179: Chapter 172 Leave me alive!!

Yang Tian looked at the elderly woman and immediately replied, "Hello, Grandma. I'm a friend of CEO Liu!"

"Ah?" The elderly woman didn't seem to hear clearly and asked, "Whose friend are you?"

Yang Tian responded again, his voice becoming a bit louder.

"Grandma! I'm Shaohua's friend! Is this Liu Shaohua's home!?"

The elderly woman nodded, "Yes, yes! This is Shaohua's home!"

Zhang Jingque finally realized what was happening upon hearing this.

She had been curious why Yang Tian brought her here; it turned out this was the hometown of the big drug lord Liu Shaohua.

It seemed the leader hadn't brought her out purely for travel, but with work and a mission in mind.

[He doesn't even forget work while traveling. Brother Yang Tian is so dedicated; I love him so much!] — From Zhang Jingque's heart-voice.

That works too?

Yang Tian smiled. It seemed this girl, Zhang Jingque, had been turned into a complete fangirl by his "Butterfly Dance" move.

Beauty truly is in the eye of the beholder!

Thinking this, he turned back to the elderly woman and shouted, "Grandma! Brother Shaohua asked me to come and take care of some things for him! Can I come in and talk to you?!"

"Come in!"

The grandmother stepped aside, and Yang Tian and Zhang Jingque walked inside.

This was indeed a very luxurious villa with magnificent interior decoration.

What was puzzling, however, was that aside from the high-end fixed renovations, the furniture and appliances were no different from those of an average household. Judging by the elderly woman's simple blue cloth clothes and black cloth shoes, it was even inferior to an ordinary household.

"Why is it like this?" Zhang Jingque asked Yang Tian curiously after glancing around the hall.

Seeing the elderly woman go into the kitchen, Yang Tian explained in a low voice, "Perhaps the valuable items were moved away long ago. After all, Liu Shaohua is a wanted criminal. If he kept valuables at home, they would easily be targeted by others."

Zhang Jingque nodded thoughtfully.

After a short while, the elderly woman brought out two bowls of boiled water from the kitchen.

"There's nothing good to host you with here, only this. Please don't mind!"

Yang Tian and Zhang Jingque took them with both hands.

"Not at all, not at all!"

"Sit down!" The elderly woman pointed to two bamboo chairs in the living room.

"Okay!"

The two of them sat down. The elderly woman then brought a bamboo basket out from the kitchen, containing peppers, eggplants, and water spinach.

As she prepared the vegetables, she looked at Yang Tian and asked, "Is Shaohua doing well now?"

"He's fine! How long has it been since Brother Shaohua came back?" Yang Tian asked.

The elderly woman lowered her head in deep thought before looking up to reply:

"It must have been seven or eight years!"

"I feel like a long, long time has passed."

"I call him but he doesn't answer. He just entrusts the villagers to look after me, buy my medicine, take me to see the doctor, and sometimes they come over to chat with me."

"I asked the villagers why Shaohua doesn't come back. They told me he lost a lot of money in business a few years ago and owed the bank a lot. He had no choice but to hide, otherwise he'd be sent to prison, so he doesn't dare come back!"

"Sigh! In this lifetime, I don't know if I'll ever see him again."

As she spoke, she began to wipe away tears.

Lonely elderly people in their seventies or eighties are always particularly sensitive. Once they are alone and quiet, they tend to overthink.

For her, when she closes her eyes at night, she doesn't know if she will wake up the next morning.

Her son hadn't come back to see her for so long, and she feared that one day, she would simply never see him again.

Zhang Jingque's mood also gradually grew somber, affected by the woman's emotions.

"Don't worry! You will definitely see him!"

After a word of comfort, Yang Tian immediately changed the subject. "It seems Brother Shaohua has a very good reputation in Liu Family Village. The villagers take such good care of you!"

The elderly woman paused with the eggplant in her hand.

"He did many good things for the village in the past!"

"The big road in front of our house was built with his money. That was over ten years ago; it was so wide and straight, it was very impressive back then!"

As she spoke, the elderly woman's expression couldn't help but turn proud.

"And our Liu Family Village Primary School was also built with Shaohua's investment. It cost ten million! The facilities and equipment are better than those in the city. Children from several neighboring villages come to our Liu Family Village to study."

"Also, during the New Rural Reconstruction, Shaohua personally put up a hundred million and established a foundation with the village to help renovate and build a large number of houses in Liu Family Village."

"Look! The two-story villas on both sides of the main road were built then. They are much grander than the villas in the city!"

...

From then on, the elderly woman spoke with more and more enthusiasm. A lonely person who has been silent for too long has a heart full of words to share.

Zhang Jingque also looked at Yang Tian in disbelief.

She never expected that the biggest drug lord in Gui Province was also a major philanthropist!

By the time she had finished her long story, the sky had gradually darkened.

The elderly woman looked at Yang Tian and Zhang Jingque and smiled, "Eat dinner here. These are all vegetables I grew myself. What do you city folk call this 'ji' thing?"

"Organic (Youji) vegetables!"

"Right, organic vegetables."

The three of them laughed.

Yang Tian immediately responded, "Then I'll have to trouble you."

"No trouble at all!"

"You two sit for a bit; I'll go cook."

Yang Tian asked, "Grandma, can I take a look around the house?"

"You're Shaohua's friend, of course you can!"

After saying this, the elderly woman got up and headed for the kitchen, and Zhang Jingque immediately followed.

"Grandma, let me help you!"

"Alright!!"

—

Yang Tian checked every room on the first floor but found no Gold Bars. He immediately went up to the second and third floors.

Still, there was nothing to be found!

"Strange? Did Liu Shaohua's heart-voice lie to me?"

"Impossible!"

Yang Tian immediately dismissed the thought. A person's mouth can lie, but their heart-voice definitely cannot.

Because they couldn't possibly know that he could Listen to Heart-Voices.

He then ran up to the roof of the villa to check, but there was still no result.

Just as he was wondering where Liu Shaohua could have hidden the Gold Bars, a large rat suddenly scurried past his feet toward the stairwell and vanished from sight.

"Hmm??"

Yang Tian narrowed his eyes as something occurred to him. He immediately went downstairs and let Lord Feng out from the Prado.

"Hiss~~"

Lord Feng catapulted out from the trunk of the Prado and landed on the ground like a flood dragon soaring into the sky.

After landing, he straightened his majestic and powerful body, looking quite imposing!

Yang Tian immediately patted his head.

"Keep a low profile and follow me!"

Lord Feng flicked his tongue at Yang Tian. "Hiss~~ I'm warning you, don't pat Lord Feng's head!"

Yang Tian immediately patted it again. "What about it??"

Lord Feng immediately lay flat on the ground and joked, "Eh! You can't pat it now, can you?!"

"What a character!"

The man and the snake entered the villa. Before Yang Tian could even speak, Lord Feng straightened up again and said excitedly, "Hiss~~ It's the scent of rats!"

Having said that, he rushed out like a sharp arrow.

"Leave them alive for me!"