Enemies Are All Nourishment for My Fungi-Chapter 177: Dealing with the Brothers Upon Returning to the City (3)

"No, it’s the clean clothes in the wardrobe..." the twins hurriedly shook their heads.

"Did someone throw them on the floor and even step on them?"

"How did you know?" The two boys were a bit surprised.

"I just graduated from high school last year, alright? I’m not clueless about the ways students bully each other."

"But now we have no clothes to change into tonight."

"If there aren’t any, there aren’t any. Come on, let’s go to the hotel. After we have dinner there, I’ll take you to buy new clothes. Be careful with what you eat these next few days. Don’t eat anything carelessly and affect your exams next week."

"Can we eat whatever we want after the exams?"

"For summer eating, don’t even say the words ’whatever we want.’ You could get acute gastroenteritis in a minute."

"Oh~"

"You can think about what you want to eat after the exams, as long as it’s available in the city, but it must be clean and sanitary."

"Hmm, can we go to Seafood Restaurant?" Ye Ji tentatively asked.

"Sure," Ye Nai nodded affirmatively.

"...Really?!"

"Summer is the season when farmed shrimp hit the market. Seafood Restaurant will definitely have good stuff, and I want to eat there too."

The siblings discussed the topic of Seafood Restaurant while slowly exiting the school.

Ye Nai used her mobile phone to call for a ride.

"Want a drink? The car will take five minutes to arrive."

"Yes!"

The boys took Ye Nai to a milk tea shop not far from the school gate. It had opened in the past two years and was very popular with students. Each ordered an iced drink, sipping through straws as they returned to the roadside just as their ride arrived.

They went straight to the hotel where Ye Nai was staying.

"Wow! Big sister, you’re staying in such a nice place?"

"It’s quiet here, the walls are thick, and you can sleep soundly without hearing all sorts of noises from the room next door."

"Is the room expensive?"

"No, a standard room is cheap, and booking online gets you a discount. The really expensive ones are the deluxe rooms, which are for the rich. But how many rich people can there be in East Ridge? Even high-end hotels have to attract guests with cheaper rooms."

"Got it."

"Keep up, let’s go to the front desk to check in. You can look around as much as you want afterward."

Before entering the main door, Ye Nai set down the rules.

But upon entering the hotel lobby, the two boys were still so captivated by the splendid décor that they could hardly move.

Ye Nai waited a moment, and seeing that they were still not done looking, grabbed one by the collar and hauled them towards the front desk.

"Didn’t I say we’d check in first and then you can look around all you want?"

"Alright, alright, we’ll walk by ourselves."

"Be gentle, be gentle, the drinks are spilling."

Guests coming and going in the lobby couldn’t help but chuckle as they passed by the trio.

They just found it an amusing scene, nothing more.

The clientele of such a high-class hotel naturally had some standards, even if it was all an act. But an act of classiness is still classiness.

Ye Nai didn’t let go at all. The boys couldn’t break free with their measly strength and were reluctantly dragged by their sister to the front desk.

"Student ID card."

The two pulled out their student IDs from their backpacks and handed them to their sister.

The front desk clerk, seeing that she was a guest who had checked in that morning, asked if she now wanted to upgrade to a business suite with three bedrooms for her two brothers.

Ye Nai glanced at her brothers with a look of distaste and shook her head.

Understanding, the front desk clerk nodded. Two lively, adolescent boys were a handful even for parents, let alone a sister. The registration was completed quickly, room cards were handed out, and the charges for both rooms were added to Ye Nai’s room bill.

Clutching the room cards, Ye Nai waited a full quarter hour before the two boys finally finished feasting their eyes. She picked them up and took the elevator to the rooms.

The boys’ room was a standard twin room, spacious, with a small balcony for drying clothes.

"Dinner is from five to eight, so we still have more than an hour. Come here and tell me exactly what happened," Ye Nai said as she pulled a chair from beside the TV cabinet and sat down at the foot of the two beds.

With her sitting like this, there was still enough space for a walkway between the chair and the TV cabinet.

The boys, who had been rolling on the bed, immediately climbed up obediently and sat down at the foot of the bed.

"We..."

Suddenly asked to speak, they choked, their thoughts muddied, unsure of where to even begin.

Ye Nai took out her phone from her chest bag and turned on the private messages they had sent her.

"Don’t know how to say it? Then I’ll ask, and you answer."

"Mm-hm."

"The last message you sent me was a week and a half ago, do you still have your phone on you now?"

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"No."

Just this one question immediately unclogged the boys’ thoughts.

"Our phones were stolen."

"By whom?"

"Not from our class, from the dorm on the same floor."

"You write your essays without a point too?"

"Uh..."

"Focus. Who was it, what’s their name? Tell me the name, then talk about the rest."

"That..." The boys’ thoughts choked up again.

"Who’s the school tyrant?" Ye Nai had to guide again.

"The just graduated Huang Yuanhao."

"Does he usually interact with you?"

"No interaction, this semester I barely saw him a few times, seems he hasn’t been coming to school, just hanging out outside."

"Okay, and who’s the one who’s been messing with you?"

"Jiang Hui from Class 3, Grade 8."

"What’s his relationship with Huang Yuanhao? How close are they?"

"That..."

"You don’t know either?"

The boys shook their heads.

"What’s your dorm number? What’s Jiang Hui’s?"

"We’re in 404, he’s in 406."

"Same floor, just one room apart?"

"Yeah."

"How did Jiang Hui know that both of you had phones? Did you use them in front of others? Bragged about them?"

"That..." The two boys lowered their heads, fearfully, "we’ve used them in front of others, been online, made purchases."

"So quite a few people knew there was money on your phones."

"Yeah, that’s right."

"Was it Jiang Hui himself who stole the phones?"

"He was there, but it wasn’t just him, there were several others. There were two of us, he wouldn’t dare come alone."

"After stealing the phones, they took the payment passwords too?"

"Yeah."

"We didn’t want to give it to them, but they kept hitting us."

The two boys, worried about being scolded, quickly lifted their shirts to reveal the bruises on their stomachs that hadn’t faded.

"With your phones stolen, where did you get the money for food?"

"They forced us to do stuff for them, gave us two yuan a day, just enough to buy the cheapest buns in the cafeteria."

"Two yuan? Two yuan each?"

"Two yuan for the two of us..." The boys’ voices grew quieter as they spoke.

Ye Nai didn’t say anything, finally understanding how just two months of not seeing them could lead to malnutrition.

"Do you recognize the others who were with Jiang Hui when they stole the phones?"

"We know them, they’re always involved in bad deeds."

Ye Nai tossed a small notebook at them, a two-yuan notebook from a street-side stationery shop.

"Write down their names and classes."