Chapter 248: line with translation of chapter title

Qi Mianyi heard the sound, turned around, and looked over.

She placed the wine glass on the table, a faint smile curling her lips, "How does it taste?"

Tushan Jiu: "It's great, I really like it."

"Just liking it is enough." Qi Mianyi turned her head to look at Xie Shiyu, "Mr. Xie, I'll send you the steps for that matter later."

Xie Shiyu nodded, "Thank you, Miss Qi. You've worked hard today; I'll transfer the meal fee to your account later."

Qi Mianyi gave a slight nod, "No rush."

"Then we'll be off; I still need to take my fiancée to see the Blue-Eyed Tear." Xie Shiyu politely bade farewell.

Qi Mianyi stepped forward to see them off.

At this moment, Tushan Jiu spoke up, "No need to see us off, Miss Qi. If you need any help, feel free to contact me."

Qi Mianyi blinked, not understanding her words.

Tushan Jiu didn't repeat herself, just smiled at her, turned, and linked arms with Xie Shiyu as they left.

Walking east from the port for a while, there's an exit that leads down to the seaside.

Tushan Jiu said she wanted to go to the beach to splash in the water, but the seawater this month had already turned cold, so Xie Shiyu didn't let her go in.

Xie Shiyu took off his clothes and placed them on the large blue stone, letting her sit and watch the Blue-Eyed Tear.

"How beautiful, nature is truly miraculous."

Xie Shiyu also sat beside her, using his sturdy body to shield her from the sea wind, "Indeed, I haven't been here in many years."

Since taking over the Xie Clan's business, his few trips have all been with Tushan Jiu.

"Did you used to come here often?"

"Not exactly often, but when I'm tired I'll come here to sit awhile, blow the sea breeze to clear my head."

Tushan Jiu's hair was tousled by the sea breeze, and she tucked herself into Xie Shiyu's embrace.

For some reason, Tushan Jiu suddenly felt like she was a sailor, and Xie Shiyu could block wind and rain, serving as her reliable harbor.

But she never acts pretentious, nor does she indulge in internal friction; among the countless couples in the world, each pair has its own way of getting along.

She feels that their plain, ordinary way is the norm.

Perhaps it's because Xie Shiyu's embrace is too warm; as she watches, her eyelids grow heavier and heavier.

The child is quiet—oh, no, it's Jiujiu who's quiet; there must be a reason for that.

Xie Shiyu lowered his head to look at the slightly drowsy Tushan Jiu, softly coaxing, "Jiujiu, let's go back and sleep some more, don't catch a cold."

Tushan Jiu shook her head, shook off the drowsiness, and bluntly stated her request: "Carry me."

Xie Shiyu stood up first, then pulled her up, half‑squatting in front of her, "Come on, let's go home."

These past few days Tushan Jiu has been especially idle, because it's the beginning of the month and the office hasn't had any major matters.

She accompanies Old Master Xie in playing chess, feeds the fish when there's nothing else to do, and practices sword techniques and draws talismans.

But it's said that before a storm arrives, everything is extremely quiet.

On October 7th, her phone suddenly blared a sharp alarm.

A mission had come down, and it was a major one.

It was the appearance of a 'ghost ship' at sea.

That 'ghost ship' appears and disappears unpredictably, and any cargo vessel that encounters it is basically attacked.

Although it hasn't caused casualties, many people have developed psychological trauma from it.

Furthermore, according to the ship's surveillance at the time, that 'ghost ship' is a small passenger vessel, and there are 'people' aboard it.

Now that sea area has been blocked off; the superiors have communicated with the office, hoping to resolve it as soon as possible.

After receiving the case, the four of them quickly gathered together.

The superiors dispatched a cargo ship.

As for why a cargo ship, it's because that 'ghost ship' only attacks cargo vessels.

Other civilian vessels or police ships, even if it appears, will not be attacked by it.

Wang Dongqing stood on the deck, head tilted back, drinking mineral water, brows furrowed, muttering, "Why does it only attack cargo ships? Why?"

"What else could it be? A grudge against cargo ships, or in life he was a pirate who specifically targeted cargo ships—aren't those reasons enough? Idiot!"

Wang Dongqing didn't even glance at it, just kicked the wooden doll aside with one foot, "With you saying that, I still couldn't not know?"

"Hey! This doll's temper, Wang Xiaoqian'er, you dare kick me? Look at my invincible big wooden mallet!"

The wooden doll raised its arms, about to jump up and hit Wang Dongqing.

But being a wooden doll, he had no spring; his foot lifted a centimeter off the ground then plummeted, striking Wang Dongqing's 1.83‑meter‑tall knee squarely.

Coincidentally, Tushan Jiu and the two others walking out of the cabin all saw it.

Then came Tushan Jiu and Xiang Yichu bursting into laughter.

Maomao, as expected, naturally joined in when Tushan Jiu and Xiang Yichu were about to finish laughing.

Yes, regarding the issue of releasing this wooden doll, the four of them discussed it and ultimately decided to keep it with them.

Given its nature, if released into the deep mountains and old forests, it would surely cause trouble.

Because it really can talk nonstop, its mouth never idles.

Fortunately, aside from being a genuine chatterbox, it never causes them trouble during serious moments.

As Maomao says, if it gets annoying, just seal its speech; that also prevents it, after being released, from one day bursting out of the mountains, finding someone to chat with, and scaring them—which would be even more troublesome.

Thus, the four decided to keep it.

Moreover, people are like that: when something's around they find it annoying, but when it's gone they miss it.

Xiang Yichu is one of those people.

He's grown used to being alone; even when he's in the Xiang family, despite having relatives, he remains perpetually solitary and cold.

Not long ago, when he had just started carrying this puppet, he almost got annoyed to death by it; even his good-tempered self learned to just stick tape on its mouth whenever he had nothing to do. What have you driven him to become?

But after this period of time, he instead got used to it.

A couple of days ago, the puppet spirit argued with him, then went off in a huff to stay at Maomao's place for four or five days; in the end, it was still Xiang Yichu who took the initiative to go pick it up.

At that time, the puppet spirit was beyond pleased, even boldly demanding that Xiang Yichu go buy it a phone.

Then, using Xiang Yichu's identity, he separately registered an account for it.

He called it 'owing for now; once it transforms in the future, it will earn money to pay him back.'

Xiang Yichu also indulged it and bought it; after all, he was indeed partly to blame for that argument.

When he threw the clothes from the laundry basket into the washing machine, he didn't know when it had gotten mixed in, and he just dumped everything in together.

Then, after noticing it was missing, he searched for a while but couldn't find it, so he finally called Tushan Jiu directly and asked her to sense it.

In the end, it was located in his home's washing machine.

After it came out, it called him an idiot, 'Didn't you know I was in there?'

And Xiang Yichu said, 'Didn't I tell you not to just wander off and sleep anywhere?'

After a while, the two of them started arguing like that.