Chapter 38 Further
Later, whenever Yan Sui felt upset, she would climb to the top of Beiming Mountain and sit in the small pavilion hidden in the bamboo forest and rockery to watch the fish playing and fighting.
Sometimes Yu Shuli would come with her, and sometimes Yan Sui would not invite him along, but would come alone.
Somehow, this small pavilion, originally only housing a few fish, began to attract more and more fish, all vying for the food she had scattered.
She didn't know why, but whenever she felt she couldn't hold on any longer, she would just come to the fish pond in Beiming Mountain to take a look at the fish, watching them fight for food and swing their tails desperately. Suddenly, a strength would surge in her heart that she didn't know where it came from.
But Yu Shuli was right, there were roads in every direction.
In her previous life, Beiming Mountain was the place she went most often, besides her part-time job, school and home.
When she left Sushan to go to another city to study, she climbed to the top of Beiming Mountain for the last time.
As usual, Yan Sui bought some fish food from the old man and came to this small pavilion.
This time the fish did not hide under the pavilion, but swam in the lake in groups.
She gently sprinkled a handful of fish food and whispered, "I'm sure I'll find my own way, right?"
No one responded to her, and the fish in the lake just swarmed over the fish food she had scattered.
Yan Sui stared at them for a long while, then suddenly smiled and said, "Of course."
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The things about Beiming Mountain were something she started doing in her previous life after being betrayed by Yan Zhaoting.
It starts in winter and ends in midsummer.
If Yu Shuli didn't have the ability to predict the future, it would be impossible for him to know about this matter.
Or is it just a coincidence?
A cloud of doubt arose in Yan Sui's heart, and when she met Yu Shuli's expectant gaze, she decided to give it a test.
She cast her eyes aside and said nonchalantly, "Fish? But I don't like fish very much."
Yu Shuli was surprised and replied subconsciously: "But you don't really like going to Beiming Mountain to feed——"
His voice stopped abruptly, and he obviously realized that he had said the wrong thing.
Yan Sui looked at him quietly, her expression calm, as if she had guessed that he would react like this.
"It was the same thing at the last sports meet. I clearly didn't have a long-distance race, but you thought I did. Did you really hear what Qin Yuanjia said, or did you already know?" Yan Sui's voice was cold and emotionless. "So, what do you know?"
Yu Shuli abruptly retracted his gaze, his eyes dodging: "I don't understand what you are saying. I just heard it from others."
"Who told you that?" Yan Sui paused and suddenly said, "Yu Shuli, I have never fed the fish in Beiming Mountain."
Yu Shuli fell silent.
On the podium, the math teacher was lecturing incessantly while holding a test paper. The students' responses could be heard one after another. It was a normal classroom.
Only here, both of them had hidden waves in their hearts, as if something was about to sweep them away.
Yan Sui stared at him quietly, waiting for the answer from his mouth.
Yu Shuli had already straightened up, and from that moment on, he no longer dared to look at Yan Sui. His back was stiff, and his hands were on the table, clenching and unclenching constantly, his fingers leaving nail marks on his fingertips.
He was struggling, she could tell at a glance.
The answer to this matter is by no means a simple coincidence.
For a long time, the person beside him did not respond.
Yan Sui no longer hesitated and slowly let out a sigh: "Forget it."
In fact, she didn't really care about the answer to this question. After all, it was Yu Shuli's own business.
"If you don't want to talk about it, then don't talk about it. It's your own business anyway.
“It’s just that no matter where you get those things from, they are of no use.
"There's no way we can be together, so get over it!"
Yu Shuli immediately struggled out of his thoughts, turned his head hastily and wanted to speak, but the next second, the bell for the end of get out of class rang out from the classroom broadcast, interrupting his action.
Yan Sui raised her eyes and said softly, "get out of class is over."
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After Yu Shuli left, Yan Sui went to the bathroom.
She turned on the faucet in the sink, and the icy cold water flowed out from the faucet and poured over her hands, making her shiver.
"Host, why didn't you let Yu Shuli explain himself clearly just now?"
Yan Sui washed her hands with her eyes downcast: "He won't tell."
"How do you know he won't tell?"
"I'm just guessing," Yan Sui said, and tightened the faucet with her wet hands. "And it doesn't matter what the answer is."
System: “Why?”
"He has no ill intentions, he probably just wants to be closer to me!"
Yan Sui shook off the water droplets in his hands, and slowly clenched his wet hands into fists: "Anyway, I can't give him the answer to his question, and I don't need his answer to my question."
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After evening self-study, Tan Shu stayed at home because of choir rehearsal, so Yan Sui took a taxi back alone.
When she got home, she saw, rarely, a pair of men's leather shoes at the entrance.
Yan Sui's eyes paused for a moment, and she took off her shoes quietly without taking slippers, but quietly approached the living room.
Through the vacant space between a shelf that separated the living room and the entrance, she spotted Yan Zhaoting and Sui Yuling, each seated at one end of the sofa. Neither spoke. Sui Yuling's expression was calm, but Yan Zhaoting's was clearly irritated. A strange atmosphere permeated the living room. On the coffee table before them lay a white sheet of paper. Calculating the time, Yan Sui guessed it was probably loan documents.
Thinking of this, Yan Sui roughly guessed what had happened.
The two people in the room must have heard the sound of the door opening just now, and Yan Sui couldn't hide for too long.
She took a deep breath, pretended to be relaxed and walked over to call out to the two of them. The look on Yan Zhaoting's face dimmed a little. She said with a forced smile, "Today is not the weekend, why is Dad back?"
She deliberately emphasized the tone of the word "Dad".
Perhaps he realized that the truth hadn't been revealed yet, so he had to maintain a good appearance of harmony. Yan Zhaoting smiled at her, his lips twitching: "There's nothing going on at the factory, so I came back."
Yan Sui nodded thoughtfully: "Really."
Seeing Yan Sui walk over to sit next to Sui Yuling, Yan Zhaoting smiled and said, "You're back so early today?"
"Evening self-study classes always end at this time." Yan Sui replied calmly.
Yan Zhaoting's expression froze.
Yan Sui affectionately took Sui Yuling's arm and asked, "Mom and Dad, what are you two talking about? Why do you look like you're arguing?"
Sui Yuling glanced at Yan Zhaoting indifferently, then raised her finger and pointed at the documents on the desk: "Your father said that the company's capital turnover is a bit of a problem, and he wants to borrow money from outside."
Yan Zhaoting obviously didn't expect Sui Yuling to tell Yan Sui about this. He was about to open his mouth to stop her, but he was afraid of exposing himself further, so he closed his mouth again.
He leaned back on the sofa with a suffocating look on his face. Meeting Yan Sui's feigned confusion, he choked and finally began to explain, "Our factory received a large order some time ago. After the order is completed, we can get a lot of dividends in a year. But now that the project has entered the middle stage, the capital chain is a bit tight, so I want to discuss with your mother about a loan to help the factory turn around."
Now that the matter had been brought up, Yan Zhaoting simply played the victim: "Hey, Sui Sui, you and Ping An are still young. You don't know how much the family expenses are. The school that Ping An and his friends attend costs a lot of tuition every year, and after-school tutoring is also an expense. You will be going to college soon, and the family's money must be saved for you. I also want to buy you a car after you graduate from college! That's why I thought of borrowing some money. Anyway, it's just for factory turnover, and it will be fine after this period of time."
Yan Zhaoting deliberately mentioned Yan Sui and Ping An, observing Sui Yuling's expression as he spoke.
Yan Sui also understood what he meant and secretly glanced at Sui Yuling's expression. Fortunately, she did not show any softness in her heart.
If Sui Yuling had not known in advance that the money was not to be used for factory capital turnover, Yan Zhaoting might have really grasped her mentality at this time and believed his words.
Yan Zhaoting was still talking about the expenses of Ping'an and his sister, and he seemed like a good father who really cared about his children.
After Yan Zhaoting finished speaking, Yan Sui suddenly turned around and asked with a puzzled look, "How much does Dad need Mom to borrow?"
"Not much." He was vague and unwilling to tell Yan Sui the amount.
"Six hundred thousand." Sui Yuling was unwilling to do as he wished and told him the number.
Yan Zhaoting's expression changed: "Yuling!"
Sui Yuling raised her hand and waved: "Sui Sui is about to become an adult, so there's nothing wrong with her listening to these things."
"But Sui Sui is just a child after all! These matters are our adults' business."
"She'll grow up sooner or later," Sui Yuling suddenly looked up, "and our factory will be handed over to her and Ping'an in the future, right? Since this involves the factory, why can't she listen?"
Yan Zhaoting slapped his knees and said, "It's not that I can't bear to hear it, I just think she is still young after all."
Sui Yuling smiled and said, "When you're not at home, it's Sui Sui who helps me run the household and keeps Ping An safe. She's not a child anymore."
Watching the two arguing about this, Yan Sui suddenly said, "By the way, Dad."
Yan Zhaoting's voice paused.
"Didn't you lend some money to those uncles when I was in my first year of high school?" Yan Sui arched her eyebrows at him. "If you get those loans back, it should be enough to get through this financial crisis, right?"
Hearing this, Sui Yuling seemed to have just remembered these loans and smiled softly at Yan Zhaoting: "Yes, husband, didn't we borrow 100,000 from Lao Gu and 200,000 from Lao Qian before? There are also some scattered loans. If we pool them together, we should be able to get 600,000, right? At that time, they agreed with us to pay it back as soon as we had money. It's been more than a year now, and I see that their business is starting out well. I even saw Lao Qian buy a new car a few days ago."
Sui Yuling picked up the contract on the table and slowly handed it to Yan Zhaoting: "Since he has the money to buy a new car, he should be able to pay back the money he owes us. This way, I don't need to borrow money for the factory anymore, right?"
Yan Zhaoting's face turned red with anger, his lips trembled but he couldn't say a word for a long time.
Of course, he couldn't ask his friends to pay him back. They had more or less accepted benefits from him to help him conceal his affair. And the money had already been transferred to them in another way.
You're asking about the IOU? It's long gone.
At that time, Yan Zhaoting deliberately used cash as a "loan" to those people in order to avoid bank transfer records.
This money has long been circulated between one person and another and will never return to their family accounts.
Sui Yuling kicked the ball of the company's capital turnover back to Yan Zhaoting, making him unable to catch it for a while. It was not right to ask for it back, and it was not right to refuse it either.
Finally, Yan Zhaoting threw the documents to the ground in a rage of humiliation. "What are you talking about? I only lent them that money a short time ago. If they had the money, they would have paid me back long ago. Now I'm asking them for money so urgently. Their business is struggling, and I'm just adding insult to injury. Where can I put my face?"
Sui Yuling glanced at him and refused to give in: "You still care about whether other people's businesses can be turned around? Take care of your own factory first! We are all reduced to borrowing money from outside, and you are still caring about your own face."
"You——" Yan Zhaoting pointed at Sui Yuling with a trembling finger, but could not utter any words of rebuttal. Sui Yuling insisted on not signing the loan agreement. Yan Zhaoting had no choice but to leave a vicious sentence "You are harming our whole family" and slammed the door and walked out.
After Yan Zhaoting left, Sui Yuling's originally tense body suddenly relaxed.
Yan Sui approached and found that her body was shaking.
She gently pushed Sui Yuling's shoulder and called softly: "Mom——"
Sui Yuling took a deep breath and waved at her: "Mom, it's okay."
"Sui Sui, if mom does this, dad won't have any plans for this family anymore, right?" Sui Yuling said this in a low voice.
Yan Sui calmly analyzed: "He will think of other ways to plunder our family."
Sui Yuling closed her eyes and sighed softly: "Yes, he didn't think about our family at all."
Looking at the sad expression on Sui Yuling's face, Yan Sui pursed her lips, crossed over the sofa and put her arms around her mother's shoulders.
She leaned against Sui Yuling's cheek and rubbed it gently:
"Thank you, Mom."
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Yan Zhaoting did not come back at the weekend, and seemed to be still angry about what happened that night.
Yan Sui sat on the sofa, thinking about her next plan.
Ping An played games until the early hours of the morning and still wasn't awake. Sui Yuling was standing by the dining table, lost in thought.
Yan Sui was talking to the system in her mind, discussing the next plan.
In the original timeline, shortly after Yan Zhaoting tricked Sui Yuling into signing the loan and legal person transfer agreement, he tricked her into divorcing him, claiming he was transferring the children's household registration to Sushan, giving her custody of the children. He then abandoned their three children and fled abroad with his mistress, alleging his wealth.
But in this life, Yan Sui had allowed Sui Yuling to see Yan Zhaoting's true face beforehand. He was unable to successfully persuade Sui Yuling to agree to the loan, and used this as an excuse to transfer the company's legal representative to Sui Yuling. It was unknown what kind of butterfly effect this change would trigger, and after his plans were disrupted, Yan Sui had no idea what he would do next.
Her original safer plan was to use the reason of transferring her household registration in the previous life to get Sui Yuling to divorce before Yan Zhaoting did.
But now Yan Zhaoting has not successfully transferred the legal representative to Sui Yuling, so this plan probably cannot be realized in the short term.
Yan Sui could only focus on the fact that Yan Zhaoting had cheated on her and was the one at fault, so she was kicked out of the house, but this reason lacked the key evidence of cheating.
Yan Sui was thinking when the system suddenly asked, "Host, I have a feeling that Yan Zhaoting will appear in that woman's shop this afternoon. Do you want to go over? You might get something unexpected."
Hearing this, Yan Sui suddenly smiled and teased: "You actually have a day when you take the initiative to spread the news."
system:"......"
She stared at a certain spot in the living room and suddenly said, "But I can't go today."
"Why?"
"Didn't I exchange points with you yesterday for information about Tian Ji's daughter? She's getting out of school this afternoon, and I'm going to go find her."
As soon as the system told Yan Sui about Tian Ji, she planned to go check out the situation there. However, due to system permissions issues, she was unable to find out where Tian Ji's family lived or which school his eldest daughter attended.
Until yesterday, the system reminded her that her points could be exchanged for a piece of information, and Yan Sui then used this authority to exchange for the information of Tian Ji's daughter.
The system asked her why she didn't exchange the information about her family.
Yan Sui only said: "She's more anxious over there."
Ever since Sui Yuling refused Yan Zhaoting to sign the contract, Yan Sui has been eighty percent sure about the affairs at home.
The worst outcome would be that she couldn't recover the property, but that was within her acceptable range.
The best outcome would be that Yan Zhaoting would be kicked out of the house with nothing and all the property he transferred out would be recovered.
But both endings mean that Yan Sui has accomplished her mission.
She didn't care how much money was left in the family. She had no expectations from the beginning. As long as they didn't owe any foreign debts, their family could start a new life.
The clues the system gave for the main quest were always very superficial, and she mostly had to search and discover them herself.
So this time Yan Sui put the clue exchange on Tian Ji.
One reason is that the system provides more comprehensive information for non-mainline tasks.
Secondly, the matter of Tian Ji's daughter was more urgent, and if he was lucky enough to get Tian Ji's help...
Yan Sui's mission will take a big step forward.
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Tian Ji's eldest daughter, Tian Shan, attended a public middle school in the county below Sushan.
At the school gate at the end of the school day, Yan Sui relied on the clue photos given by the system and locked onto a girl walking out with a pink schoolbag on her back.
"She is Tian Shan."
System: "Yes, host."
Yan Sui nodded, but the school gate was not a good place to meet. She planned to follow Tian Shan for a while, and then go find Tian Shan after they were away from the school and there were fewer students.
When Yan Sui followed Tian Shan around the school gate and walked to a small path next to it called "Qinghai Road", she suddenly found that something was wrong with Tian Shan.
She stopped and stared straight ahead with a look of horror on her face, as if she had seen something terrible.
Yan Sui was a little confused. Just as she was about to go forward to ask, she heard a female voice coming from the path: "Tian Shan, what are you standing there for? Come here!"
Tian Shan's body stiffened, and then he walked inside step by step, trembling.
Yan Sui used the car parked nearby to block her body and carefully watched every move inside.
The girl named Tian Shan was also wearing the same school uniform as Tian Shan, but her expression didn't look like she was greeting a good friend. There were also several girls around her who were also wearing school uniforms.
Tian Shan took small steps towards them. When he was almost there, the girl leading the group lost her patience and stepped forward to grab Tian Ji's wrist, "What are you dithering about?"
Tian Shan was startled and apologized while shaking.
The more Yan Sui watched, the more she felt that something was wrong. It was not until the girl pressed Tian Shan against the wall and pinched his face that she realized that this was school bullying.
She immediately forgot the purpose of coming here, walked out from the back of the car, pointed at the girls and shouted: "What are you doing!"
A group of people were attracted by the movement here and looked towards her.
Yan Sui also noticed Tian Shan, who was surrounded by them. She hadn't been able to see the expression on Tian Shan's face because of the angle. Now that the crowd around Tian Shan had dispersed, she could see Tian Shan's red eyes and the fingerprints on the side of her cheek.
The leading girl frowned and stepped forward: "What's it to you? Get lost."
Perhaps because they saw she was the only girl around, a group of people let down their guard and smacked their lips at her: "What? Are you trying to meddle in other people's business?"
Yan Sui pursed her lips tightly, and a guess suddenly emerged in her mind: if she couldn't intimidate these girls today, Tian Shan would continue to be bullied in the future.
Thinking of this, she immediately made a decision in her heart and quickly approached the group of people: "Tian Shan is my sister, what are you going to do?"
Hearing Yan Sui's words, everyone was stunned.
It seemed like they didn't expect her to be Tian Shan's sister. After all, she was still a student, and the expressions on several people's faces became conflicted.
Yan Sui didn't give them time to think. She quickly stepped forward and grabbed the leading girl's hand and shoulder with lightning speed. With a slight twist of her wrist, she restrained the girl's hand against her neck and pushed her hard against the wall. "What do you want to see Tian Shan for? You can tell me if you have anything to say."
The people around seemed to have not expected Yan Sui to take action, and they all stood there in a daze, not daring to step forward.
The girl who was held hostage by Yan Sui did not expect such a turn of events. Her hands were clamped tightly against her chest and she could not move.
She struggled twice but still couldn't break free. She turned around and saw the fierceness in Yan Sui's eyes. Tears instantly came out of her eyes and she stammered, "I, I didn't mean to. I didn't know Tian Shan had a sister."
Yan Sui's eyebrows jumped fiercely, and she pushed the person aside with the force of the controller in her hand, loosening her grip: "Just because Tian Shan doesn't have a sister, you can bully her, right?"
Seeing the fierce look just now, the remaining girls didn't dare to say anything and just shrank their heads like quails.
The girl in the lead was thrown aside by Yan Sui, her body pressed tightly against the wall, not daring to speak anymore.
Yan Sui looked around and finally set her sights on the leading girl: "Didn't your parents teach you not to bully others?"
The girl bit her lip, tears streaming down her face, sobbing and not daring to speak.
Yan Sui asked again: "If you want to bully Tian Shan again next time, come to me first, okay?"
The girl quickly shook her head: "No, not anymore. We don't dare..."
"Then apologize to her." Yan Sui raised her chin slightly and pointed in the direction of Tian Shan.
Tian Shan was stunned. Before she could react, several girls around her came over and apologized to her one after another.
The sister who helped her out of trouble stood outside the crowd and smiled at her.
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