276: Chapter 74 Eldest Miss Li Makes a Grand Entrance 276: Chapter 74 Eldest Miss Li Makes a Grand Entrance Wang Yunxiao stood at the school gate with his hands shoved in his pockets, and before the person he was waiting for arrived, the uncle in the nearby security room couldn’t help but ask, “Yuanxiao, heading out on a date?”
“What date!”
Wang Yunxiao hurriedly denied, “I’m here to pick up a friend.”
The security uncle shook his head, smirked, and didn’t ask further.
He might have stopped talking, but Wang Yunxiao felt completely uneasy.
The gate security uncle usually had little to say, like a gourd with a sawed-off mouth.
Wang Yunxiao hardly ever had much conversation with him, so he didn’t expect such a comment at this time, making it hard for him to save face.
“Uncle, why would you say I’m out to get a girlfriend?”
“You’re not usually like this.”
“How am I usually?”
“You’re usually not so cocky.”
“Cocky” is a term from the North, mainly used to describe one’s spirit, including but not limited to a series of behaviors such as showing off, being foolish, pretending, being cheap, goofing around, etc.
Hearing such an evaluation, Wang Yunxiao couldn’t help but blush, and he quickly calmed down to reflect on his own inner feelings.
Indeed, a little excited.
Youthful teenagers with an excess of hormone secretion, it’s quite normal.
Age a bit and after working for a couple of years after graduating from college, when you look at women from the Real World, it’s like a monk seeing a skeleton—it doesn’t ripple the heart or provoke any physiological impulses.
Adults know that there are so many girls on TikTok dancing for free benefits, there is no need to waste money being a lapdog in the Real World.
Wang Yunxiao took a deep breath and quickly adjusted his mental state.
One must have self-awareness, be down-to-earth, and recognize reality.
It’s true that Eldest Miss Li is young, beautiful, and wealthy, but for her to take a fancy to a poor guy from the bottom rung of society like me, it would be a daydream.
As he was lecturing himself, two rickshaws approached from afar.
The first thing that caught Wang Yunxiao’s eye was a delicate and fair hand, with a mutton-fat jade bracelet on the wrist that made the skin even more like ice and jade.
Jiang Yinyin got off the rickshaw from behind first, paid the rickshaw puller, and then went to the front to help Eldest Miss Li alight.
Not having seen her for a few days, Eldest Miss Li’s demeanor had become even more noble.
True nobility doesn’t depend on how much you spend on luxury goods or how many gold and jewels you adorn yourself with.
Just her standing there, you can’t quite put your finger on what’s particularly outstanding, but she’s just different from ordinary people.
When Wang Yunxiao last saw her, she was wearing a lacy little Western dress and a round-brimmed hat, very chic.
This time, Li Mumu had switched to a Chinese-style skirt, of colors and styles that were modest and understated, but clearly tailor-made by the best tailor using high-quality materials—loose and unassuming, yet subtly highlighting the body’s curves.
With a picturesque young maid following behind her, it was like a noble lady from an ancient Chinese painting had come to life.
Wang Yunxiao had all his plans ready, set to suggest some Coke, fries, and a little burger for lunch, but when he saw her attire, he was so chocked up that he nearly suffocated himself holding the words back.
Looking at that attire, it wasn’t something that could be satisfied with just fries and a burger.
So what’s next, find a place with local specialties for lunch?
I’m really not familiar with that—will have to ask Youtiao later.
Li Mumu noticed Wang Yunxiao staring at her dumbfounded, as if his brain had crashed, and couldn’t help but snicker to herself.
Lad, haven’t seen the world, have you?
Did you really think of me as some country bumpkin from the Chinese Countryside?
At the same time, she couldn’t help but notice the security uncle in the guardhouse at the school gate, staring at her with intense focus.
This gaze didn’t seem like the infatuated look a man would give a woman, especially when his hand was resting on the Wolf Fang Club propped up next to him.
What kind of respectable school would have a security guard equipped with a Wolf Fang Club?
What do you want to do, whittle me down?
Li Mumu’s heart skipped a beat, and she immediately became alert.
Something about this school didn’t seem quite right.
Looking inside from the school gate, it was hard to detect anything unusual.
To put it less kindly, it was hard to even recognize it as a school.
There was no synthetic track and field, no green belts—just an ordinary, long, single-story building.
If not for the “Qinghe Middle School” sign hanging on the gate, it would be hard to tell that this was a place of education.
Wang Yunxiao hadn’t been wrong, the conditions here really weren’t that great.
“Miss Li…”
Upon hearing Wang Yunxiao’s voice, Li Mumu came back to her senses and gave a slight smile: “Classmate Wang, good morning.”
“Good morning!”
Wang Yunxiao glanced at Jiang Yinyin, who was hiding behind Li Mumu, too afraid to greet him, and turned to the security guard, saying, “Uncle, she is planning to study here.
I am going to show her around and let her see the school environment.”
“Huh?
We have an environment here?”
The security uncle looked bewildered: “She’s coming here to study?
Is she sure this is the right place?”
I understand your surprise, but can we not be so blunt in front of strangers?
Wang Yunxiao was just being polite.
He turned and pushed the school gate open: “Come on in.
You see, the school is just this—a small place.
There really isn’t much to see.”
He didn’t even know how to introduce it.
The school was a good school, that Wang Yunxiao admitted.
Unfortunately, the merits of the bun weren’t visible in the folds.
The place was just like that: here was the playground, there was the teaching block, and there was the cafeteria.
That was it.
“It’s quite…
simple.
Just show me around.”
Of course, Li Mumu hadn’t really come to see the school.
She was just curious about the hanged ghost that Jiang Yinyin had dreamt about.
Although Jiang Yinyin thought she was dreaming, Li Mumu knew the situation better than she did.
She must have entered an Outer Dimension.
According to her description, the dreamland looked exactly like her school.
Apart from the monsters inside and the senior student protecting them, who sounded extraordinary.
After being recruited by the Special Service Bureau, Qiao Hongyi only gave Li Mumu one assignment, which was to infiltrate Qinghe Middle School.
A place that could catch the eye of the head of the intelligence division of the Special Service Bureau was definitely not as simple as it appeared.
Coming over early to check things out…
no, getting a feel for the place was indeed necessary.
“I heard this is a boarding school?”
While casually surveying the entire layout of the school buildings, Li Mumu asked nonchalantly, “It’s the weekend now.
Are the students staying here, or can they go back to their own homes?”
“Qinghe Middle School wasn’t originally a boarding school.”
Wang Yunxiao answered truthfully: “As a government-designated relief facility after the war, the school provided shelter for many children who were displaced and orphaned by the war.
Because they had nowhere else to go, some of the classrooms were converted into dormitories for students.”