Chapter 371 - Someone Wants to Give You a Treat

Chapter 371 Someone Wants to Give You a TreatXia Yu had noticed that something was wrong. She wanted to call Xiao Tang immediately because she had just left and could come back to save her quickly. But the short man among them took away the phone from Xia Yu’s hand first.

“Miss Xia!”

Xia Yu’s eyes were cold. “Who sent you here?” She guessed that they were sent by Li Wen, so she put curses on him thousands of times in her heart spontaneously.

“Miss Xia is smart. Please come with us.” Since she guessed it, she did not have to talk nonsense to them.

“I can go with you, but at least you should let me tell my colleague.”

“You don’t have to worry about it. Someone will inform your colleague.” The short man gave a sign to the taller one with his eyes. Xia Yu then saw three or four young men wearing caps or masks went to find Xiao Tang.

Upon seeing this situation, Xia Yu immediately felt that something was wrong. She felt that they were not like Li Wen’s men. She turned around and glanced at the short man. “Don’t touch my colleague.”

“We won’t touch her. Who do you think we are, Miss Xia? We are legal citizens.”

After saying these words, the taller man laughed first with his yellow teeth in the mouth. “Yes, we are legal citizens.”

Why were these words so familiar?

She glanced at the crowd around her. People were hurrying to and fro, but she had already noticed that there were still a lot of people lurking around. It seemed that they were so powerful.

Who were they on earth? What did they want?

“Where are we going now?” She was in their hands. Xia Yu gave up guessing.

These two people smiled at each other. The taller one among them taunted her and said sarcastically, “Well, well! Unexpectedly, this girl is a little gutsy.”

The short one followed to say, “Let’s go. The car is parked in the basement.”

So, the taller one led the way ahead, and the short one kept a close eye on her. Xia Yu walked in the middle. There might be their people in the crowd. They were ready for any possible incident at any time.

The two men on the left and right had already taken out masks and put them on. Then they used their eyes to signal Xia Yu to enter the elevator.

Xia Yu walked in obediently. The two men followed up one after another. There were two other people in the elevator. They were carrying the luggage. The small space was crowded, but Xia Yu was just in the middle between two men on both left and right. She didn’t plan to run away, and she knew that she couldn’t run away. She just looked up at the camera on the top right side of the elevator. But unexpectedly, she immediately felt a pinch on the back of her waist. Someone warned in her ear in a low voice. “You’d better behave well.”

Xia Yu snorted with her nose and didn’t answer.

The other two guests in the elevator went out on the negative first floor. The elevator continued to go down. The parking lot had two floors. Finally, the elevator stopped on the negative second floor. The door opened, and a cold breath came to her face. The man pushed Xia Yu out with the hand on the back of her waist. “Go out!”

The tall man continued to lead the way ahead. He took Xia Yu to a brown commercial car parked at the corner. The short man got there and then opened the back door of the car for Xia Yu.

“Get in!”

“I can get in the car, but could you please tell me where you are taking me?” Xia Yu asked, standing outside the car.

The short man sneered. “Awesome! Now you are here, and you still want to negotiate with us, don’t you?”

“No way! You have no say. Get in the car!” The taller man behind pushed her into the car while speaking and accidentally lamed her feet heavily.

Xia Yu was so painful that she kept inhaling in her mouth.

The two men outside had already followed to sit down in the back seat. The door was closed, and the car window was covered with dark light-blocking film, so it was even darker in the car once the car door was closed when the car was parked at the corner of the dim parking lot. Xia Yu was blocked up by these two men sitting on both left and right of her. One of them pulled her.

“Sit obediently. Don’t play tricks!”

Xia Yu was speechless. She just had a heavy pain in her left foot and couldn’t sit up straight. She finally sat up straight in the leather chair, enduring the huge pain forcedly. Suddenly, a gloomy sound came from the front seat.

“Be polite! Miss Xia is a guest.”

Xia Yu then found that there was still another man who sat in the front seat. He was wearing a blue casual jacket and a pair of sunglasses. He seemed to be quite young, but she could not see his appearance from the back.

The two men on her left and right seemed to listen to him quite a bit. They answered him with much respect. “Got it, Brother Xin!”

Xia Yu tried hard to search these two words of “Brother Xin” in her mind but gave up after several seconds. She couldn’t recollect who this man was in her short life experience at all. The man sitting in the front seat never turned back, and he just glanced at Xia Yu through the rearview mirror. His dark eyes were reflected in the mirror, but she couldn’t see the rest of his features. Xia Yu could only see his eyes through the rearview mirror, and her heart suddenly beat fast for no reason. At this time, the man sitting in the front seat slightly raised his hand and said, “Cover her eyes.”

Xia Yu came to her realization immediately, and her brain banged. When she wanted to resist, it was too late. The two men next to her pressed her heavily and covered her eyes tightly with a cloth. Soon, she fell into the desperate darkness.

“What are you doing?”

“Let me go!”

Xia Yu struggled in the back seat and kicked the air twice. However, her hands were shackled even tighter. There was a turbid breath in her ear. The air was full of cold.

She didn’t like this. She was afraid of this.

The man sitting in the front seat said once again, “Miss Xia, you don’t have to be so nervous. You’d better give up resisting. It is useless. You should know it better than I do.”

These words made her even more nervous.

“What do you want to do on earth?”

“Nothing. Someone wants to give you a treat.”

Who would give her a treat in this way?

It was unknown how long they had been driving. Xia Yu’s consciousness faded away gradually. The desperate darkness in front of her was like the bloody mouth of a demon. It devoured her little by little when the car was jolting and moving.

No one spoke on the road. But the crackle of a lighter sounded in the car from time to time, and it was from the front seat, which proved that the man sitting in the front seat had been smoking all the way.

The smell of smoke was very heavy and smoky.

Darkness was in front of her eyes, and the car kept moving on. She didn’t know where she would be taken. Unknown fate, and unknown road ahead.

The car stopped finally after about half an hour’s driving.

“Brother Xin, what’s next?”

“Let her get off first!”

As the car door beside her was opened, someone came in and pulled Xia Yu’s arm.

“Get off!”

Xia Yu was pulled out of the car with her eyes covered. She stood where she was for a while. Wind sound and chirm were in her ears. There seemed to be a faint fragrance of smog, which was different from the smell of cigarettes in the car. It was light but smelt great.

“You guys wait in the car. I will take her there.” The voice was faint. Xia Yu could tell that the voice should come from the man in the front seat. Then she felt a touch on the back of her waist, and her back stiffly stopped immediately. The man seemed to feel the reaction of Xia Yu and gave her a gentle lift in the back.

“Don’t be nervous, and don’t take the cloth off. Just follow me.”

She knew that she couldn’t escape, so she chose to cooperate obediently.

The man led the way for a while, but the road was quite “rough”.

“Turn two meters ahead…”

“Take three more steps and then lift your feet to cross the threshold.”

“There are many steps. You should listen to my command and then take steps. 1, 2, 3…”

Xia Yu felt that she was led to walk through the alley and yard by him. She didn’t know where she was but only felt that the fragrance of smog in the air was even stronger. After following him to move on for a few minutes, they finally stopped. The man beside her seemed to take a breath slightly.

Xia Yu asked, “Are we there?”

He didn’t answer. It seemed that they had stopped where they were for a while before they pushed open the heavy wooden door in front of them with a squeak. Xia Yu felt that the wind came to her face. The man pushed her by an appropriate force with the hand on the back of her waist.

“Lift your legs and get in.”

Xia Yu did it. She lifted her legs and crossed the threshold. She was taken into a room. She stood still, and a flat voice of the man sounded in her ear. “I have brought her here.”

Xia Yu didn’t hurry to take off the cloth on her eyes until the sound of closing the door came from behind, which proved that “Brother Xin” had already left. Then she slowly unwound the cloth. She adapted to the strong light even after she closed her eyes for a while since her pupils had suffered the darkness for a long time.

She finally opened her eyes again. The first thing which came to her sight was the golden light all over the room, which came in through the window. It was directly divided into countless rays by the plaid on the window. Every ray of light hit a corresponding position, such as an old and faded altar, a statue of Buddha, an incense burner, yellowed futons, and a soft tatami. There was a lot of floating ash in the air, and it was illuminated by the golden sunshine. It could be seen that it was scrambling to fall to the ground. A small round table was in front of her, and it was full of dishes. There were two sets of tableware on the table and two old-fashioned wooden armchairs which were polished by the time and painted red.

The man who stood in front of the window finally turned around. The golden sunshine on his body melted away as if it was flowing.

Xia Yu finally saw his face clearly. He still wore a traditional crow cyan unlined upper garment with front opening. A long string of Buddhist beads hung around the neck, which was down to his belly which bulged slightly forward. His pendant seemed to be a piece of jade, but Xia Yu couldn’t see what was carved on it. The surface of the jade was glistening with the sunshine.

Xia Yu felt that something spread out and then immediately tightened up in her heart.

“Li Tianci?”

The man in front of the window slightly smiled and gradually approached Xia Yu with his jade swaying on his belly. He stood still two steps away from her.

Now she saw it clearly, and it was really a jade, on which a statue of Guanyin was carved.

“Miss Xia, we meet again.”

Li Tianci’s voice was low just like the old but serene room. Perhaps, since the fragrance of smog was floating around and the sunshine fell on his body, he really appeared to have a benign and gracious face seemingly at this time.

This kind of man would go to hell when he died since he had done too many bad things, no matter how many joss sticks he burned or how many scriptures he chanted. He was different from Li Wen. Li Wen was just for excitement because of boringness. But this man could do anything as long as he wanted.

Xia Yu was so afraid that her scalp tingled. But she still could calm down. “What do you want to do, Mr. Li?”

“I am going to give you a treat as an apology since our brothers offended you before, Miss Xia.”

“A treat?” Xia Yu sneered. “But your behavior is beyond exaggeration. Do you just want to give me a treat? I really feel so flattered.”

Xia Yu didn’t know what Li Tianci was going to do. Liu Sijie said last night that Zeng Ziqiang might ask Shen Mo to hold a general meeting of stockholders once again for him. Then Li Tianci just took a lot of effort to bring her here today. She didn’t know whether these two things were related.

She was afraid and nervous in her heart before because she didn’t know who she was going to see. But now Li Tianci just showed up, and she became even calmer. Xia Yu then turned around and looked around. The room was very old but bright, and she could hear the birdcall occasionally coming from outside the window.

“Where am I?”

“You are in the wing-room where I have been practicing.”

Li Tianci answered and paced slowly to the round table so that he could face the south. He sat down after pulling out a chair and raised his hand to give a sign to Xia Yu. “Have a seat. These dished have been on the table for quite a while.”

But Xia Yu stood still. Li Tianci showed great patience. Waiting for a moment quietly, he said finally, “Don’t you think I am sincere enough?”

“Or are these dishes not your taste?”

“If these dishes are not your taste, please be magnanimous and pardon me. This is a temple after all. The chef here can only cook vegetarian food.”

“If you think that I am sincere enough…” Li Tianci smiled slightly, sitting on the old-fashioned wooden armchair. He began to pour water for Xia Yu, taking a kettle.