Chapter 402 Picked up a small key
Noticing that the one who had been struggling just now suddenly stopped moving, Mrs. Chen looked down in panic and found that the little baby of the Chen family had his eyes closed, his face flushed, and had lost consciousness. She was so frightened that her soul almost flew out of her body, thinking that she had suffocated him to death.
Fortunately, I raised my hand to check my breath and could still feel the shallow exhalation from my nose, and the heart that was in my throat finally settled down.
Just when I was about to put my heart at ease, I remembered that there was an evil star blocking the door outside.
When she looked up again, Lu Mingfei had already torn open the alloy security door enough for someone to enter and exit, and was standing by the side, looking at her with a smile:
"You Chen family members are really interesting. You all like to install a secret room in the office. You're not afraid of being trapped inside in an accident."
As soon as these words were spoken, a strange look flashed in Mrs. Chen's eyes. She understood why the third son of the Chen family, who had gone to the south to be in charge of contacting the Black Prince Group, suddenly suffered a heart attack and became a vegetable.
It turned out that there was no problem with his body, but that he was visited by an evil star.
Seeing her gloomy expression, Lu Mingfei took a step back and made room for her: "The air in there is too stuffy, the child is almost fainting. Let's get out and breathe some fresh air."
Do I have the right to refuse?
Mrs. Chen knew that the other party was not negotiating, but was giving her a last bit of dignity because she was a mother with a baby.
If you don't want this respectability, those bodyguards and four idiots outside are role models.
So she could only walk out with a grim expression, looking at the boy and girl standing in the study, and forced a smile:
"You must be Lu Mingfei, right? If you're looking for Nuonuo, she's not here."
When she met her husband at the main residence, she realized that the security there was much tighter than when she went to the mountain city. To exaggerate a little, the security went from being a guard every ten steps and a sentry every five steps to being a guard every five steps and a sentry every three steps. Anyone who saw it would know that something big was going to happen.
At that time, Mrs. Chen didn't know who she was guarding against, but now that she knows, she feels speechless.
It’s useless to have such strict control over the Chen family mansion. People don’t even go there and come directly to the manor.
"I'm not here to look for her." After hearing this, Lu Mingfei knew that Mrs. Chen probably didn't know anything. If someone mentioned it to her, she would also know that Chen Motong had reunited with them after returning to the country yesterday.
Looking at the ignorant mistress of the Chen family, and then thinking about Chen Motong's mother, it seems that the mistress of the Chen family is indeed a consumable and can be replaced at any time.
Mrs. Chen held the key in her arms, her eyes swept over the red-haired girl who was curiously looking at the baby in her arms, and then fixed her eyes on Lu Mingfei again. Seeing that his eyes also fell on the key in her arms, she couldn't help but tighten her arms:
"Who are you looking for, then?"
Mrs. Chen looked to be in her thirties or forties, and was very pretty. However, it was not known whether she had never given birth to a child or had never raised a child herself, as even her posture in holding the baby was incorrect. In any case, Lu Mingfei was very disgusted by her unprofessional way of holding the baby.
"That's not how you hold a child." He said, took two steps forward to Mrs. Chen, and took the suffocated and unconscious Key from her hand.
The latter tried to step back to avoid the outstretched hand, but his body was completely out of control. Every muscle in his body seemed to have lost control. He froze in place and could only watch Lu Mingfei take the unconscious baby.
Moreover, he actually knows how to hold a baby!
Her posture of holding the baby is as skillful as that of the nanny, and even more standard than hers.
She tried to stop him and asked Lu Mingfei to return the key, but she couldn't open her mouth and could only vibrate her vocal cords to make a "uh uh uh" sound.
Lu Mingfei ignored Mrs. Chen who was hiccuping helplessly. Looking at the baby who had fainted from suffocation and fear, a hint of nostalgia flashed in his eyes.
He had held several babies this small before.
His daughter, Chu Zihang's son, and his brother-in-law's child basically look different every week.
Strictly speaking, the little guy in front of him is already a teenager, but Key's situation is rather special. His bloodline is too unique, and he is forever trapped in a body less than one year old, unable to grow up, both physically and mentally.
He is also a poor man.
Fortunately, his mind, like his body, remains at this age where he is ignorant of the world and has nothing to worry about except eating, drinking and having fun.
Seeing Lu Mingfei holding the child skillfully with Key's head resting comfortably in his arm, Eiry felt that Sakura was really amazing. She came forward and wanted to poke Key's chubby face with her hand, but was worried about waking him up.
Just when she hesitated, Lu Mingfei held him and weighed him gently, then used his free left hand to lightly touch his forehead.
The next second, the key's flushed face suddenly returned to its original fair color, and the wrinkled brows and clenched fists gradually relaxed.
He smacked his lips twice, his long eyelashes trembled twice, and then he slowly opened his big dark eyes as if he had had a bad dream.
What caught my eye was not the familiar nanny, nor the "mom" who had been inseparable from me in recent days, but a handsome and gentle boy.
Without the perfect contrast of light and shadow just now, the person shrouded in the sunlight at this time is just a sunny, cheerful and good-looking big brother, rather than the bad guy who can stop children from crying and scare people to faint.
Key, who was originally feeling uneasy about being held in a stranger's arms, suddenly calmed down after meeting Lu Mingfei's smiling and gentle eyes. He lay in his arms and looked at him quietly, and then suddenly the corners of his mouth opened up and he smiled.
This smile seemed to have triggered a chain reaction. Not only Lu Mingfei, but even Eiry couldn't help but curl up the corners of her mouth and reveal a beautiful smile.
She leaned her head closer, wanting to tease the cute child. Unexpectedly, after seeing her red hair and eyes, the little fellow suddenly turned his hands that were originally stretched out to Lu Mingfei and stretched them out to her, babbling indistinct syllables:
“Jie, jie jie…”
Lu Mingfei: o_O???
No, kid, how many Soul Hall elders can you feed in one meal?
When Eiry, who was the youngest in seniority, heard the baby calling her sister, she immediately became happy. She stretched out her slender, white fingers like scallions and let the key hold them and gently shook them to amuse him.
Seeing this, Lu Mingfei's eyes became dazed for a moment, as if he had returned to that beautiful world without dragons, hybrids, or supernatural powers. He held his child and took his wife out to the park to bask in the sun.
But the child in her arms was not his after all, the girl in front of him had not yet become his wife, and he had not even rescued his younger brother.
He took a deep breath, suppressed the emotion in his heart, and let Eiry tease the child. He then raised his head again and looked at Mrs. Chen who was standing there like a puppet.
"Does he have a formal name?"
After she finished speaking, Mrs. Chen, who was still shocked at her inability to move or speak and at the fact that Lu Mingfei, an 18-year-old teenager, could hold a child so skillfully, suddenly found herself regaining control of her body. She stumbled two steps before barely standing steady. She looked at Lu Mingfei and shook her head.
"No."
The key's role in the Chen family is simple: it is a tool that needs careful care. Except for the rebellious Nono, no one regards him as a family member worthy of being close.
So, he has no name, only a code name.
Upon hearing this, Lu Mingfei nodded and without further ado, he threw a Word Spirit·Dream Tapir at her, allowing her to face the most horrifying nightmare in her heart.
Mrs. Chen originally thought that after Lu Mingfei untied her, he would at least ask her something, but she never expected that her consciousness would fall directly into a nightmare.
Her nightmare was similar to that of the fourth son of the Chen family who was kneeling on the ground and sobbing. It all stemmed from the fear of being abandoned by the head of the Chen family and becoming a useless child.
However, compared to the descendants of the Chen family who were abandoned and left aside for cold treatment, Madam Chen, an outsider, was obviously not so lucky. Like all the previous mistresses, she would be eaten away by illness and die in loneliness.
In the dream of the fourth son of the Chen family, Lu Mingfei saw the head of the Chen family, a burly middle-aged man with a square and handsome face and a resolute expression. He would not look out of place in any mainstream movie to play a positive role.
But this is from the perspective of the four sons of the Chen family who have been trained into perverts. His image is naturally great and glorious, and cannot tolerate the slightest sulliment. Even if he is extremely disappointed in them, the only way he expresses it is to frown and sigh, then turn around and leave. The ones who will really punish them are the law enforcers of the Chen family.
But from Mrs. Chen's perspective, the head of the Chen family was somewhat indescribably terrifying. He was like an emotionless machine. After confirming that she, the mistress of the Chen family, had lost the qualifications to continue sitting in this position, he would abandon her without hesitation.
In Mrs. Chen's nightmare, she failed to protect the key, which was stolen by someone else, and was abandoned by her heartless, emotionless, and profit-driven husband.
After hearing her husband's ruthless verdict, she felt as if an invisible spear had pierced her heart. She collapsed to the ground with weakness and fell ill. She became thinner and thinner day by day, and finally fell alone on the bed, emaciated and unrecognizable.
She used to think that dead girl Nuonuo was a freak because she acted like nothing had happened when her biological mother died, not crying or making a fuss but just standing by the corpse.
But when she became seriously ill, she discovered that her proud son was too lazy to even see her, as if he had no idea that she had a mother and was still living a carefree life outside.
Although this was because her husband had learned from Nono's lesson and no longer allowed her to spend much time with her son, this heartlessness still chilled her heart.
Just when she was seriously ill and about to die, she saw a woman as beautiful as she was when she was young walk in. She looked at her with disdain, showed her the diamond ring the size of a pigeon egg on her ring finger, and announced her identity as the new mistress of the Chen family.
This behavior was just like how she seamlessly took over the position when her predecessor, Madam Chen, was critically ill. However, she did not show off so blatantly back then. She completely pretended not to know that such a person existed and happily took over her position.
What’s even more hateful is that this bitch actually mentioned her son, saying that her son is very handsome... no, very smart, and will become a great man in the future.
She also said that she would take good care of her smart son in the future, and wait for him to grow up and be filial to her as his mistress.
Just when she was anxious and angry, and was about to be pissed off, the real culprit who caused her to fall into this state appeared.
Lu Mingfei casually slapped the next Mrs. Chen that was automatically generated by the nightmare and sent her flying. Although he didn't use much force, she still covered the wall with dirt. This shows how much the owner of the nightmare hated the person who replaced him.
"It's you?!" Mrs. Chen, who was about to die of anger at the "third party" she had imagined, saw Lu Mingfei suddenly appear. She sat up in shock, her dying state, and asked with a smile where the visitor came from.
"Why are you here?!"
Just after she asked the question, her body went limp and she fell back down, gasping for breath like a broken bellows, as if she might faint at any moment.
And this time, he went straight to Naihe Bridge.
"I came here to kill someone, but he hid too well and I couldn't find him." Lu Mingfei looked down at her condescendingly.
"Just kill him?" Although only a few moments had passed in reality, Mrs. Chen was tortured in the nightmare. Her mind had already collapsed and it was difficult for her to distinguish between reality and illusion. All that was left was a heart full of hatred that needed to be vented.
Lu Mingfei had never expected that this woman's nightmare would be so absurd and funny, filled with grudges and hatreds like in a melodramatic romance drama. It turned out that the backyard of a wealthy family was a palace drama.
"not enough?"
"Not enough!" Mrs. Chen raised her head with great effort, her voice hoarse as a ghost's: "Of course not!"
She hated Lu Mingfei for taking the key and causing her to fall into this state, but she hated her husband and son who had ruthlessly abandoned her, as well as this hopelessly sick family, even more.
"I will destroy everything he values most!"
She raised her head with great effort and told Lu Mingfei all the secrets she had come into contact with during her years as the mistress of the Chen family:
"...He has invested in three research institutes in Beijing. While publicly researching medical pharmaceuticals, he's secretly working on genetic technology and studying evolutionary medicine."
She gave three addresses, and then spilled even more information:
"He also has a large experimental base in the suburbs outside the Sixth Ring Road. He raises many dragon-blooded creatures there, imprisoning many deadpools for research. He often releases them into the Taihang Mountains and hires bounty hunters for high salaries to test their strength. The rumors of beast attacks in recent years stem from this..."
"How do you know so clearly?" Lu Mingfei was puzzled. No matter why the head of the Chen family placed her in this laxly guarded manor, it was enough to show that she did not have a high status in his heart. How could she know such a core secret?
Could it be that she is really a good wife?
This was actually his wrong idea. It was simply because his behavior was too erratic and completely deviated from the prediction of the head of the Chen family.
The other side thought he was going to attack Huanglong and destroy the main base, but he chose to attack the barracks first.
Madam Chen laughed bitterly, but still with a hint of arrogance: "In the Chen family, either the son is honored by the mother, or the mother is honored by the son, and I have both."
In order to hold on to the head of the Chen family and secure her position as mistress, and also to secure more resources for her children, she has done her best since entering the Chen family.
Since he is capable and his son is ambitious, it is not difficult for him to rise to the top and get access to secrets outside the family's core circle.
However, the head of the Chen family is suspicious by nature, and even those around him find it difficult to fully understand his cards. No one knows what other tricks he has up his sleeve.
Lu Mingfei took notes as he listened. After she finished explaining the secrets that would be attacked by the domestic noble families if exposed, he asked about the Chen family's overseas layout:
"What's going on with the Chen family and the Gattuso family? When I took action against the Chen family's overseas businesses, the Gattuso family actually provided them with resources."
"Gattuso family?" Mrs. Chen frowned upon hearing this. It was obvious that this touched upon her blind spot in knowledge.
"I'm not sure about that. The Chen family and the Gattuso family have only had business dealings within this year. However, when Chen Motong wanted to join Kassel Academy, he didn't object."
Lu Mingfei nodded slightly, which was understandable.
Caesar is a rebellious young man. If he knew that his family was meddling in his life and had made arrangements early on, he would have definitely gone against his family. Therefore, even if the Chen family and the Gattuso family really had something dirty going on, they would never tell outsiders.
And it is obvious that Mrs. Chen is also an outsider.
(End of this chapter)
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