Chapter 236

Chapter 236: Isn’t That a Coincidence?

Du Jun Yan understood this very well. He said: “I’m fine. The company security is good, and these days I always go to and from work with bodyguards. It’s you all I’m worried about, especially you, He Xuan…”

“Don’t worry about me. Our company has sent me a bunch of bodyguards. They don’t do anything all day except stare at me. I’m much safer than you now, brother.”

Ever since the incident with Jiang Huai Ying, Du He Xuan’s agency had been badly scared. Overnight they hired seven or eight bodyguards for him. They stuck to him day and night, following him wherever he went, as if they wished they could even sleep under his bed.

“You don’t need to worry about me either. My cousin also found me a bunch of bodyguards.”

Li Zhao Yang’s original goal had been to guard against Li Qian Xi’s pursuers getting any funny ideas and to prevent something like what had happened at Du Yu Xi’s birthday from happening again. He had spent a lot of money to hire bodyguards just to protect Du Yu Xi’s personal safety. Now they finally came in handy.

Du Jun Yan choked for a moment, then turned his eyes to Father Du and Mother Du: “And you two, Dad, Mom…”

“We understand, we understand. We’re right in the middle of the storm right now, so we definitely won’t drag you down. We promise we’ll just stay at home and not step outside. You can relax.”

Du Jun Yan: “…” He really doubted they were staying home to avoid trouble and not just to be lazy.

Already seeing through his parents’ little scheme, Du Jun Yan let out a long sigh and said: “Actually, I’m mainly worried about An An…”

“An An has Granduncle over there to protect her. She should be fine, right?”

“Yeah, and she’s in the Imperial Capital. There are so many people and so many eyes on everything. That Boss Jia probably wouldn’t dare be that lawless.”

“We’re not afraid of ten thousand possibilities, only that one in ten thousand. When some people go crazy, they don’t care if others live or die. Jun Yan, you should still call your Granduncle later and tell him about this.”

Mother Du’s words were exactly what worried Du Jun Yan too. And there was another important reason: “I suspect there is someone else backing this Boss Jia. Otherwise he wouldn’t dare act so recklessly.”

Du He Xuan and the others froze: “So you mean…”

“…we might need to ask Granduncle for help with this.”

Father Du was silent for a moment, then couldn’t help laughing as he said: “That can’t be helped. For An An’s sake, your Granduncle will agree.”

In other words, when you got down to it, he was still benefiting from his little sister’s shine. Although he felt a bit embarrassed, Du Jun Yan knew what mattered most. He did not dwell on it. He quickly sorted out the whole matter and sent it to Du De Sheng.

At that moment, Du De Sheng was busy receiving information from Du Bi Xiao. After he learned that the person backing Du Wei Shuai and his son was actually connected to Yao Fang Jin, he almost immediately guessed who this so-called mastermind was.

“It’s actually him!”

Then he read further. In the key points Du Bi Xiao had marked, it said that Yao Fang Jin had an overseas partner who did all sorts of evil, and this partner most likely had the surname Jia…

“…” Wasn’t that a coincidence?!

Comparing the two sides, the more he looked, the more he felt the two people were almost certainly the same man. He said sourly: “That family is really lucky, to have met such a good child like An An.”

Even though they were hiding this from the little girl because they were afraid she would worry, it did not stop her from accidentally helping them from afar.

“That’s what they deserve.” Qin Yan Qing laughed and patted his hand.

She had heard a bit about Du An Rao’s family situation after she was rescued, especially about what had happened between Du An Rao and Du Yu Xi.

In her eyes, both children were rare good kids. Whether it was in how the Du family raised Du Yu Xi, or in everything they did after bringing Du An Rao back into the Du family, there had been nothing wrong.

It was because the Du family had not made mistakes in how they treated the two children, and because both children were good, that things had turned out the way they were now.

Otherwise, if either side had had any other selfish thoughts, the two of them, and even this whole family, could never have been so harmonious.

“Alright, stop being so sour. If it weren’t for that family, we wouldn’t have picked up such a precious granddaughter for nothing. What are you planning to do about this? Even though their trouble wasn’t caused because of us, as elders we can’t just sit by and watch, especially since this also happens to tie into your own case.”

“I know that even without you saying it. Setting aside these juniors’ matters, just from the bigger picture, these people dare to do such filthy things inside the country. Do they really think all of us old men are already dead?”

Du An Rao knew nothing about the storm hidden under this calm surface, and she had no idea that, by accident, she had helped her own brother from afar. With just a few words, she had managed to cripple one of Jia Yunxiao’s big backers.

The Qiu family mother and son took the bracelet that Du An Rao planned to give to Du De Sheng and his wife as a newcomer gift very seriously. They pushed several craftsmen to take turns working on it and finally finished it the day before the planned deadline.

When Ms. Qiu called Du An Rao, she was at the auction house, handling the handover procedures together with Xi Jing Yue’s lawyers and financial team.

Because they needed to go through many years of business and funds, and the overall operations were huge and complicated, even the experienced bosses from Xi Jing Yue’s company had spent three or four days sorting out all the accounts.

“From the ledgers Manager Wen provided, we can see that in the first five years after the auction house was founded, it was basically in a loss state, though the losses were not large. From year five to year ten, income and expenses balanced out, and it slowly began to make a profit and earn back its investment. From year ten until now is when the auction house truly entered its rising profit period.”

The leader of the financial team, Mr. Gu, was a man in his early fifties. He wore a black suit and gold-rimmed glasses, and his whole body gave off the elegant but slightly scummy aura of a refined villain.

When he talked about the auction house’s balance of income and expenses, his boss aura fully opened up. It made Du An Rao so envious that she felt she could pick up a hoe at any minute and dig him up to work under her.

“Starting from that year, the auction house’s profits have risen year by year, and your personal assets have already accumulated to five billion…”

“Five… billion? Are you sure you didn’t add an extra zero?”

Mr. Gu calmly pushed up his glasses on the bridge of his nose and nodded as he said: “I’m sure. Duobao Pavilion Auction House is not only the biggest auction house in City B, it is also the biggest in the country. Just this year alone, its total profits have already passed ten billion.”

“…I know that part, but the company’s assets aren’t the same thing as my personal assets, right?”

“That’s true, but the bulk of it is still in your hands. And it’s only around five billion over ten years. On average, that’s just a little over five hundred million a year. For Duobao Pavilion’s current size, that’s not much at all. And this is without including the income and expenses from the final auction of this year yet. Once that is added, it will only be more.”

Du An Rao: “…” [How can you talk about five billion like it’s fifty yuan? Is this how calm a big-company financial boss is supposed to be? When you say it like that, it makes me seem like I’ve never seen the world. But that is five billion, five billion!]