Chapter 57: Old Friend Reunion

"I want to ask everyone to respect the co-mayor as she is hard working for everyone.

And believe me when I say without her, this town will not function. Can we please give a round of applause for her?"

The crowd hesitated for a second but reluctantly clapped after seeing Xiaoyun pass the microphone back to Yuqi.

"Thank you, mayor, for that speech. Now, the five booths at the administration building will be opened.

They will give you twenty food stamps as an allowance and a tag with the cabin number you are staying in."

Also, they will ask for your occupation and assign you the job that matches which department."

As soon as Yuqi mentioned the free money, the crowd seemed extremely happy, more than when Xiaoyun made his promise.

"The twenty food stamps are enough for a week of food, and the cabin you are staying in will be free for a week, as mentioned earlier.

For people who want to join the town's force, please stay here, as Major Yiming will determine whether you are fit enough to join the militia.

Thank you everyone for your cooperation. You may all now go ahead to the booth."

After Yuqi explained everything, she finally turn off the microphone before putting it onto the podium.

"Good job, darling! That was amazing!" Xiaoyun congratulated Yuqi as they excitedly hugged each other.

"Yeah, yeah, I'm never doing this again. I'm going to write all this down in a book and print it out.

I could have just handed them the book instead of explaining every detail." Yuqi pushed Xiaoyun back as she took a sip of water.

"Well, there are a lot of people this time, so it's probably better for them to know the actual people in those departments.

By the way, when did we create the names of all these departments? I don't recall making it," Xiaoyun curiously asked.

"Well, while you were away, we decided we needed to re-organize everything.

Even Yezi didn't know what department he led until I handed them the script a few hours ago."

As the two of them looked down at the stage, most people were already lining up at the booths.

"Are the booths ready to handle this? That's a lot of people. Also, when did we get enough housing for them?"

"I'm sure the booths are ready. I requested several soldiers to stand guard there.

And about the housing. Well, there would be enough family units if the eighty of them are just sixteen families."

"You know that ain't gonna happen."

"Then they going to need to double up. There's not much I can do unless they want to sleep on the grass."

Turning to the other side, the two could see quite a long line in front of Yiming as well.

"Geez, look like people really wanted to join the military," Xiaoyun commented.

"Probably because they have experienced what the outside is like. They want to control their fate." Yuqi predicted.

"Hey what you two talking about?" Yueyue walked over to the two.

"Just talking about crowd that standing in front of Yiming. Anyway where's Leyan?" Xiaoyun asked.

"I think she was walking home with Wuli and another women." Yueyue replied.

"The women you talking about is probably Shuli, anyway lets go home now."

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When the four arrived back home, Leyan was already sitting on the sofa talking with the two.

"Hello Miss Wuli and Miss Shuli." The two girl sat down on the sofa.

"Um, hello." Xiaoyun stood there awkwardly, slightly confused on how to face them.

"This your son? He is so much like his dad. I thought you would never find Xiaoyun." Wuli commented.

"Yeah, that hair and height. Look exactly like him almost fifteen years ago." Shuli added.

"H-he is Songming..." Leyan blushes as she spills the bean.

"What you talking about? Isn't his name Xiaoyun? Beside, wouldn't Songming be middle age by now..." Shuli still refuse to believe it.

"Well, Leyan right. You can say my other name is Songming... If you don't believe me. Let me say something that only he will know." Seeing Leyan being honest, Xiaoyun decided to be honest as well.

"Like w-what?" Wuli asked nervously.

"Leyan, remember our wedding night where they were watching us having——" Wuli interrupted Xiaoyun before he can finish.

"Okay! Enough! I believe you now. But why is your name Xiaoyun then?" Wuli asked.

"Isn't that your son's name too?" Shuli chimed in.

"Here, let me start explaining from scratch..." Xiaoyun sat down and proceed to explain the story without the girls part.

After ten minute...

"You telling me a time machine... You can't be serious." Wuli looked in complete shock at Xiaoyun.

"This sound like a fantasy straight out of a book." Shuli added.

"Wuli, you still remember how I pull explosive out of your bag? Even though your bag have no explosive inside it at all?" Xiaoyun finally brought it up.

"Yeah, how did you do that?" Wuli asked.

"Well, you see my hand here right?" Xiaoyun shows an empty hand.

The two nodded.

Suddenly a water bottle appeared in his hand.

"Huh? Where did that come from?" Shuli looked absolutely confused.

"You tell me you can create things out of thin air?" Wuli realized what Xiaoyun could do.

"Yep, its exactly how you think of it. Here, catch." Xiaoyun used his other hand to make a pen and throws it at her.

Wuli catches the pen in her hand.

"This... no wonder why this town is sustainable." Wuli realized why the town have such a big population without being in the city looting for food.

"And you guys might wonder why Leyan looked so young right?" Xiaoyun brought it up.

The two nodded.

"Well, I can do the same to you two since I saw you guys in the past... only if you want of course." Xiaoyun stood up.

"Hell yeah I'm doing that! My back hurt so much from sitting in the office." Wuli stood up and grabbed Xiaoyun's hand in excitement.

"M-me too..." Shuli nervously replied back.

"Okay, let me do Wuli first then." Xiaoyun closes his eyes as he started to imagine what she looked at in the past.

All four of them can see Wuli started to change as she aged backward until Xiaoyun let go of her hand.

"Whew, I think that same thing now right?" Xiaoyun sat back down slightly exhausted.

"Yes! Thank you so much!" Wuli gave a hug to Xiaoyun and sat back down.

Xiaoyun walked over to Shuli and does the same to her.

As Xiaoyun finishes with Shuli, he suddenly felt as if his head just got struck by a truck.

Leyan held Xiaoyun back up before he collapsed to the floor.

"I-Is he okay?" Shuli looked extremely nervous.

"He's just a little tired. Can you two lift him back to his room?" Leyan asked.

"Sure." Yuqi and Yueyue supported Xiaoyun back upstairs.

"You guys can stay for the night, you guys can sleep in my room. Oh my, I almost forgot, no one had eaten dinner yet. Let me go cook dinner right now." Leyan left and went to the kitchen, leaving the two in the living room.

"Wuli, do you really believe what he said?" Shuli asked.

"Well, he really made us both looked back when we were still babysitting his kids... Time traveling doesn't sound that crazy as just making things out of thin air." Wuli replied back, but then added another.

"Do you notice Yuqi and Yueyue is a little bit too close to Xiaoyun? You know what I mean right?"

"Well they are brother and um... father. Yeah... I still can't believe someone can give make their own mother pregnant and give birth to themselves. Aren't those two technically inc——" Just before Shuli can finish, someone knocked on the door.

Wuli went to opened the door only to see a girl standing in the door.

"Um, who are you?" Nami looked confused at Wuli.

"I'm Wuli, your mom's old friend. You must be Nami?"

"Oh hello Miss Wuli. I'm indeed Nami, where mom?"

"She's cooking dinner right now." The two walked to the sofa.

Yuqi and Yueyue finally came back downstairs.

"Oh hey Nami, how's work today?" Yuqi asked.

"Busy as hell. I was suppose to leave work an hour earlier but I had to kept going to the storage and restock everything. I even had to call Mr.Yezi to help me carry things to the store." Nami stretched on the sofa.

"Well, you gonna be busy for a while. Those new people are probably all going to the store tomorrow as well." Yuqi brought the bad news to Nami.

"Oh my god! Yueyue you got to come to the store and help me. You retiring from the militia soon right?" Nami held Yueyue's arm as she pleaded.

"I-I still got like three days before I'm retired from active duty. I-I still have to patrol the street." Yueyue replies crushes Nami's hope.

"Qiqi! I know you always love me the most. C-can I hire someone to help me?" Nami ran to Yuqi's chest and hugged her.

"Fine fine, you can go hire someone. Just make sure they are trustworthy and bring them to me tomorrow." Yuqi folded.

"Thank you!" After Nami finish speaking, she ran upstairs immediately.

"Geez, does she ever learn any manner?" Yuqi facepalm in embarrassment.

"Its okay, she still very young. You can't expect a high school student to start acting so professional." Yueyue replied back to her.

"Yeah, yeah. Whatever." Yuqi and Yueyue sat back down on the sofa.

"Miss Wuli and Shuli, can you guys tell what um, dad wanted to say earlier? I-I am just a little curious." Yueyue asked.

"W-we can't tell you that. That would be invasion of their privacy." Wuli nervously replied back.

"Y-yeah, you can asked them instead if t-they wanted to t-tell you. B-but its probably the best not to a-ask that." Shuli got even more nervous than Wuli.