Chapter 68 Chapter 68 I'll listen to Qingqing about the arrangements for the birthday party...
Bai Qingqing's inner voice is hard to express in Bai Lincheng's memories, and it is difficult to repeat the original words.
He lowered his eyes and watched Gu Lan lift her legs and let the hem of her skirt pile up at her waist, covering her legs. Their skin was separated by a thin layer of cloth, and the warm body temperature was transmitted to him.
Bai Lincheng snatched the bag from Gu Lan's hand, pressed it against her legs through her skirt, and stepped back with a stern face.
Bar box, stiletto heels, Bulgari snake, so attractive.
Several things have been verified.
There was no need to verify the matter of stuffing a thousand-dollar tip into his shirt.
Fortunately, Gu Lan's strength was not great. Apart from the hook, he did not use any strength on his legs and was easily pulled out by Bai Lincheng.
Bai Lincheng looked at her without saying anything, raised his handbag to signal her, took a few steps back under her interested gaze, bent down and placed her handbag on the coffee table.
If all the prerequisites are verified and met one by one, then the person Bai Qingqing mentioned in his heart, the one to whom he would hand over the new technology to, must be Gu Lan, the chief technology officer of QET, who is about to join Huazhi as an expert.
A woman he might be obsessed with.
Bai Lincheng looked ahead with sharp eyes. Gu Lan, who seemed to be pleased by his actions, was leaning against the wall, laughing.
Her eyes and expression, softened by the dim light, were much more vivid than the slightly cold Bulgari snake around her neck.
Gu Lan was indeed very beautiful, in a gorgeous, lively and aggressive way.
It's definitely his type.
But Bai Lincheng doesn't think that he would confuse public and private matters for any one person or any one thing and throw away the rationality that he is proud of.
Especially out of personal feelings.
What Bai Qingqing said was absolutely impossible to achieve.
Gu Lan didn't speak to him, and Bai Lincheng didn't plan to say a word either, and was ready to leave. They hadn't met in a formal occasion yet, so they should not know each other's identities.
He didn't know whether Gu Lan knew him or not, but he did come here today to verify Bai Qingqing's thoughts.
She knew a lot of strange things, which were verified one by one over time, so much so that he could no longer ignore them.
Huazhi's new technology has made some breakthroughs. Assuming that Bai Qingqing's voice is true, the number of people who may have the opportunity to obtain the data is very small, and they must also match the gender and appearance characteristics in her voice. The answer is obvious.
There is no other candidate except QET Gu Lan.
Bai Lincheng received the news that QET Gu Lan was returning home early today, and his mood was quite complicated until he stood in the corridor of the bathroom of the bar where she was.
He felt that his verification action was ridiculous.
He usually never came to the bar and refused all invitations from Shang K. If he hadn't taken the initiative to come and verify it today, the situation Bai Qingqing described would not be possible in terms of location.
Bai Mincheng walked to the bathroom door, without stopping for a second, turned around and prepared to leave.
However, he never expected that as soon as he turned around, Gu Lan really appeared in front of him and really pulled him into the private room next door.
…
Bai Lincheng lowered his head, opened the half-open door of the box and hurried past. When he passed by Gu Lan, he could still feel her burning gaze lingering on his shoulder.
The light laughter was covered by the music as soon as he stepped into the corridor. The lights were bright. Bai Lincheng loosened his collar, quickly left the bar, and rushed into the night air, but he didn't feel like he could breathe freely at all.
He turned his head and glanced quietly at the revolving door of the bar, then left without looking back and headed towards the company.
*
Bai Qingqing took Ao Teng to work overtime at night, and they worked until dark.
The little ghost caught from Lu Da had a confused memory. He couldn't tell where his home was or his name, and the things he could remember were very limited.
Bai Qingqing didn't need him to recall and just calculated it for him directly.
Unexpectedly, after searching two cemeteries and a hospital, neither of them found the little ghost himself.
This was the first time in her two lifetimes that she had encountered such a situation.
Ao Teng was scared to death of him. They had been sitting in the car together for more than three hours and he felt numb. When he got off the car to get water, he took an extra bottle and handed it out blankly, but found that there was no one on the other side to take it.
Bai Qingqing looked at him strangely: "Why did you take four bottles? He can't drink it."
Ao Teng: "..."
He glanced over the pale blue soul, took the water back, and got into the car: "I'll drink. I'll drink two bottles."
The night lights outside are brilliant, with pedestrians and vehicles coming and going. The drizzle that had just fallen for a while has stopped, but there are still raindrops hanging on the car windows.
It was already past seven o'clock, and if we couldn't find his body, we had to take this little ghost home.
Ao Teng couldn't accept the fact that he brought a ghost into his home yet. He drank some water, screwed the bottle shut, and said to him sideways, "Little ghost, let's start over."
"I don't want you to tell me who you are now. Let's tell you everything you can remember and see if I can sort out a logical thread for you."
Shenghun sat between Ao Teng and Bai Qingqing, looked at Bai Qingqing's expression, glanced at Ao Teng from the corner of his eye, grabbed the seat and swung his legs and muttered: "Don't you think I'm annoying and don't want to listen..."
"You are too talkative. How can you be so young and talk to Xianglin Sao..." Ao Teng paused for a moment to adjust his mood as he thought about getting down to business. "Just say what you said before. When people are emotional, they tend to think of more things. Say it again."
Ao Teng made the arrangements and looked at Bai Qingqing: "Qingqing, is this ok?"
"Um."
Bai Qingqing nodded, her face pale, and drank a sip of water.
She had been calculating the cases of the bone pit and corpse pit a few days ago, and had also created an illusion for Zou Wenhan. She had consumed too much spiritual energy and had not yet fully recovered. It was not a problem for her to deal with a small matter like Lu Da, but she did not expect to encounter a troublesome living soul.
When the little ghost heard that he could speak, his listless expression brightened up and he became excited again. His face fell and he began to howl with tears in his eyes:
"I am so pitiful. I didn't even have a single bite of food before I died. I wanted to eat meat... If I knew there was no hope, I might as well have taken advantage of the last two months to go out and travel. Instead, I had to lie in the hospital, whimpering, and getting injections every day is so painful..."
"I even made a wish list, saying that I must travel to Ningdong, Dama Mountain, Jiuteng Creek, and Chaka Lake. But I haven't been to any of them."
"This is the hospital we just visited." Ao Teng and Bai Qingqing said.
Bai Qingqing nodded.
This person died just two days ago. I heard that he came to see the doctor alone and was hospitalized alone. No family members were notified when he died, and his body has been in the hospital for two days and no one has come to claim it.
"I'm so unlucky. I'm unlucky in everything I do. I worked so hard until I was 30, but was promoted. I didn't even make it to 35. I saved some money to start a business, but I was still cheated. My girlfriend got married with my brother, but fuck his brother, he cheated on me."
"...I went to the temple to burn incense and bring good luck, and I bought a fake Buddha statue! It has two more eyes and two more hands than the real one. Oh my God, how can a person be so unlucky! Master, am I really the reincarnation of an unlucky person?"
"Why on earth did I reincarnate into this world?! Is it just to have bad luck?"
"Is it true that I am the only unlucky person in this world? May I ask? Ah?"
I have heard this before. Although this little kid has been crying all the time, he is actually not the same person who has been lying in the hospital for two months.
Ao Teng and Bai Qingqing exchanged glances, listening to the soul's tone and expression becoming increasingly intense.
He cursed the heavens and the earth for a while, and seemed to be tired of shouting. He calmed down like a living person, leaned on the backrest of the car, gasping for breath, and let the sour emotions spread in her heart.
She raised her eyes to look at Ao Teng, the resentment in her eyes gradually dissipated, and her brows relaxed: "Are you a star?"
Ao Teng's spirit trembled, and he forced a smile, leaning towards the door, away from the living soul: "...No."
"You are better looking than those actors I watched on TV! How old are you? Thirty?" Shenghun looked at with satisfaction the black suit that outlined Ao Teng's broad shoulders. Under the open suit jacket, the thin shirt followed the curve of his twisted body and gathered one side of his waist, with a pair of long legs overlapping up and down.
The car has a lot of space, but it still seems like it can't accommodate his long legs.
The living soul took the opportunity to look at the interior of the car, and said in amazement: "Uncle, is this your car? I didn't expect that I would have no chance to ride in a luxury car when I was alive, but I can ride in it after I die! I can go to many places every day by car, aren't you very happy?"
Ao Teng closed his eyes and pressed against the door: "Misunderstanding, I rented this car."
There was some disappointment on the face of the living soul.
The boy's face didn't look out of place when he acted like a little girl. Instead, he looked androgynous and cute. He asked him with a smile, "Uncle, are you married? Do you know that you are very good-looking?"
"You're not an actor, so what do you do for a living?"
Ao Teng: "Humans and ghosts have different paths, we..."
The living soul snorted softly: "I know I'm dead, but can't I just ask out of curiosity? You're so stingy."
Ao Teng asked: "How old are you? What do you do? Do you remember how you died?"
The living soul looked dejected: "I have been dead for a long time. I was seventeen when I died. I lay in bed for a long, long time. I didn't go to school, I didn't have friends, and I didn't do anything..."
"I'm not a student, and I don't have a job. Does that mean I'm... a world nomad?"
"Did you die of illness?" When the girl appeared for the first time, she thought he couldn't see her and threw herself on him. Ao Teng was afraid of her and asked his niece to take her away quickly.
Now hearing the little girl say this, he sighed and asked her.
Soul Memories: "I am..."
Bai Qingqing listened to her talking and suddenly raised her eyes. Ao Teng happened to be looking at her. When their eyes met, she suddenly realized that the subject of the confused memories in front of her had changed again.
“…I was drowned.”
"I want to train."
"I……"
For some reason, the several ghosts in Lu Da's body merged together. When they shared Lu Da's body, their memories were confused and they almost merged into one.
Even though the other three souls have now been sent away, the remaining obsession still remains on this only living soul.
When many souls leave their bodies, their memories become vague and unclear.
They don't know who they are and wander around aimlessly.
When questioned several times before, this living soul couldn't say a word, and his head was filled with memories of the other three people.
Bai Qingqing seized on his few words, chanted silently, and formed seals with her hands, guiding a ray of spiritual energy from the world outside the car window to pass through the living soul.
Ao Teng had his Yin-Yang eyes opened by Bai Qingqing today. It was the first time he saw that his Master Qingqing could actually draw out a glowing thread from the dark sky with just a stretch of his hand. He forgot for a moment that he was still listening to the answer from the living soul and opened his eyes wide in shock.
The light golden glowing thread sank into the body of the living soul, floated out from the chest, and led to an unknown direction.
“…I eat chocolate.”
Ao Teng: “Ah?”
“I can’t eat chocolate.”
"I'm a puppy, woof!"
The living soul's words were incomprehensible, but Bai Qingqing did not react. She maintained the magic formula between her hands and let Ao Teng lead the driver along the direction of the silk thread.
…
Xijiao Sports Swimming Pool.
The red lights of the police cars and ambulances at the door illuminated the dark night. Several private cars were parked in front of the swimming pool, and more than a dozen people were busy shuttling between the vehicles.
"Whose cars are these? Move away if they're blocking the road."
A young boy was fished out of the swimming pool inside the swimming hall. He was floating upside down in the water, motionless. The cold light shone on the boy's fair skin, making it as white as a dead person.
The security guard who came back from smoking outside was startled and immediately jumped into the water, brought the person ashore, and quickly provided first aid.
It was unknown how long the boy had been unconscious, but it must have been no more than the time it took to smoke a cigarette.
The security guard performed first aid for a while, but seeing that the patient had no response, he immediately called an ambulance and notified his emergency contact.
A large group of people from the house rushed to the swimming pool, and the vehicles blocked the passage in front of the swimming pool. The police asked people to drive away the cars. The emergency personnel immediately drove the ambulance forward. Several people lifted the flatbed cart and stuffed the child into the car from the steps next to it.
The family members' shouting and crying made the scene chaotic.
The security guard was so frightened that his face turned pale and he stood behind the noisy crowd, not daring to speak.
When Bai Qingqing and Ao Teng arrived, the scene was in chaos.
She stopped the car not far away, got out with Ao Teng, quietly approached the entrance of the swimming pool, and silently approached the ambulance compartment.
The naked boy was wrapped in a blanket with a little red rope showing around his neck, his hair was wet and his eyes were closed. It was probably his mother who ran to the side of the car. There were bright tears on her face. She clasped her hands together in front of her chest and climbed into the car in a crying voice, asking the medical staff how her child was.
Bai Qingqing stood under the car and looked around.
She was too tall to see the boy's face. Ao Teng was much taller than her. He stood behind her and compared their appearances. He nodded to his niece, leaned over and whispered, "It's him."
The eyes of the living souls they brought were confused.
It didn't seem to recognize his family and was unfamiliar with the scene. It seemed to sense an empty body in front of it and was spontaneously attracted. It floated in front of the boy with closed eyes, looked at him, and lay down on him.
"Is it done now?" Ao Teng peeked into the car like a thief.
Many people passing by looked at him, but due to the chaotic scene, no one asked him what he was doing, giving him the opportunity to keep looking into the car.
The boy's mother was probably terrified and kept praying to God.
The person arguing loudly below should be the boy's father, asking the child what happened.
Ao Teng listened and understood that the kid was on the school swimming team and had very good skills. He would soon be participating in a provincial competition. He came to train every night after school, so it was impossible for him to have an accident in the swimming pool. The swimming pool must be hiding something and not telling them the truth.
Bai Qingqing comforted the young man's soul.
He took his hand back and tugged at the corner of the clothes of the person who was watching the fun with great interest: "Let's go, it's time to get off work."
Ao Teng was reluctant to leave and took one last look at the child, noticing that he seemed to have woken up and opened his eyes.
He smiled: "That kid is pretty good-looking."
Bai Qingqing turned around and walked towards the car. Ao Teng followed her, still a little reluctant to leave: "If he wasn't on the swimming team, that face would be a good candidate for becoming a star."
Bai Qingqing: "Are you not afraid of him now?"
"Why should I be afraid of a living person?" Ao Teng was a little embarrassed: "I was just afraid of the bad luck before. Now I really can't stand hearing the word bad luck, and I can't stand meeting the bad luck ghosts."
Bai Qingqing got into the car and narrowed her eyes. Thinking of the ghost who had cried and said that she was unlucky before, she tapped the leather seat with her fingertips.
Something slipped through her smooth brain, vaguely feeling that something was wrong, but she couldn't grasp it.
Bai Qingqing couldn't figure out the connection, and tapped her fingertips anxiously a few times, then forgot about it in the blink of an eye: "Uncle, are you going to eat tonight?"
It’s past eight in the evening, almost nine, and dinner time is a bit awkward.
Ao Teng touched his stomach and politely declined: "No more eating, I want to lose weight."
After thinking for a while, he continued, "I haven't been home for a while. After sending you back today, I will go home to see your aunt and cousin."
Bai Qingqing said "Oh", then turned around and sent a message to Aunt Qiao, asking her to prepare dinner for two.
She wants two servings for herself.
*
Bai Muning has less than a week left before the college entrance examination.
Bai Songxu, who usually plays games when he's not working, has been quiet as a chicken recently. Seeing that Bai Qingqing is no longer sarcastic to her, he even stopped playing games, saying that he wants to set a good example for his sister.
The atmosphere in the Bai family has been both tense and relaxed recently.
After all, it is the college entrance examination, which is an important exam in the minds of Chinese people.
Songsong's grades in Baimuning are good, and they are well above the admission score lines of major universities in previous years. As long as he performs normally, he can choose any of Peking University, Tsinghua University, and the University of Tokyo is more than enough.
She had previously participated in art exams at several major colleges and universities and had already obtained certificates of qualification, with scores either first or in the top three in her major. Only the cultural subjects exams remained.
Of course, it doesn’t matter even if Bai Muning doesn’t perform well. With the Bai family’s financial background, it doesn’t matter how their child performs in the exams.
Bai Muning has not yet made it clear whether he will go to an art school or a comprehensive university. He also wants to wait until the final college entrance examination scores are released before announcing it to the public, which will be safer.
No one in the family dared to ask her at this point in time, not even about the exam, for fear of putting pressure on her.
Bai Qingqing and Bai Muning's birthday is coming up in late June. It is the two children's eighteenth birthday, and the Bai and Ao families are going to hold a big celebration.
Ao Xinyi brought up the topic when the whole family was present, as a topic to relax the atmosphere, and asked the two children with a smile: "Your birthdays are coming up soon this year. Turning eighteen is a rite of passage, and you should celebrate it well. What do you think?"
Bai Qingqing said nothing and glanced at Bai Muning.
Bai Muning opened his mouth, wanted to say something but swallowed it back and looked at Bai Qingqing.
Everyone at the tea table was silent. Bai Shuting agreed with his wife's words with his eyes and waited for the two children to answer. Bai Lincheng put down his phone and turned his gaze to Bai Qingqing, observing her expression.
Bai Siqi was drinking tea, and Bai Songxu pretended to look up from behind the book casually and pricked up his ears quietly.
Bai Qingqing broke the silence and said with a smile: "I don't have any ideas. You guys just do what you normally do. I'll just follow your instructions."
In the world of this book, she is still suppressed by the old man Tiandao. Even if she has her own ideas, she cannot escape the arrangement of the plot.
It was just a birthday party, not a big deal. In her own world, she had already turned eighteen. Bai Qingqing didn't take it seriously and planned to let it go and leave it to the arrangements.
Ao Xinyi thought about it and realized that Qingqing's family probably didn't celebrate her birthday very often in her previous living environment, so he suggested, "Qingqing, you just returned home. This is the first time you celebrate your birthday at home. It means a lot. Mom wants to celebrate it for you and Ningning."
"In previous years..." Bai Mu Ning had celebrated his seventeenth birthday in the Bai family. Ao Xinyi was afraid that Qingqing would feel uncomfortable if he used Mu Ning's birthday as an example again.
She paused for a moment and changed the topic, "For example, when we celebrate birthdays in the families in East City, we either gather all the relatives and clansmen together or hold a banquet and invite friends in the circle, just like the two banquets you attended before."
"But this is a rather personal relationship. If you don't like it, we can also go abroad for fun. We can just charter a cruise ship or take a plane. It's very convenient."
"I see that you have a good relationship with the two kids named Chen Ruihao and Pu Yueling in the show. If you have any friends you want to invite, we can invite them."
Ao Xinyi spoke for a long time, and Bai Qingqing still maintained a polite smile, nodding from time to time to show that she was listening carefully. Finally, she said:
"I'm fine with anything. I don't have any ideas. I'll just follow your instructions."
"Okay, it's okay, think about it again. If you have any ideas, tell mom anytime." Ao Xinyi smiled and quickly looked at Bai Muning again: "Ningning, how do you want to celebrate your birthday?"
After all, Bai Muning grew up in East City and grew up with them.
She is popular, has many friends in her circle, and gets along well with her classmates.
Ao Xinyi thought that she probably wanted to invite her friends to play together, which was mostly the case in previous years.
The Bai family invited Ningning's friends and classmates to come, and chartered a plane to transport the guests directly to the island. The adults chatted with each other and the children played by themselves.
Bai Mu Ning looked hesitant and did not mention the birthday party. Instead, he thought for a moment and said, "Mom, will my second brother come back for my birthday this year? I haven't seen him for two years. I miss him a little..."
Bai Qingqing raised her eyebrows.
Ao Xinyi paused for a moment and looked at her husband.
Bai Mu Ning: "I recently sent a message to my second brother but he didn't reply."
Ao Xinyi chuckled twice: "He must be busy working on something. You know your second brother. He turns off his phone when he's working on something. He won't leave until he's done with it."
Bai Muning looked lonely.
She quickly remembered the question Ao Xinyi had just asked her, as if she had forgotten it for a moment and then remembered it again. She looked at Bai Qingqing with a smile and said, "Let Sister Qingqing decide on the arrangements for the birthday party. This is the first year Sister Qingqing is going home, and she is the main character."
[Who can be a protagonist comparable to you...my lady. 】
Bai Muning smiled at her, and Bai Qingqing also leaned back in her chair and smiled at her.
According to the original plot, during this period of time, she should have participated in the second episode of the dating variety show and was severely criticized online.
Because she also had the surname Bai, and no one from the Bai family came forward to express their views, people speculated whether she was a side branch relative of the Bai family who came to take advantage of her.
Bai Muning met Professor Jiang by chance, which planted seeds of doubt in her heart.
The foreshadowing of the true and false daughter begins.
Netizens began to speculate whether Bai Qingqing, the original person who returned to the Bai family, was the real daughter.
Before the climax of the identity reveal, the author had Li Qingqing break down and reveal online that she was the real child of the Bai family, the biological daughter of movie queen Ao Xinyi and Bai Group director Bai Shuting, and that Bai Muning was a fake.
The Internet was in an uproar, the fake daughter Bai Mu Ning was sad, and the Bai family had no choice but to disclose the original identity. The original Bai Qingqing was criticized by her family for not considering the overall situation and not knowing the big picture, but she still felt proud and happy.
The Jiang family of Beijing City made a high-profile appearance at this time, recognizing Bai Muning as a member of the Jiang family. The news was on the news for three consecutive days, shocking the whole country.
Of course, the birthday party that followed was spent by the original Bai Qingqing surrounded by the Bai family members who were in mixed emotions.
desolate.
After the birthday party, she hid in the garden and heard her parents and brother calling Jiang Mu Ning to wish him a happy birthday.
The depressed feeling in my heart came back again.
Bai Qingqing recalled the plot of the original book and frowned briefly.
I don’t know if it’s because she has been in this body for too long, but perhaps she has become more and more adapted to it. Even if the Heavenly Dao does not intervene in the development of events, she still immerses herself in the emotions of her original body from time to time.
What's more, there are people sitting in front of her.
Ao Xinyi's eyes showed genuine concern for the existence of this body. Bai Shuting was also nice to her. Apart from Bai Songxu, the eldest and third brothers were even more friendly to her.
Especially Bai Mincheng, who said a lot of things to her that were not said in the original book.
She shouldn't be affected by her original body's emotions.
Bai Qingqing quickly pulled her thoughts back to the fact that she had traveled through time and space in a book.
Consider the plot development of these characters in the book.
[…If the general direction does not change, Bai Mu Ning should still return to the Jiang family around the time of the college entrance examination. It all depends on how the heaven arranges things for her.]
Bai Qingqing frowned, tapping lightly on the armrests of the chairs with her fingertips. She didn't notice that the few people who skipped the topic of the birthday party and picked up their teacups to drink tea raised their heads again.
[The second brother will not appear at this time. His appearance and accident will be in the later stage. Next... Bai Siqi will appear first.]
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