Corpse Recovery Diver-Chapter 1193 - 216

On the second-floor terrace, there was a radio hanging on the wall wrapped in thin wooden boards for protection, currently playing Shan Tianfang's "The Seven Heroes and Five Gallants," Episode Twelve:

"The earth-moving rat returns home for its adopted son, while the thunderbolt ghost leaves home to find its adoptive father."

Li Sanjiang was leisurely lying on a wicker chair, holding a cigarette in his left hand, and a large tea mug steeped with dried orange peels in his right.

It was not yet summer, and the weather was not hot, so he didn't need to worry about not having a hand free to hold a palm fan.

"Grandmaster, it's time to take your medicine."

"Yes, okay."

Li Sanjiang took a bowl of medicine, blew on it, and drank it in small sips. It couldn't be helped; the medicine was really bitter, but it was his great-grandson's thoughtful gesture, so no matter how bitter, he had to drink it.

On the other side, Li Sanjiang had just drunk one-third of his bowl, and across from him, Li Zhiyuan had already finished his bowl and started on a second.

The first bowl was the same as Grandmaster's, made by himself, and the second bowl was prepared by Aunt Liu for him, both were meant to calm the mind, but they didn't calm the same spirit.

"Little Yuanhou, don't you find it bitter?"

Li Zhiyuan finished the second bowl, set it down, and shook his head:

"Not bitter, just kind of filling."

Seeing this, Li Sanjiang didn't want to be outdone by his great-grandson, so he simply tilted his head back and drank the rest all at once. Then he leaned back, opened his mouth, and felt as though the bitterness had flushed through his entire body.

After a while, Li Sanjiang raised his head again, took two deep puffs of his cigarette, and breathed out heavily.

The medicine was difficult to drink, but the effect was really good. These past few nights, lying in bed, closing and opening his eyes, hey, it's already morning.

After waking up, he felt energetic, almost wanting to grab a hoe and head to the fields immediately.

"Little Yuanhou, do we need to continue drinking this medicine?"

"No need, this is the last bowl."

"Bitter, really bitter, much more so than the coffee brought by You Hou."

"Yet you said you loved it, Grandmaster."

"Anyway, it was a gesture from someone, how can you say you can't get used to it or don't like it."

"Next time, Grandmaster, you should just be honest."

"Why?"

"Ah You saw you liked coffee so much; he's already thinking about opening a coffee shop in the village. He probably thinks that since villagers can endure bitterness, they'll love coffee."

Li Sanjiang was stunned for a moment at this, then turned his head to look below.

Lin Shuyou was sitting on a stool with Run Sheng, watching TV while doing paper crafting.

"You Hou!"

Lin Shuyou looked up: "What's up, Mr. Li?"

"I heard you're thinking of opening a coffee shop in the village?"

"Ah..." Lin Shuyou awkwardly scratched his head, "Not anymore, not anymore, just got a little excited in the head, hadn't thought it through, hehe."

At this moment, the TV was showing a Hong Kong gangster film, where the protagonist was fighting a killer in a gym.

Run Sheng said: "Opening a coffee shop in the village isn't as good as opening a gym. That way, everyone can work out at your gym after finishing farming each day."

Lin Shuyou blushed, grabbed Run Sheng's neck and shook it forcefully:

"Ah! You keep talking, you keep talking!"

Li Sanjiang watched the scene below, laughed, remembering that when You Hou first came to his home, he was quite reserved and unfamiliar. Now, he played around with the local kids like one of them.

At this point, Li Zhiyuan's pager beeped. He looked down, it was Tan Wenbin paging him.

"Grandmaster, Zhuangzhuang is looking for me, I'm going to return the call."

"Mm, go ahead."

Li Zhiyuan walked to Aunt Zhang's convenience store and dialed the number shown on the pager.

"Hello, Brother Xiao Yuan?"

"Yes, it's me, Brother Binbin, how are things on your side?"

"I found Heartless Island, but this island only emerges from the sea surface for two months a year, one month in the first half and one month in the second half. Now it's ten days until it emerges."

Ten days... Li Zhiyuan thought about this timing.

"Brother Xiao Yuan, when I was booking a fishing boat, I found a few people had already booked it, and I even met with two of them. Those two didn't know each other, but seemed to know what each was planning to do, and I got included in their kind of mission statement.

I'm planning to stay here and continue interacting with them for a while, trying to gather more information about Heartless Island and Qiu Mansion."

"Stay safe."

"It's not dangerous, those two... are quite upright."

Li Zhiyuan thought of Xin Jiyue. Though clearly utilitarian and somewhat extreme in style, she undeniably had a simple creed of punishing evil and promoting good in her heart, which was why Li Zhiyuan let her go back then.

The two people Tan Wenbin knew now should be similar to Xin Jiyue, but those two should have already collected the karma they needed and were preparing to "make a delivery" at Qiu Mansion on Heartless Island.

"Need me to send support?"

"No need, Brother Xiao Yuan, more people just complicate things, plus, there's at least ten days before sailing to the island. If you come here, you'd just be fishing with me."

"Then the schedule is open, I need to go to Beijing once."

"To Beijing, for?"

"Personal matters. Just as Brother Liangliang is organizing an event in Beijing, my Grandmaster won a single ticket for a luxurious tour in Beijing."

"Oh... Well, that's not really a splash then! With Mr. Li being so lucky, a splash wouldn't swallow him up."

"Yeah, so for now, I still think the place you're at is likely the starting point of our next wave."

"Don't worry, I'll set up this preliminary station well."

"Thank you."

"Hey, this is what Dragon King's head crew should do, getting the lay of the land in advance."

"Keep me updated."

"Understood."

After hanging up, Li Zhiyuan dialed again, to Xue Liangliang, informing him that he agreed to go to Beijing to attend the exchange meeting, asking him to arrange it according to his schedule.