Chapter 375: The Great One Does Not Remember the Mistakes of the Small One
The girl looked over with curiosity and scrutiny. Shen Feng curled his lips into a smile, bowed slightly, and said respectfully, "Hello, Miss Jiang. I am Shen Feng, the leader of Team Z."
The man's facial lines were very sharp, and his eyes were dark and bright. Even when he softened his attitude, he still looked very aggressive.
Knowing that this person was Shen Yang's confidant, Jiang Ran returned the greeting obediently: "Brother Shen, it's our first meeting. Please take care of me in the future."
The little girl's voice was gentle and soft. Chen Feng nodded: "Miss Jiang, you are too polite." He continued to look at Jiang Ran.
His gaze was obvious and undisguised. Although there was no hostility in it, it still made Jiang Ran feel uncomfortable.
"Brother Shen, do you have anything else to tell me?" Jiang Ran returned the man's gaze without dodging. "Or rather, where have we met before?"
When she asked this, Chen Bai patted the man subtly, reminding him not to go too far.
Shen Feng glanced at Shen Bai, restrained his anger, and waved his hand lazily: "Okay, you brothers and sisters can talk slowly."
He looked at Chen Yao behind Jiang Ran and raised his eyebrows: "Chen Yao, you finally came back alive, why don't you say hello to your old friend?"
Qin Huai was suddenly in an unfamiliar environment and for some reason he locked himself in the car and refused to get out.
Shen Yao was originally coaxing him softly, but after hearing Shen Feng’s words, she could only put Qin Huai aside first, and stood up to talk to Shen Feng: “Brother Shen.”
Shen Feng walked up to her, glanced casually into the car, and frowned: "Who is this?"
Shen Yao whispered: “Qin Huai.”
"Qin Huai?" The curve of Shen Feng's mouth became more and more obvious, and gradually colder. "So that's what that guy looks like?" He kicked the car door with his foot and sneered, "Get down!"
The car shook, and the young man in the car shook with it.
He hugged his knees tightly, lowered his face, and didn't look at Chen Feng, who was full of murderous aura, nor did he show any intention of getting out of the car.
"I told you," Chen Feng's voice became even colder, and he emphasized, "get off the car."
Qin Huai didn't move.
"Brother Shen." Shen Yao stopped the man and blocked the car door, helplessly, "Qin Huai was injured while trying to save me. Now his IQ is like a child. You are being mean to him, but it will do nothing except make him cry."
"Huh?" Shen Feng had already discovered that the man was very different from what he had imagined. After hearing this explanation, his interest suddenly lost. "So you brought him back. At such a young age, you're planning to raise a son who's older than you?"
Shen Yao was embarrassed: "I hope I can cure him."
Cure him? Chen Feng took a last look at the quail-like man in the car and said sarcastically: "This kind of fool can't be cured."
Chen Yao: “…”
After Chen Feng left, Qin Huai finally raised his head. He glanced around, quietly opened the car door, and prepared to escape quietly while no one was paying attention.
The first person to discover that the man had slipped away was Si Xu.
Unlike Shen Yao, who was good-tempered, he had been looking for an opportunity to teach his old enemy a lesson. Now that he had the chance, Si Xu didn't even bother to greet Shen Yao. He directly used the space tether to hold the man in place, and amid Jiang Ran's exclamations, he mercilessly threw him to the ground.
Jiang Ran: "Wait! Si Xu!"
Unable to stop him, he could only watch Qin Huai fall to the ground with a loud bang.
“…”
"Hmm!" Qin Huai rolled twice on the ground and couldn't get up.
"Qin Huai!" Shen Yao was startled by the commotion here. Without caring about others, she ran over and hugged the pale-faced young man, "Are you okay, Qin Huai?"
Qin Huai's face turned pale, he gritted his teeth and said nothing.
"Come, get up first." Shen Yao helped him stand up, "Can you stand up?"
He had old injuries on his body, and now he was thrown by Si Xu, causing the wound on his chest to split open. The blood-stained bandage was mixed with yellow sand and weeds, looking very pitiful.
Knowing that everyone here had a grudge with Qin Huai, Shen Yao coaxed him to take two steps. After confirming that it was just a wound, she breathed a sigh of relief and looked at Jiang Ran: "Ranran, I'll take him to the hospital first - you two can talk slowly."
The girl lowered her eyes and didn't look at anyone else. After she finished speaking, she didn't wait for Jiang Ran's response. She supported Qin Huai and walked around Si Xu and headed towards the door.
Understanding Shen Yao's embarrassment, Jiang Ran glared at Si Xu fiercely and ran over to talk to Shen Yao in a low voice.
"Sister Yaoyao, can I take you there?"
"No need. Second brother came to pick you up specially, he must have important work."
"It's quite a long way for you guys to walk like this." Jiang Ran said to Huo Lingyin who was watching the fun, "Lingyin, could you please drive Sister Yaoyao?"
Huo Lingyin made an OK gesture and drove away.
Asking Huo Lingyin to take Chen Yao and Qin Huai to the hospital, Jiang Ran returned to Si Xu and smiled coldly: "Si Xu, if someone dares to throw you like this in front of me, I will definitely break all of that person's ribs."
After finally beating Qin Huai, Si Xu was in a good mood and didn't hear the warning in Jiang Ran's words. He smiled and said, "Teach him a lesson, and he won't dare to run away again. Jiang Ran, if he tries to run away again in the future, tell me and I will beat him up again." After saying that, he didn't forget to wag his tail and ask for praise.
Jiang Ran: “…”
She snorted and walked towards Shen Bai: “Second brother, let’s go to the office to confirm the next work.”
Chen Bai glanced at Si Xu, who looked bewildered, and chuckled softly, "Okay, whatever you say."
Until Jiang Ran left, Si Xu had not yet recovered from the blow of being abandoned by his girlfriend.
"Um, Professor Si." Qiao Yi was originally going to take the Qian family to visit the base. When he passed the dazed Si Xu, he hesitated for a moment, but kindly reminded, "Sister Ranran seems angry."
Si Xu shrugged his head.
Of course he could see it, he was feeling wronged - look, last time she said that if Qin Huai was disobedient, she would fight for him, but now that he had fought, she actually got angry at him.
"Qin Huai is already a child after all. Xiling Base has not been a good memory for all of us. It's normal for him to want to escape."
Si Xu said coldly: "So what?"
He didn't care what Qin Huai thought. He was a vindictive and protective person, so it was impossible for him to shake hands with Qin Huai and make peace.
"I don't have the leisure to consider what he's thinking." If he dares to run away again next time, he will still teach him a lesson.
After Si Xu finished speaking, he got into the car, rushed into the base, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Qiao Yi shrugged and called Qian Duoduo: "Brother Qian, Sister Ranran asked me to take you and your uncle and aunt to visit the Xiling base first. Let's go."
…
Seeing Shen Yang at the door of the office building - the man had his hands empty and looked unhurried, but his steps were big, and it was obvious that he was in a hurry to deal with something.
"Brother!" Jiang Ran waved at him. When he stopped, she ran to him and asked, "Where are you going in such a hurry?"
"Go home." Shen Yang did not hide it, "There are uninvited guests at home."
"Ah?" Jiang Ran was surprised. "Who else would dare to cause trouble for us now?"
One Xu Hesui is not enough, she can find a few more people to stand out and perform the "killing the chicken to scare the monkey" performance for those who are ready to make moves.
"Not those people."
"No?" Jiang Ran was even more surprised.
"...What's the matter with you coming to the Military Control Building?"
Jiang Ran blinked, not exposing the man's abrupt change of subject, and replied, "Come here for a meeting, to exchange information and discuss the next steps."
"You guys go ahead and take charge of the Xiling base," Shen Yang said. "I'll be right here after I finish my family matters."
Guessing that what happened at home was his private matter, Jiang Ran didn't continue to pester him: "Brother, go quickly and come back soon!"
After sending Shen Yang away with a wave of his claws, Jiang Ran put down his hand and asked Shen Bai: "Second brother, do you think this is the romantic debt that eldest brother once owed?"
Otherwise, why change the subject so abruptly?
Chen Bai laughed: "Your elder brother doesn't have any romantic debts."
Thinking of Shen Yang's thoughts, Jiang Ran did not refute Shen Bai's words.
Luo Yuting, however, continued gossipingly, "The eldest son of the Shen family is known for his romantic reputation, and almost everyone in our Nanjun knows about it..."
Jiang Ran: "I didn't expect that people in Nanjun love gossip so much? Do they know the story of their boss chasing his wife to the crematorium?"
Luo Yuting: "..." If we don't talk about this, we can still be friends, and I didn't chase my wife to the crematorium.
…
Since the servants in the manor were dismissed last time, Zheng Li took over the maintenance of the Shen family's garden and lawn, and Tao Luyi became his deputy - the girl was well-behaved and sensible, and could endure hardships, and was very much liked by the housekeeper.
The weather was nice today. The housekeeper was alone, pushing a lawn mower to clear the overgrown grass. He glanced towards the hall from time to time while working, looking very absent-minded.
Tao Luyi sat on the sofa in the living room - the fine sofa cover seemed to be covered with barbs, and the girl's body was stiff as if she was sitting on pins and needles, and every second was torture.
Opposite her, the older man looked around with restrained eyes, secretly observing everything around him, revealing a look of amazement from time to time, while the younger boy looked around openly and fiddled with the decorative pendulum on the table.
After looking around, he was very satisfied with the environment here. Father Tao withdrew his gaze and looked at his daughter opposite him - Tao Luyi, who was born to him and his first wife. His first wife died not long after giving birth, so he named her "Luyi" to mourn his deceased wife.
The daughter looks very similar to his late wife, both are gentle beauties raised in the water towns of the south of the Yangtze River.
He had once given all his love to his only daughter. At that time, he thought his life would revolve around his daughter, raising her to adulthood and watching her start a family and build a career...
He held on to this idea for ten years and then remarried.
Soon after remarrying, he had a son with his second wife, and most of his attention shifted to his son.
The Tao family had some assets, and before the disaster, they had enough food and clothing.
The disaster came unexpectedly. In the face of the disaster, ordinary people who have not awakened their superpowers can only seek shelter from those with superpowers, and they are the same.
However, when people with special abilities protect ordinary people, they must get corresponding rewards.
They didn't have much material capital, and they had no way to support themselves after the exchange. It happened that the leader of a special power team took a fancy to Tao Luyi. Under the instigation of his wife, he chose to give up his daughter in order to gain a chance to protect his son.
He sold Tao Luyi to the captain of the superpower team in exchange for the team's protection.
News came that Tao Luyi died the day after joining the special power team - after hearing the news, he hid and cried secretly for a long time.
They all thought that Tao Luyi was dead, but who knew that some time ago Wu Xiaoli came home in a panic. After asking, he found out that his daughter was not dead.
Not only did she not die, she also hooked up with the young master of the Shen family.
Although Wu Xiaoli repeatedly emphasized that the young master of the Shen family would investigate the matter of Tao Luyi being sold, he still knew his daughter well and knew that she was a kind-hearted girl who would not really put her relatives to death.
After some ideological struggle, he decided to visit with his son.
The Shen family manor is magnificent. Even before the end of the world, a family like the Shen family was definitely out of their reach.
Tao's father was thinking: the fact that they can still maintain such a huge manor in the apocalypse shows the strength of the Shen family and their status in the Xiling base. Now that Tao Luyi has won the favor of the eldest young master, she should make more plans for herself while he is still not tired of her.
Tao Luyi did not seem very happy to see her father again.
Seeing the elder with gray hair in front of her, she would remember how he tricked her into the apartment of that group of people, and watched them molesting her without doing anything. She would remember the day and night she had spent that was worse than death... She was not a saint, and she could not say optimistically, "I forgive you."
No, it was precisely because the person she trusted the most was her father that she could not forgive him for selling her as a commodity.
When they met again, he just looked around greedily and didn't show any concern for his daughter.
Thinking of his pampering to her when she was a child, Tao Luyi's eyes turned slightly red, and she quickly lowered her head so that the other party would not see her expression.
"Luyi." With a plan in mind, Father Tao looked at his daughter with a smile, "You are really a fool with good fortune. Now you can live in a garden like this. Many people dare not even think about it."
Tao Luyi pursed her lips and did not respond.
Father Tao continued, "Luyi, I know Daddy has wronged you before, and I don't expect you to forgive me. You may not know that after you were rescued by the Shen family, those people with special abilities told me you were dead... Well, I couldn't eat or sleep well those days, and I felt that I had wronged you..."
Tao's father wiped away his tears and choked up, "I know you've suffered a lot. Those bastards are obviously not good people. I'm relieved that you were able to escape from them."
Tao Luyi listened quietly, not knowing what expression she should put on to face her crying father.
He knew those people were not good people, but he still pushed her out - every word he said now was like a sharp knife stabbing her heart.
“Lu Yi, I came here today just to see if you are doing well. Don’t be too stressed.” Father Tao wiped his tears and said with relief, “I see that there is no one else in this manor except the housekeeper. It seems that Mr. Shen dotes on you very much.”
Without the constraints of morality and law, which of the sons of powerful families in the base didn't keep a bunch of beauties around them? Not only did they have a bunch of beauties around them, but they also went out to flirt with women... When he came here, he specifically inquired about it. Shen Yang had a reputation for being a playboy. It was said that he had had ambiguous relationships with many women, playing with them freely and ruthlessly.
I thought I would see a bunch of beautiful women when I came to the Shen family manor, but unexpectedly, there was only one woman, Tao Luyi, here, and not even a maid.
Mr. Tao finally felt relieved.
She wanted to say that she and Shen Yang were not in that kind of relationship, but after seeing her father's expression, she knew that even if she explained, he would not believe it, so Tao Luyi simply said nothing.
After finishing the polite words, Father Tao began to steer the conversation back to the main track: "Lü Yi, I see this manor is quite large. Besides you and Mr. Shen, is there anyone else coming back on weekdays?"
Tao Luyi gestured: "The three young masters and young ladies of the Shen family, as well as Miss Jiang, all live here."
"There are only a few of us." Father Tao nodded and said tentatively, "Look, your brother is just like you, an ordinary person, and he's still young. Can you talk to Mr. Shen about bringing your brother over to live with you?"
Tao Luyi was stunned and stared at her father blankly.
Is this the reason?
He appeared here despite Shen Yang's threats just to say this.
If he wasn't worried about her, he wouldn't come to apologize. He laid so much groundwork just to find a safe haven for his son?
Tao Luyi wanted to laugh, but tears rolled down her cheeks first.
She wiped her tears awkwardly and gestured dryly: "I can't help you with this matter."
"No, Lu Yi, don't be so hasty to refuse." Father Tao lowered his stance to ask her for help. "I know you hate me, and I don't ask you to think of me as your father when you become rich. Your brother... your brother is innocent. There are so many rooms here, and any one of them won't make a difference. Why don't you discuss it with Mr. Shen first..."
"No need to discuss." After her tears dried, Tao Luyi gestured quickly, "He won't agree."
Her attitude was very firm, and for a moment Tao's father didn't know whether he should continue to beg her.
The boy, who had disliked his sister since childhood, snorted coldly when his father was rejected: "You talk as if I really want to come here - Dad, let's go back. Why should we beg her? Isn't it just that she's hooking up with a young master? When he gets tired of her playing, she'll come back and beg us to take her in!"
He disliked Tao Luyi's self-righteous character the most. They were obviously related by blood, but she treated them like strangers... And his sister was too outstanding. She was a mute, but she always ranked among the top three in her grade in every exam and was admitted to the best university in the country. His mother, who was very concerned about her reputation, would always compare him with her.
It can be said that he has lived under the shadow of his sister since he was born.
But what good was it to be so outstanding? In this end times, she was still mercilessly abandoned by her father. Others saw her as nothing more than a face. She had fallen to such a state, yet she still acted so high and mighty in front of them. Who was she trying to impress?
Hearing his son's contemptuous comments, Tao's father's face changed slightly and he scolded him: "Don't talk to your sister like that!"
He doted on his son since he was young, and even in the apocalypse, he never let him suffer. No matter how hard or tiring it was, he and Wu Xiaoli would bear it all, just to let their son grow up healthily.
After arriving in Xiling, the base was quite considerate of ordinary people and arranged a job for him, which barely allowed him to make a living. Their lives seemed to have become peaceful, making the boy even more confused about the cannibalistic world he was in.
"What sister? If she really considered herself my sister, would she watch us suffer outside while she hides here and enjoys the best food and drink?" The boy stood up and kicked the table in frustration, knocking the decorative pendulum clock to the ground. Only then did he feel better. "Dad, when we get home, don't say so much to her."
Tao Luyi, who never bothered with this willful younger brother, picked up the pendulum clock that fell on the carpet and put it back on the table.
Father Tao looked at his daughter, then at his son, and finally sighed heavily, then got up and went after his son.
Tao Luyi followed them out.
As soon as he walked out of the gate, he heard Zheng Li on the lawn shout, "Master, you're back?"
She looked up.
The young man was walking towards this side against the sunlight. Seeing that she seemed to be talking to two other strange men, he stopped and did not go any closer.
The young man, who had also seen the man and had already walked down the stairs, seemed to remember something. A flash of excitement flashed in his eyes, and he suddenly raised his voice and said loudly: "Sister, I know you still like Brother Cheng Jie. Don't worry, I will tell Brother Cheng Jie when I go back this time and ask him to come and see you."
As soon as he said this, Tao's father's face turned pale. He covered his son's mouth in panic and warned in a low voice: "Shut up! Are you going to kill your sister?"
If this person from the Shen family knew that Tao Luyi had someone in her heart, he might get so angry that he would kill her directly!
She had long forgotten the name, but that didn't mean she didn't understand what the boy said.
Since she didn't agree to help them, he was going to cut off all her escape routes... Haha, these are her relatives, how sad and ridiculous.
Shen Yang naturally heard the boy's shouting, and also understood why he shouted these words.
His eyes swept across the three people's faces with different expressions, and the young man walked towards Tao Luyi.
"Are they your relatives?" Standing next to the girl, he looked at Tao's father and curled his lips. "I think I didn't make myself clear last time?"
He looked impatient. "You were the ones who sold her to that group of psychics, weren't you? I thought I'd warned that woman enough—but she still had the guts to come here. Apparently, it's because she hasn't suffered much..."
This was a blatant threat. Tao's father's face turned even paler, and his hand covering the boy's mouth softened and the boy broke free.
The boy was at an age when he was fearless, but he was looked down upon by those he looked down upon and threatened by strangers. He was furious and said in a rush, "Do you think I'm afraid of you? I'm not afraid of a guy with a green head! I'm telling you, this woman has been played with by other men a long time ago. I saw my dad give her to those people with superpowers with my own eyes! She even wanted to run to ask Brother Cheng Jie to save her, but Brother Cheng Jie wouldn't want a woman who's been played with by others. Unlike you, you pick up any rags!"
"Shut up!" When Mr. Tao came to his senses, his son had already said a lot of things. In a hurry, he slapped his son in the face and yelled, "You bastard!"
The boy staggered two steps after being hit, covering his face with his hands, his mind blank.
"I know her situation better than you." His mouth was filled with the smell of blood. Amidst the constant ringing in his ears, he heard the man's calm voice, "But I don't know what you'll encounter next."
The cold voice was like floating ice on the sea, forcing him to tremble. Before the boy could think of how to respond, Tao's father beside him had already knelt down with a thud.
"Mr. Shen! My son is still young and doesn't understand things. Please forgive him this time! I'll take him back and teach him a lesson! Please forgive him! Please!"
(End of this chapter)
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