Chapter 84#
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Ye Sheng held the pregnancy checkup form, frowning tightly: “The underground parking lot of Jiahe Mall was the morgue of the former Cheng’en Hospital?”
Ning Weichen said: “Yes.”
Ye Sheng was puzzled: “Hasn’t the Non-Natural Bureau investigated it?”
Ning Weichen: “They have, but they only dealt with some low-level ghosts.”
Ye Sheng wanted to ask more, but Ning Weichen suddenly leaned over, extended his fingers, and lightly pulled the paper from his hand. As he did this, he leaned down, the misplaced movement looking like a kiss on Ye Sheng’s face.
He said with a smile in his tone: “Brother, we seem to have met your friends.”
Friends?
Ye Sheng was stunned, looked up, and met the gaze of Huang Qiqi and the others who looked like the sky was falling not far away.
Ye Sheng: “?”
What are these expressions?
The director hurriedly turned off the phone recording and revealed a “what a coincidence to meet here” smile to Ye Sheng and Ning Weichen.
Huang Qiqi felt her scalp tingle. To avoid embarrassment for both sides, she decided to pretend she didn’t see anything and laughed awkwardly: “Haha, Xiao Ye, what a coincidence!”
Only the cameraman was a bit simple-minded. When it was his turn to speak, he held it in for a long time before stammering: “Ye Ye Ye student, are you okay? How, how is the pregnancy checkup result?”
Director: “…”
Huang Qiqi: “…”
Damn it, four-eyes, if you can’t speak, you don’t have to speak, thank you!!!
Ye Sheng finally realized how weird this scene was.
He was actually holding a pregnancy checkup information form in his hand, coming out of the obstetrics building with Ning Weichen.
“…”
Damn.
The curse word in Ye Sheng’s throat almost blurted out.
However, the previous experience at the Qin family told Ye Sheng that it is better to explain this kind of thing early, otherwise the rumors will only spread more outrageously if dragged on.
Ye Sheng maintained his expression, took a deep breath, and quickly snatched the pregnancy checkup information form from Ning Weichen’s hand. He shook the front side covered with the map towards them, his tone clear and cold: “I’m fine. Also, I didn’t go in for a pregnancy checkup, I’m not pregnant.”
The director and Huang Qiqi laughed awkwardly “Ahahaha”.
The cameraman wanted to speak again, but someone was already pinching the flesh on his arm and dragging him back.
Ye Sheng knew they didn’t believe it, but this form couldn’t be shown to them directly.
He turned his head to look at Ning Weichen.
Ning Weichen received his cold and faintly angry gaze, suppressing a smile. He turned his head and smiled gracefully at the few people who were confused and shocked in the distance.
He said slowly and elegantly.
“You came just in time.”
“Just now Shengsheng got lost in the obstetrics building. I had something to do and couldn’t get away, so I borrowed a piece of paper to draw a map of the Third Hospital for him.”
Ning Weichen said: “Now it seems, it’s not needed anymore.”
He raised his wrist to check the time, smiled slightly and said: “Then, see you tonight, Shengsheng.”
Ning Weichen really didn’t stay. He crisply pulled the “map” from his hand, folded it, clamped it between his fingers, hooked the corner of his lips and waved at him. Then he took long strides and walked out of the hospital.
Ye Sheng: “…” You’d better call me brother in the future.
At this time, Liang Qingqing also came down after delivering the materials.
She found that her father’s condition was not right in the office, which delayed some time. Seeing Ye Sheng standing in front of the obstetrics building when she went out, she immediately spoke apologetically: “Sorry Ye Sheng, kept you waiting. I’ll take you to the inpatient department now.”
“???”
Huang Qiqi and the director looked at each other, and both saw shock in each other’s eyes.
——So it really was getting lost?
But thinking about it this way, everything makes sense.
Sigh, a false alarm.
…Why is there a bit of regret.
The memories of Xia Wenshi and the others had been processed by the Non-Natural Bureau. That day they went to the basement, they originally only met the fierce three brothers. After fainting early, they were completely unaware of what happened later.
The basement had been closed for too long, and the air inhaled into the human body had hallucinogenic effects, so the few people could only consider themselves unlucky.
When Xia Wenshi saw Ye Sheng, his eyes filled with tears as if seeing a relative, and he almost jumped off the hospital bed.
But Ye Sheng was very cold towards his intimacy, and only stayed in the ward for a few minutes before going out.
He went to the room next door.
The Non-Natural Bureau arranged a separate ward for Su Wanluo in the City Third Hospital.
When Ye Sheng walked in.
Liang Qingqing was just about to get up and leave.
“Luoluo, I’ll go buy you some fruit.” Su Wanluo wanted to say no need to trouble, but when her gaze fell on Ye Sheng at the door, she was stunned, then nodded and said: “Okay, thank you.”
Liang Qingqing smiled: “Why are you saying thank you to me.”
Ye Sheng walked into the ward, leaving only him and Su Wanluo.
After experiencing the spiritual value cleansing by the Non-Natural Bureau, Su Wanluo still stayed in the City Third Hospital. She was wearing a hospital gown, sitting on the hospital bed, her whole face pale as paper. Looking at Ye Sheng, because of excessive blood loss, her eyes looked exceptionally dark. She opened her mouth, wanting to ask something, but finally closed her mouth and smiled bitterly, not continuing to speak.
That was a world she could not possibly understand. Besides, her father was dead, what was the use of asking clearly.
Su Wanluo was silent for a long time, and said softly: “Thank you for saving me.”
Ye Sheng didn’t really like exchanging pleasantries with people.
“Su Wanluo, I want to ask you some things.”
Su Wanluo: “About my dad?”
Ye Sheng shook his head: “No, about the bookstore owner.”
Su Wanluo hesitated for a while, her fingers grasping the quilt and said: “What do you want to ask?”
Ye Sheng: “Is the bookstore owner still alive?”
Su Wanluo was silent again: “Alive.”
Ye Sheng: “He sold the bookstore in Qing’an Town? Why? Even when he was most destitute, he didn’t sell the bookstore.”
Su Wanluo said: “Because the old man is getting old and his health is not good. His two sons didn’t want him to continue running that bookstore with no business, so they took him to the city.”
Ye Sheng said: “I heard he opened another bookstore in the city?”
Su Wanluo was stunned, nodded and said: “Yes. Because opening a bookstore is where the knot in the old man’s heart lies.”
Ye Sheng’s tone became serious: “Heart knot?”
Su Wanluo said: “Mn, the bookstore owner is waiting for someone. To be precise, the bookstore owner’s father told him to wait for someone.” Without waiting for Ye Sheng to ask, Su Wanluo smiled palely and simply told the whole truth.
“The bookstore the old man opened in the city later is actually right next to my house. After my dad went missing, I was raised by Grandpa Bookstore.”
“Grandpa Bookstore said that when his father handed the bookstore to him before he died, he also gave him a big cardboard box. He said it was something a child stored in the Time Bookstore back then. His father wanted him to give the things to that child when he came to pick them up later.”
“It’s just that from the beginning of the agreement, a hundred years have passed. The old grandpa waited until he was eighty, but he didn’t see his father’s old friend. He thought the person must be dead, so when he moved, he threw those things away by the way.”
Ye Sheng: “What was in the box?”
Su Wanluo pursed her lips, nodded and said: “Some very simple things, letters, a diary, broken video tapes, a voice recorder.”
Su Wanluo paused, and said: “I heard Grandpa Bookstore tell the story of that child, it was quite miserable.”
“As soon as he was born, his mother left. And his father was a drunkard who beat and scolded him every day. The child was malnourished and short, and was bullied in school. But the only fortunate thing was that the child was very smart and had good grades. According to Grandpa Bookstore’s father’s original outlook, this child would definitely be able to go to a key high school and walk out of Qingping Town.”
“But… that child didn’t get to go to high school.” Su Wanluo said: “He was expelled from school in the third year of junior high because of arson.”
“Not long after being expelled from school, the boy’s father fell to his death after drinking. Later on a rainy day, the boy came to the bookstore soaking wet holding a cardboard box, saying he was going to work in the city, and temporarily deposited these things in the Time Bookstore, to pick them up when he grew up.”
“The owner’s father liked that child quite a bit, so he agreed.”
“There were more than a dozen letters in the box, all written to him by the boy’s mother. Written from age one to thirteen, the boy’s mother whom he had never met would send a letter every year on his birthday to wish him a happy birthday. Besides that, the remaining things belonged to an anonymous friend of the boy.”
“Calling it a friend is not correct either. At first, it was a little girl who filled in the wrong address when moving house and accidentally sent things to the boy’s home. The boy couldn’t afford the postage, so he wrote her a letter asking her to come and get it herself. But the girl said it was too troublesome, they were all unwanted things, so she gave them to him.”
Su Wanluo paused for a moment and said: “It’s been too long, the story passed down is only this much.”
Ye Sheng didn’t speak. Su Wanluo sighed, knowing that Ye Sheng might want to go confront Grandpa Bookstore face to face. She said: “Grandpa Bookstore suffered from Alzheimer’s the year before last. What he remembers might not be as much as me.”
Ye Sheng was stunned, nodded, and said softly: “Thank you.”
Su Wanluo smiled reluctantly. She had been forcing herself to stay spirited while chatting with Ye Sheng, her brows showing fatigue that couldn’t be concealed.
Ye Sheng didn’t disturb her anymore.
Before he left, Su Wanluo clenched the quilt with her fingers and suddenly spoke: “Ye Sheng, wait a minute!” Her knuckles were white from the force, but she still asked the question she couldn’t ask at the beginning.
Su Wanluo’s eyes had long run dry of tears, empty and hollow. She asked hoarsely: “Ye Sheng, what do monsters become after they die?”
What do monsters become after they die?
Ye Sheng knew she wanted to ask what the human wall became after death.
Actually, Su Wanluo asked the wrong person this question. The one who really understands Anomalies and has rich experience dealing with Anomalies is the Non-Natural Bureau.
Ye Sheng was not only a novice but also very resistant to Anomalies at the beginning. But hearing Su Wanluo’s question, Ye Sheng still pursed his lips, lowered his eyes and gave a calm answer: “What he became, didn’t you see it on the top floor that day?”
Su Wanluo sat on the bed, stunned.
The moment Ye Sheng closed the door.
Tears welled up in her eyes, her lips trembled, she wanted to smile, but in the end, she couldn’t raise the corners of her mouth.
——What he became, didn’t you see it on the top floor that day?
He became the ending of an eternal fairy tale.
Became flowers, became grass, became wind, became rain.
From now on, whenever the winter snow melts and the spring breeze turns into rain, it is father coming to see her.
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The Huaian University BBS was lively for a long time after the release of the freshman promotional video tidbits.
The hot posts are as follows.
[Can we really not change the person for the freshman promotional video? Just looking at that picture, I’ve already imagined a one-million-word novel.]
[Hehe, cynical noble son X poor and cold aloof college student, this character setting is too suitable for forced love!]
[That little thing called secret love~~ Young Master Ning’s eyes seem to be drawing silk.]
[If you ask me, if you are so rich, don’t engage in secret love! Young Master, if I don’t see you hire ten private jets to sprinkle ten thousand roses on the teaching building to show your love tomorrow, this old slave will be sleepless all night!!]