Chapter 866: Chapter 645: Everything Is Fine, Just Waiting for Him to Return
Deng Wei... why is he getting into a police car?
What’s wrong with him? What’s he up to?
At this moment, even Rong Jing finds it difficult to digest what’s happening in front of him, there are simply too many things he can’t understand.
He considers himself to be a responsive, cautious, and brave person with keen instincts.
In the past, when trading blows with Yin Shixiu in the business world, despite many defeats, he never felt as uneasy and restless as he does today.
Ever since Yin Shixiu’s death, he feels his nimbleness, caution, bravery, and keen instincts have become the most useless virtues, failing to give him any sense of joy from success.
Su Xiaomeng took over on behalf of her husband, propping up the big picture, and even at the weakest points, no one could break through.
Time and again, the unexpected occurrences, situations beyond control, failures...
Have made Rong Jing start to doubt himself.
In front of Yin Shixiu, he never experienced such a sense of defeat, but in front of Su Xiaomeng, he’s tripping and falling one after another.
As the police car leaves the community, residents walking on the path outside the apartment buildings are whispering about something, many rumors abound, but none of them come close to the truth.
Even most don’t know who the police arrested, and who was getting into the car with the bureau chief...
The masses are utterly confused.
With a steady gaze, Rong Jing started the car and left the community alone, heading straight home.
Rong Si was sitting in a wicker chair in the courtyard, holding the family’s Persian cat, extremely delicate and lazy.
At this moment, as the sun shone on it, the snow-white long-haired cat lazily opened its eyes upon hearing hurried footsteps approaching, and upon seeing Rong Jing, it closed its eyes again.
"Why so rushed, what’s wrong?"
Rong Si only glanced at his son entering the house and continued speaking lazily with the same tone.
Rong Jing surely didn’t have his father’s leisurely mood for sunbathing,
"Wu Rong has been arrested. Bai Sidong took people to arrest him."
"..."
This sentence from Rong Jing caused Rong Si to pause for a moment, then he turned to face him directly,
"How could he get arrested? Where did you get this news?"
With Wu Rong holding a high official position, police arrest would surely be a big deal. Though Rong Si has stepped down from the company, he’s not completely uninvolved in worldly affairs.
"Just at the home of Wu Yao’s wife and child, Wu Rong went early in the morning to see the mother and child, probably about reopening a case from fifteen years ago."
"I had urgent matters to discuss with Wu Rong, so I rushed over too. Before I could get upstairs, the police were already there, looking like they were executing an arrest warrant, each officer with a raised gun."
"..."
Even Rong Si couldn’t quite catch up to the pace now,
"It’s just an old case resurfacing from fifteen years ago, it’s hard to believe they’d arrest a dignified minister just for that, isn’t it?"
"I thought so too, but what it’s really about, I can’t seem to figure out."
Rong Si pursed his lips, pondered for a moment, and said,
"Looks like we need to find relevant people and get some insights."
Rong Si said this while putting the Persian cat from his arms to the ground, patting the cat’s fur off his clothes, and got ready to head inside.
"Dad, I’m not finished yet."
Rong Jing quickly said,
"Deng Wei also went with Bai Sidong to the police station."
"Who did you say?"
"Deng Wei."
"Was he arrested too?"
"No, he didn’t look like he was arrested, more like he got into the car voluntarily with Bai Sidong. The two of them seemed quite harmonious walking together."
Deng Wei...
With Wu Rong being arrested, Rong Si was already feeling unsettled. Deng Wei joining the mix only made Rong Si, with his head full of grey hair, feel a tingling on his scalp.
Clearly, some developments have totally gone beyond the Rong family’s control.
"Dad... I have a bold guess, I feel it’s necessary to tell you, it might scare you... but not saying it now would suffocate me."
"...What?"
Rong Si looked at Rong Jing, every sentence his son said since returning had been escalating his blood pressure, hoping the next wouldn’t be more bad news.
"Dad, Yin Shixiu... might not be dead at all."
"..."
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Su Xiaomeng was in a good mood, rather than directly heading home, she went to the market to buy some groceries, planning to make hot pot for dinner.
She had informed Bai Sixian beforehand, who wasn’t busy and just waited for Su Xiaomeng to bring back the ingredients.
Shuangshuang and Huang Huang, upon hearing about the hot pot plan, quickly searched their minds for words related to hot pot.
"Spicy!"
Huang Huang solemnly said one word.
Bai Sixian chuckled and asked Huang Huang,
"Is Prince Huang afraid of the spice?"
Prince Huang hesitated a bit; he really was somewhat afraid of the spice.
But before he could respond, Shuangshuang hurriedly joined in to make her presence known, spinning in place and shouting,
"Spicy and exhilarating!"
Clearly, she learned this from Su Xiaomeng.
Bai Sixian was amused and couldn’t focus on the spice-fearing Prince Huang.
Not long after, Xiao Meng returned with two big bags of groceries.
As soon as the door opened, Shuangshuang started singing, as if presenting a treasure,
"Spicy girl, spicy girl, spicy girl, spicy girl, spicy spicy!"
Su Xiaomeng walked in to see the quirky little girl shouting with a sharp voice and hopping around.
After finishing the hop, she giggled to herself.
Prince Huang saw Mom return with two big bags of groceries and went forward warmly to help carry them, casting a slight disdainful glance at Shuangshuang.
The "Dumb Shuangshuang" seemed ready to spill from his eyes.
"Huang’er, this is too heavy, let Mom carry it."
"Hmmmm..."
Su Xiaomeng didn’t expect Prince Huang to be quite unwilling, grumbling a few times and insistently tugging at the big bag of hot pot ingredients.
Bai Sixian came over to help carry them, chuckling,
"What inspired you to go shopping for hot pot ingredients? So happy?"
Without any hesitation, Su Xiaomeng casually replied,
"Yeah, happy, Wu Rong has been arrested."
"..."
Of course, Bai Sixian couldn’t remain as calm as Su Xiaomeng regarding this news...
"Who did you say?"
Xiao Meng, while placing another big bag she held onto the dining table in the living room, said with a smile,
"Little Uncle personally took people to arrest him. For details, you can ask Little Uncle yourself later, I’m going to wash the vegetables because I’m really hungry."
Su Xiaomeng quickly added.
Though Bai Sixian wanted to grab Su Xiaomeng for more details.
But Shuangshuang was being disruptive, spinning around and continuing to shout every note right on pitch...
"Spicy girl, spicy girl, spicy girl, spicy girl, spicy spicy..."
Singing the same two lines repeatedly, but truly enough to be annoying.
At this moment, the only cheerful ones were Su Xiaomeng and Su Chengji, who taught Shuangshuang those lines.
Su Xiaomeng didn’t plan to tell Bai Sixian herself; she really intended for Bai Sixian to ask Little Uncle himself.
With Wu Rong already arrested, Xiao Meng wasn’t worried anymore. Whatever she needed to tell her mother, Little Uncle should tell her.
It had been a long time since they had hot pot at home, which always created a lively atmosphere. Back when they lived in Chengdu, hot pot was a regular thing.
When Xiao Meng studied in Beijing, she often longed for Chengdu hot pot, frequently dragging Yin Meng along to eat.
Later, when Xiao Meng and Yin Shixiu were together, she often dragged Yin Shixiu into private hot pots, eventually getting him hooked on hot pot.
Xiao Meng blanched the vegetables, dipped the beef, cooled it down, and handed it to the little girl’s mouth, who wasn’t satisfied with the triple-flavor, pointing at the half floating with peppercorn and chili, and called out,
"Spicy girl! Spicy spicy!"
Truly, Shuangshuang’s direct and straightforward personality was just like Sichuan’s spicy girls.
Laughing, Xiao Meng dipped it into the spicy pot, blew on it, and brought it to Shuangshuang’s mouth, watching as Little Shuangshuang took a big bite, her cheeks moving as she chewed, the whole table busting with laughter.
Prince Huang, seeing Shuangshuang enjoying it, secretly dipped it in chili pepper, and soon his mouth widened, tongue sticking out.
Su Xiaomeng thought to herself, everything was great, just waiting for Shixiu to come back.
