Chapter 32

  Suddenly several strides came running over, stretched out his hand to pull He Song, bright red fingernails inlaid on pale and thin hands, looked strange.

  Yuan Zhi's face had lost its calm demeanor from earlier, and he quickly pulled He Song, who was already standing up with his head bowed, behind him. He roughly pushed away Zhu Meiyan's hand and kicked the chair beside him over, knocking it over and pinning her foot underneath. Taking advantage of her momentary pain and bent-over position, Yuan Zhi grabbed He Song and turned to make a run for it.

  This old woman has gone completely mad today, if she continues to stay here who knows what other troubles will arise, it's best to leave as soon as possible.

  At night, the cold outside made their bones ache. As soon as they came into contact with the outside air, both of them shivered. He Song wore even less than him, and his chest was still stained with a large patch of dirty water. Yuan Zhi pulled her to run out of the villa while taking off his clothes to put on her.

  Shivering, he said: "Bear with it, we'll go hail a taxi soon."

  He Qiang was running hastily, thinking of taking off his clothes and returning them to him, "I'm not cold, you wear it yourself."

  "You're such a bad liar, your nose is even red!" Yuan Zhi grasped her hand and stuffed it into his own pocket.

  "But I'm healthier than you."

  Fart.

  "It was me who took care of you when you had a fever last time."

  "Ah!" Yuan Zhi embarrassedly patted the person and said, "Too much nonsense, let's hurry up and go."

  The villa area is very large. When I ran to the gate, I was so tired that I gasped for breath. There were few vehicles on the highway in winter, especially since this area has high-end residences and even fewer cars.

  Under the silver moonlight, things seemed even more desolate in this deep winter. Yuan Zhi tightly hugged He Sheng from behind to warm each other up, then pushed forward under the bewildered gaze of the guards on both sides, their breath misting out in puffs as they gasped for air.

  He Sheng touched his hand, "Cold."

  Yuan Zhi turned her hand over and wrapped her bag inside, "Nonsense."

  "Will there be cars here?" He Sheng could tell that this place was much quieter than others, even if there were occasionally passing vehicles, they were different from the dusty ones on the bustling streets.

  "There will be." Yuan Zhi rested his chin on her shoulder to look at the road conditions, "There will be a T-junction ahead, once we get there, we'll have a car and we can go home."

  "Oh!" He Sheng responded with a sound and then fell silent.

  Yuan Zhi's face, which had been splashed with wine earlier, now felt sticky and uncomfortable. He buried his face in He Song's clothes for a few moments before lifting it up to look at her again. The child pouted slightly as she stared ahead, looking troubled.

  He blew a breath into her ear and laughed, asking, "Hey, how did you think of that just now? Seeing me being bullied is hard on your heart?"

  He Song was embarrassed by his question, subconsciously wanting to scratch her hair, but her hand was pulled by him and couldn't move, so she could only smile foolishly and say, "It was her who made the first move, and what she said was too much."

  "Will you always help me if I'm bullied again in the future?"

  He Sheng nodded naturally, "Of course I'll help."

  "Hmm, you're so good to me." Yuan Zhi blew into her ear again, "It wasn't a waste taking care of you."

  They walked to the intersection and waited for almost half an hour before they finally got a taxi, both of their faces were frozen purple, when they returned home, Wu Auntie was already asleep, and it took a long time knocking on the door to wake her up.

  Aunt Wu opened the door with her coat on, and was very surprised to see them. Seeing the chaos on their bodies, she widened her eyes in shock, "What's going on here?"

  "It's nothing, just a little careless." Yuan Zhi pushed He Song into the door and kicked it shut with his foot. As he pulled him upstairs, he said, "You should get some rest early!"

  Aunt Wu was about to say something else, but the two kids had already slipped away without even leaving a shadow. She furrowed her brow, locked the door, and went back to her room, closing the door behind her.

  It was already late at night, and the two of them went back to their rooms, took a hot bath, and fell asleep.

  The next day, He Sheng received a call from Yan Bai, who asked about the detailed process of what happened last night. He Sheng told him everything without leaving out a single word. Yan Bai remained silent for a while before speaking up: "This is their business, why did you have to intervene?"

  "But she poured wine on Yuan Zhi."

  "What does it have to do with you?" Yan Bo said sternly: "What qualifications do you have to lay hands on the chairman's wife?"

  He Sheng swallowed his saliva and didn't speak.

  Yan Bai said, "He Sheng, don't you think your life is too peaceful?"

  She clutched the phone cord tightly, and after a while, she spoke in a low voice: "Is everything measured by money? Because they have money, so being beaten and scolded is what they deserve?"

  "What do you want to say?"

  "You all haven't thought about Yuan Zhi." She paused for a moment, "I just wanted to be good to him, I don't think I did anything wrong at all."

  If it's just like this and she has to change her fate again, then so be it.

  But reality was far from being as pessimistic as she thought, Yan Bai didn't show up and no one came to drive her away, life went on as usual.

  Not long after the final exam, it's going to be Chinese New Year. The last time at Yuan's house was quite embarrassing, and the original plan to go there for the new year was cancelled. He Shuang showed obvious delight about this.

  Yuan Zhi peeled the melon seeds, seeing He Sheng laughing like an idiot and shaking his head in a very helpless manner. He wasn't so naive as to believe those words, there was only one real reason, which was that he was no longer needed now, and the identity of the eldest son of the Yuan family could be put on hold for a while.

  She pushed a few melon seeds in her direction, "Eat quickly, there's a small pile now."

  He Shuang peeled an orange and put it in his hand, bowing his head to pinch the melon seeds into his mouth one by one.

  "This year for Chinese New Year let's go buy some firecrackers."

  "Good, good!" He Sheng still remembered the New Year's Eve last year when the sky was filled with colorful fireworks, big and small, covering the entire sky, so beautiful.

  "Can the face-to-face team come out? If they can, let them come over too, it's more lively with more people."

  He Shuang nodded, seeing him start to peel the melon seeds for himself, and casually took an orange to peel for him as well. The warm sunlight shone on her body, making her feel comfortable enough to narrow her eyes, "It would be great if Jia Yin could come too."

  "Uh, go call then, but don't have too much hope, many people stay at home during the New Year and don't go out." He patted his hands, the melon seeds in the small plate were already gone, "Want more? I'll get some."

  "No more, my throat is dry." She rubbed her neck, "I want to eat that yellow round thing."

  "That's longan!" Yuan Zhi said, dragging his feet to get a string and took out one by one the white tender wrapped fruit core of longan and peeled them into a small bowl for her.

  He Sheng first fed him a few, and then took it himself to eat, saying: "Why is it called longan? In fact, it can also be called fish eye, which is closer to life."

  "Why don't you say 'dead fish eyes' instead?"

  "It's no better than a goldfish's eye."

  Yuan Zhi looked at her speechlessly for a moment, "Can't you stop showing off your intelligence? You're not even aware of the lower limit!"

  "I ranked among the top ten this time."

  I ranked among the top five.