Chapter 934
The Ghost and the Old-Fashioned Scholar
Chapter 934 The Ghost and the Old-Fashioned Scholar (5)
Wen Yanci only evaded the situation for a short while before hurriedly returning to the kitchen under the glow of the setting sun.
Smoke was already rising from the kitchen, and he saw Shen Shuyi and cornmeal.
"Miss Shen, let me do it."
Shen Shuyi moved quickly, pouring the chopped scallions into the cornmeal and stirring. She glanced up at Wen Yanci.
"This is your way of repaying me for lending me your yang energy."
The heat that had just subsided in Wen Yanci's ears returned, and he quickly went to the stove to start a fire.
Shen Shuyi heated the pan, added oil, and started making wild scallion and corn pancakes, releasing a rich aroma.
She was really not used to being a ghost at first, and kept thinking about food, but ghosts can't eat human food.
Now that she has a physical place, she has to have a good meal, but unfortunately, the ingredients are limited.
There wasn't even an egg!
It's all that bookworm's fault. He could have made money by pawning the bracelet.
They insisted on setting up a stall to earn those few coins.
Wen Yanci was peacefully starting a fire when he suddenly felt a resentful gaze upon him.
He subconsciously looked up and met the female ghost glaring at him.
"Miss Shen, do you still remember that you can cook?"
Shen Shuyi nodded. "Yes, maybe I'm not some rich young lady, just a maid in a wealthy family, the kind who works in the kitchen."
She cooked another small pot of brown rice porridge, blanched and chopped wild vegetables, mixed them with oil and salt, and ate them with the brown rice porridge. It was really not delicious.
So she only ate a small bowl and half a corn tortilla, then stopped eating.
Anyway, she won't feel hungry when she's a ghost.
Shen Shuyi rested her chin on her hand, watching Wen Yanci eat so politely, yet he finished every last drop of his food.
She asked with a smile, "Is it delicious?"
Wen Yanci nodded honestly, "Mm."
It tastes so much better than what he makes.
He never imagined that such simple and unassuming ingredients could be made so delicious.
"Do you still want to eat?"
Seeing his sallow and thin appearance, and his hesitant manner when he wanted to eat, Shen Shuyi deliberately said...
"Give me another kiss next time, and I'll cook you something to eat."
Wen Yanci quickly got up to clear the dishes and wash them, saying, "I'm going to study now."
The next morning, when Shen Shuyi woke up from the hairpin, she found herself on the street.
The sun was too bright for her, as a ghost, to appear.
Wen Yanci was completely absorbed in writing letters home for people. He would earn one to five coins for a short, ordinary letter, and five to ten coins for a slightly longer one.
A penny could buy two steamed buns, so not many people came to him to write letters home. He barely earned enough for food each day.
Fortunately, accommodation was free; otherwise, he would probably have been starving before the provincial examination.
Shen Shuyi asked curiously, "Wen Yanci, didn't someone invite you to be a retainer? They offered you room and board, why didn't you go?"
At this time, no one came to ask him to write letters, so Wen Yanci sat under the shade of a tree and studied.
"I am not good with words and I am afraid that I will not be a good retainer."
Shen Shuyi guessed, "Are you afraid of owing people favors?"
She rested her chin on her hand and said, "It's really hard to repay favors."
Wen Yanci tacitly agreed.
Shen Shuyi saw that he was continuing to study, so she didn't disturb him and went back to the hairpin to avoid the sun.
As the sun set, Wen Yanci finished writing a letter to the last person and prepared to pack up and leave.
Suddenly, a steward and several servants surrounded his stall.
"Young Master Wen, there's a problem with the painting you fixed for our young master yesterday!"
"Go with them." Seeing this, the surrounding vendors hurriedly packed up their things and ran away, only daring to complain a few times after they were far away.
"Those are servants of the Fan family. What did that scholar do to offend Young Master Fan?"
"Oh my, judging by that, are they going to beat him up?"
"That scholar is so thin and weak. If he gets crippled, his life will be over."
When Shen Shuyi woke up, she saw a dimly lit woodshed. If it weren't for the moonlight shining in through the window, it would have been pitch black.
She floated out from the hairpin and saw Wen Yanci standing by the window, looking like he was trying to find a way to escape through the window.
"This is where?"
By the moonlight, she saw the injuries on Wen Yanci's face and frowned. "Who beat you up like this?"
It's terrible. She was already thin, and now she has a bruised and swollen face.
This was the most miserable man she had ever tried to seduce.
Which scholar has ended up like this?
Shen Shuyi suspected that Wen Yanci had offended some deity in heaven.
Wen Yanci turned away to avoid her gaze, "Miss Shen, I'm fine."
"You're injured like this and you're still okay?!"
Shen Shuyi simply couldn't communicate with this idiot, so she had no choice but to ask the system.
"66, what exactly happened to Wen Yanci while I was in hibernation?"
[Host, he has been imprisoned by a wealthy merchant surnamed Fan. The reason is simple: he refused an invitation to become a retainer in the Fan family's household. The Fan family's son is a notorious playboy in the city, and Wen Yanci's actions have offended them, so the Fan family is looking for a way to punish Wen Yanci.]
Wen Yanci had no power or influence and was a poor scholar. Fan Jian had his servants ask Wen Yanci to repair a painting, but then said the painting wasn't repaired properly. He forcibly "invited" Wen Yanci to his mansion, beat him up, and locked him in the woodshed.
Shen Shuyi walked to Wen Yanci's side and asked, "Do you want to go out?"
Wen Yanci was taken aback. "It's locked from the outside. How can we get out?"
Perhaps someone will still be guarding it.
Shen Shuyi snorted, "Of course I can drive it, it just depends on whether you want to or not."
"I naturally want to leave." Wen Yanci was a scholar and did not want to succumb to the threats of evil people and do things against his conscience.
He cannot stay because the Fan family used such despicable means.
Shen Shuyi floated up to him, her eyes crinkling, "Give me a kiss, it's that simple."
Wen Yanci's ears burned. "Miss Shen, men and women should not touch each other."
"Oh, then I can't help you. Although I'm a ghost and can float out, I can't open the door lock without a physical body." Shen Shuyi looked helpless.
Shen Shuyi knew he was stubborn, so after a while she had no choice but to speak.
"Wen Yanci, we've already kissed, what's the difference between one kiss and two?"
"Miss Shen, I cannot tarnish your reputation."
"I've become a ghost, and you're still thinking about me getting married. Wen Yanci, if you want what's best for me, kiss me. I want a physical body, I want to live like a human being."
"If I can be a human, of course I don't want to be a ghost!"
Wen Yanci's ears turned red again.
He had spent the whole day writing letters and then got beaten up by the Fan family. Now he was hungry and in pain, so he sat down against the corner of the wall.
Shen Shuyi floated in front of him and sat directly on his lap, startling Wen Yanci so much that he tried to stand up, but he was too weak and fell back down.
"Wen Yanci, I'm a ghost now, I have no weight, and I didn't sit on you and hurt you."
So don't move.
Wen Yanci didn't feel any weight at all; the pretty little girl in front of him was a ghost, an illusion.
"Miss Shen, please get up and we can talk about it later."
Shen Shuyi snorted, "I can't reason with you."
"Let's just kiss."
"Wen Yanci, I'm going to start kissing you!"
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