Chapter 152: The Current State of the Liu Family / Fu Mo's Visit

  "I just want to know the current situation of Grandfather's house, and I don't need to participate personally. In Father's heart, he has never treated me and my brother equally!" The attitude of Old Dad made Luo Ye feel extremely dissatisfied.

  "Yexia, the law of stimulation? It's not that Dad doesn't want to tell you, but this matter can't be explained in a few words. Your grandfather didn't even explain it clearly to me, and I haven't figured it out myself yet, so how can I tell you?"

  "With Father's words, I'm satisfied." Luo Ye's eyebrows and eyes curved upwards. Secretary Luo was willing to explain to her, tsk, what a big face-saving gesture!

  Moreover, she believed that what her father said was true. Grandpa absolutely did not want Father to get involved, so it's estimated that he would let it go as it didn't concern Father.

  So it was just a matter of giving her father some peace of mind, and of course, there were some extra reminders that she couldn't say out loud, but she still had that awareness.

  "When did Master leave?" Luo Ye left the seaside villa and Master hadn't returned yet, it seemed that the two had parted ways again.

  "It's been twenty minutes, luckily he was here today, otherwise you Liu Ye would have made a big fuss. Grandpa Luo sighed helplessly: "Liu Bo's affairs, he doesn't believe anything, insisting that it's all because of someone framing him, and who knows where he got the news from saying that both of us are going to be sentenced to death. Today he came to our house crying and making a scene, forcing your dad to bail out Liu Zhenghang, and in the end, Lao Ye couldn't bear it anymore and scared him off with a few words before he left."

  As for this Liu grandfather, Luo Ye was speechless. After Liu Zhengxing had an accident, he came to find Grandfather three days and two nights, initially estimating that he didn't expect Liu Zhengxing's matter would be so serious, his attitude was a bit lower than before, but still wanted to suppress Grandfather.

  It wasn't until later that he discovered things weren't as simple as he had imagined, and finally humbled himself. But between the lines, it was a reminder to Grandfather Luo's family to know the favor and repay the kindness.

  The Luo and Liu families are fellow villagers from the same place, and it just so happens that the Liu family is in trouble. Grandfather and father don't want to argue with him either, but in Old Man Liu's eyes, Father helping Liu Zhengxing is a matter of course. Today, Old Man Liu came with a resolute determination to stake everything on this one throw, but he was actually scared off by Master?

  "Grandpa, what's wrong with Master?" A certain Ye asked curiously, how could there be anything that would scare Old Liu at this time?

  Lao Ye cleared his throat and imitated Ye Qi's tone: "Liu Dage, you've also been a team secretary before, so you should understand some things. If someone with ulterior motives finds out that you're causing trouble here at Zheng Gang's place, will Zheng Gang still dare to speak up for your son and grandson in the future?"

  "Is that all?" Luo Ye's face was full of surprise.

  "Yeah, when he left, he kept saying that he was getting old and muddled. I reckon he won't be able to come for a while." Old Master Luo sighed lightly: "At his age, it's quite pitiful to have this kind of thing happen. As long as it doesn't affect your dad too much, just bear with him a bit more."

  A hint of gloom flashed in Luo Ye's eyes. Liu Zhengxing's downfall was the most delightful thing for her, and she didn't sympathize with Old Man Liu's plight either. This old man had done many bad things when he was the secretary of the production team. Now that he was getting his comeuppance, it was only fitting. The pitiful ones were Nie Shu and Liu Xing. After some thought, Luo Ye looked at Luo Zhenggang: "Has Auntie Nie found Dad?"

  Luo Zhenggang shook his head: "No, she seems to have calmly accepted everything. After moving out of Building No. 1 with Liu Hang, she rented a two-bedroom apartment near Liu Hang's school and settled down."

  After her investigation was over, she went back to work as usual. I called her and she politely told me that she's doing well now and asked me not to worry about her.

  "Yèr. Niè Cuì has always liked you, when you have time go visit her, if there's anything she needs help with, come back and tell Dad, as long as it doesn't go against our principles, we'll lend a hand."

  "Dad, I'll try!" Luo Ye smiled wryly: "I'm just worried that if she finds out about the cause of things, won't she think we're being hypocritical and fake?"

  "Dad, Feng'er. Ye'er..." Luo Zheng's expression turned serious: "To be honest, whether to pull him down or not, I've been hesitant and suffered. What he did back then was wrong, but in other words, he didn't force me to put my head into the noose either. It was me who willingly jumped in."

  It's not his credit that we've made it this far, to say otherwise would be self-deception. However, the New City District's affairs have forced me to resist; if I had followed his lead, nothing would have happened, but if something did happen, I wouldn't just simply go to jail.

  For the sake of this family, and to prevent more tragedies from happening in this city, I can only do it this way. But unexpectedly, Ye Er and Jiang Zhengye took over as the main characters for this matter, while what Song Fangzheng and I did became supplementary.

  Today, I saw Maple standing on the stage saying 'Having you all in my life is my greatest happiness', and I really feel fortunate that I made the right choice. Today, I'm saying this out loud, having you all in my life is also my greatest happiness.

  However, if we do this, the Liu family will definitely disperse. Perhaps what they are experiencing now is what we would have experienced if things were slightly different. So, Ye Er Feng Er, to the best of your abilities, take care of Nie Cui and Liu Xing a bit more. This matter is most suitable for you two to handle, I, Wen Xin, and Grandfather are all inconvenient, understand?

  "I understand." The siblings chimed in unison.

  Luo Ye thought for a moment and looked at Luo Zhengang: "Dad, didn't Grandpa Liu live with Auntie Nie and Uncle Liu?"

  "No, he refused to move and is still staying inside." Luo Zheng's face was filled with a bitter smile. That villa should have been for the Luo family to move into, but Old Man Liu had taken a liking to it and wouldn't let them evict him.

  Lu Ye's eyes sparkled: "I have a proposal, I don't know if Dad wants to listen?"

  "It's really not interesting, no one is cooperating with us!" After waiting for half a day without anyone responding, Ye had to awkwardly explain: "That villa has three floors, an indoor area of over 500 square meters, and adding the yard should be around 800 square meters. Although it was approved, it can't hide the fact that the absolute area is excessive. If we don't move in, there will be fewer people criticizing us."

  "My suggestion is that Dad can make a big gesture, build it into an activity center for retired cadres, get rid of the hot potato and gain a good reputation, why not?"

  "Not bad, good idea!" Luo Zheng had just stood up, "I'll rush to prepare a plan and try to finalize it as soon as possible."

  "Despicable!" a discontented murmur from a certain Ye.

  Luo Zheng just touched his daughter's head and asked: "What did Ye say?"

  "Dad is really wise!" A certain Ye smiled in a flattering manner.

  "That was four characters!"

  "Brother, there's something wrong with your ears!"

  "Really? Ye Er, you're sure?"

  "Those two kids!" Old Master Luo smiled and returned to his room to listen to books, which was one of his greatest hobbies, every night at eight o'clock, without fail.

  "Chirp...chirp..." The noisy siblings stirred up the discontent of Dīdī, who thought that if they wanted to make a fuss, it should be with Héhé and Sōng Qiú instead!

  Lu Ye picked up Tiao Tiao. Song Qiu started humming again, this guy has really grown into a big fat ball now, thinking of controlling its diet, but being coaxed by its pitiful "humming" and couldn't bear to do so. Recently, Master Lu has added an activity, often taking Song Qiu for a walk when he's free.

  Nowadays, Song Qiu is not like when he was a child, silly and only knew how to play foolishly. The slippers he wore were so slippery that it was called a slippery road. Tiantian naturally didn't want to fall behind, so now whenever the Luo family enters the house, they must send one slipper each to Song Qiu's feet, what a relief!

  "Right, brother. Tangerine is going to transfer schools, we've made an appointment for tomorrow to go to Master's villa for a barbecue, brother will be the main griller, don't go anywhere else! " Rubbing his plump and fluffy body, Luo Ye suddenly remembered that he hadn't told his older brother about the barbecue yet.

  "Actually, I had planned to go to school with Qu Yue tomorrow to discuss the follow-up activities of the school celebration. So I'll just tell him, let's change it to another day." Luo Feng said, taking out his phone and dialing a number, saying a few words before covering the receiver and looking at Luo Ye: "Ye, he says he wants to participate and bring professional barbecue masters over, do you agree or not?"

  "I don't care, it's more lively with many people, but is that professional barbecue master for real? Don't bring a few mediocre ones to disappoint us!"

  Luofeng hung up the phone and quickly reported: "The barbecue master of Liangyou Hotel."

  Lu Ye was just about to ask Qu Yue how he managed to invite Master Liang's good friend, when his phone suddenly rang. Lu Feng leaned in: "A call at this hour, could it be Ye Xuan?"

  "It's paid!" Luo Ye Bai Luo Qing picked up the phone: "What's up?"

  "Luoye, I need to talk to you about something. Can you come out for a bit?" Fu Mo's voice carried a hint of anxiety.

  "Where are you?"

  "The entrance of the municipal party committee's family hospital."

  "Yèr, where are you going? I'll go with you!" Seeing her sister hang up the phone and go change shoes, Luō Fēng hurriedly followed.

  Luo Ye pushed her brother: "Fu Mo came to find me, it must be something important. Brother will feel uneasy in front of him, let's just stay in our courtyard for now, and when Grandpa and Dad come out, tell them about it."

  ……

  After bringing Pei Mo to the quiet corner of the playground and sitting down, Luo Ye looked at him seriously: "Speak up, this location can be seen by anyone who approaches, my brother and I like to come here to chat."

  "Thank you!" Felt gratitude in his silent voice.

  "Alright. Stop being so pretentious, you've come all this way, let's get down to business." Luo Ye slapped the other person on the back: "When did you become so reserved?"

  He looked at Luo Ye with a serious expression: "Don't you think that I didn't tell Tang Tang about Fan Zhe's matter, it's not very humane?"

  "From what I've understood about you over these days, I believe that you must have your reasons for doing this, or perhaps there are some things that are temporarily beyond your control?"

  "You're really clever!" Fu Mo lowered his head and thought for a moment, then made up his mind: "Luo Ye, what I'm going to tell you, you mustn't tell anyone else, can you promise me that?"

  Lu Ye shook her head: "If it's inconvenient, then don't say it." Curiosity kills the cat, she understood.

  "There's nothing inconvenient about it. At first, I misunderstood Brother Fan because of his father and son, if you hadn't given me the evidence, who knows, we might still be misunderstanding him now. It's only right that I tell you."

  "That, my relationship with Ye Xuan is fake. At that time, it was just to block the Yang family's proposal. Ye Xuan only agreed to help me. Those evidences were found by him and he asked me to give them to you. He was worried that you wouldn't believe him, so he used my hands."

  "Really?" Fumo's face was full of surprise: "Brother is willing to do such a thing, it's really rare. Luoluo, if... I mean if you have a good impression of Brother, don't miss the opportunity, he's really excellent and I believe he's absolutely a devoted good man!"

  "Tell me about your business." Luo Ye didn't want to drag out the topic of Ye Xuan, and besides, their age difference made it unrealistic for them to be together. Moreover, that man was unreliable, and with Grandfather's affairs coming to an end, he still hadn't gotten any news - what a scammer!

  He fell silent again, his expression serious. "The relevant departments are investigating Fan Jiaxiang. To avoid startling the snake, they've asked me to temporarily not expose Fan and his son. Of course, I also can't let this matter leak out."

  I'm the hope of my mother, I can't just consider my relationship with Tiantian, so I've been secretly searching for evidence of Fan Zhe's knowledge of the Tang family background, but before I could find anything, this happened.

  "Got it, just in case Tangtang finds out and gets angry, I'll explain the twists and turns to her." Fan Jiaxiang appeared in Liu's case, of course she knew that the tape was recorded by her, thinking it was a mysterious thing......, disappointing!

  This girl didn't even think about it, with Mou's identity, this was already a super heavyweight matter that he could know about. If the tape wasn't recorded by her, would there be an opportunity to know about this? If the case hadn't provided too much evidence, would there be an opportunity to participate in the investigation? If she hadn't given Jiang Zheng Ye Xuan too much confidence, would he dare let her know so much?

  "By the way, I have another thing to ask you. When I got back today, I was looking up information on Liangyou Chain and found out that Qu Yue, who we met today, is actually the young master of the Qu family group and the general manager of Liangyou Chain. It seems like he's the one who started this whole Liangyou Chain thing."

  "No wonder he said he wanted to bring the barbecue master from Liangyou Hotel to have a barbecue." Luo Ye's lips curled up: "It seems that there are still many coincidences in this world!"

  "Is he going to the barbecue tomorrow too?" Fu Mo's eyes sparkled with amusement: "Well, that saves me from having to go find him. I found out something - Yin Dejiu's hotel isn't even a legitimate franchise, it was set up through personal connections in violation of regulations."

  The rule for good friends is that the two chain stores must be at least 1,500 meters apart. Yin Dejiu's store and another chain store are only 1,000 meters apart, and that store opens early, got it?

  Luo Ye glanced at Fu Mo, who was somewhat excited: "You're feeling guilty for not being able to tell Tang Tang Fan Zhe's secret, so you rushed to investigate this matter, hoping to make Tang Tang happy before he leaves?"

  He nodded silently: "I admit there are reasons for this, but mainly I just think Dongdong is pitiful and want to help him vent."

  "With our identity, it's too easy to deal with someone like Yin Dejiu. Even if we don't know Qu Yue, it's not difficult to do this thing. But isn't this just bullying people with power?"

  "You..." The words stuck in his throat, unsure of what to say for a moment.

  "Think I'm aloof or hypocritical?"

  "I didn't say that." His silent gaze revealed his thoughts.

  "I won't explain, but within a month, you'll understand. Luoye's eyes flashed with bright light: 'To save someone is to save their heart, not just their body!'"

  Crying face...