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Chu Yan was extremely effective at things he had put his mind into. After suggesting that, he acted before Qiao Zhiya even fully comprehend what Chu Yan meant. He dragged the blond youth out of the house, stuffed him into a hover car, and left the Chu family’s branch house with a whiz.
Qiao Zhiya was completely stunned at this moment. He hurriedly pulled Chu Yan who was setting the route of the car, and said anxiously: “Xiao Yan, you are not allowed to run around! What should you do in case of danger? Your Dage and Dasao will be worried.”
“Don’t worry, don’t worry! Both of them are experienced with me running around during holidays like this. They won’t worry.”
After setting the route, Chu Yan sat back to look at his blond companion. He suppressed the desire to laugh, slung his arm again around Qiao Zhiya’s shoulders and comforted him, “We won’t run far, I swear. Let’s go out and have fun for our holiday! We’ll still be in the Capital Planet too, so if we need to come back fast, we can~ Heh, when Erge comes back from his work, he will go home immediately. When the time comes, you will admit your mistake to him and act coquettishly. He will definitely take you home immediately after he realizes how miserable he was when you are away! I bet he won’t even scold you at all!!”
Hearing Chu Yan’s explanation, Qiao Zhiya, the good boy, couldn’t help but feel anxious and guilty. But then, he remembered how cold Chu Rong was to leave him without saying a word. He pursed his lips, took a breath, and steeled his expression. He nodded and said, “Okay, then let’s go out to play for a few days… Are you sure that Dage and Dasao will not worry, and there will be no danger?”
Chu Yan understood Qiao Zhiya’s worry, so he sent a message explaining his departure to Chu Huai. Then, he decisively switched all their communicators to do-not-disturb mode and stuffed them into the space button.
Qiao Zhiya was a little puzzled by this. Seeing this, Chu Yan hurriedly explained, “The communicator can be located, but it will not work if it is inserted into the space button to isolate the signal. Don’t worry, I have cash. We can have fun without a communicator.”
The two of them disappeared without a trace, and the housekeeping robot at home frantically sent messages to Chu Huai and Gu Yan’an——Chu Yan has a lot of criminal records of running away, so the housekeeping robot’s AI didn’t think much about it. But it still sent a signal to the Chu Huai.
At the Federal Government Headquarters, Chu Huai, who had just finished the morning meeting, turned on the communicator. First, he accepted the signal from home first, then opened a message from Chu Yan. He smiled after reading it, commenting to himself, “Take Qiao Zhiya to experience the beauty of modern society… sigh… what messy words.” After saying that, he shook his head, closed the message without any worries, and returned to the office.
Meanwhile, at the Federal Military Department, Chu Rong, who also finished the morning meeting, returned to the office and knocked on the table with his index finger for a while with a frozen face. He couldn’t help but take out his communicator and opened it. He saw a message from Qiao Zhiya, and remembered that he had left without an explanation this morning.
He remembered that the Bald Chicken looked aggrieved and dazed. He felt upset suddenly, so put down his communicator and knocked on the table for a long time before suppressing his emotions and turning on the communicator.
The message from Qiao Zhiya was very short, only one sentence: [Do you still want me?]
His eyebrows twitched, his face darkened, and he got up and walked outside his office without thinking much.
‘When did I say I didn’t want this bastard Bald Chicken! I just need a little time to cool off—’
“Sir, what are you doing?” Fan Xiangnan just opened the door and came in. Seeing the Marshal pacing around in front of his office, he quickly moved to his side and said, “His Excellency suddenly wants to come to inspect. The liaison department just sent a message to ask you to prepare in advance.”
Chu Rong stopped abruptly in place. He glanced in the direction of the presidential palace with unkind eyes, tightened his hand holding the communicator, frowned fiercely, and lowered his head to open it. He replied to Qiao Zhiya’s message, then turned around to face Fan Xiangnan as he ordered, “Let everyone gather, prepare well, and try to send the president away quickly.” After speaking, he entered his office again. With a terrible expression, as if someone had robbed his wife.
Fan Xiangnan looked suspiciously at the closed office door again, and shook his head, “No, it should be an illusion. Sir is… still single… yeah…” After mumbling, he thought of the president who came over suddenly alongside his daughter. His head pounded, as he felt that he might have come up with an aneurysm with the implication behind this visit.
‘It’s better for the Chief to get a partner as soon as possible… Otherwise, these rotten peach blossoms won’t stop coming. Annoying…’
The hover car also has a positioning system. After arriving at the shopping mall in the city center, Chu Yan got out of the car and sent it home. Then he took Qiao Zhiya to buy some new clothes that were less conspicuous, and also got a few new hats for him to cover his pointy ears.
When changing clothes, Qiao Zhiya suddenly wanted to take out the communicator to check to see if Chu Rong had replied to him, but thinking of Chu Yan who was busy outside for him, he silently suppressed this impulse.
‘No, Xiao Yan thinks of me so much, I can’t destroy Xiao Yan’s plan.’
After changing his clothes too, Chu Yan took Qiao Zhiya to call a public hover car with cash, and set the route as it drove in a direction opposite to the Chu family’s residences.
“Xiao Yan, where are we going?” Qiao Zhiya, who ran away from home for the first time, still felt uneasy.
Chu Yan flipped through the cash in his hand, making sure it was enough, then looked up at Qiao Zhiya just to mysteriously replied, “Let’s go to a good place and show you a lot of knowledge.”
‘Knowledge? How?’
Two hours later, the two people who changed the hover car several times came to a small island on the edge of the mainland.
“Look! Real Adventure Island! I’ve been looking at this theme park for a long time, but unfortunately I haven’t had time to come here because it’s too far away. Let’s go in and have a good time! Go buy tickets first!” Chu Yan paid for the ride on the public suspension car in cash. As he took off the winter clothes on his body, he led Qiao Zhiya excitedly towards the gate of the park, with obvious happiness and excitement on his face.
Although it was winter, it was still warm thanks to the temperature control device inside the isolated dome around the island. From a distance, the theme park was filled with greenery.
Qiao Zhiya had his gaze subconsciously glued to the forest on the island, took a deep breath of the fresh air, filled to the brim with the scent of grass, of trees, of nature.
He glanced around at the tourists who got off the car and walked towards the island one after another like them. Finally, he was no longer nervous.
The forest, the sunshine, the people walking happily… it all reminded him of his hometown.
The dwarf boy who hadn’t been running in the forest for a long time finally showed his first smile after running away from home.
The island was very big. They arrived at one of the entrances that was closer to the forest adventure project. The ticket office was a huge building in the shape of a tree. The staff inside were all dressed in green, forest-themed clothes, which was very eye-catching.
“Xiao didi, although you can use cash to buy tickets, if you want to rent a small yard, this money is not enough.” The sexy female staff member in a short tube top smiled and shook her finger. Looking back and forth at Chu Yan and Qiao Zhiya standing side-to-side, her smile deepened.
Ah, this pair must be another young sweethearts who secretly ran out on a date to avoid their parents. They were unwilling to pay the bill with a communicator because they were afraid of being found at home and taken back. How cute.
“How could it be not enough?” Chu Yan’s excitement was replaced by collapse. He flipped through a brochure in his hand, and said, “Don’t fool me, I have read your brochure, and this money is definitely enough.”
The staff also noticed the brochure in his hand, a flash of understanding flashed in her eyes. With a patient tone, she explained, “The holidays are coming, there are more tourists, and there are more celebrations held on the island. So, while the prices of some attractions have not changed, other additional items, including accommodation and catering expenses, all increased a little bit.”
The price has actually increased!
When Chu Yan heard the explanation, he was really going to collapse. He couldn’t help cursing at the profiteer capitalist bastard of an owner!
He never expected such a price increase. If he knew about it, he would’ve taken a little more cash for backup!
Qiao Zhiya, who had been silently listening to their conversation, suddenly took a step forward. He took out a gold-type high-level magic stone from his storage ring– that is, gold jade – and handed it over. He looked at the staff and asked, “Can I use this to pay the bill? You can charge more, just think of it as the handling fee.”
Chu Yan was reminded by him, and he came to his senses. He hurriedly put away the cash, took out a few pieces of black jade, and asked excitedly, “I have this too, do you accept this? Or if I sell this to you at a discount and you give us some cash, isn’t it a good deal?”
The staff looked at the high-end jade being handed to her, then at Qiao Zhiya’s expectant eyes. She raised her hand to cover her chest— ‘God, this young couple is so foul! So handsome, so cute, and so rich…  my old single old dog’s heart hurts.’
“Yes.” She accepted the gold jade with a slightly lower value, and finally couldn’t help stretching out her thief’s hand to pinch Qiao Zhiya’s face before giving his cheek  a quick peck, and replied softly, “I can also give you a 30% discount.”
After all, this blond youth was so cute.
The ticket was successfully bought, but Chu Yan was not happy at all.
Angrily, he dragged Qiao Zhiya out of the ticket office, took out a handkerchief and wiped Qiao Zhiya’s face vigorously, and said angrily, “Despicable! That staff member must have done it on purpose! She deliberately asked you to pay the bill and get the ticket! Then she took the opportunity to kiss you! It’s too much! Erge isn’t there yet– it’s too much anyway! I want to complain!”
“No, forget it.” Qiao Zhiya blushed, took the handkerchief and wiped the lip marks on his face, and pointed to the surrounding area. He then pointed to a tourist who bought a ticket like them and was about to enter the island, then he whispered, “Some of the tourists also were kissed like me. She wasn’t malicious, it’s probably something of her job? On the contrary, it was very kind of her to give us a discount.”
Chu Yan glanced at the kissed tourists — all of them were giggling children. The corner of his mouth twitched as he complained in his heart, ‘This is different matter!! If Erge knew about this, I’m dead!!!!!’
A dozen meters behind them, Qiu Guangji and Ning Kongran stepped into the ticket office together. Seeing the staff inside chatting excitedly together, he bumped his shoulder to his friend and said, “Kongran, your employee management can’t be too loose. It’s not efficient for the staff to chat like this during working hours.”
After leaving the Ning family’s house and arriving at his own property, Ning Kongran relaxed a lot. Hearing this, he just smiled, shook his head and said, ” I just invested in this place, I’m not responsible for the management. Plus, their chatting isn’t holding back from them doing their job. This is an amusement park after all, let them have fun. It’s good for the atmosphere too.”
“You’re such a casual boss.” Qiu Guangji curled his lips, glanced at a familiar figure, and hurriedly raised his voice as greeted, “Rebecca, you are not staying in your management office, why did you come here, hey! What are you gossiping about, there’s guests!”
Rebecca heard the call and looked at Qiu Guangji. She showed him a bright, mischievous smile, and waved the card in her hand at him. “Of course I’m talking about fun things! I just received a couple of lovely customers, probably dating behind their parents’ backs. They didn’t bring enough ticket money, and didn’t want to use the communicator to transfer the money. I teased them a little when I saw it, but they actually took out a bunch of high-grade jade and said they wanted to use those as payment instead. But I was terrified, so I gave them a discount – don’t get mad, the discount is basically the price they would normally get because of the discount in the brochure. Look, this it’s a gift card signed by one of the cute little guys, isn’t it beautifully written?”
The staff next to her couldn’t help interjecting, “Rebecca also secretly kissed him, and the little guy’s boyfriend’s face was so angry. His expression was so dark, and I heard him clamoring to complain.”
Rebecca hurriedly reached out to cover her mouth, and told her not to talk nonsense with a smile.
The girls immediately made a fuss and started to gossip in a lively manner.
Seeing this, Qiu Guangji couldn’t help but roll his eyes. Just as he was about to reach out to take a look at the gift card, a very familiar hand came over and gently pulled the card away.
“Huh?” He was taken aback, turned his head to look, and saw his friend holding the gift card looking deep in thought. He asked in doubt, “What’s wrong? Rebecca gave away things indiscriminately again?”
“No,” Ning Kongran shook his head, touched the very familiar handwriting on the card, and thought of a simple boy he hadn’t seen for a long time. He looked at the girls who had noticed his arrival and gradually calmed down, and asked, ” Where do these two guests live?”
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