Chapter 234

Chapter 234: A Special Fetish

Feeling that she had already taken care of all the hidden problems, Du An Rao spent some more time wrapping up this piece of raw stone, which stood out whether in weight or in size, and had someone send it to the Qiu family mother and son.

By the time she finished all this, it was almost dark.

Under Du De Sheng’s intense, staring gaze, Xi Jing Yue regretfully turned down Du An Rao’s invitation to stay for dinner.

Du An Rao only thought that as the boss of a big company, he must be very busy, so she did not try hard to keep him.

After dinner, Du An Rao kept feeling like she had forgotten something. After thinking it over carefully, she finally remembered what she had ignored.

“Oh no, how could I forget about my brother?”

She slapped her forehead, quickly pulled out her phone, and took a look. The message she had sent out last night had already gotten a reply, but it was only two simple words: “I’m fine.”

Du An Rao stared at those two words for a long time, and her eyebrows twisted together.

Last night, after she noticed something was wrong, she had sent a message to Du Jun Yan, asking if he had run into some tricky problem recently.

But at that time, her brother had not replied yet. Although she was worried, she thought that it was already so late, he had probably gone to bed, and she could call him the next day to ask.

She had not expected that after she went to the Gourmet Pavilion once and ran into that weird family of Du Wei Shuai, Mr. Yao, and Fu Si Li, she would get delayed and then forget about it.

The message from Du Jun Yan had come back the next afternoon. It was short and clear, but for no reason at all, Du An Rao just felt something was off.

After thinking for a while, she still called Du Jun Yan: “Brother, did something happen to you recently?”

“Why are you asking that?” Late at night, while still in a meeting at the company, Du Jun Yan raised his hand to signal everyone in the room to be quiet for a moment.

“I’m fine. The company has been expanding its business recently, so I’m pretty busy. When you sent the message last night, I just happened to be talking about a deal with the boss of another company. It was not convenient to call. Do you still have enough money? If not, I can transfer some more to you.”

“I have enough, I have enough.”

Hearing that he had been talking business with a partner last night, and not stuck because of some difficult problem, Du An Rao finally let out a breath.

“I only asked because you didn’t reply to my message yesterday. I thought something had happened to you. Since you are fine, I feel better.”

She was worried about disturbing her brother at work and making him stay up late again, so she quickly hung up.

But this story of Du Jun Yan’s could fool Du An Rao. It could not fool Du De Sheng.

“Does your brother’s company really plan to expand outward recently?” he asked.

“That’s what my brother said. I don’t really understand company stuff, and I rarely ask about it,” she answered.

“In that case, I will call your brother later and ask him what is going on.”

Du An Rao’s eyes lit up: “That would be great. You have seen a lot and know a lot. You can definitely give my brother some reliable advice. Of course, if you have contacts in this area you can introduce to my brother, that would be even better.”

Du De Sheng was almost made to laugh in anger by this girl’s fawning face: “So at a time like this you suddenly know not to be polite with your Granduncle. How come I never see you think more for yourself at other times?”

“I don’t run into any big problems. Why would I need you to worry about things like that for me? And who said I’m not thinking for myself? My brother is in charge of the family company, and I also get dividends. In other words, he is the one who puts food on my table and clothes on my back. If I hope he does well, isn’t that the same as hoping I do well?”

“…Fine. I can’t win an argument with you. Go back and rest, so I don’t get annoyed every time I see you and end up too angry to sleep.”

Du An Rao curled her lips. She did not want to carry that blame, but she still obediently went upstairs to catch up on sleep.

What she did not know was, right after she left, the smile on Du De Sheng’s face suddenly faded.

Listening to their conversation, Qin Yan Qing had also guessed something. She moved closer to Du De Sheng, lowered her voice, and asked: “Did something happen to that child’s family?”

“Pretty much,” he said.

“Could it be because of us? If it really is, you have to help him. We can’t let the two of us old folks harm the young people.”

Du De Sheng frowned slightly and said in a low voice: “I know what I’m doing. Don’t worry.”

The two elders both thought that the Du family company had gotten into trouble because they doted on Du An Rao too openly, so some people had finally lost patience and started attacking the Du family behind her.

But in fact, this tribulation at Du Jun Yan’s company really did not have much to do with them.

The Du family company’s stock price had suddenly plunged. Someone like Du An Rao, who did not care about the stock market at all, had not noticed, but that did not mean Du He Xuan, who worked outside with a film crew all year round, had not seen it.

Because of this, he rushed back home from the set and hurriedly gathered everyone in the family, except for Du Yi Han, who was still in faraway City B, and Du An Rao, for a family meeting.

“What on earth happened? The company was fine before. How could the stock fall like this? Who is behind this?” he demanded.

Father Du and Mother Du looked at each other and sighed: “Let your brother explain this to you.”

“It was Jia Yunxiao,” Du Jun Yan said.

“Jia Yunxiao?” Du He Xuan and Du Yu Xi were both confused. “Who is that?”

“Um…” Mother Du glanced at her eldest son. After thinking for a moment, she still helped explain: “He is the father of the child in Bai Xiu Qing’s belly.”

Du He Xuan: “???”

Du Yu Xi: “!!!”

Silence spread through the room. After a long while, Du Yu Xi finally stammered: “So it’s him.”

Compared with her, Du He Xuan was much more straightforward.

“Wait, is this guy sick in the head? Didn’t Brother already expose that woman’s true face and drive her out? Why would he still… Hold on. Did he find out that woman came to our house to blackmail Brother and failed, then felt she was wronged in our house, so he turned around to mess with our family?”

The more he thought about it, the more sure Du He Xuan was that it was like this. Back when Du An Rao had complained in her heart about that lawless madman, he had already felt that this man’s brain was not normal.

Now it seemed it really was not normal. This guy was a crazy, perverted idiot.

Hearing what he said, Father Du and Mother Du once again looked at their eldest son. Du Jun Yan sighed and said honestly: “There are a few details that are a bit off, but overall, you’re not wrong.”

The two siblings, Du He Xuan and Du Yu Xi: “???”

“Brother, I have a question,” Du Yu Xi said, quickly raising her hand.

“What?” he asked.

“What parts are off?”

“The part that is off is that he really did bring Bai Xiu Qing to find me and question me about my relationship with that woman,” Du Jun Yan said.

“…So how did you answer?” she asked.

“How else could I answer? Of course I tried my best to cut all ties. I told him that I had nothing to do with that woman. Even if there had been something, it was only an old connection from the last generation. Her parents are gone, and she is like that now. What kind of relationship could there still be?”

“Then did he… believe you?”

Du Jun Yan paused. Thinking of what had happened that day, his expression turned strange: “He asked me if I was questioning his taste.”

Du Yu Xi: “???”

Everyone else in the room: “…”

At this moment, everyone present was thinking the same thing that Du Jun Yan had thought that day.

This stupid pervert probably had some kind of special fetish, like loving to put a green hat on himself.