My Life with Narration-Chapter 304 - 301: Shen Yi: Battery Below 10%

They found a kind of beef noodles that only Anhui didn’t have, and the two ordered three small bowls and ate slowly.

"Did you know in advance that the city management was coming?" Li Zijun asked curiously while eating noodles.

Su Qing nodded, "I saw the city management’s car from a distance."

Actually, he didn’t see anything. When the voiceover reminded him, he didn’t know what was happening. He thought just having a meal wouldn’t be that tiring, but he never expected that after paying, he’d have to run with the stall owner chased by city management.

Du Qiang, being a cop, specifically a detective, never thought he would be chased by city management one day, and he particularly didn’t want the owner to get caught by them.

"So why didn’t you warn him?" 𝕗𝐫𝚎𝗲𝘄𝐞𝕓𝐧𝕠𝘃𝕖𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝚖

"Who told him to gross me out at noon today."

"How did he gross you out?"

"He called me on a video call while I was having lunch, and he was taking a dump!"

Li Zijun: ...

"You’ve done it now, you’ve grossed me out too."

"What does that have to do with me? The poop was his. Go find him!"

"You’ll see, believe it or not, I’ll hit you!" Li Zijun gave a glare, immediately entering battle mode.

For her, the day started with farts and ended with poop, and she felt tired and somewhat itchy-handed, wanting to hit someone.

On the other hand, Su Qing held grudges, mainly because he was not having a good day. He didn’t have a proper rest on his day off, got disgusted while working overtime, and wasn’t allowed to sleep in. He needed someone to vent to, right?

He didn’t dare to retaliate against Li Zijun, but he felt he could handle Qiangzi, who cared too much about protecting his brains, unwilling to use them.

When they were almost halfway through eating, Du Qiang came running in, panting, then plopped down on a chair, put the fried skewers on the table, and grabbed a bottle of Bawang Temple, drinking it in gulps.

"Burp~~~For crying out loud, I’m exhausted!" At this moment, Du Qiang was drenched in sweat, looking like he was about to collapse.

Li Zijun, taking out a skewer of fish tofu, asked curiously, "How long has it been, and you’re so tired already? Your fitness level is declining, find some time to train more."

"Yeah, easy for you to say since you weren’t the one chasing after that car, were you? Do you know how far I ran? The owner almost drove all the way to Shanqing Park, two bus stops away from where we started, and we didn’t even run in a straight line. Tell me, isn’t it tiring?" Du Qiang shouted, feeling downright unlucky.

Upon this, Su Qing couldn’t help but continue to ask, "So why didn’t you take a cab?"

Hearing this, Du Qiang rolled his eyes, "What do you know? The owner had some unbelievable driving skills, I almost lost him even though I’m a detective. He dodged every which way. By the time I flagged down a cab, he was long gone. I think he just wanted to fleeced me out of my 22 bucks.

Darn it, I’m not on a high salary, and he still wanted to scam me, but it didn’t run away, I even got an extra grilled sausage out of it."

Both: ...

"I suspect the owner might make a living doing that, dodging a few customers each night for a good hundred bucks," Su Qing laughed.

Du Qiang nodded, expressing his total agreement, "This meal was really something, freaking exhilarating, heart-pounding stuff, and I even saw the owner drifting with a tricycle, scared the hell out of me."

Well, anyway, despite Du Qiang’s ordeal, both he and Li Zijun found it quite amusing.

After the meal, Du Qiang parted ways with the two, as he needed to head home after all.

"Get in the car, let’s go!" Li Zijun called out.

"Uh, Sister Jun, I’m not going home tonight."

"Not going home?"

"Yeah, I have work tomorrow, my home’s too far from the office!"

"No way, you have to come to the police station over the next few days, such a big case and no progress, you need to show up!"

Finally, with no other option, unable to win against her, he was dragged back to the residential area by Li Zijun.

Meanwhile, at Qingshui Garden, Shen Yi sat on the couch in his living room, with the landlady and a little girl beside him, looking displeased as he read the message from Su Qing saying he wouldn’t be coming home tonight.

"What’s up? Little Su not coming back again?" Wen Nanqing asked curiously.

These past two nights, Su Qing hadn’t returned home, this she knew. Last night Shen Yi had even complained to her, and it seemed he wouldn’t be home again today, making her somewhat curious to see what was happening.

Upon hearing this, Shen Yi nodded, looking uncomfortable both seated and standing, "Said he was staying at home, and something’s up at the police station, so he can’t leave, but he’ll bring the cat Huang to work tomorrow."

His unease wasn’t emotional but a physiological reaction, similar to a smoker suddenly deprived of cigarettes.

The landlady, naturally aware of this, laughed, "What, ran out of juice and found no power source? Hahaha! I thought meeting Little Su every day had cured your problem, but your craving only grew, after just two days, look at you, don’t fall apart on me!

Been telling you to hurry things along, cook the rice, then get married, have kids, and stay home. I promise Little Su would come home every night then, but are you stumped now? Hey? Talk to me, not powering off, are you?"

Shen Yi: ...

"You’re the one powering off!"

"Oh, there’s juice left, come on, play me a ’time stop’!"

"Get lost!"

While the two were joking around, the little girl suddenly asked, "Auntie, are you going to have a baby?"

Shen Yi: "Cough, cough, cough, don’t listen to your mom’s nonsense, Auntie isn’t!"

"Oh~~ but if you want to, you have to hurry, mommy says that when the battery is empty, it won’t move."

"Won’t move?" Shen Yi blinked, then looked at the landlady, "You don’t have any weird and strange toys, do you?"

"Nonsense, your sister’s experienced everything worth experiencing, no need for that stuff. But you, better seize the opportunity, not even together and he dares not come home, what’ll you do once you’re together?"

"Shoo shoo, you’re getting worse, acting like a mom. Alright, as for him not coming back, what’s Brother Wen planning to do?" Shen Yi asked.

Upon hearing this, the landlady shrugged, "Do what needs doing, my brother got curious after hearing about Little Su from me, decided to meet him, but if he’s not coming, oh well, I’ll text him to reschedule."

It turns out that Wen Jingqi and Wang Zheng had already planned to take action, but the mastermind of it all, Su Qing, had not appeared, fueling Wen’s curiosity about the person advising his sister since those with ability enjoy being in control.

"Alright then, thank Brother Wen for me!"

"No need, just treat me to a meal!"

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