A New House and a New Home

"Don't you think our boss is just too mysterious?" Zhang Tianzhen said, sitting at the table and putting food in her bowl. "That's a legitimate cultivation method, and he got it just like that. When we first became Time Walker, we admired He Xiaoxiao for being such a pro, getting so many guides so quickly. Now that I think about it He Xiaoxiao probably can't compare to our boss."

Hu Xiaoniu glanced at him. "Stop speculating about the boss. It's a good thing that he's willing to teach you cultivation methods. Don't overthink it."

"I'm not overthinking it," Zhang Tianzhen said enthusiastically. "I'm just glad we made the right move back then. Wang Yun and Bai Wan'er both said they'd wait and see before coming to Luocheng, but you were very determined to transfer schools. If we hadn't been among the first to arrive, we wouldn't have had this good fortune."

"I don't think so," Hu Xiaoniu shook his head and said, "It's certainly a good thing that we arrived early, but what will ultimately impress the boss is our attitude. Look at those spoiled brats, they didn't arrive late either, but did the boss take notice of them? So we still need to do our jobs well."

"Then tell me, what exactly is the relationship between Qing Chen and the boss?" Zhang Tianzhen asked curiously. "Why does the boss trust him so much, even giving him the orthodox cultivation method without hesitation? And this time when we went to Xiancheng, only Qing Chen stayed by the boss's side, while Liu Dezhu only stood at the exit for a while."

Hu Xiaoniu tapped the table with his chopsticks. "Hey, I told you not to speculate. When it's our turn to know, the boss will tell us."

"Okay," Zhang Tianzhen muttered, "I'm not just making assumptions about the boss, I'm just curious... But I have to say, Qing Chen is much more capable than I imagined, and to be honest, I admire him."

As Li Dongze said, the two men, one orthodox and the other unorthodox, complemented each other.

Zhang Tianzhen is cunning, shameless, and ruthless, while Hu Xiaoniu is upright, peaceful, and honest.

Whenever Hu Xiaoniu gets stuck on a problem, Zhang Tianzhen can always give him a timely reminder, and whenever Zhang Tianzhen has a whim to take shortcuts, Hu Xiaoniu can always stop her.

They were both well aware of this.

Just as they were eating, a truck horn came from downstairs. Hu Xiaoniu peeked out the window and said, "Alright, stop eating. Our moving company has arrived. Let's go help Aunt Jiang Xue and Qing Chen pack their things."

"Let's finish eating first," Zhang Tianzhen called out from behind.

"No, let's take care of business first," Hu Xiaoniu said.

Hu Xiaoniu diligently carried out every order from his "boss," only feeling at An Xin when he did everything perfectly.

However, the moving company took out storage boxes and turned on their body cameras to ensure that no workers were stealing or damaging anything.

Like soldiers, they quickly categorized each item, then sealed the boxes and loaded them onto the truck.

Seeing this, Qing Chen asked Hu Xiaoniu, "These people are the ones who helped you move before, right? I've seen them before."

Hu Xiaoniu was somewhat surprised that the other party could actually remember some ordinary moving workers.

In fact, this moving company wasn't just randomly chosen; it was a professional moving company within the Hu Group, which had come from Haicheng a few days ago.

When everyone else moved, they all had several large boxes of stuff, especially Nan Gengchen, whose collection of miscellaneous items from Pinduoduo was simply dazzling.

Qing Chen, on the other hand, only had a small box containing a few sets of clothes and some daily necessities.

There were no picture frames, no photo albums, no items to commemorate the past.

Most people have photos with their parents, or yearbooks, letters, or gifts, but Qing Chen has none.

It's like moving house, cutting ties with the past.

"Qing Chen, where are your things?" Hu Xiaoniu asked curiously.

"We threw most of it away last night," Qing Chen said calmly. "Let's go."

Hu Xiaoniu stood at the entrance of the building, watching Qing Chen's back as he got into Jiang Xue's car. It was like a lone swordsman in a martial arts novel he had once read.

Free from all worries.

The moving truck and Jiang Xue's vehicle drove into the "National Treasure Garden" villa area, house number 12.

Li Tong and Nan Gengchen each leaned against the window, looking at the green environment of this famous wealthy neighborhood in Luocheng. Xiao Tongyun said, "I heard from Brother Xiao Niu that our yard is over 700 square meters. Does that mean we can keep several cats free?"

Jiang Xue said helplessly, "Don't just do it for novelty. Keeping pets means being responsible for them. Feeding them, cleaning their litter box, bathing them, changing their litter all take time. Given how lazy you are, don't even mention this to me."

"Okay," Li Tongyun said, gazing longingly out the window. She had never lived in such a nice house in her life.

At this moment, Nan Gengchen suddenly said, "Brother Chen, are all the people living here rich and of high quality?"

Qing Chen glanced at him. "Being rich and being cultured are not directly related."

Just then, the car passed a middle-aged man who was walking his dog. Qing Chen saw the man, and the man saw Qing Chen as well.

However, Qing Chen turned his head away silently, expressionless.

The middle-aged man watched the car drive away in astonishment. He walked to the gate and asked the security guard, "Hello, which car just went in?"

The security guard glanced at the middle-aged man, clearly recognizing him. "Mr. Qin, that's the new homeowner who just moved in, number 12 in the innermost building."

Guobao Garden also has different unit types and levels. There are townhouses of 198 square meters and 268 square meters, as well as small detached houses of 418 square meters and large detached houses of 720 square meters.

Therefore, the owners living here can be divided into different classes, and the 720-square-meter units in the middle are undoubtedly the most wealthy.

The middle-aged man was stunned for a long time. He himself only ran a medium-sized mechanical processing company, so he only bought a 198-square-meter townhouse in this wealthy area.

A 720-square-meter detached villa has always been his dream, but he simply can't afford it.

Those detached houses have their own huge gardens. Even the roads leading to these large detached houses in the community are semi-closed, and ordinary people would never go there.

Those large detached houses are like mysterious castles.

At this point, the middle-aged man was no longer sure if the boy he saw in the car was the one he knew.

Because there's no reason for the other party to be here.

But after thinking about it for a moment, he picked up his phone. "Hey, Wanfang, a new homeowner has moved into Guobao Garden. I saw someone sitting in the back seat of the car, and it looks like Qing Chen... Hmm, I know his house number. I can take you to find him."

The move was completed quickly.

Li Tongyun and Jiang Xue lived on the third floor. Qing Chen set a rule that men were not allowed to go up there, and everyone was required to abide by it. Anyone who violated the rule would be removed from the daytime.

Hu Xiaoniu, Zhang Tianzhen, and Liu Dezhu lived on the second floor, each in their own room.

Qing Chen and Nan Gengchen lived on the same floor.

Although the villa has eight bedrooms, the two rooms on the first floor are a secondary bedroom and a maid's room, which are very narrow and can only fit a bed and a table.

This was arranged for Qing Chen. He didn't care much about the size of his residence; as long as he had a place to sleep, that was enough.

Hu Xiaoniu glanced at Qing Chen's room and hesitated, "Qing Chen, let Zhang Tianzhen and I stay in these two rooms. You two can go upstairs."

"I live here to prepare for any potential crisis," Qing Chen explained. "If an enemy invades, I will be the first to discover it."

Zhang Tianzhen suddenly said, "Qing Chen, I'm a light sleeper. I'd better stay here. If someone sneaks in, they'll definitely wake me up."

Qing Chen calmly asked, "Is there any use in you waking up?"

Zhang Tianzhen: "..."

Qing Chen glanced at everyone and said, "I know you all think that, given my position in the organization, I should be staying in the master bedroom on the second floor, but we are not powerful enough to indulge in vanity, so do as I say."

This house allocation also made all the daytime residents aware of Qing Chen's personality.

This young man was so pragmatic that he gave up all other illusory external things for it.

Under normal circumstances, the hierarchy within an organization needs to be outwardly manifested. Just like a wolf pack, the alpha wolf gets to eat all the entrails, and which wolf eats first is a manifestation of order.

But Qing Chen didn't care about any of that; he only cared about the most practical things.

Just then, the doorbell rang inside the villa. Qing Chen glanced at Nan Gengchen and said, "They haven't seen you before. You know what to say, right?"

"Yes," Nan Gengchen nodded.

Qing Chen looked at the others. "Hu Xiaoniu and Zhang Tianzhen go together to deal with them, let Nan Gengchen do the talking and get rid of them."

Hu Xiaoniu and Zhang Tianzhen were stunned for a moment. They didn't even know what was about to happen, while the boy in front of them seemed to have guessed a lot of things.

Nan Gengchen opened the door and saw a middle-aged couple standing outside with a small child in their hands.

The middle-aged woman looked Nan Gengchen, Hu Xiaoniu, and Zhang Tianzhen up and down, and introduced herself, "Hello, my name is Zhang Wanfang, and I am also a resident of Guobao Garden. I heard that you just moved here, so I came to pay you a visit."

Nan Gengchen smiled and said, "Hello, we'll be neighbors from now on."

Zhang Wanfang's gaze kept going past the three people and into the room, but she didn't see the figure she was looking for.

After hesitating for a while, she finally asked, "I'd like to ask if there's a student here named Qing Chen?"

Nan Gengchen was taken aback for a moment, then said frankly, "No, you must have come to the wrong place. We don't have anyone named Qing Chen here."

The middle-aged man asked politely, "Perhaps it is a bit presumptuous, but are you all students?"

Hu Xiaoniu laughed and said, "Yes, we transferred from Haicheng. We used to study in Haicheng, but we just transferred to Luocheng and are studying at Luoyi High School."

Luocheng Foreign Language School and Luocheng No.1 High School are completely different levels of schools.

In Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Foreign Language School that Qing Chen attended was only slightly below average. He only went to that high school because it was tuition-free.

For Qing Chen, he felt that where he went to school was not very important, since it was all self-study class anyway.

Tuition fees are what matter.

Nan Gengchen actually knew that Zhang Wanfang was Qing Chen's mother, but he didn't feel like he was meeting his good brother's parent. Instead, when he thought about the hardships Qing Chen had suffered, he couldn't help but speak somewhat rudely.

Especially when the other party saw Qing Chen's figure, they deliberately brought their new family's child to look for Qing Chen, which Nan Gengchen didn't quite understand.

However, their presence here was both unexpected and yet perfectly logical.

He smiled at the middle-aged man, "Uncle, where we're from doesn't seem to be any of your business."

The middle-aged man thought for a moment and said, "Sorry, it was just a casual question."

Zhang Wanfang suddenly said, "Hello, may we go inside for a look around?"

But as soon as he finished speaking, two more cars parked outside the gate, both of them Mercedes-Maybach S-Class cars.

A chubby middle-aged man jumped off the bus. He was dressed in a black Tang suit and wore a string of small-leaf sandalwood beads with starry patterns on his wrist.

Upon seeing Hu Xiaoniu, he chuckled and said, "Xiaoniu, why didn't you tell your uncle about such a big event as moving to a new house last night? I almost lost my manners!"

This is Luo Wanyai, whom Zhang Tianzhen mentioned. He started his business in the 1990s with multi-level marketing. Later, his company transformed. He made his fortune early by doing investment guarantee business, and he also made his fortune by running a micro-loan company. Now he is involved in local mining, slag, and steel businesses, and he also runs a real estate company.

He was a true local tyrant in Los Angeles, a lawless criminal who slipped through the net.

This guy was really unlucky. He was in the second batch to enter the Inner World. When he discovered that there was a countdown on his arm, he began to gather subordinates who also had countdowns, preparing to make a big splash. He even planned to pick up his old profession again.

As a result, he was arrested as soon as he entered because of his authentic Luocheng accent.

During this period, Luo Wanyai has been desperately learning Mandarin. He gets angry at anyone who speaks Luocheng dialect to him...

However, being able to speak Mandarin was not enough to save his life. He wanted his men from the Inner World to rescue him, but they couldn't find where he was being held.

Moreover, Luo Wanyai was also very clear about one thing: the thugs over there were really ruthless. They were all armed and were all genetic warriors.

His henchmen could still get by lending money at exorbitant interest rates in the county town, but they were no match for the ruthless people who had him under house arrest.

For the past two months, he has been paying Time Walker to help him rescue himself, and he has even contacted Kunlun and Jiuzhou, but everyone's foundation in the Inner World is still too weak, and no one knows where he is being imprisoned.

This is not the fault of Kunlun and Jiuzhou. After all, those who controlled him were spies from Shendai and Kashima who had infiltrated Luocheng. Even Li Changqing couldn't find them all, let alone the Time Walker.

A while ago, Luo Wanyai heard about Zhang Chengze's situation and suddenly felt like he had grasped at the last straw.

He accurately judged that there must be a master in the Daylight Organization, otherwise Zhang Chengze would definitely be dead at that time!

He is a very intelligent person; otherwise, he wouldn't be able to become such a local tyrant.

Luo Wanyai greeted Hu Xiaoniu with a smile, "Xiaoniu, I also live in this National Treasure Garden. You should have said you wanted to move here earlier. I would have given you my own house, and you wouldn't have needed to spend any money!"

At this moment, the middle-aged man next to Zhang Wanfang stared blankly at Luo Wanyai: "Mr. Luo, hello."

Luo Wanyai was also taken aback. "Who are you?"

He was a little confused about the relationship between the couple and Hu Xiaoniu and his group, so he hesitated to speak up.

The middle-aged man said, "My name is Qin Shuli. I met you once before at the CPPCC meeting."

"Oh, Xiao Qin," Luo Wanyai's eyes darted around, "You two... know each other?"

Qin Shuli shook his head. "No, it's just that our new neighbors moved in, so we came over to pay a visit."

Luo Wanyai was relieved. He smiled and said, "Alright, you've finished your visit, so go back now. I have some important things to discuss with Xiao Niu and the others. Sorry."

As she spoke, she moved aside to make way for his obese body. The black Tang suit he wore looked awkward no matter how you looked at it.

Seeing this, Qin Shuli had no choice but to take Haohao's hand and leave with Zhang Wanfang.

Luo Wanyai smiled and had his men bring over a box, "Xiao Niu, I don't have much to give you since you've come to Luocheng. You can drive those two Mercedes at the gate for now, for commuting and grocery shopping. Don't worry, I'm never stingy. If you can get this done for me, you'll be Luo Wanyai saviors."

Hu Xiaoniu thought for a moment and said, "Come in and talk. We need to ask you about something. We're not sure if we can help you, but this matter is quite tricky."

As Qin Shuli was walking out of the courtyard, he heard Luo Wanyai's words and subconsciously glanced at the two Mercedes-Maybach S-Class cars parked at the entrance.

Neither of the cars is actually the top-of-the-line model, but even so, it would still cost over two million yuan on the road.

Qin Shuli drives a Volkswagen Passat worth just over 200,000 yuan, while Zhang Wanfang hasn't even bought a car yet.

Qin Shuli had promised that if the foreign trade order could be signed at the end of the year, he would buy Zhang Wanfang a car as a wedding anniversary gift.

He couldn't understand it.

The three people in this villa are all students, so why would Luo Wanyai be so generous as to give them two cars of this caliber as a gift?

That's way too exaggerated!

Zhang Wanfang glanced at Qin Shuli: "Did you see Qing Chen in the car or not?"

Qin Shuli recalled, "I'm not entirely sure either, but seeing the situation of this family, I think there must be a mistake."

He wavered because, in his view, this house and someone like Luo Wanyai should never be associated with Qing Chen.

Zhang Wanfang would occasionally look back at the 'castle,' seemingly still somewhat unwilling to give up.

As long as she could still contact Qing Chen, she always felt that her son was on Xingshu Road and that she could find him anytime she wanted.

But things are different now; she has completely lost contact with her son.

"Let's go," Qin Shuli said gently.

At this moment, Qing Chen sat in the house, not even hiding behind the curtains to watch the family of three leave.

Nan Gengchen returned to the room and said, "Brother Chen, they've left. I was going to help you mock them, but Luo Wanyai interrupted me."

"Yes," Qing Chen nodded, "Actually, there's no need for that. Besides, there's nothing wrong with the choices they make in life. Everyone has the right to choose, so there's no need to mock them. We can just live in peace."

"Okay, fine," Nan Gengchen replied.

Qing Chen smiled and said, "Let's deal with Luo Wanyai's matter first."

Nan Gengchen hesitated for a moment before saying, "By the way, the fact that Auntie came looking for me means she's still..."

Qing Chen smiled and said, "It would be very simple for her to find me. She could just wait for me at the school gate. I haven't dropped out of school. It's just that she needs to be busy with work during our school hours."

Qing Chen was no longer an innocent child, so he was exceptionally calm.

It's broken, that's it. There's nothing more to say.

The 5,000-word chapter has been updated, and there will be another chapter at 11 PM tonight.

Thank you Ruyeer for becoming a new ally of this book. The boss is generous, and the boss's kid is well-behaved!