GBT Chapter 69

Chapter 61

The restaurant manager was a capable individual. He had obtained and organized the relationship networks of various prominent families through his own channels. His aim was to provide impeccable service and avoid any mishaps when those people came to dine. If he could latch onto a high branch, it would be a blessing from his ancestors.

On the very first day of opening, to actually see the chairman’s wife of the Shen Corporation come to dine, the manager was both excited and cautious, fearing that the distinguished guest might have any dissatisfaction. He was more concerned than the unseen boss, fretting endlessly.

The manager came out to present a VIP card. He hurried after her, calling out “Mrs. Shen,” but then looked back with suspicion, his gaze landing on the person next to Mr. Zhang from the Qi family.

How could that person look even more like… the chairman’s wife of the Shen Corporation from South City?

The manager’s actions were undisguised, very obvious. The atmosphere in the corridor became a little strange.

Among the young men and women, a girl with a bob haircut tugged at a guy in a sweater and giggled, “Zhiyi, that boy looks a bit like you.”

Zhiyi had just finished a phone call, his face still glowing with tender affection. He acted as if it was the first time he had ever seen such a thing, looking fresh, “I was startled too.”

The manager belatedly realized he had made a low-level mistake in the workplace, and quickly plastered on a smile. “Still a far cry, a counterfeit is just a counterfeit, it can’t compare with the genuine article, not even one ten-thousandth as good as Mrs. Shen.”

This compliment, spoken eloquently in front of people, was impeccable.

Once they were in the private room, he had another set of words for Mr. Zhang and his little companion.

However, what the manager didn’t know was that the counterfeit was standing right in front of him.

After listening, the corners of Zhiyi’s downward-sloping eyes seemed to shake off a little powder. He looked towards the figure who was about to walk into the private room.

Jiao Bai sensed it, but paid no attention. “Wait for me to turn around and act with you? Dream on.”

Zhiyi bid farewell to his classmates and returned to his upscale apartment. He took off his sneakers and white cotton socks, and dialed the first number in his call history with bare feet. “Sir, I’ve done something wrong.”

“Speak.” Shen Ji had just finished discussing the Old Lady’s condition with the doctor, and was extremely impatient. The only reason he answered the phone was because of the “puppy” note on the contact.

“I was eating at a newly opened restaurant here in West City, and the manager mistook me for Mrs. Shen.” Zhiyi went to the bathroom and removed his makeup in front of the mirror. “Have I caused you trouble?”

Shen Ji got into the car. “What are you doing in West City?”

Zhiyi made a slightly reproachful pout. “I’m from Jiaotong University, a junior this year. Sir, you don’t even care about me.”

Shen Ji coldly said, “What are you?”

Zhiyi’s makeup remover pad was covered in messy makeup. He raised his previously downturned eyes and said with an ingratiating smile, “I am Sir’s little puppy.”

Shen Ji sneered. “Being my little puppy won’t get you a penny. But you have a house and a car.”

Zhiyi immediately changed his tune. “Then I am Sir’s plaything.”

“Since you know you’re a plaything, don’t keep bringing up ‘heart’,” Shen Ji was high above, ruthless and contemptuous. “Do your duty, and you won’t be shortchanged.”

“Yes.” Zhiyi took a clean makeup remover pad and wiped the makeup from his lips as well. “Sir, I think I ran into… Mrs. Shen.”

Shen Ji’s fingers, which were tapping on his leg, stopped. Other than this movement, he showed no other abnormality.

Where would there be a Mrs. Shen.

It was just that, for fear of affecting Shen Corporation’s stock, he hadn’t publicly announced the divorce.

Last year, he took the counterfeit to tour the lake and had the media that cooperated with Shen Corporation publicize it. But the little dog didn’t crawl back to him. After that, various things happened, and he didn’t have the energy to deal with the aftermath.

Now Shen Ji felt that he could let the counterfeit temporarily take over.

Once he got the real thing back, he could just remarry.

“Also at that restaurant,” Zhiyi said, “He went there with a man.”

Shen Ji looked at the foreign street scene. “A man?”

“Yes, tall, with a figure like a model from a magazine, with a pair of flirtatious eyes, very beautiful, looks like he’s not easy to mess with…” Zhiyi described in detail, “Very concerned about Mrs. Shen, even walking…” He paused, hesitant to speak. “Had his arm around him.”

There was no sound from the other end of the phone.

Zhiyi said anxiously and incoherently, “Sir, please don’t misunderstand Mrs. Shen, that should be his friend. Mrs. Shen is doing very well, he obviously has someone taking care of him, no problems, Sir you…”

“Beep—”

He hung up.

Zhiyi threw all the makeup remover pads on the table away. He washed his face, and the person in the mirror no longer had a trace of innocence and cuteness.

But when he tilted his head to look down, he would still give people that kind of feeling.

Like Jiao Bai.

On the other side, Shen Ji went to a bar with a bellyful of anger. He wanted to find someone to vent on, but all he saw were shadows of the little dog.

Shen Ji returned to his residence with a dark expression and called Chen Yiming over, giving him a tongue-lashing.

Chen Yiming suffered miserably.

After Shen Ji finished scolding, he put his hands on his hips and walked to the wine cabinet. He had just taken out a bottle of fine wine, but smashed the wine because of the remaining anger.

The mellow wine and broken glass were all over the floor.

Shen Ji kicked away the broken glass, his eyes filled with violence. Last year, on the eve of the Lunar New Year, he couldn’t get away, so he entrusted A Liao to bring the little dog back for him. A Liao actually took him directly to West City.

Even if he couldn’t find a satisfactory person to use temporarily, if he wanted to use his little dog, he should at least say hello to him, the master, right?

It wasn’t good to make things awkward between old friends, and it wasn’t that far. He was waiting for the other party to bring it up.

But as a result, after the New Year, it was almost summer, and A Liao hadn’t mentioned it.

Was he using him so smoothly that he hadn’t finished using him? Was he waiting for him to ask for someone before sending the person back to South City?

Shen Ji took another bottle of wine, poured some and drank it. He knew very well that A Liao couldn’t do anything else, and letting him recite wasn’t a big deal, just consider it increasing his reading volume. But what was going on with that Xiao Zhang, why was he so close to his little dog, even walking with his arm around him?

Shen Ji swirled his wine glass and suddenly said, “That little toy, has he been investigated?”

Standing in the mess, Chen Yiming responded knowingly. When he found Zhiyi at Di Ye last year, he obtained the recent medical examination report and personal information, and sent someone to investigate again, but found nothing abnormal.

The timing of Zhiyi’s appearance last year was very delicate, but he couldn’t find anything wrong, and that piece of meat was rough to eat.

But the chairman ate it and took him away from Di Ye, settling him in Qin Xin Garden. He even took him with him when he sent the Old Madam abroad for treatment.

If the Old Madam hadn’t woken up and fainted after seeing his face, he would still be here serving the chairman.

The last time Chen Yiming came here, Zhiyi, wearing the chairman’s shirt, opened the door for him, his gestures neither exaggerated nor restrained, generous and appropriate, like a female host.

That Zhiyi didn’t even have the rebellious streak that the chairman always liked, very gentle.

It was purely that he looked a bit like Jiao Bai.

“Investigate his social circle again, if there are no problems in five or ten years, investigate for twenty years, starting from birth.” An unpredictable remark rang out from in front of the wine cabinet.

Chen Yiming was the kind of assistant that other people had. His execution ability was first-class, and he quickly found something.

The Cen family.

Zhiyi’s father was a member of the Cen family’s previous guard team. It was something that happened when the Cen Old Master was still alive.

Just this old relationship was enough to link him to the Cen family.

This information wasn’t as shocking as Chen Yiming’s investigation of Zhiyi’s whereabouts today, finding out that he was dining at a newly opened restaurant in West City, met Jiao Bai and Zhang Zhen, and was mistaken for Mrs. Shen by the manager.

The counterfeit ran into the real thing, and the counterfeit might make something of it here, running to the sugar daddy’s ear to stir things up.

No wonder the chairman suddenly wanted to investigate Zhiyi, he must have smelled something from some of the other party’s words.

Chen Yiming reported the results of the investigation, and without receiving new instructions, he walked down the street, waved goodbye to a girl who was extending a wonderful one-night invitation to him, and went straight to sit on the wooden chair next to the large sculpture, facing a flock of white doves.

The Cen family was now headed by Cen Jingmo, but the Cen family was even more fragmented than he imagined, and he still couldn’t sit firmly after the New Year. There were other branches fighting internally, to the death. This was also related to the Cen family’s background in the arms business, the chain of interests was too thick, and there were bullets flying everywhere.

So Zhiyi might not be Cen Jingmo’s man, perhaps he was from other forces of the Cen family, sent to approach the chairman as a substitute for Jiao Bai, with the aim of acting as a fuse, detonating this chess piece at the right time, trying to get the Shen Corporation to deal with the Cen family and stir the water even more.

Zhiyi’s existence was very subtle. He might even be able to use the fact that Jiao Bai lived in Lanmo Mansion for a long time to expose the relationship between the chairman and Chairman Qi.

If the Shen Corporation dealt with the Cen family and was also at odds with the Qi family, then the Shen Corporation’s situation… would be in complete chaos.

There was also a possibility.

Zhiyi’s real master wasn’t a certain force in the Cen family, but someone else.

The Cen family was just a cover he found for his true master. It was possible that even investigating the Cen family through him was a part of their plan.

When the various forces fought, and the time was right, his master could come out and reap the benefits.

What exactly was going on could be roughly figured out by secretly monitoring Zhiyi for a period of time.

Chen Yiming waited for a long time, waiting until the white doves had defecated several times, but he still didn’t receive the chairman’s instructions. He had never so strongly hoped that there could be someone to get the chairman to change his overly confident fault, spend time cleaning up the little tricks of small people, and put down his egocentric mentality a little bit.

Jiao Bai might be able to do it, he might be able to change the chairman’s personality.

But first he was imprisoned in Shangming Garden and suffered, then he was manipulated into marriage by the Old Madam, and finally he was sent to the crazy Qi Zi Zhi. He must have suffered countless tortures to survive, he definitely hated the Shen family to death, and he wouldn’t care about the chairman’s life or death.

Chen Yiming sat until his legs were numb. He was about to get up when his phone rang.

As soon as the phone was connected, his master said, “Send a box of chocolates to Lanmo Mansion.”

Chen Yiming: “…”

It was impossible to wake someone who was pretending to sleep.

He had to smack him awake.

It had to be Jiao Bai who smacked him awake.

Chen Yiming now hoped that Jiao Bai would take action quickly and wake the chairman up as soon as possible, so that the chairman could turn back and reach the shore.

He was just afraid that it would be too late, and the chairman would miss the opportunity to reach the shore, and he wouldn’t be able to get on Jiao Bai’s ship, and he could only slowly freeze to death in the cold water.

Chen Yiming sighed, he was in his early thirties, not young anymore, had neurasthenia, and his heart rate was also irregular.

If this continued, it wasn’t a matter of resigning, but whether he could buy a cemetery for himself in time.

Chen Yiming deliberated for a moment and decided to contact someone himself to track Zhiyi. After he finished his business, he would go buy chocolate. He called Zhang Zhen halfway.

In the private room, Zhang Zhen was clipping fried chicken wings for Jiao Bai. He glanced at the caller ID and didn’t want to answer. Chen Yiming had been using him as a garbage can since the end of last year, spitting out a little bitterness at him every now and then, annoying.

Zhang Zhen still answered.

He wasn’t an ordinary office worker, he was a member of the Qi family, and the Qi family had a good relationship with the Shen family, with this relationship, he couldn’t be capricious.

Who knew that Chen Yiming would start by inquiring about Jiao Bai. Zhang Zhen’s face turned black, and he immediately walked out of the private room and roared in a low voice, “He has nothing to do with the Shen family anymore!”

Chen Yiming was inexplicable, why was Zhang Zhen so impulsive, like a family member.

“I know there’s no relationship anymore, Brother Zhen, Old Zhang, don’t get excited.” Chen Yiming sighed. “I want to resign and go to Chairman Qi, do you think I have a chance?”

Zhang Zhen said sternly, “You have access to too many things, you can only be covered with a white cloth and carried out of the Shen Corporation.”

Chen Yiming’s face twitched, this guy really couldn’t take a joke.

“There’s a guy named Zhiyi,” Chen Yiming got to the point, “He looks like Jiao Bai from a certain angle, and he’s being kept by my master, and he’s currently in West City.”

Zhang Zhen thought of the person he met in the corridor. The other party was actually Bai Bai’s substitute.

“What are you telling me this for?” Zhang Zhen vented his anger on Chen Yiming. “Do you want me to take him to Lanmo Mansion and become sworn brothers with the real thing?”

Something was wrong with the Zhang guy, his words were barbed, as if he wanted to stand up for his sweetheart, his teeth were itching. Chen Yiming said strangely, “Are you interested in Jiao Bai?”

Zhang Zhen was angry. “Bullshit!”

“Okay, I’m talking bullshit.” Chen Yiming didn’t have any personal emotions, his mind was working at high speed, and he said formally, “I suspect that there are forces dealing with the Shen Corporation. And not just one.”

Zhang Zhen stopped turning around to go back to the private room.

“If something happens to the Shen Corporation, the next one will be the Qi family.” Chen Yiming said.

Zhang Zhen’s eyebrows furrowed. “Don’t be alarmist, the situation in West City and South City is different.”

Chen Yiming: “…” He said in a deep voice, “Brother, South Shen and West Qi, the balance point of many years, can’t be broken.”

Zhang Zhen scratched the green skin on the back of his head a few times. “Why would it be broken? What potential factors could there be?”

Chen Yiming choked on the question. “I’m just uneasy.”

Zhang Zhen mocked, “I think you’re staying up late and lacking exercise, you might as well run and work out, and you’ll feel at ease.”

“I’m not going to say anything, I’m eating, Assistant Chen, life is about exercise.” After saying that, he hung up.

Chen Yiming slapped his forehead, what was he talking about with a knife-licking thug, a person who walked in a treacherous, inhuman business war, a waste of time.

When he got to the store, Chen Yiming received a call from his master, and he prayed that he wouldn’t be told not to buy chocolate, but to buy something else, which would waste time and be a hassle.

“I’ve looked at the movements of that little crown prince in the first half of this year, and he’s interested in the South Bridge land.” Shen Ji leaned back on the leather sofa, his feet on the coffee table.

“Yes.” Chen Yiming immediately poured out the relevant information from his mind. “He wants to lead the Cen family to open up a new path, and the first attempt is real estate development. The South Bridge land has a high level of attention. Once he grabs it, his voice in the Cen family will go up.”

A sneering sneer leaked from Shen Ji’s lips. “Compete with him, lose to him.”

“In addition.” Shen Ji’s dark eyes narrowed slightly. “Spread rumors that the Shen and Qi families are suspected of being at odds.”

Chen Yiming suddenly understood the chairman’s intention.

Although it was just a piece of land, as long as the Shen Corporation lost to the Cen family, and added the discord with the Qi family, these two pieces of information would inevitably cause an uproar and spark some voices.

At that time, no matter who was behind Zhiyi, whether it was someone from the Cen family or someone outside the Cen family, there would be movement.

This call made Chen Yiming more certain that the chairman was a person whose desire couldn’t be resolved would burn his work efficiency, and there must be no fire in his backyard.

Chen Yiming walked into the store. The chairman had touched so many people over the years that he couldn’t count them. He roughly recalled them for a while and felt that Jiang Yan was still outstanding.

He could both assess the situation and rely on his good skills to monopolize the chairman, making the chairman feel comfortable and relaxed and devote himself to work.

Chen Yiming sent someone to contact Jiang Yan. While waiting for news, he neatly bought the chocolate and personally packaged it.

He didn’t know how Jiao Bai would treat it after receiving it, throwing it in the trash or feeding it to the dog.

Chen Yiming never thought that the box of chocolate would be sent back to China from abroad, sent to Lanmo Mansion, and truly push Jiao Bai into the Qi family.

That afternoon, the chocolate was signed for by Aunt Liu and happened to be seen by Qi Yi Liao’s second sister.

The recipient on the package was “Jiao Bai.”

The second sister didn’t have much expression at the time, and only said: Since the person lives in Lanmo Mansion, call him back to have a meal.

So, the people protecting Jiao Bai at First time panicked. Qi Si quickly notified the boss: “Brother Zhen, Old Xiao from the Research Institute is here.”

Zhang Zhen was being pulled by the secretary’s office to listen to gossip at the company, and he had a headache. When he heard this, he stood up with a sigh: “Stop him.”

“But we asked, and Old Xiao was sent by the second young lady, saying that he was going to pick up Young Master Bai to go to Lanmo Mansion for a gathering.” Qi Si said bitterly.

Zhang Zhen quickly left the secretary’s office and went straight to the chairman’s office.

Qi Yi Liao was signing documents, with an earplug in one ear, without raising his eyelids: “Ask him.”

It took Zhang Zhen a long time to realize who the third brother wanted him to ask, so he called his brother in the office and told him what happened.

Jiao Bai secretly hid behind the wall after the third class to answer the phone: “Okay, I’ll go.”

Zhang Zhen hung up and said, “Third Brother, Bai Bai said he’s going to Lanmo Mansion.”

Qi Yi Liao’s expression was no different, as if he had expected it: “Then let him go.”

Zhang Zhen wrung his hands: “Will the second young lady make things difficult for Bai Bai?” After all, only he has a private room in Lanmo Mansion, with an independent small garden. He also has Qi family members protecting him when he goes to school.

Qi Yi Liao put aside the signed documents, picked up a new one and flipped through it: “Since he has made a decision, he must have thought it through and be prepared.”

Finally, Qi Yi Liao comforted him: “A Zhen, you as a brother, should have a little confidence in him.”

Zhang Zhen scratched the back of his neck a few times. Did Third Brother overestimate Bai Bai?

Jiao Bai had expected that he would meet Qi Yi Liao’s second sister and little aunt when he learned that they were going to Lanmo Mansion.

Even if Zhang Zhen asked him not to go back to Lanmo Mansion recently, Qi Yi Liao didn’t come to school to lecture him.

What should come will always come, and you can’t avoid it.

Dog blood comics.

Moreover, this was also an opportunity to break into the Qi family, and if he was lucky, he might be able to get in touch with the Qi family’s unknown secrets. Even if it was only a little bit, it would be beneficial for him to break through Qi Yi Liao.

Jiao Bai called Zhou Lanlan without much thought. This character was useful to him.

Zhou Lanlan’s mother had recently lived in Lanmo Mansion, and she wasn’t there, so she had to go in two days. This time Jiao Bai called her to come along, and she didn’t think much about it, only thinking that the other party was bored and wanted to bring a peer to accompany her.

“Don’t call me aunt randomly when you go, or your mother will kill me.” Jiao Bai warned.

Zhou Lanlan gave a “OK” gesture. She chewed bubble gum and muttered: “My mother will have to scold me out of my mind when she sees me later.”

Jiao Bai said: “Then go, I’ll go by myself.”

“Don’t, if you’re a brother, you have to stab your ribs, you can’t resist my mother’s war fire alone, I still have to go.” Zhou Lanlan squeezed her eyes, “Just think of it as making up for stealing your medicine and masks last time.”

Jiao Bai glanced at her. It is said that nephews are like uncles. Zhou Lanlan had the same nose bridge as Qi Yi Liao, noble and elegant.

Before meeting Zhou Lanlan’s mother, Jiao Bai tried to imagine her mother’s appearance through her.

When he met her, Jiao Bai realized that Zhou Lanlan and her mother were two extremes. Zhou Lanlan was lively and unrestrained, and her mother…

She was a middle-aged woman dressed in a very indifferent style, without makeup, wearing glasses, with European-style wide eyelids, deep contours, a bit of loose skin without maintenance, short hair, no decorations, and no perfume smell on her clothes. She gave people the impression of a big family’s eldest lady in the old society who respected family rules, behaved with education, but was also suppressed and harsh.

“Hello, Dean Qi!” Zhou Lanlan hung her bag behind her shoulder and hooked it with one finger, grinning.

Dean Qi sat in front of a bookshelf on the first floor, holding a German manuscript in her hand, sitting upright and dignified, and swept her eyes over.

Zhou Lanlan immediately stood up straight, and took down the bag behind her shoulder, holding it by her leg. When she saw her mother look at Jiao Bai, she quickly said, “Hey, this is my classmate, Jiao Bai, the vegetable you eat, Dean Qi, your favorite stir-fried Jiao Bai…”

“He doesn’t have a mouth of his own, why do you have to speak for him?” Dean Qi put the book on the round table.

Zhou Lanlan didn’t feel anything wrong. Obviously, the current situation was a piece of cake for her, who had been scolded all year round.

Several lights were turned off in this area of the bookshelf, only two lights were lit next to Dean Qi. At first, it may have been for the atmosphere of reading, but now, set off by the stalemate, it seemed gloomy.

Zhou Lanlan winked at Jiao Bai. She had revealed on the way that to deal with her mother, she had to make her mouth a little sweeter.

Jiao Bai couldn’t sweeten his mouth, and he didn’t panic. For him, it was better to deal with this kind of straightforward clear spear than the old lady who dialed the Buddhist beads and Amitabha, with a kind face, but released cold arrows behind her back.

This Dean Qi, who had a lot of official authority, wanted to see him, so she wouldn’t investigate his details. She had investigated everything clearly, but she still wanted him to introduce himself. What, was she interviewing?

In the first round, Jiao Bai couldn’t retreat.

Besides, Dean Qi knew about his affairs in South City, so she must have had a bad impression of him under subjective cognition. If he was honest, the other party would think it was fake.

Then he might as well just do it.

As a high school student who had stayed in the Shen family, married and divorced Shen Ji, was kidnapped and escaped from death by the eldest son of the Qi family, had Zhang Zhen as his backer, and was treated specially by Qi Yi Liao, he should bring out his emotions. This would make people think that he was still a young child with no experience, and that although he had relied on luck to get involved with several big families to get to where he was today, his heart was still arrogant, impetuous, and he wouldn’t even do superficial work.

Dean Qi stood up.

Jiao Bai’s back waist hurt, Zhou Lanlan pinched him. The emperor wasn’t in a hurry, but the eunuch was, and he was about to die of anxiety.

“Mom, Dean Qi, my classmate is nervous.” Zhou Lanlan said like a dog leg. “Let’s not care about him, let me hammer your shoulders, you can ask me about my studies.”

Dean Qi said pickly: “Ask about your studies? What else can you do besides embarrass me when you enter First time?”

Zhou Lanlan’s face turned pale, but the next second she returned to normal, smiling and going to knead her mother’s shoulders, but was pushed away with disgust. She leaned over again, frequently using her eyes to let Jiao Bai retreat first.

“Make less friends with impolite people,” Dean Qi said.

Before Zhou Lanlan could reply, Jiao Bai spoke up. He wasn’t going to introduce himself, but called out, “Aunt Liu!”

He said that and went to the bookshelf skillfully, touched the button, and pressed it.

Aunt Liu “came late”, and Jiao Bai didn’t wait for her to perform before asking, “Uncle Xiao said there was a package for me, where is it?”

Zhou Lanlan didn’t dare to look at her mother’s expression. Jiao Bai called her mother’s subordinate uncle, but didn’t even say hello here.

Where did Jiao Bai get the confidence to be so crazy.

Wasn’t this her aunt? It was! Little aunt!

Jiao Bai waited for Aunt Liu to react, when the electronic sound rang.

[Your friend is online]

The friend reminder came suddenly, and the white cat’s avatar lit up. Then, the rainbow’s avatar also appeared in front of Jiao Bai, shaking violently.

Footsteps vaguely came from a corner, gradually becoming clear, accompanied by a slightly tired voice: “Why are you all squeezed here?”

Zhou Lanlan dared to smile just now, but now she was a little lady.

And Dean Qi sat back down.

Aunt Liu greeted Qi Yi Liao and took his suit jacket for him.

Qi Yi Liao raised his hand, he hung his jacket on his arm, put his hands in his trouser pockets, and walked steadily and slowly towards Jiao Bai: “Do you have a lot of homework today?”

While using his eyes to appease Zhang Zhen behind him, Jiao Bai paid attention to his friend’s avatar.

The amplitude of the rainbow shaking was a little smaller, and he relaxed a lot.

And the drooping eyelids of the white cat propped up, and its tail wagged at him.

This let Jiao Bai know that Qi Yi Liao wasn’t blaming him.

Jiao Bai looked at Qi Yi Liao. “There’s a lot of homework.”

“Then do your homework first.” Qi Yi Liao handed him his suit, “Lanlan, you go too.”

Zhou Lanlan, who had become an old and young CP fan and had begun to dig up sugar granules herself: “…” Her bag was full of cosmetics, not even a book, what homework was she going to do?

Seeing her uncle looking over, her IQ suddenly reached the peak of her life, and she pulled Jiao Bai and ran away.

The castle was too empty. The echo of running in the corridor was a little harsh.

Dean Qi’s face turned cold: “Noisy.”

“Aren’t all children like this.” Qi Yi Liao picked up the manuscript on the round table, flipped through it, like flipping through the story of a stranger. “That’s how it should be.”

Dean Qi was about to say something, but when she saw Aunt Liu come to add tea, she changed the content: “That child is not suitable to stay in Lanmo Mansion.”

“He only comes here on weekends,” Qi Yi Liao said.

“But he has a separate one here.” Dean Qi realized that her emotions were too high, and she pressed down. “Your little aunt has the same view.”

Qi Yi Liao smiled and shook his head: “Second sister, I am the owner of Lanmo Mansion.”

The atmosphere around him changed suddenly.

Dean Qi slapped the table: “Yes, Lanmo Mansion and the Qi family are yours, and my little aunt and I are either in the Research Institute all year round, or we’re taking materials everywhere to enrich our photography career. Can we compete with you? Aren’t those who can compete with you lying in the backyard?”

There was a dead silence in front of the bookshelf.

Qi Yi Liao waved his hand to let Zhang Zhen go down. He put the manuscript back on the bookshelf, in its correct position, and then he turned around and looked over from the shadows. The whole person was like a corpse pieced together that shouldn’t exist. Weird, cold, crazy, and dangerous.

“Second sister, the day of worship hasn’t arrived yet. If you want to go to the backyard early, it’s not impossible.” Qi Yi Liao’s voice was wrapped in a creepy calm.

Dean Qi’s back was cold. She took a sip of water from her teacup, and the teacup shook slightly.

“That was my fault just now.” Dean Qi changed to a homely posture. “I was also angry. That child looked at me as if he didn’t see me, but you let him go easily. A Liao, even if you want to use him, you can’t indulge him so much. You’re the employer, not his guardian.”

“Second sister, you’re saying it too seriously.” Qi Yi Liao raised his foot and walked out of the shadows, with a smile on his face. “We also came from the reading period. What the college entrance examination means to a student, we all know.”

“He didn’t go to school much last year, and he’s fallen behind a lot in his studies. There are only about two months left before he enters the examination room. Time is tight. I think it’s better for him to study here. What age should he invest in what he should do.” Qi Yi Liao praised generously. “A person with a clear vision and firm steps deserves more opportunities.”

Dean Qi seemed to look at her younger brother seriously for the first time: “A Liao, if you want children, raise a few.”

Qi Yi Liao was not interested.

Dean Qi blurted out: “You’re already thirty-four…” A trace of mockery flashed in her sharp eyes that didn’t match her style. She didn’t know who she was mocking, the living or the dead.

“It’s time to choose a successor,” Dean Qi said.

“Pa”

A metallic sound rang from Qi Yi Liao’s fingers. He lit a cigarette, held it without smoking it, and smiled faintly: “It’s true that I should look for one.”

In the bedroom with a small courtyard on the first floor, Jiao Bai took off his school uniform and picked out a thin coat from a large row of clothes in the closet. He pulled the zipper and walked into the small courtyard to look at the sky.

It was dim and yellow, and from time to time a few fallen leaves from an unknown tree fluttered down.

The dark green vines behind him rustled in the breeze.

Compared with the Shen family, the Qi family’s population was desolate and miserable, almost all in the cemetery.

The Qi family members who were still alive didn’t have the important task of spreading their branches and leaves either. Because Zhou Lanlan was an only child, she said that her little aunt was a non-marriageist and didn’t want children. She also said that their Qi family’s feng shui was bad, there were very few men, and the average life expectancy was not ideal. The direct line was only her uncle, and the collateral line was not good either.

According to the outspoken Zhou Lanlan, when her little aunt found her cousin before, she was so excited that she was looking forward to him bringing the Qi family some people. Who could have thought that something would happen to him not long after he recognized his ancestors?

It was really a family, a style, each different.

Jiao Bai heard the friend’s reminder and returned to the bedroom, and was pulled to the side by Zhang Zhen, who asked him if he had been bullied.

“It’s too exciting!”

Zhou Lanlan shouted under the basketball hoop, “My mother has never lost face like this before, it’s definitely a moment to be recorded in the milestone, I want to record a video to remember it!”

“Today is 2024, April… what day is it, it doesn’t matter, anyway, today Dean Qi’s official authority didn’t work, her face was pulled so long, damn it hahahahaha I’m dying of laughter–” Zhou Lanlan gloated, and the peasants turned over and sang.

Jiao Bai: “…”

Zhang Zhen: “…”

“Jiao Bai, you’re really amazing.” Zhou Lanlan threw herself in front of Jiao Bai, and raised her two thumbs up admiringly, “You deserve to be my uncle’s wife.”

Jiao Bai dragged her out: “I’ve said it several times, I don’t have that relationship with your uncle, if I hear you nonsense again, I’ll slap you.”

Zhou Lanlan couldn’t believe it: “No way, brother, you even slap girls? Are you still a human being? Don’t look like you despise my uncle, my uncle is just older than you, everything else is impeccable, besides, the age difference is not much, it’s not even a round…”

Zhang Zhen, who was watching the children play, interjected at this time: “It’s a round.”

“Fourteen-year age difference, a round is over in two years.” Zhang Zhen popularize knowledge for the confused high school students.

“Oh my god.” Zhou Lanlan doubted her life. “Aren’t there many CPs that I’ve been supporting… Damn it, I can’t support them anymore…”

What answered her was the sound of the door closing.

Jiao Bai sent Zhou Lanlan away, and he lay on the bed. “Third Brother’s little aunt hasn’t come yet.”

“She’ll be there later.” Zhang Zhen brought the basketball that Zhou Lanlan had kicked away back to its original place. “Little aunt is a very emotional person, and she has a lot on her mind, and she’s easily sentimental.”

Jiao Bai made up a picture in his mind, but he didn’t make up anything: “Am I going to spend the night here?”

Zhang Zhen was about to say he would ask Third Brother, but he suddenly remembered Third Brother’s attitude towards dealing with all of Bai Bai’s affairs, so he asked instead: “What do