Chapter 425 — Let's Go Catch Sharks

"Brother Liang, think about it. You can get a sculpted ornamental tree and decorate it to spell out Gu Mengyao's name. The moment Gu Mengyao sees it she is sure to love it. Girls all love that sort of romantic flourish!" Gao Xiaofu said. "Look at The Return of the Condor Heroes. When it was Guo Xiang's birthday, Yang Guo gave her fireworks as a present, and she was so overjoyed she pledged herself to him!"

"Pledged herself to him? What I read was that Guo Xiang became a nun and entered a convent?" Zhong Yongliang was taken aback.

"Uh, then she became a nun. I do not remember clearly. Maybe what I read was fan fiction..." Gao Xiaofu said, a little embarrassed. "I think she became a nun for love anyway... In short, this trick is sure to work!"

"You mean I should set off fireworks too?" Zhong Yongliang asked.

"Exactly, Brother Liang. Have you never heard of fiery trees and silver flowers lighting the sleepless night? We will give Gu Mengyao a night of fiery trees and silver flowers!" Gao Xiaofu said.

"All right, then it is settled! I will go buy a sapling!" Zhong Yongliang thought this was a fine idea when he heard it, and far simpler than writing a pledge in blood. At least this business of fiery trees and silver flowers would not require him to hurt himself.

"This sapling has to be something special too. Do not get the same kind as everyone else. If it is the same, it will not show what makes us special." Gao Xiaofu said.

"All right, I will look into it later and get an imported sapling!" Zhong Yongliang was quite excited. He felt Gao Xiaofu had finally come up with a good idea.

"Brother Liang, should we tell Sister Xiaoxiao about this? After all, she is the big sister of our class now... If we make such a big commotion, we ought to at least say hello, right?" Gao Xiaofu reminded him.

"That makes sense. We really do have to tell her about this, in case Sister Xiaoxiao has some plan of her own against Wei Zhao and our plans clash."

After school, Zhong Yongliang asked Feng Xiaoxiao to meet him in a corner of the campus by the sports field, intending to tell her what Gao Xiaofu had said.

Feng Xiaoxiao listened patiently until Gao Xiaofu's explanation was finished. She had no interest in whether Zhong Yongliang was pursuing Gu Mengyao or not. Her target was Wei Zhao.

"That is all? What does that have to do with me?" Feng Xiaoxiao frowned. "I thought you had thought of a way to humiliate Wei Zhao!"

"Humiliate Wei Zhao... Sister Xiaoxiao, did you not want to teach him a lesson? How has it turned into humiliation?" Zhong Yongliang was stunned. He had thought Feng Xiaoxiao had some deep hatred for Wei Zhao, but now it did not seem so.

"What I want to do is none of your business?" Feng Xiaoxiao snorted. "I was utterly humiliated today, and I have to make him lose face too!"

"Uh... If that is all you want, I do have an idea..." Gao Xiaofu's eyes lit up as he spoke.

"What plan?" Feng Xiaoxiao looked at this dog-headed strategist, wondering what brilliant insight he could possibly produce.

"Are we not putting on a show of fiery trees and silver flowers for a sleepless night? There are bound to be fireworks and firecrackers then. We will give you a string of firecrackers, and you can quietly hang it on Wei Zhao's backside. When the fuse is lit, Wei Zhao's butt... Hehe, just imagine how humiliated he will be!" Gao Xiaofu might be good for nothing else, but he could still come up with a few rotten little tricks.

"Oh?" Feng Xiaoxiao carefully considered whether the thing was actually feasible. If it were handled properly, it really would be a good plan. She could secretly hang the firecrackers behind Wei Zhao without letting him notice, and when Zhong Yongliang lit the fiery trees and silver flowers, she could quietly light the firecrackers behind Wei Zhao as well, making it look as if they had been set off by accident from the fireworks. Then even if Wei Zhao wanted revenge, he would probably find no evidence, right?

"Sister Xiaoxiao, I think Xiaofu's idea is a good one!" Zhong Yongliang naturally hated Wei Zhao to the bone, so the moment he heard of a way to humiliate Wei Zhao, he immediately urged Feng Xiaoxiao to do it.

"This... Let me think about it..." Feng Xiaoxiao was not as naive as Zhong Yongliang. She had to study carefully whether this plan was really possible.

"Sister Yaoyao, are we going to plant trees tomorrow too?" Shen Yushu was rather looking forward to this tree-planting activity. In fact, she looked forward to anything new and unusual.

"Of course we are going. Years from now, after we have all graduated and married and had children, we will bring our children back to visit our old school and tell them this is where their mothers once studied. It should be very educational!" Gu Mengyao nodded and said solemnly.

"Oh, then will our children have the same father?" Shen Yushu asked.

"Xiaoshu!" Gu Mengyao glared at Shen Yushu. She really wanted to crack open her best friend's skull and see what peculiar structure was inside it, that she could take something so serious and turn it so righteously into a farce.

"Hmm?" Shen Yushu blinked her eyes.

"Open your mouth." Gu Mengyao ordered.

"No, absolutely not!" Shen Yushu shook her head.

"Why not?" Gu Mengyao was taken aback. Shen Yushu had always obeyed her every word.

"You will pull my tongue, and it hurts." Shen Yushu said.

"If you know it hurts, why do you still talk nonsense?" Gu Mengyao snorted.

"Then I will not say that next time." Shen Yushu promised.

"You always say next time, and after next time there is another next time. How many next times are there?" Gu Mengyao no longer believed a word Shen Yushu said.

"Sister Yaoyao, the original saying is tomorrow after tomorrow, how many tomorrows are there." Shen Yushu said.

"Oh, then it is tomorrow. It is all about the same, whatever tomorrow... Xiaoshu, you are changing the subject again!" Gu Mengyao was speechless. She had almost let her slip away with her tricks again.

"Hehe..." Shen Yushu stuck out her tongue. "Let us not dwell on that. We have not gotten our sapling yet. Shall we go out and buy one?"

"All right..." Gu Mengyao forgave Shen Yushu for the moment. With a best friend like this, one had to learn to be tolerant. Take a step back and the sea grows wide and the sky opens! Otherwise she could be angered to death ten times a day. "Go call Wei Zhao and have him drive along with us. Our car cannot fit a sapling."

"Okay! Brother Arrow — Brother Arrow —" Shen Yushu shouted for Wei Zhao at the top of her lungs.

Wei Zhao had seen Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu bickering and had gone back to his room first. He was long used to their behavior and no longer found it strange. Hearing Shen Yushu's cries, Wei Zhao came out of his room and asked, "What is it?"

"Brother Arrow, I want to eat shark meat again!" Shen Yushu said.

Gu Mengyao nearly fell straight off the sofa onto the floor. Had she not asked him to come along to buy saplings? How had this turned into talk about shark meat again?

"Oh, they do not sell it in the market. Why do you not go catch one yourself and bring it back?" Wei Zhao was rather speechless. Shark meat was not even tasty. Why did this little girl like eating the stuff?

"Great, great, Sister Yaoyao, let us go to the seaside to catch sharks?" Shen Yushu suggested.

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