"Did you lose your mind from being hit on the head by Gao Fei using a stool? Why are you looking at me with that kind of perverted stare?" At that instant, the person who rushed in suddenly opened his mouth. A deep, manly voice resonated in the air.
In a mere second, Ren Jie found that the person before him had turned into an almost perfectly round fatty who was barely 1.7 meters in height and stretched to about a meter horizontally.
He shook his head violently and rubbed his eyes before glaring at the person in front of him with enlarged eyes.
Was I seeing things? Or was that a hallucination derived after watching that primitive human reproduction artistic film? Nevertheless, how could there be a hallucination that strong that caused me to mistake such a round fatty for a charming and graceful naked beauty?
"Big Brother, don't… don't scare me. Please let me take a look at your injury. Do you still remember me?" The fatty became fidgety from Ren Jie's gaze. He had an impulse to turn and run away. However, he mustered his courage in the end and came closer.
At that moment, a group of more than ten people whooshed in with courteous smiles plastered on their faces. Seeing that Ren Jie had regained consciousness, they let out a breath.
Remember you? At that instant, Ren Jie was actually quickly processing all the original information in his brain. That information was there since the moment he first opened his eyes, but the huge volume made his brain hurt then. It felt as though thousands of people were trying to squeeze through a door that could only accommodate one person at a time. However, the situation was completely different now. Although the information was diverse and massive, they went into his brain quickly, as though the dam had opened to allow water in.
Ren Jie immediately recalled that the biggest change from before to now was the fifteen minutes when he was watching the video. When he was watching the video, he felt as though he was in some kind of inexplicable sphere when watching the Five Saints discussing Dao.
Those thoughts merely flashed past his mind. After that, he was already starting to notice some other information. That person standing in front of him, the one who asked if he remembered him, was called "Gao Ren". The voices he heard from outside were actually calling for "Gao Ren", and not the word
Ren Jie knew that fatty from a gambling den before he entered the Jade Imperial Academy. Ren Jie finally won a huge fortune that day. Afterward, Gao Ren devised some strategies for Ren Jie for a couple of incidents. Furthermore, Gao Ren was proficient with all types of entertainment, including eating, drinking and playing. Therefore, they slowly acquainted with each other. From what Gao Ren said, his ancestors were once wealthy. However, their family wealth plummeted and he was the only remaining one who roamed the marketplace.
Ren Jie was about to be sent to the Jade Imperial Academy then, so he brought Gao Ren along with him. The Jade Imperial Academy was renowned for being the most high class and lavish academy in the Clear Jade Dynasty. Its nickname was the Academy for the Pampered. That was due to the fact that nobles such as the Imperial Princes, Imperial Grandsons and the various aristocratic heirs, as well as children from the upper class, such as the children of governors and those belonging to wealthy family clans, would be sent there. It was almost impossible for ordinary people to enter, one of the reasons being the sky-high tuition fees that ordinary people would not be able to afford. Nonetheless, it was easy for Ren Jie to bring someone in.
"This… and this… what do they add up to?" Gao Ren asked cautiously. At that moment, seeing that the dazed Ren Jie was still not talking, the pale and chubby Gao Ren walked in front of him and lifted both index fingers.
F*ck, now I'm being treated like an idiot.
Wait! No, to think of it, the original Ren Jie was not simply beaten into an idiot. He was beaten to death. He was murdered. The past scenarios floated into Ren Jie's head instantaneously. It turned out that Fang Qi, the girl whom the original Ren Jie was pursuing, one of the three crowned beauties in the academy, told that idiot that she liked him. However, she was constantly pestered by Gao Fei. Thus, she came up with a plan to get the original Ren Jie to tell Gao Fei that she was his.
He is such a f*cking idiot. From Gao Fei's expression and the words he shouted then, it was obvious that Fang Qi said something to him as well. In the end, the original Ren Jie was smacked on the head a couple of times by Gao Fei using the ironwood stool he was sitting on which was sturdier than stones. Even though he was ultimately rescued, he had inevitably passed away.
As that information flashed in his mind, he looked at Gao Ren's two pale and chubby fingers and the expression that showed he believed he was beaten into an idiot. "Three," Ren Jie replied casually.
"Oh no! Oh no! Young Master Jie lost his mind from the beating."
"This is bad. What do we do?"
"Something disastrous happened! Our family head has lost his mind from the beating. What… what are we supposed to do?"
The bunch of followers surrounding him looked increasingly paranoid.
"Three? Look carefully. My question was… what is one plus one?" Gao Ren had the shock of his life too. Did he really lose his mind? he thought internally.
"The answer can be four or five. Six, seven, eight are also all acceptable. It can also be equated to zero or one. Even a hundred million is fine," Ren Jie replied casually, his gaze turning to Gao Ren who was standing very close to him. Every modern person would know that his reply was similar to a brain twister. Such a reply would definitely be a joke. Or they would at least know that he was not trying to solve an actual math problem. Ren Jie merely thought that Gao Ren was honestly oddly pale and chubby. There was nothing wrong with his gaze. His face was also vaguely familiar. The more intently Ren Jie observed him, the more he believed that his intuition was correct. Moreover, Ren Jie did not observe him with his eye, but rather with his divine sense at that instant when he retracted it from his mind.
However, no matter how hard he stared, he was not going to realize the problem at that moment. Therefore, when that pale and chubby Gao Ren raised his fingers to ask him what was one plus one, he simply answered jokingly.
This is disastrous. He has really lost his mind from the beating. This is bad news. Although Ren Jie is a good-for-nothing, I finally managed to get closer to him. If he is to lose his mind, will I have to stray on the streets again… Gao Ren thought to himself. He walked forward hurriedly and said, "Let me check and see if I can find some ways to get some medicine for you…"
Ren Jie himself knew that if he did not take the huge swell on his head into account, he was perfectly fine. As for the original Ren Jie, he was long gone. Additionally, Ren Jie knew from his memory that Gao Ren was an apothecary, and he had other mysterious abilities as well. Ren Jie was genuinely afraid that he might find out about his transmigration.
"Nothing. I was just kidding. When two drops of water are added together, don't they still form a single drop?" Although he had completely assimilated the memories, Ren Jie still had some considerations in mind, especially after seeing that magical scenario. Gao Ren might not have discovered anything strange while standing before him currently, but Ren Jie still decided to play it safe and prevent him from discovering anything by examining him.
"Um…" Gao Ren was momentarily stunned. No kidding, one drop of water plus another really also made up one drop.
The people that surrounded them were also stunned. They thought about what Ren Jie had said. To someone who had not heard of that before, those sentences that sounded normal in modern society had a similar impact as the words in a Buddhist sutra; they would find that the sentences embodied something.
"Then why did you say that it equated to three?"
"A guy and a woman, doesn't that make that three?" Ren Jie said casually. Not wanting to be surrounded by so many people, he waved his hand and said, "Ok, now just leave."
"Why would a guy and a woman make three?"
"Moron! You need some creation for these things."
"Oh. That's Young Master Jie for you. Impressive."
There were still some people who did not understand, but after some explanation by those who understood, the eyes of the rest of the group lit up. Now they genuinely believed that Ren Jie was fine. They treated his words as some kind of innuendo. That was why they were smiling so weirdly.
Gao Ren was stunned for a moment. Afterward, he shrugged his shoulders and thought to himself, A leopard never changes its spots. After being beaten up so severely, he could still utter such words right after waking up.
"I've told you that Fang Qi was not someone to mess around with. The incident this time was definitely instigated by that woman. We must not let them get away with it so easily. Wait until I manage to concoct a strong laxative. Humph!" The rest of the group had left the room. Seeing that Ren Jie was fine, Gao Ren recalled what Ren Jie said about how one man and one woman added up to three. He thought that the conversation was becoming obscene, thus he started to change the direction of the conversation immediately.
"Yeah, that woman is indeed not an innocent person. You can even call her a malicious serpent-hearted person." Recalling what had happened, Ren Jie nodded his head in agreement.
"You are absolutely right! A malicious serpent-hearted person… Ah…" Hearing Ren Jie's comment, Gao Ren bobbed his head repeatedly. However, in the next moment, he looked at Ren Jie is disbelief. The horror present on his face was even more exaggerated than when he thought Ren Jie had lost his mind.
Oh my God. Is this still the infatuated young master?
In the past, Ren Jie and he would be caught in a heated argument whenever he said anything bad about Fang Qi. If it was someone else who badmouthed her, he could even fight with that person directly.
This dude has been pestering Fang Qi for almost a year, throughout which he has made a joke out of himself several times for her. What's happening to him today?
"Why are you leaning so close to me? You're not a beautiful girl. I'm not interested in fatties and guys. If you want to approach me, you would at the very least have to transform into a woman first…" The two were originally standing close together. Due to the disbelief and shock he experienced, Gao Ren could not resist closing in on Ren Jie to check if he had heard it right. That caused the distance between them to be further narrowed. Ren Jie could not stop recalling the scene he saw earlier. Although it was tough linking that pale and chubby fatty, who stretched to about a meter horizontally, to the beautiful girl he saw earlier, Ren Jie still could not resist joking about it.
"Huh? What woman? You are so desperate for women that… that you have lost your mind…" Gao Ren was momentarily shocked. He jerked two steps backward and gave Ren Jie a glare.
F*ck. Ren Jie looked at Gao Ren's stare and thought it did not look like the reactions a man should have.
Unwittingly, the atmosphere turned a little…
"Reporting to the family head! Today is the Elder Conference Day for our family clan. Seeing that the family head has not returned for quite a while, the elders have sent me here to escort you back immediately." At that instant, the loud voice of the guard penetrated through the door. That helped to alleviate the awkward atmosphere in the room.
Family head… Family Clan Elder Conference…
So this guy is actually… the family head of the Ren family, one of the five biggest aristocratic families in the Clear Jade Dynasty. No. To be exact, the family head now… is me!
"Ok…" Ren Jie felt slightly awkward too. That guy, or rather that ball-shaped fatty, kept on reminding him of that nude beauty. Moreover, it was almost impossible to find out at that moment how those fats that Gao Ren had were fake. Hence, Ren Jie happily answered the guard outside and left the bed swiftly.
Gao Ren looked at the leaving Ren Jie. Something was bugging him. He felt that there was something about Ren Jie today which was different from normal.
How could he have described Fang Qi as a malicious serpent-hearted person? How could he say that one plus one equals one? Was he enlightened after Gao Fei hit his head? Or were those words merely gibberish after experiencing that shock?
The pale and chubby Gao Ren circled his eyes rapidly. Maybe I'm just over-thinking, Gao Ren thought to himself. At least, there was no way he could have found out about…