Chapter 7 - Zi Yan's nervousness

Zi Yan nodded her head. She picked up her bag to look for her phone and said, “I’m giving Emily a call.”

When talking about the little girl, Zhou Fei rolled her eyes at Zi Yan as she said, “Big sister, I don’t understand how you are okay about leaving Emily at that messy man’s place. What if the little girl was to become sick because of his germs?”

“Well, Emily is his daughter too. He…will pay attention to the hygiene, right?” Zi Yan spoke with uncertainty as she took out her phone and dialed Zhang Han’s phone number.

Ring, ring…

The phone rang more than ten times before it was connected. Through the phone, her daughter’s tender and cheerful voice could be heard, “Mommy, I miss you so much!”

Hearing her daughter’s voice, the restlessness in Zi Yan’s heart was swept away immediately and a smile grew on her face. “Emily, are you happy playing at your father’s place?”

“Eh? Oh…you, you called me the wrong name, I am not Emily!”

“Who are you then?” Zi Yan said with a smile, thinking that her daughter was joking with her.

“I am…Zhang…Yumeng…Meng Meng…Meng Meng,” said Meng Meng’s cheerful voice.

Hearing that, Zi Yan’s expression went rigid as she thought to herself in a moment of panic:

“Zhang Yumeng? He gave Emily a new name!? Could it be that he wants to snatch Emily away from me?”

“Why did you change your name?” asked Zi Yan as she suppressed her emotions.

“Because, I am Chinese, and Emily is not Chinese. So I don’t want it.”

Zi Yan went into a daze for a while, then asked, “Oh, then did you have fun these few days?”

“Yes. I am enjoying…enjoying life with daddy.”

“Enjoying life? That was too much! I had expected her to barely be tolerating life while staying with him!” Zi Yan thought to herself.

From the little girl’s tone, it could be discerned that she was quite dependent on that wretched, bad tempered, and hardheaded father of hers.

“How are you enjoying life then?” Zi Yan asked.

“Eh……Daddy, mommy asked how we are enjoying life……”

Meng Meng’s sweet voice once again said, “Daddy said that, we are going to eat the best food, drink the best drink, and play the best games. Oh…in a while, I am going to sit on the big bird too. Mommy, I have to hang up, I am going to go enjoy life with daddy already.”

After Meng Meng finished speaking, Zi Yan vaguely heard those few words from the phone:

“Attention, from Shangjing towards—”

The phone hung up.

At that moment, Zi Yan was in a daze:

My daughter hung up on me?

Enjoy life?

“Lying to little children with elegant words and flowery speech. Zhang Han, how are you going to enjoy life when you are so morally wretched?

What was the meaning of that last thing she heard on the phone? Was he at a bus stop? Airport? Or somewhere else? With how pig-headed is he, that he would actually leave Shangjing?

“Big sister, big sister, big sister?”

After calling out for a few times, Zhou Fei saw Zi Yan turn her head towards her, and within Zi Yan’s eyes, there was a wild confusion.

“What’s the matter, big sister? What did Emily say? Did she already have enough of staying there?” Zhou Fei asked curiously.

“She didn’t say anything.” Zi Yan replied as she woke up from being dazed. Lowering her head, she felt a sickness creeping into her heart.

In the past, when she called her daughter on the phone, it would always be her coaxing her daughter to hang up the phone. But just now, the little girl did not even ask her anything and hung up on her!

Zhou Fei took a look at her watch and said, “It is not too early yet, let’s go back.”

At this time, Zi Yan raised her head and said, “I’m not going back. Xiao Fei. Go and book the earliest flight to Shangjing now!”

“Huh?” Zhou Fei went into a daze for a moment, “But, the company is holding two meetings tomorrow, and there is the matter of eating dinner with young master Li.”

“Put off everything! We have to quickly bring Emily back. She……” Zi Yan took a deep breath, “She has turned bad!”

“Oh, okay.” Zhou Fei nodded her head. She understood that anything that concerned the little girl, Zi Yan would only say one thing and mean just that. She quickly took out her phone to book the airplane tickets.

In reality, Zi Yan misunderstood Meng Meng. Meng Meng wanted to continue chatting with her mother, but the plane was about to take off. Zhang Han reminded her and after the little girl said goodbye to her mother. Zhang Han then took the phone and hung up, which caused the little girl to feel immensely dissatisfied.

“Alright Meng Meng, we have to go sit in the big bird. After we reach our destination, you can continue chatting with your mother okay?” Zhang Han said lightly.

“Ok. Go and sit big bird, talk with mommy after we reach the destination!” Meng Meng crossed her arms and pouted.

The little girl was usually fond of riding airplanes, because when riding an airplane, she would be able to see the cotton-candy-like clouds through the airplane’s window.

However, she would not be able to see the clouds this time because the sky was already dark.

At night, 9.30pm, the plane reached Xiangjiang International Airport right on time.

Pulling the luggage with his left hand and carrying the Men Meng with his right hand, Zhang Han walked out of the airport.

At the other side of the airport’s entrance, Zi Yan, who wore a mask and sunglasses, was currently hurrying towards the gate with Zhou Fei. This trip of Zi Yan’s was destined to be a waste.

After walking out of the airport, Zhang Han’s gaze swept around and his gaze came to a stop at a woman within the crowd.

The woman’s appearance was somewhat similar to Zhang Han’s appearance, only that her eyebrows were like willow leaves, and her nose and lips were much smaller and more exquisite. This woman was Zhang Li, who had a height of 1.7m.

Zhang Han smiled and walked towards Zhang Li. When Zhang Han came close to Zhang Li and Zhang Li saw Zhang Han, dressed neatly and with the graceful bearing that he possessed in the past, her eyes smiled in recognition.

“Brother,” Zhang Li cried out lightly. She walked up to Zhang Han and embraced him.

When Meng Meng, who was very vigilantly looking at this woman, saw the two hugging, she immediately started crying, “Boohoo!”

“Uh-oh, what’s the matter Meng Meng?” Zhang Han let go of his sister and quickly went to console the little princess.

At this moment then did Zhang Li noticed Meng Meng. Seeing Meng Meng’s adorable and sad little face, Zhang Li smiled and said, “Meng Meng don’t cry, be good. Later on, aunt will bring you tasty food to eat, okay?”

While speaking, Zhang Li wanted to hold Meng Meng from Zhang Han’s hands. But, who knew, the little girl raised her little hand to protest:

“You go away, bad woman! Daddy belongs to me and mommy! Other people cannot hug daddy!”

“Pff……” Zhang Li went into a daze for a moment. Soon after, she could not help but start laughing.

Not knowing whether to laugh or cry at the situation, Zhang Han began explaining the meaning of ‘aunt’ to Meng Meng. After knowing that Zhang Li was her daddy’s little sister, only then did the little princess’s mood improve.

Originally, Zhang Li wanted to treat them to seafood, but Zhang Han immediately rejected it. First, he felt that eating seafood would to give children to have diarrhea. Second, he was not reassured about restaurants in general. Even if they were to eat seafood, the seafood should at least be personally prepared by him.

In the field of the culinary arts, Zhang Han’s expectations were high to the extreme. He intended to personally cultivate ingredients for Meng Meng to eat after he planted the Thunder-Yang Tree. Until then, he could only make do with normal ingredients for Meng Meng.

In the end, Zhang Han chose to eat at a pastry restaurant. While eating, Zhang Han found out that Zhang Li was working as a DJ at a bar that was at Causeway Bay. She worked all week, with only Sunday as her day off.

Nevermind how exhausting working as a DJ was, the working environment was also pretty bad. Crooks and honest people were all mixed together in this environment. Zhang Han did not want Zhang Li to continue working as a DJ, but Zhang Li said that working as a DJ was her hobby.

Seeing that his pestering was useless, Zhang Han did not talk about it anymore. After eating, it was close to 11pm, and the little princess was already feeling sleepy. Zhang Li called for a cab and wanted to let Zhang Han come to her rented apartment to stay. But after Zhang Han learned that his sister was co-renting the apartment with someone else, he told Zhang Li to instead stay with him at Fushi Hotel, which was at Causeway Bay.

Of course, in accordance with Zhang Ham’s philosophy of enjoying life, he handed over 500k yuan as an advance payment and stayed at the presidential suite, which cost 180k yuan per day.

This caused Zhang Li’s expression to freeze for a moment.

“Seems like brother’s situation is not as bad as I imagined.”

However, soon after, Zhang Li grew angry as thoughts bounced around her head:

“Alright, fancy that I actually deposited 5k yuan to him every month and right now he just casually takes out 500k yuan? How was this even counted as his situation being bad? Seems like the Zhang Family still has some conscience and left him with a bit of money.”

Entering the room, Zhang Han first placed the little princess who was asleep in the main bedroom. Afterward, he went back to the living room and explained about the car racing. After that, Zhang Li knew where Zhang Han's money came from.

The brother and sister had not seen each other for a few years and thus they naturally had a lot to talk about. They chatted until midnight.

While chatting, when Zhang Li asked about Meng Meng’s mother, Zhang Han did not give a specific answer. Seeing that, Zhang Li did not persist. After she felt tired, she went to the secondary bedroom to sleep.

Although Zhang Han was feeling drowsy, he much more important things to do. Perking up his mind, he went to the computer and opened it up.

After taking out a pen from the drawer, he started to ponder:

“After the Thunder-Yang Tree is planted, I can consider the mountain in which it’s planted as my domain and transform the soil into spiritual land. Other than planting the other seeds, I can also plant some fruits and vegetables. However, I will have to consider how big the land needs to be. The bigger the land, the weaker the spiritual strength of the soil. I have to first think about what I need. Eh, no, it should be about what Meng Meng needs.”

Zhang Han took the pen and started writing on a paper:

“Meng Meng needs to drink milk, so I will have to raise a dairy cow. Not only that, chickens, ducks, fishes and so on are also needed for eating. This area can be the poultry area.”

“Meng Meng’s main foods are rice and wheat flour. Thus, I will have to grow rice and wheat. Fruits and vegetables are also needed too. Another area should be used as the planting area then.”

“The area at the mountain top will be for those things which are required for cultivating. And other than Thunder-Yang Tree and Yuanqing Tree, there is no need to plant other things there. This area should be used as the residential area then.”

“The poultry area and planting area will be placed at the back of the mountain. Oh, that’s right, I can also raise some house pets for Meng Meng to play with. So, I will have to leave an area for the pet area.”

“At the mountain front, I can mark out an area as the amusement area. At the amusement area, I can build a swimming pool, golf course or something else there.”

“The place must also be pleasing to the eyes, so I will have to set up a viewing area too. At the viewing area, I can plant some beautiful flowers, plants and trees. I can also get a giant fish tank and raise some uncommon fishes in it. Then, I can make a pond to grow some lotus. Lastly, I can build an above water courtyard which would be pretty nice for viewing the scenery.”

“It would be best if I can also make a seawater area. But it is quite difficult to make a seawater area. It is not something I should consider right now. Two areas can be left out as the reserve area and that should be enough. For the two reserve areas, one will be at the mountain back and the other will be at the mountain front.”

After finish writing all those, Zhang Han began to read everything he had written to check if there was any problem. After finish reading, he immediately went into a daze.

“Poultry area, planting area, residential area, pet area, amusement area, viewing area, seawater area and reserve area!”

Not even considering the last two reserve areas, just the six areas in the front was too much already. The amount of work that would be needed was too enormous and the Thunder-Yang Tree did not have that much energy!

During the moment when the Thunder-Yang Tree was planted, the Thunder-Yang Tree would view the mountain as its domain and release the first batch of energy to transform the area. Afterward, the domain will refill the Thunder-Yang Tree with energy, and after the Thunder-Yang Tree absorbed enough energy, it would release the second batch of energy to transform the domain. This cycle will repeat again and again and, in the end, the Thunder-Yang Tree and the domain will fuse together and become a paradise.

However, there were only three chances to transform the domain!