Chapter 10

Aonashi kicked Martha’s father so violently that the man couldn’t resist, but none of the three mother-daughter trio went up to help either.

When she stopped, the man rose shakily from the floor, looking at him with angry defiance and clenched fists.

“I’ll count you as a man if you dare to come up and fight back a little.” Greenleaf watched as the other man stood slack-jawed, holding his arms.

The man didn’t, he knew he couldn’t fight, and even more so, he knew that Qing Li was Yue Zhi’s person, he couldn’t afford to mess with him.

So he just stood still and cursed.

Qing Li snorted lightly, looking at him with cold eyes, “If I see any more injuries from them, this supermarket of yours is going to have to change its owner, and your existence is of no use to this family anyway.”

The man shivered and took a step back, stumbling into the inner room.

Martha sent Green Pear away, rubbing the bruise on her arm from her father’s kick, “Ms. Pear, thank you for helping us.”

Qing Li opened her mouth, didn’t say anything, turned to pull the car door, remembered the first time she met Martha, the other person’s arms holding her sister tightly, hard to receive a slap from her father, in seeing her at the door of the supermarket, one side of the highly swollen face squeezed out a smile, and hurriedly came out to greet her, “What does this young lady buy?

She turned back and pursed her lips, ”Do you really want to get married? You’re only fifteen, you’re still a child.”

Martha’s expression immediately froze, she lowered her head and rubbed her hands together somewhat helplessly, “Everyone is like that, the man I’m going to marry already has a wife, and his wife has agreed to it, legally compliant, there’s nothing wrong with it, and he’ll pay our family a bride price of seven thousand ringgit (about ten thousand and six hundred), in our town, there’s no one who has a higher bride price than me. high.”

“I’m asking if you want to get married yourself, don’t you want to continue going to school, I remember you and I used to say that you wanted to go to Kuala Lumpur to study at the university.”

Martha clutched her coat corner hard, “Going to college or not, I actually don’t care anymore, I’m just worried that after I’m gone, my mom and Sheila won’t have anyone to protect them when they get beat up by my dad again, and I’m also afraid that …… that man will beat me up like my dad did.”

“Then don’t get married.” Qing Li said, “Isn’t the wedding date not set yet, you try to delay it as much as possible, when I come back from Singapore, I will definitely help you think of a way.”

Martha slowly raised her eyes, “Really?” Then she rushed to Qing Li at once, grasping the other party’s hand with a death grip, “As long as you can let me not get married, let me do anything, I don’t want a bag, I don’t want anything, I can give you all the money that I secretly saved, although it’s not much ……”

Qing Li raised her hand to stop her incoherent words, “No, just wait at home and take good care of your sister.”

Martha looked at her without letting go.

Qing Li faded a beaded bracelet from her wrist, it was a very cheap oil palm kernel polished and made of white jade bodhi string, because it had been worn for many years it was already a bit yellowed and jadeized, this was when she was ten years old, when Gano’s real sister accompanied Vic to go out, she bought it at a stall and gave it to her.

“This is for you, it’s the only thing my sister left me.” She put the strand on Martha’s wrist, “You can give it to me when I return, and I’ll help you figure out what to do then.”

Martha let go of her hand then, nodding with red eyes.

Qing Li sat in the car and waved her hand towards Masha from the car window, “Go back.”

The car drove a little bit towards the mountain that belonged to Yue Zhi, she saw in the rearview mirror the Martha who was still waving her hand behind her, the other party was wearing a white dress and a white skirt, she looked light and airy, as she drifted away, the expectant and reluctant expression on Martha’s face slowly blurred.

And the memory of Gano really sister bizarrely overlap.

She looked through the car window at the backlit and darkly haunted mountains not far away, and the scene from two years ago came back to her mind.

“Take my brother to escape, please, don’t let him be sold, boys are different, he will be tortured to death, he is only fifteen years old ……”

After saying this, the sister’s swollen, blackened, tear-stained face appeared similar to Martha’s with anticipation and reluctance, anticipation of death and reluctance to let go of her brother, her fingers so thin that they could be easily broken by the mob and twisted in their joints gripped Aonashi’s hand vainly.

“You two need to …… be free ……”

Those last words were the last of her anger, and Aonashi almost had to press her ear to her lips to hear them, and then she never breathed again.

Kanojin came back from school crying his heart out, and Aonashi calmly and numbly wrapped her arms around him, looking at the body in front of her that had no good flesh on its body and was already reeking of decay, and touched her face.

There were no tears.

Since the death of her mother, the person closest to her, the one who was the best to her, had left, and she surprisingly had no tears.

She even pulled back Kanojin who wanted to go up and punch the dazed and stiffened Aozody standing in the doorway.

“It’s you! It’s all because of your mom, it’s your mom who killed my sister and tortured her to death alive!” Kanojin shouted angrily towards the young master he had followed since he was a child, he wanted to go up and beat Aozodi to death so that Vito would feel the same pain.

Qing Sudi unconsciously took a step backward.

Qing Li wrapped his arms around Kanojin and patted him on the back, looking up at his own brother, the overprotected and pampered young master of the Qing Clan who didn’t even know that there could be so much evil and filth in the place where he lived.

The face of a bewildered and shocked person who wanted to defend his mother but couldn t say anything …… was like an idiot.

How could she have this kind of brother How could this pampered, idiot like person be her brother?

“You go.” Qing Li looked at Qing Sudi, who was next to the still warm body, “Don’t stay here, this is not the place for you.”

Qing Sudi looked at his sister and Kanojin, he felt aggrieved, “I don’t know, this has nothing to do with me ……”

“That’s why I told you to leave.” Qing Li raised his eyes to look at him, from the bottom up, obviously looking up, but his eyes looked even colder, “Nothing here has anything to do with you, so hurry up and leave, we still have to gather the dead.”

Qing Sudi stumbled away, thinking that his sister must be angry with his mother, and when her anger subsided in a few days, she would surely still smile lightly at him like before.

Qing Li patted Ganojin’s back and looked vacantly at the remains on the ground, closing her eyes as if hypnotized and chanting, “My sister is gone, there’s still me, don’t worry, we’re all going to be fine, get out of here, get free, don’t worry ……”

She slowly opened her eyes, and in her eyes was the face of Saiji who was playing a game with an excited look on his face.

“Awake? It’s so noisy on the helicopter, thanks for falling asleep, sit up, we’re here.” Saiji said.

Qing Li sat up straight and looked down from the window, it was the model of urban construction in Southeast Asia, the country with the best urban environment and quality, the location of Yue Zhi business empire’s headquarter, Singapore.

The Qing family estate she’d almost been sold by Vito before was on the outskirts of Bandung, Indonesia’s second largest city, and as she passed by on the highway she saw a steel jungle she hadn’t seen in the previous eighteen years, the skyscrapers with their sharp, flat silhouettes at heights that the trees in the rainforest couldn’t reach.

But passing through was different from going deeper; this time she was actually going into the city.

At this point, she wasn’t even as experienced as one of the three-year-olds living in this city.

The helicopter landed on top of a building, and Xiji glanced out with some surprise, “Yo, Yue Zhi actually came to pick it up in person.” He glanced at Qing Li with ambiguous eyes, “It’s really in your honor.”

Qing Li glanced at him, not knowing if she heard the flirtation in his words, and got off the helicopter.

Yue Zhi stood not far away, wearing a casual white shirt and black suit pants that hunted in the wind swept up by the helicopter, outlining his tall and perfect figure, the shirt was tucked into the waist of his pants, which was extraordinarily thin and tough compared to his broad shoulders.

“What’s wrong?” Yue Zhi asked her with a smile, “Dull.”

Qing Li looked at him, “You really are good looking.”

Yue Zhi and Xiji both froze for a moment, he glanced at Xiji who was stifling his laughter and said warmly as he walked back, “It’s just that I look like I fit your definition of good looking.”

Qing Li followed him into the elevator at the top of the building, “Mr. Yue should meet at least ninety-eight percent ……9 of people’s definition of good looking.”

Yue Zhi looked at her and didn’t continue to discuss the topic, “Come with me to a dinner party tonight, tomorrow Ganojin will come over from school, let him accompany you around the city as a vacation.”

“Uh-huh.”

Yue Zhi looked at her vaguely expectant expression when she heard Ganojin, and turned his head to talk to Liang Jin about work.

From the elevator into the top floor of the building, several people dispersed, seemingly all having their own business, and Qing Li’s few people went into Yue Zhi’s oversized office that was located on the top floor.

“Hey, do you want to go hang out with me for a bit first.” Saiji invited her.

“Play what?”

“Going to the casino. The casino, it’s still early in the evening anyway.” Saiji didn’t have many other hobbies, he just liked this.

Qing Li refused, “I’ll just stay here with mister.”

Xiji frowned, “Don’t get so tense, relax, this is Yue Zhi’s office, you stay ……”

“Let her stay, not in the way.” Yue Zhi, who was talking to Liang Jin, took the time to look up and said, then he looked down at the file again.

Xiji glanced at Qingli, who was already sitting on the sofa, and flung the car keys away.

Qing Li sat on the sofa for a while and quietly came to the side in front of the floor-to-ceiling window and looked out the window.

Yue’s Building was located in the Marina Bay Financial Center, which was the heart of Singapore’s central business district, cementing Singapore’s important position as the financial capital of Southeast Asia and one of the most important business centers in the world.

The building was fifty-five stories high, one of the tallest buildings in Singapore, and as she stood in front of the window, she could see almost the entirety of Marina Bay, a view she hadn’t seen in twenty years.

There were all kinds of skyscrapers, and in the distance there was another building of about the same height with a top that looked like a ship, and further in the distance, there was the endless ocean with some small islands sporadically branched out on it.

Qing Li had seen the sea before, but she always felt that the sea here was different from the one she had seen not far from the Indonesian plantation, even if it was the same color, it seemed to have a more modern atmosphere.

“That’s the Golden Sands Bay Hotel, it’s kind of an entertainment center, tomorrow you and Ganojin can go there to play.”

Yue Zhi’s voice suddenly came from behind, Qing Li turned around and saw him and Liang Jin both looking at her, “Hotel? Are we staying there tonight?”

Liang Jin’s face was expressionless, “We have a property here, there is no need to go and stay ……”

“It can be.” Yue Zhi raised his hand to stop Liang Jin’s words, stood up and walked towards Qing Li, standing next to her, “Ah Li hasn’t stayed in a hotel yet, so let’s go and feel it out, Liang Jin, call and let two suites be left out, we won’t be going back to the manor tonight first.”

Liang Jin stalled for a moment, holding a pile of documents and went out.

“How is it, the view is not bad right.” Yue Qi asked.

“Uh-huh.” Qing Li nodded and pointed towards the Golden Sands Bay Hotel, “Are all three buildings hotels, can so many rooms be filled?”

Yue Zhi looked at her and smiled, “No, there’s also a shopping center, □□□ and such.” He raised his hand and pointed to the other side, “That’s the Singapore Ferris Wheel, and over there, you can’t see it from this angle, it’s the Gardens by the Bay, the super trees inside are quite interesting, you should be interested.”

His voice is not too low, clear and soft, the speed of speech is not fast and not slow, with a bit of pleasant and relaxed atmosphere, like Qingli introduced this part of Marina Bay is worth going to see the place, said in detail, and not boring.

Qing Li quietly listened, for some reason, the heart there suddenly had a strange feeling, as if itching, she raised her hand and pressed her chest, but as if scratching an itch through the boots, the strange feeling still existed.

“What’s wrong, uncomfortable?” Yue Zhi asked.

Qing Li shook her head, “Sir, why are you talking to me like this, I’m just …… not worth spending your precious time.”

Yue Zhi looked at her little face that hardly showed any intense expression, patted her head, and did not answer her question positively, “Don’t be bitter, I’m not the kind of workaholic you think I am, you’ve learned a lot of things in these two years, but that’s all just word pictures, it’s still important to actually go and see it in order to understand it.”

Qing Li also no longer pursued the question, to her, in fact, the reason for Yue Zhi’s behavior was not important, she just needed to accept everything that the other party gave.

“Tomorrow when Ganojin comes, I’ll ask him to take me to see all the places you mentioned.”

Yue Zhi lowered his eyes to look at her, gave a “hmm” and returned to his desk to continue working.