Chapter 22 – Sunscreen Oil (1/2)
The watch returned to Bai Lang’s wrist.
It was just that Qiu Qian was very displeased about Bai Lang’s “disappearance”. When his search for answers only yielded several vague statements, it made him even more dissatisfied. Thus he expressed that Bai Lang definitely needed a punishment, just like when Qiu XiaoHai ran way.
So thus with one more week of the holiday time left, Qiu Qian ordered Bai Lang to pack a suitcase and leave with them that afternoon.
Bai Lang obeyed and packed a simple backpack. As he was leaving he grabbed his phone and couldn’t help asking, “Where are we going?”
Qiu Qian coldly glanced at Bai Lang’s phone. “Oh so you still know how to use it? Too bad because we are going somewhere where you won’t be able to get any reception.”
“….” Bai Lang was speechless. Was this holding a grudge? “Five days after new years, Sister Fang will probably contact me.”
“What do you have an assistant for? If she can’t find you she will find Er Hong.” Qiu Qian lifted up a big bag that was Qiu XiaoHai’s luggage. “Let’s go.”
Qiu XiaoHai was happily jumping up and down. He ran over to grab Bai Lang’s hand. “Ah Bai let’s go, this time we can go play together!”
Bai Lang glanced at Qiu Qian who was walking in front then whispered in a low voice, “Do you know where we are going?”
Qiu XiaoHai grinned sunnily. “No idea.”
….
This child really made one worry.
***
Without any further discussion, the car drove towards the back mountain then immediately took a turn towards the highway.
There there was an about thirty or forty minutes car journey in which Qiu XiaoHai didn’t stop talking, mostly about the boat he had taken when he went back to Xindao with daddy and how big and how pretty it was. Bai Lang of course played the part of the conversation partner, making the appropriate responses. Outside the window he could only see more highway. This way when he next realized what was happening they were already at the entrance of A City’s international airport.
“….” Bai Lang and Qiu XiaoHai were kicked out of the car. Bai Lang adjusted his sunglasses in a slightly shocked manner, “I didn’t bring my passport.”
“I have it.” Qiu Qian was just talking into the phone and responded to him between sentences.
Not long later, Qiu Qian’s assistant Xiao Li who often helped transport Qiu XiaoHai appeared out of nowhere. Qiu Qian threw the keys at him and after a few more sentences grabbedtwo big bags and at the same time put his arm around Bai Lang’s waist and started walking towards the front door. “Let’s go, what are standing around like an idiot for?”
Bai Lang couldn’t help but freeze. He quickly looked around them.
Two big men walking, one of whom had his arm around the other’s waist, what was that if not coming out of the closet? Also he was still holding Qiu XiaoHai’s hand….
So Bai Lang dug his heels into the pavement, clearly a rejecting motion. “You….”
Qiu Qian was also wearing sunglasses. But underneath his sunglasses his mouth twitched slightly. “I said before that you needed to be punished, did you think I was joking?”
Bai Lang didn’t know what to say. He could only frown. What kind of “punishment” was this? Was it punishing him or was it punishing Sister Fang?
Qiu Qian raised his eyebrow. “Last time didn’t you say you didn’t care? Now you do?” {T/N: Referring when BL told HH to let the newspapers write what they wanted.}
Bai Lang stared at Qiu Qian for a moment. He couldn’t figure out what Qiu Qian’s motivation was. Thus he distanced himself, moved away from Qiu Qian’s arm around his waist, and bent down and picked up Qiu XiaoHai who was looking left and right in curiosity.
“There’s so many people here. Don’t get lost.” Bai Lang reminded Qiu XiaoHai as though nothing was wrong.
Qiu XiaoHai completely didn’t understand the situation. He excitedly nodded at Bai Lang and pointed at the things that caught his interest.
“Ah Bai, are we going to take a boat? I saw big crates like that when I went to take the boat with daddy ah. They have it here too. Daddy said they were really heavy. There were also cars. Daddy said that the crates had to be put underneath the cars….”
“We aren’t taking a boat. We should be taking a plane.”
“Plane!!” Qiu XiaoHai opened his eyes wide. “I know them! Planes are the big big birds that fly in the sky~~”
Qiu Qian saw that Bai Lang was holding Qiu XiaoHai and laughed lowly and strode forward. He didn’t force his action from before.
After all if there were really paparazzi here then didn’t intimately holding someone else’s son also require some explanation?
Thus Qiu Qian strode with large steps into the main hall and took the two people to have their customs procedures completed.
Because they took the special pathway for customs clearance and not the normal passengers one before directly boarding the plane, they didn’t really get stopped for signatures. However in the era where mobile phones with cameras were everywhere, there was no guarantee that they hadn’t been photographed. The only thing that comforted Bai Lang was that they took a private plane so even if he took off his sunglasses, he didn’t have to worry about being photographed during the journey.
After sleeping on the plane for a short while, after a few hours, Bai Lang found himself being blown by a sea breeze. Underneath his feet was white sand. He was in an island nation with a name he hadn’t even heard of much before.
When he looked in front of him, all he could see was an endless and vast blue sea.
***
The sand was clean and pure, the sea was azure and the breeze was warm and lazy. Bai Lang’s holiday villa was on a private beach. After tanning in the sun for two days, even his bones felt soft.
As for what Bai Lang had done these two days, the schedule was very simple.
During the day time he would play with Qiu XiaoHai in the water and sand, and then at night he would play with the older version again the water and sand but in a somewhat different manner.
After having a simple island tour, Bai Lang gradually understood that this island was one of the Qiu family’s shipping ports. Other than exporting oil and raw materials, the Qiu family had also invested in a tropical coffee beans business. It was the major player in this country’s economic development, thus why their private planes could fly here whenever they wanted.
This type of business seemed to have only arisen in the last couple of years. It was an inevitable trend that if you made a lot of money then you would then seek out more avenues to make your money earn even more money.
Even if the En Jiang Group (which essentially was just the Qiu family) wasn’t a listed company, and was considered by outsiders to be a somewhat shadowy group, but based on the number of times it appeared on the major shareholders list of other companies, it can be seen the reach of the group is slowly spreading.
This type of investment methods in ten years would allow the company to increase its value by a factor of ten. This was something that Bai Lang had heard. At that time Qiu Qian was already in charge of the family for many years.
That’s why Bai Lang didn’t at all believe that Qiu Qian was at this moment was just a relaxed boss of Total Entertainment. Since the En Jiang group had so many faster ways of making money, for them to pick the entertainment business, there must be other public relations type motivation behind it.
Thus as for Qiu Qian’s activities at the airport, after thinking about in the sun for a few days, he decided to just take it at face value.
Just like when he had been photographed by the paparazzi, Bai Lang had already prepared for the situation where him being “kept” was exposed.
However just as Bai Lang said before, Sister Fang had only just painstakingly raised him into the limelight, if Qiu Qian suddenly did this kind of thing, when wasn’t the person being punished Sister Fang?
Since he dared to it, then he also wasn’t scared that it would be known. Of course if he could avoid damage then he didn’t mind to avoid it. However if someone as powerful as Qiu Qian wanted to expose it, how could someone like him prevent it? Therefore he wouldn’t bother.
If Fang Hua knew the reason that everything she had done had turned to dust was simply because he had turned off his phone for a few days and didn’t wear his watch, then wouldn’t she vomit blood?
Thinking about this the lazily lying down Bai Lang decided to go drink a glass of cold juice to clear his throat as well as his thoughts.