Chapter 156: Found Money!

One person sat at each end of the sofa.

"Soft and squishy, I came to find you to play!"

Tang Can jumped down from the sofa and happily lunged at Su Yu. She really liked the soft and squishy one!

Su Yu, who was held in a full embrace, became much more awake, "But I'm hungry, I want to go eat."

【Has our relationship already gotten this good? We're already hugging!】

Su Yu was certain that this was her second meeting with Tang Can.

"Then let's go eat together."

Tang Can eagerly took Su Yu's other hand and walked forward, making a pattering sound.

Ren Tiandu followed far behind the three of them.

After finishing her meal, Su Yu looked at Ren Tiandu sitting on the chair farthest from them, then glanced at Tang Can sitting beside her still eating.

【What are they doing?】

Su Yu looked toward Su Xi, and Su Xi pretended not to see.

Su Yu and Tang Can returned to the office hand in hand, and Su Yu brought out her large building blocks, small wardrobe, music box, and other toys.

"What do you like to play? We can play together!"

Su Yu pointed to the toys on the floor, then pointed to the claw machine by the wall.

"Soft and squishy, what do you like? I can keep you company and play!"

"I'm not called Soft and Squishy; I'm Su Yu, you can call me Xiao Yu!"

"I'm Tang Can, you can call me Can Can!"

"Can Can, shall we play with building blocks together?"

Tang Can had no objection.

Su Yu rolled the building blocks to the window side, sat in the sunlight, and built blocks together with Tang Can.

As they were building, Su Yu gradually fell asleep.

"Xiao Yu?"

"Soft and squishy?"

Tang Can gently poked Su Yu's cheek, but Su Yu didn't move. Tang Can happily rubbed Su Yu's cheek and even held her hand and rubbed it. Su Xi heard the sound, came over, took Su Yu back, and placed her properly in the rest room.

Su Xi came out, saw that Tang Can seemed to want to enter the rest room, and quickly said, "Little sister is sleepy, can you play by yourself?"

"Sure!"

Tang Can could read Su Xi's expression; she remembered Tang Tang's warning not to offend the adults of the Soft and Squishy family on the first day, so she didn't force her way in to sleep with Soft and Squishy, after all, there's plenty of time ahead!

Coincidentally, she had already taken a liking to the two claw machines placed there.

"Uncle, why write such a slogan?"

Claw machine: Smile Harvester!

On the left it reads: "Are you happy? Playing the claw machine once will make you unhappy!"

On the right it reads: "Not happy? The claw machine can make you even more unhappy!"

"Maybe it's written just for fun?"

Su Yu originally wanted to put these two claw machines in the company lobby, but Su Xi ruthlessly refused.

"It's indeed quite fun!"

Tang Can found this infuriating, and she liked it!

Su Xi watched Ren Tiandu pretending to be asleep and ignoring the baby, letting Tang Can mess around with the two claw machines, and he went back to approve documents.

Su Yu was called awake again, and she looked dazedly at Su Xi.

【Huh? Am I dreaming? Earlier I even dreamed that my uncle called me to get up and eat! Hmm, even the clothes are the same!】

"Is it time to eat?"

"We're going home! You ate at noon, and now it's evening, we're going home to eat."

【Oh, good, it's real! I almost thought I was stuck in a dream loop!】

"All right! Right away!"

After washing up, Su Yu went out and saw Tang Can in the process of grabbing the last prize from the claw machine.

"Wow, Can Can, you're amazing!"

【Two claw machines in one afternoon, really impressive!】

"Hehe!"

Tang Can let go of the claw machine, ran over, and hugged Su Yu.

Tang Can wrapped both arms around Su Yu, with a serious expression, "If you want to learn, I can teach you!"

"Sure, let's play together next time! I'm going home!"

"Are you willing to go home with me?"

Tang Can looked at Su Yu with delight!

Su Yu sensed a trap, "Playing together means coming here to play! I want to go back to my own home, and you should go back to yours too!"

【Why does it always come up about going home with her?】

"Fine!"

"Do you want to come to my house to play?"

Su Yu remembered that last time Tang Can also tried to trick her into going home with her. She asked back, wanting to see how Tang Can would answer such a question.

"No, my aunt doesn't agree with me doing that!"

"Why?"

"My aunt said your family has elderly people, so I can't go, otherwise our families might never interact with each other again!"

【Ah, this! Because your way of speaking is so infuriating, it might anger people to death?】

Su Yu waved her hand and said uncertainly, "Then... goodbye?"

Tang Can happily held Su Yu's raised hand. "Soft and squishy, I knew you couldn't bear to leave me either!"

【Hmm, is this normal? Why does it feel like our conversation isn't on the same wavelength?】

Su Yu looked up at Su Xi for help. Su Xi called out, "Ren Tiandu!"

"Tang Can, hurry home!"

"Did your nearsightedness get worse? I'm already following my little sister out. You're dawdling slower than a turtle — or are you planning to scam a deer by claiming you got lost?"

【Wow, does talking like that really not get you beaten up?】

The veins on Ren Tiandu's forehead throbbed. Just as Su Yu suspected he was about to hit a child, he strode quickly to the front.

Su Xi, looking as composed as ever, took Su Yu and Tang Can down the elevator to the underground parking garage.

Before parting, Tang Can still hadn't given up. "Soft and squishy, do you really not want to come home with me? My family is really rich. We could go to school together, eat together, go to the amusement park together! Clothes, toys, building blocks — my house has them all! Whatever you want to buy, I'll buy it for you. I'll provide for you!"

Su Yu:...

Tang Tang, who had come to pick up the person and was feeling uneasy:...

"My family has money too! And lots of toys. Whatever I want to buy, my family buys it for me. Thanks for the kind offer!"

【What kind of bizarre direction is this? You're only five or six and you already have creepy-aunt tendencies?】

"It'd be great if your family went bankrupt!"

【No, I don't think that's good!】

Tang Tang immediately went over and covered Tang Can's mouth. "Sorry, see you next time!"

"Goodbye, Can Can! Goodbye, Uncle and Aunt!"

Su Yu obediently waved goodbye and followed Su Xi into the car.

Su Yu looked back at the parking garage. Ren Tiandu had gotten into his car, and Tang Can was led into a car by the woman who had been covering her mouth.

"Why isn't that uncle mad at Can Can?"

【If I dared to talk to Uncle like that, I'd definitely get a beating!】

Su Xi: Heh, when did I ever really hit you? Wasn't it always just putting on an act to lecture you? You'd howl loud enough for the whole building to hear before I even laid a hand on you — imagine if I actually hit you!

"That uncle used to talk to Tang Can like that too. Tang Can was only a little over three that year. She used to be more introverted."

Ren Tiandu had to swallow the bitter fruit he himself had sown. Fortunately, little Tang Can had been soft, weak, and shy back then, but her inner heart was strong. She wasn't scolded into depression by Ren Tiandu; instead, she learned from Ren Tiandu and, through a series of maneuvers, depressed him. Ren Tiandu had finally met his nemesis.

"That uncle went too far!"

【What did a three-year-old do to deserve him scolding her like that?】

"How did Can Can learn from him?"

"Ren Tiandu scolded Tang Can for a year. Tang Can went from taking the scolding to talking back without losing ground. Now, when Tang Can causes trouble, Ren Tiandu is the one who gets hit."

【That sounds so satisfying — childhood grudges settled in childhood!】

"How do you know all this so clearly?"

"Tang Can's dad was worried those two might start fighting, so he sent me a message to explain."

【Oh, so he's probably worried Uncle would side with Ren Tiandu? Uncle knows Ren Tiandu better. Their family is so weird — don't they notice Tang Can learned bad habits from Ren Tiandu?】

Su Xi: They really don't know!

Tang Song, whether out of fear that he wouldn't believe it or fear that Tang Can might say something wrong and offend the Su family, explained in detail the process of Tang Can's transformation.

Back then, Tang Song was busy expanding his business and entrusted his daughter to the newlywed Tang Tang. Tang Tang's parents-in-law also adored the well-behaved and adorable Tang Can and welcomed her warmly to stay at the Ren household. The two elders of the Ren family even looked forward to experiencing life with a granddaughter in advance.

Sometimes Tang Tang was busy learning company affairs from her parents-in-law, so she left Tang Can in the care of the household's idle member, Ren Tiandu. When she came home, Tang Can behaved normally, so she didn't think much of it. By the time she noticed something was off, it was already too late. Tang Can had already grown familiar with the mutual-scolding mode — the more Ren Tiandu scolded her, the livelier she became.

Both the Tang family and the Ren family tried to correct Tang Can's temperament, with Tang Tang's parents-in-law trying especially hard. Alas, both families failed!

Fortunately, Tang Can was young but still fairly obedient. She could stay quiet and not throw tantrums on special occasions and at the Tang family — much better than Ren Tiandu had been back in the day.

With Tang Can as a cautionary example, neither family dared to rush Tang Tang and Ren Tiandu into having a child. If another version 3.0 of Ren Tiandu came along, both families would go crazy!

"Why does she want to take me to her house to raise me?"

"Tang Can's dad said she treats you like a cat. Tang Can's mom and aunt both keep cats, and you're the 'cat' she picked out. Her aunt is the one who covered her mouth just now. She listens to her aunt quite well."

【...】

Su Yu fell silent.

She didn't ask any more questions, but leaned against Su Xi and went back to sleep.

It wasn't until the next day that Su Yu was fully revived.

Su Yu skipped into Su Yi's hospital room. 【Aiyah! Finally full of energy! That puppet card took way too much out of me!】

Su Yu glanced to the side. 【Wulongcha, why did you smash into my dad's face?】

Su Yi, half-asleep, became fully awake: Unfilial daughter, you won't even let your dad sleep in peacefully every day, will you?

From Su Yu's daily ramblings, Su Yi knew that the "Wulongcha" she mentioned was her system. How could she let the system smash into his face? What if it damaged his face?

【Good morning, Host. I was busy until too late last night. I was afraid I wouldn't be able to resist waking you, so I just found a random room and slept there.】

【Thanks for your hard work, coming back in the middle of the night! Next time I'll go to sleep on time and just summon you back directly?】

Wulongcha thought about it. 【No, what if it's exactly a critical moment?】

This time, it had nearly lost track of the person. If it hadn't gotten lucky and found the right person, even a system like it might not have been able to find where the money was hidden.

【Critical moment? You found the money that wanted criminal hid?】

Wulongcha wobbled happily. 【Of course — I'm a system, after all!】

【Let's go, let's go, let's talk in the car!】

Su Yu perfunctorily said, "Good morning, Daddy. Daddy, I'm off to work," and ran to the car.

Su Yi always wants to hang up the disobedient daughter and beat her! Every time he talks about matters, he doesn't finish speaking, then he abandons him and leaves, and there's still no follow-up! Is she trying to anger her old father to death?

Su Yu sat obediently, leaning on Su Xi with eyes closed, 【Wulongcha, I'm ready, you can say where the fugitive's money is hidden!】

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ps: The novel's money laundering is just a brainstorm and I looked up some information; normal people shouldn't get involved in this kind of thing!

Getting involved is a crime!

If someone exchanges a large amount of cash with you, moving from one software to another, or gives some kind of rebate, be wary of money laundering～