Chapter 41
"Ah? It's actually a plane?" Su He blinked, stared at it carefully, and lowered his tone, "It seems to be a plane."
But he only felt regretful for a second before returning to his smile: "That's okay. Seeing the plane pulling the line at night will bring good luck."
"Who said that?"
"Everyone says that wishes come true at this time."
Upon hearing this, Sheng Jinyu scoffed, "Do the people on the plane know how pious you are?"
"Hmm... it does seem a bit childish when you look at it this way."
Su He talked to himself and nodded to confirm himself. Sheng Jinyu stared at his face hidden in the darkness. The light outlined a circle of light on his undulating profile, and even his hair seemed to be glowing.
I stared at it with great interest for a while, and before I knew it, I liked it.
Sheng Jinyu said, "Su He, it's been so long, but I still haven't understood you. Every time I thought you were shrewdly calculating something, you turned out to be surprisingly stupid."
Su He was like a wooden man standing still, with his head down and no words. Sheng Jinyu rarely called his name in person, and this was the first time he called him in such a gentle tone.
But this was not a good thing to say, because Sheng Jinyu actually called him stupid!
He instinctively wanted to refute it, but found that no matter how he refuted it, it would only make the "rumor" more real.
"Are you really good at pretending, or are you really stupid?" Sheng Jinyu's probing words sounded so unpleasant, with a hint of casual ridicule.
Su He turned back with a huff, but then felt that wasn't enough, so he simply turned his back and retorted in what he thought was an angry tone, "If you want to scold me, just do it directly. No need to beat around the bush."
Sheng Jin put his hands behind his head, staring at his back, and suddenly laughed out loud. Before he could stop, he laughed softly several more times.
Su He's brows were furrowed, and his nose was about to be crooked with anger. Then he heard A Yu, who was not far away, calling him: "Brother A He, this question is so difficult!"
Su He stood up angrily and threw Sheng Jinyu aside. He walked over and picked up A Yu's exercise book. The difficult question was an English reading comprehension. A Yu could not read it fluently, so it was naturally more difficult for him to answer the questions.
Su He gave him a rough translation, saying that in order to win the love of the heroine, the male protagonist in the article would walk his dog past the path she had to take every day.
However, his love confession failed, so he stole the heroine's dog and bred it with his own dog to attract attention. The heroine was sad and distressed for several days when she found that her dog was missing.
After hearing this, Ayu was so angry that the pen on his pouting lips fell onto the table.
He grinned and said, "This guy is crazy! How could he bear to make the girl he likes sad? I can't even make her laugh!"
"Why, do you have a girl you like?"
A cold voice came from behind, with a hint of gossip.
Su He turned his head and found that Sheng Jin had walked over to him and stood behind him quietly.
A Yu's dark little face turned red instantly. Maybe his skin was too tanned and the redness was not obvious, but he jumped up and down trying to hide his embarrassment, stammering that he didn't!
Sheng Jinyu snorted and asked in a sly tone, "You like me but you don't dare to express it, right?"
"Me!" Ah Yu jumped up anxiously, hesitating for a long time before lowering his head again, his head drooping like an eggplant hit by frost, "I don't think she likes me..."
"How do you know if you don't try?" Sheng Jinyu said with his arms crossed. As soon as he finished speaking, Su He nudged him with his shoulder and stared at him with a non-threatening look.
"Don't lead the children astray!" Su He said softly but seriously.
Who would have thought that Sheng Jinyu suddenly leaned over, came close to his ear, and looked at him seriously as if he was whispering something. Su He was stunned by this inexplicable action.
Then I heard him raise his voice: "If you don't tell him that you like him, how do you know if he likes you?"
Sheng Jin stood with his back to the light, his eyes so dark and deep that they seemed to be able to suck people in. Su He swallowed nervously for some unknown reason, feeling the hot air from his words hitting his neck, making him feel a little itchy.
Su He shrank his neck and took a few steps back.
Ah Yu was still standing there, fidgeting with his pen cap, snapping it against the floor, muttering to himself, "Okay... that seems to make sense, but I'm afraid if I tell her she won't want to be my friend anymore... Oh, secret crushes are so hard..."
Even a little kid would say he has a crush on someone. Sheng Jinyu sneered, straightened up, and said casually, "Little brat."
He felt that his hint was obvious enough, and if Su He was not so stupid, he would understand what he meant.
Sheng Jinyu glanced at Su He again in the shadow of the light, and he didn't even notice the curve of his lips rising.
The next day, the first person to arrive was not Assistant Fang, but another unexpected person.
At that time, Sheng Jinyu was repairing a light bulb in the yard. The clothes they were wearing when they fell into the water had already been washed and dried. He changed into his suit and tie again, and the lazy and homely feeling around him faded a lot, as if he had turned back into the noble Third Young Master Sheng.
But this outfit, standing on a ladder and screwing in a light bulb, has a funny feel that is out of place with the surrounding environment.
Su He stood by to help him hold the ladder, surprised that he actually had such a skill. Sheng Jinyu replied casually, "What's the value of something you learned in junior high school physics?"
Indeed, this is just a necessary life skill for ordinary people, but in his eyes, Sheng Jinyu is a rich young man who does not possess this skill.
This cannot be said to be a prejudice, it's just that he doesn't know Sheng Jinyu well enough.
After coming down from the ladder, Sheng Jinyu dusted off his hands and caught a glimpse of a man and a woman talking as they walked in from outside the yard.
It was Aunt Zheng's brother who came back. Sheng Jinyu looked carefully and caught a glimpse of a very familiar face.
He was stunned for only a moment, then stared at the man and said solemnly, "Uncle Zheng, what a coincidence."
The person who came was the person Sheng Jin had been looking for, Zheng Chengqi, Sheng Zonglan's former deputy and current manager of Qiuge.
The man was stunned when he saw him. He obviously didn't expect that there would be such a coincidence in the world. The person he was trying to avoid was actually sent to his doorstep by a storm.
Zheng Chengqi said respectfully, "Third Young Master, I'm glad you're okay. Director Sheng must be very worried about you."
The accident on the research vessel was kept secret from the outside world, but it inevitably spread within the Sheng family. The heir-to-be fell into the sea and disappeared. In the past two days, some people in the Sheng family were happy and some were sad, and it was a complete chaos.
It was true that Zheng Chengqi was hospitalized due to illness, and it was also true that he used his illness as an excuse to avoid Sheng Jinyu. Two days ago, he returned to the city for a follow-up examination, and Wanyang County happened to be hit by a typhoon, so Sheng Jinyu met him here by chance.
Aunt Zheng discovered that they were old acquaintances and enthusiastically invited them into the house to sit down.
However, Su He could see that the atmosphere between the two was probably not so harmonious, and there was obvious authority in Sheng Jinyu's expression.
It seems that he has an old grudge with Zheng Chengqi and has something to say.
Sheng Jinyu glanced at Su He, who understood what he meant and talked to Aunt Zheng for a while, giving them space to talk.
Several people sat at a square table in the side room. Sheng Jinyu got straight to the point: "Uncle Zheng should know what I want to ask. You don't have to pretend to keep your mouth shut for Sheng Zonglan. If you were really loyal to him, you wouldn't have left back then."
Zheng Chengqi kept silent, and the atmosphere became heavy for a moment. It was obvious that both of them had their own concerns.
Su He sat aside, quietly acting as a decoration.
After a while, Zheng Chengqi finally spoke: "The Third Young Master saved A Yu and is indebted to our family."
Zheng Chengqi had an honest and serious face, and he didn't mince words. He pushed his glasses and said, "But there are some things. Telling you will only bring me trouble."
The implication is that someone has issued a gag order on him and threatened him so that he cannot speak. Zheng Chengqi, who is in his forties and still has no wife or children, has only Aunt Zheng and A Yu as his only living relatives.
Sheng Jin and Li Ran understood, but he still provoked him: "This is how Uncle Zheng repays his benefactors. My assistant almost died at sea trying to save your nephew. How can we make peace with this?"
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Su He suddenly raised his head. Why was he still involved?
He looked at Sheng Jinyu, who was telling lies without batting an eyelid and playing psychological warfare with Zheng Chengqi, and couldn't help but be amazed. It turned out that all businessmen have a mouth that speaks freely.
After hearing this, Zheng Chengqi looked over with a frown.
Su He could only smile at him awkwardly, feeling quite ashamed of being in cahoots with Sheng Jin.
Zheng Chengqi's face turned solemn, as if he was in an inner conflict. Sheng Jinyu knew that he had made the right bet. Facing someone who was unreasonable, he would not play the emotional card like this.
But Zheng Chengqi is obviously not a heartless person. Sheng Jinyu is sure of this. It is precisely because he cannot completely go along with Sheng Zonglan that he is now excluded and becomes a discarded pawn.
Sheng Jin gave him time to debate and waited for a moment before reassuring him, "I'll take responsibility for any consequences. I'll also take care of your family."
"I promise they won't make any mistakes."
Su He looked at his determined expression and expected that Zheng Chengqi would agree. Sheng Jinyu was just that kind of person. He made people feel that he could do what he said and was actually very reliable.
Zheng Chengqi sighed and finally spoke, "I can't give you any clues about your mother's departure eight years ago. I was overseas monitoring a project at the time."
"Did Sheng Zonglan become suspicious of you at that time?" Sheng Jinyu asked.
Zheng Chengqi nodded and took a sip of water from his glass. "By then, I was no longer involved in his core work, and he wouldn't tell me many things. However, regarding the matter between your mother and Director Sheng, it was indeed me who handled it."
"Ms. Yang was actually engaged before she met Director Zheng. She and her fiancé had a good relationship, but you know Director Sheng's temper. He'll do whatever it takes to get what he wants. Anyway, her fiancé died in a fire three months later."
He didn't need to say much, Sheng Jinyu also knew who did it, and his face had turned cold.
The atmosphere became so depressing.
Su He's heart skipped a beat. He felt vaguely that these lines sounded familiar. After thinking for a moment, he suddenly remembered that this conversation was a key turning point in the original book.
The core conflict between Sheng Jin and his father Sheng Zonglan is his mother. After learning the truth of the year, he finally realized that his bumpy childhood was caused by this cruel and heartless father.
After this plot, the plot of the original book gradually reached its climax. The hostility between the father and son turned from the dark to the open. Sheng Jinyu wanted to overthrow his father, but Sheng Zonglan knew that there would be a day when the father and son would turn against each other, so he sent the original owner to monitor him in advance, looking for handles to try to control Sheng Jinyu.
However, Su He did not read this plot in detail and only knew the general idea, but he did not know what Sheng Jinyu knew from Zheng Chengqi.
"When you were a child, you asked me why you couldn't go out with your mother alone, and why she... disliked you so much." Zheng Chengqi paused, as if he didn't want to say it so bluntly and remind Sheng Jinyu of sad things.
Sheng Jin and Ding Ding stared at him and motioned for him to continue.
Zheng Chengqi sighed softly and continued, "The house where you grew up is actually surrounded by electric fences. Director Su gave Ms. Yang a tracking device that triggers an alarm and releases electricity if she leaves a certain range. She's tried to escape countless times, but to no avail."
"I was in charge of the alarm controller, and I clearly remember that in more than a decade, I only opened it for her 23 times."
This means that she only left the villa 23 times.
Zheng Chengqi lit a cigarette, as if repenting for his past involvement in the evil. The smoke obscured his face as he spoke in a low voice, "Your people can't find her because Director Su deleted Ms. Yang's file. Everyone else thought she was dead."
"Actually, I am also guilty. I am also an accomplice."
The more the conversation went on, the colder Sheng Jinyu's expression became. Su He saw that his right hand, which was placed on the table, was clenched into a fist, and the veins on the back of his hand were bulging.
When Su He was pouring water for him, his fingers accidentally touched the back of his hand, which was almost ice-cold. Sheng Jinyu did not react at all, and his face was gloomy.
He must be in a terrible mood to be acting like this.
Su He didn't know what he was thinking, so he raised his hand and patted the back of her hand soothingly, with the warm touch falling on her skin.
Sheng Jinyu finally came back to his senses, his scorching gaze fixed on his hands, as if he wanted to burn their folded hands through.
But Su He was not as calm as he appeared. The event in the original book was supposed to happen at least a month later, but now it happened several months earlier. It was probably because he fell into the sea accidentally, which caused Sheng Jin to meet Zheng Chengqi earlier by mistake.
He was a little worried that this incident might become a butterfly flapping its wings, causing a chain reaction and making the future even more confusing.
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