Chapter 14: I invite you to see a free fireworks

Chapter 14

He Qingchen took out his phone and sent Xu Yan a message, arranging for a designer to come tomorrow to redecorate Jian Xi's room according to her preferences.

After sending the message to Xu Yan, he made a call and gave a couple of instructions before hanging up, feeling uneasy upstairs. He rushed up the stairs with big steps.

Sure enough, he bumped into Jian Xi right at the stair landing.

She was wearing a bathrobe, holding two bottles in her hands with her hair still dripping water. "Brother, these two bottles have English all over them o(╥_╥)o I don't recognize them."

"The blue one is shampoo and the white one is shower gel," He Qingchen explained to her. Glancing down, he saw her fair bare feet without slippers.

It was just entering spring and the floor was very cold. Back in the Taoist temple, they would take off their shoes and socks as soon as they returned to their rooms. The winter in City Z was very cold but all rooms had floor heating, so the floors would not be icy. City B was different. Although the winters were not cold, the floors were still very cool.

It seemed that wall-to-wall carpeting would also need to be arranged for the whole house tomorrow.

He Qingchen shook his head helplessly. Did he owe her in his past life that he could give her unlimited indulgence when it came to her?

He bent down and picked her up horizontally. His tone was completely devoid of any blame, but rather a little helpless. "That's because you didn't learn English well back then."

"When I see those letters my head hurts. Even the Duke of Zhou would come to play with me. What could I do?" As if recalling something, Jian Xi craned her neck and said, "Now there's the translation function on mobile phones. I can understand them without learning English."

He Qingchen glanced at her. "So you know about this?"

Jian Xi looked awkward. "Hehe, back in City Z I gave a fortune telling for a foreigner before."

He Qingchen laughed. Giving fortune telling to foreigners? He asked, "Did you trick him?"

"I don't think I tricked him. He wasn't looking at physiognomy anyway, he just asked which direction he would have good luck or fortunes. I flipped two copper coins and told him the result after divining, so it wasn't a trick." Jian Xi explained.

If that foreigner had asked for face or palm reading, or eight characters, then she might have tricked him!

He put her down at the bathroom door of her bedroom. "Go take a bath quickly and remember to blow dry your hair after shower."

"Got it, Mother He!"

He Qingchen, now dubbed Mother He, heard her start to hum a tune from inside. He added, "The hair dryer is in the drawer under the sink."

"I know!"

A black luxury car was already waiting there.

He got into the car and said to the driver in front, "Let's go."

Half an hour later, He Qingchen stood outside a villa in the suburbs, calling He Bohuai via video call on his phone.

It rang for a while on the video side before it was picked up.

He Qingchen smiled and said, "Good evening, Second Uncle."

Although smiling, his tone was extremely cold. Even He Bohuai on the video side sobered up somewhat.

"Qingchen, it's so late. Do you need anything?" He Bohuai sat up from his bed and asked gently.

Beside him, Yu Xue also woke up and asked, "Who is it? Are you crazy to disturb people's sleep so late into the night!"

He Qingchen heard Yu Xue's voice. "Just in time. Second Aunt is awake too so let's watch the fireworks together."

He Bohuai's eyebrows bunched up as he straightened his body and asked, "What fireworks?"

He Qingchen smiled sinisterly without answering his words. Instead, he said, "This afternoon, a helper chef from Sui Garden restaurant that I own suddenly resigned without even taking this month's salary."

Before He Bohuai could speak, Yu Xue beside him blew up impatiently, her annoyed voice rising several pitches. "Qingchen, are you so free that you're calling your second uncle in the dead of night over a resigned helper chef? Are you..."

Stopping mid-sentence, Yu Xue seemed to recall something as she glanced at He Bohuai. Could it be that matter?

"Heh, I am quite free. So free that I've come to the suburbs in the middle of the night to set off some fireworks." He Qingchen shifted his body to reveal the villa not far behind him that was now in the camera view.

"If I remember correctly, Second Uncle and Second Aunt do enjoy setting off fireworks. So you must like watching them too, right? Since I'm free anyway, let me treat you to a fireworks show."

Right after he finished speaking, the villa behind him caught fire. First the yard, then the flames gradually spread towards the building.

In less than a few seconds, Yu Xue's horrified voice rang out from the video. "Stop! Enough!"

"Hubby, that's Jun Ting's villa! He's still inside!"

"Jun Ting, Jun Ting, please answer the call! Please answer..."