At this time, Sister Lin's car was not the white Range Rover.
She followed me in a Panamera. This car is already very famous in our local area, and there were many onlookers along the way.
However, Sister Lin's driving skills are obviously not very good, especially when there are many cars, I have to stop and wait several times, for fear of accidentally losing her.
After driving for about twenty minutes, I turned the car into the Sanbaosi intersection and stopped in front of Xu Mingyang's store.
It’s still the same dilapidated facade and dirty plaque, no different from what it was five years ago.
Sister Lin also got out of the car and walked over to me. However, she was obviously hesitant after seeing the front door, and asked me tactfully. Isn't this store a long time ago? Why don't you renovate it?
I said, you don’t understand this, right? The decoration is poor, which proves that someone is really capable, because real experts don’t care about these things, and only charlatans who deceive people will work hard on decoration.
"Well, that makes sense."
Sister Lin pondered for a moment, then smiled and told me that it was okay, just go in and take a look.
After saying that, she took out a pair of sunglasses from her bag, put them on, and walked towards the door of the store.
I followed her, and as soon as I entered the door, I saw Xu Mingyang's master, the old man named Yin, sitting on the Taishi chair in the corner, holding a radio and listening to storytelling.
Hearing someone coming in, the old man raised his head and glanced, but for some reason his eyes only stayed on Sister Lin's face for a moment, and when he looked at me, he suddenly froze.
Then he turned off the radio and said in a very exaggerated tone: "Oh, oh, oh, wow, young man, your future is limitless!"
I was so confused.
Before I could say anything, the old man came over and grabbed my hand and said, look at your face, the heaven is full and the earth is round, you are a blessed person!
Moreover, you have noble people around you to help you, and your fates coincide with each other. I can guarantee that within five years, you will skyrocket. Not to mention being promoted to a higher position, you may even be granted the title of Marquis and Prime Minister!
I was completely speechless.
I feel like the old man is deliberately trying to hurt me, because I came here five years later, and I still don’t know what my life has been like in those days.
But I couldn't show it yet, and I suppressed the urge to beat him up. I asked him, "Master, you said that there are noble people around me to help me. Where are the noble people?"
The old man chuckled, glanced at Sister Lin with that ambiguous look and said, "Noble man? Isn't the noble man right in front of you? Young man, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, you have to seize it."
…
I finally understood what he was talking about.
I guess the old man misunderstood. Seeing that Sister Lin was older than me and looked like a female boss, he thought I was the pretty boy she kept.
This looks like a complete charlatan, obviously trying to deceive people.
I took a sneak peek at Sister Lin and found that she was covering her mouth to suppress a smile, and her face was a little red.
I was really embarrassed. Originally, I had just finished bragging to someone about how capable the old man was, and in the blink of an eye he made such a fuss. Wasn’t this a slap in my face?
I felt quite depressed, and I coughed a little awkwardly, and told the old man, Master, you seem to have made a mistake. I just met this beauty today, and I brought her here because she said she wanted to see something.
"Ah? Aren't you two here to tell fortunes?"
The old man was stunned for a moment, but he quickly said to me with a smile, "Hey, this is a big deal. I saw a man and a woman coming in and thought they were destined to be married. I wanted to say something nice to make you happy. Don't go there."
Take it to heart.
Then he turned around and asked Sister Lin: "Girl, what do you want to see? Let's talk about it first. My charges are quite expensive, starting at a thousand yuan. If it's something bad, I'll have to add more."
Sister Lin was also unambiguous. After the old man finished speaking, she directly pulled out a wad of pink bills from her bag and placed it on the table. Then she asked the old man: "Master, do you see enough of these?"
I clearly saw the old man's eyes light up.
He calmly stuffed the money into his sleeves, nodded, and told Sister Lin that that was enough for now, let's talk about things first.
Sister Lin organized her speech and told the old man about taking over the renovation project and what I told her today.
At first, the old man was quite normal, sitting there and listening with a smile. But when Sister Lin mentioned that there was something under the apartment, the old man's expression suddenly changed.
His expression was a little solemn, and his brows were twisted into a knot. After Sister Lin finished speaking, he turned his head and asked me with squinted eyes: "Young man, who did you hear this from?"
I was well prepared and lied that my family was in the system. I had dinner with an elder from the Education Bureau some time ago and he told us about it at the dinner table.
"Well... the medical school..."
The old man pondered for a while, then raised his head and looked at the two of us: "I have heard some rumors that there are always troubles in that school, and girls often commit suicide, but no one came to me, so I didn't take it seriously.
Let's do this. You won't be able to see anything during the day. I'll go with you after the school holidays in two days. If there's something really weird about that place, I'll be able to tell it at a glance.
But this is quite troublesome and you have to pay extra.”
I stared at the old man for a long time, always feeling that he was a bit outrageous.
In fact, in my impression, the old man has always been quite serious, and I would feel a sense of oppression when standing next to him.
But the man in front of me looked like a money-crazy man, and he was a bit funny, but he didn't look like a master at all. I thought he was Xu Mingyang when he hid his face.
What exactly has he experienced in the past five years that caused such a big change in his personality?
I can't figure it out, but I don't want to understand, because the old man and I are not on the same path at all, and he has even been using me. If it weren't for Qingqing and his daughter, I would have been harmed by him by now.
To put it bluntly, he should be considered my enemy.
But I still had a question in my mind, so after the old man finished chatting with Sister Lin, I tentatively asked him: "Master, are you the only one in this store?"
The old man didn't think much about it, shook his head and told me that was not the case, he still had an apprentice, but the apprentice went on a trip and it would probably take a few days before he could come back.
Then he asked me what was wrong, what happened?
I said it was okay and asked casually, but I also had a calculation in my mind. If what he said was like that, Xu Mingyang did indeed exist.
Now only Xunuo and Qingqing are left. Actually Xunuo doesn't matter, I don't know where she goes to school or where her home is, and Xu Mingyang is not here, so it is probably impossible to find her.
But if Qingqing is really in that hotel and I go to find her, how can I make her believe what I say?
But if I don’t go find her, what should I do next? Can the old man deal with those things under the apartment on his own?
What worries me even more is that if the time and space in front of me is just an illusion, that dream is real, but I can't find a way to go back at all. Do I have to be trapped here forever?