Chapter Ninety-Two: Red Dragonfly

Sun Tong had finally come to understand how hard women were to please and to keep satisfied. All the way until they got off the plane and into the Maserati business van sent to meet them, Yang Feifei had not said a single word to him.

“Big Sister Ya, why is Feifei so hard to coax?” No matter how eloquently Sun Tong tried to flatter her, Yang Feifei refused to respond. Lin Yin, on the other hand, was laughing so hard she could hardly stand straight, nearly doubled over with laughter, but Yang Feifei remained completely unmoved.

Big Sister Ya only smiled without speaking, and said to the driver-bodyguard, Xiao Jie, “Xiao Jie, take the Shenhai Expressway. Get off at Wuyi Road in the Jinzhou District, then go back along Wuyi Road.”

Because Dalong had not yet recovered from his injuries, he had been honorably relieved of duty. Xiao Jie had come to Seaside City two days earlier to tidy up Yang Feifei’s apartment in the Golden Jade Garden, serving as a temporary maid and bodyguard.

“Okay.” Xiao Jie, plain in appearance and not one to ask questions, simply carried out the order.

Taking a roundabout route through Wuyi Road was because Sun Tong’s village was beside that road.

Wuyi Road was a main artery linking the Jinzhou District and the Development Zone, which was now under the jurisdiction of the Jinzhou District government. On the latest map of Seaside City, the name Development Zone no longer appeared, only Jinzhou District did, though people in the two areas still spoke of them as separate places.

Once they were on the expressway, it would only be a little over half an hour before they reached home. Sun Tong took out his phone and made a call.

“Haha, Xiaoyu.” The moment the call connected, Sun Tong laughed.

“Brother, have you arrived?” Xiaoyu’s bright, excited voice came through the line, along with Xiaoxiao’s repeated shouts of “Gege” from the side.

“I’m almost there. Xiaoyu, you picked up Xiaoxiao so quickly?” Sun Tong checked the time; it wasn’t yet half past five in the afternoon.

Xiaoxiao’s school was a little closer to home, while Xiaoyu was in her third year of middle school, so her school was farther away.

“Actually, I didn’t pick her up. Xiaoxiao gets out earlier than I do. She knew you were coming home today, so as soon as school let out she ran to the roadside by herself to wait for you. I got there later,” Xiaoyu said softly, with a hint of complaint in her tone about Xiaoxiao’s disobedience.

Sun Tong’s expression changed. “Let Xiaoxiao speak.”

“Gege, Gege, I’m Xiaoxiao. Xiaoxiao is very good...” Xiaoxiao hugged the phone and jumped up and down in excitement as she shouted.

But Sun Tong asked with a stern face, “If you’re really that good, then why didn’t you wait for your sister to pick you up?”

“Gege, Xiaoxiao knows the way. Just keep walking after leaving school. When you see the flower shop, keep going from there. Then when you see the wall with the picture of the amusement park, walk beside the wall. Keep going all the way to the main road, then follow the roadside, walking and walking, and you’ll see the village.” Xiaoxiao recited it like a lesson from a textbook, leaving Sun Tong dizzy. A child barely over three years old remembered it all so clearly.

“Why did your teacher let you walk alone? Damn it, what kind of lousy school is this? No, I’m going to complain, I’m going to transfer you...” Sun Tong grew anxious like an ant on a hot pan. Forget a clever and adorable little girl like Xiaoxiao; even an ordinary child could be trafficked so easily. No matter how smart Xiaoxiao was, she was still only a child. If someone forcibly carried her away, there would be nothing she could do.

“Gege, you’re saying bad words,” Xiaoxiao giggled. But as soon as she finished laughing, she suddenly started crying. “Gege, Xiaoxiao misses you...”

At once Sun Tong forgot all his irritation. “Hey, hey, Xiaoxiao, don’t cry. Brother will be there soon. Stay with your sister at the village entrance and wait for me. Be good, don’t cry. Let your sister braid your hair, with dragon horns, and a dragon tail too. Once it’s done, our Xiaoxiao will be a little dragon princess. There, don’t cry... Xiaoyu, Xiaoyu, keep an eye on Xiaoxiao. Wait for me by the roadside, and don’t let Xiaoxiao run around. You watch the cars too...”

The more he spoke, the more anxious he became. He leaned over toward the driver’s seat. “Sister Xiao Jie, did you just get your license or something? You’re driving so slowly. Why don’t I take over?”

The women, including Big Sister Ya, were all speechless. Sun Tong was simply too indulgent with those two younger sisters.

And those two girls as well—there were less than thirty minutes left before they would see their brother, and they were already crying.

Still, when they thought about it, everyone rather envied the bond among the three siblings.

“Any faster and I’d be speeding. Hmm, Sun Tong, can you even drive? Do you have a license?” Xiao Jie glanced at the speedometer; they were already moving at around one hundred and ten kilometers per hour.

“Of course I can. I learned when I was ten. Back then our family was already pretty well-off, we had a car,” Sun Tong said nonsense with a straight face. In truth, at that age he had been playing in the mud. How could he have known how to drive? He had only learned in the system space.

“If you want to drive, drive your own car. Xiao Jie, don’t let him,” Yang Feifei finally deigned to speak to Sun Tong.

But by then Sun Tong no longer cared what she thought. She could go wherever she wanted.

“Sit still. If you keep fidgeting and cause a rollover, even if you die a hundred times you won’t have repaid the debt,” Yang Feifei snapped.

“Hey, hey, Sister Xiao Jie, that car, overtake it...”

From behind the driver’s seat, Sun Tong directed Sister Xiao Jie while completely ignoring Yang Feifei behind him.

Yang Feifei clenched her teeth, her little pink fists balled tight.

Lin Yin covered her mouth and laughed softly. This Feifei was just like a child. Before, Sun Tong had tried every possible way to curry favor with her, and she had ignored him. Now that all his attention was on his two younger sisters, she couldn’t hold back anymore.

Under Sun Tong’s constant urging, the Maserati finally pulled up beside the bus stop outside the village.

From a distance, Sun Tong saw Xiaoyu and Xiaoxiao crouched beneath the bus-stop sign. Xiaoyu was braiding Xiaoxiao’s hair, their two schoolbags set off to the side.

The business van stopped not far from the two little girls, and Xiaoyu hurriedly rose, clutching Xiaoxiao close.

The two of them still did not know that Sun Tong was returning in a car; they thought he was coming back by bus.

Xiaoxiao stared curiously at the Maserati. When she had first been brought back not long ago, Sun’s father had already begun to fall on hard times, and coming to the Sun family meant suffering for her.

To her, anyone who had a little car was already very rich, let alone such a grand and imposing business van.

“Wow, such beautiful and cute little girls, and there are two of them. Are these Sun Tong’s sisters?” Lin Yin, who had never seen Xiaoyu or Xiaoxiao before, called out through the window from inside the car.

Big Sister Ya and Yang Feifei had both seen Xiaoyu and Xiaoxiao online before.

As soon as the car stopped, Sun Tong opened the door at once, dragged out his suitcase, and jumped down.

“Haha...” Sun Tong laughed heartily.

Xiaoyu and Xiaoxiao froze for a moment. When they made out that it was their brother, their eyes lit up and they screamed as they rushed toward Sun Tong.

“Brother.”

“Gege.”

Sun Tong bent down, scooped them up in one motion, one in each arm, and laughed, “Didn’t Brother say he’d be back in a month? Hmm?”

The two little girls giggled, and as they laughed they began to cry.

Sun Tong’s own eyes turned red too. For this whole month, though he had been in the capital, his heart had remained in Jinzhou.

Children were the purest. After a month in the capital, what kept him attached and worried was not Jinzhou itself, but the fact that two little treasures were waiting for him here.

“Has Dad been drinking again lately?” Sun Tong asked quietly.

The two little girls nodded, crying until they were completely drenched with tears.

“Xiaoyu, climb onto Brother’s back. Brother will take you home.” After beginning his inner cultivation, Sun Tong had grown much stronger than before. With one hand he lifted Xiaoyu onto his back.

“Say thank you and goodbye to the ladies.” Sun Tong had Xiaoyu on his back, Xiaoxiao in one arm, and his suitcase in the other as he looked toward Yang Feifei and the others, who were just getting out of the car.

Xiaoyu and Xiaoxiao thought the women did not seem much older than they were, but since their brother told them to say it that way, they obediently called them “auntie” again and again without hesitation.

Lin Yin had just been moved by the love between the siblings, and then Sun Tong made this scene, causing her to burst out laughing.

Yang Feifei, meanwhile, was nearly livid.

Sun Tong led the two sisters across the road and said with a smile, “Brother will sing you a song. How about that?”

“Okay.” Both sisters were delighted.

“Listen carefully. It’s a new song.”

“Mm-hmm.”

Sun Tong began to sing:

Fly, fly

Look at the red dragonfly flying in the blue sky

Playing in the wind, forever chasing its dream

The sky is its eternal home

The earth is its kingdom

To fly is to live

Our childhood, too, was like the wind that chased after growth

Gently blowing, lifting dreams slowly into the air

The red dragonfly is the little hero of my childhood

How I wish that one day I could fly with it

...

Yang Feifei and Lin Yin pricked up their ears. It was a song in which a youth recalled scenes from childhood—beautiful, melodious, sincere and natural, vividly unfolding childhood memories before the listener’s eyes.

This guy—when had he written another song?