Ming Li: ...?! This is that intense?!
The System was startled by the scene and quickly said to Ming Li, "Host, save him quickly!"
Ming Li calmly uttered two words: "Noisy!" and then vanished from her spot.
The System: ...?! It meekly shut up, not daring to say anything further.
Ming Li reappeared behind the runaway truck.
At this moment, Father Jiang, who was carrying something on the road, looked at the large truck speeding towards him. His expression filled with terror as he tried to run to the side, but Father Jiang found his legs had gone weak and he couldn't move at all.
As the truck drew closer, Father Jiang stood frozen, closing his eyes in despair. Just at this critical moment, the out-of-control truck suddenly stopped two to three meters away from Father Jiang.
Father Jiang, who had broken out in a cold sweat from fright, opened his eyes when he heard no further commotion. Seeing the scene before him, Father Jiang breathed a sigh of relief and wanted to quickly move aside, but found his legs were still too weak to move.
At this moment, the driver of the truck also breathed a huge sigh of relief. For some reason today, the truck's brakes had failed. It was close! So close to causing a traffic accident! So close to hitting someone! But thankfully, the truck had stopped in the end.
Seeing the middle-aged man still standing motionlessly on the road ahead, the truck driver quickly opened the car door, got out, and walked towards the middle-aged man.
As the driver got out and closed the car door, his gaze inadvertently swept towards the back of the truck. He saw a figure flash past. The driver froze, raised his hand to rub his eyes, and looked again, but found nothing. The driver thought he must have seen wrong; how could there be anyone behind the large truck?!
The driver closed the car door and hurried towards Father Jiang, asking nervously, "Big brother, are you alright?"
Father Jiang, hearing the driver's voice, snapped back to attention. He raised his hand to wipe the cold sweat from his forehead and replied to the driver, "Oh, I'm fine, I'm fine." With that, Father Jiang walked to a short distance away, picked up the bag he had dropped earlier, and headed towards home.
The driver: ...?! That's it? Normally, this big brother should have tried to extort money from him, right?! Why didn't he follow the script?!
Watching the receding figure, the driver once again let out a heavy sigh of relief!
Ming Li stood on a tree not far away, watching Father Jiang's figure gradually disappear from view. With a flash, she followed him.
As Father Jiang neared home, Ming Li overtook him, arrived at the house first, woke up the unconscious Mother Jiang, and then returned to her own room.
As soon as Mother Jiang opened her eyes, she saw Father Jiang entering the door with a bag of things. Mother Jiang breathed a sigh of relief and quickly got up to help Father Jiang put down the bag.
After they had put the things away, Mother Jiang went to Ming Li's room to call her out for dinner.
When Ming Li came out of her room, she saw Father Jiang sitting at the dining table with a displeased expression, flipping through a Chinese almanac.
Ming Li: ...?! A slight twitch at the corner of her mouth. Does looking at this thing really help? It's better to trust a big shot than this.
Throughout the meal, although Father Jiang's expression remained somewhat grim, he didn't say anything. When Mother Jiang asked him what was wrong in the middle, Father Jiang merely waved his hand.