Chapter 124
“Ouch—”
Qiu Zijie turned around and saw a husky pounced on the armrest and licked his face.
"Xiao Hu?"
"You are Xiaoha, and its name is Shiqi." Fu Yu changed its name after knowing that Xiaoha had left. "This is the first time you meet, but it feels like you have met many times before."
Qiu Zijie hugged its neck and stroked it, straightened his glasses that were crooked by licking, and said, "This is not the first time I have met it. Every time I enter your cloakroom and look in the mirror, I am meeting it. We have used our bodies together. I feel particularly close to it, and it should feel the same way."
The Husky licked very vigorously, shaking its head and tail and burrowing into Qiu Zijie's arms, calling out happily with each sound of "wool".
"How is it doing lately?" Qiu Zijie hugged the big dog and rubbed its head.
"Not bad," Fu Yu said, "the other three are all fine, they can eat and drink, run and jump."
"Yeah," Qiu Zijie was relieved.
Fu Yu drove him home.
Qiu Zijie asked, "How did you know I was going back in the morning? Did you monitor my phone calls?"
Even if Fu Yu confessed that he liked him, it could not erase his sinister character.
"Not really," Fu Yu said while driving, "Your phone is leaking."
So that's how it is, Qiu Zijie thought to himself.
Xinghewan Community is located in the northern part of the city. It takes about 40 minutes to get from Qingyun High School to the residential area, and that is when there is no traffic jam or red lights. But today, there are red lights at every intersection.
Qiu Zijie was not in a hurry, and Fu Yu was not impatient at all. They drove at a steady speed of 40 to 50 miles per hour.
The forty-minute journey stretched to an hour and a half.
"Second brother, drop me off at the intersection ahead," Qiu Zijie said.
"Awoo, awoo, awoo, awoo~~~" As if the Husky understood what Qiu Zijie said, it began to howl, and stretched out its claws to pull Qiu Zijie's arm, "Woo~Awoo~~"
Fu Yu: "It doesn't want you to leave."
Qiu Zijie understood: "So you brought it out half to take it out, and half to play the emotional card."
"The key is you. Do you think it will be useful?" Fu Yu found a place to pull over and looked at Qiu Zijie sideways.
"Awoo, awoo, awoo—" the Husky kept barking.
Fu Yu continued: "Let's take it for a walk together next time?"
Husky: “Awoo——”
Qiu Zijie had to agree: "Okay."
"Why don't you let me take you in?" On the day the college entrance examination ended, Fu Yu also took Qiu Zijie in. He took Qiu Zijie into the community and parked the car under the building. "Is it inconvenient?"
"My parents are at home," Qiu Zijie said truthfully, "They have strict discipline. If a strange man they don't know sends me back, I might be interrogated for three days and three nights. I don't think it's necessary to cause myself such trouble."
"I understand." Fu Yu reached out his hand and pushed aside some of Qiu Zijie's hair that was blocking his eyes. "If you have any trouble, feel free to contact me."
"Thank you," said Qiu Zijie.
*
As soon as he entered the house, his mother Zheng Ning and his father Qiu Wenbai were waiting for him in the living room.
"Dad, Mom," Qiu Zijie greeted.
"Sit down," Zheng Ning gestured to the chair opposite them.
Qiu Wenbo held a cup of tea, his face serious, and asked: "Why didn't you go home after the college entrance examination? What did you do?"
"I'm about to graduate, and I'm nostalgic for this school, so I want to stay for two more days," Qiu Zijie said what he was thinking. He also talked about going to bookstores and boxing clubs to watch performances with his classmates. He spoke neither humbly nor arrogantly, and looked directly at his serious parents.
Since he was in the third grade of elementary school, when his parents installed surveillance cameras in his room, he knew that his parents had a strong desire for control.
They wouldn't allow him to rank lower than the top three in his grade.
They didn't allow him to have too many close friends so as not to interfere with his studies.
They don't allow him to travel during holidays because he has to attend various tutoring classes.
.....
Everything about it disgusted him.
When he was most rebellious, he smashed and threw the surveillance camera, but it didn't help, so he learned his lesson. He studied hard under the supervision of his parents and was the top student in the grade every semester. No matter whether he was in elementary school, junior high school, or high school... he was always an excellent student at the top of the school. He wanted to use the high pressure given by his parents to create an excellent self and escape the cage.
As the saying goes, once your wings are strong enough, you can fly.
"After leaving the club last night, my classmates and I went to a restaurant for dinner, and then returned to school..." Qiu Zijie said calmly.
"That kind of club is not a place for a student like you to go. Don't do it again," Zheng Ning said.
"Oh," Qiu Zijie responded calmly.
Zheng Ning was obviously dissatisfied with his attitude, just like he had a strong opinion about a naughty student: "What attitude?"
Qiu Zijie repeated: "I know, there won't be a next time."
Zheng Ning asked about his performance in the college entrance examination. She had only one request for her son from the beginning to the end, which was to go to the top university in the country, which was also the school she and his father attended, to choose medicine as his major, and to continue studying under their noses and follow the path they had arranged for him.
After nearly two hours of PUA and ideological education from his parents, Qiu Zijie was finally able to return to his room.
His laptop was at school and he had nothing to do, so he sat at his desk for a while and picked up a book from the bookshelf to read.
The phone vibrated.
There is information.
Fu Yu sent a link.
Just as he was about to check, his father Qiu Wenbo knocked on the door and came in directly, saying, "Don't go out in the afternoon, just stay at home. Our whole family will have dinner with Uncle Lin's family in the evening."
"Is it Uncle Lin Zhiguo?" Qiu Zijie asked.
"It's him," Qiu Wenbo deliberately added, "his daughter will come too."
Qiu Zijie nodded.
Lin Zhiguo, one of his father's friends, is a renowned expert in the field of biotechnology with a solid academic background. He is respected as a teacher or professor wherever he goes.
He had heard his parents mention the idea of having dinner together, but they were usually too busy to get together, and whenever they mentioned Uncle Lin, they would mention his daughter.
Qiu Zijie understood.
My parents want to arrange his future marriage.
Qiu Zijie temporarily returned his attention to the text message: [Virus?]
Out of caution as a hacker, he would not click on unknown links.
Fu Yu: [A small game to kill time with you.]
The man sat on a bench under the shade of a tree in the park they had visited before, his elbow resting on the back of the chair, his right hand leisurely holding up his phone, typing slowly: [Don’t believe it?]
Qiu Zijie: [Believe.]
Even if your phone is infected with a virus, it is better than staying at home with your hands and feet tied and the air depressing.
He clicked it.
This is a two-player intelligence game, similar to stickman, but the background design is simpler, and at first glance you might think it's just a stick figure. There are two choices for characters, one is a puppy, and the other is a cartoon Q version character.
Qiu Zijie chose a puppy and Fu Yu chose a Q version character.
The man and the puppy moved forward together. On the way, there were chew sticks and canned meat as nutritional supplements. After eating the nutritious meals, the puppy and the Q-version character would grow a little bigger. Fu Yu left most of the nutrients on the road to Qiu Zijie. When they reached the first level, Qiu Zijie had grown up to be a Husky.
Qiu Zijie smiled. Isn’t this just the little game he and Fu Yu played?
The levels along the way are various IQ questions involving mathematics, chemistry, physics... The levels are very interesting.
The last level is a maze.
Qiu Zijie found the corresponding coordinate points according to the hints given, and Fu Yu assisted him in pushing open the stone door of the maze and going down step by step.
Finally, they came to the exit of the maze.
Outside the exit is a clear sky, and beneath the sky is a field of flowers that stretches as far as the eye can see. Small flowers of various colors sway gently in the breeze.
At this time, a big box fell from the sky. The Q-version character turned around on the spot, stretched out his hands to catch the falling box, and then delivered the gift to Qiu Zijie.
When the box approached the chubby Husky, the word "open" appeared on the page.
He clicked the icon, and the box door opened, revealing clothes, pants, and hats hanging inside...
It is Fu Yu’s cloakroom.
Qiu Zijie leaned against the head of the bed and laughed softly.
The page switches to a text message: [Is this a small game you made yourself?]
Fu Yu: [This is a little game I made for you.]
Qiu Zijie: [Thank you, second brother.]
.....
Around six o'clock in the evening, Zheng Ning knocked on the door to remind him to get ready to go out.
Qiu Zijie put his cell phone in his pocket, then changed into a T-shirt that was so old it looked pale, and walked out of the room.
"Why are you wearing this? When you were discharged from the hospital, your father and I bought you a lot of new clothes. Why don't you change into new ones?" Zheng Ning was dissatisfied, with a stern look in his eyes.
All is fair in war, Qiu Zijie lied: "I took them all to school."
Qiu Wenbo looked at the time and said, "Forget it. Personal ability is important. Appearance is secondary. Let's go quickly. The hotel we booked is a bit far away."
Zheng Ning glared at Qiu Zijie and went out first.
Qiu Zijie and his parents had nothing in common. After getting in the car, he started playing with his mobile phone. There were occasional traffic jams on the road and they encountered red lights several times, but because they left home early, they arrived at the hotel earlier than the Lin family.
Zheng Ning smoothed the wrinkles on her skirt and sat in the pull-out chair. Before the Lin family came, she had a few words to warn her son: "Zijie."
Qiu Zijie put down his phone and prepared to listen.
Zheng Ning said: "Don't think that you can sit back and relax after the college entrance examination. College is also a crucial stage in life, especially for medical majors. You need to master a lot of theoretical knowledge and practical skills. You should focus on medical research and not waste your precious time on people and things that are not worth it."
"For example?" Qiu Zijie asked.
"For example, joining clubs that are not helpful to your major, making friends who only know how to have fun, and dating someone who is not compatible with you are all a waste of time."
"Oh," lukewarm.
"Especially at your age, it's the stage when girls are curious and excited about love, etc..."
"No," Qiu Zijie refuted Zheng Ning's words, "Let me correct you, I have never been curious about girls nor have I ever been excited about them."
Zheng Ning choked, a hint of anger in his eyes: "Anyway, when you go to college and meet more people, you will inevitably think about having a girlfriend and falling in love, but I tell you, only Uncle Lin's daughter is suitable for you, and I don't like anyone else. So before you go to college, I warn you that you don't have to spend time on this aspect, just study hard for me."
"I will study hard," Qiu Zijie agreed to this, but it was hard to say about the rest.
Seven or eight minutes later, Lin Zhiguo and his family also arrived at the hotel.
After greeting the elders of the Lin family, Qiu Zijie ate by himself. The parents of the two families either talked about academic research or their children's education.
"Dad, Mom, uncle and aunt, you guys eat, I'm going to the bathroom," Qiu Zijie put down his chopsticks and stood up.
"I'll go too," Lin Siyun wiped his mouth with a napkin and ran out.
She chased Qiu Zijie to the hotel's lounge area.
"I knew you came out because you felt bored, not because you wanted to go to the bathroom," Lin Siyun sat down in the leather chair next to Qiu Zijie. Seeing that Qiu Zijie didn't respond, she pushed his shoulder with her finger and said, "What do you mean?"
"What do you mean?" Qiu Zijie asked back.
"What do you mean?" They were not particularly familiar with each other, but they would see each other every year when visiting relatives. Lin Siyun had also liked Qiu Zijie for a long time. Although she had been rejected before, what she couldn't get was always the best. She still thought about him in her heart. "Isn't it obvious what the parents of the two families wanted? They came out to eat, met, and then either praised you or me. They just wanted us to be together after graduation from college."
"I don't want to, I've never liked you, you're not my type," three rejections in one go.
“........”
The girl couldn't hold back her pride and said, "Why are you like this?"
"I'm sorry, that's just my personality."
"I have good grades and I'm top of my grade in high school. I'm not bad looking either, so why wouldn't we be a good match? There are a lot of people who like me, but it's because of you that I've never agreed to a date with anyone!"
"Do you like being arranged by your parents?" Qiu Zijie asked.
"Of course I don't like it," Lin Siyun is not a person without his own opinion. "I am willing to come to dinner with my parents because of you. If it weren't for you, I would never come even if I were beaten to death."
"According to normal procedures, if someone is beaten to death, they will hold a funeral. You don't need to come. I will attend."
"............"
Lin Siyun stomped her feet in anger.
Originally, Qiu Zijie wanted to wait until he submitted his college application and was admitted to a foreign university before leaving the country. By then, the matter would be done and he wouldn't need to inform his parents. Zheng Ning and Qiu Wenbai would know what was going on and it would be too late to intervene.
But now, there is a girl who is obsessed with him, and if he doesn't explain it clearly, he would be wasting her time.
After thinking about it, Qiu Zijie told her frankly that he would not go to university in China, and his future life would not be controlled by his parents, so his choice of spouse would not be what they wished. Therefore, Lin Siyun was definitely not in his consideration. If she insisted on him and waited for him, it would be a waste of her youth.
After hearing this, Lin Siyun was very surprised and admired Qiu Zijie's courage very much, but when she thought about it when she got home, she felt very uncomfortable.
The future youth will not be wasted, but aren’t the first two years also wasted?
She threw herself on the bed and cried loudly. Her parents tried to comfort her anxiously. While they were comforting her, they heard that Qiu Zijie was going abroad, so they called Qiu Wenbai and his wife.
The Qiu family was in chaos.
"Okay, you really have grown up and can fly on your own, but you still want to go abroad? Dream on!" Qiu Wenbo was furious. "Do you think studying abroad is as simple as buying a plane ticket? Do you have the money? Have you prepared the application materials?"
"Yes," Qiu Zijie adjusted his glasses, "I earned the money myself, and I also got the necessary documents."
"What?" Qiu Wenbai was stunned.
Zheng Ning turned to the study, took down the mural, and opened the safe embedded in the wall. He was so angry that his lips trembled. He picked up a feather duster and rushed to the living room, completely losing his usual dignified and decent manners: "Dad, our household registration book is not in the safe."
"I took it," Qiu Zijie said after taking a sip of water to moisten his throat, "I need it to apply for a passport."
Zheng Ning raised the feather duster to hit him, but Qiu Zijie ran around the sofa very quickly.
Qiu Wenbo rushed into his son's room. Before he could start looking, his son said from outside: "Don't look for it. My laptop is not in the room. It's at school."
"Okay, I'll go to your school tomorrow, find your laptop and smash it. I want to see how you can apply to foreign universities!"
Qiu Zijie dodged left and right, dodged the feather duster again and jumped onto the sofa. He jumped over the back of the sofa and said, "I can ask my classmates to help me apply even if I don't have a laptop. I have backed up all the information on my phone."
"Then confiscate your phone!"
Qiu Zijie was calm and composed: "It's useless. I can just find a computer to hack into my phone and get the data back."
"Hack into a cell phone? Do you have that ability?" Zheng Ning didn't quite believe it.
"Well," Qiu Zijie added fuel to the fire as his parents' blood rushed to their heads, "I even had to hack into your phones. After all, knowing yourself and your enemy is the key to success."
Zheng Ning was startled: "Stop bluffing!"
Qiu Zijie said, "Mom, you bought that massager online last month. I've read the chat records with the customer service. You think Dad is too rigid in that aspect, but you don't want to say it for the sake of face. Dad looks serious, but there are a lot of small videos on his phone. He probably thinks you are a bit tasteless. Both of you are not open enough, so on the surface, your life is good, but in fact, you are not compatible."
"......." The couple's faces turned red, and they shouted in unison, "Get out of here!!!"
"Okay."
Qiu Zijie returned to school overnight.
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