"Uh... Sister Qingqing, I... I'm going back home now... see... see you later!"
Utterly at a loss, Lin Feng, after realizing what had happened, hurriedly left those words behind and scampered back to his own house.
"I... I slapped Sister Qingqing's butt? I... I actually really slapped Sister Qingqing's butt?"
Sitting at his desk at home, Lin Feng threw his English book down onto the table with a slap, genuinely startled; he was frightened by his own impulsive action.
Who was the girl next door, Luo Qingqing? She was the most overbearing girl on the two streets nearby from childhood, and even though she had grown into a graceful flight attendant, others might not know, but Lin Feng was all too aware that Sister Qingqing still had that same terrifying "female demon" inside her.
Lin Feng had grown accustomed to being bullied and protected by Sister Qingqing since they were kids. He remembered when he was six years old, Wang Pangzi from next door had stolen a glass marble from him, and crying, he had run to tell Luo Qingqing. To his surprise, Luo Qingqing chased Wang Pangzi down with a broom for five streets, and after swelling up Wang Pangzi's butt, she snatched back the glass marble.
And today, Lin Feng didn't know what had come over him all of a sudden, perhaps his sense of manhood had awakened; he dared to stand up to the flight attendant Luo Qingqing and had even slapped her butt.
"It's over! All over... This time it looks like I'm really done for. I even slapped Sister Qingqing's butt; I bet once Sister Qingqing realizes what happened, she's definitely going to beat me into a pig's head..."
At this moment, the beautiful and attractive girl next door, Luo Qingqing, in Lin Feng's eyes, was not at all a gentle and dignified flight attendant, but had thoroughly turned into the synonym for a "female demon." Just thinking of Luo Qingqing becoming enraged sent shivers down Lin Feng's scalp.
"Ugh! If I'm going to die, I might as well die... but first, let's hurry and check out my magical glass marble..."
Seeing that the time was almost six o'clock, Lin Feng leaned down on the floor and hurried to pull out an exquisitely made cardboard box hidden under his bed. He hadn't just made up an excuse about having important things to do to escape from Luo Qingqing's home. The reason Lin Feng had rushed back was to check on the magical glass marble hidden in the box under his bed.
"One, two... twenty-two... twenty-three! Yes, there's a little over a minute left until six o'clock; there are twenty-three marbles in the box, and if it's as usual... then at six o'clock, there would be twenty-four marbles in the box!"
Lin Feng stared with wide eyes, first counting the glass marbles, then he watched intently for the number of marbles to increase. The glass marble in this box was the same one Wang Pangzi had stolen from him when he was six. It had started off as just one, but Lin Feng found that every six months, another marble would appear. At first, Lin Feng didn't pay much attention to it, but as it kept happening every year, he became utterly fascinated and carefully kept the glass marbles in a box under his bed.
Sure enough, over the past twelve years, the mysterious glass marble had grown from one to twenty-three. This afternoon at six o'clock, it was time for the half-year addition. If nothing unusual happened, the number of glass marbles in the box would become twenty-four.
Tick-tock!
Tick-tock...
As soon as it hit six o'clock, sure enough, Lin Feng watched with his own eyes as one of the glass marbles "produced" a new marble.
"One, two, three, four ... twenty ... twenty-one ... twenty-two ... twenty-three ... twenty-four! It really turned into twenty-four pearls! What... what is going on here? What treasure are these glass beads anyway? Why does one more appear every six months?"
Having confirmed this miraculous scene again, Lin Feng truly couldn't keep his cool. He had guarded this secret for so many years, never telling anyone, because he felt these glass beads were definitely a treasure. However, after waiting so many years, besides gaining an extra bead every six months, there were no other signs of wonder, and now there were twenty-four in total.
"Twenty-four pearls? Are there any treasures made up of twenty-four pearls?"
With a fondness for ancient Chinese mythology, Lin Feng thought of the number of beads and associated it with the legend in "Investiture of the Gods." Suddenly, it dawned on him. He shouted excitedly, "The Calming Sea Pearls! Yes ... that's it ... the Calming Sea Pearls used by Zhao Gongming, the Wealth God from the Investiture of the Gods, there are twenty-four of them ..."
No sooner had the words left his mouth, he saw the twenty-four Calming Sea Pearls in the box as if they were responding to a call. With pop, pop, pop, water started to spurt out of each pearl, seeping out of the box, and eventually even soaking the English book on Lin Feng's desk.
"Ah ... a flood ... is ... is this really the Calming Sea Pearls?"
Seeing the beads causing water to flood the desk, Lin Feng hurried over, intending to gather them up. But who would have thought that the twenty-four Calming Sea Pearls would whoosh directly into his mouth and get swallowed by him involuntarily.
"Uh ... Did I just eat the twenty-four Calming Sea Pearls?"
Lin Feng was stunned, definitely feeling the twenty-four Calming Sea Pearls enter his stomach. Then, with a fierce inhalation of breath, the water that had covered the desk was suddenly all sucked in by him. Even the English textbook, wet with drops of water, was completely dried as he absorbed every drop.
"Me ... What happened to me? Could it be ... that after eating those twenty-four pearls, I've gained ... the ability to control water?"
Shocked by his newfound ability, Lin Feng tried once more with a thought, aiming at the cup on the desk, and silently commanding "collect." Sure enough ... the tap water in the cup instantly formed a stream and got sucked dry by him.
At this moment, next door at the Luo family, the air stewardess Luo Qingqing touched her round bottom that Lin Feng had slapped hard and felt both embarrassed and angry, her temper flaring up all at once: "That scoundrel Lin Feng, he even dares to hit sister's butt! He's really asking for it ... watch how I deal with him!"
As the famously temperamental beauty of the area, air stewardess Luo Qingqing had always been the boss since she was little, never having suffered any setbacks. But today, she had her butt slapped by Lin Feng, whom she considered a little brat, which was utterly humiliating.
Fuming with anger, Luo Qingqing didn't even bother to change out of her air stewardess's uniform, and wearing those wine-red high heels, she clacked fiercely toward Lin Feng's bedroom in the Lin Family's home.
"Little Feng! You rascal, come out to Sister ... watch how I don't beat your butt to a pulp ..."
BANG! Inside the room, Lin Feng was absorbed in his newly gained superpower of controlling water, when unexpectedly, at that moment, the she-devil neighbor and air stewardess Luo Qingqing kicked his bedroom door open.