Chapter 4

Answer the call.

"Mr. Qiao."

"Grandma wants to see you tonight. Do you have time?" Qiao Muting's cold, thin voice came through the phone.

Just as Shu Xia was about to answer, the taxi had already entered Xinghai Villa.

"I have already arrived at Xinghai Villa, and I happen to want to see Qiao Nainai."

She married Qiao Muting for the sake of Qiao Nainai; now that Qiao Nainai wanted to see her, she would set aside whatever she was doing.

The phone was silent for a few seconds.

Then Qiao Muting's voice came through again, "Wait at home for about half an hour, Zhang Tezhu will go to pick you up."

"Okay, thank you."

After hanging up the phone, she entered the villa.

On her phone was information sent by Qiao Muting regarding various door lock codes and the like, so she entered very smoothly.

Just as she finished changing into her slippers, the WeChat voice call ringtone sounded; in the vast villa, the ringtone was exceptionally piercing.

She took out her phone.

It was actually Chen Xiuyue.

She pulled a faint, cold sneer and clicked reject directly.

She had to see Qiao Nainai tonight and didn't want to deal with these pieces of human trash.

Looking at the rejected voice call, Chen Xiuyue's meticulously maintained face turned dark at once.

"Husband, Xia Xia actually rejected the voice call!"

Lin Guanda, who originally had an elegant temperament, felt anger rise directly to his face after hearing Chen Xiuyue's words, "Why are you sending her voice calls? Just let her stay outside. She has been graduated for three months, hasn't even found a job, and has zero income. Don't give her any money either; I want to see how many days she can hold out!"

"You're right. After all, she didn't grow up by our side, our bond isn't deep, and we don't know her well enough. Miaomiao is still the sensible one." The more Chen Xiuyue thought about it, the more she felt Lin Miao was thoughtful.

"I have already suspended her card. Don't worry about her; she'll come back on her own in a couple of days."

"When she comes back, I must properly teach her how to behave."

Qiao Family Old Residence.

A Maybach business car cut through the night and stopped in front of the Qiao Family Old Residence.

Shu Xia got out of the car.

She thanked Zhang Tezhu.

Zhang Tezhu was a bit surprised; all the way from Xinghai Villa to the Laozhai, Shu Xia had not asked about his boss's whereabouts once.

Logically speaking, since the two of them registered their marriage this afternoon, shouldn't Shu Xia be very eager to know what his boss was doing?

In Jing City, there were so many women who wanted to marry Qiao; in his view, Shu Xia was just using the influence of Qiao Nainai to scheme for his boss.

Other women just didn't have Shu Xia's good luck to be able to coax Qiao Nainai into being happy.

It was just that he was a bit curious now whether Shu Xia would actually ask about Qiao's whereabouts.

Shu Xia followed the butler who had come to welcome her and walked toward the inside of the Laozhai.

Seeing this, Zhang Tezhu raised his eyebrows in surprise.

Just as he turned around, Shu Xia called out to him.

"Zhang Tezhu."

Zhang Tezhu stopped; see, she couldn't help but ask!

"Is your jade pendant an heirloom, or was it a gift from someone else?" Shu Xia looked at the Hetian jade pendant worn around Zhang Tezhu's neck, a faint glimmer flashing in her eyes.

Zhang Tezhu was stunned.

He looked down at the Yupai he was wearing.

"It was a gift from someone else. I liked it quite a bit, so I've been wearing it lately. They said it's an item from the Ming Dynasty."

Shu Xia smiled faintly.

When Zhang Tezhu came to pick her up, it wasn't dark yet, and she had seen the Yupai clearly.

The landscape painting on it imitated the style of the Wu School of Painting's Shen Zhou, revealing a sense of elegance and detachment.

However...

Since she wanted to repay Qiao Nainai's kindness and had registered her marriage with Qiao Muting.

During the agreement period, she could not watch Qiao Muting be implicated by the people around him.

Her gaze landed on a spot on the Yupai, where there was a dark smudge.

A trace of blood had seeped into it.

"The Yupai is indeed from the Ming Dynasty." Shu Xia nodded.

It's just that it isn't a good object.

"I couldn't take my eyes off it the first time I saw it. Does Miss Lin know how to look at these things?" Zhang Tezhu rubbed the Yupai.

The jade quality was truly good, delicate and warm.

"Mm, I don't know much." Shu Xia nodded.

"The person who gave it to me said this Yupai was once a landscape design by a Ming Dynasty painter, carved by a master, and is absolutely worth collecting."

"Pardon my bluntness, but this Yupai of yours was likely snatched from a dead person. It will bring disaster to the wearer and those around them. Zhang Tezhu hasn't been wearing it for ten days, has he?" Shu Xia said directly.

She didn't care if these words would shock Zhang Tezhu.

After all, Zhang Tezhu often saw Qiao Nainai, and since Qiao Nainai's health was currently poor, it was easier for her to fall ill repeatedly.

Zhang Tezhu was startled, "Snatched from a dead person?!"

The hand touching the Yupai trembled violently.

"How did Miss Lin see that?"

Could it be that she is trying to scare him?

Just because he didn't proactively inform her of his boss's schedule?

No, no, no.

Shu Xia glanced at her watch, "The time I agreed upon with Qiao Nainai has arrived. If you trust me, take it off and return it to the person who gave it to you. If you don't trust me... do not see Qiao Nainai within a month."

After a month, he will naturally believe.

During this time, Qiao Muting, who meets with him often, will suffer bad luck along with him, but... as long as Qiao Nainai is fine, it's okay.

After saying this, she followed the butler directly into the Laozhai.

Zhang Tezhu stood in front of the door, feeling completely bewildered in the wind.

Should he continue to wear the Yupai or not?

Seeing Shu Xia enter, Qiao Nainai walked over with a beaming smile.

Her eyes were even shimmering with tears.

"My dear Xia Xia, after you refused yesterday, Grandma didn't sleep well all night. It's a good thing you agreed. Quick, quick, let Grandma see your marriage certificate."

"I'm sorry, Qiao Nainai."

Watching Qiao Nainai cry, Shu Xia felt a sudden ache in her heart.

"Don't call me Qiao Nainai anymore. You are my granddaughter-in-law now, call me Grandma." Qiao Nainai wiped away her tears; she was getting old and couldn't control her emotions.

Shu Xia handed the marriage certificate to Qiao Nainai, "Alright, Grandma."

Qiao Nainai took the marriage certificate and, seeing her grandson and granddaughter-in-law on it, smiled from ear to ear.

"So good, so good," she kept saying.

"Xia Xia, you will know later that my eldest grandson is truly a good person and reliable. You will definitely not regret marrying him." Qiao Nainai looked at the photo on the marriage certificate, as if she couldn't look at it enough.

Shu Xia nodded in agreement; although she had only met Qiao Muting twice, she could tell that he was indeed a reliable person.

Being able to sacrifice even his marriage for his grandmother was enough to show that Qiao Muting was very filial.

"By the way, Xia Xia, Zhong Nainai previously left a letter with me, saying that if you got married within a year, I should give this letter to you. If you didn't get married, this letter would be as if she had never given it to me. Now that you and Mu Ting have already registered your marriage, this letter should be given to you."

Qiao Nainai picked up a letter from the table nearby and handed it to Shu Xia.

Hearing that it was a letter from Zhong Nainai, Shu Xia hurriedly asked, "Does Grandma have any news about Zhong Nainai?"

"If she doesn't want to be found, no one can find her. When Zhong Nainai left a year ago, she called to tell me not to worry about her, and to tell you the same." Qiao Nainai sighed and shook her head.

Shu Xia felt a stinging sensation in her nose.

Thinking of how she hadn't listened to Zhong Nainai in her previous life, her heart ached in waves.