Chapter 122 Chapter 122 Teacher Lu and I are in love? ...
"—Wait, I'm dating Teacher Lu?"
Two seconds later, a burst of laughter erupted from the quiet living room. Ji Yinhe clutched her stomach, her eyes curved. "Hahahaha, mom, what nonsense are you talking about!"
"That's exactly what I meant." Lian Qiao said seriously, "Don't be so joking with me. Dating is a good thing, and Xiao Lu is a good comrade... It's just that as your parents, we wanted to hear this from you first." Ji Yinhe said, "Oh," and waved his hand, suppressing a laugh. "Then you heard wrong! I don't have a boyfriend right now."
"Okay." Lian Qiao looked at her daughter's slightly red ears and thought that even if it wasn't the case now, it would be hard to say in the future.
However, Xiao Ji was quite interested in this matter. He rubbed his paws and asked, "Mom, who told you that?"
"It was Old Rao from the Jiangtan Municipal Bureau." Lian Qiao calmly sipped her tea. "He came to the shop alone for lunch at noon and praised your excellent work at the provincial department. He also talked about the day you went to Jingzhou to attend Xiao Wu's funeral. You cried uncontrollably, and it was Teacher Lu who kept comforting you, wiping your tears with a handkerchief and holding your umbrella the whole time. He ended up getting half his shoulder soaked!"
"Ah..." Ji Yinhe blinked and slowly recalled the scene of that day.
It seemed to be true, but at that time I seemed to be immersed in sadness and was completely unaware of Lu Zheng's thoughtfulness...
How long has she ignored such details?
An indescribable sweetness spread in her heart. Ji Yinhe felt her ears burning, so she quickly fanned them with her hands and said, "It's not the right time. If there is anything in the future... I will tell Mom and Dad right away!"
"Okay!" Lian Qiao helped her daughter tidy up her hair, thinking that her child had really grown up.
But Ji Jianguo next to him sighed and looked reluctant.
In his heart, Ji Yinhe was the best in the world! Even if Lu Zheng was more outstanding, he was still a little inferior to his precious one. He was definitely marrying up!
Lian Qiao watched her daughter finish her call, then walked out of the bedroom and sat down in the living room. Suddenly, she asked, "Is Teacher Lu waiting for you outside?"
"Ahem." Comrade Xiao Ji choked and whispered, "Yes..."
"You kid!" Lian Qiao blew his beard and glared, "Everyone is downstairs, and you don't even bring them in for a quick meal!"
"Teacher Lu has finished eating. He just said on the phone that he is helping to organize materials in the Municipal Bureau Library!" Ji Yinhe touched the back of his head and quickly brought the subject back. "Mom, why don't we talk about business first!"
“…”
Lian Qiao stood up and instructed Ji Jianguo to take the dishes and cups on the table into the kitchen. Then the two of them sat upright at the dining table, laid out the whole thing, and told their daughter everything.
Ji Yinhe held his chin and listened attentively.
My parents’ story is so interesting, even more exciting than Jin Yong’s novels!
Lian Qiao explained that she and Ji Jianguo traveled into this world from 2025 and 2030, respectively. During a chance encounter, they noticed something was amiss with each other! They then linked eight memes together, including "For the best mining technology, look for Lanxiang in Shandong, China," "Jiangnan Leather Factory in Wenzhou, Zhejiang has closed down," and "The President of the United States is □□," and happily confirmed their shared identities as time travelers.
Comrade Xiao Ji counted on his fingers and said, "Then you haven't been born yet?"
Lian Qiao tsks, "Rule number one for book-traveling: there's no need to take it too seriously!"
"Okay..." Ji Yinhe blinked, "I'm more interested in this: since you two come from two different online novels, how did this world merge together?"
Ji Jianguo laughed out loud, "I couldn't figure it out at first, but your mother's words just now gave me an idea - maybe it was her big kick that split the time tunnel!" He spread his hands and clapped them together, "So, two originally unrelated worlds merged just like that!"
"..." Ms. Lian Qiao touched her chin, "It seems... there is some truth to that, but we still have two different systems!"
Ji Yinhe was confused when he heard this. "What is...a system?"
"Ah! The system is what assigns us tasks, usually in the form of a panel." Comrade Lao Ji was very excited when talking about the time he first entered the book, gesturing with joy. "It's a transparent panel with golden text on it, which only we can see!"
"Ah..." Ji Yinhe tilted his head back and tried to imagine, "I can't see it either."
"My system is called 9300, and your father's is called 727," Lian Qiao said, "but they haven't appeared since before you were born."
Ji Yinhe said "Oh" and asked curiously, "So what tasks did the system assign you back then?"
"I want to help Gong Chenggong, the hero of 'River City Storm, Industry is King'. In the 1970s, he bought a dilapidated factory and needed to revive it. Then he had to defeat one, two, three, four, five, six, or seven competitors, gain a foothold in Jiangtan, and transform it into an enterprise. I also want to help him marry the eldest lady he loved but died young, and give birth to Gong He - the son who is destined to inherit his career." Ji Jianguo finished speaking in one breath, raised his glass and took a big sip of water.
Ji Yinhe's eyes lit up. "So, the legendary master behind the successful porcelain industry is you?"
"Yes!" Ji Jianguo nodded proudly.
"My mission wasn't as detailed as your father's," Lian Qiao continued. "My role mainly appeared in the first half of 'The Lost Daughter of the Seventies Returns.' The system asked me to advance the original book's plot. The most crucial task was to persuade Su He to go to the rural welfare home to find Su Yue. After that, I pretty much retired."
Ji Yinhe nodded slowly and thought about it.
She had come into contact with the people mentioned by Lao Ji and Ms. Lian in previous cases and knew more or less about their past history.
I just didn't expect that my parents had actually been involved in their lives.
"I have two questions." Comrade Xiao Ji raised his hand. "Is this system controlled by humans? Is transmigrating into a book... common in your future?"
"We only have a vague understanding of the details," Lian Qiao explained seriously. "Anyway, in future novels, traveling through books is a common occurrence. But since most people who travel through books never return, no one is sure whether this phenomenon actually exists in the world."
"..." Ji Yinhe thought for a moment and held his mother's hand. "When you suddenly came here, you must have missed your relatives and friends in your original world very much, right?"
Lian Qiao sighed, "Yeah, I miss your grandparents... I don't know how they are doing now."
Ji Jianguo added promptly, "Yes, even though your grandparents didn't care much about me, they were very nice people. They gave me a good face and a good figure, which made your mother choose me, a fellow villager, among so many original book natives!"
This sentence made the mother and daughter laugh out loud. Ji Yinhe then asked, "By the way, since this world starts from the 1970s, and your world is in the past, then can you try to find your relatives?"
Ji Jianguo and Lian Qiao shook their heads.
"—Of course I tried, but Handong Province doesn't exist in our world. Naturally, everything in this book's world and our past doesn't exist either."
"Handong Province... doesn't exist?" Ji Yinhe was really surprised this time.
"Yes, there's an extra piece on the map." Ji Jianguo said, "Your mother and I speculate that perhaps because Handong Province appears in both original books, the two worlds can be merged."
"Hmm..." Ji Yinhe touched his chin and thought slowly.
"Normally, book travelers only travel into one world. It wouldn't happen that two book travelers simultaneously travel into two books at the same geographical location, right?"
Ji Jianguo Lianqiao nodded, "Yes, I've never heard of it."
"Then our world is a special case..." Ji Yinhe's bright little face wrinkled, "The appearance of a third time traveler, such as Zhang San, shouldn't be surprising, right?"
"..." Ji Jianguo and Lian Qiao's eyes met in the air, and they exchanged worried looks.
"Yinghe, there are some things we are still investigating, so we have been hiding them from you before—"
Ms. Lian walked into the master bedroom and quickly pulled back the curtains, revealing the photos covering the wall.
Ji Yinhe ran in with his eyes wide open, "Are you two investigating the case too?"
Lian Qiao smiled bitterly, "Not really... Do you still remember Ding Tongguang?"
"Of course I remember, what happened to him!?"
Lian Qiao pointed at several photos of Ding Tongguang and said, "For a while, he became very strange, completely idiotic. As a character in the Green River Era novel, he actually had a connection with Gong Chenggong from Long Ao Tianwen. This is completely unrelated to the original book."
Ji Jianguo added, "And it's not just Ding Tongguang who's behaving strangely. We've noticed similar things happening to other people as well! This shows the fusion of these two worlds has affected many people. I wonder if Zhang San's changes are part of this."
Ji Yinhe thought for two seconds. "Zhang San is very rational and his actions are logical. I just think that a prisoner who has been detained for a long time shouldn't be so powerful. It can't be called weird..."
"Maybe." Lian Qiao said earnestly, "To be honest, you are also a product of fusion. For a long time, your father and I were worried that you would be affected by it."
"But I'm fine, nothing happened!" Comrade Xiao Ji, who never worried about anything, patted his chest. "No wonder you're always concerned about my case. I told you as soon as possible if there was any situation..."
"It would be best if he's alright." Lian Qiao leaned against the wall, her arms folded, her glasses gleaming coldly under the fluorescent light. "Ding Tongguang has gradually returned to normal over the past six months. Perhaps... the negative effects of the fusion have worn off."
At this time, a burst of cheerful music came from the TV in the living room, and "Happy Camp" was coming to an end.
Ji Yinhe's gaze was still lingering on the photo wall.
——The amount of information she had obtained tonight was too much, and she still needed to review it carefully. But no matter who Zhang San was and where he came from, and whether these changes had completely disappeared, as the fruit of love between book traversers, she and old Ms. Ji Lian would likely face an unimaginably tough battle.
Ji Jianguo looked up at the clock and said, "Okay, it's getting late. You should hurry back to Jingzhou with Teacher Lu. It will take two or three hours to drive back now. You won't get home until midnight. We finally closed the case. You should go to bed early."
The light flickered in Ji Yinhe's eyes. She nodded and stood up with her bag.
"Dear Mom and Dad, this time it's my turn to tell you—" Comrade Xiao Ji took a deep breath and said with a sincere and eager look:
"No matter what happens, please don't hide it from me. I want to face it together with you..."
"I am the little detective that all the bad guys in this world are afraid of!"
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