Chapter 514: Chapter 106: Two Con Artists

After leaving the Canon Law School, Li Xin went straight home. He had to ponder how to gain Jiang Wu and the others’ trust. It was impossible for him to completely give up on the Canon Law School now, and besides, Old Chen was a good person.

There will always be a way when the car reaches the mountain.

Since he had nothing else to do, Li Xin went to pick up Xueyin from school. With so much happening, he feared Aunt Fei might be even busier, so he just asked Justin to notify her.

Sure enough, after Li Xin and Xueyin had dinner, and Xueyin finished her homework, they had to wait quite a while before Lin Fei returned, having been caught up with Justin.

“Aunt Fei, have you eaten yet?”

“Yes, I have. Have you two eaten well?”

“Mom, with Ah Xin around, how could I go hungry? I’m stuffed,” Xueyin said, enjoying her days without Lin Fei around too much.

Lin Fei smiled. With Li Xin around, she indeed had no worries. She hung up her clothes and patted Justin, noting that this little fellow was quite clever.

“Is someone starting to cause trouble?” Li Xin asked.

“It’s normal, not a big deal. The more they do this, the more it proves we’re on the right track. I’m just worried it might affect our cooperation with the Celestial Principle School,” Lin Fei said. The beauty contest was important, but the Celestial Principle School represented the Citizen Daily’s style, which was equally important. They were not worried about attacks on the newspaper itself, but rather the potential impact on the Celestial Principle School’s perspective.

“There shouldn’t be any problems. The people from the Celestial Principle School are quite independent-minded,” Li Xin said with a smile.

“I hope so. But it does remind us that beauty pageants can be easily misinterpreted, so we must stick to a fair and open theme,” Lin Fei said.

“Chief Editor Lin, you’re wise. As long as we’re upright, the public has sharp eyes,” Li Xin gave a thumbs-up. “No skirting around the edges.”

“Skirting around the edges?”

“Ahem, I mean half-baked yellow content.”

“You sure know a lot. No progress on the practical side recently?” Lin Fei asked, coming on strong.

“Ah, Aunt Fei, I suddenly thought of a great headline, ’Let Women Stand in Their Own World and Shine Brightly’!” Li Xin suddenly said, “How’s that? Cool or what?”

“Let women stand in their own world and shine brightly?” Lin Fei savored the words, letting women stand in their world… shine… brightly?!

How could such a good idea come up off the cuff?

“Not bad, where’s he gone?”

“Mom, Ah Xin bolted just now. Want me to drag him back?” Lin Xueyin, watching the fun, wasn’t afraid of things getting bigger.

“Have you finished your homework?”

“Of course!”

“Have you done your preview?”

Lin Xueyin’s face was full of speechlessness. It’s the weekend, and clearly, she could have been scolded directly, but her mom had to find a reason…

This weekend was bound to be all hands on deck at the Citizen Daily. The weekend’s offline promotions were launched with full force, and the editorial team convened to strike high and hard, raising their banner and seizing the high ground while the enemies were busy causing chaos and had not thought of catching up.

Lin Fei went to work early, and Kathy wasn’t coming today, so the two lazy bones, Li Xin and Xueyin, could sleep in as they pleased.

Faint knocking on the door could be heard, and Li Xin turned over and continued sleeping. He’d written late into the night yesterday – the ’Utopia Mountain Revenge’ story was prepared for Old Chen; it was a way to elevate the literary status of the silent Canon Law School.

Xueyin, groggy eyed, went downstairs. Glancing at Li Xin’s tightly closed bedroom door, she asked, “Justin, who’s knocking at the door?”

Justin lifted his cat head, looked at Xueyin, and thought, Are you even speaking human?

Xueyin was just saying it casually. As soon as she opened the door, a cold breeze hit her, and she darted upstairs to wrap herself in a coat and hat. Holiday mornings were especially cold, but it could be that her mom had something important, so she didn’t dare delay.

Upon reaching the door, sure enough, the knocking sounded again. Through the door gap, Xueyin saw two middle-aged men. Nearby was a rather posh carriage.

“Who are you looking for?”

“Little friend, is Mr. Li Xin at home?” A gentle voice from one of the middle-aged men reached her ears.

Although they were strangers, the voice inexplicably gave a sense of security, but the more it did, the more cautious Xueyin became, “Who are you?”

“I’m Mordo from the Dragon Capital Celestial Principle Academy, and this is Philson. We’ve come to visit Mr. Li.”

“Oh, he’s sleeping. Come back later,” Lin Xueyin yawned and replied casually.

“We’ll wait outside. If he wakes up, please let us know.”

“Whatever,” Xueyin quickly tightened her clothes, and on her way back, she picked up a suspicious, vigilant Justin, “It’s freezing, and nowadays, fraudsters have gotten increasingly unskilled, Mordo, Philson, ha!”

The Celestial Principle School – with Lin Fei mentioning it all the time, how could Xueyin not know it? Mordo and Philson were sages from Hedan, the dean and vice-dean of the Celestial Principle Academy. Why would such big shots come here?

Throwing Justin back into his basket, “Don’t make a noise, I want to sleep some more and if you wake me, I’ll stew you in a pot!”

Justin had thought about protesting but just blinked his cat eyes. This little demon!

With a tap, tap, tap sound, Xueyin went upstairs and dived into her warm bed. Mordo and Philson looked at each other at the door. Despite their careful grooming, they bore a heavy sense of vicissitudes, standing quietly like two guardian deities.

After more than an hour, Li Xin woke up as well. Young people have naturally good bodies, recovering quickly, but he was feeling hungry, his stomach grumbling. He could afford to be lazy, but Xueyin was still growing, and she needed breakfast.

Li Xin quickly got up, made some bread, fried eggs, and milk, a simple yet nutritious breakfast. Once prepared, he went upstairs to wake Xueyin up.

“Ah Xin, carry me.”

Li Xin had no choice but to carry Xueyin down for breakfast. As they ate, Xueyin suddenly remembered the morning’s incident, “Ah Xin, two frauds came looking for you this morning saying they were Mordo and Philson. You’re not being careful enough, letting people find their way to your home.”

Li Xin nearly choked on his bread and hurriedly drank some milk, “Cough, cough, where are they now?”

“Oh, they said they’ll wait outside. I told them ’whatever.’ You want me to call the city guard to arrest them, or have the Night Patrol take them?”

Whoosh…

A gust of wind blew past, and two unrestrained chopsticks spun two and a half times in the air before landing on the table. Li Xin had already reached the door, opening it to find Mordo and Philson still standing in the cold wind.

“Grandmaster Mordo, Grandmaster Philson, why have you come? My apologies, my apologies, my little sister mistook you for frauds,” Li Xin said, half laughing, half crying. These two didn’t even notify before coming.

A cold wind blew by, and Mordo sniffed, “Mr. Li, it is us who rudely disturbed you, our apologies.”

“Please, come in,” Li Xin quickly invited them inside. This was indeed a rare experience of being turned away at the door for Mordo and Philson since becoming Grand Scholars.

At the entrance of the living room, Lin Xueyin tilted her head, scanning the two middle-aged men with red noses from top to bottom. These shivering guys are supposed to be the mighty Grand Scholars?

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