Chapter 15

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Chapter 13 Stars On The Sky(13)

“Heresy?” The next morning, Zhai Chen enjoyed the soft minced pork porridge with preserved eggs in the dining room of Gao Yusheng’s house. He decided to temporarily forgive Gao for his deliberately not answering his question last night.

“Well.” Gao Yusheng cut the fried bread stick bought buy Zhai Chen into several parts, which were put on the plate and then delivered on the table. He took another several small vegetable dishes from the refrigerator and poured a cup of ice mint water for Zhai Chen.

“What can’t be said on WeChat? You just wanted me to buy fried bread sticks for you this morning, didn’t you?” Zhai Chen picked up one piece of the fried bread stick, matched it with the imported garlic mayonnaise, after which he felt it tasted so good and yummy. The dipping sauce of wealthy people was indeed really different from the common sauce, which could make the 2-yuan fried bread stick taste like seafood!

“You cannot be too careful when your life is at stake.” Gao took a slow sip of the ice mint water seriously, but did not deny his intention of letting his bodyguard buy the fried sticks for him.

Zhai Chen was driven to be angry, and chewed a section of the pickled cucumber: “So what are you going to do?”

“I’m going to meet with Yuan Xiao’ai.” Gao Yusheng turned on the tablet, sliding twice and pushed it to Zhai Chen. It was a Chinese-English mail containing many pictures. It was searched from somewhat strange places, some of which was the scanned file from newspapers, which were all related to that slogan.

“Why?” Zhai Chen shook his head disapprovingly. We can make negotiations with those people whose mind are reasonable, but not those stubborn heresy followers with a low IQ. Yuan Xiao’ai was one of them.

“Her constant harassment has caused negative impacts on my company. I decided to send her a lawyer’s letter.”

“Poof–” Zhai Chen coughed out the mint water, and stared at the serious Gao Yusheng. “I don’t suppose it will work. You could also send a lawyer’s letter to the heresy, and warn them to not send you advertisement again.”

Gao Yusheng stared back at Zhai Chen innocently, and suddenly smiled softly with his eyes bending down: “You should recognize this as a joke.”

“There is no one in the world that is smarter than me.” Zhai Chen put one piece of sauced beef into his mouth and began to suspect that no one would ever laugh at this young man’s joke. At this point, he thought Gao was a little bit pathetic because after all he had never experienced something sophisticated.

After finishing the breakfast, they started to study the information about the Star Heresy, with Morning News played on the television because Zhai Chen felt the room was too silent.

[A 27-year-old white-collar worker committed suicide through jumping off the building, probably because of loads of stressful work. It has been a social concern that modern white-collar workers’ living conditions…]

This news was broadcasted by the anchorman clearly in the local city’ channel. The anchorman was later on broadcasting the data of the white collars’ staying up reality, with the background of some people holding Li Ting’s photo crying in front of her company. Their faces and the company’s logos have been mosaiced, which actually couldn’t hide their information because it can be easily discovered on Internet.

“It seems that I have to send a lawyer’s letter to the television station first.” Gao Yusheng snapped a photo and sent it to the company’s legal department by email. “You shall spare time to accompany me to work on Monday. I want to meet Yuan Xiao’ai and Li Ting’s parents.”

“Well, I’ll pick you up tomorrow morning,” Zhai Chen stood up and stretched. “Work on your business. I’ll go now.”

Gao Yusheng raised his head and looked at Zhai Chen without a word, not anticipating he was leaving.

“What is the matter?” Zhai Chen felt a little guilty when Gao was looking at him, thinking he hadn’t promised accompanying him today.

“Nothing.” Gao Yusheng lowered his eyes.

Zhai Chen wanted to touch his head because Gao’s lowering head looked so hairy and lovely. But his phone rang when he was about out to stretch out hands from the pocket. “Hi, Yao Zi”

Yao Zi was a strong man who worked part time jobs in a car repairing shop and also worked as a bodyguard of someone. He looked like a criminal in the household company “Seal Special Housekeeping”. It’s said that he used to be a hood but never mentioned his real name to others, therefore being called Yao Zi.

The man at the other side of the phone hesitated for a moment, and then said, “Brother Chen, can you lend me 5,000 yuan? I’ll pay you back when I get the job next week.”

“No problem. To your bank account?” He returned to the sofa after a long time standing, and he habitually put his feet on table, after which he put down his feet when suddenly realizing he was not in his own house. He had put on a pair of soft slippers after coming in Gao’ house, which wouldn’t cause any damage to the expensive furniture.

“Don’t send it to the account,” Yao Zi seemed to have something untold, “Give me the cash. I will come to you in a moment.”

“It’s Okay, I’ll be right by your store after a moment and give the cash to you.” Zhai Chen did not ask more about it, and hang up on the phone. He found his feet his touched Gao’s feet, who was also sitting on the sofa. He found this to be funny and consciously touch his knee, saying，”I gotta go. Don’t go out if it’s not necessary. Call me if you have to go out. And do not open the door whoever knocks.”

Gao Yusheng glanced at him. Does this man consider him as a three-year-old kid?

Zhai Chen looked his expression, and couldn’t help teasing: “Really, have you heard that story?”

“What?”

“The little rabbit opener her door without any alert when the wolf knocke…”

“Now I can understand why you are only a part-time bodyguard.” Gao Yusheng turned off the TV, put one hand on the back of the sofa, and stared blankly at the chattering Zhai Chen. Probably no employer can endure such a noisy bodyguard for a long time.

“This is a personal attack.” Zhai jumped up with a smile, grabbed his bag and threw it over his shoulder. He gotta run away quickly before Gao reduced his salary.

The whole room fell into silence after the automatic-close door closed. Gao Yusheng slowly retracted his arm after maintaining his posture for a few seconds.

Zhai Chen withdrew the cash of 5,000 yuan, then drove his electric bike to the repairing shop.

Yao Zi was still wearing that working suit stained with engine oil all over it. The extremely hot weather forced him to only wear a vest, exposing his strong arms in the hot sunshine, which reflected the illuminating brightness of the engine oil. He put down the tool at hand immediately after seeing Zhai Chen, and washed his hands with the almost black towel.

“Brother Chen.”

“You are very busy,” Zhai Chen took the cash out of his pocket and handed it to him. He lowered his voice to ask, “What happened?”

Yao Zi put away the cash into his waist purse, and locked the zip. He said, “Nothing. My mother’s medicine has run out. I have to buy it.”

Zhai Chen knew his mother was afflicted with a rare disease, and had to take a kind of imported medicine to sustain her life. That kind of medicine cannot be reimbursed with medical insurance, so every month it will cost several thousand yuan.

“Didn’t you just take a good job this week?” Zhai Chen frowned, and wanted to know the real reason why he was in urgent of money, “What the hell is it?”

Yao Zi earned 9,000 yuan last week by helping a young male star to prevent his stalking fans.

That male star had just become famous without many social resources, but attracted a group of stalking fans who followed his car and broke into his shooting spots. Those fans couldn’t be persuaded away by the regular bodyguards but the irregular ones. Yao Zi prevented those stalking fans diligently and politely for three days in vain. So he eventually become angry and chose to break their leader’s car tires, after which he towed him to the grassland to give them a lesson. “If you follow again, I will cut your legs!” The stalking fans’ leader was scared and never dare to take them to follow the star. Therefore the young star was quite happy and gave him another 3,000 yuan.

Ten thousand yuan was fairly enough to buy medicine.

“My mother… took all the money after listening to a lecture, which is something I don’t know either.” Yao Zi was a little embarrassed to explain it.

Zhai Chen was afraid that he came across those hoods in gangland. After hearing his mother was cheated, he otherwise relaxed, “That’s all right.”

“It’s alright to buy some health products, but she didn’t buy anything and wouldn’t tell me anything about where the money went. I am just afraid she was persuaded to believe some kind of religion.

Religion… Zhai Chen was quite sensitive to these two words after studying the information about the Star Heresy. He put his hand on the Yao Zi’s shoulder: “Let’s go. I will ask your mother about the lecture and see if we can find the money back.”

With the surname of Xiong, his mother is an old lady without much education, but could cook a lot of delicious dishes. Besides, she can always bring a lot of troubles to his son. She can even fight with others when dancing on the square. But later on she wasn’t able to dance because of her illness. Yao Zi’s girlfriend also broke up with him because of his mother.

“Why don’t you bring Mengmeng with you today?” Yao Zi was quite delighted when Zhai Chen decided to accompany him home. He changed his working suit after reporting to his boss. Aunt Xiong, who can’t get along with anyone, can get along well with Zhai Chen. She can always listen to Zhai Chen’s words.

“My neighbor will take care of her,” Zhai Chen smilingly followed the Yao Zi home. Entering the door, he said loudly, “I’m here, Aunt Xiong. Can you make me some delicious food?”

Yao Zi’s house is a two-story building in the village of a city, which was built by himself. Aunt Xiong was so happy that her forehead wrinkles even disappeared when hearing Zhai Chen’s voice. She turned half of her head out of the kitchen when she was busy making food in the kitchen.

“Aunt Xiong is really a cook master.” Zhai Chen asked what religion she believed gradually when he enjoyed the sweet and sour ribs. After a while, he found out the name of the religion.

“It’s not a religion at all. It’s called Celestial Research Association!” The old lady shook her head firmly, saying it was an association studying science such as astrophysics and astrology. It’s really magic because as long as you tell them your name, they will predict your destiny of the previous life and the current life.”

“Really?” Zhai Chen followed her answer seriously when biting his meat.

Seeing Zhai Chen agreed with her, Aunt Xiong stood up and brought a small book to Zhai Chen. “Look, this book explains all the things.”

Zhai Chen took the book, which was obviously an illegal published book printed by straw paper with strange articles and pictures. The articles in it just made no sense. But at the last page of the book, there was a s coin-sized pattern–a concentric star sign with an eye in the middle.

Star Heresy!

Zhai Chen pretended to read the book carefully and asked Aunt Xiong, “hy do you listen to such kind of lecture related to physics. It can’t be use to care your disease.”

“Who said it can’t cure disease? The lecturer said as long as I make honest worships every day, my years of disease will be cured.”

This abundant information made Zhai Chen a little confused, because he didn’t know who she was worshipping.

So he pretended to understand what she said, “So magic! Can it fix my weak body which could only rely on the oxygen cylinders to live?

Aunt Xiong pointed at the little book with a finger and said seriously, “Of course.”

“Well, when will you go to the class? Can you take me together?”

The writer has something to say:

The MIni theater:

Life Always Lack Something

Gao: It’s too quiet in this room. It’s like we lack something.

Zhai Chen: It lacks me

Yao Zi: I don’t feel secure. It’s like I lack something.

Zhai Chen: You lack money

Aunt Xiong: My brain is empty. It’s like I lack something.

Zhai Chen: You lack the intelligence.

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