Chapter 50
Many things that happened to Pei Qing recently were not as smooth as she had imagined.
Before, she even had the despicable thought that Joe had deliberately made things so bad for her.
But her intuition told her that this was impossible.
Although Qiao Ye has a bad personality, she scoffs at such despicable tactics.
If she really wanted to kill herself, she would never use such a subtle method.
Thinking of this, Pei Qing smiled somewhat self-deprecatingly.
She held her book and walked slowly towards the house she rented.
The money she had left was only enough for her to lie down here for half a month.
Any more and she might not even be able to afford some cheap burgers.
At this moment, her cell phone suddenly rang.
She glanced at the name on the note and hesitated for a moment. Obviously, she was not ready to answer the other party's call.
But after she hung up the phone once, the other party kept calling her.
Helpless, she finally chose to answer the phone.
There was a young man's voice on the other end of the phone.
He is her cousin.
Theoretically speaking, her relationship with the other party was not very close, not even an acquaintance.
If I had to say it, it was probably because the other person had occupied all of grandma's attention since childhood, leaving her with only some pity and sympathy.
Although these insignificant sympathies were enough to make her grateful until now.
Therefore, she was curious about the call from her cousin.
"Hello."
"Ah...cousin..." The other party's voice was obviously a little halting, and he didn't seem to expect that she would choose to answer his call.
"Is there anything wrong?" Pei Qing asked calmly.
"It's like this, my uncle just said that he couldn't get through to you on the phone, so he asked me to try..." The boy's voice became smaller and smaller, and finally fell silent.
Then, there was a rustling sound from the other end of the phone.
Then came the man's rough voice, "You little bitch, why did you quit such a good job in Beijing? Do you know how much you've embarrassed me by quitting your job? Why don't you get back here quickly?"
The woman listened to the unbearable and vulgar words on the other end of the phone and slowly tightened her grip on the phone. "What do you want to talk to me about?"
If he hadn't called her now, she would have almost forgotten that she had blocked the four phone numbers of the man who claimed to be her "father".
No wonder she couldn't be found.
Her tone was calm, and no emotion could be heard.
"How dare you say that?!" The man's voice suddenly rose. "Why don't you come back to see your grandma? Your grandma was so kind to you when you were a child..."
Pei Qing no longer had the heart to listen to what the man said next. "If you called just to say this, I'm busy. I have other things to do, so first..."
Before she could finish her words, the man said, "What can a woman like you do? The little money you earn is not even enough for your cousin to marry a wife. Come back quickly and don't embarrass yourself outside. Look at the good girls in the village who are like you, staying out every day."
Pei Qing hung up the phone decisively.
She knew all the things she said to the man by heart, but the man's potential was limited.
It seems that the time he spent in jail didn't teach him a lesson, and he's back to torment her again.
Thinking of this, Pei Qing continued walking forward with an expressionless face.
Before I had taken a few steps, I heard a frivolous whistle.
You originally thought that it was just the boring noise made by the boys who had nothing to do to make bets, so you ignored it and continued walking forward.
But the whistle still followed her like a shadow, like the cicadas in summer, annoying her. She stopped and looked in the direction where the sound came from.
I saw the young man sitting on the book at a glance.
She searched her mind for memories of the young man in front of her, and finally settled on someone from the Academy of Fine Arts.
When he saw that she noticed him, he jumped down from the tree with his sketchpad on his back and walked unsteadily to her side. "I thought my charming whistle couldn't attract your attention until you left."
Pei Qing took a step back without saying a word, keeping a safe distance from him. "I wonder what you want to talk to me about, classmate?"
"Hey, don't be so scared of me. I don't have any special feelings for you." He noticed her little movements and just shrugged nonchalantly. "Okay, let me introduce myself. My name is Kang Lening, and I'm from the Academy of Fine Arts at our school. Nice to meet you, nice to meet you."
As he spoke, Kang Lening stretched out his hand and wanted to shake hands with her.
But Pei Qing stood there motionless. "So, Mr. Kang, what brings you here to see me?"
She was extremely wary of anyone who showed kindness to her under such circumstances.
Seeing that she was unwilling to shake hands with him, the other party could only withdraw his hand in dissatisfaction, "Don't think so badly of me. I'm not that bad."
"Bad guys usually don't have the word 'bad guy' written on their faces." Pei Qing said indifferently.
"Alright, alright. It seems like you might not believe me if I don't show some sincerity." The young man seemed a little helpless, then he smiled. "I just heard that you and your father don't have a good relationship."
“Instead of caring about other people’s private affairs, it is better to do your own thing.”
Having said that, Pei Qing raised his foot and prepared to leave.
But before he had gone far, he heard the young man behind him say.
"Hey, don't say that. Since you're so annoyed with him, why don't you do something to solve the problem once and for all?"
He did not speak this sentence in Mandarin, but in Beijing dialect.
If she hadn't spent some time in the capital, she probably wouldn't have understood what he was saying.
Pei Qing stood there, not turning around, but with her back to him, and said, "I don't understand what you are saying."
"I don't understand why you want to stop?" The young man walked up to her with a smile and just looked at her.
“…”
"Don't be like that. I know you understand, Miss Pei." The smile on Kang Lening's face gradually disappeared, and he looked very serious. "Let me tell you a few time points. On the 13th of next month, there will be a gunfight here. You know, the security in Country M has always been poor, and many unfortunate people have been accidentally injured here before."
The young man's words sounded very plain, without any emotional color. Except for the last sentence, which expressed his regret, there was no other emotion.
But Pei Qing was such a smart person that she understood the meaning of his words almost immediately.
Just as he was about to say something, Qiao Ye's words suddenly flashed through his mind: "Of course killing is against the law. I am a first-class citizen. How could I do something illegal? Accidents are not against the law. After all, they are natural disasters or man-made disasters. Who can tell for sure?"
Her pupils suddenly shrank.
When Kang Lening saw her like this, he knew that the person in front of him had taken his words to heart.
"Right. Natural disasters and man-made disasters, who can tell?" As he said this, he even smiled.
Pei Qing looked at him. She finally took a serious look at the young man in front of her. "Who are you?"
Kang Lening looked at her innocently, "I'm Kang Lening. Didn't I introduce myself to you just now?"
"You know, that's not what I'm asking."
"Hey, some things are meaningless if they are said so clearly." The young man smiled, his face full of secrecy. "But if you really want to know my other identity, then I..."
He thought about it for a moment, seemingly genuinely considering his other identities. Suddenly, an idea struck him, and he slapped his thigh. "Ah, if you must, I'm still your former roommate's neighbor. Although you may have never noticed me."
Former roommate.
These three words made Pei Qing think for a rare moment, and then he realized that the other person was Qiao Ye's neighbor.
However, it seemed that she really didn't see him very often during the time she lived with Qiao Ye.
But she still believed what he said.
"Is that so?" She didn't want to mention Qiao Ye now.
Even though she knew intellectually that her current situation had nothing to do with Joe, she still felt somewhat resentful towards him emotionally.
"Oh, I know there is a conflict between you two. But you can't push the blame on me for what Qiao Ye did." Kang Lening looked innocent, as if he was really the one who was wronged.
Perhaps before, Pei Qing still had some trust in the people around Qiao Ye, thinking that not everyone around her could be as bad as her.
But what happened to Xue Xiaochen later made her completely understand what it meant to "birds of a feather flock together."
How good can the people who can play with her be?
"You wouldn't tell me this for nothing, would you?" she whispered.
Hearing this, Kang Lening showed an expression of "as expected", "This news is indeed not told to you in vain, but I can't tell you the reason right now."
"If the price I offer later is something I cannot afford, then who should I go to for justice?" Pei Qing asked him.
"Hmm..." The young man stroked his chin and thought for a while, "I think the price is something you can afford. After all, you are a professional lawyer. Isn't it?"
If she still didn't know the so-called "price" he mentioned, then it would be a waste of her time to follow this group of people for so long.
"I see."
"Then allow me to wish you good luck."
“…”
Pei Qing watched Kang Lening leave, not knowing what he was thinking.
Maybe, as he said, this is a rare opportunity.
But this requires a lot of financial support.
Where could she find so much money?
Susan's words flashed through her mind.
"She's just working at the front desk, and she's already getting such a high salary. Isn't this considered good treatment for us part-timers?"
Maybe she could give it a try?
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