Chapter 26: Imminent
Outside the Steel Factory Family Courtyard, Su Ning slowly stopped her steps, looked back once more at the place where she had lived for many years, and turned away with even firmer strides.
“Ning Ning, Forward has already caught up, your face?”
Zhang Ze quietly came to her side, using the streetlight not far away to carefully examine her, only to see that face swollen like a steamed bun puffed up with air, red and swollen in a frightening way.
It was clear how angry Xu Zixin had been just now, showing no mercy at all.
“It’s nothing, Brother Zhang, you and Brother Mao go back tonight and make preparations, I’ve already asked Grandpa Fu to help book tickets to Xiangnan, we’ll set off tomorrow at noon.”
She subconsciously touched her cheek, thinking of her confrontation with the old fox, it was better described as furious with shame than simply exasperated.
Anyway, the face was already torn, Su Ning didn’t want to put on the pretense of superficial harmony and yielding to him anymore.
As for going to Xiangnan without Xu Zixin’s threat to her, by then she would have better ideas for the arrangements and destinations for Zhang Ze and the others.
“Good.”
Although it was a few days earlier than originally planned, Zhang Ze didn’t raise any objections.
Only after safely escorting her to Qinghe Lane did he leave with relief to meet Mao Jinqian.
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As Su Ning expected, arriving at the Fu family with such a face, Old Master Fu was so angry his lungs were about to explode, if not for everyone stopping him, he would have wanted to grab weapons that very night and beat Xu Zixin badly.
He even pointed at her and cursed for a full half hour, still not venting his anger.
He directly said her usual clever wit had been chewed up by a dog, insisting on such a stupid method that harmed the enemy by eight hundred while damaging herself by a thousand.
“Dad, you’ve scolded her and punished her, can we…”
——Cough, call it a day!
Fu Xingguo only dared to silently recite the second half in his heart, glanced at the person standing with her back straight and nose almost poking the wall, and braced himself to continue trying to redirect.
“Hey, Dad, Ning Ning’s birthday isn’t even over yet, it’s this late and she probably hasn’t eaten dinner, Old Xu is such a bastard to lay hands on our Ning Ning’s little face!”
“Tsk, how much that must hurt? Bloodshot eyes are visible, can’t go without medicine, right? Won’t leave scars, will it?”
“Shut your mouth, stay aside, neither of you are any good! You don’t deserve to have a daughter!”
Fu Xingguo, who successfully drew the fire onto himself, twitched his mouth.
Even with preparation, hearing his own dad implicate him, he couldn’t help but retort, “I’ve never laid a finger on my daughter.”
After all, when angry or happy, there’s a son to beat, no need to touch the treasure daughter, why doesn’t he deserve a little padded jacket?
Fu Ting: Well, thanks for your favoritism!
Fu Ying, who had sharp eyes, seized the opportunity to quickly step forward and drag the person away, “Grandpa, I’ll take Sister Ning Ning to apply medicine!”
Fu Ting and Li Hehua’s mother-son duo, who also knew how things would go next, exchanged a glance with perfect tacit understanding and decisively turned to follow, “Dad/Grandpa, I’ll go take a look too.”
“Dad, I…”
“What you, get over here!”
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The night was deep, the moon hung on the rustling branches, quietly gathering a halo of silvery white light around it.
As if knowing people had fallen asleep, crickets and cicadas lost their daytime clamor and restrained themselves.
Knowing she would leave tomorrow, Fu Ying cried nonstop, slept with her mouth pursed and still sobbed occasionally.
Feeling psychologically unwell too, tossing and turning for a long time but still unable to sleep, Su Ning had to grope in the dark to hide in Peach Blossom Spring Space to relax.
Unexpectedly, just one day without entering the space, the changes inside made her stunned once again.
The fruit seeds just scattered on the fruit mountain, and the planted fruit tree saplings had all grown tall, with branches full of ripe fruits.
The hilltop of the aquaculture farm was once again plagued by various eggs, chickens running wildly in groups all over the ground, ducks and geese splashing happily in the streams. Cattle and sheep had eyes only for tender grass, fat pigs sleeping while still eating up the last of the feed.
The hundred acres of farmland presented a bountiful harvest scene, all grains, beans, vegetables, and fruits fully mature.
In the streams and small river, big fish jumped out from time to time, flipping wildly.
Nothing is absolute, no such coincidences once or twice.
Thinking carefully, previously the growth speed of plants and animals in the space was indeed faster than outside, but not to such a terrifying degree.
The first time was after saving little Stone, this time after saving Ying Ying…
Whether the guess was right, one more time would confirm it.
As for her own special ability, after so many days of exploration, she had a clearer understanding.
She could indeed see the future by touching others, but not entirely.
Simply put, she could only see important moments related to disaster, crisis, or life and death for that person.
She could foresee calamities but not good fortune or happy events.
Plus these changes in Peach Blossom Spring Space, Su Ning wondered if there was some mysterious connection between the two.
“Phew~”
Shaking her head to set aside those thoughts for now, she, who could already well control her spiritual power, decided to tidy up the space first.
As usual, first harvest the grains, vegetables, and fruits from the fields, then to the aquaculture farm, put the hatched eggs uniformly in the fertile fields at the foot of the mountain, and collect the rest intact ones along with the livestock ready for slaughter all into the Underground Storage Room.
Finally arriving at the orchard, Su Ning had loved all kinds of fruits since childhood, except those too sour or too astringent that she really couldn’t accept, there were none she didn’t like.
At this moment, seeing such fresh fruits, even she who was used to good things couldn’t help showing fascination, her heart leaping with joy.
She picked a bright red big apple from the apple tree, wiped it casually, and took a big bite.
Crisp, sweet, juicy~
So delicious it lit up her eyes!
Black pearl-like grapes, thin-skinned juicy oranges, green peaches with only a tip of red, pattern-covered round big watermelons…
No longer just eating various fruit canned food to satisfy cravings, achieving fruit freedom had always been her dream.
Now, half the dream had come true!
The other half, heading south to collect more kinds of fruits, she believed as a purchaser it wouldn’t take long to achieve!
She ate until her little belly was drummed up, hands full of sweet sticky juices of various colors, before Su Ning stopped, fully satisfied, picking and storing them all.
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All done!
With time to spare this time, she also had the mind to go to the Underground Storage Room for a good look.
The door to the storage room was on the back of the small courtyard, going down the stairs led straight to a huge wooden cabinet.
Like those used by traditional Chinese medicine for placing Chinese medicinal materials, wooden cabinets with many small drawers, each drawer labeled with different names.
They looked small but actually each drawer had huge storage space, just like the legendary immortals’ storage bags, very magical.
The wooden cabinet drawers automatically categorized various grains, vegetables, fruits, eggs, and other relatively small items.
In front of the large wooden cabinet was flat, spacious marble flooring, with twenty or so giant wooden basins neatly placed on the ground, each basin containing neatly categorized processed meat.
Along the walls on both sides were rows of large wooden buckets, some covered, some not, while fish, shrimp, and crabs were all uniformly frozen in the uncovered buckets on the right, so Su Ning guessed the covered ones on the left were for oil or wine?
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