“Yuan Yuan?” she muttered and she suddenly felt her head hurt.
She shook her head and felt a buzzing sound in her head as though it had been stung by a bee.
Chen Jiahang quickly held her hand when he saw that she seemed pale. He wrote anxiously on a piece of paper, “Yan Yan, who is Yuan Yuan?”
He Xiyan shook her head hard and said, “I don’t know either.”
She merely felt her head hurt at the mention of his name.
Mo Yixuan had already walked away from their house. He dug out his phone and quickly made a call.
“Hello, sir…” Wu Xiaomin who was at Ye City answered.
“Bring Yuan Yuan over to Ming City today,” Mo Yixuan immediately said as soon as she picked up the call.
Wu Xiaomin was completely stunned and it was a while before she responded. What was their master trying to do and why did his instructions sound so absurd?
“Sir, it will be Lunar New Year’s Eve in two days. Are you not intending to return home?” Wu Xiaomin asked in surprise and gave an irrelevant response.
Mo Yixuan snapped back in annoyance, “I told you to bring Yuan Yuan over to Ming City. Are you deaf?” He didn’t want to repeat himself.
Wu Xiaomin was so stunned that she didn’t dare question his instructions any further. She merely said, “Sir, but I don’t know if I’ll be able to get tickets to Ming City because it is now the end of the year.”
“Find a way to get here. I’ll allow you to claim ten times the amount, so settle it on your end,” Mo Yixuan said coldly before he hung up.
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Yuan Yuan was on board the flight by Wu Xiaomin the next day at Ye City and they were accompanied by two bodyguards that his father had hired.
Yuan Yuan wore a blue denim jacket, a baseball cap and carried a small backpack that contained his water bottle, sketchpad, paintbrushes, and several children’s books.
He seemed very surprised to be on a plane and constantly peppered Wu Xiaomin with questions.
“Aunty, where are we going?” Yuan Yuan didn’t understand why Wu Xiaomin had brought him here.
“Ming City!” Wu Xiaomin said with a smile and ruffled his hair affectionately.
“Where is Ming City?” Yuan Yuan asked as he fingered the edge of his cap and looked at Wu Xiaomin curiously.
“It’s very far away. Um… it’s more than 2,000 kilometers away. Your father is there right now.”
“What is my father doing there? It’s going to be the Lunar New Year soon, so I want to spend it with my grandmother and Ye Ye,” Yuan Yuan said with displeasure. He didn’t want to go so far away. His father should be the one coming home.
Wu Xiaomin couldn’t say anything in response and shook her head at Yuan Yuan. She didn’t know why they were going there either.
They arrived at Ming City’s airport at 2 PM as scheduled. Yuan Yuan was immediately taken away by his father Mo Yixuan when they arrived at the airport.
Yuan Yuan looked at this unfamiliar city. He wasn’t familiar with this city at all and he didn’t even understand the dialects the people here spoke.
His father brought him to a huge supermarket and he watched as his father carted out large amounts of food, basic essentials, clothes, and so on.
Then, his father led him up a car that drove into a remote area.
He could either see trees or mountains on both sides of the road and there was not a single house in sight. The road was long and winding and the car would also turn left and right according to the winding roads. He felt very frightened even though he was wearing a seat belt and gripped his seat tightly.
Yuan Yuan shrank backward when the car was moving along a dangerous road. He was afraid that the car would fall off the cliff.