Chapter 71: The Same Birthday

The old master's Study has strict rules: women are not allowed to enter. Even cleaning and tidying are the job of bodyguards. This was a rule established while the old mistress was still alive.

Bai Xue, enjoying the spectacle, said, "Stunned, aren't you? You even gave away the family heirloom, and now there isn't even a shadow of a marriage prospect. If I were you, I wouldn't be so impatient."

"How do you know I gave away the family heirloom?" Wang Yingzhi widened her eyes, involuntarily stroking her wrist.

That bracelet was indeed passed down to her by the old mistress, and it certainly counted as a family heirloom.

It was also the only capital she had to compete with Bai Xue. Giving it to Shi Yuke at the time was a moment of hot-headedness, but she regretted it soon after.

She regretted it but couldn't go back to ask for it, and now that Bai Xue had pointed it out, she was immediately in a panic.

"Hmph."

Bai Xue gave her a look of contempt: "Shi Yuke is wearing your bracelet and going around everywhere bragging that you gave it to her, and that you cried and begged her to be your daughter-in-law. It's something the whole Jiangzhou knows; you're the only one still being kept in the dark."

"Shi Yuke, that goes too far!"

She immediately went to call Shi Yuke, wanting to confront her face-to-face about how she could spout such nonsense.

It was clearly the mother and daughter who came to her door to beg, right?

Yet outside, they turned it around to say she begged them. How could that be? If she didn't look down on Shi Yuke, the Shi Family should be burning incense and praying to the Bodhisattva in gratitude.

Wang Yingzhi's habit of missing the point flared up again. She dialed Shi Yuke's number in a huff, but the phone was powered off and wouldn't go through!

Then she dialed Jiang Yadan, and this time it went through.

But before she could say two sentences, she was enlightened by Jiang Yadan: "In-law, please calm your anger first. I can stake my reputation that Yuke has absolutely never said such things outside. Just as you said, there isn't even a shadow of a prospect yet. If Yuke were to go around shouting about it and the matter didn't succeed, she would be the one to suffer. She isn't that stupid; she wouldn't."

"Don't blame me for being meddlesome, but is that sister-in-law of yours not on good terms with you? Could it be that she can't stand to see our two families doing well and is deliberately sowing discord..."

It was such an obvious matter, yet it took Jiang Yadan's prompting for her to suddenly realize it.

Thinking it made sense, she wanted to go find Bai Xue to argue with her immediately!

With her son's eyes recovered, her spine suddenly straightened quite a bit. She felt she could stand toe-to-toe with Bai Xue and no longer needed to fear her.

But she was pulled back by her husband: "Calm yourself. Our son finally came back for a visit, yet he couldn't even be bothered to speak to us. Do you have no idea why that is? You still want to make a scene, still want to make a scene—are you trying to destroy the last bit of mother-son affection we have, or what..."

An honest man doesn't easily lose his temper, but when he does, it's quite frightening!

Anyway, before Sheng Hanyu left, Wang Yingzhi didn't dare to stir up any trouble.

At dusk, Sheng Hanyu finally returned to the Villa.

The water level had dropped a bit, and the servants were all cleaning up the silt left after the flood receded.

Only Shi Youxuan stood by the window, feeling regretful. She regretted not just throwing it away for Zai Zai. Who knew Sheng Hanyu would leave and not come back for so long? There were plenty of places to hide it for that long, weren't there?

"Why isn't the housekeeper here?" As soon as Sheng Hanyu returned, he discovered she was the only one in the Villa.

Shi Youxuan rolled her eyes at him: "I can't afford to use your housekeeper; her temper is even bigger than yours. She nearly tore the front door down knocking on it, so I sent her back."

Sheng Hanyu didn't speak again and went straight to the storage room to check.

Seeing the lock on it, he asked Yingzi: "Where is the key?"

"How could I possibly have the key? Are you crazy? Go ask your housekeeper for the key. She came in and, without a word, started smashing doors and locking doors. Sheng Hanyu, have you forgotten that this is Jian Yining's territory, not your Sheng Family's property?"

"You people are too arrogant even in someone else's home. I've already called Jian Yining to tell him about this. When he returns to the country, you can explain it to him yourself. I'm not taking the blame..."

Shi Youxuan threw a fit in a huff, purely bluffing, using anger to cover up her inner guilt.

Sheng Hanyu ignored her and didn't call the housekeeper for the key either. He raised his foot and kicked—"Bang," the door opened.

The box in the storage room had already been taken away. There was no need to ask to know who had taken it; the housekeeper always carried out the things he ordered very well.

Coming out from inside, he said to Shi Youxuan: "I'm going back for a bit. The food on the table is what I brought for you; you should like it."

What was on the table was spicy crab, which Wang Yingzhi had made specifically to please her son.

Originally he didn't want it, but then he thought of the way Yingzi ate spicy crab, so he brought it back.

When Shi Youxuan saw the spicy crab, her anger subsided by half. She put it in the microwave, "dinged" it, and then began to eat heartily.

Sheng Hanyu returned to his own Villa.

The housekeeper came up to greet him, pointing to the box beside the sofa: "Eldest Young Master, the item has been brought back for you. Is this it?"

"Mm."

It was the right box, but it had a combination lock.

Sheng Hanyu carried the box to the Study and stared at it for a long while. He entered the date he and Jian Yixin got engaged; the password was incorrect.

Then he entered Jian Yixin's birthday; the password was correct, and the box opened.

The box was given to Shi Youxuan by Jian Yining, and the password was his own birthday. Jian Yixin and Jian Yining were fraternal twins; Sheng Hanyu entering the correct password could be considered a lucky strike.

There were only a few changes of clothes in the box; other than that, there was nothing.

He put the clothes back in the box, locked the combination, and then put it in the cabinet.

A few clothes didn't explain much, but the password on the box could explain the problem!

Sheng Hanyu was now very certain that Yingzi knew Jian Yixin, and the box was Yixin's. Perhaps she had lived in the Villa; otherwise, why would her box be in the storage room?

And there was how Yingzi was incredibly nervous when she saw him go to the storage room that morning, and how she gnashed her teeth in hatred at the housekeeper going to the Villa...

The more he thought, the more he felt his analysis was correct. He prepared to go back immediately to have a showdown with Yingzi; today he had to find out where Jian Yixin was hiding!

"Bang!"

The door to the Study was pushed open heavily, nearly hitting Sheng Hanyu's nose.

The housekeeper rushed in, panicked: "Eldest Young Master, it's bad. Shi Yucheng has come again, and this time he brought the old master and the police... Oh my, you had better go down and see."

Sheng Hanyu wasn't angry about him bringing the police; it wasn't the first time he'd brought them anyway.

However, he was very unhappy that the old master had been disturbed late at night. He immediately darkened his face: "Let's go, let's go see."

Downstairs in the living room.

The old master sat solemnly in the main seat on the sofa. Two police officers stood at the door, looking quite helpless; this was not the first time Shi Yucheng had called the police.

The content of the report was the same old thing: swearing and vowing that Sheng Hanyu had harmed his daughter, and that he absolutely could not let the murderer go unpunished!

The police do not look at oaths, but at evidence; he had no evidence in his hand, but he was clutching a bottle of Dichlorvos, threatening to drink it on the spot if they did not dispatch officers.

Shi Yucheng also called the Sheng Family Old Master, and the Chairman agreed to let them dispatch officers, also saying he wanted to go over together, which is why they came.

Sheng Hanyu got out, and Shi Yucheng immediately went up and grabbed him by the collar, cursing with bloodshot eyes: "You beast, is it not enough that you harmed one of my daughters, you still want to harm my other daughter? I tell you, no way!"

Hm?

Something seems off.

The police who followed along thought to themselves, didn't you just keep saying you had evidence and would show it when we got to the place? How did another daughter pop up here?

"Another one? You mean Yuke? I have no relationship with her." Sheng Hanyu narrowed his eyes.

The name "Yuke" had appeared a bit too frequently today; he could vaguely guess what was going on.