NFBE Chapter 73 Night party with Du Xingzhou~
Chapter 73 Night party with Du Xingzhou~
Moonlight spilled across the farmhouse courtyard.
He Fan gently knocked on the wooden door.
A short while later, footsteps could be heard coming from inside the courtyard.
"squeak"
A simply dressed woman appeared before He Fan.
A look of surprise crossed her eyes.
Then it returned to normal.
"Hello, Du Xingzhou?"
The woman in front of him looked slightly different from the one in the video, and He Fan asked uncertainly.
Du Xingzhou said, "That's me."
She then confirmed with He Fan, "You are... from Black Cat Live?"
He Fan didn't deny it. He thought that, rounding up, he should be considered a member of Black Cat Live, right?
Du Xingzhou stepped aside to make room for He Fan to enter.
After closing the courtyard gate, He Fan obediently followed them into the house.
I sat on the wooden sofa in the central hall.
Why are you so late?
Du Xingzhou took out an electric kettle and poured He Fan a cup of hot water.
Looking at He Fan's face, she continued, "And you've made such a mess of yourself."
Hearing her say that, He Fan looked at his clothes, which were still fairly neat.
Was it a mess? Or was it alright?
Before she could object, Du Xingzhou handed her a baby wipe.
He noticed that her gaze kept glancing at his face.
He Fan turned on his phone's front-facing camera and pointed it at his face.
......
His nose was covered in blood.
It's truly remarkable that Du Xingzhou wasn't frightened by himself.
"It's nothing, I just tripped and fell on the way."
Du Xingzhou didn't say much.
"Thank you for your hard work. Why don't you sleep here tonight?"
He Fan didn't refuse; that was her original plan. She didn't dare go down into this desolate wilderness again.
"Sister Xingzhou..."
Before He Fan could finish speaking, a child's soft whimpering came from inside the room.
Du Xingzhou ignored He Fan and quickly got up and went inside.
He Fan also got up and followed.
Inside the room was a large wooden bed, on which lay a girl of about four or five years old.
Her body seemed unable to move, and she was writhing uncomfortably.
Du Xingzhou walked to the bedside and picked up the child.
He gently patted her back.
He Fan watched quietly as Du Xingzhou coaxed the child to sleep and changed him into a clean diaper.
"This is my daughter, Mai Zi. She is five years old this year."
He Fan asked, "Then what's wrong with her?"
Du Xingzhou: "ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis)."
He Fan didn't continue speaking; she had never met him.
System: "Host, ALS, also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, is a very rare global disease in your world. It causes the death of motor neurons. People with this disease will experience limb degeneration, vocal cord degeneration, and eventually death."
He Fan was at a loss for words.
Seeing He Fan remain silent, Du Xingzhou continued, "It's nothing."
He Fan: "Why don't you come to Lucheng with me? We can take Maizi with us to get treatment."
Du Xingzhou put down Mai Zi, who had just fallen asleep: "Mai Zi's illness cannot be cured."
He Fan: "I will help you find a professional doctor."
Du Xingzhou looked at the sincere He Fan across from him and smiled knowingly.
"Your name is He Fan, right?"
He Fan nodded: "I didn't come here for the black cat."
Du Xingzhou: "I spend my days with Mai Zi now, and when I have free time I record some videos to document my life, but I really need money."
She glanced at Maizi, who had fallen asleep again.
He led He Fan back to the central hall: "Social media can make me quick money, but traditional crafts can't."
“I also want to pass on my Suzhou embroidery skills, but I really don’t have the time. Mai Zi can’t wait.”
He Fan breathed a sigh of relief when he heard her say that.
If you want money, that's relatively easy to negotiate.
“I will give you 5% of the company shares, and in addition to the shares, I will give you an annual salary of 300 million.”
"Once you arrive in Lucheng, you won't need to worry about housing, and the company will cover all of Mai Zi's medical expenses."
Du Xingzhou was slightly taken aback when he heard the conditions He Fan offered.
"I really didn't know that you would praise my skills so highly."
He Fan shook his head and said, "This is priceless."
Du Xingzhou added, "But I promised to meet with the people from Black Cat Live a few days ago."
He Fan smiled and said, "Black Cat arranged this meeting for me."
Du Xingzhou breathed a sigh of relief.
He Fan was also quite happy, and his conversation with Du Xingzhou didn't have much of a business feel to it.
It's more like two old friends who haven't seen each other in a long time sitting together and greeting each other: How have you been lately?
To calm Du Xingzhou down.
He Fan instructed Bai Sicheng to rush out the contract according to the terms she offered and send the electronic version to Du Xingzhou.
The two agreed to set off for Xiamen together in a couple of days.
He Fan then settled down with peace of mind.
The next morning, He Fan was awakened by Mai Zi's crying in the next bedroom.
He Fan simply got up.
On the table in the central hall, a bowl of hot porridge and scrambled eggs were covered with a gauze net.
"You're awake! Have a bite to eat."
He Fan didn't stand on ceremony; she was exhausted from hiking last night and was starving.
After breakfast, Du Xingzhou was about to take Maizi out.
He Fan didn't ask any further questions.
They must be leaving here soon.
There are still many things to arrange and handle.
He Fan felt extremely bored being left alone in the small courtyard.
Thinking of the bamboo forest on the back mountain, He Fan was eager to try.
I used to see Du Xingzhou digging bamboo shoots and picking mushrooms in videos on the back mountain.
She had wanted to experience it for a long time.
Just do it.
He Fan picked up the small bamboo basket from the corner of the yard and put on the small straw hat hanging from the eaves.
Full of confidence, we set off for the bamboo forest.
Wild bamboo forests are not as neat and orderly as those planted by humans.
He Fan randomly chose a small path and started climbing up the mountain.
With a wealthy man by her side, she wasn't worried about getting lost.
System: "Reporting to the host, bamboo shoots have been spotted 200 meters ahead!"
He Fan: "Received! I'll investigate further and report back!"
He Fan quickly ran to the spot marked by the wealthy man and started pulling up bamboo shoots with his bare hands.
System: "Reporting to the host, bacterial infection detected 50 meters to the right!"
He Fan forgot to bring his hoe, and the bamboo shoots in this patch hadn't been dug up yet. Hearing that there were mushrooms, he quickly abandoned the bamboo shoots and started digging for the mushrooms.
He Fan scurried over excitedly: "Received, received! I'll check on the bacteria situation again!"
One person, one rule, having a blast.
With the help of the "big spender" physical cheat code, He Fan's mushroom-gathering speed was extremely fast.
In just one hour, the bamboo basket was more than half full.
Suddenly, He Fan saw a mushroom with an extremely unusual appearance.
The mushroom was shaped like a half-open umbrella, with a white tip and a black base, and a ring of teardrop-shaped, ink-colored sap hanging from the edge of the umbrella.
System: "Host, this mushroom is called Ink Cap Mushroom, and it's poisonous when mixed with alcohol."
He Fan thought this mushroom was extremely rare.
The ghost umbrella was on the side of a steep slope. She carefully stepped on the ground and moved towards the slope, holding onto the bamboo.
Although the sap looks disgusting, its branches are very white and clean.
Having picked the fruit, He Fan fearlessly leaned in and smelled it.
The system ignored her.
"Ah~ Ah~ Ah Qiu~"
A small flying insect crawled into He Fan's nose while he was smelling mushrooms.
He Fan sneezed suddenly, and his hand holding the bamboo loosened.
With a "click".
He Fan looked down in surprise; the ground beneath his feet was bamboo.
"Click, click~"
He Fan's inner thoughts: It's over! It's going to collapse!!!
"Fuck!!!"
With He Fan's exclamation of "national essence".
The person lost their balance.
They fell together as the bamboo beneath their feet snapped and they lost their balance.