Chapter 128: Present World



"...My uncle happens to be in BH Province for something, so he will come to attend the Su family's wedding banquet."

While driving, Luo Zeye spoke to Luo Zheyu who was sitting in the passenger seat.

"What is your uncle doing in BH Province?" Luo Zheyu asked.

He kept his eyes and ears open, and looked vigilantly at the vehicles and pedestrians around him to prevent his bad luck ability from suddenly taking effect at this time.

"Who knows? He is always mysterious and his whereabouts are elusive. I don't know what he is doing."

Their uncle, their mother's younger brother, is called Wenjin. He is now in his thirties and still single. He has never brought a girlfriend home. He works in a secretive way and his whereabouts are erratic. He also refuses to tell his family what he is doing, which makes the elders very angry, but other than that, there is no big problem.

"arrive."

There were no dangers along the way, and he was lucky enough to be law-abiding and not cause any trouble.

Luo Zeye parked the car in the parking space, opened the door, and the two got out of the car and walked side by side.

Soothing and warm music played in the magnificent hall, floating and echoing softly with a hint of joy.

The girl standing in the center of everyone's attention was slender and graceful. Her originally chubby cheeks became thinner, making her almond-shaped eyes look bigger, brighter and purer.

Her face was somewhat sickly pale, with a faint smile on her lips.

It was Su Yin who finally woke up after three years of sleep.

Compared to the appearance she first saw in her consciousness, his eyebrows and eyes had become more mature and he looked much thinner.

This is the real her living in reality.

Su Yin finally broke through the shadow of three years ago and woke up from the world created by her own consciousness.

"Zheyu, why are you staring at me?" Luo Zeye asked, leaning over and holding a wine glass, with a smile in his eyes.

"I've seen him. I know him."

Luo Zheyu told the truth.

"Know her!" Luo Zeye was shocked. Luo Zheyu had never traveled far away alone, as his family did not allow him to do so. The girl in front of him had been staying in BH Province and had been bedridden for three years. She had been unconscious for three years and had just woken up in the past few days.

So, when did they meet and get to know each other?

Luo Zeye put the wine glass in front of his lips and touched it. He didn't want to drink, so he took the glass away, paused, and couldn't help but put it in front of his lips to take a sip.

"...How did you two know each other, and what is your relationship?" After holding it in for a long time, he finally couldn't help but ask Luo Zheyu.

Su Yin, who was standing at the center of everyone's attention, seemed to have sensed something and suddenly turned her head to look.

The ponytail swung in an arc in the air.

She immediately spotted a tall, slender figure in a black suit in the crowd. His sharp, extremely clear eyes were engraved in her heart, making her even more unforgettable than when she first met him.

The scenery is bright and the moon is clear, free and calm, like a sharp sword unsheathed.

Su Yin's face was filled with astonishment, and surprise gradually filled her eyes. Her almond-shaped eyes opened wide and became round, making her look lively and dazed.

"Ordinary friendship."

While answering Luo Zeye's question, Luo Zheyu nodded to Su Yin from a distance.

Su Yin was stunned for a moment, then he opened his mouth, revealing a big smile, and was about to walk over here.

"Suyin, this is your Uncle Lu, do you recognize him?" Suyin's father, who was standing next to Suyin, suddenly put his arm around her shoulders and asked. "He held you in his arms when you were a child!"

Su Yin looked blankly at the pot-bellied middle-aged man opposite her, her mind frantically searching for memories of this face.

Yet I could not recall anything.

She couldn't help but turn her head to look in the direction of Luo Zheyu, but he was no longer in the crowd.

"Hahaha." The middle-aged man with a big belly laughed.

"When I held her, she was so small, about two or three years old. How could she remember anything at such a young age..."

"In the blink of an eye, you have grown up so big, and you have become a graceful and elegant lady..."

On the other side, Luo Zeye was about to catch Luo Zheyu and question him, but before he could say anything, Luo Zheyu distracted him.

"I saw my uncle."

A man in a silver suit and a blue striped tie stood by the balcony, holding a glass of wine and chatting with people. His smile was casual and absent-minded.

His appearance could not be described as young, but to say he was middle-aged would be an exaggeration.

His facial contours were clear, with thick slanting eyebrows. His eyes were clear, revealing a bit of innocence, as if he had not experienced much of the world, but in the blink of an eye, he looked a bit vicissitudes of life.

His wheat-colored skin was a shade darker than Luo Zeye's, and traces of shaved stubble could be vaguely seen on his chin.

"Zheyu is here too. I haven't seen you for a long time and you've become more handsome. Where are you planning to go when you come to BH Province?" asked a low and slightly magnetic voice.

As soon as he approached, a strong smell coming from Wen Jin's body, mixed with all kinds of strange fishy and rotten smells, hit him in the face.

It smells like a lot of fish piled together to dry and rot, mixed with the smell of dead rats in the sewer and a strong floral scent.

The suffocating fragrance and the fishy stench are intertwined.

It makes your stomach churn.

Luo Zheyu frowned slightly and suppressed the dry heave that was rising in his throat.

But the smell became stronger as Wen Jin got closer.

The fresh air around Luo Zheyu was squeezed out, surrounding him tightly.

No matter how hard he tried to hold back, Luo Zheyu still couldn't hold back the body's automatic physiological reaction. He turned around abruptly, covering his mouth and making retching sounds.

"Zheyu, how are you?!" Seeing him like this, Wen Jin thought that he was suddenly unwell, so she quickly quickened her pace and walked to Luo Zheyu's side.

"Nothing, don't come over." Luo Zheyu didn't even turn his head, stretched out a hand and waved it back to prevent Wen Jin from approaching.

Wen Jin paused and looked at Luo Zeye in confusion.

Luo Zeye also looked confused.

"Zheyu, what's going on?" he asked.

Luo Zheyu covered his face with one hand and closed his eyes, trying to ease the impact of the smell, but the terrible smell still lingered around and became stronger and stronger.

"Uncle, where have you been recently? Or do you have anything on you?"

He asked with difficulty, covering his mouth and breathing air between his fingers.

However, it still stinks.

Apparently, he was the only one who could smell this scent.

Otherwise, no one around Wen Jin would be happy to talk to him, and Luo Zeye would not be indifferent to the smell.

Almost no one can stand this smell, except for those with impaired sense of smell.

"What? What happened?" Wen Jin looked confused.

"You smell... fishy." Luo Zheyu whispered, still with his back to Wen Jin.

"Fishy smell?" Wen Jin pulled her sleeve and sniffed it, then lowered her head to smell her body. She almost picked up her arm to smell her armpit. Fortunately, she remembered in time that this was a banquet and she needed to pay attention to her image.

"I don't smell any fishy smell, but this suit is new and I guess the store sprayed perfume on it... Ze Ye, can you smell it for me?" Wen Jin pulled his sleeve and put it under Luo Ze Ye's nose.

Luo Zeye: ...

He looked around, and while no one was paying attention, he lowered his head and sniffed.

"It smells a bit like perfume..."

"Yeah, there's no fishy smell." Wen Jin took his hand back and smelled the cuff again.

Luo Zheyu held his breath, turned around, and pulled Wen Jin to the balcony. Luo Zeye followed behind in confusion.

There was no one on the balcony.

"I want to find the source of the fishy smell on your body." Luo Zheyu said in a low voice, holding his breath. As he spoke, the stench almost made him turn around and leave.

Wen Jin nodded indifferently.

Pulling Wen Jin's hands, asking him to open his hands and stretch them to both sides, Luo Zheyu reached out and patted him gently.

This is a body search.

But the three of them didn't care.

There was nothing hidden in the trouser legs or sleeves. Luo Zheyu pointed at Wen Jin's pockets and motioned him to search himself.

Suits are relatively close fitting, and few people put anything in the pockets, because putting things in the suit pockets will cause a noticeable bulge and deformation, which makes the overall look very uncoordinated.

But Wen Jin actually took out a lot of things from his suit pocket.

A flat-head key, a bank card, a neatly folded tissue, and... an oval pebble the size of the joint of your thumb.

Luo Zheyu frowned slightly and breathed deeply.

A strong and pungent stench mixed with fragrance suddenly hit me, and my nose felt sore. Unable to bear such a pungent smell, I even lost consciousness temporarily.

He picked up the pebble from Wen Jin's open hand and held it in front of his eyes to examine it carefully.

The stone is smooth, round, oval in shape, slightly pointed at both ends, and black-gray in color. From the surface, it looks like an ordinary stone picked up casually from the roadside in the suburbs. There is nothing special about it.

This small stone is the source of the smell.

"This..." Wen Jin's pupils shrank slightly, his eyes suddenly became serious, his fingers moved slightly, but he finally held back.

"Is there something wrong with this stone? Do you smell a fishy smell from it?"

"Yeah." Luo Zheyu nodded.

"It stinks. You can smell it from far away."

"But I don't smell the stench you mentioned on this stone." Wen Jin's face was serious, with a calm, reliable and mature look on his face, which was very different from the careless and casual look just now.

Luo Zeye couldn't help but glance sideways.

Wen Jin rarely shows such a serious expression.

"I don't know about that either." Luo Zheyu held the pebble, compared it with the direction of the sun, and squinted slightly.

"Maybe it's not a pebble. Why not try roasting it over a fire?"

Wen Jin felt a huge bead of cold sweat on his forehead.

“You can’t bake it.”

He quickly took the pebble from Luo Zheyu's hand, put it back into his pocket, and patted his trouser pocket.

"This can't be eaten, what are you grilling? If you want to have a barbecue, I'll treat you."

He had finally gotten this pebble and had to take it back to hand in his work. What would he do if it got fried?

It seems that Wen Jin is very fond of this stinking pebble treasure.

In order not to hurt his nose, Luo Zheyu had to temporarily convert the olfactory area of his nasal cavity into data and shut down all sense of smell.

The world suddenly became much fresher and more beautiful.

"Where did you get this thing?" Luo Zheyu asked him.

"This...I just picked it up on the roadside."

It is obvious that Wen Jin is not as talented as the Luo Zeye brothers in telling lies and making up stories. Her lies are clumsy and not convincing at all.

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