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Chapter 857 A Good Move to Kill Two Birds with One Stone

Chapter 857: Chapter 857 A Good Move to Kill Two Birds with One Stone

The next day, Wang Cuihua woke up especially late, it was already noon when she opened her eyes.

Her head felt a bit foggy and she couldn’t remember what had happened last night.

Glancing over, she saw that her husband was also asleep beside her, which was quite strange.

This old guy wakes up at six o’clock every day without fail, what happened today?

Wang Cuihua nudged her husband, and he sat up, his eyes still cloudy one second, but upon seeing the clock on the wall, his gaze sharpened in an instant.

He bolted upright and stormed out of the room, seething with anger.

Suizi was sitting under the grapevine trellis with an open ledger in front of her, slowly sliding beads on an abacus with her finger.

Sensing a shadow overhead, she looked up to meet her father-in-law’s furious gaze.

"Where is Yu Tiegen?"

"He should already be on his way to the border by now."

Her father-in-law immediately thought of the cup of tea he had drunk upon returning home the night before. If it hadn’t been drugged, his sharp instincts would not have missed his son sneaking away in the middle of the night.

Turning to leave, Suizi quickly spoke up, "Dad, there’s no need to go. Tiegen went with Jinnan. The reason I drugged... was to stop you from going."

Her father-in-law froze, slowly turned around, and glared at Suizi.

"You little rascals are conspiring to trick me?"

"Yes." Suizi admitted straightforwardly, stealing a glance at her father-in-law’s expression, mentally reciting "Amitabha Buddha" in her heart, so frightening.

Her courage was not naturally big, and what she had mustered for this confrontation came from hard-wrought determination. Had she not braced herself mentally beforehand, she would have been too intimidated to face her father-in-law’s anger.

"When did you start communicating with Jinnan?" Her father-in-law’s thick eyebrows furrowed tightly.

His son, allying with a dangerous character to confront another threat, he didn’t know whom to worry about more.

And his usually composed daughter-in-law, rather than preventing everything, had even helped Yu Tiegen to scheme against him!

"Well, that’s a long story—Mom! Could you come here a minute!" Suizi called out loudly.

Her father-in-law’s eyes widened abruptly and in a low and angry voice, he scolded her.

"What are you going to tell your mother! Her heart can only take so much, you can’t worry her!"

Had Suizi not already made a very good impression on him, her father-in-law would have kicked her at this point—her actions were reminiscent of Yu Tiegen taking over her body!

"Dad, don’t worry, I know my limits, I won’t say anything I shouldn’t," she said.

"What’s up? Where is Tiegen?" Wang Cuihua came over, noticing that her husband was upset, while her daughter-in-law was as composed as ever.

"Dad, Mom, please sit down. I have something to tell you, it’s about Jingting’s encounter with Great Grandfather in the Special Zone."

Under her father-in-law’s menacing glare, Suizi recounted the encounter between Jingting and Yu Youchan.

She skipped over the dangerous parts, striving to make it sound like a commonplace meeting.

Suizi withheld Yu Youchan’s status as the head of the Tianlong Society, mentioning him only as a business owner.

"...That’s what happened. The great grandfather lacks a son-in-law and took a fancy to Jingting."

Wang Cuihua’s mouth hung wide open, so much so that a fly could have flown straight in.

"Didn’t that old man say he ran off because of trouble and died somewhere far away? How did he get all the way over there... He’s causing chaos, isn’t he? According to seniority, Tiegen should call Jinnan ’Aunt’. What is he thinking?"

"Right, we definitely can’t agree to this. So, my father decided to recognize Jinnan as his sister. This way they wouldn’t get any ideas about us. That’s why Tiegen has gone on this business trip, to resolve this issue."

"Oh, well, that sister can certainly be recognized. But what can Tiegen do when he goes there?" Wang Cuihua asked, not quite grasping it all.

Suizi answered her mother-in-law’s question, but her eyes were on her father-in-law.

"This time Jingting is killing two birds with one stone, on one hand persuading Yu Youchan, and on the other, also getting our family to become shareholders in the Tianlong Society."

Fourth Master understood.

Quite a clever move, killing two birds with one stone.

Jinnan helped him save Old Master Hu, and Suizi helped Jinnan take over the position of the head of Tianlong Society. Suizi’s words were veiled, but Fourth Master could understand them.

"Can you and Jingting handle the Tianlong Society’s business?" Fourth Master asked.

He remembered that his daughter-in-law had principles and would never touch businesses with illicit undertones, which also related to her family background.

Suizi smiled faintly.

"Aunt Jinnan wants to transform her business. I couldn’t help with her old business, but from now on, Jingting and I can be shareholders for her and have some say."

She and Yu Jingting could use this investment opportunity to expand their business landscape.

"But I heard from our family patriarch that your great-uncle is not easy to deal with. Can Jingting convince him? He won’t be kept there as a trophy husband, right?"

Wang Cuihua had seen her share of melodramatic series; such plotlines jumped to her mind without a second thought.

"Mom, don’t worry, since I dared to let Jingting go, I’m fully confident," Suizi assured.

Her words were not only for her mother-in-law but also for her father-in-law to hear.

Fourth Master pondered with his gaze lowered.

Wang Cuihua was reassured when Suizi said it was fine, and her attention quickly shifted to Yu Shuisheng.

"You ran off before finishing the conversation yesterday, so I’ll say it here and now, don’t you dare go to Old Master Hu. We can pay someone to help look for him, it doesn’t matter how much it costs, but you cannot go yourself."

Wang Cuihua almost added, if you dare to go, then don’t bother coming back to see me.

Fourth Master looked up, tugging the corner of his mouth at Suizi.

"There’s no need for money, and I don’t need to go either."

"Huh?" Wang Cuihua was skeptical, circling around him, "Are you up to something? How can you be so agreeable all of a sudden?"

Fourth Master scoffed.

"If there’s any mischief, it’s not from me. It’s the younger generation pushing the old waves forward."

In the end, he, the old wave, was pushed onto the beach by Yu Tiegen and his wife.

Suizi observed her father-in-law’s inscrutable expression, likely harbouring dissatisfaction, and could only offer a dry laugh.

"Dad, well... I’ve done a little fortune-telling, and your godfather will definitely return safely, and Jingting might even make a small fortune, truly."

Fourth Master was almost amused by her.

"You don’t learn anything serious, only a bunch of nonsense. Yet, you’re pretty smooth with this fortune-telling."

Suizi blinked and decisively sidestepped.

Wang Cuihua slapped Fourth Master on the back.

"What do you mean by ’nonsense’?! If it weren’t for my tactics to feed the family back then, your son would have been long gone, and so would your daughter. Then you wouldn’t have had grandsons, or great-grandsons, or ’The Art of War by Sun Tzu’—you’d have nothing!

Fourth Master got slapped by his wife, instantly transforming from a domineering husband to a henpecked old man, trying to cheer up Wang Cuihua with a smile.

Wang Cuihua spat at him and stormed into the house. Fourth Master eagerly followed her in, not forgetting to turn back and coolly say to Suizi:

"When Tiegen comes back, I’ll straighten out both of you—Honey, don’t be angry, how about I take you for roast duck at noon?"

The first half of his sentence was so cool, but the second half was so sycophantic.

Suizi looked down, hiding her worry behind a slight smile as her fingers continued to flick over the abacus.

If Fourth Master had taken a glance at the ledger in front of Suizi just now, he would have been utterly astonished.