Chapter 139

Chapter 139: Are You Playing Us?

Medicine smell? That meant…

Du De Sheng’s heart thumped wildly. He wished he could rush straight into the house right now and find his beloved.

Du An Rao ignored the quarrel between Qin Shou Ye and the Village Chief and, sensing something, looked up toward the stairs to the second floor.

“Can no one stay on the second floor? My grandfather’s legs are bad, and he has old rheumatism. Living on the ground floor might not be good for him.”

“No.” To their surprise, Qin Shou Ye was very firm about this.

“My grandmother is sick and resting on the second floor. She can’t be disturbed. You can only use the first floor. You can’t go up.”

Du An Rao raised an eyebrow and let out a cold laugh as she said: “So we spent so much money and we can’t even pick the room we like? After all that choosing, we still can only live on the first floor. How is this any different from staying somewhere else?”

Just from the change in Du An Rao’s expression, Xi Jing Yue already guessed that the person they were looking for should be on the second floor. He followed up smoothly: “Exactly. You were asking if we had sincerity. Is this your sincere way of treating guests?”

“Please don’t be angry, he didn’t mean it like that…”

Before the Village Chief could finish, Qin Shou Ye’s face darkened and he cut him off.

“Stay if you want, or don’t. So what if you have a bit of stinking money, why act all high in front of me? This is my house! At worst I’ll just give your money back.”

Qin Shou Ye’s attitude changed far too quickly. Just before he had loved money like his life, but the moment going upstairs was mentioned, his face changed at once and he even did not want the money anymore. It was hard not to suspect that there was some shameful secret upstairs.

Just as the air downstairs grew tense and strange, and even Du De Sheng could hardly hold back from rushing people straight up to the second floor, a woman’s voice suddenly came from above.

“What is making so much noise? Do you not know someone upstairs is sleeping?”

Instinctively following the sound, Du An Rao looked over. She saw a fat woman in her forties or fifties. Then she looked more closely.

[Ah, so this is the nanny who was seduced by that ungrateful adopted son?]

Du De Sheng and the others: “What?!”

All of their gazes swished over and landed on the fat woman who weighed at least two hundred jin, and their expressions turned odd.

[Who would have thought, that adopted son… has really heavy tastes. He can even bring himself to touch this! As expected, people who can do big things can endure what normal people cannot. Someone like me, a small salted fish with no great ambitions, could never wrong myself like that anyway.]

The peanut gallery: “…” That was what she said, but the things this salted fish had done were much bigger than his.

When they raised their heads again and saw that auntie, the three of them: “…”

Fine, they admitted it. They actually were not people who could do big things either.

[Hm? So there was such a hidden story behind that ungrateful adopted son sending Grandma Qin to this birdless place.]

Hidden story? There was more going on that they did not know?

Du De Sheng and Du Jun Yan looked at each other and both pricked up their ears.

As for Xi Jing Yue, who had joined halfway, he did not really know the full story, but that did not stop him from happily watching the drama on the spot.

The hidden story in Du An Rao’s mouth was nothing more than this: Miss Qin’s adopted son, with the nanny’s help, schemed to get Miss Qin’s property. But after that, he did not find among her collection the priceless Wu Daozi original painting she had collected in her early years.

The adopted son had set his eyes on this painting long ago. He planned to use it to curry favor with some lord in exchange for a great chance. Who knew Miss Qin had held something back.

In his fury, the adopted son flew into a rage at Miss Qin and almost raised his hand against her.

Du De Sheng was shocked, then started grinding his teeth again.

Under the adopted son’s hand, Miss Qin went through a period of imprisonment and torture but still did not talk. On top of that, some people in the family also noticed what was going on and set their sights on the painting.

Only then, forced by the situation, did he send Miss Qin to this remote mountain village cut off from information and have the nanny come with her. It was called taking care of her, but in fact it was to watch her and to coax the whereabouts of the painting out of Grandma Qin’s mouth.

[No wonder I could smell medicine as soon as we entered. That ungrateful wolf still doesn’t know where the painting is, so he doesn’t dare let Grandma Qin just die of illness. Once he knows where the painting is, or gets news from some other source, and Grandma Qin has lost her use…]

Then naturally, just like in the original plot, he would let her fend for herself and be dragged to death by illness.

[That adopted son is truly heartless and crazy. He even gave this nanny a knife. If anyone else found this place and learned about the painting from Grandma Qin before he did, she was to use it. If he can’t get something himself, he would rather destroy it than let anyone else have it. He is really sick in the head!]

Du De Sheng’s heart gave a hard thump. He felt grateful once again that he had chosen to come with Du An Rao out of caution, instead of rushing over on his own after hearing only the beginning.

Otherwise, with his temper, after learning where his beloved was, he would definitely have brought people over at once and used the toughest methods to take her away.

But if he had really done that, it would surely have made the nanny mistake them for people coming to seize the Wu Daozi original painting whose whereabouts were unknown, and then she might attack his beloved.

Under the condition of not knowing beforehand that this nanny carried a knife, could he really have guaranteed that his beloved would not be hurt even a little? The answer was clearly no.

After wasting half his life, he had finally found his beloved. If he then saw her killed with his own eyes right when he got her back, Du De Sheng could not imagine how crazy he might become.

Those who could hear Du An Rao’s inner voice were still shocked that this nanny carried a weapon with her. The only one who did not know what was really going on was the bodyguard uncle, A’Ming. Looking at the auntie who had suddenly appeared, his brows furrowed and his face grew tense.

“Didn’t he just say there was only him at home? Having a grandmother upstairs sick and resting is one thing, but who is this person?”

In their line of work, the biggest taboo was having too many unpredictable strangers around their employer. The Village Chief’s hiding things clearly touched his sensitive nerves.

The nanny was also very wary of this group of people who had suddenly appeared in the house and asked: “What is going on? Who are these people? What are they doing here?”

The Village Chief looked embarrassed and explained to her why Du An Rao and the others had come. But after the nanny listened, her face turned dark at once, and she turned to explode at Qin Shou Ye.

“How could you agree to let them stay overnight? Have you forgotten what Mr. said before? Elder Madam needs to rest quietly, quietly! She can’t have contact with outsiders. You brought so many outsiders home at once. Are you taking Mr.’s words as if they were nothing?”

Being scolded so harshly right off the bat, Qin Shou Ye’s face also looked very ugly.

He resented that this stupid woman was just a nanny, yet dared to scold him in front of so many people and make him lose face. At the same time, he was afraid she would really call and complain.

He knew that his parents were now working under that uncle. If they really found out he had messed things up, they would beat him to death when they came back.

“I’ll give their money back right now and tell them to get lost.”

Du Jun Yan and the others were angered into laughing as he said: “Are you playing us? Do you really think people like us come and go just because you call us?”