Chapter 288

Standing outside the door was Zhu Hua Yu, looking at me with a beaming smile.

I was immediately terrified and fled back to the bed in a panic, pulling a sheet to cover my half-naked body.

I hadn't told her the room number I was staying in. For a girl like Zhu Hua Yu, who blushed when she saw a stranger, her being able to find me was truly inconceivable.

Zhu Hua Yu pursed her lips and watched me laugh. She seemed very proud of her surprise attack and very satisfied with my embarrassment.

"What are you here for?" I asked her, shrinking under the sheet.

"I don't want to do anything. Knowing you were staying here, if I didn't come, I'd be heartless, wouldn't I?" She was still smiling, and it seemed as if she couldn't see my embarrassment in her eyes. Yet, because of her sudden arrival, she appeared somewhat casually embarrassed.

"Can I come in?" She emphasized again, making me feel restless.

"Of course you can." I said, glancing at the corner of the sheet and finding that I was covered up tightly. A bizarre thought suddenly popped into my mind: in this world, could there actually be a man as shameful as me?

"Then I'm coming in." She said, moving half a step into the room, but eventually stopped hesitantly, pulled the door shut behind her, and said softly, "You tidy up, I'll come in later."

She hid behind the door like a ghost, and my faintly thirsty intentions instantly vanished into thin air.

A small room with ambiguous lighting, a naked man, and a shy young girl with a spring-filled face—this scene is something that only happens once in a thousand years in a midnight spring dream.

The door lock clicked shut. I leaped from the bed, scrambled to put on my clothes, and then pulled the door open again, looking righteous and dignified.

I politely invited her to sit, found a pack of tea leaves on the table, and hurried to find the kettle. I found the kettle, but couldn't find the socket. Holding a kettle of water, I looked around awkwardly, my eyes never daring to land on her.

Zhu Hua Yu became uneasy, pointed to the place where the kettle was placed by the door, and said, "It's right there." After saying that, she giggled.

I lowered my head and sped past her, smelling the faint fragrance emanating from her body.

Returning to the bedside, I invited her to sit.

Zhu Hua Yu didn't sit; she leaned her buttocks against the desk and deliberately stretched her body, saying, "I'll just say a few words and leave; I won't sit."

I said "Oh" and asked, "Do you have something to say?"

"Nothing. Really nothing." She said with a light smile: "My household registration has been settled. I just came to tell you this."

I still answered indifferently, not daring to continue the conversation based on her words.

Seeing that I didn't answer her, she asked me probing, "It wasn't you who handled it, right?"

I shook my head and said, "It wasn't me, really not."

She smiled slightly and said, "Anyway, I know in my heart."

"Uh-huh." I replied perfunctorily.

"I'm leaving?" She said, moving two steps toward the door. Seeing that I had no intention of asking her to stay, she hesitated and said, "How about we go to my father's office again and look for his notebook?"

"Is it very important?" I asked, looking out the window; the lights were already coming on, and the world was clear and bright.

She nodded, looking grave, and said, "To my father, it is indeed very important."

When a woman asks for something, especially a beautiful woman, there are few men in the world who wouldn't be moved, and I am no exception.

"It's very late!" I said with emphasis: "Is it convenient?"

"It's very convenient for me anyway. If it's not convenient for you, then forget it." She left me and opened the door to go out.

I chased after her without hesitation, not just because a beauty was asking, but more because I was thinking about the importance of this notebook. Zhu Hua Yu had gone to look for it time and time again, and she seemed determined not to give up until she found it, which made me have many guesses about this notebook for no reason.

The Martyrs Cemetery was as silent as ever. In the high-rise buildings outside the wall, a few rooms had faint lights shining through, indicating that people had already moved in.

I followed behind her into Zhu Shizhen's old hut. A dim light overhead cast mottled shadows on the wall. Suddenly, a gust of wind blew, making the bamboo leaves in the cemetery rustle, which made one feel some fear for no reason.

Zhu Hua Yu rummaged through cabinets in places she hadn't looked before, making a series of clattering sounds in the room.

After a long while, she straightened her back, looked at me with a shallow smile, and said helplessly, "Maybe it was taken away by someone else long ago."

I didn't say anything. My eyes swept to the ceiling overhead, and I faintly felt a trace of looseness in one spot. So I dragged over a small stool, stepped on it, and reached out to gently push the ceiling. It opened without any effort. I felt a burst of secret joy in my heart, reached in and felt around, and sensed something like a book.

I slowly felt it out and brought it under the light to look. It was something wrapped in oil paper. I peeled it open to take a look, and it was exactly the notebook Zhu Hua Yu was looking for.

Just as I wanted to open it to see, Zhu Hua Yu rushed over regardless, snatched the notebook from my hand, and hid it tightly behind her back, without any intention of letting me explore the truth.

"Can't I look?" I expressed serious dissatisfaction with her recklessness.

"Don't look!" She firmly rejected all intentions.

"Is there a secret?"

"I don't know. Anyway, my father said to bring it back to him intact." Zhu Hua Yu carefully patted the dust off the notebook, examined it up and down, and put it in the small bag she had brought with her.

The more people can't see something, the more they have a thirst to get to the bottom of it.

In a notebook that Zhu Shizhen valued so much and hid so secretly, perhaps there is a shocking secret hidden inside!

Suddenly, a trace of ominous feeling shrouded me!

Perhaps this mysterious notebook has an inextricable connection with Guan Peishan?

Since Guan Peishan was "double-regulated," there has been no news of him to this day. No one knows whether he is dead or alive. Zhu Shizhen and Guan Peishan had an alliance agreement. Back then, Zhu Shizhen stood out without hesitation to take all the responsibility, the purpose of which was to exchange for his daughter Zhu Hua Yu's future. Now Guan Peishan's situation is very delicate; it cannot be ruled out that Zhu Shizhen left a hand to prevent changes.

If my guess becomes reality, then the officialdom of Chunshan County will brew another earthquake!

Thinking of this, a layer of cold sweat broke out on my back.