and listened for a while. Very soon, he began to feel bored, so he began to look around, and then spotted Fu Zixian.
He stretched his neck towards him. "Aren't you a child of the Fu Residence?"
Fu Zixian nodded quickly. "Greetings, General Mu."
"Aren't you afraid that your father will find out that you came here? Everyone in your Fu Residence always carries around those holy sage books, so how could they tolerate you coming to the theater?" Mu Yuan said.
Wen Yantong shrank some more. She retorted inwardly: Just look a little past Fu Zixian, and you’ll see!
As soon as Mu Yuan finished speaking, he looked up and finally saw Fu Sheng, the latter was looking at him with a smile on his face. Mu Yuan's expression became stiff, his neck shrunk back, he sat silently for a while. He was lost in thought for a bit before he stood up and said to Fu Sheng, "Wow, I never thought that Prime Minister Fu also likes to watch operas, what a sight to behold!"
Fu Sheng also got up. "General Mu is such a jokester. How could people always ‘carry around those holy sage books’? There is nothing wrong with having some fun occasionally."
Mu Yuan curled his lips secretly, and was about to retort when Mu Yang stood up and shouted, "Father!"
Mu Yuan’s eyes widened at his son’s sudden appearance. "Ah! You little brat, why are you still standing there?"
Mu Yang slightly flinched and replied, "There’s no more vacant seats by you, where would I sit?"
Mu Yuan looked down at Wen Yantong and Wen Yantong immediately jumped to her feet. "Come, come, Young Master Mu, please sit here."
"No need." Mu Yuan pressed her shoulders down directly, "He can just continue sitting there."
Wen Yantong was firmly pressed into her seat again. She didn’t dare not move.
Then Mu Yuan saw Cheng Yanchuan and the others, so he saluted them from a distance and then sat down.
After Mu Yuan sat down, it didn’t take him too long before he began to doze off. With his head leaned back against the chair, he slept soundly while occasionally snoring. Wen Yantong wanted to prostrate herself in admiration. The performance was so loud, how could he still fall asleep like that?
After skit was over, Wen Yantong couldn't sit still anymore, so she got up and walked outside. She didn't have to salute anyone, so it was a rather leisurely walk out.
Wen Yantong had already come up with a plan; for Cheng Yanchuan to avoid this disaster, the best way was to raise Cheng Yanchuan's vigilance. And to do so, she wanted to pass two key messages to Chi Jingxi.
Chi Jingxi's people were all shrewd yet low profile. Once they receive her warnings, they would naturally arrange the rest by themselves.
Wen Yantong walked along Qiying Street and soon found a brush and ink shop.
When the shop owner saw the quality of her clothes, he immediately knew she was from a wealthy family, so he welcomed her warmly. Wen Yantong pretended to peruse through his wares. She pointed to a purple jade brush, and asked the boss to take it out for her to try.
The shop owner unsealed the pen on the spot, took the inkstone, and personally ground the ink himself.
Wen Yantong tested the brush and wrote a few words on a piece of paper. "Here, try to write a few words with this brush for me."
She put a piece of paper in front of the shop owner, "Just copy my words here. If your writing is better than mine, I will buy this brush."
The shop owner didn't think much about her bizarre request, and happily picked up a brush and wrote down: Wo long, Water Well, End Cause, Great Suffering, Singing Actress, Folk Is, For Hire, Unbiased Kill.
And finally the last phrase: Leave First, Stay Longer.
Wen Yantong couldn't think of any profound riddles, so this was her best attempt. All of these phrases, if the previous word was removed, then the end combination would be: Long Well (will) cause suffering, actress is hire(d) kill(er).
Long Well is the name of the tea that will be served at the Hundred Flowers Banquet at that time. As long as this sentence was passed to Chi Jingxi, he should understand it.
Wen Yantong folded the paper that the shop owner had written down with great satisfaction, and then bought the brush without a second word. However, after walking out of the store, she quickly threw the brush in an inconspicuous place.
After she put away the paper, Wen Yantong went to the section of street that sold snacks. When she returned, she saw Chi Jingxi standing outside the Jiaren Building, watching the performance on stage from a distance.
Wen Yantong hurriedly stepped forward, went to Chi Jingxi's side, and asked, "Why is Little Marquis outside?"
Chi Jingxi's attention was pulled away from the stage. He looked at her and asked, "Where did you go?"
Wen Yantong presented the snacks in her hand and explained, "I was hungry, so I went out to buy some food."
She held a peeled chestnut forward and asked, "Would you like one?"
Chi Jingxi lowered his eyelids and paused for a moment, as if deciding whether he wanted to eat it. Wen Yantong thought that he wouldn't, so she was about to withdraw her hand when suddenly Chi Jingxi grabbed her wrist. He bent down and bit the chestnut held in her fingertips.
As if done on purpose, his teeth bit down on her fingertips lightly.
Wen Yantong rubbed her fingertips and asked, "How could you bite my hands, Little Marquis biting?"
Chi Jingxi calmly chewed the chestnut in his mouth and only answered after swallowing it, "It's clearly your finger that moved and pressed against my teeth."
"All right, alright! It’s my fingers’ fault for being too naughty, I will discipline them after I go back." Wen Yantong then asked, "Aren't you going in?"
Chi Jingxi said, "No, there is no place for me inside."
Wen Yantong wondered, "How could there be?"
Chi Jingxi affirmed, "There just isn’t."
Seeing that he was talking nonsense with his eyes open, Wen Yantong found it hard to refute, so she stuffed a chestnut into her mouth and remained silent.
The two of them hadn't stood for a while, when a voice suddenly came from a distance, "Little Marquis——!"
Chi Jingxi turned his head, his face sank immediately, and an indifferent expression appeared on his handsome face. Wen Yantong followed suit and saw an unfamiliar man walking towards them, followed by several people.
Wen Yantong continued to study the oncoming entourage and Fu Tanghuan and Fu Shi among them. She immediately understood that these people should all be Fu Sheng's children.
Chi Jingxi was probably very unwilling to talk to them, so he snatched the chestnuts from Wen Yantong's hand and pretended to be eating.
Wouldn’t this method of refusing to interact be too obvious? They all saw him do it!
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Footnote:
[1] The Injustice to Dou E - The story follows a child bride turned widow, Dou E, who is wrongly convicted of crimes by a corrupt court official for actions perpetrated by a rejected suitor, Zhang the mule. After her execution, three prophesied phenomena occur to prove her innocence, including blood raining from the sky, snow in June and a three-year drought. After a visit from the ghost of Dou E, her father eventually brings the corrupt court official, a doctor and Mule Zhang to justice, thereby vindicating his daughter.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Injustice_to_Dou_E
You can watch the full story here- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZTt4yIfpf4
