Rules
April 12, Tuesday.
Early that morning, Zheng Qing felt somewhat unsettled. He kept feeling that there was something from last night's trip to the Cat Fruit Tree that he had overlooked, and that feeling peaked when he tore off today's page from the old almanac.
Because he had accidentally torn off only half of it.
In the eyes of many old-school wizards, that was extremely unlucky, comparable to running into a black dog first thing in the morning.
Yet no matter how many times he thought it over, that unease was like trying to scoop the moon from the water—he could never get to the bottom of it.
Until before Magic Script Class that afternoon.
As Zheng Qing entered the classroom and passed the first row, he happened to hear Li Meng chatting with Jiang Yu.
"—Su Ya told me that after getting up this morning, Qingqiu Mansion had a big cleaning. Zheng the Scum's scruffy gray dog, the one called Rongdou or Maodou or something, was caught by her young lady and scrubbed inside and out for an hour. It was nearly scrubbed raw, and afterward it was hung up in the little garden to 'dry.' It's already been hanging there for several hours..."
She spoke with great excitement, gesturing wildly.
Completely unaware that Zheng Qing had been listening beside her with a dark expression for quite a while.
"She hung Maodou up?" Zheng Qing finally remembered that he had apparently sold out his own dog by accident last night, leaving him both angry and nervous.
Ever since Zheng Qing had arranged for Maodou to serve as Dongdong's guard, Su Shijun had muttered in his ear more than once that she wanted to have the dog neutered, lest he prove harmful to her daughter.
It had scared Maodou