Seeing both of them somewhat anxious, Xiao Churan could only brace herself and say, “Dad, Mum, your phones have been temporarily confiscated.”
“Confiscated?” Ma Lan got anxious upon hearing this, angrily saying, “How novel, confiscating my phone on a cruise. What do they think they are? Don’t they know the customer is God?”
Xiao Churan explained bit by bit, “Dad, Mum, we… this time we’re not on a cruise…”
“Not a cruise?” Xiao Changkun said puzzled, “Churan, you’ve got Dad all confused. Didn’t you say we’re taking a cruise to Tahiti? If not a cruise, then what is it?”
Xiao Churan said, “This time we’re on a cargo ship. The cargo ship is indeed taking us towards Tahiti, but we’re not going to Tahiti Island. It’s one of the islands in that archipelago.”
Ma Lan said somewhat impatiently, “We don’t care which island we’re going to. Confiscating our phones is still inappropriate, right? What kind of service provider is this?”
Xiao Churan pursed her lips looking at the two, one hand uneasily picking at the nails of the other hand, and said in a low voice, “Dad, Mum, this time we’re leaving, and we won’t go back.”
“Won’t go back?” The couple was even more puzzled.
Ma Lan sat up from the bed, anxiously asking, “Churan, what exactly is wrong with you? Why are you speaking in riddles and so confusingly today? If you weren’t my daughter, I’d think you were trafficking us.”
Xiao Churan made up her mind and said frankly, “Dad, Mum, this time we’re going to the South Pacific, and in the future, we won’t return to Jinling, or even to China. You can’t have any contact with relatives and friends in China anymore. In other words, we have to evaporate from the human world in China, so that no one can find us.”
“Why?” Ma Lan got anxious, blurting out, “We haven’t committed any crime or broken any law. Why do we need to evaporate?”
After saying that, she suddenly widened her eyes. “Oh, Churan! Did Ye Chen get into trouble reading feng shui for others outside? Could it be… could it be that he offended some big shot?”
Xiao Churan’s expression suddenly became somewhat stunned. She hadn’t expected her mother to think in this direction.
And Xiao Changkun beside her also seemed influenced by Ma Lan, immediately saying, “Oh! I’ve said long ago that Ye Chen isn’t cut out for that. When he first married into our family, he couldn’t even make a decent meal. Suddenly one day he became a feng shui master. I asked him where he learned it, and he was vague, saying it was from TV or some book bought from a roadside stall. This… if he could really do it well, there must be ghosts! Isn’t it just relying on glib tongue to cheat money? Cheating a little might get away with it, but cheating a lot will eventually blow up!”
Ma Lan also sighed worriedly, “Yes! The key is he cheats money, but his appetite is extraordinarily big. That Wang family sent him a villa worth over a hundred million, and he really dared to accept it? Every time he reads feng shui for someone, it’s millions or tens of millions. If there’s no effect, that’s still a small matter. What if he makes it worse by accident, harming someone’s business or causing family ruin and death? Then they won’t spare him?”
Speaking of this, Ma Lan became even more excited, clapping her hands and sighing regretfully, “And that Hong Wu, he’s a figure in society, spending his life fighting and killing. What good can he be? Don’t look at him flattering Ye Chen every day. Isn’t it still because Ye Chen has some use value?”
“He always asks Ye Chen to read feng shui for his friends. In my opinion, that’s just taking a cut in the middle, treating Ye Chen like a beast of burden!”
“Just take the last time going to the west to read feng shui for that mine boss. Maybe Ye Chen goes once, Hong Wu asks for ten or twenty million from them, then gives a few million to dismiss Ye Chen. Although Ye Chen gets the smaller share, the responsibility is one hundred percent his. If something happens at the mine, they will definitely settle accounts with Ye Chen!”
Xiao Changkun
Ma Lan said, her emotions becoming more and more agitated. She said to Xiao Changkun, “Look at our daughter’s eyes, red and swollen. While we were sleeping, who knows how many times she cried. It must be as I said!”
With that, she looked at Xiao Churan, nervously asking, “Churan, tell Mum the truth. Has Ye Chen really blown up?”
Xiao Churan originally wanted to confess to her parents about Ye Chen’s identity, as well as the situation Ye Chen was currently facing.
But she was also worried in her heart. Her mother was obsessed with money, her father addicted to power. If they knew Ye Chen’s true identity, that he was the young master of the Ye family, and the grandson of the An family, how could they be willing to leave this golden son-in-law?
Even if she told them that Ye Chen was facing his parents’ killers, with their personalities, they probably wouldn’t care at all.
After all, the danger was only potential, while money and power were real.
What if her parents were unwilling to accept her decision to leave Ye Chen, and then tried every means to contact Ye Chen, racking their brains to make Ye Chen reconcile with her.
However, if she made them think that Ye Chen had really blown up?
In that case, with their personalities, they would probably avoid him like the plague.
Not to mention them secretly going to find Ye Chen, even if Ye Chen found them, they would probably keep their distance.
Thinking of this, she instantly changed her decision and said, “Mum, everything you guessed is right…”
