Chapter 135: We Got The Answers!
“Aaaah!!! It’s moving! It’s moving! My hand! My hand is moving on its own aaaah!!!”
Jiang Beishu stared with eyes wide open, screaming shrilly with a face full of terror, instinctively wanting to let go of the hand holding the chopsticks.
Nan Yuanman timely stood on tiptoe to grab his hand holding the chopsticks, her childish voice unusually serious: “Hold tight! If you let go, there’ll be no leeway between you and the lifespan borrower! It will think you broke the agreement! It will directly take your remaining lifespan!”
Zheng Feiyu was also scared with goosebumps all over, and upon hearing this, he hurriedly stepped forward to help: “Old Jiang, endure it, don’t let go no matter what!”
Jiang Beishu’s already pale face became even worse, his lips turned white, his body had no color at all, shaking badly, but his hand tightly gripped the chopsticks as instructed.
That icy cold power controlled the hand holding the chopsticks, slowly pointing toward the word “yes”.
Seeing that word, Jiang Beishu’s vision went black; his grandpa actually had such courage! He really borrowed lifespan from a ghost!
Nan Yuanman saw Jiang Beishu’s state where he looked like he could faint anytime, knowing he couldn’t speak, so she asked on his behalf: “You’ve been following behind him this whole time because there’s a problem with the agreement between you and his grandpa, right?”
The chopsticks still pointed at “yes”.
“What was the agreement between you and his grandpa? Offering incense and burning tribute every year?”
The chopsticks moved again, slowly turning toward “no”.
“Not offering incense or burning tribute, so is it helping take care of your family still in the human world?” Zheng Feiyu asked.
The chopsticks stayed on the two words “no” without moving.
Seeing this lifespan borrower honestly answering questions without any harmful actions, Jiang Beishu’s fear in his heart faded a tiny bit, and he couldn’t help asking: “Not this either, could it be to burn you a trendy new bride to take down?”
As soon as he said this, the chopsticks in his hand instantly became scalding hot, burning him so much that he instinctively wanted to fling them away, but they were held tightly by Nan Yuanman’s small fleshy hand, so he could only howl in pain: “Hot hot hot hot!”
Nan Yuanman looked somewhat speechlessly at this big brother who dared to ask any question: “Hurry and apologize, big brother, you’ve angered the person, oh no, the ghost!”
“Sorry sorry, my mouth is cheap, sorry!!” Jiang Beishu was in so much pain his face twisted, and he quickly apologized loudly; only then did the scalding hot chopsticks slowly cool down.
Jiang Beishu: QAQ
He was wrong; he shouldn’t have run his mouth.
Zheng Feiyu looked at him speechlessly, pointing at Jiang Beishu: “You really are something, daring to make that joke; what if the one who borrowed lifespan from you was a girl?”
Jiang Beishu obediently admitted his mistake: “……I know I was wrong.”
“But it’s not this and not that either; dear big brother, or big sister—no, dear ancestor, can you give us a hint? Guessing like this, when will we ever figure it out?” Jiang Beishu was somewhat breaking down, speaking feebly.
As soon as he finished speaking, the previously still chopsticks moved again; Jiang Beishu only felt his hand holding the chopsticks covered by an icy cool hand, controlling him to draw a square with the chopsticks on the plate holding rice.
Inside this square, it drew two small circles.
Immediately after, it moved to the other side, drawing another square with a circle inside.
Then, she drew a line between these two squares.
After drawing, the chopsticks stopped again.
The two adults and one child in the hospital room looked at the pattern drawn on the plate, all three dumbfounded.
“This…” Jiang Beishu looked at Zheng Feiyu and Nan Yuanman: “What does it mean?”
Zheng Feiyu looked at Nan Yuanman; Nan Yuanman scratched her chubby cheek, her little brows furrowed, carefully examining this somewhat abstract pattern, then suddenly realizing and asking: “You mean this big brother’s grandpa promised you to help you move?”
The still chopsticks excitedly moved to the word “yes”.
Zheng Feiyu: “?”
Jiang Beishu: “?”
The two looked at Nan Yuanman in shock: “How did you figure that out?”
“This is easy.” Nan Yuanman pointed at the first small square with two circles: “This small square is clearly a coffin, the circles inside are people; she drew another small square and a circle, meaning big brother’s grandpa promised her when borrowing lifespan, to help her move from this coffin with two people to another coffin.”
The chopsticks excitedly pointed at “yes” several times.
Zheng Feiyu and Jiang Beishu fell silent.
This… where exactly is the “easy” part!?
“Alright, now we’ve asked about the promised commitment; next, big brother just needs to fulfill the promise, and we can send her away!” Nan Yuanman let go of the hand pressing down on Jiang Beishu’s, going to take out three incense sticks to prepare sending the ghost away.
Jiang Beishu hurriedly spoke: “Wait, there’s one last question we haven’t asked! Even if I have to fulfill the agreement, you need to tell me its name, where it lives—oh no, where it’s buried!”
Without knowing the name or where the grave is, how is he supposed to relocate it?
Nan Yuanman spread her small hands: “That’s the problem for you to solve; since big brother’s grandpa made the promise back then, there must be records in the relics he left behind; big brother just needs to go find them.”
Jiang Beishu hesitated with his lips: “I-I don’t even know how many relics my grandpa has left; when he passed away, my parents burned almost everything…”
“Then there’s no way; after all, this is the karma between you and the lifespan borrower; you broke the contract first, so to make amends, you need to show sincerity; I can’t interfere too much.” Nan Yuanman shrugged and said.
“After all, the lifespan borrower has only been following you from the start, neither hurting nor harming you; the changes in your body are just because you broke the contract, and the lifespan it lent you is slowly being taken back.”
It neither hurt nor harmed anyone, and was legally taking back the lifespan it lent according to the contract; she had no just reason to collect the ghost.
Jiang Beishu understood; this matter still needed him to handle personally; he gritted his teeth, looking nervously at Nan Yuanman: “Then… once I find the lifespan borrower’s grave, can you help us relocate it?”
“No problem as long as you pay; you can also buy a new coffin for the lifespan borrower here at Perfection! Traditional craftsmanship, absolutely sturdy and practical!” Nan Yuanman nodded her little head, taking the chance to promote her family’s coffins.
Jiang Beishu looked surprised: “You sell coffins here too?”
He looked around; in the living room, besides the sofa and tea table, there was nothing else—where did the coffins come from?
And this was a hospital… selling coffins in a hospital, is that reasonable?
Nan Yuanman’s eyes lit up instantly, looking at him eagerly: “Do you want to buy? If you do, Perfection can show you samples; absolutely worth every penny!”
Most of the coffins grandpa made for her were kept in the rundown house in Batang Village; when coming to S City, it was rushed and she didn’t have time to collect them all into the small coffin.
If she could develop a customer, she’d need to go back to Batang Village and collect all the coffins.
Jiang Beishu hesitated: “Sure… I guess?” After all, he still needed to relocate the grave for the lifespan borrower; he’d have to buy a coffin sooner or later, right?
Nan Yuanman was overjoyed and was about to take the coffins out from Xiao Hong when she remembered grandpa saying to hide her supernatural abilities in front of outsiders as much as possible.
She thought for a moment, then said to Jiang Beishu: “Wait a moment.”
Nan Yuanman trotted da-da-da into her own secondary bedroom, releasing three coffins of different designs.
Then she opened the door, waving to Jiang Beishu: “Big brother, come quick and choose; since you’re the first customer, I can give you an 8.88% discount!”
Jiang Beishu stretched his neck to look into the secondary bedroom, and upon seeing those three coffins, his eyes widened instantly: “Holy crap!”
There really are coffins for sale?!
