Beauty and the Bodyguard

Chapter 1268 – Testing Grandpa Zhu

But she wasn’t putting on a friendly face for Lin Yi, the guardian, that’s for sure. She didn’t even want to say goodbye to him. She never wanted to see him again!

Lin Yi didn’t bother being petty with a child, and so he left with a smile, along with Chen Xi and Xiaoxiao.

Ziyu hmphed once she saw Lin Yi leave. She threw an old newspaper on the ground and started stepping on it intensely with her foot. “I’ll crush you, crush you! You jerk!”

Lin Yi naturally didn’t know his name was getting crushed by her foot upstairs. He went to the pharmacy to get some medicine and went to Chen Xi’s house with the two girls.

Chen Xi’s house was somewhere he’d come to before, except he never went up. This time, however, Lin Yi casually brought up the topic. “Xi, where’s the old man with you the other day at the beach? That Xie Yufeng didn’t beat him into the hospital or anything, did he?”

“That’s not possible-” Chen Xi was just about to say that Grandpa Zhu was super powerful, beating up Yufeng when Lin Yi left.

But she was interrupted.

Grandpa Zhu was at the stairway, clearing his throat with a smile on his face. “Xi, you came back? This is..? How come you’re worrying over a fight this old man had at the beach, I’m just a pile of old bones, a couple of days’ of rest was enough!”

Chen Xi paused. She didn’t know how Grandpa Zhu jumped out all of a sudden to interrupt her, but since he already said that Chen Xi cooperated. He did tell her to hide this information after all, but Chen Xi thought that Lin Yi was the savior of her mother, a good person, so it should be fine.

But since Grandpa Zhu didn’t want that, she couldn’t do anything about it. After all, Grandpa Zhu was someone she respected too. He’d taken care of her and her mother all these years, she had to listen to him.

“Ah, that’s good to hear. But I heard that Xie Yufeng got severely beat up, I wonder who stood up for you?” Lin Yi said to Grandpa Zhu suggestively.

“Got beat up? Really? Could someone have seen the man beat me, and stood up for me? But I left the scene really quickly, wanting to avoid trouble. I’m not sure what happened afterward.” Grandpa Zhu pushed aside all responsibility.

“I see.” Lin Yi nodded, raising his head. “I heard your last name is Zhu?”

“Yes, is something wrong?” Grandpa Zhu tensed silently, keeping his composure.

“It’s nothing, it’s a rare name, and I did meet a guy called Zhu before, I wonder if that person had something to do with you?” Lin Yi said flatly.

“Oh? The world’s a big place. There’s plenty of people with the same last name. I’m sure I have nothing to do with that person.” Grandpa Zhu shook his head.

“I didn’t even say who the person was, how do you know? Lin Yi asked.

“Haha, I’m an old man with no partner. I lost my relatives a long time ago.” Grandpa Zhu smiled.

“I see.” Lin Yi nodded. “Well, if that’s the case, I’ll leave you then- I need to go cure Xi’s mother in her house.”

“Thank you for that, young man!” Grandpa Zhu nodded.

Lin Yi and Grandpa Zhu’s conversation struck Chen Xi as odd, but she just assumed he was trying to get along well with Grandpa Zhu. She didn’t know he was testing him.

If Lin Yi didn’t have the ability to see Grandpa Zhu’s strength level, and merely had suspicions- then his testing wouldn’t have yielded any results. But Grandpa Zhu’s words now confirmed that there was definitely something wrong with him!

After Grandpa Zhu walked down and Lin Yi’s group went up, a dark look snapped across his eyes.

“Little bastard, you dare to ruin my plans? Suspecting me, huh? Hmph, it looks like I’ll have to report this to the head of the house!” Grandpa Zhu gritted his teeth. “Testing me? You won’t be able to find anything, I’ve walked more bridges than the roads you’ve walked!”

After cursing at Lin Yi, Grandpa Zhu looked for a quiet place and made a phone call.

“Elder Zhu, why’re you calling me now? Didn’t I tell you not to call me if there’s nothing too important? If Jin finds out, I’ll be in trouble again!” It was a deep voice from the other end of the phone. “Is that woman not dead yet? She’s just a bitch, why haven’t you offed her yet?”

“I’m sorry, young master, the plan’s almost complete, but that Lin Yi kid’s interrupting halfway! You know how he is. He messes everything he touches up!” Grandpa Zhu said a little angrily. “That woman was about to die from cancer already, but that Lin Yi cured her! If the master didn’t say that this Xi girl was valuable, I wouldn’t even try to get close with her and go the roundabout way of using cancer! I would’ve killed her in one slap!”

“Xi’s been trained since young by you. She’s a good chess piece for us to deal with the other houses!” The man didn’t seem to care that Chen Xi was his own flesh and blood- she was a piece on the board!

But thinking about it, the man had gone around with many women in his youth, and it was only normal that he’d had a couple of bastards. It was just that Chen Xi’s mother happened to be a waitress, a lowly position- it was why he treated her like trash.

“I understand, but that woman…” Grandpa Zhu said, troubled. “Lin Yi’s interference is making things difficult for me!”

“Lin Yi… I’ll discuss this with my father, just ignore him for now and don’t let him expose you!” The man ordered.

“Yes, young master!” Grandpa Zhu nodded.

Miss Chen was looking rather healthy today, a lot better than before. One could tell that she was a high-class beauty when young, but time had not been kind on her.

After continuously taking this medicine, however, it was evident that she was changing for the better.

“Mister Lin, Miss Feng- you’ve come!” Miss Chen was especially happy when she saw her savior.