Chapter 611 - 189: [Accomplice to What I Do]
Lu Xiuting seemed to want to play hard to get, purposely adopting a nonchalant pose, and took a sip from the teacup in front of her.
Chen Yan’s eyes showed a hint of mocking laughter.
He opened a large bag he had with him, reached inside to grab something, and threw it to the ground!
Clang!
A small shovel was thrown onto the ground by him!
The shovel, covered with soil debris, landed on the wooden floor of the private room, making a sound that startled Lu Xiuting. Her fingers holding the teacup trembled slightly.
"You? What is this..." Lu Xiuting’s eyes revealed a hint of shock.
Because she clearly recognized what this shovel was!
"Aunt Lu, let’s talk." Chen Yan sat down, smiling, reached for a clean teacup on the table, and picked up the teapot to pour himself a cup.
Lu Xiuting’s gaze fell on the iron shovel on the ground, then looked up at Chen Yan, showing uncertainty and suspicion.
"You have a cousin named Lu Ding, who did the earth-moving work with your father, right?" Chen Yan took a sip of tea and said slowly, "To be precise, your whole family did. I don’t know if your mother and you were members of that tomb-robbing gang, but the scent on you tells me you should be one of them."
"Scent?" Lu Xiuting was first flustered, then sneered: "You must have read too many tomb-robbing novels. What tomb-robbing gang? I don’t understand what you’re talking about."
Chen Yan shook his head: "It’s useless to deny, and you know what I’m talking about."
Speaking, without waiting for Lu Xiuting to refute, Chen Yan continued on his own.
"Then let’s tell a story.
In a village, there was a family, a couple with a daughter and a nephew.
The wife died early, so the family consisted of a husband with a daughter and a nephew.
This family was in the tomb-robbing business, well, it’s called ’transgressing’ in slang, but here we call it ’earth-moving.’
In this family, the husband and nephew were adults, and they were the main forces responsible for digging holes, exploring caves, doing the work underground and taking things. The daughter should’ve been assisting. After all, a little girl doesn’t have much strength, but her brains would be good, qualifying her for assisting.
This business is pretty immoral, the longer you do it, the more you reap what you sow.
So, one year, this family found an ancient tomb in the mountains, and in the process of exploring, the husband was severely injured and died.
And following that, the police caught the gang, and the nephew was arrested and sentenced to ten years.
But the little girl was a minor, and there was no evidence to prove she committed any crimes, so she slipped through the net.
The little girl was smart, and after the police raid, she should’ve hidden some loot.
With this loot, the little girl, after her father’s death and cousin’s imprisonment, could still survive on her own, and she was smart enough to go to university.
On the surface, except for having no parents, her life didn’t differ much from that of any other female student.
After graduating from university, she found an internship at a Hong Kong-funded company, and then discovered that the company’s boss wasn’t very old and was still single.
So, the girl quickly dumped her college boyfriend..."
"Enough!!" Lu Xiuting’s face turned pale, anger surging, and she shouted decisively: "Shut up!"
"Uh? But I haven’t finished speaking yet." Chen Yan laughed: "I haven’t told how the girl played that game, where the hunter disguised as prey, swiftly reeled in the boss of the Hong Kong-funded company, and quickly maneuvered into position by getting pregnant, achieving her wish to marry into a wealthy family as the Young Madam."
"..." Lu Xiuting’s body trembled, staring at Chen Yan: "You, you investigated me!"
"Your husband is an outsider." Chen Yan said flatly: "A small Hong Kong-funded company boss, and he is not the main heir of the Yang Family business, just a younger son. He doesn’t have much influence in Jinling Prefecture, and many things he can’t find out — surely he didn’t find these things out before marrying you, even if he tried to inquire about some things.
But... after you graduated high school and left the village for university, you never returned, severing ties with everyone there.
Your husband, when dating you, probably inquired about you from your college classmates at most, so he doesn’t know any of what I’ve said, right."
Lu Xiuting indeed wasn’t a simple person, after her initial shock and nervousness, she quickly forced herself to calm down, staring at Chen Yan: "Even if you found out about these things, so what?"
She pointed at Chen Yan: "You found out about my dark history, and now you’re trying to use it to blackmail me? I’ve been married to my husband for nineteen years! I now have a son and a daughter, and I’m three months pregnant!
Even if you hold my past, how do you intend to blackmail me? Tell my husband? Ha!
I haven’t cheated, haven’t done anything against my husband! Even if you use these outdated incidents to blackmail me, it won’t hurt me at all!"
"Misunderstanding, misunderstanding!" Chen Yan laughed heartily: "I didn’t intend to use these things to blackmail you, Aunt Lu."
Speaking, he took the dried fruit plate from the table, grabbed a handful of melon seeds, and laughed while eating: "Now to continue the story I was telling...