Chapter 189 Ferryman's Dungeon (12)
In fact, even if Xia Yingnuan didn't do anything, Wu Rui wouldn't run away. After killing those bandits, he sat at the stern of the boat, covered in blood, and didn't care. He seemed to be scared silly.
When Ning Hanqi's boat approached, the man seemed to have just reacted. He was frightened by the approaching boat from behind and shuddered, then turned around hurriedly. The blood on his face had not been wiped clean yet, and he looked a little scary, but there was some confusion and fear in his eyes, making him look like an innocent person.
"It's you, what a coincidence?" The other person said with a wry smile, "I pushed those bandits into the river. I almost died. What bad luck! How come I was targeted by bandits? Can you help me tow the boat? My hands are weak and I have no strength."
"Forget it, forget it. Girls don't have much strength anyway. Don't worry about me. I'll be back after a short rest."
This child's situation is a bit complicated.
Her father was a scumbag who once sold his own daughter. Ning Hanqi searched through countless mountains and forests before he found the child. Her mother was unable to take care of her due to special circumstances. Her grandmother loved the child very much, but she spoiled her without realizing it.
Now only Ning Hanqi can control her, but everywhere else this child is a lawless tyrant.
"I don't ask this child to be very successful. It doesn't matter if I can't teach her well. I just hope she can live a peaceful and warm life. Sorry for the trouble." Ning Hanqi sighed, with a look of sadness that could be seen at a glance.
Xia Yingnuan frowned as she listened. Ning Hanqi rarely showed her vulnerability in front of outsiders unless her sister's condition was really very bad.
How did Ning Yutian, that unfortunate child, follow in her mother's footsteps and find a scumbag? Is she doing okay now?
"Don't worry, Mr. Ning, I will take good care of Tiantian." This naughty child must be straightened out and the friendship between Ning Yutian and myself must not be let down!
The two people had their own thoughts, but their faces looked peaceful.
The textbooks were almost delivered together with lunch. The naughty kid noticed the books quickly, so he took them away and wanted to burn them when the adults weren't paying attention. After being stopped by Ning Hanqi, he started crying and rolling on the ground. He looked very skilled and it was not the first time he had done this.
Xia Yingnuan saw that Ning Hanqi's face had become very ugly, pale and bloodless. He might have had a migraine again. In this situation, she couldn't control this naughty child.
Xia Yingnuan looked at it several times, and finally softened her heart. She took two steps forward and lifted the child lying on the ground by the clothes around his waist.
Ning Tiantian found herself suddenly in the air and screamed in fright.
"Mr. Ning, would you like to take a break? I'll take care of Tiantian."
"No, I have a meeting soon... What's wrong with your left arm?" Ning Hanqi saw that Xia Yingnuan's hanging left arm seemed to be trembling.
"It's okay, I just have a stiff neck." Xia Yingnuan moved her arms to indicate that she was fine.
Seeing Xia Yingnuan easily suppress the naughty child, Ning Hanqi felt relieved. After giving a few instructions, he left without even having lunch.
Soon, she and the naughty child were the only ones left at home.
"Let me go!" Ning Tiantian found that she couldn't break free, so she bared her teeth and tried to bite him.
The result was that she was fished out and received two slaps on the buttocks.
Xia Yingnuan was not going to be polite with this bear cub. She slapped him twice with skill and force. The amplitude of her movements was not big and her skin was not even red. To outsiders, it looked like she was brushing off the dust, but it was extremely painful.
Ning Tiantian was so painful that she was stunned. After a moment of silence, she burst into tears and blurted out, "I want Grandpa to kill you, wuah ah ah..."
Grandpa? Xia Yingnuan knew what the old man was up to.
It opened the booklet, and the first page was a player's assessment record, ranging from teaching tasks to night patrols, with assessment levels of excellent, good, qualified and unqualified.
The player scores on the first page of the assessment booklet were mostly passing, with an occasional good score. Fortunately, there were no failures. One didn't have to think about what kind of ominous omen the bright red "failure" represented.
Xia Yingnuan continued reading, and the third page was Ning Hanqi's assessment record.
Well, very good, either excellent or good. This old man has good eyesight.
When she looked through the information of the remaining eight players, she only saw a few red failure marks, and they were all concentrated on the assessment record of the new player who tried to frame Ning Hanqi.
Xia Yingnuan felt better. People like this should be kept in the dungeon to prevent them from going out and harming others.
The players' every move is being watched, but it is unknown what kind of punishment the players who are deemed unqualified will receive.
The dean of studies would not bring the assessment booklet to the players, and no one could sneak into the dean of studies' office to see this thing as quietly as he did, so there was no discussion about this assessment booklet on the forum.
The person who stole my ring at that time... By the way, her surname is Lu. The organization behind her seems to be selling intelligence. If I use this information to trade, I should be able to make some money, right?
Every time the old landlady looked at her, she felt like Ning Hanqi's sister who was living off her... No, she had to find a way to make some money. Xia Yingnuan had never been criticized as a gigolo in her life.
Xia Yingnuan is very capable of taking action. After making up her mind, she appeared behind the dean of studies.
As soon as her breath was revealed, the dean jumped up instantly as if his butt was on fire. It felt like a rabbit suddenly found that a lion appeared silently behind him with its fangs bared, and his head would be bitten off in the next second.
Of course, Xia Yingnuan couldn't be so bloody. She was a civilized ghost and didn't do anything dangerous. She even smiled and pressed the dean into his seat.
"Don't be nervous, Director. Don't worry, I'm not here to cause trouble. Just sit quietly." Xia Yingnuan put her other hand on the assessment booklet that the director wanted to take back. The old man pulled it several times but failed, so he could only give up with a sullen face.
"I don't mean anything else. I just want to discuss a deal with the director." Xia Yingnuan said with a smile.
Ghosts' perception is different from that of humans. The dean was forced to sit in his seat. In his perception, the person standing next to him was not a beautiful and harmless woman, but an unspeakable monster. The monster's powerful aura filled the office, and all his weaknesses were locked by the monster.
This is called negotiation? This is called a deal?!
Even though it knows that it is difficult for the other party to completely destroy it, it does not want to experience the feeling of being tortured.
The dean decided to listen to what Xia Yingnuan had to say about the deal first.
Ning Hanqi waited in her office for a long time. It happened that the only girl among the new players did not have classes at that time. She saw Ning Hanqi sitting alone in her seat in a daze, and the office was frighteningly quiet. The new player felt more and more uncomfortable as she sat there, so she decided to bring up some topics to talk about.
She had noticed a very cute puppet hanging around Ning Hanqi's neck a long time ago. Her roommate told her to leave it alone because it was most likely someone else's prop, and it was very impolite to ask about other people's props among other players.
"Teacher Yang, is there anything I can help you with?" The gaze from the side was too obvious, so Ning Hanqi turned her head to glance at her.
"No, nothing, I just think that little puppet is cute." Xiao Yang looked away awkwardly.
"I think she's cute, too." Ning Hanqi looked at the little wooden puppet in his hand. As an object that carries ghosts, it doesn't matter what shape this Yin wood is carved into, it can even be carved without any shape.
But in order to accommodate his own little quirks, Ning Hanqi specially carved the piece of Yin wood into the shape of this silly-smiling little puppet.
Noticing that Ning Hanqi was not unhappy, Xiao Yang felt at ease and continued to talk to her about the little puppet. After learning that this little thing was carved by her herself, Xiao Yang was quite interested and wanted to learn from her. Unfortunately, the students in their two classes were more troublesome than each other. Before they could even talk for a few words, a student came over crying and calling for the teacher.
Xiao Yang's class is full of first-grade students. When she heard the baby voices of the students in the class, her head almost exploded. She left in a hurry without even saying a word to Ning Hanqi.
The students in Ning Hanqi's class were better off in some ways, at least not because they needed the teacher's help to zip up their pants, but because they jumped onto the desks to be conspicuous and accidentally fell and hit their arms.
Although they knew that the school doctor didn't want to see them, there was nothing they could do. The kids in their class were too naughty, so Ning Hanqi and Xia Yingnuan had to become frequent visitors to the school clinic.
Ning Hanqi had just sent the students back and started to set up the exam room for tomorrow. Since it was not a large-scale exam like midterm or final exams, some students were taking the exams in their respective classes. Because of this, some students had some bad intentions.
After arranging the classroom and all the students went out for dinner, Ning Hanqi and Xia Yingnuan conducted a thorough inspection of the classroom. As expected, they found small notes from inconspicuous places such as the gaps between the legs of the desks.
There were also some silly kids who secretly wrote the 99 multiplication table on their desks. Unfortunately, they didn't know that the teacher would shuffle the seating order tomorrow. However, in order to prevent their work from being used to benefit their classmates, the teachers thoughtfully removed all of their work.
It would be very funny to see the kids scratching their heads and looking for cheat sheets tomorrow. As a teacher with a great sense of humor, Xia Yingnuan laughed just thinking about that scene.
Ning Hanqi smiled helplessly when he saw her prank was successful. "Don't bully them. Those children are quite pitiful."
"Who bullied them? I'm upholding the school rules and regulations. Who told them to cheat? I'm even supporting the copy rules. The other kids who didn't cheat aren't affected at all!" Xia Yingnuan found a legitimate reason for herself, saying that if there's a next time, she'll step up her efforts!
"Just wait and see. Even if we clean up this place, there will be students bringing us surprises tomorrow." Xia Yingnuan said firmly.
Xia Yingnuan raised her eyebrows, as if she had some unexpected gains.
The child's grandfather, Ning Hanqi's father, was originally a poor boy, but he managed to win the heart of a rich family's daughter with his sweet words, and since then he has risen to fame with the help of his father-in-law's influence.
When his father-in-law and mother-in-law were still alive, this man was somewhat restrained, but after the two mountains above him collapsed, this man began to show his true nature. It would have been fine if he had been having affairs outside, but his wife injured her body after giving birth to two daughters and could not have more children. He felt that his family line would be cut off, so he asked the mistress outside to give birth to a son for him.
Daughters were used for marriage alliances, and sons were used to inherit the family business. He took advantage of his wife's serious illness to bring his illegitimate son home and threatened his wife that if she did not want to divorce, she had to recognize the son.
Ning Hanqi's mother was weak and incompetent, but fortunately Ning Hanqi was tough. She kicked her father and his illegitimate son out of the company, and forced her father and mother to divorce and leave the house empty-handed. Every time they appeared, she would have someone beat them up until that scumbag never dared to show up again.
So according to the time calculation, the child should not have met her grandfather, let alone asked her grandfather to kill her.
Ning Hanqi is still too soft-hearted. She actually let that evildoer have the chance to get close to her home. Would Shixia come back and help Ning Hanqi clean up the mess if she "dies" herself?
Tsk, I must make fun of her next time I get the chance!
"Scream all you want, even if you scream your throat out, no one will come to save you!" Xia Yingnuan patted the naughty child's head. "Now that you've screamed enough, let's eat, right?"
"No! I don't want to eat that! I want a fried chicken burger!"
Xia Yingnuan was very easy to talk to. She said she didn't want to eat and then she finished all the food on the table in front of the children. Ning Tiantian was held in Xia Yingnuan's arms and couldn't run around. She watched helplessly as this person really didn't leave her a single sip of soup!
"I want to eat a fried chicken burger!" Ning Tiantian almost kicked the table over.
Xia Yingnuan wiped her mouth with a tissue and said to the child apologetically, "I'm sorry, I don't have any money. How about you call your aunt and order one?"
The child opened his eyes wide, probably not expecting Xia Yingnuan to be so shameless.
But she also knew that Ning Hanqi would not buy it for her, and it was useless to call.
"You vicious, evil woman!"
Xia Yingnuan narrowed her eyes and smiled, "Thank you for the compliment."
"I'm going to tell my aunt that you abused me!"
"It was your aunt who told me to be stricter!"
Right? Mr. Ning?
Xia Yingnuan glanced at a red light in the corner of the living room.
"Puff..." The secretary turned his head silently.
The tablet computer that Ning Hanqi opened was displaying the scene at home, and the sound could be heard clearly.
When he was not around, Guo Yuzhen seemed a lot more lively. Ning Hanqi's lips curled up slightly, but his expression darkened the next second.
Ning Xiong, her father who hadn't died outside had returned quietly?
This surveillance camera was used to keep an eye on Guo Yuzhen, whose behavior was suspicious, but unexpectedly, it would end up being used on his little niece.
There is only one possibility that Ning Xiong could meet Ning Tiantian without her knowledge.
Not only was she stabbed in the back by her father, but her mother, who was unable to grasp the reality and hoped that her husband would change his mind, also became an accomplice.
Haha, it’s really ironic. Compared with her family members, Guo Yuzhen has become extremely cute.
The secretary waited quietly for Ning Hanqi to close the computer before saying, "Mr. Ning, Miss Liu wants to meet you at the coffee shop downstairs at 3:00 pm."
"Okay." Ning Hanqi agreed.
The secretary should have left, but she hesitated for a long time before speaking, "Boss Ning, Guo Yuzhen is a grateful child. She's studied hard these summers and worked three jobs a day to save money just to pay back the money she owes you. Someone like her wouldn't do something ungrateful like that. She's not like Huang Jing."
Huang Jing, Song Qinuan's former college roommate, sought Ning Hanqi's help under the guise of Song Qinuan's friend, and then one day she drove a car and tried to kill Ning Hanqi.
The secretary felt uncomfortable when she saw that woman, but she felt that Guo Yuzhen was different. The girl's eyes were clear and her character was impeccable.
"Let's wait until Liu Shanyan brings the investigation results." Ning Hanqi frowned slightly and closed his eyes tiredly.
She didn't want to doubt it, but there were too many doubts.
But she had to admit that Guo Yuzhen was good at teaching children. In less than a week, Ning Tiantian could sit at the table and eat by herself, and even learned some dining etiquette.
Now is the critical period for the formation of a child's personality. Xia Yingnuan has every reason to suspect that her grandfather has contributed a lot to the child's current condition. If she stays away from the source of poison, there is still a chance to teach her well.
Ning Hanqi would occasionally have dinner with them, and it was still a little unbelievable for him to see Ning Tiantian and Nuannuan sitting quietly beside him while eating. The naughty kid took the opportunity to complain, and Ning Hanqi transferred a bonus to Xia Yingnuan on the spot.
The naughty child burst into tears. If her aunt didn't stand on her side, she would be bullied by the big devil in the future!
The two adults smiled at each other behind her back. Regardless of any other grudges or disputes, at least they had reached an agreement on the child's education.
Seeing this change, Ning Hanqi couldn't help but soften her heart a little. She even thought that even if she really found out that the little girl was going to betray her, she would let her go and let bygones be bygones because she helped her teach her little niece well.
Soon, Liu Shanyan's investigation into Guo Yuzhen also yielded results.
Her interpersonal relationships are very simple and she has no contact with other forces, otherwise she would not be bullied like that at school.
As for her and Song Qinuan's identical habits...
"It's a coincidence, right? It can't be that Song Qinuan died unwillingly, and then crawled out from underground to revive? I remember that child was in a serious car accident before. Isn't the timing a bit coincidental? Could it be that the soul in the little girl's body has been replaced? Hahahaha..." Liu Shanyan was a little drunk, and she spoke without thinking.
The speaker may not intend it, but the listener may take it seriously.
Ten summers ago, she had thought the same thing. If Song Qi Nuan was still angry, he could come back from hell to take revenge on her. But it was unclear whether that guy had truly let it go. He never showed up...
She had long since given up such unrealistic fantasies, but Liu Shanyan's words easily shook her.
Ning Hanqi drank the bitter wine in the cup in one gulp. The light on the ceiling was a little dazzling, and it was fragmented and seemed to be blurred by the water.
"It's true." The corners of her mouth curled up.
The Ghost Gate separates the copy into two worlds, which can hinder the search of the power of the sea god.
No wonder the coral branch has been silent, but... do you know what I want in this world?
Ning Hanqi glanced at the moonless night sky, then put away the coral branch.
But suddenly, an even stranger scene happened.
The ghost gate that opened a crack seems to be slowly closing?
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