Chapter 415: Sending Gifts

Translator: Atlas Studios  Editor: Atlas Studios

He Ning and his attendant did not go far. Instead, they stood just outside the wall of the Xia family’s house. Not long after, they could smell a nice fragrance coming from the kitchen.

The attendant secretly swallowed his saliva. Now he understood why He Ning was unwilling to leave the Xia family’s house. However, did He Ning intend to just stand outside the wall and smell the fragrance?

Of course, He Ning did not just want to smell it. He was waiting for the men of the Xia family to return home and then follow them in to eat with them. The men would be too embarrassed to reject him, right?

However, by the time the sky was completely dark and they could hear the sound of dishes being washed inside the house, the men of the Xia family still had not returned.

After being in He Ning’s employment for so many years, this was the first time that the attendant felt that He Ning was behaving illogically. The situation was so awkward that he did not know what to say. The night air was chilly and it would be disastrous if He Ning fell sick.

“Sir… they probably have something on and won’t be coming back tonight. Or perhaps they’re just ganging up to bully you! Why don’t we go back?” the attendant said mindfully.

He Ning shook his head and said, “Forget it, let’s go.”

The two of them silently got into the car parked at the corner and went home.

He Ning left in a state of exasperation.

The first thing he did when he reached home was to smell the 13 pots of flowers one by one to see which one contained the smell he wanted.

However, even after he checked them carefully a few times, none of them had what he wanted.

“As expected…” He Ning looked at the flowers and smiled.

He knew that Qiao Mei would not be so compliant as to hand over what he wanted. She must have hidden the pot of special flowers. No wonder she was so meticulous when he was about to leave.

However, she did say that she had already given him all the flowers in the house. Could it be that the smell was not from flowers but from spices?

Qiao Mei must have known where the smell he wanted came from and how important it was to him. Yet, she deliberately asked for food stamps in exchange for the flowers so as to distract and mislead him.

This young lady was really scheming and he found that interesting.

After drinking his medicine, He Ning prepared to go to bed. He already felt much better after taking the ginseng. As for the 13 pots of flowers, they actually smelled quite good and he decided to leave them around. They looked better than his original flowers anyway.

Xia Zhe only managed to rush home in the middle of the night. After quietly washing up downstairs, he returned to his room and carefully crawled into bed.

Qiao Mei woke up immediately and sat up to ask, “Hurry up and give me a report. Where did you go and what did you do?”

As she sniffed carefully, she could detect the smell of soil and muttered softly, “Did the three generations of you go digging a tunnel?”

When Xia Zhe heard this, he was so amused that he laughed. He pulled Qiao Mei into his arms and said, “Are you a puppy? Why is your nose so sensitive?”

“You really went to dig a tunnel! Did you guys go to shift everything under the house?” Qiao Mei asked as she looked at Xia Zhe in shock.

“No, those people won’t be able to come by anymore. It’s all our own people at the house now,” Xia Zhe said.

Recently, many people had gone digging at the courtyard house at night. After digging for a few days without finding anything, many of them had left. They were also afraid of causing the front yard to collapse or that they would dig out the groundwater again.

Now, there were only their own people at the house. They had sent people in disguise to hide among the crowd.

“Then where did you guys go?” Qiao Mei asked curiously.

Xia Zhe smiled proudly and said, “We went to dig under the He family’s house!”

Qiao Mei did not know how to express her feelings for a moment. So it turned out that Xia Zhe’s grandfather had asked them out in such a hurry to dig under the He family’s house while He Ning was not at home?

“So it’s a diversion tactic. Then what did you dig up?” Qiao Mei looked at Xia Zhe with bright shiny eyes.

If the Xia family had so many hidden treasures, then the He family must have a lot more.

However, Qiao Mei got it wrong this time. They did not dig up He Ning’s house. Instead, they had gone to the He family’s ancestral home, where they knew they would be able to find interesting things.

There were many hidden guards looking after He Ning’s house and it was very difficult for people to enter. He Guo had long moved into his own house and no longer stayed in the ancestral home. The He family’s ancestral home was vacant at the moment.

“There’s nothing in He Ning’s own courtyard. We went to their ancestral home,” Xia Zhe said.

Qiao Mei asked, “Then did you manage to dig something out?”

“No, we put something inside,” Xia Zhe said.

Qiao Mei was even more shocked when she heard this. It made sense to her though. If they really had gone digging around, they would definitely not be able to find anything valuable within such a short period of time.

Xia Zhe’s hand wandered all over Qiao Mei’s body. During this period of time, Qiao Mei’s figure had filled out more and more. Xia Zhe enjoyed the feel of her smooth skin, gentle curves, as well as her voluptuous bosom.

Xia Zhe leaned against Qiao Mei’s neck and sniffed greedily at the scent that only belonged to Qiao Mei.