Wuzhen, the third day of the show.
Ji Nanshu got up bright and early, pocketed the fifty yuan he still hadn't used, and went grocery shopping with Chu Mo.
By the time the others got up, Chu Mo had already made breakfast.
"Teacher Chu, you got up to make breakfast again! Teacher Ji is so lucky!" Bai Nanyu looked envious. "Xiao Lu and I will go make breakfast!"
Bai Nanyu had barely finished when Jian Yuanjia rushed out of the kitchen, shouting, "Brother Chu!! You actually made breakfast for everyone today!!! I love you so much!"
He was so touched. Sob, sob, sob.
Counting the meal where he'd insisted on tagging along with his big brother to freeload and the one on the first evening, this was the third meal!!
Chu Mo: No, thank you! Just stay away from me.
Bai Nanyu, who had been about to head to the kitchen, felt as if his face had been slapped swollen.
That damned Chu Mo!
"S-so you made breakfast today, Teacher Chu! Thank you!"
All he got in response was the back of Chu Mo's head and Ji Nanshu's mocking smile.
This Bai Nanyu could put up with even more than the original owner remembered. That made things much more interesting.
What baffled Ji Nanshu was why Bai Nanyu insisted on driving the original owner into a corner when he clearly knew the original owner hadn't had a good life with the Bai family.
It didn't make sense for it to be about money, either. The original owner wasn't entitled to inherit the Bai family's assets. Only Grandma Bai had taken pity on him and left him a little over a hundred million and some real estate.
For those things? That shouldn't have been enough. In the original owner's memories, the Bai family had left Bai Nanyu ten percent of their shares and plenty of real estate.
Or did he simply have the same bizarre way of thinking as his mother, Liu Yanshuang, believing the original owner had enjoyed the wealthy life that should have been his, and resenting him for it?
That... really did seem possible.
If he was simply an idiot, things would be much easier. If he had some other objective... that would be a little troublesome.
Still, it would only be a little more troublesome.
Today was the last day of this installment of the show. After the guests finished the tasks left over from yesterday, they were just about to take a break when they saw the two officers who had responded yesterday enter Beside the Flower Stream carrying something.
In the livestream, the bullet comments rolled past-
[Those are the two cops from yesterday, right? Are they here to arrest Ji Nanshu for making a false report? Hehehe.]
[[Eye roll] Some people just love making random fucking guesses.]
[They're definitely here to deliver a commendation banner to my husband!]
[Hurry up and arrest this guy for making a false report!! Disturbing public order and wasting police resources!]
[Lmao, if he really caught a fugitive, I'll swallow my keyboard on livestream, okay?]
Director Yang's asshole clenched, and he hurriedly jogged out of the control room.
We're screwed. Did Ji Nanshu really make a false report? Won't the show get absolutely torn apart?!
Director Yang asked cautiously, "Officer Wang, what's this...?"
"We're here to deliver a commendation banner to Xiao Nanshu! To thank him for helping us catch a criminal!" Officer Wang swept his gaze around the courtyard and immediately spotted Ji Nanshu sitting on a stool nearby. He beamed. "Xiao Nanshu!"
Oh, with this case solved, a promotion might be in sight!
Ji Nanshu turned his head, puzzled. "Hmm? Officer Wang? Officer Li? You found the evidence and got him to confess?"
"Yes, yes! We really can't thank you enough." Officer Wang smiled so hard his face nearly crinkled into a chrysanthemum. "The station arranged to have a commendation banner delivered to you! Look-"
A good citizen of Hua Country?
Jian Yuanjia came over. "Strictly speaking, half of this banner should be mine!"
Officer Wang nodded. "Yes! It's to thank both of you!"
Ji Nanshu accepted the banner. "Thank you, Officer Wang~ I was only doing what I should."
Officer Li asked, "I wanted to ask, how did you know he'd buried the evidence there?"
Ji Nanshu replied, "Oh, that... I divined it, of course."
?
What kind of answer was that??
Officer Li frowned at that. "If you don't want to answer, fine. Why fob me off with something like that?"
He hated it most when people talked about supernatural nonsense! What day and age was this, for people to still be spouting feudal superstitions!
Bai Nanyu cut in. "Exactly, Teacher Ji. Tell everyone about it."
Ji Nanshu glanced at Bai Nanyu, who never stopped making his presence known and getting on people's nerves. "Tell you? What? Do you want to learn?"
Before Bai Nanyu could speak, Ji Nanshu continued, "Being eager to learn is a good thing. Unfortunately, with your aptitude... you probably wouldn't understand."
"You...!" Bai Nanyu was furious, his face flushed scarlet, but he couldn't find anything to say in rebuttal.
"Don't argue, don't argue." Officer Wang clearly knew something about feng shui and mystic arts. He patted Officer Li's shoulder, then said to Ji Nanshu, "Sorry, Xiao Nanshu. Xiao Li has never believed in this stuff."
Officer Li snorted, his face full of disdain. He wanted to see what else this charlatan could come up with!
"It's fine~" Ji Nanshu didn't mind at all. "By the way, Officer Wang, you're not just here to deliver a banner, are you?"
Officer Wang glanced at the camera, then at Director Yang, looking a little troubled.
Director Yang took the hint and had them go to the back courtyard.
Chu Mo felt that, as Ji Nanshu's boyfriend-self-proclaimed!-he absolutely needed to go along and listen.
His boy was so young. What if someone conned him?!
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[Lmao, where's the person who said they'd swallow a keyboard?]
[Who knows if it's real?]
[Some people might not amount to much, but they sure are stubborn!]
Once they entered the back courtyard, Officer Wang scratched his head a little sheepishly. "Nanshu, here's the situation. There was a major traffic accident in Cheng County the day before yesterday. Forty-seven people died in total. I don't know if you saw the news, Xiao Nanshu?"
Ji Nanshu's interest was piqued. "What traffic accident?"
"The official account was that someone with antisocial personality disorder deliberately caused the accident to take revenge on society. But afterward, I asked someone to look into it, and that person... didn't have antisocial personality disorder at all. So I suspect..."
"So you suspect someone used feng shui mystic arts to cause this accident?" Ji Nanshu pondered briefly. "Do you have any grounds for that?"
"I don't have any grounds... just a gut feeling." Officer Wang knew how ridiculous that sounded, but he wasn't making things up. Ever since becoming a police officer, he had relied on those gut feelings to avoid many fatal dangers, which was how he had managed to survive until now.
"It probably sounds ridiculous... They all say I'm overthinking it. I believe in this stuff, but I don't know any celestial masters. Then you happened to have someone call the police, and we really did catch a criminal, so I..."
"Officer Wang, I believe you." Ji Nanshu cut him off and said, "After all, if you hadn't relied on your own instincts, you probably wouldn't have survived until now."
Officer Wang's eyes widened, and he slapped his thigh. "Oh, Xiao Nanshu, you really are incredible!!! When I went undercover in my younger days, those instincts were what kept me alive!! Otherwise, I'd have died in that criminals' den long ago!"
Now he had absolute faith in Ji Nanshu's mystic arts.
"What's that person's name?"
"Duan Yongxue."