“Does Elder Master Lan want to settle with me?” Shen Xinglan gave a Miao a reassuring look and smiled. “Although on the surface, it seems that the Lan family won’t get any benefits. But…”

Shen Xinglan looked at him meaningfully. “Elder Master Lan should be clear about it.”

Lan Lixiao stared at him and stood up after a while. “Come with me to the study.”

“Grandpa…” A Miao reached out her hands to help him up.

Lan Lixiao waved his hand. “You stay here. I have something to say to him.”

“Mom?” Yaya didn’t understand why father and mother’s grandfather would talk alone.

A Miao was also worried, but she couldn’t show it.

“That’s okay. They have private things to talk about. Mom will help you pack things first.”

A Miao went upstairs with Yaya in her arms.

“Will Mom come home with us?”

“… Mom can’t go back with Yaya.”

“When can you come back?”

“Hm… After a period of time. I will go back soon…”

Shen Xinglan and Lan Lixiao stayed in the study for a long time that day. A Miao didn’t know what they said. After that, A Miao asked Shen Xinglan, who just smiled and told her that Lan Lixiao warned him to treat her well.

Lan Lixiao told A Miao that if she really liked Shen Xinglan, he had no objection. So, she and Shen Xinglan went out together as sweethearts, and almost everyone knew about it.

This day, Shen Xinglan went to pick up A Miao. On the way home, the auntie in her house called him. “Sir, someone just broke into the house and took Yaya away.”

Hearing that she almost cried, Shen Xinglan asked calmly, “What does that person look like? Did Yaya cry?”

“It was a very handsome young man. Yaya was asleep. They covered my mouth and didn’t let me wake her.”

Shen Xinglan frowned. “I know. It’s all right. You go back first.”

“What’s the matter?” A Miao asked in a hurry. She heard the auntie crying.

Shen Xinglan’s face became solemn. “Yu Sihan came and took Yaya away.”

“…”

That was his style.

An hour later, they met Yaya in the hotel suite. The little gal was holding onto Yu Sihan to tell him about what she had done, who she knew, and that she missed him very much.

“You’ve come?” The handsome young man leaned on the chair of the imperial concubine, looking like a beautiful picture. After a year’s absence, he seemed to grow up a little bit. The male hormones began to emit. Many girls would be attracted by his appearance if he went out.

“Daddy! Mommy!” Yaya was sitting in the arms of the handsome young man. Her cute feet almost poked into Yu Sihan’s mouth.

Shen Xinglan picked her up and handed her to A Miao. “If you do this again, I won’t let you see Yaya.”

“Well?” Yu Sihan said with a casual smile, “I went to your house. You were not home. So, I had to take Yaya away.”

A Miao said angrily, “You could have waited for us to get back.”

“The new house your man bought for you is too small, so many of my subordinates have no place to sit.”

He was in the right and self-confident.

A Miao curled her lip. It was true that the 300-square-meter villa was not big compared with his large suite on a whole floor…

“Why did you come here?” A Miao looked at him suspiciously.

This guy was definitely not here for sightseeing…

“Your man asked me to come,” Yu Sihan said while picking Yaya up.

Yaya held him to rub against his neck.

Shen Xinglan’s face became more solemn. “Hand Yaya to A Miao. Let’s talk business.”

“I can talk to you with Yaya in my arms.” Yu Sihan put Yaya on his legs and wanted to lower his head to kiss her little face. But seeing a fierce look, he hesitated for a moment and still didn’t challenge Shen Xinglan’s bottom line.

“Yaya!” A Miao reached out her hands. “How about going to play with Mom?”

Yaya rushed to her. “OK!”

After the mother and daughter left, Shen Xinglan said coldly, “You are too slow.”

“I have my own business, too.” Yu Sihan picked his good-looking eyebrows. “I’ve been busy recently, or Yin Sihai couldn’t take this advantage.”

Shen Xinglan said, “It was accidental. This time, it wouldn’t be so smooth without him.”

“I know why he did it.” Yu Sihan threw over a few pages of paper. “His mother was raped by Li Peng when she was young. After two years of concealment, she escaped and married Yin Sihai’s father.”

At that time, Li Peng had some illegal business. He thought that Yin Sihai’s mother knew something, so he hired someone to kill her.

“So that’s why…” Shen Xinglan glanced at him. “Do you know that Lan Lixiao knew our plan from beginning to end?”

Yu Sihan blinked, then smiled. “It seems that the old man is a fount of wisdom.”

“The fact is that he used us, not that we used him.” The tone of Shen Xinglan was a little unhappy. “But it made A Miao feel guilty.”

“You didn’t tell her?”

“Elder Master Lan and I want to keep it from her forever.”

If A Miao knew that Lan Lixiao had not been cheated by her, she would feel better. However, if the top officials knew it, the thing that they sneaked into the dragon vein would be exposed.

“He wants to offend you openly and others will think that you turn against each other.” Yu Sihan nodded. “That’s good. It’s safer for you.”

So A Miao had to feel sad for a while…

“When are you going to the dragon vein?” A light flashed in Shen Xinglan’s eyes. “Don’t take all the treasure. I’ll take 40% and you take 60%.”

Yu Sihan looked at him indifferently. “No, I don’t want it. It’s all yours.”

“If you don’t want it, you can’t go there.” Shen Xinglan said with a forced smile, “I’m afraid you’ll demand more one day.”

“OK…” Yu Sihan threw a piece of sugar into his mouth. “I take 20% and you take 80%. After all, it’s the credit of A Miao.”

“Deal.”

A Miao knew that Yu Sihan had gone to find the dragon vein, which meant that her identity would soon be revealed. Therefore, during this period of time, A Miao was in a trance, and even dared not face Lan Lixiao.

Fortunately, Shen Xinglan went to pick her up every day, but he and Lan Lixiao were able to talk more and more. They often sat in the study for almost half a day…

“Did you make a deal with Elder Master Lan?” A Miao knew Shen Xinglan very well. If something didn’t make sense, he wouldn’t waste his time.

As if holding a steering wheel, Shen Xinglan said, “Why do you think that?”

“Don’t pretend.” A Miao rolled her eyes. “Because I know you.”

“Hm.” Shen Xinglan was very glad that she said so. He reached out his hand and rubbed A Miao’s head. “I am slowly spreading the truth out, which is better than letting him find out about it suddenly.”

A Miao was surprised. “Really… Did you tell him?”

“No, Elder Master Lan is a smart man. After I mention it a little bit, he will find out the problem. The rest of it is up to him.”

“Then he must be very angry,” A Miao said in dismay, “I lied to him.”

Shen Xinglan touched her face. “We didn’t mean to do it. He should find those top officials who should take the blame.”

After knowing that Lan Lixiao would learn her identity, A Miao was even more nervous until Yu Sihan came back from the dragon vein.

“In addition to golden sand, there are also these…” He took out a glass bottle full of soybean-sized golden beans.

Yaya stretched out her little hands. “I want them.”

“These are not good. I’ll give you a better one later.” Yu Sihan put the bottle on the table. “I left you two-fifths of them.”

A Miao was a little surprised. “I thought you would only leave us one fifth.”

“Even if I take more, they will become yours in the end.” Yu Sihan held Yaya. “You can’t lick it. It’s dirty.”

Yaya was very interested in the yellow beans in the glass bottle and wanted to take them out.

Yu Sihan thought a while and then called a subordinate. “Go bring the priceless gem here.”

The subordinate ran out and soon came back with a golden priceless gem.

“It’s set in the dragon vein door.” Yu Sihan put the golden priceless gem the size of an adult’s hand on the sofa, and Yaya was soon attracted, standing there to pat it constantly.

A Miao’s eyes were always bright. “Gold is money!”

“Did you abuse her?” Yu Sihan scoffed. “Why does she get excited over a little thing?”

Shen Xinglan said, “I like it. It’s none of your business.”

“So what!” A Miao snorted.

She was just happy to see money and wouldn’t use it to do anything. It was probably caused by childhood trauma, which could never be cured.

“Now, you can go back to City S.” Yu Sihan looked at Yaya, who was going to bite the golden priceless gem. “I’ll take Yaya back first.”

A Miao glared at him. “Why?”

Yu Sihan said casually, “Can you guarantee that the Lan family won’t hurt you?”

A Miao wilted.

Shen Xinglan gave Yu Sihan a warning look. “I will protect Yaya. You go back yourself.”

“What if they do this?” Yu Sihan smiled. “Isn’t there a woman left in the Li family?”

A Miao frowned. “She has gone abroad.”

“She can hire someone to kill you.”

Shen Xinglan knew that Yu Sihan was scaring A Miao, but he couldn’t talk about the Lan family.

“Yaya.” He picked up Yaya. “Would you like to go home with Yu Sihan?”

Yaya naively looked at him. “Back to our big house?”

“Yes!”

“What about Dad and Mom?”

“It will be some time before we go back.”

Yu Sihan looked at Yaya and said, “Would you like to go back with me? I’ll take Yaya to play. Your playground has been built.”

“Is it the castle where the princess lives, which is very big behind the house?” Yaya knew that some things were built behind her house, where there were the same castles as in cartoons.

Yu Sihan confidently said, “That’s it.”

Yaya immediately rushed into his arms. “I’ll go back with Hanhan!”

However, Yaya cried when she left. She didn’t get on Yu Sihan’s private plane until Shen Xinglan and A Miao promised to go back soon.

“I’ll meet those people this afternoon. You go there with me and then we’ll go to the Lan house.”

A Miao nervously rubbed her fingers. “Will it go well? I don’t know if Yu Sihan left any traces. If they find it, it will spoil everything.”

“He’s better than anyone to do such a thing.”

Otherwise, Shen Xinglan would not have him do this.

In the Lan house…

“Did they go there?” Lan Lixiao put down his brush and wrote a big character, “silent”, on the rice paper.

Lan Heng put out his cigar. “If we had taken out the gold in the dragon vein 10 years ago, my elder brother would not have died in vain.”