Chapter 112: Giving a Small Award Certificate
In just two short months, everything had happened so fast, like a dream.
And it was a beautiful dream that Sang Jing had never dared to hope for.
She had a mother, and two of them at that. She was no longer alone. She was raising a ghost, a ghost who would be with her for a lifetime. And she had graduated.
If someone had told her these three things two months ago, she might have only believed one of them.
Now that the beautiful dream she had not dared to hope for had come true, Sang Jing felt a sense of satisfaction and happiness.
Her emotions welled up, and her eyes became a little sore. Sang Jing lowered her eyes to hide it.
To suddenly have red eyes and be on the verge of tears while eating breakfast was also quite embarrassing. If Xie Yu saw it, she would definitely tease her again.
Just as she was thinking this, a head came over from the side. “What’s wrong with you?”
Sang Jing: “…”
Sang Cixin and Sang Cishui on the other side also looked over. Sang Jing slapped Xie Yu on the face and pushed her over. “Eat your food.”
Her voice was a little muffled, and because of her cold, it was hard to tell if there was anything unusual.
Xie Yu raised her eyes to complain. “Mama, look at her. She’s bullying me.”
Sang Cixin’s eyes curved in a smile, and the traces of time were piled up at the corners of her eyes.
Seeing this, Sang Cishui’s expression changed. She raised her hand to stroke Sang Cixin’s eye, her gaze shifting, and she also saw the white hair that could not be hidden at her temples.
Sang Cixin held Sang Cishui’s hand and looked at her with a smile. “Sister Sui.”
Sang Cishui’s eyelashes trembled, and she answered in a low voice, “Mm.”
Nothing had changed. She was still her little Xin sister.
After breakfast, Xie Yu took Sang Cixin to the courtyard to bask in the sun and chat. The weather had been cooler recently, and the sun was not so strong, so Xie Yu would not be very uncomfortable. But Sang Jing still drew a talisman for her to hang.
Sang Jing was looking at houses. Before, she had been alone and could live in the incense shop. But now it was different. They couldn’t all squeeze into the incense shop, right?
The matter of the house was not urgent. Sang Jing went to ask Bei Shan and Ying Laishi. These two knew a little more about this. She herself did not have a high desire for material things, and she had no social life and did not go out to play. She had also saved a lot of money over the years, and the down payment was completely enough.
Sang Jing was looking at the floor plan when a chill ran down her back. A ghost hugged her.
“Hmm? Why are you here?”
“Sui Mama has been looking at me for a long time. Of course, I have to be sensible and make way.”
Xie Yu looked down and saw Sang Jing’s phone screen. “Are you looking at houses?”
Sang Jing hummed in agreement and patted the seat beside her. “Come and see if there’s anything you like.”
In her peripheral vision, the ghostly energy was like smoke, gathering around her.
Sang Jing turned to look at her, and Xie Yu tilted her chin at her with a little triumph.
To be honest, Xie Yu’s cultivation speed was quite fast. Although Sang Jing had not raised a ghost before, and had never seen a Ghost Master raise a ghost, her teacher and teacher’s wife did not count, and there was no reference value.
But later, she had met Tan Wei. Tan Wei had been cultivating the Ghost Dao for more than twenty years, a seven-coin Ghost Master, and would soon advance to eight-coin. Her ghost, Ah Qing, had only cultivated her five senses a few years ago.
For a new ghost like Xie Yu to learn to feel the ghostly energy and control it on the first night she got the book, it could be said that she was exceptionally talented.
It was worth praising, but Sang Jing was afraid that she would get carried away.
So she nodded in acknowledgment.
Xie Yu looked at her, clearly not satisfied with just a nod.
Sang Jing pretended not to see and lowered her head to continue looking at her phone.
Xie Yu knew she was pretending. She leaned over and poked her back waist with her hand. There was a very ticklish spot on Sang Jing’s back waist, which Xie Yu had discovered last night.
Sang Jing smiled and dodged to the side. Xie Yu chased after her and tickled her. The person and the ghost ended up squeezed in a corner of the sofa.
“Say it quickly,” Xie Yu’s tone was threatening.
Sang Jing’s eyes were filled with physiological tears. She tilted her head back and leaned against the sofa. “Say what?”
Xie Yu patted her leg. “Still pretending. You know what I want to hear.”
Sang Jing laughed. “Alright, I’ll say it. You’re so amazing, so great. Do you want me to give you an award certificate to stick on the wall?”
With that, Sang Jing’s laughter disappeared in her throat. She looked up at Xie Yu.
Although Xie Yu had said that she no longer cared about the past, Sang Jing was still afraid that she would hear something and remember those not-so-good memories.
For example, an award certificate.
When Xie Yu was a child, she had happily brought home the award certificate she had received, but in the end, it had been torn to shreds, and she had had to pick it up and throw it in the trash can herself.
Sang Jing looked at Xie Yu.
Xie Yu held out her hand to her and said righteously, “Alright, you can give me an award certificate.”
Seeing that she was not affected at all, Sang Jing’s eyebrows raised, and the corners of her lips also turned up. “Give you an inch, and you’ll take a mile.”
Xie Yu was now so spoiled she was not afraid of anything. Even if Sang Jing really wanted to bully her, there were still two mothers in the backyard to complain to.
Xie Yu snorted at Sang Jing. “So what!”
With that, she pulled on Sang Jing’s arm again, then drilled into her arms and huddled there. Such a large ghost with long hands and long legs, she had to squeeze into a corner of the sofa with Sang Jing.
Sang Jing held her in this position, then held up her phone and continued to look at the floor plan with her.
Looking at those floor plans, looking at their future home.
Sang Cixin, who had come out of the backyard, saw this scene, and her heart was also warm. But there were still some regrets and guilt.
She had not watched Sang Jing grow up. It was also she who had decided to send Sang Jing back to the Sang family and had let her be bullied. Her little Sang Jing was so small at that time. It was unclear how many tears and grievances she had swallowed to become like this.
“Sister Sui, let’s go back to the Sang family.”
Sang Cishui was of one mind with her and understood what she was thinking.
She held Sang Cixin’s hand and brought it to her lips to kiss, and answered in a low voice, “Alright. When your body is a little better, we’ll go back.”
Sang Cixin’s current body could not withstand the journey. Gu Changning had scattered her qi and made her unable to cultivate metaphysical arts anymore. But Sang Cishui’s ability was still there, and she could protect Sang Cixin well.
*
At night, Sang Jing was preparing to do a livestream. She hadn’t streamed for a few days, and the comment section was filled with wails.
Xie Yu cut a plate of fruit and brought it over. She saw a stack of red paper on the table in front of Sang Jing, with flowers and words on it.
An award certificate!
Xie Yu’s eyes widened in pleasant surprise. She walked over and saw Sang Jing writing her name on it with a pen.
Xie, Yu.
Sang Jing’s handwriting was beautiful, and the words she was writing now were even more beautiful.
“For me?” Xie Yu asked, feigning shyness.
Sang Jing put away her pen and gave her a “Three Good Student” award certificate, twirling the pen between her fingers.
Xie Yu held the award certificate. It was clearly just a piece of paper with her name and a few sentences on it, but it moved her to tears.
Sang Jing was always like this. She didn’t like to say things out loud, but the things she did would always poke at people’s… poke at a ghost’s heart.
“Where did you get this?”
“There’s a school across the road. I just went for a walk and saw it, so I bought some back.”
What business could Sang Jing have at a school? She had just gone to buy award certificate paper.
Xie Yu put down the fruit and wanted to hug her, but then she saw Sang Jing’s sidelong glance.
She turned to look at the screen, which was filled with dense, colorful bullet comments. Only then did Xie Yu realize that the livestream had already started.
She had no choice but to withdraw her hand and sit to the side, then happily looked at her award certificate.
The livestream had been on for a while. Sang Jing was waiting for more people to come. While she had nothing to do, she took a pen and tried it out. She usually drew a lot of talismans and hadn’t written many proper words. She took a piece of waste paper and practiced Xie Yu’s name. Only after she had gotten the hang of it did she write on the award certificate.
Seeing Xie Yu holding the award certificate like a treasure, Sang Jing couldn’t help but purse her lips and smile.
【As soon as I came in, my dog eyes were blinded.】
【Am I in the wrong place? Isn’t this the metaphysics section? Why is it a couple’s account when I click on it?】
【It seems that the streamer has been living a very nourishing life these days without streaming. Her relationship with Assistant Xiao Xie has progressed by leaps and bounds.】
【I bet a hundred that there’s definitely something going on between these two! Absolutely, absolutely something! Anyway, my boss won’t give me a small award certificate!!!】
【I’m sorry, I’ve defected. 3199, Assistant Xiao Xie, your smile is too worthless.】
【The few in the metaphysics section haven’t been streaming recently. Is there some big move? (stroking my chin and guessing)】
【I heard that something happened in Shahe a few days ago. Hey, wasn’t Sang Sang in Shahe before? With this background now, is Sang Sang back?】
【Reliable news, there’s a very authoritative big shot in the Xuanmen who did something dirty.】
Seeing that almost everyone was here, Sang Jing took a sip of water to clear her throat, but her voice was still a little hoarse.
“I won’t be doing any divination or face reading today. I promised you last time that we would just chat. We’ll chat for a while tonight.”
Sang Jing glanced at the bullet comments and added, “Metaphysics-related topics. The rest can be forgotten.”
It was clear that the bullet comments arguing about 31 or 13 had decreased a little.
“Did something really happen in Shahe? Lanyue Terrace and the Lotus Pond Water Pavilion have been sealed for several days, and the surrounding area is full of people from the Special Investigation Team and the Xuanmen,” Sang Jing read out a bullet comment.
After considering for a moment, she answered, “Karmic retribution cannot be avoided. If you do evil in your life, you will pay for it a hundred times over after you die.”
She didn’t say it directly, but she had told them that something had indeed happened.
【But you only pay for it after you die. After doing evil, you can still live a good life. Is delayed justice still justice?】
【Something really happened! It sounds like it’s not a small matter. Could it be that some powerful Xuan Master is doing evil?】
【So curious, so, so, so, so, so curious. Sang Sang, can you say a little more!?】
“Is delayed justice still justice?” Sang Jing lowered her eyes, her voice a little lower. “What I’m doing now is related to this sentence. In a while, I will livestream some more interesting things. Everyone might see some familiar faces.”
【Huh? What, what???】
【So you’re keeping us in suspense!】
【Is Sang Sang going to do something big again! Will she livestream when she’s doing it! It feels so exciting.】
【Familiar faces? What does that mean?】
Sang Jing held her water cup and slowly swallowed the warm water. Xie Yu saw this and pressed her hand, which was holding the mouse.
Sang Jing looked at her.
“I’ll read it. You can just answer,” Xie Yu’s voice was filled with undisguised heartache.
The bullet comments were once again shipping them.
Perhaps it was because Xie Yu had spoken up, but some of the questions in the bullet comments were directed at her.
Sang Jing controlled the mouse and clicked on a bullet comment. Xie Yu read it out loud, “The voice actor for the female lead of The Emperor has been changed. I’ve seen the posts on the forum about the gala. The streamer had hinted in her last livestream that Xie Yu is not the real Encounter. I’d like to ask, does the streamer know Encounter? Is she safe? I’m a fan of Encounter.”
Xie Yu’s voice was indistinctly lower, and Sang Jing noticed.
She coughed, and two dimples appeared on her cheeks. “Perhaps in a little while, the Encounter you like will appear again.”
Xie Yu turned to look at her, a little dazed.
What does that mean?
It was obvious that many Encounter fans were in the livestreaming room. They were separated from Encounter by the internet. The gala incident and the trial recording had made some people worry that something had happened to Encounter. But they had nowhere to ask, and in the end, they could only squat in this livestreaming room they had once cursed, looking for traces of the real Encounter.
The screen was filled with gift special effects, mostly from Encounter’s fans.
There were apologies, thanks, and expectations.
Sang Jing had this plan, to let Encounter “live” again.
