I Have a Date with a Thousand-year-old Female Corpse
Chapter 190: Dong, Dong Dong_1

Chapter 190: Chapter 190: Dong, Dong Dong_1

"A vehicle pawn?"

Upon hearing the phrase "vehicle pawn," you naturally thought of the mysterious elderly woman you encountered that night on the old street, who was selling dumplings from a vehicle pawn, and those dumplings were filled with human hearts.

"Boss, do you have any clues?"

You pondered for a moment before asking, "Apart from saying that the dumplings were from the vehicle pawn old lady, is there any other information?"

"No, that’s all," said Zong Wangyue with a light sigh. "If I really have to mention something else, it’s that it was in Yuhang, on some remote street corner, that Old Master Li ate that bowl of hot dumplings many years ago. Boss, you have no idea. The Li Family tried everything to fulfill the old man’s last wish without regrets, they searched every dumpling stand in Yuhang City, but still couldn’t find the dumplings the old man wanted to eat."

"How did they end up finding us then?" you asked, looking up at Zong Wangyue.

Zong Wangyue scratched his head, looking a bit embarrassed as he said, "Well, I’ve been pursuing a girl recently and let slip some information about our supernatural detective society while talking to her. She passed it on to them, and out of curiosity, I took the job. You see, considering all of Yuhang City, there’s hardly any information that Zongzi doesn’t know. I thought, how hard could it be to find a dumpling stand? But in the end, after calling in all my contacts, I still couldn’t find it, sigh!"

Wei Shuxian pushed his glasses up and said, "So, just because you didn’t find that dumpling stand, they’re planning to tear down our headquarters?"

Zong Wangyue scratched the back of his head and said somewhat sheepishly, "At first, I thought of shaking them down for a significant sum, so I quoted a pretty high price, which they paid a deposit on, so... hehe."

Upon hearing this, you couldn’t help but sigh lightly, "In the future, don’t be so reckless. If we stumble upon a task that’s impossible to complete, not only would our Detective Agency’s reputation suffer, but we could all potentially be dragged into unnecessary trouble."

Wei Shuxian asked Zong Wangyue, "How much did you charge them?"

Zong Wangyue smiled and held up five fingers.

"Fifty thousand?"

"Gosh, for a bowl of wontons you quote fifty thousand, you really are ruthless," Yang Kai shook his head and sighed as he spoke.

Unexpectedly, Zong Wangyue shook his head and said with a somewhat shy and bashful expression, "Five hundred thousand, and I’ve already collected a hundred thousand deposit, which I handed over to Wenwen."

"What!?"

All four of you who were unaware of the entire situation immediately jumped up.

"Zongzi, you..." you reached out your finger pointing at Zong Wangyue, it took you a moment to say, "Aren’t you afraid they will turn you into a real Zongzi and throw you into the river to feed the fish if we can’t find that old lady?"

"At that time, the girl I liked was right beside me, I didn’t think too much, I just wanted to look cool in front of her, who knew that dumpling-selling old lady would be so hard to find."

"Wait a minute!" Wei Shuxian, who was more detail-oriented, suddenly realized the crux of the issue and spoke up, "Did you just say the dumplings were sold by an old lady?"

"Yeah, that’s what the toad-faced guy said."

Wei Shuxian held his forehead with an expression that said ’there’s no saving you.’

"Glasses, what’s with that look, like you’ve been constipated for three months?" Yang Kai joked.

Wei Shuxian sighed and said, "Are you all pigs? They already made it very clear, the person who sold Old Master Li dumplings back then was an old lady. How old do you think Old man Li was at the time? It’s been decades since then, could that old lady still be alive?"

Sure enough, this time everyone understood, and Zong Wangyue immediately looked dumbfounded, slapping his thigh, "Right, how could I not have thought of that!"

"Because you are a pig, that’s why!"

Everyone shook their heads and sighed together.

Zong Wangyue suddenly collapsed next to you, clutching your thigh and said, "Boss, what should we do now? I still have so much of my youth unspent, and most importantly, I’m still a virgin."

"All right, stop being gross. Don’t worry, I’ve got a little idea already."

Hearing you say that, Wei Shuxian couldn’t help but ask you, "Old Shu, do you know the origin of that old lady? Can we find her descendants now?"

You said with a smile, "I just met that old lady not long ago."

"Ah?"

Everyone was startled all at once.

"Don’t tell me... no way?" Xiao Feng responded quicker, quickly grasping the implication in your words.

"Stop guessing wildly. If I didn’t see wrong that night, that old lady should be a human, not a ghost."

"Oh."

Everyone then breathed a sigh of relief.

Although a female ghost was living inside No. 72, Baojia Street, familiar ghosts and strangers ghosts were still a bit different after all. Apart from you, everyone actually felt somewhat repelled by ghosts. Especially when they heard that they had to look for an old grandma ghost who sold street food, it sounded quite hair-raising.

"However, we do not yet know whether these two people are the same person. Even if they are, it’s not easy to confront her; after all, she is not an ordinary person. Otherwise, a bowl of ordinary dumplings would not have the power to bring tears to someone’s eyes."

You clasped your hands behind your head, lying back in your seat, and sighed softly, "Anyway, we’ll know after we go look for her tonight. I hope she’s still there."

Because of the traffic jam, you didn’t arrive at the school until after three in the afternoon.

Even though you had a bit of beef rice on the plane, that kind of stuff could hardly fill a belly. You then devoured three big bowls of noodles at a noodle shop near the school, after which you, feeling quite satisfied, patted Zong Wangyue and Wei Shuxian who were beside you and said, "I suggest you guys eat something first, because we’re not planning to have dinner later."

"There are still three hours until dinner, why not eat?" Zong Wangyue asked, puzzled.

"I have a feeling, although I’m not sure how accurate it is, I believe that the old lady will only appear when you are truly hungry."

Zong Wangyue and Wei Shuxian looked at each other, both finding the matter increasingly interesting.

Yang Kai had been clamoring to come along, but you kicked him out with one foot. You had witnessed the old lady’s formidable power; with one bowl of wontons, she could send three punks straight to hell in an instant. She was definitely not an ordinary person, and she surely had a deep connection with the Underworld.

Yang Kai’s character wasn’t bad, but since he was with Nie Ying now, you didn’t let him join just to be on the safe side.

Moreover, finding the old lady wasn’t a matter of more people making it easier. On the contrary, you felt that the more people there were, the less likely she would show up, which is why you only brought Wei Shuxian and Zong Wangyue.

That night, it was slightly chilly.

The three of you wandered the increasingly deserted streets.

"Ah-Choo!" Zong Wangyue blew his nose and said to you, "Boss, we’ve already gone around this area three times, why haven’t we seen that old lady?"

Just as you were about to speak, you suddenly heard something and made a silencing gesture to Zong Wangyue.

Shortly after, the sound of someone tapping a bamboo tube slowly came, "Dong, dong dong..."