Chapter 76: The Building is About to Collapse The next day, Fu Changmin invited Zhong Ping and her daughter to come over...
The next day, Fu Changmin invited Zhong Ping and her daughter to dinner. When Lin Xicai and Zhong Ping arrived, they found that the three members of the Fu family were there.
Fu Xuefan was sitting on one side of the sofa playing with his phone, seemingly not wanting to pay attention to her. He only greeted Zhong Ping listlessly. Fu Yanxiu was sitting on the other side of the sofa with a newspaper in his hand. He didn't even look up, and the newspaper was flipping through the pages with a rustling sound. It was unclear whether he was reading or shaking the newspaper. The atmosphere in the living room was a bit awkward.
Lin Xicai looked at Fu Yanxiu from afar, who was reading the newspaper with a cold face. She couldn't help but think of what happened the day before yesterday. She suddenly felt unwell and lowered her head with a complicated expression.
Of the people present, only Fu Changmin and Zhong Ping, who was still unconcerned, maintained their composure. Seeing that everyone had arrived, Fu Changmin said calmly, "It's time for dinner."
Several people sat down at the dining table, and the food was served one by one. The dishes seemed to be much more luxurious than usual. In addition, no one talked much that day, which added a sense of solemnity.
The meal was eaten in silence, with only Zhong Ping occasionally chatting with Fu Changmin.
When the meal was almost over, Fu Changmin suddenly put down his bowl and chopsticks, looked at everyone, and said something like a thunderbolt at the table in a very calm tone.
"Zhong Fei is 18 now. Let's pick a date to get engaged to Yan Xiu."
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone at the table looked up.
There was a dead silence in the air.
Lin Xicai had just taken a sip of soup at that time. She tried to hold it in but couldn't. After a few seconds, she started coughing violently and choked out tears.
Fu Yanxiu frowned and casually handed her a tissue. He raised his eyes and looked at his father with a dark look in his eyes: "What are you doing?"
Zhong Ping was also confused, "This..."
"The two children grew up together. Now that it has happened..."
Zhong Ping's expression changed when she heard this. She subconsciously looked at her daughter and said in a kind and gentle voice, which was unusually louder: "What happened? What happened? What happened?"
Lin Xicai immediately felt like she had been kicked into the Yellow River by Fu Changmin, and there was no way she could clear herself from the blame. She hurriedly waved her hands in denial, "Nothing happened, nothing happened!"
Lin Xicai looked at Fu Changmin again and said hurriedly, "Uncle, you really misunderstood. I saw that my brother was injured. I really just went to apply medicine to him that day. We didn't have anything."
Nothing.
She denied it completely.
Fu Changmin seemed a little surprised when he heard this. He glanced at his son who was silent beside him, then looked at Zhong Fei with an ambiguous expression: "Haven't you liked Yan Xiu since you were a child?"
"I was ignorant." Lin Xicai sat there obediently, her tone sincere, each word spoken. "I did a lot of wrong things before because I was immature. Now I think it was actually quite childish. People always grow up. I really don't mean that now. I'm not worthy of my brother, and my grades are not good now. I still want to study hard..."
Fu Yanxiu still didn't look at her. He sat in his seat with his head down, looking cold and silent. No one knew what he was thinking.
Fu Changmin glanced at Zhong Fei, then at Fu Yanxiu, as if thinking about something. After a while, he replied calmly, "Then let's talk about it after you graduate."
Lin Xicai secretly breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this.
What the hell.
That’s how the older generation is. They won’t stop until they say something shocking.
Fu Yanxiu had just helped her, and now he's doing this. Who is he trying to embarrass?
Although she felt embarrassed, Lin Xicai found it funny because of this extremely ridiculous play.
She subconsciously looked at Fu Yanxiu and found that he was also looking at her, his eyes calm, yet filled with a myriad of emotions.
The two looked at each other for two seconds, and Fu Yanxiu stood up. He didn't say a word from beginning to end. Finally, he looked at her deeply, put his hands in his pockets and left the restaurant. His clothes jingled against the chair as he left.
The rest of the people looked at his gloomy back, which looked like he was freezing to death, and looked at each other in confusion.
Fu Xuefan looked at his brother's back with a complicated expression, and a moment of sadness flashed in his eyes.
Zhong Ping seemed to be still in a daze. She only knew that her daughter seemed to have been proposed to and then rejected. Things came and went suddenly. As a mother, she sat here, but it seemed that no one asked for her opinion.
Fu Yanxiu is a good kid. She watched him grow up as a good boy with noble character. Zhong Fei has been chasing after him since he was a child, but she is an experienced person and she can see clearly that Fu Yanxiu has no such intention towards Zhong Fei. He doesn't like her and even hates her.
Although his attitude seemed to have changed strangely in the past few months, she didn't believe that he could completely change his mind and fall in love with her in just a few months - he hadn't fallen in love with her in the past ten years, but he fell in love with her in recent months. How could this be possible?
The Fu family is a good home, but not a good home for Zhong Fei. She doesn't ask her to become rich, but she hopes she can meet someone who truly cares about her.
It was better to refuse. Zhong Ping didn't quite understand the reason behind it, but she was somewhat relieved that this girl finally understood and came to her senses...
Lin Xicai was also a little distracted. At that moment, she felt a chill beside her ear. She turned her head in a daze and couldn't help but let out an "ah". The small system that had disappeared for a long time was hovering above her head.
She didn't know if it was her illusion, but she felt that the color of the small system had become much lighter and seemed to have become more transparent.
Her scream drew the attention of the other three people present. Zhong Ping asked nervously, "What's wrong?"
"Ah...nothing, nothing." Lin Xicai forced a smile at the three of them. "It's getting late, Mom. Should we go back too?"
Zhong Ping nodded, and the mother and daughter said goodbye to Fu Changmin and left the main building.
Fu Xuefan looked at her with a complicated expression, as if he had something to say, but because it was the wrong timing, he swallowed it back and went upstairs to his room with an annoyed look on his face.
"You still remember to come back. I've never seen a system as irresponsible as you."
Lin Xicai returned to her room, closed the door, and began to criticize the small system. "I feel so insecure. You're never there when I need help the most. Are all your systems like this?"
"I'm sorry, host." The small system looked ashamed, but a little confused. "I'm a little confused now..."
"How long will you stay this time?" Lin Xicai asked.
The little system thought about it and shook its head truthfully, "...I don't know either."
It paused, as if it didn't understand. "This world feels so strange to me. The magnetic field is very unstable, and I don't know when the next disconnection will happen. This has never happened in previous missions. Moreover, this world seems to have more variables than any other world. It seems to have been different since the first day..."
"I don't care," Lin Xicai said with a sad face, "I really have encountered trouble, you can't abandon me."
"What happened?" the system asked. "Li Ci?"
Lin Xicai paused and told the system roughly what had happened in the past few days.
She couldn't say that she didn't trust the system, but when she was stating it, she still deliberately skipped the part about Xie Shi, and only told the system that Li Ci remembered her and was determined to take revenge on her.
The system's mouth dropped open in fear, horror, and confusion. "I was saying this world was weird. How come even the non-protagonist NPCs are so crazy? What are you going to do now?"
"I haven't thought about it yet." Lin Xicai frowned, "But I have to do something. Sitting there and waiting for death is a dead end. I can stay at home before school starts, but what about after school starts in a few days? I can't hide away forever. I have to think of a way."
"While I'm still online host, I will help you..."
Lin Xicai took a look at it and sighed in her heart.
Lin Xicai was eager to try, but before she could make any move, something happened at the Li family.
For the next few days, almost every time you opened the news, it was all about the Li family. It would not be an exaggeration to say that it was overwhelming.
First, projects ran into problems one after another, the capital chain had problems, and rights protection waves were triggered in various places. Then, at this critical moment, the company's top confidentiality system was hacked by anonymous hackers from abroad, and the group's secret accounts that had been hidden for many years were exposed overnight, involving long-term tax evasion, illegal bidding and other issues. It quickly prompted regulatory authorities to intervene in the investigation, the stock price plummeted, and caused an uproar.
There have been crises in the past, but as one branch of the Li family is in business and the other in politics, they are used to patching up each other and have always been able to overcome the crisis.
I thought it would be the same this time, but at this critical moment, problems also arose in another branch of the Li family. The eldest uncle of the Li family was going to participate in the election soon, and at this time, a large number of romantic news and evidence of corruption and bribery were suddenly exposed. All kinds of scandals were flying around and could not be suppressed.
For many years, the Li family has been entrenched in Xuling City like a local snake, making many enemies. With such a loophole for an outbreak, various forces in the business and political circles added fuel to the fire, and for a time, there was a feeling that the building was about to collapse.
You will suffer the consequences of your own actions. It seems that the moment of reckoning that many people have been waiting for has suddenly arrived without them noticing.
Lin Xicai had been following the Li family's movements for several days and soon guessed that it was Xie Shi's doing.
The Li family is in chaos right now, unable to take care of itself, and even its backers are struggling to protect themselves. It would undoubtedly be the best time for Li Ci's old accounts to be brought up at this time.
She hesitated before only because, without the east wind, it would be completely useless to just throw those things out. But now it is different, the east wind has come, and the fire can be started.
In such a chaotic situation, all forces were eyeing the Li family covetously, and everyone was paying attention to their every move. If they wanted to protect Li Ci at this time, they would be caught red-handed as soon as they reached out.
Lin Xicai took out the notebook, sorted it into books by name, asked the system to remove fingerprints, and put them separately in transparent file bags. Then, she matched the sorted addresses one by one and asked the system to deliver these things.
The system originally thought that it was going to give these things to the girls, but Lin Xicai shook her head and told it to be sure to put them on the desks of the girls' parents.
Girls are young, so they will inevitably be soft-hearted and confused, but their parents will not.
If they knew what happened in the first place, if they knew that the strange misfortunes they encountered were never coincidences but were carefully planned by someone, they would at least not continue to remain silent.
One family cannot shake this big tree.
What about a dozen families?
At least it can stir up some waves.
Li Ci, your good days are over.
Once the arrow is shot, there is no turning back. Once this action is taken, there is no room for regret. She and Li Ci are completely on opposite sides.
Li Ci has remembered everything and would not have thought that it was her who did it. He has such a strong desire for revenge. If he cannot be completely defeated this time, he will pounce on her and kill her as long as he has a chance to breathe.
This is undoubtedly a dangerous road.
But now, she has no other choice.
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