Daily Life in the Countryside After Being Reborn-Chapter 259 - 42: The Accident (Fifth Update)

After lunch, Yezi’s mother asked Yezi to deliver the prepared New Year goods to the Red Locust Great Wizard, while she herself prepared another batch of New Year goods to deliver to Master Shan Yin.

Master Shan Yin never charged for teaching the children in the village and the stockade, so it had become an unwritten rule there to give the temple some incense money and rice and grain as New Year offerings during festivals. This rule remained unchanged, even after the children left the temple.

This rule, when it came to Yezi’s mother, included not only incense money and grain but also a few sets of clothes. Taohua was now three years old, walking well, and spoke with a crisp voice; the child was also clever—every time she saw Yezi’s mother from a distance, she knew to call out "Mama."

"My good daughter," Yezi’s mother had once hoped for Xiao Xian, now she had Taohua, which made her even more eager for a daughter of her own. But Li Quqi was too busy and seldom at home for more than a few months each year, and considering the need to tend to the farm and the tea garden, Yezi’s mother could only wait for Yezi to grow up a bit more, wait for her son to become older, before making further plans.

"Where’s Brother Yezi?" Taohua’s small head still retained her adult memories, and she looked at the people around her with an adult’s perspective. She felt closest to four people: in addition to Yezi’s mother, she recognized her great benefactor Shan Yin, Xiao Xian who had fulfilled her wishes, and Yezi who had held her often when she was a baby.

"He went to deliver New Year goods to his grandma-in-law. Taohua’s gotten taller, come and try on the new clothes Mama made for you," Yezi’s mother said with a smiling face, pulling her foster daughter closer, while Master Shan Yin beside her tapped the wooden fish.

Listening, Taohua tried on the clothes. Suddenly, a gust of wind arose outside the monastery. She looked at the sky, a small frown forming between her brows.

As the wind blew, Yezi had just delivered the New Year goods to the Red Locust Great Wizard’s house. After exchanging a few pleasantries, Yezi was eager to leave.

"Yezi," the Red Locust Great Wizard called out to Yezi, scrutinizing him closely.

Yezi felt uncomfortable under her gaze. It was getting late, and he needed to hurry to catch the bus.

"Yezi, how about letting Grandma do a divination for you?" The Red Locust Great Wizard took out the turtle shell she often used for weather predictions. It was said to be for divining, but it was just a shell carved with patterns.

"No need, Grandma, what’s there to divine?" Yezi, having studied for a few years, no longer believed in such feudal superstitions. He recognized Grandma’s turtle shell; after all, it was just like the tortoise shells from White Dragon Pond—put a few copper coins in it to tell fortunes? He didn’t believe in that.

"Don’t think Grandma doesn’t know, as soon as you entered, you were light on your feet, with no intention to sit. Let Grandma divine what you’re up to?" The Red Locust Great Wizard hinted meaningfully as she glanced outside. The luggage Yezi had packed was hidden in the bushes outside, his means of hiding his departure, "Yezi, the weather’s been terrible lately. Listen to Grandma, don’t go out yet." frёewebηovel.cѳm

Yezi felt a chill down his spine, his feet unsteady. How did Grandma know he was going to leave? He had to escape before she could inform Mama. Yezi put on his best playful and smiling face, "Grandma, I’m not going anywhere. That turtle shell of yours is too old. I’ll go catch a live tortoise from the pond for you, just wait, I’ll be right back."

With slippery feet, Yezi disappeared in an instant. The Red Locust Great Wizard sighed, put the copper coins back into the turtle shell, and divined for Yezi. The divination was strange; the signs indicated that Yezi’s journey was auspicious rather than ominous, but there would be some turbulence along the way, "Ah, what’s bound to come will come. It’s just that it’s a pity for the Li Family couple, to end up without a son by their side. Fortunately, their fate includes a daughter, which is a form of consolation."

The Great Wizard stepped out of the suspension house and looked out at the layered mountain ranges in solitude. A solitary wild goose, out of formation, was struggling to fly north. With the Evil Flood Dragon gone and now Yezi as well, life in the Southwest Mountain Area was becoming increasingly dull.

At the head of Ge Village, a city-rural bus slowly descended the mountain. Yezi rushed to bang on the bus door until the driver stopped and let him on board.

"That was close, almost caught by Grandma. But it seems Grandma wasn’t really trying to stop me from going down the mountain," Yezi took out five yuan and bought a bus ticket from the conductor. Before leaving to deliver the New Year goods, he had already left a note in his room saying he was going to Beijing to broaden his horizons, telling his father and Mama not to worry.

The bus traveled along the mountain ridges, and a thumping sound came from the window. Yezi hastily pulled the window open, letting in the cold, damp mountain wind of winter. Someone on the bus complained, "Close the window, it’s freezing to death in the middle of winter."

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