Chapter 91: Evil neighbors want to poison me!

After New Year’s Day, the final exams were approaching.

The students’ feelings were quite complicated, with the Spring Festival holiday on one side and the nerve-racking final exams on the other. Further ahead was the dreaded university entrance examination, which had been talked about for over a decade. None of these could calm down the group of high school seniors.

On the night after being criticized by Chen Xiongguo, in the [Strategy Group] chat meeting, group leader Fu Chengque solemnly said:

…Our current goal should shift from entertainment and daily life to studying, shifting our focus forward while keeping our thoughts the same. Remember the action plan of “achieving high academic performance,” seize every opportunity, and use various methods to improve our grades. We must help each other in the actual learning process. We must firmly stand by classmate Wen Yu’s side, learn from him, and follow his lead…

Finally, classmate Wen Yu made a concluding speech:

Starting tomorrow, everyone takes off!

The speech received enthusiastic applause from other group members, flooding the chat with cat clapping emojis.

Wen Yu acted immediately. The next day, he came to review the exam papers of the group members, went through them one by one, summarized their weaknesses, and categorized them.

Only with a clear understanding of the problem can one prescribe the right remedy.

Fu Chengque, Fang Ling, Xiao Gua, and even Wen Yu himself all had the same issue: weak foundations. Since obtaining the learning ability boost from the cheat code, Wen Yu had actively strengthened his own foundation after class, leading to the rapid improvement in his grades.

So during the breaks and lunchtimes this week, Wen Yu helped them better understand the basic knowledge.

And on Sundays, there were intensive training sessions and extension activities.

On January 10th, the first proper Sunday after the New Year, it was time for Teacher Wen’s intensive training.

Xiao Gua, Lu Min, and Fang Ling, wearing thick winter clothes and carrying bags, appeared downstairs at the home of Teacher Wen and Fu Chengque came down to greet them.

When she arrived downstairs, she saw the three of them looking up with excitement, pointing and gesturing.

Even when she approached, she didn’t hear anything.

Fang Ling pinched her chin and said confidently, “Chengque and Wen Yu must have chatted through the window often. There, right there—two of them, you look at me, I look at you, tsk tsk.”

Xiao Gua tilted her head with an “Ah~” sound, after looking at where Fang Ling pointed, she shook her head and said, “Those are the two windows of a single house, it’s a balcony! Their two bedrooms should be opposite each other, so they can definitely chat in their bedrooms.”

“Oh! It seems like it, I misunderstood.”

Lu Min also looked seriously and said somewhat sadly, “In my neighborhood, each unit has its own staircase, without a key, you can’t go upstairs or downstairs, there are no neighbors at all.”

The two glanced at her, feeling a bit sour.

Fang Ling said, “Xiao Min, don’t be oblivious to your blessings.”

Xiao Gua agreed, “Exactly.”

“You haven’t been to my house, my neighborhood is all old residential buildings, crowded and noisy.”

“My house is the same. My mom always argues with people about garbage and shoes left in the corridor. It’s so annoying.”

Lu Min quickly apologized, “I didn’t mean anything by it…”

“Ha, no need to apologize, it’s not like you did anything.” Fang Ling laughed and then brought the topic back, “Chengque and Wen Yu seem to often visit each other’s places, last time we didn’t even go into their bedrooms to see the actual situation!”

Xiao Gua’s eyes lit up, “Then let’s find a way to go see later?”

“Yes, yes!”

At that moment, Fu Chengque, who had been standing aside for a while, spoke up:

“What are you guys talking about!”

“Wow! Ah!!!”

The three girls were scared and hugged each other on the spot, then they looked closely and saw Fu Chengque looking at them with a amused expression, which made them angry.

They all rushed towards Fu Chengque, one hugged his waist, one pinched his face, and one tickled him.

“You! You kept us waiting in the cold wind for so long!”

“And you scared us when you came down, you deserve a scolding!”

Lu Min started tickling directly.

“Haha… stop… haha I agree!” Fu Chengque laughed and begged for mercy.

After a while of teasing, the four followed Fu Chengque upstairs.

Although they had been here before, the situation of childhood sweethearts still felt fresh, something rarely seen in ordinary urban households. In the living environments of Fang Ling and Xiao Gua’s families, although there were people around, there was no such thing as “childhood sweethearts.” Lu Min was even more so.

Xiao Gua and Fang Ling bypassed Fu Chengque and leaned towards the Wen family’s door. One looked inside through the peephole, and the other pressed their ear against the door.

Xiao Gua asked, “Has Wen Yu gotten up?”

Fu Chengque, with a helpless expression, said, “Don’t be like this… he should be awake.”

Just then, the door of Wen Yu’s house clicked open.

Wen Yu, who opened the door, saw Xiao Gua leaning forward to look inside and chuckled, “What are you doing? You come here but look inside my house, isn’t it cold outside?”

Xiao Gua exclaimed and hid behind Fu Chengque.

Wen Yu looked at Fu Chengque speechlessly and asked, “What’s wrong with them?”

“You scared them!”

After saying that, with a proud swing of her ponytail, Wen Yu led them into the house.

Before leaving, she reminded Wen Yu, “Come quickly!”

Wen Yu clicked his tongue but didn’t say anything else. He turned back, changed his clothes, grabbed his belongings, and then headed to the Fu family’s house.

In the living room of the Fu family, after everyone had settled down, they became serious.

Wen Yu also became serious, first letting them solve problems, then understanding their thought process, then breaking down and explaining, and finally bringing out new questions to advance.

With the groundwork laid in the previous days, all of them unexpectedly found Wen Yu’s explanations to be vivid, clear, and insightful. What took three times of explanation in the past, they now understood in one go!

Such efficiency made them all delighted, and they became more focused and engrossed in their studies.

Even Fu Chengque was particularly pleased as she picked up her paper, “Wow, my potential is truly endless!” He buried his head and continued writing quickly.

Seeing the significant effect of his passive skill “Godly Advancement: One Man’s Path,” Wen Yu was also excited.

However, just teaching these four was already keeping him busy; guiding more people might be difficult.

When they lowered their heads to study and looked up again, it was already close to noon.

Fu Chengque stretched lazily, revealing a glimpse of her fair little belly, which flashed by in Wen Yu’s peripheral vision, leaving him feeling regretful.

She flopped onto the sofa and exclaimed, “I’m hungry!”

Wen Yu chuckled, “Why didn’t you call for ‘rice’?”

The other three immediately looked up, staring at Fu Chengque with expressions that said, “Hurry up and tell us, I want to hear.”

Fu Chengque felt a bit embarrassed, stiffened her neck, and denied, “I don’t say ‘rice’! Only puppies say that!”

Wen Yu pretended to reach for his phone to show their chat history.

Fu Chengque was shocked, blushed, jumped up, and pushed Wen Yu towards the kitchen.

While pushing him, she pleaded, “Wen Yu, it’s time to cook… we’re all hungry.”

“You’re hungry?”

“Yes.”

“Why didn’t you say so?”

“I did.”

“If you don’t say ‘rice,’ how am I supposed to know you’re hungry?”

“…”

Although she said this, Fu Chengque didn’t embarrass him further. She pushed him into the kitchen.

Xiao Gua and the other two watched with smiles on their faces the whole time.

Xiao Gua said, “Chengque has this side too, really unexpected.”

Fang Ling said, “This is called ‘acting cute,’ right?”

Lu Min nodded, “Exactly, Chengque is acting cute.”

In the kitchen,

Fu Chengque’s face blushed.

She raised her small fist and said, “Wen Yu, you’re doomed!”

Wen Yu paid no attention to her threat and went straight to the fridge.

“Tofu… eggs… enough… need to thaw the meat first… oh, there are mushrooms!”

Wen Yu looked up, “But I thought you don’t eat fungi? Why did you buy mushrooms?”

Fu Chengque leaned in to look at the round mushrooms in the fridge, “My mom bought them yesterday, said they’re nutritious and delicious when stir-fried with meat, she won’t let me neglect myself…”

“I love eating these.”

“She bought them because she knows you love them.”

“That’s great! I must repay her properly in the future.”

“You?” Fu Chengque looked at him in surprise and asked curiously, “How will you repay her? Are you going to buy something and bring it over? Hehe, can you pick something I love to eat?”

“Sure, after all, my way of repaying her is ‘I will take good care of her daughter.'”

Fu Chengque raised her hand angrily as if to hit him, “You’re doomed! I can take care of myself just fine!”

But Wen Yu immediately jumped away and started threatening from a distance.

“If you hit me, I’ll add garlic, sweet peppers, and cilantro to every dish!”

“Wow! How ruthless, the evil neighbor wants to poison me, this is outrageous!”

“What’s the matter?”

“You tyrant! You’ve gone too far!”

“Then you won’t eat it?”

“If I don’t eat it, then I won’t. I don’t care!”

“Oh, there’s hot pot ingredients, let’s not cook, let’s have hot pot, it’s warm for the winter.”

“Great! Yay, I want to have tofu skin!”

“Don’t you not eat it?”

“Right, and tripe too!”

“?”

“Hehe.”

Wen Yu started preparing various ingredients while Fu Chengque brought out the pot, went downstairs to the small supermarket, and even searched the Wen family’s fridge. Half an hour later, they had managed to put together a table full of different dishes.

At the dining table, Xiao Gua and the others were amazed.

“Wow, Chengque, are you going to make it this lavish?”

“Hot pot, it’s been so long since I’ve had it!”

“I want to eat too!”

Fu Chengque proudly put her hands on her hips and took on the role of the hostess: “Sit! Everyone sit!”

They all gathered around, looking happily at the bubbling hot pot.

Fu Chengque was the first to pick up a piece of tofu skin and threw it in excitedly, shouting, “Let’s eat!”

The others cheered, “Let’s eat!”

“Smells good! Oh, the spicy air is blowing towards me! Cough, cough…”

“Chengque, throw in a few more pieces of tofu skin, I want some too!”

“Wow, this is my first time cooking hot pot together like this, it feels really good…”

As they each put ingredients into the pot, Fu Chengque couldn’t help but start spreading rumors:

“Just now, Wen Yu wanted to poison the food, but I stopped him!”

Xiao Gua was extremely surprised, “What?! Wen Yu is so evil!”

“That’s right!”

“What poison did he put in?”

“Um…”

“Chengque?”

“Just… various things with strong odors that make you want to vomit as soon as you smell them.”

“Like what?”

“…”

“?”

“Like… garlic…”

Xiao Gua looked at the bowl of minced garlic in her hand.

“Like… cilantro…”

Lu Min had just picked up a bunch of cilantro to put directly into the pot.

Fu Chengque carefully observed the expressions of the people around her, her voice getting quieter and quieter:

“Like… mushrooms…”

Fang Ling shook her hand, and the mushrooms she was pressing into the bottom of the pot floated up with a “plop.”

Fu Chengque put down her chopsticks and begged for mercy:

“Okay, okay, you all love to eat them, it’s just me being picky…”

Even Wen Yu couldn’t help but laugh this time.

Sometimes, the atmosphere of winter isn’t just about the wind or the snow. The boiling hot steam rising from the red broth can also give people a sense of winter.

Wen Yu put in a piece of fish and a piece of tofu, glanced briefly outside the window, and in just a moment, his mischievous chopsticks had reached his own food.

Following the chopsticks up, Fu Chengque, with a mischievous look, was caught in the act, but she showed no guilt at being caught—

Instead, her hand that had grabbed the tofu retracted even faster.

Wen Yu, quick on the draw, directly caught her chopsticks.

“Let go of my tofu!”

“You eat my rice cake!”

“You just put your rice cake in!”

“Then you wait.”

“Why don’t you wait?”

“I’m hungry!”

“Food!” Wen Yu suddenly shouted.

Fu Chengque was so startled that her chopsticks trembled. Taking advantage of her confusion, Wen Yu’s chopsticks went down and snatched the tofu.

Then, he dipped it in sauce and quickly ate it.

This swift action stunned everyone.

Fu Chengque was furious. She tried to hit Wen Yu’s head, but when she couldn’t reach, she grabbed and pulled. While pulling, she shouted, “What are you shouting for!”

“I’m hungry too, so when I’m hungry, I shout ‘food.'”

“…”

Xiao Gua and the others were briefly stunned before bursting into laughter.

They finished the meal by 1 p.m. After tidying up, everyone sat down to rest, and Fu Chengque brought out Sprite to share.

As they drank, Fu Chengque took Xiao Gua and the others on a tour of her house. They went around and finally arrived at the door of her bedroom.

“Come on! Let me show you the gifts I’ve arranged!”

Fu Chengque pushed the door open, and the three girls followed her in.

Actually, they were most interested in Fu Chengque’s bedroom because they had long wanted to see if this “childhood sweetheart” couple could really see each other just by lifting their eyes in the bedroom.

Fu Chengque’s bedroom was eagerly awaited!

That door seemed like a mysterious treasure chest, and when opened, it emitted a dazzling light!

Upon entering, the three exclaimed in unison, “Wow!”

Fu Chengque immediately stood proudly with her hands on her hips, “So, how do you like it? I’ve arranged all the gifts you’ve given me in the glass cabinet. Isn’t it beautiful?”

Little did she know, the “Wow” was for the window in her room, which happened to directly face what seemed to be Wen Yu’s bedroom across.

Xiao Gua quickly approached Fu Chengque and pointed to the room across.

“Chengque, Chengque, who lives over there?”

“Huh?” Fu Chengque looked over, puzzled, and explained, “Oh, that’s Wen Yu’s bedroom.”

As soon as she said this, excitement erupted.

“Wow!!! Oh my god, it’s just like in a TV drama!”

“Yeah, yeah, it’s so close, you can see it as soon as you wake up!”

“Childhood sweetheart, is this what a childhood sweetheart is like? I’m feeling it…”

Fu Chengque, who was initially a bit confused, now completely understood and couldn’t help blushing uncontrollably.

Her face burning, she waved her hands trying to calm down their excitement. “You… what are you doing! Calm down, it’s not that big of a deal!”

But the three remained excited, pulling her down to sit and bombarding her with questions.

The first question hit Fu Chengque like a bolt from the blue:

“Chengque, Chengque, do you chat with the windows open here?”

Before she could respond, two more questions came in rapid succession:

“Chengque, does Wen Yu greet you in the morning? Like, early in the morning, he opens the window and calls out to you!”

“Chengque, Chengque, do you throw things back and forth here?”

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