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Chapter 3 [Old lady, you lied to me...]

Chapter 3 [Old lady, you lied to me...]

To be honest, Chen Yan is no longer just weird and absurd.

Instead, there was even a hint of fear and tension.

Boss Ma looked at Chen Yan intently, and suddenly smiled as if he understood something. "How about this, Mr. Chen Yan, please tell the old lady that I, West Lake Ma, would like to pay a visit to her. I wonder if I have the good fortune to do so."

Chen Yan's mouth twitched. Look at this name, West Lake Pony!

"Uh……"

Chen Yan was filled with questions, and he spoke carefully, "The old lady is at home, and we never lock our door. The old men and women in the village often come over to chat... If you want to see her, you can just knock on the door."

Boss Ma laughed, then put away his smile.

"Mr. Chen Yan, it's like this. When I met the old lady back then, she told me one of her rules."

"What rules?"

Boss Ma sighed: "The old lady said that she and I could only meet once."

see once?
“What it means is that she and anyone seeking luck will only meet once, by fate.

After that calculation, there will never be a second one in this life. She said that wealth and honor are determined by fate, and if she reveals too much of the secrets, she will shorten her life span.

Boss Ma spoke very carefully, as if he was trying hard to choose his words.

see once?
Leaking the secret?

Shorten your life span?

Chen Yan felt that the old lady must be playing a trick on Mr. Ma - those were all words from online literature.

No, Boss Ma, are you mistaken?

The one who invested in the online literature business was another boss Ma, not you!
Boss Ma looked a little embarrassed and a little ashamed: "It's like this, the old lady helped me a lot that time! It can be said that she saved my life! If it weren't for her guidance back then... I'm afraid there would be no Ma today!

Anyway, after I became successful in my career, I tried many times to meet the old lady again, but was rejected every time.

As Chen Yan listened, a thought that frightened him even more emerged in his mind...

Boss Ma sighed, "I've certainly encountered some difficulties recently, and I'm left with no other options but to come and ask for a meeting again. I was thinking, if that doesn't work out, I'll first ask the old lady's family and ask for their favor... So, I took the liberty of asking someone to invite you here..."

Chen Yan's hand trembled!
Boss Ma was a little embarrassed: "I know that it is a bit unpleasant to say this, and it is also a bit inhumane.

My selfish thoughts... oh, I'm so ashamed to say this! Mr. Chen Yan, I'm so sorry!

I'll drink a glass of wine first!"

Boss Ma was about to raise his glass...

hum!
Chen Yan has been confused since he entered the room and has not yet recovered from all these ridiculous things.

At this moment, my mind suddenly exploded! In an instant, a clear idea filled my mind like an explosion.

Chen Yan stood up suddenly!

My mind was a little confused, but my face showed no expression!
If the old lady wasn't just fooling people and was really capable...

So……

That prophecy of [life ending]...

Chen Yan's scalp tingled!

Taking a deep breath, Chen Yan's tone was a little dull: "Sorry, Mr. Ma, I think I have to go home immediately."

Chen Yan rushed out the door. The man in black outside seemed to want to stop him, but Boss Ma shouted from behind: "Don't stop him! Send a car to take Mr. Chen away!"

Chen Yan walked out with big strides.

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The car stopped at the entrance of the village. Chen Yan jumped out and ran back home almost in one breath. When he approached the door, Chen Yan was out of breath and his legs were a little weak.

This time I was really scared!

The door to the main room was wide open.

The old lady was sitting in the main room, shelling edamame.

I don’t know why, but when I saw this scene, Chen Yan felt a little more at ease.

"Are you back?" The old lady looked up at Chen Yan, dropped the edamame in her hand, took out a cigarette from the box on the table, put it in her mouth, lit it, and took a puff.

"Old lady..." Chen Yan called softly, his voice a little nervous.

The old lady looked at Chen Yan with a smile and said:
"You didn't eat a single bite of that table of food, did you?"

hum!
Chen Yan's scalp felt numb!
Chen Yan was a little short of breath: "Old lady, you know everything?"

The old lady smiled and said, "I knew that Boss Ma would definitely come looking for you. You're not stupid either, you'll definitely figure it out. And then... you'll definitely come back in one breath, right?"

"I..." Chen Yan's voice was a little dry.

"I'll fry the edamame I peeled this morning for you to eat at noon, okay?" The old lady's voice and tone at this moment were unusually gentle and kind.

"Grandma..." Chen Yan's voice trembled.

The old lady sighed, put down the things in her hand, slowly walked to Chen Yan's side, and gently stroked Chen Yan's face with a wrinkled hand.

"You usually call me old lady, why are you suddenly calling me grandma?"

"because……"

Chen Yan's voice was a little hoarse: "I am really scared now."

"Well, this lunch is the last time I cook for you. You won't have this chance again in the future." The old lady pinched Chen Yan's cheek and said, "My dear grandson, you have grown up a long time ago. Grandma has to stand on tiptoe to touch your head now."

Pfft!
Chen Yan knelt on the ground, looking up at the old lady, his eyes red and his throat so dry that he could hardly make a sound.

"Is it all true? Really?"

The old lady touched Chen Yan's hair and said calmly, "It's all fate. Don't be afraid, don't be afraid..."

Chen Yan was trembling and speechless. Because...how could he not be afraid?

Raise a child from two years old to twenty-two years old.

Ever since I can remember...

No father, no mother. From childhood to adulthood, the whole world is filled with this old lady in front of me!
"Okay, okay, I'll fry the edamame first."

“I don’t want to eat!”

Chen Yan hugged the old lady's legs tightly: "I just want you not to die! Grandma, you are very powerful, right? Can't you save yourself? Didn't you always say that you can do magic and have supernatural powers?

Grandma! Please don’t die, okay?

The old lady looked down at Chen Yan with a complicated look in her eyes.

She seemed to be hesitant to speak: "Actually...also..."

"Actually what? What?" Chen Yan immediately jumped up from the ground, as if he had found hope. "What do you mean by that? Actually what? Actually there is a way, right? Right?"

The old lady said with some difficulty: "As for the solution...it's not that there is no solution, but it's a little difficult."

“It’s hard but we have to do it!”

The old lady took a deep breath and looked solemn!
"You need three things."

"What do you need? I'll find it right away!"

"First, I need a new bud from the tallest branch of the old willow tree at the riverbank at the entrance to the village! Willows are yin in nature, and are best at connecting yin and yang! I need that new bud, peel off the bark, and take the tenderest part."

"I'll pick it up! Anything else?"

"Second, go to the dilapidated temple on the small hill south of the village and dig out a stone that is affected by the earth's energy at the location of the Tiangang number. The stone must be half black and half white, and it will warm your hands and cool your back."

"Okay, I'll go dig the rocks! What's the third one?"

The old lady's eyes showed a hint of embarrassment: "The third one... is the most difficult to deal with."

"Speak up! Say it out loud!"

The old lady's expression was solemn. "So-called life extension is actually borrowing life! If you want to extend my life, you must find someone close to me. This spell will take away ten years of his life! My dear grandson, do you understand? It takes ten years of life."

"I'll give it to you! Not to mention ten years, I'll give it to you even twenty years!" Chen Yan interrupted the old lady without hesitation.

"My dear grandson, grandma really can't bear it, you..."

"I'll pay for your life span!" Chen Yan said firmly. "The willow branch, the Yin-Yang Stone! And my ten years of life span? That's all, right?"

"……Correct."

"Okay!" Chen Yan said with a firm expression, "I'll go pick some willow branches! I'll go dig some rocks! Wait for me! I'll find those two things for you!!"

Seeing Chen Yan about to run out, the old lady's eyes flashed with an unusual brilliance: "Well, remember, the willow tree at the entrance of the village, the number of Tiangang on the hillside south of the village. When you were a child, I taught you how to calculate the number of Tiangang. Do you still remember it?"

"Remember! Remember!" Chen Yan nodded quickly.

The old lady looked at Chen Yan rushing out the door and ran away, a kind smile appearing on her face.

She turned around, lit another cigarette, took a few puffs silently, looked at the peeled edamame on the table, stood up, and took it into the kitchen.

The fire is already lit on the stove.

……

Chen Yan almost ran all the way to the village entrance and found the willow tree.

I don’t know how many years this willow tree is, but I remember playing under it often when I was a child.

I remember people in the village said that this tree may have a history of several decades or even hundreds of years.

Well, it seems that there is indeed a trick?

Chen Yan climbed up the tree - for a child who grew up in the countryside, climbing trees was not a difficult thing at all.

I climbed up the tree and searched for a long time, and found a lot of fresh-looking new willow branches on the top of the tree canopy.

Not sure which one was the freshest, Chen Yan simply plucked them all and gathered a large handful.

After jumping off the tree, Chen Yan put the willow branch in his arms, turned around and ran towards the hillside south of the village.

The old lady said, there’s a small dilapidated temple on the mountain! Go dig the stones underground!
Perhaps he was running too fast. After a few dozen steps, Chen Yan tripped and fell to the ground. His elbow was bleeding and willow branches were scattered all over the ground.

Chen Yan jumped up from the ground and busied himself picking up willow branches.

But after picking up a few, Chen Yan suddenly froze.

His heart suddenly jumped!
wrong!

He quickly took out his cell phone and checked the time.

The old lady said last night: I still have eighteen hours and forty-three minutes to live!

It was around six in the evening when we spoke.

By this calculation, it would be eighteen hours and forty-three minutes from six o'clock last night.

It should be around 1:00 PM today!
The time displayed on the phone...

Noon, 12:57.

It's three minutes to one in the afternoon.

I've been fooled! Chen Yan's heart suddenly sank. He dropped the willow branch in his hand and ran towards home!
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The door is closed.

Chen Yan pushed the door open with force, and the main room was empty.

In the sarong on the table, there was a plate of steaming... stir-fried edamame with pork!

All the strength in Chen Yan's body seemed to be drained away at once. In panic, he rushed to the old lady's door and pushed it open.

Chen Yan's legs went limp.

Inside the house, the bedding on grandma's bed had long been replaced with brand new ones.

The old lady was lying on the bed, dressed neatly in red and green funeral clothes, with her hands crossed on her chest.

The old lady lay there, her eyes closed and her expression peaceful.

Smiling as usual...

But there was no breath at all.

"Old lady, you lied to me..."

With a thud, Chen Yan knelt on the ground with red eyes.

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