Siheyuan: The Era of Struggle

Chapter 79 New Neighbor, the Longest-Living Expert (Subscribe!)

When getting off work in the afternoon, heavy snow began to fall from the gloomy sky. The sudden cold made Yang Ning shiver involuntarily.

"It's snowing!" Yang Ning said in surprise when he saw a thin layer of snow on the ground.

"Hurry up and get in the car. Aren't you cold outside?" He followed behind him and waited until Hu Yinghong pushed him, then ran into the car with his head lowered.

"Hey!" Looking at Hu Yinghong who was already in the car, Yang Ning smiled and shook his head, then followed with his neck shrunk.

Hu Yinghong blew hard into her hands, then rubbed them together, complaining, "How can the weather change so suddenly? There are still some clothes that I took off yesterday hanging outside at home!"

Not every room in the special building has a balcony, and it was a special consideration that Yang Ning was arranged to live here, so every time their family hung out their clothes and bedding, they had to go to the open space downstairs.

"Hey, why are the clothes gone?" When Yang Ning and Hu Yinghong returned downstairs, they found that the clothes they had hung out to dry in the morning were gone.

"Maybe someone helped to collect it. Let's go home quickly." Yang Ning knew that it was impossible for anyone to come here to steal things, so he was not worried.

Sure enough, not long after they returned home, a healthy old lady in her fifties came to their door, holding the clothes that Hu Yinghong had hung out to dry.

"Excuse me, are these clothes yours?"

"Oh!" Hu Yinghong saw the old lady was stunned for a moment, and after seeing the clothes in her hand, she quickly nodded and said, "It's ours, thank you, auntie!"

"It's okay, I just saw that it was snowing and no one was collecting these clothes, so I just did it for the convenience of picking them up!"

When the old lady heard Hu Yinghong's address to her, she was stunned at first, then she said with a smile, which seemed very friendly.

"Auntie, please come in and sit for a while." Hu Yinghong took the clothes from the auntie's hand, turned sideways and invited her warmly.

She knew that those who could live here were not simple people, so she was not worried that the old lady might be a bad person.

"I won't go in. We just moved here today and we have a lot of things to do at home!" The old lady waved her hand with a smile, then turned and went downstairs.

Hu Yinghong watched the old lady's figure disappear in the corridor, then closed the door and went back to the house.

"Did someone deliver the clothes?"

Yang Ning, who heard the noise, was about to come out to see what was going on, but he didn't expect the person to leave so quickly.

"Yes, it's an old lady. She said she just moved in today."

Hu Yinghong sorted the clothes out and hung them next to the radiator because they were not completely dry yet.

"You didn't invite him in to sit for a while?"

"Why didn't you invite him? He said he had something going on at home and couldn't come in." Hu Yinghong rolled her eyes at Yang Ning. Was she such an ignorant person?

"Then you can thank them when you have the chance. We're just upstairs and downstairs anyway." After hearing her say that, Yang Ning had no choice but to give up.

But before Yang Ning could go to the house in person to thank them, when Hu Yinghong was still preparing dinner, Dean Qian and his wife came with a couple in their fifties.

"Professor Qian, Mr. Kong!" Yang Ning opened the door and saw several people and quickly invited them in.

"Professor Qian, Mr. Kong, please take a seat first. I'll add some food."

"Auntie, nice to see you again!" Hu Yinghong first greeted Dean Qian and his wife, and then said with surprise when she saw the unfamiliar old lady.

"Haha, it's fate indeed." The old lady was not embarrassed, but replied generously. "Haha, today we have another neighbor who moved in, I'll bring him here to meet me."

Dean Qian said with a smile, and then introduced Yang Ning: "This is my fellow countryman, biologist Mr. Bei, and this is his wife, Ms. Xu."

Then he pointed at Yang Ning and introduced: "This is the Yang Ning I just mentioned, and this is his wife Hu Yinghong."

"Hello, Mr. Bei and Teacher Xu!" As soon as Dean Qian introduced them, Yang Ning knew who these two were and hurried forward to greet them.

However, at this time, Mr. Bei was not as plump as he appeared in the photos on the Internet. Instead, he looked very thin, so Yang Ning did not recognize him at first. After all, the difference was too big.

He was the longest-lived academician, living to be over 100 years old, and his wife lived to be over 90 years old.

If Yang Ning had the chance to learn a few tricks from him, he would make a fortune.

After all, Mr. Bei is a real master of health preservation. He is much more reliable than those "experts" in later generations who claimed to be health masters but died young.

According to the time, Mr. Bei was transferred to Sijiu City during this period.

Hu Yinghong also quickly greeted the two of them, and then was pulled by Mr. Kong and Teacher Xu to go cook together.

"Professor Qian, Mr. Bei, please sit down!" Yang Ning asked the two to sit down and poured them a cup of tea.

The three of them sat together and didn't talk about work, but instead chatted about all sorts of things.

Dean Qian and Mr. Bei both returned from studying abroad, and they are both from Wu Province. Whenever they talked about the past, they could not help but sigh.

Yang Ning, the country bumpkin, could only listen silently at the side without saying a word.

After all, as someone who had never been to a border province in his two lifetimes combined, he had no feelings at all about the foreign things they talked about.

After waiting for a long time for the meal, Mr. Bei and his friends were shocked by Yang Ning's amazing appetite. Dean Qian and his friends were used to it and ate their meals leisurely.

"Comrade Yang Ning, have you always been like this?" Mr. Bei looked at Yang Ning seriously and asked.

"Yes, Mr. Bei, don't worry. There's nothing wrong with my body. I just use my brain too much, so the energy consumption is quite high." Yang Ning knew this would happen. Everyone who sees him eating for the first time would ask him this question.

"Are you really okay?" Although Teacher Xu is a teacher, she also studied biology in college. They have seen people who are brave, but this is the first time they have seen someone like Yang Ning.

"It's okay. Not only did my grandfather check him up, but the higher-ups were also afraid that something might happen to him, so they organized a group of national players to hold a consultation for him, and they found nothing abnormal." When it comes to Yang Ning's physical condition, Hu Yinghong has a lot to say. After all, this is the aspect she is responsible for on a daily basis.

"It's good that you're fine, but if possible, try to eat small meals frequently. Even if you're fine, eating like this will put too much pressure on your stomach."

Seeing Hu Yinghong say this, Mr. Bei felt relieved, but he still gave her some advice.

"Thank you, Mr. Bei. I will pay attention to it." Yang Ning accepted it humbly. After all, Mr. Bei meant well.

As for whether to use it in the future, it depends on the specific situation.

After the meal, the three of them chatted for a while. After Hu Yinghong and the others had finished cleaning up, Dean Qian and Mr. Bei said goodbye.

　Apologies! I had two chapters the night before yesterday, but I lost my phone when I got home that night. I bought a new phone yesterday, and it was already past 10pm when I got it back, so I didn’t have time to finish writing.

　　I didn't mean to delay the payment! I apologize again!
　　
　
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