Chapter 425 — Let's Go Shark Fishing
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"Think about it, Liang. You could make a shaped tree and decorate it with Gu Mengyao's name. The moment she sees it she'll love it — every girl goes for that sort of frilly stuff!" Gao Xiaofu said. "Remember The Return of the Condor Heroes? When Guo Xiang had her birthday, Yang Guo gave her a fireworks display and she was so thrilled she practically pledged herself to him on the spot!"
"Pledged herself to him? I remember it as Guo Xiang becoming a nun." Zhong Yongliang blinked.
"Uh — right, so she became a nun. I don't remember exactly. Maybe I read fan fiction..." Gao Xiaofu said, a little embarrassed. "I figure she took the vows for love, too... Anyway, this trick is guaranteed to work!"
"So you mean I should set off some fireworks too?" Zhong Yongliang asked.
"Exactly, Liang! Haven't you heard the saying, 'trees of fire and flowers of silver, a night that never ends'? We'll give Gu Mengyao her own blazing night of silver flowers!" Gao Xiaofu said.
"All right, then it's settled! I'll go buy a sapling!" Zhong Yongliang thought this was a fine idea — much simpler than writing a letter in blood. At least this blazing night of silver flowers didn't require him to cut himself.
"The sapling has to be special too. Don't get the same kind as everyone else, or we won't be able to show off how unique we are," Gao Xiaofu said.
"Fine, I'll look into getting an imported sapling in a bit!" Zhong Yongliang was excited. He felt Gao Xiaofu had finally come up with a good idea.
"Liang, should we run this by Sister Xiaoxiao? She's the big boss of our class now, after all... If we're going to cause this much of a stir, we ought to give her a heads-up, don't you think?" Gao Xiaofu reminded him.
"True enough. We really should mention it — otherwise Sister Xiaoxiao might have her own plan for dealing with Wei Zhao, and it'd be bad if the two got in each other's way.
After school, Zhong Yongliang invited Feng Xiaoxiao to a corner of the campus by the playing field, intending to tell her what Gao Xiaofu had proposed.
Feng Xiaoxiao listened patiently to Gao Xiaofu's explanation. Whether Zhong Yongliang courted Gu Mengyao or not was of no interest to her; her target was Wei Zhao.
"This is what you wanted to talk about? What's it got to do with me?" Feng Xiaoxiao frowned. "I thought you'd come up with a way to humiliate Wei Zhao!"
"Humiliate Wei Zhao... Sister Xiaoxiao, weren't you going to teach him a lesson? Why humiliate him now?" Zhong Yongliang blinked. He had assumed there was a deep grudge between Feng Xiaoxiao and Wei Zhao, but apparently that wasn't it.
"What I'm going to do is none of your business," Feng Xiaoxiao said with a sniff. "I was humiliated beyond words today, and I mean to humiliate him right back!"
"Uh... if that's all, I might just have a way..." Gao Xiaofu said, his eyes lighting up.
"What plan?" Feng Xiaoxiao looked at this armchair strategist, wondering what great insight he could possibly produce.
"Aren't we putting on a blazing night of silver flowers? There'll have to be fireworks and firecrackers. We'll give you a string of firecrackers, and you sneak up and hang them on Wei Zhao's backside. Then when they're lit — Wei Zhao's backside... heh heh, just imagine how humiliated he'll be!" Gao Xiaofu was good for nothing else, but he could always come up with a nasty little trick.
"Oh?" Feng Xiaoxiao began seriously weighing the feasibility of this. If handled properly, it really could work: secretly hang the firecrackers behind Wei Zhao without him noticing, then, when Zhong Yongliang lit the blazing night of silver flowers, quietly set the firecrackers off as well, making it look as though they had been accidentally ignited by the display. Even if Wei Zhao wanted revenge, he probably wouldn't be able to find any proof.