"Let's fight! Let's fight!" Luo Yan listened intently to Xiang Yu and Tang Guizhi's verbal sparring with her eyes closed, but couldn't help but think to herself, "Sure enough, Xiang Yu isn't Shen Suyin's biological daughter. Since no one knows they're cousins, should I tell them?"
Just then, Luo Yan was patted on the shoulder by Xiang Yu, who said, "Get up, wash up, and then go back to sleep."
She hadn't washed up since yesterday, and she was indeed quite dirty. Luo Yan rubbed her eyes, sat up, and looked at Xiang Yu with a tuft of hair sticking up on her head.
Xiang Yu frowned, took out an unworn vest from her suitcase and tossed it to Luo Yan, instructing Tang Guizhi, "Take her to wash it clean."
After washing up, Tang Guizhi could only pick up the basin again and lead Luo Yan to the bathhouse.
Luo Yan didn't need Tang Guizhi's help. She brushed her teeth and took a shower by herself. After washing and drying herself, she picked up the vest Xiang Yu had given her and put it on as pajamas. Outside the bathhouse, she unexpectedly encountered Ni Guanying talking to Tang Guizhi.
"I heard you were back, so I wanted to come and see you..."
Ni Guanying and Tang Guizhi stood facing each other, looking around furtively. Once they were sure no one was around, Ni Guanying reached out his little finger and hooked it with Tang Guizhi's little finger.
The two middle-aged people were acting like an inexperienced young man and a shy young girl, pulling and tugging at each other.
"Uncle, Auntie?"
Luo Yan leaned closer, her big eyes fixed on the two people's intertwined fingers, as if to say, "What are you doing?"
Tang Guizhi shook off Ni Guanying and pulled Luo Yan away.
"Guizhi, what's Yanyan doing here with you?"
Tang Guizhi stopped in surprise and turned to look at Ni Guanying, "You know Yan Yan?"
Ni Guanying laughed and said, "We met on the plane. The little girl is very resourceful. She sneaked onto the plane by herself. I had to take care of her until we got off the plane and waited for her father's comrade to pick her up."
Tang Guizhi looked down and asked Luo Yan, "Why did you run away by yourself?"
Luo Yan tilted her head back, her big eyes blinking, her expression stubborn.
Ni Guanying said, "I heard from her father's comrade-in-arms that her father had something to do at home, so he sent the little girl to Beijing by plane by herself and asked his comrade-in-arms to pick her up at the airport and take her to her grandparents' house."
As a result, just because she disobeyed and ran around, her father's comrade-in-arms said a few words to her, and she, in a fit of pique, sneaked onto the plane and then came back.
At this point, Ni Guanying couldn't help but laugh out loud.
"Her father's comrade-in-arms is quite capable. He knew she was on a plane, so he took the next flight to come over. Who knew that this girl had run away again, but it turns out she was here with you."
Tang Guizhi laughed when she heard this, "If you can get in touch with her father's comrade-in-arms, please let him know, so I don't have to make a trip to see her off tomorrow."
Ni Guanying agreed, and then discussed it with Tang Guizhi, saying, "I'll treat you to a movie; I've already bought the tickets."
As he spoke, Ni Guanying showed the movie ticket in his hand.
"Wait a minute..." Tang Guizhi didn't refuse and hurriedly led Luo Yan back to 208.
Tang Guizhi told Xiang Yu what Ni Guanying had told her, and then said she wanted to go out and watch a movie with Ni Guanying.
“Go ahead,” Xiang Yu said, without objection.
Tang Guizhi went inside and changed into a dress. Her hair was braided into two pigtails and draped over her shoulders. Although she didn't look particularly eye-catching, she had a unique charm.
"What kind of person is Ni Guanying?" Xiang Yu suddenly asked.
“He’s a very honest man. He hasn’t remarried since his wife died, and I’m satisfied with him.”
Tang Guizhi spoke very frankly, without the slightest bit of shyness she showed when facing Ni Guanying.
Xiang Yu seemed to be deep in thought when Tang Guizhi opened the door and left.
After watching TV for a while, Xiang Yu went out to wash up and then dragged Luo Yan back to their room to sleep.
There were two beds in the room, one for Xiang Yu and one for Luo Yan. When Tang Guizhi returned, she tiptoed onto Luo Yan's bed.
Tang Guizhi was very happy all night. She fell asleep quickly after lying down. In her dream, she was chasing and running with Ni Guanying. Suddenly, she felt very suffocated and wanted to struggle, but her body could not move.
The fear of impending death made Tang Guizhi suddenly open her eyes...
In the pitch black, Tang Guizhi clearly felt her face being covered by a pillow. An irresistible force pressed down on both her and the pillow, and her legs, trapped under the thin blanket, felt as if they were bound by ropes, making it impossible for her to call for help.
Gradually, Tang Guizhi stopped struggling and collapsed onto the bed like a dead fish, her limbs limp.
Luo Yan removed the pillow covering Tang Guizhi's face, reached out to check her breathing, and found she was still breathing.
Luo Yan put down her pillow and went back to sleep, while Xiang Yu in the next bed was fast asleep, completely unaware of what was happening.
The next morning, Tang Guizhi suddenly took a deep breath and sat up abruptly in bed, her movement startling Xiang Yu, who had just gotten up.
Tang Guizhi turned her head and saw Xiang Yu. Her anger at having escaped death made her speak recklessly.
"Xiang Yu, you want to kill me? Just because Madam gave me a bra, you want to kill me? Are you insane?"
Xiang Yu was scolded by Tang Guizhi early in the morning, and his face darkened.
"Tang Guizhi, what's wrong with you? Why would I want to kill you?"
"Because you were afraid that your wife would take a liking to me and give me all the family property, and your decades of scheming would come to nothing. I never thought that I would do my best to help you, and you would kill me over such a trivial matter."
"Shut up!"
The room was poorly soundproofed, so Xiang Yu stopped Tang Guizhi to avoid causing trouble.
"What, feeling guilty? Ha, if you dare to do it, why can't I say it?"
Tang Guizhi angrily rebuked him, and Xiang Yu lowered his voice to warn Tang Guizhi.
“I never intended to kill you, but if you keep shouting and yelling and outsiders hear you, we'll both be in deep trouble.”
Tang Guizhi suddenly woke up, clutching her neck as she recalled the previous night, a strong feeling of suffocation washing over her.
"But last night someone really tried to smother me with a pillow."
There were only the two of them and Luo Yan in the room. Although Luo Yan was the most suspicious, she was only a three-year-old toddler and couldn't possibly have that much strength.
Tang Guizhi said in a panic, "I tried to struggle and call for you to save me, but that person was too strong and I couldn't move at all."
Xiang Yu shuffled to the door in her slippers, saw the note tucked in the door, opened the door and went out, only to find the note tucked in the outer room door as well.
Xiang Yu walked back with two slips of paper and showed them to Tang Guizhi.
"You're having a nightmare, aren't you?"
Seeing the note in Xiang Yu's hand, Tang Guizhi was also uncertain.
"But that feeling felt so real."
Xiang Yu was too lazy to pay attention to the crazy Tang Guizhi anymore. She woke up Luo Yan, who was still sleeping, and handed her over to Tang Guizhi. She then went to wash up with a basin.
Luo Yan's clothes were all washed last night. Tang Guizhi went to the water room to get the dried clothes and threw them to Luo Yan, while she herself sat on the edge of the bed in a daze.
Luo Yan got dressed, climbed out of bed, and put on her shoes by herself.
Tang Guizhi saw that Luo Yan couldn't fasten her sandal laces for a long time, so she bent down to help her, but Luo Yan backed away as if she had seen a ghost.
"What are you doing?" Tang Guizhi was particularly sensitive after experiencing life and death.
Luo Yan pointed fearfully at the bed where Xiang Yu had slept, "Strange, very strange."
Could it really have been Xiang Yu who did it last night? Tang Guizhi grabbed Luo Yan and interrogated her.
"What did you see last night? Tell me."
Before he could finish speaking, there was a knock on the door.
Tang Guizhi calmed herself down and opened the door. Ni Guanying, carrying a lunchbox, greeted her with a smile.
"I bought breakfast..."
As he spoke, Ni Guanying placed the lunchbox in Tang Guizhi's hand and added.
"I'm so sorry I couldn't get in touch with Yan Yan's father's comrade-in-arms."
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