Chapter 66: Space Changes
As expected of the bustling Shanghai City, walking on the bustling streets, people’s clothing and attire were a bit more trendy and bright compared to other cities.
From time to time, one could see blond, blue-eyed foreigners, dazzling Friendship Stores, and grand hotels, all illustrating Shanghai City’s uniqueness.
Zhang Qin and Xiao Qiu smoothly returned home, making Su Ning, who had settled one worry, walk much lighter.
Passing by the Friendship Store, she rarely felt the urge to buy things, but unfortunately without foreign exchange certificates, she could only settle for the next best thing and prepare to go to the department store.
Just as she turned to leave the entrance of the Friendship Store, suddenly a tall, thin man wearing a fashionable sailor shirt walked towards her.
“Exchange foreign exchange certificates?”
The deliberately lowered voice entered her ears, and while speaking, the man vigilantly looked around back and forth.
“How to exchange?”
“Follow me.”
Following the man to the entrance of a nearby alley with few people, Su Ning did not go in but chose to stand outside.
The man saw her wariness, smiled without saying more, and took out a stack of foreign exchange certificates from his pocket.
……
Just a few minutes later, after completing the transaction, both left one to the left and one to the right with satisfied smiles.
Returning to the Friendship Store, no longer having to just stand at the entrance and look around, she waved the foreign exchange certificates in her hand at the staff nearby, and this time entered smoothly without being stopped.
The Friendship Store, which only sells imported goods to foreign friends and overseas Chinese, as well as domestic special high-end scarce items, had many things that couldn’t be bought outside.
Such as cigarettes, chocolate, foreign liquor, cola, Swiss watches, TVs, refrigerators, cameras.
High-end cosmetics, lipstick, perfume, silk scarves, and even Maotai, silk, antiques, gold and silver jewelry, etc.
After thinking, Su Ning bought a few boxes of chocolate, beautifully packaged candy, White Rabbit Milk Candy.
She also picked out a few shades of lipstick and silk scarves that were very suitable for herself and Luo Shuangshuang, of course not missing out on face cream, perfume, and such.
She even splurged on a Seagull-brand camera and two high-end ladies’ watches.
As the foreign exchange certificates in her bag were spent lavishly, with both hands full of things and unable to carry more, she finally stopped this shopping spree reluctantly.
……
Back at the hotel, she packed the valuables and put them into the space, inconspicuously stuffing them into the suitcase.
It seemed she heard a frantic howl from some creature in the Peach Blossom Spring yard, and without much rest, she directly flashed into the space.
“Woof woof! Woof woof woof~”
Sure enough, upon seeing her, Little Round Circle’s eyes lit up and it immediately pounced towards her legs while barking.
“Hungry? I left you two portions of food this morning, and you finished them in one meal?”
Because there were many people on the train, except for borrowing the chance to go to the toilet, there wasn’t much time to come in, and even that night’s ‘bountiful harvest’, she operated it lying on the carriage bedding with her consciousness, and left immediately after completing it without lingering.
However, no matter what, she didn’t forget to prepare food for the dog, so it shouldn’t be starving to the point of biting her trouser legs and not letting go, right?
“Alright, alright, Little Round Circle, let go of my mouth, I’ll get you another portion.”
“Woof woof~”
Hm?
Lowering her head to look at it, the little guy seemed not to want to eat but to take her somewhere?
Stopping her steps to enter the kitchen, Little Round Circle barked even more excitedly twice, then circled to behind her legs and nudged outward with its head.
“Okay, okay, I get it, where do you want to take me? Lead the way.”
“Woof~”
Little Round Circle wagged its tail at her, then dashed out of the yard.
Behind the yard was the foot of the mountain where two mountains met.
On the originally verdant grassy area, sometime a not-too-large pool of spring water had appeared.
The spring eye bubbling outward had clear, cool spring water, surrounded by a thin layer of water mist.
“When did this appear?”
“Woof woof woof woof~”
Could it be that after saving those children, the space not only had another bountiful harvest but also gained this pool of spring water?
Su Ning squatted down and stirred the water surface with her hand, guessing the reason in her heart, while pondering if this spring water had anything special.
Before she could figure it out, Little Round Circle had happily lowered its head and plunged its entire head into the water for a hearty drink.
Only after drinking until its little belly was bulging did it withdraw from the water surface, emitting bursts of satisfied whimpers.
It is said that spiritual animals have a super strong intuition for danger or opportunities, since Little Round Circle was like this, did it mean the spring water had some use she didn’t know?
Seeing this, the hand placed on the water directly scooped up a handful and tentatively fed it into her mouth.
Clear and mellow, sweet.
Besides that, looking down at herself, she didn’t feel anything…
“Eh?”
Not right!
After several days of long train journey, and upon arrival running nonstop to several places until now without proper rest.
Although her spirit was excited, her body was still fatigued, but after drinking the spring water, this feeling vanished completely!
“Can it eliminate fatigue?”
Is that all?
For some reason, Su Ning felt this spring water should not be that simple.
Thinking of the last time she entered the space injured and the wound miraculously healed, she immediately used her intent to retrieve a kitchen knife from the kitchen.
The knife flew straight into her hand steadily, and without hesitation, she drew a cut on the other hand.
Bright red blood immediately dripped onto the grass, causing Little Round Circle to bark repeatedly, as if puzzled and confused, or blaming her self-harming behavior.
“Don’t worry, just a small cut, if you bark a couple more times the wound will heal.”
Comforting it, she set down the kitchen knife and bent over again to scoop some spring water with her hand, dripping it bit by bit onto the wound.
The wound on her finger visibly healed after being soaked in the spring water, instantly leaving only a faint pink scratch mark.
Even though she had some expectations in her heart, she was still shocked by this result.
After coming back to her senses, for the experiment, she drew several cuts on her hand one after another, finally figuring out the specific effects of the spring water.
If the wound is directly soaked in spring water, no matter how big or deep, it will heal and recover quickly.
But if drunk, besides restoring fatigue it also has healing effects, just much slower to take effect.
“Woof woof woof woof~”
Little Round Circle saw the knife floating up again, anxiously circling around, but being too small it couldn’t do anything and could only bark loudly.
“Okay, okay, Little Round Circle don’t bark, I’m just putting it back.”
With her words, the kitchen knife indeed floated towards the small courtyard kitchen, finally no longer cutting her.
The relieved Little Round Circle stuck out its tongue to lick her hand, woofing in a milky voice.
Stroking its short fur, in a very good mood she picked up Little Round Circle and returned to the yard, “Come on, today I’ll make you big meat bones!”
“Woof~”
……
Su Ning, humming a tune in the space and busy making a big meal for herself and the dog, was unaware that many people were thinking of her.
J District courtyard.
Yan Bei and Fu Jiaming’s homes were not far apart, and since both were patients, they each returned home to their own moms without visiting each other.
His butt hadn’t even warmed the seat when Ms. Xiang, who got the news of his return and rushed home first, arrived naturally.
Yan Bei, like facing a formidable enemy, immediately sat straight with his whole body tense, rarely showing three parts helplessness and seven parts distress in his eyes.
“Bei Bei, you finally came back! Why are you alone? Where’s the future little daughter-in-law you promised? Did you lose her?”
A string of questions came down like a barrage, leaving Yan Bei amused and helpless, “Mom, where is there a daughter-in-law.”
“Didn’t you say last time that when you come back you’d definitely bring me a partner, a prospective daughter-in-law?”
Ms. Xiang, that was just a forced excuse, wasn’t it?
Silently looking at her, Yan Bei moved his lips but didn’t choose to speak straightforwardly, otherwise his mom wouldn’t stop when the whole family returned.
“Son, are you fooling your old mom?”
“What was promised, how can it change?”
“Bei Bei you’ve changed, you weren’t like this before, Mom is really heartbroken.”
Ms. Xiang, in a plaid skirt with fashionable permed hair, seemed especially favored by time, without leaving too many traces on her face.
With her husband as childhood sweethearts, after so many years their feelings hadn’t faded much, and after having children they became even stickier.
Loving couple, promising children, sensible and generous parents-in-law, without experiencing any petty household matters, she lived comfortably and naturally appeared young.
As long as anyone who knew her, no woman didn’t envy and jealousy her.
