Chapter 350 Maintenance Complete
When Roland saw her like this, he continued with a smile, “The Qi family shouldn’t have been in this small town for more than twenty years.”
“It’s only been about twelve years.” Night Tide Sands sat down at the table. She looked tenderly at Roland as he ate and talked to herself. “I followed my father to this town in the fifth grade of elentary school when it was all still wasteland, and I went to elentary school at the second elentary school near the city’s Children’s Palace[1].”
“The second elentary school...” Roland said with a thoughtful expression, swallowing the noodles in his mouth. “Don’t you think the second elentary school isn’t quite the sa as the other elentary schools?”
“I discovered that long ago. It seems to have been converted from an old building, with green bricks and tiles, a front yard, a welcoming room in the middle, and a backyard.” Night Tide Sands asked curiously in return, “Is there so kind of story?”
“That elentary school is a building from the dynasty of braids[2], the period of a certain emperor in jocular stories who loved to mingle with won secretly. It was actually the ancestral hall of the Yu family. Later on, during the years of political turbulence, the Yu family was broken up into several branches, and the ancestral hall that represented the glory of the Yu family was also confiscated and transford into an elentary school. It has been used until now.”
Night Tide Sands was even more surprised now. “Such a large ancestral hall!”
Roland chuckled lightly. “Here in the southern border, unlike the Central Plains and the north, the feudal forces were not so thoroughly swept away. Many clans were reduced to nothing and hidden in the ocean of the people. Although the clans can no longer hold much influence in current society—as they say, a centipede dies but never falls down, and it’s still possible for it to co out and spew bubbling poison at critical tis. Li Lin’s family connections are on the surface, while Schuck’s family connections are in the dark. Schuck’s family is a direct line of descent, and he is the only son, so in fancy terms, he is actually the young clan leader. So he is essentially a remnant of the feudal forces. Of course, nowadays, no one in this society still calls anyone a young clan leader or whatever. It would be laughable for outsiders to hear.”
Night Tide Sands covered her mouth. “That’s no way to talk about your best friend.”
“True friends don’t hold back,” Roland said with a smile. “I used to call him a foolish son of a landlord.”
“So how did he insult you?”
Roland curled his lips. “Ugly.”
Night Tide Sands laughed even harder.
After finishing the noodles, Roland ca back to the training ground, where Qi Shaoqiu was already instructing a group of new students.
Roland sat on a long concrete pier to consu his food. It was not long before Raffel and the others finished their daily practice and sat next to him.
Brazil bumped Roland’s shoulder. “How’s it? How’s it going with Night Tide Sands, when are you getting married?”
“What the hell, we’re not even dating. When did we get to the point of marriage?”
Schuck also wanted to laugh at Roland, and just as he was about to comnt, his phone rang. He picked it up and imdiately answered it, asking, “Li Lin, what is it?”
There was an indistinct voice coming from his phone.
“So trouble? No problem. I’ll make a call to the elders.”
Then Schuck stood up and made another call. He stepped aside, his voice low, barely reaching Roland and the others.
“Mom, have my third uncle scratch the blisters of the Jin family’s boxing club, and its related companies or industries.”
“Yeah, there’s a girl in the Jin family trying to do sothing harmful toward and a few friends... Li Lin’s already made his move, but he can’t seem to handle it on his own.”
“What, parasites? No need for parasites!” Schuck’s voice grew a little louder. “Nowadays, in this scientific society, where are there any parasites... Not even if it’s inconspicuous. Back then, my father-in-law was almost scared to death by you, and here you go again!”
When Roland and the others heard this, they felt sweat bead on their foreheads.
According to Schuck, his mother, before she married, had been the Bai clan’s maiden witch, of mixed Chinese and Bai ancestry. Though growing up, Schuck always told his few close friends that there was no such thing as parasites or Gong Tau[3].
But Roland rembered clearly that he had seen large centipedes at least thirty centiters long squiggling in the shadows and the cracks of the room on more than one occasion when he used to go to play at Schuck’s old house.
He’d also seen sharp-nosed vipers as thick as an adult’s thighs squirming on the beams of Schuck’s old family ho.
Anyway, they didn’t quite dare to play at Shuck’s house, and instead asked him out to play.
Shortly after, Schuck put away his phone and sat next to Roland.
Roland said, “There’s no need to alarm Aunty about this small matter.”
“My old man took my stepmother to the capital. It seems that my stepmother’s father is seriously ill.”
That explains a lot!
They then practiced their miaodao arts and sparred for a while, and soon it was noon. They wiped off their sweat with towels that had been prepared earlier, changed their clothes, and then prepared to leave the saber arts club together.
But as soon as they reached the door, they saw a red sports car brush up against the door of the saber arts club.
Jin Wenwen, who wore a plain dress, got out of the car, her face dark and very gloomy.
She went to the door, blocking Roland and the others, then scanned them one by one.
Of course, Roland and the others were not afraid of her. They were all smiling and looking at her directly.
Qi Shaoqiu, who was in the training hall, also saw Jin Wenwen, and he put a Jia Tian Xia in his mouth, lit it with a lighter, put his hands in his trouser pockets, and walked slowly to the door.
Upon seeing Qi Shaoqiu co out, Jin Wenwen said furiously, “Good, Qi Shaoqiu, you’ve beco a man, uniting outsiders to bully your ex-girlfriend.”
“Heh!”
Qi Shaoqiu sneered and used his hand to remove the Jia Tian Xia from his mouth, then breathed out the smoke and said disdainfully, “Of course I’m a man, it’s not like you haven’t tried before.”
Roland and others held back their laughter.
Jin Wen Wen said furiously, “You sure know how to talk now—that honest look back then was all a disguise?”
“Whatever you say.” Qi Shaoqiu shrugged. “You’re not welco here, so if there’s nothing else, please leave.”
Qi Shaoqiu no longer had any good thoughts about Jin Wenwen, so he appeared indifferent.
Jin Wenwen noticed this as well, and she turned her attention to Roland and the others, staring at them again.
After a while, she gritted her teeth and said, “I don’t know which one of you and Li Lin ca together to deal with , but I admit defeat this ti. Co at if you can. I can close the boxing club, and you all can even toy with together if you want, but don’t touch my parents’ property. Don’t you understand the principle of not afflicting misfortune to one’s family?”
“We’re not mobsters, we don’t know your jargon.” Schuck shook his head. “This is just a warning, so don’t ever get any ideas about us again.”
Schuck then left, and Roland and the others followed and left the saber arts club on public bicycles.
“To think that you’d be in this situation!” Qi Shaoqiu revealed a happy expression at Jin Wenwen and turned to leave.
Left alone in the doorway, Jin Wenwen stood trembling with anger for nearly half an hour.
Roland returned ho, ate lunch, and opened the ga’s website habitually, then imdiately saw the new official announcent.
“The ga’s maintenance went faster than expected, and the servers will start tonight. Please understand the inconvenience caused to all players during this period.”
Roland was extrely happy after reading the announcent.
When he got into the ga at night, as he usually did, just as he showed up in the hotel, a soft body fell into his arms.
“You’re back!”
Andonara’s smile was like a hundred flowers blooming.
[1] An institution where children can take part in extracurricular activities
[2] Qing Dynasty
[3] Aka. Ta Head, Black Magic of Southeast Asia
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