Corpse Recovery Diver

The first thing Panzi and Leizi did after getting their salary was to buy things for Li Weihan and Cui Guiying.

The cousins bought cigarettes and alcohol, and sat individually with Li Weihan on a small stool while having dinner, drinking, and smoking, intentionally separating themselves from the other kids.

They bought a new set of clothes for Cui Guiying, who couldn't bring herself to wear the new clothes, but she had already "worn them out" from talking about them over the past few days.

Each contributed half the money for Yingzi so she could buy what she needed to bring to college.

Yingzi refused, saying she already had enough money, but ended up being scolded by the brothers, who claimed girls in the city dressed so brightly and stylishly, while Yingzi looked like a rustic village girl, warning her not to get easily lured by any guy in college who offered her things.

These sarcastic words made Yingzi cry, and in the end, she had no choice but to accept the money while smiling through her tears.

Actually, when the brothers grew up at their grandparents' place, they were quite ignorant, although Li Weihan and Cui Guiying were not biased against girls, otherwise, they wouldn't have supported Li Lan's education back then. But rural girls mature early, so Yingzi often helped with chores, while the older brothers played and ate after getting tired and went outside for fun once they woke up.

Now they were visiting Li Sanjiang's house to find Xiao Yuan, carrying a large bag of snacks and using their bike to transport two large boxes of soda.

The soda wasn't Jianlibao; it was bottled, and after drinking, they had to return the empty bottles to get their deposit back. It's cheap; if they truly bought Jianlibao, their salary wouldn't have sufficed for such extravagance.

But regardless, it was still a thoughtful gesture.

Li Zhiyuan remembers when he first arrived in Nantong; it was the two of them who took him around the village, and later even brought him to the town's video lounge to watch pornographic films.

They even got taken into the police station because of that incident.

Looking at the two now, cigarettes hanging from their mouths, deliberately unshaved beards, wearing work clothes, though still youthful in age, presenting a grown-up demeanor.

People often lament how quickly time passes, but the changes in people often leave time itself astonished.

It's only been two years, and perhaps in another two years, they'll be getting married, and in another two years, they might have children; Li Zhiyuan will then be an uncle to their kids.

Having grown up together at their grandparents' house, once they have families of their own, their relationship will inevitably become more distant than it is now, but regardless of how far it drifts, it will not degrade to the problematic relationships between the uncles' families now.

Tan Wenbin invited them to stay for lunch, but they waved their hands, claiming they had already eaten, although it was evident they hadn't.

After finishing their cigarettes, they left their stuff behind and rode away on their bikes.

Coming this time was because they had freeloaded quite a few of the snacks Aunt Zhang sent over through Little Yuanhou's mom and had naively taken him to Aunt Zhang's small shop, making Little Yuanhou spend his pocket money to buy things.

The brothers now feel their faces burn when they think about it.

Of course, they didn't realize that the little brother they tricked was actually treating them like kids to fool around with.

Flower Woman: "No doubt, these two kids are quite different from their parents' generation."

Wang Lian: "Kids grow up and become sensible."

Flower Woman: "It's quite far from here to Xingren Town. Every day, they ride their bikes early to work, come back after work, spending almost three hours to and fro."

Wang Lian: "Probably even longer."

Flower Woman: "They're earning hard-earned money."

Wang Lian: "But they're willing to spend."

Liu Jinxia: "Han Hou and Sister Guiying can also enjoy some well-earned happiness. The rice harvest had been plentiful season after season; surely they'd encounter a bountiful year."

Liu Yumei laid out a card.

Flower Woman exclaimed with delight: "I've won!"

Liu Yumei picked up her teacup, took a sip, ignoring the card she played, and responded to Liu Jinxia's comment:

"That's the truth."

In the afternoon, Li Zhiyuan reviewed those two sets of books again.

After finishing, he sat on the chair, feeling like he was surrounded by a crowd jabbering:

"For the Righteous Path to vanquish."

Li Zhiyuan rarely faces issues irrationally, but this shows he's no longer able to confront the current problem from a rational perspective.

The most absurd part is, Li Zhiyuan has a vague feeling—the answer might be right in front of him, yet he hasn't discovered it.

A pair of hands appeared on either side of his head, gently pressing.

Initially uncomfortable, the pressure was off, but quickly they found the right rhythm.

The "buzzing" in the young man's ears gradually diminished until it vanished.

Alii had seen Aunt Liu massage Grandma's head before.

Noticing the young man's severe mental disturbance earlier, she naturally stepped over to help soothe him.

Li Zhiyuan grasped Alii's hand and said, "Alright, I'm fine now."

Things overly delightful often can't be extensively enjoyed; people instinctively treasure them and wish for longevity.

Alii looked earnestly at the young man.

Since that time her grandma took the young man out, grandma changed, and so did the young man.

Li Zhiyuan leaned forward, meeting his forehead with the girl's.

"Alright, I'm fine."

The vendetta list suddenly grew.

Li Zhiyuan wasn't anxious about succeeding in revenge in the future; he was worried about… how to prevent the resurgence after revenge.

It's not only evil spirits that are hard to suppress and kill.

Those on the Righteous Path are sometimes even harder to eliminate completely.

If they wish to endure and survive, their methods and strategies far exceed those of traditional evil spirits.