Chapter 184 The Disease is Called Dream
Chapter 184 The Disease is Called Dream
Ning Zhe thought about it, pinched the first page of the notebook, and folded a small corner on the edge.
Xia Yubing looked down and saw that there was a shallow crease in the same position on the notebook in her hand, which was exactly the same as the crease Ning Zhe made on her notebook.
Ning Zhe picked up his pen and wrote three words on the second line of the first page: [Hello to you too.]
Then the same words appeared in the same position on Xia Yubing's notebook: [Hello to you too.]
"Okay, I know how to use this thing." Ning Zhe said softly.
This is the method of the granter and the product of the rules. These two notebooks that will be synchronized with each other are like copper coins forged by Wutong using human lives. People do not have to control the evil spirits themselves, but can borrow the abilities of ghosts to a certain extent.
Although Ning Zhe currently doesn’t know what kind of ghost caused the synchronization phenomenon in the two notebooks.
"Take good care of your notebook. Your aunt is right. It's very useful." Ning Zhe stood up with his travel bag and prepared to leave.
"Wait a moment." Xia Yubing called him.
"What's wrong?" Ning Zhe turned around and saw her sitting on the bench with her head down, her face buried in the shadows, so her expression could not be seen clearly.
Xia Yubing put down the blue ink pen in her hand, clipped it in the middle of the notebook, and spoke very softly: "Aunt said that my family wants me to marry you, but..."
…but I don’t even know who you are.
"When your mother married your father, she didn't know who Jiang Yehan was." Ning Zhe said lightly, "Xia Chan didn't know Zhang Yangxu when she got married either."
"I know, but..." Xia Yubing hesitated.
"If you don't have the ability to resist the arrangements of your family and pursue freedom, then even if I am not standing in front of you today, there will be others standing in the same position as me."
Ning Zhe leaned over and took the hydrangea that had been torn into pieces from Xia Yubing's hand: "Your aunt hates her husband very much. She hates him for breaking up her first love in her school days. But Xia Chan actually knows in her heart that the person who destroyed her happiness was not Zhang Yangxu, but her own surname."
If it’s not Zhang Yangxu today, it will be someone else tomorrow.
But Xia Chan didn't have the courage to resist her family's arrangements and could only make unreasonable demands on her husband who had always tolerated her for decades.
So, what about you?
"At least...at least let me know who you are, right?" Xia Yubing looked down at her empty hands and stammered, "...Are you Yu Ziqian or Ning Zhe?"
He chuckled: "If you think it is, then it is."
When Xia Yubing finally mustered up the courage to look up, the young man with the travel bag had already walked far away. Only the crowd in the square was left dancing to the beat, and their amateur dance steps were not very uniform.
"..."
Xia Yubing sighed softly, stood up and prepared to leave, but when she closed the notebook, she suddenly froze.
On the off-white paper, new words appeared at some point:
[The next Gengshen day is September 9th, see you then. ]
Snapped--!
Xia Yubing slammed the notebook shut, her face flushed.
After teasing Xia Yubing, Ning Zhe returned to his new home by Taojiang River with his travel bag.
Although it is called a new home, Ning Zhe actually did not feel that this empty house was a real "home" at first.
Until today, the desk and chairs made by my grandfather when he was a carpenter were moved here. Looking at the cupboards and bed frames brought with my grandmother when she got married, and the coffee table with a thick layer of patina... Ning Zhe felt a subtle sense of belonging, as if they were still living here. Home is a unique meaning, otherwise it is just a house where people live.
Ning Zhe slept well that night.
The next morning, Ning Zhe took the earliest flight to Yundu. As soon as he got off the plane, he saw the twin sisters who came to pick him up.
Both of them dressed up specially when they came. Zhang Hanying wore a pair of high-waisted dark jeans, which outlined her two slender and graceful long legs. The vertical striped turtleneck sweater on her upper body was khaki, and the style looked very homely. The clouds in late July were already cold. Zhang Yunwen added a pair of warm black silk stockings under her pleated short skirt that was not above her knees, and matched it with a double-breasted women's small suit. Every button was buttoned meticulously, like a female college student who had just entered the society.
In fact, she was indeed a female college student who had just entered society.
Yu Ziqian is a very loyal person. He liked a girl in her twenties when he was in primary school. After graduating from university, he still liked a girl in her twenties and he never changed his mind.
"Zi Qian, here!"
The two sisters saw him getting off the plane from afar and hurried over to greet him, threw themselves on Ning Zhe and kissed him on both cheeks, which made the brothers who were passing by with their wives and children stand in awe.
Although the longing brewing in their hearts made the two sisters want to go back to the hotel and have sex with him right now, they both understood that Ziqian should be worried about his sister who was still in the hospital and was not in the mood to do that.
So he asked very considerately, "We made a visit appointment yesterday, and we can go to the hospital any time this morning. Ziqian, have you had breakfast? We found a delicious restaurant in Yundu, do you want to go there for a bite first?"
Unexpectedly, Ning Zhe's answer was: "Okay."
Contrary to what Zhang Hanying thought, Ning Zhe was not in a hurry to go to the hospital. He basically knew what happened to Yin Lishang from the sisters' oral accounts and Lan Shiwen, and he might not be able to get more information if he went there in person.
Ning Zhe has a more efficient way to explore the secrets of Yin Lishang.
——Shake people.
On the weekend of July 2018, 07, when Ning Zhe was having breakfast with Zhang Hanying and Zhang Yunwen in a restaurant in the new city area of Yundu City, Bai Zhi, who lived in the old city area, had just got up.
The early morning sunlight filtered through the gaps in the curtains, casting a layer of warm light over the Han River and Yundu City. Bai Zhi, who had suffered nightmares all night, woke up drowsily from her bed. When she opened her eyes, the first thing that caught her eye was the floor-to-ceiling window facing the bed, and outside the window was the Han River Bridge spanning the surging river.
Yundu City is divided by the Han River, with the old city to the west and the new city to the east. The large shopping mall called the Treasure Bowl by the locals and the historic Yunlu Academy are both in the old city, facing high-rise buildings such as the Genting Highlands in the new city across the river, and are mainly connected by the Han River Bridge.
Yunlu Academy is the ancient name of Yundu University. This school has a history of hundreds of years in Yundu City. It was changed to the current Yundu University after the city was modernized, but locals still prefer to call it an academy.
Baizhi studied at Yunlu Academy.
Bai Zhi, who was used to sleeping naked, crawled out of the bed naked. She felt groggy and sat at the head of the bed, combing her hair with a roller comb which had become messy due to her bad sleeping posture.
With her vision blurred, she saw the breathing light of the mobile phone placed on the bedside table flicker a few times, and someone sent a message.
I rubbed my eyes, woke up the screen and saw that the sender was Ning Zhe. The message read:
"Have you had any nightmares lately?"
Bai Zhi thought about it, put the phone to her lips, and typed:
"Yes, I've been having nightmares recently. I dreamed that I was lying on a hospital bed for a very long time and was very ill..."
(End of this chapter)