Chapter 32: The Secret of Linhu Village 3
The little boy might be really excited. He kept asking questions, sometimes asking the young man what his job was, and sometimes asking why Su Qingyun was taking care of a child.
The young man answered him and said he was a business executive.
Su Qingyun felt that he did not look like one. Although Su Qingyun did not know what a corporate executive should look like, the first impression the young man gave her was that he was more like a hunter.
A hunter who waits in the dark for a wild beast to appear and then kills it with one shot, even though he is wearing a formal suit.
When the little boy asked her about Xiaozhe, Su Qingyun chose to tell the truth.
"Oh my god, you are a veteran player!" The little boy immediately admired Su Qingyun and started calling Su Qingyun the great player.
"Master, can you tell me what the plot of your last dungeon was?"
"I'm not some great god. If I were, I wouldn't come here. I'm just two more clearance points for you guys."
Su Qingyun was unwilling to say more not because she was unwilling to share, but because she was not sure whether these three people were human.
Everyone talked so much just now, but these three people did not introduce their names.
Su Qingyun decided to take the initiative and said to the boy, "You haven't told me your name yet?"
"My name is Huang Wentao, and this is my girlfriend Zhong Xiaoli."
Su Qingyun extended her hand towards them.
Holding their fingers together, she felt their warmth, they were human.
"What about you?" Su Qingyun asked the young man.
"Xu Xinghe." The man took the initiative to extend his hand towards Su Qingyun.
Su Qingyun shook hands with him. Her palms were slightly warm and calloused where their hands touched. She also saw a ring on his index finger.
The night was too dark and the visibility of the lantern on the boat was limited, so Su Qingyun could not see the composition and style of the ring clearly.
But it surprisingly matches the man's temperament.
Cold, mysterious, yet polite.
He is also human.
Since they were all human, and the rules also stated that it was an intertwined copy, Su Qingyun told the three of them frankly that they could cooperate.
But before cooperating, Su Qingyun wanted to find out what identity they came to Linhu Village with.
"We came to the village to play with our classmates. The system prompted that our classmate's name was Wu Yong, and that Wu Yong would pick us up at the village entrance." Huang Wentao replied.
Zhong Xiaoli nodded in agreement.
Su Qingyun turned her gaze to Xu Xinghe.
Xu Xinghe shook his head, "The system didn't give me any prompts."
"How is this possible?" Huang Wentao was the first to disbelieve him. He said, "I've read forum posts where they say entering certain dungeons grants player identities. It's strange that you'd show up in a remote village like Linhu Village without knowing anyone there and for no apparent reason."
"I really didn't receive any system notifications. To be honest, I was still reading documents in the office ten minutes ago," Xu Xinghe thought for a moment. "How about this, I'll find an excuse for myself. I work at Fanxing Group, and the company just happened to have a development project. I'll say I'm here for a field trip."
Huang Wentao snapped his fingers. "That's a good excuse. If someone asks you why you came to the village so late, just say your car broke down and you walked here. There's no car to go back to the city so late."
Su Qingyun didn't say anything. She looked at Xu Xinghe carefully.
She felt Xu Xinghe was lying.
The system must have given him a reason to enter the village, but he just didn't want to use it.
Maybe he just didn't want to say it. Personal freedom is something that no one can force.
The boat finally docked. Su Qingyun looked at the time on her wrist. It was 8:15.
It takes fifteen minutes to drive the boat, the lake is really big.
Su Qingyun carried Xiaozhe off the boat, and two people hurried over to greet them under the street lights on the shore.
The person walking in front should be the classmate Huang Wentao mentioned, Wu Yong. He was very happy when he saw Huang Wentao and Zhong Xiaoli, waving his hands and shouting, "Here, here."
Su Qingyun guessed that the other person should be Xiaozhe’s grandmother Wang Aping.
She was in her sixties, a typical country old lady, wearing a floral dacron shirt, blue cotton trousers, and a pair of cloth shoes, very simple.
Seeing Su Qingyun carrying Xiaozhe off the boat, she first lifted the hem of her shirt to wipe her tears, then came over and took Xiaozhe from Su Qingyun's hands.
She called Su Qingyun "little comrade".
"Comrade, thank you for sending Xiaozhe back. You said it was fine..." She lifted her clothes to wipe her tears again.
It is really hard to accept that a son and daughter-in-law went on a long trip and turned into murderers when they came back.
Su Qingyun naturally would not say that she was the one who reported the incident. When she saw the old woman calling her "little comrade", she also responded by calling her "grandma".
"Don't be too sad. Xiaozhe still needs your care. Your son will be back soon."
According to the criminal law, Xiaozhe's father only participated in moving the body, so he should not be sentenced to many years.
Several people went ashore, and the ferryman packed up his boat and left.
Under the street light, only Xu Xinghe appeared alone.
Su Qingyun asked Wang Aping, "Grandma, is there a guesthouse in the village?"
"There's no guesthouse in our small village of just a few dozen people," Wang Aping said quickly upon hearing Su Qingyun ask this. "Don't worry, comrade. I'll definitely let you stay overnight after you bring Xiaozhe back. Not to mention that the ferryman, Old Xie, is off duty, there's no car on the other side of the lake, so you can't go back."
"Thank you, grandma." Su Qingyun wanted to follow Wang Aping.
Unexpectedly, Wang Aping turned around and waved to Xu Xinghe, "Young man, you came together, right?"
"Yes." Xu Xinghe replied.
Su Qingyun didn't say anything because Xu Xinghe's answer was correct, he and she did come together.
But Xiaozhe was not sent here together.
Wang Aping was very enthusiastic, "Then come home with me. Stay at home tonight and come back after breakfast tomorrow morning."
Xu Xinghe nodded, "Thank you, grandma."
Su Qingyun still didn't speak.
Wang Aping's home is a bit far from the ferry terminal. They have to walk along a long lake road, pass through several houses, and climb a slope to get there.
Wang Aping's house is a bungalow with a yard. In the 1980s, families who could live in bungalows must have been well-off.
Su Qingyun took a quick look at the layout of the house. The main hall was at the entrance, which was more commonly called the main room in the countryside. There was a door on each side of the main room, and there were two side rooms at the back.
Four people entered the main hall, and a woman in her thirties emerged from the left side room. She seemed to have just finished a shower and was combing her hair. Seeing Wang Aping carrying Xiaozhe in, she said sarcastically, "Wow, they really stuffed a child here. I don't know what Lin Jiadong and his wife were thinking. They went on a trip and then stuffed their child here. It's really funny."
"What a joke! I didn't ask you to bring it."
"I've already made it clear that Xiaozhe can stay here, but you have to keep an eye on our Qianqiu as well."
As she was speaking, a fat head popped out from between the woman's legs, then looked at Xu Xinghe and called out "Dad".
"Dad, Dad, you're calling me Dad again, you idiot." The woman slapped the fat man on the head, then looked at Su Qingyun and Xu Xinghe.
"Oh, there are two more guests, friends of Lam Ka-tung?"
Su Qingyun nodded.
Xu Xinghe also nodded.
The woman's eyes swept over Xu Xinghe, then she pulled Fat Head into the room and closed the door.
"Excuse me, everyone. This is my eldest daughter-in-law, Yu Qiaoqiao. We haven't split up. She lives in the room on the left and I live in the room on the right. You two will stay in the wing at the back. There are exactly two rooms, one for each of you."
After saying this, Wang Aping went into her own room and closed the door.
Su Qingyun looked around. She had been traveling in the dungeon for a year and was no longer surprised by this kind of scene.
She helped the host close the door, then looked at the time on her wrist and said to Xu Xinghe, "There shouldn't be any plot triggering tonight. It's getting late, so go to bed early."
She chose to go to the right wing.
I turned on the light and was about to close the door when I saw that Yu Qiaoqiao's room was opened a crack, and a white leg was revealed.
Of course, these legs were exposed to Xu Xinghe.
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