140: Chapter 64 Naless Letter_1 140: Chapter 64 Naless Letter_1 Zheng Qing went for morning practice in the playground sporting a black eye.
He wasn’t dissatisfied about it.
Because he had given Xiao Xiao two black eyes as well.
As a result, Waterlon Head refused to accompany him for morning practice, insisting on ditating in dormitory instead.
However, when Zheng Qing returned to the dorm after finishing his morning practice, clutching breakfast, humd a tune, he was shocked to find Xiao Xiao’s black eyes had vanished.
“You’re cheating!” He accused Waterlon Head angrily and shalessly, while studying his own injuries in the mirror of the dressing room.
Unfortunately, the purple bruising around his eyes was still painfully evident.
“I am a qualified wizard.” Xiao Xiao said, enunciating clearly as he applied ointnt to his eyes, “A competent wizard knows how to prepare the right ointnt.”
“Share so with …
I am supposed to et Jiang Yu in a bit.” Zheng Qing lowered his head in defeat and mumbled, “You still have plenty in that bottle.”
“You weren’t so polite when you were beating up.” Xiao Xiao looked at him angrily, his teeth grinding.
“I brought you breakfast.” Zheng Qing waved the bag in his hand, and the delicious aroma filled the entire dorm, “And I also gave you a gift last night…”
Before Xiao Xiao could reply, Xin Fat Man’s bed exploded with a loud bang.
The desk shook ominously with the rumbling ‘thud’.
Fatty Cat, perched on Xiao Xiao’s notebook, blinked his bleary eyes and bobbed his tail at Zheng Qing, ekly slling the air.
Zheng Qing stared blankly at the fat cat’s vacant flat face, pulled a smile and looked back at Xiao Xiao.
“One week’s worth of breakfast.” Xiao Xiao demanded without hesitation, “I’m poor… the cost of these potions is quite high.”
“You’re crazy!” Zheng Qing shouted at the top of his lungs – “I’m a pauper too!
The Wandering Wizard stole five hundred standard talismans from yesterday, you know… I can add another breakfast for tomorrow at most, and you are in charge of running errands.”
“Five days’ worth of breakfast, no less.” Xiao Xiao pushed his glasses up his nose, his eyes sharp, “As an added benefit, I can run errands to get you breakfast.”
“Two days, I don’t need your benefits, I’ll run errands for you.” Zheng Qing glared at him furiously, “That’s my bottom line.
If you disagree, I’ll go to Nicolas…
He knows many excellent potion makers at school.”
“Three days, I’ll run errands.” Xiao Xiao imdiately compromised without a shred of dignity, “Nicolas is a repeater, he probably has so barriers with those senior students… Besides, you have to leave in a bit, my ointnt can be used right away.”
“ow!” Tuan Tuan, who had long been fed up with the bickering between the two newcors, imdiately raised his paw and gave a heavy swipe.
Zheng Qing glanced at the fat cat wagging its tail and finally nodded in agreent.
However, when he received the ointnt, Zheng Qing felt so regret.
The formula for the hangover potion he had in the morning ca back to mind.
“What ingredients did you use in this ointnt?” Zheng Qing asked, as he looked at the yellow-green gooey ointnt in his hand, straining to speak calmly, “”It looks…
a bit unappetizing.”
“There are a lot of ingredients…” As Xiao Xiao started, Zheng Qing quickly interrupted him.
“Since you’ve already used it, there’s no need to tell the formula.” he earnestly looked at Waterlon Head, “In case you ntion so inappropriate ingredients, this little bit of ointnt might not be enough for both of us.”
Xiao Xiao snorted in mockery but did not argue further, indeed shutting her mouth.
Zheng Qing sighed with relief and began to carefully apply ointnt to his bruised purple eye using a tall dressing mirror.
“Do you know where Dylan went?” Zheng Qing frowned and mumbled as he applied the ointnt, “I have not yet given him his Mount Tai Shi Gan Dang… What if sothing happens when he stays out all night…”
“Sumr insects cannot understand ice, and you two are not of the sa species.
Stop making unwarranted assumptions.” Xiao Xiao opened her breakfast parcel and evenly divided the soy milk, fried dough sticks, side dishes, and eggs into three portions.
She placed them in the blue and white ceramic plate and lectured, “To a creature of the night like him, your definition of staying out all night might just be his dayti.”
Zheng Qing puckered his mouth.
It made sense, and he decided not to retort.
“Oh, by the way, there’s a letter for you on the desk.” As she picked up a fried dough stick, Xiao Xiao seed to rember sothing.
She reminded him while tapping the desk, “It’s under the vase.
Check it when you have ti.”
Zheng Qing’s eyes swept over the heaps of books on the desk, paused on a cardboard box covered with a towel, and finally landed on a vase filled with wilted daisies.
“A bunch of slovenly ghosts, when are they going to get rid of these daisies and replace them with fresh ones.” He moved the vase, looking at the letter and grumbled, “even Fatty is tired of it.”
The pudgy Flower Cat chewed on a dough stick, licked so soy milk, raised its paw and owed approvingly at the comnt.
Xiao Xiao scoffed dismissively.
“Who sent it?” Zheng Qing bit a fried dough stick and muttered, “It wasn’t there when I left, was it?”
Even though he had a black eye when he left the dorm, Zheng Qing was very certain whether there was a letter under the vase.
Because while he was beating up Waterlon Head, he had thought about using the vase to smash Waterlon Head’s head.
“It flew in from outside the window.” Xiao Xiao washed her hands, picked up a fried dough stick and frowned, “Don’t buy such greasy breakfast next ti… Too much oil affects a wizard’s brain.”
“You’re a real chatterbox.” Zheng Qing rolled his eyes and picked up the letter from beneath the vase.
It was a white envelope.
There was no sender’s na or address, no recipient’s na or address, no postmark, no zip code, and the flap of the envelope wasn’t even sealed.
“How do you know this is for ?” Zheng Qing waved the plain envelope, looking puzzled.
“It flew straight to the front of your six-pillar bed.
I had to whip it for quite a while before it obediently lay on the floor.” Xiao Xiao sipped her soy milk and slowly chewed the fried dough stick calmly, “If you hadn’t lowered the curtains before you left, I guess this letter would now be lying on your pillow.”
Zheng Qing shrugged, refusing to comnt on this purely wizardly perspective.
Because the envelope wasn’t sealed, when Zheng Qing shook it slightly, a white card fell out.
“Don’t move!” Xiao Xiao yelled, stopping Zheng Qing from picking up the card.
Zheng Qing looked at her, puzzled.
Xiao Xiao didn’t explain.
She just took out a pair of tweezers from her tool box, picked up the card, pushed up her glasses and examined it carefully.
“This is a school…” Zheng Qing muttered, “Aren’t you being too cautious?”
“Don’t touch anything you’re unsure of, it’s common knowledge in the wizarding world!
Because they may likely belong to black magic items.” Xiao Xiao warned, looking at him.
She looked closely at the card and imdiately made a disgusted face, “Even in school, you are receiving such items.
I can only imagine how hated you must be.”
“What’s that?” Zheng Qing made a stern face and leaned over too, ignoring the sarcasm from Waterlon Head.
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