"You went to my house looking for me?" Qi Xili asked, raising his eyelids slightly.
"Ah, otherwise why would I have come here?" Jiang Shulian's chest heaved violently. Shen Yanming then handed him the bowl of vegetable porridge that he had left for Bi Qiaoan: "Have some to warm yourself up, and then tell me slowly."
Jiang Shulian opened his mouth wide, ready to speak, but the aroma was rather tempting.
He hesitated for a moment, but Qi Xili said, "Is it urgent? If not, let's finish eating first."
Jiang Shu blinked, unsure if this matter was urgent. Just then, his stomach growled, so he gulped down the porridge in his bowl.
After finishing his drink and wiping his mouth, Jiang Shulian said with a bitter face, "Captain Qi, you have no idea, that building is haunted!"
"What? Are you kidding me?!" Qi Xili clearly didn't believe it.
Shen Yanming, An'an, and Nuannuan stared wide-eyed. None of the three expected that Secretary Jiang, who had received higher education, would say such a thing.
"It's true. I was on duty in the office last night, and when I woke up this morning, I found three paper airplanes at the door."
"It was probably someone playing a prank and threw it there."
"No, those papers have writing and drawings on them, and they were printed out. The paper is brand new, without even a fingerprint. Who has that kind of ability?"
"And they appeared out of nowhere. There was no one in the building from when I fell asleep last night until I woke up this morning. Even the security guards on duty didn't pass by. How could they have suddenly appeared?"
Qi Xili also found it somewhat strange after hearing this. He frowned and asked, "Didn't they install surveillance cameras? Didn't you check them?"
"That's the strange thing. When we checked the security footage, we found that there was no one in the hallway, and the paper airplane flew out of the bathroom."
"Isn't it obvious that someone's in the bathroom?"
"But there was no one in the restroom! The security guards on duty checked the building before leaving get off work and only closed the door after confirming that no one was in the building."
"They climbed in through the window."
"We have checked and found no trace of people entering or leaving."
"Perhaps someone has covered up the traces."
"Probably not. The dust outside the window is very evenly distributed. We asked technicians to come and take a look, but they didn't find anything."
Qi Xili looked at Shen Yanming in disbelief and asked, "Is there really a ghost?"
Shen Yanming's lips twitched, and he shook his head, saying, "The important thing now is to find out what those few pieces of paper are. What's the point of investigating these unknowns?"
"Yes, you're right." Qi Xili nodded and asked Jiang Shulian, "What's written on the paper airplane?"
Jiang Shulian looked at the group of people with some hesitation.
"Just say it directly, Old Shen and the others won't tell anyone," Qi Xili said nonchalantly.
Jiang Shulian, considering the Shen family's background, didn't hide anything: "It's a picture, it looks like a mountain. There are several small stars on it, we don't know what they're trying to express, but it looks like a treasure map."
After examining it, the official said, "Let me invite you over so we can see if we need to go out and search."
"He actually believed it was a treasure map! Could it be a prank?"
"Wen Mengguan said that there's nothing to scheme against in the base right now. If it's not a treasure map, then whoever sent it here must have nothing better to do."
"He doesn't care who delivered it!"
"As Wen Mengguan said, everyone in this world has secrets. As long as it is beneficial to the base, there is no need to dig deeper."
Qi Xili nodded and stood up: "Alright then, I'll go with you to take a look."
Seeing this, Shen Yanming also stood up and asked, "Would it be convenient for me to come along?"
Qi Xili asked with a smile, "Don't you dislike joining in on this kind of fun?"
Shen Yanming raised an eyebrow: "Don't you always say I'm a mascot? Maybe you'll discover something different by having me with you."
In reality, I was thinking, "If you can't find it, I can at least give you a subtle hint."
Qi Xili looked at Jiang Shulian and saw a hint of surprise flash in his eyes.
"Wen Mengguan said that if Captain Shen is willing, he can go and take a look."
"Alright, Yanming, you can come along. An'an and Nuannuan can wait at home. Your godfather and your father will be back soon."
Shen Yanming smiled and ruffled their hair: "It might take a while. Don't worry, my darlings, Daddy will be back as soon as he's done."
After saying that, she went into the bedroom, woke Bi Qiaoan up, and whispered a few words to her. Then she came out, put on her coat, and followed the two of them out.
An'an and Nuannuan looked at the closed door, exchanged a glance, and sighed. They thought to themselves, "Why am I still so little? If I were as big as Brother Qilin, I could be with my dad and godfather."
After being woken up by Shen Yanming, Bi Qiaoan didn't go back to sleep. Yawning, she walked to the living room, and after getting the information from the two children, she went into the space with An'an and Nuannuan.
Old Shen is definitely not coming back anytime soon, and she doesn't want to just stand there blankly in the living room, so she'd better go back to her space and continue drying the grain.
An'an and Nuannuan also enjoy going into the space. It's not only warm here, but also has a beautiful environment. They have a lot of space to move around in, and there are many entertainment options.
Bi Qiaoan let the two children play by themselves, while she harvested some of the mature crops in her space and planted some more.
The newly harvested corn cobs were piled up in front of the mobile villa, and Bi Qiaoan used her mind to peel off their husks. She found that peeling them one by one was a slow and laborious process, unlike the harvest season when she could sweep up large swathes at once.
So they simply took matters into their own hands and put the peeled corn cobs on a tarpaulin to dry. Once they were dry, they could be stored away.
When An'an and Nuannuan saw this, they came over to help. The three of them wore gloves and worked on the harvester for more than half an hour before Bi Qiaoan realized that there was a harvester in the storage area, and that thing harvested the peeled fruit.
She slapped her forehead, realizing how foolish she had been. She'd been so focused on her work that she'd forgotten all about the agricultural machinery.
I told my two kids, "Do your best, don't overwork yourselves," and then used my consciousness to tend to the other crops.
Seeing the snow-white cotton in the field, Bi Qiaoan smiled and picked a lot, piling it up at the entrance of the mobile villa.
He waved to his two children, "Come here, sweethearts, stop messing with that corn." They could plant another crop instead. "Come on, let's pick cotton bolls; the farm will need them."
Seeing this, An'an and Nuannuan put down the corn in their hands.
Bi Qiaoan used her consciousness to throw them all into the storage area, and then taught the two children how to pick the white cotton out of the cotton bolls.
"I don't know how many cotton quilts and down comforters the base has stored. Let's pack some out and have your dad send them out next time."
An'an nodded: "Thank you, Mom. I heard from my classmates that the blankets they use at home are all picked up from outside. The cotton inside is all lumpy and doesn't keep them warm at all."
"Didn't they consider going to the base to exchange for new ones?"
"There are few people in their family, and they don't even have enough food to exchange for points, so how could they dare to exchange them for cotton?"
Bi Qiaoan nodded: "Then Mom should plant more cotton, and release more next time. Once the base has income, maybe they'll lower the exchange price of cotton."
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