Chapter 25 - 2#
Ye Sheng lowered his eyes and played a small game on his phone. Since he chose to stay, he planned to help thoroughly investigate the matter of the western-style building. After listening to Old Master Qin’s words, Ye Sheng spoke indifferently, “Third wife?”
He suddenly spoke, but no one at the scene felt it was wrong. His calm tone and attitude made it seem as if he was originally a person of high status who came to question.
Old Master Qin even nodded tremblingly, “Yes, the third one.”
Ye Sheng said coldly, “Your first wife was the daughter of a wealthy businessman from Island City. You were married for three years without having a son or a daughter. Your second wife was a star who died on the operating table at Cheng’en Gynecological Hospital due to an amniotic fluid embolism. Are you sure you’re talking about the third wife, not the second?”
Old Master Qin’s fingers suddenly tightened on the wheelchair, his face filled with fear and astonishment as he looked at him.
Ye Sheng continued, “I found Fufang Xuanju Capsules and Shengjing Capsules where you used to live. You have severe asthenospermia. You didn’t get your wife pregnant in the first three years of your marriage, but in the next two marriages, you had children in the first three months. Both wives died strangely on the delivery table. Do you want to explain?”
Luo Xingyan’s typing hand paused, and he looked up at Ye Sheng in surprise.
Ye Sheng had long legs and looked good even when sitting casually. After saying these words, he withdrew his gaze, leaned back, and went back to playing with his phone. He lowered his head, his skin as cold as frost, and his jawline tense.
Ye Sheng’s series of questions caught Old Master Qin off guard. It also made Luo Xingyan discover something was wrong.
Luo Xingyan looked up.
“Are you very clear about why your wife went crazy?” Old Master Qin’s face was bloodless.
At this time, Qin Bei spoke.
“I’m clear.”
He pressed down on his grandfather’s shoulder, summoned the courage to face Luo Xingyan’s gaze, took a deep breath, and slowly said, “I also know that all of this was willingly done by those two women.”
“After that little star married my grandfather, she always wanted to have a child. My grandfather had already discovered his physical problems at that time and was actively contacting doctors for treatment. But the little star couldn’t wait. She secretly went to ask for a child-giving Guanyin behind my grandfather’s back and also asked a witch doctor for some folk remedies. She drank some strange medicines every day. I don’t know if she died on the operating table because of this, but this was all her own choice, and no one forced her.”
“As for my grandfather’s third wife, I can only say that she was insatiable and as eager for quick success as the little star before her. This lady was even born in an orphanage, had no support, and behaved even more crazily. I don’t know what evil things she did at home. After getting pregnant, she went crazy. My grandfather was afraid she would hurt herself, so he locked her up.”
“Most of my grandfather’s children were born by his fourth wife, which is my grandmother. I can only say that in this matter, my grandfather has always been the victim.”
“Just because those two crazy women used folk evil arts to ask for a child, he has been entangled by evil spirits for more than ten years.”
Luo Xingyan typed the words “child-giving Guanyin” and “witch doctor” on the tablet, showing no attitude towards Qin Bei’s words.
“Your Qin family has so many surveillance cameras, and you just let those two women do these things at home? Your grandfather really didn’t know anything?”
Qin Bei had already thought of a countermeasure and said without changing his face, “Grandfather didn’t know. He thought it was just some Chinese medicine supplements to help with fertility. Grandfather trusted his wife and didn’t investigate further.”
Luo Xingyan changed the subject, “Why does the information I have seem to show that your grandfather is the one who has more contact with people like witch doctors and Taoist priests? Your grandfather is getting married again recently. Marrying a wife to ward off evil spirits is a method given by a Taoist priest, right?”
Old Master Qin’s lips turned white, and his hands trembled like he had Parkinson’s disease.
Qin Bei was able to stand firm in the Qin family entirely because of the old master’s love. At a critical moment, he definitely had to pull someone out to take the blame for him. He didn’t even think about dragging Xie Yan into the water. He glanced at Huang Yiyue and then said, “It was a method given by a Taoist priest, but the Taoist priest was not contacted by my grandfather, but by the head of the Xie family.”
Huang Yiyue was stunned and looked at Qin Bei foolishly.
Qin Bei ignored this stupid woman and justified himself, “Both of my grandfather’s wives died in the Xie family’s private hospital. Xie Yan has always felt guilty and has been looking for a solution for my grandfather all these years. If you don’t believe me, you can call Xie Yan up.”
Luo Xingyan didn’t speak.
Qin Siyuan had been sweating on the side. He knew nothing about Old Master Qin’s affairs, not even as much as Qin Bei. He just wanted all of this to end quickly. After hearing this, he immediately turned his head to the bodyguard and said, “Go and call Xie Yan up.”
Ye Sheng had already reached the fifteenth level of the box-pushing game and replied to a few messages in the dormitory group. He was not surprised at all when he found out that the Xie family was involved. Of course, he was slow to some things. He heard about the marriage to ward off evil spirits and remarriage, but he didn’t connect it to himself at all. After all, this was something that completely subverted his cognition, a new world behind the door.
The questioning about Old Master Qin temporarily came to an end.
Luo Xingyan finally turned his attention to the second matter to be dealt with today.
“Ye Sheng, now let’s talk about your business.”
Ye Sheng: “?”
What business did he have? Wasn’t he an enthusiastic citizen who came to cooperate with the investigation?
Luo Xingyan suddenly pulled up a picture from the tablet, which was a surveillance video. Ye Sheng’s journey from the other side of the lake back to the banquet hall was obviously observed from an animal’s perspective. The shadows of people and trees were all a faint cyan, but the outline around Ye Sheng seemed to have a faint red layer.
“I put a firefly behind you. The firefly observed that you have the spiritual value of an anomaly on you.” Luo Xingyan’s expression was even more serious than when he questioned Old Master Qin just now. “Although the spiritual value is weak, the conditions for the firefly to perceive spiritual value are harsh. If the anomaly’s external appearance in your body is like this, it means that its real level is not low. Ye Sheng, who are you? What is in your body? And why were you in that building tonight?”
Ye Sheng: “…”
Ye Sheng: “…”
He thought he had been careful enough not to use the power of the fetus in the western-style building, but he didn’t expect the Non-Natural Bureau to have such cheating high-tech.
So unlucky.
However, he was able to make up a bunch of reasons in an instant when he faced that situation at Huaicheng North Station, so he was not flustered now. He just had to simply blame it on Wang Gaoyang and Xie Wenci’s prank. After all, he still had the message from Xie Wenci on his phone.
But just as Ye Sheng cleared his thoughts and was about to speak, the bodyguard had already brought Xie Yan up.
Xie Yan came up with his eldest son, Xie Ji. They ran into another group of people at the door: Qin Liushuang, Qin Heyu, and Qin Shengyan. The moment the two groups met, everyone’s eyes flashed with surprise.
Qin Liushuang and the others were shocked: Why would Xie Yan come up to the fifth floor?
Xie Yan was worried: What would be waiting for him with this lineup from the Qin family?
With their own thoughts, they entered Old Master Qin’s room together.
It was very lively here now.
The bodyguard said, “Master, Xie Yan is here.”
Qin Siyuan turned his head and saw Qin Liushuang who had entered with them, his pupils widening.
“Liushuang?! Why are you here?”
Qin Liushuang hesitated, her beautiful eyes flowing. She glanced at the stalemate in the room, bit her lip, and then said softly, “Weichen said he would come to give Grandpa a congratulatory gift later. I wanted to come and tell Grandpa first.”
Qin Siyuan: “Is that so?”
Luo Xingyan didn’t care about the twists and turns of their Qin family. He stared straight at Ye Sheng, “Do you know that you have the aura of an anomaly on you?”
Ye Sheng said lightly, “Are you talking about the ghosts in the building? I did come into contact with them.”
Luo Xingyan sneered, “The anomaly aura on you is not that low-level.”
Ye Sheng was indifferent, “Oh, what an honor.”
Luo Xingyan gritted his teeth and said loudly, “He’s inside you!”
Ye Sheng casually twitched the corner of his mouth and didn’t speak—Luo Xingyan was trying to trick him.
Seeing Ye Sheng’s detached appearance, Luo Xingyan gritted his teeth in hatred, his eyes as sharp as a cheetah’s. But soon, under Qin Bei’s signal, Xie Yan took the initiative to walk forward with a smile and interrupt his glare at Ye Sheng, “Sir, were you looking for me?”
The Xie family had not yet reached the level of contact with the Non-Natural Bureau. He didn’t know Luo Xingyan, but he knew from the situation that what was happening now was not simple, and his attitude was humble.
Luo Xingyan gave Ye Sheng a hard look, thinking that he would be able to get the words out of Ye Sheng’s mouth sooner or later. Let’s solve things one by one.
He suppressed his anger, turned his head to Xie Yan and said, “It’s not me looking for you, it’s Qin Wenrui looking for you.”
Old Master Qin had completely lost the ability to speak now.
Qin Bei took the initiative to explain, “Uncle Xie, I want you to come and explain. This officer mistakenly thought that the marriage to ward off evil spirits was a method that my grandfather sought from a Taoist priest, but this matter was clearly handled by you. You should know that my grandfather has never dealt with such people in his life.”
As early as when the Qin family and the Xie family made this deal, the two families had discussed it privately how to handle the matter openly and aboveboard. Xie Yan personally went to find a Taoist priest and personally sent his son. Coincidentally, his son was also filial and obedient, sensible and well-behaved.
It directly became a beautiful story.
But this was all to be said at the wedding a month later. They hadn’t rehearsed their lines yet.
Xie Yan had drunk some wine at the banquet, and his brain was a little muddled. He stared at Qin Bei blankly for a few moments. Then he braced himself to look at Luo Xingyan, not knowing how to speak.
The air instantly fell into a silence.
Qin Liushuang couldn’t understand what they were talking about at all. Anomaly, spiritual value, ghosts, it was all so mysterious. She frowned tightly. But the attitude of Old Master Qin and Qin Siyuan told her that the red-haired young man’s identity was not simple, and she didn’t dare to speak rashly.
In the dead silence, Ning Weichen finally arrived. He had taken a shower and changed into a suit. When he came in, he didn’t seem to expect so many people to be here and let out a light laugh.
“So lively.”
His voice was unhurried, elegant and lazy.
Everyone in the room turned their heads when they heard it, including Luo Xingyan.
Qin Liushuang’s face showed pleasant surprise, “Weichen, you’re here?!”
Ning Weichen showed a well-behaved smile that was very pleasing to elders, blinked and said, “Yes, I’m here to deliver a gift.”
Qin Siyuan looked embarrassed and said, “Weichen… why don’t you sit down for a while? We may have to deal with some private matters now.”
He didn’t know the relationship between the Ning family and the Non-Natural Bureau. He had a headache from all the unexpected situations tonight, but he didn’t dare to neglect this young master.
Ning Weichen raised his eyebrows, didn’t ask any more questions, and said with a smile, “Okay.”
He found a place to sit down. Ning Weichen naturally walked through the crowd and sat next to Ye Sheng. The sofa next to him sank, and Ye Sheng smelled that cold and clear fragrance again. He turned his head suspiciously and found that Ning Weichen had changed his clothes again and obviously looked like he had just taken a shower.
Another shower? Does Ning Weichen have a cleanliness obsession?
The two of them seemed to be complete onlookers, detached from the situation, forming a unique scenery in the room.
Ye Sheng didn’t want to seem too familiar with him, so he lowered his head and continued to play the box-pushing game.
Ning Weichen tilted his head and looked at him thoughtfully for a while. Seeing that he ignored him, he pursed his lips and didn’t speak. He propped up his chin and looked forward slowly, as if he was really interested in the confrontation in the room.
Luo Xingyan: “…” He felt like he had seen a ghost when he saw Ning Weichen.
Luo Xingyan knew that Ning Weichen had no relationship with the Qin family, so he temporarily treated him as an outsider, held his tablet, and continued to ask, “Have you thought about how to answer? Speak.”
Xie Yan didn’t dare to offend the Qin family. He thought for a moment, glanced at Ye Sheng and then at Old Master Qin, nodded and said, “Second Young Master Qin is right. The matter of marrying a wife was indeed calculated by a Taoist priest we found. Both of Old Master Qin’s wives died at Cheng’en Gynecological Hospital. I have always felt guilty. After knowing that Old Master Qin was suffering from evil spirits, I specially went to find a Taoist priest to make up for my apology.”
“My wife is a Buddhist and often goes to worship Buddha. She can testify for me.”
Huang Yiyue had just donated incense money not long ago. She nodded, “Yes, we did find the Taoist priest.”
Xie Yan said, “Old Master Qin didn’t know anything about all this. We, the Xie family, found the Taoist priest, and the boy born in the yin year, yin month, and yin day was also chosen from our Xie family. Sheng Sheng is the child of Yiyue and her ex-husband. Although he grew up in Yinshan, he has a filial personality and is intelligent. After Yiyue explained everything to him and asked him to come to the Xie family, he did not object.”
Ye Sheng: “…”
Ye Sheng frowned.
Just now, there was a physical examination and mention of health. He had already preconceived that he was here to sell organs to Old Master Qin. But now Xie Yan’s words seemed to be touching on his blind spot of knowledge.
Luo Xingyan was also confused. How could the matter of marrying to ward off evil spirits be related to Ye Sheng?
He looked back at Ye Sheng, then at Xie Yan.
After Xie Yan finished the beginning, it was easy to say the rest. He said with a smile, “I have the chat records with the master here, I can show you. We did find the master. We told Old Master Qin about this matter after it was completely settled. At first, the old master didn’t agree, thinking it was a waste of a young man’s time. Later, we said that Sheng Sheng had long admired the Qin family and had no one to rely on after coming to Huaicheng alone. Only then did Old Master Qin agree out of kindness.”
In just a few words, this matter was really whitewashed into a beautiful story.
Ning Weichen, who was originally not very interested, leaned back on the sofa, his fingers on his chin, his eyes dark, and the smile on his lips deepened slightly when he heard this.
After Xie Yan finished speaking, Huang Yiyue thought of Ye Sheng’s performance just now and also hurriedly said, “Actually, Sheng Sheng knew about this before he came here.”
She looked at Ye Sheng eagerly, suppressing her timidity, and said complicatedly, “Sheng Sheng, you knew from the beginning why Mom brought you to this room, right?”
Ye Sheng looked at her.
He never thought that Huang Yiyue had a sudden conscience and wanted to be a good mother. He had been guessing her purpose with extreme malice all along.
The moment he saw Old Master Qin, he was also sure that Huang Yiyue had bad intentions.
But he always felt that these people’s attitudes were different from what he thought.
Ye Sheng felt strange, frowned, and didn’t refute in time. Everyone took his momentary silence as acquiescence.
Huang Yiyue breathed a sigh of relief, “See, I told you, Sheng Sheng knew.”
Xie Yan also felt a heavy weight fall from his heart.
Many people in the Qin family had a feeling of surviving a disaster.
Luo Xingyan’s eyes were also filled with shock and complexity. He looked at Ye Sheng sitting on the sofa opposite, his mind full of “What the hell?”
Ye Sheng is Old Master Qin’s fiancée for warding off evil spirits? Although Ning Weichen has no blood relationship with the Qin family, according to seniority, he should also call Old Master Qin “maternal grandfather”.
Ye Sheng knew about this from beginning to end and even came in person?
Then what was going on between him and Ning Weichen in the western-style building?
Amazing. Are the relationships in their wealthy families so chaotic?!
This atmosphere was too awkward. Ye Sheng twitched the corner of his mouth, his black and white eyes looking over calmly, “I didn’t know. I agreed to come over just to see what you planned to do with Grandma’s belongings, to…”
At this time, Luo Xingyan spoke sarcastically, “You are quite capable.”
Ye Sheng didn’t notice that Luo Xingyan was talking to him.
Luo Xingyan: “Hiding a high-level anomaly in your body, and your identity is also complicated. Do you wealthy families all play so big?” He looked at Ning Weichen, now in the mood to watch a show, “Crown Prince, do you know that your date is your maternal grandfather’s young wife for warding off evil spirits?”
“???”
“…”
All of Ye Sheng’s words were stuck in his throat, and he almost choked on his saliva. He gritted his teeth to maintain a straight face and looked over with a gloomy face—
What was Luo Xingyan saying?!
Although he had a vague premonition before, when the truth came out, he still had a feeling of seeing a ghost in broad daylight.
What was Luo Xingyan saying?
Not only Ye Sheng, but everyone present was also stunned.
What was Luo Xingyan saying, Ning Weichen’s… date?!!
After a few seconds of calm, Ye Sheng seemed to have completely jumped out of his inherent thinking of more than ten years. He jumped out of the circle of organ trafficking and began to seriously think about and accept—
There really is such a thing as marrying a male wife to ward off evil spirits in this world.
“…”
No one would believe it if he said it, but now Ye Sheng was the person with the most complicated and broken mood in the whole room.
Everyone’s eyes were now focused on Ning Weichen.
Ning Weichen’s index finger knuckle touched his cheek, and the elbow propped on the sofa slowly lowered. His light red thin lips curled up, and he raised his head. A pair of peach blossom eyes contained a smile, but under the light, it made people feel no warmth at all.
Luo Xingyan said like watching a show, “Crown Prince, this date of yours is very mysterious in all aspects. He also has an anomaly aura in his body, do you know?”
Ning Weichen didn’t answer him. The smile on his lips was faint. He turned his head to look at Ye Sheng, his tone neither happy nor angry, “Is this the stable life you told me you wanted to live?”
Ye Sheng: “…” He now had the thought of killing Luo Xingyan.
Ning Weichen said carelessly, “Coming to Huaicheng with no one to rely on, you would rather find the Qin family than me.”
Ye Sheng twitched the corner of his mouth.
A moment later, Ning Weichen made a move that no one expected. He let out a low laugh, his long fingers pressed on Ye Sheng’s shoulder, and he leaned over. His other arm loosely wrapped around his waist and touched his lower abdomen.
His tone was smiling, and he said slowly in a voice that almost everyone could hear.
“So heartless, baby. Our child is still here, and you just turn your back on me like this?”