Chapter 492

Li Li Zhongfa had arrived in the capital, so Li Xia Yue and Yang Yang Yumin naturally had to come and see their grandfather.

So when Li Li Zhongfa returned to Zaojunmiao from Wang Wang Jianqiang's house, Li Xia Yue had already come over and prepared a meal, waiting for her grandfather to return so Yang Yang Yumin could have a good drink with him.

This drink was enjoyed comfortably.

Yang Yang Yumin had already been promoted to deputy section chief, and Li Xia Yue was already capable of handling things on her own. Li Li Zhongfa was quite satisfied with this granddaughter and grandson-in-law.

However, Li Xia Yue was somewhat dissatisfied that her grandfather hadn't brought her grandmother along.

"Grandpa, why didn't you bring Grandma with you when you came to the capital? I even dreamed of Grandma a few days ago! Really, you only cared about yourself... I was happy for nothing."

"Oh my, wasn't I afraid that you would talk back to Grandma again, and afraid that your Grandma would twist your scalp? You two used to fight endlessly every day; now you know you miss Grandma?"

"I... I was ignorant back then..."

Li Li Zhongfa joked with his granddaughter, and as a result, Li Xia Yue's eyes immediately turned red.

When Li Xia Yue was at home, her father, Li Kaijian, couldn't suppress her. Children from single-parent families are inevitably rebellious, so her grandmother, Wu Wu Juying, would suppress her from time to time. Li Xia Yue had deep resentment toward her grandmother in her words.

But after truly being a thousand miles away from home, Li Xia Yue's longing for her grandmother grew stronger and stronger. She would often feel her scalp itch, feeling that her grandmother, who once seemed like an old monster, was actually so kind.

"Alright, alright, I'll make a phone call right now and have your Grandma come over to stay for a few days..."

When his granddaughter cried, Li Li Zhongfa couldn't handle it either.

Li Xia Yue missed her relatives at home, but how could the relatives at home not worry about Li Xia Yue, who was far away in the capital?

Otherwise, why wouldn't fathers and grandfathers in the world want their daughters and granddaughters to marry far away?

However, just as Li Li Zhongfa was about to reach for the phone, the phone rang.

Li Li Zhongfa hesitated for a moment, then picked up the phone: "Hello? Who is this? Haha, it's Xiao Hong... What?"

The call was from Jiang Hong.

Jiang Hong was someone Li Li Zhongfa had carefully selected for Li Ye in the beginning, so he was naturally very familiar with him. However, after Jiang Hong on the other end said a few words, the smile on Li Li Zhongfa's face disappeared and became incomparably deep.

"His foreign guest went missing; what does that have to do with us? You all shouldn't do anything, and helping them find someone... help them find a ball. Don't worry about him."

Li Li Zhongfa put down the phone with a gloomy face and turned to ask Li Ye: "There's a little Japanese fellow named Nakamura at the Pengcheng Zhongai Machinery Company; do you know him?"

Li Ye nodded and said: "Grandpa, are you talking about Nakamura Naoto? He is an international student in our 80th class at Jingda; I do know him. Did something happen?"

Li Li Zhongfa said: "Today, the public security department went to Old Song's training class, saying that the little Japanese fellow had gone missing, and asked Old Song and the others to assist in the investigation..."

"In addition, a training teacher said that when that Nakamura Naoto went to the training class, you happened to be there too..."

"Your Uncle Hong's people happened to be studying foreign languages in the training class, so they called to say that the public security department might come to the school to find you tomorrow."

"Missing? When did he go missing? Which teacher said I was there?"

Li Ye was somewhat surprised, because the last time he saw Nakamura Naoto and Ai Ai Zhixin was at the end of the winter break!

It was almost summer, and they were only now coming to look for the child. Was Nakamura Naoto's status at home even more miserable than Wang Wang Jianqiang's used to be?

And who was that loose-lipped teacher?

Li Li Zhongfa said seriously: "Don't worry about when he went missing, and don't worry about which teacher was loose-lipped. Just tell me if you've had any conflicts with that Nakamura Naoto!"

Li Ye said indifferently: "If you want to talk about conflicts, there really are a few. I was a freshman at the time and attended the department's economics lecture..."

"At that time, I argued with him, and later he wanted to buy the manga copyright of 'Looking for Home: The Lonely Army', but I messed it up..."

Li Ye recounted all the grievances between himself and Nakamura Naoto, but he didn't mention the "indirect" ones.

For example, the Changbei Machinery Factory's interception of the Zhongai Machinery Company, and the matter of letting Old Song intercept that set of Ming Dynasty official kiln five-color flower and bird pots...

After finishing, Li Ye added: "But these shouldn't count as anything, right? People at Jingda know about these things, and my brother-in-law knows too. The facts speak for themselves."

Yang Yang Yumin also hurriedly said on the side: "This kind of thing doesn't count as a conflict at all. The relevant departments couldn't possibly use this to determine that Li Ye is a suspect. If that were really the case, the school wouldn't agree either."

Li Li Zhongfa twisted his wooden cane and thought for a moment, then slowly nodded and said: "That's for the best. I'll go to school with you tomorrow; I want to see if this disappearance is a real disappearance or a fake one."

"..."

Li Ye was stunned and said with a wry smile: "Grandpa, you're really overthinking it. This isn't 1937. Since they say he's missing, then... he should really be missing!"

As for whether Nakamura Naoto was missing or not, Li Ye didn't really care; after all, it had nothing to do with him, and he, Li Ye, wasn't just some nameless nobody who could be bullied at will.

Not to mention the relationship with Wen Wen Leyu, even the reputation of the "Seven-Inch Blade" wouldn't allow him to be manipulated at will.

What Li Ye cared about more was which teacher in the training class had such a loose tongue.

He Xue felt very refreshed today, and as a result, her own class went very smoothly. She bluffed the students in the class with her fluent English, and she was also unusually patient in explaining any questions the students had.

After class, He Xue stepped on her high heels and left the training class, humming a song while pulling open the door of Duo Ye's sedan and sitting in.

Duo Ye asked with a faint smile: "Why, you're in a very good mood today!"

He Xue nodded vigorously: "Yes, the students in the class have made great progress recently, and as a teacher, I feel a great sense of accomplishment."

"That's right! A teacher is indeed someone to be respected."

Duo Ye smiled, started the car, and headed toward his "golden house."

He Xue's "persona" was managed well—a high-achieving student who taught and nurtured people, different from ordinary vulgar women—so Duo Ye had always liked her.

Although He Xue's appearance was average, Duo Ye always felt a special sense of pleasure when he was wantonly ravaging her.

And He Xue seemed to have realized this recently, and there was a hidden, fish-and-water-like tacit understanding between the two.

Arriving at the place, getting out of the car, going upstairs, opening the door, and entering the room, Duo Ye didn't waste a second and started unbuckling his belt.

He Xue rolled her eyes and said coquettishly: "I just got home, I taught for a day, and stood on the podium for two hours; you have to let me rest for a while."

But Duo Ye smiled coldly, picked up the cold water kettle in the house, and soaked the belt he had unbuckled.

He Xue was somewhat stunned, not understanding what Duo Ye was doing.

But the next moment, she tasted the flavor of a "whip dipped in cold water."

"Slap~ Slap~ Slap~"

"I told you to have a loose tongue, I told you to have a loose tongue... so your eyes are good, huh?"

"You talk too much, and it won't make people lose a single hair, but you... Hmph hmph hmph hmph, slap slap slap slap~"

He Xue was in excruciating pain all over, and she felt incredibly stifled in her heart.

"I was just telling the truth, and I didn't tell a single lie. Why is he, Li Ye, the Emperor of Heaven? Can't even a single word be said about him?"

"Slap slap slap slap~"

Duo Ye didn't argue with He Xue, but the mockery and anger in his eyes were not concealed in the slightest.

It didn't matter that Old Song was taken away to assist in the investigation, because he had followed Old Song for two years and had already barely integrated into the circle of Jin Peng and the others.

He was useful; he might even be able to take over Old Song's business!

But if Li Ye were to be implicated in the slightest because of He Xue's loose tongue, Duo Ye didn't know what his own outcome would be.

Although Jin Peng and the others were looking more and more like elegant entrepreneurs on the surface, Duo Ye knew their ruthlessness better than anyone.

And this woman in front of him was simply a jinx.

A round of belt-whipping made He Xue squeal, and Duo Ye also enjoyed a stronger, alternative sense of pleasure.

After the matter was over, Duo Ye finally relaxed.

"Don't cause trouble for me in the future. You'll graduate in two months. Didn't you want to go abroad to study? When the time comes, I'll pay to send you abroad—Hong Kong, the Lighthouse, Europe, pick whatever you want."

"..."

He Xue, who was crying, looked at Duo Ye in surprise, not knowing if he was speaking in anger.

"I don't want to study abroad anymore... I want to stay by your side."

"Hmm?"

Duo Ye was stunned, and then he frowned tightly.

This canary was determined not to leave the cage; then how was he supposed to change to the next bird?

(End of chapter)