On the road about two blocks away.
Six people were scattered; of which, two were on the ground wailing, two were hanged on the poles and the other two were supported by a wall.
A man was waving a military knife at a young man who didn't look much skilful.
But still, the one who was having the knife had fear written all over his face.
He was shivering and took a step back as the man in front walked a step towards him.
"Will you really let me go?"
The man asked in disbelief.
"Yes, I am in a hurry so if you want, I can."
The man in front replied with a humble smile.
"Alright, you can go and don't trouble me again, otherwise, I won't let you leave like how I am leaving you now."
The smile on the man faded.
The man with a knife shivered more after hearing from him.
"Yes yes, we will not mess with you again."
The man said as he kneeled on the ground and slammed his head.
As he looked up again there was no one, except for his mated lying everywhere wailing.
"That was sure close, never expected there would be such a day!"
The man said as he wiped the sweat off his head.
He looked around and went to his help his mates.
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Meanwhile, after leaving the few hoodlums, Ye Qian went to the Old Man from yesterday and greeted him.
"Hey, old man, give me some minced meat."
"Hey boy, what do you want to make today?"
The old man asked as he took the packed minced meat packet.
Ye Qian smiled at him.
"My daughter liked dumplings, so today I will make some dumplings for her."
"Hahaha! you sure are a loving father like me, look Xiao Ya this big brother here also has a daughter."
The old man called out after giving Ye Qian the bag.
Meanwhile, a little head poked out of the door from the front.
A little figure entered the store, she was a little girl around 4 years, she had a small ponytail on her head and wore a denim jumpsuit.
The little girl pouted as she saw the old man and said.
"Grandpa, why did you call me, I was busy."
"Oh, so Xiao Ya was busy, I am sorry. See, this big brother also had a daughter so I thought you would like to have a new friend so I called you."
The old man chuckled as he pointed toward Ye Qian.
Xiao Ya looked at Ye Qian with starry eyes and smiled.
The pout on her lips ran away as she heard the word friend.
"Can you bring her please?"
Ye Qian looked at her and patted her head.
"Sure, I will bring Butterfly to meet you tomorrow, how about that."
"Hehe, thank you, uncle."
The little girl smiled showing her small white teeth.
"Alright, Xiao Ya if you want to make a new friend you must study. How about you do your homework."
Hearing the old man Ye Qian's lips twitched.
'Does one need to really do homework to have a friend?'
"Humph"
The little girl looked at the old man and harrumphed as she placed both her hands on her hips and went off.
As she went out of the door she yelled.
"I am going to do homework, if I don't get a new friend then I will see you, grandpa."
Ye Qian looked at the door and a smile appeared on his face.
'Qiqi would also have been like this before.'
'Sorry, Qiqi, papa has let you down, but not anymore, you don't need to act like a grown-up now, Papa will fulfil all your dreams and all your wishes.'
As he thought Little Qiqi's face appeared in his mind and he sighed.
He looked at the old man and asked.
"How much is it for?"
"Well, it's 28 Yuan."
Ye Qian took the 30 Yuans and handed them to the old man.
"Keep the change, old man. I will bring my daughter here tomorrow."
Ye Qian walked to the door and called as he pushed the door while opening.
The old man smiled and kept the money.
'This boy seems to really love his daughter a lot, they seem to have come here just a few days ago, maybe he came for business in Star City.'
The old man thought as he looked at the fading silhouette of Ye Qian while he walked to the next street.
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Ye Qian was about a block away when he smiled.
'That Xiao Ya is a really cute little girl, I have really missed my Butterfly's childhood, what a regret. But now I will see to it that she is happy and surely make her do everything that she likes.'
Ye Qian sighed and walked to the entrance of the old age home.
Seeing him walk to the entrance with a bag of groceries, the Guard named Le smiled at him.
"It sure is hard to do the market stuff."
Ye Qian looked at him and turned to the bag in his hands and smiled.
"It's not hard if you want to give your family all the good things they deserve. And I have already let them down before, I can't do it again."
"Yeah, Little Qiqi always used to cry while she was alone, I have seen her sometimes calling out for her father when she used to take nap in the afternoon. "
"And her mother has been working hard since she went to school. She is not even able to concentrate on taking care of the little girl while also doing stuff from High School."
Guard Le sighed as he turned to look above towards the window on the first floor where the hall was, from which many cheerings were coming.
There was a lingering smile on his face as he heard the cheering of Little Qiqi and other people.
"You know, I was angry at you first, thinking why would leave Little Qiqi and her mother all these years but now, I am happy seeing that you are not like what I thought you would be."
The Guard Le said while patting Ye Qian on the shoulder.
Ye Qian watched him and felt perplexed.
Seeing his look, Guard Le said in a mocking tone.
"I thought that you would be a ba*tard who left Little Qiqi and her mother for another woman, but that was not real, now I think that you seem to have really missed them from the way you have been treating her."
Ye Qian's lips twitched but he understood that while he was not someone like that, to the society who was watching Qiqi and Yuan Meng, Ye Qian was someone who had left his wife and daughter alone.
It was not their fault either, if he was in their place he would have thought the same.
But here, he was the reason for his wife and daughter to suffer all alone all these years.
Ye Qian turned his head to the window of the hall on the first floor and sighed.
"I can't blame you for that."
Ye Qian said as he smiled at Guard Le.
"It must have been hard on you, living alone not even able to see your loved ones, you were not able to see your daughter when she was born, now I think that your family is indeed pitiful."
Guard Le smiled apologetically.
Ye Qian waved at him and chuckled.
"Yes, but the wait was indeed worth the things that I suffered. I have such a good daughter."
"You sure do, I am envious of you now though."
Guard Le snickered.
Ye Qian nodded at him and looked at his wrist.
"Oh, it's 4:40 now Mengmeng would be coming soon, I need to take Butterfly back home before she comes."
Ye Qian exclaimed as he started walking to the entrance of the building.
"Yeah, you should go now. I heard that you are going to have a party on Sunday?"
Guard Le asked him as he walked to the door.
"Yes, you must come as well!"
"Hehe, sure I will I am always here."
Guard Le guffawed at Ye Qian.
Ye Qian nodded at him and with large steps went to the hall.
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As Ye Qian entered the hall he was greeted with riotous sounds.
The scene in front was like that of the Tom and Jerry series.
If you were here, you would definitely think of it as the live version of Tom and Jerry.
Except for the fact that there were a lot of Toms here, but they rather seemed old.
After Ye Qian entered the hall there was a monotonous silence.
"Ahem, you don't need to think much, we were just playing an act with Little Qiqi here."
Grandpa Wang coughed lightly to ease his embarrassment and excused as he stood up from his previous position in which he was on his fours.
"Yes, yes"
The surrounding old men also nodded with him.
They were embarrassed to be seen by a young man like Ye Qian in such a situation.
Ye Qian turned his head showing that he had not seen any of their shameful act.
Their faces turned red and they glanced at each other.
As they were trying to jump to another topic a sweet baby voice resounded in the hall.
"Heehee, Papa, you are back!"
The old men heaved a sigh of relief.
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