My Family Can Read My Mind, and Now the Divine Beast Bai Ze Can't Hide Anymore
Chapter 19

You Can't Even Hold a Bottle Steady, and You Want Me to Build Blocks?

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"Alright, then let's head out!"

The two adults in the front row discussed matters with grave expressions, while the two little ones in the back were much more relaxed.

Chu Yanxiao did not have class today. He had already been pestering Fu Siwen to let him see Su Leyun, and now that he finally had, his little face had been beaming the whole time.

Along with him in the back seat were the things they had just bought at the mall. Like a livestream seller, Chu Yanxiao tirelessly showed Su Leyun the treasures he had bought.

"Look, this is a Transformer. All the kids in my class love it. Let it sleep with you from now on and protect you!"

Su Leyun examined the hard toy model in his hand, pouted, shook his head, and pushed it back.

What Transformer? Lord Bai Ze could destroy it with one swipe of his paw after returning to his true form! Besides, sleeping things ought to be soft and fluffy. He did not like toys that hurt his eyes just looking at them!

"Then what about this? LEGO blocks! I'll teach you how to build them."

[Come on! I'm only two months old! I can barely hold a bottle steady, and you want me to build blocks?]

"You don't like it?" Chu Yanxiao studied his expression. "Then I'll switch it out."

He dug out a glittering little gold ingot bracelet from the pile of gifts and slipped it directly onto Su Leyun's chubby little hand. "This is real gold. Do you like it?"

He remembered that his mother loved it most when his father gave her gold. She was always especially happy whenever she received it, so he had copied her and bought Su Leyun gold.

Unexpectedly, it was exactly what Su Leyun needed. The aura emitted by gold was gentle and could enhance one's presence, making it perfect for a divine beast like Su Leyun, who was inhabiting a mortal body.

The moment it was put on his hand, Su Leyun put it into his mouth to chew on.

[Finally, something useful. Not bad, not bad!]

Hearing that Su Leyun liked it, Chu Yanxiao was overjoyed. He remembered there was another step after his mother became happy, so he eagerly suggested, "I gave you a gift. In return, shouldn't you give me a kiss?"

Su Leyun haughtily raised his chin. "I am the one and only noble Lord Bai Ze, unrivaled in heaven and on earth. The fact that I accepted the tribute of a mere mortal like you is already your greatest honor, yet you dare covet a kiss from me! Ptooey!"

Su Leyun suddenly turned into an enraged alpaca and began spraying saliva at Chu Yanxiao.

Chu Yanxiao had originally closed his eyes happily and leaned his face over, ready to receive Su Leyun's kiss, but he never expected to be suddenly caught in a rainstorm...

Chu Yanxiao, who was a little germophobic, froze for a moment before his mouth crumpled. "Mom, Lele spat on me!"

Su Minghui had heard everything and could not help laughing, though she did not forget to educate her son. "Lele, you can't treat Xiaoxiao like that. It's impolite."

Fu Siwen loved seeing Chu Yanxiao get stumped by Su Leyun the most. She laughed loudly, then saw that her son was about to cry and hurriedly took out a wet wipe from her bag. Turning around to wipe his face, she comforted him as she did so. "It's okay, it's okay. We don't want this little wife anymore. Mommy will find you one who doesn't spit!"

Chu Yanxiao immediately stopped crying and shook his head like a rattle-drum. "No, you can't! I only like the one who spits!"

Su Leyun became even more smug.

[See that? Lord Bai Ze's charm is boundless~]

The two adults could not hold back their laughter, and both burst out laughing. The heavy atmosphere in the car was immediately lightened by the two children.

The car continued toward the nursing home when Fu Siwen suddenly asked, "A nursing home like this should have surveillance cameras, right? Didn't you ever review their footage before? How did you not discover anything then?"

Su Minghui shook her head regretfully. "There were cameras, and I checked them often, but I never saw anything unusual in the footage."

Reports of nursing homes abusing the elderly were endless in modern society, so Su Minghui had paid special attention to this from the beginning. The nursing home had directly installed an app on Su Minghui's phone, which supposedly allowed her to check on Father Su and Mother Su at any time, twenty-four hours a day.

When she was recovering at the postpartum care center and could not come visit, she checked the surveillance footage several times a day. Sometimes, she even chatted with Mother Su through the cameras.

With those arrangements in place, along with the exorbitant price, Su Minghui had never associated this nursing home with the word "abuse."

If she had discovered it sooner, her parents would not have suffered so much!

[Of course you couldn't see anything. These people know the cameras are there, so whenever they do bad things, they choose surveillance blind spots, such as bathrooms and washrooms without cameras.]

[But that's a minor problem,] Su Leyun drew a circle with his chubby finger, and a flash of golden light appeared. [There. Now Mom's cameras can see everything.]

He used a tiny spell to directly lock the nursing home's surveillance system onto the Su couple. As long as the two of them were present, no matter where they were, the cameras could show what was happening on the scene.

After hearing Su Leyun's thoughts, Su Minghui immediately took out her phone. "I'll try again. I just left, so they should let their guard down. Let's see if we can catch anything now."

When she opened the app, the scene inside the nursing home room appeared before her eyes. The angle really was different from before, and the image was even clearer.

The caregiver who had been smiling gently in front of her just moments ago had now changed her face entirely. She walked straight up to Mother Su, looked down at the elderly woman, and said, "You didn't say anything you shouldn't have just now, did you?"

"What could I possibly say? His life is in your hands. What could I say at all?"

Mother Su had come from a scholarly family and grown up cherished by her relatives. After marrying Father Su, the couple had loved each other deeply. She could be said to have never lived a hard day in her life, yet in her old age, not only had she suffered a great calamity, she now had to watch the expression of a young caregiver.

"Good that you know!"

The caregiver was completely unrestrained because she knew Su Minghui had just left and would not be coming back so soon.

Before giving birth, Su Minghui had visited frequently, three or four times a month. Back then, they had still been somewhat cautious. But because of the birth, Su Minghui had only checked in by phone for over a month, and they had completely cast aside their reservations.

Su Minghui's call today to make an appointment had given them quite a fright. They had hurriedly cleaned the two elders and changed their clothes, so what Su Minghui saw when she came over was a clean and tidy pair.

"I saw your daughter bring something in just now. Where did you put it?"

Su Minghui had brought several new outfits for her mother and casually hung them in the wardrobe.

Mother Su weakly pointed toward the wardrobe. The next second, the clothes inside were taken out. The two caregivers greedily stroked the garments. "Such good fabric is wasted on a cripple like you. We'll put it to better use for you."

The two of them cheerfully stuffed the clothes into their own bags.

Watching the surveillance footage, Su Minghui clenched her teeth. She had bought and brought over new clothes because she thought her mother's clothes seemed to be getting fewer. So this was where the problem had been!

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