Chapter 1021: Father-in-law's Abnormal Behavior

Sheng Jiang is acting a bit strange.

He has been absent-minded lately and often loses his focus.

Then he always makes excuses to go out, and he doesn't even take a bodyguard when he leaves.

Sometimes he doesn't even return until it's dark; when asked, he always has a reason, and the reasons are bizarre, like saying he went out for a stroll.

He says he can't always be cooped up at home, or he'll get sick from being stifled even if he isn't ill.

Everyone finds it strange; apart from a while back, when was he ever forced to stay cooped up at home?

Besides, the time he spent at home recently was his own choice, not forced by anyone else.

Now he acts as if he has been wronged so deeply.

Wang Yinghao finds it strange, and when she asks a couple more questions, he gets annoyed.

"Always asking, always asking, as if I were your prisoner; what are you asking for?"

"Where would there be so many bad people? It's nothing."

Wang Yinghao jokes: "You go out all day, acting all mysterious and not even telling me where you're going; you haven't gone off to find a lover, have you?"

"You're talking nonsense."

"Bang!"

He flies into a rage, forcefully slamming the cup in his hand onto the floor, shattering it to pieces.

"I only have you in my heart, and I haven't let anyone else in for my whole life; you actually think of me like this? Do you have a conscience?"

Wang Yinghao is startled.

"Is it really that serious? I was just joking, and you fly into such a rage? At worst, I just won't make such jokes in the future."

"Hmph!"

Sheng Jiang huffs and returns to his room.

The abnormal behavior continues; he still insists on going out every day, only his complexion is getting worse and worse.

Things also start to go missing from the house.

For instance, the calligraphy and paintings in the storeroom, and the mother-in-law's gold jewelry.

At first, no one noticed, and it was only exposed when a neighbor accidentally saw him holding a bag of items, sneaking into a pawn shop!

The neighbor asks Wang Yinghao: "What is your husband doing at the pawn shop? Does your family still need to pawn things to get by? Or are you keeping your husband on too tight a leash, not even giving him pocket money?"

Wang Yinghao laughs: "You must have seen the wrong person; it couldn't be him."

Sheng Jiang is not short on pocket money; the two of them keep their money together, and whoever needs it just takes it.

There is no strict standard for the daily living expenses of the household, but they have never been short of money.

However, the neighbor's words still make her suspicious, so she returns to the room to check the place where they usually keep money—it's gone!

There are many people in the household, and the expenses are high.

Usually, there would be over a hundred thousand in cash kept at home, but now there is none at all.

It was clearly put there not long ago; it's impossible to have spent it so quickly.

She checks the bank accounts again and is shocked once more!

The tens of millions across several cards are all gone.

The balance is just two decimal places.

Now, she cannot help but believe the neighbor's words.

Wang Yinghao asks Sheng Jiang where all the money went, and he avoids her gaze: "I donated it; I donated it to build Hope Primary Schools in impoverished mountain areas."

To prove the credibility of his words, he even takes out a donation certificate to show his wife.

"See for yourself, I didn't lie to you; I didn't tell you before because I hadn't figured out how to say it."

Wang Yinghao sighs in relief and sets her mind at ease: "You scared me; I thought you had been swindled by someone into getting involved in those unreliable things again. Why did you hide the donation from me? I wouldn't have opposed it."

He lowers his head in guilt, not daring to look into his wife's eyes: "I was too impulsive and donated all the money; I was afraid you would blame me."

His wife says she won't blame him, so the matter is glossed over.

Three days later.

Sheng Jiang asks his son for money: "Hanyu, are you flush with cash? Give me thirty million."

Thirty million isn't much, and he can afford it, but it is still a significant sum, so he still needs to ask what the money is for.

"Are you going to donate it?"

Who would have thought that as soon as he asks, Sheng Jiang gets annoyed.

"A father asks his son for some money, and you still have to ask where it's going? Have I lived my whole life just to be controlled by you everywhere? Besides, the company has my dividends and shares; I haven't asked for them for so many years, and now asking you for money is just taking my own money, so don't ask."

Sheng Jiang doesn't dare use that excuse to fool his son, because he can't fool him.

It is rare for Sheng Hanyu to see his father so "tough."

However, he won't take a step back just because of this: "If you don't tell me, I won't give it to you."

"I don't want your money; I only want my own money. Are you going to give it to me or not?"

"No." He is decisively refused.

Sheng Jiang is so angry he stamps his feet: "This is too much, you are going too far; I want my own money, what right do you have not to give it to me?"

"I don't want you to be swindled, unless you tell me the true purpose."

His son's gaze is like a torch, as if he can see through his heart at a glance.

He doesn't dare meet his son's eyes, but he cannot go without the money.

Sheng Jiang is both angry and anxious—he plops down on the floor and wails loudly!

"You child is too unreasonable; I am doing this for the good of this family, for your own good, why is there not a single person who understands me..."

Sheng Hanyu: "Tell me the purpose; I want to hear the truth."

"I can't say it; if I say it, this family will never have another peaceful day. I'll sacrifice myself for the happiness of the whole family!"

He spoke with such grand eloquence, as if he were a hero.

Father's behavior seemed a bit familiar.

Who was it like again?

When Sheng Hanyu wouldn't give him money, Sheng Jiang would nag endlessly, even threatening to sue him in court because it was his own money.

Wang Yinghao tried to persuade him, but couldn't stop him.

Shi Youxuan winked at her husband; he understood and wrote a check for him.

After receiving the money, Sheng Jiang went out happily.

He had Lao Qi follow him, then went to "settle accounts" with his wife.

"Why didn't you help me just now?"

His wife glared back at him and retorted, "Why should I have helped you just now?"

"You can't just come to me whenever you can't solve something. You are Father's son, and I am Father's daughter-in-law. In Father's heart, you are naturally closer; if he wants money and I get involved, it wouldn't be good."

Sheng Hanyu: "It's not a question of how much money it is; the problem is what he is going to do with this money."

"Don't let him get into another 'Chicken Lays Eggs' scheme."

Shi Youxuan: "Haven't you already sent Lao Qi to follow him? We'll have the answer soon."

This time, both of them judged the situation incorrectly.

During the process of tailing him, Lao Qi was discovered.

Sheng Jiang turned around, furious: "Why are you following me? I'm not a thief. Go back, you are not allowed to follow me anymore."

Lao Qi grinned cheekily: "I'm not following you. This road doesn't belong to you alone; you're walking on it, and I'm walking on it too. I just happen to be going the same way as you."

Sheng Jiang's phone notification chimed.

He took a look, then said to Lao Qi: "You go first."

Lao Qi had no choice but to leave first.

He walked ahead and hid, preparing to continue following him.

But he was discovered once again.

"Still saying you aren't following me? You were in front of me just now, how did you end up behind me again?"

Lao Qi: "I took the wrong turn and went in a circle."

But this excuse clearly could not make Sheng Jiang believe him.

He warned: "You are not allowed to follow me, do you hear? If you delay my important business, you will be a sinner of the Sheng Family."

That was quite a heavy accusation to be slapped with.

Lao Qi could no longer follow him, so he called the Chairman to report.

"Chairman, I'm useless. I was discovered while following the old master, and I was discovered twice." Lao Qi was a former scout.

If he could be discovered while tailing someone, it certainly wasn't because he was "useless," and even less likely because he was careless.