novelraw Chapter 305 - 186: Cars of Fox Mountain, Meeting on the Mountain (Part 2)
Chapter 305 - 186: Cars of Fox Mountain, Meeting on the Mountain (Part 2)
"But it’s so beautiful!
"Look at the trees on both sides of the stone steps, and the red leaves filling the trees and covering the road!
"The saying ’Stop to admire the maple forest at dusk’ captures this very mood."
After speaking, before the students could react, he himself burst into a mischievous laugh.
Bai Mo, dressed in black sportswear, followed in the student group, listening to Teacher Chen’s tour guide narration along the way.
The autumn wind in the mountains was already quite chilly, and he instinctively tightened his collar.
Looking at Black Nose perched on his shoulder, just about to ask if it felt cold, he saw this fellow with bright red fur, shimmering and glossy. At this moment, it was sniffing the aroma of barbecue carried by the wind, nose held high, eyes all squinted.
Seeing his master’s gaze, it paused for a moment.
"Wooo?"
Is Master cold?
It immediately curled its big tail around its master’s neck, serving as a scarf.
Bai Mo grinned.
"Not necessary, really.
"Wait until it snows and then help me with the scarf."
...
This time, the entire Immortal Grass Experimental Class showed up.
Wu Qingyun still had a dazed expression, following beside Bai Mo.
Yang Zhan walked alongside a few female classmates from the class, occasionally whispering and making them laugh hard.
The group came to a wishing wall, where rows and chains of various sizes of prayer wooden plaques were hung.
Some wished not to fail at the end of the term, some wished for everlasting love, some wished for success in the exams, and some wished for a happy marriage.
Teacher Chen came to this wishing wall, filled with sentiment.
"Actually, back then, I made a wish here with my junior!
"The wish at that time was for both of us to become great mathematicians and leave our names in academic history.
"Looking at it today, our wishes were all in vain.
"He abandoned mathematics.
"And mathematics abandoned me."
Seeing Teacher Chen so full of emotion, Lan Fangfang quickly supported him.
"Teacher, aren’t you still working in mathematics? How could you say you were abandoned?"
Teacher Chen gave a bitter smile.
"With my meager talent, at most, I’m just a research laborer adding water to the literature database. In my lifetime, I’ll never produce any real results; isn’t that being abandoned by mathematics?
"Hahaha!
"If I want to leave a name in academic history, I can only rely on you.
"If any of you become great mathematicians in the future, perhaps in your biographies, the name Chen Wenquan will appear.
"Ah... no!
"You are all from the Immortal Grass Experimental Class; mathematics is just a basic subject in freshman year, and you won’t specialize in it later.
"Damn, my beautiful dream just started and already shattered."
The group burst into laughter, the atmosphere lively and warm.
Some students went to buy prayer wooden plaques, wrote something down, and hung them up.
Others crowded in to see others’ wishes.
Teacher Chen, meanwhile, searched the wishing wall, looking for the plaque he and his junior left back then.
...
Among the red leaves covering the mountains, in the cool autumn air.
A field in the mountains, a row of concrete stoves, smoke and fragrance of barbecue rising.
Groups of tourists could be seen, enjoying barbecuing amidst laughter.
The Immortal Grass Experimental Class, over thirty people, also rented six barbecue stoves, dividing into small groups to grill, chat, and eat.
Bai Mo, together with Wu Qingyun, Wan Bocheng, Lan Fangfang, and two other classmates, formed a group and sat around the barbecue stove.
At the moment, these few people looked like they had seen a ghost, watching Black Nose’s skewer cooking performance!
They saw this Immortal Beast Fox, standing in front of the grill, filling it with skewers of beef, lamb, meatballs, tofu, and gluten, occasionally flipping this one or that one, sometimes sprinkling sesame seeds, sometimes cumin...
"So professional!"
"Oh my, is this Immortal Beast a professional chef?"
Black Nose raised its head and gave Wan Bocheng a sidelong glance.
Of course, it’s professional!
It is the head chef of the Fox Mountain kitchen, cooking daily for ten thousand senior and junior brothers!
How did Master’s classmate figure that out?
Black Nose continued its performance, and the classmates continued to exclaim.
"Look, it really understands the timing, it takes the perfect timing to eat into its own mouth, doesn’t it?"
"Look, it’s grilling golden lamb skewers, perfectly timed, and it ate them itself!"
"Look, it cooked golden chicken wings, sizzling with oil, the Maillard reaction, sprinkled lots of sesame and cumin, all clinging to the surface, and fed it to Bai Mo!"
"Wait a minute... isn’t something not right here?"
Wan Bocheng and others suddenly furrowed their brows.
This Immortal Beast certainly is professional; the skewers cooked are excellent.
But...
It grilled one skewer and ate a skewer itself, then gave Bai Mo a skewer.
Then grilled a skewer, ate a skewer itself, and gave Bai Mo another skewer...
Both it and Bai Mo were eating with mouths full of oil.
The others in the same group didn’t even get a sesame seed, just surrounded by the smoke and aroma!
Bai Mo also realized something was off and patted his disciple’s head.
"Uh... um... share some with everyone too!"
...
With laughter in the air, Wan Bocheng wiped the sesame seeds from his mouth, smacking his lips, savoring the skewers cooked by the Immortal Beast.
"So delicious, hehe."
He took out several bottles of Lemon Tea from his backpack and handed one to each classmate.
Seeing the Immortal Beast stretch its paw towards him too, he smiled and handed a bottle to the Immortal Beast.
"Hey? Where did Teacher Chen go?"
With this question, the students realized that Teacher Chen was really not there?
Bai Mo looked around at the nearby barbecue groups but didn’t see Teacher Chen.
"Where’d he go?"
Just then, Black Nose suddenly pointed its paw towards the opposite mountain!
"Arf!"
Bai Mo directed his gaze over there and suddenly understood.
A mountain gully apart, across the mountains on the other side, among the dense green trees, the narrow stone steps, they could see Teacher Chen climbing alone.
"Does he really like climbing mountains that much?"
A classmate from the neighboring group explained.
"Teacher Chen said there are memories on that mountain; he wants to go alone to savor and commemorate them."
Oh?
Old Chen is quite poetic, no?
Bai Mo understood.
But his Spiritual Sense was triggered, and he felt that it didn’t seem safe over there at Teacher Chen’s, something might happen?
Looking at Teacher Chen on the opposite mountain, he stopped at a fork in the path.
His eyes, enhanced by Bright Eyes Soup, suddenly dilated, and his gaze spanned hundreds of meters to Teacher Chen’s side.
His ears, enhanced by Ear-Enlightening Soup, trembled slightly, like small radars, receiving the faint sound waves from Teacher Chen’s side.
Huh?
There really is something up?
He found a hidden figure in the bushes beside Teacher Chen.
Is it... Zhang Qiren’s junior, that Tie Ta guy?
Teacher Chen held a prayer wooden plaque, trembling slightly, voice somewhat shaky, seemingly frightened by Tie Ta.
"Are you a friend of Zhang Qiren? Why write a fake plaque with his name to lure me here?"
Tie Ta smiled.
"Hello, Professor Chen.
"Zhang Qiren is my boss; I am his junior.
"You are his most trusted senior brother, so that makes you my brother too.
"He wants to lead our entire team to join the Committee, and we want to ask you to bridge the gap!"
With the topic opened up, both Old Chen and Bai Mo on the opposite mountain relaxed.
So they just want someone to connect and bridge? That’s completely understandable.
In these days, joining forces is also a technical job.
If Zhang Qiren went directly to the Committee headquarters, that wouldn’t be joining forces; that’d be surrendering. He’d become fish on the chopping board, becoming a prisoner.
But through this relationship with Chen Wenquan, connecting and pulling strings, negotiating conditions and benefits beforehand, life would be much better after joining forces.
Chen Wenquan and Tie Ta were chatting on a secluded mountain path, completely relaxed.
"Qiren these years... sigh. Let’s cut the nonsense.
"If we talk about joining forces, what can Qiren bring?
"State his capital and demands, and I’ll help him negotiate with the Committee first."
Tie Ta honestly relayed Zhang Qiren’s words.
"Our boss mentioned that he is researching something about the Dream Origin, with substantial confidence in discovering a huge secret concerning dreams.
"This is the first bargaining chip.
"Our boss also stated that he can contact that boss behind the scenes in West State City!
"Unlike Su Yaoyao’s uncertain contact, his connection is real and stable!"