Black-bellied vs. Black-bellied: Ultimate ShowdownCh3 - Green Jade Buddha Beads

Chapter 003: Green Jade Buddha Beads

Jiang Ying hesitated for a moment before she said, “After you disappeared that day, someone brought a message to your dad, saying that if he wanted you back safe, he had to cancel all his activities for the next day. Your dad originally had an important private placement fund-raising meeting to be held the next day. He didn’t dare risk your safety. The evening of the incident, he urgently canceled all meetings. We mobilized almost all resources to find you that night but we came up empty-handed. That was until five in the afternoon the next day. The police notified us that a citizen had called the police and claimed to have found you in an abandoned plastic cement factory in the northern suburbs of the city.” RtZaVs

Qi Yu asked, “Was it that uncle?”

Jiang Ying nodded. “The kidnappers ran into him while he was shopping outside. He heard them talking on the phone and found it suspicious. He followed those people to the plastic cement factory. At the same time, he called the police. However, by the time we got there, the people who kidnapped you had already ran away. Later, it was that person who carried you out of there and got you into the ambulance.”

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The only thing Qi Yu remembered aside from that broken factory building, was this portion of the incident. However, it might have been the after-effects of the knockout drugs, or it may be that too much time has passed, he couldn’t remember that uncle’s appearance. He only remembered that the other party wore a string of Buddha beads around his wrist.

The color of those beads was like the dark green of the glazed porcelain bowl in his grandmother’s house. There was a warm luster on its surface. It was worn with a dark red string, very similar to the string he saw around Fu Yansheng’s wrist today… DyfxdJ

Qi Yu came back to his senses and asked, “Were those kidnappers ever caught?”

Jiang Ying regretfully shook her head. “Actually, half an hour after that person called the police, your father also received your location information. Their goal had been achieved and they didn’t want this matter to get even bigger. So, they ran away before the police arrived. However, I heard from the police that when the kidnappers came out, they found that person tailing them. The two sides had a confrontation, and that person was slightly injured…”

Qi Yu’s heart tightened. “Were his injuries serious?”

Jiang Ying: “Fortunately, it wasn’t. Something had been smashed against head. He bled a little, and a wound had been cut on his arm. Later, he went to the hospital together with you for an examination. Fortunately, they were all just surface wounds.”

Qi Yu breathed a sigh of relief. “How is that uncle now? Do we still have contact with him?”

Jiang Ying: “After the incident, your dad had planned to thank him with a hundred thousand yuan in cash, but he didn’t wait it. He also told us that it was good enough for him that the child was safe.”

Qi Yu was stunned. “He didn’t want it?”

“Well, at first, your dad though he might have been turning his nose up at this bit of money and he had his background checked. It turned out that he was just a normal middle school math teacher…” Jiang Ying smiled, and then said, “Your dad, sent a “Jian Yi Yong Wei” pennant to his school. For the first two years after, he often sent him gifts. Later, when your dad went to the United States, he and I became busy with work, and we gradually lost contact with him. Back then, we also left him our contact information. We told him not to hesitate to call us if he ever needed anything. But even after so many years, he has never asked us for help.” heMUTa

Qi Yu sighed in his heart. He supposed that nowadays such a good person would probably be hard to find even with a lighted lantern.

Jiang Ying raised her head to look at her son who was now a good deal taller than herself. She said, “Mom and dad didn’t tell you the inside story before only because we were afraid it would stress you out. Now that you’re all grown up, mom won’t hide it from you any longer. However, now that you’ve heard it, don’t think too much about it. It’s all in the past.”

“En, I know.” Qi Yu set down the glass.

With the passing of time, his memory too had faded. If he hadn’t seen the jade beads on Fu Yansheng’s wrist today, he wouldn’t have remembered and asked. JQFa0R

However, since that incident, he seemed to have unconsciously paid more attention to Buddha beads around people’s wrists.

Unfortunately, afterwards, of the people he met, if they weren’t monks, they were his dad’s oily-mouthed, smooth-talking business friends—And also, the ones they wore were those kinds of big beads, held together with very thick string. They were mostly worn for financial luck or warding off evil spirits. They looked very tacky.

Today, Fu Yansheng actually wore those jade Buddha beads with a sense of elegance.

He went upstairs to wash up. Qi Yu fumbled in his trousers pocket and took out the business card that Fu Yansheng had given him. Mvgw2n

He look at it. His first thought was to throw it away. His hand moved towards the trash can. After a pause, he opened an infrequently used drawer under the writing desk and stuffed the small piece of paper in it.

They shouldn’t have any contact anymore…

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Because for this kind of experience, once was enough.

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Qi Yu originally planned to stay in Haicheng for two weeks, but now that his brother’s matter had been resolved, he had no reason to stay. He asked Xu Jing to buy him a return ticket on an earlier flight.

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Qi Yu deliberately incited disharmony between them, once again splashing vinegar across his young brother’s face. He laughed delightedly.

Before parting, he suddenly remembered that there was another important thing that he hadn’t explained. He shouted for Qi Feng to stop and told him, “Hey, you have a boyfriend now, so don’t go enticing those orioles and swallows anymore, alright?” qvlD T

Qi Feng argued, dissatisfied, “When did I ever entice any orioles or swallows!?”

Ling Ke looked at him askance…

Qi Yu raised his eyebrows. “Let’s say that you’ve never enticed them, but with your flirtatious physique, it’s kind of unavoidable, right?”

Qi Feng was left speechless. His older brother spoke as though he himself didn’t have the same physique… rTA4O0

Qi Yu said again, “Don’t be like before when just kept adding those messy people who fooled around with you on QQ and WeChat. You’ve got to learn to coldly refuse.”

“Like I wasn’t sharing an account with you in the first place. Did I add those people to ask for trouble?” Qi Feng rolled his eyes and waved to shoo him away, “Hurry and go. When did you become such a mother-in-law?”

After seeing his brother go through the security check, Qi Feng heaved a sigh of relief. “Finally, I’ve managed to send off this living Buddha.”

Ling Ke smiled. “I think you were quite happy to have your brother here.” F7S4aL

“Happy, my ass. That bastard ruins things for me. Good riddance!” Qi Feng picked up his phone and, in a your-lips-say-one-thing-but-your-body-language-reveals-what-you-really-think manner, sent his brother a “Have a safe trip.”.

As a result, as soon as he’d sent the message, he saw a red dot on the “new friend” icon.

Friend application message –“I am Fu Yansheng.”

……who? iN A3e

Qi Feng had no impression of this name. He ignored it without another thought.

The two hurried back to school and happily made it in time for dinner at the third cafeteria. After eating and drinking their fill, they were finally back at the dormitory. Qi Feng took out his mobile phone and found that a red dot had once again appeared on the “new friend” icon.

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He clicked it open and it was the same person as before, but the application message had changed.

——”Qi Feng?” BHCLKr

Huh? This person knows me?

Qi Feng curiously clicked opened the other’s profile picture. It was a magnifying glass facing the XY axis.

Mathematics department?

There was even a little blue person as his gender icon. 2akxP6

He thought for a long time but he couldn’t remember any male student surnamed Fu who was studying mathematics in their university. He ignored it again.

Two days later at noon, Qi Feng received a call from a stranger.

“Are you Qi Feng?” A clear male voice came from the other end of the phone.

At that time, Qi Feng had just finished a “Introduction to Literature” class. A group of students were pushing and shoving their way out of the classroom. While Qi Feng was chatting and laughing with Ling Ke, he replied, “Ah, I am. Who are you?” qnOsP8

The man said, “I am Fu Yansheng.”

Qi Feng was taken aback. The one who added him twice on WeChat?

Hearing that the other party’s voice was quite serious, Qi Feng said politely, “I’m sorry, I don’t seem to have any impression of you. Could you introduce yourself?”

There was a moment of silence over at the other end. He said, “We met before at Feng Mao Building’s Skyline Bar.” HLJKA1

“…Huh?” Qi Feng’s mind was filled with question marks. “I haven’t been to any bar.”

This time, the other was silent for a lot longer…

Qi Feng brought the phone closer to his ear, and urged impatiently, “Hello?”

“Think hard,” the man seemed to be afraid that Qi Feng couldn’t hear clearly. He emphasized each word, “At the bar, you let me kiss you…” j8gpUN

Qi Feng hurriedly pled his innocence. “No, hey, dude, when did I let you kiss me? Did you make a mistake?”

Beside him, a light flashed in Ling Ke’s eyes. He looked at Qi Feng from out the corner of his eye…

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“You…” The other party still wanted to say something.

toot—— U8CbrI

Qi Feng hung up the phone, cursed “lunatic” at his screen. He then decisively blocked this number.

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It took Qi Yu more than ten hours to fly back to Newtown. When he got home, Qi Yuan Cheng asked him, “How’s your brother?”

“He’s pretty good.” Qi Yu didn’t expect his father to be so caring about his younger brother. 7Lu YU

“What does ‘pretty good’ mean?” Qi Yuan Cheng asked anxiously, “What’s the background of this ‘friend’ he’s found. Have you checked?”

“I checked.” Qi Yu briefly introduced Ling Ke’s background. “That boy with him is doing well in school. He can play the piano like Xiao Feng. I heard that he and Xiao Feng already met when they went to the piano exam together when they graduated from primary school.”

Qi Yuancheng’s complexion changed drastically. “So young and…”

“No,” Qi Yu hurriedly interrupted his dad’s weird presumptions, “They only met once. Then, they were admitted to the same university and became classmates before they reconnected.” Z6hnd

Qi Yuan Cheng said with a dark expression on his face, “Who can he not have if he wanted to date? I remember that girl from the Xu family used to go looking for your brother to play with. It was called a bamboo something? That’s not bad. Why’d he have to go looking for a man? ?”

Qi Yu was speechless. It was probably no use to explain to his dad, this man who was straight as steel, about matters regarding sexual orientation.

He handed his clothes and luggage to Anne, the housekeeper, and said, “What’s wrong with a man? It’s better than knocking up some girl and leaving you to wipe his ass.”

Qi Yuancheng said angrily, “Watch your mouth!” 9l2b1W

Qi Yu knew that his father was only threatening in manner but was actually cowardly at heart. He said bluntly,  “I’m just telling the truth. Compared with Meng Wenhui, Xiao Feng is much better.”

Meng Wenhui was the son of a business partner of his father’s. He was also in the United States, and could be considered as Qi Yu’s peer.

Before middle school, Qi Yu often played with him because of the relationship between their two families. But as they got older, Meng Wenhui’s private life became more and more chaotic. Relying on his family’s wealth, he got into all kinds of trouble.

At that time, Xu Jing, who had just graduated from a prestigious Ivy League school, came to Qi Yuancheng’s side and led Qi Yu down another path. hk38dq

As time passed, the two grew apart.

Last year, he applied for Stafford, and Meng Wenhui relied on Uncle Meng to buy his way into a third-rate school. But as before, he still continued to indulge in sensual pleasures and refused to attend to his responsibilities.

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Not long ago, he’d heard that that brat had knocked up nightclub hostess. The girl went to the Meng family to demand compensation. It infuriated Uncle Meng into nearly getting a heart attack.

Qi Yuancheng obviously knew about this too, but how could he be so easily persuaded? After holding back for a while, he asked, “What did your mother say?” ESYlzg

Qi Yu: “Mom has already accepted it and she really likes that boy.”

Qi Yuancheng scowled and muttered, “She doesn’t even care about it. It’s really inappropriate…”

His dad scolding his younger brother was one thing but blaming this on his mom was something Qi Yu couldn’t stand. He raised his head and said, “Dad, this is the first time I’ve seen Xiao Feng so happy since you and mom divorced.”

This sentence successfully managed to silence Qi Yuancheng. Their broken marriage was his original sin, and the long-term estrangement with Xiao Feng was also an unspeakable pain in his heart. Knowing that he wasn’t qualified to judge anything, he sighed, worried and indignant. 0Q4g3V

The next day, Qi Yu had to fly back to school. As he was saying goodbye to his father, Qi Yuancheng mentioned this matter again.

“Qi Yu, about Xiao Feng’s matter, it’s not that dad is being unfair and unreasonable. After all, it isn’t something that is widely accepted by society. Dad is only worried about him… But for so many years, I have not been by his side, and I have not fulfilled my duty to educate and guide him. I really do have qualms about that.” Qi Yuancheng looked at Qi Yu and said, all earnest words and sincere wishes, “However, you are different from your brother. You have more responsibilities than Xiao Feng. The people that Dad will bring to come in contact with you are all respectable figures in society.  Your every word and deed must be more cautious and self-restrained than Xiao Feng. Do you understand?

Qi Yu narrowed his eyes slightly and said calmly, “I know.”

Qi Yuancheng finally showed a hint of relief on his face: “By the way, if you’ve got no plans for summer vacation this year, come back earlier. I think it is time to arrange for you to join the company and get in some experience.” XacBf

Qi Yu: “Okay.”

The author has something to say: [Little Theater]

(one)

Fu Yansheng: You asked me to kiss you at the bar. SF6lm0

Qi Feng: I did not! Don’t talk nonsense!

Ling Ke: →_→

Qi Feng: It’s not me, it’s really not me. I didn’t do anything. Ke Ke, you’ve got to believe me! QAQ

In order to prove his innocence, he scolded Fu Yansheng: “You’re a lunatic!” eNYZyu

Fu Yansheng: “You…” orz, seducing and running, you just wait for me you little minx!! (* ￣︿￣)

Qi Yu: It’s exciting to tease and run! &lt(￣︶￣)&gt

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(two) T2ioRZ

Qi Yuancheng, all sincere words and earnest wishes: Qi Yu, I raised you in the palm of my hands. You can’t be the same as your brother!

Qi Yu: I know.

Years later–

Qi Yu: I’m sorry, dad, I’m also bent. zOm CY

Qi Yuancheng: Son, you can’t do this to your old man. QAQ