This summer in Mo City is unexpectedly hot. After rebirth, Su Ziceng truly experienced the intense heat of Mo City. Before her rebirth, as the term ended, she would plan trips abroad, either to the Southern Hemisphere or to Europe, basking on golden beaches and in the moist sea breeze, having long forgotten the taste of summer in Mo City.
This year, Su Ziceng had no choice but to stay, so on the first day of the vacation, upon seeing the ground temperature at forty degrees and indoor temperature at thirty-four degrees, both she and Yan Wuxu almost lost interest in going out to hunt antiques. In the scorching summer, aimlessly searching without a goal would undoubtedly be foolish, so Yan Wuxu, without telling Su Ziceng, decided on what she thought was a wise course of action.
Before the vacation, Yan Wuxu made another trip to Kelly, not for re-enrollment procedures of course. The reason she withdrew from school instead of taking a leave was to toughen her resolve. Although she "casually" visited a few female students who had once looked down upon and laughed at her when she returned to Kelly, her ultimate goal this time was to find someone to show her the way to treasures.
Yu Hua’s God Stick’s mysticism class exams were infuriatingly simple: it involved each student shaking a turtle shell and then decoding the divination based on the copper coins that fell from the shell. After a semester of "nonsense", Su Ziceng doubted even an incense burner lying in the classroom could pass this exam.
However, apart from Su Ziceng, nearly all the female students believed that Yu Hua’s God Stick was genuine, his divinations so accurate that they could predict daily weather forecasts. Of course, no one else like Su Ziceng had ever visited Yu Hua’s God Stick’s home, which was barely furnished, the only electrical appliance being a radio with two speakers that could tune into the provincial weather forecast at any time.
Yan Wuxu was one of those female students, so after failing to find valuable antiques for many days, she contemplated asking Yu Hua’s God Stick to divine where in Mo City or perhaps in Country Z might be hiding antiques.
Yu Hua’s God Stick received Wuxu with a pleasant demeanor and when he saw this female student again, he recalled, "I’ve patronized your mother’s stall before!" Anyone who had lived in the Sixth District likely visited the seaside stall.
A few years ago, hearing this would have felt familiar to Yan Wuxu, but now things were different. She simply responded quietly, "I’ve come today hoping the Master could help me see if there’s a way to improve my current business." While speaking, Yan Wuxu tilted her head, the mysticism classroom still in the old place, and with the arrival of summer, the doors and windows were tightly closed, making the smell from Yu Hua’s God Stick’s feet even more pungent.
As she turned her head, a flash of orange light at her ear caught Yu Hua’s God Stick’s unaware, and with a movement of his bamboo stick, he reached for Yan Wuxu’s ear. Yan Wuxu, quite sensitive, grabbed the inexplicably moving bamboo stick, "Master." Having been with Su Qingzhang for a long time, her tone had completely lost the naivety of her student days, and had taken on the authority of high society.
"The item you’re wearing on your ear is bad luck, better to take it off soon," Yu Hua’s God Stick, his bamboo stick restrained, advised her upon seeing her expression.
"Master, you must be joking. I’ve always worn this item, how could it bring bad luck," Yan Wuxu didn’t explain the matter fully. The orange earrings were exactly the ones she had stolen with that dress from "Admiration," but it was these earrings that had brought her to today’s position. Whenever she hesitated over a decision, the earrings would give her extra courage to overcome challenges. Yan Wuxu believed that these earrings would bring her luck, so even after Su Qingzhang gave her many valuable jewels, she continued only to wear these earrings. These earrings had a nice name, called "Orange Love." These things, Yan Wuxu did not tell anyone else.
"Believe it or not, I’m old, and my sight is nearly gone. Soon, I probably won’t recognize even a familiar face in front of me," seeing Yan Wuxu’s disbelief, Yu Hua’s God Stick did not explain further, having seen many strange people recently. The previous student named Su Ziceng had the strangest palm he’d ever seen in his life, and this student, she was the most obsessed he had encountered.