Chapter 9: Innate Skill

The next moment, with a clatter, metal collided.

Bai Fengyu shoved the items into Ning Weidong's hand: "Weidong, this is all because of me. This is what my mother gave me to keep at the bottom of the box before she passed..."

Feeling Bai Fengyu's small, icy hands, her pair of peach-blossom eyes swirling with emotion, misted with moisture, she spoke with such sincerity and deep feeling.

If it were the original owner, he likely would have had his heart melted.

Ning Weidong, however, didn't buy this act; they were both thousand-year-old foxes, so why play at being a ghost story?

After shoving the items to Ning Weidong, Bai Fengyu immediately pulled her hand back, simultaneously averting her gaze and revealing her profile.

Most people's profiles can hide flaws in their face shape and usually look better than the front, not to mention a beauty like Bai Fengyu.

Especially the way she slightly lowered her head and casually tucked a stray lock of hair behind her ear, which added an extra touch of charm.

Perhaps this was what they called an innate skill.

From beginning to end, Bai Fengyu made no inappropriate moves, nor did she reveal skin to seduce, yet she could still stir a person's heart.

This kind of ability really wasn't something that could be learned through acquired effort.

Ning Weidong looked at his hand; what Bai Fengyu had shoved to him were five "Yuan Datou" silver dollars.

Bai Fengyu said: "I asked at the shop across from Wangfujing, and this kind of Yuan Datou can sell for five yuan each..."

Ning Weidong didn't know the price, but since Bai Fengyu said so, it should be about right.

Five Yuan Datou meant twenty-five yuan.

Ning Weidong sneered inwardly; he hadn't taken the two hundred yuan yesterday, and today she was using another trick of throwing out a brick to attract jade.

But after a moment's thought, he felt something was off.

Bai Fengyu was not someone who was all chest and no brain; in fact, she was very careful with her words and actions around others, only having the original owner completely under her thumb, which was why she was so unscrupulous.

Since the transmigration, Ning Weidong had already shown that he would no longer let her control him; it was impossible for her not to have noticed.

Taking out these five Ocean Coins should just be a gesture.

If she wanted Ning Weidong to help her resolve the remaining two hundred yuan, she had to put more chips on the table.

Of course, it was also possible that Ning Weidong had overthought it, and Bai Fengyu hadn't thought that deeply at all, still treating him like a fool and thinking that by giving him a little extra, she could continue to make him work like a horse for her.

Ning Weidong didn't stand on ceremony either, quite naturally tucking the five Ocean Coins into his pocket, just like he had tucked the envelope containing money into his pocket yesterday.

He smiled and said: "Sister, don't you worry, I will definitely find a way for that matter of yours."

Bai Fengyu gave an "mm" sound, not forgetting to remind him: "Weidong, no matter what, we must not do anything illegal."

"I know what I'm doing, I'm heading back now~" After saying this, Ning Weidong turned and entered the north room, and the room lit up with a warm yellow light.

Bai Fengyu let out a breath, feeling more and more certain that Ning Weidong had changed.

Previously, Ning Weidong would definitely have let her go first, standing in place watching her, and at this moment, his gaze would have been brazenly fixed on her backside.

But now... she still couldn't figure out why.

She sighed faintly, picked up the enamel basin beside her, and turned to go to the Cellar.

Returning home, Bai Fengqin was lying on the table doing her schoolwork.

Seeing Bai Fengyu enter, she immediately asked: "Sister, did you give it to him?"

Bai Fengyu rinsed the pickled vegetables from the enamel basin under the tap, squeezed them dry with force, and placed them on the cutting board: "Otherwise what? That's two hundred yuan, not two or twenty. If we really push him into a corner and he washes his hands of it, in the middle of winter, the two of us sisters will have to go out and drink the northwest wind."

Panic flashed in Bai Fengqin's eyes, but she said stubbornly: "If it really comes to that, I don't believe the Street Office and the Neighborhood Committee won't intervene?"

Bai Fengyu said helplessly: "How do you expect the Street Office and Neighborhood Committee to intervene? Don't forget where Ma Liang ran off to..." Bai Fengqin fell silent.

Ma Liang running away could be a big or small matter; that Bai Fengyu could suppress it before wasn't because she was so well-connected, but because the Street Office and Neighborhood Committee themselves didn't want to expose this matter.

Bai Fengyu added: "And you, go and interact with him more these next few days."

Bai Fengqin's face flushed, and she curled her lip: "I'm not going! Who cares! Aside from being tall and sturdy, I don't see what's so good about him, he's just a fool. Once I get into university, there will be all kinds of men for me."

Bai Fengyu said while slicing the pickled vegetables: "You say 'once you get into university,' but what if you don't pass?"

Bai Fengqin immediately didn't want to hear it: "Sister~ can you please not discourage me."

Bai Fengyu remained unmoved, slicing the vegetables unhurriedly: "Discouraging or not, you know your own grades; there are fifty-two people in your class, can even five of them get into university?"

Bai Fengqin instantly wilted, pouting without a word.

Bai Fengyu continued: "There's less than half a year left; what will you do if you don't pass then? What's the situation now? There are hundreds of thousands of unemployed youth; what will you do then?"

Bai Fengqin's grades were not bad; she could get into the top ten in her class, and if she performed well, she had a good chance of getting in.

But that was on the condition that she performed well.

Bai Fengqin felt a bit flustered and simply put down her fountain pen: "Even if I don't pass, that 'big fool' himself is only in a Big Collective, why would he help me resolve a job?"

Bai Fengyu glanced at her: "What do you know? Even if you can't count on him, isn't there his older brother?"

"His brother?" Bai Fengqin frowned: "Does his brother have that much ability? Didn't you say last time that he was only a Section Chief at the Mechanical Bureau, and a deputy one at that?"

Bai Fengyu was silent for a moment, deliberating for two seconds before lowering her voice: "Don't go blabbing about this outside..." She revealed a little bit about the situation of Wang Yuzhen's family.

Bai Fengqin couldn't help but widen her eyes: "Really?"

Bai Fengyu sighed: "Second Uncle and Second Aunt are both gone, and as for your brother and sister-in-law..."

Bai Fengqin's expression changed, and she interrupted: "Sister, don't mention them; once my mother left, I didn't have a brother anymore."

Bai Fengyu lowered her head and continued slicing the pickled vegetables, remaining silent for a few seconds before continuing: "When all is said and done, one must always leave a way out for oneself, so that in a critical moment, you don't force yourself into a dead end. I'll find an opportunity to bring it up for you in these two days; you handle the boundaries well and date him first. By summer, if you pass, that's best; if you don't like him then, just say your personalities don't match."

On the other side, Ning Weidong was washing rice in the kitchen when his nose suddenly itched, and he hurriedly turned his head to sneeze.

He rubbed his nose, unaware that someone was planning to use him as a backup.

Ning Weidong had returned earlier than Ning Weiguo and his wife, so he did some chores while he was at it.

He was still thinking about Qi Jiazui.

According to the original owner's memories, Qi Jiazui had accumulated quite a lot of things back in the day.

Even if only a small portion remained, it would still be a windfall.

The only bad thing was that the uncertainty of this matter was too great.

It is uncertain whether those things are still there, after all, the person has been dead for more than two years.

No one knows what the current situation is with Qi Jiazui's "secret base" in Minkang Hutong.

Moreover, that area is currently undergoing demolition, and Qi Jiazui's secret base is highly likely within the demolition zone; once the house is torn down, no matter how it was hidden—buried underground or concealed in the walls—it will all be exposed.

This kind of thing is not rare in Beijing; in a city hundreds of years old, with people coming and going and several cycles of rise and fall, who knows how many good things are hidden away.

One often hears on the streets about someone renovating a house, or even repairing old furniture, and discovering gold or silver in secret compartments or interlayers.

Ning Weidong fell into silent contemplation.

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