Kivotos, I was deeply shocked!

Si Wang looked in the direction of Hele Qianshi's finger, where a cloud that looked very layered and fluffy was floating slowly.

"It doesn't look like a golden fox, it doesn't look like a Daruma, and it doesn't look like... a dandelion."

He looked down at the girl, then looked up at the cloud carefully. Then, as if he suddenly realized something, he pointed at his nose in disbelief, "So you're not saying that those fat, big clouds with a few layers of belly fat over there look like me, are you?"

"Hmm, looking for a... cloud that looks like a teacher?"

Hele Qianshi lowered his head and fell into thought, "Teacher's cloud..."

"If I were a cloud, my color would be... Wrong!"

Si Wang suddenly came to his senses. He should have been the one asking Hele Qianshi why he came here, but how come he was suddenly led into a trap by the other party? He began to wonder what kind of cloud he was?

"Qian Shi, you must have been an owl on the bus stop last night. Why are you out looking at the clouds now?"

Si Wang rubbed his temple and sighed, "Don't you need to sleep?"

"Because the weather is very good today~"

Hele Qianshi hummed a light tune, "I feel like I can find the cloud I want~"

"So, Chise-san, did you find the cloud you were looking for?"

Unlike the almost unmanaged campus in Abydos, Si Wang did not rush to release a bunch of [Scarabs] to give himself a full-map cheat before finding out the details of the One Hundred Demons Night Parade Academy with all kinds of mysterious legends. Instead, he used traditional eyes and ears to collect intelligence.

In the spirit of being bored since he had nothing to do, he simply stopped wandering around trying his luck and started chatting with Hele Qianshi, a very interesting girl.

"No~."

Hele Qianshi shook his head, his eyes still fixed on the clouds in the sky, "It's very different, a softer, lighter-looking cloud~"

Chapter 15: The Clouds of Haru Chishi

"Lighter clouds..."

Si Wang looked up at the sky above his head, where clouds were floating leisurely. "Should I say that using the word 'light and floating' to describe clouds... is it very descriptive? Or is it very abstract? It's really confusing."

"Ah, teacher, the clouds are gone."

A breeze blew through the street, slightly dissipating the boiling heat of the celebration. It also blew up the girl's blue hair covering her ears. Her slightly pink earlobes were faintly visible among her hair. "Let's catch up."

After saying that, it was not known whether he was confident that Si Wang would follow him or he did not care whether Si Wang would follow him. He Le Qianshi looked up, stared at the clouds in the sky, and followed the clouds just like he had just met Si Wang.

"Even though you're calling me 'teacher, teacher', you're not really treating me as a teacher, Chiyo-san."

Si Wang shook his head. He held the girl's shoulders and pulled her a little closer to him. "You clearly treat me as a babysitter."

"Give it, give it, please give it!"

A dim sum shop clerk holding a pile of bamboo steamers that blocked his view of the front was sweating and shouting, "Be careful with the bamboo steamers, please make way!"

With Si Wang's help, the two people who also couldn't see the road passed each other peacefully.

Then those who should hold the steamer continued to hold the steamer, and those who should stare at the clouds continued to stare at the clouds.

"Hmm~"

The aroma from the steamer drifted to the girl's nose. Hele Qianshi subconsciously stopped, sniffed slightly, and shook his head regretfully, "It's not this smell."

“Isn’t this the taste?”

Si Wang slowed down his pace, put his hands on Hele Qianshi's thin shoulders, walked behind the girl, and controlled her to avoid various unexpected situations on the festival street, "Does your cloud have any smell?"

"Well, the clouds I'm looking for also have a very nice smell."

Hele Qianshi pointed his index finger at his chin and let Si Wang push him forward while reminiscing. "Although the red bean paste bun smells good, its taste is more special."

"uh-huh."

Si Wang suddenly became slightly interested in the cloud with a pleasant smell in Hele Qianshi's mouth. With his height advantage, he pushed the girl around a corner and followed the cloud that suddenly floated horizontally in front of him. "Can you describe the specific smell?"

"Um--"

Hele Qianshi looked around carefully, as if he wanted to use something on the street as an example. "If you take a deep breath into it, you will feel like you are floating into the sky. It has a very soft and light smell."

"You used that adjective very well, Chise-san. Please don't use it next time."

Si Wang calmly praised the girl, then pushed her into an alley and stopped at the door of a store. He pointed inside and asked, "Even though taking a deep breath into it will only make your nose spray, is that the soft, light smell you mentioned?"

"Um--"

Hele Qianshi looked in the direction of Si Wang's finger. There, a few scattered tourists were standing next to a clanging cotton candy machine and chatting, while the owner was cleaning the various colored sugar threads in the machine.

"I don't know~"

"Row."

Si Wang nodded and pushed the girl to the next alley. "Then let's go to another place and continue looking."

Once, twice, three times...

"?"

Si Wang looked at the girl in front of him puzzledly, while He Le Qianshi just stared at the cotton candy machine in front of him without blinking, motionless.

stare--

"Let me make this clear first, Chise-san. Although I just finished a big bag of snacks, my pockets are actually cleaner than your face."

Si Wang stretched out his right hand and waved it in front of the girl's eyes. After confirming that He Le Qian Shi was really staring at the cotton candy machine and not at anything else, he spread his hands helplessly and said, "If you really want to try the cotton candy to see if it has the cloud flavor you are looking for, then the only thing the teacher can do now is to help you get in line."

"..."

She tilted her head and thought for a while, then He Le Qianshi reached out and touched the pockets on both sides of her skirt. They were dry and flat, and there was nothing in them. Then she touched her top from left to right and from top to bottom, and suddenly remembered something.

I was lying on the bed, looking at the clouds floating outside the window, when I suddenly had the idea of ​​finding a cloud that would make me feel soft, light, and warm. So I forgot not only my wallet but also my cell phone on the bedside.

But it doesn’t matter~

He Le Qianshi no longer stared at the cylindrical cotton candy machine, but turned his gaze away. His clear purple-red eyes changed direction and stared at Si Wang without blinking.

"stare--"

"Yeah, that's a very convincing look. The last time I was stared at like that was when my niece came to my house during the Chinese New Year. She was only five years old and couldn't walk because she looked at the Barbie doll hanging in the window."

Si Wang rubbed the girl's silky little head vigorously to show his dissatisfaction, and walked towards the door of the cotton candy store with Hele Qianshi, "So you win."

"..."

He Le Qianshi didn't say anything, but just reached out and touched the top of his head that Si Wang had rubbed.

Mm, a warm feeling.

"Hey, boss."

Si Wang, who was completely unaware, was smiling and greeting the dog owner who had just returned from washing his hands, "Please give me a marshmallow."

"Um, you want a marshmallow?"

The dog owner, who looked a bit like a corgi, wiped his paws with a towel hanging on the back of the chair, then took out a piece of plastic wrap from under the table and handed it to Si Wang, "So, sir, what flavor would you like?"

"It doesn't matter what flavor it is."

Si Wang smiled and pushed the menu back, then raised his thumb and pointed above his head, "Can the color of the marshmallow make the color of the cloud above my head, boss?"

"Hmm - a big white mass with a little bit of blue, no problem."

The Corgi boss pushed his reading glasses on the bridge of his nose. After observing carefully for a while, he nodded readily, "I happen to have some blueberry-flavored sugar here. Just mix a little of it with the white sugar."

"so be it."

Si Wang nodded openly, not like a poor guy with no money in his pocket, "Thank you for your help, boss."

The Corgi owner waved his paw casually, "No trouble, no trouble."

The machine that had just fallen silent began to clang again. As the Corgi boss scooped large spoonfuls of white sugar into the cylindrical funnel in the middle, thin, almost transparent white sugar threads floated out from the middle and stuck to the wall of the turntable.

He Le Qianshi stood aside, staring intently at the pure white sugar threads that were being woven into a ball.

Chapter 16 Small talk

"Boss, I see that all the shops in the Hundred Nights Cherry Blossom Festival are doing very well, but why is your shop so quiet?"

Watching the Corgi boss rolling the marshmallows with bamboo sticks, Si Wang, who was standing nearby, casually found a topic as if chatting, "Is it just so-so?"

"Hahaha, that's not the case."

The Corgi boss was not angry at Si Wang's rather offensive words. Instead, he laughed cheerfully. He used his free paw to pick up a toothpick and picked up a few strands of floating sugar and handed it to Si Wang. "Why don't you try it, young man? If it doesn't taste good, you don't have to pay."

"Then I would rather obey your orders than be respectful."

Si Wang took the toothpick without hesitation and stuffed it into his mouth, saying vaguely, "If it doesn't taste good, I really won't pay for it."

"Hahaha."

The Corgi owner hadn't seen such a generous and interesting guest for a long time, and couldn't help but joked, "How about it, young man, are my marshmallows worth your money?"

“It tastes very good, boss.”

Si Wang looked at the toothpick in surprise, then put it back into his mouth, wondering, "Could it be that good wine needs to be hidden in a remote alley, the location is not good, and there is not enough advertising?"

"more or less."

As he spoke, the cotton candy on the bamboo stick had already become bigger than the Corgi boss's head. He added a small spoonful of dark blue sugar to the rotating disk of cotton candy and explained, "Another small part of the reason is that the celebrations in recent years have been getting better and better, more and more lively, and there are more and more tourists on the street, and they are getting more and more anxious. It's not convenient to hold such a big cotton candy in your hand while walking around the street."

Light blue sugar threads floated out from the walls of the turntable and attached to a large ball of pure white marshmallows. You could vaguely see the shape of the clouds that Si Wang was pointing at.

"One thing to say, one thing to say, indeed."

Looking at the cotton candy that was getting bigger and bigger, and he could fit his entire head inside it, Si Wangshen nodded in agreement, "But I heard that you, the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons, have a club that specializes in handling all matters related to the celebration. Can't we contact them and apply for a small booth in a park or street corner where the flow of people is not so busy?"

Since the taste was indeed good, Si Wang also imitated the Corgi boss and picked up a toothpick from the plate, rolled up a few strands of sugar threads stuck on the edge of the turntable and held them in his mouth. "Or do they think the equipment is too simple, the hygiene does not meet the standards, and the business may not be good, so they don't approve it?"

"Those girls are not as snobbish as the boys you say they are."

The Corgi boss waved his paws in a helpless manner, and scooped another spoonful of sky-blue sugar into the bowl. "Even our One Hundred Demons Night Parade rarely has such a lively celebration a few times a year. Many young men of your age have been gearing up for several weeks, hoping to earn all their money for their wives in one go at this celebration."

The Corgi boss kept adjusting the position of the marshmallow on the turntable so that the blue sugar threads evenly covered the surface of the marshmallow. He sighed and said, "Why should I, an old man with half of my body buried in the ground, compete with those young people for profit? Aren't you ashamed?"

"Wow, I thought he was just an uncle, but now he's a grandfather?"

Si Wang carefully looked at the Corgi boss in front of him, and indeed found a few deep wrinkles at the corners of his eyes. He sighed, "Just listening to your confident voice and your vigorous spirit, you can't tell that you are a man in his seventies or eighties."

"Hahahaha, young man, I love to hear you say that!"

After hearing Si Wang's sincere praise, the Corgi boss smiled so hard that he couldn't even cover his teeth. He stuffed the marshmallow in his hand, which was almost as big as him, into Si Wang's palm and said, "This marshmallow is a thank you for being willing to chat with an old man like me for so long."

"How can I take advantage of an old man like you?"

Aren't you a little too enthusiastic?

But if you are so enthusiastic, my plan will be aborted.

Si Wang glanced at He Le Qian Shi, who was holding his head in his hands for some reason and looking at him silently.

Of course, he was not looking at the very cute He Le Qian Shi, but at the [Street Ghosts] who were squatting in groups of three or four and whispering not far behind He Le Qian Shi, as if they were plotting something.

So he politely pushed away the Corgi boss's paw and reached out to take out his cell phone from his trouser pocket, "I can still afford this less than 100 or 200 credit points."

"Young man, if you keep doing this, I will be angry."

The Corgi boss stood on tiptoe on the stool and stuffed the marshmallow into Si Wang's palm without saying anything, then held Si Wang's fingers tightly. His face was serious, but the corners of his mouth couldn't help but curl up happily, "Just take it when I tell you to, don't be so fussy."

"Okay, old man, I'll accept your kindness, but I feel a little embarrassed to be eating for free at my age. At least I can help you a little."

Si Wang gently rubbed the cotton candy with the bamboo stick. With the exquisite craftsmanship of the Corgi boss, the cotton candy looked really like the cloud he had just pointed at. "I didn't reject your kindness, and you are not allowed to reject my kindness either."

"You young man..."

The Corgi boss laughed dumbly, "Why are you not going to enjoy the celebration but coming to bother an old man like me? What can I do for you? Can you help me clean the table?"

"Well, you've got the point, old man."

Si Wang walked around the cotton candy machine that stood between them, picked up the towel hanging on the back of the chair and started wiping the table, skillfully closing the gap between them. "Not only can I wipe the table, I can also attract a lot of business~"

"You're not going to use that phone to take a picture of something and post it on that website, are you?!"

The Corgi boss immediately became alert, staring at the half-exposed mobile phone in Si Wang's trouser pocket, and warned him seriously, "Even if I close down my business, I will never beg for food from my mobile phone!"

"Old man, you worry too much~"

Si Wang smiled and waved his hand, then took out Xia Lai's work ID from the chest pocket of his shirt and handed it to the Corgi boss. "I am Xia Lai's teacher, and it's certified by the Federal Student Union. How could I do such an unethical thing as teaching people to beg online?"

After taking the work permit and flipping through it twice, the serious expression on his face relaxed a little, but he still looked at Si Wang with some doubt, "I'm a well-educated old man, don't lie to me, young man!"

"rest assured."

Si Wang patted his chest and said, "My method is not only reasonable and legal, but also absolutely in line with the public's ethics and morals!"