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Chapter 141 The Great Demon King Xiao Bonian

Xiao Bonian hurriedly packed his things in the bedroom, squatting on the floor and quickly stuffing clothes into his suitcase.

He put his phone aside and dialed Shen Kang's number.

The call connected, and Xiao Bonian put it on speakerphone. While continuing to pack his clothes, he said to Shen Kang on the other end of the line, "Shen Kang, I'll give you an address in a bit. Arrange for a few people at the An family home to go to that address and clean it immediately. Get it done as quickly as possible! The apartment is 112 square meters, with three bedrooms and a living room. There aren't any particularly dirty spots, it's just been uninhabited for a few months. Arrange the exact number of people yourself, and let me know how much it will cost."

Shen Kang was driving when he heard Xiao Bonian's request and was puzzled for a moment, but he didn't ask. He just said, "I understand. Professor Xiao, please send me the address."

"Thank you." Xiao Bonian thanked him on the other end of the phone, and then said, "I was originally planning to cook you a welcome meal today, but something urgent has come up, so I won't be going back to Shenlan Waterfront for National Day."

"It's alright, Professor Xiao, you go ahead with your work."

"That's settled then."

After the call ended, Xiao Bonian sent the address to his mobile phone.

Since he needed to drive, he didn't do it himself. Instead, he asked He Qiuzhu, who was in the passenger seat, to send the address to Kang Zhengyang. Then, he asked her to call Kang Zhengyang and tell him about Xiao Bonian's request, so that Kang Zhengyang could make arrangements immediately.

After finishing all that, He Qiuzhu put his phone away, somewhat puzzled: "What's wrong with Professor Xiao?"

Shen Kang gripped the steering wheel, looking ahead. "I told you there was a big rat in the house. Look, even Professor Xiao was so scared of the rat that he ran away."

After packing his clothes, Xiao Bonian went to the bathroom and put his toiletries, towels, and other personal items into another large duffel bag.

After he had basically finished packing up all his personal belongings in the bedroom, he hurriedly went downstairs with his luggage bag and suitcase.

Twenty minutes later, an Accord drove into Weixiu Garden.

This is a residential community built in the last century, funded by faculty and staff of Yangcheng University, and is a product of the era before the end of welfare housing allocation.

Even by today's standards, this neighborhood doesn't seem outdated at all.

The Accord pulled up to a parking space in front of Building 12. Xiao Bonian got out of the car, walked quickly to the back of the car, opened the trunk, took out two large bags, carried them into Unit 1, and strode up to the second floor.

There were six people standing in the hallway on the second floor, men and women, all wearing Anjia Housekeeping uniforms and carrying toolboxes.

Xiao Bonian greeted them briefly, then took out his key, opened the door to 201, and went inside with his things.

Upon entering, you'll find a three-bedroom, one-living-room layout. The furnishings throughout the room are simple, but there's quite a bit of dust because no one has lived there for a while.

Meng Dawei, who was in charge of the team, quickly assigned tasks, and the six employees of Anjia Housekeeping swiftly entered the bedrooms, study, kitchen, and other areas to begin work immediately.

Xiao Bonian also opened his suitcase, hung his clothes in the closet, and placed his towels, toiletries, and other items in their proper places, arranging them as if for everyday use.

Half an hour later, six employees from Anjia Housekeeping finished cleaning the three-bedroom apartment. Xiao Bonian also put all his personal belongings in place and deliberately left the TV remote and electric kettle lying around, so the whole house didn't look like it had been uninhabited for a long time.

After the cleaning was finished, the housekeeper from Anjia Housekeeping left. Xiao Bonian also took out his phone and called Zhou Man to tell her that he had something come up and would not be staying at Shenlan Waterfront during the National Day holiday.

Zhou Man asked if there was anything she could help with, and after confirming it wasn't a big deal, she agreed.

Afterwards, Xiao Bonian checked the time and found it was almost time, so he went out, got in his car, and drove straight to Xiafengbao Airport.

After parking his car, he waited at the exit for a while, and then the passengers of the flight he was waiting for arrived and began to exit the station in an endless stream.

Xiao Bonian's eyes darted through the crowd until he finally found his target.

"Zhongnian, over here!"

Xiao Bonian raised his hand high and waved it.

The other person saw him, squeezed through the crowd, and came over.

The visitors were a man and a woman.

The man looked to be around forty years old, with neatly combed hair, wearing a suit, and pulling a suitcase.

The girl looked about sixteen or seventeen years old. She was wearing a gothic-style black and white dress, had long hair and bangs, and wore heavy, pale makeup. She had three earrings in her left ear and four in her right ear, giving off a metal-themed vibe, but she was still quite pretty.

After the two men approached, the man called out to Xiao Bonian in a low voice, "Brother."

This man, who looked to be around forty years old, was Xiao Bonian's younger brother, Xiao Zhongnian. However, judging from his appearance, Xiao Zhongnian looked older than Xiao Bonian and did not have Xiao Bonian's younger brother.

If the two brothers stood together and others guessed, eleven out of ten people would definitely guess that Xiao Zhongnian was the older brother.

The sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl also called him "Uncle".

She is Xiao Qingxuan, the daughter of Xiao Zhongnian.

"Xuanxuan?"

Xiao Bonian looked at his niece with great astonishment.

In his memory, his niece was a well-behaved student who dressed normally, a completely different person from the girl in front of him—whose appearance he couldn't quite describe.

Suddenly, Xiao Bonian's eyes caught his attention. He noticed several gruesome knife wounds on Xiao Qingxuan's exposed left forearm, which had already healed.

Without asking any questions, Xiao Bonian led them outside, saying, "Let's go, let's go to my place first."

Xiao Zhongnian first took a lighter from the free lighter distribution point at the exit. Then the three of them went to the parking lot, put their suitcases in the trunk, and Xiao Bonian drove the two of them towards Weixiu Garden.

Xiao Zhongnian, sitting in the passenger seat, pulled out a pack of soft-pack Zhonghua cigarettes. "Brother, want a smoke?"

"Okay, go ahead and smoke." Xiao Bonian said, opening the window on Xiao Zhongnian's side, and glancing at the Zhonghua cigarette in Xiao Zhongnian's hand out of the corner of his eye. "You've started smoking Zhonghua now? Your glasses shop seems to be doing pretty well."

Xiao Zhongnian took a drag of his cigarette, exhaled the smoke, and said, "It's alright. All your friends who get glasses come to me, and they've recommended quite a few people to me as well."

Then he put the Zhonghua cigarette in his hand into his pocket.

"That has nothing to do with me. I can introduce them once, but I can't force them to go every time. It's only because you're fair in your business dealings that they're willing to go again."

After Xiao Bonian finished speaking, he asked, "By the way, how did you manage to fly here from Fengling? Isn't there a direct train to Yizhao?"

The "Yizhao" he mentioned refers to Yizhao City, which is also Xiao Bonian's hometown. It is a county-level city with a train that goes directly to Yangcheng, but there is no airport.

"Fengling" refers to Fengling City, a prefecture-level city next to Yizhao. It has an airport, and Xiao Zhongnian and his group's flight this time was from Fengling to Yangcheng.

Xiao Zhongnian had finished his cigarette, flicked the butt out the car window, and said in a muffled voice, "I had some business to attend to, so I went to Fengling first and then flew here."

"Oh, I see. I was thinking of saying that flying is expensive, and it would be better to take the train, but considering how well your business is doing now, this amount of money is nothing to you."

Hearing his elder brother's words, Xiao Zhongnian straightened his back a bit.

Xiao Qingxuan sat in the back row, looking out the window without saying a word, but she was sneering in her heart: What nonsense about having something to do before going to Fengling. She clearly took the train from Yizhao to Fengling first, and then immediately bought a plane ticket from Fengling to fly to Yangcheng, just so that her uncle would see that she came by plane.

The Zhonghua cigarettes she carried were also newly bought; her father usually smoked Xiaoyun cigarettes. All this trouble was because her father was trying to save face, not wanting to be outdone by his uncle.

However, Xiao Qingxuan did not reveal these things.

They drove all the way to Weixiu Garden. After parking the car, Xiao Bonian led the two upstairs and into the garden.

Xiao Bonian turned on the TV in the living room and handed the remote to Xiao Qingxuan. "Xuanxuan, watch TV by yourself for a while. I need to talk to your dad about something."

"Oh." Xiao Qingxuan sat down on the sofa and started changing channels with the remote control.

Xiao Bonian led Xiao Zhongnian into the study, closed the door, and the two sat down facing each other at the desk.

Xiao Bonian asked directly, "What's wrong with Xuanxuan?"

Xiao Zhongnian remained silent for a while.

From childhood to adulthood, Xiao Bonian was the kind of "other people's child" who shone brightly. Not only was he good at studying, but he was also exceptionally popular with women. Girls pursued Xiao Bonian from elementary school onwards. Even a girl that Xiao Zhongnian had a crush on back then was a fan of Xiao Bonian. Xiao Zhongnian always grew up in the shadow of his older brother.

This led Xiao Zhongnian to try his best to surpass his older brother, but perhaps because his parents focused all their efforts on Xiao Bonian, no matter how hard Xiao Zhongnian studied, he could never catch up with Xiao Bonian, not even seeing his taillights.

Later, Xiao Zhongnian simply gave up on himself and started hanging around in the underworld. When he was 20, he accidentally had a daughter and then got married because of the pregnancy.

After starting a family, including a wife and daughter, Xiao Zhongnian settled down and gradually left the underworld, luckily escaping the crackdown. However, lacking education and skills, he couldn't make a name for himself and could only work for others, without much success. It wasn't until recent years, with the financial support of Xiao Bonian, that he opened an eyeglasses shop in Yizhao, and his life gradually improved, finally achieving a comfortable standard of living.

However, the psychological trauma of his elder brother, Xiao Bonian, lingered in Xiao Zhongnian's mind. If it weren't for his daughter's matter, he would never have come to Xiao Bonian for help.

As Xiao Zhongnian thought this, he felt agitated again and unconsciously took out a cigarette.

However, there was no ashtray in Xiao Bonian's study.

Xiao Bonian didn't say anything, but took out a pen from a ceramic pen holder, poured some water into it, and pushed it in front of Xiao Zhongnian.

Xiao Zhongnian lit a cigarette, took two puffs, and then said in a low voice, "She doesn't want to go to school anymore. Nothing I say works, and I even hit her once, but she ended up cutting her wrists. I don't dare to hit her again. I really have no other choice, so I brought her to you, hoping you could talk to her."

Xiao Bonian wasn't too surprised. When he saw the knife wound on Xiao Qingxuan's wrist at the airport, he had already had some guesses. His brother's words only confirmed his guesses.

"Why doesn't she want to go to school anymore? Wasn't her academic performance quite good before?" Xiao Bonian asked.

Xiao Zhongnian, smoking a cigarette, said somewhat irritably, "I don't know."

Xiao Bonian thought for a moment and asked, "Have you and your wife been arguing lately?" The only thing he could think of was that the changes in the family had caused the children to change.

Xiao Zhongnian shook his head. "No. You know my wife's temper; how could we possibly argue? I guess she's just going through a rebellious phase."

The two brothers chatted for a while but couldn't guess the reason for Xiao Qingxuan's sudden rebellion. They could only assume that she had entered her rebellious phase.

Xiao Bonian also agreed to try to persuade Xiao Qingxuan to go back to school.

After dinner, Xiao Zhongnian left because he still had to look after his glasses shop; holidays were also a busy time for business.

Since he had already shown his older brother that he had come by plane, he didn't insist on flying when he left and took the train back directly.

After dropping his younger brother off at Yangcheng South Station, Xiao Bonian drove back. He didn't say anything to Xiao Qingxuan that night, but the next morning, he took her to the campus of Qianlin University in the University Town of the High-tech Zone.

During the National Day holiday, many students went home, but some did not.

As Xiao Bonian and Xiao Qingxuan walked around the campus, they would occasionally see two or three students passing by, and almost every student would glance at them as they passed by.

The main reason is that one of them is handsome and the other is beautiful, especially Xiao Qingxuan, who is still wearing that gothic black and white dress today, and her style is still so edgy, which is rare in this era, so it's impossible not to notice her.

Xiao Bonian also glanced at the little dress Xiao Qingxuan was wearing—according to what his younger brother had said yesterday, the dress cost over six hundred yuan, and if his brother didn't buy it for her, his niece would really cut her wrists. In the end, he had no choice but to buy it for her.

The seven earrings on Xiao Qingxuan's ears also came from this source.

"Xuanxuan".

After walking around for a while, Xiao Bonian finally spoke up: "Your father said you don't want to go to school anymore. Can you tell your uncle why?"

His tone was gentle and calm, as if he were chatting with a friend.

"I just feel like going to school isn't very interesting," Xiao Qingxuan replied.

Xiao Bonian then asked, "So what do you plan to do after you stop going to school?"

Xiao Qingxuan chuckled, "Uncle, are you trying to say that only those with a degree can find a good job and have a promising future, while those without a degree can only do hard and tiring work? I've already thought it through. I'll play around for a few years, and when my dad can't work anymore, I'll take over his glasses shop. Anyway, I don't have high demands; a glasses shop is enough for me to live on."

Xiao Bonian was taken aback; he really hadn't expected Xiao Qingxuan to have anticipated his words.

But he was quick-witted and immediately added, "Even so, it's good to experience university life. Unlike your high school, university life is quite relaxed and wonderful. It's not just about studying; in fact, studying only takes up a small part. In university, you can have fun, make friends, and even date."

He not only talked about it, but also took Xiao Qingxuan to find evidence.

Xiao Bonian made a few phone calls to inquire, and then took Xiao Qingxuan to an activity room where three students who were on holiday were rehearsing singing.

The two acted as spectators for a while. Seeing that there was an audience, the other person rehearsed even more enthusiastically and even invited Xiao Qingxuan to go up and sing two songs.

After leaving, Xiao Bonian took Xiao Qingxuan into the grove to look for any early-rising mandarin ducks. They actually found a pair of early-rising mandarin ducks sitting on a rock, talking about love.

Seeing that someone had arrived, the couple behaved themselves, whispering to each other and no longer touching hands. However, Xiao Bonian and Xiao Qingxuan didn't leave for a long time, so the uncle and nephew stood aside staring at them, making the young couple secretly curse them as idiots. Then they hurriedly left hand in hand.

After leading Xiao Qingxuan on a wild ride around the Qianlin University campus, Xiao Bonian and Xiao Qingxuan arrived at the sidewalk next to the main road on campus.

As they walked, Xiao Bonian said, "Look, isn't university life interesting?"

Xiao Qingxuan said, "It is indeed more interesting than high school, but I can do these things even if I don't go to school anymore."

Xiao Bonian said, "It's different. Everything is purer in university, but in society, interests become involved, and you don't have the same pure experience as in university."

As they were talking, a rather pretty female college student walked out from a small path on the right. She looked around, her gaze lingering on Xiao Bonian's face for a moment. Her eyes lit up, as if she was marveling at Professor Xiao's handsomeness.

A Mercedes-Benz drove past Xiao Bonian and his group and stopped next to the girl.

A man in his forties got out of the car, walked over to the female college student, put his arm around her waist, and seemed to want to kiss her. The girl pushed him away, seemingly unwilling to do such a thing in public, but when the man looked fierce, she didn't dare to push him away anymore and obediently let him kiss her.

After the man finished kissing Xiao Bonian, he glanced at him with a provocative look in his eyes, as if to say, "Brother, you're picking up a female college student, but I'm not bad either." Then he laughed and got into the car with the girl and drove away.

"So pure, they must be truly in love." Xiao Qingxuan chuckled again.

"————" Xiao Bonian sighed helplessly in his heart, and inexplicably thought of Shen Kang.

If Shen Kang were here, he would most likely say in a serious tone, "Indeed, I believe they are truly in love. You can't say that people are together because of other reasons just because of the age gap. That's a stereotype." Even if Xiao Qingxuan would scoff at this, he would still say the same thing, haha.

Shen Kang—Could Shen Kang have a solution? Xiao Bonian thought for a moment, shook his head, and left Qianlin University with Xiao Qingxuan, returning home.

After lunch, Xiao Bonian talked to Xiao Qingxuan for a long time, trying to explain the benefits of continuing to go to school from various aspects, but rebellious children are terrible and won't listen no matter what.

Later, when Xiao Bonian had run out of ideas, he thought of Shen Kang again.

Shen Kang and his niece are the same age and have common interests. Shen Kang also possesses a maturity beyond his years; perhaps he really does have a solution.

If it were about his own affairs, Xiao Bonian would definitely not have contacted Shen Kang, but since it concerned his niece's future, he eventually went to his study, took out his phone, and called Shen Kang.

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