Chapter 78: Chapter 078: The Glowing and Heating Potato Rack
The breeze brushed the girl’s face, and under the sunlight, her eyes brimmed with dazzling light.
Zhao Yuchuan was momentarily lost in thought, “You’re right, no matter the field, one can shine… Let’s encourage each other, little junior sister! We agricultural scholars should strive together!”
Qi Yue nodded, “Yeah, let’s work hard together!”
This year’s potatoes had just been planted and were not yet mature, so Zhao Yuchuan helped Qi Yue carry some of last year’s harvest from the warehouse.
Then, Qi Yue pulled out her old friend, the “potato roasting rack,” and started roasting potatoes.
“What’s this?” Zhao Yuchuan curiously looked at the object Qi Yue took out, which resembled a sword.
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“It’s a rack for roasting potatoes! I just dug it out recently; it’s pretty handy!” Qi Yue replied.
“Er, that’s a very special rack, can I take a look?” Zhao Yuchuan asked.
“Sure!” Qi Yue handed the rack straight to Zhao Yuchuan.
Zhao Yuchuan carefully took it and examined it.
The more he looked, the stranger he found it.
Until… he saw a line engraved on the handle of the sword—Champion of the XXth National Fencing Competition
Zhao Yuchuan was taken aback, wearing a skeptical look, “This… this seems to be a trophy! A sword-shaped trophy. Is this real… or a replica?”
“Huh? It’s real! Are there even replicas of this kind of thing?” Qi Yue said.
Zhao Yuchuan was half-convinced, “Really? But, this… this says Champion of the XXth National Fencing Competition. This is a trophy for the national fencing champion!”
“Yes, it’s definitely a trophy!” Qi Yue nodded in confirmation.
Zhao Yuchuan choked up, his face full of disbelief, “You were the champion of the XXth National Fencing Competition?”
While gathering up firewood, Qi Yue casually said, “Yep, the women’s epee team.”
Zhao Yuchuan fell into silence, “…”
He calculated, “XXth edition, that means you were… ”
“Graduating from high school; I participated in the competition during that summer break,” Qi Yue answered.
Zhao Yuchuan’s face showed admiration, as he carefully held the trophy that Qi Yue had used as a “barbecue rack,” “Little junior sister! You’re too amazing! Why didn’t you continue with fencing afterward?”
“Because I got admitted to A University for college!” Qi Yue answered as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.
Zhao Yuchuan found it both funny and pathetic, “Er… alright… So you took the opportunity during the summer break to win a national championship?”
Zhao Yuchuan recalled the competition from that year, “I watched that edition too, and the fencing contest that year was really like a battle of the gods, with all the greats clashing. The second, third, and even fourth-place finishers are now pillars of the fencing community, very famous, but the champion at the time disappeared from the scene. I had no idea… it turned out to be you, going off to college…”
Fencing competitions are different from other events; competitors are fully armed and wear helmets throughout, hiding their faces. Only when entering or exiting the piste do they briefly remove their masks, and with time having passed, several years, it’s no wonder nobody recognized Qi Yue.
Even if someone noticed the same name, they would never associate two people from such unrelated fields.
Zhao Yuchuan’s head was full of question marks, “You… you’re actually using it to roast potatoes?”
Qi Yue, still igniting the fire, spoke with a grin, “Well, it would just be lying around otherwise, might as well use it to shine and generate heat in some way!”
Zhao Yuchuan: “…”