"Enter."
Meng Xu then opened the door and came in carrying a plate of sliced fruit.
"Aunt Chen cut some fruit and asked me to bring you a plate."
Meng Xu placed the fruit plate on the coffee table and plopped down on the sofa. "By the way, bro, my classmates are all curious about when you're going back to school. It's been over a month since school started, are you still planning to go back to class?"
"Return."
"But not now."
Meng Qing didn't even look up; she opened a new document and started reading it again.
He had originally planned to return to school in the next couple of days. After dropping out of school in Yancheng, he transferred his student status to Beijing. While handling the business of the Meng Group, he also took the college entrance examination and achieved good results. In the end, he chose the management major at Peking University.
He knew that Shi Qian had also been admitted to Peking University, and he was planning to go back to school to find him when he wasn't so busy during this period. He left in a hurry and didn't even go back to his dormitory. He only had time to send a message to Shi Qian.
He didn't expect Shi Qian to reply. Shi Qian hadn't replied to his messages much before, so Meng Qing didn't send one, thinking he'd talk to her after returning to school.
He was supposed to return to school next week, but due to some issues at his company that required his personal attention, his return to school will have to be postponed again.
"That's terrifying. Luckily, I'm useless."
Meng Xu watched as Meng Qing started working non-stop after returning to the Meng family, sleeping less than 4 hours a day. It was terrifying.
When Meng Pang went to Yancheng, he instructed Meng Xu to keep an eye on the Meng family before he left.
Meng Xu was an adopted son of the Meng family. In front of outsiders, Meng Pang did not act very close to him. Everyone guessed that Meng Pang did not like this adopted son very much, but only kept him because he was adopted by his deceased son and daughter-in-law.
The Meng family is not short of money, and they can easily support one more person. Meng Xu is really lucky to have ended up staying in the Meng family.
When Meng Xu was a child, he often visited the homes of various relatives in the Meng family. Meng Xu was good-looking and had a good personality. He got along well with his peers, and the younger children loved to pester Meng Xu to play with them.
Although the other adults in the Meng family looked down on Meng Xu, they wouldn't break off relations. They knew that Meng Xu and Meng Pang weren't close, but Meng Xu lived in the old Meng family house, so he was still closer to Meng Pang than they were.
Anyway, Meng Xu was just an adopted child, and had nothing to do with the Meng family's business, posing no threat to them whatsoever, so they didn't care about Meng Xu at all.
At first, they thought Meng Xu had come to their house at Meng Pang's behest to find out some information, so they were on guard.
But as Meng Xu came more often, everyone realized that he really just came to play with other children his age. He did nothing but play all day and had no ambition whatsoever.
As expected, he's a bastard from who-knows-where, who doesn't know how to plan for himself early on. In a few years, when Meng Pang's own grandson returns, he'll be kicked out and won't even have a place to cry.
Most of the Meng family members were unaware that Meng Qing had gone missing. Meng Pang had forcibly suppressed the matter at the time, so not many people knew about it. They all thought that Meng Qing had simply been sent abroad to recuperate and would be brought back once she recovered. They believed that Meng Xu was just a child that Meng Tianqing and his wife had adopted out of fear of him being lonely.
Meng Chaogui also went to great lengths to find out about Meng Qing's disappearance by finding a weakness in Chen Lide, Meng Pang's assistant who had been by Meng Pang's side for many years.
This is great news. Meng Chaogui had his own selfish motives. He didn't publicize the matter, but secretly went to find the person, hoping to find him before Meng Pang so that he could get rid of Meng Qing.
Once Meng Pang's lineage is wiped out, it's only a matter of time before the Meng family falls into his hands. He also has to think about his son and grandson.
Meng Chaogui was Meng Pang's cousin, a few years older than Meng Pang. He had two sons. The elder son was a gambler who would gamble away his home and never return. He had not done anything important, such as settling down and starting a family.
The younger son didn't gamble, but he played around with women every day. Meng Chaogui was afraid that his second son would repeat the mistakes of his eldest son, so he found him a wife of equal social standing early on. However, even after getting married, the second son couldn't settle down. After his second daughter-in-law gave birth to a grandson, the couple started arguing about getting a divorce.
One wanted monogamy, the other wanted freedom, so naturally their negotiations broke down and they divorced. Naturally, their only grandson, Meng Chaogui, had to stay by their side.
Meng Xu often went to play with Meng Chaogui's grandson. The two were about the same age. Meng Chaogui initially wanted to send Meng Xu away, but his grandson kept asking Meng Xu to come to his house to play. Meng Chaogui had no choice but to let Meng Xu in.
Taking advantage of his harmless status, Meng Xu wandered around the homes of various Meng family relatives, naturally becoming very familiar with each member of the Meng family.
Meng Xu was intelligent from a young age. He knew he wasn't the biological son, but the Meng family took him in, and Meng Tianqing and his wife treated him very well. He was grateful and saw early on that the other members of the Meng family were eyeing Meng Pang covetously.
So he boldly suggested to Meng Pang that he take the initiative to help find out information about the other members of the Meng family. Meng Pang refused outright, saying he didn't need a child to do that, but Meng Xu did it anyway.
After all, things that are too secretive are hard to find out unless you sneak into someone's house. From that time on, Meng Xu started to frequently play with other children of the same age in the Meng family, and successfully infiltrated the Meng family's relatives.
Meng Xu obtained a lot of useful information through his own abilities, and told it all to Meng Pang. What Meng Xu knew was indeed more deeply hidden than what Meng Pang had found by sending people to investigate on his own, so Meng Pang tacitly approved of Meng Xu's actions.
Meng Pang wasn't too worried about Meng Xu getting into trouble; no matter what happened, he was confident he could protect Meng Xu.
Meng Pang actually liked Meng Xu very much. Whether it was genuine or not, he could tell. He had long considered Meng Xu as one of his own. As long as Meng Xu was willing, the Meng family would always be his family.
Once I find Meng Qing, the two brothers can look after each other.
The fact that Meng Chaogui's matter was resolved so quickly was largely thanks to Meng Xu's information over the years.
Meng Qing had a vague memory of Meng Xu. In her previous life, after Meng Pang fell ill, Meng Xu was driven away by the Meng family. When Meng Pang was lucid, he asked Meng Qing to remember to find Meng Xu and bring him back. Meng Qing agreed.
Unfortunately, after Meng Qing finished resolving everything, she went to find Meng Xu, only to discover that Meng Xu was dead.
When Meng Xu's years of gathering information for Meng Pang were exposed, Meng Chaogui sent men to hunt him down. Meng Xu was isolated and helpless. After being captured, he was tied up and thrown into the sea, where he died without a complete body.
Fortunately, this reunion was arranged in advance, and Meng Qing had made preparations beforehand. Meng Pang was not poisoned, and Meng Xu did not die.
After Meng Qing was brought back, Meng Pang told the two brothers to get along well, saying that they would be family from now on.
Meng Xu was very open and straightforward, calling him "brother" directly, which Meng Qing accepted.
Because of what happened in his previous life, Meng Qing was particularly indulgent towards Meng Xu. Meng Xu sensed Meng Qing's kindness towards him, and after spending more time together, he revealed his true nature and became much more relaxed in front of Meng Qing.
The two now look like brothers.
Seeing that Meng Qing didn't seem inclined to come over and eat the fruit, Meng Xu forked up a piece of apple and started eating it himself.
"By the way, brother, didn't you study in Yancheng before? Do you know Shi Qian? He's really popular at Peking University now, I'd like to meet him."
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