Chapter 8

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“Brother!” Huo Yun frowned and stepped forward.

“Brother-in-law.” Ye Shuming looked very spirited even in a wheelchair and greeted them with a smile.

“Just woke up.” Huo Qing smiled slowly and introduced, “This is Dr. Yan, the man who performed your surgery.”

Ye Shuming showed a look of surprise, looking both grateful and shocked, at Nie Jia who lazily looked up at him.”It turns out that you are Dr. Yan! I didn’t expect you to be so young. Thank you very much, Dr. Yan. If you need any help, please speak.”

“Yes, Dr. Yan. I’m sorry that I doubted you before. If my brother had not insisted, I might have let Shuming miss this great opportunity because I couldn’t believe in your ability.” Huo Yun admitted frankly that she was ashamed. And then she noticed the embarrassed faces of the two policemen next to her, and said deliberately: “Dr. Yan, you are our life-saving benefactor. If someone embarrasses you, I am very willing to help you out.”

The two policemen who stood beside them, stiffened and after hearing these words, they immediately started sweating. Before they came, they had no idea who lived here.

Nie Jia just smiled and said lightly: “Don’t thank me. Mr. Huo’s remuneration is not low and we already decided on the shares.”

Huo Qing tilted his head slightly and said to Huo Yun: “Xiao Jue is still taking a nap in the room, so he doesn’t know yet.”

Huo Yun nodded and pushed Ye Shuming back to the room to see their son. The small family had just reunited, and they🔻 didn’t expect Huo Yun to come out again. She sat by Huo Qing’s side and said with aggression, “You are the criminal police from Nagano Police Station? What’s the matter?”

The older policeman was the sergeant of the Nagano Interpol Force. He was about to speak, but Huo Qing was one step ahead.

Huo Qingdao: “Yan Yu is dead.”

Nie Jia’s eyes were like an ancient well, without any ripples.

“Oh, the drug addict who rushed into the Jiang family to make trouble and was almost picked apart by Dr. Yan?” Huo Yun sneered. She knew the ins and outs of the incident. It was not through Huo Qing, but the entire Yue City was talking about it. It wasn’t hard to know.

Yan Su had a rogue father like Yan Yu which was certainly not good for his fame. But this was far less destructive than that of the Jiang family, whose engagement dinner became a laughing stock of the whole Yue City.

Jiang Yang’s former wife’s family assests stabilized his business. As soon as the former wife’s family started declining, he immediately divorced his wife. Also, he had long been having an affair. Not to mention the circle of elites, now even the hawkers in the vegetable market and the aunts who danced in the square were talking about it. If it weren’t for her brother, Huo Qing’s name to still be associated with the Jiang family, who knows how low the Jiang family’s stock would have fallen.

“Dr. Yan did have a conflict with the deceased during his lifetime. So, you are suspecting that Dr. Yan is the culprit?” Huo Yun said disapprovingly to the two of them.

The sheriff sweated, “We are just here to understand the situation.”

“What is the time of death?” Huo Qing’s arm rested on the back of the sofa, and Nie Jia was sitting beside him. At first glance, it seemed that Nie Jia was wrapped in his arms.

The sheriff immediately said, “Wee morning of the 17th.”

Huo Yun’s eyes dilated. “Dr. Yan performed the operation for my husband from the morning of the 16th to the 17th. The process lasted for 16 hours. The hospital has monitoring available which can confirm my words. The two of you can guess, after 16 hours of surgery, would Dr. Yan still have the strength to kill?”

“Xiao Yun.” Huo Qing interrupted Huo Yun, signalling her with his eyes and then Huo Yun calmed down. Huo Qing looked at the policemen, his expression unchanged. “The operation ended at two in the morning, of the seventeenth. And then Dr. Yan was brought back here, by me. We haven’t left home for a few days. There is a camera by the lake. If you want, you two can watch the monitoring.”

The sheriff was already very nervous. He heard Huo Qing’s words and then said, “No need, Mr. Huo. The time of death of the deceased is precisely at 0:40 on the 17th. Dr. Yan only finished the operation at two in the morning. It is a perfect alibi. Now, we will just go back.”

Huo Qing nodded slightly and asked the housekeeper to send the two out.

Nie Jia looked somber and stood up. He walked upstairs without looking back. “I’ll go back to the room first.”

Huo Yun was surprised watching Nie Jia enter her brother’s room and immediately whispered to Huo Qing, “Brother, Dr. Yan is sleeping in your room? Where have you been sleeping these days?”

“Room.” Huo Qing pushed Huo Yun’s head away.

Huo Yun was stunned, and then she kept on asking: “Yan Yu was killed by the loan sharks?”

“Loan sharks don’t kill people.” Huo Qing took over the folder handed over by his assistant, reading it slowly and carefully.

“Yan Yu took drugs and gambled during his lifetime, and owed millions of gambling debts. It’s no surprise that such people are killed. Why should they suspect Dr. Yan?” Huo Yun was very grateful to Yan Su, but she didn’t even know how to repay him. It was very difficult for her to allow others to make trouble for her savior.

“Yan Yu has taken a lot of money from Su Su in the past two years. His creditors would not be willing to kill a cash cow like him.” Huo Qing said coldly. “Can’t you see who moved his hands?”

“You mean Jiang Yang?” Huo Yun thought a lot in her mind. The whole Yue City knew about Jiang Yang and Dr. Yan’s entanglement. Jiang Yang couldn’t afford it. “But Jiang Yang is just a businessman, how would he dare to? If he goes out of line, he will be finished…”

In terms of status in Yue City, if Jiang Yang wanted to kill Yan Yu, a gutter rat, he could do it without letting others know. But, if he wanted to splash dirty water on Yan Su, he would have to think twice. Otherwise, it would easily involve himself, just as Huo Yun said. After all, Dr. Yan was not a person anyone could so easily touch. Jiang Yang was now the heir of the Jiang family. Would he be willing to take such a big risk?

“He didn’t dare. And he wouldn’t be willing to kill himself with his own knife. It’s not your business, don’t blindly barge in.” Huo Qing read and put the folders together, and got up.

“How am I blindly barging in? Dr. Yan rescued Shuming. Of course, we have to thank him. How can we let others slander Dr. Yan under our own eyes?” Huo Yun dragged him back in disbelief and arbitrarily grabbed the folders. Looking through the documents in Huo Qing’s hand, she said unhappily, “Dr. Yan said the compensation is Jiang’s shares. Just such a small amount, not even making him a high-rank shareholder? Brother, you are too stingy!”

“I want to give him something else, but Dr. Yan doesn’t want it.” Huo Qing grew up accustomed to Huo Yun’s behaviour. Except for her son and husband, he hadn’t seen her protecting others like this. Seeing her protecting Yan Su like this, Huo Qing felt a little happy.

Huo Yun paused, suddenly realizing: “Dr. Yan seems to have been dealing with Jiang Yang all this time….”

Huo Qing took the file back and gently slammed Huo Yun’s head with it, warning her again, “It’s got nothing to do with you.”

He just took the file and went upstairs.

Huo Yun held her head for a while and then returned to her room. Ye Shuming was chatting with Ye Xiaojue. His son had grown so much after four years of his sleep that he felt very overwhelmed. Ye Xiaojue was so excited that he was showing his dad the artworks he had won prizes for in the past two years. He had perfectly inherited Huo Yun’s talent and was carefully taught by famous teachers. At an early age, he had won numerous awards. Ye Shuming was very proud.

“Dear, who sent the painting?” Ye Shuming hugged Ye Xiaojue in his lap, looking up at the blue ghost orchids on the wall.

It was hung so preciously on the wall that Ye Shuming thought it was Ye Xiaojue’s award-winning work. But his son said that it was sent by an uncle.

“Jiang Yang sent it.” Huo Yun went up to the bed and smiled. “You don’t like it? I just took it for the sake of the ghost orchids. Speaking of it, it was my brother who spent the money. Hundreds of millions, in fact.”

Ye Shuming guessed at the hidden meaning behind the words. He played with his fingertips pitifully, and said with a helpless smile, “I wondered why Brother Qing suddenly injected capital in the government project of Yue City. It turned out to be the case.”

“If you don’t like it, let’s just take it down.” Huo Yun called the housekeeper to come in and take down the painting. She didn’t like the messed-up painting, and it was hung only because she thought deeply about Ye Shuming. Shuming was awake now, and she wanted nothing more to do with this painting, not to mention that she didn’t have any good feelings about the Jiang family. Ye Shuming didn’t stop her. Huo Yun suddenly said coldly to the butler, “When are you going to send it back?”

—–

It was Meng Qian’s birthday. Jiang Yang had planned his schedule even before his engagement, to accompany Meng Qian on his birthday. However, because of the storm at the engagement banquet, the names of the two people were blackened. Jiang Yang was busy dealing with the board of directors. Without doubt, there wouldn’t be any time to accompany Meng Qian on this day.

Meng Qian called several students who he had a good relationship with in the Academy of Fine Arts, to gather in the Jiang house. Although there had been rumors about Meng Qian outside recently, these students still envied Meng Qian. Not only did he sign a contract with the Blackpool Gallery just after graduation, his works were often sold at the auction price of hundreds of thousands, and he was now engaged to Jiang Yang, the richest man in Yue City. Even when he was studying, he was troubled by this rich second generation man. Even if they took advantage of their acquaintance with Meng Qian, who wouldn’t envy him?

“Meng Qian, I booked a show for tonight. Let’s go out and call a few classmates on your birthday?” Li Yue, the heir of the Li group, asked to bring Jiang Yang with him for some reason.

After the meal, a few people sat in the garden drinking tea and chatting. Meng Qian had been unhappy these days. He naturally wouldn’t give face to Li Yue, his school rival, but he didn’t have a huge reaction either. He just held the black tea in his hands and said lukewarmly, “No interest.”

“Yeah, you want to celebrate happily but Meng Qian will go to the hospital at night.”

“You almost put your finger in Meng Qian’s business in the university to compete for the first place. Who would forget that?”

Several classmates talked about Li Yue with a lot of taunting words. Li Yue was embarrassed, and felt a kind of anger that stabbed at his heart. He stood up and glared at Meng Qian. “Meng Qian, don’t you know? It’s my dad who made me come over because we were classmates. Do you think I’d want to see you? Who was the one who played the game? Where did your game quota come from? You yourself know it better!”

Meng Qian put down the tea cup and said with a smile: “Li Yue, there is a saying that ‘good feng shui rotates every 20 years‘.🔻 You talk to people with this attitude, go back and ask your father if it is suitable.”

“Our Li family will not ask for your help even if it goes bankrupt!” Li Yue gritted his teeth resentfully, he hated Meng Qian incomparably.

He had dreamt of becoming a painter, but Meng Qian was injured and almost unable to hold the paintbrush. He accused that he was hurt by someone, and Li Yue had lost the only quota. Finally the quota fell in Meng Qian’s hands. However, he was humiliated by the whole school because of his sensitive status of “rich second generation” and eventually his father forced him to drop out of school and to follow the family business.

He knew that all this was a good show directed and played by Meng Qian. After so many years, Li Yue still had grudges over it.

“Of course it is good.” Meng Qian said with a smile.”I mean, your bankruptcy.”

Li Yue was so short of breath that he grabbed his coat and was about to leave. When he got up, he almost collided with Jiang residence’s nanny.

The nanny led a stranger towards them and said to Meng Qian, “This is Housekeeper Xue from the Huo house. He came for you.”

“Mr. Meng, this is what Ms. Huo Yun ordered me to send you.” Butler Xue placed a wide flat box wrapped in special wrapping paper on the table in front of Meng Qian.

“Miss Huo Yun gave it?” Meng Qian felt surprised. “Really?”

Butler Xue smiled decently and said, “Yes, the young lady told me to hand it over to you and watch you accept it.”

Li Yue stopped in disbelief. Of course he knew who Huo Yun was. That was his former muse. Despite her artistic accomplishments, she was also an unattainable princess. How could Meng Qian be favored by Huo Yun? Even preparing birthday gifts in person?

Seeing Li Yue freeze, a classmate said immediately, “Miss Huo liked your painting so much. Seeing the shape of this gift, did she return her own painting? Meng Qian, open it and show us quickly! Miss Huo Yun hasn’t painted since four years. God, how expensive is this painting!?”

Meng Qian’s cheeks were flushed with excitement, but he never expected Huo Yun to favor him so much. At that time, Huo Yun’s acceptance of his painting had made him excited for a few days and he did not even sleep well. He must tell Jiang Yang this good news!

But when Meng Qian opened the package, his face paled.

In the box was the ghost orchid bought by Jiang Yang and given to Huo Yun two years ago. This painting made him famous and gave him everything he had and made Jiang Yang whatever he was now. But now, seeing it, Meng Qian felt that the blood in his body had cooled down in an instant, like being stripped and thrown into the ice and snow.

Several classmates looked at each other in embarrassment, Meng Qian hurriedly put the picture in the box and threw it to the nanny.

Li Yue raised his eyebrows and asked Butler Xue, “This is the birthday gift Ms. Huo Yun gave to Meng Qian?”

Butler Xue said with a smile: “This is certainly not a birthday gift. The lady said she didn’t like this bad work so she gave it back to Mr. Meng. Now that Mr. Meng has received it, I will say goodbye.”

“You should go back carefully.” Meng Qian blushed, stood up and grinned reluctantly, watching with a smile as the butler walked away.

Li Yue laughed abominably and threw his coat over his shoulder. Every syllable he uttered fell on Meng Qian’s face like a slap.

Several classmates were embarrassed and felt overwhelmed.

“Send him off!” Meng Qian gripped his fingers together, staring at Li Yue’s tears and said angrily to the nanny.

Li Yue waved his hand politely and wiped away the tears in the corner of his eyes, saying, “No no, don’t send me off, I’ll go by myself. Meng Qian, you can remember the words that ‘good feng shui rotates every twenty years‘. You don’t have to ask me to meet in the future.” He couldn’t help but taunt. He pressed his fist against his lips and walked away with a laugh.

Meng Qian’s face turned red and he almost exploded. He felt angry and fell back on the chair. He didn’t know what it meant for Huo Yun to send back his painting, and he didn’t dare to guess. He dare not tell Jiang Yang. It was because of this painting that Mr. Huo would provide funds to Jiang Yang. If Mr. Huo withdrew the funds because of this painting, Meng Qian would not even dare to think about the consequences.

~’they’ here is Nie Jia and Huo Qing.🔺

~the complete phrase is – °Good fengshui rotates every 20 years – 10 years in favor of the East Riverside, 10 years in favor of the West Riverside° – I interpreted it this way. It means that things change. Sometimes the situation may be in your favour. Sometimes, in mine.🔺

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