Chapter 611: Chapter 609: Meeting Someone
Unfortunately, no matter how much he said, he still couldn’t dispel Zhao Jinde’s curiosity.
Zhao Jinde insisted on coming to Malaya and was preparing to head to the Blood-colored Divine Temple for an expedition.
As a friend, what more could he say?
However, just as Ma saw Zhao Jinde walk out of the airport, he suddenly froze on the spot.
Zhao Jinde was not together with Ma.
But walking out of the airport with him were six people.
And Ma knew all six of them, or had at least seen them before.
Tie Xiong, Tie Shanshan, Li Xun, Yang Qingshu, Song Qing... and Tongtai Qinawa?
Ma was stunned for quite a while before he hurriedly went forward to welcome everyone.
"I thought you were planning to come by yourself!"
"I didn’t expect you’d actually come with Mr. Tie."
"Why didn’t you mention it on the phone yesterday?"
After shaking hands with everyone one by one, Ma complained to Zhao Jinde.
"I wanted to give you a surprise."
Zhao Jinde skillfully put his arm around Ma’s shoulders and laughed.
"Mr. Tie, how come you’re here too?"
"Are you also planning to go to that Blood-colored Divine Temple?"
Ma had previously met Tie Xiong at the Shengmai Consulate General and had spoken with him, so he didn’t feel any unfamiliarity.
"Yes."
Tie Xiong nodded slightly and replied with a smile.
"We’re here to meet someone."
At this moment, Yang Qingshu mysteriously leaned over to Ma’s side and lowered his voice.
"Meet someone? Who?"
Hearing this, Ma couldn’t help but be slightly taken aback.
"This person is... classified!"
Yang Qingshu started off looking serious, but when he said "classified," he couldn’t help bursting into laughter.
Ma, seeing this, could only shake his head, speechless.
"By the way, why don’t I see Old Hou?"
After chuckling, Yang Qingshu finally noticed that the one who had come to pick them up was only Ma, and that Old Hou, who was usually glued to him, was nowhere to be seen.
"Old Hou’s wife is pregnant again. He’s probably staying in the country for the foreseeable future."
Ma answered truthfully.
"You never thought about finding a girlfriend yourself?"
Yang Qingshu nodded, gave Ma a few appraising looks, and then asked.
"Nope. I’m a single noble; being on my own is great."
Ma replied nonchalantly.
"I also miss my former life as a single noble..."
Yang Qingshu was in the middle of sighing when he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his ear.
He turned his head and saw Song Qing, willow brows raised, pinching his ear between her fingers.
"I was wrong, I was wrong, single life isn’t good at all!"
Yang Qingshu sucked in a breath from the pain and hurriedly apologized.
This scene made everyone present burst into laughter.
"Mr. Tie, I’ll go book a hotel for all of you first."
As Ma spoke, he took out his phone, ready to call a hotel and book rooms for Tie Xiong and the others.
"No need."
Tie Xiong shook his head. "Let’s hold off on the hotel for now. We need to go to the embassy first to meet someone."
"You really are going to meet someone?"
Ma looked surprised. Just now he had thought Yang Qingshu was just talking nonsense, but it turned out to be true.
"You actually don’t believe me?"
Yang Qingshu’s eyes widened. He squeezed his chubby face, putting on a deliberately angry expression.
"I thought you were joking."
Ma naturally looked entirely speechless.
Joking and chatting, they split into two cars and headed to the Dragon Country embassy in Malaya.
When they arrived at the embassy, the current Ambassador Ke personally led people out to greet them.
After everyone exchanged greetings with Ambassador Ke and the others, they followed him to an office on the second floor of the embassy.
"Director Tie, I didn’t expect you to come back so soon."
Once they entered the office, Ambassador Ke glanced around carefully.
After confirming there were no irrelevant people around, he closed the office door, then smiled at Tie Xiong.
"Coming a bit earlier saves you all from having to wait."
Tie Xiong also replied with a smile.
"Ms. Yan should be arriving soon."
Ambassador Ke checked the time and spoke softly.
While they were talking, Ma tugged on Yang Qingshu’s sleeve and quietly asked, "Exactly who are you all here to meet?"
"Someone who successfully left the Blood-colored Divine Temple."
This time, Yang Qingshu didn’t play the riddle game and told Ma directly.
"Someone... someone who left the Blood-colored Divine Temple?"
At his words, Ma’s eyes instantly widened, his face full of disbelief.
But soon he frowned, puzzled. "I remember that group of people who were kidnapped all disappeared along with the Blood-colored Divine Temple together with the kidnappers, right?"
"How could anyone have left the Blood-colored Divine Temple?"
"How would I know?"
Yang Qingshu rolled his eyes and explained helplessly, "We got a call from Ambassador Ke saying that a woman surnamed Yan claimed to be one of the abductees, and that she managed to walk out of the Blood-colored Divine Temple."
"As for the details, I don’t know."
"Otherwise we wouldn’t have come all the way here to the embassy in Malaya just to meet Ms. Yan."
"Oh."
Ma nodded in sudden realization.
It was indeed as Yang Qingshu had said: if they already knew everything, they wouldn’t have bothered traveling all the way to the Malaya embassy.
A few minutes later, Ambassador Ke’s phone suddenly rang.
After answering, he chatted briefly with the person on the other end and quickly hung up.
"Ms. Yan and her party have arrived. I’ll go bring them over."
After greeting Tie Xiong, Ambassador Ke immediately left the office.
Not long after, the office door was pushed open again.
Ambassador Ke walked in with two women, one man, and a little girl of about ten.
They were naturally the Yan siblings, Yan Ya and her brother and sister, along with Qingyue.
The appearance of the sisters Yan Ya and Yan Tong made everyone feel a kind of refreshing brightness.
After all, beautiful women with good temperament are always well received wherever they go.
Only Yang Qingshu’s eyes were round as saucers.
"Junior sister!"
He couldn’t help exclaiming.
"Second senior brother!"
And seeing him, Qingyue also couldn’t help crying out.
The two who hadn’t seen each other in a long time immediately hugged.
After rubbing his junior sister’s cheeks, Yang Qingshu realized that the "Ms. Yan" Ambassador Ke had mentioned was Yan Ya.
As for Yan Tong and Yan Jun, he was also very familiar with them.
After all, the Yang Family and the Yan Family had done business together.
When Old Mr. Yan celebrated his birthday, he had attended more than once.
He knew the Yan Family members very well.
Otherwise, he wouldn’t have been able to rattle off the black history of all the Yan children in front of Lu Heng back then.
Ambassador Ke was also quite surprised; he hadn’t expected that Tie Xiong’s group and Ms. Yan’s group would actually know each other.
"Director Tie, this Ms. Yan is the one who left the Blood-colored Divine Temple."
"If you have any questions, you can ask Ms. Yan directly."
Ambassador Ke pointed to Yan Tong and gave Tie Xiong a simple introduction.
"Hello, Miss Yan."
Tie Xiong smiled warmly and greeted Yan Tong...
