When I learned that Ninth Concubine had been alive all this time, I could hardly believe it.
But on second thought, centenarians were not that rare, especially among elderly people who had never left the countryside in their entire lives. Many of them lived to a hundred.
Still, I had never imagined that Ninth Concubine could live to a hundred.
Not only was I shocked, but An Ning was too.
"Sir, when did Xu Xiangu pass away?" I asked the old man.
"The night before last night's eve. She suddenly passed on. She'd actually seemed perfectly healthy, with no illnesses, and she ate plenty too. But when someone's over a hundred, it's normal for them to go suddenly. You could say she died a natural death at a ripe old age..."
I could barely take in anything else the old man said.
His very first sentence had already left me a little stunned.
Three nights ago... wasn't that when Seventh Master and I entered the construction site?
Ninth Concubine had died just as Seventh Master and I entered the construction site?!
"Sir, what time that night did Xu Xiangu pass away?" I asked again.
The old man said it was eleven at night, exactly eleven, which was Zi Hour.
I was dumbfounded again.
At that time, Seventh Master and I had been about to leave the unfinished hotel inside the construction site, but before we could get out, Seventh Master had been blasted by lightning. Then we had fallen into the pit and lost consciousness.
Although I hadn't checked the time then, it should have been right around eleven when we fell into the pit and passed out.
In other words, Ninth Concubine had died just as we lost consciousness.
Shaken, I asked again, "Sir, has Ninth... has Xu Xiangu