The journey from the bustling city centre to the ancient village in the surburbs, was a significant number of kiloters.
On the way, Mu Sijue made another three phone calls to Xu Youning. The first ti, it rang for over ten seconds, and she hung up.
The second and third ti, she hung up almost instantly once the phone vibrated.
This insensible, wretched gal! How dared she hung up without looking at who was calling!
“Drive faster!” Mu Sijue vented his frustration on Ah Guang.
Ah Guang sped up while saying, “Seventh Brother, don’t worry too much. Sister Youning isn’t such an impulsive person.”
Was Xu Youning an impulsive person?
Mu Sijue recalled the ti when Xu Youning was still a server at the hotpot restaurant.
The other staff in the shop were previously from the Mu family who had watched him grow up. He had a particular sense of affection for them.
Those few uncles and aunties had seen the look of him wailing while being beaten by his father. Naturally, they did not treat him with the doubtfulness of an outsider. When he visited the hotpot restaurant, they even called him by his nickna, and chatted comfortably with him like a family mber.
Not too long after Xu Youning joined the restaurant, the aunties and uncles were no longer worried about the prospects of his marriage. Instead, they often brought up Xu Youning in their conversations with him, and they were full of complints.
“The young gal is really smart. There was a ti when a group of people tried to create trouble halfway through their al, and she resolved the issue effortlessly. If it weren’t for her, we would have to trouble Ah Guang to co over again.”
“Xiao Mu, where did you find such an interesting little girl? If she wants to resign, you must not agree to it! You have to make her stay no matter how much a raise she wants!”
With these repeated ntions, he gradually began noticing Xu Youning. She worked fast when they got received many custors. When there was free ti, she would lean around sowhere near the window, playing her phone. She was not much different from the girls of her age. A likable energy of cleverness could be sensed through her dark and lively eyes, but it did not give away any particular idea of how humorous she was.
Until one ti, he visited the restaurant right when she was mimicking the voice of a particular animation series, “Demon! Return my grandfather!”
The sharp but unthreatening voice was full of a childlike quality. Her imitation was full of life. She cleared her throat, and suddenly said, “Big Brother! Big Brother! The demon has captured our Master!”
She was in fact morizing so lines, but often mixing things up, which had thoroughly entertained the aunties and uncles. anwhile, he silently made a ntal association of Xu Youning with a crazy person.
In the next few tis, he went to have als at the restaurant, so people were causing trouble again.
Xu Youning jumped off the windowsill, rolled up her sleeves and clarified the issue. The problem was resolved in no ti.
That was when he realized that this little girl was incredibly logical and convincing when she spoke. Her firm and extensive reasoning had easily intimidated the other party into compromisation.
For the first ti, Mu Sijue thought it was such a waste for Xu Youning to be a server.
But he was rely entrusted by soone else to take care of her, and did not wish to interfere in her decisions. Moreover, she was just a little girl. She was at best a little clever. What major accomplishnts could she be capable of?
Until one ti, he was going to discuss a business deal with so Vietnase, and got Ah Guang to entertain them at the restaurant.
After it was done, Xu Youning suddenly coerced Ah Guang to take her to him.
He t this little girl out of curiosity, and she imdiately said, “Those Vietnase are trying to con you! They do not sincerely intend to do business with you. They have prepared inferior products for you!”
Of course Mu Sijue would not have easily trusted the words of a little girl. She took out her phone and played a recording, and it was a string of gibberish in Vietnase. He could not understand, and she said, “Let translate for you.”
The content of the translation was similar to what she had claid. After that, she said again, “You don’t understand the conversation, but you definitely can recognize so of these people’s voices. If you suspect I’m taking advantage of you for not understanding Vietnase, then you can look for soone who understands Vietnase to translate it for you again.”
It was then when Mu Sijue realized Xu Youning was not afraid of him at all.
To her, everyone was the sa. Nobody was scarier than the other. Nobody was nobler than anyone else.
During the transaction, he requested to examine the stocks, unexpectedly to the other party. They refused, citing ti constraint as an excuse, and he said, “Well then, I’ll do a random inspection.”
It turned out that Xu Youning was right. There were a lot of inferior goods among the quality goods.
If he had trusted the other party and went ahead with the deal, those people would have returned to their ho country, and they would provide a million ways to excuse themselves if he ever wanted to go after them. Then he would have gotten the short end of the stick.
He terminated the deal, brought his n back, and reported them to the police. That group of Vietnase were still in prison until now.
And after committing an act of rit, Xu Youning was taken back to the office by him.
Xu Youning possessed an even stronger sense of curiosity than the girls of her age, and inspected his office: “Seventh Brother, your office is really ugly.”
Mu Sijue had the impulse of throwing her out from the eighth floor.
But upon recalling Su Jianan’s entrustnt, he suppressed that impulse, and invited Xu Youning for a seat. Instead, she was surprisingly unreserved, and just boldly sat down.
Mu Sijue asked her, “You know what I do?”
The little girl nodded with a face of innocence, “I know. Which child in City G did not grow up hearing about the Mu family? How could I not know what you do!”
Mu Sijue smiled. It was not a smile of good intentions. “Yet you still got yourself involved in my affairs? Are you not afraid to die?”
Xu Youning said very seriously, “Actually, I am afraid. But you’re my boss now. I’m afraid that you would make a loss and delay my pay...”
Mu Sijue stared at her. “I owe it to you this ti. What do you want?”
Xu Youning stared back at Mu Sijue. “I want to be with you.”
“...”
“Oh, don’t be mistaken! I am not interested in you!” Under his glare, she hurriedly emphasized, “I ant I want to work for you!”
“Why?” Mu Sijue’s stare grew sharper. Not many people could withstand such a gaze.
Yet Xu Youning was able to look at him smilingly. “Because I want to! The hotpot restaurant is too boring. If I follow you to et big shots everyday, I might be able to witness so fights. Isn’t it fun?”
Mu Sijue inspected her and revealed a look of disdain. “Little girl.”
“Do you look down on girls?” Xu Youning grew frustrated. “Let tell you! I was already a leader of the pack over a decade ago!”
Mu Sijue was done checking her, and his smile grew even more disdainful upon hearing that, “Is being the leader of a bunch of kids anything worthy of showing off?”
In comparison with Mu Sijue, she was indeed a much more unworthy “leader”. Xu Youning lightly rubbed the tip of her nose in embarrassnt, “I just wanted to say... I possess a certain level of capability!”
Mu Sijue acted unexpectedly, yet Xu Youning was also quick to respond, and flexibly avoided his attack. She even managed to fight back for a few moves and ended up getting pinned down on the sofa by Mu Sijue.
Little did he expect she was so easy to yield and imdiately smiled, “Seventh Brother, a gentleman does not fight with a lady. You let go of first, let’s talk it out.”
Once Mu Sijue let her go, Xu Youning grew agitated, pointing at him, “How dare you ambushed ! What kind of gentleman are you!”
“When have I ever told you I am a gentleman?” Mu Sijue held her hand down. “Where did you learn that?”
He was asking about her fighting ability.
Xu Youning brushed across the tip of her nose with her index finger, “To be honest, my maternal grandmother sent overseas to study after I graduated from university. But I did not apply for the university overseas, and spent the sum of money on traveling. I was conned during the trip and lost a lot of money, and could not get it back, so I went to learn martial arts.” She looked quite proud, “It is now only possible for to be the one doing the snatching!”
Mu Sijue knew she traveled to many countries behind her grandmother’s back, and learned many foreign languages. She had probably picked up Vietnase from the locals when she was in Vietnam.
But this was not a good enough reason for him to accept her. “Why do you want to follow ?”
“Because you’re formidable,” she seed to have always been this direct, “No one else would dare to defy you in City G. If I beca your subordinate, then I can... take revenge.”
“Who do you want to take revenge against?” Mu Sijue asked.
But Xu Youning refused to say, except to respond dismissively. He was not one to keep pressing for an answer. But only later after investigating, then did he learn that Xu Youning’s family was only left with her and her maternal grandmother. Her parents had passed away from an accident long ago.
The cause of their death seed to be more complex, and had sothing to do with so people in the ancient village. But the trail eventually went cold.
Mu Sijue told Xu Youning that he would inform her again. A few tis eting her later at the hotpot restaurant, she nonchalantly called him Seventh Brother, appearing to be unworried that he might reject her.
The person who broke the silence was in fact Mu Sijue. He pulled her aside to ask, and she smiled saying, “Who said I am not worried? But I recently realized that the people around you were all able to make full use of their strengths under your leadership. And then I stopped being worried!”
This was a complint. Mu Sijue had lost count of the number of tis he had heard such complints.
But strangely, he started taking Xu Youning along with him and sent her to deal with so simple issues.
It was expected that people were not convinced by such a young girl. His subordinates often made things difficult for her, but she dealt with her own business calmly, and helped to resolve a few more serious matters. Within half a month, she was able to prove herself of her ability.
The next ti eting her, Mu Sijue heard his subordinate calling her sister. It was the first ti he cast a look of astonishnt at a subordinate, while she raised her brows at him and smiled very gleefully.
Xu Youning did not get full of herself. She remained careful in dealing with issues, her daily training routine had grown even more intense than what most n would do. She looked incredibly energetic whenever she was out and about while remaining extrely composed when t with major issues. Mu Sijue could feel his own suspicions and guard against her shedding.
But he did not expect her to be so impulsive today.
Mu Sijue suddenly recalled the revenge she had ntioned, and then phoned soone to investigate whether Xu Youning’s parents and that person nad Chen Qingbiao were related.
It was found out very soon that when Chen Qingbiao and Xu Youning’s parents were young, Chen Qingbiao was still not the tyrant of the ancient village, and was a business partner of Xu Youning’s father.
Their business expanded thereafter, but the two partners had conflicting views. They fell out and went to court.
Originally, Xu Youning’s father had an absolute chance of winning that case.
However, Xu Youning’s parents got into an accident and both died, just on the day before the court session began.
Chen Qingbiao took advantage of the fact that Xu Youning was alone with her grandmother and seized the business after dismissing them with a small sum of money. Ever since, he prospered and even further expanded the business, eventually becoming the tyrant of the ancient village. The villagers were upset with him but dared not speak against him.
Xu Youning’s grandmother got hospitalized today, also because Chen Qingbiao had brought people to her house. Only then she beca so impulsive and claid that she wanted to kill soone.
At the doorstep of Xu Youning’s house, the door was shut tight. Mu Sijue ordered Ah Guang to find soone to take them to Chen Qingbiao’s house.
The person who took them there was in his teens, sitting in the front passenger seat, giving Ah Guang directions. Soon, the car reached the entrance of a villa, the kid pointed to the building, “It’s this building!”
Ah Guang gave the kid a few pink notes and asked him to return ho, and then asked, “Seventh Brother, are we going to look for Sister Youning?”
Mu Sijue sulked, “Enter!”
He was not worried about Xu Youning. He simply did not want to fail what Su Jianan and Lu Boyan had entrusted him with.
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