Chapter 219: Secret

Bai Zimu stayed at home for two days, and when packing his things he also did so in front of Lei Dongchuan, openly and aboveboard packing his luggage.

On the surface Lei Dongchuan said he was going for too long of a time, but when packing things for him he couldn’t resist bringing a bit more, asking:

“Did you call home and tell them? My mom previously even discussed with Auntie Dong, saying they would come over to see you at the beginning of September, don’t end up making a wasted trip when the time comes.”

His voice rose a little, carrying a few fractions of deliberateness,

“Don’t let me help you, I wouldn’t be able to explain it clearly, your training camp team having so many reasons day after day—”

Bai Zimu pinched his mouth, not letting him finish the rest of his complaints, angering Lei Dongchuan into raising his eyebrows a bit higher.

Bai Zimu:

“Brother, I already said it’s the last time going on a business trip.”

“Is that your last time, just now you still said it was ‘the last time this year’, how about you write a note as proof for me right now, let’s write it clearly, and don’t run so far in the future.”

“Then I can’t say for sure, but in the future I want to go to school to work, there are winter and summer vacations, when the time comes the winter and summer vacations I guarantee I won’t run so far.”

Hearing this Lei Dongchuan furrowed his brows and said:

“After you graduate you aren’t going to manage the company together with me?”

Bai Zimu said strangely:

“Do I also have to go to the company to work? Let’s not, I feel that in this aspect you are much more formidable than me, having to face so many people every day, just thinking about it gives me a headache.”

Lei Dongchuan: “Then the school has fewer people?”

Bai Zimu:

“The school is different, the majority of my time is doing scientific research, occasionally going to teach classes, even if I give a lecture it’s just me speaking, I don’t need to arrange tasks for everyone.”

“…”

Lei Dongchuan couldn’t outtalk him, Bai Zimu raised a pair of eyes to look at him, his gaze clear to the point of being able to illuminate that little bit of thought in his heart.

He just couldn’t bear to separate from him.

Couldn’t bear to let the little friend at home leave himself by a half step.

But no matter how unwilling to part, it was also just venting complaints, putting on a brave front with words, in not even a few minutes his heart softened into a complete mess, already beginning to think about where they would go for travel and vacation during future winter and summer vacations.

Bai Zimu went to give the family a call, saying something in a low voice in the living room, when on the call his temper was also very good, bursting into laughter from time to time.

Lei Dongchuan packed his backpack properly, placed it on the side, and still took a coat to drape on top.

He heard this time it was going to Qinghai, the climate over there was different from the capital, sooner or later it would be a bit colder, bringing a thick coat was still good.

After Bai Zimu finished calling home, he came over to look at him, taking a glance at that backpack before saying to him:

“Oh right, Brother, I also bought one for you, the same as this one of mine.”

After he took it out, the expression on Lei Dongchuan’s face eased significantly, both were mountaineering bags, Oxford cloth material, waterproof and sturdy, the color and style were both exactly the same.

Lei Dongchuan treated that mountaineering bag of his extremely cherishingly, taking a look and putting it away, planning to wait until the future when the two of them went out together to then use it.

Bai Zimu looked at him the whole time, waiting until he put it away properly before smiling and saying:

“Really should let Mother Lei come over and take a look.”

Lei Dongchuan:

“Take a look at what?”

“Take a look at you cherishing your schoolbag, Brother, in the past you broke so many schoolbags, every day after school you would swing your schoolbag with your hand running home, one time even the pencil box flew out.”

“…Why bring up the past, a true hero doesn’t bring up his past bravery!”

Lei Dongchuan rubbed the tip of his nose, after he got together with Bai Zimu, the only shortcoming was that the other party knew all of his past matters, after all they had never been separated from childhood to adulthood. But on second thought he also felt relieved, his younger brother also grew up chasing behind him, whatever appearance he had he had all seen it.

Bai Zimu still wanted to speak with him, but his mobile phone rang, this time picking it up and listening for a long time, and even went to the balcony side because the signal wasn’t good, speaking also wasn’t as relaxed as with the family, listening a lot, speaking little.

Lei Dongchuan merely took it as the professors in the school looking for him, but wait until after Bai Zimu came back, only then did he know it was people from the Eleventh Bureau.

Lei Dongchuan asked:

“What are the people from the Eleventh Bureau looking for you to do?”

Bai Zimu took the mobile phone playing with it for a bit, lowering his eyes and saying:

“No, it was me looking for them to help investigate a bit of a matter.”

“Investigate what?”

“Brother, do you still remember a while ago Luo Jiaqing kept going to the school to look for Grandpa? He also asked people to pass business cards over several times, wanting to come to the studio to visit, begging Grandpa to help handle matters, I need to go out for quite a long period of time, truly not at ease with Grandpa’s side, so I asked that side to help investigate.”

Bai Zimu didn’t mention his initial agreement with the Eleventh Bureau, merely telling Lei Dongchuan the “training camp group” had some relationship with the higher-ups, saying to him:

“The Luo family has a Jinyuan Jewelry Store, encountered some difficulties in business, owing a large sum of money urgently needing turnover…”

Lei Dongchuan furrowed his brows:

“They want to look for Grandpa He to borrow money?”

Bai Zimu shook his head and said:

“That sum of money is too large, already exceeding the scope of being able to be borrowed, they want to let Grandpa forge gold objects for them, I feel there is something strange here.”

He pondered for a moment, slowly opening his mouth speaking his doubts, “The gold objects Grandpa forged the price is very high it’s true, but compared to the sum of money Jinyuan Jewelry Store owes it’s still missing a lot, insufficient to turn things over, Luo Jiaqing repeatedly pestering what exactly is it for?”

Lei Dongchuan had always been outside, and also followed the elders of both families going to some occasions, thinking slightly for a bit probing saying:

“Perhaps wanting to send it for mortgage or go to an auction house, I will help you investigate these, you go busy with your matters at ease, don’t worry about the family.”

Bai Zimu could only nod:

“Alright, Brother, if there’s any matter don’t go do it yourself, wait until I come back let’s discuss and handle it.”

“Alright.”

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At the same time.

The Luo family.

Luo Jiaqing begged to see Master He several times in the capital, in the end even if seeing him once, was also wretchedly chased out, not being able to speak of anything at all, his family’s phone calls urged frequently, truly having no way to cover it up, he could only return and clearly state the situation.

The garden villa the Luo family lived in occupied quite a large area, from the outside to the inside the renovations were luxurious, the walls were also depicted with gold powder, looking slightly flashy, the main hall hung a huge crystal chandelier, looking closely under the light, one could see the gold powder carvings in some places already had mottled traces of falling off.

Luo Jiaqing stood in the main hall, not daring to raise his head to look at the old man sitting on the mahogany sofa in front.

Luo Deyao had already reached the age of seventy, a full head of silver hair, a shriveled and heavily wrinkled face, looking very disproportionate with the gorgeous clothes on his body, only a pair of eyes staring intently at the grandson standing in front, his voice carrying sternness:

“He Yanchun truly said this?”

Luo Jiaqing faltered:

“Yes, Grandfather, he said wanting to return some golden Buddha statue, if it is truly with you, it’s better to return it to him, anyway it also isn’t worth much, for so many years I have never even heard of this thing… ”

Luo Deyao picked up the teacup in his hands smashing it towards him, with a “kuang” sound shattering by Luo Jiaqing’s feet, Luo Jiaqing immediately fell silent, lowering his head not daring to say more.

Luo Deyao closed his eyes for a bit, saying to him:

“You going out for such a trip, spent quite a lot of money, not a single matter successfully handled… truly a piece of trash, roll down, don’t be an eyesore to me here!”

Luo Jiaqing was very afraid of his grandfather, responding with a sound and hurriedly leaving.

The other people in the main hall were still there.

Luo Deyao looked towards the right side, sneering:

“What are you still standing there stupidly for, waiting to see my joke? [Read on RanaTranslations🌸] You also roll!”

The person standing by the antique shelf on the right side slightly stepped out half a step, it was a thin and pale middle-aged man, it was exactly Luo Qiaosheng, he nodded responding yes, and very quickly also walked out of the luxury residence.

Without any other people around anymore, the imposing manner Luo Deyao had been forcefully keeping up the whole time also weakened by half, he slumped his shoulders looking much older all at once, even more feeble than his actual age.

The words Luo Jiaqing brought back, he heard clearly.

He also understood in his heart, this was the final opportunity Master He gave him, taking out the golden Buddha statue, to use it to prove Master He’s innocence from back in the year.

If it were so, perhaps there were still a few fractions of old days’ kindness that could be spoken of.

But Luo Deyao without the slightest hesitation, rejected this choice.

That golden Buddha statue was like possessing an unspeakable magic power, initially it was him risking his life to protect the golden Buddha statue, it was also him exclusively possessing the golden Buddha statue for a scenery of several decades, even falling to this kind of crisis nowadays, he had also never thought of taking out that golden Buddha statue.

His greed once again gained the upper hand.

Or perhaps, he did not dare.

Afraid the matters of back in the year would be exposed in front of the people of the world, afraid the kind of evil he did, would be unable to be washed clean.

Matters having reached today, Luo Deyao already did not dare, and also could not admit it.

The muscles on the old man’s face on the mahogany sofa twitched a few times, he grasped the walking stick in his hand, the strength so great his finger joints turned white, doing a fight to the death in his heart, finally still picking up the telephone at hand, only when dialing, hesitating for a moment, still changing the dialed out number, changing the contact person to Luo Jiaqing.

Luo Jiaqing having just been cursed at a round and chased away, when coming back again was still somewhat at a loss.

Luo Deyao still sat there, asking him:

“Did you come back alone? Did you tell your parents?”

Luo Jiaqing shook his head, saying in a low voice:

“No, didn’t you say on the phone, letting me come back quietly alone, my dad indeed asked me just now, I said it was a bit of matter from before with Baohua Silver Building not spoken clearly, you called me back to ask again.”

Luo Deyao nodded his head, getting up and saying:

“Handled not bad, you follow me.”

Luo Jiaqing followed him; he was strictly managed by his grandfather and mother since childhood, also couldn’t be considered very close, more accurately speaking it should be timidity. [Read on RanaTranslations🌸] His irritable temper outside aside from his own nature being so, more than half was also due to the family environment. It’s just that he pretended very well in front of his elders, never showing it, this time was also so.

Luo Deyao brought him to the basement, opened a secret room, and opened a safe.

Luo Jiaqing had always heard the family had such a safe, but had never seen it, this was still the first time seeing it, a safe nearly a person’s height embedded within the wall, looking extremely thick and heavy, when his grandfather inputted the password he intentionally lowered his head, but his eyes still couldn’t resist casting a glance, seeing the old man’s raised hand, blocking more than half, only able to see vague movements.

He was feeling it a pity in his heart, when he saw the old man had already opened the safe, bending over taking out an item covered by red silk, about the length of a forearm, vaguely catching sight it was a gold object.

Luo Jiaqing thought in his heart, so it turns out the family truly has a golden Buddha statue.

Luo Deyao did not uncover the red silk, sealing it properly according to its original state, holding it with both hands and placing it into a black leather suitcase, locking it well and handing it into his hands, urging:

“Jiaqing, this thing is extremely important to our family, I originally wanted to use that little bit of old items stored in the safe to forge a gold object, to send to the auction house, but right now it seems it won’t do, you help me take this piece of golden Buddha statue to Tibet, after arriving there, naturally there will be people to coordinate… be a bit careful handling matters, understand?”

Luo Jiaqing received it carefully lifting it, but was still somewhat puzzled:

“Grandfather, since our family has the golden Buddha statue, even if not returning it to Master He, then why don’t we send the golden Buddha statue to the auction house? [Read on RanaTranslations🌸] Our family previously sent so many things to the auction house, the prices were all very high, this golden Buddha statue will definitely be more valuable than those.”

Luo Deyao slightly furrowed his brows, carrying a bit of irritation saying:

“You don’t understand, the matter handed to you, just go handle it.”

Luo Jiaqing repeatedly responded yes, not daring to ask again.