Chapter 115: Low Luck—Easy to Run Into Ghosts
Dinner should’ve been Wen Hao’s treat, but the moment that kid removed the blood-seeped ancient jade, he immediately rolled back into bed to sleep, swearing to make up for all the missed sleep of these past days.
So Qian Yunze felt he should step in instead. Besides, he was quite interested in chatting with Su Keke a bit more about feng shui.
Su Keke suddenly remembered what her uncle had said. She smiled apologetically. “Actually, I should be the one treating you, since this job was introduced by you. But I promised my uncle I can’t casually stay out too long with other people—especially men. And besides, I still have something to do later.”
Qian Yunze froze for a moment, then laughed so hard he had to hold his forehead. “Miss Su Keke, your… mm, family discipline is quite strict. But you’re already grown—can’t you even decide whether to eat a meal with someone?”
“I…” Su Keke scratched her head, a little embarrassed.
“Alright, I’m not teasing you anymore.” Qian Yunze smiled. “How about this—let’s leave this meal as a debt for now. When we’re familiar enough to eat together, I’ll treat you. Or you can treat me.”
Su Keke grinned and nodded. “Okay.”
She wasn’t lying to Qian Yunze—she really did have something to do.
Taking advantage of the fact that Uncle wasn’t around, she planned to go back to Peach Blossom Village again and bring over the diamond grinding wheel she’d forgotten last time.
“Then shall I see you off?” Qian Yunze asked.
Su Keke shook her head. “Thank you, but no need. The place I’m going is pretty far. I’ll just take a taxi myself.”
Qian Yunze nodded, the smile in his eyes deep. “You really are a well-behaved girl. Then, Su Keke—we’ll meet again next time.”
Su Keke waved at him. After watching him drive away, she walked to the roadside, ready to hail a taxi.
But her luck was bad. She waited more than ten minutes and still didn’t see a single cab.
Su Keke simply walked forward, planning to find a small restaurant on the street ahead and settle dinner first.
Wen Hao lived in a fairly upscale neighborhood. Not long after exiting the compound, she reached a bustling street. A little farther ahead, there was even a pedestrian food street. All kinds of snacks were there, and the rich aromas hooked Su Keke over at once.
She bought two skewers of fried rice cakes and three skewers of fried mantou. The mantou were golden and crispy, sprinkled with all kinds of spices. Two bites per piece—so fragrant.
After she finished wandering around, it was nearly dark.
Su Keke hurried to the intersection to catch a taxi.
Then, as if she suddenly saw something, her eyes lit up with a whoosh.
She’d thought her luck was bad, but it wasn’t bad at all—it was exploding through the roof.
She had actually run into a ghost taxi!
Even though she was considered a little rich now, money that could be saved should be saved.
Su Keke quickly waved toward the distance.
A taxi drove over.
As the taxi got closer, a white fog seemed to rise around them. The fog grew thicker and thicker until the streams of pedestrians and cars on the road looked like nothing but a background wall.
The moment the car stopped, a cold wind swept over, blowing loose strands of hair at the girl’s temples.
To such an abnormal scene, Su Keke acted as if she noticed nothing.
Humming a little tune, she pulled a talisman from her bag. She had just sat down when the door on the other side suddenly opened too, and a man immediately got in.
Su Keke stared at the enlarged smiling face in surprise. “Qin Junchi?”
“What, you’re not calling me Young Master Qin or Big Brother anymore? Little Keke, look—our fate is really something. Even in a place like this, we can still run into each other.
“Where are you going? I’ll give you a lift. It’s a bit dangerous for a girl to ride a taxi alone at night—especially…” He chuckled. “Especially when you’re this cute.”
After speaking, Qin Junchi blinked those seductive peach-blossom eyes at her. “No need for protection money. Just give me one protective talisman.”
Last time, his Fourth Uncle cut him off halfway and he didn’t even get his talisman.
Not letting him call her Little Keke? He would call her anyway. His Fourth Uncle wasn’t here.
Su Keke frowned at him and suddenly asked, “Can you see… this car?”
“Hey, Little Keke—since when did you learn to mock people? What, you’re twisting your words to insult me for being blind?”
Seeing her expression was a bit strange, Qin Junchi felt his scalp tingle under her stare. “No way—haven’t seen me for a few days and you don’t recognize me? Let me tell you, last time I got beaten half to death by my Fourth Uncle, it was because of you. If you pretend not to know me, that’s really not loyal at all.”
They chatted for too long, and the driver in front couldn’t help but cut in. “Where to?”
The driver was a middle-aged man in his forties, kind-faced and gentle-looking.
“Driver, Peach Blossom Town. Just drop me at the town entrance,” Su Keke said.
“Alright!” the driver responded.
“Peach Blossom Town? Little Keke, what are you going there for? That’s pretty far—probably one to two hours.”
Su Keke stared at him for a moment, then said, “It’s good you’re coming with me too. With the way you are, wandering around alone outside, it’s very easy for something to happen.”
Qin Junchi thought he’d heard wrong. He pointed at himself. “Who? I’m easy to get into trouble? Little Keke, if you want me to accompany you, just say it. Girls being timid isn’t anything shameful.”
The driver had already opened navigation, and the car headed toward Peach Blossom Town.
Su Keke first stuck the talisman in her hand onto the back of the front seat.
Only then did she turn around and examine him carefully.
His luck had dropped; bad luck was clinging to him. No wonder he could see a ghost taxi.
“Have you had very bad luck the past couple of days—nothing going smoothly no matter what you do?”
Qin Junchi’s eyes widened, and he couldn’t help giving her a thumbs-up. “My Little Keke really is a master—how can you even tell that?
“Lately I don’t know what rotten luck I stepped in. Nothing goes right. I bet it’s because Huang Yueshan messed with me last time. Every time she shows up, nothing good happens to me. Just now I took my twenty-fifth girlfriend to eat at a roadside stall, and the chair I sat on—its leg snapped. I almost sat flat on the ground. And there were tons and tons of similar things…”
As a charming, considerate boyfriend, whatever his girlfriend wanted, he would do his best to satisfy—even making a pampered young master like him eat “junk food” at a roadside stall, though his girlfriends never lasted more than three months.
“Your fortune is very low lately. You’d better not run around. It’s easy to run into ghosts,” Su Keke reminded him.
Qin Junchi’s expression changed slightly. “Run into what? Ghosts… you mean it for real?”
Su Keke kept a tight little face. “I never joke around about this.”
As she spoke, she took a protective talisman out of her backpack and handed it to him. “Even though you’re Uncle’s eldest nephew, I have my own rules. I’ll only give it once. If I give you a second one, I’ll charge. Five hundred yuan—you can transfer by phone.”
She then gave him her account.
Qin Junchi carefully tucked the talisman away, then transferred fifty thousand yuan directly. “This thing is worth way more than five hundred. Fifty thousand, five hundred thousand—it’s all fine.”
Su Keke glanced at the fifty thousand. Thinking that tonight also counted as escorting him for a whole night, she kept the money.
