Chapter 15
At the Xi family's ancestral home, the family is happily gathering around the dinner table.
Mrs. Xi smiled brightly and served Mr. Xi a bowl of soup. "The overseas market is so important. Don't worry. I'm at home. I'll take good care of the children."
"Yeah." Xi Yuankai glanced at his two sons, "Listen to your mother at home. If I find out who's causing trouble again, pack up and get out."
The young man with red lips and white teeth immediately smiled and said, "Don't worry, Dad."
Xi Yuankai hummed, looked at his other son, and called out in a deep voice, "Xi Shu."
Xi Shu, who was sitting farthest away, didn't even raise his head. He quietly finished his bowl of rice and put down his chopsticks: "I'm full."
Seeing his eldest son not taking him seriously at all, Xi Yuankai slammed the table in anger and said, "The older you get, the worse your temper gets. I don't know who you learned this from!"
Wu Jie covered her lips and said, "The child is still young, so it's normal for him to have a bit of temper. It's okay. He may still be unfamiliar with me."
"He's been home for so many years, and he's still a stranger? I think he's just trying to make me unhappy." Xi Yuankai snorted coldly, then added, "You don't have to spoil him too much."
Wu Jie smiled and said, "They are all children. Don't be so strict. Just go ahead and relax."
After Xi Yuankai left the ancestral home, Wu Jie put down the bowl in her hand, rubbed her fingertips, and then restrained her smile and looked at her son: "Don't you think your room is too small? Go tell your brother, he will give it to you."
Xi Zhi immediately understood what his mother meant. He put down his chopsticks and went upstairs with a heroic spirit. Seeing that Xi Shu had locked the door, he kicked it loudly.
The door quickly opened from the inside, and Xi Shu stood in the darkness, his eyes expressionless, and he didn't say a word.
"My room is too small. I want to expand the study." Xi Zhi raised his chin. "I think your room is nice."
Wu Jie also came up at this time and said with a smile: "Look at you, kid, can't you just talk to your brother nicely?"
Although she said this, there was no hint of blame: "Xiao Shu, Auntie has cleaned up other rooms for you. Can you give them to your brother?"
Xi Shu didn't say a word from beginning to end. In fact, most of the things that belonged to him in this room had been taken away by others under various names. Seeing the hypocritical appearance of the mother and son in front of him, he also knew what his situation would be like in the next few months.
Seeing that the mother and son were about to force their way in, he turned around silently.
Wu Jie immediately pulled Xi Zhi in, but the next second Xi Shu picked up a baseball bat in the corner, and before the two could react, he swung the bat and started hitting them.
Wu Jie was startled and quickly protected her son behind her: "Xi Shu, are you crazy?! What are you doing!"
Xi Shu turned a deaf ear to him and smashed the baseball bat from the door to the study and the cloakroom. All the lamps and glassware of all sizes in the room were smashed into pieces, and the ground was covered with debris, making it impossible to walk.
The mother and son had no choice but to retreat back to the door, not daring to go in at all.
The servants and security guards who rushed over looked at the young master and didn't know what to do. After all, the lady wouldn't let anyone in.
Glass fragments scratched Xi Shu's face and arms, but he seemed unaware. His thin hands gradually lost strength, and he gritted his teeth and hit the bed with the last stick.
The crashing sound scared everyone so much that they dared not make a sound. They looked at him in shock and confusion. They had never seen such a thing before.
All the lights in the room had been turned off. Xi Shu stood in the darkness, the light from outside shining through behind him. The whole room was filled with the smell of blood. He looked at the person in front of him gloomily, with a half-smile: "Want it?"
Xi Zhi was already frightened and couldn't stop crying.
The baseball bat was swung in front of him, and he bounced back far away as if in response. Xi Shu sneered, "Here's a reward."
After saying that, he walked out of the room stepping on the broken glass shards on the ground.
No one dared to stop him.
After Xi Shu walked a long way out, Xi Zhicai burst into tears: "Mom! I don't want it anymore! I don't want it anymore!"
Wu Jie was so angry that her teeth were itching. This little beast was just like his mother, with a very stubborn temper. That was why she disliked him even more.
A security guard ran up hurriedly: "Madam, the eldest young master ran out."
"If he gets angry and wants to leave, can I stop him?" Wu Jie said angrily, "No one can tell the master about what happened today. He just left, don't let him be distracted."
Everyone lowered their heads.
The Xi family's ancestral home is quite remote and it is difficult to get a taxi. Xi Shu walked out step by step. It was already dark when he found a bus stop. He stared at the bus stop for a long time but found that he had nowhere to go.
Seeing him in such a mess, the people around him thought he was a beggar from somewhere who had gotten into a fight. Someone kindly stepped forward and said, "Little boy, do you need any help?"
Xi Shu, who was sitting on the floor at the bus stop, moved his fingertips slightly: "Can I borrow your phone to make a call?"
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When the phone given by the young man rang, Xiao Fusheng was standing on tiptoe to pick out his clothes.
Today, Kan Qi's father and Aunt Huanhuan went out to attend a meeting at the company, and now she is alone at home. Her father said that he was going to a variety show, which would be filmed for three days, and he would take her with him.
So she wanted to pack all her clothes in advance so that she wouldn't have to work hard when Kan Qi's father came back.
She sat on the bed holding the little skirt and it took her a few seconds to realize that this was the little brother's cell phone ringtone.
Has the little brother come to pay back the money?
"Hello."
The voice on the other end was familiar, yet also hoarse: "I'm Xi Shu."
It seems like Dad has a sore throat.
Xiao Fusheng: "I am Fusheng."
"Where are you?" Xi Shu asked, "I'm here to get my phone back."
Although Xiao Fusheng didn't know much about the entertainment industry, she knew that Kan Qi's father's address couldn't be told to others casually. She said, "I'll come find you."
Uncle Xiao An was left at home to take care of her, so she was allowed to go out.
Sure enough, when Kan Qi learned that Xiao Fusheng was going to return her phone, he asked Xiao An to drive her out.
After arriving at the location that the young man said, Xiao Fusheng recognized him at a glance. He was squatting in a corner of the bus stop with blood on his hands and feet. Many people were walking around him. Why did he look more and more embarrassed each time?
A young man like this seems to be very poor and probably can't pay back the money.
Forget it. Even though I’m also very poor, I’d rather not take his money.
【Seeing his father in such a mess, the cub felt very distressed. 】
[Life Points: 50%]
[Favorability: 5. 】
Xi Shu: “…”
One day, he will definitely destroy this damn system.
The child's soft voice sounded above his head: "Are you okay?"
No wonder it's 50%. Now the voice condition is much better than last time, and he can even say four words in a row.
Xi Shu looked up and saw that the child was wearing a light blue sweater jacket with a white skirt underneath, and her hair was combed neatly.
It was as if the child in the phone really came out, and even those passers-by who kept their distance from him couldn't help but stop for him.
But this child was originally his.
Xi Shu looked at her for a few seconds, his cracked lips opening and closing slightly: "It hurts."
Xiao Fusheng suddenly felt even more distressed. She had never seen such a miserable child.
It was Xiao An who knew the current process: "Xiao Fusheng, we should send him to the hospital."
Xiao Fusheng sighed: "He has no money."
They are so poor that they have to sleep on the streets.
"?"
"I don't have any money either." She said in a lost tone.
Xiao An: "No, there may be some misunderstanding here."
"It's okay." Xi Shu interrupted him and looked at Xiao Fusheng. "It's not serious. It can be treated with a little care. Don't you know how to do it?"
Xiao Fusheng lowered his head to check his wounds. They were indeed just superficial injuries, probably caused by cuts.
There was still some money in her phone. Her father never took the money for appearing on shows, but put it directly into her phone.
She said with a heavy heart, "I'll buy it for you."
I originally thought I was here to get money, but I didn't expect to lose it again.
Hey, it’s better to stay away from this guy and return the phone to him quickly.
She quickly bought disinfectant alcohol, gauze, and some trauma ointment from the nearby pharmacy, asked the little brother to get in the car, and applied the medicine to him personally.
The wounds were not deep, but there were many of them. Xiao Fusheng couldn't help but ask, "How did you get them?"
Xi Shu curved his lips and said, "My dad doesn't want me anymore. I'm being bullied."
Xiao Fusheng paused and his eyes widened slightly.
She understood this feeling, as she had been abandoned before. Fortunately, she was not bullied.
But it was this empathy that made her feel closer to the little brother.
She asked, "What are you going to do?"
"I don't know." Xi Shu seemed unconcerned. "Whatever happens, it's just your money..."
He paused and said, "I can only return it to you after some time."
"No need to pay it back." Xiao Fusheng said in a low voice, "I can still make money."
It turns out he can say five words.
Before Xi Shu could say anything, the child asked, "Do you have any other parents?"
"?"
"A person can only have one father and one mother." Xiao An reminded.
Little Fusheng knew this, but she felt that there might be other people like her. What if there were other fathers and mothers?
If the little brother meets a good person like Kan Qi’s father, he will not be bullied.
"No." Xi Shu's eyes gleamed faintly beneath his shaggy hair. "I'm alone."
"Then we can only send you to the police station." Xiao An said, "We'll take you there, and someone will take care of you from now on."
That was the ending that Xiao Fusheng should have had. She looked at her little brother helplessly.
"It's okay, I have other places to go." Xi Shu smiled, "It's just that I can come to see you more often."
He lowered his eyes: "No one has ever been so nice to me."
Xiao Fusheng didn't think twice and said, "Sure."
She loves making friends the most.
"If someone bullies you in the future, tell me," she said confidently. "I'm a really good fighter."
[Favorability: 10. 】
"Okay." Xi Shu's smile remained unchanged. "Thank you."
In the end, Xiao Fusheng returned the phone to him: "Don't worry, it's okay, call me."
Xi Shu played with his phone but said nothing.
"Then I..."
"Are you leaving?" He looked up suddenly.
"Ah..." Xiao Fusheng nodded. Kan Qi's father asked her to go home for dinner because she had to participate in the show tomorrow.
"I'm a little hungry," Xi Shu said, "but I have no money."
Xiao An: “…”
Is this kid really not here to scam people?
He took out his phone and said, "Uncle has some money here. I'll transfer it to you. It's more than enough for you to buy some food and take a taxi home."
Xi Shu did not answer, but looked at the child silently. She tugged at her sleeves and seemed to be in a dilemma.
Xiao Fusheng wanted to go home and have dinner with Kan Qi’s father, but she felt that her little brother was very pitiful and he seemed to want her to stay.
[The baby is struggling between two dads. The choice will be determined based on their affection.]
Xi Shu: “?”
The next second, the child pursed his lips and spoke: "I'm going home. I'll buy you some food, okay?"
This is how favorability is used.
Xi Shu's smile faded a little.
It's obviously your own thing, why would other people interfere with it?
"Xiao Fusheng." Xiao An turned around after answering Kan Qi's call, "Your father said you can bring your friends home for dinner."
Xiao Fusheng's eyes suddenly lit up: "Okay!"
Half an hour later, the car stopped in Kan Qi's garage.
Xiao Fusheng saw her father standing at the elevator entrance at a glance. She couldn't wait to open the car door and jump out: "Dad, I'm back!"
"Yeah." Kan Qi picked her up, looked past Xiao An at the tall and thin child behind her, and frowned almost imperceptibly.
When the raising calendar updated and Zaizai Zaizai had to choose someone based on favorability, he was also reminded, so he called Xiao An to inquire about the situation and learned that Zaizai Zaizai was talking to a child.
child?
Is there really nothing wrong with the system?
"Dad, his name is Xi Shu." Xiao Fusheng said, "That's Brother Mobile Phone."
She told her father about mortgaging her phone.
"Xi Shu?" Kan Qi put the child down and walked up to the little boy. "How old are you?"
Xi Shu's face was cold, and his expression was unclear: "Ten years old."
Five years ago, I was only five years old. What games could I play?
Kan Qi stared at the other person for several seconds before realizing that he was a little too sensitive. Even if a ten-year-old child had a system, what could he do?
He is in such a mess that he may not even be able to support himself.
He hummed, "Come in."
Xi Shu followed him into the elevator in silence, without looking around.
It was the first time that Xiao Fusheng brought a friend home, so he couldn't wait to introduce his new friend to his father. Before he could finish his words, he used his hands and feet to gesture how he met Brother Mobile.
Kan Qi listened patiently, but his peripheral vision was watching the child opposite him.
Although he doesn't look like much, his facial features are very delicate and his fingers are very slender and clean. He doesn't look like a child who is wandering around outside.
Even when he came home, he didn't feel cramped or uncomfortable at all, and seemed to have adapted well to everything.
Zaizai said his family doesn’t want him anymore?
Either their family of origin is very wealthy, or they are very sophisticated despite being young and can control their emotions without showing them.
But no matter which one it is, it is not a good thing.
"Where are you staying?" Kan Qi asked. "I'll take you back in a while."
"Thank you, uncle." Xi Shu put down his chopsticks. "I can go back by myself."
Anyway, his goal has been achieved. He wants to know who Xiao Fusheng's current father is and what his living environment is like. Now it seems that it will not be an easy thing for him to get Fusheng back.
Kan Qi... He had seen this person on TV, but didn't know much about him. But he was definitely no ordinary person.
In the end, Kan Qi still did not let a ten-year-old child go back by himself.
Little Fusheng stood at the door and waved worriedly. He stuffed the doctor's instructions for his recovery into his tattered clothes and waved his hand, "If you're being bullied, call me."
Xi Shu reached out and touched the note in his pocket, curled the corners of his lips, and his clean face seemed to be blooming with little stars: "Yeah."
After watching the other person leave with Uncle Xiao An, Xiao Fusheng said, "He's so handsome, how could anyone be willing to bully him?"
Kan Qi smiled and said, what does a child know?
"These people only pick on good-looking people, don't they?" Little Fusheng turned around and reached out to touch his father's face. "Dad is also very good-looking."
Kan Qi's eyes softened: "Yeah."
He walked into the house holding Xiao Fusheng, and his eyes darkened when he thought of that choice.
But in the end I didn't ask.
No matter how many parents she has in the future, I am the first one to meet her. Who would have a higher impression of me than her?
Xiao An could only send Xi Shu to the previous bus stop. He originally wanted to send the child home, but he kept insisting and there was nothing he could do. In the end, he saw the other party walk into a residential building before leaving.
After coming back and learning about this, Kan Qi closed his eyes slightly.
Maybe I'm overthinking it, or maybe another option hasn't appeared yet?
But Xiao An didn't know that after he left, Xi Shucai slowly walked out of the residential building and walked back to the ancestral home along the same route he came.
Of course, the mother and son would not care when he came back or left, nor would they care whether he was hungry or full.
Perhaps still hesitant about what happened during the day, Wu Jie didn't approach him this time. Instead, she watched him from a distance. "You've messed up your room, so you have nowhere to go. I've had someone clean up the room on the first floor. I've put your clothes and books in there for you. You can live there."
The first floor is all nanny rooms, and the only empty room is a storage room that has not been used for a long time.
But Xi Shu didn't say anything. He went straight upstairs, took out a small locked box from the desk drawer, and walked into the utility room in silence.
There is a bed and a table, and nothing else is visible.
Without even glancing around, he opened the small box, revealing a cell phone with a broken screen.
After picking up the phone and looking at it for a long time, Xi Shu lowered his eyes again.
One day, he will turn this phone on again.
The things left by his mother can only belong to him.
After thinking about it, he took out another good mobile phone and typed in the two words "Kan Qi".
This time, Fu Sheng was also found.
In the past, Xi Shu had little interest in the Internet. It was also the first time he realized that Fu Sheng had become an excellent person in the eyes of many people.
Excellent...
He glanced at the dark and narrow nanny's room and opened the book.
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【Here it comes, I've been waiting for this moment for a long time. 】
[Let me be clear, I'm not here to see Kan Qi, I'm here to see how he clears himself.]
【Where is Zijin? Where is my Zijin? 】
[Ahhhhhhhhhhhh Zijin is so handsome. Oh my god, how can there be such a polite person, not arrogant or impatient.]
The live broadcast started at Tian Zijin's home. He was packing his luggage and explaining to the host and netizens little by little what to bring.
The program is told from the host's perspective. She will follow the artists in each episode to places they are familiar with and learn about their past lives.
Host Xu Mai glanced around and asked, "Zi Jin's house is very clean and tidy. Does he usually clean it himself?"
"Yes." Tian Zijin smiled softly, "When I'm not working, I can relax by tidying up. It makes me less bored and relieves stress. I don't really like outsiders coming to my house."
Xu Mai understood what he meant: "It seems that our Zi Jin is still single."
Tian Zijin nodded embarrassedly.
[Wow, what a clean and honest man! I've never heard of any scandals involving him!]
[The previous person who said he kept himself clean has a five-year-old child now.]
[What? Hasn't Kan Qi appeared on screen yet?]
"Didn't they say they were adopted? It's written in black and white. You guys can really say anything."
"Huh?" Xu Mai noticed many familiar movie posters and discs on the wall of his video wall. "It seems you like Kan Qi very much?"
"Of course." Tian Zijin said bluntly, "After all, he's an award-winning actor, a role model for us younger generations. I've got the original copies of every one of his films."
He picked up the last one and said, "Including the last one he made after retiring. This one actually has quite high artistic attainments. Although I didn't quite understand it, it's not bad at all. I hope I can have a chance to learn from him in the future."
Xu Mai raised his eyebrows silently.
Not bad?
That film has been stripped to its core by all the major film and television bloggers.
[The memories of the dead are attacking me again. I'd better not show Kan Qi in the camera anymore. I almost vomit when I see his movies.]
[It was his fault for over-marketing that he fell flat on his face.]
[Zi Jin, don't ask him for advice. He won't learn from the good.]
Xu Mai glanced at the comments. The live broadcast had just begun and the atmosphere was already so violent.
I don't know if Tian Zijin did it intentionally or unintentionally, but he's just rubbing salt into other people's wounds. But looking at his entire wall of disc posters, I don't think he's a fake fan.
"Hmm?" Xu Mai took a few more steps but didn't take anything out. "Are there any other idols?"
"Yes." Tian Zijin did the gesture for her, "I admire everyone who can reach the top. They must have something good in them. They are my goal."
[Oh my god, it's Xu Su.]
[Isn't Xu Su also out of favor now? Without a sponsor, she won't be able to get any good resources. She's always been playing supporting roles. She doesn't even film TV series anymore, right?]
[Former Best Actor, former Best Actress, Tian Zijin, I advise you to be more careful next time you become a fan.]
【Whoever I follow will collapse, it’s hilarious. 】
Xu Mai hadn't expected that there were so many hidden talents in Tian Zijin's family. Now he dared not look around anymore, for fear that he would find some idol who was blacklisted by the whole network.
On the other side, Xiao Fusheng just woke up from a nightmare.
This time she didn't dream of Kan Qi's father, but a very handsome but unfamiliar young man. He had a voice she had never heard before, but he looked vaguely familiar in his eyes and eyebrows.
The man exudes a noble and elegant temperament, like snow among green bamboos. His eyes are smiling, yet so far away that it is unreachable. They shine just when he stands far away.
But it was such a person who walked step by step towards the darkness, and the snow behind him was covered with blood.
She wanted to go forward and hold him, but she couldn't make a sound. Finally, the man stopped, his tall figure fell down, and a woman's gentle voice came out intermittently from the phone he was holding.
"This is a gift from our little aunt. You will grow up together."
"Mom, what's her name?"
"Fusheng, her name is Fusheng. Have you forgotten the name you chose?"
"Fusheng." A tender boy's voice rang out, "My name is Xi Shu."
"Are you my gift?"
Xiao Fusheng sat on the bed, his light eyes filled with confusion.
She didn't remember the man, but she remembered the childish voice, which she had heard before.
One of the dads?
No, Daddy’s isn’t that small.
But why is it Xi Shu?
In the past, her parents had gone to work and there was no one to talk to her, except Xi Shu.
For a long time, all she heard was his unclear babbling.
Xiao Fusheng, who already had self-awareness at that time, was very anxious when he heard this voice. Every time he heard such a voice, he couldn't help but teach him how to speak on the phone.
So the first word that little Xi Shu learned was "mother", and the second was "life".
The day he heard a child his own age start talking, little Fusheng was so excited that he kept repeating his name to the child all day long while holding his phone: "My name is Fusheng. We'll be friends from now on. I won't despise you even if you're dumb. I'll teach you how to speak."
The boy's confused voice could be heard intermittently in the void.
"Floating... Life..."
"…mine."
"Xiao Fusheng." Chen Huan opened the door and walked in. "The production crew is coming soon. We need to get up."
Xiao Fusheng nodded blankly. She touched her ears and felt that the sound had not yet dissipated.
Is that poor little brother Xi Shu also his father?
No, that's not right, he is my friend.
But when he opened his eyes, he was already ten years old.
Xiao Fusheng lowered his head. He was so poor, yet he still bought himself a skirt. It was so hard for him.
After thinking about it, she immediately got up and called her poor friend.
The person on the other end didn't speak after the call was connected.
Xiao Fusheng didn't wait and said directly: "Xi Shu, I will work two jobs to support you in the future!"
There was a slight breathing sound coming from the other end of the phone.
Xi Shu looked at his favorability which had skyrocketed to 30 and chuckled, "Okay."
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