Gu Xi did not know that after she left Gu Yanxiao, Gu Shao walked out from the other side.
She looked at Song Kexin with coldness in her eyes.
Song Kexin also saw Gu Shao. His eyes narrowed slightly, and an unnatural expression appeared on his face.
Song Kexin's eyes still hid disgust and hatred. After all, if it were not for this man, her first time would have been given to her husband.
However, seeing Gu Shao again this time, Song Kexin felt a little complicated. If it were not for that time, there would not be Gu Xi …
Song Kexin did not want to face Gu Shao, so he turned around and was about to leave. There was a hint of panic in his footsteps.
Gu Shao was right. There was a hint of guilt in Song Kexin's eyes. Just as the other party was about to leave, he slowly spoke.
"I hope that Ms. Song will not disturb my daughter's life again." Gu Shao's tone was calm, but there was an irrefutable seriousness in it.
Hearing this, Song Kexin stopped in his tracks. Dissatisfaction appeared on his face as he turned back to look at Gu Shao.
"Mr. Gu, what right do you have to make such a request of me?" Song Kexin sneered and questioned Gu Shao.
"Because I am Gu Xi's father. As a father, I am protecting my daughter." Gu Shao's words were calm and firm.
However, these words seemed to provoke Song Kexin.
"Ridiculous!" Song Kexin scolded.
"That is my daughter, the daughter I gave birth to! Why can't I come and see her? "
She was the one who gave birth to the child. What did it have to do with Gu Shao? Even if there was a reason, it should be her husband who arranged for this child to be born. As for Gu Shao, it was not an accident. If it had been someone else, she could have given birth to a child as well.
"Also, I'm not bothering her at all. I'm just, just …" Song Kexin's voice stiffened. He paused for a moment before continuing dryly, "I'm just concerned about her."
Gu Shao didn't say anything. He just looked at Song Kexin calmly, as if he had seen through everything.
Gu Shao's cold eyes seemed to carry pressure, and Song Kexin suddenly felt a little scared.
After a while, Gu Shao said slowly, "You didn't fulfill your duty as a mother to Gu Xi."
These words were plain and straightforward, but they were clarifying a fact.
In order to test her husband's love for her, Song Kexin gave birth to Gu Xi as if it was child's play. However, she did not give Gu Xi the care and care that she should have, even if it was to fulfill the basic duty of a mother. Gu Shao now had evidence that the Lin family deliberately abandoned Gu Xi and forged a donation letter for Gu Xi's remains. This evidence was enough for him to send them to court.
However, in order to protect Gu Xi and prevent Gu Xi from being harassed by public opinion, Gu Shao didn't do so.
"No matter what your motive is, don't appear in front of my daughter again," Gu Shao said.
"This is not a request." This was a warning.
After saying this, Gu Shao turned around and left.
Behind him, Song Kexin's face turned pale. He leaned weakly against the wall behind him. There was still fear on his face as he muttered, "You were the one who took her away."
— —
On the other side, after Gu Shao left, he dialed Wang Lu's number.
"Give birth?"
"Investigate the recent situation of the Lin family, especially the situation of Lin Yize and Song Kexin," Gu Shao said.
Gu Shao wasn't particularly clear about Song Kexin's attitude towards Gu Xi.
No, on one point, Gu Shao and Gu Xi's views were surprisingly consistent: Song Kexin's sudden "concern" was too suspicious.
— —
Gu Shao returned to the camping area.
At first glance, he didn't see Xiao Tuo and felt a little strange.
After walking around the tent, Gu Shao finally saw Gu Xi and the others squatting behind the tent, huddling together.
In the middle of them were spicy crayfish and barbecued skewers, each of them holding a cup of milk tea.
Gu Shao: "…"
When they noticed Gu Shao's arrival, they were startled. They tried to hide the food in the tent, but they realized that it wasn't very realistic.
"Where did you get this?" Gu Shao raised his eyebrows and asked as he looked at the pile of junk food in front of them.
Seeing Gu Shao's expressionless face, they trembled and obediently stood in a row.
"Sell …" Gu Yanxiao replied softly.
They had only tried it out. But who would have thought that the food could be delivered at Pingjing Mountain!
It was just a little more expensive to run an errand.
When they saw the young man appear at the camping area with the food, they were so excited that they almost cried.
Gu Shao didn't say anything. He raised his eyebrows and looked at them.
— — They were quite capable.
When they didn't hear Gu Shao say anything, they felt even more uncertain. With their heads lowered, Gu Yanxiao and Gu Chenyi secretly exchanged glances. Then, they said in unison, "Big Brother ordered it for us!"
Far away in M Country, Gu Yanlin sneezed in broad daylight.
"Yes, that's right." When they met Gu Shao's gaze, Gu Xi also nodded.
As for Dong Mingming and Sheng Xiuyan, they were just here to freeload, and freeloaders had no right to speak. Silence meant tacit agreement.
Gu Shao looked at the people in front of him and his eyes moved.
He didn't know the other kid, but his daughter looked like she was lying.
"Clean up after you're done eating. Quickly wash up and go to bed."
After Gu Shao finished speaking, he turned around and left. The people left behind looked at each other in disbelief.
"That's it?" Gu Chenyi's mouth was wide open as he asked, "I thought we were going to be scolded."
Gu Yanxiao also nodded, "I thought so too …"
After all, in the Gu family, the adults would never allow them to eat junk food.
Moreover, they were so excited that they couldn't help but order so much.
"Didn't Second Uncle see it?" Gu Chenyi muttered.
Gu Xi rolled his eyes, "My dad isn't blind."
"Is Second Uncle going to settle the score with Big Brother?" Gu Chenyi asked again.
"It doesn't seem like it." Gu Xi and Gu Yanxiao shook their heads.
At this moment, Gu Shao stopped in his tracks. He turned around to look at the three of them and said indifferently, "Don't push the blame to others."
The three of them, "…"
Only when Gu Shao was far away did they let out a sigh of relief.
"I think Uncle Gu is quite easy to talk to." Dong Mingming said leisurely as he took another sip of milk tea.
Gu Chenyi immediately retorted, "That's definitely your misconception."
Ever since he was young, the person he was most afraid of was his Second Uncle.
No, he didn't know if it was his misconception, but he felt that his Second Uncle was especially tolerant today.
"Is Second Uncle in a good mood today?" Gu Chenyi asked as he looked at Gu Xi and Gu Yanxiao with uncertainty.
"I think so too." Gu Yanxiao nodded and said, "Did something good happen?"
…
On the other side, Gu Shao didn't stop when he heard the discussion behind him. No, there was a smile on his face.
He recalled Gu Xi's words, "Gu Shao is my father." At this moment, the smile on Gu Shao's face deepened.
— — Good, I didn't raise her for nothing.
Gu Shao thought to himself. He was obviously in a good mood: I'll let go of the matter of stealing junk food and pushing the blame to Gu Yanlin today. I won't do it again.
— —
After the meal was over, everyone packed up their lunch boxes and prepared to go to sleep.
Gu Chenyi, Gu Yanxiao, and Gu Shao shared a tent, Mr. and Mrs. Dong shared a tent, and Gu Xi and Dong Mingming shared a tent.
At night, Gu Xi woke up and glanced at Dong Mingming, who was sleeping soundly next to her. Finally, she decided to sneak out by herself. Along the way, she also took the small shovel provided by the campsite to build the stove.
She admitted that she wanted to take advantage of the night to dig for treasures.
Gu Xi walked out of the tent. Because of the lights around the campsite, the surroundings weren't too dark, but it wasn't as bright as it was during the day.
Gu Xi's eyes stared straight at the ground as she began to search. However, because the surroundings were too dark, it was difficult to see where the 'treasures' were.
Thinking about the headlamp that Dong Mingming had really wanted in the supply area today, Gu Xi suddenly felt a little regretful. She should have reluctantly exchanged for one.
Just as Gu Xi was secretly regretting it, she heard a faint sound not far away. Gu Xi was so scared that she froze on the spot and didn't dare to move.
— — Although the campsite on Pingjing Mountain was already on a large scale, no, it was still in the wilderness and close to the forest. Therefore, it was very likely that some small animal would run over from the forest.
It couldn't be a snake, right? Or something else …
She seemed to have seen it before. There were rumors that a small wild boar had barged into the campsite …
The more Gu Xi thought about it, the more nervous she became. She tried hard to recall if she had seen any news about an animal entering the campsite and hurting people.
"It can't be a Sheng Xiuyan, right …" Gu Xi muttered half-jokingly in her heart.
At this moment, a voice came from behind her. "Gu Xi?"
Gu Xi was stunned. The corners of her mouth twitched slightly. She heaved a sigh of relief and then turned her head to look at Sheng Xiuyan behind her.
Although Gu Xi had casually guessed that Sheng Xiuyan had gotten first place last year because he had secretly come to the campsite behind everyone's backs, Gu Xi was still surprised when she saw Sheng Xiuyan.
"What are you doing out here so late at night?" Gu Xi asked Sheng Xiuyan.
"Just … um, I'm just strolling around," Sheng Xiuyan said.
"That's it?" Gu Xi raised her eyebrows.
"What else could I be doing?" Sheng Xiuyan asked back.
Gu Xi still maintained a skeptical attitude and nodded. Then she said, "Oh, I thought you secretly came here at night to dig for treasures."
"…" A look of embarrassment flashed across Sheng Xiuyan's face. Fortunately, it was dark and she couldn't see it.
Then, Gu Xi asked again, "So, you got such a high score last year because you dug it out in the middle of the night?"
Sheng Xiuyan: "…" Can you continue to pretend that you didn't hear me?
"Is there any technique?" Gu Xi continued to ask. She looked around and found that she really couldn't find it.
Facing Gu Xi's sincere and curious gaze, Sheng Xiuyan finally gave up struggling.
"It's not that difficult. You just have to find the right place."
"The 'treasures' in the campsite are all placed in advance by the school's staff and campsite's staff. Most of them are buried in places where everyone can find them. They won't be buried in places that are particularly strange, untouched, or have hidden safety hazards."
"Can you find them?" Hearing Sheng Xiuyan's words, Gu Xi had a flash of inspiration.
Then she heard Sheng Xiuyan reply and say, "For example, around the area where everyone set up their tents or near the activity site."
"If you compare carefully, although the excavated areas have been filled back in, the soil will be looser and the grass will be more messy." As Sheng Xiuyan spoke, he found a spot next to a big tree, squatted down, and picked up a tool to dig.
Sure enough, Sheng Xiuyan dug out the surface of the soil and stones in a few moments and found a small waterproof bag in the pit. Inside the bag was a small card with the corresponding points written on it.
Looking at Sheng Xiuyan's points card, Gu Xi's eyes lit up. She looked around and soon, according to Sheng Xiuyan's description, she found an 'unusual' area of soil and stones nearby.
The moment Gu Xi dug down with her shovel, she felt that the sand and soil here were looser than other places. When she continued to dig down, she felt a little resistance. It was obvious that the staff was trying to cover it up by pouring some water over it.
Gu Xi continued digging.
On the other side, after Sheng Xiuyan filled up the pit where the 'treasure' had been dug out, he went to the second spot to dig out something, and then the third …
By the time Sheng Xiuyan had dug out three 'treasures', he turned his head and saw that Gu Xi was still struggling with the first pit with her small shovel.
Sheng Xiuyan couldn't stand it anymore. He walked over and squatted down next to Gu Xi. "Let me do it."
After saying that, Sheng Xiuyan took the shovel from Gu Xi's hand and started digging.
With the tools, Sheng Xiuyan's speed became faster. In a few moments, he accurately found the location and dug out the buried 'treasure'.
Sheng Xiuyan handed the small bag to Gu Xi and said, "I'll dig. You're in charge of looking for the treasures. After that, we'll split the treasures equally."
— — Of course!
Gu Xi nodded without any hesitation.
Thus, the division of labor between the two was that Gu Xi would look for the buried 'treasure', and then Sheng Xiuyan would dig it out.
Gu Xi raised her eyebrows as she watched Sheng Xiuyan skillfully dig out another small bag from the ground.
— — His movements were so smooth. How many pits did he have to dig to accumulate such experience?
Gu Xi muttered softly.
At this moment, Sheng Xiuyan looked up at her and asked, "Where else?"
"There!" Gu Xi quickly pointed to another spot.
After finding a spot, Gu Xi quickly grasped the trick of digging. It was as if she could accurately find the location of the hidden treasure with just one glance.
One of them was fast at finding the treasures, while the other was fast at digging. It took only an hour for the two of them to 'sweep' the entire camping area.
In the end, the two of them discussed for a while and felt that it would be a bit too much to not leave a single spot for the others. Thus, they deliberately left a spot undug.
— —
After returning from a rewarding journey, the two of them found a place to 'split the loot'.
These 'treasures' didn't only contain points. There were also some practical items such as an entire semester's worth of practice questions, a notebook, and a huge gift pack for a certain subject's online classes.
When she saw the card that Sheng Xiuyan had typed out, which had the words' Winter Holiday Gift Pack 'written on it, Gu Xi's eyes lit up.
"I want that!"
"This?"
"Yes, yes."
"Then I'll give it to you."
Although he didn't know why Gu Xi was so obsessed with the teaching aids and practice books, Sheng Xiuyan would very consciously give Gu Xi a pile of similar 'rewards' later on.
After the two of them finished dividing the 'treasures', Gu Xi returned to her tent with a pile of points and rewards in her arms.
When she passed by Gu Yanxiao's tent, Gu Xi stole a glance inside like a thief. After making sure that she hadn't woken the three people inside, she squatted down and divided the points she had dug up into three portions. Then, she secretly stuffed one of the two portions into each of their shoes.
In addition, she reluctantly gave Gu Yanxiao a 'Winter Holiday Gift Pack' and Gu Chenyi a 'New Year's Flagship Edition of the Complete Solution of the Teaching Materials'.
After doing all this, Gu Xi happily skipped back to her tent.
— —
The result of the previous night's adrenaline rush was that Gu Xi woke up in a daze the next day.
So much so that she missed the surprised and delighted expressions on Gu Yanxiao and Gu Chenyi's faces when they woke up and discovered this' surprise '.
Gu Xi sat in front of the stove and nibbled on the dry bread distributed by the camping team. She was in a daze as she listened to Dong Mingming's muttering beside her.
"Gu Xi, did you know that when I went to the supply area to get water just now, Liming was there too? I overheard them saying that the two schools were originally going to have a friendly competition, but later on, it seemed that our school went back on their word, so they didn't do it."
As he spoke, Dong Mingming patted his chest with lingering fear and said, "Fortunately, we didn't do it …"
She didn't want to have a friendly competition at all, especially when her opponent was Liming.
Hearing Dong Mingming's words, Gu Xi perked up a little. She looked at him and asked, "Why didn't we do it again?"
"It seems that our school said that we couldn't arrange the event time, so we didn't do it." As Dong Mingming spoke, he glanced around and lowered his voice, "Maybe our school learned from last year's failure and decided not to make things difficult for ourselves."
Dong Mingming didn't know that as the principal of a school that was known for being "braver the more you fight, the braver you become", Principal Zhao had originally agreed to the friendly competition with Liming.
In the end, he gave up on the friendly competition because Professor Gu said, "An irregular competition venue is prone to accidents and is inconvenient to manage, so it is not recommended to have any activities between the two schools."
Principal Zhao thought about it and felt that it was very reasonable, so he rejected this friendly competition.
— —
The friendly competition with Liming High School was canceled, but the competition with Affiliated High School continued as usual.
There were many types of competitions. Some were about participation, while others were about competition.
Among them, because the competition had the most points, the "obstacle course" naturally became the most watched competition in the whole school.
Gu Yanxiao and Gu Chenyi both went up to represent their respective classes.
"Gu Xi, I'm so nervous. What should I do?" Dong Mingming said as he shook Gu Xi's hand.
"What are you nervous about?" Gu Xi turned her head and glanced at Dong Mingming.
"I don't know who will win." She hoped that her class would win, but she also hoped that Gu Yanxiao and Gu Chenyi would win. What should she do? She was so conflicted.
"So you're conflicted about this …" Hearing Dong Mingming's ridicule, Gu Xi didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
"You're not nervous?"
Gu Xi shook her head. As someone who had already obtained the "free points", she wasn't nervous at all.
Even so, as the competition began, Gu Xi was affected by the surrounding atmosphere and subconsciously began to feel nervous.
No, the most nervous people were Old Master Gu and Old Master Shen, who were watching the competition remotely.
The two of them gathered in front of Old Master Gu's computer, their eyes fixed on the small screen.
The atmosphere was quiet.
When Butler Zhou came over with tea, he saw the two old masters staring at the computer without saying a word. He didn't know what they were looking at, but their expressions were grim.
— — Did they quarrel? It doesn't seem like it …
Butler Zhou muttered with a dumbfounded expression.
He was completely unaware that the two old masters were secretly competing with each other while watching their own grandson's competition.
Looking at the screen, Sheng Xiuyan jumped over the high wall and took the lead. Old Master Shen stroked his beard and nodded in satisfaction.
However, in the next second, before Old Master Shen could snicker, Gu Yanxiao had already chosen the wooden pole on the other side and quickly jumped over it. At the same time, she also pushed away the pile of dirt and grass on the side, setting up an obstacle for Sheng Xiuyan's next checkpoint.
"Your son is too much!" Old Master Shen secretly gritted his teeth.
"This is called all's fair in war. The rules didn't say that you can't do this." Old Master Gu thought.
In the next second, after Sheng Xiuyan jumped down the high wall, he directly brought the rope to the best position. This also caused Gu Chenyi, who had started after him, to have no way to pass quickly.
This time, it was Old Master Shen's turn to say, "Do you know what this is called? This is called 'power controls power because of benefits' ~ "
The three people in the steeplechase were restricting each other, and for a moment, it was hard to tell who had the advantage.
Just as the situation on the track was getting more and more intense, and the people present were also guessing who would reach the finish line first, they saw that on the third track, the student from Class 11 who had chosen to walk through the quagmire was not fast, but he steadily overtook the three of them and rang the bell of the finish line.
Everyone present: "???"
The two old masters: "…"
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