Chapter 251
In the evening, the lights in Lin’s Bay are gradually becoming less and less.
At home, the three of them, Lin Ran, sat down to eat dinner together.
“How was it, did Old Seven catch it?”
Granny Lin asked as she ate. Lin Ran had also run off to help in the afternoon, but returned with a slight frown, seemingly with little progress.
“Didn’t catch it.”
Lin Ran shook his head with a bitter smile.
The whole village had gone to his house back and forth, but the old thing had actually disappeared.
Even the villagers found his luggage all packed, but they just couldn’t find anyone.
“This old seven, who has also lived in Linjiawan for more than ten years, really didn’t think he would actually do such a thing!”
Granny Lin said bitterly.
Lin Ran, however, shook his head with a bitter smile.
“It’s normal, he’s a lazy person, picking herbs to sell is certainly lucrative, but he can’t necessarily bear the hardship, just finding some gra*s to pa*s off as herbs, this is still something he can do!”
“Hmm!”
Grandma Lin nodded her head in agreement, then said with a sigh.
“People are doing what they want, good and evil will be rewarded in the end.”
As she said this, a hint of sadness clearly leaked from Grandma Lin’s eyes.
Lin Ran understood that his grandmother’s words meant something else, it was just that he did not want to stir up this matter now.
Because the time had not yet come, when the time came, he himself would take the initiative to find his grandmother and say it, after all, this was what he had come back for this time.
“You guys eat first, my stomach hurts, I need to go to the toilet!”
As he was talking, Song Nuan at the side was standing up with a somewhat painful expression covering her stomach.
“What’s wrong?”
Lin Ran hurriedly asked, but Song Nuan had already turned around and ran into the toilet.
“Is it because you’re not used to eating?”
On the side, Grandma Lin hurriedly asked, in order to adapt to Song Nuan’s taste, she had been very careful in cooking these days, but now …..
“I don’t think so.”
Lin Ran said with a frown, Lin Jiawan belonged to the jurisdiction of Tanjiang City, and the distance was not far, even though ten miles were different from eight miles, but it would not be a problem after only a few meals.
With this in mind, Lin Ran did not have much of an appetite, so he got up and went to wait patiently.
Seeing this, Lin’s grandmother couldn’t eat any more either, so she quickly cleaned up the dishes and hid in the kitchen to wait.
Luckily, Song Nuan soon came out of the toilet, but by now her face had turned white, as if she was severely dehydrated.
“What’s wrong?”
Seeing this, Lin Ran hurriedly carried Song Nuan back to her room and checked her body condition.
Song Nuan was lying on the bed and said very weakly.
“I didn’t know earlier, it’s just that I feel very nauseous and regurgitated when I eat!”
“Alright, don’t talk yet.”
Lin Ran hurriedly reminded, while quickly checking Song Nuan’s body, followed by a frown not there.
“What’s wrong Ranzi?”
On the side, Grandma Lin was very uneasy and hurriedly came over to ask.
“It’s food poisoning!”
Lin Ran said with a frown.
“Food poisoning? No way, we both ate it too, so how come it’s fine!”
Grandma Lin asked in confusion, while carefully recalling the meal she had cooked tonight, there didn’t seem to be any dishes that could be.
“Forget about that for now, you go and boil some herbs to induce vomiting, I’ll ma*sage her first!”
Lin Ran said.
“Good!”
Grandma Lin nodded and followed, and went to work in the kitchen.
“What’s wrong? Is it serious?”
Song Nuan asked as she lay on the bed, breathless.
“No, don’t worry, it will be fine later.”
Lin Ran smiled and comforted, while sitting down on the edge of the bed, rubbing his hot palm and pressing it on the small of Song Nuan’s back.
“What are you doing?”
With her small belly pressed, Song Nuan shrank somewhat unconsciously, and her pale pretty face flushed a faint blush.
“Ma*sage!”
Lin Ran explained as he did the ma*sage.
“Your intestines are too fragile, food poisoning has symptoms after just a few bites, you must ma*sage and treat it, otherwise it will leave after-effects.”
“Does it hurt?”
Song Nuan asked with a red face, she was somewhat afraid of pain, ever since she was young, the only time she wasn’t afraid of pain was, I’m afraid, the time when she and Lin Ran first met at the Temperance Hospital.
“Don’t worry, it won’t hurt!”
Lin Ran looked at Song Nuan and smiled.
“Mmm!”
Song Nuan nodded her head slightly, but her pretty face turned even redder.
The warmth coming from her belly at this moment made her feel very comfortable, and the person smiling in front of her was so gentle that it gave her a feeling of being mentally grounded.
There was even a moment when she felt that this person in front of her was someone she could completely rely on.
“Lin Ran.”
Suddenly Song Nuan spoke up.
“Hm? What’s wrong?”
Lin Ran asked suspiciously as he continued his ma*sage and looked up.
“Do you really want to marry ….”
Song Nuan closed her eyes and asked with some embarra*sment, but before she could finish her words, a noisy clamour came from outside, followed by Granny Lin shouting from the courtyard.
“Ranzi it’s not good, there are other villagers who have also developed food poisoning!”
Lin Ran’s face instantly turned ugly at his words, followed by a hasty get up and rushed out, turning back and shouting on his way out the door.
“Don’t go then either, I’ll be back soon!”
Song Nuan looked at him without speaking, and only after Lin Ran had left the room did he whisper to himself.
“….. Marry me?”
Although there was regret that Lin Ran did not hear the whole sentence, she was relieved, as the saying goes, good things come in small packages, perhaps she and Lin Ran had not yet reached the time to pierce the window.
“Come on, drink the medicine first!”
Just as Song Nuan was lost in frustration, Lin Ran came running in with another bowl of medicine.
“Eh!”
Song Nuan was a little embarra*sed, wondering if this guy had heard the last three words she had just said.
Her pretty face flushed red and somewhat embarra*sed as she took the medicine, Song Nuan quickly drank it down.
“Huh? Why are you blushing?”
Lin Ran asked with a difference, he hadn’t heard of food poisoning also causing a red face.
“Er… That one is probably because the medicine is too hot!”
Song Nuan hastily found an excuse to put it off.
At this moment, the outside was in a mess, and Lin Ran didn’t have time to dwell on this, so he hurriedly reminded.
“If this one is vomit inducing, you will feel like vomiting later, pay attention!”
After saying that, Lin Ran rushed out of the room once again and went outside to help.
Song Nuan was lying alone on the bed, ashamed and angry, ashamed of how she had just said that, and angry that at the very moment she had gathered the courage to say it, another change had occurred in the village.
In the village, Lin Ran and his grandmother are distributing the vomiting medicine to everyone, and this time the food poisoning has spread to almost the whole village.
Old Seven has disappeared again, so almost the whole group has run to Lin Ran’s house.
Those who had drunk the vomiting medicine were all squatting at the head of the village, waiting to vomit, and the rows of people really looked quite spectacular.
However, just as everyone was queuing up in an orderly manner to receive the medicine, suddenly a shout of surprise came from the area where they were waiting to vomit.
“It’s Lao Qi! I just saw Lao Qi! He hasn’t left yet, he’s still in the village!”
The old village headman on the side had just regained a little strength and when he heard this, he shouted.
“All those who are fine are coming with me, it must be this old thing that’s up to no good, let’s go and catch him!”
“Good!”
Immediately, someone followed beside them.
And the mountain village, which was already peaceful, was destined to become unsettled on this night.
Chapter 252
The operation to catch Lao Qi continued into the latter part of the night, and eventually the villagers, led by the old village chief, caught him in the dry well of Lao Qi’s house.
Interrogated overnight, Lao Qi finally admitted that he had been responsible for the food poisoning.
After Li Tian told him about leaving samples yesterday afternoon, he felt that something was wrong and rushed off.
The herb problem was indeed caused by him being lazy and finding some random gra*ses to act as herbs.
But the food poisoning was caused by the resentment that grew in his heart because of his discontent with Lin Jia Wan and the fact that the herb issue had fallen through.
In the end, under the leadership of the old village chief, a group of people twisted Lao Qi and took him to the police station. The food poisoning was so serious that it could no longer be solved by forgiveness.
After this incident, the villagers saw through Lao Qi’s character and no one would seek him out in the future.
The villagers with food poisoning did not leave until almost dawn, and before Lin Ran had time to sleep, Li Tian and the others returned.
Only this time he did not come on his own, but was escorted over by the town mayor himself.
After a phone call from Song Nuan, his position as administrator of the herb market was completely over.
Originally, the mayor and the village headman talked about things without Lin Ran having anything to do with it, but in the village headman’s eyes, Lin Ran was no longer the brat he used to be. Yesterday, he told himself that Li Tian was finished, and today he was really finished.
Lin Ran had no choice but to accompany the village chief to receive the mayor again. Luckily, things went smoothly, and the marketing of the village herbs was settled in one morning.
Even at the end, the town mayor personally named Lin Jiawan, saying that he wanted to get Lin Jiawan out of poverty as soon as possible and not to fall behind on the way out of poverty.
Lin Ran had little say in these matters and went straight home to catch up on his sleep after the mayor had left.
This sleep lasted until late in the evening, when Song Nuan came running to shout at him for dinner, before he woke up.
“Now you’re a credit to your village!”
As he ate, Song Nuan teased with a smile from the side.
First, he solved the problem of herbs entering the market, and even the town mayor himself came over, and said that he would get Lin Jiawan out of poverty, these two things alone were enough to establish Lin Ran’s image in Lin Jiawan.
“I’m also taking up your light here!”
Lin Ran laughed bitterly, how could this have gone so smoothly if it wasn’t for Song Nuan.
“Ranzi, you’ve grown up!”
On the side, Grandma Lin looked at Lin Ran, with relief in her eyes.
“Grandma, I actually came back this time ….”
Lin Ran’s face suddenly became solemn as he looked at his grandmother and said, now that the village’s affairs were settled, it was time to solve his own problems instead.
“You want to know what happened to your parents back then!”
Grandma Lin put down her bowl and chopsticks, as if she had known this day would come.
“Mmm!”
Lin Ran nodded, he didn’t want to wait any longer when things had come to this.
“I’ll go wash the dishes!”
Seeing this, Song Nuan got up and said, what was going to be discussed next was Lin Ran’s family matter after all, she didn’t quite feel like getting involved.
“No need, just sit down!”
However, what both Lin Ran and Song Nuan didn’t expect was for Grandma Lin to speak up and stop Song Nuan.
“It’s not something shameful, since you and Ranzi have come together, there are some things that are better to face together!”
Grandma Lin said in a serious tone.
Song Nuan, however, listened with a blush on her pretty face and sheepishly lowered her head, but out of politeness, she still nodded her head.
“Ask away, what do you want to know!”
Grandma Lin took out the welding tobacco she hadn’t smoked in a long time and lit it up to take a drag.
The people of Lin Jiawan were used to smoking welding cigarettes, and in the past, Grandma did not smoke, but ever since Lin Ran’s parents’ accident, she always had nothing to smoke, staring at the sky, not knowing what she was thinking about.
Looking at his grandmother, Lin Ran couldn’t help but feel a pain in his heart. He knew that his grandmother must have never let go of it all these years, but had only buried it in her heart.
Although his heart ached for his grandmother, there were still some things he had to face after all, so Lin Ran took a deep breath and asked.
“What really happened back then? I want to know all of it!”
“All of it?”
Grandma Lin was stunned at her words, and then laughed bitterly.
“I’m afraid no one knows all of it, I only knew a few things back then when I went with the feng shui master to pick up your parents’ remains!”
Said Grandma Lin, taking a sharp puff of welded smoke, as if she had made up her mind of some sort, and spoke.
“I’ll tell you all I know, but as for the rest, you’ll have to find out for yourself!”
At this point, Grandma Lin looked at Lin Ran and said in a serious tone.
“Ranzi, no matter what things are really like, but people have to face life after all, you mustn’t fall too deep!”
“Grandma, I understand!”
Lin Ran nodded his head, but in his heart he was a little vaguely worried, even Grandma said that, could it be that the accident back then really hid a lot of things?
“Back then, Mr. Feng Shui and I went to pick up your parents’ remains, we were considered to be there relatively early, at that time the whole site cleanup had just started, the ground was full of corpses ….”
Grandma Lin recounted.
It turned out that she had gone to the construction site with a feng shui gentleman back then, it had only been a day since the incident had happened, and because there were so many construction sites in trouble and so many people had died, even the clean-up work was moving forward very slowly.
The grandmother and the feng shui master found the bodies of her parents in a corner of the construction site, the masks were already completely unrecognisable and they were still identified by their clothes and some tokens on their bodies.
The grandmother and the feng shui master settled the bodies down and brought them back overnight.
But what no one expected was that the body stank the day after it was brought back. The stench was so unbearable that the body was not even stopped for three days and was buried in a hurry the next afternoon.
There is a saying in Lam Ka Wan that a person who dies at the end of his or her life needs to rest for five days so that the deceased can be prepared for the transition from the yang to the netherworld before being coffined.
For those who died accidentally, the corpse had to rest for three days, but there is no way to find out why it was less than those who died at the end of their lives.
And Lin Zhanran’s parents had an accident at that time, and it would have been customary to hold the corpse for three days, but it didn’t happen because the corpse stank very badly.
“At that time, after the coffin was put into place, that feng shui master approached me and talked about something that still sticks in my mind!”
Grandma Lin said as she smoked her cigarette.
“What was it?”
Not only did Lin Ran’s whole spirit tighten up, he knew that what came next was the point, the point that even he didn’t know.
Grandma Lin took a sharp puff of her welding smoke and then looked at the smoke that she exhaled and said.
“The reason for holding the corpse for three days is so that the soul can be guided by the physical body to find its way home and join the physical body in the ground!”
“And normally the flesh doesn’t stink for three days, and there is only one explanation for your parents’ bodies stinking and losing so fast!”
“What explanation?”
Lin Ran hurriedly asked.
Grandma Lin took a sharp puff of her cigarette, and then her body actually couldn’t help but tremble a little as she followed.
“That is, your parents’ souls are no longer there, or rather your parents’ souls are no longer able to find guidance in their physical bodies!”
