"Please tell me a number." The old fortune teller said to Zhou Yue.
"What number? Is it the birth date?" Zhou Yue asked.
"Report whatever you want," the old gentleman said as if he was a very knowledgeable person.
"Oh." Zhou Yue nodded, thought for a moment, and found out that the number she reported was 825, which was a combination of her birthdays.
Then, the old man wearing sunglasses and a Tang suit began to tell Zhou Yue's fortune.
Lin Fei saw him counting with his fingers and speaking some ancient prose in a sophisticated manner. As a layman, it was definitely not easy to understand. However, after talking about it for a while, he explained it to Zhou Yue in vernacular.
"Tsk... those are all nice words." Lin Fei saw Zhou Yue's happy face and muttered in his heart, "To sum up, the friendship between the three of us will continue in the future. This old gentleman is really eloquent.
, you are worthy of eating this bowl of rice.”
"Okay, that's all." The old fortune teller stopped immediately when he saw the satisfied look on his guest's face.
"Thank you, old man." Zhou Yue, who was very satisfied with the fortune-telling result, thanked her, then took out her mobile phone from her pocket and scanned the payment code handed over by the other party.
"The payment is 50 yuan." After hearing the sound of the payment being received, the old fortune teller immediately promoted his business to Lin Fei and Wang Xiaoru, "Boys and girls, your friends have already done the math, do you want to do it too?"
"Thank you, I have nothing to settle for the moment." Wang Xiaoru politely declined.
"Me too." Lin Fei responded.
"That's such a pity." The old fortune teller felt a little regretful when he saw that Lin Fei and Wang Xiaoru had no intention of telling fortunes.
Then, Lin Fei and the other three left the Earth Temple and began to walk higher up the mountain.
On the mountain road paved with bluestones, there are scattered hikers walking. These people are carrying large luggage and they probably want to go camping on the mountain.
Compared with other people who were panting and hiking with at least a backpack on their backs, Lin Fei, Zhou Yue and Wang Xiaoru seemed a little different.
The three of them were relaxed, each holding an ice cream of different flavors in their hands, eating it, chatting and laughing, admiring the scenery along the way, and walking slowly up the mountain.
After a while, Lin Fei and the others arrived at the top of the mountain. There was a stone tablet on the top of the hill. Due to years of wind and rain, the words on this stone tablet that recorded information about the Earth Temple were worn away. It was really shocking.
Pity.
After staying on the top of the mountain for a while and taking a few photos, Lin Fei and the others went down the mountain from another road.
The reason why they didn't go back along the original road was because another road led to a fun place down the mountain.
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Coming down from the mountain, Lin Fei and the others came to a small stream at the foot of the mountain. The water was clear and there were many people fishing along the bank.
Lin Fei took out the fishing gear from the dimensional space and took Zhou Yue and Wang Xiaoru to choose a section of the stream with relatively gentle water flow.
There is a legend about this stream that flows down from the mountains, gathers together, and eventually flows through the Tutu Temple.
Hundreds of years ago, there was a severe drought in the area. God had not dropped a drop of rain for several months. Seeing that the crops in the field were about to die of thirst, the villagers around the Tutu Temple held on to their last hope and scraped together to raise money.
Tribute, hoping that the father-in-law of the land can appeal to heaven to give them some rain.
After praying for rain, something magical happened. A spring appeared on the hill where the Tutu Temple was located. After the stream flowed down, it passed by the Tutu Temple, which allowed the villagers around the Tutu Temple to fetch water nearby. This is really an interesting legend.
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Zhou Yue and Wang Xiaoru have both fished several times, but they are still not very good at using fishing gear. Every time they fish, Lin Fei does everything for them.
It was not until the bait was thrown into the stream that it half floated and half sank that Lin Fei handed the fishing rod into their hands, which was very considerate.
"Okay, if the float moves, you just pull it, understand?" Lin Fei said.
"Understood." Wang Xiaoru smiled.
"Oh, you have to say it again every time, we are not fools." Zhou Yue said with disgust.
So, the three of them sat down quietly by the creek.
After a long time, the float remained motionless.
Although Zhou Yue usually seems to be a vigorous and resolute person, she seems to be very impatient, but this is not the case, because she only shows this state in front of Lin Fei.
In many aspects, she can show more patience than ordinary people. Not to mention that she is careful and patient enough at work, for example, when it comes to playing...
According to Wang Xiaoru, when Zhou Yue was little, she could pile blocks into complex buildings bit by bit without her parents' company.
She can also spend a lot of time making toys out of bamboo or folding hundreds of paper cranes, or she can just stare at the water without saying a word like she does now... As long as it is fun for her, she can invest a lot of time and enjoy it.
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Of course, if she doesn't find it fun, her patience will disappear quickly, and when she is in front of Lin Fei, the dual effects are superimposed, and the disappearance speed of her patience is even higher.
"Why haven't you taken the bait yet?" Not long after Zhou Yue sat on the small bench, she started talking to Lin Fei.
"Don't worry." Lin Fei glanced at her.
"Did the people upstream scare the fish in the stream, so they didn't bite our hooks?" Zhou Yue guessed, looking at the tourists fishing upstream.
"Xiaoyue, fish's memory is not that good." Wang Xiaoru said with a smile.
"Then why haven't you taken the bait yet?"
"Shh!"
"oh."
Zhou Yue, who was hissed by Lin Fei, immediately became quiet again.
After a while, just when Zhou Yue was about to lose her temper and talk again, her float began to shake.
"A fish has taken the bait." Zhou Yue shouted excitedly, and then pulled up the fishing rod, only to see a small fish less than 10 centimeters long hooked on it.
"Such a big fish is best eaten fried." She looked at her harvest and smiled happily, "The fish in the creek are suitable for frying."
"Yes, let's catch more and go back to fry the small fish to eat tonight." Wang Xiaoru said with a smile.
"Why haven't you taken the bait yet?" After a while after Zhou Yue caught the fish, Wang Xiaoru, who had always been quiet and patient, started to lose his patience.
"Don't rush, take your time, the more you talk, the less likely they will take the bait," Lin Fei said.
"Can they still understand us?" Zhou Yue teased from the side.
"...Zhou Yue, you are the one who talks a lot, can you learn from others?" Lin Fei looked at some men and women on the other side of the stream and said, "Look, no one else is as noisy as you."
"Yes, yes, yes, shut up, Lin Fei, how about we compete to see who can catch more fish!" Zhou Yue proposed a competition to Lin Fei.
"Okay!" Lin Fei happily accepted the challenge. Wang Xiaoru, who was standing by the side, did not choose to join the competition and silently treated him like a spectator.
The competition started, and Zhou Yue was now patient. She stared at the water quietly.
Then Lin Fei and Wang Xiaoru also opened their floats one after another. Within a few minutes, Lin Fei caught two small fishes in a row, with a score of two to one. This made Zhou Yue uncomfortable. After a while, her float finally started to move again.
stand up.
"Here we go, it seems like a big fish is hooked?" Zhou Yue felt the pulling force from the fishing line and shouted in surprise.
"Pull slowly, don't be too hasty." Lin Fei guided from the side. Although he could use his telekinesis to directly catch the hooked fish from the water, he would not do it that way. If he used his powers, then this
Fishing is no fun.
"Okay." Zhou Yue listened to Lin Fei's command and slowly closed the pole.
But suddenly, her ears moved, as if she heard an inaudible sound. Then she looked towards the water not far away and said in panic, "Snake, it's a snake, there is a snake in the water."
"Plop."
The fish that was pulled out of the water fell down again, and the big fish that had a chance to escape quickly swam away.
"What a snake!" Wang Xiaoru looked at the position pointed by Zhou Yue and said.
"Isn't it just an ordinary snake? You dare to fight a strange beast head-on, so there is nothing to panic about." Lin Fei looked at the big fish that escaped and said regretfully.
"Snakes are girls' natural enemies. There are very few girls who are not afraid of them... Hey, it's a pity that the big fish escaped." Zhou Yue said, then he raised a pebble on the ground and moved towards the one in the distance with all his strength.
Throw away the swimming snake.
"Bang... bang." The pebble fell right in front of the snake, causing a big splash of water. The frightened snake in the water turned its head and ran away.
After teaching the snake a lesson, Zhou Yue silently turned her head and looked at Lin Fei. She blinked twice and said, "Lin Fei, although the fish escaped, I had already pulled it out of the water. If it weren't for
That snake, I can definitely catch it ashore..."
"Well, what then?"
"Can I get a point?"
"No, you have to catch it and put it in the bucket to score points." Lin Fei patted the small bucket next to him and said.
"..." Seeing that Lin Fei was unwilling to be accommodating, Zhou Yue rarely got entangled. She sat down again and stared at the float on the water quietly.
Until dark, Lin Fei and the other three caught a total of twenty-one fish, all of which were small fish. Among them, Wang Xiaoru contributed 9 fish. Not to mention that the two contestants, Lin Fei and Zhou Yue, actually tied.
It also lost to the melon-eating crowd, which is really a surprising result.
Back home, the fish is simply cut open and cleaned, coated in starch, and fried in oil until golden and crispy. The fragrant fried fish will make your mouth water.
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The first quarter moon hung obliquely in the sky, and the faint moonlight outlined the outline of the mountains.
A small town under Rongcheng. On the edge of the town, there are some abandoned mountain villages.
These small mountain villages are almost all houses with tile roofs. The tiles have been washed away by rain all year round and become smooth. If you look down from above, this dilapidated building complex during the day reflects the cold moonlight.
There was the sound of crows on the moonlit night, a gust of wind blew by, the door was pushed open, and the old wooden door made a creaking sound.
A figure was lying on the wooden bed. Judging from her figure, she was a woman.
Zhang Qian was wearing headphones, head-mounted, half-lying, eyes open, staring straight at the ceiling, as if she was thinking seriously about something.
It has been several days since I escaped from Rongcheng and came to this temporary hiding spot.
These days, she has been thinking about a problem. She was forced to run away twice in a row because of her companions in the organization. If she did it again, she would definitely be caught by the investigators of the Superpower Administration.
"Sigh... I've been living my life like this. The organization is in turmoil right now. I might wake up one day and find it reported on the news that the organization was destroyed by investigators. Next, I don't have to be so serious about following Qin Shiyu or something like that!
I can handle it."
"Beep bell bell..."
The phone beside her pillow rang suddenly, startling Zhang Qian who was planning to fish in the future.
"It's the vice president!!!"
Zhang Qian saw the incoming call notification and quickly answered the call.
"Is it Zhang Qian?"
"Yes, Vice President."
"You should know about Gao Buyang's arrest, right?"
When Li Benzhi talked about this, he felt a little embarrassed. He had told Zhang Qian before that the special commissioner sent to Rongcheng to perform the mission this time was someone he carefully selected. But what people didn't expect was that this so-called
The carefully selected person was arrested as soon as he arrived in Rongcheng.
"I saw it on the news." Zhang Qian replied. At the same time, she also noticed a hint of embarrassment in the vice president's words.
"Gao Buyang has always performed well, but when he encountered a really important task, he turned out to be such a waste. It seems that he is quite good at pretending! This time I made a mistake." Li Benzhi said in a very hypocritical self-examination.
"This is not your fault, Vice President. It can only be blamed on Gao Buyang for pretending too much. I don't think even the president himself can see that Gao Buyang is so unreliable." Zhang Qian found the steps and walked down to Li Benzhi.
"Well, you're right." Li Benzhi smiled and then changed the subject, "This time Gao Buyang was arrested, the local superpower administration might be wary, so the matter about Qin Shiyu will have to be put on hold for a while.
It's time, please keep following her."
"Geez, I've been tricked twice, and you didn't tell me to slow down and follow Qin Shiyu again. This is putting my safety at risk!" Zhang Qian cursed in her heart, but said respectfully to Li Benzhi.
, "For the organization, this little bit of hard work is not considered hard work in my eyes."
When Li Benzhi heard Zhang Qian's words of loyalty, he smiled happily and said, "Zhang Qian, I really saw you right. After the Qin Shiyu incident is over, I will propose to the president that you be allowed to join the deaconship."
list of candidates."
"Tch, this is trying to paint a big picture for me! If I didn't know that the organization is in a precarious situation and may be destroyed at any time, I might jump up with excitement. You'd better give me some practical benefits!" Zhang Qian said.
I muttered in my heart.
Afterwards, Zhang Qian chatted with Li Benzhi for about ten minutes, and after hanging up the phone, she stared blankly at the phone in her hand. After a few seconds, she let out a long breath.
"A good bird chooses the right place to roost. Now that the organization is about to be destroyed by investigators, I have to find a new home as soon as possible. Well...three years ago, an organization over there in Siam even extended an invitation to me!
Why don't I contact them and build relationships first? If the Black Mountain organization is really destroyed, I will directly join that organization.
As for how to improve my status and trust in that organization, Qin Shiyu’s incident can be used as my certificate of nomination.”
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This chapter has been completed!