kingnovel Chapter 1176 Spy Contact
Chapter 1176 Spy Contact
The day the re-examination ended was directly listed by Xin Ji as "the most embarrassing day in twenty-one years".
He watched helplessly as the fat man walked towards him, and then watched as the fat man put his arm around someone else's shoulder, without even giving him a glance.
But that's not the most embarrassing part.
Instead, the examinee with the strange expression grabbed the fat man who was about to leave, pointed at him, and asked, "Ziyan, do you know that person over there?"
It was only then that the fat man seemed to notice his presence.
Faced with the fat man's surprised look, he just wanted to find a hole to crawl into.
"It's... cough cough—you!" Fang Ziyan was very happy to see Xin Ji. He coughed repeatedly and walked forward with slightly unsteady steps. "Cough cough—I was looking for you just now, but cough—but I was kicked out by the Hao Army... cough cough—thank you for today. What's your name?"
At this moment, Xin Ji didn't want to say a word to Fang Ziyan and turned her face away sharply.
A hint of guilt flashed in Fang Ziyan's eyes. With a sallow, round face, he leaned forward and asked, "I... cough cough—I've been coughing, has it been affecting your answer sheet...?"
Answer the questions?
Xin Ji turned his face back and snorted, "That's not true. I can answer the exam paper if I want, or I can hand in a blank one if I don't want to."
"Oh...right." Fang Ziyan thought about what he had vaguely heard in his sleep, "I almost forgot, cough cough, you're an observer, your answers don't count."
"Good to know." Xin Ji turned her face away again, and her eyes met those of the examinee with the strange expression.
The shame from before surged back into her heart, and Xin Ji immediately exploded: "What are you looking at!"
Fang Ziyan also exploded: "Why are you yelling at him!"
Xin Ji was heartbroken: "Did I yell?"
"Yes!" Fang Ziyan coughed twice and introduced the person next to him: "This is my best friend, Pei Zhaoqi. Zhaoqi is an observer for this re-examination. I don't know his name. During the exam, his cell was to my right."
Pei Zhaoqi withdrew his gaze and nodded: "Nice to meet you."
Upon hearing this, Xin Ji's heart, already broken in two, shattered into eight pieces.
Fang Ziyan's casual remark, "I don't know his name," completely shattered his self-esteem.
"By the way, what's your name?" Fang Ziyan, oblivious to his surroundings, asked while coughing, "I don't think I saw you during this year's prefectural examination. Were you a candidate from the previous two years?"
At this moment, Xin Ji didn't want to say a word and walked out of the crowd with a dark face.
Fang Ziyan paused for a moment, then caught up with Pei Zhaoqi: "Didn't you hear me? Oh, and thank you for today."
Xin Ji quietly slowed her pace and remained silent.
Fang Ziyan, being carefree, still didn't think there was anything wrong with it. Instead, he turned to Pei Zhaoqi and said, "Zhaoqi, Dr. Li's pills are very effective. Less than an hour after I took the medicine, my dizziness was gone. Cough cough—I just don't know what's wrong with my throat. The swelling hasn't gone down."
Pei Zhaoqi took Fang Ziyan's bundle and carried it for him, then carefully examined his expression before cautiously asking, "What about the questions at the end...?"
"No problem, don't worry!" Fang Ziyan chuckled. "After the fever subsided, I had a lot more ideas in my head, things I hadn't thought of during the day yesterday. I added them all in when I was transcribing them today, and I feel even better than before!"
Before Pei Zhaoqi could react after she finished speaking, Xin Ji secretly pursed her lips.
It's lucky he wasn't burned into a mentally disabled person.
"Fatty, I'm leaving." He used the tactic of retreating to advance once again.
Sure enough, Fang Ziyan took the bait: "You still haven't told me your name?"
"Xin Ji." Xin Ji answered slowly as he moved his feet. "Xin means hard work, Ji means season, and I share the same surname as the Provincial Surveillance Commissioner stationed in Fuzhou."
After saying that, a hint of arrogance flashed in his eyes, almost as if he were telling Fang Ziyan directly, "My father is the Provincial Surveillance Commissioner."
But to his surprise, he had completely underestimated Fang Ziyan's dullness.
Fang Ziyan coughed twice, then grinned, "Your ancestors probably knew each other. By the way, where do you live? Thank you so much for today, how about I treat you to dinner tonight?"
Have a meal?
Xin Ji was about to say, "What haven't I seen in the world? What delicacies haven't I tasted? Do you think I'd be short of a meal?"
But when he saw Fang Ziyan's eyes, he swallowed his words and gave the address in a stiff voice.
"Set a time and place, and then send someone to let us know."
Having said that, he was afraid that Fang Ziyan would see the unnaturalness in his eyes, so he parted ways with them in a few steps. Or perhaps he was preoccupied with something and didn't even realize that he had just brushed past Shen Zheng.
Shen Zheng did see him, but at that moment, her mind was completely occupied with "Fang Ziyan is sick," and she didn't have time to call him.
"Sister Shen!" Fang Ziyan, who was looking at Xin Ji, immediately spotted Shen Zheng and pulled Pei Zhaoqi through the crowd to run over.
After running up to Shen Zheng, he suddenly stopped, looking around furtively for a while before stealthily saying, "Why are you here? We should avoid suspicion, otherwise it won't be good for you..."
As he spoke, he carefully surveyed the surrounding terrain, then pointed to a thick, large tree across the way and said, "Let's go over there! You go first, I'll cough and go around with Zhaoqi for a bit before we come back!"
Shen Zheng looked in the direction he was pointing.
Good tree.
It may be rough, but it can only block the figure of one person at most.
As for someone like Fang Ziyan... it would be good enough if he could block most of them.
"A spy rendezvous? Let's not." Shen Zheng lifted her leg again, closing the distance between them.
Although the results of the re-examination have not yet been released, she has had enough of the feeling of avoiding suspicion. Not to mention that Fang Ziyan is sick in the examination hall. At this moment, her heart is in her throat, and she is so worried that she can't care about avoiding suspicion at all.
......
It was almost 7 PM, and Xin Ji paced back and forth in the rented courtyard a few times.
Each time he circled around to the door, he would ask the servant, "Has anyone come to deliver a message?"
The servants' responses were always remarkably consistent: "Young master, no one is coming."
After receiving this answer for who knows how many times, Xin Ji kicked the weeds between the bricks hard.
What a fatso, daring to play him for fools.
In order not to miss the messenger, he didn't even ask for the microscopic mirror.
The results of it?
As a result, I got tricked by a fat guy I'd only known for two days!
Tolerable or unbearable!
Xin Ji stormed back to his room, changed his clothes, and prepared to cause trouble for Fang Ziyan.
He stopped in his tracks before he even reached the door.
Where does the fat guy live again?
He knew nothing about the fat man except that his name was "Fang Ziyan".
How can he cause trouble for others now?
Xin Ji was disheartened and plopped down on the doorstep.
Looking at the sky shrouded in gray, he felt utterly ridiculous. There are countless strangers in this world, so why should he take the words of a complete stranger seriously?