ALL NOVEL Chapter 3: I don't blame you
The weird scream that sounded like crying and laughing made Ning Zhe shudder all over. Before his brain could react, his body subconsciously turned behind him and kicked in the direction where the sound came from.
When I looked carefully, I saw that the owner of the voice had been kicked to the ground, curled up in pain with his hands covering his abdomen.
"It's actually a living person." Ning Zhe breathed a sigh of relief.
In the ancestral hall behind him, Zhang Yangxu and the female office lady, who had been startled, were already walking towards the side door.
Ning Zhe knew he had been exposed and no longer thought about leaving. His eyes quickly swept over the man who suddenly appeared outside the door and was kicked to the ground by him.
This is a middle-aged woman who looks to be around 30 to 40 years old, but this estimate may not be accurate because she is wearing a lot of expensive jewelry and her clothes are gorgeous and bright.
The pearls on her neck were round and smooth, and on her left hand was a crystal-clear white jade bracelet, which was probably priced higher than the demolition fee for Ning Zhe's old house. Her long, black, soft hair was carefully tied up with a gold-inlaid jade phoenix hairpin, and her snow-white, delicate skin had no wrinkles at all, and it was obvious that she had not been exposed to the sun much. In her right hand was a string of translucent bodhi seeds, and she might be a Buddhist.
She was wearing a crimson-purple corset with a pink-purple waistband embroidered with exquisite lace. The delicate design and tailoring perfectly highlighted her plump and perfect mature woman's body. Her round oval face was as beautiful as a lotus flower emerging from the water, and her delicate features were dignified and elegant.
... All these things make her look like a well-fed and leisurely lady who has been living a life of luxury for many years and has taken very good care of herself. People with good living conditions always age very slowly. Ning Zhe was not sure how old this lady was. She looked like she was thirty, but she might actually be forty, or even over seventy.
Hearing Zhang Yangxu's footsteps approaching, Ning Zhe gently patted the woman's shoulder and said, "I'm sorry, are you okay?"
Although the kick just now was made subconsciously, Ning Zhe was not able to use his full strength due to the narrow side door of the ancestral hall. He felt that this kick would at most cause some not-too-big impact on the opponent's abdominal cavity, and would not damage the internal organs and cause internal bleeding.
He had always been very accurate in his calculations for such things. As early as in elementary school, Ning Zhe could beat up the naughty kids who provoked him until they were bruised and swollen, but he also accurately controlled all the external injuries on each person to the extent of just superficial injuries, and never once did he make a big fuss. This time was no exception.
After a moment, the graceful lady dressed in jewels struggled to get up from the stone road, leaned against the wall, holding her stomach and gasping for breath.
"You, why do you hit someone as soon as you meet me..." The lady's voice was a little weak due to the abdominal pain, but unexpectedly she did not say anything bad to him.
"I'm really sorry. You suddenly appeared behind me without making any sound. I thought it was those half-human and half-ghost He family members stealing from my back. I overreacted." Ning Zhe apologized repeatedly very sincerely.
"It's okay, it's okay..." The woman shook her head again and again: "I understand, everyone would be nervous in such a ghost place, I don't blame you, I don't blame you..."
Ning Zhe noticed that the other person looked at him with a very complicated expression. His pale face revealed his uneasiness about this strange and unfamiliar place. The slightly pursed corners of his mouth showed his fear and terror of the young man who had just beaten her. But more than that, he felt happy and relieved to finally see other living people after being frightened for such a long time.
"This woman is cowardly and lacks independent thinking. After being beaten by me, she did not show any hostility or disgust. Instead, she actively excused my mistakes and tried her best to be nice and win my favor." Ning Zhe quickly dissected the personality traits of this lady in his mind.
Then he turned around and greeted Zhang Yangxu who had already walked to the side door: "Hello, Mr. Zhang, I didn't expect to see you here. My name is Ning Zhe, and I'm a senior student at Taoyuan No. 1 Middle School."
"Hello, I'm Zhang Yangxu." Zhang Yangxu said indifferently.
"I am Mr. Zhang's legal advisor. My name is Xie Sining." The woman following behind Zhang Yangxu had a relatively cheerful tone.
Zhang Yangxu's eyes quickly swept over the woman leaning against the wall and Ning Zhe, a little surprised: "Mrs. Bai is here too... Ning Zhe? Do you know me?"
"Who in the world doesn't know you? Mr. Zhang is too modest. At least there are few people in Qinzhou who don't know you." Ning Zhe smiled casually and said, "It is because of you that I was able to take leave from school and return to my hometown. I originally thought that I could become a demolished household and collect rent all day long, but who knew that when I opened my eyes, I came to such a hellhole."
Zhang Yangxu nodded slightly: "I see."
He also didn't expect that Ning Zhe was actually a local of Gubei Town.
Ning Zhe pointed his chin at the noble lady leaning against the wall and asked, "You just said Madam Bai, is this lady's surname Bai? Mr. Zhang, do you know her?"
Zhang Yangxu did not say anything. Xie Sining, the legal advisor standing behind him, introduced him at the right time: "This is Bai Fugui, the largest shareholder of the New Home Group, and Mr. Bai's wife, Ms. Feng Yushu. Mr. Bai and Mr. Zhang both have their eyes on the Gubei Town area. Both parties want to win the development contract for this area. We are currently in a competitive relationship."
"I see." Ning Zhe smiled at Xie Si Ning: "But in a place like this, business relationships don't seem to have much meaning."
Zhang Yangxu also laughed: "It really doesn't make any sense."
In the outside world, Zhang Yangxu might be a prominent figure with a net worth of hundreds of billions and extensive connections in all walks of life, but in this isolated little village, a strange place full of supernatural powers, he is just a fat middle-aged man with some thinning hair on his head.
This is also the reason why he is willing to have an equal dialogue with Ning Zhe.
Here, Ning Zhe is not a high school student who studies papers until late at night every day, but a strong and energetic adult male.
Ning Zhe came to the wall, reached out his hand to Feng Yusu, who was wearing gold and jade and looked very noble, and pulled her up: "Madam, how did you get here?"
Feng Yushu endured the abdominal pain and patted the dust off her dress. She said a little stiffly, "I came to Gubei Town with my husband and my daughter. He is usually busy with work and rarely at home. This time, we wanted to take advantage of the opportunity of bidding on the spot to get together as a family to come to the countryside to breathe some fresh air, have some fun and see the scenery, but I didn't expect..."
Unexpectedly, a sudden change occurred, dragging her into this strange place called Hejia Village.
"What about your husband and daughter? Have they come here too?" Ning Zhe asked.
Feng Yushu shook his head: "No, I searched for them in the village for a long time yesterday, breaking several taboos, but I still couldn't find them. It seems that I am the only one who got here by mistake."
"Okay, I understand." Ning Zhe nodded with satisfaction. In this way, he had a basic understanding of the situation of the people in front of him.
It is always a good thing to meet living people in such a place, but beneath the harmonious appearance of banding together for warmth, the actual situation is far from that harmonious.
Behind Zhang Yangxu, legal advisor Xie Sining's phone vibrated slightly. She quietly unlocked the screen and took a quick glance. On it was a text message from 'Mr. Zhang':
"The almanac was translated by Ning Zhe. He arrived earlier than all of us. Be careful of him."