Chapter 125 - She"s a Bit of a Tiger
"He wants to meet you, but I told him I"d have to ask you about it first." Huaijun said. "I don"t know what kind of mission you"re on right now, after all, and I don"t wanna meddle in your business too much. You don"t have to meet him if you can"t."
"Mission……" Lin Yi scratched at his nose a little as he smiled bitterly. "I don"t know what this mission even is, to be honest with you…… I"ll meet him- he"s your saviour, isn"t he? Of course I"ll meet him."
"Ah? You don"t have to force it……" Huaijun was touched- Lin Yi wasn"t someone who"d meddle with other people"s business, and he was sure that Lin Yi wouldn"t be bothered to meet some random stranger if it weren"t for Huaijun"s involvement.
"There"s nothing to force…...I"m really free anyway." Lin Yi said with a smile. "I"ll also have an easier time in Songshan if I have a criminal police captain backing me up, right?"
"Alright then. You set the time." Huaijun said without any bulls.h.i.tting- his friendship with Lin Yi was well past the point of them having to waste their breath on thanks with each other.
"Tomorrow then? Tell w.a.n.g Zhifeng that you need me for a written statement at the police station tomorrow, and I"ll be able to get out nicely. I don"t wanna skip cla.s.s if possible……" Lin Yi said as he pointed in the door"s direction.
"Kay. I"ll communicate that to him later." Huaijun said with a nod- it wasn"t anything much.
"Ah, I forgot to give you the medicine I made. I"ll give it to you later- your body will lose a lot of tension after you finish the first stage treatment. I"ll make the second stage medicine for you later, and you"ll be back to normal in about three months." Lin Yi said.
"Three months?" Huaijun asked, completely stunned as he stared at Lin Yi.
"Well, it can be two months if it goes well." Lin Yi said, mistaking Huaijun"s tone and thinking that three months was too long for him. "Eastern medicine soup isn"t known for being delicious, but you"ll have to endure it for two months for your body to recover……"
"Are you joking, Lin Yi? I"ll be back to normal in just two months?" Huaijun was getting a little excited. "Are you serious? The doctor said it"ll be a great fortune if my condition doesn"t worsen, and you"re telling me I can recover from this?"
"Ugh…… So it"s not about the bitterness in the medicine?" Lin Yi smiled. "What, don"t trust me?"
"Of course I do! I trust you, but it"s just- it"s so shocking!" Huaijun said, utterly trusting of Lin Yi"s words despite his surprise. They"d manage to get out of many tough situations back on the battlefields with just Lin Yi"s accurate judgements alone, even making a comeback against an enemy or two when they were being chased down. Lin Yi"s words, as a result, held absolute reign in the team, his orders always carried out without any hesitation in the slightest. "You…… Bitterness in the soup? I don"t even feel bullets when they hit me, you think I"ll be afraid of some bitterness in the soup? Mocking me……"
"Heh…… Don"t be too sure, I"ve seen the most fearless of people cower before a syringe or bitter medicine……" Lin Yi laughed. "Come to the cla.s.sroom with me later, I"ll give it to you."
"Captain, you"re really-!" Huaijun had no words for the joy inside him- he"d prepared for the worst, living each day as if it were his last, waiting for the painkillers and ma.s.saging to lose their effect one day…… He didn"t expect Lin Yi to be able to cure him completely!
Huaijun still found it hard to suppress his stunned joy, even if he did treat Lin Yi as a G.o.dly existence in the team. Lin Yi was young, and he should be somewhere around seven or eight years younger than him, close to Yi"s age- yet the guy was so unbelievably resourceful!! He knew his way around everything, and Huaijun couldn"t help but wonder where Lin Yi learned all that knowledge from.
"Honestly though, I kinda miss the days in the warzones……" Lin Yi said, lamenting upon hearing Huaijun call him "captain".
"Yeah, and Yi-" Huaijun cut his sentence off abruptly as he noticed Lin Yi"s face change at the name……
"Let"s not talk about that……" Lin Yi sighed. "What"s past is past."
"But…… Yi"s still looking for you, and I……" Huaijun felt bad for Yi, but it was no wish of his to go against his captain"s intentions……
"Then tell her that Eagle"s dead." Lin Yi said faintly, a hint of sadness in his eyes. Indeed- he"d been given a new ident.i.ty, and a new mission. It was a reincarnation, a new life that"d end again as the mission was completed.
"But……" Huaijun was just about to say something else when Lin Yi interrupted him.
"Just tell her that the next time you see her." Lin Yi said. "Let"s not lead her on, yeah? You know how it is with people like us, there"s no telling when we"ll die on a mission one day…… You don"t want her to be waiting for me forever, do you?"
Huaijun only lowered his head, helpless- Lin Yi was right: their lives were far more dangerous than the police job he had right now. Lin Yi was an asura, something like a G.o.dly ent.i.ty- but who was to say that even a G.o.d of war would live forever?
"Then you and Song……" Huaijun said, suddenly remembering how intimate the two were rumored to be.
"I"ve nothing to do with her- do you believe me?" Lin Yi smiled bitterly, not expecting the news from the hospital to reach even Huaijun"s ears. Rumors spread like wildfire, it seemed.
"Alright, I"ll believe you." Huaijun nodded. "Though, if we look at the two of you from an occupational perspective- you guys would make quite an item, honestly. That girl always charges to the front, always throwing herself into the most dangerous of situations whenever possible……"
"Haha, yeah, I could tell- she"s a bit of a tiger, isn"t she." Lin Yi laughed. "She"s cute, too; maybe you could consider her."
"Age gap"s too much. She treats me like an elder brother, it"s not very appropriate for me to be thinking of stuff like that about her, right?" Huaijun said with a laugh. "And it"s not like you don"t know- I"m not the one who gets to decide who I marry. My family has their own agenda and stuff, always thinking about the bigger picture…… I"m guessing they"ll arrange a partner for me the year after the next."
"Well, let"s go then. I"ll get you the medicine." Lin Yi said, standing up and making his way to the door.
w.a.n.g Zhifeng had been waiting at the hallway quietly, walking to Lin Yi with quick steps upon seeing the door open. "Well, Captain Yang? Is everything good?"
"Everything"s fine, Lin Yi was just acting in self defense. He"ll have to come to the station tomorrow for a written statement, and we"ll be done." Huaijun nodded. "I"m headed to Lin Yi"s cla.s.sroom with him for some materials, you don"t have to worry about anything at all, Mr. w.a.n.g."
"Oh…… I see, that"s good news." Zhifeng said as he relaxed a little.
Chapter 126 - Getting Out of Trouble
Huaijun sighed as he looked at his student-looking captain- his G.o.d looked more like a twelfth grader than a war leader right now.
"Three times a day, once each in the morning, afternoon, and night. You"ll be able to drink it after microwaving the soup, but you don"t really have to. Not too many rules or regulations, but just refrain from drinking any alcohol." Lin Yi said as he handed a bag of Eastern medicine to Huaijun. There were only two cla.s.smates on duty, cleaning the cla.s.sroom without paying attention to what Lin Yi came back to the room for.
"I haven"t drank any for so long- this body wouldn"t be able to take it." Huaijun said with a bitter smile. "These should be enough for a week right?"
"Yeah, it"s a week"s worth." Lin Yi nodded. "I"ll make more based on how well your body recovers after the first week."
"Alright, I"ll get going then. I"ll fetch you tomorrow, where do we meet? At school?" Huaijun asked.
"Tomorrow morning at the school gates then. Don"t park too close." Lin Yi said after some thought. "Call me."
Lin Yi then turned to walk to the bathroom after Huaijun had left. He was about to go pee when Zhifeng stopped him.
Lin Yi was walking past cla.s.s nine when he caught a glimpse of Tang Yin, probably on duty. She hid herself after seeing Lin Yi.
Lin Yi smiled a bitter smile- the girl wasn"t thinking that he"d come to her cla.s.s to look at her, did she..? Why was she hiding? Lin Yi only smiled at her as he walked by. "I"m going to the bathroom."
"Hah?" Tang Yin blinked as she watched Lin Yi walk away, stomping her foot angrily after he"d left. What did he think he was doing, telling her he was going to the bathroom? The a.s.shole must be teasing her again……
She really wanted to dump a bucket of dirty water on his head, but it seemed to be too over the top…… Doing pettier things, like stepping on Lin Yi"s shoes, for example, was still within a reasonable range, and Tang Yin had no trouble puffing her chest up for stuff like that. Lin Yi was a young master of a rich house, after all- she didn"t want to force him out of that well-mannered facade too abruptly, she wouldn"t be able to handle the things he"d do to her.
Tang Yin waited until Lin Yi disappeared into the bathroom completely before she sneakily dumped the dirty bucket water away in the girl"s washroom. She filled the bucket up with clean water, and hastily ran back to her cla.s.sroom.
She had just started running when she crashed into someone, accidentally splashing the bucket of water on him. "Ah……"
Tang Yin only lowered her head in utter shock as she saw who the person was. "Mr. w.a.n.g……"
"You- do you not know how to walk properly?" Zhifeng couldn"t believe this! He had wanted to check up on Lin Yi- he wasn"t in a good position to be asking too many questions when Huaijun was still around, and he wanted to make sure everything was fine with Lin Yi…… When out of nowhere a bucket of water splashed all over him.
"I"m sorry, Mr. w.a.n.g……" She"d gotten herself into trouble she couldn"t handle! She was always the type that avoided conflict, always sticking to her studies- it was a first for her to mess up this bad. Getting a bucket of water on the dean was no small matter, and Tang Yin"s excuse of not looking where she was going didn"t sound like a great one as well……
"You think it"s over with just an apology? Which cla.s.s are you in?" Zhifeng wiped at his face, sighing in relief upon realizing that it was clean water- it"d be a different level of humiliation if it were dirty.
"I"m f-from twelfth grade"s cla.s.s nine……" Tang Yin said, her head still lowered as she told the truth. She was right in front of cla.s.s nine, anyway- lying wouldn"t do her any good here.
"Go back and write an apology note, and go read it out in the broadcasting room!" Zhifeng didn"t care if it was intentional or not- his place in the school was at stake here. He needed the girl to make a statement, at least- he couldn"t have students just dumping water on him!
"The broadcasting room……" Tang Yin"s heart froze as she heard the words- it was a place bad students went for apologies…… She"d never expected it to be her turn today! Tang Yin couldn"t help but feel a little wronged- she wouldn"t have been running at all if it weren"t for Lin Yi! Yet there was no way she could explain something like that to the dean, and it was a fact that her clumsiness was at fault here…… But broadcasting an apology…… It was simply too much for an honor student like Tang Yin!
She"d never gotten in so much trouble that she"d received a punishment like that, and Tang Yin"s eyes teared up at the thought…… To have a girl broadcast an apology like that…… It was too much……
"Ah, Mr. w.a.n.g! Just showered? You look a lot younger with that hairstyle!" Lin Yi said, having witnessed the entire scene of Tang Yin splashing the water on the dean. He couldn"t help but chuckle to himself- wasn"t this girl way too clumsy? Lin Yi, however, hadn"t planned on intervening even when the dean started giving Tang Yin a scolding- he found it to be quite well-deserved, since the girl was always finding ways to mess with him.
But Lin Yi couldn"t bear watching Tang Yin tear up like that, and decided to help her out a bit.
"Ah? Ugh……" Zhifeng didn"t expect to meet Lin Yi here. He didn"t know if Lin Yi was serious about the hair, but he"d rather not tell him about what Tang Yin had done to him…… He decided to go along with it, nodding in agreement. "It"s pretty hot these days- nice to freshen up with a shower once in a while."
"Oh.. I thought you"ve been doing some "exercises", haha." Lin Yi said with a smile.
"Ha…… the kids on exercise break got me in the mood for a couple of jumping jacks……" Zhifeng"s started sweating as he looked at that evil smile on Lin Yi"s lips- the kid wasn"t playing around! He really did know everything!!
"Oh……" Lin Yi nodded, suddenly turning his head to Tang Yin. "Eh? Tang Yin, there you are…… Don"t wait up- go back to cla.s.s first, I have something I need to say to Mr. w.a.n.g."
"Ah?" Tang Yin wasn"t expecting Lin Yi to be this close with the dean that they"d start chatting just like that! Although, the guy was a young master- of course the dean would give him some face with Lin Yi"s family backing him up…… Tang Yin had also understood by now that Lin Yi was here to get her out of trouble. She couldn"t help but feel bitter at the notion- an honor student was nothing compared to a young master…… She looked at Lin Yi, and turned to w.a.n.g Zhifeng……
Zhifeng didn"t think that Lin Yi would know the girl who"d dumped a bucket over him, but he understood immediately when Tang Yin raised her head up- it was the school beauty, and Zhifeng could only smile a bitter smile…… So Lin Yi had something going with the girl- that was why he was hinting at him to let her off the hook!
Zhifeng was no idiot. Lin Yi had made his intentions quite clear, and even set things up so that he"d be able to let the girl go without any humiliation…… Lin Yi might very well tell other people about his "exercises" if he went against Lin Yi"s wishes. Zhifeng only smiled as he turned to Tang Yin. "Well, off with you, girl- I have something to discuss with Lin Yi as well. I"ll let him get back to you in a bit!"