Chapter 179: Drawing Water with a Bamboo Basket

Walking side by side with the girl holding the umbrella across the damp street, the fine drizzle blurred the bright lights of the small shops along the road.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe walked into a small supermarket to buy some things. Before he even entered, he heard the landlady behind the checkout counter greeting him with a smile: "A-Zhe, out shopping with your girlfriend?"

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe nodded in acknowledgment, took a bottle of Coconut Palm from the freezer, and then turned to look at Chen Yaming, who was hanging up her umbrella at the door: "What do you want to drink?"

"The same as you is fine."

"Oh."

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe didn't buy much—two drinks, a small bunch of Chinese kale and cilantro, and a bag of frozen chicken mid-wings—but the landlady remained very enthusiastic, chatting with him about trivial things while weighing and scanning the items.

Recently, whenever Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe returned to Gubei Town, this would always happen because this year's college entrance exam results were out. His scores were excellent, exactly 30 points above the admission cutoff for Yundu University. Such results were ranked highly even in Qinzhou, a major province for college entrance exams.

A top student from the countryside who could attend Yundu University—such news might not be too sensational in the city, but it was enough to make this obscure little village town jubilant.

Recently, even the dogs at the east end of town were spreading his deeds.

Coupled with Boss Chen recently sending out invitations with great fanfare, asking everyone to eat at his and Chen Yaming's engagement banquet, it was even more incredible. Life's four great joys, and this guy encountered two at once; it was impossible for people not to know him.

Back home, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe placed the things he bought on the kitchen counter, took off the apron his grandmother usually wore from the hook on the wall, and tied it on himself.

His grandparents had already been transferred to the city hospital. No one was living in this house they rented in town now, and presumably, no one would live here in the future. Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe was here to terminate the lease. Terminate the lease, and then incidentally ask someone to move the things in the house to his residence in the city.

The old people were reluctant to live in the large flat he bought in the city, but Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe didn't have that concern.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe was a pragmatist; for him, there was basically no difference between the White House and a bridge underpass, other than their wind and warmth protection performance.

"It's raining. The moving company said they would be late." Chen Yaming finished reading the message, tucked her phone into her pocket, and entered the kitchen with Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe: "What are you going to make? Let me help you."

"No need, I'm used to cooking alone." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe shook his head, took out the beef tenderloin the old people hadn't finished from the freezer, and put it in warm water to thaw.

Sliced beef tenderloin seasoned and stir-fried with Chinese kale, chicken mid-wings marinated and then deep-fried, made into a garlic flavor. Two very simple dishes, tasty and effortless; he could finish cooking and eat in less than an hour. Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe liked such convenient dishes.

Then, just as he finished plating the chicken wings, he suddenly remembered that he seemed to have forgotten to press the "Start Cooking" button on the rice cooker.

Fortunately, Chen Yaming had pressed it for him, so now the girl was sitting at the dining table with a smug look on her face, as if she had written a line of text that read: "See, I'm indispensable, right?"

"Fine, you got me." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe brought the dishes to the table, untied his apron, and sat down.

After eating, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe cleared the table and took the bowls and chopsticks to the kitchen sink, preparing to wash them. At this moment, Chen Yaming approached him again, hesitant: "Do you need help?"

"..." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe turned to look at her, somewhat speechless: "Stop beating around the bush, just say it directly. What's the matter?"

"Is it that obvious?"

"You've practically got 'I have something to tell you' written on your face."

"Oh..." Chen Yaming grabbed his arm, dejected: "It's, well, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe, didn't you put Yundu University as your first choice? Now that it's summer vacation, I want to go to Yundu with you for a while, just to get familiar with the environment in advance."

She hadn't finished the second half of her sentence—if they missed this summer vacation, they would have to wait a long time before they had the time to be together like this again.

Chen Yaming had just finished her second year of high school and would be entering her third year in the second half of this year. High school seniors basically had no entertainment time, especially students who wanted to apply to top schools like Yundu University.

"A man and a woman traveling far away, your dad is actually quite at ease with you..." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe thought for a moment and agreed: "Fine, I'll book the tickets after I finish moving."

It just so happened that he also had things to deal with in Yundu, so it was on the way.

Chen Yaming was immediately happy, her beautiful smile blooming like a flower: "No need, no need, my dad has already booked the tickets. We just need to pack our things and wait for the flight." Well, so that was how it was.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe didn't say anything more. The rain had stopped for a while. The moving company sent a message saying their truck had already entered Gubei Town and asked where he was.

On the way to the town's south gate to meet the moving company, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's phone suddenly received several messages.

Unlocking the screen, he saw several text messages and a long voice message. The contact was: Zhang Han-ying.

Looking at the content of the messages, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's eyes gradually sharpened.

When he entrusted Yin Lishang to the twin sisters and left Yundu, he had agreed with Zhang Han-ying and Zhang Yunwen that he would make a video call at a fixed time every day, and they should try not to contact him actively unless there was something important and urgent, as that would add to his trouble.

The obedient sisters had always honestly followed this agreement and hadn't actively sent him messages or called him for so many days, until today.

The content of the messages Zhang Han-ying sent were:

【Yu Zi Qian, can you come to Yundu?】

【I don't want to disturb you either, but during this time, some... some very strange things have really happened here.】

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【Voice message (32 seconds)】

【Can you come over quickly? I, I don't know what to do anymore...】

After Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe put on his Bluetooth headset, he prepared to click on the voice message to hear the specific situation. At this moment, a call came in.

The caller was: Seeing Lan Shiwen.

"It seems something really happened in Yundu..." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe had already realized something.

Turning to tell Chen Yaming, who was following behind, to go meet the moving company first, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe hurried away, found a place where no one was around, and answered the call.

"Yeyao, where are you now?"

"In Qinzhou, what's wrong?" Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe had already switched to Yu Zi Qian's voice: "What's the matter?"

"I have two pieces of news to tell you..."

"Let's hear the good news first." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe said immediately.

Seeing Lan Shiwen's laughter immediately came from the speaker: "Unfortunately, both are bad news."

"Then let's hear the one that isn't as bad." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe didn't feel embarrassed at all.

"Alright, no more jokes. During the time you left Yunzhou, I took people into the Juxian Garden again, dragged the coffin under the pool up, and opened it." Seeing Lan Shiwen's tone became serious: "The black coffin with the 'Longevity' character was empty; there was nothing in it."

The ghost in the coffin had gone missing.

"And the other bad news?" Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe asked.

"The red coffin with the 'Fortune' character was also empty."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 180 =====