Chapter 221: Sandstorm

Wulongcha didn't mean that.

【I was just bored with nothing to do.】

The project Qingshan developed had been shelved. In this weather, the only thing they worried about was the approaching sandstorm.

【Wulongcha, maybe you can think about how we should tell Uncle that there will be a sandstorm. That project in Qingshan already has no one working outdoors, but the Su Clan still has some employees working outside.】

Wulongcha sighed, 【If you drew more cards, maybe there'd be a way.】

【But I don't have money!】

Su Xi had also been checking the weather forecast lately, and used the cold weather as an excuse to have subsidiaries reduce employees' outdoor work hours, keeping them in the office or working from home as much as possible.

Su Yu would bring it up when the time came anyway; Su Xi had already prepared the reason for giving time off.

Su Yu was drawing and sighed, 【There'll be a sandstorm the day after the day after tomorrow—are we just going to accept our fate? Should I post something online and ask netizens what to do about a sandstorm, as a roundabout way of reminding them!】

Wulongcha disagreed, 【Host, are you doubting other people's intelligence?】

Su Yu wasn't, 【Then what should we do?】

Su Yu was worrying, while Su Xi had long since prepared certain experts. Upon learning the specific date, he sent messages to his brothers, and also told his younger brother, letting him notify the families they were close with.

Su Yu still didn't know about Su Xi's actions. As she thought and thought, she realized Wulongcha had disappeared.

【Ran off to play again!】

Su Yu pouted and went back to her own drawing!

Anyway, that day hadn't arrived yet—she still had time!

After finishing lunch at noon, she saw Shi Xu in the afternoon.

"Good afternoon, Uncle Shi!"

"Good afternoon, Xiao Yu!"

"Uncle Shi, I'm going for my nap now—good afternoon!"

"Good afternoon!"

Su Yu obediently stepped into the lounge and closed the door. The next second, she pressed herself against the door and listened to the people outside talking.

【Hehe, now they won't know I'm eavesdropping!】

"Why are you here?"

Shi Xu was just about to speak when he saw Su Xi's gesture. Shi Xu looked completely bewildered, but still followed Su Xi's meaning and looked at his phone.

Su Xi: Don't tell the truth, someone's eavesdropping.

Shi Xu:???

Shi Xi thought of the driver from last night, and felt a trace of panic deep inside. Had those dogs' infiltration already gotten this severe? They could actually monitor their conversations inside the Su Clan!

Su Yu, eavesdropping on those dogs, looked puzzled and pressed her ear harder against the crack of the door. Why wasn't Shi Xu speaking?

"I want to bring my wife to stay at your place for a while, to take care of her pregnancy."

【Is there something hard to say about that?】

Su Yu didn't care about that. They would be staying at the manor, and Su Yu rarely ran into them. It wouldn't affect her life, and it would make them owe her family a favor—this deal was quite a good bargain!

Shi Xu: My father-in-law already sent people over. I can't sit still at the company!

Shi Xu was extremely nervous!

It could be said that success or failure hinged on this one move! If they successfully caught the people and seized a large amount of illicit property, his father-in-law would be a great hero. Such a big merit and so much illicit property would be enough to offset all the mess Ming Wanqiu had stirred up these past days.

His father-in-law was already innocent to begin with, and with these merits added, keeping his original position would be no problem. Even if some netizens felt that merits and faults couldn't cancel each other out, with a public announcement proving his father-in-law's innocence plus this merit, those who believed his father-in-law was guilty would also turn a blind eye and let it go.

Some netizens would even be happy!

Confiscated illicit property meant that money would go into the national treasury, and might be invested in social construction, letting them benefit from it!

But what if they didn't catch anyone? His father-in-law acting on his own would surely be suppressed by those people. Being slapped with a baseless charge and sent to prison would be normal too.

"You can come if you want to."

【Mm, Uncle is just as generous as me!】

Su Xi: You wait here slowly, I need to get busy.

The sound of keyboard typing rose as Su Xi started working. Shi Xu, bored and alone, could only pick up a book and read absentmindedly. After a while, he went over to look at the claw machine and decided to use it to kill time.

For an entire afternoon, he didn't manage to grab a single doll. He felt frustrated—was this some kind of bad omen?

Su Yu looked as if she wanted to say something but held back, watching Shi Xu follow them into the underground garage and even get in the car and take over her seat.

【What is Shi Xu doing? He looks so dazed, like he's taken some kind of blow. But I remember Uncle agreed to let him bring Auntie Mingmeng to stay at our house! Did Uncle change his mind while I was sleeping?】

"Go to the front seat!"

"Oh!"

Su Yu went to the front seat feeling wronged. Her toys were all in the back seat. This time, it was the most boring car ride home she'd ever had!

Su Yu got home and dashed cheerfully toward the living room—her voice arrived before she did. "Mommy, I'm home!"

"My baby's back!"

Ji Yan picked Su Yu up and spun her around, and they kissed each other's cheeks.

"Oh, good evening, Aunties!"

【So Mingmeng came over too—no wonder Shi Xu followed us home. The way he looked, could he have been scolded by his parents-in-law? Coming to stay at our house after just a short while, isn't he afraid of people gossiping?】

"Good evening, Xiao Yu!"

"Good evening, Xiao Yu—Guoguo, say hello to your sister!"

"Babu! Ohh!"

"Good evening, little sister Guoguo!"

After dinner, Su Yu had no mind to think about this and that. She once again became the big sister of a milk-drinking baby—Milk Sister for short—taking care of her dear little sister Guoguo, who had already learned to squirm around!

"Little sister, you can't crawl!"

Normal babies crawl around on flat ground, but Guoguo was different. She liked to climb up things to high places. The moment Su Yu looked away, she was already grabbing onto toys trying to climb up.

If she accidentally fell, she might lose her life on the spot!

Su Yu was done for!

"Uncle Butler, why does Auntie Ming feel at ease letting me, a child, look after such a tiny child?"

The three adults were happily chatting away — had any of them considered that she was only a three-year-old?

The butler really wanted to tell Su Yu that it was because he was also there, along with several experienced nannies waiting to take over Guoguo. But the moment he thought about how Su Yu would go provoke the Second Young Master, who was diligently studying, whenever she had free time, the butler endured his guilty conscience and kept his mouth shut!

Su Yu was just venting, with all her attention focused on Guoguo. By the time Mingmeng and Ji Yan came to pick her up, she looked like she would fall asleep the next second, making the two adults laugh.

"Xiao Yu is so good. I hope Guoguo can be as well-behaved as her big sister when she grows up."

Su Yu was drowsy, looking at Ji Yan expectantly.

【How will Mom answer Mingmeng? Will she praise me?】

Ji Yan smiled warmly. "Every child has their own personality traits. Adults shouldn't use their own experience to set limits on children — it's not good for their growth. They are independent individuals with their own thoughts, not uniform templates. It's best not to compare them."

At times like this, Ji Yan wouldn't complain to Mingmeng in front of Su Yu about how mischievous Su Yu was. She was afraid of hurting Su Yu's self-esteem. Su Yu could do as she pleased; if she did something wrong, her parents would discipline her.

Things like "So-and-so's child is like this" and "Why can't you be like her" would hurt a child's feelings.

"Mm, it seems a new mom still has a lot to learn!"

Mingmeng thought Ji Yan made sense. She happily carried her daughter and left.

Su Yu was very satisfied with Ji Yan's answer. With Ji Yan's help, she took a bath and fell asleep with a happy smile on her face.

Su Yi came over. "She's asleep?"

"Mm!"

"If she finds out tomorrow that the family is throwing a party to celebrate my recovery, and she's the last one to know, will she be angry?"

If Su Yi had a tail, his tail would be pointing up to the sky right now.

……

The next day, Su Yu was very surprised when she learned the news, but not angry for the moment. She very calmly went downstairs and found Su Xi.

"Uncle, why did the family decide to throw a recovery party for Daddy?"

【Our family barely even attends parties — why would we throw one?】

The others in their circle, on average, attended at least one drinking gathering, one party, and one dinner per week. Someone like Su Xi, a workhorse CEO who took Su Yu to the company to work overtime every day, was rare.

Su Xi had learned the news because his younger brother had been smugly waiting outside Su Yu's door early in the morning to specially show it off to her, so he shifted the blame onto his brother without hesitation.

"Your daddy has too many friends. It just so happens that I have some friends at the Meteorological Bureau, and they predicted there'd be a sandstorm that day, so we might as well give the whole company a day off to celebrate your daddy's recovery and our family's reunion."

Before Su Yu could even voice her doubts, Su Xi added, "If your daddy impulsively lends money to his brothers and sisters again, I might not be able to resist kicking him out of the house!"

【Oh right, my daddy is a silly softie who lends money out to others!】

"But doesn't Daddy's money go to Mommy? Uncle, you gave Daddy money again?"

【How could you give it to him and not to me? That's not fair!】

Su Yu was screaming inside, but on the surface she still looked expectant. If Uncle really gave Daddy a sum of money, it was impossible that he wouldn't give her any, right? She would throw a tantrum!

"He still has pocket money, and probably some secret stash too."

Su Xi chose to redirect the trouble eastward without hesitation — no, he was making the chief culprit bear the consequences of his own mistake!

【Secret stash? Oh right, he's lent so much money to others before and never gotten it back, so he definitely has other sources of income. I'm going to tell Mommy!】

Su Yu went "pitter-patter" running upstairs to tell on him. Su Yi wanted to stop her but didn't dare! He, who had been looking delighted just a moment ago, emerged from behind the wall. "Brother, you can't throw your little brother under the bus like that!"

Su Xi gave a light "heh" and didn't speak to his foolish brother.

Having told on him, Su Yu went to work with Su Xi in high spirits, leaving Su Yi to explain to Ji Yan before being called up by Grandma and given a scolding!

SU! YU!

Su Yu happily went to work. When she arrived at the company, she found Wulongcha actually lying on a blanket.

【Wulongcha, why are you at the company? Did you short-circuit and forget the way home?】

Wulongcha, which had just floated up, dropped back onto the blanket.

【Your imagination isn't half bad, huh!】

【Hehe, just kidding. Why are you at the company?】

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