Chapter Eighty-Seven

  The most direct consequence of this banquet was that Qi Nainai discovered Yu Cai's existence and moved back to the Qi family again. After those four clear words "clinging to power and influence", Qi Nainai thoroughly recognized Yu Cai's ferocity, so she didn't rush to take action, but instead used a pair of eyes similar to Qi Shu Fan's to measure Yu Cai every day. Being looked at by such a pair of eyes with that kind of gaze was clearly not a pleasant thing, and Yu Cai once again asked Qi Shu Fan if he could go back home for a few days.

  Qishu heard about Yucai's wonderful performance from his mother, but couldn't convince her. After hearing Yucai's words, although he was reluctant, he also agreed.

  When Yu Cai was excitedly preparing to go home, Xia Yunyun called and invited her and Qi Shizhi to come to her house for dinner the next day. For such an invitation, Yu Cai felt that Qi Shizhi was the main character, and she was just a green leaf and a light bulb who didn't need to get involved. However, Xia Yunyun kept pestering her until Yu Cai agreed, thinking that it would be okay to go back home after dinner at Xia's house. Later on, Qi Shizhi had scolded Yu Cai countless times for having no principles, and even blamed innocent Xia Yunyun, while Yu Cai thanked herself again and again for not having principles, which didn't let Qi Shizhi face those unbearable things alone.

  Since Grandma Qi arrived at the Qi's house, Yu Cai stayed in her room as much as possible. The next day, Yu Cai was still reading books in her room until 10 o'clock before she came out to greet Qi Shi and tidy up to go to the Xia's house.

  The two of them had just left the door when they hit the car, and Chi Lian opened his mouth and said, "You don't have to care about her."

  Yu Cai smiled lazily, "It's okay, I'll be leaving soon and going home directly."

  The monk nodded and leaned against the back of the seat with his eyes closed. The driver in the front seat asked, "Do you live here?"

  This isn't nonsense, but out of politeness, Yucai still responded with a murmur of agreement.

  "Everyone living here must be rich!"

  "It's okay."

  The driver chuckled and said, "You're a lucky girl! My daughter wants to buy a book, but she has to save up by eating less snacks."

  Yu Cai smiled and said, "Actually, I'm just temporarily living with relatives. When I was a kid, my life was even more miserable than your family's servant girl. I had to pick up and eat half a sugar cube that was thrown on the ground."

  Qī shì zhī wēi wēi xiān kāi yǎn pí, "zhēn de ma?"

  Translation:

  Ji Xuan slightly opened his eyes, “Really?”

  Yu Cai gave him a glance, "Of course it's true. When she was young, she was always hungry and would eat anything, even grass and flowers. One time, Yu Cai caught a snake and insisted on roasting it to eat. Her mom got so angry that she beat her up badly. Yu Cai cried while saying she was hungry, and her mom ended up crying too after beating her. At that time, they could at least eat their fill, but those snacks were really tempting. Yu Cai was a sly kid back then, knowing how to manipulate her mom's weaknesses even when she was so young."

  The monk let out a faint hum, and the driver smiled, "Aren't things better nowadays?"

  "Yes, okay, uncle, your family will be better off slowly. Now there are fewer people taking taxis, but after a few years when everyone's lives get better, the number of people taking taxis will increase."

  The driver didn't respond again. Yu Cai looked at him leaning on the car seat, staring blankly out of the window, and suddenly felt something was wrong. "Uncle, this road seems to be wrong."

  "No mistake, I'll take you through a shortcut, save some gas money."

  Yu Cai laughed and said, "There's actually a shortcut, I didn't know".

  "Little girl, you must be less familiar with this city's streets and alleys than I am."

  "That's also true, I don't like going out usually, and when I do go out, I'm not very good at remembering the way," Yu Cai knew that this road wasn't quite right because of the time she drove herself, personally experiencing it leaves a deeper impression.

  "Is the little girl in college now?"

  "Yeah, I just passed it last year."

  "Where is it read?"

  Xiamen University

  "Xiamen University?" The driver got a bit excited, "That's a good school, I've been hearing my daughter talk about Beijing University and Xiamen University all day."

  "Is your daughter in high school?"

  "Just started high school"

  "Tell her to study hard and try to get into Xiamen University. Maybe by then I'll be the one picking her up."

  "No way, a poor family's child, nothing is good, how can they get into such a good school?"

  "Uncle, you forgot I'm also from a poor family, as long as we work hard, it's all the same wherever we are."

  The driver was apparently not convinced by Yu Zai, but did not speak out to refute him. Yu Zai became enthusiastic and flipped out a bookmark from the book, "Uncle, this is a special bookmark made by our school, I'll give it to your daughter as a souvenir."

  The driver picked it up and exclaimed, "Huh? Is this a bookmark? It looks like those hairpins people wear on TV."

  "Ah, this is a prize I got from participating in a debate competition once. It's said to be gold-plated. I don't need it anyway, so I'll give it to your daughter as encouragement."

  The driver hastily returned it, "I don't dare accept such a thing".

  Yu Cai was about to persuade him again, but Qi Shi suddenly grabbed the bookmark and threw it out of the window. "I've asked you for this thing several times, but you didn't give it to me," he said coldly. "Now you're giving it to a stranger?"

  Yu Cai stared with wide eyes and asked, "Do you know what you're saying, little handsome guy?"

  The driver was also a bit stunned and muttered, "Young man, don't be angry".

  Qizhi suddenly seemed to have gained strength, stretched out his hand and said, "Hand it over".

  Yu Cai hastily handed over the package, and Jie Shi flipped through it before throwing away a set of exquisite small mirrors and combs that had been sent with the letter. Yu Cai became anxious, "A Shi!"

  His face was expressionless, "He's not a good person, don't accept his things from now on".

  Yu Cai gritted her teeth, and Yu Shi continued to pack. She then threw away a set of travel-sized skincare products that Yu Cai had brought along. After a while, she took out the hair clips that Qi Fan had given her. Yu Cai panicked, grabbing onto his wrist, "A Shi, I know I was wrong, this, this..."

  Before she finished speaking, he broke free from her grasp and the exquisite hairpin fell onto the scorching hot asphalt road. Yu Cai couldn't hold back her tears anymore and sobbed, "Uncle, stop the car, I want to pick it up, stop!"

  The driver murmured a few times but didn't show any intention of stopping. Yu Cai became more anxious, "Hurry up and stop the car, stop the car!"

  "The little girl is now nowhere to be found."

  "Stop the car!"

  "No Parking"

  The driver, like a great amnesty, stepped on the accelerator to the maximum, and then closed his eyes. Yu Cai hung her head and tried her best to control her sobs.

  Perhaps she had cried herself numb, so when she was truly faced with a crisis, Yu Cai didn't feel afraid at all. She blankly got off the car and entered an empty warehouse under the threat of a sharp knife.

  Those people obviously looked down on the two delicate and wealthy young masters, casually tied them up and locked the door before leaving. Yu Cai Si glanced around and found that this rather large room only had one door and a skylight about a quarter of the size of an ordinary window. There was no furniture in the room, only some wooden bars scattered in the corner and two wooden window frames.

  When those people were gone, Yu Cai immediately approached Qi Shi and said in a low voice, "Ashi, don't be afraid."

  At this moment, shouldn't she say, "A Shi, I'm afraid"?

  "Ah, you're really clever!"

  "Do you know?"

  Yu Cai couldn't help but smile, "You want something that I've refused you multiple times, are you going to give it away easily?"

  "Even more speechless and powerless, 'When did you find out?'"

  "He said that when we took the shortcut, Xia Yunyun clearly told me that the road we were taking was the nearest. It was confirmed after I discovered there was someone hiding in the back seat of the car," "So it's all about progress, if nowadays all taxis are replaced with Xiali instead of three-rowed vans, who would be hijacking whom is still an unknown number."

  He nodded in agreement, his situation was about the same.

  Yucai pulled on the rope binding Jixi's hands, "We should run away later, first help you untie the rope".

  "I'll help you first."

  His hands were tied behind his back, and it wasn't easy to untie the rope that had been knotted into a dead knot. After sweating profusely and rubbing off several layers of skin on his wrists, he finally managed to untie Yu Cai's rope. Yu Cai gently massaged his sore wrists, "A Shi, I'll help you loosen it a bit, so you can use some force to break free. Later, we'll pretend that it's still not untied."

  Qī shì zhī diǎn tóu, yù cǎi xiān jiě tā de shǒu shàng de shéng zǐ, yòu qù jiě tā jiǎo shàng de, xiào dào, "hái shì nǚ shēng zhàn diǎn pián yi, tāmen jiù méi kǔn wǒ de jiǎo".

  The worried brow of the praying mantis says, "You roll on the ground twice."

  Yu Cai dazedly smiled and wiped a handful of dirt on her face, Jixie insisted, "Roll two more times."

  Yu Cai hesitated, "Don't want it anymore?"

  "Take a look at her legs," said Jiexi, "don't wear shorts like that again in the future."

  Yu Cai was very depressed, her whole body was only good at showing off her legs, slender and symmetrical, so she liked wearing shorts and short skirts with stockings the most. Today, because she had to go home, she didn't wear a short skirt, but he still looked down on her?

  Yu Xianren, although very depressed, still generously rolled on the ground a few times, moved two wooden bars to put behind Qi Shi's body, and then wrapped rope around his own wrist several times, sat back beside Qi Shi, "We'll just wait here for your dad and them to come rescue us, it shouldn't take too long".

  "Uh-huh."

  "Are you hungry?"

  "Not hungry."

  Depressed and disheartened, "I'm a bit hungry now. If only I had eaten more at breakfast, it's all because of your grandmother. The moment she looked at me with those eyes, I couldn't eat anything."

  "You've had a fright this time, he'll definitely send grandma away when you get back."

  Yu Cai sighed, "I hope so, right, Ah Shi..."

  Yu Cai said, and Ji Shi occasionally responded with a sentence or two. Although the warehouse was stuffy and hot, the two of them seemed to be in Ji's spacious and cool living room. It wasn't until much later that Ji Shi occasionally thought back to this scene and asked, "Yu Cai, aren't you afraid?"

  Yu Cai is very innocent, "I'm scared, but I'm more afraid of you being scared".

  So, Yucai's classmate was able to get the affection of Qibing, not without reason. Among them, speaking beautifully is the most important point. For example, at this time she spoke non-stop, mainly to boost her own confidence. Yes, and she never forgot her teacher-like demeanor.

  After saying all that could be said, Yu Cai felt tired, thirsty and hungry, and began to regret her verbosity, thinking that if she hadn't moved her mouth so much, her state would have been a hundred times better.

  "Ah Xi, I'm tired, can I lean on you for a bit?"

  She nodded in agreement, Yu Cai shifted closer to him, resting her head on his shoulder and closing her eyes. Alright, sometimes physical contact was the best way to overcome fear.

  "Ah Xi, sing a song for me."

  Just as Yu Cai thought he wouldn't agree, a clear and melodious voice with a hint of magnetism slowly rose, "You were born before I was, by the time I was born you were already old..."