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Daily Life in the Countryside After Being Reborn-Chapter 224 - 28: Xiao Xian’s Troubled Roots of Desire (Part 2)
Chapter 224: Chapter 28: Xiao Xian’s Troubled Roots of Desire (Part 2)
Qu Yang’s mouth twitched non-stop. Good news stays indoors while bad news travels a thousand miles. Who says men don’t gossip? This incident was a bloody lesson indeed.
"Goodbye, Senior Brother," Xiao Xian didn’t notice the extremely contorted expression on Qu Yang’s face as she left him behind.
"Where are you going? I was about to go out too, I can give you a ride..." Qu Yang desperately tried to restore his glorious image. Under the sunlight, the junior sister who spoke unpredictably was swinging her ponytail, already walking far ahead.
"No way, has my charm stopped working lately?" Qu Yang pedaled his bike, covering a few hundred meters swiftly. After making sure that no one was around, he pulled out a mirror and examined himself up and down. He still looked like a handsome guy no matter how he looked at it. Why did the junior sister from the first year have absolutely no reaction to him?
Xiao Xian didn’t know that her actions had already been enough to make countless girls at Sacred Heart Middle School who admired Qu Yang despise her. The attentiveness Handsome Qu displayed was completely ignored by her.
This wasn’t really Xiao Xian’s fault, considering that affection between a man and a woman also needed to be gradually nurtured by the atmosphere.
In her previous life as Zhou Xiaoxian, sixteen years of high-level Cultivation life at Yunteng Sect meant maintaining purity of the six senses was a basic criterion for Cultivation.
Even if one achieved high-level Cultivation and occasionally had senior cultivators who became immortal companions, they were high above, and it was difficult for Zhou Xiaoxian to get close to them. At most, she might have had a crush on a Senior Brother.
In the four years since she became Zhu Xiaoxian, surrounded by little kids much younger than her, the notion of budding emotions had long been neglected.
"Actually, Senior Brother Qu isn’t bad-looking, just not quite on par with Senior Brother Yun Guanzi. Sigh, how silly, it’s been so long, why am I still thinking about things related to Yunteng Sect." Lost in thought, Xiao Xian unconsciously returned home.
After unlocking the door, Xiao Xian casually tossed her schoolbag onto the sofa and took a few sips of cold water to quench her thirst. After a quick look around, she noticed Zhuo Feng wasn’t at home. She also checked the rooftop but didn’t find Zhuo Feng anywhere. However, the vegetables on the rooftop were growing well, with a few tomato plants already starting to bear fruit.
Unable to find anyone, and bored at home alone, Xiao Xian thought of Bai Juyi on the third floor. Of course, she was also immensely tempted by Mr. Bai’s Hami melons.
After knocking for a while, there was no response from Mr. Bai’s home.
"It’s quite strange today, no one’s at home," mumbled Xiao Xian, about to head back upstairs when the door suddenly opened.
However, the person who came out wasn’t Mr. Bai but several young men. The leader looked very familiar, the same young man who had visited Mr. Bai’s home and left cursing and swearing.
"Kid, step back, what are you blocking the doorway for?" The young man was holding several flower pots, and his companions also carried pots in their hands.
"You? Where’s Mr. Bai? I live upstairs. Where is Mr. Bai, and why are you taking his flowers?" Xiao Xian felt something was off. The old man who loved flowers and preferred their company, how could he let this group of fierce-looking people take away his potted plants? Moreover, those flowers were very precious, including Camellia bushes that were over sixty years old and ancient pine trees from Mount Huang.
"I’m his nephew. The old geezer is on his last legs, and he entrusted me to dispose of all his house and potted plants. Do you live upstairs? I see now, you must be in cahoots with that shrew upstairs. Get lost before you damage my stuff," said the young man, raising his hand to shove Xiao Xian away.
With a forceful push, his hand not only missed Xiao Xian’s shoulder but also passed through the air, causing the pink camellia in his grasp to slip from his hand as the potted plant crashed to the ground. The young man cursed, "You little brat, I’ll beat you to death."
"Stop making a scene; if you disturb the neighbors again, it will be trouble. The buyer is still waiting downstairs. Such a shame about this camellia, it could have sold for ten or eight thousand on the market," several people behind the young man spoke up to dissuade him. Yesterday, they caused a ruckus and injured the old man living here, alerting a female tenant upstairs. That woman was fierce; despite a few threats, she dared to open the window on the third floor and shouted things like "Thugs, I’m calling the police" down to the ground, loud enough for the whole neighborhood to hear.
"What’s there to be afraid of? There are plenty more potted plants in the house, and the old man’s got only half a life left. Everything inside, the potted plants, and this room, it’s all mine." The young man cast a warning glance at Xiao Xian and swaggered downstairs. After all, he had already made a copy of the keys to the old man’s house; taking a few potted flowers was easy.
Xiao Xian looked at the firmly locked door and hurriedly turned back upstairs to call Feng Xing’s workplace, and through Feng Xing, she learned about the whole incident.
Old Bai Juyi lived a lonely life with no children to care for him in old age, and his only relative was his deceased sister’s grandson, the very young man often causing trouble.
The old man, a retired horticulturist, had some savings and lived alone in this neighborhood. His nephew somehow learned that the potted plants the old man tended were very valuable and came knocking, initially asking for some money, then for the potted plants.
Bai Juyi, out of respect for his late sister, gave him some money. However, when it came to the potted plants, he absolutely refused to concede. As time passed, his nephew’s demands became more excessive, even claiming that the house where the old man lived belonged to him, and secretly duplicated the keys.
About two weeks ago, when Bai Juyi went downstairs to buy vegetables, his nephew sneaked into the Bai Family home and stole an orchid, which he then sold for five thousand yuan. When the old man learned of his nephew’s misdeeds, he refused to let him enter the house again. Later, the young man came with a group, forcibly took the flowers, and even injured the old man.
"Despite the misfortune, it’s a relief that Mr. Bai had you, aunt, upstairs when his heart attack happened due to the anger, and you ran down to scare that bunch away. However, Mr. Bai’s condition isn’t good," Feng Xing and his spouse have been visiting the old man in the hospital after work these past few days.
Since being hospitalized, the old man’s mental state has not been good, constantly talking and refusing to take medicine or injections, and in just a few days, he’s become no more than a bag of bones.
"Uncle-in-law, is Mr. Bai okay now?" After hearing Feng Xing’s account, Xiao Xian wished she could have smashed that pot over that selfish nephew’s face.
She had already neatly packed the pink camellia into a foam box, and after finalizing everything, she hurried to the hospital with Feng Xing. freeweɓnovel-cøm
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