Chapter 263: Scared Shitless
Cao Weida, still unaware of all this, was woken up as usual by the special service.
After shivering a few times, he got out of bed and dressed under Mohe’s gentle service.
“Mohe, how long has it been since you went back to see Fifth Brother? I ran into him a couple of days ago, and he even complained to me about it.”
Mohe fastened the last button, smoothed out the wrinkles on his clothes, then nodded with satisfaction and smiled: “I got it. I’ll go back to see him today.”
“My Fifth Brother doesn’t always know his limits, he cares about face, likes to show off. If he says something wrong, Master, please don’t get angry.”
“Hey, what are you saying? Am I such a petty person?” Cao Weida pinched her collagen-rich face and pretended to be angry:
“What, is your Master such a petty person in your heart?”
“Of course not. Master is the most tolerant in my heart.” After sharing the same bed for so many days, she naturally knew his temperament and knew he wasn’t really angry. She leaned into his arms and acted coquettishly:
“Fifth Brother is my only blood relative in this world. Don’t I hope that you, Master, can get along well with him?”
“My Fifth Brother can be stubborn sometimes, just like a child. I’m just afraid he’ll say something he shouldn’t without thinking and put you in a difficult position, Master.”
“You’re the cleverest, you’ve learned to shut me up, huh?” Cao Weida affectionately scraped her exquisite nose. “Alright, if you miss your Fifth Brother in the future, go see him more often. It’s fine to have him come to your residence too. We’re all family, we should visit each other frequently.”
“Mm, thank you, Master!” As she said this, she tried to kiss him, but Cao Weida covered her mouth with his hand. “Go go go, hurry up and brush your teeth.”
Watching her flustered figure flee, Mohe covered her mouth and chuckled secretly, her heart feeling warm.
Fan Wu Ye was her only blood relative in this world, so she naturally wanted to go back to see him, but she also knew that many big families were very particular and disliked wives who frequently went home to visit their parents, let alone a cousin?
As the saying goes, marry a chicken, follow the chicken; marry a dog, follow the dog. Master treated her so well, so she naturally didn’t want him to be unhappy about it.
However, Master’s words today had dispelled her concerns.
Actually, before entering the household, she had been a bit uneasy in her heart.
After all, she had heard many stories about tough lives in manors, but now she wasn’t worried at all.
The sisters in the rear residence got along very well, and Master tried to treat everyone equally, always doting on her immensely.
Now, he didn’t even object to her going back to visit her cousin, and even showed a supportive attitude.
She was very satisfied with her current life and grateful for her cousin’s advice back then.
Thinking about it now, if she hadn’t entered the Cao manor and had just married some random person, could she be happier than she was now?
After finishing breakfast, Cao Weida put down his bowl and chopsticks and gave Sister Liu a look.
Sister Liu understood instantly and followed him out discreetly.
“Master, what’s wrong?”
“Your matter has been settled. From now on, you’ll be the contact person between me and my superior. As for your superior, he’ll contact you with a code in the next couple of days. Keep an eye out.”
“Really?!” Sister Liu was overjoyed at first, but suddenly realized something. Her smile froze, and she looked at him in shock, stammering incredulously: “Wait, your contact person?! You… you’re also…”
“Sigh, it’s a long story. One misstep leads to eternal regret…” Cao Weida gave a wry smile, rubbed his head, and said: “Forget it, it’s your turn tonight, right? I’ll explain in detail to you at night. I have to go punch in first.”
After saying that, he left the courtyard under Sister Liu’s complicated gaze.
“Master is actually from the Military Statistics Bureau too?!” Watching his departing back, Sister Liu didn’t know whether to cry or laugh. This was too dramatic!
But on second thought, she remembered that when she was in deep danger back then, it was late at night, and Master had appeared at that time—either a flying thief or he had something to do…
With Master’s wealth and status, he couldn’t possibly be a flying thief, so that left only…
She suddenly slapped her forehead. “Oh no, something so obvious, and I overlooked it!”
“What did you overlook?” Xinghong, wearing a qipao, swayed her hips over and asked with concern: “Sister Liu, why are you hitting yourself? Did Master bully you?”
Bully her?
Sister Liu thought about it—yeah, it could be considered bullying?
Deception is bullying too.
But…
“Oh no, there was a mosquito just now. I was swatting it.” Sister Liu changed the subject: “Second Sister, let’s go play some mahjong. You won quite a bit of money from me yesterday. Today, I have to win some back no matter what.”
“Hey, we can’t play today. Three missing one.” Xinghong spread her hands.
“Huh? Who’s missing? Have Sister Mohe fill in.”
“Big Sister is going to her cousin’s house, and Sister Mohe just said she wants to go back to see her cousin too. Let’s wait for them to come back.” Xinghong took her hand and grinned:
“Come on, we haven’t gone out shopping for days. Let’s call Sister Ru and go stroll the streets.”
On the other side, after punching in at the police station, Cao Weida was called to Ono Shiota’s office again.
Ono Shiota looked even worse today, with darker circles under his eyes.
“Cao Sang, another patrol team went missing last night—neither bodies nor survivors. You need to hurry up with the grain matter!”
Cao Weida laughed inwardly but nodded on the surface: “Don’t worry, Ono-kun. I’m already making arrangements.”
This little devil was surprisingly timid, scared like that.
But it made sense—the little devils had been brainwashed by ‘divine right ideology’ and naturally had an innate affinity for these ethereal things.
Now encountering things hard to explain rationally, they would naturally associate them in that direction more easily.
“Oh right, I have something for you.” He pulled a folded yellow paper from his pocket and handed it over:
“This is an exorcism talisman I pulled a lot of strings to get from the abbot of Longquan Temple, personally consecrated. They say it’s very effective. Keep it—it might help you.”
Actually, what strings? It was all nonsense to fool the ghost—little devils were ghosts too.
This ‘exorcism talisman’ was obtained by Duomen from Longquan Temple. They went early enough and got it for thirty union bonds.
He heard they were quite expensive now, but he didn’t know the details.
He chuckled inwardly, figuring Longquan Temple could make a fortune just selling ‘exorcism talismans’ this time.
Longquan Orphanage had always been funded by Longquan Temple, but with few people burning incense these days, the temple could barely sustain itself.
Now, with what he did, he had indirectly helped Longquan Temple and Longquan Orphanage.
“Oh?!” Ono Shiota was delighted and eagerly took the exorcism talisman. “I’ve heard about it too—the exorcism talismans from Longquan Temple are hard to come by nowadays!”
“I was just planning to get one today!”
He didn’t know if it was psychological, but the moment he took the exorcism talisman, his inner panic really lessened. He couldn’t help but be thrilled:
“As expected of an exorcism talisman personally consecrated by a high monk—truly miraculous!”
“I can feel the Buddhist light emanating from it!”
“Cao Sang, thank you so much. You’re a real friend!”
As he spoke, he gave Cao Weida a big thumbs-up.
Cao Weida rolled his eyes inwardly. If you really want to thank me, give me something tangible instead of just words.
Buddhist light my ass—he hadn’t felt a thing.
Japan widely had Buddhist faith. If he told him it was Daoist, he might doubt it, but calling it Buddhist greatly increased his trust.
“As long as it works. You’ve always taken good care of me, Ono-kun. This is the least I could do.”
“.”
Leaving Ono Shiota’s office, just as he was about to head to his own, he saw Zheng Chaoyang giving him a look from down the corridor.
Cao Weida’s heart stirred. Zheng Chaoyang rarely initiated contact—something must have happened?
He turned his feet and casually headed out of the police station.
Inside a room.
Hao Pingchuan slipped in after opening the door and immediately closed it.
Cao Weida was stunned, clearly not expecting it to be Hao Pingchuan instead of Zheng Chaoyang.
Just as he was about to ask, Hao Pingchuan said anxiously:
“Cao Ye, something’s happened!”
Cao Weida’s heart tightened: “What happened?”
Hao Pingchuan strode over, sat down opposite, and said in a low, rapid voice filled with anger:
“That batch of penicillin you donated to us was hijacked right after leaving occupied territory!”
“What?!” Cao Weida was shocked, then furious: “Who has the guts? Do we know who’s behind it?! Were other supplies lost?”
This shipment wasn’t just penicillin—there were plenty of weapons and ammunition too.
The mortars were fine; he had forty more in his space. But those big guns—he had none left; he’d sent them all out!
Those were all treasures!
Losing even one would be a huge loss!
“No, fortunately. This batch of supplies was too important. For safety, we didn’t want them clustered and easy to spot, so we transported them to the base area in batches. The penicillin was split into two shipments.”
“Good thing it was split, or we’d have lost the whole batch of penicillin!”
“As for who did it, we don’t know yet—people and goods all vanished!”
At this point, Hao Pingchuan was indignant, grinding his teeth: “If I find out who did it, I’ll kill them myself!!”
Cao Weida frowned, racking his brains inwardly about who could be behind it, and asked:
“Don’t rush. Tell me, did they take the people and trucks entirely? Was the truck driven off too?”
“No. After leaving occupied territory and entering the mountains, they switched the medicine to a donkey cart for transport. The truck was fine, but who would’ve thought—not far after, it got hijacked!”
