Chapter 149 Chapter 149 Flood
Speak of Cao Cao and he will appear.
Just as Su Guizhi was muttering about Miao Yuexing, the sound of a key unlocking the door was heard outside, and a handsome man with a dignified appearance pushed the door open.
"Mom, wife... Hey, Xiaoxing, when did you come back? Why didn't you tell me?"
He Junxia touched his nose and said, "I just came back today."
As soon as he entered the mission world, he bought a high-speed rail ticket home, but he only remembered to send a message to the wisher's mother and forgot to tell Miao Yueze.
"How's your internship going? Is it going well?"
"good."
He Juanxia shook the suitcase and said, "Brother, you eat. I need to go back and pack the things in the suitcase."
Miao Yueze: "Okay."
Su Guizhi stopped He Junxia and said, "Wait, I'll go back with you."
The place where they ate was the couple's wedding room. She and her youngest son usually lived in an old house in the neighborhood next door.
Wei Lingyu pulled out a bag of slightly cool Sunshine Rose grapes from the refrigerator. "Xiaoxing, take this back. Mom's been cooking here lately, so there's nothing in the refrigerator over there."
"Go to the store tomorrow and bring back some watermelons. The ones I buy are better than the ones sold at the stalls."
"Thank you, sister-in-law."
He Junxia grinned, took the grapes, and left with Su Guizhi. The rain outside continued to fall. By the time they reached the gate of the old neighborhood, the ground was already soaked with rainwater, with almost no dry spots.
Both of them were wearing lightweight mesh sneakers that were breathable but not waterproof. It was obvious that their shoes would get wet if they just walked over.
"Mom, let me carry you over there."
"It's such a small thing, why do I have to carry it on my back?" Su Guizhi strode into the puddle. She walked so coolly, not caring at all about her shoes and socks getting wet by the rain.
He Junxia: ...
He should have thought of it earlier. How could a person with an impetuous temper care about such a small matter?
He Junxia hurried after him with her suitcase in hand. The first thing Su Guizhi did when she entered the room was to turn on the light, take off her shoes and change her socks.
He Junxia glanced at the dirty suitcase, bent down and wiped it clean before starting to deal with herself.
Su Guizhi's voice floated from behind: "Miao Yuexing, come out quickly when you're done. I want to talk to you."
The moment he heard the name, He Junxia's body twitched uncontrollably. This was the subconscious reaction of the wisher's body.
He changed into clean slippers, pushed the suitcase into the wisher's bedroom, and then went to the living room. Su Guizhi looked at her seriously: "What's going on between you and that Tong?"
He Junxia said innocently: "Nothing happened?"
"It's best if nothing happens. Don't have any contact with her." Su Guizhi put her hands on her hips and said, "Look at what she's done. It's embarrassing to tell anyone about it."
She reached out and poked He Juanxia's head hard: "You are also a fool. You brought up something that happened so long ago. It's only because your sister-in-law is kind-hearted that she doesn't care. If it were someone else, they would definitely make a fuss."
"Besides, pregnant women are more sensitive than usual. If you make her angry, I'll make you pay."
He Juanxia touched her nose and said, "No, Mom, I just want to apologize to my sister-in-law."
He also decided to speak out about this matter after careful consideration. It is better to expose it in advance than to have it exposed when he is about to give birth.
Su Guizhi snorted, but didn't care anymore. "You must never mention this kind of thing again. The food during your internship is so bad. You've lost weight."
The topic changed so quickly that He Junxia paused for a moment before saying with a grin, "I believe Mom's cooking skills will definitely help me regain all the weight I've lost."
"You're the only one who can talk, full of sweet nothings. Why don't you bring a girlfriend back to show me? What do you want to eat tomorrow?"
He Junxia flipped through the wisher's memory: "Mom, I want to eat the fried mushrooms you made."
"Okay, your brother likes this too. I'll make more so you two can have enough."
Su Guizhi took her change of clothes and went to the bathroom to shower. Even though it had rained, the temperature was still quite high, and it was hot and humid. If she didn't shower for a day, she would feel uncomfortable all over.
He Juanxia went downstairs again carrying the empty suitcase: "Mom, I'm going out to buy some things and will be back soon."
"What are you going to buy?"
"Buy some food."
"Go quickly and come back soon."
He Junxia carried an empty suitcase to a small supermarket near her home to shop.
According to the experience summarized by many high-level taskers in the forum, if there are no unscientific factors in the mission world of level B and above, 99% of them are related to large-scale natural disasters.
Food and water are essential for survival.
He Junxia bought a whole suitcase of high-calorie fast food. The cashier was stunned. Did this customer clear out the snack shelves in their supermarket?
"Buy so much?"
"Once sold in our supermarket, no returns or exchanges are accepted. Think carefully."
He Junxia ignored the cashier's previous question: "Think it through, scan the code."
What a strange guest.
Seeing He Junxia's firm attitude, the cashier girl stopped talking nonsense and scanned all the items quickly.
"The total is 1081. Scan the QR code or pay in cash?"
He Junxia took out his phone and said, "Scan the code."
The volunteer went out for an internship for two months and earned more than 4,000 yuan. With the living allowance from his family and his own savings, he had a total savings of more than 20,000 yuan.
After leaving the small supermarket, He Junxia went to a nearby pharmacy and asked, "Do you have any XX brand multivitamins?"
A staff member in a white coat walked out of the cashier counter and took out a bottle of beautifully packaged multivitamins from a shelf. "Buy this YY brand. It's a well-known brand and has a guarantee."
He Juanxia glanced at the price list on the shelf and saw that it was more than fifty yuan more expensive than the XX brand. He said calmly, "We only eat XX brand at home. If we don't have it, forget it."
The pharmacist reluctantly pulled out a box of XX brand multivitamins from the corner and asked, "How many bottles do you want?"
"Five bottles, one for each person. Also, give me two boxes of XX brand intestinal worm clearing medicine, two boxes of 666 cold medicine, and a set of Yunnan Baiyao."
"132.6 in total."
He Junxia went home carrying a suitcase and a bag of medicine. He went very fast. When he got back, Su Guizhi was still taking a shower, saving her the trouble of explaining.
He Junxia placed the food and medicine from his suitcase into the wisher's storage box. If he was worried about arousing suspicion by not buying a large amount of medicine at once, he certainly wouldn't have bought just this.
He Junxia took out her mobile phone, opened the shopping app, found a pharmacy that could deliver the goods the next day, and placed an order for a bunch of medicines and supplements for prenatal care.
——Su Guizhi has the habit of hoarding food. The food reserves at home are no less than 8 bags of rice, not to mention the storage of pasta and other supplies, so he is not very worried about food.
However, there is a saying on the Internet that goes, "If my neighbor stores food, I store guns. My neighbor is my granary." In addition to food and medicine, you also need to prepare some lethal self-defense tools.
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It rained heavily all night long.
The rain was sometimes heavy and sometimes light, and the rainwater accumulated at the entrance of the old community had formed a vast ocean.
However, this little difficulty could not affect the parents' enthusiasm to go out and buy vegetables. At five o'clock in the morning, as soon as it was light, Su Guizhi put on a raincoat and long rain boots and went to the vegetable market to buy the freshest vegetables.
When she came back after buying a bag of vegetables, He Junxia had just gotten up. It was only 6:30 in the morning.
Su Guizhi threw a bag of steaming dumplings on the guest table: "I'm too lazy to make breakfast, you can eat the dumplings yourself."
He Juanxia: "Mom, have you eaten?"
"I ate a few oil cakes." Su Guizhi wiped the raindrops on her face and said, "If you have nothing to do, go to the store and help your sister-in-law. The girl we hired last year quit, and we haven't hired a new one yet. Now she's the only one busy."
"I'll go in the afternoon. I have an appointment to go out this morning."
"Male or female?"
"He's a guy, my high school classmate."
Su Guizhi immediately lost interest in questioning her youngest son and simply said, "Just have fun. I don't really want you to help your sister-in-law. Just remember to come back for dinner."
She left in a hurry carrying the vegetables.
After Su Guizhi's back completely disappeared from his sight, He Junxia put on the old schoolbag that the wisher had used in high school and went out to buy some things.
He walked around the agricultural and sideline products wholesale market and bought several boxes of canned meat and canned fruit. He also bought two sharp sickles from the farm tool store next door.
This thing is more lethal than a kitchen knife and has a wider killing range than a kitchen knife. The sharp blade flashes a cold light in the sunlight.
He Junxia took a taxi home with a bunch of things, and soon received a call from the express delivery station.
"Hello, is this Mr. Miao? I'm a courier from JD.com. Are you home now?"
"I am here."
"Well, could you please go downstairs to pick up the package? You have a lot of packages, so you can take a big bag."
He Junxia dug out a large snakeskin bag from home and went downstairs. The courier saw him and said with a smile, "Why did you buy so many packages?"
"I'm expecting a baby, so I ended up buying too much."
He Junxia smiled very honestly.
The courier suddenly realized: "No wonder there are so many milk powders. Congratulations, not many people want to have children these days."
He Junxia dragged his snakeskin bag bulging with cash back home, picked up the fruit knife on the table, and began to unpack the package. After hiding the food, medicine, and milk powder in his bedroom, he went out to help out at the milk tea shop.
The rain hasn't stopped yet.
The fine and dense raindrops avoided the umbrellas and floated on people's faces. It was not cold, but a bit annoying.
Wei Lingyu looked at her brother-in-law who suddenly appeared in surprise: "Xiaoxing, why are you here alone? Where is your friend? Ask him to come in and have some milk tea."
"His girlfriend left early because she had something to do with him."
Wei Lingyu covered her mouth and laughed: "I told you not to find a girlfriend. Now you know the benefits of a girlfriend, right?"
He Junxia smiled.
When the takeout order announcement sounded, he put on his work clothes, put on a mask, and began to shake the milk tea. The number of orders on rainy days was 20% lower than usual, so he could handle it alone.
Wei Lingyu flipped through her WeChat contacts and Moments: "Xiaoxing, do you want me to introduce you to a girlfriend?"
He Junxia was sitting and drinking milk tea. She choked and almost spit out a mouthful of milk tea. She waved her hands repeatedly: "No, no, there's no point in having a relationship when there's no work."
"That's true."
Wei Lingyu put her phone away, stood up, and walked around the store a few times. "I saw the weather forecast says it's going to rain for another three days, so let's call it a day."
This is the advantage of opening your own shop. You can open it when you want and close it when you want, without having to deal with the boss's anger.
Of course, if you want to make money, you can't be so willful. Even if there is no business, Wei Lingyu will insist on opening the shop until ten o'clock before closing.
But we haven’t recruited any new employees yet, and it’s raining, so the orders have decreased a lot, and we can’t earn enough to buy a few cups of milk tea late at night.
If the store didn't close a few hours earlier, she or her brother-in-law would have to take over the night shift from the employee who left.
She was pregnant and was tired even if she was busy until late at night. Her brother-in-law had just returned from an internship in his junior year and only had half a month of vacation left. Why bother him?
Seeing that there was no business, Wei Lingyu took out her phone and started watching short videos. During a break like this, where you couldn't be sure when it would end, watching short videos was the best way to relieve fatigue.
"Due to continuous heavy rainfall, severe flooding has occurred in Linshui County, Linjiang City, and the water level is still rising... 3,986 people have been evacuated, but a large number of people are still waiting for rescue."
A standard broadcast voice came out from the phone speaker, and Wei Lingyu couldn't help but feel relieved: "Luckily, our county is located on high ground. There is only a little water accumulation. The neighboring Linshui County was flooded."
The speaker may not mean it, but the listener may take it seriously.
He Junxia realized she had fallen into a slight misunderstanding. While food resources were important, the types of natural disasters could not be ignored.
Maybe he needed to buy some life jackets, and even better, a kayak.
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My name is Xie Qingyi. I am the seventh child of the Fox King of the Sky Fox Clan and also the child with the most talent for cultivation.
My second sister, who returned from experiencing hardships when she was young, told me that humans are not good people.
They are greedy, cruel, cunning, and shameful. They are the symbol of all negative words. Never believe anything the human race says, otherwise you will be forced into a situation from which there is no escape.
I don't believe it.
The human race is the most beloved creature by the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth, and it is impossible for it to be the extremely vicious and cruel race that my second sister described.
So I mischievously sneaked out of the fox territory.
As soon as I left the Fox Territory, I was ambushed by a big demon and was seriously injured. I only managed to escape with the help of the magic weapon given by my father. I turned into my original form and landed in the mountains and forests of the human world.
I lay dying in the snow-covered mountains. The suppression from my bloodline level prevented ordinary beasts from approaching, but it was unable to stop the raging snowstorm.
Until a pair of warm hands hugged me tightly.
He was a human, his eyes were brighter than the stars in the sky. I heard someone call him the Third Prince.
It turns out that he is the son of the emperor of the world.
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The Third Prince seemed to be very fond of foxes. After he took me home, I began to live a leisurely life of eating, drinking, and having fun.
My second sister was lying to me.
Otherwise, how could such a sinister and cunning human being show such care to a dying white fox and allow the fox to sleep in his bed?
Although the Third Prince's bedroom is not as good as my cave, there is a young man in this bedroom who is as bright as the moon. He is more precious than any treasure in my cave.
We traveled together, played and had fun. Later, after I recovered from my injuries, I transformed into a human form to reveal my identity to him. We lived a dreamlike and wonderful life.
All the good things disappeared like bubbles. It turned out that our meeting was just a part of the plan. That wonderful time was just my wishful thinking after all.
But I was too naive at that time, and even after discovering the truth, I still went to him angrily to question him.
He admitted it.
I want to kill him!
No one can escape unscathed after deceiving the Seventh Prince of the Fox Clan!
But I failed.
No one can get away with deceiving the Seventh Prince of the Fox Clan unless that is the one he loves.
We had a big fight and parted on bad terms.
The human race is indeed the most shameless race.
I originally wanted to leave the capital and go somewhere else to try my luck. I wanted to prove to my second sister that there must be human beings in the world who deserve the favor of heaven and earth.
But the human emperor, seeking immortality, did not hesitate to sacrifice the lives of the people of the city, and used the hearts of tens of thousands of boys and girls as the core of the formation, trapping me in the formation and skinning me alive.
I'm dead.
To prevent the Fox Territory's great demons from seeking my presence, the human emperor ordered my remains to be thrown into the Soul-Calming Valley. Legend has it that this valley suppresses the souls of all who enter, preventing them from reaching the afterlife.
As the biggest contributor, he soared into the sky like a roc riding on the wind, becoming the prince who was second only to the emperor and above everyone else.
Second sister, I was wrong.
The human race is indeed the most insidious, cunning, evil and shameless race in the world. I paid the price of my life for my stubbornness and stupidity.
I thought this was the end, that I would turn into an unconscious wandering soul in the Soul-Suppressing Cauldron over time, and either return to heaven or be reincarnated into the human world.
However, after learning the truth, his father and brothers and sisters angrily launched a war against the human race.
The beginning of a war can be decided by the initiator, but the end of a war is not controlled by anyone.
The war between the fox and human races spread wider and wider, more and more races joined in, and the gods in heaven also came down to help.
Many people died, including many monsters.
Trapped in the Soul-Suppressing Cauldron, I could see it all clearly, but was powerless to stop it.
This terrible war between humans, gods and demons lasted for thousands of years. His father died, his mother died, his brothers and sisters died, and he died too.
I saw his memories in the Soul-Suppressing Cauldron.
It turned out that he knew nothing about the incident, and the reason he admitted it in person was because he was deceived by the villain and thought that I deliberately approached him because of the dragon energy in him.
But we were too young at that time and neither of us was willing to bow to each other first, so we drifted further and further apart in the words of others.
It was not until later that he learned the truth of the matter and what the human emperor had done.
He collected my bones, he killed the emperor of the human race, and he sought enlightenment from the immortals who came down to earth.
He protected my relatives, married me with my spirit tablet, and regarded himself as my widow, but died in another sinister plot.
Does he love me?
I have no idea.
Do I love him?
I have no idea.
After the Three Realms War, there was no real winner. The spiritual energy between heaven and earth dissipated, and both demons and gods gradually turned into ancient legends.
It turns out that whether it’s me, him, or even the human emperor, we are all just his pawns.
The world no longer needs so many gods, so many monsters, and so many cultivating humans. He only needs ordinary mortals and beasts and plants without intelligence.
I hate it!
I can't accept it!
Why can He just play with our destiny?
I have been in the Soul-Suppressing Cauldron for two thousand years and have never forgotten the pain and hatred. I will make Him pay the price.
Relying on thousands of years of accumulation, I transformed into a human form with my only remaining soul and successfully took away the Soul-Suppressing Cauldron.
Without the Soul-Suppressing Cauldron, the yin and yang of heaven and earth became unbalanced, the clear and turbid air could not be restored, and evil spirits were rampant in the world.
A stupid old ghost came to me and asked to cooperate with me. He said he could help me find the person I was looking for, and the requirement was that I help him become the King of Ghosts.
I agreed.
But I'm not going to keep my promise.
The ghosts that people turn into after death are still shameless and evil species. I want to let them also taste the pain of being betrayed.
But I met a very strange person in that small village.
He is not simple, he is very smart, he knows how to use coercion and inducement, and his acting skills are also outstanding. But in the face of danger, he actually chose to stay alone, leaving the chance of escape to his roommate.
Even when he learned that one of his roommates had abandoned him after being rescued, he did not feel too much anger.
Strange human beings.
He observed me, and I observed him. He treated everyone with sincerity, regardless of their status.
He would pay out of his own pocket to help the lonely ghosts in the mountains fulfill their unfulfilled wishes, and would donate most of the money he earned to charity.
He has a kind heart towards both people and ghosts, but he never brags about himself and never makes demands on others.
Be strict with yourself and lenient with others. This sentence seems to be born for him.
But when faced with evil people and evil things, he never shows mercy and kills decisively, even if those people or evil spirits have had their own difficulties.
How to describe him?
I have no idea.
In the past thousand years, I have seen only him as a person worthy of the kindness bestowed upon the human race by heaven and earth.
But the human race is a sinister, evil, shameless and cunning race. He is a human being, so he is no exception.
He will not be an exception!
He possesses enough power to destroy the world and has witnessed the darkest and most negative emotions in the world.
Can you still keep your original intention?
Will you become the Soul-Suppressing Cauldron's puppet or its master?
I'm looking forward to it.
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