“Not napping today?” Cen Baihe leaned against the back of the chair with a somewhat relaxed smile on his face.
“Just about to,” Qi Yan bent over to put on his shoes, “How about you?”
“Waiting for an executive meeting in the company,” Cen Baihe raised his wrist and glanced at the time, “I’ll come pick you up this afternoon?”
“Your brother and sister-in-law invited me to dinner, how can I ask you to pick me up? I’ll go by myself.” Putting the talisman and a very simple-looking brush into the bag, Qi Yan smiled, “What should I do if your sister-in-law thinks I’m putting on airs?”
“Okay,” Cen Baihe smiled helplessly, “I’ll send the address to you.”
“Hmm.” Qi Yan hung up and took out three tortoise shells from a wooden box. Then, he walked to the center of the room, solemnly recited a eulogy, and threw the three tortoise shells on the ground.
“Pa.” The three tortoise shells fell to the ground, showing a strange arrangement.
“Not good.”
The use of tortoise shells for fortune-telling was a very ancient method. Thousands of years ago, it was necessary to burn the tortoise shells in fire. The method he used now was much simpler.
Qi Yan looked at the three tortoise shells, took out his phone with a solemn expression, and called Lao’er. Unfortunately, no one answered after ringing for a long time. He frowned and continued calling. After three more calls, Lao’er finally answered the phone.
“Shut up, I have nothing to say to you,” Lao’er said in a blunt and angry tone, “You can’t mess with your friend’s girlfriend. Qi Yan, stay away from me.”
“Du…du…du…”
Qi Yan clenched his phone tightly and pressed three numbers.
“Police officer, I have something to report.”
He had known Lao’er for several years, and he knew what kind of person he was. If he really thought that there was something between him and Liu Wei, he would never be so impulsive. He would decide whether to beat him up or not after knowing the truth.
After packing up what he needed, Qi Yan got into his car, put the compass in front of the car, and drove in the direction indicated by the compass.
“Damn! This boy has a strong sense of friendship.”
Biaozi kicked Lao’er, picked up the beer on the table and took a few sips to suppress his anger. He then walked to the corner, and ruthlessly tore off the tape on Lao’er’s mouth, “Call Qi Yan and get him hear, or I’ll break your leg.”
Lao’er’s suit had become wrinkled, and his face was full of bruises and stains, making him look haggard.
He glanced at the fierce-looking Biaozi, turned his head slowly and looked at the woman sitting on the sofa, and said nothing.
“Why? Are you trying to appeal to your love?” Biaozi grabbed Lao’er’s hair, making him look up at Biaozi’s inhuman face.
“If your friend hadn’t ruined our plans, we would have been gentler towards you,” Biaozi grinned, “Our Weiwei is very pretty, right?”
“What’s the use of a good-looking face,” Lao’er spat some blood out, “You disgusting human traffickers!”
“You still want to be righteous at a time like this?” Biaozi glanced at the blood on his shoulders, punched Lao’er in the face, and knocked him to the ground. Biaozi shook his hand, turned to Liu Wei and said, “This man you caught is really interesting.”
Liu Wei glanced at Lao’er lying on the ground, and quickly looked away, “Enough. Qi Yan will not take the bait if you killed him”
“Don’t even think about it,” Lao’er’s face was swollen, his voice trembling with pain, “Liu Wei, you are a woman yourself, why do you do such a thing?”
He had dressed up and went to find Liu Wei, wanting to give her a surprise, but he didn’t expect to be shocked. Besides her, there were several strange men and women in the house. At first, he thought it was just Liu Wei’s family, until he accidentally discovered what’s going on in the store room, which actually contained two young girls.
When he came to understand what’s happening, he had been tied up by Liu Wei’s so-called family. It turned out that Liu Wei was their accomplice, and they were trafficking humans.
“What do you know?!” Liu Wei looked at Lao’er, “Lin Shuo, people from rich families like you don’t understand the taste of poverty at all. I am beautiful and my grades are not worse than yours, but because I don’t have money to dress up, don’t understand fashion, and am poor, I’m ignored. Those girls who are not as beautiful as me are held by you boys like princesses because they dress well and know how to put on makeup.”
“You men are scumbags. When I don’t dress up, none of you see me. Later, I learned to dress up, and you treated me like a diamond, and followed me like a dog.” Liu Wei sneered, as if laughing at the ugliness of those men, but also laughing at herself, “I really don’t know if these men are more pathetic, or I am more pathetic.”
She still remembered the day of the final exam of basic economics when she sprained her foot and was about to be late for the exam, but when the boys in the same class passed by her, no one gave her a second look or helped her. At that time, she was so anxious that she was about to cry. She couldn’t fail the exam, and she couldn’t get poor grades, because the scholarship was too important to her.
Perhaps for most of the classmates, the scholarships were just money for a few pieces of clothing and shoes, but for her, it was half a year’s living expenses. She was still climbing the stairs when the school bell rang.
The teacher of basic economics especially hated students who were late. At that moment, she felt that the whole world was extremely dark, and she even saw a future where she dropped out.
But one person helped her, and when she thought the whole world was going to abandon her, a boy helped her. He carried her to the classroom, and she heard someone in the classroom laughing secretly, as if they were laughing at the boy who helped this poor and ugly girl.
At that time, she was extremely aggrieved, for herself and for that boy.
He was only helping her, but these people not only laughed at her, but also at him.
But the boy didn’t care at all. After they finished the exam, he even helped her to the girls’ dormitory. Since then, she’d been secretly observing the boy and realized that he had a good relationship with his classmates. The boys liked to hang out with him and the girls always smiled at him.
He was so popular. What right did she, a poor girl, have to approach him?
If only she could have money, it would be nice if she could dress up, she thought at that time. Later, she became rich, could dress up, and even became the popular girl in school, but the boy still didn’t give her a second look.
Lao’er’s chest trembled, as if he was laughing, and at the same time, it was like a spasm that was caused by too much pain, “Since you think that all the boys in the world who are close to you are for your beauty, what else can I say. “
He felt a little ridiculous, thinking that he had found true love, but it turned out to be a human trafficker who had no feelings for him at all. It is said that in life, it is inevitable for one to face some downfalls, but this time he fell into a bottomless pit. He was afraid that he wouldn’t be alive anymore after this.
However, if he could protect his friend before he died, he would die a dignified man.
Knock knock.
There was a knock on the door, Biaozi sealed Lao’er’s mouth, tucked him behind the sofa, and walked to the door. He asked, “Who’s there?”
“Sir, do you need to install a water purifier in your home? We have water purifiers imported from abroad, which can kill any bacteria in the water…”
“Go away,” Biaozi said impatiently, “We don’t need it, there are children sleeping at home, don’t disturb them!”
The people outside seemed to notice something strange with his tone and they left slowly. Biaozi swore in a low voice, walked to Liu Wei and sat down. He said to the few people, “What should we do now?”
“Get the goods out first,” An older man puffed on a cigarette and said, “As for this kid, didn’t you say that his friend has a lot of money? Get him to pay us a lot of money and we don’t need to do this anymore.”
“But if we’re found out…”
“You can only get rich if you take risks, cowards don’t get rich. Anyway, we’ve already kidnapped them, we might as well finish it.” The man breathed out a cloud of smoke, “Tell me, can you do it?”
Biaozi was persuaded, and he was just about to nod when there was a kock on the door again.
“Is anyone at home?”
Biaozi’s brows furrowed, and he asked rudely, “What do you want?”
“Sir, do you need an air humidifier? I have the latest, smartest, and most cost-effective air humidifier. If you are interested, I’ll offer you a good price.”
“No, no!” Biaozi almost swore. It seemed as though all the sales people had planned this together. When he was working as one a few years ago, they were probably still in their mothers’ womb.
The older man frowned, he snuffed out the cigarette, walked to the window, and looked through a crack between the curtains. Everything seemed normal. People were playing cards under the tree and the passersby didn’t look suspicious.
He breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that he might be a little too suspicious, and returned to his seat.
“Ding ding ding.”
Liu Wei’s phone rang, she picked it up and glanced at it, the expression on her face changed.
“Who’s that?” The older man stared at her.
“It’s… Lin Shuo’s friend.” Liu Wei stared at the phone and didn’t press the answer button. Lao’er, who was hidden behind the sofa, began to struggle desperately, but his mouth was tightly sealed, and he could only whimper. Biaozi walked over and kicked him, “Be quiet! Otherwise I’ll kill you.”
“Which one?” The older man signaled at Biaozi to be quiet.
“Qi Yan.” Liu Wei gripped the phone tighter.
“Answer it!”
Liu Wei looked up at the other people in the room who were staring at her, and pressed the answer button with a trembling thumb.
“Liu Wei?” Qi Yan’s voice sounded clear and refreshing, like a clear spring, which could calm people’s hearts.
“Yes.” Liu Wei pressed the speakerphone button at the signal of the others.
“What did you tell Lao’er that made him want to break off our friendship?”
Hearing the anger in Qi Yan’s tone, Liu Wei lowered her head, “I’m sorry, it’s my fault. I accidentally let him know that I confessed to you before.”
There was silence.
“When did you confess to me?”
“A long time ago,” Liu Wei laughed at herself, “I don’t remember anymore.”
“Then explain to Lao’er. I have been good friends with him for many years, and I don’t want us to have a misunderstanding because of this.” Qi Yan’s tone was very cold, “Are you with the him now?”
“He… went to the toilet,” Liu Wei opened her mouth and hesitated for a moment before saying the next sentence, “If you come here, we’ll clear things up.”
“No, I still have something to do. I’ll just talk to him about it myself.” Qi Yan’s tone became better, “I wish you a good weekend and goodbye.”
“He hung up.” Liu Wei threw the phone on the coffee table and said arrogantly, “If you have the ability, get him over yourself. Stop asking me to do it.”
“Aren’t you the most popular girl in their faculty? This guy named Qi Yan has no interest in you at all,” Biaozi looked at Liu Wei mockingly, “Since we can’t get him here, there will always be others who will take the bait.”
Qi Yan stood at the entrance of the corridor, hung up the phone, and stopped by the door on the left of the fourth floor. This building was not big, there were only two households on the first floor, and the one next to it was obviously unoccupied. A thick layer of dust had accumulated on the door.
At the corner of the stairs on the fourth and fifth floors, the two “salesmen” who were standing there saw a young man standing at the door. They looked a little nervous. They were worried that he might be an accomplice or he might just be an innocent passerby.
Qi Yan also noticed the two salesmen, guessed that they were the police, and nodded at them.
Then, he kicked open the door and metal gate. This kick was so powerful that the two policemen who were still investigating were stunned.
“Bam!”
The gate was slammed open and everyone in the room stood up in shock.
“Qi Yan?!” Liu Wei looked at the person standing at the door in disbelief, almost couldn’t believe her eyes, how could he be here?
“Mmm!” Lao’er wanted to ask him to run quickly after seeing Qi Yan, but unfortunately Qi Yan seemed to have misunderstood what he meant. Not only did he not run, but after seeing him, he walked into the house instead.
“You’re Qi Yan?” Biaozi took the long knife under the sofa and said fiercely, “Very good, you came by yourself.”
“Are you an idiot?” Qi Yan kicked a stool next to his feet, “Since I dare to come here, I won’t let you get away.” He took out a few talismans from his bag and threw them out. The talismans flew up and stuck to these people. The most terrifying thing was that these people could no longer move.
“Are you a master?” The older man looked at Qi Yan in horror, as if he saw some terrifying monster.
Qi Yan walked to Lao’er who was lying on the ground. Seeing his face swollen like a pig’s head, he laughed unsympathetically, “Lao’er, it’s over, you are disfigured.”
“Mmm.” Many people die after talking too much, can you rip off the tape on my mouth first!
This time Qi Yan finally heard his thoughts. He reached out and tore off the tape on his mouth, untied the rope on his body, and helped him to sit on the sofa, “I’ve already called an ambulance, it should be here in a while. “
Lao’er looked at the traffickers who were frozen, and looked at Qi Yan suspiciously, “What happened to them?”
“Maybe the nerves are paralyzed,” Qi Yan couldn’t bear to look directly at Lao’er’s face that even his own parents wouldn’t recognize. “What do you care about them?”
“How do you know I’m here?” Although Qian Qian looked cool when he kicked down the door just now, this was not a movie. How did Qian Qian find this place? Him knocking the door down was already strange.
“Didn’t I tell you that I can tell fortunes?” Qi Yan blinked, his face looked innocent, “Of course I figured it out.”
Lao’er thought, “Although I think it is very unbelievable, oddly enough, I still believe it.”
“You are really a master,” The older man’s lips turned pale. He said with a trembling voice, “How can masters exist, it’s impossible!”
“You can eat whatever you want, but you can’t say whatever you want,” Qi Yan looked at the human traffickers in the house with a half-smile, “I’m just an ordinary Feng Shui master. By the way, I am also a part-time fortune teller.”
Lao’er looked at these paralyzed traffickers at a loss. He had been hit on the head and thought that the scene looked strange
At this moment, he saw Qi Yan suddenly open the window and shouted loudly, “Help! There are traffickers and kidnappers! Women are being abducted!”
The whole community suddenly became alert, and in just half a minute, a group of uncles and aunties rushed over aggressively, and the people leading the group were wearing red armbands.
He looked at Qi Yan in horror, only to see Qian Qian sitting next to him with a look of fear, like an innocent child facing a group of murderers.
That didn’t look right.
“Where are the traffickers?”
“There are two girls in the room, they are unconscious.”
There is a child here!”
“These scumbags!”
“Ow!”
“Stop beating them, call the police!”
“Don’t hit their faces, hit somewhere else that’s not visible.”
“Auntie Li, don’t poke their butts with a needle. We won’t be able to explain ourselves to the police.”
The police who were outside couldn’t get in at all. They had heard everything.
Lao’er watched in horror as the traffickers were beaten by a group of uncles and aunties. Looking at them, he too felt pain on his bottom. At this time, two kind-hearted aunties came over and said softly, “Don’t be afraid, young man, we caught them.”
Um? Aunties, obviously my injury is more serious. Why do you pity Qian Qian? I’m the one who’s wounded, okay?
A few minutes later, the police standing outside finally reacted. They pushed aside the enthusiastic crowd and handcuffed these traffickers who were screaming in pain but had no injuries on their faces.
Qi Yan and Lao’er, as victims, were also taken out by the police but without the handcuffs. There were several enthusiastic aunties accompanying them.
“This child is terrified, his face is pale.”
“These traffickers are not humans. I can’t relieve my anger even if they are stabbed a thousand times.”
Qi Yan and Lao’er did not get into the police car, but had their testimony taken under a big tree. The enthusiastic uncles and aunties had been asked to leave.
The police officer who pretended to be a salesperson just now was the one in charge of taking Qi Yan’s testimony. He looked at Qi Yan with a strange expression, “How did you kick the door down and subdue those people just now?”
“Actually, I don’t know why the door is so easily kicked open,” Qi Yan also looked blank. “Maybe I was too worried about my friends, and it unleashed my power?”
The corners of his mouth twitched, “Then how did you subdue these people?”
“Sir, you may not believe it when I say it. I studied Chinese medicine when I was a child, and I know acupuncture.”
“He’s a monster! He knows how to use talismans to paralyze others!” A trafficker who was arrested by the police pointed at Qi Yan and yelled, “He’s a monster.”
Qi Yan blinked innocently, “Uh, I heard that some criminals will pretend to be mentally ill to escape the punishment of the law.”
“I’m not ill, he’s a monster.”
Qi Yan: ….
Police officer: …
Perhaps the way Qi Yan broke the door was too terrifying, and the method of restraining the people was unbelievable, so he was also brought to the police station in the name of assisting in solving the case. Lao’er was worried about him being alone, and would rather go with Qi Yan despite the wounds all over his body. The police had no choice but to take both of them there.
“Lao’er, why don’t you go to the hospital first,” Qi Yan sat in the car and looked at his seriously injured face, “If people who didn’t know saw it, they would think that the police had beaten you up.”
The police officers: …
Lao’er wanted to knock Qi Yan’s head with his backhand, but thinking that he had taken such a big risk to save himself, he resisted the urge.
When they were halfway there, the police car driving in front stopped, and Biaozi jumped out of the window and attempted to run away. After a few steps, there was a thunderbolt in the sky which happened to hit him. He lay on the ground and flicked his legs a few times, and then stopped moving.
Everyone who witnessed what happened looked at the bright sun in the sky, and was stunned.
“Oh, damn, this is really an eye-opener.” Lao’er was leaning against the window, looking at Biaozi who fell on the ground, “It’s amazing to see lightning on a sunny day”
Qi Yan retracted his outstretched fingers and said to the police, “Sir, can I call my friend?”
“Huh?” The police officer who was still in a state of shock nodded blankly, his eyes still staring straight ahead.
At the end of the meeting, Cen Baihe got up and was about to leave the conference room when his phone rang.
“Qian Qian?”
“Baihe, you have to come pick me up in a bit.”
“What happened?” Cen Baihe raised his tone slightly.
The senior manager who had not walked out of the meeting room turned back silently. He looked at the boss’s dark expression, and retracted his curious gaze.
