Chapter 148 Chips
The lighting and shadow composition are very professional, and it is obvious that he did not take the photo himself.
It looks more like a screenshot of a report on a campus event or competition.
She was wearing a gorgeous dress like the kind of female celebrity you usually see on TV. Even though she was a little plump, she still had a very beautiful and recognizable face like a rich girl.
Xu Wenyao hadn't started drinking again at that time, so his memory was still good.
He has lost a lot of weight in the photo, but his face still matches the real person.
It is difficult to catch a fish out of thin air in the vast sea of people.
But how many beautiful girls can there be who go to No. 1 Middle School, play the cello, and are picked up and dropped off by a Bentley?
"Having a rich mother is different," Xu Wenyao said with a sigh. "She's raised her daughter like a spoiled brat. The security in the neighborhood is tight. No one's allowed in without a valid reason. And once she's outside, her uncle acts like a bodyguard."
"But even the most beautiful princess has to walk on her own."
He laughed in a whisper, "She has to get off the bus to go to that music academy, to go to tutoring classes, to have dinner and go shopping with her boss mom, and school starts again before the tenth day of the first lunar month. Her uncle takes her to the school gate, and even before she enters the school..."
Xu Jiqing interrupted him, "The places you mentioned are all very close to the police station."
"Even if you succeed in kidnapping, the police will respond faster than you can demand the money."
He sounded calm.
Xu Wenyao paused, "Who said I wanted to kidnap someone?"
"Money is just a thing outside of the body, my dear son. Just like a wife and children, it may be gone today."
"Your dad hasn't gambled in a long time. It's just boring... Losing is boring, winning is boring too. There's no one to have fun with."
"But you say, if that girl were gone," he drawled, whistling, imitating the sound of a fall from a high altitude, "whoosh—bang, what a scene it would be."
The room was extremely quiet.
The ticking of the wall clock seemed a bit harsh.
Xu Jiqing's Adam's apple rolled violently, and he said sternly, "You dare!"
"Why wouldn't I dare?" Xu Wenyao said slowly, "Aren't you the best at calling the police? You've been bullying me like that since I was a kid. Why don't you go again?"
"Go tell them I'm going to step on the gas in the downtown area, or pretend to be a delivery girl, and wait for them to open the door before I kill them with a knife. Go and tell them and see if anyone will pay attention to you."
"I'm a worthless person, I have plenty of time to waste with her, I'll just wait, if you have the guts, bet she'll never leave the house in her lifetime."
Xu Jiqing breathed rapidly and closed his eyes.
He didn't speak for a long time.
Xu Wenyao's lighter clicked, as if lighting a cigarette. "Yeah, it's not easy for a single woman to raise a daughter to this age. It's tragic to lose her all of a sudden."
"Then it's okay to keep your life, then..."
"Don't touch her."
Xu Jiqing said, "Come to me if you have anything to say."
Xu Wenyao smiled.
"Just like your father, he's deeply in love with you," he said with a sigh, "What can I say? There's no such thing as an overnight grudge between father and son."
"I just want you to come back home and spend the New Year with me. We can catch up on the old days, visit relatives on the sixth day, and watch the lanterns on the seventh day. No one should care about the mess outside."
Xu Jiqing asked, "When?"
"Now."
Xu Wenyao said, "My car is parked outside Binjiang Flat. Buy your train ticket and get on the train. Give me your real-time location after two stops, and I'll come back to find you."
"Last year, your mom said Jiaojiao was planning to get a cochlear implant. I looked that up and it's pretty expensive. You should have quite a bit of money on your card now, right?"
He estimated a number and said, "I'm not greedy for more, just one hundred thousand."
I have an old money detector at home.
Xu Wenyao secretly brought it back when the factory was in decline.
"Change it into cash and bring it back. Don't take a penny less. Don't try to do anything crooked."
Xu Jiqing was silent for a moment, "Okay."
Before hanging up the phone, he repeated what he had said before, "Don't touch her."
Last night, the family shared a large red-fleshed dragon fruit.
Lin Yuezhen and Xu Jiaojiao split it in half, and the remaining half belonged to him.
The fruit knife lay across the plate, its blade covered in a dry red mark, still as bright as ever.
Xu Jiqing picked up the knife expressionlessly and said in a very cold voice, "Don't touch her, and don't think about her family."
"I'm more ruthless than you, and I won't discuss it with you before I do it."
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Ancheng is very small, but it is not far from a famous tourist destination in the province. After getting off the train, you can take a bus and arrive before sunset if you are quick.
The earliest high-speed train is at six o'clock, so I can't catch the first subway train.
Perhaps because of this reason, there were still a few second-class seats left even during the Spring Festival travel rush.
Xu Jiqing bought the ticket and simply tidied up the things on the table.
He opened the desk drawer and paused, then put the bus card that was pressed under the exercise book back into his wallet and buttoned it carefully.
In the early morning of the first lunar month, the sky was dark and hazy.
The dim street lights illuminated the red ground below the building covered with broken firecracker shells.
A day when others were so cold that they couldn't even stretch out their hands.
He found a bicycle outside the community and rode to the train station in the cold wind.
The train departed at six o'clock, and almost everyone in the carriage was asleep. The occasional cry of a baby was quickly soothed by the sleepiness.
Xu Jiqing sat in the back row by the window and opened the finals schedule sent by the head coach yesterday.
The seventh and eighth days of the Lunar New Year are competition days.
During the next two days of marking the papers, mathematics experts from top universities at home and abroad will give lectures to all participating candidates. Sharing cutting-edge research is a cover, and the real purpose is to grab students as soon as possible, so that the most first prizes can be signed on the last day of the results announcement.
The event organizing committee arranged food and accommodation for them throughout the trip, and they could check in as early as the fifth day of the Lunar New Year.
The sixth day of the New Year, which is eight o'clock tomorrow evening, is the final registration and signing time.
The head coach repeatedly reminded him that he needed to attend the 8:30 meeting of all team leaders. The Jiang Province team was seated in the middle of the first row of the auditorium, so he must not be late.
Under heavy pressure, Xu Jiqing's mind was exceptionally clear.
He didn't believe Xu Wenyao.
From every second in the past to the present, every promise Xu Wen Yao made would be easily overturned by him in the future.
This time he agreed to go back, maybe he could have a few days of peace and quiet.
What about next time?
The only valuable thing about him is his future.
When he really gives up the national competition, will he still have enough bargaining chips to exchange for her safe return home?
It would be better to let Xu Wenyao die first.
If Xu Wenyao died, everything would be solved.
The worst outcome is that he can't go back.
But nothing will happen to her again.
This time when Xu Jiqing returned, he didn't bring any money with him. The balance in his account was more than 300,000 yuan, and Xu Jiaojiao knew the password.
The cochlear implant surgery is scheduled as planned. After she recovers in the summer, she will learn to swim. If Su Xia is willing, she may be able to take the little girl to the water park by herself.
No one will disturb their normal life anymore, and Lin Yuezhen should be able to raise Xu Jiaojiao alone.
Another happy ending -
Xu Wenyao has a criminal record. He is a good student who is naturally vulnerable and protected. His mobile phone contains a large number of screenshots of harassing text messages and call recordings.
Even if Xu Wenyao died, there was a great chance that his case would be deemed as self-defense.
Three years have passed.
His shoulders were broader than when he was fifteen, he could endure pain better, and his ideas for faking the scene were more meticulous.
The same deception that had protected him in the past might offer him another chance.
Someone is waiting for him.
Someone made an appointment with him to take the entrance exam to Tsinghua University together.
They made an appointment to go to Beijing during the first month of the lunar year to visit the temple fair and the Forbidden City together.
She wanted to sit on a small stool and skate in the Summer Palace.
Even if it was just in dreams, Xu Jiqing had dreamed of it countless times. The girl was wearing the white down jacket that she wore when she saw him during training. Her cheeks were red from the cold wind in the north, but her dimples were very sweet, and her laughter was crisp and bright.
The sun in the sky was shining brightly, and his right hand was healed.
He gently pushed her forward while protecting her.
Six o'clock in Jiangcheng.
In the dim morning light, the train sped north.
Xu Jiqing lowered his eyes.
He clicked back into the train ticketing interface and bought two new tickets:
One at 4:30 in the afternoon, from Jiangcheng to Jingshi.
One for tomorrow at 2pm.
The destination is the same, the starting point is Ancheng.
He staked his entire future and prospects on
Just this one bet.
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