Chapter 94: Was It You Who Hit Me? (Combined)

Jiang Jinshi didn't overstate his words, merely saying he could give it a try.

But this also made Xiao Chunqiu excited beyond measure, for one must know that poison salt is discarded junk, worthless, and to turn worthless stuff into refined salt worth several hundred cash per catty, Xiao Chunqiu couldn't even imagine.

Although Jiang Jinshi only said he could try, Xiao Chunqiu knew the other must have some confidence, otherwise he wouldn't say that.

Most importantly, Jiang Jinshi needed the poison salt, and he actually knew there was a place that had it, only unfortunately it's not near the city, not within his jurisdiction.

"I know where the poison salt you need can be found!" Xiao Chunqiu decided to tell the other the location, as repayment for sparing his lazy toad's life.

Jiang Jinshi's eyes lit up upon hearing: "Where?"

"From Lianhuan Shan, go southwest fifty li, it seems called Stone Seal Mountain, belonging to Green City's territory." Since he had no map on hand, Xiao Chunqiu could only give an approximate location.

"Southwest?" Jiang Jinshi's expression turned strange, suddenly recalling what Yu Heng had said.

"Yes, you can go to Green City and ask; that place isn't hard to find."

Fifty li is not a short distance, and besides, I couldn't just rush there to make salt; it seems this matter still needs careful planning.

Of course, Xiao Chunqiu didn't forget the purpose of this trip; he had agreed with Jiang Jinshi to take ten dan of refined salt to test the waters.

Finally, the two inevitably haggled over price, and Jiang Jinshi successfully sold to Xiao Chunqiu at 350 cash per catty.

As for how much Xiao Chunqiu will sell after obtaining it, that's none of my business.

After seeing Xiao Chunqiu off, Jiang Jinshi hurried to find Li Xinyue to share the good news.

"Xinyue, it's done; Xiao Chunqiu's goods will first take ten dan to test the waters." Jiang Jinshi's smile stayed on his face; this trip not only sold the refined salt, but most importantly obtained the news of the poison salt.

"Ten dan? Then we need to rush production!" Li Xinyue also smiled, her business had finally taken its first step.

We've only prepared for three days; daily salt output certainly couldn't reach five dan—that was just Jiang Jinshi bluffing.

After Jiang Jinshi told Li Xinyue the news of the poison salt, Li Xinyue made a decision.

"For now I'll buy coarse salt from the mall first! With the war going on, outside prices have risen a bit."

"Indeed somewhat inflated; you handle arrangements here, and if your points aren't enough, tell me and I'll take you to get more." Jiang Jinshi naturally knew Li Xinyue needed points to redeem items in the mall.

Li Xinyue brushed a strand of hair behind her ear: "No problem, it's enough for now."

Since coarse salt is bought from the mall, the raw material supply is temporarily secured; only Jiang Jinshi needs to go to Green City to inquire about news.

Currently Yangguangzhai is operating normally, so Jiang Jinshi decided to set out for Green City tomorrow.

Thinking of this, Jiang Jinshi grinned and asked Li Xinyue: "What for midnight snack?"

Upon hearing that, Li Xinyue understood, covering her mouth and laughing: "You want to eat something from your past life, right?"

"Of course! Who would bother with this stuff when there's something delicious?"

"How about… hot pot lamb?"

"That's it!"

Thus the two hit it off, and again hid in the room to cook on a small stove.

Once everything was ready, Jiang Jinshi eagerly picked up a piece of lamb and put it in the pot, saying to Li Xinyue: "Tomorrow I'll go to Green City to check things out; I'll leave Xiao Hu with you."

Li Xinyue picked up her chopsticks: "No need! I won't go down the mountain, there's no danger."

"Or let Xiao Hu follow you; that would put my mind at ease, I'll just take Wang Hou." Jiang Jinshi still wasn't at ease, in case Xiao Chunqiu gave false news, he'd bring people up the mountain to suppress bandits.

After all, the information I got came from the other's mouth; necessary precautions must still be taken.

Since that's the case, Li Xinyue didn't insist, merely urging Jiang Jinshiyi to be careful.

As they chatted, they ended up talking about past lives; Li Xinyue curiously asked: "You didn't change your name because in your past life you were also called this?"

Jiang Jinshi nodded: "Yeah! This is purely a coincidence; in my past life I was an orphan, and when naming myself I took a homophone—Jiang Jinshi is a homophone of River Ford City."

"The original owner's name was meant to convey 'fine clothes and jade food', but lacking funds, the literati only wrote the character 'Jin', so I used 'Shi' to replace it."

Upon hearing Jiang Jinshi was an orphan, Li Xinyue quickly changed the subject to avoid making him recall sad things.

"Oh! Then you took that name because you live in River Ford City?"

"Yeah! A native of River Ford City." Jiang Jinshi nodded.

Li Xinyue looked surprised, mixed with a bit of delight: "What a coincidence! Me too."

"Really? Where do you live?" Jiang Jinshi's eyes lit up; whenever they talked about past lives, the distance between them would shrink considerably.

Once Li Xinyue gave her address, Jiang Jinshi became even happier: "That's not far! The place I rented back then was just a few kilometers from yours."

"Do you think we might have seen each other on the road in our past lives?" Li Xinyue also beamed, never expecting such a coincidence.

Maybe this is……

Fate!

Jiang Jinshi nodded firmly: "That's for sure! You see we live in the same city, our homes are close, we definitely must have brushed past each other."

Li Xinyue also agreed with what he said, and immediately began seeking places where the two might have met.

"I often go to Thousand Reach Plaza; there's a barbecue place there that's especially good—have you been?"

"Thousand Reach, yeah! I also often go there for part-time work; I know the barbecue place you mentioned, I've handed out flyers for it."

Upon hearing that, Li Xinyue clapped her hands and laughed loudly: "We definitely must have met; what a coincidence!"

Jiang Jinshiyi showed an agreeing expression: "Yeah! Fate is truly… wonderfully ineffable!"

"Hey! How did you come over through transmigration?" Li Xinyue suddenly thought of an interesting question.

If Li Xinyue hadn't brought it up, it would've been fine, but once she mentioned it Jiang Jinshi got furious, immediately putting down his chopsticks and speaking excitedly to Li Xinyue.

"Wow! Speaking of this, I have to vent. I told you that female driver didn't know how to drive; she didn't even see me, this big living person, and just whoosh—hit me."

Li Xinyue's smile froze on her face, she softly asked: "Where did it hit you?"

"It was that big bridge by the river; I go there every day to and from work, but that day I was terribly unlucky—already annoyed about work, then got hit." Saying this, Jiang Jinshi couldn't help but grit his teeth and continue.

"That female driver was driving a red 'Don't Touch Me'; at a glance her license was obviously bought, there's no telling she really knows how to drive."

Jiang Jinshi only cared about venting, completely failing to notice that Li Xinyue's smile had already vanished.

"Then… then what day were you hit?"

But Li Xinyue still wasn't convinced; maybe I'm overthinking? After all, there are so many traffic accidents every day.

"June 15th!" Jiang Jinshi said firmly.

Li Xinyue started to get a bit anxious, "Could it be that you remembered wrong?"

Jiang Jinshi waved his hand, "Impossible, I got my salary that day, I remember it clearly. After working hard for a month, I finally got my salary, the money hasn't even warmed up yet!"

Saying this, Li Xinyue became quite sure, the person she hit before crossing over... was Jiang Jinshi!

Jiang Jinshi was still talking to himself: "That female driver also had no morals, she knocked me into the river and kept chasing me to run me over. Forget it, not talking about this, talking about it just annoys me. Xinyue, what about you? Why did you cross over?"

At this moment Li Xinyue was like a little quail, head down, not daring to look at Jiang Jinshi, hearing his question, her whole body involuntarily trembled a bit.

Jiang Jinshi waited for Li Xinyue's answer, only then noticing the other's abnormality.

"Xinyue, what's wrong? Are you feeling unwell somewhere?"

Li Xinyue shook her head, gathered courage, lifted her head, forced a smile on her face, spoke softly.

"I'm fine!"

Jiang Jinshi breathed a sigh of relief: "Good, it's fine! Then how did you cross over?"

Li Xinyue still didn't speak, clearly with a guilty expression, yet forcing a smile made Jiang Jinshi suspicious.

"Xinyue, what exactly..."

Jiang Jinshi just opened his mouth, suddenly thought of something.

"Hiss!"

"Li Xinyue! Don't tell me, that female driver... is you!"

The last two words, Jiang Jinshi's voice rose several decibels.

Li Xinyue shrank her neck, voice barely audible, "Is... is it me!"

Before Jiang Jinshi could react, Li Xinyue quickly waved her hand and said: "But it's not my fault! My car had some problems that day."

Jiang Jinshi's chest rose and fell, he was obviously quite angry.

Good news, fate has arrived!

Bad news, it's a karmic bond.

"Give me back my life!" Jiang Jinshi shouted loudly, lunging at Li Xinyue.

Li Xinyue panicked, wanted to dodge but it was too late.

Afterwards Jiang Jinshi grabbed Li Xinyue's hands, laughed wickedly, "Jie jie jie! Finally got you in my hands!"

"Hahaha~ don't... tickle... hahaha... I'm ticklish! Hahaha~" Li Xinyue unable to move, could only beg for mercy.

But just this, Jiang Jinshi not satisfied, also took off Li Xinyue's shoes, continued to tickle her soles.

Actually Jiang Jinshi wasn't that angry, although he got hit and crossed over, but fortunately his life after crossing over is not bad, his previous life also had nothing worth remembering.

So at this moment Jiang Jinshi is mostly just putting on an act, pretending to be angry, tickling to torture Li Xinyue.

When Jiang Jinshi felt it was about time to let the other go, he noticed that the distance and posture between the two seemed somewhat ambiguous.

"You... you get up!" Li Xinyue blushed, not knowing if it's from laughing too much or other reasons.

"I... not!" Jiang Jinshi stiffly bent over, gently hugged Li Xinyue.

……

Outside the door, Xiao Hu sat on the steps, eyes vacant, staring at the night sky, how come today it's so late, big brother hasn't come out to call him back to sleep.

Since big brother didn't say, he just continued guarding the door, never expecting that this guarding would last a whole night, night things are fine, just the wind is a bit strong, stomach a bit hungry.

Early morning Jiang Jinshi woke up from bed lazily, looking at the somewhat messy room, exhaled a breath.

Suddenly didn't want to go to Qingcheng, what to do?

Li Xinyue gave Jiang Jinshi a white-eye roll, which in Jiang Jinshi's eyes looked full of charm.

Jiang Jinshi cautiously asked: "Xinyue, otherwise I'll go tomorrow?"

Li Xinyue was a bit speechless, earlier called 'Xinyue', last night got angry and called full name 'Li Xinyue', now calling 'Xiao Yue', men!

"No way! Must go today!" Li Xinyue hoped Jiang Jinshi would hurry, otherwise her small body would be torn apart.

Originally I felt guilty for hitting him with my car, now if he dares to bring this up again I'll get angry with him.

"Alright!" Jiang Jinshi helpless, could only get up and dress.

Li Xinyue bought a mirror from the system, placed it on the table, began to groom.

When the door opened, Jiang Jinshiyi's eyes saw Xiao Hu sleeping soundly at the doorway.

Behind Li Xinyue seeing this, her face immediately turned red, somewhat reproachfully said: "You didn't call Xiao Hu back to sleep, did you?"

Jiang Jinshi embarrassedly scratched his head: "Forgot!"

Feeling a sound behind, Xiao Hu sat up straight, discovered it was Jiang Jinshi, felt a bit embarrassed.

"Big... big brother, I fell asleep!"

Jiang Jinshi walked to Xiao Hu's side: "Xiao Hu, when did you fall asleep last night?"

Xiao Hu feared Jiang Jinshi would drive him away, hurriedly answered: "Don't know, I sat... sat and then fell asleep."

Jiang Jinshi's previously stern face instantly broke into a smile: "Sleeping well! Good that you fell asleep."

Consequently Li Xinyue also breathed a sigh of relief, mainly because... she was shy!

"Then Xiao Hu, go back and sleep a bit more!" Jiang Jinshi was about to keep Xiao Hu downstairs to protect Li Xinyue.

Xiao Hu stood up from the steps, shook his head: "I won't sleep, I'll follow big brother."

"For now don't follow big brother, follow big sister-in-law." Jiang Jinshi pointed at Li Xinyue.

"Ah? Oh!" Xiao Hu somewhat understood, nodded, anyway big brother says what he does.

Afterwards Jiang Jinshi gave Xiao Hu a bunch of instructions, ensuring Xiao Hu remembered everything before he relaxed.

After eating breakfast, Jiang Jinshi took Wang Hou down the mountain, even Wang Hou's underlings weren't brought, two people lightly equipped, mounted fast horses and went down the mountain.

Since we can't go another day, let's go quickly and return quickly.

Jiang Jinshi's halberd was inconvenient to carry, so he only brought a regular broadsword for self-defense, while Wang Hou brought a short sword.

Li Xinyue stood on the mountainside, smiling as she watched Jiang Jinshi's receding back in silent thought.

"This troublemaker!"

Upon turning around, however, they discovered Jiang Li running toward them with a boy.

"Sister-in-law! Let's go play."

Yu Heng followed Jiang Li and found it interesting; he could sense two different kinds of purple qi emanating from her.

Just as he was about to ponder what was going on, Jiang Li said she was going to look for his sister-in-law, so Yu Heng followed along.

Only when he saw Li Xinyue did Yu Heng fully understand.

"You've met both astral lodges? When did that happen? How come I didn't know?"

Recalling how he had been lazy lately and hadn't done any stargazing, Yu Heng suddenly wanted to slap himself—how had he become so lax!