On Sunday, they slept in until they naturally woke up.
After lunch, four locals from Xijing led four tourists from out of town on a walk around the city wall.
Amidst Yan Chengcheng and Hu Jingxin's exhausted complaints, they boarded the plane back to Kyoto.
Seeing Yan Chengcheng slumped in her seat like a dead dog, Jiang Xiaoli laughed and asked, "Is it really that bad?"
Yan Chengcheng slowly turned her head around. "This is the first time I've experienced what it means to be stuck between a rock and a hard place. Why couldn't there be a gate in all those city gates to let me down? I really wanted to jump off this afternoon!"
Hu Jingxin, who was behind her, also complained, "Yeah! I think climbing this city wall today was more tiring than military training!"
Chang Yue was quite pleased. "It's alright, isn't it? Climbing the city wall is more tiring than military training? Then I'm relieved."
Jiang Xiaoli turned to look at Hu Jingxin, then at Yan Chengcheng across the aisle, and said, "You two are really too weak!"
Yan Chengcheng struggled to say, "I will definitely start exercising properly when I get back to Kyoto."
Hu Jingxin was about to say, "Me too..."
Then, thinking back to when she followed Jiang Xiaoli for morning runs during her freshman year, only to find that she had only kept it up for a little over a month, she swallowed the rest of her words.
Back in Kyoto, the group grabbed a quick bite at a random place, then dropped Hu Jingxin and the other three off at school. They were too lazy to do anything else, so they just stayed at their home near the school.
Zhong Yuan couldn't help but exclaim, "Having a house in a place where you frequently go is so convenient!"
Jiang Xiaoli laughed and said, "If that's the case, then you'd have to buy a house in every major city in the country, so you'd have a place to live wherever you go."
Dafu disagreed with her opinion, saying, "It's more convenient to stay in a hotel when we only go to a place occasionally. Otherwise, we're too lazy to clean up the house when it's empty and we only stay there occasionally."
Zhong Yuan nodded, "Yes, just like when we went back to Xijing this time, we didn't even go home. Actually, it would be fine to hire someone to clean regularly, but I always feel like it's like we're being ripped off to let a housekeeper live in an empty house."
"Haha!" Jiang Xiaoli was amused by his statement. "That's true! Uncle Xiao has a seaside villa in Lucheng. We've only been there once in the past few years, and the housekeeping service has been coming to clean it every now and then."
Zhong Yuan began to dream about the future, "When do you think we can stop thinking about working hard and just go wherever we want?"
Dafu casually mentioned a number, "Five years? Ten years?"
Jiang Xiaoli was also thinking about this issue. After thinking for a while, she said, "I think I can accomplish most of my dreams in five years, and I should be able to retire in ten years."
"Retire?" Zhong Yuan's mouth dropped open in surprise. "Little Pear, so you're planning to retire before you turn 30? That's a bit of a challenge, isn't it?"
"Haha, who can say for sure?" She paused, "Anyway, that's what I think right now."
Zong Jia smiled and said, "I'll try my best to retire with Xiao Lizi."
Zhong Yuan and Da Fu exchanged a glance. "Look at our two bosses, how dashing they are!"
...
The last day of October was an ordinary Wednesday, but Jiang Xiaoli had a very busy schedule today.
After finishing two classes at school in the morning, she quickly ate a couple of bites of food in the cafeteria and drove to the courthouse.
This afternoon, the trial officially began for the case of Wang Manqi intentionally causing minor injuries to Xiao Muyu with a knife.
In court, Jiang Xiaoli met Wang Manqi for the first time.
There was not a trace of remorse in her eyes as she looked in their direction.
The process of this case is very clear, with school teachers and students, police officers, and hospital doctors all coming forward to testify.
Ultimately, the judge sentenced the defendant, Wang Manqi, to two years in prison for intentional injury.
Because of this case, Wang Manqi's grandfather, Wang Tu, has been charged with obstructing testimony.
As they walked out of the courtroom, Xiao Muyu hugged Jiang Xiaoli. "Xiaoli, thank you. If you hadn't been there for me, I might not have been so determined."
Jiang Xiaoli patted her back and said with a smile, "If you want to thank me, call me 'sister'?"
Jiang Chengle was the first to object, but he didn't say anything, he just kept coughing.
Xiao Jincheng was speechless. "Ah Le, if your throat is sore, go home and rest early."
Jiang Chengle's voice instantly cleared up. "Hehe, Uncle Xiao, I'm fine."
After being teased by the brother and sister, Xiao Muyu's feelings of being moved vanished almost instantly.
Pretending nothing had happened, she turned to him and asked, "Dad, Mom, shall we go out to eat today?"
Xu Feng nodded in agreement, "No problem! We have to eat out today!"
As they walked out of the courthouse and turned the corner to get their car, Wang Manqi's father rushed out and shouted, "You're sending my daughter to jail for such a trivial matter! You're so young, yet you're so malicious! May your whole family suffer a terrible fate!"
Wang Manqi's mother took something out of her bag and threw it directly at Xiao Muyu's position.
Jiang Chengle reacted quickly, immediately standing in front of Xiao Muyu. Fortunately, the Queen Mother only threw a rotten egg.
Jiang Chengle walked up to the two of them with a gloomy face. Wang's mother, with her neck stiff, said, "What? There's a courthouse right next door. You think you can hit me?"
Before Jiang Chengle could make a further move, Jiang Xiaoli snorted and snatched the Queen Mother's bag, then threw the remaining rotten eggs at the two of them.
The Queen Mother screamed, "Bag snatching! Bag snatching!"
She threw all the rotten eggs from her bag at them, then tossed the bag back at them, yelling, "Who wants your lousy bag!"
The egg-smashing happened so fast that Xiao Jincheng had just confirmed that Xiao Muyu was alright when Jiang Xiaoli had already thrown the bag back to Wang Mu.
He walked over to the two stinking men and said, "Your daughter has already paid the price for her mistakes. If you two want to continue, I, Xiao Jincheng, will accompany you to the end!"
The Wang couple looked very unhappy, and they left without saying a word.
Jiang Chengle endured the stench, took off his coat, and threw it into a roadside trash can.
He sniffed left and right, but still felt that he smelled bad.
Now he completely lost the desire to shamelessly freeload dinner with the Xiao family of three.
Jiang Xiaoli watched his actions and then sniffed her own hands. "Ugh! Where did these two find such rotten eggs?!"
Xu Feng looked at them with heartache, "Go home and take a good shower first!"
Jiang Chengle could only nod and drive home dejectedly.
On her way home, Jiang Xiaoli nodded and cried out in despair, "Aaaaaah! I have to attend the celebration party for 'Qiaochu' tonight, what am I going to do if I smell so bad!"
Xiao Muyu asked curiously, "Wasn't the celebration banquet for 'Outstanding' already held? Why are you holding another one?"
She explained, "We only moved the celebration banquet forward because the results were pretty good. Today is the last day of the screening of 'The Outstanding' and also the good day when the total box office of 'The Outstanding' exceeded 130 million."
130 million? That much?
Jiang Xiaoli finally smiled and said, "That's right. I estimate that 'The Outstanding' should be able to take the annual box office champion this year. It seems that there are no strong competitors in the next two months."
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