Yu Xiang was wearing a shirt, dress pants, and leather shoes, with a down jacket thrown over the outside. With a dark expression, he walked along the road toward the highway.
This road was the only one in the vicinity leading to the highway. It connected several manors and led directly to the city ring highway, making it very convenient whether entering or leaving the city.
The problem was that it was too long.
It had taken Yu Xiang fifteen minutes just to walk from the main house to the main gate of April Manor. To walk from here to the highway would take at least an hour.
He had no cash on him, and his phone had been confiscated. Once on the highway, he would still have to walk to a gas station to find someone to borrow a phone from or hitch a ride.
He wondered if he could make it before dark.
Yu Xiang twitched the corners of his lips. Remembering the chaotic scene just now, he sighed again.
After all, it was his own grandfather. Seeing the old man faint from anger because of him, the panic and fear he felt in that instant were not fake.
Fortunately, there was a resident medical team at home, and they quickly revived him.
However, the old man was truly ruthless. He was still wearing an oxygen mask, yet he told him to get lost and even confiscated his phone.
Luckily, he reacted in time. After hearing the doctor say the old man was fine, he quickly came to his senses, pulled out his SIM card, deleted Yan Hui’s messages, and formatted his phone twice.
As for the confidentiality contract, he had hinted to Yang Kexin to keep it privately when getting off the plane, so it could not be found for a while. Once he borrowed a phone, he had to call her first, and then Chu Zizhen.
Yu Xiang calculated his next steps. Before long, he felt numb with cold from his knees down, the chill drilling up through his bones, causing his joints to become stiff.
After eating lunch at Yunshan Villa, he took a car to April Manor. As soon as he arrived, he was pulled away by the butler to try on clothes. Halfway through trying them on, his eldest uncle pushed his grandfather over to talk about a blind date.
After that came the argument, the standoff, the angry scolding, and the fainting. When the old man pointed at the door and yelled at him to get out, he turned around and left. He only felt the cold after he walked out the door.
Fortunately, the old butler had brought him a down jacket. Otherwise, he would have frozen to death before even reaching the highway.
“You eat the Yu family food. You use the Yu family things. The Yu family has raised you to be this old, yet you act like this. The Yu family has no room for an unfilial grandson like you!”
“Get lost! Get as far away as possible! You are not allowed to take anything! Every penny on you belongs to the Yu family!”
“Once you walk out this door, do not even think about coming back!”
Yu Xiang raised his head, gazing at the road ahead that seemed to have no end.
If he was not afraid of implicating others, he really wanted to take a turn and borrow a car from someone else house.
Just as he was thinking this, a honking sound came from behind. Yu Xiang turned his head in confusion and saw a Volkswagen driving slowly along the road.
His eyes lit up, and he hurriedly reached out his hand, making the standard hitchhiking gesture.
This car definitely did not belong to any family nearby. Around here, even the nannies drove BMWs when going to the supermarket!
Under Yu Xiang’s hopeful gaze, the Volkswagen actually stopped. The car window slowly rolled down, and a gentle and handsome man wearing rimless glasses popped his head out.
“Need a ride, handsome? One hundred thousand, and I will take you into the city.”
Yu Xiang was stunned for a moment, and shamefully hesitated.
He indeed had a sum of money stored in an anonymous overseas account. However, that was about two million US dollars he had made by dabbling in the US stock market with a portion of his living expenses while studying abroad.
After falling out with his grandfather, the old man would definitely take back all his houses and cars. He did not know if he could keep that old, small apartment in Jindu. Even if he bought another one, he could not put it under his own name; it could only be registered under Yan Hui’s name.
With the cost of a house and car, plus startup investments and Yan Sheng’s tuition fees for studying abroad, two million US dollars was not really that much.
Yu Xiang, who suddenly started calculating carefully, struggled for a good while. He felt that he could suffer, but he could not let his wife and child suffer. Just as he was about to politely decline, he heard the man say:
“Put it on Yan Hui’s tab. You can pay it back slowly later. How about it?”
Yu Xiang turned pale with fright and blurted out:
“Who are you? What is your relationship with Yan Hui?!”
Hanging up the phone, Yan Hui immediately took action.
He took out a suitcase and put all the photos in the house inside, followed by Yan Sheng’s textbooks and homework, and finally some clothes.
Immediately after, he took the adult sized clothes from Yan Sheng’s closet and hung them in his own. He then took out the children’s clothes he had prepared to donate and, regardless of whether they were for spring, summer, autumn, or winter, hung them all up.
After doing all this, he ordered takeout. Once his stomach was full, he called Yan Sheng.
A few minutes later, Yan Sheng ran home panting. Looking at the suitcase in the living room, he stared blankly.
“Dad, where are we going?”
Yan Hui took a tissue to wipe Yan Sheng’s sweat and said gently, “Sheng Sheng, let us go back to live in Jiangting for the winter vacation, okay?”
Yan Sheng immediately became unhappy. “Jiangting is so empty. Why go live there?”
“I am tired of living here. Dad wants to go there and live for a while.”
“But I am not tired of living here! The kids over there are so boring. I do not want to live there.”
“Then you will live here alone?”
“Then I will!”
Seeing Yan Sheng’s stubborn temper flaring up, Yan Hui took a deep breath and patiently coaxed him. “Sheng Sheng, be obedient. We will just stay there until school starts. It is not like we will never come back. You can call and video chat with your friends. You will not drift apart.”
“I will not!” Yan Sheng turned his back to him and sat huffily in the dining chair, looking like an enlarged version of a KUBO figure.
Yan Hui fell silent for a moment and sighed. “Sheng Sheng, Dad wants to temporarily move back to Jiangting because it will not be long before bad guys come knocking on our door.”
Yan Sheng’s ears twitched. He quietly turned his head and looked askance at Yan Hui. His eyes clearly conveyed a strong sense of disbelief.
“It is true,” Yan Hui smiled bitterly. “If they are fast, they will be here tomorrow. If they are slow, the day after tomorrow. If they find us, you will definitely be taken away. Dad does not want to take the risk, so I want to take you away to avoid them temporarily.”
The fact that he had a child could not be hidden, but under normal circumstances, no one would think of male pregnancy.
Just in case, he did not want Yan Sheng to show his face. After all, the Yu family features on his face could not be hidden. If someone among Old Master Yu’s people was good at connecting the dots, it would be over.
Yan Sheng did not understand and half turned his body. “Why do they want to take me away?”
“Because they are people sent by your great grandfather, which is your mother’s grandfather.”
Seeing Yan Sheng turn around completely and his eyes light up the moment he heard the word mother, Yan Hui felt very uncomfortable in his heart.
You little ungrateful thing, who exactly went through all the trouble to raise you?
After muttering a few words in his heart, Yan Hui pulled a long face.
“If you do not come with me, you will never see Dad again. You will only be able to live with your great grandfather in a house as big as a school and memorize English words every day!”
Yan Sheng’s eyes widened into perfect circles. “Why will I not see you? Did you not say it was Mom’s grandfather? How could there be a house as big as a school? Dad, you are tricking a child!”
Why do children have to grow up? They are so cute when they are small! They do not talk back and are easy to fool. With a little coaxing, they sweetly call you Dad left and right, and never ask why!
Yan Hui looked speechlessly at the ceiling, took out his phone, searched online for a few pictures of luxury mansions and villas, and showed them to Yan Sheng.
“Dad used to live in a house like this when he was little. Is it not as big as a school?”
Looking at the photos, Yan Sheng gradually opened his mouth wide. After a while, he looked up and looked at Yan Hui sympathetically. “Dad, with a house this big, you must have frequently wet your pants when you were little, right?”
Yan Hui was left entirely speechless.