Chapter 026 Jinjiang Debut
"Hahaha, you're in trouble, aren't you?" The lame brother patted the little boy's shoulder, "Don't worry, we will definitely protect your butt! Tell me, what happened?"
The little boy glanced at the phone that was live-streaming the video: "I don't want to be recognized by my classmates, so I won't tell you my name. I'm in the fifth grade of elementary school now. I have an older brother who is a junior in college."
"Here's the thing. My brother has a female classmate he has liked for more than ten years. This female classmate is very outstanding. My brother feels that he is not worthy of her, so he has never dared to express his feelings to her. He has been secretly in love with her."
"At the beginning of this year, this female classmate took the initiative to add my brother's contact information, and the two resumed contact. After chatting for a while, my brother mustered up the courage to confess to her. The female classmate accepted my brother's confession, and the two officially started dating."
"In the past six months, my brother has been very happy and immersed in the joy of love. My parents give him 3,000 yuan a month for living expenses. Apart from the basic living expenses, he gives all the rest to his girlfriend."
"But because both of them were studying in other cities, they never met each other. It was always an online relationship. My brother was waiting to meet his girlfriend after returning from summer vacation this year."
"My brother came home for summer vacation yesterday. He told my parents about his love affair. My mother was very happy and insisted that my brother invite his girlfriend to have dinner at home. So my brother told his girlfriend and invited her to have lunch at home today."
"My family has been busy all day and all night preparing a table full of dishes for this lunch. Now it's almost noon, and our whole family is waiting for my brother's girlfriend to come over."
Lame brother asked: "Isn't this a good thing? Why are you so anxious?"
The little boy pinched the corner of his clothes nervously and whispered:
"Because I've been the one who's been in an online relationship with my brother all this time."
"Pfft——" Lame brother burst out laughing, "What did you say?"
The little boy hurriedly explained himself: "I'm not a pervert, nor am I deliberately teasing my brother. It's because a new game called "National Sniper" came out at the beginning of this year. It's really fun! There are some really cool skins in it, and I really want to buy them. If I can't buy these skins, I can't even eat!"
"But I'm an elementary school student, and these skins add up to thousands of yuan. My parents can't give me so much money to buy skins, so I thought of my brother. I know he doesn't spend all his monthly living expenses and has some money left, so I wanted to use this method to cheat some money from him."
"I know my brother has a crush on a female classmate, so I registered a small account to add him, and then pretended to be a girl and fell in love with him. During this time, I bought the skins I liked and upgraded several levels in the game. But now the truth is about to be revealed. If my brother knew that I was lying to him all along, he would definitely beat me up. And if my parents knew that they were working in vain, they would probably join the battle. Then it would become a three-way fight. What should I do! Master, help me!"
Everyone in the store burst into laughter, and Bai Mian also laughed. She gently took the little boy's pulse and came up with an idea.
"Go home now and confess everything to your brother and tell him the truth." Bai Mian said.
"Huh?" The little boy was slightly stunned. "If I take the initiative to confess, then I'm asking for a fight, right?"
"I haven't finished yet," Bai Mian continued, "Then you stand on your brother's desk, take down the football ornament at the highest point, throw it to the ground and break it."
Lame brother burst into laughter: "How mean! You want him to die faster, right?"
The little boy was completely dumbfounded: "Master, I am a primary school student, not a fool."
"Don't be impatient, just listen to me," Bai Mian whispered a few words in the little boy's ear, "After it breaks, you can..."
When the little boy heard these words, hope immediately lit up in his eyes. After thanking Bai Mian, he quickly jumped off the chair and ran home.
"Tsk tsk tsk," lame brother complained unhappily, "What can't I listen to? Am I an outsider?"
Bai Mian smiled mysteriously: "Why rush? You will know it in a while."
The little boy's divination took only a few minutes. After the boy left, a pregnant woman sat down at the table in a hurry.
"Finally it's my turn, Master. My dog is lost. Please help me find it!"
The store fell silent. No one made any more jokes. Everyone just listened to the woman speak.
"My name is Mo Yutong. I am now four months pregnant. The dog I raise is an ordinary pastoral dog named Dahei. Although it looks ordinary, it is very important to me. Dahei has been with me since I was in school. It has been with me for more than ten years. To me, Dahei is like a family member."
"Dahei is very lively and likes sports. I used to take him out for a walk every morning and evening. But since I got pregnant, I have been very weak and had severe morning sickness. I could only stay in bed and rest every day. I had no energy to take him for a walk. Then my mother-in-law suggested that I take the dog to her place to raise it. She is retired and has plenty of time to walk the dog. My mother-in-law has always been very good to Dahei, so I agreed."
"I had originally planned to take Dahei home after I gave birth, but my mother-in-law actually lost Dahei while walking the dog. But to be honest, it's not her fault. She said that she had tied the dog to a leash when she went out for a walk today. When she walked to the Flower Sea Park area, Dahei smelled something and suddenly became irritable. He broke free from the leash and ran forward at a high speed. My mother-in-law is an old lady, so of course she couldn't catch up with him, so Dahei was lost."
At this point, Mo Yutong stretched out his hand eagerly: "Master, please feel my pulse and tell me where Dahei has gone to now?"
Bai Mian felt Mo Yutong's pulse and said, "It's in Lao Li's restaurant now, but it didn't go there on its own. It was sold there by someone."
Mo Yutong's heart suddenly began to tighten. "Could it be that Dahei got caught by a bad guy after he ran away, and then was sold to a restaurant? This is too abominable. Master, can you figure out who this bad guy is? I'm going to go find him and settle the score!"
Bai Mian shook his head: "There is no bad guy at all, and Dahei didn't run away. This is all made up by your mother-in-law. After she went out this morning, she directly sold your dog to the restaurant owner."
Mo Yutong hesitated for a moment, then immediately denied it: "Impossible, my mother-in-law wouldn't do that, she's a very good person, she——"
"Don't explain," Bai Mian interrupted Mo Yutong, "It's too late to say anything more. If we don't save Dahei now, he will die."
When Mo Yutong heard this, he immediately got up and rushed to the Lao Li Restaurant that Bai Mian mentioned. Lao Li Restaurant was on a busy food street, and the owner himself was sharpening a knife at the door of the store.
When Mo Yutong arrived, he saw a large cage at the door of the store. His own dog Dahei was trapped in the cage pitifully, with tears in the corners of his eyes.
Next to the cage was a large pot of boiling water. It seemed that the boss was about to put the dog into the pot. Just as Bai Mian said, if she had been a little later, Dahei would have been in danger of his life.
The restaurant owner sharpened the knife and walked towards the cage with it. Dahei shrank in fear in the corner of the cage, making pitiful whimpers. Mo Yutong immediately stood in front of Dahei:
"stop!"
"What are you doing?" The boss looked at the woman who suddenly appeared.
"This is my dog. Where did you get it? You black-hearted dog dealer!" Mo Yutong shouted at the boss.
The boss wanted to scold her, but because she was a pregnant woman, she had to suppress her temper and explain: "Who are you scolding? I didn't steal or rob. The owner sold the dog to me voluntarily. I paid for it, okay!"
Mo Yutong asked, "What does the person who sold you the dog look like?"
The boss thought for a moment and said, "An old lady, wearing a sun hat and a big mask, I didn't pay attention to her appearance."
"Show me your payment record." Mo Yutong suddenly thought of this idea.
The boss took his phone and searched for a while, then found the payment record: "Here, look, I bought this for fifty dollars. I don't know what happened to your family, selling the dog to me and then regretting it!"
Looking at the profile picture of the recipient, Mo Yutong recognized that this was her mother-in-law's account. She clenched her fists and her joints cracked.
"Can you please stop stopping me from doing business? The customers inside are waiting for me to serve them!" Seeing that Mo Yutong was determined not to move aside, the boss had to take a step back. "Alright, alright, I'm really scared of you. How about this, you give me money and I'll sell you the dog!"
Mo Yutong finally agreed. She transferred a hundred yuan to the boss, and the boss released Dahei from the iron cage. Dahei rushed towards his owner with eager eyes. Mo Yutong hugged Dahei and burst into tears.
After crying, Mo Yutong took Dahei to Cixintang again. She did not go home. That home now seemed extremely scary to her.
Mo Yutong sat back on the chair in front of Bai Mian and said in despair, "Master, you are really smart. I believe it now. It was my mother-in-law who did it. She sold Dahei to the restaurant without telling me. But why did she do this? Before I got pregnant, she always liked Dahei. Before we got married, I told them that I wanted to live with Dahei, and she agreed. How could it become like this now?"
Bai Mian: "She has never changed. She has always hated animals. All the nice things she did to you before were just an act. When you were dating, she had already planned to let you keep the dog for a while after you got married. Once you got pregnant and didn't have the energy to take care of Dahei, she would take the dog away in the name of helping you, and then get rid of it."
"But," Mo Yutong retorted, "No one knew I would be pregnant before we got married! My husband and I agreed when we got married that we were DINKs and determined not to have children. We both work in the same foreign company and are very busy at work. No one has time to take care of the child. My mother-in-law also knew this. How could she have predicted that I would be pregnant in advance?"
Lame brother couldn't help but interrupt: "You said you were a DINK, but aren't you pregnant now?"
"This..." Mo Yutong was speechless for a moment, "This is an accident! My husband always wears condoms when we have sex, and I am also taking long-term contraceptives. We have done everything possible, but I still got pregnant. After the pregnancy test, I couldn't bear to abort the child, so we decided to keep him."
Lame Brother wrinkled his nose: "You have done so much, and you still got pregnant. Is this child a Calabash Brothers? It is invulnerable to water and fire."
Mo Yutong touched her belly and said, "Maybe it's fate. My husband said that this child is a gift from God, so why don't we just give birth to him?"
Bai Mian shook his head repeatedly: "God didn't send you a child, and you didn't get pregnant with Calabash Brothers. Your 'accidental pregnancy' was designed. Your husband pierced holes in the condoms in advance and replaced your contraceptive pills with ordinary vitamins. He is not a DINK at all. It's just because you insisted on not having children that he pretended to be in the same boat with you, just to lure you into the game after marriage."
Mo Yutong couldn't understand: "I don't understand. I told him before we started dating that I don't want to have children. Why is he trying so hard to change me? If he wants to have children, can't he just marry a woman who is willing to have children?"
Bai Mian did not answer the question directly, but reminded him indirectly: "If you were not pregnant, according to your original destiny, you would have entered the management of the company by now."
"I know, it's such a pity!" Mo Yutong said regretfully, "Before I got married, my boss told me that there was a vacant position in the company's management. The company saw that I had good qualifications and was interested in training me, but the condition was that I had to go abroad for training for a year. I wanted to agree at the time, but I got married soon after, and soon after I got married, I got pregnant, so I had to reject the opportunity given by the company."
"Because I was weak during pregnancy, I took maternity leave early. Now my position in the company is not as good as before. It's a pity that I lost such a good opportunity. It was pregnancy that changed my life..."
"So who has the opportunity that you lost now?" Bai Mian asked.
"Ah!" Mo Yutong screamed, "It's my husband. The company is now planning to cultivate my husband! He said that after I refused, the company leader gave him the opportunity to go abroad for training. Could it be that - everything he did was for promotion?"
Bai Mian: "He lied to you. The company leader didn't give him this opportunity until you refused. Instead, the leader found both of you at the same time. You are the best among your peers, and the management decided to choose one of you. Whoever can go abroad for a year of training will get a management position."
"It turns out that the leader also contacted him at the same time. How come I didn't know anything about it?" Mo Yutong widened his eyes.
Bai Mian crossed her fingers and said, "Of course the leader won't let you know, but your husband was on guard. He eavesdropped on the leaders' conversation while they were using the bathroom, so he got more information. He knows that you are his only competitor. As long as he can prevent you from going abroad, the management position will belong to him."
Mo Yutong slammed the table and said, "No wonder he was so eager to propose to me! He proposed to me that night right after I finished talking to my boss. We were in love at the time, and I thought getting married wouldn't affect my training abroad, so I agreed to his proposal. Who knew later..."
Mo Yutong bit her lips in regret and couldn't continue.
"Pregnancy has always been a powerful weapon to kick women out of the workplace," Bai Mian said bluntly, "As he guessed, because of hormones, you softened your heart towards the child in your belly after you became pregnant and decided to keep the child. You took a long vacation and completely put aside the work at hand."
"He took the opportunity to go abroad for training. After a year of training abroad, he had a chance to get a promotion and a raise, and a newborn child waiting for him in China. He had a successful career and a successful family, and he suffered almost no loss."
"But not only will I have to endure reproductive damage, I will also become a marginalized person in the workplace," Mo Yutong finally understood, "This is not some trivial family matter. He made me pregnant, which is a workplace struggle!"
She held Dahei in her arms and said, "Luckily, Dahei's disappearance allowed me to discover all this, otherwise I would still be kept in the dark. Once this child is born, his little plan will succeed. No, I can't let him succeed. Master, I don't want this child anymore. I want an abortion."
Lame brother said seriously: "Girl, have you really thought it through? This is a life!"
Mo Yutong shook his head: "No, he is just an embryo now, and I am a life. Compared with the embryo, my future and fate are more important!"
"Besides, I was tricked into getting pregnant with this child. Now that man makes me sick, it's even more impossible for me to give birth to his child. If I really give birth to this child, I will only be more entangled with their family. Only by aborting this child can I divorce them happily and cut ties with them once and for all!"
Seeing that Mo Yutong was so determined, Lame Brother couldn't persuade him anymore. Mo Yutong raised his eyes and asked Bai Mian solemnly: "Master, do you have any evidence for what you just said? Even if you are a fortune teller, I can't believe everything you said just by listening to a few words. I want to see the evidence."
Bai Mian glanced at the time and said, "That's great. Since you want evidence, why not let them tell you in person."
"What?" Mo Yutong asked.
Bai Mian: "Don't you have a pet camera installed at home? Turn it on and take a look."
Mo Yutong picked up her phone and saw the real-time image of her home on the monitoring app. Her father-in-law and mother-in-law were sitting on the sofa in the living room chatting.
"Huh?" Mo Yutong frowned, "Why are they at home?"
Mo Yutong remembered that before she went out, she had clearly asked her parents-in-law to help find the dog, and they agreed. She didn't expect that they were now sitting on the sofa drinking tea.
Mo Yutong turned up the volume and heard the conversation between her parents-in-law.
Father-in-law: "My daughter-in-law has been looking for the dog and hasn't come back yet. Could she have discovered it?"
Mother-in-law: "Oh, how is that possible? The dog should have been served on the table by now. How could she have found it?"
Father-in-law: "She can't find the dog. She will definitely cry and make a fuss when she comes back."
Mother-in-law: "Let her make a fuss. It's just a dog. What's the big deal? I've been fed up with that dog for a long time and finally got rid of it!"
Father-in-law: "Although you think so, you can't say that in front of your daughter-in-law later!"
Mother-in-law: "I know. I'm not stupid. I will apologize to her in a nice way. I'm an old woman, and I've been so humble. She won't be embarrassed to blame me anymore, right?"
Father-in-law: "That's right. I have to say that your attitude towards your daughter-in-law is really good. I have lived with you for half my life, and I have never seen you in a good mood."
Mother-in-law: "Go to hell, isn't it because my daughter-in-law is pregnant? If you have the ability, get pregnant too! I'm so tired of performing in front of her all day long. I'm doing this for our son. Only by keeping her stable can our son work peacefully outside. Once we get through this year, good days will come for our family!"
Father-in-law: "Hey, our son is really promising. He can come up with such a clever way to get this promotion opportunity."
Mother-in-law: "That's right. It doesn't matter who gave birth to the child. Now we are both old. We all depend on our son for our living. When my daughter-in-law gives birth to the child, she will take care of the child for another two years. She will probably lose her job. By then, my son will be the pillar of our family. By then, why should I coax her like this?"
Mo Yutong exited the monitoring app. She no longer needed any evidence. The truth was even more cruel than Bai Mian said.
Everyone in the store was shocked by the viciousness of this family. No one spoke for a while. Bai Mian spoke up:
"You see, they want you to lose more than just a dog."
There was no more hesitation in Mo Yutong's eyes. She said straightforwardly, "I want to abort this child, divorce him, return to the workplace, and take back my original destiny."
"Also, I've always known about him reselling confidential company information, but I didn't have the heart to expose him. After I go back today, I'll write an email to report this to the company. I think his overseas trip has to end early."
Bai Mian didn't persuade her, but just said calmly: "I wish you good luck."
Mo Yutong looked at Bai Mian gratefully, then left the store after paying the money.
After she left, the atmosphere in the store was particularly heavy. Bai Mian thought that the master would condemn him. After all, the older generation like the master loved children. Unexpectedly, Weng Xuhua said:
"You saved her."
"Oh?" Bai Mian was quite surprised.
Weng Xuhua smiled and said: "She failed to become a mother, but she became her true self!"
Bai Mian felt relieved, and the heavy atmosphere in the store finally became relaxed.
Lame Brother looked at the time. It was not yet noon. He said:
"You were really quick today. You finished calculating all three hexagrams in just one morning. Looks like you can slack off in the afternoon!"
Gao Jin hissed twice: "Go away, do you think everyone is like you? Our little apprentice is very studious. Whenever she has free time, she reads medical books by herself."
Lame brother bowed and said, "Of course, I am just a nobody, how can I compare with the little god of wealth? By the way, little god of wealth, can you tell me what you said to that little boy?"
Bai Mian looked at the live broadcast screen: "It should be here soon."
"What's coming?" asked Lame Brother in confusion.
As soon as Lame Brother finished speaking, Bai Mian’s live broadcast room received a request for a live connection. The other party’s avatar was exactly the little boy who came to ask for help this morning.
Bai Mian answered the call, and the little boy shouted to Bai Mian, "Master, my butt is saved. Thank you so much!"
"What's going on?" Lame Brother asked frantically.
The little boy on the other side of the screen recounted what happened. After he returned home, he first listened to Bai Mian and confessed everything to his brother. Sure enough, his brother was furious and wanted to hit him with his hand. He dodged flexibly, then climbed onto his brother's desk and knocked down the football ornament that was high on the desk.
The football figurine was smashed to pieces, and a bunch of small things fell out with a clang. It turned out that the football figurine was actually a storage box, which contained things related to the female classmate, a pen she lent to her brother, a hairband she used, and a simple drawing she drew...
The elder brother looked at the things on the ground and became even more furious. He grabbed the boy's collar and pulled him down, ready to teach him a lesson. The little boy jumped to the ground, quickly picked up a piece of paper from the ground and held it in front of his brother.
"What is this?" The elder brother was stunned, not knowing what his younger brother was going to do.
The little boy unfolded the paper. It was a yearbook. At graduation, his brother asked every classmate to write a yearbook. But in the end, he only kept the one for the female classmate. In the place of the graduation message, the female classmate wrote four big characters: "Study hard".
"What's the use of this..." said my brother dejectedly. There could be no more official message in the world than this.
The words "Study hard" were written on a thick layer of correction tape. It was obvious that the female classmate had revised the message she left. The little boy used his fingernails to scrape off the thick layer of correction tape, and a line of old words appeared under the correction tape -
I like you.
The elder brother's pupils trembled when he saw these four words. He snatched the yearbook from his younger brother and read it again and again. Then he let out a strange cry and jumped up like a monkey:
"Ah! Ah! So she liked me back then, too! But she was such a good student, it was impossible for her to fall in love too early, so she hid her feelings, and we missed each other just like that. Really, how come I only realized it now, do I have a pig brain? I, I, I..."
The elder brother squatted on the ground, holding his head and talking nonsense. He was as excited and nervous as if he had found out that he had won an expired lottery ticket. He completely forgot about being angry with his younger brother.
"Brother, how about you try to contact them again?" the little boy suggested.
My brother rubbed his hair shyly: "I don't have her contact information at all. Besides, so many years have passed. What if she has a boyfriend?"
"Isn't this available?" The little boy pointed to the phone number in the yearbook. "Give it a try. Even if you fail, it's not shameful."
With the encouragement of the little boy, the brother nervously took a few deep breaths and then tried to dial the number on the yearbook. Ten years had passed, and the number could still be dialed.
As soon as the phone was connected, my brother said nervously:
"Hello, is this Jiang Rui? I'm Geng Minghao, I don't know if you still remember me, I just noticed the words at the bottom of the yearbook, I'm so stupid, I'm a stupid pig... I just realized your feelings now, is it too late? Sorry, my mind is a mess, I don't even know what I'm saying... I mean, I know this is presumptuous, but I want to ask you, are you single now? Can we meet?"
The female voice on the other end of the phone was silent for a while, then said:
"I'm not single, I'm Xiaorui's mother. Wait a minute, I'll ask her to answer the phone."
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