Hospital 444
Chapter 160 - 9 Eavesdropping

Chapter 160: Chapter 9 Eavesdropping

The rain had poured down almost all day.

Gu Yanan stared out the window, overlooking the village at the foot of the mountain.

She remembered how, as a child, she especially loved the rain.

To farmers who depended on the heavens for their livelihood, the arrival of the rainy season was always cause for excitement. Back then, like her parents, Gu Yanan enjoyed tending to the crops and even thought that spending her whole life following her parents in the village, farming vegetables, would be nice.

The left-behind children in the village envied Gu Yanan because, unlike their own parents who had gone to the city to work and only appeared during the festivals, her parents were always around.

When it rained, Gu Yanan would often cheerfully run to the edge of the fields without an umbrella, deliberately splashing through the puddles, which resulted in her clothes and shoes being completely soaked.

But ever since she started school and went to live with a relative in the county town, her thoughts had changed completely.

The idea of it being fine to be a farmer for a lifetime was tossed out of the window.

Going to university, taking postgraduate entrance exams...

But now, Gu Yanan had found that she seemed to be not as happy as she had been when she was a child in the fields. Although life had been hard back then, all it took was sowing seeds in the spring to ensure a harvest of grain in the fall.

If it weren’t for meeting Zhengxian, her parents would certainly have expected her to return to her hometown to marry. They often said she was quite pretty and that marrying a city man was the best way forward, arguing there was no need for her to work so hard to pursue postgraduate studies.

However, once she entered society, she had stopped believing in the supremacy of looks that idol dramas preach. In a marriage, looks could only provide emotional value, not form an economic foundation.

Even being pretty was a negative point in the eyes of Zhengxian’s mother, who felt it meant she had seduced her son, the single child she had left.

At that thought, Gu Yanan leaned against the windowsill, subconsciously trying to catch a glimpse of her reflection on the glass. But she looked and looked, and was unable to see even the slightest reflective image!

Could it be that this glass was specially made with a low-reflective coating? To go to such lengths to ensure the guests couldn’t see themselves?

At this moment, a thought flashed through her mind: If she woke up in the morning and looked in the mirror, what would she see?

It surely couldn’t be... that she would see something other than her own face?

Under normal circumstances, such a thought would, of course, be ridiculous.

But Gu Yanan found it hard not to unconsciously dwell on this matter.

However, she shook her head right after.

Just as the saying goes... Curiosity killed the cat!

Because of the torrential rain, they’d stayed inside the house all day, with lunch and dinner delivered by the inn’s staff.

Gu Yanan had noticed... all the tableware, be it bowls or spoons, were made of non-reflective ceramic.

If one wanted to look in a mirror, it would have to be through personal mirrors or their phones.

Of course... she had specifically checked all the meat in the food, making sure... that there was no lamb.

The rain had started to let up a bit.

It was already past seven in the evening.

Gu Yanan, looking at the drizzling rain outside, said, "Zhengxian, I’d like to go out for a walk."

"Then I’ll come with you..."

"No need, I want to clear my head."

"It’s still drizzling outside, but we don’t have an umbrella..."

"I like getting a little wet in the rain."

Gu Yanan didn’t know if she still held some grudge because of Zhengxian mentioning how excellent his brother was earlier, but she felt the pressure inside her grow heavier.

Once outside, she walked a good distance away and began to dance gracefully amongst the mountains and the inn’s structures.

This was what she loved to do the most in the village when it rained as a child.

Some things, when done as a child, are innocently playful, but doing them as an adult is considered childish and immature. Adults are expected to carry the shackle of "maturity," but who decided what adults must be like?

She discovered... after so many years, she still loved to dance joyfully in the rain, even if the dance was too ugly to bear watching.

Not knowing how much time had passed...

Suddenly, she heard a voice ahead of her.

"Amei, I like you."

Gu Yanan was startled by the voice; wasn’t that the voice of Alu, the hostel employee?

With such a bad temper, if Alu discovered she’d been "eavesdropping" on his confession, it would be a misunderstanding too difficult to clear up. So she immediately hid behind a nearby tree and peeked out stealthily.

But she could only see Alu; the one called "Amei" might have been obscured by the trees.

"You?"

She then heard the voice of a young woman.

"Yes," Ah Lu said definitively, "Tomorrow night is the birthday of Uncle Huang’s second son, and Master Du will go there to help slaughter their family’s goat. I will also go to help."

"So what?"

"I’ve made a deal with Uncle Huang, after his second son’s birthday, I can take the remaining goat from his family."

"You don’t have any particular connection with Uncle Huang, do you?"

"I’ve done many things for Uncle Huang... and now is a crucial time," Ah Lu clenched his teeth and said, "He will keep his word."

"Ah Lu... just forget it. You should find another girl."

"By then I’ll have a goat! Ah Mei! Please, just agree to it!"

Finally, Gu Yanan saw Ah Mei.

She walked up to Ah Lu.

Ah Mei was about half a head taller than Ah Lu. She was... beautiful enough to compete with many internet celebrities, her bare face in the rain was also stunningly beautiful.

In contrast, Ah Lu... That hideous expression on his face was enough to make one feel nauseous, seeing him standing next to Ah Mei, saying he hoped to marry her, was enough to cause physical discomfort.

"Ah Mei, I’ve grown up with you since we were kids..."

"Ah Lu, let it go," Ah Mei still shook her head, "Even if you had the goat..."

"Ah Mei! Just promise me!"

Then, he bit his teeth and said, "Recently, two new guests arrived at the bed and breakfast. It seems they haven’t looked into a mirror within an hour of waking up."

"They really haven’t looked in the mirror?" Ah Mei showed a surprised expression, "Then what?"

"But your father seems to have had contact with them."

Upon hearing this, Ah Mei’s face suddenly changed.

"Ah Lu, you..."

"Your father has said things he shouldn’t have, Ah Mei. You should keep an eye on him. But don’t worry, only I saw it. He almost strangled that female tourist to death."

Gu Yanan turned pale with shock.

At that time... Ah Lu was nearby? That lunatic was Ah Mei’s father?

"What did he say?" Ah Mei didn’t care about the tourist’s safety, instead, she asked this question.

"For instance, he asked the tourists, ’What is a goat’, and said something like, not knowing what a goat is meant you become ’one of them’..."

"And, what else..."

"Fortunately, he didn’t get to say ’no matter what, do not listen to them, make sure to look into a mirror after waking up in the morning, and whatever terrifying thing you see, do not tell anyone in the village’... If he had said that, it would have been troublesome."

Upon hearing this, Ah Mei breathed a sigh of relief.

"That’s good then..."

After that, Ah Mei said, "Well, well then, when you get the goat, I will consider it."

"That’s good."

After receiving a satisfactory response, Ah Lu’s ugly face revealed a sinister and chilling smile.

"Ah Mei, I’m relieved to hear you say that. Alright, I’m off to work now."

Gu Yanan didn’t dare to breathe loudly, hiding her entire body behind the tree.

It was only after Ah Mei had left as well that she came out.

"What he just said... what does it mean?"

Looking into a mirror... and seeing something terrifying?

This was just like something out of a horror novel!

Gu Yanan ran back to the bed and breakfast, and as soon as she entered, she closed the door, drew the curtains, and whispered to Wei Zhengxian, "This village... is completely abnormal!"

Gu Yanan told Wei Zhengxian everything she had heard and seen.

"What are you saying?" Wei Zhengxian was also bewildered; Gu Yanan’s words were a lot to process.

If it weren’t for their experience during the day, the two of them could have just left.

But with Ah Yuan involved, leaving was definitely not an option.

"Uncle Huang’s second son, so the so-called younger brother of Zheng Kang, right..." Wei Zhengxian recalled, last night Uncle Huang and that young man who had asked for a light had indeed mentioned this.

"Yanan..."

Wei Zhengxian gritted his teeth and whispered, "As soon as we wake up tomorrow, I will immediately look into a mirror! But no matter what happens, you must not look! I want to see what will happen!"

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