The topic brought up by the aunt in the audience got more and more off - track. It went from speculating which noble family Miaomiao came from to the blind - date convention, and the atmosphere gradually turned strange.
After leaving the venue, the little dumpling didn't wander around aimlessly. Instead, she went to the examination classroom where Yuan Mo was.
The martial arts competition had only taken about an hour by now, while Yuan Mo's written exam would last for three hours.
The little dumpling walked around the corridor boredly. She asked one of the bodyguards to buy some food for them and then continued waiting at the door.
Just when Miaomiao was so bored that she was about to bang her head against the wall, Wei Ziqi finally walked out of the classroom.
As soon as he came out, the first thing Wei Ziqi saw was Miaomiao. He was a bit surprised and said, "You finished your competition so soon?"
"Yeah." Miaomiao nodded. She grabbed Wei Ziqi's hand and pointed at the food in the bodyguard's hand. "I'm hungry. Let's eat."
Wei Ziqi stroked Miaomiao's little head. He was touched. He took Miaomiao to sit on the bench in the corridor and they started to munch on the boxed lunches.
After they were full, Wei Ziqi asked, "What time is your competition tomorrow?"
"I'm not competing tomorrow."
Wei Ziqi was a bit surprised and asked, "You lost?"
"No. I don't want to go." Miaomiao shook her head, looking glum.
Seeing that Miaomiao was in a bad mood, Wei Ziqi didn't ask any more questions. He patted Miaomiao on the shoulder to give her silent comfort.
Miaomiao slowly looked up and said, "I'm okay. They used dirty tricks. I think such a competition isn't worth participating in."
"Alright. You stay in the hotel obediently tomorrow and wait for me. It'll take three more days for me to finish here. Then we'll go back together. I don't have anything to do this afternoon. Do you want to go out and play?"
Wei Ziqi didn't know what had happened to Miaomiao, but seeing that the little dumpling was just a bit down and there was nothing else wrong, he felt relieved. He planned to take Miaomiao out for a stroll this afternoon to drive away her unhappiness.
"Great! I want to eat at KFC!" Miaomiao shouted. Since the last incident, her silly dad hadn't let her go out to play alone, and she hadn't been allowed to eat junk food like hamburgers and fried chicken.
To be honest, she missed it a lot.
"Okay. I'll treat you to fried chicken." Wei Ziqi estimated that the money he had on him should be enough. His mom had stuffed 500 yuan into his pocket when he left home. It should be enough for a meal.
"No. Miaomiao has money. Miaomiao has a lot of money." Miaomiao shook her head.
Her dad had told her that Teacher Wei's family condition wasn't good. How could a well - behaved dumpling let a teacher with a poor family condition treat her?
"Huh? Where did you get the money?"
"Lucky money!"
When Wei Ziqi saw with his own eyes that the little dumpling withdrew 2000 yuan from the ATM, he was completely speechless.
He was speechless about Lin Yao, the silly dad...
Which parent would casually deposit so much money into a child's card?
Aren't they afraid that the child will go bad?
Wei Ziqi was too exhausted to complain about the silly dad's doting on his daughter. With Lin Yao's excessive way of spoiling her, it was really a blessing that Miaomiao hadn't gone astray.
The little dumpling carried a large amount of money and took Wei Ziqi around everywhere. When they were hungry after strolling, they turned into a KFC store and ordered a huge amount of food.
"So, you were just walking around to digest the boxed lunch you ate, right?" Wei Ziqi looked at the large amount of food in front of him and asked uncertainly.
"Yeah. I couldn't eat right after being full, but now I can."
Well, she was simply a super glutton.
Walking five blocks just to digest the food so she could eat another meal. Only Miaomiao, the little dumpling, would do this.
After gobbling up all the food, Miaomiao took Wei Ziqi back to the hotel.
As soon as they entered the hotel, Miaomiao bumped into the white - bearded old man who had been on the judging panel today.
Just by coincidence, Miaomiao happened to overhear the content of the white - bearded old man's phone call.
"Go and check out the background of that old guy Xuanyuan's newly - accepted personal disciple. If there's no big background, deal with him/her quickly. He will surely come back to take revenge on us... Yeah... Right... I know he/she is a talented good seedling, but it's a pity that he/she isn't our disciple... Alright... That's it."
Xuanyuan? Master?
Wasn't Master's personal disciple herself? What did this old man want to check on her for?
Miaomiao couldn't figure it out.
After going upstairs, Miaomiao asked Wei Ziqi to call her silly dad.
When in doubt, turn to dad. Miaomiao perfectly repeated what the white - bearded old man had said.
She conveyed every single word of what she had overheard in the past two days to Lin Yao.
After hanging up the phone, Lin Yao contacted the old master. The old master sighed deeply after hearing this. He lamented that he had made a wrong move.
He had thought that after so many years of disappearing from the public eye, those people had long forgotten about him. But unexpectedly, they still remembered him so clearly.
His original intention of letting Miaomiao go to the competition was to train the little dumpling. After all, in martial arts, if you just practice on your own without competing, you'll only fall behind instead of making progress.
So the old master had the idea of letting Miaomiao participate in the competition. But he didn't expect that just this one time, Miaomiao had been targeted.
However, that was a memory the old master didn't want to mention. He didn't explain the reason to Lin Yao. He just said that Lin Yao should protect the dumpling well, and after they came back, he wouldn't let Miaomiao participate in any more competitions.
Lin Yao looked at the hung - up phone and smiled faintly.
Want to touch his daughter? They should first weigh themselves.
It was true that he was the king of Nancheng, but he also had a significant influence in the whole S City. As long as they were within his territory, anyone who wanted to touch his daughter could just go to hell.
Lin Yao quickly instructed his assistant to find out the information of the person who had organized this competition.
After making many inquiries, the little assistant finally got a general understanding of the other person's background and handed the information to Lin Yao's desk.
"The vice - chairman of the Martial Arts Association? These days, anyone can be a chairman. He only accepts orphans as his disciples, allegedly for charity? Hmph."
Lin Yao absolutely didn't believe that a person who casually wanted to deal with a child could be a good person. There must be a lot of shady things behind his only accepting orphans as disciples.
"Where is Miaomiao now?" Lin Yao called the bodyguard.
After confirming that Miaomiao was still with Wei Ziqi, he slowly nodded. These two kids together were basically invincible. There was no need to worry.
However, this vice - chairman of the Martial Arts Association seemed to be a tough nut to crack.
This person's family was in the imperial capital. He had come here to organize the competition, which was like a business trip. He would go back after the competition was over.
Lin Yao wasn't completely powerless in the imperial capital, but the other person seemed to come from a noble family and had a certain status. It wasn't easy to deal with him.
It would be best if that old man was just talking. If nothing unexpected happened before Miaomiao came back, he didn't have to confront the person head - on.