It wasn't until almost evening that the call was finally answered...
Instantly, I perked up!
After a few long beeps, the call finally connected! Before the other person could speak, I excitedly shouted, "Hey! Is this Xiluo? Why did you keep your phone off for so long? I'm still in Vietnam. I met someone on the plane, the stripper we saw on the ship..."
Before I could finish speaking, I suddenly heard a roar from the other end of the phone!
God is my witness. It was as terrifying as the roar of a female Tyrannosaurus Rex. Even over the phone, I could feel the other person's soaring rage and powerful shockwaves...
"You, surnamed Chen! Are you planning to die in Vietnam and not come back?! Stripper! What stripper? You actually stayed in Vietnam for a stripper and won't go home?! Do you want to die? You've learned to seduce other women now, haven't you? You even have your eye on strippers?!!"
My hand holding the phone immediately froze, and I quickly moved the receiver away from my ear to avoid having my eardrum ruptured by the sound waves...
Jojo!
The person who answered the phone was actually Qiaoqiao!
Before I could speak, there was static on the other end of the phone, like some faint sounds of an argument, then a man's "resentful" voice came through...
"Xiao Wu, I was worried you'd run into some danger after you disappeared for so long... I never imagined you'd be living it up in Vietnam... You actually made Qiao Qiao angry over a stripper, you're too much... Hmm, what does that stripper look like? Is she pretty? Is she got a great figure? Is she the bamboo shoot type or the bowl type? What are her measurements? And..."
If hearing Qiaoqiao's voice only shocked me, then hearing this voice really felt like seeing a ghost!
Ah Ze... It's actually Ah Ze!
I was stunned for only a short while before the phone changed hands again. This time, I finally heard Xiluo's voice, which sounded much more "normal" than before.
"Xiao Wu! How are you? Did you run into any trouble? Why didn't you get on the plane? Do you know how worried I was on the plane! I almost wanted to hijack it and go back to find you... Oh, we've arrived in Vietnam now, at Hanoi airport. And... uh, Miss Qiao insisted on coming with us, and I couldn't stop her..."
...
I can't remember how I managed to give my location in a dazed tone, and then, still in shock, the other person hung up. Before they did, I heard Qiaoqiao's voice: "We'll be there soon. Don't move, don't go anywhere!"
I spent the half hour before Qiaoqiao and the others arrived in a daze...
Wait... half an hour?
I snapped out of my daze... I've been to Hanoi Airport before, and I know that it takes at least an hour to drive there...
Just as I came to my senses, I heard a tremendous roar coming from outside!
"Chen Yang! Chen Xiaowu! You bastard! Get your ass out here right now!"
What a magnificent Shaolin Vajra Lion's Roar technique!
I had just opened the door and looked out when I immediately saw Miss Qiao rushing down the stairs like a whirlwind. Her eyes lit up with a flurry of expressions – relief, joy, anger, worry… Then she yelled and suddenly pounced on me, kicking me with her leg. Hands on her hips, she shouted, “You think you’re so tough now? Playing around outside and refusing to come home? Think you’re invincible?” Suddenly, her eyes darted around, and she yelled, “Damn it! Where’s that stripper you were talking about? Show her to me! What kind of vixen bewitched you so much you skipped a plane and ran off with someone! Where is she? Where is she? Where is she?”
I was kicked in the shinbone, and it stung terribly. I immediately bent over. At that moment, the mixed-race beauty inside stepped out, looking timid. She leaned against the door, her beautiful face showing fear and confusion. She stared at Qiaoqiao with wide eyes, seemingly at a loss…
Qiaoqiao's gaze immediately fell on the mixed-race beauty. I clearly saw a strange light flash in the female hooligan's eyes. Then she suddenly jumped to the mixed-race beauty's side and said, "It's you! You must be the stripper who made Chen Yang so infatuated that he didn't want to go home?"
I thought to myself, "Oh no! With Miss Qiao's explosive temper, who knows what she might do?" But just as I was worrying, Qiao Qiao suddenly took two steps back, giving the mixed-race beauty a lecherous look from head to toe. Then, her expression instantly changed. The anger on her face vanished without a trace, replaced by a charming smile—a smile as friendly as a big bad wolf seeing Little Red Riding Hood, and her eyes sparkling as brightly as a lecherous wolf seeing a beautiful woman.
"Hey! Beautiful lady, you know what? The moment I saw you, I felt like we were destined for each other... What's your name? Wait, don't tell me yet, please don't tell me, let me guess... Hmm! I bet your name is 'Angel'... right? Only that name is worthy of a beauty like you... Are you free tonight? How about we grab some coffee? Or have dinner together? Do you prefer French or Chinese food? Oh, this is Vietnam, why don't you come and experience the local scenery of Vietnam with me..."
The mixed-race beauty was somewhat flustered... In fact, given her experience, she was probably used to being looked at with such lecherous eyes, but being looked at with such lecherous eyes by a daughter... Nine out of ten women would probably faint.
She glanced at me somewhat helplessly, opened her mouth as if to speak, but Qiaoqiao had already boldly reached out to touch her face, a lewd smile on her face: "Your skin is so smooth... beautiful girl, what cosmetics do you usually use... don't be afraid... come on... girl! Give this grandpa a smile..."
The mixed-race beauty broke down; she screamed and turned to flee into the room…
"well……"
While I was still in a daze, I heard a sigh coming from the stairs, and then I saw Ah Ze stagger up, looking helpless and regretful. His attire was strange; he was wearing a shirt, clearly one of those traditional Vietnamese clothes he had just bought at the airport, and a pair of obviously newly purchased handcrafted wooden slippers. In his left hand, he was carrying a warm leather coat, and in his right hand, a pair of frost-resistant leather boots!
Aze had lost some weight, but he looked more melancholic, an air that undoubtedly made him more attractive to many young girls! He looked at Qiaoqiao and the doorway, a helpless expression on his face, and sighed, "What a gorgeous girl... Why am I so unlucky? Qiaoqiao got her first again..." Then his gaze finally fell on me, and he smiled slightly, revealing his white teeth: "Xiao Wu, we meet again... I'm so happy to see you still alive and kicking." But then his tone changed, becoming somewhat furtive: "Do you know any other gorgeous Vietnamese girls like this?"
Before I could speak, another cold, emotionless voice came from downstairs.
I saw Mu Tou's thin figure slowly walk up the stairs, give A Ze a cold look, and say very briefly: "With Qiao Qiao here, there's no place for you."
They've gone mad! They've really gone mad!
I never expected that when I called Xiluo, he would bring Qiaoqiao along too... And it's not that Qiaoqiao came, but my two other good friends actually came all the way here too!!!
The wooden man's gaze fell on me. He silently walked up to me, looked me up and down, and asked in a calm tone, "Are you injured?"
"Um... I... Wood, Aze... why are you here too..."
Wood didn't say anything, but reached out and touched my forehead, then looked at my wound, checked my pulse, and sighed: "I'm relieved to see you're still alive."
The wooden voice finally crackled with excitement. This wooden-clad fellow looked at me with a hint of agitation in his eyes.
The mixed-race beauty was so frightened that she hid in the room. I finally managed to pull Qiaoqiao out, and she sighed, "What a huge loss! What a huge loss! If I had known that Vietnam had such amazing girls, I should have come here to visit a couple of years ago."
I have absolutely no way to deal with this female hooligan.
After finally settling in, I finally had a chance to ask, "You...all of you, how did you all end up here?"
It would have been better if I hadn't asked. Once I did, Qiaoqiao immediately got angry and pointed at me, shouting, "Xiao Wu! I was worried sick at home waiting for you to come back, but all I got was that little idiot Xiluo running back alone. I asked him where you were, and he actually said he lost you! I was so confused. How could someone as big as you get lost? That Xiluo kid was acting suspiciously and wouldn't tell me the truth. I saw him go to see that Eighth Master of yours, and I knew something must have happened! Sure enough, that Xiluo kid brought a bunch of people and was about to rush back to Vietnam."
"You came along too?" I frowned.
"Nonsense!" Qiao Qiao exclaimed, somewhat agitated. "If you die out there, someone has to collect your body! Didn't we agree back then that we'd share the good times and the bad? You ran away when you encountered trouble, so don't even think about abandoning us now!"
I sighed silently, saying nothing, nor could I say anything more.
Aze smiled and said, "Qiaoqiao called me and Mutou, so we flew over overnight..."
Finally, after some questioning, I got the truth. Qiaoqiao was in Canada, which wasn't her own territory, and after her falling out with Li Wenjing's family, she wasn't willing to ask Li Wenjing for help. So she simply called Aze, and Aze, being a loyal friend, flew over immediately.
I glanced at Aze: "Why are you carrying a leather coat and frozen leather boots?"
“I flew here from St. Petersburg…” Aze looked tired: “Russia, with its icy and snowy landscape.”
As for why Aze went to Russia...
"Oh, my father went back to China. I didn't want to see him, so I went straight to Northeast China to clear my head. I didn't manage to pick up any pretty Russian girls there, so in a fit of anger, I decided I had to find a Russian beauty. So I gritted my teeth and flew to Russia."
Me: "...You're really interested."
I turned to look at Wood: "And you? What brings you here?"
Mu Tou pursed his lips and glanced at Qiao Qiao: "It's her."
It turns out that of the four wolves from Nanjing, I ran away, Qiaoqiao left Canada, and Aze supposedly had a conflict with his father and, not wanting to see him, also left Nanjing to go to Russia to pick up girls and clear his mind.
Mu Tou was bored living in Nanjing with only one child, but he had no interest in following A Ze to pick up girls. After contacting Qiao Qiao and finding out that I was in Canada, he simply went to Canada to find Qiao Qiao and me.
As it turned out, they flew over together with me when I was in trouble.
I looked at my three friends in front of me. They had traveled a long way to see me, and to be honest, I was quite moved. But then a question popped into my head: "Where is Xiluo?"
“He’s still at the airport,” Qiao Qiao said quickly. “A lot of people came to the repair shop, but they couldn’t get plane tickets. Xi Luo and I came first, and there’s another group of people who are taking the next flight. Xi Luo is waiting for them at the airport now. Once they arrive, we’ll come to find you together.”
A thought flashed through my mind: "How many people have come?"
“Quite a few.” Qiao Qiao thought for a moment: “It seems like most of the guys who fight with you at the gym every day have come.”
I sighed: "So many people?"
I know very well that those people are all "paratroopers" carefully trained by Eighth Master!
I sighed, somewhat unsure of what Eighth Master meant.
It's obvious that Xiluo bringing so many people back to Vietnam to find me was definitely at the behest of Eighth Master... Without Eighth Master's approval, how could those brothers have come out?
But Eighth Master... does he really value me that much?
From Tiger's words, Eighth Master seems to be a power-hungry and ruthless tyrant who treats his subordinates coldly. But now, because I got lost in Vietnam, he sent so many people to rescue me. What is his intention?
With Wood acting as a professional doctor, he quickly examined my injuries and then said to me, "Don't worry, you won't die."
Generally speaking, when the four of us get together, there's absolutely no quiet.
Sure enough, after my injuries were treated, we started talking about what happened after I left alone. I couldn't go out, and there wasn't much food at home, so I asked the mixed-race beauty to go out and buy some. She was clearly eager to leave, because the way Qiaoqiao was looking at her was practically murderous…
Finally, after the mixed-race beauty ran away, Qiaoqiao looked at me with a hint of sourness: "Well, Xiao Wu, you haven't even dealt with a few people back home, and you've already messed with a princess in Canada. Now you've come to Vietnam and gotten this amazing younger sister... Why don't you start spreading your seed everywhere..."
I immediately explained, "There's nothing between us. I'm just being hunted down and I'm temporarily staying here to avoid trouble."
"Nothing?" Qiaoqiao didn't believe her: "When this little sister looked at you, she had such a flirtatious look on her face... Look at your wound, the stitches are so delicate! You couldn't have stitched it up yourself, could you... Hehe!"
I smiled wryly and remained silent, but Aze, who was always stirring things up, deliberately wrinkled his nose and sighed, "Huh? What's that strong sour smell?" His eyes darted back and forth between Qiaoqiao and me, and he deliberately said, "Could it be that the thousand-year-old iron tree has finally blossomed?"
"Love, like a cough, cannot be hidden," Mu Tou concluded.
"What nonsense are you spouting!" Miss Qiao glared at him with murderous intent, and Aze and Mu Tou immediately turned their faces away, not daring to look at her.
"Say it again if you dare!" Qiao Qiao's eyes flashed with sparks.
Then Qiaoqiao glanced at the two people who were standing there like statues in the cold, and said to me, "Xiao Wu... come here for a moment, I have something to say to you."
Qiaoqiao led me into the room and then gently closed the door.
In the quiet room, only one expression remained on her face:
Perhaps I was hallucinating, but I clearly saw that the expression on Qiaoqiao's face could only be described with one word: gentle.
"Why...why are you so reckless?" She sighed softly. "Why do you always have to risk your life for others? Don't you know that a person only has one life? How many times can you risk your life?"
I tried to smile easily, but I found that I couldn't smile under Qiaoqiao's deep gaze.
"Do you know that there were three of you when you went out, but only Xiluo came back? And his expression was so suspicious. I was really scared... I was afraid he would tell me something bad!" Qiao Qiao gritted her teeth, staring intently at me, and then slowly said, "Do you know what? If you really die, I will fight with everything I have to avenge you!"
"Revenge...?"
"Yes!!" Qiao Qiao nodded vigorously, her eyes flashing with determination: "I don't care what others think, but if I find out who killed you... I will do everything I can to avenge you! I can beg my father, I can even marry Li Wenjing! I will use all my strength to take revenge! Once I find the person who killed you, I will kill him with my own hands! Then, I will not let any of his relatives or friends go! I will kill everyone in this world who is related to him, everyone he cares about, and everyone who cares about him!" Her voice trembled... Although she said such terrifying words, I could feel the fear in Qiao Qiao's heart!
In a trembling voice, she said, "I am willing to turn myself into a devil to avenge you!"
"...Qiaoqiao!"
To be honest, I really don't know what to say right now! I even feel like I'm dreaming!
Jojo!!
Qiao Qiao?
“Qiaoqiao…you…” I looked at her, speechless.
"Don't speak... and don't ask me anything." Qiao Qiao's eyes were complicated and strange as she slowly said, "I don't know either, I don't know why, I don't know what's wrong with me! I don't know anything right now... I only know that when I came here, I was very worried on the plane. I was afraid that as soon as we landed, I would get the news that you were dead! I don't know what's wrong with me... so please don't ask me anything now, okay?"
Qiaoqiao's eyes were so deep, so deep that I couldn't see the bottom!
Finally, she sighed, gave me a gentle hug, forced a smile, and slowly said, "Don't ask, and don't say anything, okay?"
I nodded, and then I felt Qiaoqiao hug me. She gradually put all her weight on me until she was completely nestled in my arms.