My heart began pounding wildly. I never expected that what was bound to come would still arrive after all. With Mother and Brother Ruize disappearing, the Xia family could no longer sit still and had directly called me with this death-knell of a phone call.
I picked up the phone. There was a stretch of silence on the other end, and I said coldly, "You actually still have the nerve to see me? Whatever it is, say it now. I don't have time to listen to anything else."
"For one thing, the Xia family wronged you, but it was also for your own good. Now that you're safe and sound, isn't that proof enough?" The voice on the other end was both unfamiliar and familiar, as though it carried an unyielding will.
"Heh, that was something I fought for myself, not something you gave me. I've walked back from the brink of death countless times. Where was the Xia family then? You call, and I come; you wave me away, and I leave. Don't you think that's going too far?" I hung up, started the car again, and headed toward Dalong County.
On the way, I called Nong Guofu.
Nong Guofu had been behaving himself lately. He must have found the knack for doing business properly. When he answered my call, he was still half-asleep. "Yo, the northwest wind is blowing in. City God Xia, how have you been?"
"Sounds like you've been living a cushy life. Weren't you unable to sleep at night or rest by day before?" I teased.
"Heh heh, ever since that month you weren't mixing around in the mortal world, everything I touched turned to gold. I've made an absolute fortune." Nong Guofu chuckled.
"I can hear that. Otherwise, why would you still not have