Chapter 73
The red glow dyed the entire sea surface, and occasionally a sea fish jumped out with its white belly turned up from the sparkling water. The soft golden sand and the sunset reflected each other.
The beach, which should have been quiet, was flooded by a large group of students on an outing.
Amid laughter and joy, footprints were trampled on the golden sand.
Some people spread out picnic mats, some took out fishing rods and found a high reef to fish. Some people even organized a game of beach volleyball.
In the corner.
A pretty girl was setting up a tent. She wore a sun hat and a double braid. She wore a blue plaid short dress and a beige shirt on the outside.
It was different from her usual school uniform.
Chu Yi's outfit made many male classmates look back at her.
"Ayi, is it set up?"
A happy voice came.
Chu Yi didn't look up. After inserting the plug into the fine sand, she stretched out her hand to compact the fine sand around it, "It's almost done."
Chen Mixin handed her a bottle of mineral water, "Drink water first?"
"Wait." Chu Yi was still worried after inserting all the plugs, so she walked along the four supporting points of the tent and pushed the tent. It was very stable.
"Well... very stable!" Chu Yi smiled and clapped her hands, and proudly put her hands on her hips, "All done!"
This was her first day away from her sister.
Without the help of her sister, she could actually set up the tent.
It was really amazing!
"Look over there." Chen Mixin pushed Chu Yi who was drinking water and pointed to the coast. "It's really strange. Isn't Senior Qiao in Form 7? He will go to college next year. How can he have time to go on an outing?"
Chu Yi closed the mineral water cover.
A line was drawn on the coast. Seniors from Form 7 were playing beach volleyball. Qiao Xing was in the boys' team.
Even in sports, his natural temperament as a rich kid made him stand out among a group of male students.
Qiao Xing scored another goal.
There were countless applause and shouts from the fans at the scene.
Chu Yi looked at the endless applause, her big almond eyes full of confusion, and pulled her braid, "Who knows? Maybe the young master was in a good mood and came out to play. It's just catching a ball, but the applause has lasted for two full minutes. Aren't they tired?"
"You don't know." Chen Mixin looked at Qiao Xing who was surrounded by applause with envy, sat down next to the tent, supported her chin with her hands and fantasized.
"Young Master Qiao Xing is very wealthy, richer than the average wealthy family. If you can be friends with Young Master Qiao Xing and catch his eye, you'll have everything."
Chen Mixin counted on her fingers, "From small things like eating, drinking and having fun to big things like helping friends' families invest..."
"Investment? Is he really that rich?" Chu Yi caught the point, "Don't they say that rich people are all very powerful? Just look at Ye Chuxue and you'll know. Why is Qiao Xing even more low-key?"
Chu Yi thought of another possibility.
"It's probably because Ye Chuxue is not rich enough."
"Ayi, you little pig." Chen Mixin grinned, "Do you know how big the Qiao family is? The Qiao family is one of the three major wealthy families in Hong Kong. Ye Chuxue can only be regarded as a small family in front of the Qiao family. If you don't believe it, look."
Chu Yi looked in the direction.
Ye Chuxue was actually standing next to the players. She was talking and laughing with the group of followers. Seeing Qiao Xing score again, she couldn't help but shouting happily.
When it was time for a break, Ye Chuxue showed a sweet smile and brought water to Qiao Xing.
Ye Chuxue was usually very arrogant in school. She was a well-known princess who never touched water. How could she bring water to Qiao Xing?
Chu Yi was stunned. She rubbed her eyes vigorously, "Am I seeing things?"
Chen Mixin pulled down her hand that was constantly rubbing her eyes, "Of course I am not seeing things. Which girl in the school doesn't want to be Master Qiao Xing's girlfriend?"
Qiao Xing didn't take Ye Chuxue's water. Chu Yi kept wiping her eyes, which was really too annoying. So he walked over, with a teasing look on his handsome face: "Chu Yi...sister?"
"Ahem." Chu Yi patted her chest desperately and rolled her eyes at him, "Don't shout nonsense, when did I become your sister? I can't stand it."
"Why can't I afford it? We have the same sister." Qiao Xing sat down on the beach with one hand, stretched out her hand to Chen Mixin and smiled, "Can you sell me a bottle of water?"
Chu Yi blinked: "How do you know we have water?"
Qiao Xing pointed at her classmates, "When I first arrived, I heard many people say that you were selling mineral water. I guessed it was you."
That's right.
Chu Yi would certainly not miss such a good business opportunity.
"Ahem." Chu Yi said as a matter of course, "I am serving my classmates. Otherwise, they would have to go to a small shop far away to buy water. Wouldn't it be better to have water on the spot?"
Chen Mixin had never expected that Chu Yi was so familiar with Qiao Xing. She was so shocked that she covered her mouth with her hands. Seeing Qiao Xing smiling at her again, her pretty face turned red and she climbed up with her hands and feet. "The water... the water is still in the teacher's car. I'll get it."
After saying that,
Chen Mixin covered her face and ran away.
Qiao Xing felt strange and pushed Chu Yi, "Is your friend feeling unwell? Her face is as red as a steamed shrimp."
Chu Yi sighed and looked up at the sky, shaking her head, "Straight men are hopeless."
Qiao Xing didn't notice and glanced at her, "For the sake of the goddess sister, remember to find me if you
have any problems at school." "Thank you, I'm fine." Seeing him calling her sister left and right, Chu Yi suddenly felt a little unhappy and reminded her again, "Also, sister is my sister, not yours. You are not allowed to call her sister."
Qiao Xing still shouted, "Sister, sister, I have no objection to calling her sister in front of the goddess sister."
"Ahhhh, I'm so angry." Chu Yi stood up and hit Qiao Xing with his fist.
"Hey! Ghost girl, be gentle!" Qiao Xing was opened by Bang Bang Jiquan and jumped up quickly.
The two of them were fighting and running away, and the beach was in chaos.
Ye Chuxue, who was far away, had a gloomy face.
In front of everyone, Qiao Xing didn't even look at her. That's fine, but she even went to talk to the country girl whom she looked down on the most in school.
Ye Chuxue was very angry.
She stared at the two people who were talking and laughing with resentment.
After Qiao Xing left, Ye Chuxue came over with her followers. She looked Chu Yi up and down with disdain.
"You don't have a single brand name item on you, and you don't behave like a lady. I don't know what attracts Master Qiao."
"I'm warning you, country girl. Stay away from Master Qiao!"
"Are you kidding me?" Chu Yi was speechless. "I'm still bothered by him. Why don't you keep him away from me?"
She was really speechless.
Qiao Xing clearly came here to compete with her for her sister.
Could she be happy?
Is Ye Chuxue's train of thought okay?
"If he really wants to stay away, I will really thank you."
Ye Chuxue was deliberately provoked, biting her lower lip in anger and hating Chu Yi completely, but Qiao Xing's Class 7 was not far away, and she couldn't do anything that would damage her image.
"Just wait and see when we get back to school!"
She would definitely show Chu Yi a good face!
At night, the sky was full of stars.
The students of Class 3 gathered around the big fire to roast. Away from the learning environment, the classmates were chasing and playing, full of singing and laughter.
The English teacher was relatively young, not yet thirty years old, with a head of curly hair. He sat in the middle, looking at the cute students in the class, smiling and inviting everyone to eat more meat.
"It's rare to have a BBQ, so relax and have fun."
Chu Yi sat next to the English teacher, nodding
her head as she looked at the juicy chicken wings being grilled. The English teacher patted her on the shoulder and comforted her: "Relax, don't be nervous. Learning should be enjoyable and relaxing. You are suffering from memorizing words because you are under too much pressure. Try to let go of your burden once in a while."
Chu Yi didn't expect that the teacher would still think about her when she was eating. She looked away with difficulty and nodded solemnly: "Thank you. I will relax well."
"If I can have the first bite of the delicious and tender chicken wings, I will definitely relax more."
Teacher Yang was stunned for a moment and then laughed, stood up and picked out the cooked chicken wings from the skewers and passed them over.
"Eat it."
Chu Yi chuckled, took the skewer and started biting without hesitation.
Teacher Yang laughed and shook his head.
Chu Yi was a student from the mainland, and could not compare to the students in Hong Kong who had English courses since childhood.
Yang Hai paid special attention to Chu Yi since she transferred to the school.
He found that Chu Yi had to spend three times more time on English after class every day to ensure that he would not fall behind.
He had also seen the mainland textbooks from a friend, and the progress was indeed slower than that of the Hong Kong textbooks.
Except for the first half semester when Chu Yi was not able to adapt, he caught up very well afterwards, but you could also see the pain of catching up.
In addition to Chu Yi, other students in the class actually have various problems. As the head teacher of the third grade class, he also wanted to help them relieve stress.
So there was this outing.
Teacher Yang also understood that his special status might make students feel uncomfortable, so he stayed with them for half an hour before leaving.
As expected, once the teacher left, the students relaxed.
It was a dark night with a strong wind.
The fire was burning and there were crackling sparks.
The male student held a flashlight to his chin and deliberately said in a gloomy voice, "Have you heard the story of the Repulse Bay Beach?"
"It's very mysterious and amazing."
The students were intrigued by his mysterious words and said they had never heard of it.
So, under the constant urging of the students, the male student hurriedly told the story of the Repulse Bay Beach.
"The Repulse Bay Beach is famous for its beautiful sunsets. Legend has it that many lovers have committed suicide by jumping into the sea here because of romance. Under the pressure of feudal dregs, most of them could not stay together in this world for various reasons."
"As more and more people died, the resentment accumulated. So..."
The male student holding the flashlight deliberately stopped and looked at his classmates meaningfully, "This place started to... be haunted." After he
finished speaking,
there was a sound of "Wow!"
Another male student jumped out from behind the male student and made faces.
"Ahhhhh."
"Ghost!"
Many timid female students were scared and ran away.
"Hahahaha." The two male students saw that they were really scared, and they supported each other and laughed.
"Boring." Chu Yi rolled her eyes, "So tasteless."
She looked up and saw the full moon in the sky, thinking of Chu Yue. She didn't know how her sister was doing at home.
The night wind gradually picked up, and it was getting cooler.
Chu Yi gathered the barbecue skewers together and put them in a garbage bag. After packing up, she and Chen Mixin made an appointment to go to the beach. The sea water was slowly rising. It was the first time she saw the sea after coming to Hong Kong for so long. She curiously put her hand into the sea water, feeling the temperature of the sea water .
Suddenly.
There was a slippery touch on her arm, with a chill.
Chu Yi was surprised, and she reached out to grab it and found that it was a cylindrical object with a slippery membrane. Suddenly, the cylinder exerted force and was pulled into the sea.
Chu Yi steadied herself and raised her hand, "Could it be a fish?"
Marine fish are different from freshwater fish, so a slippery touch should be normal? Or is it a jellyfish?
Chen Mixin kicked the sea water excitedly, and seeing Chu Yi in a daze, she asked, "What's wrong?"
"Nothing." Chu Yi had just finished speaking when she felt a warmth in her pocket. She quickly dug into her pocket and took out a pile of ashes, and suddenly became frustrated, "I don't know what happened to the talisman my sister drew."
The talisman inexplicably turned into ashes.
The two of them didn't want to play anymore, and each replied to the tent message.
In the middle of the night.
Chu Yi was awakened by a scream just as she was about to fall asleep.
A classmate shouted: "Come and help, Ye Chuxue just fell into the sea. Does anyone have a blanket?" Two days
had passed when Chu Yueqing received Yin Yao's dance ticket.
Yin Yao was wearing a white dress, standing in front of the stall with Yin's parents behind her.
Yin's parents had heard everything, and they bowed to Chu Yueqing with great gratitude. Yin's mother kept wiping away tears, "Master Chu, I am so sorry for you. If not, Yaoyao would never have been able to stand up again."
Chu Yueqing shook her head, "Don't thank me, Yin Yao had hope of recovery."
Yin's father, "Master, you are too modest. A medical professor in the United States said that if you insist on reexamination, you may have hope of standing up in a few decades, but it is only a one in a thousand chance."
"It's just that the time has not come yet." Chu Yueqing smiled.
All she did was to help Yin Yao avoid the fire that would have burned her to ashes.
The catastrophe was over.
Yin Yao's fate was rewritten, and with the strong desire to survive that burst out when the fire started, the right time, right place and right people, Yin Yao was able to stand up again.
"Anyway, I must thank the master for giving me the grace of rebirth." After Yin Yao stood up again, she was much more cheerful. She handed over the ticket with a smile.
"I will hold a show at the Hong Kong Coliseum in half a year, and sincerely invite the master to come and watch it."
"Okay." Chu Yueqing accepted the ticket, "I will definitely be there."
Yin Yao reached out and hugged Chu Yueqing, "Thank you."
"Thank you for giving me the opportunity to stand up again."
The people of the Yin family left.
Yin Yao was originally crippled by someone, but she was kept in the dark for her whole life, living in confusion and finally died in a fire.
Now,
her face has changed, she will become the most famous Chinese dancer in the world, and her graceful dance will be on major screens around the world.
Zhang Jiande stood beside the stall at some point, smoking with the cigarette in his hand and sighing, "Another good thing done."
Chu Yueqing looked back and smiled, "Brother De, the coffee restaurant is not so busy that you can come out and stroll around?"
Zhang Jiande held the cigarette in his hand and shook his head and laughed, "I have to give it a break to help the old man, otherwise he will talk about other things behind my back all day long. If he keeps talking, the ancestral tomb will be filled with smoke."
"Brother De, you're not angry? After all, you are in charge of paying the food, and they still say bad things about you?" Chu Yueqing admired Zhang Jiande's broad mind.
Zhang Jiande laughed out loud: "Why should you be angry? Actually, they are all good people. When business is busy, I can't help but speak harshly. Let them talk back to me and let off some steam."
"But speaking of business, did you get Ah Hua's call?"
Chu Yueqing nodded. Lin Jiahua had called her last week. "He has been slowly taking over the business with President Chen. He is worried that there will be mistakes when reading the contract, so he has never been very relaxed."
"Ah Hua is just like that." Zhang Jiande was still happy for him. "It's good for him to slowly get involved in the business. The business world is like a battlefield, and he still has a lot to hone his skills."
Ah Shanpo also came out suddenly, shaving her waist, grabbing a peach wood comb to comb her hair. "Shouldn't you call me President Lin next time we meet?"
"It's inevitable to call him General Lin." Zhang Jiande joked, "Next time General Lin returns to Hong Kong, we'll ask him to take us to the most luxurious restaurant for a meal."
"Yes." Chu Yuexi smiled.
"Oh!"
A Shanpo grabbed the peach wood comb and patted her head, holding a newspaper behind her back, "I almost forgot to tell you some gossip."
"What gossip?" Chu Yuexi leaned over.
A Shanpo unfolded the newspaper, and a line of bloody words appeared on the title.
"Isn't it the wife of the Chief Secretary? The wife of the Mu family died tragically on the street early yesterday morning."
Chu Yuexi took the newspaper and read it. The
bloody words on the front page read:
The Mu family has a new corpse. Yu Xinci was stripped naked and chopped off her limbs and died tragically on the street. The word "scumbag" was sprayed on her back with paint? What deep hatred did the murderer have with the Mu family?
Another person from the Mu family died.