Chapter 2082: Chapter 2042: Distinguished Guests Visit
When Cao Ling was still panting over there, she almost felt her legs go weak and that she couldn’t stand steady.
It was only when Ye Qiu held her in his arms that she slowly started to feel better.
Ye Qiu pulled her up to the rooftop and asked, "What exactly did that old man from the Ye Family come here for?"
What for?
Cao Ling looked at Ye Qiu in surprise. Could it be that he still didn’t know?
"That Ye Feng is dead," Cao Ling said.
"I know. Your cousin called me yesterday and told me."
What did Ye Feng’s death have to do with him now?
Of course, if it really did have something to do with it, only Ye Qiu himself knew.
"Ye Qiu, if you’d been willing to treat Ye Feng, could you have saved him?"
"What do you think?"
With what Cao Ling knew about Ye Qiu, if he’d been willing, it really was possible he could have saved Ye Feng.
But Ye Qiu didn’t save him, so there had to be a reason.
"Then Old Ye coming to you obviously has an indirect connection to Ye Feng’s death."
At this point, even if Cao Ling hadn’t said it, Ye Qiu understood.
When Ye Qiu and Cao Ling stood on the rooftop looking down, Old Cao and Old Ye were chatting below.
When Ye Qiu and Cao Ling came down, Ye Qiu knew that he could ignore that Old Ye, but no matter what, he still had to give Old Cao some face.
"Old Cao, how come you had the time to come over?"
"You don’t come over to the Military Region, so of course I have to come here."
Old Cao laughed.
Now he naturally knew Ye Qiu’s identity. Turned out he really was from a prestigious family. Him being with his granddaughter Cao Ling was, no matter how you looked at it, a perfect match—truly well‑matched in social status.
"Then eat before you go back."
"You brat, you’re not kicking me out already, are you?"
"How would I dare?"
Ye Qiu told Xiaomai to go buy groceries, to buy more dishes.
"Not calling your parents back for lunch?"
Old Cao asked again.
"My parents are eating over at Imperial Cuisine Restaurant. They don’t have time to come back."
Since that was the case, Old Cao didn’t say more.
As for this villa—over a hundred million, with more than a thousand square meters of interior space and several thousand square meters of front and back yard—living in such a luxury villa was truly comfortable, far more comfortable than his place in the Military District Compound.
Of course, Ye Qiu could live here, but he himself could not. At most he could come over and take a look once in a while.
When Ye Qiu and Cao Ling went outside into the yard, Old Cao and Old Ye were inside.
Now that Xiaomai had gone to buy groceries, Old Ye looked at Old Cao and said, "That kid doesn’t seem to intend to acknowledge me."
"Do you think he has any need to acknowledge you? Ye Qiu doesn’t rely on anyone now. He started from scratch and is doing far better than most third‑generation heirs."
On this point, Old Ye was indeed aware.
Moreover, Ye Qiu had been abandoned as a child and later picked up and raised by the couple Ye Weidong and his wife. In terms of the Ye Family, he had absolutely nothing to do with them, not even a legal relationship.
Old Ye was also very clear about this.
But if he didn’t choose Ye Qiu, who was far more outstanding than Ye Feng, was he supposed to pick some other Ye Family junior?
There were still quite a few young members of the Ye Family, but none of them caught his eye.
However, he knew he couldn’t rush this kind of thing.
If you rush, you can’t eat hot tofu.
It looked like he would have to stay in Jinling for a while, treating it as giving himself a long vacation.
"I had thought there was some expert behind him training him. Seems some people are just born smart—he still inherited our Ye Family’s blood and genes." Old Ye laughed.
"That’s really hard to say. Before the car accident, Ye Qiu had always been at the very bottom of his class, the quiet, unnoticed type. It was only afterward that he completely transformed."
Old Cao, who also knew Ye Qiu very well, said.
While the two old men were inside sipping tea and muttering, Ye Qiu and Cao Ling were sitting under a tree outside chatting.
When Xiaomai went to the market to buy groceries, after thinking it over, she still decided to call the couple Ye Weidong and his wife and Sister Ye Xue.
"Auntie, it’s Xiaomai."
"Xiaomai, what is it?" Chen Fang asked.
"Auntie, besides that Old Ye from the Capital City from last night, Cao Ling and her grandpa also came over. They’re planning to have lunch here. I was wondering if you and Uncle Ye, and Sister Ye Xue, would be coming back for lunch?"
Old Cao?
Cao Ling?
Chen Fang knew that Ye Qiu’s female friend Cao Ling was not simple. She’d heard she was from the Military Region, and that especially that Old Cao might even be the number‑one figure there. She hadn’t expected he would actually come to their home for a meal.
No matter what, they were honored guests. How could she not go back to host them?
"Then buy some more groceries. I’ll get Weidong and we’ll head back."
Whether Ye Xue went back or not didn’t matter much, but she and Ye Weidong definitely had to go back.
After Chen Fang went to find Ye Weidong and told him what was happening at home, he also felt they needed to return.
Moreover, that Old Ye from the Capital City gave him a vague sense of unease. He still didn’t know what the other party’s real purpose in coming was.
"Let’s head back now. There are important guests at home, we can’t stay out and leave them unattended."
Ye Weidong hurriedly got in the car with Chen Fang, and when he drove back to the entrance of the villa community, he indeed saw that Hongqi sedan with the national flag parked at the gate. It looked extremely imposing. Some rich people driving past in their luxury cars all drove especially carefully, in case they might scrape that Hongqi and cause trouble.
Although this car was not as expensive as a Rolls‑Royce or the like, the meaning it represented was different.
You could say that, in Peach Blossom Source Villa Community, it was the Ye Qiu household that was the most distinguished. All sorts of big shots often came by to visit, so whenever the security guards at the gate saw Ye Qiu’s family members, they had to bow their heads respectfully.
People like that were definitely not ones they could afford to offend.
When Ye Weidong parked the car and the couple got out, they still seemed a bit nervous.
Sure enough, as soon as they walked in, they saw Old Cao and Old Ye.
The couple had met Old Cao a few times, but he was one of those people with great authority, the kind who felt like he had a killing aura about him.
"M‑Mr. Cao, you’re here," Ye Weidong said.
"Mr. Ye, Ms. Chen, you’re back. We came over, but we didn’t want to disturb you," Old Cao said.
"No, no, how could you say that? You’re Cao Ling’s grandpa—of course you’re an honored guest in our home. We’re very fond of that girl Cao Ling too," Ye Weidong said.
While Chen Fang personally went over to entertain the two, Ye Weidong hurried back to take out the cigars he’d been saving.
Last time, Ye Qiu had brought back authentic cigars from Cuba, and now there was only this one box left. He’d never been willing to smoke them.
Only seeing Old Cao come over today did Ye Weidong finally feel it was worth taking them out to offer.
"Old Cao, Old Ye, these are cigars Ye Qiu brought back from Cuba. I heard they’re the most expensive kind. Please give them a try."
Cigars Ye Qiu brought back from Cuba?
The two old men hadn’t expected that Ye Qiu was so filial to the couple Ye Weidong and his wife.
Of course, the cigarettes these two usually smoked were all special supply, definitely different from what was sold outside. But very few officials in the country smoked cigars, because the taste was too harsh and choking, and cigars took too long to smoke. Most people really couldn’t enjoy them.
