The situation outside was even more chaotic than expected. Some people were holding trees and waiting for rescue, while others actually thought it was fun and came out to stand in the water to watch the excitement.
Huang Dan kept swaying in the boat. He felt a little uncomfortable in his stomach and wanted to vomit, but he didn’t show it. That would be bad. After all, he was the one being taken care of and couldn’t cause trouble to the People’s Liberation Army.
The street was in a mess, and there were messy things floating on the water, making it look even more turbid.
A big wooden barrel floated out of the alley in front, and it floated towards this side. Inside the barrel was a pair of father and son. The child was lying on the father’s chest. As soon as the People’s Liberation Army learned about it, they realized that it was the child who was clamoring to go to school. His father had no choice but to take him out and let him see what the school was like.
At this time, still thinking about going to school, the People’s Liberation Army looked at the little flowers of the motherland, reached out and rubbed the child’s hair. Their body and hands were covered with mud, and nails were also filled with mud.
The child stared with big eyes, but did not hide away in fear or show any expression of disgust. He puffed up his little chest and loudly greeted Shushu of the People’s Liberation Army.”
Huang Dan saw the People’s Liberation Army grinning and shouted in response.
The People’s Liberation Army works tirelessly day and night, but the smallest thing can make them happy, and the fatigue on their faces has faded a little.
Just yesterday, two gates of the Yangtze River Embankment burst. It was not too serious in T City, but some cities were hardest hit. Some cities are particularly hard-hit by disasters. When floods roll in, houses are swept away in an instant. It is currently difficult to count the number of people who died unfortunately. The situation has entered a situation where the whole Nation is fighting against the floods.
Huang Dan glanced at the People’s Liberation Army on the boat, and then looked at those in his field of vision, all of them were very young, around nineteen or more.
In the past few days, the news has been reporting every day, saying how many people were called to the front line of flood fighting and emergency rescue. When there was a pipe surge, all the soldiers held hands, tied them together with ropes, and used their flesh and blood to block the flood.
When a soldier was washed away, comrades could not react at all and were only able to take a glimpse.
Just looking at the photos, texts, and the host’s emotional report in the news, without being on the scene, the sense of shock and heaviness is already strong enough.
The boat Huang Dan was on was a nearby fishing boat, used for emergency purposes. Besides him, there were several other people in the boat. They were picked up by relatives one after another. He was the last one to get off the boat.
The People’s Liberation Army handed over the big bag on the boat, “Fellow man, slow down on the road, it’s best to find a branch to explore the way forward, and don’t step into the puddle.”
Huang Dan said yes, he took the big bag and thanked the People’s Liberation Army, “Thanks for your hard work.”
The People’s Liberation Army said it was not hard work, and only left after seeing the young man turn the corner of the street.
According to what the People’s Liberation Army said, Huang Dan found a branch and poked it in the water. He managed to avoid the puddle, but something that looked like a milk powder jar was avoided. He staggered and fell forward into the water.
Water squeezed into his mouth, nose and ears. Huang Dan immediately stood up from the water, bending his back and coughing. When he coughed, the water on his body flowed down, making him a little embarrassed.
Fortunately, the moment he fell down, Huang Dan instinctively supported the ground with his hands and didn’t hit his knee, otherwise he would be in terrible pain.
“Is it the third kid from the Chen family?”
Someone passed by and shouted from a distance, “Do you need help?”
Huang Dan shook his head to get the water out of his ears. He said that he didn’t need it. After thinking about it, he mentioned Nie Wenyuan’s address and asked how long it would take to get there.
The man said it wasn’t too far, it would take about half an hour. “Once you cross this road, the water level in front of you will be low, so it will be easier to walk.”
Huang Dan breathed a sigh of relief, that’s good.
“By the way, when I came here, I saw a car parked on the side of the road. I don’t know which one it belongs to. You can go and ask. Maybe someone is passing by and will be kind enough to give you a ride.”
Huang Dan was stunned, maybe Nie Wenyuan sent someone to pick him up.
But would Nie Wenyuan do that?
The memory of the original owner told Huang Dan that Nie Wenyuan would not send a car to pick up his little nephew. Perhaps in his opinion, boys should be tempered and suffer a little bit, not to mention that this is not a hardship at all, it is no big deal.
Huang Dan walked to the intersection with suspicion. He saw the car and recognized it as Nie Wenyuan’s car, which he had been in before.
The driver said, “The director sent me to pick you up.”
Huang Dan said thank you, “My body is covered with water, and if I sit in it, the car will be dirty.”
The driver smiled and said, “I have prepared a set of clean clothes and trousers for you. They are kept in the back. It was the director’s order.”
Huang Dan frowned, a little surprised.
The driver saw the young man’s thoughts and said, “Although the director is a bit serious, he is a very nice person and always thinks things through very carefully.” The premise is that he does not step on his bottom line and does not involve principles.
“I know.”
Huang Dan opened the back car door and sat in. He first took off the water-logged shoes, and then lowered his head to take off all the wet clothes. The skin on his body looked like it had been soaked in water, wrinkled and a little white and cold.
The driver was not interested in the child’s body. He looked at the accumulated water on the road and muttered to himself with a sad face, “Don’t know when it will fall back.”
Huang Dan quickly changed into clean clothes and trousers. The upper and lower pieces were made of good fabrics, but they didn’t fit well. They were much bigger. They had a faint smell of soap on them. They belonged to Nie Wenyuan, as he guessed.
After sneezing, Huang Dan rubbed his nose, rolled up the sleeves of his shirt, and rolled up his trouser legs. He looked like a little kid wearing adult clothes.
The driver turned around and said, “You can cover yourself with the blanket next to you. The director won’t say anything.”
This has two meanings. First, someone wanted to cover it before, and Nie Wenyuan said something unpleasant, and second, Nie Wenyuan didn’t like others touching his things.
Seeing the young man shake out the blanket and put it on his lap, the driver found him more and more obedient and wanted to rub his head. It was really hard to imagine that he was a troublemaker who had been in a labor camp. He must have grown up and his temperament had changed a lot.
“Can I ask you a question?”
Huang Dan put the wet clothes into the bag, “Yes, you can ask.”
The driver asked, “The car almost overturned that time. Why did you protect your Jiujiu in your embrace? How did you do it?”
He seemed to be afraid of touching a certain nerve of the young man, and hurriedly explained, “I don’t mean anything, I just feel incredible. To put it bluntly, I have been driving for so many years, and I can only protect myself when danger comes. I have no way to take care of others.”
Huang Dan raised his eyes, “Did he want you to ask me?”
The driver said no.
Huang Dan snorted, “Then I’ll talk about it when he asks me.”
The driver said, “I’m afraid the director won’t ask.”
Huang Dan said, “Jiujiu is a difficult person.”
The driver’s mouth was wide open. After being surprised, he coughed several times in a row, choking on the saliva in his mouth, “I didn’t say that.”
Huang Dan said, “Well, I thought of it myself, and it has nothing to do with you.”
The driver was amused by the young man, thinking of his son who was studying abroad. He started the car and couldn’t help saying, “You are not the same as the rumors outside. The director will like you. He likes sensible and obedient children.”
Huang Dan almost nodded his head.
When he arrived at his destination, Huang Dan got out of the car. The water level here was much lower than in the alley. He put on his wet shoes, walked up the steps, and stood at the iron gate to call people.
The person who came out to open the door was an old woman with gray hair and fairly nimble hands and feet.
Huang Dan knew that she was Grandma Wu. She lived with Nie Wenyuan in the Nie family back then, and she is still taking care of Nie Wenyuan. She is almost half a mother.
Grandma Wu led Huang Dan into the living room and told him to take off his wet shoes quickly so as not to stain the carpet on the floor.
Huang Dan did as he was told.
Grandma Wu did not go about her own business, but was supervising from the side. There was no smile on her old face, and she looked very unkind, as if she was worried that the young man in front of her would steal things from the living room.
People must know that nothing in the living room is cheap. It is a big deal if it is lost or broken.
Huang Dan took off his wet shoes and put on gray slippers. He thought to himself, if Chen Fei came with him, Grandma Wu would smile very kindly, happily talk to Chen Fei, and bring him food and drink.
In the past, during festivals, relatives would have dinner together. Many younger generations of Nie’s family have met Grandma Wu. Those who have a sweet mouth will please the elderly. Grandma Wu likes it.
There are also mischievous ones, which annoy the elderly when they look at them, and the original owner is the representative.
Grandma Wu didn’t like the original owner. First impression was too bad. In the years that followed, impression became worse and worse. He was even sent to a labor camp. His conduct could not improve and he had nothing to help Gege and Jiejie.
Even if Huang Dan puts away the original owner’s little claws now, others will only think that he is playing some tricks. Even the original owner’s family members don’t believe that the original owner will change his ways. They think that the other party has caused trouble, which is why he behaves properly.
Nie Wenyuan didn’t believe it either.
Huang Dan’s thoughts were disrupted by Grandma Wu’s shout. He stood up straight and looked inquiringly. With a wrinkled face, Grandma Wu warned, “Keep your voice down in everything you do. The director is dealing with important work in the study, so don’t disturb him.”
Huang Dan said he got it, and he asked where his room was.
Grandma Wu took him to the room on the left on the first floor. “The beds and quilts are all new and have been made for you.”
Huang Dan said, “Thank you.”
Grandma Wu’s cloudy eyes opened slightly, but she didn’t take it seriously, “Give me your clothes and I’ll wash them.”
Huang Dan handed over the bag.
Grandma Wu didn’t respond, “Why don’t you kid understand human speech? I told you to take off the director’s clothes. Hurry up, don’t dawdle. It’s a bad day, and I don’t know when it will be dry after washing.”
Huang Dan said, “The clothes on my body are not dirty.”
Grandma Wu said angrily, “You have worn it, can it not be dirty? Besides, there is a flood outside. I watched the news and it said that the water is full of dirty things and there are many bacteria. If one of them is not good, what disease will the skin get?”
Huang Dan walked very slowly after getting out of the car. His clothes and pants were dry and no water was splashed. He ignored her and just threw himself into the quilt.
The door slammed shut.
Huang Dan was not someone who would be serious with the elderly, and he did it for the first time this time. He frowned under the quilt, feeling that he was so childish and rude, “Mr. Lu, I was never like this before.”
System, “People change.”
Huang Dan turned over and faced the ceiling. He put his hands behind his head, “I sometimes think that the time travel I experienced may not be inexplicable, but a targeted teaching.”
“I’m always learning things. What I learn is different in every world. This is the sixth time. I know what I will learn, and it will be accumulated with the previous times and become a part of myself.”
System, “Knowledge is power.”
Huang Dan,“……”
He rarely raised his legs up, feeling a little uncomfortable, he put them down, “A very small part of what I have learned is the knowledge in books, it’s more about the various situations in the world, which are very complicated. I have never paid attention to them in the real world.”
System, “That’s not just enough.”
Huang Dan said yes, “Mr. Lu, I didn’t bother you, did I?”
System, “Not busy.”
Huang Dan, “I caught him again.”
System, “Oh?”
“I can’t go wrong, I’m happy, I want him to hug me, touch me, kiss me, but now is not the time.”
Huang Dan said, “Mr. Lu, I’ve heard a saying that there is Heaven’s will in the dark.”
System, “Lu has only heard another sentence, behind every reunion after a long absence is a well-intentioned and long-planned plan.”
Huang Dan was taken aback.
System said, “Host Huang, you are free to deal with your personal emotional issues, but don’t delay the mission.”
Huang Dan said, “I know.”
During dinner, Huang Dan met Nie Wenyuan. Nie Xiuqin stayed with her daughter in the room and did not come out. There were only Jiujiu and nephew at the long table.
Huang Dan has been a man of few words since he was a child. He hardly speaks at the dinner table, unless there are special circumstances. Obviously there is no such situation this time, so he is very quiet, the sound of chewing is very soft, and there is a sense of elegance in his whole body and something deep in his bones.
Nie Wenyuan was speechless.
Grandma Wu knew that Nie Wenyuan was a picky eater, so as usual, she put the two dishes he liked in front of him so that he could eat them easily.
Nie Wenyuan’s chopsticks shuttled between those two dishes without even looking at the other dishes.
Coincidentally, those two dishes were Huang Dan’s favorites. The housekeeper usually cooked them for him, and he wanted to eat them as soon as he saw them.
Huang Dan glanced at the man above him strangely. His lips moved slightly, but he didn’t make a sound. He just lifted his butt off the chair, leaned forward with his upper body, and put his chopsticks into the plate.
Nie Wenyuan said nothing.
On the other hand, Grandma Wu frowned and looked at Huang Dan with as much disgust as she could. If Nie Wenyuan hadn’t been there, she would have probably been able to step forward and take the plate away.
Huang Dan ignored it, and there was nothing to care about.
Nie Wenyuan eats very fast, and this has not changed, just like Huang dan chewing slowly and carefully, it is a habit.
“Director, don’t you want to eat another bowl?”
Grandma Wu calls Director Nie Wenyuan, always with pride in her tone, as if he is her own child who is promising and has a good face.
After all, the director is more suitable for the impression given by Nie Wenyuan than the young master. He is cold and strict.
“Don’t eat.”
Nie Wenyuan took the bowls and chopsticks into the sink in the kitchen. Instead of going upstairs, he sat on the sofa and watched the news broadcast.
Grandma Wu made tea and brought it over, then turned to monitor Huang Dan.
Huang Dan ignored the old lady and ate his own food. He finished the two plates of food without even leaving any dregs. If he didn’t really eat it, he could have eaten another bowl of rice with the vegetable soup.
He has to say that the old lady’s cooking skills are very good. In Huang Dan’s opinion, no one can compete with the old lady except the housekeeper.
Grandma Wu stared straight at him. Because of Nie Wenyuan’s presence, she restrained herself and didn’t say anything, but she smacked her mouth a few times while collecting the bowls and chopsticks. How could he have the nerve to eat like this when he came to someone else’s house? He doesn’t know any manners at all, so different from his Gege!
Huang Dan was sitting on the other end of the sofa. He picked up a small piece of biscuit on the coffee table and ate it. Grandma Wu, who had washed the dishes and chopsticks, was standing next to him.
Grandma Wu didn’t say anything. When Huang Dan dropped a little bit of biscuit crumb, she bent down to pick it up and threw it into the trash can. After doing this, she continued to stand back to where she was, staring at Huang Dan.
It was a kind of silent criticism and disgust.
Huang Dan saw a strange kind of human nature from Grandma Wu, which he didn’t hate, but rather curious.
It is said that the same rice feeds all kinds of people. In the past, Huang Dan would not bother to observe the strange things in the world, and had no interest at all. Through time travel, he went from being forced to accept it, to actively trying it, to subconsciously accessing it. After these few time travels, he has changed tremendously.
Huang Dan ate the biscuits slowly, drank half a glass of warm water, greeted Nie Wenyuan and the old lady, and went back to the room by himself.
Grandma Wu hesitated, “Director, how long will your nephew live here?”
Nie Wenyuan looked at the flood fighting pictures on the news, “Why?”
Grandma Wu sighed, “Siblings are very different, and the youngest has a temperament that I don’t know. He has been a troublemaker since he was a child, and he can’t rest for a while. The first time I met him, he jumped in the mud puddle and splashed mud all over me. After that, something happened every time, and I never saw him be well behaved once.”
“He hasn’t done anything serious in these years. After he came back from the labor camp, he still hangs out with those crooked people. He won’t have much of a future.”
Seeing that the person on the sofa didn’t make a statement, Grandma Wu went on to say, “I’m worried that he will cause trouble for you here. After all, he is your nephew. When things happen, your Jiejie will tell you that you don’t have to worry about it anymore. You will be the one who suffers.”
“His hands and feet have always been unclean. He stole money from his siblings to go out to play, and also stole from home. He didn’t know how to repent, and he was used to being shameless. There are many valuables upstairs and downstairs in this house. I’m afraid……”
Nie Wenyuan opened his mouth, “Thinking too much.”
Grandma Wu knew she shouldn’t say any more, but she still couldn’t hold it back, “Did you see the clothes he was wearing? I asked him to take them off and said I wanted to wash them, but he ignored me and turned a deaf ear to what I said. I have never seen a junior be so ignorant.”
When Nie Wenyuan heard the elderly mention it, he remembered the scene of the young man at the dinner table. His shirt sleeves were rolled up high, revealing two thin arms. There were tattoos on them. He didn’t know what they were, some of them were crowded together, well, some scattered.
The pants are longer and rolled up several times on top of the slippers. The wide ones will fall off at any time.
Nie Wenyuan frowned.
Grandma Wu waited for a long time, but didn’t get any response. She sighed again and went to check the bathroom worriedly. If the young man made it wet inside, he could just talk to the people in the living room. He must teach them a lesson, especially those who are ignorant and lawless kids.
When Grandma Wu opened the bathroom door and went in, she was stunned and froze on the spot. The inside still looked like she had cleaned it, and there were no traces of water on the floor.
Thinking of the thank you from the young man when he entered the door, Grandma Wu muttered in her heart and shook her head again, it’s impossible.
Isn’t there a saying that even a dog can’t change its habit of eating feces?
Huang Dan was arranging his clothes. He brought four sets, which were enough if he didn’t go out. The ten thousand yuan was hidden in one of the sets, and one couldn’t see it unless they went through it.
Huang Dan walked around the room twice and looked at the closet under the bed, but he didn’t know where to hide the money.
There is no point in locking the door. Grandma Wu has the key. She will come in to clean and will also look for opportunities to look through Huang Dan’s bag in order to check whether he has stolen anything from the house.
Huang Dan was worried, “Mr. Lu, I want to hide some money. Which place do you think is safer?”
System, “A Dangerous Place.”
Thinking for a while, Huang Dan stuffed the money into his wide shirt and put on a coat outside. He paid attention to the movement outside and made sure that Grandma Wu had rested, so he went upstairs quietly to find Nie Wenyuan.
The upstairs was pitch black, and the corridor was silent. Nie Xiuqin and Zhou Weiwei, two women, were probably asleep too, so there was no sound.
There was a faint light flowing out from the crack in the door of a room, silently contesting against the darkness. Huang Dan knew that it was the mother and daughter’s room, so he walked over carefully, and walked towards the innermost room.
This trip was very risky. Huang Dan wanted to hide the money in Nie Wenyuan’s bedroom under his eyes.
Huang Dan stood at the door of Nie Wenyuan’s room. He just took a breath when the door opened from the inside, and everything was caught off guard.
Nie Wenyuan was still wearing the long clothes and trousers he had worn at dinner. His sweat glands seemed to be very underdeveloped. Even though he was buttoning up tightly on such a hot day, he didn’t show any sweat. “What are you doing here?”
Huang Dan was not surprised by the man’s acuteness. He was used to it, “I had too much dinner, my stomach was a little bloated, and I couldn’t sleep, so I wanted to come to Jiujiu to get a book to read.”
Nie Wenyuan let go of the door handle, “Close the door.”
Huang Dan walked in, closed the door with his backhand, and looked around the room calmly. It was as simple as Nie Wenyuan’s office, but it was compact and smooth everywhere, as if it was arranged according to the same table.
There was a newspaper spread out on the desk, with a thick black line written on it —— Starr Report.
Those words jumped into Huang Dan’s sight. He hadn’t read it and didn’t know what it was, so he stretched his neck and read a few lines, and the corners of his mouth twitched.
Nie Wenyuan showed no expression, “You can’t read that, but you can read these books.”
He threw the two story books he found from the bottom of the bookshelf on the table, “Take it.”
Huang Dan said without touching it, “I don’t want to read the story book.”
Nie Wenyuan simply ignored it, “Then you go find it yourself.”
Huang Dan reached for the report and started flipping through it from the first page. Looking from the beginning, he found some traces left by Nie Wenyuan, such as creases. He read this kind of report quite seriously.
Nie Wenyuan took a sip of tea, “Do you understand?”
Huang Dan nodded, saying that he could understand.
Nie Wenyuan asked, “Then you tell Jiujiu, what is in this report?”
Huang Dan rolled up his loose sleeves, and the tattoos on his arms looked like ghost symbols, which looked nondescript and a bit funny. “This report was submitted by independent prosecutor Starr. It explains in detail the eleven reasons for impeaching Clinton, including the sexual behavior between Clinton and former White House intern Lewinsky. There are ten times in total, and each time there is a description of the entire process.”
Nie Wenyuan sat on the chair, tapped on the armrest with his index finger, “What else?”
Huang Dan dictated his impressions, and when Nie Wenyuan analyzed him, he would express his thoughts.
Nie Wenyuan said, “At your age, you can exchange knowledge into practice, but you must be responsible for your own actions.”
Huang Dan said, “I will only practice with people I like.”
Nie Wenyuan said, “You have this thought, which means that your impulses and desires have been suppressed by you, but that is only temporary, and you will experience it sooner or later.”
Huang Dan asked the man, “Jiujiu, have you ever practiced it with anyone?”
Nie Wenyuan said, “No.”
Huang Dan asked again, “Is it because you suppressed your impulses and desires?”
Nie Wenyuan said, “No.”
He said, “Your Jiujiu doesn’t need to suppress it because he doesn’t have those two things.”
Huang Dan glanced at the man leisurely.
Nie Wenyuan was inexplicably uncomfortable when he was glanced at by his nephew. He said with a serious face, “When you reach Jiujiu’s age, you will understand Jiujiu’s mentality.”
It was obviously an ambiguous topic, but there was no ambiguous atmosphere. It was like an old cadre giving one-to-one instruction to young students, and he was in a serious state throughout the process.
After a brief silence, Nie Wenyuan spoke, his eyes scanning the young man more carefully, “Xiao Yu gave Jiujiu a surprise.”
He corrected, “No, it is the second time.”
Huang Dan was about to speak, but at this moment, the light in the bedroom suddenly disappeared and the power went out.
Nie Wenyuan’s voice sounded in the darkness, “Stand still.”
Huang Dan heard the man’s breathing, passing by the back of his neck. Based on this, he could conclude that they were very close just now.
This is Nie Wenyuan’s room, he is very familiar with it, so there was no collision sound, and he found what he wanted very smoothly.
After a while, a little light burned away a small piece of darkness.
Huang Dan saw Nie Wenyuan holding a candle in his hand, and the candlelight reflected in his eyes like a flame.
Nie Wenyuan pursed his thin lips lightly, and his voice was very magnetic, “Stay back a little, don’t get too close to Jiujiu.”
Huang Dan said, “The light from the candle is very weak, and other places are so dark.”
Nie Wenyuan said, “You are not a child.”
Huang Dan said, “Adults can also be afraid of the dark.”
Nie Wenyuan said, “You are not afraid.”
Huang Dan,“……”
Seeing that Nie Wenyuan was about to speak, Huang Dan jumped ahead of him, “I know, I shouldn’t play tricks in front of Jiujiu, but I just want to stay with Jiujiu.”
There was a loud noise outside the door. Nie Wenyuan walked out of the room with a candle. Huang Dan did not follow him immediately. He quickly hid the money in his arms in a place he had already seen. After doing this, he caught up with Nie Wenyuan.
The two of them rushed to the front room after hearing the sound. The door was open, and Zhou Weiwei huddled in Nie Xiuqin’s arms, shivering.
Nie Wenyuan raised the candle closer and asked, “What’s wrong with Xiaowei?”
Nie Xiuqin said that there was a sudden power outage and her daughter was frightened. She kept comforting her trembling daughter, and her voice was very soft, “Xiaowei, you look, who is here? It’s your Jiujiu.”
Zhou Weiwei poked her head out of Nie Xiuqin’s arms, her face was full of panic and helplessness, she suddenly crawled to Nie Wenyuan’s feet, grabbed his leg, and tightened her fingers, “Jiujiu knows how to beat bad guys!”
Nie Xiuqin looked at Nie Wenyuan with tears in her eyes.
Nie Wenyuan gave the candle to the young man next to him. He squatted down and picked up the girl at his feet. “Yes, Jiujiu will beat the bad guys away.”
Zhou Weiwei repeated that sentence, in her heart, Jiujiu is the most powerful person in the world.
Nie Wenyuan put Zhou Weiwei back on the bed and covered her with a quilt, “Good night Xiaowei.”
Zhou Weiwei closed her eyes and breathed evenly.
The door was gently closed, and Nie Xiuqin’s eyes were red, “Wenyuan, Xiaowei has been close to you since she was a child, and she will still rely on you after she is like this.”
Nie Wenyuan comforted her with a few words, “Go to rest early.”
Nie Xiuqin said where could she rest, “Xiao Yu, Wenyuan, you all go to bed, especially Wenyuan, you are always so busy, you must pay attention to your health and don’t go to bed too late.”
Nie Wenyuan hummed, and he glanced at the young man, “Go to bed.”
Huang Dan said “good night, aunt” to Nie Xiuqin before going downstairs, and “good night, Jiujiu” to Nie Wenyuan.
Nie Xiuqin said, “Wenyuan, have you noticed that Xiao Yu has changed? He doesn’t look like the same person now as before. It’s really strange.”
Nie Wenyuan narrowed his eyes, there was a deep understanding there.
There was still no power the next day and so one couldn’t watch TV. Fortunately, someone would deliver newspapers so people can learn about the current progress of flood control.
After greeting Nie Wenyuan, Huang Dan took one of the newspapers to read. It reported that schools all over the country were appealing to students to donate money, and citizens donated clothes to the disaster area.
He remembered that after breakfast in the morning, Nie Wenyuan answered the phone on the balcony. He probably donated a sum of money, which was not small.
At this time, those who have money contribute money, and those who have no money contribute effort, they all want to do something.
After Huang Dan read the newspaper in hand, he went to pick up what Nie Wenyuan had read. Grandma Wu glanced at him several times, thinking that he was pretending to understand.
“Director, what’s going on outside?”
Nie Wenyuan rubbed his temples, “The country is making every effort to fight the flood.”
Grandma Wu sighed and said that floods were really harmful and how many lives would be lost. As she spoke, she called Huang Dan and asked him to follow her out to fish.
Huang Dan raised his head, “Where are you going to get it?”
Can we still catch fish in the endless floods outside?
Grandma Wu has already gone to get the net bag, “It’s just outside, don’t dawdle.”
Huang Dan put down the newspaper and followed the elderly out.
The sequence of heavy rain, heavy rainstorm, and extreme heavy rainstorm is extremely fierce. Ponds and rivers are flooded, and the fish in them will swim up, so many people will come out to catch fish at this time.
Grandma Wu is old and has a lot of experience. Huang Dan didn’t get any, but she has already caught a dozen. She said disgustedly, “How do you hold the net bag? The posture is not right.”
Huang Dan said, “I have never caught any fish.”
His volume was very low, and Grandma Wu’s hearing was not very good. “What did you say?”
Huang Dan shook his head and said it was nothing.
Grandma Wu just ignored him lazily, and focused on the fish wholeheartedly, wishing to catch all the fish in this piece of water and put them into the net bag.
Throughout the morning, Huang Dan’s legs were soaked in the water. He caught some fish, but he felt weak all over and his mouth was dry. “Grandma, that’s enough.”
Grandma Wu seemed to be in better condition than him and was in good spirits. “Catch more to keep them and eat it slowly. The water is so deep now. It’s very difficult to buy vegetables.”
Huang Dan said nothing.
After a while, Huang Dan accidentally discovered a piece of black. It was getting closer. He swallowed and said, “Grandma, there is a big thing floating over there, it seems to be a coffin.”
Grandma Wu was catching the fish in her pocket into the basket, when she heard the shout, she trembled, and the fish broke free from her hand, jumped into the water and swam away.
“What! coffin! so unlucky.”
Grandma Wu’s face immediately changed, she didn’t see the energy she had before, and she didn’t want any fish or shrimp, “Go back, go back, hurry up, don’t look!”
Huang Dan walked slowly and looked back twice.
Grandma Wu came back and pulled him with great force, “I told you not to look, but you insist on looking. Why are you so annoying, little thing? You are not even half as good as your Ge!”
Huang Dan was about to say something when he caught a glimpse of the figure under the eaves, “Jiujiu.”
Grandma Wu’s nagging stopped, and she shook off Huang Dan’s hand and walked back quickly. The muddy water kept shaking away from her legs, making violent splashes.
“Director, I don’t know which mountain the coffin came from. If you see it, you will die……”
Grandma Wu’s words came to an abrupt end, and she spat several times, “Go into the room, you can’t watch it.”
Nie Wenyuan looked at the thin figure in the distance, “What are you doing there?”
Huang Dan said, “I’ll go and push the coffin away.”
Three lines appeared between Nie Wenyuan’s eyebrows, “Come back.”
Huang Dan didn’t cooperate, he asked Mr. Lu, the other party is the administrator of the supernatural area 120, and he will definitely be very clear about supernatural things.
Mr. Lu said that it would be unlucky for a coffin to float to the door, as someone was about to die recently.
Huang Dan’s scalp tightened after hearing this. Apart from him, the only other people in the house were Nie Wenyuan, Grandma Wu, Nie Xiuqin and Zhou Weiwei, mother and daughter. If something happened to anyone, it would be very bad.
Grandma Wu said to the people around her, “Don’t worry about it. That kid is very stubborn. Let him go.”
Nie Wenyuan had already walked down the steps and walked into the muddy water.
Grandma Wu yelled a few times in the back to no avail. She looked nervous and hurriedly turned to God Amitabha.
The coffin was finally pushed away by Huang Dan and Nie Wenyuan, and it floated in the other direction of the house, not knowing where it would go.
Huang Dan struggled, “Jiujiu, why did you come here?”
Nie Wenyuan said, “Jiujiu is afraid that you will lift the lid of the coffin out of curiosity.”
Huang Dan said, “I won’t.”
Nie Wenyuan faintly smiled, “Xiao Yu is not very old, but his memory is much worse.”
Huang Dan’s eyelids twitched.
He silently searched the original owner’s memory and found relevant fragments.
Many years ago, the mountain collapsed and a coffin was exposed. People passing by nearby would not stop, let alone have nothing to do, and come up to take a look.
One day the original owner went to the mountain with a few friends and found the coffin.
The friends huddled together in fright, and none of them dared to approach.
The original owner was showing off his majesty and had the courage to open the lid of the coffin. Without seeing anything, he yelled and ran.
This matter spread, and everyone said that the original owner was not good, that his character was not good, and that something would happen to him in the future.
Nie Youxiang and her husband went up to the mountain to burn paper, dragged the original owner to kowtow to the coffin several times, and then went to the temple to burn incense and worship Buddha.
Huang Dan came back to his senses, he was still where he was, and Nie Wenyuan had already returned to the house.
The little episode of the coffin was over quickly.
Grandma Wu said she was going to take a bath and asked Huang Dan to kill fish.
Huang Dan was speechless.
How can he kill fish? This technique is too difficult. He can only eat fish and drink fish soup.
Nie Xiuqin came down from upstairs, she looked at the crucian carp in the bucket, “Why are there so many fish, where did they come from?”
Huang Dan said caught it in the water outside.
“The fish in the river have come up, and they can indeed be caught.”
A memory flashed in Nie Xiuqin’s eyes, “In the past, the water in the pond used to dry up, your Jiujiu caught more fish than anyone else. He seemed to be able to do everything well.”
Huang Dan listened carefully.
Nie Xiuqin talked about the old things for a while, and she smiled softly, “Xiao Yu, you were not born at that time, your mother should have told you what aunt said, your Jiujiu is an amazing person, it is just……”
Huang Dan asked, “What is it?”
Nie Xiuqin sighed softly, “He is in his late thirties, but he has no one yet. I don’t know what kind of person he is looking for. He had arranged blind dates in the early years, but he was not satisfied.”
Huang Dan said, “It’s better to follow fate.”
“Isn’t life just about improvisation? It has nothing to do with fate. It won’t work if you apply what you see on TV to your life.”
Nie Xiuqin raised her arm to wipe the sweat from her forehead, “Your Jiujiu has been very demanding of himself since he was a child and cannot tolerate any mistakes. He also has high vision. If you want to be recognized by him, you must be a particularly outstanding person.”
Huang Dan pursed his lips, “Yes.”
Nie Xiuqin put the peeled potatoes in the basket, took one and continued peeling, “Xiao Yu, you go upstairs and take a look at your BiaoJie.”
Huang Dan responded, washed his hands and went upstairs, opened the door and went in.
Zhou Weiwei lay flat on the bed, with her hands on her abdomen and her eyes closed. Her face was so white that it was transparent, and her body exuded the breath of death. She lay there like a beautiful corpse.
Huang Dan came closer and said, “BiaoJie.”
Zhou Weiwei didn’t respond. If it weren’t for the snoring, people would be afraid and shake her shoulders to confirm whether she was dead or alive.
Huang Dan didn’t leave. He knew that Zhou Weiwei would go crazy if he mentioned the names of Chen Fei and Chen Xiaorou. He had already tried it before, but he didn’t want to try it again this time.
After pondering for a moment, Huang Dan changed the subject and said, “I went to Jiujiu’s factory a few days ago and saw Quanwu Shushu. He had an argument with Jiujiu in the office and mentioned BiaoJie.”
“Quanwu Shushu said that he has been taking care of BiaoJie all these years. This time something happened to BiaoJie, he felt more uncomfortable than anyone else.”
Zhou Weiwei didn’t move at first, but she opened her eyes suddenly, her breathing was very short, and the next moment she threw herself on Huang Dan.
Huang Dan was unprepared, his body was brought backward by that force, and his shoulder hit the corner of the table. He gasped in pain, and held Zhou Weiwei tightly with his hands, not letting her fall anywhere.
If he wanted to find out who harmed Zhou Weiwei, he had to use some methods, which was inevitable.
Nie Wenyuan and Nie Xiuqin came in front and back and pulled the two people on the ground apart.
Zhou Weiwei screamed and kicked Nie Xiuqin, “Go away! Don’t touch me!”
She started crying again, begging for mercy pitifully, “Let me go….. please you all let me go…… help…… uh uh…… Jiujiu, come and save me…… don’t, don’t, don’t…… ah……”
‘You all’ these two words made the air pressure in the room drop to the bottom all of a sudden.
Zhou Weiwei unconsciously told Huang Dan and the others that there was more than one person who raped her at that time.
Nie Xiuqin’s body swayed and she fainted.
Huang Dan burst into tears, and while crying, he helped Nie Wenyuan, adjusting the mother and daughter properly despite the pain in his shoulders.
With nothing to do, Huang Dan went downstairs and met Grandma Wu, his eyes blurred with tears.
Seeing the young man’s face covered with tears, Grandma Wu was a little dazed for a moment, but when she realized that he had already gone downstairs, she groaned and hurried upstairs.
Huang Dan went back to his room to find Mr. Lu to get the medicine, and when he heard the number of points in the fly cabinet, he sat on the head of the bed and felt that the sense of crisis was swallowing him up, “Mr. Lu, why haven’t there been activities and competitions to give away points?”
System, “Not recently.”
“……”
Huang Dan was thinking about something, when there was a sudden knock on the door, he collected his thoughts and opened the door, “Jiujiu, do you need something?”
Nie Wenyuan walked past him and said, “Take off your clothes.”
Huang Dan didn’t understand all of a sudden, he raised his head, his crying eyes were full of doubts.
Nie Wenyuan put his hands in his pockets and said, “Show Jiujiu the injury on your shoulder.”
Huang Dan sniffed, turned his back, and unbuttoned a few shirt buttons, revealing one shoulder. There was a large bruise on it, which was set off by the white skin, which was shocking.
Nie Wenyuan went out, and when he came back, he had too much medicinal wine in his hand. He poured some into his palm and stuck it to the young man’s injured shoulder, “What did you say to Xiaowei just now?”
Huang Dan kept inhaling in pain, “I mentioned Quanwu Shushu’s name.”
Nie Wenyuan said with strength in his palm, “It’s just this?”
The man’s voice was laced with scrutiny, and his warm breath sprayed behind Huang Dan’s ear. He said seriously, “There’s nothing else.”
Nie Wenyuan stopped making any sound. He poured medicinal wine into his palms and massaged the young man’s arm.
Huang Dan’s forehead was sweating, and he couldn’t bear the man’s hot and rough palms. He trembled and said, “Jiujiu, your hands are so rough.”
Nie Wenyuan said, “Umm.”
Huang Dan shuddered, and the tone of the pain changed, “It hurts me when you rub it.”
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