Chapter 37
When Ning Qingxue came out of the warehouse, she didn’t see Xu Wei, and she knew that Xu Wei had something against her. Surely she thought she was a very bad woman, was she bad herself? Ning Qingxue asked herself, but could not get an answer.
After a sleepless night, when she got up the next day, Xu Wei had already gone to work. Ning Qingxue simply packed up her luggage and stared at a jar in the corner of the wall outside the house, a little lost in thought.
Her eyes swept to a black horse clip bag that Ye Mo had placed in the corner, she knew that the horse clip bag contained Ye Mo’s small box, all the things he used to sell dog skin plasters.
Ning Qingxue had just picked up the horse clip bag when there was a knock on the courtyard door.
When she opened the courtyard door, Li Mumei had already arrived.
Li Mumei swept his gaze inside the courtyard and did not find Ye Mo, so he asked somewhat strangely, “Where is Ye Mo?”
“He went out yesterday and hasn’t come back yet.” Ning Qingxue subconsciously replied.
“Oh, I brought a card over, whether he wants it or not, but there’s always some money to give him isn’t there, after all, using someone for so long. Also your parents will go directly to Yuzhou then, so they won’t come to Ninghai, we’ll go to Yuzhou and meet up with them.” Li Mumei said casually.
Ning Qingxue shook her head and said, “Oh. There’s no need to give money, I’ve already given him a card for half a million. As payment, I think it should be enough.”
“Where did you get half a million from?” Li Mumei asked, looking at Ning Qingxue with some surprise.
“Of course I brought it with me when I came out from Yanjing, the same one you helped me with last time.” Ning Qingxue replied.
“Ah, that card was useless, it was frozen by them on the day we left Yanjing. I only found out about it later too, I forgot to tell you.” Li Mumei looked at Ning Qingxue somewhat helplessly and said.
Ning Qingxue froze for a long time before muttering, “A useless card? So it’s his money that’s been used all this time? No wonder he doesn’t seem very generous, it turns out to be like this ……”
“Qingxue, what did you say?” Li Mumei saw that Ning Qingxue was a little lost in thought and her voice was not very audible, so she asked in a hurry.
“I ……” Ning Qingxue suddenly remembered something and immediately turned back and picked up that horse clip bag of Ye Mo’s. Taking out the small medicine box inside, she eagerly opened it and looked at it.
Seven or eight bottles and jars, a pack of silver needles, the ID card, and the card she had given were all there. There were even a few a*sorted talismans with oddly shaped drawings on them. There was also a letter at the end that didn’t say who had received it.
Ning Qingxue’s hand trembled a little as she held the card. If there was a crack in the ground for her to burrow into, she would have done so without hesitation.
All along, she had thought that Ye Mo was using her money, and had even justified taking two thousand dollars from him to live here and eat here, and she had always been at peace with that. Only today did she realise how ridiculous she was, it was always Ye Mo’s money that she used, but how come he didn’t say a word about it?
No wonder when he went to ‘Splendid Cuisine’ for dinner that day, he was a bit hesitant, and when he finally paid the bill, he even took out some five yuan and ten yuan in change, and ridiculously ordered a bottle of wine for over two thousand yuan himself.
There was also a stack of slips at the bottom of the box, Ning Qingxue picked up the stack of slips and only felt her head ‘buzz’, her face immediately turned pale and she almost fell to the ground.
“Qingxue, what’s wrong with you?” Li Mumei hurriedly held Ning Qingxue.
Ning Qingxue picked up the stack of sheets and hastily stuffed them into the box, turning back to Li Mumei and saying, “Mumei, wait for me outside for a moment.”
After saying that, Ning Qingxue ran into the room and closed the door with a bang.
“Qingxue, what’s wrong with you? Are you crying?” Li Mu Mei stood in front of the closed door, also a little dazed. In her memory, Ning Qingxue had never cried, even if she was sad, she would never cry.
But today, Ning Qingxue was crying.
What was wrong with her?
What was it that made her sad?
Ning Qingxue sat in front of her bed and opened Ye Mo’s box again, a blood sale slip appeared in front of her, the most recent one was from a few days before her cla*smates came for dinner that day.
Ye Mo was selling his blood, yet he was asked for two thousand dollars by himself, and then there was the meal that he was forced to eat at ‘Splendid Cuisine’ for over three thousand dollars, a meal that required him to sell his blood several times to have enough money ah.
Yet he himself is still sneering at him for getting stingy, and even the food is still getting worse.
Why did he never say a word of dissatisfaction in front of himself, was it reluctance or disdain? What kind of a man is this? What kind of man could do this? Was it really the wastrel who had been kicked out by the Ye family and backed out of the Ning family’s marriage?
If the widest thing in this world was the ocean, then now in Ning Qingxue’s eyes, Ye Mo’s chest was countless times wider than the ocean, and he was actually such a man. But what kind of person was he in his eyes today? Brutal? Heartless? Cold and indifferent?
“Snapping …… snapping ……” Ning Qingxue’s tears fell as if the thread had been broken, all falling on top of the blood sale slip in her hand, the writing on top of the slip gradually blurring.
Perhaps she was going to drop all of her twenty-two years of tears at once, but she couldn’t suppress the regret, self-blame and sadness she felt inside.
“Come and see Le, an ancestral remedy that cures all diseases. Headache and fever, external and internal injuries, rheumatism and myopia …… only what you can’t think of, nothing I can’t cure ……”
Ye Mo’s voice shouting in the pedestrian street seemed to be still in his ears, but his person was gone. It is ridiculous that she was holding a golden cake in her hand and was hoping that those city police would hurry up and drive this man away.
Was it funny? At that time his voice sounded really ridiculous, but now she only felt sad. Perhaps the golden cake in her hand at that time was the money Ye Mo had sold his blood for, but she was holding the golden cake that Ye Mo had sold his blood for, but she was secretly hiding on the side, eating it while sneering at his ignorance and shamelessness in her heart.
Ignorant? After Zhou Lei and her finished eating while waiting for Ye Mo to pay the bill, the five ten pieces Ye Mo took out actually made her feel a little blush.
At this moment, Ning Qingxue suddenly hated herself immensely.
“Bang bang ……” There were a few more knocks on the door from outside from Li Mu Mei.
But Ning Qingxue didn’t hear anything, she only heard what Ye Mo said, “No, things are too expensive here ……”
“…… It’s only a few thousand dollars to go to this gourmet restaurant for a meal ……” was her reply at the time, it was only a few thousand dollars, but how many times would it take Ye Mo to go to the hospital for a few thousand dollars How many times would it take for Ye Mo to go to the hospital? He was still a student, other than going to the hospital to sell blood, where could he get the money from?
Ning Qingxue subconsciously took out the two thousand yuan that Ye Mo had given her, but now there were only a few hundred yuan left, and Ning Qingxue, who had always felt that her money was dirty, felt some heartache as she stroked the money in her hand for the first time.
It turned out that he had been staying in the backyard under the big tree, as well as just sleeping on the green slab, because he didn’t have the money to live outside ah. Why could Xu Wei think that he was trying to save money, but not himself?
Sorry, Ye Mo ……
Chapter 38
Ning Qingxue wiped her red and swollen eyes and picked up the unsigned letter, she knew it wasn’t for her and wanted to open it, but in the end she resisted. Putting away Ye Mo’s things carefully, she put them all into a small box before opening the door.
“Qingxue, what’s wrong with you?” Li Mumei looked at Ning Qingxue, whose eyes were red and swollen, and she knew that she had not misread it. Ning Qingxue was indeed crying, and seemed to be very sad.
“What’s inside that box?” Li Mumei stared with some surprise at the box Ning Qingxue was holding in her arms, the change in Ning Qingxue was due to opening this box, she was curious to know what kind of box it was that made Ning Qingxue, who had never cried before, so sad.
“That’s my stuff.” Ning Qingxue shook her head, not handing her small box to Li Mumei to check.
Li Mumei shook her head and said, “Qingxue, this side of things is over, let’s go, today we’ll go to the Civil Affairs Bureau to get your divorce from Ye Mo and then we’ll go straight to Yuzhou. I reckon that the negotiations between auntie and your eldest uncle and the others are not optimistic, we don’t need to go to Yanjing either, maybe Ning’s Medicinal Materials will have to be split into two in the future.”
“Mu Mei, I still want to wait for two days, maybe Ye Mo will come back …… Also, I don’t want to go for a divorce for now.” Ning Qingxue shook her head and rejected Li Mumei’s proposal.
“Why?” Li Mumei looked at Ning Qingxue in surprise, she really couldn’t imagine that Ning Qingxue was still happily waiting for herself to come and pick her up yesterday, and today she changed her mind. She even wanted to stay here for two more days, what the hell was going on? What was there to stay here?
Ning Qingxue shook her head and didn’t answer. In her heart, she was wondering when Ye Mo would come back. The Ye Mo she originally thought of in her heart didn’t seem to be a bit of his true character. But when had she ever got to know him? Whether it was after or before she was betrothed to him, she had never cared about this man at all. The first time they even met was when they came to Ninghai and wanted to ask him for help.
Li Mumei did not ask Ning Qingxue again, she knew that it was useless to ask what Qingxue did not want to say.
In the evening when Xu Wei returned, Ning Qingxue asked about Ye Mo for the first time. Although Xu Wei didn’t like Ning Qingxue very much, she still told her about the few months Ye Mo had been here.
Ning Qingxue didn’t expect Ye Mo’s life to be so simple, just going out and coming back every day, even Xu Wei didn’t know that Ye Mo was a student
Ye Mo walked out of the Seven Messes Cliff in the night, although he wasn’t afraid of the Song Family, his strength was still too low right now, in case the Song Family knew that Song Shaowen was killed by him, once they laid down a heavenly net, he wouldn’t be able to cultivate, he might even have to spend some effort to escape. Not to mention finding a peaceful place to plant his ‘Silver Heart Gra*s’.
And it was probably only a matter of time before the Song family wanted to know that Song Shaowen’s death had something to do with him. So right now he couldn’t be found out by the Song family’s people, at least not in three years.
Ye Mo didn’t continue to take the hitchhiker, he unfolded his ‘Cloud Shadow Step’ and his speed was not slower than an ordinary car in the slightest, and by six o’clock in the morning, he had already appeared in Fengtang Town, a medium-sized town in Fengkou City.
Finding a small hotel, Ye Mo wanted to go in and clean the dust off his body, only to realise that he didn’t even have an ID card. However, small inns did not necessarily require ID cards, and although Ye Mo had cleaned himself, he was obviously not fit to live inside the city without one.
To avoid being suspected, Ye Mo purchased a backpack, which just contained some daily necessities and some dry food. He also had a few thousand yuan on him, all of which he had exploited from Song Shaowen’s few people. Now he just wanted to go to the Guilin mountainous region, near the national border to find a peaceful place to stay and continue his cultivation.
Standing outside the bus station in Fengtang Town, Ye Mo was in a bit of a dilemma, if he were to leave by bus, the chances of being exposed were high. Because he didn’t have an ID card, and many road police would stop long distance buses to check ID cards now.
It would be better to dilly-dally with the train, but there was no railway station in Fengtang Town.
“Friend, where are you going? Do you want to take a bus?” A man in his thirties approached him and asked.
Ye Mo was wandering in front of the bus station with his backpack on his back, and I guess this man saw it in his eyes and immediately came over to pull business.
At a glance, Ye Mo knew that this was a private black car hauling pa*sengers, presumably to avoid operating tax or something like that, people in general were not willing to take this kind of car, but some people chose to take this kind of black car to save money because of the cheap price.
But this kind of car, however, Ye Mo liked because this kind of car would usually choose to go on the remote roads instead of going to the highway where the traffic junction was lined up, so that it would save a lot of trouble.
“Where does your car go?” Ye Mo asked casually.
“Qi City, it’s fifty-five dollars, how about it, is it on the way?” The man replied with some expectation.
Qi City Ye Mo knew, although it was a bit off from where he was going, but the general direction was good. No wonder there was a market for these black cars, just now Ye Mo had seen on the electronic screen outside that it would cost ninety-five yuan for a ticket to Qi City, while they only needed fifty, which was almost half the price.
Ye Mo nodded, “Good, lead the way.”
“Black skin, here comes another one, fifty-five yuan to Qi City.” The man brought Ye Mo to the front of a bus parked outside the station and called out.
“This is the bus, get on it first.” The man told Ye Mo to get on the bus and continued to leave to call someone. It turned out that he was not a driver, but someone who specialized in helping the bus haul pa*sengers.
Ye Mo didn’t care, there were already more than thirty people on the bus when he got on. Ye Mo walked to the back and sat down, closing his eyes for a while, when a few more people came on the bus. But the last woman to come up caught Ye Mo’s attention. This woman wore gold-rimmed gla*ses, and although she was not very pretty, she was not ugly either, but she looked very tough, and her figure was quite hot, with a front and back.
What made Ye Mo pay attention was not her hot body, but her killing aura. Although she appeared to be no different from anyone else on the surface, the kind of murderous aura she had, Ye Mo felt it as soon as he got into the car. It was just that those gla*ses of hers were a bit out of place with her own temperament, and I wondered if she was deliberately wearing them to pretend to be svelte.
This woman had killed someone, and more than one person at that. As soon as she got into the car, she immediately drew a lot of stares. A few youths even swept their eyes over the woman’s chest and behind and gulped a few times. This kind of woman didn’t even need to look at her face, just a look at her figure was enough to conquer any man.
The woman who got into the car seemed to not see these gazes in general, her eyes swept through the car through the lenses, everyone, including Ye Mo, was swept by her at a glance, her eyes were sharp but not flashy.
This was a woman with a story, Ye Mo closed his eyes, he was also a man with a story, there were too many people with stories in this world, so why bother with others.
Now is the low season for transportation, I guess the bus can’t call people, although there are only less than 40 people on board, the bus still started.
After the car had gone for about half an hour, someone came to collect the money, Ye Mo gave the fare and continued to close his eyes.
Although it wasn’t taking the highway, the car was driving quite smoothly, according to the driver’s words, it would take about four hours to drive to Qi City, now it had been going for more than two hours, it should be more than half way.
“Driver stop, I want to get off here.” A voice rang out abruptly.
“This girl, this is the Xiangling mountains. There is no village in front of you, get off here ……” the driver reminded kindly. But halfway through his sentence he was interrupted by the woman, “This is my business, stop the car.”
