âEavesdropâ¦â Mengyao hesitated, furrowing her brows. âThen go listen, I guessâ¦.â
âOh, okay!â Yushu said with a smile.
But Yushu failed to hear anything after pricking her ears up for a long time. Were those two even talking? It didnât seem so.
Lin Yi had his eyes closed, and Xiaoxiao couldnât do anything about it after Lin Yi ignored the stuff she was saying to him. She decided to listen to her MP3 player.
âShield Bro?â Yushu wasnât afraid Xiaoxiao would hear how she addressed Lin Yi. She knew her relationship with Lin Yi anyway, so she wouldâve exposed it already if it were her intention.
âHm?â Lin Yi opened his eyes and looked at Yushu with curiosity.
âItâs nothing.â Yushu thought Lin Yi had fallen asleep and wanted to wake him so she could hear him chat with Xiaoxiao, but Lin Yi was still awake.
Lin Yi eyed Yushu before shaking his head.
âLin Yi, are you hungry?â Xiaoxiao asked. âI have some cookies.â Lin Yi wasnât pretending to be asleep anymore.
âOh, you eat them,â Lin Yi replied distantly before looking out the plane window.
Xiaoxiao scowled. Come on! So Chen Yushu calls out to you and you instantly respond? Why did Lin Yi ignore her when she spoke? âHey, how much do they pay you?â
âWhat? Pay me?â Lin Yi blinked.
âArenât you their bodyguard, or follower, or something? How much do they pay you a month?â Xiaoxiao asked.
âTens of thousands, I guess,â Lin Yi said vaguely.
âTens of thousandsâ¦â Xiaoxiao was taken aback by the amount. It sure was a lot of money. Her family was rich, but she only had an allowance of ten thousand a month. She thought she could double whatever Mengyao was paying and hire Lin Yi, but she couldnât do that anymore. âYouâre bluffing!â
âHeh.â Lin Yi could guess what Xiaoxiao was thinking. âI work for her father. The follower part just kinda comes with the job.â
âOh.â Xiaoxiao nodded, thinking that it wasnât impossible if it were Chu Pengzhan spending the money.
âFeng Xiaoxiao, if you wanna learn how to drive, I currently donât have time, so you donât have to follow me around all the time. Itâs not gonna do anything.â Now that Lin Yi was responding to her, he might as well make things clear.
âNo, itâs fine if you wonât teach me. I just want your potential to rub off on me,â Xiaoxiao said. âIâll be more like you after that.â
Lin Yi was rather stunned by that bullshit logic. Rubbing his potential off on her? He didnât know what to say to that. âDo what you want then.â
Lin Yi didnât bother arguing over this when Xiaoxiao clearly wasnât going to listen. He decided that the girl could follow him all she wanted. Sheâd probably get tired and stop out of annoyance after a couple of days.
âOkay!â Xiaoxiao said very happily now that Lin Yi had agreed. Her eyes were even turning into crescents from smiling so widely. âHere, cookie.â
Lin Yi took the cookie and put it on the small table in front of him.
âSo I heard it,â Yushu whispered to Mengyao.
âWhat were they talking about?â Mengyao asked.
âFeng Xiaoxiao wants Shield Bro to teach her how to drive. Thatâs why sheâs following him all the time,â Yushu said.
âIs that so. Then let her do what she wants.â Mengyao, naturally, wasnât very interested after learning driving lessons were what XIaoxiao was after.
***
Xiaofuâs face was getting paler by the second. He couldn'tâ take it anymore. âI canât anymore, Liang Bro! I feel like vomiting!â
âHold it in! Weâll be there soon!â Pinliang wanted to vomit as well, but he was in better shape than Xiaofu was since heâd been in a lot of planes when he had traveled, including small planes like this one that were a little more turbulent.
âI canât, I really canât!â Xiaofu cried out all of a sudden. âFlight attendant, open the window! I need to vomit!â
Xiaofuâs voice made the students in the front turn around and look, and Pinliang felt his face heat up at the humiliation. What on earth was Xiaofu doing? âThis is a plane, not a car! The windows are sealed! They donât open!â
âThen what do I do? Iâm really gonna vomit!â Xiaofu said.
âHold it in! Hold it in a little while longer!â Pinliang raged.
âUgh⦠Blerghâ¦â Xiaofu seemed like he was about to vomit sometime soon. He covered his mouth with his hands. After a while passed, he finally breathed out. âPhew.â
âManaged to hold it in?â Pinliang relaxed. Xiaofu seemed fine now.
âIt came out into my mouth, but I swallowed it back down,â Xiaofu said.
âHuh? Blughâ¦â Pinliangâs stomach churned. âSwallowed it back downâ? How disgusting could Xiaofu get?! He couldâve held it in, but what Xiaofu said really hit him hard. He was about to open his mouth and vomit when he saw everyone looking at Xiaofu in curiosity, Yushu included. Troubled, Pinliang felt the vomit reach his throat, and he decided that it wasnât going to stop. He steeled himself and did what Xiaofu did, swalloing it back down.
Pinliang burped before waving at Yushu, a wide smile on his face. âSee? Iâm still going strong. Gao Xiaofu just isnât strong enough!ân/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om
Pinliang sighed in relief. No one seemed to have noticed. He sure was smart, actually swallowing what he vomited without letting people realize what was happening!
âLiang Bro, Iâm not feeling so good. I need to take a dump,â Xiaofu said awhile later.
âYou bastard. Whyâre you so much trouble? Vomiting and now sh*tting?â Pinliang said, irritated.
âLiang Bro, you canât blame me! I didnât get to puke it out, so now it needs to go out from somewhere else,â Xiaofu said weakly.
âThereâs a lavatory at the front. Go by yourself!â Pinliang said helplessly.
Xiaofu fast walked into the lavatory. Pinliang started to regret letting Xiaofu sit at the back with him. Heâd damaged his heroic image!
But why did his stomach feel so uncomfortable? Pinliangâs eyes widened in shock. Did he need to shit as well after swallowing the vomit?
The thought frightened him, and Pinliang ran to the lavatory, remembering that Xiaofu was still in there. He knocked. âXiaofu, hurry up!â
âLiang Bro, whatâs wrong?â Xiaofu said weakly.
âI need to use the lavatory! Hurry!â Pinliang panicked.
âAh⦠Iâm sh*tting right now,â Xiaofu said.
Pinliang was starting to sweat from the pain at this point. All he could do was pound on the lavatory door.