Chapter 205 This humble Taoist priest, Zhang Shouyi

Li Mengyao frowned and leaned in a little closer: "Uncle Sun, your complexion looks terrible. Didn't you sleep well last night?"

Sun Zhiyuan turned his head away, his voice dropping even lower: "I... I'm fine."

Liu Manqing also frowned: "Deputy Commander Sun, are you really alright?"

"Teacher Liu, I'm really fine."

Sun Zhiyuan straightened his back: "I just didn't sleep well last night. You guys chat, I'm going over there to check on today's building materials."

After he finished speaking, he turned and walked away, his boots crunching on the gravel path.

Li Mengyao tilted her head: "Auntie, Uncle Sun is so strange today."

Liu Manqing nodded: "Yeah, he usually always pesters me, but today he's unexpectedly calm..."

Zhang Wanyue narrowed her eyes: "When a child is quiet, they must be up to no good."

Wang Mengmeng laughed out loud: "Class Monitor, are you saying Uncle Sun is a child? Hahahaha~"

Zhang Wanyue shook her head: "It's the same principle. Chen Yu, what do you think?"

Chen Yu waved his hand indifferently: "It's not important."

He wasn't afraid of Sun Zhiyuan causing trouble; what he feared was him not causing trouble. As long as there was even the slightest reason, he would definitely die.

Even if he had saved Liu Manqing's life, it wouldn't be able to save him.

Seeing Chen Yu's confident demeanor, the women stopped overthinking it. After all, if Chen Yu said it wasn't important, then it wasn't important.

Chen Yu looked at the women: "By the way, there is something important in the treehouse tonight. No one is allowed to go near it."

Wang Mengmeng was stunned for a moment: "What is it, Brother Yu?"

Chen Yu didn't answer and continued: "You just need to be responsible for guarding the assigned areas, no need to ask more."

"Oh."

Wang Mengmeng quickly shut her mouth.

Chen Yu picked up his machete and headed towards the northern woods, which was the direction of the bridge across the island.

Just after Chen Yu left.

Wang Mengmeng started muttering: "Important matter? What important matter? Hey, Mengyao, I suddenly remembered something!"

Li Mengyao was stunned: "Hmm?"

But before Wang Mengmeng could say anything, Liu Manqing interrupted: "Alright, stop guessing. Since Chen Yu said not to go near it, then don't go near it. Let's go, we need to go supervise the work too!"

Wang Mengmeng still wanted to speak, but Liu Manqing had already pulled Li Mengyao away.

"What is this..."

"Why do I remember Brother Yu saying something to Mengyao... what was it again? Something about tonight..."

She scratched her head and rubbed her chin.

Zhang Wanyue shook her head as she walked past her: "Alright, Mengmeng, let's go."

The women dispersed one after another, only Sun Zhiyuan remained standing in the shadow of a palm tree not far away.

"Teacher Liu..."

"It's not that I'm heartless, it's that you didn't treat me like a person."

"I've poured so much emotion, money, and time into you, and in the end, you're together with that pretty boy."

Sun Zhiyuan admitted,

in terms of looks, he wasn't as good as Chen Yu.

In terms of age, he was older.

In terms of skin, his was rougher.

In terms of hair, he had less.

In terms of fighting, he also wasn't as good as him.

But!

In terms of love for Teacher Liu, no one could compare to him!

And because of this, Sun Zhiyuan broke down. He couldn't accept Teacher Liu being stolen away by someone else!

If he couldn't have her, he would destroy her!

He wanted to ruin Liu Manqing's reputation tonight!

Meanwhile—

On the way to the mine, sunlight leaked through the gaps in the palm leaves, scattering pieces of gold on the ground.

Liu Manqing walked in front, a deep purple coat draped over her shoulders, waiting for Li Mengyao to catch up.

"Um, Mengyao..."

"What's wrong, Auntie?"

Li Mengyao turned her head and asked curiously.

Liu Manqing glanced at her attire. On her lower body was a short skirt, the hemline just reaching the middle of her thighs, revealing a section of fair legs. On her upper body was a small knitted vest, paired with a white camisole underneath.

She then coughed, her expression somewhat unnatural: "This outfit of yours is quite nice, isn't it?"

Li Mengyao: "?"

Li Mengyao was stunned for a moment, looked down at her outfit, "Uh... Auntie, didn't you choose these clothes for me in the first place? Then they must look good!"

Liu Manqing shifted her gaze away from Li Mengyao's face.

It landed on the palm tree by the side of the road, then shifted from the palm tree to the clouds in the sky.

Li Mengyao frowned: "What's wrong with you, Auntie? Why do I feel like both you and Uncle Sun have something on your minds? He hasn't said a word all day, and you're acting weird too."

"Huh?"

Liu Manqing quickly clarified: "It has nothing to do with Sun Zhiyuan. I'm just... I'm just thinking that my taste was really good before. I want to try wearing this outfit you have on!"

Li Mengyao felt more and more that her aunt's state was wrong.

But she didn't know exactly what was wrong.

"Auntie, if you want to wear it, I can swap with you, but I always feel that if I wear your outfit, it will..."

Before Li Mengyao could finish.

Liu Manqing spoke directly: "Okay! Then let's swap for a day and try it out. I'm mainly just curious..."

Li Mengyao always felt this reason was very far-fetched, but seeing her aunt's expectant eyes, she couldn't bear to refuse.

She could only nod: "Alright~"

...

...

Twilight gathered. Between afternoon and dusk, only a line of dark gold remained between the sea and the sky.

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—"

The sea breeze poured in from under the bridge, carrying a salty, fishy chill, blowing people's clothes hem.

Chen Yu sat on the highest stone railing at the bridge head.

His boots hung half a foot above the bridge deck, and his machete lay horizontally across his knees, gleaming with a cold white light in the twilight.

On the whole bridge, he was the only one.

However, soon, Officer Pei Yuanheng and Captain Zhou Ting each brought three people.

Officer Pei Yuanheng spoke first: "How is it? Any situation?"

Chen Yu shook his head: "No, I've been sitting here for about... two hours, nothing at all."

Cheng Minglang stood behind Officer Pei Yuanheng and frowned: "Could it be that there are no building material treasure chests today?"

Officer Pei Yuanheng turned his head to look at Captain Zhou Ting.

"Captain Zhou, what do you think?"

Captain Zhou Ting was looking down, fiddling with a tablet, his fingers swiping across the screen, his brows slightly furrowed.

"This pattern is very troublesome: tides, wind direction, time."

A few minutes later, he suddenly stopped his movements: "Wait, someone is coming..."

Everyone looked at the opposite side of the bridge simultaneously.

At the end of the stone slab, a figure walked out.

In the strong wind, that person's Daoist robe didn't move at all.

It wasn't that the wind was light, but that the person's Daoist robe was too heavy. A copper bell was tied to his waist, a small copper mirror hung on his right side, a string of ebony Daoist beads was wrapped around his wrist, and he held a horsetail whisk in his right hand.

Even on his back, there was a bronze sword.

"Ding-a-ling."

"Ding-a-ling."

With every step, the copper bell rang.

He walked to the center of the bridge.

The daylight illuminated the copper bell, copper mirror, Daoist beads, horsetail whisk, and bronze sword on his Daoist robe, making them flicker in light and shadow.

"The sun sinks into the West Sea. The tide rises in the East."

"The Treasure Chest is about to arrive."

"This poor Daoist is Zhang Shouyi, the twelfth-generation successor of the Sanqing Temple of the Qingwei Sect."