novelraw Chapter 535 - 534: Indirect Hint (Fourth Update)
Chapter 535 - 534: Indirect Hint (Fourth Update)
The banquet that should have gone well turned into a series of melodramatic events due to Nuonuo’s allergies, something Le Tong hadn’t anticipated at all.At this moment, Le Tong was slowly sipping her tea, facing this intimidating and unpredictable old man, trying to maintain her silence as much as possible.
However, Old Sir Yang didn’t seem to plan on making things easy for her.
Even though Le Tong clearly showed that she didn’t want to delve deeply into her parents’ issues, the Old Master still occasionally asked her some related questions.
Initially, the questions revolved mainly around Le Tong’s father, but after a few topics and receiving almost all "I don’t know" answers, the Old Master stopped asking these types of questions.
And Le Tong, she wasn’t trying to oppose the Old Master on purpose; rather, her impression of her father had already blurred to nearly just a vague outline. Even his image of kindness and optimism likely had much of Le Tong’s imagination and beautification added, so anything she said about her father could essentially be ignored.
The Old Master seemed to realize this point, and afterward, he started asking about Le Tong’s life in recent years.
In truth, Le Tong wasn’t willing to chat with him in detail, but towards an elder, even if not very familiar, she couldn’t show cold indifference.
"How old are you this year?"
The Old Master suddenly asked about Le Tong, which made her even more resistant.
"Twenty-five." Le Tong, having no choice, could only answer as succinctly as possible.
"You’re only twenty-five? That little one is six or seven years old, isn’t he?" The Old Master seemed somewhat skeptical of Le Tong’s words, examining her intently.
"Yes, Baobao just turned six, I became a mom at nineteen." Le Tong had to answer patiently.
The Old Master went silent for a moment, seemingly thinking of something, called Uncle Jing over, they whispered to each other, and Le Tong faintly felt it was about her but couldn’t hear what they were saying.
After whispering with Uncle Jing for a few moments, the Old Master turned his gaze back to Le Tong.
"Did you marry that boy from the Ji Family at nineteen?"
Le Tong frowned, why were the questions getting more and more inappropriate?
Her face remained calm, but her tone carried a hint of stubbornness.
"Chairman Yang, these are my personal matters." Implying that she didn’t want to answer anymore.
The Old Master looked at her, showing no signs of anger, but his gaze made Le Tong feel uncomfortable and as if sitting on pins and needles.
"Did your mother...fall ill?" The Old Master seemed unwilling to touch her bottom line too much, so he changed the question.
"Yes." Le Tong replied almost perfunctorily, though it didn’t show on her face.
"You haven’t been able to contact your father during this time either?"
The Old Master’s questions circled back to Le Tong’s father again and again.
"As far as I know, there hasn’t been any contact! I really don’t know if my mother secretly contacted my father, she hasn’t mentioned it to me."
These were the only answers Le Tong could give.
Even if the old man was anxious to know the answers, she couldn’t help him with anything else.
"Weikang left home twenty-six years ago, and all these years, I’ve had no news of him!"
The Old Master said these words to Le Tong, seemingly, truly believing that Le Tong was related to the Weikang he mentioned.
Le Tong naturally understood what he implied, but she couldn’t directly deny it, had to say, "Chairman Yang, it’s just a coincidence."
The Old Master listened to Le Tong’s words without speaking for a long time before finally staring at her and asking.
"Do you wish it’s just a coincidence?"
The Yang Family, such a wealthy family, anyone would wish to have some connection to them, yet she displayed a kind of aloof attitude.
Was this her nature? Or was she just pretending?
Le Tong read a lot from the Old Master’s scrutinizing gaze, sneered internally, and slightly smiled at him.
"Yes, I hope it’s just a coincidence." She didn’t conceal her inner thoughts at all, nodding directly
"Why?" The Old Master’s face was full of interest, his eyes brimming with intense scrutiny.
"No reason, just feel that things are good as they are now, I don’t want any changes."
Even though she didn’t want to think about it, simply by comparing Yang Sheng’s current situation, she could understand that if she truly got entangled with the Yang Family, her peaceful little life would likely come to an end.
Moreover, aside from that Jade Pendant, there wasn’t any evidence proving she had a connection with the Yang Family.
"Is the Yang Family not good?"
This time, the Old Master asked quite directly.
"Chairman Yang, I’m sorry, please forgive my ignorance! I’m not familiar with the Yang Family!"
Le Tong’s nature had some gossip elements.
But her gossiping was limited to the handsome men and beautiful women in the entertainment world, she never really inquired about or was keen on the affairs of wealthy families.
Even though she was now in a romantic relationship with Ji Rui, and in many people’s eyes, she had stepped into the world of the wealthy, she herself had no such awareness.
In her mind, she was still the same Le Tong as before, living her cheerful, happy little life through her own efforts.
"Are you not familiar with Sheng either?"
The Old Master asked, apparently unaware that Le Tong was actually quite familiar with his grandson. He only assumed that his grandson knew Le Tong because of Ji Rui.
"Somewhat..." Le Tong replied with a bit of a guilty conscience.
Her answer wasn’t because she thought the relationship with Yang Sheng was not significant enough.
But because she didn’t want her relationship with Yang Sheng to be exploited by this shrewd old man in front of her.
"Aren’t you the secretary of that boy from the Ji Family, how can you not be familiar with Sheng? Besides, you seem to call Sheng senior brother, right?"
Indeed, this old man was a cunning fox; even the slightest trace didn’t escape his sharp eyes.
"I am Ji Rui’s personal secretary, not Yang Sheng’s secretary, we don’t usually intersect in our work. As for calling Yang Sheng senior brother, it’s merely because we happened to graduate from the same school, Chairman Yang you know, in a big corporation, survival also requires some connections."
Le Tong instinctively felt that the Old Master wanted to make something out of her and Yang Sheng’s relationship, so she tried hard to clarify her relationship with him.
"Is that all?"
The Old Master’s eyes on Le Tong grew deeper, with the sense of inquiry intensifying.
"Chairman Yang, rest assured, I have no intention of climbing Yang Sheng’s ’big tree’." Le Tong deliberately misconstrued the Old Master’s meaning.
"That’s not what I meant..." For once, the Old Master seemed somewhat anxious.
"Chairman Yang, I’m going to check on Baobao, it’s windy outside, I fear he might catch a cold.
Le Tong no longer had the patience to deal with this shrewd old man, stood up, and walked directly towards the side hall, willfully leaving the deep-gazed old man in the living room.