northernbook 393: Make it impossible for them to survive!
393: Make it impossible for them to survive!
Qingqing didn't understand what this meant, and stared blankly at them with her face upturned.
Xiaoxue was so touched by the cuteness that she cupped her face in her hands. Remembering that she still had to report on her mission, she left reluctantly.
When she came out of the backyard, the little dumpling was no longer there; someone had taken it away.
She searched the yard but couldn't find it, so she had to leave disappointed.
Qingqing was taken to the Fu family's house across the street.
The Fu family's steward was also directing people to hang lanterns in the courtyard; there were lanterns on every pillar in the corridor, like bright red persimmons.
Fu Yueci carried her inside, and stopped when he saw her gaze fixed on the lanterns on either side.
He tried to lift Qingqing up high, and the little girl curiously touched the drooping tassels.
In the main hall, sitting opposite Grandpa Fu was a couple, Fu Wanwan's parents.
Fu Wanwan dawdled and seemed reluctant to leave, standing at the door unwilling to go in.
Fu Yueci spotted her from a distance. As he approached, he glanced into the house and understood.
"Are your parents coming to pick you up?"
"Ah."
Fu Yueci didn't say anything more. Holding Qingqing, she turned around and went to play with Fu Xueji.
A dozen minutes later, Fu Wanwan finished packing her things and prepared to leave with her parents.
As they left the main hall, Mingtian Qing looked at the red lanterns hanging on the road, exchanged a glance with her husband, and their expressions were not good.
Once outside and in the car, she finally spoke to Fu Wanwan.
"Wanwan, what does your grandfather mean by this? Isn't he going back to the old house for the New Year?"
Fu Wanwan looked at the ever-changing scenery outside and hummed in agreement.
Her voice was calm, but Ming Tianqing immediately became agitated upon hearing it and turned to talk to her husband.
"Dad is so old, why is he still so willful? It's one thing if he doesn't do things normally, but he doesn't even come back for the New Year. Is that little house really as comfortable as the old house?"
Fu Wanwan's ears twitched, she turned her head and glanced at her, then corrected her seriously: "That house is not small."
"Tomorrow will be sunny," he choked on his words, and after a long while, he finally uttered a sentence.
"I'm not talking about the house. You're too young to understand anyway."
In fact, Fu Wanwan knows everything.
However, she felt that her grandfather was already so old, he could live wherever he liked, as long as he was happy.
Moreover, if she had a choice, she would prefer to live there and not go back to the old house.
It would be so nice to live there; the air is so fresh, it's good for your health and your eyes too.
Beautiful women of all types often come and go from the Xiao family across the street. Aunt Xiao is especially beautiful and divine. Moreover, each of them has excellent taste in clothing. She can sit at the door and watch them all day long.
During her stay of these past few days, she felt that her aesthetic sense had improved considerably.
When she returned to the old house, she was really afraid that she wouldn't be able to accept the withdrawal symptoms caused by the downgraded environment.
When she came to her senses, Mingtian Qing was calling her.
Fu Wanwan responded absentmindedly.
“Wanwan, next time your grandpa calls you over, bring your little brother along too. You’re his older sister, and I’ll feel more at ease with him by your side.”
After a while, when she didn't hear her speak, Mingtian called out again.
"Did you hear that, Wanwan?"
Fu Wanwan didn't want to agree, so she remained silent.
Mingtian Qing took her attitude as an admission and didn't ask any further questions.
*
Meanwhile, news of Fujiwara's murder had already been published in R country's news.
Subsequently, other media outlets, large and small, in Country R also reported on this incident.
With Takahashi adding fuel to the fire, the people at Fujiwara Trading Company were furious when they found out, and they were all extremely angry and vowed to avenge their president.
Takahashi was very excited after learning about the situation in the country.
But as time went by, he gradually realized that the voices of the people in China were getting louder and louder, but the people in China seemed to know nothing about it.
Extremely sensitive to this, he immediately realized that someone in China was deliberately suppressing the issue and prohibiting the media from reprinting it.
He felt that this must have been done by the Xiao family, so he wrote a long email and sent it to the editor of the largest media outlet in the country.
A third of the entire text is dedicated to vilifying the Xiao family, exaggerating their wickedness and cruelty, and omitting the fact that Fujiwara kidnapped the Xiao family heir, portraying him as an innocent victim.
The remaining third of the text praises Fujiwara and recounts many anecdotes about him. Among them, he emphasizes that Fujiwara wanted to obtain a divine medicine for the emperor before his death.
After receiving the email, the editor made some changes and then arranged for it to be published in the evening paper's news section.
The people at Fujiwara Trading Company also saw it, and they all knew in their hearts that Fujiwara was not as innocent as the news reported.
Those who were close to him knew very well how licentious and ruthless he was.
However, they still joined forces with several other trading companies and decided to suppress the Xiao family's business in R country.
After a thorough investigation, they discovered that the Xiao family did not do business with R country.
It wasn't just in the last few years, but from the very beginning, their business directly bypassed R country.
The story dates back to the Ming Dynasty.
At that time, the Xiao family's businesses in the southeastern coastal region were frequently attacked by R country people. Their shops were burned and looted, and the R country people not only stole their money and goods but also killed everyone. This caused great trauma to the family.
Later, the Xiao family continued to develop, but all business plans and investment directions would automatically avoid R country.
Nowadays, when they talk about these things, their feelings are somewhat complicated.
However, the people at Fujiwara Trading Company were not happy about it.
Because the Xiao family doesn't have business operations in R country, R country doesn't know anything about them, which is why they're only discovering this now.
This was a huge slap in the face for the vice president who had just made those harsh remarks at the meeting, saying he would make it impossible for them to survive in R country.
A perceptive assistant noticed his embarrassment and quickly offered to help him save face.
"President, the Xiao family is so xenophobic. This is clearly targeting us. This further proves that what happened to the old president was not an accident, but their deliberate act."
The vice president's eyes lit up: "That's right!"
He glanced at his quick-witted assistant with satisfaction and immediately relayed what the assistant had just said as evidence to others.
Thus, after several days of fermentation, most people in R country had been brainwashed into believing that Fujiwara's death was caused by the Xiao family's xenophobia. Many informed voices were drowned out by the tide and could not make a ripple.
Meanwhile, Takahashi wasn't idle either.
He mentioned this matter many times during morning and weekly meetings at their embassy, expressing his determination to seek justice for Fujiwara, and other people in the embassy also expressed their support.
They encountered setbacks at every step in their attempt to contact the media.
Having spent so much time here, Takahashi had built good relationships with many media outlets, but this time when he was in trouble, not a single one was willing to help him, each making excuses that they had more important things to do.
However, after reading their news over the past few days, Takahashi found that it was nothing more than celebrity blessing videos, things related to the Lunar New Year, and the Spring Festival Gala, which were not important at all.