Chapter 72
Chapter 72: Family Tutor
【Wen Yu】: [Excited cat]
【Wen Yu】: Is it the kind of tutor who can really discipline students?
【Fu Chengque】: Hmm…
【Fu Chengque】: Yes, you can discipline them severely!
【Fu Chengque】: Don’t be too respectful to me just because I’m the future Empress!
【Fu Chengque】: I want to be a wise ruler!
With only one month left until the final exam, Fu Chengque was a bit anxious. After some thought, she decided to seek help from the top student in the class.
As for the task, she decided to put it aside for now.
She really had no other options.
And ever since she adopted the mindset that “it doesn’t matter if the task fails,” she became more accepting of setbacks.
With Fu Chengque taking the initiative, Wen Yu also became serious.
With Fu Chengque’s ambition, even if she couldn’t become Empress, she could still accomplish great things.
For example, after getting into Peking University or Tsinghua University, she could work for him, allowing him to buy a hill and achieve personal freedom.
That would require good teaching!
On Sunday morning around eight or nine o’clock, Qingmei from next door knocked on Wen Yu’s door.
When Wen Yu opened the door, she was carrying things back and forth like she was moving.
“I love chips and chicken nuggets! Bring them! And fruit milk, can’t have puffed food without fruit milk!”
“Oh, and some stationery pencils.”
“Oh! Bring some appetizing fruit leather, I bought some new ones yesterday, sour and sweet~”
“Also, some spicy strips, shasha shasha!”
“Two sets of test papers.”
“We have sour, sweet, and spicy, but we also need something salty! How about preserved plums? So satisfying.”
“Oh no, I forgot to bring something for Director Wen, this bag of snow biscuits will do as a thank-you gift.”
“Where are my books? Why can’t I find my books? Mom!!”
“She’s gone to work…oh well, I’ll use Wen Yu’s.”
“Haven’t had breakfast yet, add a braised egg!”
***
Wen Yu watched Fu Chengque fill her bedroom desk with all sorts of items, feeling speechless.
Is this person really going to be a “wise ruler”? Are they here to study or to have a party?
If you don’t work hard, when will I ever be able to buy a hilltop?!
Confiscated!
While Fu Chengque went home again, he swept his arms and all the snacks were packed into storage boxes, which were then locked away in the cabinet.
Fu Chengque returned and was stunned.
“Where’s my food! My imperial meal! Wen Yu, where did you put my imperial meal!”
“Confiscated, one set of test papers and one portion of snacks. If you make a mistake, I’ll eat one portion in front of you.”
The Empress immediately became furious.
“Wow—traitors and villains, you…you dare deceive me! Guards, guards, someone is trying to starve me…”
She clutched her chest and made a “pu” sound, as if seriously injured, but actually just expelled a breath of air.
“Scream all you want, no one’s coming.”
“Sob sob, Director Wen… Wen Yu, please, I haven’t had breakfast…”
Wen Yu fetched two meat buns from his own kitchen, plus a braised egg, and seeing Fu Chengque still looking pitiful, added a bottle of fruit milk.
Fu Chengque felt slightly happier and nibbled on the buns while doing her homework.
She felt a bit regretful in her heart. Was it impulsive to ask him to be her teacher?
She glanced back secretly and saw Wen Yu playing with his phone.
She felt instantly displeased.
“What are you doing? Why am I working so hard to learn how to govern, and you’re playing with your phone?”
“It’s not like I want to be a wise ruler.”
“We agreed, I’ll be Empress, and you’ll be my strategist!”
“I’m in the top three, and that’s enough to be your tutor.”
“Enough my foot. When I become Empress, I’ll make all the scientists and professors my teachers, and you’ll be the worst one!” After muttering to herself, Fu Chengque realized Wen Yu wasn’t paying attention to her, but was engrossed in his phone, which made her curious. “What are you watching?”
“Anime.”
“Why aren’t you watching fishing?”
“I followed a few content creators, and every day the video titles are like ‘No air force today.’ When I click on them, I find out they didn’t catch fish, but they caught something else.”
“Haha, what anime are you watching? Let me see?”
“Family tutor.”
“Is it good?”
“It’s pretty good, especially when the teacher just arrives at the student’s house and knocks the student over with one punch, it’s so good.”
“You want to beat me!”
“I’m warning you, don’t apply the virtual world to reality, or I’ll beat you.”
“?”
“Focus on your test papers.”
“Then you come teach me.”
“You just don’t want me to peacefully watch anime, right?” Wen Yu put down his phone. “Fine, come on, let’s start.”
Outside, there were clouds, and the room wasn’t very bright.
Wen Yu turned on the light, returned to his desk, and began teaching Fu Chengque the questions she had just written on the test paper one by one.
He explained very meticulously, without feeling annoyed at all, or feeling dissatisfied with having his personal time occupied.
On the contrary, he enjoyed it. He even had time to glance at the scenery outside.
Below the clouds, the cold wind swept through the bare branches, and the brown fallen leaves rolled on the ground for a couple of rounds before stopping. Fortunately, there were evergreen plants in Jiangcheng as well, with green and yellow intertwining, presenting the wonderful winter scenery here.
Time seemed to stand still outside.
Inside the room, Fu Chengque lowered her head, occasionally writing the questions seriously, occasionally asking him a couple of questions. She either said a few words or quietly watched him.
After a long time, Fu Chengque suddenly looked up at him.
In this era, the word “pure” hadn’t been played out yet, her face was very pure. Her eyes were also watery, looking at him for two glances, then shifting away, then looking back for two glances again.
Wen Yu felt like her eyes could speak, as if saying “this question is difficult, can you teach me?” and also seemed to say “I also think the present moment is beautiful and hope time can slow down.”
Anyway, if she just kept quiet—
“I’m hungry.”
“…”
Wen Yu looked at the time and realized it was almost lunchtime.
Fu Chengque shouted, “Lunch!”
“There isn’t any!”
“Do we have that black chicken from last time?”
“I’ll fry some noodles, eat it or not, it’s up to you.”
“Yes, yes, yes!”
Half an hour later.
Fu Chengque stared at the black fried noodles in front of her, feeling a bit dazed.
“Wen Yu, why are your fried noodles black?”
“My hand slipped, put in too much dark soy sauce, it’s okay, I tasted it, it’s not too salty.”
“Can we eat this?”
“Black noodles are still noodles, just eat it without worry, it won’t kill you.”
Young people don’t understand food. He, a true Jiangcheng native, was a master at frying noodles. What’s the problem with a bit of black? What could possibly go wrong?
Fu Chengque took a bite and exclaimed, “It’s indeed not too salty.”
Wen Yu also took a big slurp.
Then he exclaimed, “Oops, this is a bit salty!”
Fu Chengque was a bit puzzled, “Didn’t you taste it?”
“I tasted yours, not mine. This mouthful does taste a bit salty.”
“…”
***
After finishing the fried noodles, the two returned to the bedroom to continue studying.
Fu Chengque felt like she was dying.
“Teacher Wen Yu, I request a break!”
“Okay, take a break. The afternoon is long, review your main subjects, especially math.”
“Hehehe, I want snacks…”
Wen Yu threw a key at her. Fu Chengque scrambled to catch it but failed. She got annoyed, picked up the key, and threw it back to Wen Yu.
“Try again!”
“You’re a bit crazy.”
After saying that, he threw it again.
Fu Chengque caught it with a smack, hands on hips, laughing loudly, “Hahaha, nothing can stop me!”
She unlocked it and started searching for fruit leather to eat.
“Wen Yu, this week is Christmas Eve.”
“It’s a foreign holiday.”
“I used to like it, the jingle bell music was quite nice.”
“What happened? You’ve grown up? So you don’t like it anymore?”
“Not really.”
“Then?”
Wen Yu turned to look at Fu Chengque curiously.
“Sometimes you’re quite silly,” she laughed, “Think about it, when I become Empress in the future, the only deity in the world, can I tolerate the existence of ‘God’? Absolutely not, there can only be one god in the world, and that’s me.”
Wen Yu was surprised, “You’re thinking quite far ahead!”
“Of course,” the girl boasted, “I’m different from others. When I become Empress, the whole world will be different!”
“What’s different?”
“I don’t know!”
“Just boasting?”
“It’s too far ahead, for example, I’ll make our own people all become superhumans!”
“Superhumans are from foreign comics.”
“Then ‘immortals’!”
“Empress the Wise! Let’s start studying!”
“Ah—I still want to rest!”
“Not interested in being a wise ruler anymore?!”
“Being a wise ruler is really hard, um…”
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