Mad Dog - Chapter 24

    On the weekend, Zhiqi went home.

    Her home is in the Dongcheng District, some distance from the university town. Zhiqi did not ask the driver at home to pick him up, but took the car back in the morning.

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    Seeing Zhiqi, she immediately woke up.

    “Baby? When did you come back?” Mei Ran hurried downstairs and walked to Zhiqi with surprise in her eyes: “Why don’t you tell my mother, so that Liu Uncle will pick you up.”

    Uncle Liu is the driver at home.

    “No, it’s too troublesome.” Zhiqi muttered, and went to the sofa to sit down: “On the weekend, I’ll be back.”

    “You still know how to come back, you have no conscience.” Mei Ran hurriedly asked the nanny at home to bring over the cold bird’s nest in the refrigerator, but she couldn’t help complaining: “You are fast this time. I haven’t come back for a month, are you so busy with your studies?”

    In fact, this month, she is really not as busy with her studies as before. She is just…for ‘star chasing’.

    Zhi Qi gave a vague ‘um’.

    “I bought you a lot of things during this time, clothes and electronic products, I will take them back later.”

    Since Mei Ran is familiar with ‘online shopping’, the biggest pleasure is to buy and buy every day, especially to buy all kinds of new clothes, accessories, and electronic products for Zhiqi – and the double standard is not Buy it for Zhiyu.

    She only treats her daughter as a little princess and her son as a porter.

    Mei Ran said confidently: “If you don’t come back today, I’m thinking of letting your brother send it to you in two days.”

    …

    Zhi Qi couldn’t help but laugh and cry, and slowly drank the bird’s nest.

    “Don’t bother my brother.” She said obediently, “I’ll take it back myself.”

    In fact, most of the things Mei Ran bought for her were not used by her, and many things were accumulating dust under the bed in the dormitory, but she was willing to buy them, and Zhiqi didn’t want to spoil her mother’s interest.

    Besides, these things have a ‘useful place’ now, and some can be given to Jiang Qi.

    For example, kindle can be used by him to read the script, and wireless headphones can be worn by Jiang Qi, and applewatch and the like can not be used by her, so she can send it to Jiang Qi to use…

    Zhixi finally understands why so many fans frantically send gifts to their favorite ‘idol’.

    She also really wanted to ‘nurture’ Jiang Qi, it is best to contract him according to her own aesthetic.

    Zhixi was a little amused by her own idea.

    And it seems to be in line with what Zhiqi is thinking, the big TV in front of the sofa is playing the entertainment channel of Lin Lan’s local TV station. Jiang Qi’s news—

    The host said incessantly: “Recently, Jiang Qi, a newcomer who became famous because of “Wangtian”, was scrambled by major companies to sign a contract some time ago, but it is rumored that he has signed a contract recently. In ‘Chen Ding Entertainment’, and the next play is a new movie recently prepared by Director Qu Heng…”

    Accompanied by the host’s clear voice, several photos of Jiang Qi secretly captured by the paparazzi were flashed back on the TV.

    The boy wore a hat, and the half of his side face exposed under the obscure light was sharp and delicate.

    Zhi’s living room was suddenly silent.

    It’s because the name Jiang Qi is not only meaningful to Zhiqi, but everyone in the Zhi family is too familiar with him.

    Zhi Qi listened numbly, her fingers holding the porcelain bowl clenched unconsciously, and she hardly dared to look back at Mei Ran’s expression.

    Because she was afraid of seeing the disgust on a woman’s face.

    Zhi Qi knew that before the age of seventeen, Mei Ran and Zhi Minglin did not object to her dealings with Jiang Qi, after all, the young man was her ‘life-saving benefactor’.

    But in the second year of high school, everything changed. Zhiqi didn’t know if her parents thought the same as her brother now – they all felt that Jiang Qi, who had been in prison, was ‘dangerous and scary’.

    After a while, Zhiqi heard Mei Ran sigh softly.

    “Actually, I wanted to ask you about this before, but then I forgot.” Mei Ran stared at the screen, her voice was light, and she couldn’t hear any emotion: “This child is now a star ah.”

    Zhi Qi’s nails fell into her palm unconsciously, not knowing how to respond.

    “Qiqi.” Mei Ran asked calmly, “Do you still have contact with Jiang Qi? Have you met?”

    Zhi Qi didn’t want to lie, but she didn’t want to… tell the truth.

    But sometimes, silence is actually equal to default.

    “Xiqi, look at me.” Mei Ran pulled the girl’s face over with a bit of force, her beautiful plain face was serious: “It’s okay, you like Jiang Qi, I and you Dad doesn’t object, but only if he doesn’t commit a crime, he now…”

    “Mom, he didn’t commit a crime.” Zhiqi’s voice trembled a little, looking at the woman with dark eyes stubbornly: “You know, he didn’t commit a crime.”

    Seeing that her daughter was about to cry in the next second, Mei Ran was dumbfounded.

    The woman pursed her lips, but still resolutely told Zhixi a clear fact: “Manslaughter is also a crime.”

    The information revealed by Mei Ran’s evasive words caused Zhiqi’s pupils to shrink sharply.

    Four years ago, no one was willing to tell her what happened in the whole process, and it was always vague. Even after Jiang Qi’s accident, Zhi Minglin and Mei Ran directly transferred her to another middle school, brutally isolating her from the possibility of contact with Jiang Qi. Later, Zhiqi finally tried her best to find out Jiang Qi’s only relative, but his uncle Jiang Shi didn’t say anything…

    The connection between her and Jiang Qi was cut off abruptly, so that Zhiqi was kept in the dark for so many years.

    Zhixi understands that her parents want her to study hard, but that doesn’t mean she can condone their self-assertion.

    Isn’t Zhiqi ever opposed or resisted? Just a seventeen-year-old girl, doing anything is in vain.

    To this day, Zhiqi finally couldn’t help asking: “What crime did Jiang Qi commit?”

    She really wanted to know what happened that year, and the reason why she didn’t ask Jiang Qi was for fear of evoking bad memories for him.

    But facing Mei Ran, who seemed to know the truth of the cause and effect, Zhiqi really couldn’t help it.

    “I don’t know the specifics.” Mei Ran sighed, her eyes were complicated: “It’s just that the result of the police’s judgment was ‘excessive defense and indirect murder’, this can’t be wrong. he.”

    Zhi Qi’s heart groaned, and she pursed her lips.

    “Xiqi, promise mother.” Mei Ran held Zhiqi’s tender hand, her eyes widened, and her voice trembled: “Don’t have contact with Jiang Qi again? Thank him for saving you back then, and our whole family is also very grateful, it’s just that he is a dangerous person.”

    “Even if he hasn’t committed a crime and went to jail, it can be seen from his eyes that Jiang Qi is not an ordinary teenager.”

    All parents in the world probably just want their children to be safe and sound, and have no disasters in their lives.

    A boy like Jiang Qi seems to be incompatible with the keywords of ‘happiness, peace’, Mei Ran really can’t convince herself to relax, although she clearly knows that Jiang Qi really cares about their family is gracious.

    But if she needs her ‘repayment’, Mei Ran is willing to spend money, or everything else…except Zhiqi, even if Mei Ran knows that her daughter actually likes that dangerous boy.

    However, a moment of passion is young, can it be worth the long years of practicality?

    The living room where the sun shone in in the morning was warm, but Zhiqi’s heart seemed to be covered with a layer of frost and snow, and it was cool.

    The girl sniffed and thought, as expected, Mei Ran was prejudiced against Jiang Qi, but…

    “Mom, you are wrong.” After a while, Zhiqi broke away from Mei Ran’s hand and smiled slightly: “Jiang Qicai is not a dangerous person.”

    “I’ve seen him and he’s just as good.”

    She can be suspicious that the stars are torches, that the sun will move, and that the truth is a fluke.

    But Jiang Qi will never hurt her, Zhiqi will not doubt this.

    Staying at home until the afternoon, and Mei Ran actually broke up.

    When Zhiqi returned to the dormitory with a large box of things, Meng Chunyu was applying a mask when she saw her tense voice and asked vaguely, “Bao, are you home?”

    Every time Zhiqi came home with a box of things, Meng Chunyu got used to it after three years.

    …and she was used to waiting for the little fairy to feed her.

    “Yeah.” Zhiqi smiled, took out a pocket of ‘net celebrity snacks’ from the box and threw it to Meng Chunyu.

    Mei Ran is willing to place an order for anything she sees, especially she likes to buy snacks for her, but Zhiqi has a small appetite and does not like to eat most things.

    Then she cheered exaggeratedly in Meng Chunyu, and slowly sorted the things in the box.

    Zhi Qi was petite, crouched beside the box when he was barely the size of the box, looked like a poor hamster – and stretched out two paws.

    The little girl sorted out the earphones, watches, and the kindle that had accumulated dust in the box, and planned to give them to Jiang Qi next time.

    Meng Chunyu, who was beside her, was so cute by her, so she subconsciously took out her mobile phone and ‘clicked’ it as a souvenir.

    Zhi Qi raised her eyes and stared at the movement.

    “Honey.” Meng Chunyu tore off the mask and was finally able to speak freely, and immediately hopped over to Zhixi to share her ‘masterpiece’ with her, admiring: “Your picture is so cute.”

    Under the dim light on the phone screen, a long-haired girl squatted beside the box, her arms and legs were slender and tight, and half of her side face with her head raised slightly was delicate and soft.

    The structure of the whole photo is very ‘atmospheric’, like an old photo printed by Polaroid.

    Zhi Qi looked at it and suddenly said, “Send it to me.”

    Then she sent it to Jiang Qi.

    Back to the car after finishing work in the evening, Jiang Qi covered his aching stomach, and when he returned to the car, he saw this WeChat message from Zhiqi.

    There is only one picture of a girl.

    The boy stared blankly for a while, his frowning eyebrows finally stretched, and he smiled softly.

    The photos sent by Zhiqi were like food for the soul, and the stomach pain after not eating for a day seemed to be less painful. Jiang Qi seriously saved this photo of the girl in the album.

    The first photo in his phone album.

    —Hamster-like, cute girl.