Chapter 325
The lead teachers and professors from each country, as well as the spectators who had been huddled in front of the isc website, quickly refreshed their pages and clicked on the global leaderboard to take a look.
At this glance, everyone went straight to madness.
No.1: username hidden, China, 14,468 points
no.2: Amanda, country M, 8894 points
……
no.5: Xiang Tran, China, 6644 points
When this ranking came out, it instantly shook all the major social media sites around the world.
The top 5 are from China! I’m asking, who else?
[For those of you who said China is no good, do you still have your faces?
D*mn it, a comeback! What do you mean, a comeback? They’ve already been overtaken twice, and they still don’t have the sense to send their faces up for a beating.
Before the lockout, they saw the original number one score on the overall list, which was three thousand points short of Amanda, not even close to the top ten.
But within four hours, it had directly overtaken Amanda by almost six thousand points again.
This proves that this contestant was not only fast in answering questions, but also did not get a single question wrong.
It was a rule in the selection round that the more questions you got right in a row, the higher the multiplier of your score.
This time, more people flocked to the Shark Live platform and came to Chocolate Mousse’s live streaming room to leave their comments.
According to fans’ guesses, this god should be a foodie, or else he wouldn’t have taken such an anchor name.
**
Ying did not go online and did not know that many people were squatting in her live broadcast room.
After she finished the last question at the right time, her phone was confiscated.
She glanced at Fu Yunshen: “Do you really want to be my father?”
It wasn’t that she was lazy this time, she had just been so busy that she didn’t have the time to dedicate to the questions.
It was only after she had finished studying the books on quantum mechanics and cosmic space that Helvin had given her that she had found the time.
It was only unfortunate that it was already the last day, so she specifically told Wen Fengmian that she had something to do today and would be staying out for the night.
Otherwise, Wen Fengmian would have turned off the power mains at ten o’clock again.
But now it didn’t seem to be any different.
Fu Yun Shen nestled in the sofa, lifted his eyes, his lips curved, smiling: “This, don’t really want to, calling brother is enough.”
“I’m excited to do the questions.” But Ying Zidian found himself not feeling sleepy at all, “I don’t want to sleep.”
“I’ll fall asleep after lying in bed.” Fu Yunshen stood up, “Little friend, if you don’t sleep, I’ll really be raising you for nothing, how much nutrition will you lose?”
“No, I don’t want to sleep now.” Ying Ziji leaned back on the bed, after a few seconds, she suddenly turned her head, “You said I can trouble you as much as I want?”
“Hm?” Fu Yunshen raised his eyebrows, “You finally thought of your brother this time?”
“Then tell me a bedtime story, not a fairy tale.” Ying Ziji paused and added, “The more twists and turns the better, don’t let me hear the beginning and guess the ending straight away.”
“……”
Fu Yunshen really didn’t expect that Ying Zidian would make such a request.
But he had kind of discovered this hobby of their little friend.
What else could he do but to spoil his own girl and comply?
As it turned out, bedtime stories did work well.
Not long after Fu Yunshen finished, Ying Ziji fell asleep against the bed.
He went up and covered the girl with the blanket, then stood quietly for a few minutes before leaving the room.
Fu Yunshen took out his mobile phone and called back. When he got through, he looked faint: “Speak.”
On the other end of the phone, it was Director ibi.
In fact, this call came an hour ago, but Fu Yunshen never answered it.
The director thought of the rumours within ibi, held back his curiosity and seriously began to report his work: “Sir, we’ve found out some important information.”
“Apart from Mond, the hypnotist, the other three people’s identity information is fake, but strangely enough, their real identities were not entered in the system, and the fingerprint database and dna database were also compared, and no such three people were found.”
“But we did find a small marker in their teeth, a black skull, this same marker was a miniature bomb and locator system, but it has now been defused, sir, rest a*sured that nothing happened.”
“Now we suspect that they are affiliated with a dark force, ibi has called in some of its elites to begin a global trace, but with insufficient manpower, time is expected to be slow.”
Fu Yunshen bowed his head, exited the call interface and opened an MMS message that the director had sent him.
There was only one picture on the MMS, the black skull logo.
His eyes gradually froze.
At that time, when Fu Liu Ying was killed, he was hidden in the attic and could only look through the cracks in the wood.
He did not see the faces of those people, but he saw the symbol on their clothes.
It was also a black skeleton like this.
Fu Yunshen walked to the end of the corridor and looked out of the window in silence.
Every time he thought back to what had happened twenty years ago, his self-control would disappear again and again, his emotions spiralling out of control.
For so many years, he had relied on drugs to suppress it.
But he hadn’t lied to Yu Xuesheng either. In the year since he had met Ying Ziyi, he hadn’t had any more hypnotherapy sessions and had taken very few medications.
She was like a piece of driftwood that would keep him afloat in the endless sea.
Whether the people who kidnapped Helvin were related to the group from twenty years ago or not, he had to go and do something now.
“Yunshan, I’m leaving Shanghai City for a trip, about ten days or so.” Fu Yunshen made another call, his voice slow, “Protect her well, no losses, under this premise, I allow you to sacrifice anything.”
Hearing the last sentence, Yunshan’s heart fluttered, “Yes, Young Master.”
**
The Ying family’s old mansion.
After Zhong Manhua had sent Ying Yuexuan off to school, she received a report from her housekeeper.
“The Jiang family?” Zhong Manhua froze for a moment, “How come the Jiang family is here?”
Since Ying Luwei had been sent to the heavy prison, the Jiang family had withdrawn from the marriage once again.
Old Lady Ying had another big fight with Ye Suhe, which didn’t end well, and the two families had almost torn each other apart and hadn’t had any dealings for months.
Zhong Manhua was also glad that the Ying family and the Jiang family had different industries and did not have any conflicts in the business world.
Otherwise the Jiang family would have lost more than it gained if they attacked the Ying family.
“Not quite sure.” The butler shook his head, “But it looks like there’s something urgent.”
Zhong Manhua frowned, “Please come in first.”
Ye Suhe was about the same age as her, but because she was married to Master Jiang, her seniority was a generation ahead of her.
Zhong Manhua could not help it, no matter how unpleasant it was.
The housekeeper nodded and went to get ready.
Ten minutes later, Ye Suhe arrived with some of the Jiang family’s maids.
She had a string of Buddhist beads on her hand, and as soon as she entered, she opened the door: “Excuse me, Madam Ying, I’m here to arrange a marriage.”
Although Ye Suhe did not want Jiang Moyuan to marry an adopted daughter who had been driven out of the family, since she was here, she still had to save face.
“A marriage?” Zhong Manhua froze again, “Settle for who?”
Ye Suhe was young, so Jiang Mo Yuan was originally going to be almost a round younger than his peers.
So back then, only Ying Luwei could be matched with Jiang Moyuan.
Now that Ying Luwei was in the family, Jiang Moyuan’s generation would be embarra*sed.
The children of the same generation were already in high school.
But if the younger generation was about to get married, the reputation would not be very good.
“The adopted daughter that Mo Yuan brought back from Qing Shui County.” Ye Suhe said, “He’s going to marry her, so I’ll place the bride-price and pick a good day.”
Zhong Manhua was shocked: “What?!”
Jiang Mo Yuan, actually wants to marry Ying Zigui?
“No way!” Zhong Manhua refused without even thinking about it, all exasperated, “The Jiang family doesn’t want face, the Ying family still does.”
“Madam Ying, our two families were originally in-laws.” Ye Suhe didn’t care, “What’s wrong with becoming in-laws again? We can still be strong together, as long as we are strong enough, what would others dare to say?”
Zhong Manhua still refused, “Old Lady Jiang, you must know that she has already left the Ying family, there is no way I can get her to listen, how can I betroth her?”
“Besides, you mustn’t forget that there is still the Fu family, would Fu Yunshen allow it?”
She also didn’t expect that Fu Yunshen would be a senior member of the venus group.
Zhong Manhua also regretted it.
If she and Ying Zidian hadn’t gotten into such a stalemate, wouldn’t the Ying family have hitched a ride on the venus group?
In any case, she did not dare to mess with Fu Yunshen.
Even if she wanted to bring Ying back, she wouldn’t dare.
Unless, one day, Fu Yunshen gets bored with Ying Zidian.
Zhong Manhua believed that such a day would come soon.
The president of the venus group, how many celebrities were rushing to marry him?
“This, you don’t have to worry about, I am just informing you.” Ye Su He indifferently, “People, naturally I can invite, and you said Fu family, moreover it doesn’t matter, Fu Yun Shen is not in Shanghai city now, so it’s only a good time.”
The president of venus group Asia Pacific, rich is rich, but not much force value.
Zhong Manhua did not dare, but she dared.
Ye Su He took a sip of tea and sat on the sofa and waited.
**
Qingzhi High School.
After school in the afternoon, Ying Ziji, Xiu Yu, Jiang Yan and a few other students from Cla*s 19 went over to West Street for dinner.
Just after they came out of the restaurant, they were stopped.
A full thirty bodyguards were blocking the road.
Ying Zidian looked up.
One of them stepped forward, “Miss Ying, our old lady is here to see you.”
Although he said so, he directly stretched out his hand to grab the girl’s shoulder.
Chapter 326
Like Fu Mingcheng, Ye Suhe had also secretly trained many strong and powerful retainers, much better than the average bodyguard.
However, she hid herself better than Fu Mingcheng, as she was always fasting and chanting in the Buddhist temple, and never let her men do anything.
To outsiders, Ye Suhe was just an ordinary widow.
Suddenly stopped, Xiu Yu and Jiang Yan were both stunned.
The other students in Cla*s 19 had never seen this kind of situation before, so they were all frozen in place.
“With a snap, the Jiang family va*sal’s hand was pressed on Ying Ziji’s shoulder and he said again, “For the safety of the others, please come with us.”
This was not a request, it was a direct kidnapping.
Ying Zidian raised her eyebrows, her eyes glanced up and she smiled very softly.
She seldom smiled, and such a smile made people’s heart tips tremble.
For a moment, this courtier of the Jiang family who came forward was fiercely stunned.
The next moment, he felt a sudden spinning of the sky and fell to the ground with a loud “thud”, so fast that no one reacted.
There were many people coming and going on West Street, but when pa*sers-by saw so many black-clad bodyguards coming, they all ran and hid away.
Xiu Yu frowned and went up and kicked the Jiang family va*sal on the ground, “Ying Dad, is everything alright?”
“It’s fine.” Ying Ziji took his jacket off, faintly, “It’s a pity it’s dirty and can’t be worn.”
The words stopped ringing in the ears of the Jiang family’s courtiers as a blunt humiliation.
The rest of the courtiers’ faces turned ugly.
They didn’t expect this adopted daughter of the Ying family to have some self-defence skills, but they had only neglected to let her escape.
Luckily, Ye Suhe had the foresight to send thirty men over.
Jiang Yan stepped forward and laughed coldly: “Who did I think it was, but the fox spirit’s men? Who gave you the guts to make trouble in front of Laozi?”
The only one who dared to call Ye Suhe that was Jiang Yan.
“Young Master Jiang Yan.” Those courtiers naturally knew Jiang Yan, “This matter, has nothing to do with you, the old madam only invited Miss Ying over to discuss the marriage, there was no other malice.”
If something happened to Jiang Yan, or if it was because of Ye Suhe, I was afraid that the Jiang Group would be in turmoil.
“They’ve already moved on, and they still say they have no malice? Have you been kicked in the head by a donkey?” Jiang Yan moved his fingers, his grip creaking, “Ying Dad, there’s no need for you, these people, I’ll clean up after myself.”
He squirmed slightly and said unnaturally, “You’re famous now, it’s not a good image to beat people up.”
Jiang Yan had always been a school bully and didn’t need any fame.
The Dream Family side kept sending medicine over, and the internal energy in his body had gradually calmed down, not having rioted for a long time.
“Brother Burn, fight!” Behind him, the youngest brother waved his fist excitedly, “Bullying our father, beat them to death!”
The face of the Jiang family va*sal at the head of the group turned even uglier, “Young Master Jiang Yan, you’d better not-”
He didn’t finish the rest of his sentence, but Jiang Yan kicked him up and used another hand to lift him up by his collar: “Are you teaching me to do things again? You still want to marry Ying’s father, how can Jiang Moyuan be worthy of that?”
The Jiang family minister opened his mouth, but Jiang Yan didn’t give him time to speak.
Seeing that the situation was not too good, the other Jiang family courtiers did not dare to do anything to Jiang Yan, so they could only start retreating.
They had never thought that Jiang Yan would stand up for Ying Zidian.
However, of course, Jiang Yan would not let these Jiang family courtiers leave.
He was an ancient martial artist, and although his internal energy was not deep, it was much easier to deal with these people.
In ten minutes’ time, these Jiang family va*sals all fell to the ground, unconscious.
It was only after Jiang Yan had had a good fight that he remembered something important: “I forgot to leave one for the fox spirit to report, I haven’t put in a harsh word yet.”
“Throw it there.” Ying didn’t look at it, “Let’s go, someone will report it.”
Jiang Yan walked over with his pocket in his hand, humming a little tune.
Xiu Yu thought that she saw a dog wagging its tail happily.
**
In the distance, Nie Chao sat in his car, holding a telescope, taking in the scene.
“Crap, not good!” He slapped his thigh, “A love interest, it must be a love interest!”
Thinking of this, Nie Chao quickly took out his mobile phone and began to ventilate the news.
【Brother, it’s not good, didn’t you tell me to look at suspicious males? That Jiang Yan, look, he’s a schoolboy, he’s also younger than you, and he even saved the beauty by being a hero just now, your position is in jeopardy!
Nie Chao really wanted to see what Fu Yunshen looked like when he was in love, and even more so, he wanted to see this man go crazy and out of control.
That was all the evil he was getting these days.
A few minutes later, there was a slow reply.
[I’m relieved that this is her son.
[???]
Nie Chao rubbed a handful of his head, feeling more and more that all the ten years of relationships he had been in had been fed to the dogs.
How could he, an elite who had been in love since primary schools, not understand the mind of a young boy and girl as well as a twenty-three year old ascetic?
**
The Ying family’s old mansion.
Ye Su He finished listening to the report.
“Jiang Yan?” She wrinkled her eyebrows, put down her tea cup, and faintly, “Rather forgot about this kid.”
She had never put Jiang Painting Ping in her eyes.
Jiang Painting Screen had married well, married to the imperial capital.
However, the previous Mrs. Jiang had concealed her family name too tightly, and Jiang Yan still took her mother’s surname, which led to Ye Su He not knowing Jiang Ping’s husband’s surname until now.
She had also checked out the large and medium-sized families in the imperial capital, and none of them were Jiang Ping’s marriage partner.
This proves that it was some small family, which was just on the same level as the Jiang family.
Ye Suhe estimated that the big ones might not be as good as the Jiang family.
The big families could all attach great importance to bloodlines, how could they let their sons take this mother’s surname?
But because of those old shareholders of the Jiang Group, she hadn’t done anything to Jiang Painting Screen.
“Madam Ying, what a pity.” Ye Suhe stood up and wrapped up her coat, “I couldn’t invite anyone today, but this marriage is definitely going to be fixed. ”
Jiang Mo Yuan hadn’t asked her for anything for so many years, and she naturally had to fulfil his only request.
Ying was not of legal marriageable age, but this was in China, and elsewhere you could get married at 16.
She had the means to do so.
Zhong Manhua sent Ye Suhe out with a cold face, “I think the Jiang family is really crazy, if this really gets engaged, there’s really no telling what the outside world will say.”
Younger sister’s fiancé, turning around and marrying her niece?
What would outsiders think?
“Madam, I think this might be a good thing.” The housekeeper deliberated for a moment, “With Miss Lu Wei gone, we were already at odds with the Jiang family, and now they are willing to take the initiative to ask for a marriage, and from what Old Lady Jiang said, it was Jiang Sanji himself who wanted it, so it will definitely bring even greater benefits to the Ying family.”
Zhong Manhua frowned, “Let the Jiang family take care of this on their own, let’s not wade through the muddy waters.”
Ye Su He played a good game, she would not fall for it.
**
In the evening, Ying Tianru went back to Ying to collect his things.
Unless it was necessary, he would not go back to the Ying family now.
After coming down from the study, Ying Tianru didn’t want to stay a second longer, so he was ready to leave.
But as he pa*sed the kitchen, he heard a conversation.
The sound was not disguised and he could hear it clearly.
In the kitchen, it was the housekeeper and two maids.
“I say, to be able to marry into the Jiang family is really a blessing that Second Miss can’t cultivate in eight lifetimes.” The housekeeper gave a related laugh, “She is really unworthy to be the main mother of the Jiang family for a country bumpkin, and she is still unwilling.”
“What kind of a show is this? If it wasn’t for the third master of Jiang who took her back, she would have been stuck in that poor county for the rest of her life. If the second young miss had some success, would the madam and the master not care about her? Still, she is useless.”
The butler finished with a smile and left the kitchen.
As soon as he turned around, he bumped into Ying Tianru, who looked ice-cold.
His hands shook in shock and he almost knocked over his cup, “Da, Eldest Young Master ……”
The eldest young master hadn’t come back for a long time, why today ……
“Eldest Young Master?” Ying Tianru’s eyes were cold, “You still know you’re a subordinate? Hmm?”
As soon as the butler heard this, he knew that Ying Tianru had heard what he had just said, but he didn’t show any fear.
It wasn’t the first time he had said it, he had long been used to saying it, and Zhong Manhua didn’t say anything.
The housekeeper immediately changed to a respectful look, “Young master, madam is still outside, you can sit on the sofa and wait.”
Ying Tianru laughed coldly, “Is this how you usually talk nonsense too? You’re a subordinate, don’t you even see if you’re worthy of it?”
The butler’s hand shook again, a little stunned.
Although Ying Tianru normally wouldn’t call him uncle, he also treated him with the same set of manners as an elder, and had never said such things before.
“There’s no need to pack your things, you’re fed, clothed and used by the Ying family.” Ying Tianru said indifferently, “Take off your clothes and shoes too, now get lost, a disobedient servant is not needed by the Ying family.”
The butler’s mind buzzed, he didn’t expect Ying Tianru to dismiss him straight away: “Young master, you’re joking, right? ……”
Ying Tianru was unmoved: “Take it all off, get out. Also, check if he has embezzled anything over the years.”
The latter sentence was said to another servant.
The housekeeper was now really panicked, he knelt down with a thud: “Young master, please don’t kick me out, I know I’m wrong, I’m really wrong, I shouldn’t have said anything bad about second miss.”
He raised his hand and slapped himself violently, shivering, “Young master, please give me a chance, I won’t do it again.”
Ying Tianru lost his patience, he stepped forward and grabbed the butler by the collar, regardless of the fact that he was fifty years old.
The butler’s face turned pale, cold sweat broke out, and his breath tightened: “Eldest Young Master!”
“Brother?”
Behind him, was Ying Yuexuan’s surprised voice.
The butler looked like he had seen a saviour and breathed a sigh of relief: “Eldest Miss, please persuade Young Master, I only said a few words and he wants to sack me.”
He had grown up with Ying Yuexuan, and they had a good relationship.
Ying Yuexuan called him uncle and would bring him gifts when she went somewhere.
If she asked, he would be able to stay.
Could it be that the second young lady’s position in Ying Tianru’s heart was higher than that of the eldest young lady?