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The Little Merman - Chapter 60

Published at 14th of December 2022 06:38:44 AM


Chapter 60

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“Brother Qing.” Jiang Yu looked surprised, “Why are you here?”

“Everyone is very worried about you, so I came to see you on their behalf.” Lu Qing looked out the window, “It’s a nice day outside. Do you want to go out for a walk?”

The two sat down on the bench outside. Jiang Yu put Jiang Naonao on the grass opposite the bench, and Lu Qing’s son An An sat on the grass to play with him. Lu Qing looked at the two little guys and said, “Naonao is getting better, and I’m also in good spirits.”

When he was at the bottom of the sea, Jiang Naonao didn’t like to eat and was a little thin. After going ashore, he drank milk every day, and his little face became soft and round.

Jiang Yu smiled, thinking of Lin Cheng frowned, and said: “Brother Qing, I cannot contact Cheng Cheng. He has not returned to the sea?”

Lu Qing said: “No after Qin Shen took you away, we were separated. Has he disappeared?”

Jiang Yu nodded worriedly, “Well, I haven’t seen Cheng Cheng since I woke up. I’m worried that Gu Yang might have caught him.”

Lu Qing thought about it and said comfortingly, “Don’t be too anxious first. If Cheng Cheng was really caught by Gu Yang, it doesn’t make sense that you are still safe here. When I go back to the Pei family, I’ll ask people to inquire about it.”

“You want to go back to the Pei family?” Jiang Yu froze.。”

Lu Qing looked at his son, “Pei Yun is the heir of the Pei family, since he died, it should be his son to inherit the Pei family.”

An An was playing ball with Jiang Naonao, looking at the two little ones with carefree smiles, Jiang Yu worried, “An An is still so young. Is it safe to go back to the Pei family?”

Lu Qing rubbed his left index finger, which used to carry a ring, and smiled lightly, “Isn’t there still me? I am the legal lover of Pei Yun. He took me to meet all the elders of the Pei family. Now that he’s gone, what’s wrong with me raising his son and managing the Pei family’s estate on his behalf?”

Jiang Yu was stunned, not expecting Lu Qing to want the Pei family’s estate, but after thinking about it, it seems that there is nothing wrong. Pei Yun treated Lu Qing so cruelly, that death was simply too cheap for him. Taking away everything that Pei Yun valued most, is also a kind of compensation for Lu Qing and An An.

“But brother Qing, can you do it alone?” Jiang Yu was a little worried. For a big family like the Pei family, there must be many people who want to be in the top position. He doesn’t know if Lu Qing can handle it alone.

“You don’t have to worry. I don’t dare to say anything else, but in terms of business, I’m no worse than Pei Yun.” Lu Qing smiled slightly, “After Pei Yun took over the Pei family, I gave him a lot of ideas, without me, he won’t gain a firm foothold in the Pei’s family so quickly.”

Hearing Lu Qing so confident, Jiang Yu relaxed. He thought up and said, “I stole the information from Qin Shen before, but also saved a copy in the mailbox, then send it to you, you see if you can use it.”

Lu Qing nodded and said, “Actually, I want to take over the Pei family because I want to find a shelter for our clan. Yu’er, I have lived on the shore longer than you and Cheng Cheng. I have been by Pei Yun’s side for a few years, so I came to understand one thing. If you want to avoid being held in the palm of their hand, you can only stay awake at all times and be strong. I hope that our people will never encounter something like me again. Even if it happens, I will be able to help them escape.”

In fact, before it happened, he could see that Pei Yun could treat him that way. During the time that Pei Yun did not have his help, he did make several inversion failures, which made the company lose a lot of money. The Pei family elders were quite critical of him, and at that time also out of nowhere a person who was said to be the illegitimate son of Pei Yun’s father appeared. Pei Yun was under a lot of pressure.

Pei Yun unintentionally discovered the secret of him being a merman, although, he repeatedly promised not to tell others, every time he looked at him, the eyes were full of wonder and frenzy. At that time, he could have escaped if he was a little more self-aware, but he was worried about Pei Yun, and he was pregnant with fish eggs at that time, and he missed the last chance to escape.

Did Pei Yun ever love him? Perhaps once he did, but not against the power, interests, and career. The exposure of his secret could bring a huge boost to Pei Yun’s career. If he had not helped Pei Yun to earn back all the company’s losses, plugging the Pei family elders’ microaggressions, as well as being pregnant with hybrid mermaid babies which could bring more benefits, he had long been Pei Yun sent into the lab.

“You and Cheng Cheng ……” Lu Qing turned his head to look at Jiang Yu, his eyes paused behind him, “I hope you guys are soberer than me, but I still hope that you guys will have better luck than me.”

Meet people who really love you sincerely, not because of money, power, or distorted desires, and become a horrible monster that hurts your loved ones.

“An An and I will leave first. I will see you next time.” Lu Qing withdrew his gaze, got up, and went to the grass to pick up An An.

Jiang Yu also picked up Jiang Naonao and watched Lu Qing walk away. Jiang Naonao was lying on his shoulder and kept babbling excitedly as he moved in his arms.

“What are you doing, so happy to see who?” Jiang Yu gently patted the little one’s butt and turned around, not seeing anyone he knew.

Qin Shen called his assistant on the way back to the ward, ” You should check again Pei Yun’s lover named Lu Qing and find out where the surrogate of his son is.”

He went into the ward and stood in front of the window. Jiang Yu was walking back with Jiang Naonao in his arms. He looked down and watched him enter the building, his brows knitted deeply. Jiang Yu, Lin Cheng, and the one called Lu Qing tossed out so many things. They must be hiding some secret, and this secret must be quite important, so important that it cannot be known to anyone around except them.

Even to them, this secret may be as important as their life, so Jiang Yu would leave him even if he was sad. He stole his information and worried that he would be angry. He also thought of amnesia, a trick that would make people don’t know if laugh or cry.

But it does not matter, since Jiang Yu was not willing to say, then he will go find out for himself. He does not believe that in this world, there can be any secret that can be hidden forever.

Jiang Yu carried Jiang Naonao back to the ward and saw that Qin Shen had returned. Qin Shen leaned against the window to look at him and asked indifferently, “Where did you go?”

“Went outside for a walk.” Jiang Yu made up an excuse.

Qin Shen did not dismantle it but only opened his arms toward him.

“…… What are you doing?” Jiang Yu hugged Jiang Naonao’s hand and couldn’t help but tighten it, and opened his mouth to ask.

Qin Shen said: “It’s getting late, I’m taking him back.”

Jiang Naonao opened his mouth and yawned.

Jiang Yu reluctantly handed the little cub to him. The little cub was also very well-behaved and hugged Qin Shen’s neck, not half reluctant. Jiang Yu couldn’t help but be sour in his heart. That little conscienceless thing. He was only a few days with Qin Shen, and he is so intimate with him.

“…… Can you still bring him tomorrow?” Jiang Yu spoke in a whisper, looking expectantly at Qin Shen, “I …… I feel very familiar with him, do I have any relationship with him?”

Qin Shen hugged Jiang Naonao but did not answer. He only looked at his still somewhat pale little face and reached out to rub his head, “Rest well.”

The doctor said he had to recuperate, and the little cub here will disturb his rest.

Qin Shen left with Jiang Naonao in his arms, and Jiang Yu sat down on the hospital bed, only to find a thermos lunchbox on the table next to him. He reached out and opened it, inside it was boiling fragrant chicken soup.

Jiang Yu stayed in the hospital for a few days, and every day Qin Shen brought Jiang Naonao over. Jiang Yu was still in the persona of memory loss, so it was not good to directly say that Jiang Naonao was a child of the Jiang family, but he said all kinds of crazy hints that he is familiar with Jiang Naonao, but Qin Shen was playing dumb and does not return Jiang Naonao to him. He was very suspicious that Qin Shen knew that he was pretending to have memory loss and was deliberately teasing him.

After Jiang Yu’s examination that day, the injury on his head was healed and he could be discharged from the hospital. Yan Shu came to pick him up and returned to his and Lin Cheng’s home. There was still no news from Lin Cheng, nor from Gu Yang, other than that, everything was calm. Jiang Yu was worried at first that Lin Cheng was caught by Gu Yang, but now he is worried that something happened to the two of them at the same time.

Late at night, Qin Shen sat in the study to look at the computer before the collection of Pei Yun’s information. Most of them were evidence of crimes committed by Pei Yun during his project investment, and some were real estate information of various companies under his name. He has dabbled in many fields and even had a laboratory.

Laboratory? Qin Shen slid his finger on the mouse for a moment. Other companies and properties have detailed data, but only this laboratory was a blank, with no information.

He picked up his phone and called his assistant.

“There is a laboratory under Pei Yun’s name, what does it do?” The call was answered, and he asked directly.

The assistant said: “Laboratory? At the time of the investigation, we did not find what it did. Pei Yun’s efforts were quite tight.”

Qin Shen frowned, even the criminal information Pei Yun tried to cover up could be found, but he couldn’t find the information from a laboratory. What exactly did Pei Yun do in the laboratory and kept it so secret?

“But Mr. Qin.” The assistant paused and said, “When I checked Pei Yun’s son, I couldn’t find any information about Pei Yun’s surrogacy, and besides his lover named Lu Qing, Pei Yun didn’t have any women outside. It’s really weird. Did his son jump out of a crack in the stone (1)?”

Qin Shen reached out and rubbed his brow, Jiang Yu said that Pei Yun’s son was born to his friend, but his friend was clearly the man named Lu Qing, could a man also give birth to a child?

He has not yet figured out when the study door was pushed open, the nanny hurried in and said, “Sir, the young master is not well.”

After the nanny fed Jiang Naonao and finished drinking the milk, she put him to sleep on the cot, but for some reason, the little brat suddenly spits out all the milk he drank, whimpered, and cried, no matter how hard she tried to coax him.

Qin Shen went to see, took the jacket wrapped up Jiang Naonao, and rushed to the hospital overnight.

After the doctor’s examination, he said that Jiang Naonao had a cold in his stomach (2), which was not serious, and that the child was too young to take medicine. He only taught him how to deal with it.

When he came out of the hospital, Jiang Naonao was leaning against Qin Shen’s arms, with tears dripping down his little face, whimpering softly, looking extremely pitiful. After getting into the car, Qin Shen wiped the tears from the boy’s face with a handkerchief. Instead of going home the same way, he told the driver to drive in the opposite direction.

Jiang Yu was sleeping heavily when he heard the doorbell seem to be ringing. He looked at the time with hazy eyes and saw that it was already 1 a.m. He didn’t know who had come over at this hour. He scratched his hair, put on his slippers and went to the living room, looked out from the cub’s eyes, and saw Qin Shen standing at the door with Jiang Naonao in his arms.

Why did Qin Shen bring Naonao so late? Jiang Yu rubbed his eyes and quickly opened the door, only to see Jiang Naonao nestled in Qin Shen’s arms, his little face flushed red, and he was crying like a kitten.

“What’s wrong with Naonao?” Jiang Yu hurriedly from Qin Shen’s arms to pick up the little cub. Jiang Naonao obediently nuzzled in his neck, huffing and puffing into his arms.

“The stomach caught a cold.” Qin Shen followed him in, closed the door, and said the methods taught by the doctor.

Jiang Yu put Jiang Naonao on the bed as Qin Shen said, took his temperature, and fed him a small glass of warm water. After half an hour, he took his temperature again and fed him a small cup of warm water. He leaned over Jiang Naonao and patted the little cub’s back. Jiang Naonao’s little hand grabbed his fingers, gradually stopped crying, closed his eyes, and fell asleep.

Jiang Yu accidentally fell asleep while leaning on the bed. He was thinking about Jiang Naonao, and it was just dawn when he woke up. He glanced at Jiang Naonao, he was sleeping soundly, and he should be fine. Thinking of Qin Shen who sent Jiang Naonao last night, he quietly got up, took a look in the living room, and found that Qin Shen was sleeping on the sofa in the living room with only his own suit jacket on.

He went back to his room to get a blanket and was about to cover Qin Shen when his phone rang, Jiang Yu picked it up and saw that it was Lin Cheng calling.

“Cheng Cheng.” He hurriedly went into the bathroom and closed the door, asking anxiously, “Where have you been these days? I couldn’t find you anywhere, and Gu Yang, he has disappeared too. What exactly happened?”

“Yu’er.” Lin Cheng’s signal didn’t seem to be good, so he intermittently said, “I’m fine. Gu Yang and I are together.”

Jiang Yu hurriedly asked, “With you? Where are you?”

“I don’t know. On an island.” Lin Cheng on the other side of the phone looked at the surrounding scenery and added, “A deserted island.”

Jiang Yu was dumbfounded, “Why did you go to a deserted island?”

Lin Cheng glanced at Gu Yang, who was lying on the beach in the shade of the beach and said angrily: “You know, Yu’er, this guy is so sinister, he even put a tracker on my clothes. When I went ashore that day, it happened to be caught by him. I didn’t know what to do, so I jumped up and stunned him with my tail fan while he was stunned, then took him to this deserted island and threw his phone into the sea.”

“Then what should we do next?” Jiang Yu was shocked, but Lin Cheng kidnapped Gu Yang and tied him to an uninhabited island.

“I don’t know.” Lin Cheng scratched his head, very distressed.

“Let Jiang Yu send some food and drink over.” Seeing him making a call, the lying Gu Yang supported his upper body from the beach and waved a hand at him.

“I know I know.” Lin Cheng returned to him impatiently and complained to Jiang Yu, “This guy’s ability to survive in the wild is so poor that he can’t even start a fire. We are eating raw fish from rainwater these days. You bring us some food and drink, I’m fine, this guy is dying. By the way, what else is there…Bei……”

He opened his voice and shouted at Gu Yang, “What was it that you wanted?”

Gu Yang raised his head and shouted back to him, “Bell, Lord Bei.”

“Oh, he wants that video of Lord Bei, about the man at the top of the food chain, who teaches wildlife (3). Oh, whatever you want, you can get it for him. You can’t let the fish eggs die before they are born.” After Lin Cheng finished speaking, he glanced at his phone and said hurriedly, “Oh, my phone is about to run out of battery. Xiaosha (4) knows where I am, so you can just follow it when the time comes.”

“…… okay.” Jiang Yu only had time to agree, the opposite side hung up the phone.

Although the development was somewhat unexpected, fortunately, both Lin Cheng and Gu Yang were not in trouble. Jiang Yu went out of the bathroom, took the blanket to the living room, and just when he bent down to cover Qin Shen, Qin Shen opened his eyes.

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Notes:

Here is making reference to the legend of the Monkey King that was born from a rock. If you want to know more, click here. Stomach cold is a term used in traditional Chinese medicine. It refers to the syndrome of yin-cold stagnation in the stomach caused by deficiency of yang-qi in the spleen and stomach, excessive eating and coldness, or a direct pathogenic cold. Symptoms include epigastric pain, warm pain relief, vomiting, clear saliva, pale mouth preferring hot drinks, inability to eat, pale tongue with a white slippery coating, and deep and slow pulse. It is suitable for warming the stomach and dispelling cold. Source. “Days of Living Together with Lord Bei” is an urban life novel serialized on 17k novels.com. The author is Tulip Fuxiang. What Gu Yang said is part of the summary that appears on Baidu. It’s the name of this novel’s mascot. Our lovely Shark-kun.




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