translated_Chapter 87

87: Fire Pot Performance

Qiu Ci sincerely admired this unremarkable little girl from the beginning: “It’s not that I have a keen eye for talent, but that you were strong to begin with. With just a little wind, you can sail to the sea.”

Sen smiled: “Mr. Qiu, actually, I splashed coffee on you on purpose that year.”

Speaking of that, Sen herself was a little embarrassed.

Qiu Ci treated it as an amusing anecdote: “Really? I really thought it was an accident. It’s not bad, luckily you did that back then, otherwise we might not have met like this.”

The worries in Sen’s heart vanished. She was afraid Qiu Ci would be angry. In fact, her vision was very good.

And Qiu Ci was a high-quality single man that was hard to find among eight billion people.

Sen asked again: “Speaking of which, are you still single?”

Qiu Ci nodded.

“Hard to believe.”

“Why?” Qiu Ci asked back.

Su Yuyang stared intently at the two of them, afraid of missing any part of their conversation.

Sen thought for a while: “You are too excellent, rich, handsome, and very eloquent, with a knowledge of music and art…” Qiu Ci’s advantages seemed countless even when counting on her fingers.

“Hahahaha, Sen, you are joking.” Qiu Ci took a sip of red wine to moisten his throat: “A few years ago, I was very unsuccessful in business, and almost lost everything at home.”

Su Yuyang echoed: “Fortunately, earlier on, he ran an art class in a first-tier city, earning 20,000 a month.”

Sen felt: “Earning 20,000 a month is okay, is that pure profit?”

Su Yuyang couldn’t help but laugh: “Hahahaha… a month… he lost 20,000 a month… hahahaha.”

Bern also understood and almost couldn’t stop laughing.

Sen smiled lightly at Qiu Ci. He also laughed, laughing along with everyone.

They had a very happy meal. Bern’s biological clock told him to go to bed early.

Su Yuyang took him back first.

Qiu Ci was preparing to take a taxi to Yue Yue/Moon Moon’s place.

As dusk approached, Sen accompanied him standing on the side of the road bathed in the sunset.

Qiu Ci was a little surprised: “You haven’t left?”

“I wanted to keep you company, Mr. Qiu. You seem to be alone.” Sen had nothing else to do even if she went back early.

“I’m going to watch a fire pot performance with a child later, would you like to come?”

“Oh right, those Chinese kids come all the way here to perform, I almost forgot. I’ll just go watch with you.” Sen seemed very interested.

Qiu Ci nodded: “Okay.”

A taxi stopped steadily on the side of the road.

Tsukimi Rin/Moon-Viewing Bell was waiting with Yue Yue/Moon Moon in the yard for Qiu Ci, and persuaded Yue Yue/Moon Moon to go back to the house to wait, but the child wouldn’t listen.

She could only wait with Yue Yue/Moon Moon.

Fortunately, Qiu Ci was not late.

Seeing that the person getting out of the car with him was a girl, Tsukimi Rin/Moon-Viewing Bell was a little puzzled, but didn’t ask on the spot.

“You finally came, my meeting starts in ten minutes, I won’t chat with you.” Tsukimi Rin/Moon-Viewing Bell quickly walked back into the house.

Yue Yue/Moon Moon blinked her big eyes and looked at Qiu Ci: “Hurry, or we won’t make it in time.”

On the way, Yue Yue/Moon Moon, at an age where she couldn’t hide anything, couldn’t help but gossip: “Uncle, is that pretty older sister your girlfriend?”

Qiu Ci still explained seriously: “No, she is a college student I’m sponsoring. When you go to college in the future, I will also sponsor you, Yue Yue/Moon Moon.”

“I know what sponsorship is, it’s giving money. You also sponsored Jing Yueming,” Yue Yue/Moon Moon said.

Qiu Ci frowned: “How do you know?”

“I told my mother yesterday about the person who wrote you letters, and she told me. You all know Jing Yueming, and those letters were also written by Jing Yueming, right?”

Yue Yue/Moon Moon didn’t understand anything. Qiu Ci was afraid she would say something more, and wanted to change the subject: “If I sponsored you, what would you want to study in college?”

Yue Yue/Moon Moon thought seriously for a while: “I want to study magic…” Speaking of magic, Yue Yue/Moon Moon began to talk non-stop: “Look how powerful those witches are, I want to learn powerful magic too, and then make the princesses listen to me, stay in my house and not be able to get out. I’m even more powerful than the witches in those stories, I can defeat the knights and princes who come to kill me, and I also want to coerce the king and queen…”

“Ah?” The other two people in the car were surprised.

Qiu Ci was even more puzzled, couldn’t Tsukimi Rin/Moon-Viewing Bell afford the original fairy tale books?

Soon they arrived at the section of the road where the performance was about to take place, surrounded by many people, some who came specifically to see it, photography enthusiasts, and passers-by who stopped to watch.

The opening act was stilt tumbling, young yellow-skinned lads, looking no more than fifteen or sixteen years old, bare-chested, with strong muscles covered in dewy sweat.

The young people who came from afar didn’t understand French, but they could hear the cheers and applause.

In the applause of a group of foreigners, he tumbled even more vigorously on the high stilts.

Yue Yue/Moon Moon was short and couldn’t see, so Qiu Ci picked her up.

Just then, the phone rang, Yue Yue/Moon Moon was holding Qiu Ci’s phone to record the video, and helped him answer it.

It was Su Yuyang calling to ask if they were safe.

“Is it fun? Qiu-ge, I want to go over too.”

“Come on, it’s not far, Sen is also here, and she can just send us home later,” Qiu Ci said.

Sen also said: “Yes, I’m here too, and a child.”

“I know, okay, I’ll drive over.” Bern had a fixed bedtime, but Su Yuyang was a night owl.

He secretly drove out.

Zhang Kaizhe accompanied Jing Yueming, squeezing to the front row, just outside the safety line.

Jing Yueming handed him the camera that had started recording: “Hold this, pay attention to the camera movements.” Zhang Kaizhe had no chance to refuse, and was forced to carry this big guy.

Jing Yueming freed his hands and picked up another smaller camera hanging around his neck, ready to capture a few high-definition pictures.

When it was almost dark, the lads came down from the stilts and took a mouthful of the diesel-filled bottle.

Then they held up the spark-filled torches and sprayed a ball of flame upwards.

One finished spraying and the next one took over. A slightly fat older brother came on stage.

He sprayed flames that were four or five meters high, and the surrounding atmosphere was immediately ignited.

The children were especially shocked.

The surrounding sounds were noisy, and people had various expressions, either curious or worried about the safety of the young people.

Jing Yueming turned the camera around and aimed it at the crowd.

The meaning of the performance is always in the audience.

Jing Yueming took quite a few photos tonight, even though the truly climactic iron flower display hadn’t come out yet.

But just relying on the images in his mind, Jing Yueming felt that he had found the inspiration for a new design.

During the intermission, Jing Yueming looked through the photos in the digital camera.

A little girl being held in the corner caught his attention, but soon, Jing Yueming discovered the person holding her.

Qiu Ci.

Jing Yueming looked in that direction, and in the instant he made eye contact with the little girl, Jing Yueming was a little puzzled.

Then he saw the little girl talking to a young woman next to her, and Jing Yueming’s heart felt like it had been stabbed.

The person holding her was Qiu Ci, Jing Yueming certainly recognized him.

He had no impression of the other woman, but she was standing with Qiu Ci, and the little girl looked so much like Qiu Ci.