Cultivation by Trial and Error
Chapter 95 - 95 95 The Pager from Yuedong

95: Chapter 95: The Pager from Yuedong 95: Chapter 95: The Pager from Yuedong “Li Ying, how’s your grandma doing now?

Is she feeling any better?”

Chen Hai asked with a smile.

He was in dire need of money, and seeking out Li Ying was his true intention.

Li Ying paused when she heard Chen Hai inquire about her grandmother.

“Chen Hai, you once told me that my grandma was seeing that strange person because she made a vow and didn’t fulfill it!”

“Just recently, the mage her family invited said the same thing.”

“After he conducted the ritual, for the first few days, although my grandma couldn’t see the strange person anymore, she kept saying that she saw little chicks running around the house.”

“But after a few days, that stopped too.

I stayed at my grandma’s place for a while, and by the time I came back, she had completely recovered!”

It only took a moment for Li Ying to catch on.

With a slightly odd look in her eyes, she paused before looking at Chen Hai and then asked, “Do you know that mage?”

“I mentioned to him that you also said my grandma hadn’t fulfilled her vow, which is why she encountered such strange things.”

“As soon as the mage heard your name, his face turned dark.”

“Come clean, Chen Hai, are you and that mage from the same sect?”

Li Ying covered her mouth and laughed, even starting to joke with Chen Hai.

“What sect or not sect?

I haven’t taken a master.

The little I know, I figured out all by reading books and guessing wildly!”

Chen Hai felt a bit disappointed when he heard Li Ying’s words, but he didn’t show it.

Performing exorcisms and rituals for people in the countryside might not make much money, but for him at the moment, even a small mosquito is meat.

He had boasted to his parents that he would help them buy a house and shop in the city and then move their household registration.

His parents might not have taken his words seriously, but Chen Hai always kept this matter close to his heart.

Meeting a generous client like Boss Li was incredibly challenging.

Since he was idle anyway and wanted to make money, Chen Hai no longer wanted to play picky.

After replying to Li Ying, he chuckled and went on, “It’s good that your grandma is fine now.

By the way, what’s the name of that mage her family invited?”

“What’s his name…

I’m not sure.

I heard from my grandma’s people that everyone seems to call him Limp Zhang!” Li Ying said, tilting her head and thinking.

“Is it him?

He’s from the same village as me, that guy always had a problem with me!”

Chen Hai laughed, heh heh.

He didn’t have a bad impression of Limp Zhang.

Back then, he thought Limp Zhang was greedy because his family was really struggling.

Now, if he were to perform a ritual and charge three hundred, he definitely wouldn’t think there was anything wrong with it.

After all, when it came to taking money, he was even more ruthless.

However, Limp Zhang still held a grudge against him for using the issue he had with Wang Xiuhua as leverage to borrow his family’s ancient book.

When they occasionally met in the village, Limp Zhang’s face would immediately fall.

“Chen Hai, can you ice skate?

I’ll treat you!”

“If you can’t, I’ll teach you!” Li Ying invited Chen Hai with a smiling face.

Before Chen Hai could respond, Zhang Yong on the side was dazzled.

“Li Ying, I want to learn how to skate.

Will you teach me?” He chuckled and hurriedly added.

Teaching someone to skate meant holding hands.

Zhang Yong was clearly aiming for that.

Li Ying had already fallen out with Zhang Zhi, and he, too, was single.

With this skating lesson, would Zhang Yong’s chance arise?

“Beat it, I was asking Chen Hai, not you!” The moment he finished speaking, Li Ying rolled her eyes fiercely at him.

Perhaps realizing her words were a bit harsh, she quickly added, “Zhang Yong, at most I’ll treat you to skating.

You think I don’t know what sordid thoughts you have in your mind?”

“Men and women shouldn’t touch hands; you’re dreaming if you think you can take advantage of me!”

After saying this, Li Ying also waved to the sales counter on the other side, seemingly wanting the staff over there to bring her two pairs of roller skates.

“Li Ying, I’ve still got something to do.

I need to hurry to the county.”

“When I come back, I’ll stop by here and let you teach me how to play around with this inline skating!”

Chen Hai said with a smile, hastily speaking.

Right now, all he wanted to do was make money.

Waste time playing?

He wasn’t interested at the moment.

“Didn’t they say that men and women shouldn’t casually touch?

It’s okay for you to teach Chen Hai, but you can’t teach me?

Isn’t Chen Hai a man?”

Zhang Yong, witnessing the scene, muttered discontentedly.

“Chen Hai is Chen Hai, you are you.

I consider him a close girlfriend.

What, Zhang Yong, you got a problem with that?”

Li Ying, this girl, had sharp ears.

Before Zhang Yong’s muttering had even finished, she had already caught wind of it and grabbed his ear.

“Okay, definitely okay, Missy, can you let go of my ear first?

Actually, you could also consider me as one of your close girlfriends…”

“Scram!

I wouldn’t want a ‘close girlfriend’ like you even if you were a gift…”

Among classmates, teasing and joking around was normal.

Despite Li Ying pulling on Zhang Yong’s ear and playfully punching him a few times, it was all in good fun and not much force was used.

“Li Ying, Zhang Yong, you guys go ahead and play!”

“I’m heading to the bridge to catch a ride to the county!” Seeing the two of them like this, Chen Hai smiled, greeted them, and left.

“Chen Hai, you promised me yourself that you’d come back for skating.

You better not stand me up!”

“Mhm!”

He casually acknowledged and turned to leave.

On the town’s street, he found a shop with a public phone and then took out the business card Hou Donggui had given him.

Looking at the contact information on it, he dialed the number.

A few minutes later, Hou Donggui called back.

He might have been busy with something because, after receiving Chen Hai’s call for help, he simply said he knew and asked him to wait for news before hanging up.

“Judging by Brother Hou’s character, he shouldn’t be fooling me.

I hope he can settle this matter quickly!”

“By that time, I’ll give my parents a nice surprise.”

“Right now, the priority is to make money!”

Thinking this, Chen Hai reached the bridge, boarded a bus, and headed for Liuyuan County.

On the bus, the pager at his waist suddenly started ‘beeping.’

He had spent nearly one thousand yuan on this device, and apart from him trying to page himself a few times, this was the first time someone else was paging him.

These days, in Liuyuan County, pagers were still quite the novelty.

As soon as the ‘beeping’ started, everyone on the bus turned their heads to look at Chen Hai.

Nonchalantly, he took off the pager to check the displayed phone number.

“0756?

Yuedong, Haizhu City’s area code?”

“Li Dajiang’s Huangxin Shoes is located there, isn’t it?”

“His sudden page to me, could it be that he’s found a buyer for the goods I have?”

Seeing the phone number on his pager, Chen Hai uncontrollably got excited.

The bus he was on was still moving.

In this area with no villages in front and no shops behind, even if the driver was willing to stop, Chen Hai couldn’t find anywhere to return the call.

“Driver, where are we now?

How much longer will it take to reach the county town?” Not caring about the bumpy ride, Chen Hai stumbled as he stood up and moved toward the driver to ask.

“We’re near Yaogong Pond; it’ll be at most ten more minutes before we reach the county town!” The driver replied straightforwardly without looking away from the road.

Hearing that, Chen Hai breathed a sigh of relief.

Six or seven minutes later, the bus entered the county town.

After seeing a small shop with the words ‘Public Telephone’ prominently displayed, Chen Hai quickly asked the driver to stop, and he ran towards the shop.