Chapter 52: Grave Robbing
It was night.
Leng Qing Qiu sat alone on the living room sofa. It was already late at night, yet she was unusually spirited.
“…”
Her mind was filled with two identical faces, two identical people.
There are no two identical leaves in the world, so how could there be two identical people? Leng Qing Qiu recalled the details about “Lu Shiyu.”
A mysterious origin, the indifference and disgust at their first meeting, as if hiding deep hatred. The fear upon seeing the indecent video of Lu Zhiyin, as if the person in the video was herself. Of course, there was also that excessively powerful regenerative and vital force.
Leng Qing Qiu’s eyes were dim and unclear. Did metaphysics truly exist in this world? Could people truly be resurrected after death?
She didn’t know, but Leng Qing Qiu wanted to find out.
She was a lunatic anyway; it wouldn’t matter to have one more moment of madness.
Leaving home, Leng Qing Qiu found the van she had bought after being released from prison. After modification, only the driver’s and passenger seats remained in the van, with the rest of the space cleared out to facilitate the transport of goods.
Leng Qing Qiu still remembered the vision Lu Zhiyin had once talked about. After Leng Qing Qiu was released from prison, she had started the BYT business according to Lu Zhiyin’s past wishes.
Removing the scattered goods reserved in the cargo area, Leng Qing Qiu brought the necessary tools and drove towards the outskirts of the city.
…
The moon was bright and the stars were few. The streetlights on both sides of the road were sparse and gradually disappeared, with the road ahead illuminated only by car lights and moonlight.
The low houses on both sides of the road flashed past as Leng Qing Qiu drove rapidly towards the suburbs.
As the car crossed a certain boundary line, the low houses quickly vanished, leaving behind wheat fields on both sides of the road.
The wheat fields were covered by the darkness, obscuring their original emerald green. The wheat swayed slightly with the summer night wind, becoming black waves that rolled endlessly in the night.
The chirping of cicadas could be heard from the scattered rough trees on the edge of the ridge. Through the scenery outside the car window, Leng Qing Qiu could sense the pastoral atmosphere.
She rolled down the car window.
The cool night breeze, carrying the scent of grass, rushed into the car. Leng Qing Qiu suppressed the slight unease and restlessness in her heart.
What she was about to do was very, very excessive, but she had still decided to do it.
After driving for a while, Leng Qing Qiu arrived at her destination.
She stopped the car, took out a flashlight and a shovel, and got out.
The van’s headlights were still on, illuminating a large area of the road.
Leng Qing Qiu looked around. She was sure no one would disturb her here, so she confidently crossed the road.
Before the vast black waves, a small mound stood alone by the field.
Leng Qing Qiu paused in front of the mound.
In front of the small mound, a bluestone tombstone stood quietly before the grave.
The simple five characters “Tomb of Lu Zhiyin” spoke of the owner of the mound.
Leng Qing Qiu looked coldly at the tombstone.
Leng Qing Qiu disliked the bland descriptions on the tombstone without any embellishment. She believed tombstones should have more rhetoric.
Well, but it didn’t matter. Leng Qing Qiu wasn’t here to visit the grave.
Approaching the tombstone, Leng Qing Qiu overturned it.
This bluestone tombstone was not particularly large, and the part buried in the soil was not deep, so it was not difficult for Leng Qing Qiu to do this.
After overturning the tombstone, Leng Qing Qiu looked at the weeds on the mound.
“She didn’t treat you well either, she didn’t even clean your grave properly. So why did you fall out with me for her back then? Why did you let her report me? Even though I had decided to turn over a new leaf…”
Her mood was somewhat bitter.
Leng Qing Qiu grabbed the shovel.
“I apologize for my transgression today. If she is you, I will bring you back to me. If she is not you, then I will take you home.”
To their original home, the one with the most memories.
The small bungalow that had been flooded and was already half-abandoned.
After getting rich, Leng Qing Qiu renovated the house that originally belonged to Lu Zhiyin.
Placing the front end of the shovel near the mound, Leng Qing Qiu stepped on the back end with her foot and began to dig.
Her movements were agile. Before long, the mound was leveled, and Leng Qing Qiu’s body and hair were covered in some dirt specks.
Her movements did not stop. After a while, she saw the surface of the coffin, hidden beneath a layer of dirt.
The wooden coffin lid was painted. Leng Qing Qiu was silent for a moment.
Up to this point in the excavation, she had not smelled anything strange, nor had she seen any bugs.
After hesitating for a moment, she continued to swing the shovel, exposing the coffin completely.
The sky began to show streaks of dawn. The darkness was gradually driven away, and the pitch-black waves gradually returned to their original colors.
Green, boundless green, a realm of vitality and vigorous growth emerged.
Leng Qing Qiu did not care about the passage of time, nor if anyone noticed her actions.
She just wanted to see the truth now. Was the person in the coffin her childhood friend?
Prying open the nails with the shovel, Leng Qing Qiu was met not with the white bones she had imagined countless times, nor with the disgusting, half-decayed corpse.
The coffin was empty. There was nothing inside. Not to mention a person, there wasn’t even any burial goods.
In the center of the coffin, there was only a little bit of dirt.
“Ha… Hahaha… Haha…”
Leng Qing Qiu laughed. She laughed with immense joy.
There was no anger, no disappointment. She felt only pure happiness.
Regardless, the person was still alive, wasn’t she?
“You really are her…”
Leng Qing Qiu contentedly pushed the excavated soil back into the pit.
She was too lazy to compact the soil. Getting back into the van, she immediately started the car and drove towards the city.
While driving, she pondered what to do next.
The good news was that her childhood friend was alive. She had only faked her death to deceive many people.
The bad news was that her terrible thoughts and actions had pushed the other party’s aversion to her to its peak.
But overall, in the face of that one piece of good news, all the bad news became bearable.
Lost and found. At this point, Leng Qing Qiu no longer cared about Lu Zhiyin’s opinion of her.
As long as her childhood friend was alive, that was enough.
“…I will definitely bring you back to my side, I definitely will… This time, I won’t lose to Long Qinxin again.”
The thought of her beloved childhood friend having her first experience taken by Long Qinxin caused Leng Qing Qiu some pain.
She was very sure that Long Qinxin did not know “Lu Shiyu’s” true identity.
If Long Qinxin knew, that person probably wouldn’t have allowed herself to get close to “Lu Shiyu.”
Her thoughts becoming more active, Leng Qing Qiu sped up.
She returned to the city in half the time it took her to go to the suburbs.
“Hoo…”
Getting out of the car, she took a deep breath and shook the sand off her body by the car. She hurried to the school gate, nervously waiting for her beloved childhood friend to get out of school.
The joy of finding something lost only to have it again made her momentarily lose her reason. She just wanted to say a lot of things to her childhood friend, and she was destined to be disappointed.
