Chapter 150: Stirring Up the Heat
Chapter 150
Qin Sui heard the familiar sound of a TV program as he came downstairs.
He stopped at the corner and looked closely.
Sure enough.
"Exchange Lives" was broadcasting its city special.
"Could you turn it off? Or watch it with your back to me," Qin Sui spoke up.
Mrs. Qin turned her head: "Don't want to hear Sheng Yuxiao's voice? You don't want to hear Little Duck's voice either?"
"If I wanted to hear it, I could call anytime."
Mrs. Qin had to say: "Alright, then I'll have the maid bring your meal to your bedroom, so you won't hear it. You can go."
But Qin Sui's brow suddenly furrowed.
Of course, just because he didn't want to hear the TV sound didn't mean it wouldn't enter his ears.
So he clearly heard — Li Xiaoya's father had come to Jin City.
Qin Sui didn't say anything. He stared at Li Xiaoya in the camera shot, watching her pick up a pear, Sheng Yuxiao help her wash it clean, and then she started crunching on it again, her cheeks puffing in and out...
Qin Sui watched for a long time, then turned to go upstairs.
What was Sheng Yuxiao trying to do by mentioning this on camera?
Get netizens to spontaneously search for Li Jiang's whereabouts?
Qin Sui's eyes flashed, and he first searched for Li Jiang through a search engine.
He found many descriptions of him.
But no photos at all.
So he decided to help out.
Qin Sui called his father, and about ten minutes later, he obtained Li Jiang's former student ID photo.
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Then he changed his IP address and posted the photo online.
He didn't say it was a photo of Li Jiang.
He just made a post:
[Can any locals tell me, is this a photo of Li Xiaoya's runaway dad? Just dug it up.]
By phrasing it as a question, people would instinctively want to answer when they first saw it.
The buzz would naturally build up.
Qin Sui closely monitored the progress of this post.
Even eating lost its appeal.
Time ticked by slowly.
The replies went from 100 to 500, then from 500 to 1000...
At this time, Sheng Yuxiao's phone rang on the other end.
Sheng Yuxiao looked down and deliberately moved away from the camera, saying: "I'll take a call."
Xu Ruying was delighted to hear this: "Go ahead, go ahead, I'll play with Little Duck. Want to play with blocks?"
Li Xiaoya nodded, glancing in Sheng Yuxiao's direction.
He seemed even more nervous and worried than her.
Li Xiaoya blinked gently.
They were all anxious for her sake.
So she didn't feel sad or nervous at all anymore.
Why was that?
Sheng Yuxiao left the living room, handed the microphone and GoPro to a servant, and then answered the phone.
"Hello."
"Young Master Sheng!" The person on the other end was someone he had borrowed from his young uncle Xu Ji.
After all, he wasn't an adult yet, and apart from his "little brothers" in the rich second generation circle, he didn't have many people he could legitimately order around.
"Young Master Sheng, someone has beaten us to releasing Li Jiang's photo. That post has gone viral now, do we still need to release more detailed information? This could involve privacy invasion..."
"Qin Sui did it?"
"Huh?"
Ning Heng isn't that clever, Sheng Yuxiao thought to himself. There were only a few people close to Li Xiaoya.
"No need to release anything," Sheng Yuxiao considered for a moment, then said: "Go report that post and have it deleted."
The person on the other end was stunned: "Hm? You..." Are you still trying to oppose the Qin family's kid at this point?
"After it's deleted, it will spread even faster," Sheng Yuxiao said casually.
Xu Ji's subordinate wasn't a fool either, and instantly understood: "The more you delete posts, the more rebellious people become, determined to spread it everywhere."
"Mm." Sheng Yuxiao asked: "Any other news?"
"Not at the moment. We haven't found any accommodation or housing information related to Li Jiang throughout the city, and there's no trace of him at any of the stations."
Sheng Yuxiao's expression darkened slightly as he snapped off a small tree branch. He said in a low voice: "This guy knows counter-surveillance? That's... a bit troublesome."
The person on the other end said: "Let's see if the vast sea of the masses can drown him out."
Sheng Yuxiao didn't say much more. He put away his phone, and was about to throw away the branch in his hand when he glanced at the flower bed and saw the flowers blooming nicely. He decided to pick a couple to bring inside.
Xu Ruying couldn't help but click her tongue when she saw him come in: "Went to pick flowers? Your family doesn't grow elm seeds, otherwise you could pick some to make pastries."
Xu Ruying extended her hand: "One of them is for me, right?"
"They're both for Li Xiaoya."
"Damn! I knew it!" Xu Ruying glared at him.
Sheng Yuxiao had picked magnolia flowers, and they enjoyed hot pot with the fragrance of magnolias.
This warm and harmonious scene made netizens' first reaction after watching it to be: we can't let Li Xiaoya's father come and ruin this!
Time quickly came to sunset, and Sheng Yuxiao asked: "Are you going back? Or sleeping here?"
"Let's stay here."
[No exaggeration, I feel like Young Master Sheng's eyes lit up]
The bullet comments marveled.
They indeed hadn't slept under the same roof for a long time.
However, the environment here was so different from Li Family Village...
Sheng Yuxiao actually felt a bit disappointed.
"Complete rooms, warm blankets, big beds..." he said softly, looking down: "You don't have to sleep on the floor with me anymore."
Li Xiaoya patted the floor: "We can still sleep on the floor now, it's so spacious here..."
Xu Ruying got excited: "Yeah, yeah, let's all make a bed on the floor together. I've never slept like that before."
Sheng Yuxiao's mouth twitched, but he didn't end up kicking his cousin out.
No sooner said than done, Xu Ruying immediately had the servants lay out bedding on the spacious living room floor.
[Wow, it really feels like siblings sleeping together as kids]
[Where's Little Duck? Why isn't she on camera?]
Li Xiaoya had gone to call Ke Muning.
Ke Muning had just finished a boring gathering. While complaining that Chinese businessmen were really dull, he said to his subordinate: "Where did she get off the car?"
The subordinate couldn't name the place, but he took out his phone and showed a photo.
Pointing at a shopping mall in the picture, he said: "Right here."
Ke Muning: "..."
He sneered coldly: "Quite clever, little girl. Deliberately choosing an unrelated section to get off, not wanting me to know where her friend actually lives, huh."
The subordinate immediately realized his oversight and lowered his head.
But Ke Muning wasn't finished. He continued coldly: "So all those words before were just to deceive me!"
"Let's go bring her back." Just as Ke Muning finished speaking, his phone rang.
As soon as the call connected, Li Xiaoya spoke in a soft tone in English: "I'm not coming back tonight, bye-bye."
Ke Muning's face instantly soured even more.
Not even trying to deceive him anymore?