Carrying a Jurassic on me
Chapter 408 - 119: Xu Xing Has Become a Monster - 1

Chapter 408: Chapter 119: Xu Xing Has Become a Monster - 1

"Isn’t this harming others without benefiting yourself? Have you forgotten our primary school teacher’s words?" Arriving at the door, Yan Fei asked Xu Xiaoyan.

"What words?" Miss Xu Xiaoyan asked in glee.

"If you were to do something at others’ detriment for your own benefit, I would reduce your punishment by the duration of one class, but doing this kind of things that only harm others without benefiting yourself is purely acting like a dumb fool. I think even if you stood for a day, it would not be unjust!" Yan Fei warned the girl in tone reminiscing of an adult. "Do you remember which teacher said that?"

"Ah?" Initially confused, the girl started to remember the teacher who had uttered those words.

This phrase was that teacher’s catchphrase. Back in the day, naughty children used to cause havoc, such as secretly urinating inside watermelons in people’s fields and then covering the hole back up with the piece of watermelon skin. Then, the skin would grow back over time, resulting in a nasty surprise when the owner cut the watermelon open later on.

Or, they would poke a wasp nest in the countryside during crowded times to terrorize people—Yan Fei had seen kids doing this during a school field trip to the river.

According to this teacher, these were all acts of fools: If you steal people’s watermelons to quench your own thirst, at least you’ve gotten something out of it, but what do you gain from ruining another person’s watermelon?

Is it just for the joy of imagining their faces when they cut open a rotten watermelon? You won’t even be able to witness their reactions for your own amusement, and what will you do when they blame the school for it? As for poking a wasp nest, nine times out of ten, it leads to pain for everyone around, including the original instigator.

So, the teacher referred to all these acts as examples of ’harming others without benefiting oneself.’

Of course, where there is ’harming others without benefiting oneself’, there could also be ’harming others to benefit oneself’, ’benefiting oneself without harming others’, and even ’mutual benefit’.

A joke, a kind of jest made by the teacher, inferring: people that do the first kind of thing are typical dumb fools, no one pities them if they get beaten up; those who play the second are too smart for their own good, and will wind up making a grave mistake and going to jail; the people who play the third are considered ordinary.

However, if you can turn all three situations into opportunities for mutual benefit, then you are truly clever.

Given that every time this teacher gave these talks, there were always a few unlucky ones stood at the back of the classroom as examples, many students remembered this theory—even when they grow up, they still find it to be pretty sensible.

At least, that’s what Yan Fei believed.

Yan Fei brought this up to allude to this silly miss. She ’punished’ others by freezing her hands icy cold in the middle of winter. This silly act was exactly the first scenario the teacher mentioned.

But the girl wasn’t stupid, she immediately realized Yan Fei’s intention. Instead of getting angry, she giggled, still laughing with her freezing hands back in Yan Fei’s shirt, and taunted, "You’re implying that I’m stupid by beating around the bush, aren’t you? You must like my icy cold hands too much! Hmph!"

What a silly girl. There’s just no way around her!

Yan Fei opened the door and brought the girl in. As soon as the door was closed, he leaned forward and peppered her face with kisses. She had two hands stuffed inside his clothes and wasn’t able to escape because she couldn’t pull them out!

Dinner time came and the girl was still pouting. "Yan Xiaofei, just keep picking on me! Hmph! I’ll tell your mother when I get home."

"Hmm, hmm, hmm! First, taste this piece of meat and see if you can figure out what kind it is?" Yan Fei hummed and hawed, picking up a piece of meat for the silly girl.

"You’re making me eat something so greasy so early in the morning, if I get fat, you can’t hold it against me!" the girl, mouth full of meat, continued to complain, her skill was truly remarkable!

"Hmm, I won’t hold it against you, I like both chubby and skinny. If you can guess what kind of meat this is, I’ll give you another treasure," Yan Fei said mysteriously.

"What treasure?" The girl didn’t bother guessing and went straight for the prize.

"You haven’t guessed yet!" Yan Fei insisted.

"Hmm, let me taste it again. It doesn’t seem to taste very good? It’s tender but a bit rough and dull," the girl tasted another piece of meat, then sipped the soup and immediately began to enjoy it. "The soup tastes pretty good? What kind of meat is it actually?"

Yan Fei had no choice but to answer frankly, "Sea turtle."

"What?" The girl was stunned, then broke into uncontrollable laughter. "What do you mean by ’overseas returnees meat’? Did these overseas returnees offend you? Yan Xiaofei, I didn’t expect you to be so patriotic, even bearing grievances against foreigners?"

"It’s a sea turtle, a turtle from the sea," Yan Fei emphasized. He knew the girl had misunderstood his words as referring to ’overseas returnees’ - those who have returned home after studying abroad, a term symbolizing high status and achievement nowadays!

"Oh!" She continued to chuckle before finally stopping. "How do you always manage to scavenge such weird stuff to eat? But I have to admit, although the meat is not that tasty, the soup is really good!"

"Go ahead and drink more if you like it," Yan Fei refrained from further comment, and didn’t explain the source either, he knew the girl wouldn’t ask further questions.

The meat surely wouldn’t be very delicious. It’s a sea turtle that had likely lived for many years—a glimpse at its massive size, as big as a room, should tell you enough. How can you expect such an old creature’s meat to be tender?

As he thought, the girl didn’t care about anything else once he told her to drink her soup. She started sipping contentedly, knowing that Yan Fei wouldn’t trick her. Why bother with anything else? If he wanted to tell her, he would’ve said it. If he didn’t want to tell her, then there must be a reason for it.