Free Web NovelChapter 946: Chapter 919: A Familiar Face Returns
Yu Minglang turned on the light, and Qian squinted as she carefully read a line in the book.
"What’s wrong?"
"This book says that the influence of a person’s subconscious on their consciousness is 30,000 times stronger. It’s not the first time I’ve heard this point of view."
Last time, it seemed to be in a past life.
"Are you kidding me? 30,000 times? Who dares to write that?"
Qian glanced at the author’s name on the cover, "Halley—it’s him."
"Haha." Xiaoqiang laughed, thinking of something funny.
"Why are you laughing?"
"I’m laughing at the English name Halley. When I was in middle school, there was a stuttering classmate in my class who couldn’t pronounce it right no matter what. He always said hai~hai~li! It sounded like he was saying ’beaver’."
Qian was amused by him. He imitated it in a funny way, with a curled tongue and a weird voice, elongating the sound.
"Harry is a very thoughtful psychiatrist. I think some of his ideas are very innovative, but—"
Qian thought of the past life and couldn’t help but sigh.
Talented people perhaps tend to die young. In the end, this person committed suicide, said to be troubled by love. Qian always wanted to meet him to exchange professional views, but unfortunately, they never met. She could only feel bits and pieces of him through his writings.
"But what?" Xiaoqiang was waiting for her to continue.
"Nothing." Qian silently looked at him for a few seconds. After all, the things from the past life couldn’t be mentioned, which was somewhat regretful.
Collecting her thoughts, Qian pondered over the theory about the 30,000 times in the book, her eyes showing a tinge of sadness.
"Shi Touyu bore that 30,000 times for me..."
When battling against the subconscious, how much had Shi Touyu endured to successfully confront it with consciousness? This was a sad yet heartwarming question.
"Xiaoqiang, what if I say I want to do something crazy, what would you do?"
"Dear..." Xiaoqiang sighed, looking at her with helpless affection.
"When are you not crazy... I mean, my dear always does the right thing!"
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Shi Yu drove home, taking the highway for several hours, and arrived home in the middle of the night.
Because it was night, she did not see the people blocking the door, as her mother had mentioned.
Mrs. Shi saw her return and scolded her with helplessness and heartache.
"Why did you come back? Didn’t I tell you to stay outside and avoid the limelight?"
The employees at the factory were blocking the way demanding wages. They might have heard rumors about the company running out of funds and the bank planning to seize assets, so they had been blocking the entrance during the day. Mrs. Shi didn’t want her daughter to witness such things.
There was still no news from Mr. Shi, and there were only a few days left until the deadline given by the bank. All the household helpers had been dismissed, leaving the large villa to just the three members of the family. Even the Persian cat they raised seemed to sense their decline and refused to return from the neighbor’s house.
This situation was extremely bleak.
"Avoid what? This is my home. How could I run away when there’s a problem?"
Mrs. Shi sighed helplessly, "Child, you’re still too naive and haven’t seen the cruelty of this world. Why don’t you go out and avoid the limelight first. Also, sell the drink shop in Lishi, and hide in a place with no people."
The employees demanding wages might do something extreme, and Mrs. Shi was most afraid of them harming her beloved daughter.
"I understand. You should go to sleep."
After saying goodbye to her mother, and seeing the light in her mother’s room go off, Shi Yu went to the garage and took a safe out of the trunk of her small car. She had taken it from her place after coming back from Qian, and it contained various precious gifts her parents had given her over the years.
There were jewelry and land deeds, all under her name. If the family really went bankrupt and the court came to seize the house, these would be her personal assets and wouldn’t be taken away.
Normally, she didn’t care about these things, but at critical moments, these possessions proved useful.
Her mother’s intention was to hope she could use these to sail through life safely, to remove her from the family affairs since this amount of money might allow an ordinary family to live peacefully but couldn’t alleviate the family’s urgent crisis. It was a drop in the bucket, entirely insufficient.
If they sold the house, the drink shop, and the car, it should be enough to pay the employees’ wages.
She took everything out of the safe, one by one. From tomorrow onwards, these were no longer hers, but seeing the small sandalwood prayer beads in her hand moved her.
This won’t be sold; it was a gift from Qian.
The listening device had been removed, yet this bracelet had witnessed her and Qian’s final joint efforts.
Shi Yu touched the beads on her hand, smiling slightly. With a particularly steady smile, she held her small box and closed her eyes.
The next day, Mrs. Shi called her to get up, only to find her daughter’s bed already empty.
"Where has this child gone..."
It wasn’t until the phone at home rang that Mrs. Shi learned her daughter had gone to the factory early in the morning! Not only did she go, but she also called all of the company’s shareholders over!
When Mrs. Shi heard the news, she almost fainted. What was her daughter thinking?
At this critical moment, wasn’t she just going to be bombarded by people?
The workers demanding debts were like crazy these days, and even those who had started the business with Mr. Shi took turns bombarding their home after knowing he was ill. Would those people spare a little girl when she went to them?
Mrs. Shi hurriedly changed her clothes, planning to go to the company quickly to get her daughter back. Meanwhile, Shi Yu had already changed into professional attire and was sitting in the company’s conference room.
With the factory shutdown and rumors that the chairman had absconded with the funds and immigrated with his family, the entire pharmaceutical factory was in turmoil. The workers spontaneously went to the chairman’s home to demand wages, but they couldn’t see if anyone was inside. In such an unfavorable situation, no one expected Shi Yu, a fresh graduate, to stand up.
Only the senior executives of the pharmaceutical factory were in the conference room, but outside, the workers who had come after hearing the news crowded the area, waiting for an explanation.
"Niece, why hasn’t your dad come?" one of the shareholders asked.
"He’s given me full authority to handle this matter, and today I’m here to discuss with all the shareholders the future path of our pharmaceutical factory."
"A little girl speaking has no weight. Now that things have developed to this state, can we even rely on the Shi Family!"
"Have your dad come; we have nothing to say to a kid like you!"
"Exactly!"
The conference room was in chaos, and facing the crowd’s indignation, Shi Yu calmly sat in the place where she should sit, watching these people chattering.
It turned out that dad earned money little by little with such difficulty, but she was not the same greenhouse flower as before after all.
"All of you uncles have known my father for many years, so you should know his character. He would never abandon everyone and run away."
"You say he won’t run, then he won’t? Have him come here and give us justice!"
"Yes!"
"Enough!" Shi Yu slammed the table, and the conference room quieted down.
