novelraw Chapter 397: Lady Dongfang’s Tea Garden (4th update, asking for monthly votes)
Chapter 397: Lady Dongfang’s Tea Garden (4th update, asking for monthly votes)
As for the character of this boy Yan Hao, she knows it very well. He values face a lot and is willing to share his embarrassing stories with you, which doesn’t mean he doesn’t hold grudges. If it’s someone close, it’s fine; he won’t cause trouble for you, but if the relationship isn’t so good, the day he takes a dislike to you, he will hold it against you.The old lady was one of her trusted people, and even if she doted on Yan Hao, she didn’t want to lose such a person for his sake.
"How could I not be mad? Later, I simply couldn’t be bothered to deal with that old man. They came to the Capital City, and I didn’t even go to see him. Even if it were my mom, I wouldn’t allow her to go. Why the hell should I go? They don’t regard me as family, so why should I regard them as family?"
Lady Dongfang massaged his shoulders and said with a smile, "No matter what, they share the same surname as your mother; in the eyes of outsiders, you are one family. Just that is enough. Your father knows what he wants to do; he has a sense of measure."
"He certainly does." Yan Hao sneered, "Back then, didn’t you ask him to kill that kid? Did he kill him? He sent him away, didn’t he? If you hadn’t intervened, making him think I was the ’Child of Qi Fortune,’ do you think I would have been able to secure my position as the Young Master of the Yan Family? Also, I don’t know what you saw in him back then, only interest and ambition with not a shred of humanity."
"No matter what, he is your father, and you are his only son; over the years, he has done quite a lot for you."
"Are you sure I’m his only son?" Yan Hao mocked, "Do you think a man as calculating as he is wouldn’t have a second plan behind the scenes?"
Lady Dongfang laughed, as charming as thousands of lotus flowers blooming, mesmerizing: "Do you think I wouldn’t have a second plan? Since I dare say you are his only son, then you are the only one."
"Didn’t you say that kid was sent away by him back then?" Yan Hao questioned.
"He did send him away, but couldn’t I..." Her smile was bright and beautiful, as if she were talking about the most ordinary topic, like "what should we eat today." Lady Dongfang smiled, "Ah Hao, remember, no matter what, you should never leave future troubles, or they will be endless!"
Yan Hao inexplicably breathed a sigh of relief and handed the documents on the table to Lady Dongfang: "Take a look at this. My Qi Fortune has been getting worse recently, and even when I wanted to keep a Furnace, it ran away. I estimate roughly that the man’s success correlates with my declining Qi Fortune..."
Lady Dongfang was also aware of Yan Hao’s worsening Qi Fortune. From a few years ago, she had arranged to seize others’ Qi Fortune across places, which at least delayed Yan Hao’s Qi Fortune depletion.
Sometimes, she also wondered if it was because she killed that baby?
Although that baby was a "Child of Qi Fortune" at birth, she maneuvered to transfer the Qi Fortune to Yan Hao. In his childhood, Yan Hao indeed had extraordinary Qi Fortune. But this kind of Qi Fortune is quite indescribable; it’s not always with one person, it can increase, decrease or even be plundered.
Because that baby died, the fake "Child of Qi Fortune" Yan Hao couldn’t absorb new Qi Fortune. When those plundered Qi Fortunes were used up, the Qi Fortune on him gradually diminished.
She had thought of ways to make Yan Hao use less Qi Fortune, but all to no avail.
Qi Fortune is intangible; when it’s good, it brings good luck to people; when it’s bad, it makes someone unlucky. She couldn’t just let Yan Hao do nothing; like when he was merely walking around, he could still stumble upon gold. Regardless of whether he picks it up or not, encountering the gold already used his Qi Fortune.
What could she do?
When Lady Dongfang saw Jiang Nuo’s information, she was utterly shocked: "This is impossible!"
Perhaps to others, Jiang Nuo was just a celebrity, but in her eyes, everything Jiang Nuo did went smoothly, particularly in recent times, even when encountering danger, it always turned out fine, and he even met benefactors.
This kind of Qi Fortune...
"How could his Qi Fortune be so good? He’s just an orphan!"
"I’m also surprised, especially since he managed to rescue that Furnace from under my nose. Before that, this person didn’t catch anyone’s attention at all." If Lady Dongfang wasn’t already sure that she had killed that baby back then, she might have thought this guy with such good Qi Fortune was that baby.
"Indeed, it’s odd. I hadn’t even noticed this person." In fact, Lady Dongfang even started counting with her fingers, trying to calculate who this might be. However, after a long while, all she encountered was a foggy haze.
"You can’t deduce it either?"
Lady Dongfang shook her head: "It’s like something is blocking him... You just mentioned he took that Furnace away from you? And you hadn’t anticipated anyone would rescue that Furnace before this?"
Yan Hao nodded: "This Furnace of mine, I discovered by accident. She is a Natural Furnace, very suitable for harvesting/feeding. Before I acted, I also investigated her family situation; her family was simple, a pair of loving parents, an unrelated elder brother, and her friends were all ordinary people..."
"Wasn’t it Jiang Nuo who rescued her?"
"Yes, because Jiang Nuo is her idol. Nowadays, how many young people don’t have a few celebrity idols? It’s not surprising she had one, but the coincidence is, her idol is a Cultivator who rescued her without alerting me."
"You suspect he is the new ’Child of Qi Fortune’?"
"Didn’t you tell me before that the ’Child of Qi Fortune’ isn’t eternally unchanging? Since I could plunder it, others could also do the same. Even if it’s not plundered, with his current aura of overwhelming Qi Fortune, shouldn’t it at least catch our attention?" Yan Hao reminded Lady Dongfang that Jiang Nuo’s wife is from the Mu family in Capital City. Previously, when he faced off against someone from the Mu family in Capital City, perhaps Jiang Nuo intervened in that matter.
"Mu family in Capital City..." Lady Dongfang looked at the documents again, "Wait, there’s something off about Jiang Nuo’s wife as well."
"She’s just a woman, what could be the issue?"
Upon hearing Yan Hao’s words, Lady Dongfang felt helpless, assuming his male superiority complex had taken over again. She said, "I’ve told you many times not to underestimate women. Why haven’t you taken it to heart? Not all women are clinging vines dependent on men."