Chapter 6: still have to go on a blind date

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Qingcheng Xie Before coming here, I heard that this little girl cares more about the income of men, but I didn't expect that after he told her that his salary was not really too high, this girl actually didn't lose her enthusiasm.

Jing Bai smiled: "Professor Xie is a true intellectual, really modest. Alas, it's hard to find such a sincere man these days."

Qingcheng Xie : "......"

"Professor Xie also seems to have good taste, is a person who is very interested in life, right?"

Qingcheng Xie frowned: "No, I-"

"I can tell by the way you dress."

Qingcheng Xie : "......"

He was unsure for a while until Jing Bai restrained himself and said, "Professor Xie, that T-shirt you're wearing is our counter's authentic model, at that time the whole Huzhou came to five or six pieces, especially rare, 1:1 matching can not be matched, you are really low-key."

Qingcheng Xie finally realized that the reason for the wrong atmosphere of this blind date was this change of clothes that Yu He had lent to himself.

He pondered the girl's words for a moment and then remembered Yu He's understatement - "No need to return it. I'm not used to wearing clothes worn by others. You can throw it away after you wear it, it's old too."

"......"

The capitalism of all evils.

Jing Bai smiled: "Professor Xie you are not sincere and my date Oh, your clothes are almost catching up with many people's annual salary, and without a little relationship is difficult to buy in the country, you will buy me coffee?"

Qingcheng Xie said, "It's a misunderstanding. I asked my friend to borrow this dress."

"Borrowed?" Jing Bai's eyes widened instantly.

The latter conversation is somewhat lackluster, the original eyebrows of the counter after learning the truth, this matchmaking returned to reality.

Jing Bai's interest in him waned significantly, and apart from forcing him to take a photo together, she kept snapping at the dessert and reversing the camera to take a picture of herself. In the middle of the process, a few customers occasionally sent messages, she also unapologetically direct voice response -

"Mrs. Zhang, don't worry, that limited edition bag is of course reserved for you, oops, you don't have to send me an extra thank you gift, it's embarrassing."

"Mr. Wang, your last order of dresses has arrived, when do you think it will be convenient to come to the store? Yes, it was altered in advance according to your size, large size, but the front closure should be 2cm, don't worry, I have it all written down here."

After the meal was unusually awkward, Qingcheng Xie settled the bill and looked down at Jing Bai, the little girl and his own students are just about the same age, he originally did not have any sincere intention of dating, it is entirely to fulfill the wishes of Aunt Li, so the words and actions of the little girl did not take to heart. In addition, he was a macho man, so he said, "I'll call a car for you."

"Yes, yes, yes, yes." Jing Bai said nonchalantly, "Then I'll trouble Professor Xie."

But this road is one of the busiest streets in Huzhou, and it's evening rush hour, so the two of them waited for half a day, but all the cabs came with passengers.

Qingcheng Xie sighed: "If you don't mind, I'll walk you a little further, and it'll be better to make a turn at that intersection ahead."

Jing Bai : "It's okay, but I have to open a live broadcast at eight o'clock, my time is fixed, the temporary appointment fans will not be happy, do you mind?"

Qingcheng Xie although not playing live software, but Xue Xie play, so he more or less understand, listening to Jing Bai said so, he asked a casual question: "you or a host?"

"Yeah, I'm working hard, sooner or later I'll be a top stream anchor, hehehe."

Qingcheng Xie nodded: "It's good to have a dream, so let's go, I don't mind."

"Thank you, brother, although you are not very rich, but also quite handsome." Jing Bai smiled and caught up with him, "By the way, it doesn't matter if I catch you on camera later, right? Everyone likes to see handsome guys."

"...... as you wish."

Ten minutes later, Qingcheng Xie regretted that she said "whatever you want" ten minutes ago.

He is really out of step with the times, did not know that the young people now play live actually have this form. Jing Bai took out a pink selfie stick from his bag and started to shake it around, saying lines that he found inexplicable and nutritionless, pulling it around for half a day, not knowing exactly what he wanted to say.

"This is the busiest street in Huzhou, there are many handsome and beautiful women, hey everyone see the bag carried by that passerby? That is a high imitation, I can see it at a glance, if you want to know how to identify the real, remember to follow me oh."

"Oh yes, this one beside me is a handsome guy I met today, superb temperament, highly knowledgeable professor, makes a million dollars a year, look at that out-of-print T-shirt on him, ah yes, he's the one who invited me to dinner, and now he's sending me home. Thank you all for your well wishes, thank you!"

Qingcheng Xie simply wondered whether his ears were deaf, just want to turn his head to refute her, Jing Bai has been very flexible to turn the camera and cut the mute.

"Sorry brother, it's not easy to make a living, don't tear me down OK."

Qingcheng Xie : "......"

He just couldn't figure out why anyone would like to put false happiness on the internet and use inflated materialistic desires to attract viewers.

But that's fine, he didn't want to bother with the little girl much.

The blind date would have ended up being so stoic - if not, for the next person they met.

The man in the middle of the accident, was at the three-way intersection.

Qingcheng Xie and Jing Bai walked for more than 10 minutes to a less crowded roadside, where they waited for a bus. Jing Bai was introducing the season's high-end luxury goods to her live-streaming fans with a flourish.

Halfway through the introduction, the perceptive Jing Bai suddenly spotted a blurred shadow not far behind her from the selfie camera, which swayed back and forth, seemingly hesitating over something.

She didn't pay much attention to it at first, but soon the mass of shadows actually approached rapidly in her direction, and by the time she reacted, the camera's frame had reflected the face of a dirty old bum, lunging straight behind her.

Jing Bai froze for a moment, looked back, and could not help but scream out.

It was a stinking old man, all dressed in tatters, and no one suspected that the clothes would never be put on again after taking them off, because they were almost full of holes of various sizes. The old man was followed by a lame yellow dog, which now also followed the scurry towards Jing Bai barking.

"Daughter! Daughter! I finally found you, daughter!"

"Yikes! What's wrong with you! Who is your daughter! Go away!"

"No, no, no, no, you are my daughter, huh? Daughter, do not you recognize your old man? You quickly let the old man take a look, the old man have not seen you for how long ...... "The old man seems to be mentally ill, while but tears, while emotional to go over and hug Jing Bai.

Jing Bai was so frightened that she left the live camera on and backed up, screaming hysterically, "You're crazy! Who are you? Get lost!"

"Daughter, how can you not recognize me anymore?" The old man old tears, snatched two steps forward, dark gray withered fingers like from the embers of the reluctantly outstretched charcoal, trembling to pull forward, "I ...... want you ah ...... father want you ah ......"

He speaks with a strong Central Plains accent, obviously not Huzhou people Jing Bai's father, Qingcheng Xie immediately judged the situation, Jing Bai stopped behind, said soothingly: "It's okay, you hide behind me."

Jing Bai was shocked: "He's scary! How can this kind of person wander on the road ah, the city management does not care? Ahhhhhhh!!!"

The words did not fall, she jumped to her feet hysterically and screamed, the old man followed by the yellow dog came around to sniff at her feet.

"Help! It, it's going to bite me! What's wrong with this dog! Doesn't it have a leash?"

Jing Bai ran while screaming and hastily grabbed his cell phone and tried to call the police.

In her opinion, old tramps are scary enough, and these ugly stray dogs are scaring her even more, and they should all be arrested! Not to mention that they scared her and interrupted her live broadcast ...... belching, wait, her live broadcast!

Jing Bai suddenly realized that he had left his live stream on, and scrambled to pick up his phone and take a look.

A few seconds later, her pupils contracted violently and she couldn't believe it-

Her mediocre live room, which normally has only 20 to 30 viewers, has actually risen to over 300 within minutes because of this bizarre outburst!

The number of people on the screen is still plummeting, and the pop-up screen is brushing with online messages at

"Shit, what happened, Huzhou night terrors?"

"Looks like we ran into a homeless guy with a psycho, anchor! Are you okay? You turn the camera over ah, want to see the scene!"

"Stimulating stimulation, just near my home hey!"

"That old tramp will not be salty, actually want to hug the anchor hey, anchor you quickly go to see! There is a situation to immediately call the police!"

Like a hydrogen balloon rising in the pop-ups, suddenly a rocket lifted off and then exploded with a bang on the live screen.

Jing Bai's body shook, and this explosion woke her up.

Suddenly realizing what she should do, she hurriedly smoothed her hair, adjusted her shot, and then rushed out from behind Qingcheng Xie before he had time to react.

Qingcheng Xie : "Be careful!"

But what he didn't expect was that the girl who had been timid a second before was now standing next to the old tramp with a pretty face, despite the danger - but taking care in advance to carry her expensive little bag backwards to the back so as not to be rubbed by the old man.

"You see clearly, your accent is foreign, how can it be my father? Bad old man, you lustful want to take the opportunity to mooch off, you think I do not see ah? Don't be disrespectful to the old man, okay?"

The old man was frightened and took a few steps backward.

In this way, the situation is completely different. Qingcheng Xie realized that the old man really did not seem to have any malicious intent, and looked carefully, the old man's face was too deep in sorrow to be faked.

Qingcheng Xie can not help but frown: "Miss Bai, can you turn off the live broadcast? This old man does not look in good shape, he may be looking for the wrong person, you call the city management first, together with the treatment."

Jing Bai where to listen to him, looking at the live audience drifting up, she does not mind the old man stink, put their own a pink face closer.

"Hey, take a look, the family also come to see." Jing Bai let the homeless man look at the screen of the phone she held up, the selfie stick plus the front lens just intake the whole body of the two, "old pervert, you look at me, and then look at yourself, you compare. Would I be your daughter? Take a good look at yourself - look at your rags, your hair and face, and you say you're not here to mooch off?"

The old tramp was first confused, and then squinted along with her guide to look over the selfie stick.

He should have seen the two people on the screen, so he first froze, then seemed to suddenly realize his own wretchedness and scrambled to run backwards.

He ran away, Jing Bai, instead, came to life.

It turns out that allowing a clean-cut anchor to overcome the psychological barrier in an instant and stick to a bad old man to shoot just rubs off on the rising powder.

"Look at this, everyone! This is harassment in disguise! He must be pretending to be mentally ill, watch me expose him for what he really is!" Jing Bai chases after the old man to get him into the camera, shouting at him, "Hey! Come here! Didn't you say I was your daughter? Huzhou is such a big place, the security is so good, and you dare to come to this kind of porcelain! You don't even look at your own stinky face! Come here!"

The old man seemed to be a little more awake, but then again he didn't seem that awake, his eyes half chaotic, half dazed.

Qingcheng Xie watched from the side, has determined that the old man is never to mooch off the porcelain, his mental state is very bad, if you want him to describe it, as if a displaced through half of China, wandering to Jiangnan in the smoke and rain of a thin dog. The word "looking" has become his bone image, a glance at him can see that he is lost something, has been struggling to find.

But Jing Bai doesn't care about that, she has been an anchor for most of the year, and she can't attract a few viewers on her own, but she's hot for other peers who are trying to make it work.

Once upon a time, she racked her brains and could not earn eyeballs, so she resentfully ran to those few well-known with the main anchor below the screen abuse.

Today she scolded this: "What are you pretending! Putting on this look of years and years is not all a capital operation up? What you show is not a real idyllic life at all!"

Tomorrow she scolded the one: "A man with a woman's hard-earned money, buying a mansion and villa, others have said that every lipstick you buy is the soul of his family under the brick na! The women who bought his stuff still refuse to wake up?!"

The day after she then change a scolding: "What self-improvement and self-reliance of modern women, all day long know to sell misery, anchor is not your job? You are tired but you earn money ah, you are scolded but you earn money ah, give you so much money, what else do you have to complain?"

No one knows the hideous face she reveals while swiping her cell phone under the covers. She is always the same Cindy in the turbulent subway, in the busy buildings, in the clothes, in the paper, always on high heels, trying to run her business, humbling herself to please her noble guests.

Bending over, struggling to maintain her manners, crouching down, her slender hands buckling the shoes of Mrs. Chen and Mrs. Li, bowing respectfully as she sent them out of the wide golden foyer, no one knows how many times she looked at those swaying backs, thinking that one day she too could make the most haughty counter girl bow down and welcome her.

She wanted money, wanted to be famous, wanted to be red-eyed, so no more fear, lost cleanliness, and could not see the old tramp's trembling lips, the old eyes clouded with hot tears.

"Is your daughter from Huzhou? Your daughter is also your daughter. An old man like you, who doesn't even know if he's married or not, will find reasons to act crazy and harass women! What are you hiding from? Just now, you have been rubbing in front of me? Let's see how you look! Come on!"

"No ...... no ......"

The old man was terrified, craning his neck, hunched over, and mouthing a baby-like, muffled whine.

"I'm sorry ...... I ...... was mistaken ......"

"Sorry? What's the point of being sorry? You come here! Look at the camera! Look at your outfit! You come out to cheat you also clean up a little bit!"

The screen, the pop-ups, the unknown audience is cheering for the "heroic anchorwoman to kill the street harassment maniac", the gift brushed up, the balloon rose, her heart seems to follow the expansion.

The old man hides in panic, from the excitement of a mental hysteria attack that misidentified his daughter, to the helplessness of waking up and running away. He was tracked by the camera, like an old dog with nowhere to run, and the stray wild dog he took with him, was "justice" to expel the disoriented, scurrying.

"Don't shoot, please ...... I admit my mistake ...... don't shoot me ...... girl, don't shoot me... ..."

The old man was shaking all over, his legs sifting and shaking in the loopholes of his pants.

He covered his face in front of the camera, covered his face and tried to cover his torn and ragged clothes, but finally he didn't know where to cover, as if every inch of his flesh and blood, every strand of clothing on his body was unsightly and shameful. Tears flowed down his furrowed old face, one after another, and he shrank down, almost to the ground on his knees to Jing Bai begging for mercy.

"Please girl, please do me a favor ......"

"Jing Bai was just about to say something when the selfie stick was suddenly snatched away from her.

Immediately after her phone was unceremoniously taken down, Qingcheng Xie tossed her selfie stick to the side.

"Hey! You! What are you doing?!"

"What are you doing? I told you that this old man looks mentally ill and told you not to stimulate him. Are you deaf or don't you understand?"

Qingcheng Xie forced to withdraw from the live broadcast.

Jing Bai's face instantly turned from pink to red, from red to purple, from self to green, the beautiful purple and red slipped around, and finally stepped on high heels and angrily said to Qingcheng Xie: "What do you care so much? Give me back my phone! I live is my freedom! I want to make money, you know! I want to be an internet celebrity!"

"You want to be whatever has nothing to do with me." Qingcheng Xie cold face, his father's strength came up again, admonishing people to train without blinking, "But Miss Bai, do you want to face? He can not see his situation! You in order to attract attention, you know it is wrong, you also want to choose the wrong, knowing the consequences, but also do whatever it takes, you even know how your behavior like this will bring others pain, you also want to take this pain for a few attention, because this pain and you do not have any relationship, you lack of virtue!"

"What are you talking nonsense! You don't have to educate me, are you my father? You're just a date I came to meet today! It's none of your business!" Jing Bai got angry and rushed up to grab the phone.

But Qingcheng Xie had a bigger temper than she did, holding her down and staring at her with a condescending stare, his eyes like razor blades.

"Human dignity in your eyes, human life in your eyes, is no better than the audience you attract for a live broadcast. You're fucking deformed enough."

"How dare you scold me? You yakuza-"

Jing Bai was so angry that she jumped over and raised her hand to slap Qingcheng Xie.

But Qingcheng Xie clutched her wrist and twisted it with a fierce force, causing her to scream in pain.

Qingcheng Xie coldly said: "If you continue to make trouble, I not only dare to scold you, I also dare to beat you."

"You, you let go! If you don't let go, I'll call the police! I'm calling someone!"

The road is not many people, but they make a lot of noise, there are already people stopping far away to watch. Qingcheng Xie did not care about this, he would have been a person who would take the eyes of others as air, but to his surprise, the crowd was suddenly a sharp-eyed older woman called out.

"Ouch, it's killing me! What's up with this old man?"

Qingcheng Xie immediately looked down, the old man may be because of their own mental illness, after the wrong daughter, and Jing Bai chased after the shooting, under the great joy and sorrow, the heart can not stand the stimulation, actually blue lips, white face, the whole person covered the chest slowly bent into a shrimp, and then flopped to the ground!

Published at: 10/01/2021 20:00