novelraw Chapter 951: So It Was All Her Doing (Part 1)
Chapter 951: So It Was All Her Doing (Part 1)
Chapter 951: Chapter 951: So It Was All Her Doing (Part 1)
"Old Lu, quickly tidy things up, and then mop the floor."
Tang Shaohong poked his head into the kitchen and heard the head chef giving orders to a middle-aged man. That man, with a mole on the left side of his nose, looked Chinese, a typical feature, just as Gu Nuan had described.
After waiting for the others in the kitchen to leave, only the man called Old Lu remained. Tang Shaohong walked in, hands behind his back, leisurely strolling around the kitchen as if nothing was amiss, occasionally passing in front of the man called Old Lu.
Old Lu kept his head down, holding a mop handle as he numbly wiped the kitchen tiles over and over again.
Tang Shaohong finally stood still in front of him, lightly cleared his throat: "Where are you from, fellow countryman?"
"Hubei."
"Oh, Hubei? Speaking in Wuhan dialect? Let me tell you, I have a comrade from Wuhan, Hubei. I learned a few phrases in the Hubei dialect from him. See if it sounds like it?" Tang Shaohong pinched his throat and imitated a few sounds vividly.
Old Lu lifted his head and glared at him a few times: "How come you’re here?"
What does it mean, how come he’s here? Why can’t he be here?
Old Lu suddenly grabbed his arm and pulled him into a corner: "I see you’re with those two ladies, right?"
"Yes. My boss said she noticed you giving her a look, unsure what it meant, and sent me over to ask." Tang Shaohong said.
"Ah, I was just telling her to run quickly."
"Why?"
"Guests who enter this castle. Actually, the host here rarely invites Chinese guests. The last Chinese guest who came, to——"
Upon hearing this, Tang Shaohong recalled what Gu Nuan had previously told him, and his heart pounded with fear: "What do you mean by that? The person, what happened to them?"
"I don’t know what they did to him either. Anyway, he disappeared here."
"Disappeared?" Tang Shaohong hesitated, scanning Old Lu’s face.
"That is to say, in the morning, when I went to wake him up, I found he was no longer in the guest room. Then, when I asked others what happened, they said he left early in the morning. I found it strange because I hadn’t heard anything about him leaving before. Plus, if he were to leave, since my work starts at five, I should be getting up a little after four, I would have noticed the sound of a car leaving, but there was none. However, both he and his luggage were indeed gone."
Tang Shaohong suspiciously scanned his face again: "Are you Chinese?"
"Not anymore. I immigrated to Luxembourg with my daughter; now I’m a Luxembourger." Old Lu replied.
"Why don’t you live with your daughter?"
"My daughter married someone in this house. She’s the chauffeur for the lady of the house, and she now works in the family’s private bank. With nothing else to do, this family said they occasionally entertain Chinese guests and might need a chef skilled in Chinese cuisine, so my daughter introduced me to apply. I’ve been used to hard work since childhood back home and can’t stand idleness." Old Lu said, "Originally, everything was going well, but I didn’t expect that after discovering our compatriot disappeared here last month, my mood has been off."
"How long have you been here?" Tang Shaohong asked again.
"Three months."
Here for three months, having witnessed something strange in the second month, because it was his daughter’s employer’s home, Old Lu couldn’t report it.
"If what you say is true and the person disappeared, wouldn’t their family come looking for them?" Tang Shaohong stroked his chin, still skeptical.