Rebirth Counterattack with Space
Chapter 279 - 271 Panic

Chapter 279: Chapter 271 Panic

"I can’t tell you the reason for now, nor do I wish to deceive you. Perhaps one day you will come to understand."

Lu Yun said apologetically to the two before passing a paper bag to Feng Sijia.

"This contains a year’s supply for three people. Actually, as long as one persists in taking the medicine daily for over a year, the throat is unlikely to suffer from hoarseness or dryness again."

"Thank you, Lu Yun." Feng Sijia received the bag with both hands, once again expressing her sincere gratitude.

"You’re welcome." Lu Yun actually felt quite regretful. She had only started considering making close female friends toward the end of her entire student life, and yet...

"Um, Lu Yun, we can consider ourselves friends as well as classmates, right?" Feng Sijia looked hopefully at Lu Yun.

Wu Xiuyu, also hopeful, and with a hint of assertiveness in her voice, said, "Exactly, we’re not just classmates but also friends. So, Lu Yun, you mustn’t forget us in the future. We need to stay in touch."

A smile appeared on Lu Yun’s face; this unfamiliar feeling of bonding with girlfriends was not unpleasant. She nodded, "I’ll leave you my phone number. I shouldn’t be changing it in the future, but it might often be unreachable. However, if anything comes up, you can text me, and I will see it later."

Feng Sijia and Wu Xiuyu first nodded, then exchanged puzzled glances. They both turned to Lu Yun, "What are text messages?"

"..." Lu Yun opened her mouth but found herself at a loss for words for quite some time before awkwardly suggesting, "When I have time, we can also write to each other. I’ll give you my family’s address."

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The Lu Family’s quadrangle courtyard.

"Grandpa and Grandma have set the date, we will start our journey to Yushu Village in three days. You will definitely come back with us. I’ve spoken to Grandpa about it, and he said if mom and dad, and grandparents from their side have the intention of returning, it might as well be a trip for everyone."

It was a rare occasion for Shitou to be home before 4:30 in the afternoon. Upon his return to the courtyard, he habitually went looking for Lu Yun.

"Oh, ask them for their opinions again this evening." Lu Yun was taken aback, wondering how time had passed so quickly.

"Of course, that’s necessary," Shitou responded as if it went without saying.

At dinner, seeing Shitou was a pleasant surprise for everyone. Lu Aiguo laughed, "It’s been several days since we’ve seen you, how busy have you been?"

Shitou had mentioned coming back after a month, and Lu Aiguo had asked this question now that the time was almost up.

"Basically... almost done... My grandpa said we will leave for Yushu Village to relocate my parents’ graves in three days. His idea is that if you also plan to go, he wants to invite you to join us. Actually, I also think it’s more convenient to go together, so it depends on what you think," Shitou nodded.

"Aiguo, then you guys should go with them. Your mother and I will stay here to look after your uncle and aunt," Uncle Lu decided for Lu Aiguo right away.

"Now that the New Year is only a few days away, I’m not sure if you and Xiaoyun will stay home for the holidays this year?" Xia Yuan looked hopefully at Shitou.

"No," Shitou shook his head, "Once we return from Yushu Village we’ll have to depart. We’ll have to spend the first New Year’s at the Dragon Squad, since it’s newly established and needs more of our commitment. And I also can’t completely neglect my work at the research institute; Dragon Squad is just a side focus, my main profession is the research institute."

He was becoming busier and busier.

Xia Yuan sighed internally, but she didn’t let her disappointment show too obviously; instead, she smiled and said, "Fortunately, everything we need to prepare is almost ready."

In these days, the things she prepared for Lu Yun and Shitou, except for a small part that was kept in plain sight, were mostly stored in Lu Yun’s large warehouse. She wasn’t worried about not having prepared enough or missing anything, because Lu Yun’s large warehouse was almost never short of anything.

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For the trip to Yushu Village, Ding Luoluo had to stay behind as her due date was approaching, and consequently, Pei Kun also stayed to look after her as everyone else was not at ease, so neither of them followed on this trip.

Even though Pei Qingyuan’s group tried to keep a low profile and didn’t make too much noise, their arrival still attracted significant attention.

Strangers suddenly arrived in the village, bringing quite a few guards, and made quite a spectacle, what’s more, even the local VIP Lu Aiguo’s family was accompanying them.

The people of Yushu Village were all speculating about who the visitors were, noting that they seemed rather important.

It wasn’t until the group arrived at Shitou’s parents’ graves, and after everyone had paid their respects and were seen crying inconsolably, that the villagers had an epiphany and began to guess that these were probably relatives of Shitou...

The news, although not yet confirmed, spread quickly.

Those who loved to gossip immediately ran to deliver the news to Shitou’s "uncle and aunt," Lu Tianci and Yu Xiu.

"What are you saying, how could that be? After so many years, they could still be found?" Yu Xiu, in shock, dropped her sunflower seeds all over the ground while she was cracking them and chatting with others at someone’s doorstep.

Shitou’s relatives had been found? And they were accompanied by guards, apparently with no small amount of clout...

Yu Xiu stood up suddenly with wide, frightened eyes; this news was definitely not good news for her. She was well aware of how her family, starting with her in-laws, had treated Shitou’s parents.

When Shitou was little, both she and her husband had taken over the property left by his father and had even hoped he would die early so they wouldn’t have to deal with him potentially wanting to reclaim those things when he grew up, resulting in their treating him as nothing more than a servant and not even feeding him properly.

As Shitou grew up and became successful, and later went to university, they still took full advantage of being his elders, threatening to create trouble at his school to gain benefits...

Yu Xiu shivered, not bothering to say another word as she turned towards her house; halfway there, she remembered that Lu Tianci was not at home but at "Grey Mouse’s" playing cards, so she quickly turned around and headed for "Grey Mouse’s" house.

"Why did Yu Xiu leave without saying anything?" someone wondered.

"Do you need to ask? She’s scared," someone snickered beside them.

"Indeed, and why wouldn’t she be? You didn’t hear that Shitou’s grandparents might be very influential, and that they even come with bodyguards. Geez, you never know how influential they might be. Given the way her family treated Shitou and his father, isn’t she afraid of being settled with after fall?"

Almost everyone in Yushu Village was clear about the incident with Shitou and his parents. Everyone had lived in this small place for generations, not just aware of big events, but even trivial matters like who broke a bowl could spawn gossip and speculation about whether it was an accident or someone smashed it on purpose...

When all is said and done, people were just idle. Over the years, as life improved and there was no need to work the fields, the villagers had even more time to spend on gossip.

Immediately, another person suggested with schadenfreude, eager for chaos, "Why don’t we go and enjoy the excitement too? We haven’t really seen important people before."

"Right, let’s broaden our horizons," many agreed.

A group of people then stood up, dusted off their behinds, and together with the person who had come to deliver the news, they went off to rubberneck--