Chapter 409 - Out Of 5 People, 3 Slipped Away Through Their Cellphones. (1/2)
Chapter 409 Out Of 5 People, 3 Slipped Away Through Their Cellphones.
“What is this, what is going on?” Liu Xiangwen was wearing a dress, while she was hugging Chang Jianan her bare forearms and shoulders stuck to his wet shirt, and had felt the cold very soon, and goosebumps formed on her forearms.
Liu Xiangwen asked worriedly, “why is it so cold?”
When she saw the ice cubes all over the floor, she understood.
Chang Zhixing hurriedly took off his jacket, and without caring about the fact that there were lots of people around who were looking, removed Chang Jianan’s shirt and covered him with the jacket.
Liu Xiangwen’s heart ached at seeing her son shivering from the cold.
“Mommy, daddy, he bullied me!” Chang Jianian said, bursting into tears. They didn’t know who Qi Youxuan was, and even if they did, they hadn’t yet realized how serious things were.
“What’s going on?” in the confusion of the crowd, Liu Xiangwen had not yet been able to see that the members of the Qi Family did not have pleasant looks on their faces, kneeling down to ask her child, while wiping away his tears.
Chang Jianan just kept crying, “He bullied me! He bullied me, why is he here! He even splashed ice on me!”
Chang Jianan was crying in a particularly pitiful manner, and in the end even Grandmother Chang came with Chang Jingqiu rushed over, and upon seeing her grandson’s pitiful state, she nearly burst out cursing in anger.
“What’s going on?” this time it was Qi Chenglin who asked, looking down at Qi Youxuan, but his face was not stern, he knew his son, and knew that his son was not the kind to cause trouble without reason.
Qi Youxuan huffed at Chang Jianan dismissively, before recounting what had happened in full.
While Ruan Danchen was at the washroom, Qi Youxuan was surrounded by people, and Grandfather and Grandmother Qi were not around. Therefore Qi Youxuan ran off to the buffet’s dessert table to grab something to eat.
Unfortunately, he bumped into Chang Jianan who was also there to get something to eat.
The Chang Family was hosting the banquet tonight, making Chang Jianan think that this was his territory, and so he was rather relaxed, and just a little bit prideful.
Therefore when he saw Qi Youxuan, it was as though two enemies had met in an alley, reopening old wounds.
Chang Jianan was not aware of who Qi Youxuan was, and only thought of the history between the two of them, and rushed up to flip the plate of cakes in Qi Youxuan’s hand.
The plate fell onto the floor and shattered with a crash.
In the bustle of the banquet, this sound was not particularly audible. Only the service staff of Dynasty saw it, but just assumed that it was the carelessness of the child who dropped the plate, and rushed over to clean up.
However, just as the service staff arrived, and had not yet been able to start cleaning up, Chang Jianan savagely shoved Qi Youxuan, charging towards him with the intention of pushing Qi Youxuan to the floor so he would be cut by the shards of the plate.
Qi Youxuan wobbled slightly, his body tilting to the back, his arms oscillating back and forth constantly to maintain his balance.
At that time he was terrified, knowing the consequences of falling over, it would be no big deal if his buttocks were pierced and bled, fortunately just before he fell, his little hand held onto a table, and with great difficulty he stabilized himself, and didn’t injure himself falling down.
However Chang Jianan was still not letting it go, and strained his tonsils shouting, “How are you here? This is my grandmother’s birthday banquet, it’s my family’s territory, you’re not welcome here, get out! Get out! Get out! You’re not allowed to eat my family’s food! This was all bought with my family’s money, you’re not allowed to eat it! You miserable thing, the audacity to come and eat my family’s things!”
Chang Jianan kept shoving Qi Youxuan as he shouted, this time not to push him down, but with the intention to chase him out.
“What are you doing, I’m here with my daddy and mommy, we were invited.” Qi Youxuan evaded him, explaining.
However Chang Jianan was not listening, and Qi Youxuan was getting tired of being pushed, the little boy was not to be lightly bullied, and being pushed by Chang Jianan made him angry.
Qi Youxuan turned to look, and saw a few slices of ice cream cakes, to maintain the temperature, there were layers of ice cubes on the plate.
The little boy grabbed the plate, and along with the pieces of cake, and threw them at Chang Jianan.
Apart from the slices of ice cream cakes, the entire pile of ice cubes splashed over Chang Jianan’s body with a clatter.
Chang Jianan screamed from the shock of the cold, and jumped around without pause, he felt ice around his neck, and he shivered from the cold.
Qi Youxuan looked around once more, and saw a small bucket of ice on the side, it was for guests to cool their drinks, and so he nonchalantly grabbed the bucket, and with one hand opened up Chang Jianan’s collar, and poured the contents of the bucket into it. The ice cubes slid down Chang Jianan’s skin, making him cry from the cold.
At that Qi Youxian was finally satisfied, and rubbed his palms, which were cold.
After hearing Qi Youxuan’s words, Guan Liya looked over, because the incident involved the two Young Masters fighting, the greatest priority was still the Young Master of the Qi Family, the service staff very wisely did not clear away the evidence of the shattered plate, but kept watch there to prevent any guests from getting injured.
Guan Liya saw the broken plate on the ground, if Qi Youxuan did fall from being pushed, being injured on his hands and arms would be fortunate, what if he fell on his head?
Guan Liya was so furious her eyes were red, and hearing Chang Jianan wailing next to her added on to her ire.
Her grandson wasn’t crying, what was this Chang Jianan crying about!
It was at this moment that Grandmother Chang and Chang Jingqiu arrived late to the scene, and upon seeing her grandson crying so pitifully, Grandmother Chang did not inquire into what happened, but asked instead, “Nannan[1], what happened, who bullied
you?”
“Bullied him? Our Youxuan isn’t an undisciplined brat.” Guan Liya could not stand Grandmother Chang’s overbearing demeanor.
Without asking about what happened, or who was right or wrong, she immediately assumed someone had bullied Chang Jianan.
What was this!
“Your grandson wanted to harm our Youxuan, and our Youxuan let him off lightly by teaching him a lesson like this.” Guan Liya was not one to be discreet, on account of her status not even Grandmother Chang would dare to be brazen before her.
“I don’t know how the Chang family educates their children, to have such venomous thoughts at such a young age. He knocked down my grandson’s plate, and doesn’t have any courtesy towards guests as a host, I can still accept it as him being young and immature. Kids will be kids, and it’s normal for them to get into scuffles and fights, we as adults can understand that. But for him to try and push my Youxuan onto that broken plate, how venomous can one get?”
“If my Youxuan fell there, if he were to simply be cut that would be fortunate, but if he were to be seriously injured or die, which one of you will give me back my grandson!” Guan Liya said furiously.
Qi Zhongxun stood aside with no intention to intervene, it was better for women to take the lead in matters like this, and he would support her fully.
Qi Youxuan was the treasure of their family, how can he be bullied here!
Grandmother Chang almost lost her temper from Guan Liya’s remarks, generally it was she who would subdue others with her fury, and nobody had the right to do the same to her.
With great difficulty, Grandmother Chang replied stiffly, “isn’t it fine now?”
“It’s fine now, but if it were not fine it would have been too late! Fortunately nothing bad happened, and you should be thankful for that! If my grandson were to suffer any injury because of you, the Qi Family will not let you rest easy!” Guan Liya retorted.
She had already lost a son, so this was a trigger for her, if anything happened to anyone in the family, it would get on her every nerve, no matter who it was, even if they suffered a bit of misfortune or injury was something she could not tolerate.
Grandmother Chang just had to provoke her on this matter.
Chang Zhiyuan and Mo Yuxin rushed forwards, and seeing Grandmother Chang trembling with rage, her fierce visage looking like she was about to respond, Chang Zhiyuan quickly stepped in front of Grandmother Chang, saying, “we apologize, our Nannan was wrong in this matter.”
He still had a business relationship with Qilin, and could not allow that to deteriorate over this.
Grandmother Chang was displeased upon hearing that, “why is it Nannan’s fault, it’s Nannan who has been splashed with ice, shivering in the cold!”
Grandmother Chang looked at Guan Liya, “no matter what, your grandson should apologize!”
Qi Youxuan clenched his jaw, he was just defending himself, to tell him to apologize, the words just would not leave his mouth.
He felt victimized, and a layer of tears clouded his black irises.
Ruan Danchen was still imagining in fear what would have happened if Qi Youxuan was really pushed onto the shards of the plate.
She shivered, and quickly picked up Qi Youxuan to hold in her arms, no matter what was said she would not let Qi Youxuan apologize to Chang Jianan.
She could see from Qi Youxuan’s eyes the indignity he felt.
Qi Chenglin saw it too, and his large hand ran over his son’s head, comforting him.
“Grandmother, right now Nannan is shivering, shouldn’t we get a room for him, and change him into fresh clothes to warm him up? If we leave him cold like this any longer he’ll catch a fever.” Chang Jingqiu reminded quietly.
The volume wasn’t particularly loud, but everybody around heard it clearly.
Everybody now could not help but feel somewhat sorry for Chang Jianan.