Fate of the Stupid Son Chapter 141

A dark figure rises from the corner and quickly disappears into the darkness.

Song Shu ran out the door and went to the place where the movement had just been made.

“Well?”

Elder Song and Song Si also ran out, and Song Lin, who was a step slower and limping, also followed.

Song Shu kicked a stone at the corner, “It’s fine, maybe it suddenly fell over just now.”

It turned out to be a false alarm, so the crowd breathed a sigh of relief and turned into the courtyard, took the basket, put the porcelain vase inside, carried it to the house and put it away.

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The dark place at the head of the village has a horse tethered to it, and the black-clothed man flew to the horse, untied the reins, flew up and spurred the horse in the direction of the county town.

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The following day, carrying fifty bottles of peppermint oil, Song Si followed in an ox cart to the county town, first going to help at the cold skin stall and then, when it was time to go to school, going to the academy. After putting his books and school uniform away, he carried the book basket containing the fifty bottles of peppermint oil to the dean.

On the way, the students greeted him warmly. He was a good student and was expected to take the exam this year, so it was always good to make friends with him.

Song Si answered all of them and soon arrived outside the dean’s courtyard, where he often came.

“Dean.”

Song Si put down his book basket and saluted.

The dean thought he had come to ask about something he didn’t understand and held out towards him, “Bring the book.”

Song Si bent down and took out a bottle of peppermint oil from the book basket, “Dean, this is peppermint oil, it can refresh the mind and prevent mosquito bites.”

The dean was visibly stunned for a moment, obviously not expecting him not to come to ask about his studies.

“Dean can try it.”

The cover over the book basket was lifted, and only then did the dean see that there were quite a few porcelain bottles of peppermint oil inside, and said with a serious expression, “Song Si, as we are about to take the examinations, your mind should be on the chapter. If you can’t get the money together for the trip to the capital city, I can lend it to you first.”

Song Si bowed again, “Dean misunderstood, the silver to go to the capital city has long been prepared by my family, I am thinking that this mint oil is very good and I can recommend fellow students to buy it.”

“That’s enough!”

The dean snapped, “This is a critical time, what you need to do is to hurry up and memorize all that the master teaches you daily, not sell these unknown things.”

“This is peppermint oil, it works very well, Dean can try it, if you feel bad after trying it, the students will throw it all out immediately.”

Seeing that he didn’t even listen to him, the fire in the dean’s heart rose up. That student in the academy wasn’t grasping at everything that would study the chapter, but he was the one doing all these unnecessary things on account of his good learning.

However, he had always favoured Song Si, and did not want to let out his anger at him. He took a few deep breaths and slowly pushed back the fire that was rushing to his head, “Fine, I will try it.”

With that, he reached out towards Song Si.

Song Si, however, did not give it to him, opened the cork of the bottle, finger plug in the mouth of the bottle dabbed some, wiped to the Dean’s side of the temple.

A cool sensation entered his brain and the dean’s eyes suddenly opened wide.

When Song Si finished wiping, she took a step back and asked respectfully, “Does the dean feel refreshed now?”

The dean looked at his peppermint oil in surprise.

Song Si remained in his respectful voice, “With peppermint oil, the fellow students will be able to study twice as efficiently with half the effort, and it was with this in mind that I didn’t have it all to myself and brought fifty bottles over for a hundred dollars a bottle.”

“Bring it over and I’ll have a look.”

Song Si took another step forward and respectfully handed him the peppermint oil, just in time to see a large mosquito-starred bag on the dean’s wrist, and said, “Peppermint oil is also effective against mosquito bites, so the dean can try it.”

The dean half-heartedly followed his example and plugged the mouth of the porcelain bottle and dabbed a bit of peppermint oil on the big bag, the cold and comfortable feeling came again, and the big bag was not so itchy.

“It is indeed a good thing, but you have a lot of school work and it is not suitable to sell this stuff, so you can leave it with me and I will sell it for you.”

“Thank you very much, Dean.”

Soon after Song Si left, the dean had someone call out for the husbandmen who were not attending classes to come over, but in a short while, each husbandman left with a bottle of peppermint oil in his hands, happy.

Following this, after class, some students came to the husbandmen in droves, wanting to buy peppermint oil. Within noon, all fifty bottles of peppermint oil had been sold out, and most of the students had not been able to buy it, and after trying it, they went to their husbandmen.

Song Si was called by the dean and gave him the five taels of silver he had sold, and coughed twice as he stroked his beard in embarrassment, “Song Si, where did you buy this mint oil from? Can you tell me the place, I will go and buy some more for the students.”

“I won’t hide it from the dean, this peppermint oil is made by my family.”

The dean was surprised, “Your family made it?”

“Yes, if you want it, Dean, I’ll go and tell my parents now and ask them to bring some over tomorrow.”

“Go on, go on, tell your parents to bring some more over, at least two hundred bottles.”

With the peppermint oil, the students’ spirits in class were noticeably higher than before, and the masters, seeing this, came over to speak to him happily.

At noon, Song Si left the college and went to the cold skin stall.

“Auntie ah, this cold skin you make is really delicious.”

Qi Ying sat at the stall and said as she ate the cold skin.

She knew that today was the opening day of the academy, so she had wanted to go to the entrance of the academy to have a “chance encounter” with Song Si, but something had delayed her, so she had to come to the stall afterwards to eat the cold skin, in order to make a good impression in front of Liu Cui Lan and Song Shu.

After she had finished, she ate

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A mouthful of cold skin, the moment she finished eating looked up, but just in time to see Song Si walking over, so shocked that the cold skin in her mouth almost spurted out.

Song Si, however, did not see her and walked straight to the case board, “Father, mother.”

At the first sight of him, Liu Cui Lan was startled and subconsciously looked behind him.

When she did not see the book basket or the luggage, she breathed a sigh of relief, “Si’er, why have you come over?”

Song Shu was also surprised and looked at him nervously.

Song Si leaned forward slightly and lowered his voice, “For the matter of the peppermint oil, the ones I took have been sold out.”

Sold out so quickly, the two were ecstatic, “Then ……”

Song Si waved, the two understood what he meant and swallowed back their words.

Liu Cui Lan feet nimbly cut up the cold skin in a bowl, Song Si took it and adjusted it himself, trying to find a seat, only then saw Qi Ying, nodded slightly towards her, then turned around and prepared to go behind the counter to squat and eat.

Qi Ying pointed across to herself and said eagerly, “There’s an empty seat here.”

Song Si turned away and said detachedly, “This empty seat is reserved for guests, I’ll just go and eat in the back.”

Qi Ying’s mouth opened, no words came out, and he watched as he went to crouch down behind the counter. The figure was blocked.

She withdrew her gaze forlornly.