Chapter 76: Rainbow Stone Membership Card

Chapter 76: Rainbow Stone Membership Card

Upon learning that the food from Xuehe Rice Ball was not only non-toxic but also highly nutritious, most students openly longed for the aroma of Xuehe Rice Balls and looked forward to tasting that deliciousness again tomorrow.

But the next moment, they were informed that the owner would not be coming tomorrow and would never return to set up her stall here. Because the owner had already secured a new location for her stall, this time in the city.

Not only that, the affordable rice balls that almost everyone could afford from the old stall were gone, replaced only by rice balls costing a hundred yuan and other items. They felt like they had plummeted from the clouds straight to the ground in an instant.

This news was infuriating.

It was farther away and more expensive.

All of this stemmed from the complaint made a week ago.

The students were filled with righteous indignation, wishing they could pin Zhang Tong, Zhang Fuyao, and Zhang Weilong to the ground and give them a good thrashing.

While they were thinking this in their classroom, over in the building housing the ninth graders, Zhang Fuyao was already being pinned to the ground and thrashed.

Chen Longfei was hot-tempered. He was stunned when he saw the report. He had once started a fight over this matter, and now he felt his face had been slapped resoundingly. He and Chen Shicheng rushed straight from the school gate to Class 10 of the ninth grade, barging into Zhang Fuyao's classroom to vent their anger on him.

*Thud, thud, thud.* Fists rained down on Zhang Fuyao's body as the furious Chen Longfei hit him while cursing, "It's all your fault, you scumbag! You're the one who tricked me! If you hadn't reported her, the owner wouldn't have moved away. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have lost so much face! It's all your fault!"

Chen Longfei had believed the nonsense about "Xuehe Rice Balls being poisonous" spread by his family. Not only had he argued fiercely with Lin Tao and the others, but he had also gotten into a fight on the playground.

Now that the truth was out, the 20,000 yuan compensation was gone, and his face was completely lost. How was he supposed to keep hanging out in Taoxi Town? He could already imagine the mocking looks he would receive walking down the street.

So humiliating!

Chen Shicheng stood nearby, occasionally kicking Zhang Fuyao.

Zhang Fuyao's eyes were full of hatred. What did this have to do with him? Damn that Xuehe Rice Ball, why wasn't it poisonous!

He protested loudly, "Ah, stop, stop hitting me! I didn't say it was poisonous! It was Zhang Weilong from Huilong Rice Ball who said that! If you want to hit someone, hit him! This has nothing to do with me!"

"Hmph, we'll deal with you now, and him tomorrow."

Zhang Fuyao saw his chance, kicked Chen Longfei, and quickly took off running.

Right now, the teacher's office was the safest place.

He ran in that direction.

"Teacher, help!"

"What's going on? Fighting is against school rules, stop immediately!" Hearing the cries for help, a teacher rushed out to intervene. Seeing the teacher, Chen Longfei and Chen Shicheng turned and fled in a flash.

To protect himself and the student, Teacher Fan brought Zhang Fuyao back to the office, in view of the surveillance camera.

Then he asked about why they were fighting.

After understanding the reason for Zhang Fuyao's distress call, Teacher Fan let out a melancholy sigh. Honestly, he felt like giving Zhang Fuyao's family a beating too.

Before Xuehe Rice Ball was reported, Teacher Fan's daily lunch consisted of rice balls and Qiong Peach Juice. Because he enjoyed his meals, he was happy teaching his classes every day.

Now that the owner had moved her stall to the city, on one hand, he hoped her business would flourish, but on the other hand, he was sad that his lunches were no longer something to look forward to. Fortunately, besides being a teacher, he was also a member of the Foodie Group.

He could go to the owner's stall in the city to buy food when he didn't have class, and he was getting his membership card tomorrow. Thinking of this, Teacher Fan's mood improved a little.

He asked kindly, "Student Fuyao, are you injured?"

Zhang Fuyao initially wanted to nod, but remembering that being injured would require calling his parents, and considering the bad reputations of Chen Longfei and Chen Shicheng, he shook his head and said, "Teacher, I'm fine."

Teacher Fan said, "That's good. If anything is wrong, you must speak up. I'll report this to the school, and those two students will be punished appropriately."

"Okay."

"Mhm, if there's nothing else, you should hurry back to the classroom. Class is about to start."

In a different classroom in the same building, Zhang Tong was luckier and wasn't beaten or yelled at. However, she often felt looked down on and left out by some classmates. But she believed neither she nor her family had done anything wrong.

Originally, her parents didn't believe the food was poisonous, but as soon as they heard about the compensation money, they immediately planned to take her grandmother to confront the stall owner.

Putting aside everything else, what if their family had gambled correctly? Wouldn't the compensation money have been theirs? She felt the classmates who were distancing themselves from her were all hypocrites. If they had known in advance about the chance to gamble for 20,000 yuan in compensation, Zhang Tong didn't believe they would have acted any differently from her.

Zhang Tong was filled with resentment and said, "Hah, as if you all trusted that stall so much. When the incident first happened, weren't you all scared to death, cursing the owner to die a horrible death every day?"

Her deskmate, Liu Hanshuang, angrily retorted, "Zhang Tong, do you have a heart? It was clearly your fault. We believed what you said, mistakenly thought it was really poisonous, and that's why we cursed. How could you falsely accuse someone without evidence? Now look, we can't buy anything after school anymore."

Zhang Tong snapped back, "Good! I won't eat it, and none of you will get to eat it either!" Her meal allowance was small. She used to scrimp and save to buy it before. While others could afford it once every two days, she could only have it once a week. Now, good, no one gets to eat it.

Liu Hanshuang was shocked, "You... how can you be like this!" It was as if she was seeing the person beside her for the first time.

"Teacher, I want to change seats!"

The teacher pondered for a moment and said, "Alright."

Liu Hanshuang successfully changed seats. Sitting next to someone with psychological issues like Zhang Tong, she was afraid that if any minor incident occurred in the future, Zhang Tong or her family might go crazy and harm her.

From then on, Zhang Tong and Zhang Fuyao were labeled—the villains who falsely accused the delicious food. Wherever they went in the school, they were met with disdain from their classmates.

It was these two families who caused Xuehe Rice Ball to move away!

The owner of Xuehe Rice Ball didn't know about the targeting they faced, and even if she did, she wouldn't care.

On the day of the trouble, they could have dissuaded their families or stayed out of it, but they didn't. Both of them pretended to be sick and lay down at the stall.

If Jiang Yingxue didn't have cultivation and was just an ordinary person, she wouldn't have been able to handle four people alone. That day, her stall would definitely have been smashed by Zhang Tong's parents and Zhang Fuyao's mother working together.

So Jiang Yingxue felt no sympathy for them.

*

At the Jiang residence, inside the stone house within the space.

Amidst a pile of crystals, Jiang Yingxue finally dug out the crystal she wanted—the Rainbow Stone.

In the secular world, a rainbow stone is simply a stone possessing seven colors.

But this Rainbow Stone is not that rainbow stone. This Rainbow Stone is a collective term for a type of crystal that comes in seven colors. Each colored crystal is a separate large piece, but they all share the same function.

Its function is to store identity information and a wisp of spiritual sense. Some sects use it to make identity life tablets for their disciples.

Jiang Yingxue, however, planned to use it to make membership cards.