Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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The Municipal People’s Hospital was relatively close, so Jiang Lan got off the bus first.
Uncle Yao had been in the hospital for three days. After Jiang Lan went to work, Yao Xiaohei took care of him. Jiang Lan was worried that he would cause trouble since he was new to human society, so he rushed to the hospital as soon as he had time today.
He bought a fruit basket, and when he found Uncle Yao’s ward, he found that Uncle Yao was teaching Yao Xiaohei to read with a textbook, and the grandpa and grandson were enjoying themselves happily.
Although Yao Xiaohei had changed his form, he had never been to serious school, and he only knew how to read. Uncle Yao was a middle school teacher before he retired, so he could tell at a glance that the young man was illiterate, so he told him to go home and get a textbook and taught him word by word.
Seeing Jiang Lan coming over, Uncle Yao murmured and complained: “Jiang Lan, tell me what’s going on with Xiao Hei? Such a big guy is actually illiterate! I asked him if he had received nine years of compulsory education, but he pretended to be dumb with me.”
Xiao Hei blinked and looked at Jiang Lan for help.
Jiang Lan smiled and covered for him: “He is an orphan. His hometown is in a remote poor mountain valley. He never went to elementary school. He came out to work when he was very young.”
Xiao Hei nodded quickly: “Yeah.”
Hearing this, Uncle Yao’s complaints turned into distress, and he quickly said: “Oh, it’s okay, I will teach you from the beginning.”
Xiao Hei grinned when he heard the words, and he really looked like a little fool who came out of a remote mountain valley.
Jiang Lan sat in the ward for a while, then asked about Xiao Hei’s future plans, and learned that he planned to find a job after Uncle Yao was discharged from the hospital. He looked stupid, but he was very good at calculating: “Master will teach me how to read, and when I learn how to read, I will go to deliver food.”
He had no academic qualifications and no work experience. After all the calculations, he really only had the option of food delivery which was relatively easy. It was not a problem to support himself, and he could also take care of Uncle Yao conveniently.
“Then I’ll sponsor you an electric car.” Jiang Lan said generously.
Xiao Hei scratched his head embarrassingly: “Uncle Yao said that he would lend me money to buy an electric car and mobile phone first, and then I can return them to him when I make money.”
Seeing this, Jiang Lan didn’t argue with Uncle Yao, and talked with them for a while. Then he said goodbye and went home.
On the way home, he got takeout and went back.
Dinner was the newly opened pig’s knuckle rice downstairs. The pig’s knuckles were salty, crispy and soft. As Jiang Lan ate, he thought of Tai Sui who had run away.
For him, this little food could only be regarded as enjoying delicious food, if he really wanted to eat a full stomach, only Tai Sui was the best option.
Jiang Lan couldn’t help but make some calculations in his heart.
Although Ying Qiao’s boss was already following up the case, he also had many clues in his hand, and he also discovered Zhao Qunfang’s line, maybe he could follow the clues to find Tai Sui… As long as he moved fast enough, no one would come to know that he ate Tai Sui.
The big deal was that he didn’t want to eat it slowly this time, just eat it all at once, and then leave some leftovers for Ying Qiao’s boss to find.
The more Jiang Lan thought about it, the more feasible it became. After dinner, and after preparing fruit and snacks for Suan Ni, he went to Zhao Qunfang’s residence.
He came here to try his luck. Judging by Zhao Qunfang’s performance during the day, if she really had something to do with Tai Sui, maybe she would go to it for help.
He was sitting in the flower bed outside the community, and under the cover of flowers and plants, he kept staring at Zhao Qunfang’s window.
At about 10:30 in the evening, as soon as the lights in the windows were turned off, Zhao Qunfang was seen walking towards the gate with his head down.
Jiang Lan regained his spirits and followed her quietly.
….
Hanyang Avenue, a flamboyant yellow Ferrari parked on the side of the road.
The young man in the driver’s seat was holding a compass in his hand, cursing: “The thing made by those bull-nosed things is really unreliable. It’s turning around, where are you going?”
They came here to catch Tai Sui, that Tai Sui plant had lived for an unknown number of years, not to mention its cunningness, and the Tai Sui family’s unique luck protecting it, so it was impossible to find it by ordinary methods. In order to track down Tai Sui’s whereabouts, Chen Hua deliberately borrowed a tracing compass from a Taoist priest from the Special Administration Bureau next door, and then went to Taifeng to borrow a few hairs for blessing, so as to increase the chance of finding Tai Sui.
Unexpectedly, it was okay at the beginning, but the compass failed halfway, and the pointer started to spin around, making Chen Hua so angry that he wanted to hit someone.
Ying Qiao sat in the back seat, tapped his finger on the car window, closed his eyes and pondered for a moment, and said, “Go ahead, go directly to Iron Bridge Bay.”
Chen Hua immediately threw the compass aside in disgust and complained: “You should have said it earlier, I spent a long time fighting with this broken compass for nothing.”
He stepped on the accelerator and drove towards Iron Bridge Bay at a fast speed.
Iron Bridge Bay was known as the Bay, but it was actually an unfinished building. It was originally a commercial office building developed by a real estate company, but accidents happened one after another on the construction site after the construction started, and then the real estate company went bankrupt. Because the developer advertised that it was called Iron Bridge Building at the beginning, and the terrain was low, so when it rained, there would be a large area of water accumulation. Over time, this area became known as Iron Bridge Bay.
There were still many old-fashioned tube buildings in Iron Bridge Bay. The original residents had moved to other places, and the remaining tube buildings that had not been demolished stood alone. At night, the dark windows were like gaping mouths, no one knew how many ghosts and monsters were hidden in the darkness.
Jiang Lan followed behind Zhao Qunfang not too far away and saw her walking in front of the tube-style buildings, looking around in panic, kneeling on the ground with a terrified expression: “My lord, I am coming. Please let me go. I’ll give you all the money back, I don’t want it anymore…”
Her desolate pleading echoed in the empty night sky, and shadows surged in the dark tube building in front of her, and it took a long time before she saw a white fat man coming out from the darkness, he was the owner of the jewelry store.
Jiang Lan held his breath and concentrated, hiding in the shadows, looking at it with burning eyes.
It looked much fatter than before, and its whole body was like a human-shaped balloon filled with water, bulging and soft. The flesh on his body swayed slightly when he walked. It slowly walked up to Zhao Qunfang, its body elongated, twisted into a weird arc, and bent over to stare at her: “Your wish has come true, it’s time to pay the price.”
Zhao Qunfang stared at his suddenly elongated and thinned body. Then she opened her eyes wide in horror but was too frightened to scream.
Tai Sui smiled at her, stretched his arms, and stretched his hands behind his back. Like undressing, he peeled off the human skin from the back to the front, revealing his red and white real body without facial features: “This body is no longer needed.”
Zhao Qunfang looked at the humanoid monster in front of her, her pupils trembled violently, then she rolled her eyes, and finally fainted from fright.
Jiang Lan, who was hiding in the distance, was also shocked to the point of losing his voice when he saw this scene.
He looked at Tai Sui, which was mixed with red and white like human-shaped pork belly and bit his finger angrily—the Tai Sui meat polluted by blood and resentment was no longer fresh.
Even though it was far away, Jiang Lan could smell the stench of corruption on its body.
The author has something to say:
Jiang Lan: the food ration has expired, so QAQ
Tai Sui:??? nmd
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