Chapter 35

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Temporary Bodyguard Chapter 35

Dolls (4)

He used to live in poverty and refused to climb the social ladder. Now only a day has passed and he took someone back home. Fang Chuyang now knows that his brother’s words can’t be trusted.

“Yo, you’re back,” Zhai Chen turned around and greeted Fang Chuyang, then turned his attention back to Gao Yusheng, “Fang Chuyang, my younger brother, you’ve met him before.”

“Who is your younger brother!” Fang Chuyang came over and punched him in the back, looking at Gao Yusheng carefully.

Gao Yusheng got up, nodded to Fang Chuyang to say hello and went into the room with his pyjamas to change.

Looking at the obedient Tian Ci, Zhai Chen couldn’t help smiling so wide his teeth were showing and looked silly. Fang Chuyang, who couldn’t see it, restrained his neck and asked, “What’s going on?”

“As you can see, I made a billionaire brother and our family will be prosperous in the future.” Zhai Chen winked at him.

“Scram!”

The two were arguing when Gao Yusheng finished changing and came out. It is just a cheap pair of pyjamas worth dozens of yuans but in his body it gives a sense of luxury: “I won’t cause you any trouble if I live here, right?”

“How could that be? Someone has been thinking about it for so many years… oops!” Fang Chuyang was punched in the stomach by Zhai Chen so he didn’t say more.

“The noodles are about to burn, hurry up and take it out to eat.” Zhai Chen took Gao Yusheng to the kitchen and left his injured brother in the living room to fend for himself.

Fang Chuyang was busy with work and his rest time was precious so he went to bed early after eating. Zhai Chen coaxed Zhai Mengmeng to sleep in the children’s room so Gao Yusheng could stay in Zhai Chen’s room by himself.

The room looks like it was inhabited by high school students from ten years ago, with few books on the shelves, basketballs, magazines and all kinds of gadgets. There is a small photo frame on the table with a family portrait in it.

A middle-aged couple sits on a chair, with three young people standing behind them. Zhai Chen stood in the middle, holding Fang Chuyang and a young woman from left to right, smiling brightly.

“Do you want to sleep on top or bottom?” Zhai Chen came in with a pillow and threw it on the bed.

“This person,” Gao Yusheng pointed at the middle-aged man in the photo, “He is…”

“Yeah, he is the policeman who brought us back,” Zhai Chen came over and picked up the photo frame, surprised, “You still remember him?”

That man was Zhai Jianguo, who is also the policeman who took Gao Yusheng’s mother to S province to pick them up. At that time, Gao Yusheng refused to separate from Zhai Chen and Zhai Chen couldn’t tell where his home was so he was brought back together. The household registration was registered in the orphanage but Zhai Chen did not live in the orphanage and was taken home by Gao’s mother directly.

“Did my mother send you away?” Gao Yusheng looked at him.

When he woke up, his brother was gone, no matter how much he cried, it was useless. His mother sent him back to Gao’s house and he disappeared.

“Send me away?” Zhai Chen was surprised. His mother had the surname Ye. At that time, this auntie Ye lived by herself and he never saw Gao Yusheng’s father. Later, Aunt Ye chased him away. He thought that he might be going back to Dad Gao and it was inconvenient to take him as an outsider.

But leaving the child alone makes no sense.

“Well, it didn’t take long before she died.” Gao Yusheng chose a lower bunk, sat on the bed and looked down at the cartoon print on the pillow.

His mother is gone and he is not around. The Gao family still has a half-sister and a stepmother. By the way, that younger brother was only four years younger than Gao Yusheng and Gao Yusheng was already seven years old when he came back. That means ……

Zhai Chen frowned and looked at Gao Yusheng reaching out to hug him but just as his fingertips touched his shoulder, there was a sudden knock on the door.

“Who?” Zhai Chen turned around and saw Zhai Mengmeng, who was barefoot, hands at the door, revealing two eyes, staring at them stealthily.

After getting permission from his uncle, the little guy quickly climbed onto the bed and lay between the two adults.

“You kid, did you just pretend to be asleep?” Zhai Chen stretched out a finger and poked him.

“I fell asleep but suddenly I remembered something and woke up again,” Zhai Mengmeng trying to imitate an adult voice, sitting up and looking at his uncle very seriously, “I want to marry Yaoyao, do you think she will agree?”

“You have to ask Yaoyao,” Zhai Chen replied seriously, “Have you confessed to her?”

“Not yet,” Zhai Mengmeng frowned, “I plan to propose to her directly.”

“So you already had a plan,” Zhai Chen patted his nephew on the shoulder, “I wish you success.”

However, even the support from his uncle could not relieve Mr. Zhai’s worries. He was very dubious about his first confession in his life when a bad idea flashed in his mind: “Why don’t you marry Yaoyao’s mother? Yaoyao doesn’t have a father. If you marry her mother, I can be with Yaoyao every day.” [1]

“Then you and Yaoyao will become brothers and sisters and you can’t get married!” Zhai Chen knocked his head, “Go back to sleep.”

After failing to sell his uncle, Mr. Zhai went back to sleep with a heavy heart.

Gao Yusheng: “…”

“Why are you looking at me like this, do you want to sell me for a wife?” Zhai Chen glanced at him sideways.

Gao Yusheng shook his head, took out his mobile phone and handed it to him. Siri’s microphone logo flashed on the screen and a mechanical sound sounded:

[Under current law, a child born to your aunt and ex-husband can be married to you.] [2]

“Hey!” Zhai Chen raised his hand and rubbed Gao Yusheng meticulously combed hair into a chicken nest.

The next day was a working day and Zhai Chen got up early to send Gao Yusheng to work.

“The unconventional path from here to the company will not be dangerous, I will just go by myself.” Gao Yusheng looked at his sleepy eyes and wanted him to sleep longer.

“I have to go to kindergarten anyway so might as well send you off.” Zhai Chen shoved him out of the room and yawned.

Fang Chuyang mocked him while buttoning his shirt: “Why didn’t you find a kindergarten close to your home, there are several close by but you have to go to such a far place.”

“It’s not far, it is only 3 blocks.” Zhai Chen dug up Zhai Mengmeng, who was sleeping like a pig. [3]

In the end, it was Gao Yusheng who drove the two of them to the kindergarten first, while he went to work himself afterwards. With the funding from Xian Yu Ventures in place and the business project already launched, he has actually been very busy lately. He had been lazy all day yesterday and his mailbox was almost full.

When Zhai Mengmeng arrived at the kindergarten, he refused to enter the classroom, he stood beside the swing and waited for Yaoyao, touching the things in his pocket from time to time. However, after waiting until 9:30, all the children had arrived but Yaoyao hadn’t come yet.

After counting the number of people, he found that there was one student missing. Zhai Chen took out the address book and called Yaoyao’s mother, intending to ask her why Yaoyao didn’t come to the kindergarten. The phone rang for a long time before it was connected and a nasal voice saying “hello” sounds really exhausted.

“Mother Yaoyao, Yaoyao didn’t come to kindergarten, do you know why?”

The answer to Zhai Chen’s question was an uncontrollable cry: “Yaoyao is gone!”

Before long, Yaoyao’s pale mother appeared at the gate of the kindergarten, holding a thick stack of colourful printed missing notices. She hoped the kindergarten would help her with it.

Zhai Chen took it over and looked at the contents.

[Xiao Yao, female, 4 and a half years old. Lost in Wanming shopping mall at 20:10 last night, wearing a pink bow skirt and small white leather shoes. ] There is a clear photo of Yaoyao wearing the clothes in the description next to it.

“Lost in the shopping mall? Have you checked the surveillance?” The kindergarten principal came out and agreed to let the teachers help to post it in this area.

“I did but I couldn’t find it at the time. The police took away the surveillance cameras and told me to come again to check at 11 o’clock.” Yaoyao’s mother’s eyes were red, obviously she hadn’t slept all night.

“Has Yaoyao been kidnapped by the bad guys?” Zhai Mengmeng tugged at his uncle’s apron.

“It’s possible.” Zhai Chen looked down at him, Yaoyao’s mother next to him suddenly fell forward and was quickly supported by him.

The principal quickly took a bottle of drink and handed it to her, and persuaded: “Yaoyao mother, you have to take care of your health so that you can have the strength to find the child. Now there are surveillance cameras everywhere and it is in the downtown area, so you can definitely find her back. Yes. Maybe the child got lost and was led away by some kind person.”

The last sentence is pure consolation. Everyone knows in their hearts that children these days obviously will memorise their parents’ mobile phone numbers and they will definitely contact their parents as soon as they meet a kind person.

Yaoyao’s mother drank a few sips of energy drinks and her face finally looked better. She propped herself up, planning to go to the police station to see the surveillance.

The principal couldn’t bear it: “Xiao Zhai, go with Yaoyao’s mother.”

Zhai Chen accompanied Yaoyao’s mother to the police station. The police station in the shopping mall area analysed all surveillance overnight but no child was found. They however, arranged some key time-point clips for them to see.

The picture shows the situation in the mall at that time. Yaoyao’s mother was looking at the goods in the store. Outside the store was an indoor square where many children were playing. At a certain point in time, several children ran into the blind spot of the monitoring together and when they came out, Yaoyao was gone.

“At this time, all the other children were there and only she disappeared.” The police who analysed the video pointed to them, the safety exit near the blind spot. They also checked the monitoring near the safety passage on each floor at the corresponding time point but there was no shadow of Yaoyao.

It’s like she is just disappearing out of thin air.

“You can lose her in the big shopping mall. How do you look after the child?” A well-dressed man with black framed glasses walked in and began to blame Yao Yao’s mother.

“Who are you?”

The police stopped him.

“I’m the child’s father!” The ex-husband with black-rimmed glasses didn’t care about the progress of the case, he pointed at Yaoyao’s mother and said, “You can’t even look after a child that big, you just know how to shop for clothes. I told you to give me the child in the first place, but you wouldn’t let me, now look, something happened.”

“The mother is the one who is upset the most that the child is lost. Is it amusing for you to say these sarcastic words now?” Zhai Chen couldn’t stand the sight and held the woman, whose heart was broken and unable to speak back.

“What are you? You, you’ve got a new boyfriend so soon,” The ex-husband looked up and down at Zhai Chen, who was too good-looking and suddenly became angry. “You don’t care about your children and are now in a romantic relationship. Do you deserve to be a mother?” [4]

Zhai Chen grabbed the man’s collar, gritted his teeth and said in a low voice, “Just say another word.”

The author has something to say:

Mengmeng: Marriage proposal failed – Wife is lost.

Hoot Hoot :

[1] 小翟先生 ; 先生 is Mr/gentleman so yeah, author is joking here

[2] I know I should change [] into “” however since this is Siri speaking, I decided to keep it that way to show the difference between human and machine speech.

[3] That is cute sentence lol so I decided to keep it

[4] 你是什么东西; Yeah the jerk truly said this, so no, I can change it but I decided to keep it so you can see how rude he is

So yeah, I try my best to translate this but I know there will be one or two things I miss. So comment? Also, I purposely did not make any notes about any idiom that I found so yeah, my translation style is that I will try my best to English-ing stuff so I might tweak 1 or 2 things to make it fits, just a note. Also, I use British spelling.

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