Chapter 29 You are a Child of the Universe
Gao Manman had just got off work. She had been living in another house purchased by her family for the past few days. Just as she changed her shoes, her cell phone rang.
When she saw the name in the note, she hung up impatiently, but the phone rang again.
"What are you doing?"
"Did Zhou Zhou go to your place?"
"No, she didn't go home?"
When Gao Manman heard that Lin Wanzhou did not return home, her heart suddenly tightened. As a result, as soon as Lin's father hung up the phone, another call came from an unknown number.
"Hello, who is this?"
A deep male voice came from the other end of the phone, muffled as if there was a rag stuffed in his mouth, and with a strong local accent.
"Lin Wanzhou's mother, right? I've kidnapped your daughter. Don't call the police, or you'll be responsible for the consequences. I'll call you again tomorrow."
After just saying this, the call was hung up. Gao Manman was confused at first, but when she realized the message on the phone, she almost fainted.
In a roadside telephone booth.
"Pah, pah, pah."
Xu Cheng spat out the paper ball that was stuffed in his mouth.
Fortunately, I have watched a lot of movies and TV series and have rich experience. I have seen the kidnapping scene dozens of times, if not hundreds of times, and I am very familiar with the lines.
Lin Wanzhou looked at him anxiously, "Xu Cheng, will my mother be too worried about me to sleep? I don't want my mother to be sad..."
Xu Cheng touched her head and said, "Silly boy, the more your mother worries about you, the more she will blame herself. Only in this way will she realize her mistakes. Besides, a short pain is worse than a long one. It is worth being sad for a day so that things can be resolved smoothly."
"Stop calling me an idiot!"
Lin Wanzhou said seriously, "I'm not that naive. In fact, I have thought about it seriously. Apart from this extreme method, I really can't think of a way to calm them down and have a good talk, so I won't give up easily."
Xu Cheng smiled and took her to continue towards their destination .
Basic move, brilliant move, common move, this time Xu Cheng chose a bold and brilliant move. To use popular words, Xu Cheng was reckless, and in the game, recklessness usually leads to loss.
So Xu Cheng has to stay safe now and make detailed arrangements. Not only must he plan every step in advance, but he must also protect Lin Wanzhou and take good care of her.
He set a time limit of one day for the entire plan, and would probably complete it by tomorrow night, so that the effect and scope of the kidnapping would be just right.
And this day just happens to include a night.
Overnight stay became a big problem. He couldn't take Lin Wanzhou home, let alone leave her on the streets. The chaotic social environment meant too many uncertainties for two underage children.
Fortunately, he had established connections early on...
He took Lin Wanzhou to stop at a small two-story hotel. There was a lot of traffic here. He took the initiative to hold Lin Wanzhou's hand. Lin Wanzhou seemed a little nervous and let him hold her hand tightly.
Noticing that Xu Cheng frequently looked towards the small hotel, Lin Wanzhou whispered a reminder in his ear.
"Xu Cheng, it seems that you need an ID card to stay in a hotel."
"Don't worry, we are waiting for the servants here."
In order to wait for the person to come soon, the fat man Li Qiuyang mixed in the crowd, glanced at Xu Cheng, and then walked past him as if nothing had happened, and secretly stuffed a room card into Xu Cheng's hand. The whole set of actions was like an informant contact in a spy blockbuster.
"Good brother, be loyal!"
This small hotel was owned by Li Qiuyang's family. Xu Cheng asked him to help get the room card for this room, so that they would have a place to stay. And after the matter was over, as long as he and Lin Wanzhou insisted that they slept on the streets at night, Li Qiuyang would naturally not be involved.
I swiped my card to open the door. It was not a large room, not a luxury suite, but just a narrow single room. Fortunately, the environment was clean and there was a large color TV.
Lin Wanzhou's eyes were shining, and there was an indescribable sense of wonderful freshness.
This experience was so special. It was the first time that she lived in a room outside with her peers instead of her parents.
Independence, freedom, casualness, and laxity... When these taboo words for children are broken, the joy they feel is incomparable.
This is why all the first experiences in life are portrayed more carefully and lastingly.
"Let's eat instant noodles." Xu Cheng took out the bucket of noodles he had bought on the road just now, made by Master Kang, luckily it didn't have pickled cabbage.
"I'll help you." Lin Wanzhou ran over to help Xu Cheng fetch water and tear the seasoning bags like a virtuous hostess.
It is said that the seasoning bags of instant noodles were very difficult to tear at first. One year during the Spring Festival Gala, Niu Qun and Feng Gong reflected on this problem in their crosstalk "Dot Company", and only then did seasoning bags with serrated edges come into the market.
If this happened on the Spring Festival Gala 20 years later, this would be something that we would never dare to think about.
Xu Cheng took two mouthfuls of noodles and happened to see Lin Wanzhou sitting by the bed, rolling the noodles with a fork over and over again, finally rolling them into a big lump before stuffing them into his mouth.
Looking up and meeting Xu Cheng's gaze, Lin Wanzhou blushed in embarrassment, "I just wanted to try it ... Mom would get angry if I ate like this at home."
"Oh, it turns out that the good girl Lin Wanzhou can also be rebellious at heart."
"I hate you." Lin Wanzhou shook her legs in embarrassment and lowered her head. "Actually, I'm not being good either. I tried hard to act like the person my mother likes in order not to make her angry."
"And... I always feel that I'm the kind of scheming woman described in the astrology books." Lin Wanzhou said softly, her clear eyes dimming a little.
"My parents were always busy with work, so we seldom had the chance to go out as a family. Even if we went out occasionally, they would often leave for something. So when I was a kid, I pretended to like riding the Ferris wheel. In fact, I didn't like it at all, and I would even break out in a cold sweat. But I still asked my parents to take me there, because in that small cabin, no one in our family would suddenly leave..."
Xu Cheng stretched out his finger and gently scratched the tip of her nose. "Don't think like that. Be gentle to yourself. You are just a child of the universe, no different from plants and stars."
Lin Wanzhou raised his head and looked at Xu Cheng, his eyes were like a pool of clear water without a trace of impurities.
"Xu Cheng always speaks encouraging words like an adult."
"It's not me who said that. It's from Max Elman's book," Xu Cheng explained.
“But I love this quote!”
In fact, Lin Wanzhou has a bit of a people-pleasing personality. Because she is afraid of losing, she always tries hard to meet her parents' expectations of her.
Like eating etiquette, speaking etiquette, studying hard, serving as class leaders...
In fact, she may not really like doing these things in her heart. She is just like a girl carefully picking up shells on the beach, afraid of losing everything.
Listening to Lin Wanzhou's confession, Xu Cheng couldn't help but touch her hair, "Don't make yourself so tired all the time, at least I will always be here." Looking at Lin Wanzhou's crystal eyes, he said softly, "Have you forgotten that we said we would grow up together? I will always be by your side."
"What if I make you angry?"
"Then I'll spank you."
"Hate~"
After a busy day, both of them were very tired. They turned off the lights and lay on the bed. Lin Wanzhou talked to herself incessantly, and soon she fell asleep beside Xu Cheng because of sleepiness.
The room fell silent. Xu Cheng could clearly hear her breathing, and the air she exhaled hit his body, wet and hot.
“Boom boom boom.”
Such silence was broken.
The room was not soundproofed and noises could be heard from upstairs, the sound of gongs and drums, accompanied by the chirping of beautiful women, mixed with the panting of people who had done heavy work.
Lin Wanzhou was awakened at some point. After listening for a long time, he couldn't help but ask curiously, "Xu Cheng, what are they doing? What's that noise?"
Xu Cheng coughed lightly, "They should be...cutting trees."
"Cutting down trees?" Lin Wanzhou exclaimed in surprise. An image of a man and a woman holding axes and chopping down trees appeared in his mind. It really matched the image.
The two men stopped talking, and the man upstairs seemed to be tired of chopping wood, so he took a break for a while. But it was quiet for only a few minutes, and then the sound of machines was heard again.
“Now it’s time to use a chainsaw!”
Lin Wanzhou said with great confidence.
