Chapter 126
After returning to his residence and taking a shower, Shang Que sat on the sofa, wiping his hair with a towel while staring at the umbrella on the coffee table in deep thought.
This umbrella should be returned to the child, after all, no one explicitly said it was a gift for him.
But the question is, does this umbrella need to be washed?
It stands to reason that after using someone else's things, you should clean them before returning them...
It should be washed!
Having made up his mind, Shang Que stopped drying his hair, reached out to pick up the umbrella on the coffee table, and turned back into the bathroom.
After carefully washing the umbrella, Shang Que hung it outside the balcony and waited for it to dry before returning it to the child.
The next day, when the umbrella was dry, Shang Que carefully folded it up and was about to return it to the child, only to realize that he didn't know the child's contact information or name.
He was stunned for a moment, staring at the little yellow duck on the umbrella for a while, then turned around and asked his men to look up the child's contact information.
Unfortunately, he couldn't find anything, which made Shang Que feel very interesting. There were very few people in the Beijing circle that he couldn't find. It seemed that the identity of this child was not simple.
But this has little to do with him. After all, he has only met this child once, and his current relationship is that he is the one being helped.
Unable to find the child's contact information and home address, Shang Que really wanted to return the umbrella to the child, so he did something that was very incomprehensible.
Every day I would take an umbrella and sit on the roadside where I met that child, waiting for him.
Sometimes I have to wait for an entire afternoon, and sometimes I only have to wait for about half an hour.
This behavior is incomprehensible, but he himself enjoys it very much.
Because he hasn't experienced this feeling of anticipation for many years.
He always felt that the child would suddenly appear in the next second, which made every minute and every second of his waiting filled with uncertainty and surprise.
After waiting in Shangque for six consecutive days, Jiaojiao finally appeared on the roadside again.
Jiaojiao, carrying her schoolbag, got off the bus with Jun Che. She spotted Shang Que sitting on the side of the road. She had a good memory, so of course she hadn't forgotten this uncle. She immediately ran up to him with her short legs, tilting her fair little face up to ask curiously, "Uncle, what are you doing sitting here?"
Shang Que turned his head to look at him, his voice was hoarse like gravel: "Waiting for you."
Jiaojiao was surprised: "Uncle, why are you waiting for Jiaojiao?"
Shang Que handed him the umbrella in his hand: "I'll return your umbrella."
Seeing Jiaojiao take the umbrella, he said, "I have washed the umbrella."
Jiaojiao held the umbrella and glanced at him: "Thank you, uncle. Jiaojiao will treat you to some ice cream!"
Shang Que thought about it and felt that he could owe someone another favor. He nodded and stood up from the ground.
Jiaojiao stood on tiptoe to hold his hand, but found that the uncle was too tall, so she pulled his trouser leg instead.
Shang Que looked down at his little hand pulling at his trouser leg, and said nothing, letting him pull.
Jun Che has become accustomed to the fact that there are always many strange uncles around Jiaojiao. When he saw Jiaojiao coming, he took Jiaojiao's other hand and walked towards the supermarket.
Uncle Li allowed Jiaojiao to eat half an ice cream today, so when they were going to the crew after school, they deliberately passed by the road with the supermarket.
Shang Que glanced at Jun Che's hand holding Jiaojiao's little hand, then looked at Jiaojiao's little hand pulling at his trouser leg. The hand hanging by his side moved, and he was about to do something when Jiaojiao interrupted him.
Jiaojiao looked up at him with some doubt in her eyes: "Uncle, if you want to return the umbrella, why don't you call Jiaojiao? Then I don't have to sit on the roadside and wait."
Shang Que lowered his eyes and looked at him, thinking that the way this child named Jiaojiao asked for contact information was really irresistible.
He took out his phone, squatted down and handed it to Jiaojiao: "Add me as a friend."
Jiaojiao was stunned for a moment, then used her phone watch to scan her uncle's QR code and added him as a friend.
When Jiaojiao added Shang Que as a friend, he poked Jiaojiao's chubby face.
After adding the friend, Shang Que took a look at Jiaojiao’s cute puppy avatar, then stood up and put his phone away.
This interruption caused Shang Que to forget what he was about to do. When he remembered, they had already reached the entrance of the supermarket.
Standing in front of the freezer in the supermarket, Shang Que stared at the various ice creams he had never eaten before, thinking about which one to choose.
After hesitating for a while, he finally chose the lychee-flavored ice cream recommended by Jiaojiao.
Jiaojiao, who had bought a lot of ice cream, looked up and said goodbye to Shang Que, and couldn't wait to go back to the crew to share the ice cream with her father.
Shang Que watched Jiaojiao get into the car and leave, then he looked down at the ice cream in his hand.
He tore open the ice cream bag and took a bite. It was icy and had a strong lychee flavor. It was really delicious.
After eating the ice cream and driving back to his residence, he suddenly remembered that this child named Jiaojiao had treated him to ice cream. According to common sense, should he also treat someone in return?
Should I ask him to go back?
But what should I treat him to?
Ice cream, please?
It seems that it’s not possible. Children can’t eat too much ice cream!
Shang Que was sitting on the sofa in the living room and thinking about what to treat Jiaojiao to when the phone rang.
He glanced at the caller ID and inexplicably felt like not wanting to answer the call, but he still picked it up.
"Why do you need so much money?"
"No, I haven't had any contact with them, nor have I seen them."
"The contract with Yaori Media Company has been signed."
"Well, all the company's resources will be allocated to you, so don't worry about that."
"Understood. I'll have Assistant Lin transfer the money to you later."
After hanging up the phone, Su Qutao in Jiangcheng felt a little panicked for some reason. Could something have happened to Shang Que as well?
It's impossible. He is the person he has controlled for the longest time, Su Qutao subconsciously denied it.
Even in their world, it is not an easy task to free someone who has been controlled by a succubus for such a long time from the succubus's control.
Only the Son or Daughter of the Holy Temple of Light can do it easily.
Could it be that the Son or Daughter of the Holy Temple of Light has also come to this world?
With this thought in her mind, Su Qutao became more and more panicked when she thought of those people who had escaped her control for no reason. But at this moment, she received the remittance from Lin Zhu.
Looking at the extra sum of money, Su Qutao's panicked heart gradually calmed down.
There shouldn't be any problem with Shang Que, otherwise he wouldn't have transferred such a large sum of money.
However, if it was really the Son of God or the Holy Daughter who came, they would not be able to hide like this.
Given their personalities and strengths, the probability that they would directly and efficiently eliminate this succubus cleanly and efficiently after discovering her is the greatest.
So maybe there really are people from the Temple of Light who have come to this world like her, but they shouldn't be powerful figures, otherwise they wouldn't dare to appear in front of her now.
Thinking of this, Su Qutao gradually calmed down.
As long as they are not the Holy Son or the Holy Daughter, it will be fine. People like them who are secretive, have no strength, and only dare to do evil in secret will never let Shang Que escape from her control.
On this side, after hanging up the phone, Shang Que sent a message to Jiaojiao: "Where is your home?"
Jiaojiao knew these words. After finishing her homework and watching her father filming, she received the message and thought for a moment before replying with a voice message: "Uncle, Dad said that we can't tell anyone about our home location."
I have a strong sense of safety awareness, but I am not very wary of strangers.
Shang Que thought about it and sent a message back: "I'll wait for you tomorrow at the roadside where we first met."
Jiaojiao didn't ask why he was waiting for her on the roadside. She replied "OK" and continued watching her father filming.
Jiaojiao likes watching her father filming because her father always has many expressions when filming that he doesn't have in other days.
For example, laughing, being angry, and being fierce.
However, what Jiaojiao hates most is seeing her father sad and crying, because then Jiaojiao will also be sad and cry.
It’s funny to say that when Jiaojiao saw the scene where her father was shot to death for the first time, she was so scared that she burst into tears.
He stumbled down from the stool, ran forward with his short legs, and threw himself into the arms of his father who was lying on the ground pretending to be dead.
He had always been very well-behaved on the crew, but this was the first time he made such a fuss. He strangled his father's neck tightly and cried breathlessly. While crying, he kept saying intermittently that he didn't want his father to die.
It was the first time that Li Yubai saw Jiaojiao cry so hard, and it made his heart feel like it was breaking.
He was so heartbroken that he held Jiaojiao's crying body for a long time, and during this time he kept promising that he would not die, and only then did he gradually coax Jiaojiao into peace.
Jiaojiao stopped crying, sniffed her red nose, and immediately stretched out her little finger to make a pinky promise with her father, asking her father to promise that she would not die and would always be with Jiaojiao.
At that time, Li Yubai saw Jiaojiao with red and swollen eyes looking at him pitifully, and on impulse he made a pinky promise to Jiaojiao.
Thinking back on it, he felt a little regretful.
People will grow old, and no matter how hard they struggle throughout their lives, they will eventually die.
Their time will pause on the day of their death, while Jiaojiao's time will still move forward.
He promised to stay with Jiaojiao forever, but this might be the only promise he made to Jiaojiao that he was very likely unable to fulfill.
Promises that cannot be kept are no different from lies.
So Li Yubai felt both regretful and distressed. He regretted that he had deceived Jiaojiao to a certain extent, and he felt distressed that Jiaojiao would have to face her own death in the distant future.
Death is inevitable. The only thing he can change is Jiaojiao's attitude towards death, so that he can face and accept his death as calmly as possible in the future.
Li Yubai felt a little regretful, and Jiaojiao was happy but also a little scared. During that time, he didn't go anywhere and just followed his father around every day.
I felt relieved only after I was sure that my father would not die.
Many times Li Yubai felt very puzzled. How could a little child like Jiaojiao understand the meaning of death?
The next day, when Jiaojiao was picked up by Shi Huairou and Mu Yichen after school, they deliberately got off at the roadside not far from the supermarket.
Seeing her uncle squatting on the roadside waiting for her, Jiaojiao ran up with her short legs: "Uncle, Jiaojiao is here!"
Shang Que handed him the thing in his hand. Jiaojiao took it and asked curiously, "What is this?"
"A small cake." Shang Que said lightly. After thinking about it, he felt that something was missing and said, "I made it myself."
In order to learn how to make this little cake, he worked until three in the morning yesterday and continued to make it this morning. This batch is the one he is most satisfied with.
Jiaojiao opened the bag and saw the various animal-shaped cakes inside. She couldn't help but exclaimed, "Uncle, you are amazing! You can make so many animal-shaped cakes."
Shang Que couldn't help but feel a little happy.
Since that day, the act of giving gifts to each other between Jiaojiao and Shang Que seemed to have become a way for them to communicate.
After Jiaojiao and her father made small puddings and cookies, he would put some in a beautiful paper bag and give them to Shang Que.
Whenever Shang Que sees something delicious or fun, he will bring some for Jiaojiao.
Once, he brought Jiaojiao a ten-carat aquamarine for him to play with. Jiaojiao, not knowing the value of the gem, hid the beautiful stone in his little treasure hoard.
Autumn is always rainy, especially in the period leading up to winter.
Li Yubai, who was resting at home, was lying on the bay window holding Jiaojiao. He had a storybook in his hand. Jiaojiao nestled in his arms and whispered the contents of the storybook. When she saw something new and interesting, she would look up and share it with her father.
"One day, Muer accidentally got lost in the forest. Unable to find his way, he wandered aimlessly. Under a very large tree, he met a furry little bear. The little bear seemed to have lost its way as well..."
Li Yubai leaned on the pillow, slightly closed his eyes, listening to Jiaojiao's childish voice and the rustling sound of rain outside the window. Sleepiness gradually came over him, and he fell asleep to the sound of Jiaojiao telling stories.
When Jiaojiao found that her father had fallen asleep, she covered her mouth with her little hands, looked up at her father for a while, then lowered her head to continue reading the story.
Before I could finish reading it, Shang Que called.
During this period, Shang Que would always call Jiaojiao to chat. Although he didn't know what to talk about with a three-year-old child, the amazing thing was that the two of them could always chat for a long time.
Jiaojiao put the phone watch on her wrist to her ear and said in a low voice, "Hello, Uncle Shang."
Shang Que was very surprised when he heard his voice: "Why does your voice become like this?"
"Dad is asleep. Jiaojiao needs to speak quietly so as not to disturb him."
"Your father is asleep, so what are you doing?"
"Jiaojiao is reading a storybook. It was Jiaojiao's storytelling that put daddy to sleep." Jiaojiao said with a little pride.
"What story is it?"
"Uncle, do you want to hear the story of Mule and the little bear?"
"Um."
Shang Que agreed and walked into the bedroom, took off his shoes and lay on the bed, ready to be coaxed into falling asleep.
Jiaojiao lowered his voice and started telling the story of Muer and the little bear again, but this time he fell asleep before he could coax Shang Que to sleep.
The little boy was lying on his father's lap, sleeping soundly.
Shang Que, who was lying on the bed, listened to the light breathing sounds coming from the phone and gradually felt sleepy.
The rain outside the window is rustling, it is indeed a good day for taking a nap.
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