The mute little Daoist priest came down the mountain and was immediately taken home by the ruthless CEO of the Song family, who even tricked him into a marriage alliance.
Shen Bai wanted to e...
Song Yun naturally wouldn't be angry with them.
He counted them; there were eighteen gifts in total.
It's probably to make up for the birthday gifts that should have been given to the children over the years, but these all seem to be things that Shen Bai likes.
From clothes, skateboards, game consoles, and Transformers figurines, to all sorts of models that boys would like...
The last item was a vintage box, which Chen Bai opened.
Inside lay a somewhat retro European-style violin, and upon closer inspection, it was clear that the violin had been used.
Inside the box was a photo album, which Chen Bai opened.
It was a collection of photos of a little girl from childhood to adulthood. As Chen Bai flipped through them one by one, he realized how much he resembled the little girl.
The little girl is very talented. She started learning the violin at a young age and won the junior group championship before she was ten years old. She was then directly selected for the national team.
She won numerous awards over the course of ten years, which led to Feng Peiyuan, the then dean of Peking University, taking her on as a student and guiding her onto the international stage.
Shen Bai looked at the photo; Bai Xiyin was on the podium at an international competition, a faint smile on her lips, holding the trophy in her hand.
The violin in the box was the one Bai Xiyin used most often in competitions.
Shen Bai stroked the violin with both hands, as if he could hear his mother playing music.
After looking at it for a while, they put everything away, and all the musical instruments were placed in Chenbai's music room.
The violin and Bai Xiyin's photos were also placed in the cabinet in the music room.
These are his mother's things, and Shen Bai doesn't plan to use them. He will work hard to learn, even if he has no talent and can't win a single award.
Song Yun watched him practice the piano, and even though Shen Bai played intermittently, he didn't find it noisy.
They even moved their office computers to the music room so they could work while listening to Chen Bai's performances.
The child is really serious. Perhaps he should trust the child and believe that he can take good care of himself.
For several days in a row, Shen Bai practiced diligently.
Meanwhile, Song Yun had been suppressing the Chen family in Shanghai. Since they were Chen Hui's reliance, he decided to destroy them first.
During this time, the Bai family also learned that the people who had been suppressing them all these years were the Chen family, and that their family and the Chen family had been neighbors before.
Unexpectedly, the wickedness of human nature led to the destruction of the Bai family, and it turned out that their former neighbor was the one who caused it.
Bai Yiyang had no scruples. After the company was established, he directly connected with clients. He took over projects that the Chen family couldn't, and he also managed to snatch back projects that originally belonged to the Chen family.
Over the years, the Chen family has relied on their status as the leading business family in Shanghai to make many enemies with other businessmen. If given an opening, they can easily crush the Chen family.
Chen Shiming watched the stock price plummet, his heart bleeding.
"That piece of land originally belonged to us, so why is it in Bai Yiyang's hands?"
It would have been fine if it were in his hands, but the key issue is that Bai Yiyang somehow ended up cooperating with the Song family in the capital, and this piece of coastal land is the very one that Bai Yiyang and Song Yun are cooperating on.
They plan to develop a commercial district here. Once it's built, the Chen family will have nothing to do with Shanghai.
The secretary standing nearby saw Chen Shiming's cold face, as if he was about to kill someone at any moment, and was immediately too frightened to speak.
Chen Shiming looked at the message that came in, suddenly stood up, and walked outside, muttering to himself.
"No, this can only be ours."
The secretary didn't know what this meant, but this was a project that even the Song family in Beijing had gotten involved in. How could they possibly snatch it away?
Two days later, he finally found out.
Just when everyone thought this area would become a landmark commercial center in Shanghai, the project ran into problems.
First, large cranes on the construction site collapsed, then the foundation was not solid enough, and workers on the site were frequently injured or killed.
People come to burn paper money in front of the construction site from time to time, and even wandering "Taoist priests" pass by, claiming that the person who buys here is born to be a vengeful ghost, and that those who cooperate with him will be unlucky sooner or later.
Some even said that the entire commercial center was poorly designed, calling it a "coffin ground" that used to be a mass burial ground and is no place for humans to go now.
The incident spread online, and netizens, always eager for drama, joined in the speculation.
"Family members, as of yesterday, there have been twelve murders here. I heard that there are some things in here at night, but I don't know if it's true or not."
Someone was holding a camera and filming inside the construction site from the front.
The collapsed crane is still there, and there were originally some workers who didn't believe in such things, but after witnessing someone being pushed off the building by something during an accident, they became frightened.
"As you can see, work has been suspended here for five days, not because the boss ordered it to stop, but because no workers dare to come."
The man holding the phone and live-streaming is Ajiu, a well-known online adventure streamer who specializes in going to strange places to live-stream his adventures.
The last time I went on an adventure, I went to a square where people supposedly fall to their deaths every year.
However, this situation occurred in less than two months, and even the surrounding residents moved away overnight.
Houses that could have been sold at high prices are now being sold at prices comparable to those in third-tier cities, and nobody is willing to buy them.
Ah Jiu watched the number of viewers in the live stream soar and couldn't help but feel happy, as this was the most gifts he had ever received since he started live streaming.
The comments section was flooded with messages urging him to go in and take a look, with some even telling him to come back at night.
Ah Jiu stood under a big tree near the front of the construction site. Despite the sweltering heat, she didn't break a sweat.
He didn't think anything of it at first, but the comments kept reminding him.
[The temperature outside is at least 39℃, isn't the anchor hot?]
[I'm also in Shanghai, and it's so hot here! Why isn't the host sweating at all?]
[Oh my god, could it really be haunted by something?]
Ajiu was looking at the comments when he suddenly felt a chill down his spine, but when he turned around, there was nothing behind him.
"Don't talk nonsense, I'm under the shade of a tree."
I thought to myself, he's probably overthinking it. What could possibly happen in broad daylight?
He continued to wander around. There hadn't been many people around since the incident, and now Ajiu only saw a few passing cars.
There's nothing here? Never mind, I'm not going to look anymore.
[It doesn't seem like a big deal. How about the streamer comes over tonight?]
[I'm outta here, what's so interesting about watching people walk?]
Ajiu panicked as she watched the number of viewers in the live stream plummet.
This money is very important to him; he has to seize this opportunity to capitalize on the hype.
"Hey, don't go! I'll go in and check it out later. Guys, please follow and like this post. If the number of viewers in the live stream exceeds 100,000, I'll go in, okay?"