Ch 174: Aren’t they our own people?

Waking up from an afternoon nap, Ya Ya found herself alone in the dormitory. The moment she didn’t see Xiao Luo Bu return, she knew he had likely broken another appointment.

After changing her clothes and preparing to eat before going to the infirmary to find him, she opened the door and saw a notice posted on the wall: A curfew will be strictly enforced from now on, and solo outings are prohibited.

She has Ya Ya, so it shouldn’t count as a solo outing, right?

The Old Soldier warned her with a red card that it did count.

Great, she was destined to go hungry until one of her roommates returned.

She searched high and low but didn’t find any food in the dormitory. The Bear Bear biscuits she and Wu La La had made together were finished yesterday.

After much deliberation, she opened a package of duck snacks.

“I’m sorry, Ya Ya, I’m really too hungry.”

Pushing away Ya Ya, who thought she was being fed and had approached, she stuffed the duck snack into her mouth under those small, incredulous eyes.

Then she expressionlessly spat it into the trash can.

Suddenly, she didn’t feel that hungry anymore.

She found some pebbles from her hometown—she had brought them when she came to Meng Academy, feeling deeply reluctant to leave home, so she had carried all the pebbles her father had collected over the years.

With her mother’s strong support, her pebble-moving plan had gone very smoothly.

Back then, she liked to go home during every vacation.

Later, she found that traveling to various planets in the universe during vacation was much more fun than staying at home, and since eight out of ten times her parents didn’t even know where she had gone, she hadn’t gone back much.

Now, this pile of pebbles, useless whether kept at home or piled in the dormitory, finally had its use.

She poked her head out and threw one pebble downstairs, hitting the wall perfectly.

There was no reaction from downstairs.

Okay, it seems Wu La La and Wu Ke Na Na weren’t in the dormitory.

After much hesitation, she threw another one at the next-door dormitory. The pebble hit the window and fell down, and there was no reaction from next door either.

It seems Rui Rui and the others weren’t in the dormitory either.

She was destined to have to wait for Ba Rui Si and the others to return before she could fill her stomach.

Feeling utterly disheartened, she was about to close the window when she heard a noise from downstairs in the next-door dormitory.

A head poked out, looking outwards and upwards. Ya Ya waved frantically: “Classmate! Classmate! Do you have any food?”

The head retracted.

After a while, Ya Ya saw a bag of bread and several bags of biscuits.

“Great, Ya Ya, we don’t have to go hungry!”

She pulled Ya Ya out of the opened bag of duck snacks and then placed it on the windowsill and gave it a push: “Fly down and bring the food up before you can eat snacks!”

“Ga—”

She hadn’t eaten anything yet! As her duck, how could it only care about filling its own stomach?!

Sure enough, watching Ya Ya clumsily fly down, she thought, it really should lose some weight.

That couldn’t be called flying; it was more like flapping.

After flapping back and forth twice, on the third trip, Ya Ya couldn’t fly anymore downstairs.

Oh, Ya Ya recalled that the last time it had exercised this much was several years ago.

“Classmate! Classmate! Can you help me look after my duck? Or you can put it in the next-door dormitory. ” She didn’t know if Wu La La had closed the window, it didn’t matter if it was closed, as long as it wasn’t locked, Ya Ya could open it.

After she finished speaking, the duck downstairs was immediately dragged inside, leaving only the echo of a duck’s call in the air.

“That classmate is so kind, which class are they from?”

She seemed to have seen them somewhere, but she couldn’t quite remember.

It wasn’t until the next day that Ya Ya remembered she still had a duck in someone else’s care.

She had rarely been separated from Ya Ya since childhood, and although they had only been separated for a short while, she didn’t really miss it that much.

Because of the curfew, she went with Xiao Luo Bu to knock on the door, waiting a long time before the door slowly opened. The lights were off inside, and she didn’t know what kind of curtains were hung up, but they were completely opaque. Ya Ya could tell that this was the kind classmate who had saved her life yesterday.

“Oh, it’s you.”

—A warm voice came from beside her.

It seems her dear roommate knew them too.

Speaking of which, is there anyone in this school that Xiao Luo Bu doesn’t know?

Yu Feng nodded politely, returned to the room, and brought out a pillow. Ya Ya was still fast asleep on the pillow.

It seems that being in a strange environment didn’t bother it at all.

Ya Ya even felt that it had gained another layer of fat in less than a day.

Lose weight!

Starting today, cut down on duck snacks and halve the meals. It absolutely must lose weight!

The sleeping duck was completely unaware of its miserable fate for a long time to come.

If it had known earlier that just taking a nap would bring such a huge predicament to its duck life, it would have definitely… definitely tried to open its Doudou eyes when it felt its nest being moved.

…

“Will Principal Ous really come to steal the key?” After finishing her key-watching shift and returning to the dormitory, as soon as Wu La La finished this sentence, she saw something fly in through the window.

Opening the window, it was a familiar duck.

“Isn’t this Ya Ya’s duck?” Wu Ke Na Na glanced out the window and didn’t see anyone. It seemed that the duck had flown in by itself.

The duck that flew in went straight towards Wu La La. For the first time, she saw a bit of a raptor’s demeanor in this overweight duck.

The raptor snatched the biscuit that Wu La La had just taken out to feed Xiong Xiong.

“How hungry are you?” She crouched down and touched the duck’s head. The duck just shook slightly, indicating that it didn’t want to be touched, and then concentrated on eating the biscuit.

It really looked starved.

Jian Ni and Mi Ya Xing were next to watch the key.

Because Mother Maria didn’t have anything else to do, Jian Ni’s mood became surprisingly good—except when facing Situ Lang.

He further believed that Elder Ous would not come to steal this key, which didn’t seem particularly special.

“Mi Ya Xing, you’ve been looking at that key for half a day. What’s wrong? Is it fake?” Ever since he had determined that Situ Lang had kidnapped Maria, Jian Ni found everything about Situ Lang irritating.

“It’s a good thing I’m here. Let me tell you, last night Eric wouldn’t even let me look at it for a few seconds!” Mi Ya Xing shifted his gaze from the key, clearly tattling.

“That’s because he was worried you’d accidentally break the key.”

Jian Ni: … He almost forgot that Mi Ya Xing and Eric were best friends.

Damn it, who doesn’t have a best friend? If Lan Bao were here, he would definitely speak up for him.

Yes, let’s chat with Lan Bao when we’re bored tonight!

He reached into his pocket, but found it empty.

There was no mirror, nor a single coin.

Oh, yes, Ou Pa took the mirror.

As for why his pocket was empty… it was a memory he really didn’t want to recall.

“After looking at it for so long, Mi Ya Xing, have you noticed anything?”

“I’ve been thinking…”

He was thinking about what he had read from the box when he received it from Situ Lang.

Situ Lang was very excited.

Why was he excited?

Just as he was about to say something, a gust of wind blew so hard that he couldn’t open his eyes.

“Elder Ous?”

He looked at the key clasped tightly in his hand, and then at Ousgaida, who had come to snatch the key as Situ Lang had said.

“No time to explain, Mi Ya Xing, give me the key!”

Jian Ni looked back and forth, quietly asking Mi Ya Xing, “If he comes to snatch it, should we pretend to struggle, or just give it to him?”

Mi Ya Xing: …

He put the key away.

“I’m sorry, Elder Ous, we can’t give you the key.”

Jian Ni: “Hey, we can’t? Isn’t he a good guy?”