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Chapter 638 Dawn (44)
Only Yan Zhen and Yan Yuxi remained at the dining table.
Yan Zhen glanced at Yan Yuxi and said with a smile, "You're really good at sowing discord. It seems that what happened last time didn't teach you a lesson."
Yan Yuxi's scalp tingled. Remembering the fear of being pushed downstairs by Yan Zhen, she instantly lost her appetite, put down her chopsticks, and slunk back to her room.
After finishing their meal, Jing Chen made a video call, and Yan Zhen walked slowly in the yard to digest while answering the call.
She was chatting with Jingchen when the doorbell rang.
Yan Zhen walked over and, through the ornate iron gate, saw a young man in a property management uniform.
"Is something the matter?" Yan Zhen asked.
The property management staff member smiled and took out his phone to show Yan Zhen: "Little friend, are these your family members?"
Yan Zhen leaned closer to take a look and saw a surveillance video on the phone showing Yan Yuxi sitting by the lake, hitting the koi in the artificial lake with a stick.
He could hit a person who looked weak and frail all the time, and within a few minutes, several koi in the lake were belly up.
“Yes, it’s someone from my family,” Yan Zhen asked. “Do you want compensation or have her come down and apologize?”
The staff member said, "Compensation will suffice. Each koi is worth 200 yuan, and she killed six, so it's 1200 yuan in total."
Yan Zhen was about to ask Aunt Zhang to call Chu Huian down to handle the situation when he suddenly saw two people appear in the surveillance video.
Even after six years, through a blurry surveillance video, she recognized the two people at a glance.
Xiang Yong, Xu Yingxia.
Have they found Cloud City?
Yan Zhen's mind raced, but her face remained impassive. She gave the property staff a sweet smile and said, "Please wait a moment, I'll go get my mom right away."
"Ok."
Yan Zhen quickly went upstairs to the second floor and knocked on Chu Huian's door.
Chu Huian took a while to open the door, her face still showing lingering anger: "What do you want?"
Yan Zhen reached out his hand: "Yan Yuxi killed six koi in the artificial lake today. The property management came to claim compensation, a total of 1200 yuan. Pay up."
Chu Huian: "..."
After getting the money from Chu Huian, Yan Zhen went downstairs to hand it over to the property management, dismissed the staff, and then returned to his room.
As soon as she closed the door, Jing Chen's deep voice came from her phone: "What's wrong?"
During the compensation process, Yan Zhen didn't hang up the video call the entire time, and Jing Chen keenly sensed something from the inconsistency in her attitude.
Yan Zhen didn't hide anything and said in a low voice, "Xu Yingxia and her son have come to Yuncheng."
Upon hearing this, Jing Chen, who was waiting at the airport on the other end of the video call, immediately sat up straight: "When did this happen?"
"It should be today."
Yan Zhen told Jing Chen about what she had seen in the surveillance video provided by the property management: "They came to see Yan Yuxi."
In her previous life, the year after Yan Zhen returned to the Yan family, around this time, Xu Yingxia and Xiang Yong came to her, asking for money to get married.
The incident began when Xiang Yong, who was idle at home, raped a girl from the same village. The girl's parents told Xiang Yong that he either had to marry her or they would send him to jail for rape.
Xiang Yong agreed to marry the girl, but her family demanded a dowry of 12 yuan, which he couldn't afford. So he set his sights on Yan Zhen and Yan Yuxi.
In their previous lives, Xiang Yong and Xu Yingxia went to Yuncheng and found Yan Yuxi and Yan Zhen one after the other.
Yan Yuxi played the victim, crying and complaining that she was not valued in the Yan family and could not afford so much money, urging them to ask Yan Zhen for it.
Although Yan Zhen was still a bit naive at the time, he knew that once he gave the money, he would be entangled with Xu Yingxia and Xiang Yong and would never be able to get rid of them.
She chose to seek help from Chu Huian.
When Chu Huian learned that Xiang's family had shamelessly come to ask for money, she was indeed very angry. She arranged to meet with them, hoping to scare them away.
Yan Yuxi was also present when they met. I don't know what Xu Yingxia said to Chu Huian, but Chu Huian's face turned ashen when she returned.
She threw the transaction receipt for 150,000 yuan on her phone in front of Yan Zhen and called her a disgrace to the Yan family.
Many years later, Yan Zhen was released from prison and returned to the Yan family, driving Chu Hui'an insane.
She learned from the eccentric Chu Huian that Xu Yingxia and Xiang Yong told her that when Yan Zhen was in Xiangjia Village, he spent an entire afternoon with an old bachelor in the village because he was craving a piece of chocolate.
Xiang Yong and Xu Yingxia used this "scandal" to extort 150,000 yuan from Chu Huian.
In this life, Xu Yingxia and Xiang Yong still came to Yuncheng at this time to ask for money, but instead of looking for Yan Zhen, they went to find Yan Yuxi.
They may not yet know that Yan Zhen has returned to the Yan family.
Given Yan Yuxi's personality, the fact that she didn't tell Chu Huian about it immediately suggests that she already had a solution.
Based on Yan Zhen's understanding of her, this solution was probably similar to that in his previous life, nothing more than shifting the blame onto himself, transferring Xu Yingxia and Xiang Yong's hatred onto himself.
If nothing unexpected happens, Xu Yingxia and her son should come looking for me soon.
When Yan Zhen shared this guess with Jing Chen, Jing Chen immediately said, "Don't go out recently. I'll go back to Yuncheng tomorrow."
"Brother, don't worry." Yan Zhen was not flustered at all. "I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing. Maybe we can use this opportunity to kill two birds with one stone."
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The next morning, Yan Yuxi went out for a walk alone, without Aunt Zhang.
No sooner had she left than Yan Zhen went to the property management office, saying that her dog was missing and asking the property management to help her check the surveillance footage to find it.
The property management staff were very cooperative and pulled up the entire surveillance footage of the community. Yan Zhen quickly spotted Yan Yuxi, Xu Yingxia, and Xiang Yong on the surveillance footage by the artificial lake.
Yan Yuxi said something to Xu Yingxia and Xiang Yong, and the two people opposite her looked thoughtful.
Yan Zhen confirmed that Yan Yuxi had come out to see Xu Yingxia and her son, thanked the property management staff, and prepared to leave.
The property management staff member asked in confusion, "They're leaving already? Aren't you going to look for the dog?"
"I'm not looking anymore." Yan Zhen smiled. "This dog is impossible to tame. I feed it well every day, but it not only doesn't guard the house or please its owner, it's always thinking of helping outsiders bite me. Let it fend for itself outside."
Property management staff: "..."
Yan Zhen returned to the Yan family home and encountered Yan Yuxi, who had just returned, at the door.
Yan Yuxi was clearly in a good mood, and when she saw Yan Zhen, she took the initiative to greet her: "Zhenzhen, where have you been?"
"Looking for the dog."
Yan Yuxi was taken aback: "Looking for a dog?"
"Correct."
Yan Yuxi had experienced her capricious and nonsensical style before, so although she didn't know what she meant, she still went along with her and said, "Did you find it?"
"Found it! It was barking at me just now," Yan Zhen said, mimicking Yan Yuxi's tone. "Zhenzhen, where have you been?"
Yan Yuxi belatedly realized that the "dog" was herself, which was tantamount to an insult to her face, and the smile on her face immediately disappeared.
Seeing that no one was around and only Yan Zhen and she were at the door, Yan Yuxi no longer hid her disgust. She gritted her teeth and whispered, "You country bumpkin, what are you so smug about?"