"Alright, wife, stop hitting him."
A few minutes later, Liu Yuanqiao stepped forward and stopped Madam Liu, who was using a stick to express her motherly love with brutal efficiency.
Liu Zihao was almost moved to tears. His own father was the best. He was indeed his father's favorite child.
Liu Yuanqiao wiped the sweat from his wife's head: "It's not worth tiring yourself out hitting this beast. Go rest on the sofa, I'll take over in the second half."
Liu Zihao: "…"
Too rash, ah ಥ_ಥ.
Am I some kind of free gift you get when you top up your phone?
"Yuanqiao, that's enough. You'll hurt the child if you keep hitting him. I also consider him like half a son, and it pains me when he's hit!" Su Qing stopped Liu Yuanqiao from continuing to beat his nephew.
Liu Zihao's mouth twitched. You're five years younger than me, and you say you treat me like a half-son?
You can't take advantage of me so shamelessly, you have to follow some basic logic.
Liu Yuanqiao heard this and pointed at Liu Zihao, "For your Uncle Su's sake, let's stop here today. You little brat, what are you waiting for? Don't you have a mouth?"
"Thank you, Uncle Su. I know I was wrong, I won't dare to do it again in the future." Liu Zihao forced a smile that was uglier than a cry, his emotions mixed.
He was still thinking about the python swallowing the dragon during the day, but he was hit with a dimensional reduction attack at night. He hated seniority!
Su Qing had a gentle smile on his face as he handed him a red envelope, "It's good that you can correct your mistakes. This is a small token of my appreciation, take it."
Looking at the red envelope in front of him, Liu Zihao was filled with grief and felt it was simply too much!
Then he accepted it with tears in his eyes, since it was free.
His buddies were all trying to suppress their laughter.
"Pfft—"
Xue Ying couldn't help but burst out laughing, then said awkwardly, "I thought of something funny."
"Hmph!" Liu Zihao gave her a cold look.
Slap!
Liu Yuanqiao slapped him again, and scolded, "Hmph what hmph! That's your Aunt Su!"
Liu Zihao: "..."
He felt that life was really fucked up.
After dinner, Su Qing and Xue Ying left.
Liu Yuanqiao and his family saw them off.
"Nephew, come and visit your uncle's house when you have time," Su Qing said, patting Liu Zihao's head before getting into the car.
"Okay, Uncle Su, I'll definitely go when I have time," Liu Zihao said with a smile on his face, but in his heart, he was cursing.
Watching the Rolls-Royce drive away, Liu Zihao took out the red envelope Su Qing had given him. This was his only solace tonight. Having this uncle wasn't for nothing, and he didn't get beaten up for nothing; there was something to be gained after all.
With an expectant heart, he tore open the red envelope, and the smile on his face gradually stiffened. There were only two yuan inside.
He remembered what Su Qing had said when he gave him the red envelope.
A million grass-mud horses galloped through his heart.
Damn, that's really just a token gesture.
"You've been a bit too full of yourself lately. Put your business dealings aside for now, and focus on your actual job. It'll help you calm down and reflect," Liu Yuanqiao said to Liu Zihao.
He genuinely had no idea that Liu Zihao was targeting the Zijin Group. He was truly ignorant of his own limitations. Could he really go up against the Zijin Group, a company of that size?
So, he was genuinely angry tonight. Luckily, Su Qing was his elder brother; otherwise, if they really angered the Zijin Group, the Liu family would be in deep trouble.
Liu Zihao was taken aback: "My actual job? Dad, it's been so long since I've done that. Forget it."
His actual job was archaeology, a professional field.
"Stop talking nonsense. It's precisely because you haven't done it in a while that you should go. Otherwise, you'll forget everything. Go out and calm down. I'll make arrangements for you to go to the Sanxingdui Archaeological Team."
This is how it is for the children of the wealthy and powerful. When they want to work, their families can arrange any job for them, even ones that are at heights others in the related industries can only dream of reaching.
The Sanxingdui Archaeological Team wasn't just researching Sanxingdui; they were using the Lishu stone tablet as their core, starting from Sanxingdui to study everything related to prophecy.
After the Lishu stone tablet appeared, it suggested that someone in ancient times could foresee the future. So, why weren't there any related records in the dynasties?
Now, the higher-ups wanted to excavate everything, to find more information and verify the authenticity of the prophecy.
After the Lishu stone tablet was unearthed, the Sanxingdui Archaeological Team had been racking their brains to get in, but couldn't.
Yet, Liu Zihao could easily join.
"Alright, I'll go after I arrange things at the company."
Liu Zihao didn't dare to go against his father's wishes.
Moreover, he was also interested in Sanxingdui. Maybe he could dig up a cultivation technique.
On the other side, Su Qing was taking Xue Ying home.
It was so late that the school dorms were already closed.
"I'm here, bye-bye."
After arriving at the villa area, Xue Ying prepared to get out of the car.
Su Qing grabbed her hand, "What else?"
"What else do you want to do?" Xue Ying had already realized something, feeling a little nervous and a little expectant.
What else do I want to do, you don't know?
Su Qing said seriously, "As the saying goes, a big bird will find any forest. My demands aren't high; I just want to find my own forest."
"Pah, look at you!" Xue Ying said, blushing with anger.
Su Qing changed his request, "Then a kiss."
"No." Xue Ying refused, though her heart wasn't in it.
When a woman says no, she means yes.
Su Qing directly embraced her and kissed her.
"Mmm mmm mmm~ Bastard, mmm..."
A few minutes later, Su Qing finally let her go.
After Xue Ying got out of the car, she blushed and straightened her messy long dress, cursing a certain bad guy through gritted teeth.
Su Qing, on the other hand, went home, feeling satisfied.
"Humans' aesthetics are really strange. They actually like women with two legs. A female Leopard with four legs is the most beautiful creature in the world," the Leopard despised Su Qing.
Su Qing didn't even bother to argue with the beast, because how could a beast understand the joys of men?
Wait, some beasts do understand. Like the dog protagonists that often appear in certain foreign special movies, those dogs are really suffering and aren't even paid.
These capitalists are really hateful; they can treat people like beasts and also treat beasts like people.
After Xue Ying returned home, her parents and brother were all surprised, because she usually lived at school.
"Why did you come back suddenly?" Her brother, Xue Che, who was currently helping out at the family company, asked.
Xue Ying said with a grin, "I missed you guys. I'll go take a shower first, and we'll chat later."
"You didn't even call when you got back. If I'd known, I would have waited for you to eat," Xue's father put down his teacup.
"That girl has a boyfriend," Madam Xue suddenly said, looking at the puzzled expressions of the father and son. She further explained, "Her stockings were snagged."
Xue Ying had let her guard down.
"Damn it, who did it!" Xue Che was furious.
Xue's father's expression was also not good. After all, his nineteen-year-old, beautiful daughter had been defiled.
Madam Xue rolled her eyes, "Alright, why are you so agitated? She's not going to stay unmarried for life. And judging by her walk, it probably hasn't gotten that far."
Xue Che sat down, crestfallen, but he was determined to find out who the pig was that had secretly defiled his sister.
Upstairs, Xue Ying had just taken off her dress when she noticed a run in her stockings, her pretty face immediately paling.
"Damn, I hope Mom and Dad didn't see that?"
Waaaah, it's all that bad guy's fault. He's getting more and more outrageous. He's really ruining me.
The more she thought about it, the angrier she got. She picked up her phone and sent Su Qing a pig head and a cleaver emoji.
Su Qing: "???"
Xue Ying couldn't be bothered to reply to this bad guy and ignored him.
When she went downstairs with a nervous heart, she found that her parents and older brother were acting normal. Only then did she secretly breathe a sigh of relief. No one had noticed her stockings just now.
Tonight was really a close call.
A day later, Su Qing contacted Wang Hai in advance and then took the Leopard's soul to the Northwest.
At the same time, Liu Zihao officially went to Sichuan to join the Sanxingdui Archaeological Team and started his old profession.
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