Chapter 29: Twenty-Nine p2
University A, First Cafeteria.
Chu Qingzi, who was in line at the clay pot window, took a picture and sent it to Yu Jiang.
【Baby, I’m at the cafeteria. I’ll be back after I buy the clay pot.】
【AAA Baby (heart): Did you bring your earbuds today?】
【I did. Do you want to call me, baby?】
【AAA Baby (heart): It’s okay. Just call me when you’re leaving the school.】
A few minutes later, Yu Jiang answered the phone.
She glanced at the time. “You’re out of the school so soon?”
“I just left the cafeteria. I was afraid you’d be anxious, so I called you first.”
Yu Jiang got straight to the point. “That psycho is making me do a task again.”
Chu Qingzi was clearly also shocked by the nameless pervert’s behavior. “Is that person in a bad mood? It’s only been a few hours, and she’s making you do a task again?”
Yu Jiang was direct and crisp. “She’s sick in the head.”
As for the bug with the virus, she thought about it and decided it wasn’t necessary to tell Chu Qingzi.
After that curse, Yu Jiang brought the topic back.
“That psycho wants us to kiss again.”
Chu Qingzi pressed, “Is it a photo or a video?”
Yu Jiang, who had been calm just now, became a little embarrassed when she asked so specifically.
She said in a low voice, “The… the latter.”
Chu Qingzi on the other end didn’t seem to hear clearly. After Yu Jiang had spoken, she didn’t reply for a long time.
Yu Jiang had no choice but to endure the shyness and repeat in a louder voice, “She wants us to film a video.”
Chu Qingzi’s answer was completely different from what Yu Jiang had imagined.
She didn’t agree directly, but instead apologized to her with a slightly hesitant tone.
“I’m sorry, baby.”
Hearing her refuse, Yu Jiang’s heart was in a mess.
She knew that Chu Qingzi would probably lose interest in this kind of thing soon, but she hadn’t expected her novelty to wear off so quickly.
It wasn’t that she was disappointed at being rejected, but if she couldn’t complete this task with Chu Qingzi, then she would have to give her underwear…
Yu Jiang, whose mind was occupied by this fear, was so anxious that she couldn’t care about anything else and took the initiative to plead in a soft voice, “Qingzi, please, just do it with me this one more time, okay? I promise, just this once—”
“Baby, what are you talking about? What one time?” Chu Qingzi interrupted her in surprise.
Yu Jiang had a gut feeling that she might have misunderstood something.
She composed herself and calmly asked in return, “It’s nothing. Why did you apologize to me just now? Didn’t we agree that we wouldn’t verbally apologize to each other anymore?”
Chu Qingzi: “Because I really did something wrong this time.”
She was a little guilty. “I’m sorry, baby. I was so excited just now when you said we could French kiss again that I wasn’t holding the clay pot steady… and, I dropped it.”
Yu Jiang: “…”
Not hearing a reply, Chu Qingzi, who thought she was really angry, quickly coaxed her, “It’s my fault. I’ll go back and buy another one right away. There should be someone who also ordered a seafood clay pot. I’ll offer a higher price and—”
“I’m not angry. Since it’s already dropped, let’s just order takeout for lunch.”
Chu Qingzi was very obedient. “Okay, whatever you say, baby. Then I’ll clean up the mess and come back. Are you hungry now?”
“I’m not hungry yet. You don’t have to hurry. Just take care of things and come back.”
Chu Qingzi revealed her true purpose for asking. “Since you’re not hungry now, can we order takeout after we’ve filmed the video?”
On this point, the two reached a consistent tacit understanding.
Yu Jiang also wanted to get it over with quickly, so she didn’t refuse.
“Okay. We’ll do it when you get back.”
“Thank you, baby. Then you can hang up first. I’ll be back soon.”
“Wait, I almost forgot!”
Yu Jiang finally remembered why she had asked her to call her before she came back.
“This time, besides filming the video, that psycho also made another request.”
Chu Qingzi on the other end silently communicated with a junior who was passing by, scanned a code and transferred a considerable cleaning fee to her, then left the mess and walked away.
As she walked, she followed up on her words and asked, “What request did she make?”
Yu Jiang pushed all the blame onto the nameless pervert.
“I don’t know where that psycho learned it from, but she actually wants me to secretly feed you ‘obedience drug’ first, and then start filming the video.”
The indignation and dissatisfaction in Yu Jiang’s tone were too realistic.
At least Chu Qingzi on the other end of the phone didn’t hear anything wrong with her reaction.
Compared to the matter of “needing to take a drug to get in the mood,” what made her more curious was what “obedience drug” was.
Yu Jiang explained simply.
“As the name suggests, it’s a drug that can make the person who drinks it unconditionally obey others’ commands for a short period of time.”
Chu Qingzi couldn’t help but be amazed. “There’s actually such a drug in the world?”
Yu Jiang, who had verbally invented this drug, said without a blush or a flutter of her heart, “The world is vast and full of wonders.”
“That’s true. Then where can I buy this ‘obedience drug’?”
Chu Qingzi had a sudden realization. “Are you asking me to go buy it? This kind of drug probably isn’t available on the market, right? Did that person tell you where to buy it? Then just send me the address on WeChat. I’m worried I won’t remember.”
“Of course not!” Yu Jiang felt that today’s Chu Qingzi was particularly stupid.
She sighed and explained in a softer tone, “She had someone deliver the drug just now. I didn’t keep it. I threw it away as soon as I got it.”
“Threw it away?”
“This kind of drug that sounds shady at first listen definitely isn’t a good thing. Who knows if there will be other side effects after taking it, so you definitely can’t take it.”
Yu Jiang had already thought of a perfect solution to this problem.
“The appearance of this drug is just a very ordinary white tablet. There’s nothing special about it.
“I just ground it into powder and looked at it. It looks exactly the same as other tablets after they’re ground into powder.
“After I ground it, I poured it directly into the sink. I forgot to take a picture for you to see first, but it’s okay. You can just go to the pharmacy and buy the most ordinary white tablet.”
Chu Qingzi obediently took note of her instructions. “Okay, then you wait for me at home. I’ll go buy it now.”
Yu Jiang had only watched half of this episode of TV when the doorbell rang.
She went to open the door. When Chu Qingzi came in, she was surprised at how fast she was.
“How did you do it? It’s only been so long, and you’ve already done so many things?”
Chu Qingzi didn’t explain much on this issue, just let out a laugh as a response.
Yu Jiang wasn’t really concerned about this question. After speaking, she turned her attention to the shopping bag in her hand.
“You went to the supermarket after the pharmacy?! Don’t tell me you flew there?”
“I didn’t go to the pharmacy.”
After Chu Qingzi finished speaking simply, she pulled her into the living room and finally sat down with her on the sofa.
Knowing that she would explain herself, Yu Jiang tactfully didn’t ask any more questions.
Chu Qingzi took out a bag of white powder from the shopping bag, handed it to Yu Jiang, and said with a laugh, “The substitute drug you asked me to buy.”
Yu Jiang felt that this thing looked a bit familiar. She took it and looked at the label, and instantly gave Chu Qingzi a thumbs up.
“Qingzi, you’re too smart! How did I not think of using flour as a substitute?”
The second after she had praised her, her expression changed slightly.
“No, no. I remember you can’t eat raw flour, right? I think it causes diarrhea or something.”
Yu Jiang took out her phone, planning to ask Baidu. Just as she had unlocked the screen with her face, a hand reached out and gently stopped her.
“Haven’t you heard that Baidu can’t be trusted?”
“I think the original saying was that you can’t trust Baidu for medical advice, right? Asking it about the adverse effects of eating raw flour should be fine.”
Chu Qingzi still didn’t take her hand away. “I know what I’m doing. Don’t worry, baby. I won’t joke with my own body. Trust me this once, okay?”
Yu Jiang looked at her for a moment and finally gave in to her gentle eyes that were hard to refuse.
“Alright then. I’ll put less in later. I didn’t tell you just now, she only needs me to put in half.”
“In that case, you have even less to worry about.”
Chu Qingzi took out a box of powdered milk from the shopping bag.
“Aren’t we out of milk powder at home? I bought a new box on the way. You can use it to mix it later.”
Yu Jiang had a different opinion. “Drinking milk at noon seems a bit strange. I remember there’s still a little orange juice, right? Is it okay if you drink orange juice?”
“Of course. Whatever you say, baby.”
Yu Jiang’s gaze swept into the bag. Because of the angle, she couldn’t see what else was inside.
So she asked directly, “I see there’s something else inside. What did you buy?”
Chu Qingzi reached in in front of her and took out a new tube of children’s toothpaste.
It was the same style as the one that came with the White Rabbit last night, but a different flavor.
“I didn’t expect our supermarket to have the same promotion. Don’t you like White Rabbit, baby? So I bought a few more cans on the way.”
As she spoke, she continued to take out the remaining tubes of children’s toothpaste and line them up neatly on the coffee table.
Yu Jiang looked at this row of mini toothpaste and suddenly felt a headache.
She said blankly, “How many cans of White Rabbit did you buy? Don’t tell me you bought as many cans of White Rabbit as there were flavors of free toothpaste?”
Is this what they call being rich and willful???
“Wait, the toothpaste is all here. Where’s the White Rabbit?”
As if to prove her guess was correct, Yu Jiang raised her hand and was about to slap it on the bag, which was about to hit the coffee table with a thud, when she was timely stopped by Chu Qingzi.
“Don’t hit it so hard, baby. It’ll hurt if you hit it.”
As she spoke, she lifted the now-empty shopping bag and shook it in front of her.
Chu Qingzi looked innocent. “After I bought them, I felt like I had bought a bit too much. There happened to be a few elementary school students nearby who weren’t in class, so I gave all the White Rabbit to them. When we’re almost out at home, I’ll buy new ones for you.”
“Didn’t you just come from the supermarket? You could have just taken it back to the counter and returned it.”
Chu Qingzi: “That’s so troublesome.”
Yu Jiang: “…”
She looked at these colorful children’s toothpastes with a headache. “So what do you plan to do with so much toothpaste, and all for children?”
Chu Qingzi smiled faintly.
“Baby, can’t we use it right away?”
She casually picked up the strawberry-flavored one, her voice for a moment carrying a hint of bewitchment.
“This time, shall we try the taste of minty strawberry, baby?”
In the quiet kitchen, the sound of liquid being poured into a glass could be heard.
The prepared orange juice was temporarily set aside, and Yu Jiang began to package the “obedience drug.”
She took out a sheet of kitchen paper, spread it flat, and used a spoon to scoop a little raw flour, pouring it in the center of the kitchen paper.
Then, using the back of the spoon, she pressed it into a circle the size of a fingernail.
Everything was ready. Yu Jiang began to take the initiative to record her “criminal act.”
The phone’s camera first focused on the “obedience drug” that had been processed into powder. After pressing the record button, Yu Jiang’s deliberately lowered voice fell into the picture.
“This is the ‘obedience drug’ I was talking about. It was originally a whole tablet. I ground it into powder beforehand.”
The camera moved forward and stopped about ten centimeters away from the white powder.
“This is the amount of one whole tablet. I’ll show it to you more clearly.”
After a close-up display of one dose of the “obedience drug,” Yu Jiang raised her left hand, which was holding the phone, while her right hand carefully shook the powder from the kitchen paper into the orange juice.
A few irregular white leaves floated on the surface of the rich orange sea.
The leaves dissolved into the water bit by bit, and after a short while, they completely lost their shape.
Yu Jiang poured the remaining half of the “obedience drug” into the sink. Amidst the sound of rushing water, her sweet and soft voice was mixed in.
“I’ve put in the drug. I’ve also cleaned up the remaining half. That should be enough, right?”
As soon as she finished speaking, she pressed the record button, personally ending this “self-proving” act.
