Chapter 1196 - 1168: Who Is the One Who Retires After Success? (Fourth Update)

Chapter 1196: Chapter 1168: Who Is the One Who Retires After Success? (Fourth Update)

After they finished coaxing the old man, Mu Xiaofeng came out with Qian. By then, Dalong had long since secured the evidence and was already sitting in front of the computer, playing the role of his brain-dead teenage self. Mu Xiaofeng said to Qian gratefully.

"Mr Chen, this time we really owe you. My dad’s getting on in years and is just like a kid now—whatever pops into his head, he does."

"You’re welcome, this is what I should do." Qian smiled as she looked in Dalong’s direction, the words carrying a double meaning.

After leaving the Mu Family, Qian asked Dalong, "You got it?"

Dalong held up the little bag in his hand. "Piece of cake! But I seriously admire you and my brother-in-law. How the hell did you two predict all of this?"

Qian gave him a mysterious smile.

The multi-step scheme inspired by "the finger easing the itch" was not something to be shared with outsiders—not even with her own little brother!

Yu Minglang’s brain, which puts a calculator to shame, plus Qian’s top-notch professional skills, together created this unique, absolutely uncopyable chain of tricks!

Today’s evidence collection was only the first step in the whole scheme. Qian stroked her belly and showed a serene yet confident smile.

"Sis, what are you grinning about like an idiot?"

Qian kicked him. "You wouldn’t get it! I’m doing prenatal education!"

"I really don’t understand the world of you academic overlords..." Grinning like an idiot counts as prenatal education too?

"I’m telling your little niece to grow up to be like her parents—use her brain in the right way, know what she should and shouldn’t do. And also, when she picks a partner, she has to find someone with similar IQ, and absolutely not someone as dim as her uncle, or she’ll end up having kids with low intelligence..."

Damn it!

Little Dalong was traumatized. Even prenatal education had to use him as the negative example?

"You and my brother-in-law have god-tier brains. I’ve no idea how the two of you even ended up together. If your kid inherits both your IQs, that’s just terrifying. It’s okay if it’s a boy, but if it’s a girl and she’s that smart, she’ll never get married..."

"Pah! Jinx!" Qian spat at him viciously.

The sample Dalong brought back was tested, and sure enough, it was the unspeakable stuff. That proved Yu Minglang’s hypothesis was correct. But with only that tiny amount, it didn’t reach the 10g threshold for sentencing. Besides, given Mu Xiaofeng’s cunning, if Yu Minglang had another unit come over to arrest her, she would definitely destroy the evidence before they arrived.

So Yu Minglang never planned to use this thing to nail Mu Xiaofeng. Once he confirmed that Mu Xiaofeng was hiding the fact she’d gone abroad and that there was unspeakable stuff in her family home, Yu Minglang and Qian designed the second step of the plan.

The next time Qian went to the Mu Family, she brought Beauty along as well.

Mu Xiaofeng wasn’t home. The Mu Family’s maid saw them and immediately called to report.

"Mrs. Mu, this Mr Chen is really... you know. Last time she brought that idiot little brother and turned the house upside down, and I let that slide. Now she’s brought a big dog. I don’t know what’s wrong with that dog, but the moment it got into our house it started barking like crazy."

"A dog?"

"Yes! A dog that big, barking its head off in our house. I’m worried it’ll affect the old master’s condition. I told Mr Chen about it, and Mr Chen gave me a dressing-down, saying a mere maid like me had no right to tell her what to do."

"Got it, I’ll talk to her."

After hanging up, Mu Xiaofeng’s face hardened.

She often dealt with drug-sniffing dogs when she was abroad, and knew how sharp their noses were. Could it be that Chen Xiaoqian suspected her?

Whatever the case, bringing a dog along to treat her father was going too far. Mu Xiaofeng called Qian.

"Mr Chen, I heard from my people that you brought a dog over?"

"Mrs. Mu, I was just about to tell you. Sigh, you see, my family is a mess. My little brother just had my mom pick him up, and now my dog’s been sent back again. You saw me send her away last time, right? She wouldn’t behave at their place and kept causing trouble, so they returned her. My husband’s too busy with work. I really had no choice but to bring my Beauty along."

"Mr Chen, I’ve always respected your abilities, but this really isn’t appropriate. My father needs peace and quiet, and I heard from the maid that your dog is very noisy."

"My Beauty’s been traumatized. Her handler was beaten to death right under her nose. Now she can’t be apart from people. To be honest, she’s caused me a lot of trouble. I’m pregnant, so it’s not convenient for me to keep her. No one else wants her if I try to give her away. I even thought of having her put down, but then the higher-ups said she knows some kind of secret, and my family has to take good care of her."

"What kind of secret could a dog have?"

"Who knows. Even my husband doesn’t understand that stuff from the higher-ups. They’re all bound by confidentiality clauses. Anyway, I’m really sorry for the trouble this time. Don’t worry, I’ve already found her another home. Next time she won’t be coming over to bother you."

After ending the call with Qian, the more Mu Xiaofeng thought about this dog business, the more suspicious it seemed. Right then, her handler Green Python called her.

"Feng, you must return to headquarters immediately. Don’t stay on the Celestial Empire’s turf."

"What happened?"

"Our intel says that the incident you caused at the border last time is now under a full-scale investigation. It’s no longer safe for you over there. You have to come back right away."

"There’s no way I’m exposed. I took that person out with my own hands—there were absolutely no eyewitnesses at the scene!"

"According to the intel we’ve got, they seem to have gotten hold of some kind of evidence. Anyway, you must come back immediately!"

After hanging up, Mu Xiaofeng started analyzing everything, and suddenly she connected all the things Qian had just said to her.

She remembered that during the last operation, the man she killed had a military dog with him. She’d shot him dead from a distance, and that dog had chased after her for quite a long way. Could the evidence be on the military dog?

And Qian had just said that her own dog’s handler had been beaten to death... In this relatively peaceful era, if a handler were killed, such a big event could not possibly go unreported by the media. The only recent case would have to be hers.

Could it really be such a coincidence?

Mu Xiaofeng kept guessing whether all of this was intentional or just coincidence. In the dark, her brain and that of the Chen–Yu couple were locked in an invisible duel.

Meanwhile, Qian was sitting comfortably at home, leaning against her little cushion and sipping the herbal tea Yu Minglang had brewed for her. Her part of the mission was already completed; now she could retire with honors.

"I asked a traditional doctor—pregnant women can drink this mix of flowers and herbs. Have some, so you’ll stop complaining that everything tastes bland." Yu Minglang said, handing it to her thoughtfully.

Qian took a small sip.

"How’s Dalong doing?"

"He got back to the team just in time for an evaluation. The kid placed second, then came running over to ask if I’d used my connections to push the evaluation back half a month. I chewed him out. He got there on his own merits, what’s that got to do with me? Wife, you can finally relax about him this time, right?"