The playful Marquis of Changxing didn't notice his wife's dark expression, and his gaze toward Chuanwen became even more affectionate.
"You're Chuanrui?"
Lady Changxing's voice rang out, and she looked at the middle-aged man among the four. At this moment, he was pretending to drink tea, but in fact he was listening intently to his daughter's thoughts.
Unexpectedly called out by name, Chuanrui quickly stood up. Before he could answer, the Marquis's wife asked again, "Where is your jade pendant? Let me see it."
Lady Changxing spoke indifferently, and she didn't seem to like her family very much. Chuanrui wondered to himself if he wasn't born to this Lady Changxing, while he touched his head embarrassedly.
"What, it's lost?"
Seeing his expression, Lady Changxing frowned.
Marquis Changxing couldn't help but sit up straight. The jade pendant was a very important token. Although he had already sent people to find out that the person in front of him was his son who had been missing for more than 30 years, the lack of the jade pendant was still a problem.
"I didn't lose it..." Chuan Rui said somewhat embarrassedly, as he was too ashamed to take it out in public.
Just as Xu Yan was about to get up and explain the situation, she heard her daughter burst into unrestrained laughter.
[Hahaha, that jade pendant is a priceless treasure in my family. We only pawned it once a month ago when we were short of money, and I've never seen my dad take it out since. Although my parents didn't say it, it's mentioned in the book that my mother was afraid my dad would lose it, so she had him hide it in his crotch. Hahaha, even if a robber came along, as long as that person didn't take my dad to bed, they wouldn't find the jade pendant. Hahahaha!]
Chuanrui: ...Daughter, it's not good for you to mock your father so recklessly.
Xu Yan's expression stiffened when she heard the robber trying to get her husband into bed. Could it be...? Maybe next time she should find a more secluded place to hide...
Chuanwu, the taxi driver from Chuanwen: ...
He was the one who pawned the jade pendant last month, and I... my hands aren't clean anymore...
"Brother, eat up, it's delicious."
Chuanwen noticed that his older brother had withdrawn his hand from the pastries and quietly placed it under the table, so he became curious and offered some advice.
Seeing that his brother's face was a liverish color, he asked in confusion, "What's wrong, brother? Are you not feeling well?"
Chuanwu shook his head at her, "It's okay, little sister. I'm not going to have any of these pastries today. You can eat more for me."
Chuanwen patted her older brother on the shoulder to comfort him, and nodded emphatically, "Brother, your sister will get it back for you."
Meanwhile, Chuanwen sighed inwardly: "Sigh, my brother is always so unlucky, he can't even catch the shit when it's hot. To make matters worse, he's not feeling well today. He was perfectly fine when he came."
Seeing Chuanwu wiping his hands under the table, Marquis Changxing and his wife were embarrassed by Chuanwen's vulgar language: Is it possible that he's not feeling well?
At this moment, Chuanwen, who was happily eating pastries, spoke again, "[Sigh, this is the only good meal we can have in this Marquis's mansion. If Grandpa dies tonight, we'll be accused of causing his death tomorrow. Our biological mother is disaffected, and we're being schemed against by our adopted son's family. We're not going to have a good time in this huge Marquis's mansion where everyone is so sycophantic and backstabbing!]"
This was the second time Marquis Changxing had heard the news that he would die tonight. But he was in very good health, and even his old rheumatism had not flared up for a long time. How could he suddenly die?
Marquis Changxing wanted to ask a question, but no sound came out, even though he opened his mouth.
Marquis Changxing's expression gradually turned to shock. He looked at his wife and saw the same shock in her eyes. Just as Marquis Changxing opened his mouth, his wife also opened her mouth to ask a question, but no sound came out.
Chuanwen didn't notice anything unusual and focused on eating the pastries. While eating what was on his plate, his eyes were already glancing at what was on his father's plate.
The plate in front of my dad looks even tastier. I wonder if he'll sneak me some... uh... I'd better not. My dad has to reach into his pants to get the jade pendant...
Chuanwen felt a chill run down her spine just thinking about it, but her father was already rolling his eyes in exasperation.
"It's lost!"
Chuanrui's resolute voice echoed in the quiet living room, startling Chuanwen, who was enjoying his peach shortbread. He almost dropped the piece he had just picked up.
She looked at her father in confusion, wondering why he was so agitated, his chest heaving with each breath.
[Is it lost? Shouldn't the plot be that my father, embarrassed, says he hid it in his crotch, then the Marquis of Changxing has someone take him to another room to retrieve it, and then my father is scorned, with all the maids and servants in the manor pointing at him and mocking him?]
[Hey, what's wrong with my dad? He seems even more agitated than before.]
Chuanwen took a bite of the peach shortbread and said, "Mmm, delicious."
Xu Yan, with a complicated expression: ...Daughter, please say less. Your father is about to be driven crazy by you.
Chuanrui was no longer angry. His anger had turned into a strange, cold laugh. He was doing just fine in Qingshui Village, so why did he have to get involved in the mess of their Marquis's mansion? Let them do whatever they want! He'd go back and sell the jade pendant! What kind of biological parents were they? They hadn't done anything for him in the past thirty years, and now they wanted to torment him and his child? Dream on!
"Go home, go home!"
Chuanrui grabbed his wife and daughter and was about to leave when Chuanwen thought to himself, "What's going on? Has the plot collapsed?"
But they were stopped by the Marquis of Changxing and his wife. They wanted to acknowledge their son, and they also wanted to know more about the old Marquis's impending death that night.
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