"who?"
"Who is it?! Where is it?!"
Sure enough, as soon as Su Qingci ran away, she heard a reprimand coming from inside the house.
Seeing that the surrounding area was open and there was nowhere to hide, Su Qingci immediately turned around and pretended that she had just come this way, calling out as she walked forward, "Yuzhen, Yuzhen, where are you? Hey, what are you doing here?"
Kong Yuzhen, who was in a panic and had her collar grabbed by Kong Liu, heard Su Qingci's shout and realized that she had run away at some point.
Su Qingci winked at her from afar, then quickly ran towards her, asking again, "Why did you come here after I didn't see you for a while?"
"Oh, my cousin's here too? Are you here to see him?"
Kong Yuzhen reacted instantly, "I, I just passed by here and heard Brother Meng Bai talking, so I thought I'd come and see."
Kong Liu stood at the window, looking at the two of them with a suspicious expression.
"Just arrived?"
Seeing her brother's expression, Kong Yuzhen panicked, but still forced herself to say, "We want to go to the back to see the fountain."
Su Qingci quickly chimed in, "Yes, yes, Yuzhen said there's a fountain behind here. I've never seen a fountain before, so I begged her to take me around."
"I was so engrossed in watching that when I turned around I couldn't see Yuzhen anymore. I saw her coming this way from a distance, so I came after her."
Seeing that Kong Liu still looked doubtful, Su Qingci lowered her head and patted her skirt with a worried expression. "Oh dear, it must have gotten wet when I was playing in the water. What am I going to do? I didn't bring any spare clothes. People will laugh at me later!"
Kong Liu looked down at her skirt and saw that a large patch of the hem was wet.
All the doubt in his eyes vanished. "Go play somewhere else. This isn't a place for you."
Su Qingci pretended to be curious and glanced at the window, but unfortunately, Kong Liu, who was standing at the window, blocked her view completely.
"Cousin, what are you doing here?"
Kong Yuzhen also tilted her head and peered inside at just the right moment.
"I just heard Brother Meng Bai's voice. Is he here?"
"Don't ask questions you shouldn't ask, and get out of here!!" Kong Liu said coldly and displeasedly.
Su Qingci's body tensed instinctively, and she grabbed Kong Yuzhen's arm and pulled her away, saying, "Yuzhen, let's go, let's go. What's there to see? I wanted to go see the artificial hill by the fountain earlier. Let's go, let's go."
Kong Liu watched the two walk away before turning back.
Lan Chengyong looked past him toward the window behind him, his face expressionless, and asked, "Is everything alright?"
Kong Liu shook his head and explained, "They really just arrived. Yu Yan's skirt is all wet; she must have just come from the fountain. As for Yu Zhen, sigh..." Kong Liu looked like he had a headache as he said this.
Zhou Liang said with a smile, "Brother Meng Bai, take it easy. With your flirtatious look, you've completely bewitched that young lady, making things difficult for our Sixth Master."
Haha~
"Ha ha."
Everyone present laughed at Zhou Liang's teasing, instantly recalling how eagerly Kong Yuzhen would cling to Meng Bai whenever they saw him.
Today was alright. Considering his previous attire, it's fortunate that Meng Bai was able to charm the young girl until she blushed without batting an eye.
Kong Liu was indeed a doting father, protecting Kong Yuzhen very well, otherwise…
Several people's gazes swept over Meng Bai's delicate face with ambiguous expressions.
"Alright, if there's nothing else, everyone can go home. As for Brother Kong, we'll stick to the old rules. I'll take some people over there tomorrow."
Meng Bai stood up and said to the young man who had been silent, "Sheng Chun, come with me later."
The bespectacled, refined-looking man nodded, stood up quietly, and followed behind Meng Bai.
Kong Yuzhen and Su Qingci walked quite a distance before they finally breathed a sigh of relief. "That scared me to death! My brother was terrifying just now."
"Luckily you reacted quickly. I felt like he was going to strangle me to death!"
Su Qingci patted her chest, "I haven't even said anything to you yet, why did you peek out while listening?"
"I'm just listening to Meng Bai's voice to see if Zhou Mingyue is being horny!"
Su Qingci said speechlessly, "What are you thinking? That's your sister-in-law, and besides, your brother is still inside!"
"By the way, where's Lan Shu? Which one is Lan Shu? Why isn't she with your brother Meng Bai?"
As they walked, Kong Yuzhen explained to Su Qingci, "How could Lan Shu come to a place like this! She's sickly and rarely goes out. It seems like she has this problem since she was born. She rarely sees anyone, so even though Brother Meng Bai is married, he's practically single!"
Su Qingci was taken aback. "Doesn't the Lan family have several daughters? Lan Qi and Lan Hua just now looked quite old. Since it's a marriage alliance, why not choose someone with good health?"
Kong Yuzhen shook her head, "Who knows..."
On the other side, Meng Bai and Yu Shengchun arrived at a luxurious room. Yu Shengchun walked into the study with familiarity and turned a decorative item next to him.
A clattering sound came from inside the room, and then the wooden cabinet next to it moved to the other side, revealing a door.
Meng Bai and Yu Shengchun exchanged a glance and walked inside. Inside was a small bedroom of less than 20 square meters. Yu Shengchun pushed open a wooden cabinet next to him, took out an old-fashioned telegraph machine, and started beeping as Meng Bai instructed.
The next morning, Zhou Mingyue instructed Aunt Qin to arrange the dinner menu. Kong Yuzhen was overjoyed, jumping around and humming an unknown tune.
After some subtle questioning, Su Qingci learned from Kong Yuzhen that Meng Bai was coming to the Kong family's house that evening.
Thinking back to the sounds of cars coming and going in the back yard and the clanging of the warehouse doors opening and closing late last night, Su Qingci instantly realized that Meng Bai had probably come to move goods.
If she wasn't mistaken, the shipment that came from Kyoto last time arrived last night.
We need to get the information out quickly.
Wang Zhongren gave her an address and three names, but these three people were really difficult to contact; she hadn't met them yet.
Then I have no choice but to go out, but I definitely can't go alone.
Su Qingci immediately went upstairs to find Kong Yuzhen. After a few words, the other woman couldn't wait to pull her out to buy butterfly hair clips that would flap their wings on their own and a small silk scarf to add a touch of femininity.
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