Chapter 1184 - 1156: Let’s Go, Pipi Shrimp! (Fourth Update)

Chapter 1184: Chapter 1156: Let’s Go, Pipi Shrimp! (Fourth Update)

"Old Madam just called and told me to make some excuses, but from the way she talked, she’s clearly not planning to let this slide. She’s waiting at our place for us to bring the dog back. But it’s weird—I just can’t figure out why it would bite you. Has anything like this ever happened before?"

"Before... I remember now!" Qian slapped her forehead, suddenly recalling the time she brought that ginseng home and Beauty barked at her.

Right then, Beauty came running out of the bathroom with Qian’s changed clothes in its mouth. It dropped the clothes on the floor and barked at them like crazy.

Yu Minglang watched Beauty barking at the clothes and frowned deeply.

"Could it be that there’s some dirty smell on the clothes? Beauty doesn’t like it? I just remembered, there was one time I brought ginseng back, and it had the same reaction—it kept barking at me. Later I changed clothes and it stopped."

Qian told him what happened last time too.

Yu Minglang shook his head; something felt off to him.

Beauty was professionally trained. It usually wouldn’t react this strongly to smells. Even if you let it smell stinky tofu, it wouldn’t just bark for no reason.

Seeing that its humans still hadn’t picked up the signal, Beauty grew anxious. It gave a sharp bark, then suddenly sat down. That particular sitting posture made Yu Minglang’s eyes sharpen in an instant.

He took Qian’s clothes into the room, and after a while came out carrying a few bags, placing them all in front of Beauty.

"Beauty, sniff!" Yu Minglang used the official command. Hearing his order, Beauty immediately stood up and sniffed each bag one by one, then ended up barking madly at one of them.

Yu Minglang opened it. Sure enough, that bag contained Qian’s clothes.

"Qian, who have you been in contact with lately?"

"Who... uh, just people from school, and then the Mu Family."

"You haven’t been to any special places?"

"No, I haven’t."

"Then something’s wrong."

Yu Minglang felt something was off and got up to pace back and forth. Beauty’s reaction was way too abnormal. But Qian had gone to the Mu Family not just once or twice—how come only these two times did Beauty react?

"Think carefully. During these two visits to the Mu Family, was there anyone there you hadn’t seen before, or rarely saw?"

"Not seen before or rarely seen..." Qian thought for a moment. "That would only be Mrs. Mu. Both times I met with her—oh right, that last time when we were going to send Beauty away, Mrs. Mu just happened to come over, and Beauty seemed really agitated then too."

Before retirement, Beauty was a drug-detection dog. It was especially sensitive to that smell.

Yu Minglang narrowed his eyes, still feeling something didn’t quite add up. "If we assume she’s a junkie, you only spent a short time with her. How could the smell be so strong that even after you came back, Beauty would get this worked up? And when Beauty smells contraband, its standard reaction is to sit down directly, not bark like this. Unless..."

Unless there was something else going on with this Mu Xiaofeng?

"I’ll find someone to investigate her right away, see if she really is, as you said, just a travel agency boss on the surface. In the meantime, don’t have any contact with her, and don’t take on her family’s case."

Qian thought for a second, then shook her head. "No. Her father’s condition is already very severe; it’s not the same as Qiuqiu’s dad. Qiuqiu’s dad is basically under control now, but Mr. Mu’s emotions are all over the place, especially since he sees me as his lifeline. If I suddenly stop going, he’ll lose the will to live."

"Qian, you need to understand, the woman you’re dealing with is very likely..."

"I know. Even if she has issues, her father is my patient. Since I’ve taken his money, I have to see it through to the end." Qian loved money, but she definitely wasn’t someone without principles. As a doctor, fighting crime wasn’t her job. She couldn’t abandon a patient just because the patient’s daughter might be involved in something shady. That would violate her professional ethics.

Seeing how serious Yu Minglang looked, Qian blinked and put her palms together.

"So my almighty husband will definitely come up with a perfect solution, right?"

Look at those starry eyes~

"Don’t think I’ll fall for your beauty trap. This concerns your safety, you know that? Who knows what someone like her might do if you keep contacting her? If I’m not by your side when something happens, what are you and the baby supposed to do?"

He usually couldn’t bear to let Qian get near danger. Now that she was pregnant, she was even more precious.

"I’m not the type who sees danger and charges straight at it. Right now we’re actually in a completely advantageous position. First, we know there’s something off about her, but she doesn’t know we’ve figured it out, so this is the perfect chance to catch her. Second, if I suddenly disappear, she will definitely get suspicious. If she runs, the first thing she’ll do is come after me for revenge. Then she’ll be in the dark and I’ll be in the open, which is even more dangerous for me, isn’t it? Better to play along and turn the tables—protect my professional bottom line and investigate her at the same time. Isn’t that ideal?"

Qian’s argument was logical and well-founded. Yu Minglang didn’t agree, and was about to lecture her some more when he saw her hug a tissue box and start pulling tissues one by one, wiping a face that didn’t have a single tear on it. To someone who didn’t know better, she looked like she’d been crying her eyes out.

"I’ve fallen out of favor. My husband doesn’t love me anymore."

"Stop messing around!"

"You don’t love me. First you won’t let me keep Beauty, making me an ungrateful person. Then you won’t let me treat my patient, turning me into a doctor with no ethics. And you’re going to say I don’t care about the baby, that I’m already pregnant but still refuse to compromise!"

Yu Minglang smacked his lips twice. At times like this, he really didn’t appreciate his wife’s silver tongue—he couldn’t win an argument with her at all!

Seeing him sputter out, Qian started rubbing her belly and muttering to herself.

"Baby, you’ve got status now. You’re not even out yet, and your dad and grandma only have eyes for you. I’m already yesterday’s news."

"You’re twisting the facts! When have I ever only cared about the baby and not you?"

Yu Minglang realized that ever since his wife got pregnant, her difficulty level had shot straight up, and she’d become a bit unreasonable too.

"You absolutely don’t care about me! Every time you think things through now, it’s all about what’s best for the baby, and you don’t give a damn about my feelings!" Qian said it with full confidence, and seeing his aggrieved face, clearly in the right but unable to argue, she was laughing on the inside.

Heh, in her previous life she had to shoulder the entire pregnancy by herself. Now that she could dump all the little irritations on him, it felt so good!

"Daughter, tell me, isn’t your dad being totally outrageous?" Qian pushed her luck, rubbing her belly and playing it up.

Yu Minglang was so mad the veins on his forehead were popping. He simply put his hand on her belly too and gave an order, "Pipi! Kick your mom! She’s way out of line!"

He didn’t dare actually scold Qian, so he could only pin his hopes on the baby.

"Are you stupid? She’s just over a month old. Technically she’s still just a tiny embryo. How could she possibly kick? And what the hell is ’Pipi’?"

Pipi shrimp, let’s go?

"I thought long and hard to come up with that nickname! I’ve decided: before the baby is born, we’re calling her Pipi! Works for both a boy and a girl, and it’s cute. May our child grow up healthy and full of lively mischief!"