Imperial Treasure
Chapter 76 - 66 Those Things in the Village, Midnight Calls!

Chapter 76: Chapter 66 Those Things in the Village, Midnight Calls!

The mother and son reached a consensus not to trouble Sui Yi and started to act naturally. Sui Yi was a keen observer, although she didn’t say much.

However, during the meal, Sui Yi answered several phone calls.

One was from Elder Tang, who mentioned a turnaround in Han Tianshou’s case. It seemed that the attitudes of those handling the case had shifted, and though several key figures might fall, Han Tianshou might evade punishment.

Recalling Li Run she had encountered at the school gate, Sui Yi asked Elder Tang about him.

"Li Run? The cousin of Han Tianshou’s rascal son? I remember hearing in my early years that Han Tianshou had wide connections. Most of his brothers and sisters have been successful, especially his sister, who married into a business family in the Provincial City...quite influential."

Involved in business? No wonder his son is so arrogant.

Sui Yi chatted a bit more and then hung up. For Elder Tang and the others, achieving the goal of bringing down the other figures was enough. Han Tianshou was a minor character, but as he was Sui Yi’s target, his remaining unaccountable still affected her.

So, Elder Tang had called again specifically to inform her of this.

It was a notification.

Sui Yi didn’t insist further and just as she shifted her thoughts, another call came through. It was from Ah Yi.

"Sui Yi, I’ve found a place. Are you coming?"

"Hmm?"

"A martial arts school where you can learn my style of boxing."

"Your boxing style... isn’t all that great."

"..." The boy sipping beer in the small convenience store choked, probably imagining the bland expression on the girl’s face on the other end, and replied not too pleased, "Can’t you be more tactful?"

"I’m afraid you wouldn’t understand otherwise."

"... Alright, actually I just joined this martial arts school myself, haven’t mastered it well yet, but indeed, the boxing style isn’t bad, at least it’s not nonsensical."

"... You mean, you’re not skilled because it’s humanly dependent, but the boxing style itself is quite good, right?"

"..." Miss Sui, you always manage to catch a different crucial point from others.

"I think your style looks like Jeet Kune Do. Do you want to come and learn it with me?"

Food when eating, silence when sleeping, Sui Yi answered the calls on the balcony outside the restaurant, fingertips resting on the railing, slightly furrowing her brow. A martial arts school?

Does Nanxun have such a place?

Although she did not clarify the details, thinking about Ah Yi who was a reliable person, she probably wouldn’t suggest something unreliable to her.

"Okay, this Saturday, I’ll join you to check it out."

"Great!"

Ah Yi hung up the call, took a sip of the cold beer, and felt great satisfaction in his belly!

The feeling of being trusted...very satisfying!

That evening, Wang Pu and Sui Yi each returned to their rooms to study, the former earnestly hitting the books, and the latter dividing her attention between classroom homework on one side and a stack of antique books on the other, covering various categories including many historical biographies.

When Auntie Wang came in with lotus seed soup, Sui Yi had already finished her required homework and was sitting in the chair reading the reference books.

Auntie Wang didn’t know what she was looking at, merely standing at the door looking at Sui Yi under the lamp, who seemed to have just taken a bath with her hair jet black and the ends still somewhat damp. Wearing loose shorts and a sleeveless soft T-shirt, she looked very simple, yet there was an extraordinary feel about her.

That feeling was similar to the unease and inferiority she felt whenever she saw Yhan Qingwu.

According to local sayings, it’s like this girl, truly beautiful! Not someone ordinary families could raise.

She had even thought that if her own son grew up and couldn’t find a good wife, she would bring in the Ye family’s adopted granddaughter as a daughter-in-law. But now, that family lives in a large house where just one bathroom costs several times more than her own house...

Ah~~

"Auntie Wang?"

When Sui Yi heard the sound of the door opening, she turned her head to look.

The light shone on her face, casting a soft, snow-white glow, her eyes moist like jade but slightly desolate.

Auntie Wang, startled, hurried over and handed Sui Yi the soup, saying, "Ah Yi is reading..."

"Hmm..." Sui Yi responded, letting Auntie Wang sit down. She wasn’t planning to discuss Wang Pu’s matter as she felt it wasn’t urgent and still needed a bit of wind, but she wanted to ask about another thing.

"Auntie Wang, in the village... how are those people doing?"

Upon hearing this, Auntie Wang’s face changed slightly, a flicker in her eyes, and she quickly said, "They’ve left, those bad people left long ago... who would dare stay..."

Oh?

If Sui Yi hadn’t just noticed Auntie Wang’s unusual expression, she would have believed that statement, but now...

"Do you think that since Grandma and I left the village, we’re no longer considered part of it..." Sui Yi, always a cool and straightforward person, softened her tone, especially after a fresh bath, her scent crystalline cool and glassy.

As if it could break at a touch.

Auntie Wang shivered inside, her face showing distress, "Ah Yi, it’s not what I think, but the Seventh Uncle forbade me from saying... said there’s no need to burden you and your grandmother with the village’s troubles. But you have been so kind to our family, I’ll bear the sin this time and tell you..."

It turned out that after Sui Yi and her grandmother left, the Feng Sha gang hadn’t completely left. On the third day, they brought a group of people back into the graveyard. The villagers wanted to stop them, but something happened later, and two more people died... Their bodies couldn’t be kept, and a group of people were terrified...

"I saw that formidable young man looking very upset, constantly on the phone... Later, he seemed determined and led his people away. But before they left, they seemed to have collected the blood water formed from those who died into bottles and took it with them, ah, not fearing it to taint and follow them.."

Sui Yi remembered Feng Sha, always thought of him as bold yet meticulous, cruel and cunning, a real character, but she hadn’t expected him to be this obstinate.

But, perhaps it was the person behind him who was obstinate.

She seemed to remember he had a lady behind him.

By this point, Sui Yi thought it was over, but she saw Auntie Wang hesitating and fumbling with her thumb, and then she left without saying anything else.

Sui Yi watched her retreating figure, falling into deep thought.

Something must have happened in that village graveyard...

By the time Sui Yi finished reading, it was already twelve midnight. Feeling thirsty, she got up to get some water. As the water gurgled into the cup, she furrowed her brow, pondering over the matters of Han Yuanchong and others from school and occasionally the village’s issues... and Wang Pu.

After filling the cup, Sui Yi didn’t drink but tapped her fingers on the stone counter for quite a while. She finally made up her mind, picked up the cup, took a sip, then turned her head towards the kitchen door as the light spread out along the corridor.

Cold and deserted, no one around.

No one?

Sui Yi slightly closed his eyes, placed the water glass into the sink, and returned to his room.

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On the extended side of the light, Wang Pu, leaning against the dark part of the wall, placed his palm over his chest and slowly exhaled a breath.

But he saw his own palm, calloused and rough.

What appeared before his eyes were those slender, smooth white jade legs, the porcelain white wrists holding the glass...

The slightly lifted neck...

The clear water followed the lips into the throat...

He could almost hear his own thoracic breathing, rising and falling.

His heart pounded like thunder.

Suddenly, he startled, his complexion turning slightly unnatural.

The kitchen light was not turned off.

Sui Yi was not one to be so careless, unless... she knew he was there.

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That night, Sui Yi still fell into that prolonged dream, unable to extricate herself, her legs aching as if her root bone was growing.

All the time!

Sweating profusely, Sui Yi once again saw that indistinct face, the figure reaching out a hand towards her...

That hand, greenish and ghastly, the eyes of the figure also green!

With a snap, the sound of the wind stirred.

Sui Yi abruptly opened her eyes to the stark white ceiling, and looked sideways.

The window was open.

The cold wind whistled through... chilling her body somewhat.

After a while, Sui Yi stood up and stood in front of the window, looking at the brightly lit town on the far riverbank.

Her phone suddenly rang.

An unknown caller.

"Miss Sui Yi, I apologize for disturbing you so late," the voice on the other end was urgent, cold, and not very steady.

There seemed to be some noise!

"Feng Sha... what is it?" Sui Yi instinctively frowned.

"I..."

Bang!!!

A huge noise, accompanied by the screams of people... chaos enveloped everything.

This was the noise coming from Feng Sha’s side.

Suddenly, with a burst, everything went quiet.

The cold wind continued to howl, this noise coming from Sui Yi’s side.

"You fired a shot," Sui Yi said.

"...The people who came back here, fifteen are dead, this was the sixteenth,"

The voice of Feng Sha was colder than the cold wind.

"..."

Sui Yi was silent, suddenly recalling everything her Seventh Uncle had said that night, and then remembering the heavy jokes Elder Tang often mentioned...

Corpse transformation... Corpse People... Zongzi... Green liquid...

"You shouldn’t have brought back that Corpse Blood,"

"If we hadn’t brought it back, we would never have known the truth,"

"Do you know it now?"

The other side fell silent, then after a moment a low chuckle came through, "Miss Sui Yi, you are the strangest person I’ve ever met, and the most discourteous,"

"Disturbing someone’s deep sleep in the middle of the night is not the act of a gentleman. If you just wanted to tell me this, then I can hang up now?"

"...Miss Sui Yi, you are the same as us, I think you would also be interested in that grave,"

"So what?"

"Work with us..."

"Is this your lady’s idea?"

"Yes."

"I’m not interested"

"..."

She hung up the phone and Sui Yi silently looked out the window for a while, then after a moment, she closed the window.

Before getting back into bed, she wondered, had she ever opened the window?

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On the other side, in a large laboratory, Feng Sha, looking helpless with the phone in hand, gazed at the chaotic scene behind him.

"Miss, she refused,"

"I could tell by the look on your face," came the slightly husky voice tinged with the texture of pearls sliding against each other, mysterious as the trailing tone curled slightly.

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