Chapter 142 Chapter 142 (Two in One) In her heart...
Bai Lincheng didn't ask her anything, but just nodded vigorously when she said "pay more money".
"Director Zi, I just figured out that my second brother Bai Siming is in danger on his current mission. Please help me get on the line. No matter what he's doing, ask him to wait for me."
Bai Mincheng heard her address and knew that her surname was Zi and she could be called the director.
A name flashed through his mind: Zi Wenbin.
Bai Qingqing was waiting for Zi Wenbin to help her connect. Looking at Bai Lincheng's big face leaning close to her, she remembered that she had only figured out the words in her mind and had not explained them to this big brother.
But why did Bai Lincheng look like he knew everything, and just followed her orders and arrangements?
Bai Qingqing briefly felt that something was not right.
But before she could think about it carefully, her phone line was transferred to Bai Siming.
A slightly heavy breathing sound came from the receiver. The person on the other end seemed to have just run very fast. He calmed down his breathing within two seconds after answering the call. "What's the matter?"
The unfamiliar male voice lowered its tone.
"This operation is a trap. The enemy has sufficient firepower. They are setting a trap to lure you in. If you haven't entered yet, cancel the operation immediately. Otherwise, look for a cave shelter in the northeast. If you are lucky, you will come across a cave that connects to the underground river, which can save your life."
This call was not an official instruction from her superiors.
Bai Qingqing didn't expect that she could cancel the operation with just one phone call. However, during the conversation with Bai Siming, she took advantage of her deepening relationship with him and made quick calculations on her hands.
But no matter how she calculated it, this was a life-and-death crisis.
Even though she had informed him in advance, the result of the divination did not change much.
Either Bai Siming didn't believe her, or they were just unlucky and didn't find the right place for life. [Is the plot advanced?]
[But the important plot, the way of heaven will never change, even if it is very hard, it will be forced to move forward. ]
[If he dies now, how will Jiang Mu Ning and Ji Ke save their lives? ]
"...If things really get to the worst, don't trust your own people outside your team, even if they are foreign aid."
Bai Qingqing's tongue was wrapped in spiritual power, and a cold voice sounded on the phone.
The superior who was listening to the phone suddenly heard a burst of noise, and soon the voice of the call returned to normal.
Bai Siming: "You are...Qingqing?"
"Yes, I'm Bai Qingqing."
Bai Qingqing held the phone in her hand, looked up at Bai Lincheng who was listening attentively in front of her, pursed her lips and said, "If you believe me, you can pray to me in the most dangerous moment."
…
Bai Siming: "Got it, thank you."
The phone call was hung up.
Zi Wenbin's voice rang out in the receiver a few seconds later: "Ms. Bai, don't worry, we will do our best to support you."
Zi Wenbin couldn't say any more, so Bai Qingqing thanked him and ended the call.
Bai Lincheng listened to the whole process nearby. Seeing that Bai Qingqing had already made the contact, he was obviously relieved.
Bai Qingqing asked him, "I just told you the conclusion of the fortune telling on the phone. It's almost the same. Do you want me to explain it to you again?"
Bai Lingcheng thought for a moment and nodded: "Sorry for the trouble. I want to understand it carefully. Did you...talk to Siming just now? How did he sound?"
During Bai Siming's missions, they were out of contact for one or two months each time. If they encountered a long-term mission, they would not be in contact for up to a year.
This time, Bai Lincheng hadn't heard his brother's voice for a long time and missed him very much.
"If he can talk, he's still alive. It doesn't matter what it sounds like. I haven't seen him in person. But this time it's true..." Bai Qingqing said with a sigh, and explained the content of his fortune-telling to him in great professional ethics.
Bai Mincheng's expression was as stern as ever.
The situation was still unclear, and it was difficult for him to be completely relieved until the news of true safety came back.
While the two were talking, Dadai and Erdai could no longer stay where they were and slowly walked away.
Bai Mincheng took out his cell phone to transfer money to her.
As soon as the mobile banking app was opened, Bai Qingqing smelled something and stretched her head to look at his phone screen. She watched him find her account information in the contacts and said impatiently, "Two million! Two million!"
Shiraishi Makoto: ...
He originally planned to transfer 10 million.
"Didn't you say that I would give you a lot more money? Two million..." Bai Lincheng stopped talking halfway through his sentence. He felt that Bai Qingqing was no stranger to money in this line of work, so was there something wrong with her pricing?
Bai Qingqing smiled, retracted her raised feet, stepped back on the ground, and distanced herself from him: "It's just a fortune telling. I was only going to charge you 200,000 yuan. 2 million is already an extra fee. After all, the extra money... has already been paid by Bai Siming."
“Paid?”
"Well, he paid."
When she first returned to the Bai family, Bai Siming gave her a music box he made himself. After the spring was tightened, the dots and vertical lines surrounding the wooden base would beat like the rise and fall of a heart.
The handwritten greeting card he wrote at that time read: Wishing you long-lasting peace.
This is the best blessing Bai Siming can give.
So he paid the extra part.
Seeing Bai Lincheng's puzzled look, Bai Qingqing patted him on the shoulder and said, "This is my friendly price, I've given you a discount. Don't spread the word that my price is too cheap. Take it as 20 million."
"It's getting late. I'm going back to bed."
Bai Qingqing had no intention of going back with Bai Lincheng. After finishing her work, she turned around and ran away. When she entered the room, she stretched her body, changed into slippers, and walked upstairs with a clattering sound.
Bai Mincheng followed her all the way.
Watching her walking in the living room, her slippers making a clacking sound.
On the other side, Bai Songxu came out of the kitchen with instant noodles, walked to his side unsteadily in slippers, and followed Bai Lincheng's gaze towards the stairs.
"Does she like sports or not? She is so lazy all day long, but she prefers to walk upstairs by herself."
Bai Lingcheng glanced at him and walked to the pool: "What do you want?"
"Brother, my big brother! Can't I talk to you if I'm fine?"
Bai Songxu felt that he was becoming less and less welcome in this family, and he became angry: "What were you and Bai Qingqing doing outside for so long just now? Why do you have so much to say to her, and you are even bothered to say a word to me!"
Bai Mincheng could see that he was fine.
After washing his hands, Bai Lingcheng took down the towel from the rack and slowly dried them while saying to him, "If you're okay, I'm busy."
"I heard that you posted bad reviews in the comment sections of Zhuang You on various music platforms?" Bai Lincheng frowned and his forehead throbbed when he talked about this.
He reached out and grabbed Bai Songxu, who was slowly moving away with the instant noodles, and grabbed the skin on the back of his neck, using two fingertips to apply force: "How old are you, Bai Songxu? You are twenty years old, not two years old. What are you doing?"
"This is not my fault! It was Zhuang You who first said on the show that my song was a cliché! Why don't you go and settle the score with her?"
Bai Lincheng said coldly: "Were you the first to treat them badly? Bai Songxu, don't think that everyone is blind. The Zhuang family was very well-mannered and didn't say anything because of your attitude at the lunch that day."
Bai Songxu didn't even want to eat the instant noodles anymore. He put them on the table in anger and replied with his hands on his hips, "Attitude is attitude, music is music! Since she insulted my work, the nature of the matter is different! The matter between Zhuang You and me has nothing to do with our family. Don't use your attitude as a big brother or elder to pressure me!"
Bai Mincheng closed his eyes.
He was already worried about Bai Siming's safety, wondering if he could survive this operation, but his youngest brother was causing trouble again.
It’s best if Zhuang You likes the third brother now.
If these two were separated again, he really didn't know whether the third brother would get the ending he wished for.
Since he was able to wake up from the control of the plot, even if he didn't change the final ending, at least he changed the node of the Gu Lan incident.
Then, can the fate of his younger brothers and his Bai family be changed?
Bai Lingcheng calmed down, solemnly took away Bai Songxu's bowl of instant noodles, and said calmly: "Bai Songxu, come and talk to me."
"Hey, my instant noodles!" Bai Songxu stretched out his hand to grab it, but failed to get it. He thought his elder brother was going to pour it out for him, and he became even angrier and more anxious.
As a result, Bai Lincheng took his instant noodles and did not go to the sink, but went to the lounge in the side hall on the first floor, put it on the long and narrow table, and looked back at him.
"close the door."
"Oh." Bai Songxu sensed that his elder brother wanted to have a serious talk, and his sharp claws and temper unconsciously subsided. He turned around with his tail between his legs, and obediently closed and locked the door.
"sit."
Bai Songxu glanced at his elder brother's expression and thought that his elder brother was just doing this for Zhuang You. After all, his previous attitude was a bit unfriendly, but commenting on each other's work could only be regarded as a competition between peers...
At worst, he can just delete it later.
Then go listen to Zhuang You's performance and give her a few compliments to appear rigorous and sincere in your comments, and that Zhuang You also has her good points. That should be fine, right?
In the short time it took to open the door, Bai Songxu had already quickly figured it out in his mind. His expression became much more relaxed. He sat down opposite Bai Lincheng and took a look at the fragrant instant noodles in front of him.
He endured it and didn't do anything. He sat there obediently and said to his elder brother: "Zhuang..."
Bai Lingcheng: "Why do you hate Zhuang You? Don't make any excuses. I want to hear your true reasons."
At home, his father was never smiling. He had been afraid of his father who looked like a strong bear since he was a child, so he was very dependent on his older brother who was eight years older than him. He felt that he was the head of the family, and they were of similar age and easy to talk to.
But perhaps because the eldest brother has been with his father for too long, his expressions and behaviors are becoming more and more like his father. I don’t know when it started, but the eldest brother’s facial expressions have become less and less expressive, and it is difficult to see his thoughts and intentions from his face.
He was as serious as a refrigerator all day long, and he soon became afraid of his elder brother.
I think he is...very majestic.
Bai Songxu fell silent. He was nervous about the question and his head was dizzy as he tried to say something. However, all kinds of thoughts flooded into his mind and he didn't know which one to say first.
"Think it over first, and tell me what you really think."
Bai Lincheng watched Bai Songxu try to speak several times, hesitating and tapping his fingers on the table.
A few muffled thuds hit his ears, making Bai Songxu even more nervous.
Bai Lincheng asked him: "How does it bother you that Zhuang You is with your third brother? Do you like Zhuang You?"
"Of course not!" Bai Songxu immediately found the answer and quickly replied: "How could I like Zhuang You! I have never seen her before! She is the third brother's fiancée, it is even more impossible for me to like her!"
Bai Lingcheng said slowly: "So you like your third brother and have... different thoughts about him?"
One sentence landed.
Bai Songxu's eyes slowly widened as Bai Lincheng uttered the last few words.
His pupils constricted and trembled slightly as he looked at the big brother opposite him.
Is this really something his eldest brother would ask?
How could such... scary words be uttered so calmly on this calm face?
Does he know what words he uses and what sentences he makes?
That's what he asked?!
Bai Songxu was too shocked to answer immediately, but Bai Lincheng seemed to understand. A slightly understanding expression appeared on his calm face, and he answered himself: "I didn't answer immediately, it seems that..."
"No! I didn't! Big brother, what are you talking about?!" Bai Songxu stood up suddenly and said with a crackling sound like firecrackers: "I just don't like Zhuang You. If the third brother wants to get married, he must marry the best person in the world. Zhuang You is not good enough. She is not worthy of the third brother, but she still looks like she has him in her hands and comes to warn me. I... I just can't stand her like that."
Bai Songxu's voice became lower as he spoke, as if he realized that he was in the wrong.
"Siqi is a world-renowned painter, and Zhuang You is a world-renowned cellist who has won the Avery Fisher Award. They are many times better than you." Bai Lincheng said, perhaps remembering the bad review given by Bai Songxu, and sneered softly.
"From family background to professional expertise, I don't see any mismatch between the two. Zhuang You's appearance may not be stunning, but she can be called a beauty. Her behavior and personality are generous and polite."
"Most importantly, she likes your third brother."
"Bai Songxu, what kind of better person are you talking about?"
Bai Songxu was speechless for a moment.
Zhuang You...is indeed quite outstanding, on par with his third brother.
Bai Songxu was stunned by Bai Lincheng's words. He originally thought that Zhuang You was not worthy of his third brother, so he couldn't stand Zhuang You's boasting. But if that wasn't the case, why would he be angry...
Bai Lingcheng: "Then you are just in adolescence and have nothing to do."
"No way! I'm already a working person, supporting such a big studio by myself. I'm a mature adult, okay?" Bai Songxu didn't back down, but his eyes were clearly filled with thought.
Bai Mincheng waited quietly for the child to think, then reached out and poured himself a glass of water.
As he watched the clear water slowly pour into the glass, he suddenly remembered Bai Qingqing appearing in front of him countless times holding a glass of water.
Actually, Bai Qingqing's habits are somewhat similar to everyone in the family.
Bai Lincheng put down the water cup, tapped his fingertips on the table, and recalled carefully.
She likes to frown.
The way she frowns is extremely similar to her parents. Putting aside her appearance, one can always see the shadows of her parents in her expression when she frowns.
Her taste in food is the same as her mother's. She likes to drink water between meals like the second child. She pretends to be a pig and eats the tiger, using a harmless face to deceive people. Sometimes she and the third child look like they were cast in the same mold. Even her living habits and the way she wears slippers are no different from the fifth child.
But children always have similar bad living habits.
Bai Lincheng frowned slightly, raised his trim and round fingertips, tapped the table twice, and subconsciously glanced at Bai Songxu who was standing in a daze and not saying anything.
If there was one thing that made Bai Qingqing different from the other children, it was only that she was different from Jiang Muning.
The two people are at completely opposite extremes. Whatever Jiang Mu Ning likes, Bai Qingqing definitely doesn't like, as if she is naturally repulsed by it.
Is this also a legacy of the body's habits?
But Qingqing had never lived with them before.
This world is a novel...
"I just feel that things shouldn't develop like this..." Bai Songxu said in a muffled voice.
He couldn't find a reason himself, and after thinking for a long time, he just felt that... things shouldn't be like this.
This subconscious feeling of being off track made him feel uneasy and panicky. He wanted to make everything right, as if only in this way could he find peace in his heart.
Bai Lincheng suddenly came back to his senses, retracted his fingertips that were tapping on the table, pursed his lips, and looked at Bai Songxu's frowning brows: "What did you say?"
"I say! Things shouldn't be going this way! Although I don't know who Third Brother should marry, I just feel that it shouldn't be Zhuang You!"
Bai Songxu was determined to do nothing, so he would accept it if his elder brother scolded him. Even when he thought about it now, he felt that he was being a little unreasonable.
Bai Mincheng laughed when he heard this.
His straight back bent weakly and he leaned back on the chair, causing his white shirt to become violently wrinkled.
Everything is really messed up...
The fate of their family was thus at the mercy of others.
Bai Lingcheng smiled and nodded, saying calmly: "You should have heard from Bai Qingqing's voice that this world has a plot. I don't know if you, an idiot, have discovered that our world is a novel."
Bai Lincheng picked up the cup, took a sip of water, and put it back on the table.
A muffled sound hit Bai Songxu's heart, causing him to tremble.
Bai Lingcheng was too lazy to observe his stupid brother's mood, nor was he too lazy to ask him if he had noticed anything before. He just said, "I'll talk, and you just listen."
"Today is not April Fool's Day, and there is no need for me to make you happy on this occasion."
"What Qingqing said in her heart was not just the future she calculated, but more about our future as written in the novel. Our family might be the villains... Jiang Mu Ning is the heroine of this novel."
Bai Songxu was stunned. He never expected the topic to develop like this: "Brother, what are you talking about? Are you feeling unwell? Or are you dreaming?"
Bai Lincheng ignored him and said to himself:
"Uncle, this is the first story that happened after Qingqing returned home. Uncle was supposed to die, but at the Bai family's family recognition dinner, news of his death spread, and from then on, it spread in the circle that our biological sister, Bai Qingqing, was unlucky."
Bai Songxu: "That was a long time ago..."
His eyes drifted away, and he recalled what happened in June. He rushed to argue: "Bai Qingqing is quite good at metaphysics. She was trying to attract business. Do you know how much money she took from my uncle? Later, she even let my uncle be her assistant for such a long time!"
"He is the CEO of a film and television group, and he works as an assistant to his niece. He serves her like a patriarch every day. You don't know how much people in the industry laugh at my uncle. Bai Qingqing did it on purpose!"
"She wants to use this incident to prove that the Bai family cares about her! They value her!"
He hated Bai Qingqing, in large part because she was too scheming. Bai Songxu couldn't help but muttered, "If she could be a little kinder, she..."
"Then she must have been eaten up by the Li family until nothing is left." Bai Lincheng frowned, thinking that Bai Songxu's biggest problem was that he lived too well. He should be kicked out of the house and allowed to see the outside world.
"So I've been very nice to her recently. I even wrote a song for her. Bai Qingqing wants to venture into the entertainment industry and become famous, so writing a song for her is my biggest support, okay?"
When talking about where he was right, Bai Songxu's voice became a little louder.
There was helplessness in Bai Lincheng's eyes.
Anyone who pays close attention to Qingqing's thoughts will find that she had to participate in the variety show out of necessity.
She can't control it herself.
At the moment, Bai Lincheng was too weak to discuss this issue with Bai Songxu, so he just continued with the previous topic: "Gu Lan is the second plot. She tried to lure me into stealing company secrets."
Bai Lincheng still vividly remembers the scene of listening to Bai Qingqing's inner thoughts in the small kitchen that night.
"Gu Lan? Seduction?!" Bai Songxu opened his eyes wide.
"Just shut up and listen." Bai Lincheng raised his hand and pressed, "Including the fact that you were drugged by Han Jia, it was also the plot development of the novel, so I can remind you so accurately.
These three things have been confirmed, and I say this just to tell you the truth of this matter. "
"The Bai Group will eventually go bankrupt, I will go to jail, I had two car accidents, the first one broke my leg, the second one killed me, your third brother Bai Siqi had a split personality, alcoholism, a broken hand, and committed suicide after going blind."
"Your second brother Bai Siming..."
Bai Lincheng closed his eyes, Bai Qingqing's voice echoing in his mind: "Jiang Muning revealed my identity to the drug lord, and I was turned into a human pig and tortured to death."
"After everything she went through, the mother was so grief-stricken that she shot herself."
Bai Lingcheng's lips trembled. His steady voice could no longer support him to finish a long sentence. He could only hastily end his narration and continue:
"So do you understand? No one in our Bai family will have a good ending. Do you think the development I'm talking about now is in line with the original trajectory in your mind?"
"Do you feel relieved, Bai Songxu?"
While saying these words, Bai Mincheng was also thinking.
If everything he has experienced can be called awakening, then everyone in the Bai family must wake up in order to change their fate.
He... wants to form an alliance with Bai Qingqing.
Bai Lincheng tapped the soft flesh of his fingertips on the rosewood tabletop, calmed down, and retracted his fingers into his palm. He had already decided to go find Bai Qingqing again later and establish a cooperative relationship as soon as possible.
Bai Songxu was obviously in great shock, his whole body frozen there. As his elder brother's narration progressed, he imagined some fragmented images in his mind, which made him feel terrified.
Indeed, as the eldest brother said, there was no need for him to lie to him like this.
Big brother is not the kind of person who would make such a joke...
so……
Is it true?
Bai Songxu sat down on the chair with a clang. His buttocks and back were hit hard but he didn't feel any pain. He opened his mouth in a daze and turned to Bai Lincheng who was drinking tea and asked, "Just now... I talked about my eldest brother, second brother, third brother, and mother, then..."
"Qingqing didn't know we could hear her. She didn't mention it, so I naturally couldn't ask her directly. I could only ask indirectly. I only found an excuse to ask about the second brother tonight."
Bai Lincheng made his words clear to prevent Bai Songxu from rushing up to Bai Qingqing and asking questions.
Given her temper, I really don’t know what the consequences will be.
Bai Songxu felt dizzy and didn't understand the underlying meaning of his elder brother's words at all. He nodded slowly, immersed in the fact that his whole family would not have a good ending.
Yes, Fourth Brother had just returned home not long ago and had little contact with her, so it was normal that Bai Qingqing had not thought about Fourth Brother in her heart.
"What about me? Big brother, has Bai Qingqing ever told me...what will become of me?" Bai Songxu felt that he and Bai Qingqing had been in frequent contact and they had always been at odds with each other, so she must have told him about her final outcome in her heart!
"Well," Bai Lingcheng put down the teacup and looked at him: "She said you are an idiot."
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