Rose Manor

Chapter 68
Zhou Ruo was so frightened that his shoulders shook and tears fell down.

She took a step closer and raised her hand to touch Pei Che's arm: "A Che, when did you know?"

"Do you all think that I'm a fool?" Pei Che's heart ached, and his voice was as hoarse as tearing cloth, "You hid it from me when you were abroad, and you will continue to hide it from me when you return home. If I hadn't been able to contact you, Xiao Nian, send someone to investigate the cause of the accident in the Shen family, are you going to hide it from me for the rest of your life?"

Zhou Ruo stroked his arm again and again, trying to comfort him. He didn't know where to start, and his words seemed pale: "A Che, the matter is over..."

"I can't get through!"

It was getting late, and all the servants at home had gone to bed. The surroundings were eerily quiet, and roars echoed in the huge living room, like beasts bound by ropes, unable to break free no matter what.

Zhou Ruo wiped her tears and was unable to explain: "I didn't know about it beforehand. I never ask anything about the company's affairs. You know that. There may be some hidden secrets in it. Don't be sad first, okay?"

"I can't find Xiao Nian! Do you understand how I feel?" Pei Che was truly helpless, with his eyes full of sadness and dejection. "Have you ever cared about Xiao Nian after the accident in the Shen family? Have you ever thought about where she would go alone? Really? Haven’t you always treated her as your daughter-in-law?”

Every question asked left Zhou Ruo speechless, and his conscience was even more uneasy.

"What's the noise at night?"

The door of the study room was opened from inside, and Pei Fengnan walked out, wearing dark blue plaid pajamas and a black velvet jacket. His brows were deeply furrowed. The majesty of the head of the family could not be shaken.

Zhou Ruo turned her back and quickly wiped away her tears. She knew her husband's temper. If he found out that A Che caused the quarrel tonight, she would inevitably punish him.

Ache is the only son and heir of the Pei family. The Pei family depends on him for the future. Her husband has always been strict with him and does not allow him to do anything wrong in any way.

"Dad, you're here at the right time." Pei Che vented his dissatisfaction under the influence of alcohol, "Tell me, why did you attack the Shen family? Uncle Shen treats you like a brother and sister, thinking of you in everything, even the big man who makes money. I took you with me to do all the projects. You plotted against him secretly and killed him, and indirectly killed Aunt Yin. Have you ever thought about how the couple can rest in peace?!"

"Ache!"

Zhou Ruo shouted anxiously and fearfully, trying to stop him from talking, but his words were louder and sharper, with a strong smell of gunpowder.

Pei Fengnan's expression changed, and his clenched fists were shaking with force, obviously very angry.

"A Che, apologize to your father." Zhou Ruo turned pale and stood between the father and son. She was afraid that her husband would be angry and take action. After speaking to Pei Che, she turned to persuade her husband, "My son has drunk too much. Don't talk to him." As a general rule, he will regret it when he sobers up."

Pei Che is not afraid at all. He has been patient since the day he returned to China, and today he finally broke out: "I'm not drunk. I know what I'm talking about. I just feel ironic. My father taught me when I was young. I want to be upright, but he is a villain who betrays his trust and harms his brothers."

"A Che!" Zhou Ruo yelled again, the tears that had stopped rolled out of his eyes instantly, and he couldn't help but shake his head, "Stop talking, stop talking!"

Pei Fengnan pushed his wife away, who was in the middle, and slapped Pei Che in the face.

His hand was so strong that Pei Che's face immediately swelled up, leaving traces of his fingers.

"Old man, what are you doing?!"

Zhou Ruo hugged her husband's arm tightly with both hands. The clothes on her shoulders fell to the ground. She stepped on them in a panic and didn't bother to pick them up.

Pei Fengnan pointed at Pei Che's nose and cursed angrily: "If you are an uneducated person who says such rebellious words to your father, you might as well be beaten to death."

Zhou Ruo couldn't help but cried and cried, begging in his voice: "Ah Che, tell your father that you were wrong and ask him to forgive you."

Pei Che left this suffocating home without saying a word of apology.

*
The second half of the night was spent in the bar. It was dawn and the city was waking up. The young master of the Pei family fell down like a puddle of mud and fell into the seat of a real pickup truck.

He is no longer as handsome and restrained as he was when he returned to China, nor was he as brilliant as he was on the day he took over as president of the Pei Group. He is full of decadence and corruption, and was photographed and posted online, earning a lot of attention.

On the first day of work in the new year, Pei Che's name was mentioned in several hot searches.

Pei Fengnan had not slept all night. When he woke up in the morning and saw the day's newspaper, the front page headline was a negative report about his son. He was so angry that he had high blood pressure.I took medicine early in the morning without having breakfast. I forced myself to call my assistant and contact crisis management to handle it.

Recently, Pei Fengnan has been extremely busy with the group's lost projects and clients. He has been holding meetings continuously and tried his best to make up for it. Now that his son comes to add to the problem, he will not stop until he is angry to death.

In the bar, Pei Che woke up that night and had a dream after he was drunk.

I dreamed that that summer, he took Xiaonian to a resort to escape the summer heat. He climbed up a tree to pick yellow peaches, and she stood under the tree wearing a white dress, looking up at him, smiling like a flower, so innocent and beautiful.

She held open the hem of her white skirt with both hands to catch the peaches he dropped. She didn't care if her skirt was stained by the juice, and she bent her eyes to direct him.

The sunlight sifted through the gaps in the leaves to filter out tiny spots of light, swaying on her body. "Ache, over there, there is the biggest one over there. I want to eat that one. Be careful, don't drop it."

Pei Che closed his eyes, her voice swirling in his ears and mind, but he could no longer find her.

After waking up, Pei Che took a sip of ice water and recalled the details of his dream over and over again, wishing he could turn back time.

Suddenly, he remembered an important detail that he had overlooked.That summer, there was another girl who followed them to the resort. She seemed to be Xiao Nian's cousin. She lived out of town and rarely interacted with the Shen family. She only came to Beicheng during long holidays.

Pei Che had never asked which city that girl lived in before. He didn't pay attention to girls other than Xiao Nian.

But this might be a clue.

Pei Che rubbed his face. His head hurt after a hangover. When he thought about the possibility of finding Xiao Nian, he was filled with energy. He didn't want to wait for a moment. He immediately called the people under his command and asked them to check Shen Jiannian's cousin's phone number. and residential address.

*
After the Yin family was acquired by the Qin Group, it was integrated into a department responsible for building materials and decoration.

Yin Chengde couldn't even get a supervisor position, let alone get in touch with the group's management. The Qin family assigned him a casual position. He had been depressed for days and relied on alcohol to numb himself.

He finally experienced what it means to draw water from a bamboo basket and get nothing.

The original plan was that as long as his daughter married into the Qin family, he would be able to use the power of the Qin family to bring the shaky Yin family back to life, but in the end he was chewed to the bone.

Yin Shuyao also had a bad life. She was angry with Qin Fan at home and ran to her parents' house every three days to complain to Hu Yuzhi.

Hu Yuzhi was also very distressed. She was not in the mood to go to the beauty salon and was focused on protecting her daughter's marriage.

This morning, the doorbell rang at home. The servant went to open the door and politely called: "Miss, you are back."

"Where's my mother?"

Yin Shuyao had cried, her voice was mute, and her red and swollen eyelids couldn't be covered up by makeup.

Less than two months after getting married, she already felt that this life was too long and she couldn't live it any longer.

Hu Yuzhi was wearing a purple cheongsam, a presbyopic shawl on her shoulders, and had just come downstairs in high heels, ready to go out to play mahjong.

Yin Shuyao ran in without changing her shoes, threw herself into her mother's arms and cried, "Mom, Qin Fan is bullying people too much!"

"What's wrong?" Hu Yuzhi patted her shoulder to comfort her, "Didn't it just last a few days?"

"The old lady wanted me to give birth to a child for the Qin family. I told Qin Fan, and he said that even if he had an illegitimate child, he would not let me give him a child. Is this what people say?" Yin Shuyao cried and made trouble regardless of her image. , "He brings women home every now and then, and shamelessly pesters me on my bed to humiliate me. I can't live my life anymore!"

Hu Yuzhi is a little annoyed that she can't go out to play mahjong. After all, she is the only daughter. No matter how irritated she is, she has to endure it and patiently explain to her: "If you want the child's affairs to be easy, don't cry yet. Mom will teach you."

The mother and daughter went back to the room to talk privately. Yin Shuyao's bag fell on the sofa in the living room and her cell phone rang several times.

The servant was afraid that someone else would come to Yin Shuyao with something important, so he took her bag upstairs and knocked on the door: "Miss, someone has called you several times."

Yin Shuyao was comforted by her mother in her arms and felt much better. When she took the bag from the servant, the ringtone was still ringing and she took out her mobile phone.

There is no note on the number displayed on the screen, and it belongs to Beicheng.

Yin Shuyao hesitated and answered the call: "Hello, who is this?"

"I'm Pei Che."

The voice of the person on the other end of the phone was smooth and pleasant. Compared with Qin Fan's daily sarcastic tone, it was like heaven and earth. Yin Shuyao was stunned for a moment.

"Is this the Pei Che I know?" Yin Shuyao couldn't believe that Pei Che would take the initiative to contact her.

When she first fell in love, she fell in love with Pei Che at first sight in Beicheng. Unfortunately, that man's eyes were only on Shen Jianian and no one else.

"Yes, we have met." Pei Che did not go around in circles and explained the purpose of the call, "Do you know the whereabouts of Xiao Nian? I have been looking for her for a long time. You are her cousin, so you should know."

(End of this chapter)