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Chapter Thirty-Eight: Victory in Sight

  After dinner, I wanted to set an alarm on my phone and take a nap. But Liu Mingming had other plans and wanted to hold another work analysis meeting. For crying out loud, can't he just let me be? I'm going to die from sleepiness!

  Just like yesterday, everyone put the finished paintings on the outside playground and splattered them all over the ground. Then everyone formed a circle around them and listened to Liu Mingming comment on our paintings in plain language.

  I feel my eyes are so sour, I'll just close them for a while. After a while, all I heard was Liu Mingming cursing: "Whose trash paper is this again?"

  Needless to say, of course it's mine. I opened my eyes and smiled wryly at Old Liu: "Liu Ge, today this is not a waste paper, today this painting has a famous style."

  Liu Mingming crouched on the ground, with a small cigarette in his mouth, this pose was very similar to that of XX Pei, the younger brother of X Pei in the movie "Young and Dangerous: The Legend of the No-Face Gang".

  He asked me, what's this nonsense about? Tell me and let me hear it.

  I said to him: "This painting is called 'The Sun Rises in the East, Mirror Lake is Comparable to Songhua River, Continued Collection of Cow Herding Picture'."

  Liu Mingming helplessly smiled at me and said, "Isn't it the same as yesterday?"

  I told him, today's is a continuation of yesterday's. As a result, he stood up and kicked me in the butt.

  Ordinary people, I really don't want to bother you. Covering my butt and carrying a tired body back to my room, looking at my phone, it's almost 9 pm. It seems that I won't be able to sleep again, because if I sleep now, even if I set an alarm clock, I won't be able to get up tonight.

  No choice, go take a cold shower first. After taking the shower, I found that the hotel staff had taken away my magic bowl when they were cleaning the room in the morning, so I borrowed a large bowl and chopsticks from the kitchen again.

  On the way back to the house, I passed by a small warehouse opened in the hotel and bought two packs of Honghe and ten small packets of instant coffee for 50 yuan. The money was spent really painfully. But in order to refresh myself, there is no other way. Holding these war materials back to the room.

  I hate commercials, at 11 o'clock at night, sitting on a small stool, the bowls, water and chopsticks are already set on the table, staring at the uniform commercials on TV. Next to my ears are Wang Cheng and Xiao Kai's soft snores.

  Detestable ads, at this moment, in my eyes, they are like counting sheep... one ad, two ads... From just now to now, I've already smoked half a pack of cigarettes. I've also downed two cups of coffee, but it seems like there's no use.

  I'm praying for it to come soon so I can be refreshed and revitalized.

  But things didn't go as I wished, and it wasn't until nearly 3 am that the chopsticks in the bowl suddenly stood up with a "pa" sound.

  It's finally here! Feeling the chill approaching, I perked up. So I left with a bowl in my left hand, a handful of symbols in my right hand, and my phone hanging from my neck.

  Another night of confrontation has begun, this thing seems to have no memory, or I'll stick a talisman on it and it will stop for a while, then go to another room. But I'm not taking any chances either, after all, this is playing with my life.

  It's okay, nothing happened that night. At more than 4 o'clock in the morning, I saw the chopsticks 'pa' and fell into the bowl. Then I breathed a sigh of relief, and there was another night.

  I can't think about anything else now, I quickly ran back to the room, put the bowl on the table, and fell onto the bed without even taking off my clothes. I'll sleep as long as I can.

  Nicholas Winton once said: The house leaks and it rains at night. This sentence is really good, at 8:30 in the morning, I was pulled out of bed by Wang Cheng and others again, and it was a collective writing life.

  But today I didn't complain again, washing my face and staring at the increasingly heavy dark circles and bloodshot eyes. Fortunately, there is still one last night, tomorrow night is the 15th, when I will ask Ninth Uncle to come out and ask him what that thing is, and then clean it up and everything will be fine.

  While having breakfast, I found that Guan Ming had actually recovered his spirits and was radiant with health. Those girls looked at me with this expression, and behind my back, they started gossiping again. Of course, I'm not in the mood to listen to what they're saying now.

  After lunch, I carried my painting board to the lakeside fengshui treasure land that belongs to me. Today's weather is really hot, and before noon, I was already feeling a bit dizzy from the sun. I don't know if I'll get heatstroke if this continues.

  I rushed to the lake and washed my face with the lake water, then retreated to a place with tree shade and sat down. I tore open a bag of instant coffee and poured it directly into my mouth.

  You don't say, it's actually quite effective. The strong bitterness stimulates my tired nerves along my taste buds. Let's get this over with, and I can have a good night's sleep tonight.

  Made three curses, then drew talismans with a weak breath.

  At noon, when the sun was at its strongest, I felt like the heat around me had almost cooked me three-quarters done. So, I stumbled back to the hotel in a daze and waited for lunch. As soon as I sat down in the dining hall, I fell asleep.

  I was woken up again, it's time to eat. I'm sweating all over and feel like I'm about to collapse. The girls next to me are chattering and laughing, when suddenly one of them calls out to me: "Cui Zuofei, can you help me get some of that fish in front of you?"

  At that time, I didn't hear what she said at all. Guan Ming beside me shook me and asked: "Buddy, what's wrong with you? What are you thinking about?"

  I weakly said: "Sleep..."

  The girls on the table all exploded, saying: "Oh my god~~~~ how disgusting, thinking of sleeping in front of girls..."

  Now it's against the law to kill people, if killing people wasn't against the law I would have bled all of you stinky old women to death. I thought angrily and helplessly.

  After finishing dinner, I returned to the lake with a swaggering gait. Today's condition was not good, and only four sheets were successfully done in the whole morning. How can this not make me worried?

  Before I went out, I spent three dollars to buy a bottle of iced mineral water. Sitting on the beach, I first poured half a bottle onto my head to wake myself up.

  To be honest, I'm not a very determined person, but with the pressure on me and victory in sight, I managed to finish six more symbols this afternoon. However, compared to before, I'm already exhausted, and I don't know if I can make it through tonight.

  The sun sets again, I've already calculated it in my heart. After getting through tonight, there are still two nights left at Mirror Lake. Tomorrow, after seeing Ninth Uncle, I'll turn the tables and destroy that thing. Then I can finally have a good night's sleep.

  After dinner, it was the usual work analysis meeting. However, Liu Mingming didn't scold me today. He just sighed and crumpled up my "Sunrise over Dongfang Mirrored Lake, comparable to Songhua River's awesome third part" into a ball and threw it back at me.

  Whatever it takes to get through tonight! I mustered up the courage to borrow a box of cooling oil from a girl, then applied two large dollops and rubbed them vigorously onto my temples before returning to the room to continue watching that boring TV.

  The king saw that I looked worse and worse over the past two days, so he asked me: "What's wrong? Are you uncomfortable? Go to bed early. Your face looks like a paper person in a flower shop."

  Big brother, I want to sleep too, but if I fall asleep, you guys might sleep forever! Alas, what's the point of me understanding so much? It's really self-inflicted trouble. But I know he's also kind-hearted, so I can only swallow my teeth and tell a lie that even I don't believe myself.

  "It's nothing...... I'm not sleepy. You two go to sleep first."

  They seemed to think I was really okay, so they didn't think much of it and got into bed. Before long, snoring sounds came from them. And I, this unlucky kid, continued staring at those 'unbelievable, amazing' ads that said 'you won't know if you don't try'.

  That box of mentholatum has been used up half, the strong smell made my head ache. Thank goodness, it's already past two o'clock again. This time I didn't wait for it to come, and first went out of the house, sat down against the wall in the corridor, and put that bowl of water on the ground.

  The pitch-black environment outside made my extremely tired nerves tense up again. I'll wait for you directly outside the house today!

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