After confirming Yifan's wishes, Zhuang Zhao also needed to explain the situation to Yangyang, who immediately accepted the decision.
"I was ready long ago. Thank you, older sister and brother, for bringing me to your country. I will try my best to live well and won't cause you any trouble."
Yangyang spoke earnestly and deliberately, his pronunciation still unclear at such a young age. I wonder how long he will need to practice this; it must have been arranged by Yifan.
Yan Shi finally relaxed after resolving Yang Yang's matter. With nothing to worry about, he spent his days taking Yi Fan to visit friends.
After being away for half a year, everyone's relationships progressed rapidly. Some people broke up, some got together, and some are still single.
Yan Shi listened to everyone making fun of each other all day long, and his facial muscles were stiff from laughing so much.
Long-distance transportation is gradually resuming, and train stations and airports are reopening one after another. Interconnectivity between safe zones has made traveling north and south much more convenient.
With transportation restored, commercial markets bustled again, the economy recovered, and everything began to thrive.
The money earned as a matchmaker cannot be used for personal enjoyment. When Yan Shi sent Yangyang to the shelter, she also donated the gold bricks.
After the investigation team received their salaries and subsidies, Yan Shi paid off his debts and had some money left. Just as he was figuring out how to use the money to have a good New Year's reunion, his master suddenly appeared.
Someone knocked on the door, and Yan Shi looked through the peephole and saw an old man who looked somewhat familiar.
"Disciple, open the door quickly!"
Yan Shi's memory immediately matched up.
"Master!"
"Yan Yan, how's your studies going?" The master entered the room with her hands behind her back, looking travel-worn.
When Yan Shi recalled what her senior brother had told her about their master, she found it hard to still call him a strict teacher.
“That’s great. I recently traveled around the surrounding countries and gained a lot of experience.”
"Good, good disciple, you are more ambitious than your senior brother."
Yan Shi's interest was immediately piqued.
"Isn't my senior brother quite ambitious? He even criticized me when we first met."
Is inspiring others to improve the same as inspiring yourself to improve?
"Master, are you staying for the New Year?"
"It depends."
Looking at his master, Yan Shi felt that he looked much more weathered than before.
"Is Master still hiding from his enemies?"
"I guess so. Looks like your senior brother has been talking nonsense to you quite a bit."
"My senior brother has said quite a lot."
I didn't think much of it when my senior brother told me about Master's romantic escapades before, but now that I've seen Master in person, I realize that he's not young anymore. If I count the romantic entanglements my senior brother mentioned, it must have happened seven or eight years ago. Master is really still going strong and his charm hasn't diminished.
"Don't listen to that brat's nonsense, but he really does owe her. I don't understand relationships at all, yet I've become a fortune teller for marriage."
"Or why don't we just have an open and honest talk?"
The master shook his head, then said with certainty.
"I'm sure I'll get hacked to death."
Yan Shi blinked, unsure of what to say. Having been hunted down for years, he wondered if his master was actually enjoying it.
Yan Shi didn't say anything more. He filled the table in front of his master with snacks and pastries, then turned to contact Zhuang Zhao and asked him to buy more vegetables when he came back.
Since it's rare for our master to come, we must treat him with the utmost hospitality.
While Zhuang Zhao was preparing the meal, Yan Shi helped out and complained to Zhuang Zhao.
"My senior brother said that the woman is incredibly talented and lucky. She'll definitely find us wherever Master stays for more than a day."
"There's a lame joke about Aladdin being trapped in a magic lamp. When he was first trapped, he said he would grant his benefactor's every wish if he let him out. A hundred years later, he said he would grant his benefactor three wishes. A thousand years later, he had had enough and decided to curse the person who let him out."
"Some resentment will dissipate over time, while some resentment will settle over time and become the only motivation to keep living."
"The rest of my life is filled with resentment, and it feels so tragic."
"It is very difficult to change a person's character. For a stubborn person, it is simply impossible to let go."
“That’s true. When I’m angry, I don’t want to be angry, but it just keeps lingering in my mind. Even if I try to distract myself, it comes back to me in less than two seconds.” Yan Shi said with deep feeling.
In the living room, Master was showing off the things he had recently acquired to Yifan. Yifan was not very interested, but he couldn't show it because the other party was Master Yanshi.
The master didn't mind. They say that old people are like children, and the longer you live, the less you can resist the innocence of children.
When it was time to eat, the master praised Zhuang Zhao's cooking skills without reservation.
If Master has family, at this age he should be living with three generations under one roof, enjoying a harmonious and happy life.
The doorbell rang halfway through the meal.
Zhuang Zhao got up to look, and Yan Shi thought to himself that this year was really lively. In the time it took to pick up a dish, he found that his master was gone, along with Zhuang Zhao's specialty dish - braised pork ribs.
"Where is my master?" Yan Shi asked Yi Fan.
Yifan pointed to the balcony.
The balcony has a rope ladder for escape.
Yan Shi put down his chopsticks and got up to go find Zhuang Zhao.
Those who come are probably here to collect debts from their master; she has to go and join in the fun.
Zhuang Zhao neither opened the door nor left. The woman outside looked fierce, and he was afraid the door would be broken open.
When Yan Shi came over, he moved aside to make way for the peephole.
Yan Shi looked over and saw a strange woman who looked to be in her thirties. She was wearing a lilac-colored cheongsam and had a graceful figure.
"Who is it?" Yan Shi asked through the door.
"Ding Xiang, I've come to see the fortune teller Xue Chen."
So Master's name is Xue Chen.
The person you're looking for isn't here.
"I know, you can guess who I am, right? Can I come in and sit for a while?"
The door opened at dawn.
Zhuang Zhao tried to stop her, fearing that the woman might hurt Yan Shi in a fit of rage.
Yan Shi wasn't too worried. Judging from her appearance, she wouldn't implicate innocent people, but she wasn't exactly a pushover either.
"Thank you. By the way, what is your relationship with Xue Chen?"
"My master is a fortune teller, but I don't know if he's the one you're looking for."
"It must be him. Judging from what you're saying, you must have heard about my deeds somewhere. Would you like to hear my story?"
Zhuang Zhao brewed hot tea, poured some for Yan Shi and Ding Xiang, and then returned to the dining table to continue eating with Yi Fan.
Ding Xiang subconsciously glanced at him a couple more times; he was the homebody type, which was quite rare.
"I'm all ears." I love listening to gossip.
"It's probably just a simple, melodramatic story. It's nothing more than a naive woman being attracted to a playboy, mistaking his casual remarks for a promise, and being unwilling to let him go so easily. In the end, they can only torment each other like a resentful wife."
Yan Shi: What happened to the story you promised? It's just summarized in one sentence? Aren't you going to go into details?
Yan Shi's little thoughts were completely revealed in his eyes, without any attempt to hide them, which amused Ding Xiang.
"Aren't you afraid of me?"
"I'm only afraid of people who are unreasonable, irrational, and shameless."
"Your master must be sneezing right now."
The beauty's smile was so dazzling that Yan Shi was a full beat slow to realize the meaning of Ding Xiang's words.
It's saying that the master is being unreasonable, irrational, and shameless.
It's quite remarkable that she fell in love with such a master.
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