Chapter 121: A big move to buy a house
After hearing this, Yang Guisi looked around and asked, "Didn't he say he would stay by your side? Why isn't he here now?"
Chang Xile's expression was somewhat complicated: "He..."
The next second, her phone rang. It was a video call invitation. Chang Xile and Yang Guisi nodded and answered the call.
There was a bit of noise in the background from Anping's side. Before Chang Xile could even put on her headphones, she heard Anping ask, "Can I buy this one? I think you'd like it."
He flipped the camera around and showed Chang Xile the house. "This layout is the best. I think you'll like it. Or maybe I should come pick you up and you can pick one out?"
Yang Guisi was thinking silently, wondering if she had heard it wrong. Did Anping just say "this building"...?
Chang Xile whispered to stop him, "It would be best if you just bought this one. Do you have a collecting habit by buying a whole building?! Why not just buy the entire complex?"
Anping seemed confused and lost in thought. "I'm buying this very recently. Several units in the same complex have already been delivered. If I really want to buy this... I might have to discuss it."
Seeing that he was really considering buying the entire complex, Chang Xile gasped and warned him, "If you keep spending like this, I won't live anywhere else except the school dormitory!"
Anping smiled and stroked her hair through the phone. "Okay, okay, I have my own considerations. Don't worry, I'll pick you up later."
Chang Xile now regretted not going with Anping. She thought renting a room would be enough. But Anping argued, "I wouldn't be able to sleep if there were other people next door."
Yang Guisi was silent for a while, struggling between the two questions "May I ask why he is so rich" and "May I ask! Why is he so rich!", and finally asked the plain question "Are you going to move out?"
Chang Xile nodded.
Anping later made an agreement with her that he and she would do their best to evacuate the crowds in the mountain city, but she had to leave by December 22, 1924 at the latest, and had to keep in touch with him every day, and it would be best if they could stay together.
"Twenty-four?" Yang Guisi was confused for a moment before realizing, "He's talking about the lunar calendar."
After all, it is already the beginning of January in the new year.
Yang Guisi took out his phone and glanced at it. He said, "It's less than a month away. The school might even be on winter vacation by then."
"You said the date was the 24th, but he added two days to the previous date." Yang Guisi blinked and said in understanding, "Maybe he did it to be on the safe side."
Chang Xile nodded, even though she felt that if the time came, she would still be reluctant to leave until the very last moment. However, she would wait and see.
"So, what are you going to do?" Yang Guisi pondered for Chang Xile. "Evacuation and relocation aren't overnight tasks, not to mention convincing people. Even in the internet age, official information isn't guaranteed to be seen by everyone, and even if they do, they might not believe it."
This is also the main concern of Chang Xile and Anping.
"Anyway, we still have some time, so let's try our best," said Chang Xile.
"Let me do the math... If it's December 24th, as you said, then at least everyone at Shancheng University will be off to go home for the New Year holiday. We won't be allowed to stay on campus during the winter break, so we can rest easy." Yang Guisi and Chang Xile analyzed. "Also, most of the outsiders in Shancheng will go home for the New Year, but at the same time, a group of native Shancheng people will also return to their hometown to celebrate the New Year."
Her expression became serious: "Yeah... How could you possibly stop those people from going home?"
"Besides, it's relatively easy for you to convince those of us around you, but for those residents who have taken root in the mountain city, not only is it unfounded and unconvincing, you simply don't have enough time to notify every household." Yang Guisi continued.
Chang Xile nodded in agreement: "Perhaps we still have to rely on the Internet or more credible channels."
"The former doesn't seem very reliable. There are so many rumors on the internet right now. Most people treat them as jokes and are unlikely to be greatly affected." Yang Guisi has been active online for many years, and while he doesn't know the mentality of many netizens perfectly, he has at least a good grasp of it. "But as for the latter, we don't seem to have any channels..."
It is difficult to persuade ordinary residents, and it is even more difficult to persuade upper-level officials - let alone persuading them, it is hard to say whether you can even meet them.
Chang Xile pondered for a moment, then suddenly looked up and said, "I thought of someone."
Yang Guisi turned to look at her in surprise: "You still have such connections?"
"I guess so?" Chang Xile said.
More than ten kilometers away, Li Chuanliu, who was eating hot pot, suddenly sneezed.
As the two were discussing, Yang Guisi suddenly scratched his head and muttered, "I feel like I've forgotten something."
Chang Xile echoed: "Me too."
The two paused for a few seconds and simultaneously looked down at the packed meals in their hands - several portions of meals were almost completely cold, with condensed water droplets on the plastic bags about to fall off.
Someone cursed, and the two of them ran towards the dormitory together.
"Sisters... I'm finally back. I almost starved to death in front of you." Fang Xinai was so hungry that she was a little hypoglycemic, but as soon as she took the warm rice from Yang Guisi's hand, she immediately raised it with both hands and said devoutly, "Thank you for being there!"
"Go." Yang Guisi was amused by her exaggerated appearance and said with a smile, "Eat quickly."
Ren Qing also thanked him with curved eyes: "Next time, Xiao Ai and I will go buy food."
Yang Guisi and Chang Xile looked at each other, still feeling a little guilty - they had just been heating up food in the microwave downstairs of the dormitory, trying to save lunch for four people.
After dinner, Chang Xile had already packed his luggage. Fang Xinai reacted strongly: "Huh?! You want to move out of the dormitory? Why?!"
"For now." Chang Xile thought for a while and said to them, "The end of the semester is almost here. Shouldn't we go home early after the exams?"
"Hmm...and finals week reviewing is very mentally taxing. I'll buy some snacks later, so everyone can have some if they want." Chang Xile rubbed his chin, preparing to go to the supermarket for more shopping. Although school would probably be out by then, but...it's better to be safe.
"You're saying it like a parting gift. Will you really come back to live here in the future?" Fang Xinai was still very sad.
"Pooh, pooh, pooh!" Chang Xile shook Fang Xinai's shoulders and asked her to spit out what she had just said. "That's so unlucky. Spit it out now. I will definitely come back!"
"Okay, okay, Pah, Pah, Pah." Fang Xinai cooperated and spat three times. Then he wrinkled his nose aggrievedly and said goodbye to Chang Xile with tears in his eyes as he pulled the suitcase out.
Anping was already waiting for her downstairs of the dormitory. He had his hands behind his back, but after seeing Chang Xile, he stretched out his right hand to take her suitcase.
"What are you hiding?" Chang Xile looked at him suspiciously and wanted to look behind him, but Anping cleverly avoided him.
But it was this dodging action that caused the sound of a bunch of keys clattering against each other to be heard next to him.
Anping: ...
Chang Xile: …
"Don't tell me you ended up buying an entire community." Chang Xile said seriously.
"Not really." Anping blinked and handed the key to Chang Xile. "I only bought one."
Don't look so relieved! That's an exaggeration!
But after all, this was Anping's money. Chang Xile suppressed her possessiveness of other people's wallets and calmly followed him to his new home.
"Then what did you mean when you said on the phone that you have your own considerations?" Chang Xile asked him while packing his luggage.
"Well... there are no neighbors, so there won't be any noise?" Anping said, taking Chang Xile's clothes and hanging them for her in the closet.
That makes some sense.
"What else?"
"There will be no outsiders in the entire building. I can guarantee your safety to the greatest extent." This is Anping's real purpose.
Chang Xile sighed: "But I always have to go out."
"I'll accompany you." Anping said.
"Then I'll go look for Li Chuanliu this afternoon," Chang Xile said.
"Okay." Anping agreed readily.
After they finished packing, Chang Xile stretched and asked Anping, "Will you stay in the room next to mine?"
What puzzled Chang Xile was that although Anping bought an entire building, the apartment he chose for the two of them to live in was not very big - two bedrooms, a living room and a kitchen.
Anping wore a harmless expression, as if to say, "Ah, if I lived closer, I could better protect you." Chang Xile couldn't bring herself to question it, so she pulled out her phone and started contacting Li Chuanliu.
(＾v＾): [Are you free this afternoon?]
Buxi: [Rare guest]
Buxi: [See what you want from me]
Today is Li Chuanliu's day on duty. If it is official business, he is definitely free.
(＾v＾): [It's urgent, and I can't explain it clearly via text message. Wait until I come to talk to you in person.]
Buxi: [You must be free then. See you at the usual place!]
(＾ｖ＾): [Can I bring someone else?]
Buxi: [Is it related to what you want to talk about?]
(＾ｖ＾): [I think so]
Buxi: [Okay, tell me when you come.]
"Earthquake?!" Li Chuanliu was sitting in the inquiry room, shouting so loudly that Chang Xile suspected that people outside could hear it.
After a while, he calmed down, touched his face, and said, "Are you sure? This is not something you can joke about."
"Do you remember why we first met?" Chang Xile asked.
Li Chuanliu certainly remembered. While Chang Xile was ill and hospitalized, two of the patients she'd been seeing died one after another. Even the names she'd written on the note died exactly at the time she'd predicted. It took them a long time to determine that these deaths were indeed unrelated to Chang Xile.
Prophecy was originally impossible, but Chang Xile actually did it. So Li Chuanliu couldn't take her words as a joke.
"But... didn't you only know the name and time of death back then? Now you know the cause of death, don't you?" Li Chuanliu picked up the phone on the table and said into the receiver, "Sister Xia, please come to the inquiry room. Urgent."
Chang Xile shook his head. "An earthquake is indeed my speculation, but it's not completely groundless. Besides, such a large number of people died on the same day. There must have been some kind of disaster."
When Xia Lai opened the door and came in, she was still somewhat dissatisfied and said to Li Chuanliu: "Li Chuanliu, you called me back from so far away, it had better be urgent. What do you mean by urgent? Do you think you are the King of Urgent? Your sister Xia is very busy, okay?"
After Xia Lai heard the whole story, even she, who was so strong, fell into silence like Li Chuanliu.
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