Chapter 644 (2/2)

Xue Yu was utterly dumbfounded and stared at Tang Xiu in disbelief. She opened her mouth but could not even speak out anything since she did not know what to say at all. He… did he want her to help the cart driver to push the cart?

Tang Xiu’s face looked cold. He intentionally showed an impatient expression, waved his hand and said, “Push the cart if you want to follow me, but please do leave otherwise. I still can cut the stones without going to Master Huang, but I don’t want any idlers to follow me around.”

Just as his voice faded away, he turned his head and directly left.

Dumbfounded and tongue-tied, Xue Yu watched Tang Xiu walk for more than ten meters before coming back to her senses. She shook her head with an expression of being at a loss whether she had to cry or laugh. After watching the cart driver push the cart strenuously, she quickly caught up to him and helped him push the cart.

At the intersection tens of meters away.

The ordinary-looking Chu Yuan that gave off a vibe of superior nobility was coming out from another aisle along with two people, a young man, and a woman. Behind them were two carts loaded with stone materials pushed by its two drivers at a moderate pace.

Umm?

Chu Yuan’s pace suddenly came to a halt when he saw the cart convoy on the left side. His eyes finally fell on a woman wearing suede mink fur attire and a beige veil, Xue Yu.

Dumbfounded and baffled!

Never once in his dreams Chu Yuan ever expected that the famous Jade Beauty—Xue Yu would help a cart driver one day, pushing the car under the watchful eyes of many people.

She… since when did she need to do something by herself?

“Boss, she’s the Jade Beauty.” The young man behind Chu Yuan wore a disbelieving expression and spoke in a toned down voice.

“I see her, too,” said Chu Yuan with a nod.

At present, Tang Xiu had already spotted Chu Yuan as well as the young man and woman behind him, and two carts being pushed by its drivers. His eyes swept over the two carts and remembered the words Long Zhengyu told him: Chu Yuan, the heir apparent of Shanghai’s Imperial Garden, the owner of Imperial Effulgent, and the founder of Imperial Wherewithal Ventures.

“Perhaps he and Xue Yu are people of the same path.”

Tang Xiu turned his head to glance Xue Yu, who was helping push the cart behind him. He immediately wore an unfazed look as he continued walking forward. As he brushed past Chu Yuan, his eyes swept over the scarlet jade ornament hanging on Chu Yuan’s waist. It was made of Blood Jade, a very precious fine jade; any piece of ornament made of Blood Jade was a priceless treasure.

Behind, the Jade Beauty also saw Chu Yuan and her brows raised. She released the cart and stopped her pace in front of Chu Yuan and spoke in a toned down voice, “Paying respect to the Imperial Garden’s Young Master.”

Chu Yuan let out a faint smile. He glanced at the six carts and said, “It’s been two years since the last time we met, right, Jade Beauty? I did not expect that I would meet you here in Star City when I left Shanghai previously. Did you come here to gamble on stones?”

“You misunderstood, Chu Yuan,” said Xue Yu. “I didn’t buy these stones, but Mr. Tang in front of me. I’m only helping him.”

Mr. Tang?

There was a strange expression on Chu Yuan’s face. He followed the direction of Xue Yu’s gaze and narrowed his eyes as he saw Tang Xiu’s back. He then knitted his brows and asked, “Who exactly is this Mr. Tang?”

While pointing to the front, Xue Yu started walking forward again and said, “He has very deep knowledge of medicine, and is also a very interesting man.”

Very interesting man?

Chu Yuan slightly furrowed his brows, the revelation raising vigilance inside his heart. He liked Xue Yu, and all the people in the Imperial Garden knew his feelings toward her. Although he had never seen Xue Yu’s true appearance, the cold and chilly nature of this woman concealed the gentleness and warmness she had beneath, just like the character possessed by jades.

He was a proud man and had beaten hundreds of outstanding peers in the Imperial Garden by virtue of his true abilities, eventually becoming the first in line successor of the Imperial Garden. He had met too many women to count, but only Xue Yu could attract him. Now that he saw her unexpectedly interested in another young man, it made him wary of him.

“Would you mind introducing us?”

Though it was a seemingly casual inquiry, Chu Yuan’s eyes were completely fixated on Xue Yu. He believed that “the eyes were the window of the soul” and he wanted to see more information in her eyes.

Xue Yu hesitated for a moment before replying, “Mr. Tang has a… strange disposition. If I were to take you to see him rashly, I’m afraid that he will be annoyed and repel us. As a matter of fact, I must thicken my face to barely be able to follow him because that… he said that he doesn’t like any idlers following him around, so I can only help by pushing the cart.”

Chu Yuan’s eyes squinted, and the revelation piqued his interest toward this Mr. Tang. For an ordinary young man seeing Xue Yu, even if they couldn’t see her appearance clearly, yet her body’s figure, bearing, and beautiful eyes would make them salivate. And yet, this Mr. Tang… seemed to play hard to get? Did he really not have any interest in Xue Yu at all?

“Then, where are you heading now?” Asked Chu Yuang.

“To Master Huang’s place. He has rented his shed,” answered Xue Yu.