Chapter 1457
Zhang Ma skillfully opened the safe in Qin Shujie’s study, and then she took out a few jadeite pendants and two bundles of cash from it.
Zhang Ma’s face could not help but reveal a look of excitement, but soon, this excitement turned into hesitation and her face paled.
After thinking about it, Zhang Ma put the jadeite pendant back, leaving only one piece behind.
Then, Zhang Ma closed the safe.
After standing in place and hesitating for a moment, Zhang Ma then gritted her teeth and turned around to leave, however, just as she turned around, she saw that two people were actually standing at the entrance of the study at some point, but it was Ji Feng and Qin Shujie.
“Swish!” In a flash, Zhang Ma’s face immediately turned pale, and her whole body fell into extreme fear and panic, with a strong look of shame in her eyes.
Zhang Ma’s body trembled, and her body shook a few times, almost not falling to the ground.
“Qin, Chief Qin ……” Zhang Ma wanted to open her mouth to explain, but after opening her mouth, she could only give a dry, deflated cry before she could no longer say anything.
Looking at her like that, she was simply dying of shame!
Qin Shujie was incomparably disappointed, as she looked at Zhang Ma and couldn’t help but sigh, “Zhang Ma, I really didn’t expect that you would actually do such a thing!”
“Mr. Qin ……” Zhang Ma’s voice was trembling a bit, but she didn’t know what to say, she had been caught stealing by Qin Shujie, now there was no use for her to say anything, moreover, she really had nothing to explain.
“Zhang Ma, I have always thought that you were an honest and proper person. Ever since you came to our house, you have done the same, you are honest and hardworking, and I have never looked down on you, but I didn’t expect that you were hiding it so well, I didn’t even notice it for so long, you actually ……” Qin Shujie sighed lightly and didn’t say any more.
She was really disappointed, originally she had great trust in Zhang Ma, sometimes she treated her as if she was her own family member instead of treating her as just a nanny. Even Yao Yao, who didn’t even know that Zhang Ma was the family’s nanny, still thought that Zhang Ma was their family member.
If she didn’t think so highly of Zhang Ma and trust her words so much, Qin Shujie wouldn’t have felt comfortable leaving Yoyo in her hands. In the past, when Qin Shujie went out, she always asked Zhang Ma to look after Yao Yao, precisely because Zhang Ma was very proper.
If she had been replaced by someone less reliable, what if she had kidnapped Yoyo? Or what if she had stolen something from the house?
To be able to leave Yoyo in Zhang Ma’s care with complete confidence was a kind of trust in itself.
However, Zhang Ma had betrayed Qin Shujie’s trust. First, she suddenly left Yoyo alone at home without caring, and left without even telling Qin Shujie. And now, she had actually become a thief again, and had opened the family safe so skillfully.
If she hadn’t kept an eye out before, how could Zhang Ma have known the combination to the safe?
It was evident that Zhang Ma was afraid that she had already started preparing a long time ago, for today.
Zhang Ma’s face turned white at Qin Shujie’s words, and her whole body could barely stand up, her eyes were both ashamed and embarra*sed, and she even almost cried out.
Seeing this, Qin Shujie did not want to say anything else.
She shook her head and said, “Put all the things in your hand back, seeing as you did your best to take care of Yao Yao before, I’ll pretend that I didn’t see this matter, but you can’t continue to stay in this house in the future, leave the key behind, I’ll settle your salary ……”
“Mr. Qin!”
Zhang Ma suddenly exclaimed, “Chief Qin, don’t fire me, please ……”
“Keep your voice down!”
Qin Shujie’s face was chilly, “Do you want to wake up Yao Yao? She was already terrified from being left at home, let her sleep peacefully, okay?”
Zhang Ma’s voice immediately stopped abruptly, but tears flowed down uncontrollably.
“Qin, Mr. Qin, please don’t fire me, I, I can’t help it if I do this!” Zhang Ma whimpered, but did not dare to speak any louder.
“There’s no way out?”
Qin Shujie shook her head, “I didn’t force you to do this …… Zhang Ma, don’t pester, let’s go.”
With that, Qin Shujie took two steps forward, took the things from Zhang Ma’s hand, and pulled out a stack of notes from the two bundles of cash and handed them to Zhang Ma.
“These are enough for your salary, keep the extra ones too.” Qin Shujie said.
She didn’t want to argue with Zhang Ma about anything, originally she still saw her as family, but the way Zhang Ma acted today made Qin Shujie only see her as an ordinary hired hand, then there was nothing more to say.
However, Zhang Ma’s reaction was very fierce, only to see her flopping down and kneeling down at once, crying, “Mr. Qin, I really have no choice, please forgive me this time, I beg you ……”
“You ……” Qin Shujie was instantly furious, “Zhang Ma, it’s useless for you to say anything, I really don’t dare to keep you anymore, go away!”
“Mr. Qin, I know you are a good person, please be kind, if you kick me out, my son will be dead.” Zhang’s mother begged, “Mr. Qin, please ……”
Qin Shujie, however, frowned slightly.
The first thing you need to do is to get a good idea of what you’re doing.
“…… What’s wrong with your son!” After a long time of silence, Qin Shujie only opened her mouth to ask.
Zhang’s mother’s face instantly flushed with joy as she said in a panic, “Mr. Qin, my son is being locked up, saying that he owes money, if I don’t see the money by tomorrow morning, my son’s life will not be saved ah, Mr. Qin, I really didn’t mean to steal anything, I went to sell blood, but they only gave me a few thousand dollars, I can’t help it, I really can’t help it ……”
Saying that, Zhang Ma rolled up her sleeve, and as expected, there was a needle hole on her arm with a blood crust on it, obviously it had just been stabbed not long ago.
“You get up and talk first!” Qin Shujie was stunned for a moment, and then said indifferently.
Ji Feng was beside him, helping Zhang’s mother to stand up.
“Isn’t your son in college? Who does he owe money to?” Qin Shujie asked.
“I don’t know.” Zhang Ma said.
“You don’t know?” Qin Shujie was stunned, “You don’t even know who your son owes money to and you ran off to sell blood?”
“I only know that that person is the owner of an arcade near my son’s college, and I don’t know his name.” Zhang’s mother said in a panic, “My son was just held up by him, they beat him up all over his body ah ……”
Qin Shujie and Ji Feng looked at each other, both of them immediately understood, Zhang’s mother’s son, obviously lost in the video game city gambling, as a result, owed a lot of money, people are detaining people waiting for money.
In fact, the so-called arcade nowadays is no longer the game hall it used to be in the nineties. The vast majority of arcade nowadays are slot machines and gambling machines, which, to put it bluntly, are gambling establishments that sell dog meat on a sheep’s head.
Don’t underestimate this kind of place, the amount of money gambled here can be large or small, and there are even many people who can lose all their money here overnight.
Apparently, Zhang’s mother’s son had lost a lot.
“How much money did your son owe to others?” Qin Shujie asked.
“They said that my son lost 20,000 ……” Zhang Ma’s tears came down again.
Qin Shujie nodded her head and said, “Twenty thousand, just twenty thousand.”
And then, she put both bundles of cash on the table and said, “Here is 20,000, take it and pay it back for your son, leave the key behind and be good to yourself in the future!”
“Mr. Qin ……” Zhang’s mother didn’t want to give up yet, “My son’s living expenses, all depend on my salary, please ……”
“Having a son like that is better than not having one at all!” Qin Shujie said, “I wouldn’t dare to use you again, there’s a first time and a second time, I’m afraid you’ll sell Yoyo!”
Zhang Ma had nothing more to say.
Qin Shujie had already said this much, she knew it was useless to beg any further, so she could only give Qin Shujie a bow, “Mr. Qin, thank you!”
“Go away!”
Qin Shujie waved her hand, her face calm.
Zhang’s mother’s heart was bleak despite the life-saving money she had received, and she walked out in a downcast manner.
“Wait a minute.” Qin Shujie suddenly said.
Zhang Ma’s face suddenly changed slightly, did Qin Shujie regret it?
“Ji Feng, it’s not too safe for her to carry so much money alone at this late hour, why don’t you see her off for a bit.” Qin Shujie said.
Ji Feng nodded and gave Qin Shujie a very meaningful look.
Qin Shujie was, indeed, a good woman.
This was the deepest understanding Ji Feng had of Qin Shujie through this matter.
She was good-natured, affectionate, and decisive, never dragging her feet, and very thorough in her considerations. More importantly, she is not cold.
To be able to get such a woman, Ji Feng felt that it was his luck.
His heart was suddenly free of burdens, getting Qin Shujie was a wise choice for him and should not be a burden on his heart!
Perhaps ……
Qin Shujie would also be a good helper for him, Ji Feng was lucky!
“Let’s go.”
Ji Feng said, “Don’t forget to leave the keys!”
“Drive carefully on the way, I won’t send you down.” Qin Shujie came to Ji Feng and gently tidied up his clothes, the affection in those beautiful eyes, even a blind person could see it, and she didn’t mind at all showing her emotions in front of Zhang Ma, Ji Feng was the one she loved, so what if she was adopted by Ji Feng on the outside?
After so much experience, she doesn’t care what others think!
Chapter 1458
When Ji Feng took Zhang’s mother out of Qin Shujie’s neighborhood, he found that the white spider had fallen asleep in the car, his heart could not help but feel a little sorry for himself, he was indeed a little ridiculous, letting the white spider wait in the car downstairs while he was up there making out with Qin Shujie.
The first thing I did was to look at the face of the spider, and suddenly Ji Feng smiled faintly.
And gradually, Ji Feng got to know the white spider better and better.
This is also a woman who is lonely at heart, but unlike Qin Shujie’s loneliness, Bai Spider’s loneliness is rooted in a life of wandering.
Living without a fixed place, and not knowing where her future lies, not knowing where she should go in the future, not even having someone to rely on, not having anyone to befriend, this is where Bai Spider is most lonely.
However, now she has gradually integrated into the family, and her relationship with Xiao Yuxuan and Tong Lei has improved, and with Xiao Ying and Han Zhen, she is even closer.
Although Xiao Ying and Han Zhen were not very talkative, the three of them had a lot of common language together and would often exchange ideas on kung fu or talk about private conversations between the girls.
Xiao Yuxuan and Tong Lei would occasionally join in, they did not regard the three White Spiders as bodyguards, after all, they had lived together for so long that they had long since got used to their presence.
It was the same as Qin Shujie gradually treating Zhang Ma as family.
“I don’t know, will White Spider leave in the future, perhaps, she will also find someone she likes and live the life she wants?” This thought flashed through Ji Feng’s mind, and he soon shook his head.
He was now used to White Spider following him around, and if one day White Spider suddenly left, he would really be uncomfortable.
Especially when he thought that Bai Spider might find a man who loved her, Ji Feng didn’t want to think about it any further.
“What happens later, let’s talk about it later, no one knows what will happen tomorrow!” Ji Feng secretly said, but in his heart he had some hazy thoughts, perhaps even he himself was not too sure.
Anyway, he did not want the white spider to leave.
Ji Feng’s gaze couldn’t help but fall on the white spider’s face once again and secretly sighed, the white spider was also tired.
Suddenly, Ji Feng noticed that the white spider’s eyes moved imperceptibly. Although she didn’t open her eyes, Ji Feng believed that he wasn’t hallucinating just now.
The white spider must have woken up!
Ji Feng then immediately smiled, this kind of vigilance of the white spider was really integrated into her bones, when she woke up, she would not open her eyes immediately, but would continue to pretend to sleep and listen to the surrounding movements and environment first before this would open her eyes.
This was a kind of extreme vigilance.
Ji Feng had also developed such a habit when he was trained in the training space of the intelligent brain, so when he saw the white spider’s eyes move slightly, he immediately knew that the white spider was awake.
But from this, he could also see from the side what kind of life the White Spider had actually led before.
Zhang Ma stood next to her, watching Ji Feng fidgeting in front of the car, she didn’t dare to rush her, after all, she herself was weak-minded and didn’t have the slightest confidence to speak of in front of Ji Feng.
Besides, it was good enough for Ji Feng to drive her there, it was so late, she really didn’t dare to carry the money around by herself.
Swish!
Bai Spider opened her eyes, she then saw Ji Feng standing outside the car, she then immediately sat up.
“Young Ji.”
The haziness was no longer in Bai Spider’s beautiful eyes, this was one of the utilities why she didn’t open her eyes immediately after waking up, Bai Spider quickly put the seat backrest up and opened the door to get out of the car.
“Ji Shao, I’m sorry, I was just ……”
Before White Spider could finish her words, Ji Feng couldn’t help but laugh: “Why so nervous, sleeping isn’t a big deal, besides I’m not that harsh, right?”
“Mm!”
Bai Spider nodded her head somewhat embarra*sed.
Ji Feng stretched out his hand and ruffled it twice on her head, sleeping just now made her hair a bit messy.
Bai Spider’s pretty face suddenly flushed slightly, but she quickly let it go and allowed Ji Feng to smooth out her hair, the corners of her mouth, with a slight smile, seemed to have a faint sweetness to it.
“Let’s go.” Ji Feng straightened her hair and said with a smile.
“Yes!”
White Spider immediately opened the door and got into the car, while asking, “Young Ji, are we going home?”
Going home?
Her heart suddenly warmed, yes, home!
This word had only appeared in her dreams for her too, but now she could say it out loud, which made her feel warm.
“Don’t go home first!”
Ji Feng, however, did not feel the change in White Spider’s state of mind as he said, “We have to send her to a place first.”
He pointed at Zhang Ma who was somewhat restrained next to him.
“Understood.” White Spider also looked back at Zhang Ma, but didn’t ask anything.
“Zhang Ma, get in the car!” Ji Feng said.
“…… hey!”
According to the address Zhang Ma said, the three of them arrived at Jiangzhou University City, and Ji Feng didn’t expect that Zhang Ma and himself would even go the same way.
Zhang Ma’s son’s name was Wang Lixiang and he was studying at Jiangzhou Institute of Science and Technology, which was an ordinary institution, but it was also located within the university city. The arcade where Wang Lixiang gambled was located on a commercial street near the university city.
Ji Feng was very familiar with this street, as he would often bring Tong Lei here to shop and play.
Soon, the three of them drove to the arcade that Zhang’s mother had mentioned. Although it was already midnight, the arcade was still brightly lit, with many people going in and out, and business was booming.
Ji Feng looked up and glanced at it, “The Windy City of Video Games?”
He said to Zhang Ma, who was sitting in the pa*senger seat, “Zhang Ma, go ahead.”
“Hey hey!”
Zhang Ma nodded in a panic and got out of the car, seemingly with some hesitation, she glanced back at Ji Feng, only to find that Ji Feng was leaning against the backrest with his arms clasped, but his gaze was no longer looking at her.
The first thing she did was to look at her, but she couldn’t help it.
While lamenting in her heart, Zhang Ma gritted her teeth and headed for the arcade.
Her son was still inside, maybe he was being beaten up again now.
“Young Ji, why are we here?” White Spider asked, “I see that this lady seems to have something on her mind, should I go over and take a look?”
“No need!”
Ji Feng leaned back in his seat with his arms around him and said indifferently, “It’s none of our business!”
Bai Spider then nodded thoughtfully, Ji Feng’s tone wasn’t too good, it was obvious that he wasn’t too happy with the lady just now and probably had some opinions.
Ji Feng also didn’t say anything to White Spider about Zhang Ma, after all, stealing was really not something honorable, no matter what Zhang Ma’s reason for stealing was, at least her behavior was inexcusable.
“But ……”
The first thing you need to do is to get a good idea of what you’re doing. This arcade is actually still running like hotcakes, it seems to be another one with a background!”
For many people, the saying “rules are dead, people are alive” could not be more appropriate at the moment.
The government of Jiangzhou has explicit regulations, but here the arcade is still open, and the nearest school is less than two kilometres away!
The company’s oldest son is now the secretary of the Wanhe District Committee, so he should be able to manage this area.
“White spider, let’s go.” Ji Feng once again took a look at that Windy City video game and turned his head and said.
“Yes!”
Bai Spider answered.
She immediately started the car and turned it around to prepare to go home.
“Xiaosheng ……” Just then, a scream suddenly came from not far away, and Ji Feng and the two of them immediately followed the sound and saw a man falling to the ground at the entrance of the Feng Yun Rising arcade, followed by a few wolf-like guys who kept driving the man out.
“It’s that lady!” White Spider said immediately.
Ji Feng nodded, he also saw that the person who had fallen to the ground was no other than Zhang Ma, who had just gone in. But at this moment she was in a very bad shape, being driven outwards by several guys who were like wolves, those guys didn’t treat her as a woman in the slightest and pushed her outwards even after seeing her fall on the ground.
“That’s a bit much!” White Spider said.
Ji Feng didn’t say anything, only that his brows were furrowed.
Those few guys were obviously the thugs and other characters of the arcade, which was understandable, usually in such places, there would definitely be people coming to cause trouble, or people who lost and were not willing to pay, this was a common thing, so the owners of the arcade would usually keep a few thugs.
However, these few guys were obviously going too far.
Even though Ji Feng didn’t have a good feeling about Zhang’s mother, he couldn’t see past it. She was just a middle-aged woman, and I was afraid that a fall would be too much for her, so how could she withstand the pushing and shoving of those guys?
“Young Ji, do you want me to go over there?” White Spider asked.
“Let’s go together.” Ji Feng didn’t think much about it and said directly.
Bai Spider turned off the engine and the two of them immediately opened the door and got out, striding towards the arcade.
“Are you guys still being reasonable, I’ve already paid, why don’t you let my son go!” Zhang’s mother was pushed and fell a few times, and only when she reached the outside of the arcade did she sit on the ground and cry out, crying and shouting, “Xiao Sheng!”
“What the hell are you shouting for!”
A strong man couldn’t help but curse and swear, “You old B*tch, it’s only right to pay a debt, your son owes so much money, and you want him for 20,000? Dream on!”
“But, but you are talking about 20,000!” Zhang’s mother was scared and aggrieved, but when she thought that her son was still in their hands, she argued her case again.
“That was before, now it’s gone up, without 100,000, wait until tomorrow to collect your son’s corpse!” The strong man grunted.
