Chapter 217
“Hmm.” Ying nodded, “What time did you agree to meet?”
“Let’s see.” Rita took out her phone, scanned the calendar and frowned, “August 23rd, tch, too much trouble, I have to stay in China for another ten days.”
Today was August 7, 16 days before the date she had agreed to with the First Poisoner.
Rita was also confused as to why the First Poisoner had suddenly changed the location of the meeting.
It also happened to be in China.
Originally, they were supposed to meet on this island last night.
But after she finished the competition, the First Poisoner had changed the place and time of the meeting.
“The location?”
“Shanghai City.”
Ying Zigui’s expression paused slightly, “Shanghai City?”
“You’re weird too aren’t you.” Lita spread her hands, “I thought about how a hunter of this level is also in your imperial capital, or living in seclusion in the mountains.”
The ancient martial arts community and the ancient medical community were both located there in the imperial capital.
It’s just that ordinary people can’t find them, and if they do, they can’t get in.
“It’s not impossible, though.” Lita added, “I don’t know if you know, the last seventh on the Gun God list died in Shanghai City, and so far the Hidden Alliance hasn’t found out who did it.”
As the sunlight grew blinding, Ying put his hat back on, “I know.”
“So I thought, could it be that the First Poisoner killed him.” Lita analysed seriously, “You see, only a poisoner can kill someone invisibly and leave no evidence at all.”
Ying Ziji was slightly silent.
She couldn’t refute this.
The seventh in the Gun God Ranking was indeed her killing.
But she hadn’t cleaned up the scene either, there was no evidence, and it should have been Fu Yunshen who had helped her sweep up behind her.
“Anyway, thanks to him, once he died, I even got one spot on the rankings.” Rita ruffled her hair with style, “So I was eighty-eight.”
“Ning Shenhua, I can give it to you.” Ying Ziji pondered for a moment, “But I have one condition.”
“You say, I can meet it for sure.”
“I will follow you to meet this First Poison Master.”
“Yes, no problem.” Lita agreed straight away, “We are the deal, I’ll ask her to treat my father.”
Ying Ziji’s eyes twitched slightly.
“You wait, I have something for you.” Rita waved towards the middle-aged man not far away, “Myron, bring the item.”
The middle-aged man was busy coming forward, and he carried a case.
“This is a gun from my collection.” Rita opened the case, “It works, but it’s not very powerful, as it’s casing is made of gold and diamonds, for looks.”
“You take it as a gift of reconciliation for us.”
Ying did not refuse, and she pointed aside, “These are for you.”
Lita picked up one of the small jars, “What’s this?”
“Whitening mask.”
Four words that made Lita take it decisively, she whistled and smiled, “Oriental beauty, sometime, I’ll invite you to our place for macaroni.”
She waved her hand and got on the other plane.
**
Five hours later.
The plane arrived in Shanghai City once again.
It was a very hot and muggy August day, a furnace.
“Let’s go, little friend, see you off.” Fu Yunshen patted her head, “You’ve been tired these past few days too, go home and get a good night’s sleep.”
Yunshan had the good sense not to follow, he left on the pretext that he had to run an errand.
The two of them went back by car.
Halfway there, Ying saw someone selling green bean soup and sour plum soup by the roadside, an old grandmother.
She was sitting on a small bench with two boxes in front of her.
“I’ll go and buy a cup.” Ying turned his head, “Do you drink it?”
She didn’t seem to have seen him drink anything other than health tea.
“Hmm.” Fu Yunshen didn’t refuse this time and stopped the car, “You buy room temperature, your stomach is important.”
Ying Ziji got out of the car and walked to the stall.
She took two cups of green bean soup and was about to scan the code to pay.
The grandmother wiped her hands with a towel and hesitated: “Little girl, do you have any cash?”
Ying Ziji looked up: “Cash?”
Nowadays, money is usually transferred online and few people carry cash.
“It’s not that much.” The grandmother sighed, “Technology is so advanced nowadays, I don’t know anything, and my son helped me with this code.”
She wiped the corners of her eyes, a little embarra*sed: “All the codes have been swept to him, too. I wanted to buy some vegetables today and make a soup for my partner, so I thought I’d ask if you had any cash.”
Ying’s hand lurched, and only then did she see that her partner’s avatar was a middle-aged man.
Obviously it was not the grandmother’s own WeChat account.
Her eyes closed slightly, knowing what was going on.
Seeing her silence, the grandmother was busy saying, “It’s okay if you don’t have one, just transfer the money.”
“Yes, Grandma.” Fu Yunshen walked over at some point and took out a dozen hundred yuan in cash from his wallet and smiled, “You take it.”
“Too much is too much.” The old grandmother had never seen so much money before, she was shocked and busy pushing it away, “Four dollars for a cup of green bean soup, eight will do.”
“You can’t even buy half a chicken for eight yuan.” Fu Yunshen’s eyelashes lifted, “This way, if you think I’m losing money, you can sell me the rest.”
The grandmother was at a loss for words.
Fu Yunshen had already bent down, picked up the bag and started filling it with green bean soup and sour plum soup, his voice faint: “Your son won’t pay you?”
The old grandmother bowed her head and sighed, “He’s also worked hard, he probably forgot, what kind of parents count with their children.”
Ying Ziji watched the two men’s movements and raised her hand to press her heart.
She had always been clear that her body had a major flaw; she had no heart.
This heart did not refer to organs.
It was the heart that allowed one to have emotional fluctuations towards external objects.
She knew what love was and what hate was, and had emotions, but she could not sense them.
She was like a robot when it came to this aspect of emotion.
But at this moment, she seems to be able to feel this earthly warmth.
It seemed that she was slowly recovering.
After buying all the green bean soup and sour plum soup, Fu Yunshen carried the bag, “It’s enough for you to drink for a long time.”
Seeing that the girl kept looking at one place, he tapped his finger on her forehead and laughed lightly, “Yaoyao, what are you staring at?”
“Nothing.” She looked at him and suddenly raised her hand and gave him a hug, “Thank you.”
It was a very normal gesture, not very ambiguous.
It was no different from friends greeting each other and hugging each other.
After all, he had carried and hugged him before.
However, Fu Yunshen’s body tensed up slightly for a moment, but quickly stretched out.
He moved his fingers and raised his peach blossom eyes, “Little friend, is this considered molestation?”
“Not really, at most it’s -” Ying Ziji took a quilt of green bean soup from him, still in a cold and slow tone of voice, “taking advantage of you for a bit.”
“……”
**
There are two types of supplementary cla*ses at Qingzhi High School.
The first kind is the school unified, after the exams to make up a month of summer vacation.
The second is after the unified make-up cla*ses, according to the students’ own opinions, then choose to attend cla*ses or take a vacation.
So after August, the number of people coming to school is much lower.
However, people from the Talented Cla*s came every day.
“Yuexuan, what are you thinking about?” The girl at her table waved her hand in front of her eyes, “Why are you so distracted these days?”
Ying Yuexuan jerked back her thoughts and lowered her eyes, “Nothing, it’s just that I haven’t seen my brother for a long time.”
Although Ying Tianru had not heard her conversation with Zhong Manhua that day, Ying Yuexuan could feel that Ying Tianru’s attitude towards her had changed.
In the past, when she hadn’t left Shanghai to start her own business, she would always send her to school.
Ying Yuexuan was a bit confused.
She then thought that even if Ying Tianru knew that she was not his sister, it would not matter.
After all, Zhong Manhua and Ying Zhenting knew early on and were still very good to her.
“Your brother?” The girl didn’t ask much, she just said casually, “Probably busy with something, don’t take it to heart.”
Ying Yuexuan answered and then started writing her paper.
The girl was still saying, “Yuexuan, you can be completely at ease, although your family adopted Ying Zidian and she is also very good, but you are the one who was born.”
“How can this adopted one be compared to the biological one? She can’t even be considered a turtledove.”
Ying Yuexuan looked up sharply, and for the first time her gentle tone became a little more serious: “Don’t say such things.”
The girl was taken aback and hurriedly changed the subject, “Yuexuan, I heard that Mu Shenzhou is living in your house now, how is it?”
Zhong Zhiyan had brought Mu Shenzhou to Qingzhi a few times, and they had all met.
Indeed, he was a grandson raised by a big family in the imperial capital, and his every move showed the style of a famous family.
“How about what?” Ying Yuexuan didn’t feel much, “Men and women are different, I haven’t had much contact, and I don’t like him.”
The girl was now puzzled: “Why?”
Ying Yuexuan finished writing a paper, “Because he doesn’t like his sister.”
“Ying Zidian?” The girl froze and understood, “I guess Zhong Zhiyan said something in front of him too, ugh, why didn’t I see that she was like that in the first place.”
**
The Wen family.
When Ying arrived at the neighborhood, Fu Yunshen didn’t leave, but walked her upstairs.
She had just reached the door and had only just inserted the key when her eyes suddenly changed.
Wen Fengmian heard the sound of the key being inserted into the bolt and he came over to open the door: “Yao Yao, you’re back.”
Ying Ziyang looked up and swept her eyes around the room, which was only sixty square metres.
There was no sign of Wen Huilan.
Chapter 218
She turned her head and asked, “Dad, where is Xiaolan? Didn’t come back?”
After graduating from senior high school, Wen Xiaolan had a long holiday.
The start date of Norton University is different from that of China, starting in October and ending in February.
There is a two-month break in between, and the second semester starts in May, with a holiday in August.
One year, four months of holidays.
Therefore, Ying Ziyi planned to send Wen Hailan there again at the end of September.
After all, he had never been away before and had never been separated from Wen Fengmian, so he would be very uncomfortable.
She looked back at the events of the past day here and only saw that Wen Huilan had gone out.
“This morning Guiya’s cla*smates came to look for Guiya.” Wen Fengmian nodded, “Said it was a cla*smate’s party and he wouldn’t be back until the evening.”
“I thought about how hard it was for him to regain his mental health, and the doctor also said to be more social, so I let him go.”
Ying Ziji’s eyes deepened, “Where are the cla*smates?”
Ninety percent of the students in Yingcai’s cla*s had gone to the Imperial University, and they were all in the experimental cla*ses.
The remaining ten percent of the students were recruited by major universities abroad.
And the experimental cla*ses at the Imperial University, no matter which faculty they were, always had a primary period.
So at this time, the students who were admitted to the experimental cla*s have already gone to the imperial capital to enroll.
Wen Huilan had only come to this side of Shanghai for a semester, and because of his personality disorder, he had a hard time socializing, so who else did he know besides the students in the talent cla*s?
“It’s also from Yaoyao’s your school, and in your year.” Wen Fengmian thought back for a moment, “Gui Gui gave me that before he left school, he lent his notes to a soph*more.”
“I think his cla*smate returned his notes, I’m not sure about the details.”
This was something that Ying Ziyi knew.
Wen Listen Lan was actually not much of a writer, even his textbooks were blank.
His tool, was his brain.
With a single glance, he could also remember very clearly.
But because the students in the Talented Cla*s were helping him to overcome his mental problems, Wen Listenan also took the time to organise his notes and his understanding of various subjects.
So, this year’s cla*s of Excellence did even better than previous years.
The scores were so horrific that not a single person scored less than 700!
The top 50 in Shanghai were all from Qingzhi’s cla*s.
This had not happened once in the past.
Last month, a few students from cla*s 19 even asked her if they could buy a copy of Wen Hailan’s notes.
“Yaoyao, don’t worry too much.” Wen Fengmian coughed a few times, “They’re all cla*smates, there shouldn’t be any problems.”
Ying Ziyang narrowed her eyes, her eyelashes dropping, “I’ll go to school.”
She turned her head and her voice was cold, “Brother, take care of my father for me, and you absolutely cannot leave until I return.”
Fu Yunshen gave a pause, not because he didn’t want to, but because of the name.
He found that he really shouldn’t have teased the children at first.
In the end, it was he himself who suffered from being called that.
“You go.” Fu Yunshen put down the bag in his hand, “I’ll watch TV with uncle.”
Ying Ziji’s hand pressed on the door for a few more seconds before he left.
Wen Fengmian’s expression also gradually became a few degrees more serious: “Is something wrong?”
Fu Yunshen’s eyes deepened slightly, but he smiled: “There’s nothing wrong, let me accompany you in.”
He and his little friend had known each other for so long, and he had never seen any change in her mood.
It wasn’t indifference, it was as if nothing could affect her.
But just now, he could clearly sense a change in the air pressure in her body.
I was afraid that something had really happened to Wen Xiaolan.
And she had asked him to stay here, it should be that Wen Fengmian’s life would also be in danger.
Fu Yunshen’s eyes narrowed slightly as he remembered a phone call from a week ago.
He inclined his head: “Uncle, has anyone come to the house recently?”
“Quite a lot.” Wen Fengmian said, “Didn’t Guiya not apply for the volunteer program? The Imperial University side has sent several groups of people over.”
When he first found out that Wen Huilan had actually been accepted directly by Norton University, Wen Fengmian didn’t get over it for a good half a day.
It was only a few days later that he finally accepted it.
After all, Norton University was an unattainable god-like existence in the hearts of all the students.
The Imperial University could at least aspire to it, but Norton University only existed in the imagination.
The students of Norton University are just as enigmatic, making them completely impenetrable to the outside world.
After listening, Fu Yunshen’s fingers tapped on the sofa.
Then, he lowered his head and sent a text message.
[Find out what happened at the Zhong family’s side.]
**
Qingzhi Middle School.
The Yingcai and Science Experimental cla*ses had finished all of their high school lessons in the first round of remedial cla*ses.
The ordinary cla*ses were a little slower in their lectures, with Physics still being taught in elective 3-4.
So the second round of remedial cla*ses is to check the gaps and fill them in.
The students do the problems and the teacher lectures uniformly at that time.
Usually there are at most two lectures a day, and the rest of the time is allocated by the students themselves, which is also very relaxed.
When Ying arrived at school, her eyes were closed.
Another episode from the past came to the forefront.
At the bottom of her eyes, there was a frosty coldness condensing little by little.
She went straight to the senior’s building.
After Wen Huilan’s term graduated, her term moved to senior three there.
“Ying Shen!”
Someone called out to her.
Ying Zigui turned her head.
It was a girl.
After seeing her, she waved excitedly and ran over happily, “Ying Shen, it’s been a long time, you’re here to make up for it?”
“No.” Ying Ziji shook her head slightly, “I’m looking for someone.”
This girl, she had an impression.
She was the top student in the science experiment cla*s.
Ran to cla*s 19 several times, coming to ask her questions.
“Oh oh, you go then.” The girl was busy saying, “When you’re not busy anymore, I’ll come back and ask you for advice.”
She said, “If Ying Shen is so lazy, how can he still come to tutor.
Ying Zidian nodded and went upstairs.
At this time, the students in the Talent cla*s were doing a set of mock papers.
It’s from the secondary school affiliated to the Imperial University and it’s not too difficult.
The secondary school affiliated to Teito University and Qingzhi High School are among the three strongest schools in the country and have competed in international Olympiads many times.
Just as they were writing their questions in peace and quiet, the door was suddenly kicked open.
The student at the door was startled, his hand wavered and his pen was thrown in.
The students were displeased to be disturbed unexpectedly.
After they looked up, they couldn’t say anything.
Ying Yuexuan was slightly startled: “Sister?”
She hadn’t seen Ying Zigui for more than a month since she returned.
Why did Ying Zigey suddenly come to Talent Cla*s at this time?
“Sister, we are having an exam.” Ying Yuexuan stood up, “I’ll see you out first, if you need anything, wait for a while, okay?”
Ying Zidian didn’t look at Ying Yuexuan, she walked straight to the second row from the bottom.
There was a boy sitting there, and his eyes flickered a little when he saw the girl coming.
He was busy lowering his head and pretending to be reading a question.
However, the next moment, his collar was yanked up.
With a “bang”, the boy was pinned against the wall.
This scene made the other students in the cla*s widen their eyes.
Ying Yuexuan was even more incredulous.
The last time she had seen Ying Zidian was when she was brought back to the Ying family.
At that time, she didn’t even dare to say anything.
The huge pain in her back made the boy yell out and get furious: “Ying Zidian, what are you doing?”
“You’ve left our cla*s, and you still don’t live in peace?”
Ying Zidian didn’t let go, but increased her force: “Where’s my brother?”
After coming to Shanghai, she had hired bodyguards to protect Wen Fengmian and Wen Huilan.
The reason was to prevent the Ying family from doing anything when she was away or occasionally negligent.
But even with the tighter protection, something had gone wrong.
The boy’s expression froze and there was a moment of panic.
But soon, he calmed down and said coldly and sarcastically, “Are you having a laugh? What does your brother have to do with me? Isn’t your brother all gone to school?”
“Number one in his senior year, top student in the national paper entrance exam, full marks in science, how impressive is that?”
The other students were unsure and a little dazed.
Then they saw that the girl actually had one hand and lifted the boy up.
“I ask you again, where is my brother?”
The students were stunned.
They had all seen how Ying Ziji had kicked Ying Fei Fei into the bin, but they had never seen her like this.
“Sister, stop!” Ying Yuexuan couldn’t care less about being shocked, she was too busy going forward to stop it, “Don’t choke him, say something properly, he’s about to pa*s out.”
These words made the girl finally look sideways, at her.
Ying Yuexuan’s body stopped for a moment and didn’t move anymore.
A girl next to her pulled her and whispered, “Yuexuan, don’t bother, Ying Zigui doesn’t usually lose her temper much, something must have happened.”
“If you care, she will even beat you up.”
Ying Yuexuan’s hand shook, she couldn’t believe it: “She’s like that?”
“Alas, it’s also because some people in the cla*s went too far in the first place.” The girl shook her head, “As the saying goes, even a rabbit bites when it’s anxious.”
Ying Yuexuan pursed her lips.
She probably knew why Zhong Manhua still didn’t like Ying Zidian.
“I’ll go find the teacher.” Ying Yuexuan calmed her emotions, “No matter what, you can’t do anything.”
After saying that, she left the cla*sroom.
The girl wanted to scream, but still didn’t say anything.
“I don’t know if you know there is a punishment.” Ying Ziji’s eyes fell back on the boys, her eyes faint, “First, every bone in a person’s body is cracked, including the little finger.”
“Then chains are put through the lute bone, the spine, and then the ankles.”
“And finally-”
At this point, she paused and actually smiled faintly.