He Wan was also present on the night when Meng Ting and Yan Sui said that they were going to adopt a pet. It all started because she had leftover food. At that time, she didn’t have much feeling. Now, she looks at the bald, tailless mutt that appeared in the courtyard of Yan’s residence. Thinking that her leftovers that day might have been eaten by this ugly dog, waves of uncontrollable nausea hit her heart over and over again.
Her index finger pointed at Dahuang, and she was so disgusted that her whole body was shaking.
Uncle Xiao, Nanny Wang, and the other servants came either from the hall or the flower garden. They soon understood what was going on, but they hesitated about He Wan’s order.
In the past, they would never have hesitated like this. But now in the Yan family’s old house, Meng Ting has become another master of the house. His cat and dog are not something that can be touched casually. Not to mention the fact that Dahuang was brought back by Yan Sui. Even He Wan herself couldn’t touch Yan Sui’s things easily, let alone servants like them.
“What’s the matter? Can’t you hear me?” He Wan turned around and looked at Uncle Xiao, her expression getting colder. Uncle Xiao has stayed with the Yan family for so long, so it’s impossible for him not to know her temper. Offending her is no better than offending Meng Ting, who has only been in the Yan family for a short time.
Before Uncle Xiao could say anything back, Dahuang rushed forward again, barking even louder and more ferociously than before, “Woof, woof, woof!”
“Woof woof woof!”
He Wan was so frightened that she took two steps back. She was almost mad with fury when she looked at Dahuang. She sarcastically said, “The dog is the same as its owner!” How dare it bark at her while eating the Yan family’s food! This dog’s guts are not smaller than its master’s!
Uncle Xiao hurriedly stepped forward and held the leash on Dahuang’s neck to prevent it from adding fuel to the fire, “Madam, calm down. Please come inside quickly. Dahuang is usually quite well-behaved.” He could see clearly that it was He Wan who screamed first to create a commotion, causing Dahuang to be wary of her.
Dahuang barks because of its instinct to guard the house, with no intention of harming anyone. In any case, it was unreasonable for He Wan to throw Dahuang out just because it barked a couple of times.
He Wan sneered at the words, took out her mobile phone directly from her bag, “Xiao Qin, come inside.”
She still doesn’t believe that she can’t even teach a beast in the old house! If she can’t get Uncle Xiao to do it, she can always get the bodyguards she brought to do it.
“Dahuang, come back,” Meng Ting appeared at the staircase with Maoqiu in his arms. When Uncle Xiao heard the words, he let go of the leash. Dahuang immediately leaped up the stairs and ran to Meng Ting’s side. It rubbed against his thigh and was completely obedient.
Meng Ting leaned down slightly and reached out to rub Dahuang’s head, then continued walking down the stairs.
He Wan stood still in the courtyard, waiting for Meng Ting to approach. When she saw the even uglier Maoqiu in his arms, she took another step back. She pointed at Meng Ting and her voice became sharper, “What have you brought to the house? Throw it out, throw it out!”
This amazingly ugly thing, Meng Ting actually dared to get it under her nose. How could she not get angry?
Meng Ting patted Dahuang, who was about to get agitated again. He stood up straight and looked at He Wan and spoke, his tone not affected by He Wan’s agitation at all, “Mom, this is Dahuang and this is Maoqiu.”
Regarding these unsophisticated names, He Wan didn’t even want to respond to it. She continued to glare at the two pets and one person.
“This is Yan Sui’s mother,” after Meng Ting introduced them to He Wan, he told Dahuang, “Mom’s temper isn’t very good, so don’t make a fuss.”
Dahuang let out a ‘rumbling’ sound and rubbed Meng Ting’s thigh in response. He Wan almost fell down in anger when she heard this, “You, you—gosh!” Bad temper… She has a bad temper? This time, Meng Ting almost pointed it out to her face and said that she was being unreasonable.
She said ‘you’ for a long time, but couldn’t come up with anything.
At this time, the bodyguard who was called in by her phone also arrived. Her words finally came out, “Get these two beasts out of here!”
If she could, she would also want to get Meng Ting, this person who had no vision, out of Yan’s residence now.
The bodyguard was about thirty years old, tall, and big, he looked quite capable. After hearing He Wan’s words, he walked directly towards Meng Ting. Meng Ting didn’t say anything and just watched him approach. After he stretched out his hand, he grabbed his wrist and the two of them confronted each other.
“Do it!” He Wan looked at it and gave another order. She simply wanted the bodyguard to continue taking action regardless of Meng Ting’s identity.
But it wasn’t the bodyguard who made the first move, it was Meng Ting.
He pulled that man’s wrist, slammed his shoulder directly into his chest, and bent his knee to stab his lower body. When the bodyguard couldn’t help but grunt and when he was about to bend over, Meng Ting knocked his elbow somewhere on his back.
“Ouch!” He couldn’t help but let out a miserable scream, but Meng Ting still didn’t let him go. Another elbow hit the bodyguard’s chin, and Meng Ting kicked his right foot out in a smooth motion. The tall and big man was kicked away by him and landed directly at He Wan’s feet. At this time, Dahuang also rushed forward and bit him, and then returned to Meng Ting’s feet, shaking its head in triumph.
While the event that took place looks complicated, in fact, it doesn’t take more than two minutes. Uncle Xiao’s mouth dropped open and he slowly closed it.
Meng Ting’s fighting prowess is really impressive. He was still holding Maoqiu in his arms, and so effortlessly dispatched a tall, grown man.
Meng Ting looked at He Wan, his eyebrows slightly furrowed, his expression solemn and serious, “Dahuang and Maoqiu are already a part of my and Yan Sui’s family. This is their home too. If you don’t like them, just tell me, and I will keep them away from you. Why do you want to drive them away?”
“When did this place become your home? I didn’t know!” Hearing this, the anger in He Wan’s eyes became even greater. She flew into a fit of rage and completely forgot the purpose of her visit to the old house. If she didn’t let Meng Ting bow down to her today, and in the future, how could she prevent him from climbing on top of her to dominate her!
“Without me, what are you in the Yan family? How dare you talk to me like this?”
As Meng Ting looked at her uncertainly, He Wan sneered, and her voice got a little louder. She not only speaks to Meng Ting, but also the servants of the Yan family, “I can let Yan Sui marry you, and I can also let him divorce you. He is my son!”
“If you don’t listen to me and throw these two beasts out today, I will let Yan Sui divorce you tomorrow.”
He Wan’s expression gradually calmed down as she spoke, but the coldness in her words was even worse. She hadn’t spoken to anyone like this for a long time, it was Meng Ting who forced her to act like this today.
“In Haicheng, there are endless queues of people who want to marry Yan Sui from the North City to the South City. What do you think you are?! At best, you are a child of the Meng family, but at worst, you are just an illegitimate child who cannot be seen in public and cannot be put on the stage!”
Meng Ting’s identity is a stain on his body that can never be washed away. He would never be able to rise to the top in Haicheng’s wealthy circles. If not for that, why would she have ever taken a liking to him? Meng Ting had better show her some sense, otherwise, she could lift him to heaven and she also could trample him to hell!
“Choose, do you want Yan Sui or these two beasts!”
“Grrr!” Dahuang growled at He Wan again. It could clearly feel He Wan’s malice towards Meng Ting and them!
However, Meng Ting patted it lightly again, and it could only retreat to his feet, but its eyes were locked on He Wan, and it remained on guard.
Meng Ting thought for a moment and slowly shook his head, “You are not Yan Sui. I will not choose.”
Even if she was Yan Sui’s mother, he didn’t think she was qualified to let him make such a choice.
But besides not making a choice, he didn’t think He Wan was wrong about anything else she said. Yan Sui does have many admirers, and he is indeed an illegitimate son who cannot be seen in public and cannot be put on the stage.
“Or maybe you can tell Yan Sui to let me choose.”
At that moment, he wouldn’t be timid anymore, and he wouldn’t be greedy anymore.
“Choose what?”
Yan Sui’s voice appeared at the gate of the courtyard. He walked step by step, and when he passed by the bodyguard who was covering his lower body and groaning, his footsteps paused and his eyes sunk slightly. The bodyguard who met his gaze felt a chill all over his body. Even though the pain in his body had not dissipated, he did not dare to make any more noise.
Yan Sui passed him and He Wan and didn’t stop. Instead, he continued to walk towards Meng Ting. He stood beside Meng Ting, pulled the person towards him, looked at him carefully to make sure he was not injured, then turned to look at He Wan, “What’s going on?”
His words were almost as good as directly asking her what happened to his Meng Ting!
He Wan pursed her lips and didn’t say anything. She could say some things to Meng Ting with confidence, but she could not say them to the person involved, Yan Sui. The courtyard was silent for a while, both He Wan and Meng Ting were trapped in their own thoughts, unable to say anything to Yan Sui for a while.
Uncle Xiao bowed slightly, stepped forward, whispered a few words to Yan Sui, and then stepped back to one side. He recounted the conflict in the courtyard to Yan Sui in very brief words, unbiased, but he was not partial to He Wan, in fact, he was partial to Meng Ting.
Yan Sui’s eyes became slightly colder, and he said to Uncle Xiao, “Find another bodyguard for Mother and let Zhao Bing take her back.” Dare to fight Meng Ting in the Yan’s residence? It definitely violated Yan Sui’s taboo. It was also impossible to return such a person to He Wan and let her use him again.
“Yes,” Uncle Xiao nodded and waved his hand. Several young servants who had been hesitating on the side stepped forward to lift the person up and take him away.
List of Idiom in Chapter 26.1
大驚小怪 (dà jīng xiǎo guài): to make a fuss about nothing (idiom); describes being overly surprised at nothing remarkable; to make a fuss over a trivial matter; much ado about nothing; be surprised/alarmed at sth very ordinary; make an unwarranted fuss.無理取鬧 (wú lǐ qǔ nào): to make trouble without reason (idiom); to be deliberately provocative; to make a fuss out of nothing; to throw a tantrum without reason; be very unreasonable; make trouble and refuse to listen to reason; make trouble wilfully.
作威作福 (zuò wēi zuò fú): lit. to punish and award; to openly abuse power; to tyrannize; tyrannical abuse (idiom); riding roughshod over people; act tyrannically; domineering; From 《尚書·洪範》 惟辟作福，惟辟作威, Only the king awards. Only the king punishes. The original meaning is that only the king can monopolize authority and give rewards and punishments. Later, it generally refers to the abuse of power by virtue of position.
見不得人 (jiàn bu dé rén): shameful and cannot be revealed; unpresentable; dare not show up, cannot be made public.
不偏不倚 (bù piān bù yǐ): even-handed; impartial; unbiased; without fear or favour; A Chinese idiom originating from the works of literati. Originally refers to the Confucian ‘Golden Mean‘ that is moderate without the disadvantages of being biased. Later, it is often used to describe doing things fairly without favoring any party.
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