GBT Chapter 52
by VolareThe wedding banquet was only halfway through when Qi Yi Liao left.
The Old Madam promptly sent someone to stop him and whispered a few words in his ear.
All the powerful figures in the circle were here, and they were all shrewd people.
They couldn’t let them sniff out even a trace of the signal that “the Shen of the South and the Qi of the West are at odds.”
This would be a loss for both sides.
The Old Madam meant that she hoped Qi Yi Liao wouldn’t let his emotions show on his face when he went downstairs, so as not to cause unnecessary misunderstandings.
It was just a small friction between friends that would soon be resolved, but when it reached other people, it could easily be over-interpreted and distorted.
The Old Madam was overthinking it.
When the words “restraint” and “gentleman” were ingrained in a person’s bones, they were like two iron chains, firmly nailed to a person’s temperament, suppressing everything that was inconsistent with those two words.
Qi Yi Liao responded to the guests’ polite remarks with gentle grace. He walked through the hall and to the fountain in the garden, the smile on his lips slowly fading.
Zhang Zhen, standing behind him, observed the surroundings, occasionally meeting the eyes of Shen’s bodyguards. Tonight was the Shen family head’s wedding banquet, and the security was more rigorous than usual.
Zhang Zhen couldn’t understand why Jiao Bai was being married while unconscious. Was it to ward off bad luck? This was more like a shock.
Now Zhang Zhen could completely confirm that Jiao Bai wasn’t trying to use tricks on Shen Dong, trying to grab both the man and the money, but simply didn’t want to enter the Shen family’s gate at all.
Speaking of which, the origin of this marriage was what the fortune teller said, manipulated by the Old Madam.
But the wedding banquet was Shen Dong’s idea.
It was unclear whether he was showing it to others or indulging in self-pity.
Jiao Bai not coming was better than coming.
Because there were also Shen Dong’s old and current lovers at the banquet, those who had been with him for a relatively long time and had been brought out on some occasions. Zhang Zhen remembered them.
The former came with her new boss tonight, and the latter was a performance artist at the wedding banquet who would be dancing later.
Zhang Zhen wasn’t in the mood to drink wedding wine, he didn’t touch a drop. He had been in a daze all night, and even tossed his car keys over when unloading his gun.
This wedding banquet came so suddenly. Zhang Zhen looked up at the night sky, no stars or moon. There were snowflakes in the morning, but now they were gone, leaving only a damp and cold feeling.
Zhang Zhen rubbed his hands. The Shen, Qi, and Chu families had been friends for many years. After Chu Second Young Master lost his little boyfriend, he plunged into the world of wine and women. He had overdone it a few days ago and was beaten up by the Old Master and locked up.
Since Chu Second Young Master wasn’t here, Zhang Zhen thought that Third Brother would replace him and drink with Shen Dong until very late. Who knew…
They would part on bad terms.
When Third Brother left, Shen Dong didn’t even come downstairs to see him off.
The Old Madam was also an interesting character, only concerned about whether Third Brother was acting up, but didn’t persuade her youngest son to show his face. The Qi family’s patriarch leaving halfway, and an old friend not coming out to see him off, wasn’t that equally thought-provoking?
Zhang Zhen was different from Chen Yiming. He couldn’t fathom his master’s thoughts, nor could he learn how.
Anyway, he was only clear about one thing:
Although Shen Dong had watched him grow up, he only had one master.
“Third Brother,” Zhang Zhen asked, “Are you still staying at Xi Garden tonight?”
Qi Yi Liao lit a cigarette, holding it between his fingers, watching it burn circle by circle into ash.
Zhang Zhen didn’t get an answer for a long time, and he couldn’t decide what Third Brother wanted to do.
Staying or not staying was a statement.
When the cigarette was halfway burned, Qi Yi Liao spoke, “A Zhen, go wish Shen Dong a happy marriage.”
Zhang Zhen vaguely took the order. He turned back to the hall, went straight to the second floor, and offered his congratulations to Shen Ji, who was sitting deep in the sofa: “Shen Dong, happy marriage.”
Shen Ji’s cheekbones were slightly flushed from the alcohol: “Little Zhang, come here.”
As soon as Zhang Zhen approached, he saw Shen Ji’s legs on the round table move, one of them moving away, the shoe tapping the red booklet next to him: “Open it.”
“…” Zhang Zhen opened the red booklet.
Shen Ji asked a strange question: “Does he resemble the old one?”
Zhang Zhen said truthfully, “A little.”
The murderous aura on Shen Ji’s body became even heavier.
Zhang Zhen suddenly realized that Third Brother’s unpleasantness with Shen Dong was because he said something similar?
But he did resemble the old one, even the name was the old one.
“You and your master are the same, you don’t know how to talk!” Shen Ji said coldly.
Zhang Zhen was speechless.
He did the deed, and now he wasn’t allowed to talk about it? Why was Shen Dong acting like a greenhorn?
Moreover, judging from Shen Dong’s reaction, the marriage certificate probably wasn’t even handled by him. He didn’t participate in the whole process. Otherwise, he wouldn’t be unable to bear others saying this.
Shen Ji leaned against the back of the sofa with a gloomy expression, waving his hand: “Get out quickly.”
Zhang Zhen closed the marriage certificate and left.
After half past nine, Qi Yi Liao returned to Xi Garden. He had Zhang Zhen make him a cup of sugar water and took it to the third room on the left on the second floor.
Zhang Zhen was efficient. He quickly took Yu Xiang out, leaving the room to Third Brother.
“Don’t make noise.” Zhang Zhen covered Yu Xiang’s mouth, “My Third Brother won’t do anything to Jiao Bai.”
When Yu Xiang couldn’t help but want to fight back, Qi Yi Liao came out.
That was fast.
Did he only go in to take a look?
Yu Xiang suspiciously stared at the master and servant, making sure they wouldn’t come back a second time, before he entered the room and closed the door, locking it.
Qi Yi Liao took several hours to drink a cup of sugar water.
During that time, Zhang Zhen had his brothers find three to five pretty youths and had them take turns going in to serve Third Brother.
A young man approached Zhang Zhen and said, “Brother Zhen, if we could loosen the age requirement, we could actually bring back a few more. They all have nice voices.”
Zhang Zhen was staring at the abstract painting on the wall in a daze, not responding.
The other brothers gathered around.
“What nonsense are you talking about? If we could loosen the age requirement, we would have registered a bunch of people long ago. Would we still have to run our legs off?”
“Actually, I think seventeen, eighteen, and nineteen are really about the same.”
“That’s what you think, not what Master Qi thinks.”
“What’s there to discuss about the old rules? It can only be eighteen years old, one year older or one year younger is not allowed.”
The young man was scolded into a dog by everyone. He remembered something and weakly retorted with a confused look: “But… Young Master Bai is nineteen.”
Everyone fell silent.
Zhang Zhen’s voice sounded at the same time: “How do you know how old he is? Did you investigate?”
A dark-faced brother raised his hand to speak: “No, Brother Zhen, you muttered it yourself.”
Seeing everyone looking at him accusingly, Zhang Zhen said suspiciously, “Really?”
“Really, you’re a little obsessed today, talking nonsense.”
Zhang Zhen: “…”
“He’s out!” The brothers all craned their necks.
The slender boy came out of the room, his face flushed, his eyes wandering, looking like he had met someone he admired and yearned for, but knew the ending from the first meeting.
The Qi family’s subordinates weren’t surprised. Even if their Master Qi didn’t pay by the minute, there were still plenty of people applying for the reading position.
This time, five suitable targets were found in South City, the longest one didn’t even last ten minutes.
It was stone cold.
The bodyguards all scurried away with their heads in their hands.
Leaving Zhang Zhen alone in the corridor, he knocked on the door and went in: “Third Brother…”
Only a small lamp was on in the room, and the windows of the balcony were all open, the cold wind raging.
Qi Yi Liao was standing on the balcony.
Zhang Zhen gathered the curtains that were flying around in the wind. His eyes glanced at the small lamp. Under the lamp was a small Buddha statue. It was right in that halo of yellowing light.
It was as if the Buddha was showing his spirit and was about to save all living beings.
Zhang Zhen wasn’t seeing the Buddha statue for the first time. Third Brother would bring it with him when he went out of town and put it out when he had people chant sutras.
Last time in the front yard, Jiao Bai recited scriptures for Third Brother, and the Buddha statue wasn’t displayed.
Zhang Zhen was an orphan, chosen by the Qi family to be a fighter, and later became Third Brother’s bodyguard. After several life-and-death situations, he became his confidant.
But after so many years, Zhang Zhen still wasn’t clear about the Qi family’s secrets, why Third Brother needed someone to chant scriptures for him every day. And it had to be eighteen years old, male, with an unusual voice, and with a pronunciation that would make people want to listen.
The outside world thought that Third Brother was a voice-control enthusiast, and they were all thinking about catering to this point to please him.
It wasn’t that simple.
Zhang Zhen currently knew two things. The first thing was: it was getting harder and harder for Third Brother to find someone who satisfied him, and the second thing—Jiao Bai had aroused Third Brother’s interest.
From the Lanmo Mansion in West City to the Xi Garden in South City.
The interest was still there.
Zhang Zhen took out the phone in his pocket: “Third Brother, I have Jiao Bai’s recording here…”
Qi Yi Liao on the balcony flicked the cigarette ash: “Open it.”
Zhang Zhen found the recording and pressed it.
In the dim and cold room, a stumbling reading sound rang out, occasionally spelling out words.
“The basics are too poor, the pronunciation is all wrong.” Qi Yi Liao listened for a while and laughed, “What is this reading?”
Zhang Zhen’s face was burning hot, with a kind of embarrassment that his own child was being criticized by his teacher.
“Still need to read more, write more.” Qi Yi Liao sighed.
Zhang Zhen: “…”
The presidents in Third Brother’s circle liked to tease their playthings, changing them frequently. Those who made mistakes would be kicked out. Third Brother also changed them and punished them, but he just made people read books, and he would praise them if they read them correctly. If they misread one place, he would punish them by copying. If they misread two places, the ruler would be used, and the money would still be given. If he was always so persistent in being a teacher, would Third Sister-in-law still have hope?
How worrying.
“Install a few more monitors in the room, too few.” Qi Yi Liao pressed his upper body on the railing, his arms hanging outwards, as if he would fall down at any time. However, the lips with the cigarette in it were slightly hooked, and his eyes reflected a piece of darkness and bright and extinguished stars, making his eyebrows and eyes seem unreal.
Zhang Zhen contacted people to arrange the installation of monitors.
Third Brother liked to be imprisoned by a bunch of monitors, and he couldn’t let him discover the problems with the installation location at a glance. He didn’t know if it could be changed.
If there was a Third Sister-in-law, then the life of the two people would be… Third Sister-in-law would definitely make a fuss.
Third Sister-in-law, Third Sister-in-law, where are you?
Jiao Bai woke up the next morning. Shen Ji was at the Old Home and didn’t rush over, only sent a doctor.
After the examination, Jiao Bai received a four-word evaluation—a medical miracle.
Jiao Bai didn’t have any injuries on his back, but he still liked to lie on his stomach. The mental pain affected his other perceptions, and he would subconsciously be careful not to let the “wounds” on his back touch anything.
Except for taking care of his physiological needs, Jiao Bai spent the rest of his time lying on the bed.
Yu Xiang would cut up fruit into small pieces for Jiao Bai, and then put the straw into the glass, and hold it up to feed him medicine.
The little short legs would stomp back and forth. He didn’t ask why Jiao Bai didn’t want to lie down, insisted on lying on his stomach, and didn’t pull the quilt up, as if he was afraid of touching something.
Jiao Bai saved the effort of explaining, he fell asleep in a daze, woke up, and then fell asleep again, until he got a little energy around noon.
But precisely at this time, uninvited guests appeared at Xi Garden.
Two of them.
They were the original owner’s adoptive parents, dressed inappropriately, their eyes darting around.
“Xiao Qiu!”
The adoptive mother rushed to the bedside as soon as she entered the room, but was knocked away by Yu Xiang with a pillow.
“This grandma, you smell terrible, stay away from my Gua Gua.” Yu Xiang grabbed the pillow and waved it around, hitting anyone who approached.
The adoptive mother was not even forty years old, and being called grandma, she instantly couldn’t maintain her fake concern on her face: “What Gua Gua? Xiao Qiu, who is he?”
Jiao Bai sipped the warm water, too lazy to give her a glance.
The adoptive mother didn’t get a response, so she made up her own explanation. She pointed at Jiao Bai and said to Yu Xiang, “Kid, I’m his mother!”
Yu Xiang pinched his nose in disgust: “Wow, grandma, do you also have bad breath?”
“Pfft,” Jiao Bai laughed out loud.
Yu Xiang squatted down, his head next to his.
The adoptive mother’s face, coated with a lot of makeup, was unwatchable. She exchanged a look with her husband, and sighed as if nothing had happened: “Xiao Qiu, Mom only knew you were in trouble after receiving a call from Xiao Jue. You are also a child, you called home before the first half of the year, but didn’t call at all in the second half of the year. I and your dad called you and couldn’t get through, we were almost worried to death.”
“If your dad hadn’t run into trouble in the store some time ago, and been pushed and fell, needing to recover, we would have come to South City to see you long ago.” The adoptive mother rambled a lot, but no one applauded. This result was not within her expectations. She forcefully elbowed her husband: “Say something!”
The adoptive father put on a straight face: “Since he’s been discharged from the hospital, then there should be nothing wrong, right.”
Jiao Bai sucked the water in the glass clean, and had Yu Xiang help him go to the bathroom: “Slow down, walk slowly, ouch, hiss.”
Yu Xiang didn’t discover where Gua Gua was hurt, but he helped him up carefully.
But the adoptive parents, as if they couldn’t see, were greedily sizing up the room and whispering about countermeasures.
“Xiao Yu is also worried about you abroad. She originally wanted to return to China, but she’s too busy with her studies and doesn’t have time.” The adoptive mother made a tearful gesture, “Our family hasn’t spent the New Year together for two years. If you still can’t go home this year, then we’ll come to South City, we have to spend it together.”
Jiao Bai: “…” This shamelessness was invincible.
There were still scenes of them in the comics. In the opening rural chapter, they showed their faces a few times from Li Jue’s perspective, and later they harassed Li Jue because of their daughter’s future. That daughter even wanted to seduce Shen Er’an.
The family of three became the awful neighbors in “Broken Wings.”
Jiao Bai learned through the original owner’s memories that the Shen family was in a hurry to save Shen Ji back then, and without negotiating the price, they directly gave 10 million. Which was a huge sum of money in the countryside.
The original owner didn’t want a penny and gave it all to the adoptive parents’ family, he just thought of it as repaying them for raising him.
Later, in the two years living in Qin Lin Garden, the living expenses he received were given to Li Jue in installments. When the adoptive parents asked him about it, he said he didn’t have any.
Jiao Bai went into the bathroom, he stood by the sink and looked at himself in the mirror, emaciated after being seriously ill. The original owner lived for others until his death.
When he last looked at this world in the original book, did he, like Shen Ji, hope that life could start over?
The adoptive parents outside were touching this and that, and their mouths hadn’t closed.
“This house is really grand, even the four-story villa we built in the town can’t compare.”
“Are you talking nonsense? I had Xiao Yu search online. Xi Garden in South City, you can’t even live in it with just money, you also have to have power.”
“Didn’t Xiao Yu ask you to take a few photos and post them to her Moments or something?”
“péngyǒuquān – Moments, I told you that you can’t keep up with the times, but you don’t listen.” The adoptive mother retreated a little while taking out her phone, wanting to take a picture of the entire room, but found that it was too big and couldn’t capture it all. She smacked her lips and took pictures everywhere, “Last week, someone came to inquire about Xiao Qiu’s background, do you think he might really be someone’s illegitimate son?”
The adoptive father knocked over an exquisite ornament, he quickly supported it, and then felt that he had lost face by doing this, so he put on a casual posture: “It’s not impossible, we picked him up near the orphanage, wasn’t there also a jade with his birth date on his neck? That jade sold for several thousand yuan, a few thousand yuan back then is not the same as now.”
“The expression of the person inquiring about him changed as soon as we mentioned the jade, they must have gone to look for it.” The adoptive mother said, “Maybe he’s not an illegitimate son, but a young master from a wealthy family who was abducted and mistakenly entered the orphanage. He secretly ran out of the orphanage himself, and that’s why we took him back to the countryside.”
She ran to her husband and said excitedly, “Then aren’t we rich?”
“Keep your voice down, we don’t know if it’s true or not. In short, stay in Xi Garden more this time. He’s Mrs. Shen now, we’re his parents, it’s proper. Even if we live here permanently, Chairman Shen will… won’t not understand.” The adoptive father said.
“I think he’s changed. He used to be so honest and well-behaved, but now, we came in and he hasn’t called us Mom and Dad once, and doesn’t even look at us straight.” The adoptive father cursed, “Ingrate!”
“Now that he’s been taken in by the Shen family, he’s forgotten his place. Warn him more later, big families want face, and they hate those who don’t understand the rules and are lawless.” The adoptive mother took several pictures of a beautiful flowerpot, complaining, “Really, I don’t know what the Shen family saw in him. I wanted Xiao Yu to go back then, but the Shen family just wanted him. Otherwise, if our Xiao Yu became Mrs. Shen, that would be great!”
“…”
The two were still secretly and openly groping around the bedroom, not even knowing when the bathroom door opened.
Jiao Bai stood behind the door in contemplation. Shen Ji had Chen Yiming thoroughly investigate him more than half a month ago, the time wasn’t right.
Then who was it that went to his hometown last week to inquire about him?
Jiao Bai’s train of thought was interrupted by the clicking sound in his ear. He turned his head and saw Yu Xiang chewing on his nails.
“Gua Gua, you…I…” Yu Xiang’s mind was in a knot.
Yu Xiang was afraid that Gua Gua would be uncomfortable during his illness, so he deliberately concealed the fact that he was already married, thinking that concealing it for a few days would allow Gua Gua to suffer less for a few days. But the man outside just mentioned it, and Gua Gua didn’t react much.
Jiao Bai saw his confusion and explained, “I was conscious when I was in a coma, I could hear what I wanted to hear and what I didn’t want to hear.”
Yu Xiang dazedly “ah”ed.
Jiao Bai slapped the fingers on Yu Xiang’s mouth: “What’s my name?”
Yu Xiang immediately answered: “Gua Gua!”
“So,” Jiao Bai said quietly, “The one who married into the Shen family is Wang Chuqiu, what does it have to do with me.”
Yu Xiang blinked, oh right.
Jiao Bai walked out of the bathroom, a smile on his pale face, his little tiger teeth shining brightly, with obvious malice and disgust: “That one, and that one, please delete the photos.”
The adoptive parents were stunned, they hadn’t reacted yet, when the white and clean youth snatched the phone away.
Jiao Bai took the opportunity to ask: “Was the person who inquired about me male or female, describe them.”
The adoptive parents came back to their senses, didn’t answer, and shouted to snatch back their phone.
Yu Xiang was so fast, he quickly cleaned up and threw the phone away, dodging the adoptive mother’s claws, not forgetting to give her a kick.
“Xiao Qiu!” The adoptive father supported his wife and shouted, “What do you want to do? We came all the way on a long-distance bus to see you…”
Jiao Bai pointed at himself: “I’m called Jiao Bai now, a type of food.” He waved his hand, “Forget it, you don’t need to know either. Please, you two, reveal what the person who inquired about me looked like, don’t force me to get rough.”
Yu Xiang clenched his fists.
The place where the adoptive mother was kicked hurt a lot, she changed her expression when she saw the situation was wrong: “If you talk nicely, how could we not tell you?”
Jiao Bai impatiently: “Ears, on!”
Yu Xiang grinned, with a neurotic look in his eyes.
The adoptive mother took a few steps back, knocking over the adoptive father, and the two staggered to the ground.
The adoptive mother’s dress also tore in the chaos, she was as embarrassed as she could be.
“It was just a man, very thin and tall, with a mask and a hat, we didn’t see his face clearly!” The adoptive father’s face was livid with anger.
Jiao Bai leaned back on the bed thoughtfully. What’s going on, does the original owner’s background have a little secret? He had a feeling that a bloody storm was about to descend.
“Get out!” Yu Xiang shrieked, “Get out!”
The adoptive parents’ ears hurt from the noise, and they slipped away, unable to stand it.
Jiao Bai flipped through the bag on the ground by the bed and threw a big jelly to Yu Xiang: “Reward for you.”
Yu Xiang gnawed on the jelly, bounced twice like a dog: “Woof!”
“…Go play.” Jiao Bai couldn’t bear to watch.
After sending Yu Xiang away, Jiao Bai cursed at the air. Li Jue had typical attributes of a submissive character, the world was simple. He didn’t know that his neighborhood brother was sold to South City, he really believed that he had dropped out of school to work here, so he called his brother’s parents to visit him.
But,
Could Shen Ji not know what was going on? Letting the adoptive parents in was purely to disgust him.
On the other side, at Shen’s.
During the meeting, Shen Ji ordered a temporary stop, he had the subordinates all go out and called Chen Yiming in for questioning.
Chen Yiming understood what he meant and said, “The adoptive parents have already left.”
Shen Ji held a pen and tapped it on the document a few times: “Weren’t they just let in?”
Chen Yiming hesitated: “Chairman, Young Master Bai has no feelings for his adoptive parents, they sold him.”
“I don’t know?” Shen Ji was irritable, “Letting those two in was just to stimulate him, to make him more lively, don’t be half-dead all the time.”
Chen Yiming thought to himself, that one is living with a lot of energy, but when facing you…
Sensing the cold air from the chair, Chen Yiming quickly stopped the tendency to analyze further. This was a habit, he wanted to change it too.
“Who is at Xi Garden now?” Shen Ji dropped the pen, the office chair slid, and he faced the floor-to-ceiling windows.
Chen Yiming vaguely figured out what was growing behind the chairman’s question, he was shocked in his heart, but said calmly, “Just Young Master Bai and his brother.”
He paused, with a little emphasis: “Chairman Qi took Zhang Zhen out before dawn, perhaps he has the whereabouts of his nephew, and it will be over soon and he will return to West City.”
The outline of Shen Ji’s face was slightly less strained: “Do I have arrangements at noon?”
Chen Yiming’s face twitched, he could only say no if he had arrangements. So he shook his head: “No arrangements.”
Shen Ji said: “Go order a cake.”
Chen Yiming responded and walked out. The person had just woken up and was very weak, and was still drinking Chinese medicine, could he eat cream?
The chairman wanted to buy it, so he bought it.
Whether he could eat it or not was not his business.
Around noon, Jiao Bai didn’t eat much, he coaxed Yu Xiang to take a nap, and he started looking at the friend list, 0/7.
Shen Ji was missing. He wasn’t in the friend column after entering the group, but was waiting in the group.
Jiao Bai went to the last group and saw that under normal circumstances, if a friend was not online, the avatar would be black.
But Shen Ji’s avatar had become a “Hundred” (bǎi – hundred) character, in gray, at some point. When he went online, either the character would change color, or the character would open like a door, revealing the original Pikachu.
Jiao Bai recalled Shen Ji’s performance after his activity reached 100, he couldn’t help but smack his lips twice, even at 100, he was still an Old Shen Dog.
If this represented the value of love, then it must be a deep love, a cherished love that was greater than life.
If it was a favorability rating, then it was a very strong love, a super strong love, a love to the point where he couldn’t bear to say a harsh word.
However, the activity level was only the degree of interest.
Reaching one hundred, it only meant that the idea of wanting to pry into his heart had reached that value, it didn’t mean it was true love.
A few months ago, when Jiao Bai and Shen Er’an were eating wontons in a small restaurant, he had deduced this point.
It was just that,
He didn’t expect that the interest level of some friends was grafted, which was very bloody.
It didn’t matter, whether direct or indirect, they were all activity levels, there was no difference. After all the tasks were completed, he just had to guard against the entanglements that would follow.
The most feared thing was not being able to untangle them.
Jiao Bai remembered that Shen Ji’s paranoid attribute didn’t seem to be high? He opened the World House to make sure.
He found that it really wasn’t high, only 30.
Slag gong paired with a submissive, torment him ninety-nine eighty-one times, and the paranoid index would reach above 90.
But Shen Ji’s official match was a submissive, but not at the top submissive level, so Shen Ji, who was paired with the other party, wouldn’t be very paranoid.
Like Li Jue’s paranoid attribute was 100%. Absolutely.
Shen Er’an would also be that number.
Jiao Bai exited the World House, glanced at the notes in the group, and wanted to vomit blood after glancing at them a few times.
“Little Helper, is the group name and notes for him as a friend, or for me as a friend?”
[For the player to the friend]
The depression in Jiao Bai’s heart disappeared in an instant. He lived, he lived, he lived.
He was scared to death.
He said that it was impossible for him to never forget Old Shen Dog.
It was all right the other way around, anyway, he would just get rid of all his friends…
The door suddenly opened from the outside, Jiao Bai turned his neck, saw Shen Ji coming in, and was stunned. Crap, he entered the group, so there was no online notification?
That was right, he wasn’t a friend anymore, it was reasonable.
Jiao Bai went to look at Shen Ji’s avatar.
It was still the “Hundred” (bǎi – hundred) character, he was now online, the character had changed from gray to yellow. There was also Pikachu’s lightning tail design on the edge.
This phenomenon was telling Jiao Bai that after a friend entered the group, he could no longer observe the other person’s inner activities.
Shen Ji didn’t know what Jiao Bai was thinking and thought he was stunned.
This wasn’t he still waiting for him to come.
The fire that had been burning in Shen Ji’s heart for a day and a night was extinguished, he walked to the bedside with a light and lazy step: “Get up and eat cake, be good.”
The word “be good” coming from this man’s mouth had a greasy taste. What was he thinking again?
Cake, he had two doses of Chinese medicine in the morning, and he couldn’t even eat, how could he eat this thing? Jiao Bai moved into the quilt while lying on his stomach, brewing his emotions to release a big move.
He could endure being imprisoned and abused by Shen Ji for the sake of activity, but there was no need now. He had already entered the group, who else had the time to fight here.
He just wanted to leave quickly.
It was easy to let this kind of early slag gong let go of the little thing that he had chained by his side.
Shen Ji looked down at the black hair on the little dog’s head: “Logically speaking, you should go back to the Old Home to live with Mom for a month. This is the Shen family’s tradition.”
“Considering that you’re not feeling well, I discussed it with Mom, and we’ll go back on New Year’s Eve.” Shen Ji resisted the urge to pull the person out and press him on his leg, “Don’t be ungrateful, Mom is kind enough to you, and has repeatedly changed the rules.”
Jiao Bai hehe’ed: “You Shen family is amazing, you got the certificate while people were in a coma, you don’t give people any human rights.”
Shen Ji’s face darkened, he threw the cake on the table: “I didn’t know about this either!”
“The Shen family is not in charge of you?” Jiao Bai said in surprise, “Aren’t you the patriarch? Thirty-seven years old, and still a baby, do you need your mom to get you a marriage certificate?”
Shen Ji was angry: “When are you going to stop making trouble?”
He lifted the person out of the quilt and held him by the bed, his breath containing irritability and disgust: “The identity of Mrs. Shen, the Shen family’s property, these are things that countless people dream of, now you have them all, what else do you want, tell me?” Shen Ji even thought that if this person minded him messing around outside, he could come back five days a week under this boiling blood. This was something that he had never even thought of when he was sober.
Jiao Bai smiled through the pain: “I want equality and respect.”
Shen Ji’s breath stagnated, he didn’t answer, but there was an answer in his eyes.
—Absurd, ridiculous.
Jiao Bai clicked his tongue lightly in his heart, it really was no surprise, he scratched Shen Ji’s chin a few times: “Get out, get out, get out!”
The scratches on Shen Ji’s chin seeped blood, his chest heaved violently, he was extremely angry, and said, “So much trouble when you wake up, it’s better if you hadn’t woken up.”
Jiao Bai’s eyes narrowed: “What did you say?”
Shen Ji threw the person back on the bed. After throwing him, he remembered that he had only just woken up in the morning. While regretting his actions, he was angry that the other person had to look for death, couldn’t he just be good?
Jiao Bai’s back hit the bed, and the feeling of the wounds from the whiplash opening up inch by inch hit his brain, and he gasped repeatedly, struggling to get up. Jiao Bai stood on the bed, looking down at Shen Ji by the height of the bed: “Say it again!”
The eyes of the newly married wife were full of hatred, Shen Ji met his gaze, and the veins on his neck in his shirt popped up.
He didn’t come back to have someone take his shoes, or untie his tie, he didn’t even have a smile, so what was he doing here? He even took time out of his lunch to bring the cake here, wasn’t he being cheap? He didn’t have nowhere to go.
Jiao Bai blurted out a swear word in Shen Ji’s door slam.
Yu Xiang ran in crying, and before he could say anything, he saw the servant coming to the door to give instructions: “Young Master Bai, the master wants you to leave.”
Jiao Bai swept away his morbid state: “Okay, I’ll leave right away.”
“Ears, pack your luggage.” He patted the dazed Yu Xiang.
“Oh oh!” Yu Xiang wiped the tears from his face and went to get his suitcase.
When Qi Yi Liao got the news, he was in Sanqi Town in South City, he had just eaten two buns with a bottle of mineral water, which was rough on his throat.
“Did the Shen family send anyone to follow?” Qi Yi Liao coughed softly.
Zhang Zhen said, “No.”
“Chairman Shen probably thinks that the Qi family brothers have escaped from South City and there is no threat,” Zhang Zhen hesitated, “Besides, he probably wants to cool Jiao Bai down and will pick him up again in a few days.”
Qi Yi Liao narrowed his eyes and looked at the distant barren mountains, his nephew had hidden in there: “Call a few people over.”
“Okay.” Zhang Zhen went to do it immediately.
Jiao Bai didn’t go to a hotel, he went to the rental house. His old phone was gone, and he didn’t know where the landlord lived.
So, Jiao Bai randomly found a number from the advertising wall and used the phone Zhang Zhen gave him to call.
The locksmith came quickly and finished the job quickly.
The rental house was the same as before, but there was more dust and less Shen Er’an.
Jiao Bai just stayed there.
Yu Xiang didn’t need to hide his skills here, and the two lived a comfortable little life, with no one coming to cause trouble.
When the first heavy snow of winter fell, Jiao Bai was studying by the light of a lamp.
He used to be full of confidence, but as time passed, he became a little panicked. To be on the safe side, he started to review his lessons