Chapter 477: A Man Who Wants to Retire
It was almost evening when Xu Xing returned to No. 1 Mansion. In the study, the man sat alone behind a large desk, leaning back in his chair, closing his eyes and resting.
Under the white light, the man's face was so pale that it was almost transparent. His thin lips, which were tightly pursed in the past, were now dull and colorless, and he looked sickly and decadent.
Xu Xing stood at the door and watched quietly for a while. After thinking for a while, he turned around quietly and planned to get a blanket to cover the man. As soon as he turned around, he heard the man's low and hoarse voice behind him.
"Is it done?"
Xu Xing turned around and saw the man still leaning back in his chair with his eyes closed, as if what he had just heard was just an illusion.
But he knew very well that it was not.
Come to think of it, how could a man sleep at this time?
I am afraid that I will be thinking about the news of my loved one every minute and every second, for fear of missing any clues.
Xu Xing sighed softly. Although he knew the man was not asleep, he still moved very lightly and his voice was much lower than usual.
"I have passed your instructions to Master Xun. Master Xun said that he would make the Chen family disappear from the list of the four great families within half a year."
The study became quiet.
After a long while, Mo Shaochen, who was leaning back in the chair with his eyes closed, finally opened his dark eyes with a light sigh.
"Smart."
The tone was neither salty nor bland, and the voice was neither cold nor hot. Anyway, Xu Xing couldn't tell whether it was praise or criticism.
"Then should we let Ayang go to Young Master Xun's place?" Xu Xing asked.
Ever since Mo Shaochen planned to secretly train Mo Xun, he found a mistake and sent Xu Yang to Africa. Xu Yang traveled around Africa and finally went to Mo Xun.
Over the years, Xu Yang has been secretly assisting Mo Xun.
Now that Mo Xun has returned to China and officially showed up in the Mo family, there will be bigger moves soon. There is no need and no way to conceal his identity anymore. Sending Xu Yang there is a way for Mo Shaochen, the head of the family, to make his position clear to the world.
Mo Xun has the support of the person in power behind him.
Mo Shaochen stared at Xu Xing with his dark eyes for a long time, so long that Xu Xing thought he had said something wrong again. Finally, he heard the man speak:
"If you weren't needed to find Qiqi, I would really like to send you two brothers, plus Han Yi, all three of you over. Only with the three of you assisting him can I retire with peace of mind."
Xu Xing remained silent, secretly sighing that the men from the second branch of the Mo family were truly a breath of fresh air among the prestigious families.
Other families fight to the death for the right of inheritance and family property, but Mo Xianlin and Mo Shaochen, father and son, one gave up the right of inheritance for his wife, while the other successfully took over the position of head of the family. After only a few years, he is thinking about retiring. I am afraid that this is the only weird father and son in the world who regard status and wealth as trash.
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When Mr. Qin returned to the study, the servant was cleaning up the chessboard and chess pieces that Qin Jingxiu had thrown to the ground. When he saw him come in, the servant came forward with a nervous look on his face, "Master, one corner of this red sandalwood chessboard is broken, and there are also very fine cracks in the middle of the chessboard. Do you want to send it for repair?"
After hearing the servant's request, Mr. Qin's eyes fell on the rosewood chessboard placed on the low table.
An inch of red sandalwood is worth an inch of gold.
But he liked this chessboard not because it was valuable, but because it was a gift from his granddaughter Qin Jingshu for his 70th birthday.
His only and most beloved granddaughter had spent a lot of effort to buy the finest red sandalwood and asked the best carpenter to make this chessboard. How could he not like it? But now, looking at the chessboard that he had treasured for ten years, the old man felt mixed emotions.
At the same age of seventeen, Qin Jingshu was a lady who was pampered and spoiled by all of them, while the other granddaughter was born in a poor village in the city, lived in a shabby tin house, suffered a lot, was looked down upon, and was abused by her elders and bullied by her classmates.
It’s not that Grandpa Qin doesn’t love his older granddaughter less just because he has a younger granddaughter, but people always have a tendency to sympathize with the weak, and this is even more so for people of Grandpa Qin’s age.
If a heart is divided into ten parts, then at least eight parts of Grandpa Qin's heart are devoted to his granddaughter Tang Qi, who has been struggling to survive for seventeen years.
Seeing that Mr. Qin was staring at the chessboard in silence with a sullen expression, the servant thought that he was angry because he had broken his favorite chessboard, and he couldn't help but feel even more uneasy.
"Master?"
Old Master Qin waved to the servant and said, "Take it to the warehouse."
The servant was not surprised to hear his order. Although the rosewood chessboard was precious, it was broken. Even if it was repaired, it would not be the same.
However, the servant knew that Mr. Qin was nostalgic and treasured the chessboard very much, so he specifically asked whether he should send it for repair.
After the servant cleaned up the study and left, Mr. Qin took out a bag of documents from the desk drawer, took out the documents and photos inside, and looked at them carefully. These were all information about Tang Qi.
He returned part of it to Chen Guoan last time.
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Thinking of this, Mr. Qin suddenly remembered that when Chen Guoan came to get the documents, he mentioned that Tang Qi was his daughter-in-law's niece, and Tang Qi's biological mother was Mrs. Chen's sister who was born in a car accident.
Old Master Qin quickly pulled out the page with Tang Qi's family background information and found the personal information of Mrs. Chen's sister, Tang Xin.
Upon seeing this, Mr. Qin's face immediately darkened.
Tang Xin died in a car accident in 1994.
But Tang Qi was born in 1997.
So, who is Tang Qi's biological mother? (This is a bug, don't delve into it, the author had a brain glitch when calculating the heroine's birth date and age) Mr. Qin's eyes fell on Mrs. Chen Tang Xiu's information, and a thought suddenly came to his mind. His face became more solemn than when he saw Tang Xin died in a car accident in 1994.
After a while, Mr. Qin called the old butler whom he trusted and handed him Tang Xiu's information.
"Check her information, be sure to check it thoroughly, especially when she was 18 years old, don't miss any clues."
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After seeing Qin Jingxiu off, Mr. Chen returned to his study, where he sat alone and thought for a long time. He could not guess Qin Jingxiu's intention of coming to see his daughter-in-law.
At the same time, he felt vaguely uneasy.
After much thought, Mr. Chen decided to ask his daughter-in-law.
Mrs. Chen stayed in City B for more than half a month. She accompanied the old man for walks, planted flowers, watered them, cooked, and went shopping every day. Her life was leisurely and comfortable. However, she came here to ease the relationship with her eldest daughter Tang Qi. But Tang Qi deliberately went against her and insisted on going to Country M to study English at this time. She would not come back for two months.
Coupled with the longing for her husband and little daughter, no matter how leisurely her life was, Mrs. Chen couldn't help feeling resentful.
My grandmother is a delicate and sensitive person, and Mrs. Chen is not good at hiding her emotions, so how could she not notice it?
After Mrs. Chen finished watering the flowers and plants on the balcony, grandma pulled her into the living room to talk.
"I know you want to mend your relationship with Qiqi, but Qiqi is abroad now. Just waiting is not a solution. You have a husband and a daughter now. You can't ignore your own family because of Qiqi."
(End of this chapter)