Chapter 101

One year and ten months later, in August, Northwest China.

The hottest time of the year in Northwest China is about to pass, the temperature difference between morning and evening is huge, thirty-six or seventy degrees in the middle of the day, but in the morning and evening it’s only about twenty degrees, it’s very cool.

There is only one relatively centralized market in the small county, and at this time of the day, basically there are not many people, agricultural tricycles are set up in rows on the side of the road, with all kinds of crops on them, and they are waiting for the tide of people who get off work at twelve o’clock in the middle of the day.

At this time of the day, the food stalls are much more popular, as many commuters are waiting for this time to come over and buy some fresh vegetables to cook their meals.

The sun was baking the skin, and although it was hot, the stall owners were still wearing long sleeves, colorful bandanas and white gauze masks.

The farthest away from the market mouth of a tricycle, car is very new, is the kind of gasoline, than the general electric tricycle is much larger than the above only put a kind of goods, was yards in two plastic baskets, the stallholder sitting on the tricycle high driver seat, looking at the not so big place, she sits cross-legged, and not like the other stallholders like to look at the cell phone, looking down at a book.

Although far away, but just under a tree, so she did not wrap very tight, and even can be said to wear a very cool, above the old man’s shoulders without sleeves, legs are short half of the earth-colored pants, stepped on a pair of plastic slippers.

People and vehicles coming and going had to incline their heads to look at her, at her extremely beautiful face and the reddened burn scars extending from her shoulders to the backs of her hands, and some people went up to ask for a quote, “How do you sell them?”

“Early crisp pears, three pounds for ten dollars, picked from my own tree.” The mixed-race looking gray-eyed beauty didn’t have much of an expression, answered in standard Mandarin, and didn’t introduce much, nor did she enthusiastically sell.

The sale wasn’t really good, but she wasn’t in a hurry either, and when no one was around she continued to look down at her book.

Almost one o’clock, an old couple riding a small three-wheeler hurried over, then the sun was higher, half of her body in the sun.

The old lady to be heartbroken to death, hurried to open the specially bought parasol, “Ah Li ah, why not to the shade to hide it, you this scar it can not sunbathe ah, the old man, quickly, take out the ice.”

Next to the tall and thin old man hurriedly took out the towel wrapped ice bag from the bag he was carrying and handed it over, the old lady used it to cool down the hideous scar raised on the woman’s arm, “I said I won’t let you come out, it’s a hot day.”

Qing Li smiled faintly, “This pear is delicious, let others try it too.”

This place has mountains, nearly the western end of the Qilian Mountains, earth and stone mountains almost no grass, earlier years at the foot of the mountains is the vast Gobi, occasionally some grazing pastures, now the city area to expand, land improvement, the environment is also much better, the mountains can look at a thin layer of green.

In the seventies, early pear as a new variety was bred, Li Yushan as a cadre, take the lead in grafting new seedlings, began to plant this kind of green skin, flesh snow white crispy pear.

Li Yushan family has more than ten acres of pear tree garden, Rosaceae, pear genus, his only daughter called Li Jinwei, missing for more than twenty years, now there is a granddaughter, he said before, after the grandchildren, the nickname should be called green pear’s.

“Hungry, eat quickly.” Li Yushan handed a small handheld fan to He Xiu Mei for her to blow on Qing Li, took out a few insulated lunch boxes, except for a box of rice, the rest of the few inside are full of vegetables, there is also a steak inside that is cut into even squares, sprinkled with pepper and salt, “This is that friend of yours that taught me, you try to eat it or not.”

Qingli forked a piece with her fork and nodded repeatedly, “Delicious.”

Beef is the old couple ran to the place to kill the cattle, to the steak parts of the instructions, specifically let the butcher to cut out, ordinary meat cattle, although the taste is average, but wins in freshness.

Knives and forks, steaks, handheld fans and sun umbrellas, these things for the seventy-something old couple is very unfamiliar, but they are also considered intellectuals, willing to research, excited to learn online shopping, buy a lot of things.

Fear of green pear is not accustomed to sleeping cotton mattress, but also specifically spend thousands to buy a mattress, a Gansu a Sichuan, all day long in the study of Western pasta these, even if the green pear said not to use, they do not give up, just so that the grandson more to eat a couple of mouthfuls.

Even because the small county is too small, not even a serious Western restaurant, there is no amusement facilities, a lifetime in addition to looking for their daughter are living here, the old couple even moved to use their savings to go to the city to buy a house idea, was Qing Li persuaded to stop.

“I really don’t need, I haven’t played those also don’t love to play, food is also as long as can fill up the stomach on the line, you guys do the cooking are quite delicious.” She just wanted to say that her life was actually quite plain, not that much elaborate.

But this plainly stated fact still stung Li Yushan couple, He Xiu Mei embraced Qing Li cried for a long time, “My poor baby, really suffered.”

They poured all their love into Qingli’s body, even accompanied Qingli over, in addition to the renewal of the visa has never left the Xin Gota have been stained, Mr. and Mrs. Li Yushan know that he is almost deaf, but also thought of their own money to install a cochlear implant for him, by the Xin Gota cried and laughed to stop.

Liang Jin plays the role of a double agent, blundering with his father’s murderer Li Chaoke for Yue Zhi, exchanging Yue’s not-so-important information for incriminating evidence against Li Chaoke, but there’s more to it than that.

After Li Chaoke gets the planning of Yue Zhi’s wedding and the location from him, he plans to blow up the place and bury everyone there along with the evidence, and Liang Jin is his breakthrough to break through Yue Zhi’s ironclad security.

Under Liang Jin’s deliberate concealment, his people planted bombs in the third floor venue and lounge as well as the second floor below.

This detailed drawing of the bomb’s equivalent, quantity, and distribution reached Singhota again on the same day, and the explosions were recreated almost without error under the computer modeling that he had built with the bomb experts he had specially brought in.

Then they added a few more sets of controllable bombs, and the timing of the explosions were all good minute by minute.

Yue Zhi’s shot was an accident, the rebar that pierced into Qing Li’s body was unforeseen, the elevator shaft catching fire was unplanned, and Qing Li only wore clothes made of fire-resistant materials just in case, but it saved her life at the critical moment.

Even though they planned every step of the way, Singhota received Qingli, who crawled out with her last consciousness, from the garbage passage, put her into a suitcase and left quickly, and when he opened the suitcase less than an hour later, she was already a puddle of blood, with half of her intestines falling out of the wound on her abdomen, and with the burns on her arms, he was almost out of any way to save her.

Fortunately, Liang Jin arranged a foreign doctor, barely hanging her a life, after that she was secretly sent to Hong Kong in a comatose state, Guan’s grandson-in-law, that Qing Li once saved once Zhao Juntang came to meet, to arrange the best medical treatment, the whole forty-three days, she was sent out from the ICU, slowly regained consciousness.

After that, they stopped in Hong Kong for half a year, and went to Russia, and finally in half a year ago, just before the Spring Festival in 2025, to the northwest of China, her grandparents side.

By the way, the local name was Grandma and Grandpa.

In fact, as long as Yue Zhi avoids Liang Jin and sends someone to check, it is very easy to find out Qing Li’s whereabouts, because she presses no concealment, but he is half dead, all the things are handed over to Liang Jin and Xiji, and is deliberately blinded, and did not think of other possibilities at all.

Qing Li once asked Liang Jin why he was able to agree to her plan to fake her death.

Liang Jin is very calm, “because I don’t want to see you torture each other to death, I want to see you die once first, and then also shed not to continue like this, you run a few times he will look for you a few times, the hand more and more tighten, until forced to die you then drive crazy his own won’t stop, you die is also quite good, he went crazy once is also enough.”

Qing Li and Yue Zhi nearly both died once.

The ties between them had been severed by themselves, and what happened after that could really only be left to time and fate.

“Ah Li ah, come, lift up your clothes.” He Xiu Mei held out a skin care product like jar and a silicone brush.

Qing Li obediently lifted up her clothes, revealing the hideous scars on her abdomen, letting He Xiu Mei smear her with scar removal cream, she knew that this was not very useful, but it was an important heart comfort for He Xiu Mei, so she never refused.

“Have you sold all the pears?” Singota asked as he came in from outside the yard carrying a bundle of firewood, he had a cochlear implant installed at his own expense, and his speaking accent had basically returned to normal.

“Uh-huh.” Qingli nodded as she put down her clothes.

Early Crisp actually ripens in July, but this fruit type is very resistant to storage, so it can be bought all the way through September and October.

Li Yushan used to be a government cadre, He Xiumei was an elementary school teacher, they originally had buildings in the city, but then they sold them in order to find their daughter, moved to the urban-rural transition area, and repaired this bungalow with a yard in front of their pear orchard, which was spacious and quiet, and was tended to in a very cozy way.

“What are you doing?” Qing Li asked as she watched Singo Ta make two trips in and out, carrying a lot of firewood.

“Get the stove fire going, I went to the village to buy a goat, your grandpa said he wanted to make hand-caught goat meat.” Going out for the last time, Singota had a piece of plastic wrap on his shoulder and carried over a sheep that had already been skinned.

When Li Yushan supported the tablet with bricks, he pulled out his own saber and skillfully disassembled the lamb.

“Ah Li ah, grandpa will grill lamb kebabs for you, I’m good with my hands.” In the past, they didn’t do this at all, there was nothing to look forward to in life, they couldn’t die, they just lived.

But since they realized that their granddaughter was still alive, they rekindled their passion for life, learning to cook, learning to shop online, and even starting to learn English, just to be able to better communicate with their granddaughter.

Qingli saw Li Yushan carrying the grill borrowed from someone else’s house and hurriedly went forward to help lift it.

“It’s fine, it’s fine, you sit down, I’ll do it.” He turned his head and went to look for charcoal again.

“Ah Li come here, skewer the meat with grandma.” He Xiu Mei, who was sitting at the edge of the tablet, picked up Singota’s evenly cut pieces of meat and skewered them onto an iron skewer.

Qing Li nodded and went over to help.

The sun was about to set and the courtyard was cool as they chatted casually, the atmosphere cozy and unfamiliar.

“Why did you suddenly think of buying a goat?” Greenleaf asked Singoeta.

“They say the lamb in the Northwest is delicious.” Singhota replied.

Qing Li raised her eyes, “You know that’s not what I asked.”

“I’m planning to go back, buy a meat and have a good meal, practicing for myself.” Singota said.

Qing Li froze for a moment, she had known this day was coming, she just didn’t expect it to be so soon, “Decided?”

“Well, come see me sometime.” Singoita said.

“That’s for sure, bring my grandma and grandpa with me then so they can see the Nordic sea as well.” Greenleaf smiled.

Singota gave her a look and said nothing more, taking a leg of lamb and leaving to give it to the neighbor who had borrowed the grill as a thank you gift.

The light was slightly dim, and he took two steps forward before suddenly sensing something and jerking his head back.

The alley was flat and spacious in the new-age countryside, and there was nothing to see at almost any glance.

Cincotta frowned and turned away.