After Luo Cheng’an and the others left, he yawned and lay down on the mattress.
Xi Yu had rested for so long that he was no longer tired.
But when it was time, he still had to sleep. He did not ask whether Lu Zhixing was coming. Lu Zhixing’s aura had been relatively stable lately.
As for Luo Cheng’an, Xi Yu kicked him. “I’m already fine. Go back and sleep.”
Luo Cheng’an pulled the quilt over his head, then deliberately began snoring—an extremely fake and intentional snore.
The corner of Xi Yu’s mouth twitched, but he ignored him.
Early the next morning, Xi Yu was awakened by knocking on the door.
He got up from the bed in a daze and glanced at Luo Cheng’an on the floor, unable to think of anyone else who would come looking for him so early in the morning.
Xi Yu kicked Luo Cheng’an. “Go open the door.”
Luo Cheng’an was still half-asleep. Hearing him, he instinctively got up. He rubbed his eyes, opened the door, and was puzzled to see Shen Qing.
“Mom, why are you here so early?”
“Move.” Shen Qing pushed Luo Cheng’an aside, then spoke gently to Xi Yu. “Xiao Yu, someone downstairs is looking for you.”
Xi Yu couldn’t think of anyone besides Lu Zhixing who would come looking for him, so he asked, “Who? Lu Zhixing?”
Luo Yuan had just entered the room. Hearing this, he curled his lips. If Lu Zhixing were coming over now, how could he possibly be so polite? The butler was already used to it and would simply bring him upstairs directly.
Shen Qing said, “It’s Old Master Jiang from the Jiang family.”
Ever since Xi Yu had appeared on the variety show, countless people had sent invitations to their home, asking Xi Yu to attend their events.
But aside from the banquet hosted by Shen Linchuan, Xi Yu had not attended a single one.
She had asked Xi Yu twice, and both times he had refused. He had even said that if there were any more invitations, they should all be declined.
The invitation from Old Master Jiang was not for a banquet. Instead, he wanted to invite Xi Yu to a private dinner.
Because Old Master Jiang had asked several times, she had even specifically mentioned it to Xi Yu once, but Xi Yu had still refused.
She had never expected the old man to come directly to their home.
Xi Yu’s hair was a mess. He tilted his head and said, “I don’t know him.”
After saying that, he was about to continue sleeping.
Shen Qing nodded. “All right. Mom will turn him down for you. He even brought his granddaughter. I don’t like that girl. She said that as long as she could meet you just once, she would give you one hundred million. Our Luo family isn’t lacking…”
Her voice faltered as she looked at Xi Yu, who had originally already lain back down but suddenly sat up, quickly climbed out of bed, and rushed into the bathroom.
“…one hundred million…”
“Mom, I’m ready.” Xi Yu spat out the toothpaste in his mouth. He immediately went to the dressing room and changed his clothes. He looked at Shen Qing with blazing eyes. “Hurry and take me downstairs to meet one hundred million… Oh, no, Old Master Li.”
Luo Yuan was speechless. “It’s Jiang…”
“That’s not important.” Xi Yu looked serious. “What’s important is that I’m very fated to meet him.”
Luo Cheng’an stabbed him in the back. “Mm, very yuan. One hundred million yuan.”
Shen Qing hesitated for a long while. It was only when they reached the staircase that she said to Xi Yu, “Our family is very wealthy. You don’t have to wrong yourself for a little money. If you don’t want to see him, then don’t.”
“I’m not wronging myself.” Xi Yu said seriously, “Really.”
What was there to feel wronged about over one hundred million?
He was not wronged at all.
After saying that, Xi Yu hurried downstairs.
Standing beside Shen Qing, Luo Cheng’an gave a fair and brutally accurate assessment.
“Brother isn’t this obsessed with money because he’s poor. He simply loves money. It’s the kind of love where, whether poor or rich, he has an instinctive yearning for money. Ah~ What a pure love.”
Shen Qing’s face was covered in black lines. She kicked Luo Cheng’an in the butt. “Stop acting crazy.”
Downstairs.
Old Master Jiang was sitting on the sofa, with a young and beautiful woman beside him.
After waiting for two minutes, the woman became somewhat impatient.
“Grandpa, do you really have to meet this Xi Yu? We’ve found so many capable people and masters, and none of them were useful. How old is he? How could he possibly have any real ability? And we’ve sent more than ten invitations, all of which were rejected. He doesn’t seem to think much of our family either.”
Old Master Jiang’s hair was completely white, and his entire person looked extremely haggard.
He shouted sternly, “Enough! Don’t let me hear you say anything disrespectful about Mr. Xi again.”
Old Master Jiang spoke so urgently that by the time he finished a single sentence, he was already breathing heavily.
Jiang Xuewei was not afraid even after being scolded. Instead, she worriedly rubbed Old Master Jiang’s back.
“All right, all right, I won’t say anything. Don’t get angry. I just feel sorry for you. Last time, you heard that there was a reclusive expert overseas and traveled all that way, only to find out he was a swindler. You even ended up getting sick in a foreign country because of it.”
And now, before he had even fully recovered from that illness, he was already in a hurry to find Xi Yu.
Old Master Jiang knew that his granddaughter was worried about him. He patted her hand.
“I know all of you think I’ve become obsessed. Ever since something happened to Yunzheng, I started believing in these strange and supernatural things. But I can’t not believe them. It’s precisely because I believed too late that Yunzheng ended up like this!!!”
Old Master Jiang’s cloudy eyes grew moist.
Xi Yu had just come down the stairs when he heard those words. He examined Old Master Jiang’s complexion.
It already showed signs of decline, and he was destined to have neither descendants nor heirs.
“It’s you, old man. I remember you.”
Xi Yu had reached the bottom of the stairs.
“You hit me on the butt with your cane. It stayed bruised for several days.”
Luo Cheng’an had just come down the stairs when he heard this. He held it in for a while but eventually couldn’t.
“Brother, someone actually hit you on the butt before? Hahahahahaha!”
Shen Qing and Luo Yuan were not nearly as exaggerated, but smiles were also visible on their faces.
Old Master Jiang, however, became extremely nervous because of those words. Supporting himself with his cane, he stood up.
“Before, I failed to recognize your greatness. I hope that, as a magnanimous person, you won’t hold it against me.”
Jiang Xuewei supported Old Master Jiang, feeling somewhat heartbroken when she heard this.
She had been fostered by the Jiang family since childhood and had been raised under Old Master Jiang’s care. She had a very deep bond with her grandfather.
Ever since something happened to her older brother, Grandpa had been constantly looking for people. After failing to find anyone who could help, he began searching for capable people and strange experts all over the world, trying to awaken her brother.
Every time he met those people, Grandpa treated them with courtesy, placing himself in a very humble position and giving them plenty of respect.
But those people were all just swindlers trying to take their money.
The Jiang family was the richest family in China, a fact that had even been reported in the news. They had plenty of money. They did not care about spending large sums of money.
It was just that having their hopes dashed again and again was too painful.
Grandpa had remained depressed, and his health had continued to deteriorate.
If this continued, she was even afraid that…
Jiang Xuewei’s eyes grew hot. She took several deep breaths before calming herself down.
She looked at Xi Yu, thinking that if Xi Yu became angry because Grandpa had once hit him, then she would…
Before Jiang Xuewei could figure out what she would do, Xi Yu had already spoken.
“There’s nothing to hold against you. At that time, I really did speak unpleasantly.”
Jiang Xuewei froze for a moment.
This Xi Yu didn’t seem to have much of an attitude at all.
The people before him had all put on an arrogant front as soon as they arrived, and just looking at them had made her angry.
Xi Yu sat down on the sofa and gestured for Old Master Jiang to sit as well.
The reason he remembered Old Master Jiang was because this old man had been his very first client.
…………………..
When Xi Yu met Old Master Jiang, it had been his first day setting up his fortune-telling stall.
He had no banner or anything else. He had simply found a market and sat down.
Old Master Jiang happened to be buying birds at the market. Apparently thinking Xi Yu was a beggar, he tossed him two hundred yuan.
Xi Yu had not expected to get his first customer so quickly. He opened his mouth and said, “Old man, on the third day of the third lunar month, disaster will fall upon your descendants palace. You may be destined to have no descendants. However, if you make sure your grandson does not leave the house on the third day of the third lunar month, you can avoid the disaster.”
Then Old Master Jiang had beaten him on the butt with his cane until it was bruised.
Later, it was Old Dog who reminded him that he couldn’t speak to people like that.
But precisely because of those two hundred yuan from Old Master Jiang, he had bought a banner and a table and officially set up his little fortune-telling stall.
Xi Yu got straight to the point.
“You came here because of your grandson.”
Old Master Jiang nodded.
“I beg Mr. Xi to save my grandson.”
Xi Yu said, “Tell me what happened first.”
Supported by Jiang Xuewei, Old Master Jiang sat down and slowly recounted the entire story.
“Three years ago, my grandson went traveling…”
His grandson was named Jiang Yunzheng.
He had loved traveling all over the country since childhood, but every time he went, he traveled with professional friends, and nothing had ever happened.
Until three years ago.
Yunzheng went out with some friends. That night, after drinking, he went out with his friends to get some fresh air, but suddenly became separated from them.
By the time they found him, he was already unconscious.
And that day was precisely the third day of the third lunar month.
After something happened to Yunzheng, Old Master Jiang invited doctors from all over the world, but none of them could determine the cause of Yunzheng’s condition.
Yet they all gave the same diagnosis.
A vegetative state.
When he had reached the end of his options, he suddenly remembered what Xi Yu had said.
No descendants.
At the time, he had only thought Xi Yu was a swindler. He had even considered him bad luck.
Every time Old Master Jiang recalled the incident, he regretted it immensely. That regret had accompanied him ever since something happened to his grandson.
Old Master Jiang was overcome with tears as he spoke.
“I could never find you, so I searched all over the world for people like you. But it was useless. None of them could save Yunzheng.”
Xi Yu said, “There were too many people at that market in the beginning, and the environment was terrible. Not long afterward, I moved somewhere else.”
It had been beneath an overpass.
Old Master Jiang wiped away his tears. His aged voice was filled with helplessness.
“Mr. Xi, my grandson has been asleep for three years. I’m already an old man, and I don’t even know how much longer I have to live. I only hope that while I’m still alive, I can see him wake up. Please, can you help me?”
Old Master Jiang’s emotions were unstable. Jiang Xuewei gave him several sheets of paper.
This was the first time she had ever heard Grandpa talk about this matter.
No wonder.
No wonder Grandpa had suddenly started believing in metaphysics.
So this was what had happened.
She had originally thought that Grandpa had been so devastated that, after discovering medicine could not save her brother, he had desperately turned to anything he could find.
She had never expected there to be this story behind it.
Xi Yu had actually calculated that something would happen to her brother.
In fact, she had watched some clips from Xi Yu’s variety show because it had become so popular.
But she had never taken it seriously.
Over the years, she had seen far too many people like this. Eventually, she had discovered that they were all just performing fake tricks that had been prepared in advance.