Chapter 268 - Chapter 268: Chapter 194: Embark on a Great Endeavor! (Please Subscribe) (1/2)
Chapter 268: Chapter 194: Embark on a Great Endeavor! (Please Subscribe)
Outside the window, it seemed as if a light drizzle was falling.
It didn’t take long for a thin layer of rain mist to rise, blurring Lin Chuan’s vision.
Lin Chuan took a deep breath.
He knew that Old Zhang would only send him this message if he had encountered a major problem, and moreover, the issue was related to the Little Landlady.
After a moment of thought, he replied, “Old Zhang, I’ll come over in a little while.”
“Good.”
Old Zhang responded.
Taking advantage of the Little Landlady not having gotten up yet, Lin Chuan entered the kitchen, a rare occurrence, and cooked some millet porridge.
It wasn’t long before the Little Landlady woke up.
She came up behind Lin Chuan and gently wrapped her arms around his waist, pressing her entire body against Lin Chuan’s back, “Chairman, I could have cooked.”
“You’ve also been staying up late recently, you should rest a bit more,” Lin Chuan said, smiling.
“Chairman is the best,” Zhang Xinxin’s grip around Lin Chuan tightened.
The porridge was not yet ready.
Lin Chuan laughed, turned around to scoop up the Little Landlady, and carried her to sit on the sofa, “Do you have plans for today?”
A playful smile appeared on the Little Landlady’s face, “I have an appointment with Keke today to discuss the medication for certain diseases.”
“Xinxin, you know about drugs too?” Lin Chuan raised his eyebrows and asked.
“I don’t, but I can learn,” the Little Landlady said with a smile brimming in her eyes.
“You’ve been quite close with Yu Keke lately,” Lin Chuan offhandedly remarked.
The Little Landlady nodded, “Keke has taught me a lot about drugs, saving me the trouble of doing research.”
“Why the sudden interest in drugs?” Lin Chuan curiously asked, looking at the Little Landlady in his arms.
“I won’t tell you for now, I want to surprise you!” the Little Landlady said playfully, her lips pursed and the corners of her mouth smiling.
“I look forward to your surprise,” Lin Chuan laughed heartily and ruffled Zhang Xinxin’s hair, “Let’s have breakfast first!”
After breakfast.
The Little Landlady left.
Lin Chuan saw her off downstairs, then hailed a taxi to head to East Street.
The taxi weaved through the vast city, with somewhat noisy tire sounds resonating inside the vehicle. If he stretched his hand out of the window, he could feel the whoosh of the wind presenting a full sensation over his hand.
They arrived at East Street.
At this time, it was still morning, and East Street didn’t have many pedestrians, rather like the silent alleys of an ancient town, only the shopkeepers and staff were out to do business.
Lin Chuan made a few turns and walked into the ‘Goldstone Edge’ Antique Shop.
“Lin, you’ve arrived.”
As soon as Lin Chuan entered the shop, Old Zhang came up to greet him and pulled him toward the reception room on the second floor.
“Old Zhang, what’s wrong with you?” Lin Chuan noticed that Old Zhang looked uneasy, his face weary, bearing the troubles of his heart.
“Xinxin doesn’t know, does she?” Old Zhang glanced at Lin Chuan, his brow slightly furrowed, and asked.
Lin Chuan shook his head, “She doesn’t know. Are you encountering any difficulties?”
“Let’s talk upstairs.”
Inside the Antique Shop, the staircase from the first to the second floor was built with an ancient style out of wood. Old Zhang climbed the stairs in haste, making a ‘thud, thud, thud’ sound.
Going up to the second floor.
Lin Chuan noticed that his uncle, Zhang Ren, was sitting in the reception room, also looking uneasy.
Seeing Lin Chuan, his uncle managed a smile, “Lin, you’re here.”
“Uncle, what’s going on?” Lin Chuan’s face grew stern as he looked at Zhang De and Zhang Ren, frowning inquisitively, sensing that the difficulty they faced might be complicated.
Suddenly, Lin Chuan remembered the scent he had smelled on Uncle Zhang Ren the night before.
Hisss!
Could it be related to that thing?
Old Zhang sat down, his cloudy eyes looking towards Lin Chuan with an expression of difficulty.
“Old Zhang, just say it if there’s something you need to talk about,” Lin Chuan said, his brow slightly furrowed.
Old Zhang sighed again, his voice low, “Xinxin’s mom has returned to Anling.”
Lin Chuan’s expression stiffened as he immediately noticed something amiss.
The Little Landlady’s mother had come back to Anling?
In theory, this should be good news for the Little Landlady, but Old Zhang seemed quite reluctant to let Xinxin meet her mother.
Therefore, Lin Chuan asked, “Old Zhang, is there some unspeakable secret?”
“Ah…” Old Zhang sighed deeply and began to recount an old story.
The Little Landlady’s mother, named Liu Meng, had been ‘addicted to drugs’ more than a decade ago and had been willing to abandon her husband and daughter to follow an organization abroad.
Since then, she had not returned.
Fortunately, Old Zhang’s family was well-off enough to support Zhang Xinxin’s upbringing.
Having listened, Lin Chuan’s brows tightened further, and he asked, “Old Zhang, does Auntie want to see Xinxin now that she’s back?”
Old Zhang neither confirmed nor denied but instead said, “She returned a couple of days ago and has been looking for your uncle and me. Your uncle and I had a serious talk with her last night. She said she could avoid seeing Xinxin, but she wants to meet you.”
“Meet me?” Lin Chuan was suddenly shocked, an expression of surprise crossing his face.
She was willing to forego seeing her own daughter yet insisted on meeting her daughter’s boyfriend—what sort of reasoning and logic was that?
At that moment.
Uncle Zhang Ren spoke, “Liu Meng gave her reason. She said she wanted to see her son-in-law and judge for herself if he could take good care of her daughter.”
Old Zhang nodded, “That’s why I called you to come over, to discuss this.”
“Aside from seeing me, does Auntie have any other requests?” Lin Chuan inquired.
“The other things she wanted, I have already given her.”
Old Zhang said gravely.
The expressions on the faces of the two Zhang brothers both grew heavy.