Chapter 459 - Uncle, Why Are You Here? (1/2)

Chapter 459: Uncle, Why Are You Here?

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

While speaking, Grandfather Ruan also eyed disdainfully on purpose at Little Youjin who was maintaining the right figure and body weight at his age.

“A! Yayayaya! Yiyiyiya!”‘Hey! What’re you saying? I’m very handsome!’

Little Youjin clenched his fist to particularly express his disagreement.

“Well, they’re still children. They can start to lose weight when they’re older.” Grandmother Qi took a slice of watermelon from the table and gave it to Little Youjin. “You can eat more fruits but not candies. Too many candies are not good for your teeth.”

As soon as Little Youjin took hold of the watermelon, he began to gnaw at it.

Qi Youxuan quickly rolled into Grandmother Qi’s embrace and said, “Great-grandma, when dad and mom go on their honeymoon, I’ll be left here alone. I’ll be very lonely!”

“How about we let Youjin stay here as well?” Grandmother Qi understood the look in the little one’s eyes instantly.

The little one felt that his great-grandmother was indeed his best partner in crime!

Qi Youxuan gazed at Grandmother Qi in great satisfaction. “I’ll no longer be lonely with Youjin’s company!”

Thus, Grandmother Qi turned around and looked eagerly at Qi Chengzhi and Song Yu. “I heard that my dear Song is working on a new design recently. You’ll be pretty busy, right?”

Song Yu: “…”

The smile on Grandmother Qi’s face grew warmer. “How about we let Youjin stay here for a few days?”

Qi Chengzhi: “…”

What was that malicious intent that he felt?

Finally, Qi Chengzhi could only give in to Grandmother Qi. He might as well take this opportunity to enjoy Song Yu’s company alone. It was not a bad idea after all.

Little Youjin seemed to know that he could eat without restraint during those few days. So, he was not in the least sad to part with his parents.

When Qi Chengzhi and Song Yu left the mansion, he even waved them goodbye from the carpet where he lied on his stomach.

Such a heartless and shameless attitude broke Song Yu’s heart to pieces.

…

As Qi Chenglin and Ruan Danchen went on their honeymoon, Chang Zhiyuan and Lao Liang drove over seven hours to a county-level city in J City and spent a night there. The next day, they drove for over another hour before reaching the entrance of a village.

The village was not small neither was it very well-off. At a glance, there were only about two or three families living in three-story houses and two other families living in double-story houses. Those western-styled houses were not beautiful. They looked just like two or three levels of rectangular boxes put together. There was no sense of design. Even the walls were only laid with normal ceramic tiles.

Chang Zhiyuan did not have the mood to study those buildings. He drove into the village along the road and up a small slope. His car tires were covered in yellowish soil. One side of the road laid some single-story houses that came with compounds. On the other side was the hillside. Wild grass and flowers grew by the roadside. There were even some stones stuck firmly inside the muddy soil.

The journey was bumpy. Finally, the Toyota jeep stopped halfway up the hill next to another intersection.

The road after the intersection was too narrow and had many uneven potholes. They could barely drive along the narrow road with a small-sized sedan car. However, their jeep could not make it.

Chang Zhiyuan and Lao Liang got out of the car and continued their journey on foot. Along the road were rows of houses with compounds. The doors of those houses also seemed rather durable.

They could basically determine the financial ability of the families living in those houses from their doors alone. Some houses had their gates opened. They could see a black or brown mutt tied to a leash in the compound. Other houses had a trishaw or tractor parked at the entrance.

They walked until the end of the road and reached a house that looked out of place in that area.

The house had small brick walls. Its gate was run down. The thin wooden door could not block anyone or anything from entering. Those houses that they had come across along the road earlier suddenly seemed especially high-ended in comparison.

Chang Zhiyuan gave the house a cold glance and nodded at Lao Liang. “Let’s enter.”

Lao Liang stepped forward to knock on the door. A woman’s voice could be heard from inside the house asking, “Who’s there?”

The voice was quickly followed by a fierce dog barking.

After a short while, the wooden door cracked open. A woman with a slightly dark face and rough skin stood behind the door.

Wang Lixia was surprised and hesitant to find two men standing in front of her house. Both men were dressed finely and did not seem like any commoner. Why did they appear before her house?

Wang Lixia did not understand why she instinctively thought of Chang Jingqiu just then.

She did not know who those two men were yet she could associate them with Chang Jingqiu. She remembered that Liu Ronghua also turned up in front of her house suddenly last time, catching her off guard.

Perhaps, those two men were similar to Liu Ronghua. They were dressed presentably and their aura was different from the villagers.

“Who are you looking for?” Wang Lixia’s sight swept to and fro their faces.

“What’s wrong?” asked Huang Pinggui as he stepped out of the house, followed by a young man.

Huang Pinggui was wearing a scruffy shirt and dusty black trousers. The young man standing behind him was thin and weak. He had dark circles under his eyes and seemed to not have sufficient sleep.

Wang Lixia turned around to look at them and answered, “Strangers. Not sure what they want from us.”

After that, she quickly said to that young man, “Jincheng, why are you out here? Quick, go back and study. It’s almost time for your university entrance exam. Don’t waste any more time.”

The young man uttered an ‘Okay’ and cast another glance at Chang Zhiyuan and Lao Liang before turning around slowly and headed back in.

“Are you Huang Pinggui and Wang Lixia?” asked Chang Zhiyuan.

“What do you want?” Huang Pinggui raised his voice as though it could make him seem more imposing and give him additional courage.

“Please relax.” Lao Liang smiled warmly. “We’re sent here by Ms Chang.”

Huang Pinggui and Wang Lixia looked at each other. Then, Wang Lixia asked without thinking too much about it, “Chang Jingqiu sent you over?”

Her response had confirmed Chang Zhiyuan’s probe.

Only uneducated people like Huang Pinggui and Wang Lixia, who had some trickery in mind but not really smart, could be easily probed.

Lao Liang nodded his head earnestly. “Can we talk inside?”

As his job required him to deal with people from all walks of life, his acting skills had been so polished that Huang Pinggui and Wang Lixia could not rival him.

Furthermore, Lao Liang was born with such a sincere and kind face which made him appear even more honest than the actual villagers in that village. His natural advantage killed any doubt and sense of crisis in both Huang Pinggui and Wang Lixia.

Looking at the well-dressed and seemingly well-off Chang Zhiyuan and Lao Liang, Huang Pinggui quickly invited them in without much thought.

He straightened his back and told Wang Lixia in front of his guests, “Didn’t I tell you? Jingqiu will not stand to see us suffer. After all, she’ll be shamed if we suffer, right? No matter what, we’re still her parents. If she is unfilial, she can be struck by lightning!”

“That’s right! That’s right!” Wang Lixia gleamed as she nodded continuously.

Chang Zhiyuan was startled by their conversation and exchanged a glance with Lao Liang. They were only probing Huang Pinggui and Wang Lixia earlier and had even prepared themselves to brace the difficulties in eliciting information from them. Who would have known that those two blurted out their relationship with Chang Jingqiu on their own!

During their discussion, Chang Zhiyuan and Lao Liang even presumed that Huang Pinggui and Wang Lixia were either not aware of their relationship with Chang Jingqiu or had possessed something against her. They did not expect that those two were, in fact, Chang Jingqiu’s blood-related parents.

That had cleared up the reason why Chang Jingqiu sent them money. However, the woman who brought Chang Jingqiu to the Chang family had informed them that the baby was his sister’s daughter.