Chapter 254: Chapter 250: Xiao Chenye Returns

Wen Ran never hesitated when it came to Xiao Chenye. After heating the water, she started plucking the feathers. This midnight commotion woke up Hongguo.

Seeing Xiao Chenye appearing dazed and staring off into space, she was startled out of her sleep.

After a brief, awkward, and mismatched conversation, Hongguo fled as if escaping.

“Sis, what’s up with brother-in-law? He seems to be preoccupied with something.”

Wen Ran: “…”

Being the main culprit, she remained calm and unfazed, “Ah, his not-so-quick brain, what could be bothering him?

He’s just exhausted from driving and hungry, making his brain not function properly. Once I stew this little chicken and make some fragrant handmade noodles for you, his mind will definitely be sharp again.”

The feathers were plucked, and the hen was set to stew.

Wen Ran began to prepare the dough, thinking since everyone was awake, they couldn’t just watch Xiao Chenye eat alone. She might as well make more, so everyone could have some.

Consider it as preparing a midnight snack.

The chicken was brought to a boil on high heat, then simmered gently. Taking advantage of the time, Wen Ran kneaded the dough, sliced it into strips, spread them out to dry, and quickly peeled and julienned a potato.

Watching her knife skills made Xiao Chenye’s scalp inexplicably tingle.

His scalp shrunk.

Wen Ran glanced up, “What are you dodging for?”

“…Haha, you’ve got sharp eyes.”

“Don’t worry, I won’t chop you.”

A man with abs is for the bed, tsk, can’t be used recklessly.

The chicken was a little home-raised hen, nurtured bit by bit with worms, tiny shrimp, little fish, and snail meat caught by Hongguo after school.

Additionally, Wen Ran occasionally feeds her a bit of Spiritual Spring, and the fragrance is overwhelming.

This time, even Hetao, sleeping like a dumb pig, woke up from the aroma.

Drooling on the floor, it shamelessly approached Wen Ran. Infuriated, Wen Ran gave it a kick on the butt.

“You’re supposed to guard the house for me. You snored so loudly when someone fell into the yard.

Goodness, my little stewed chicken isn’t even out of the pot, and here you are, drooling over it!”

Hetao, with an attitude that says as long as I’m shameless, you can’t do anything about me, skipped happily over despite being kicked.

Wen Ran grabbed its cheeks angrily and scolded it fiercely.

Hetao: “~~~”

It blinked its bright green eyes, wondering what the two-feet beast was saying~

Little Wolfie doesn’t understand~

Delicious chicken, to devour.

Ah~~

Songzhu, lying on the table: “.”

Crunch crunch crunch~ (chewing noise) You say, how can this wolf be so (chewing noise) shameless?

The battle was on the verge of breaking out.

Songzhu zipped up to the rafters, enraging Hetao until it was barking furiously below.

Wen Ran’s head buzzed, wondering what she had raised.

Useless at everything, never leaves food behind.

Chicken hasn’t flown, dog didn’t jump.

But life felt chaotic like a chicken flying and dogs jumping.

(Note: Chicken is in the pot, there’s no dog at home, only a shameless wolf and Old Wolf).

Throughout it all, Xiao Chenye kept his gaze on Wen Ran, his face full of smiles.

Though life was noisy and chaotic, there was a real sense of anticipation.

The sour and spicy potato threads were done, and the chicken noodle soup was ready as well.

Thanks to Xiao Chenye, everyone had a late-night snack.

Hetao spun around in anxiety, Wen Ran wasn’t stingy, she shared some meat with it and Old Wolf, even the small marten had a bite, but as for Songzhu…

It remained perched on the rafters, refusing to come down.

After filling his stomach, Xiao Chenye stretched his body; before he could say anything, Wen Ran swiftly pinned his arm.

Instantly, whatever Xiao Chenye wanted to say vanished.

Damn!

It hurts!

Seeing his face suddenly change, Wen Ran understood immediately.

With a cold laugh, “Fifth Brother Xiao, quite capable, huh? Still got nothing to say?”

It took Xiao Chenye a long time to recover from the overwhelming pain that almost knocked him out.

He gave a sheepish smile, “Hahaha, worthy of my Ranran, so smart.”

But he couldn’t figure it out.

Puzzled, he asked, “Where did I give myself away?”

“You revealed it as soon as you landed.”

With Xiao Chenye’s skills, flipping over a wall should be a breeze. Yet, he slipped up.

This, in itself, was suspicious.

Not to mention, once inside, Xiao Chenye stayed put, hardly moving.

Even when he moved, he was cautious with the range of his actions—something that would only happen if he were injured; otherwise, Wen Ran should spell her name backwards.

“Now that you’re fed and rested, let’s hear it.”

Xiao Chenye: “…”

He remained honest.

Ranran is quite good.

Even during interrogation, she knew to feed him before slowly questioning.

“I’ll confess to everything.”

Seeing that he’d been exposed, Xiao Chenye didn’t dare deceive anyone, and showed all the spoils of his trip.

A small cloth pouch, heavy and jingling with movement.

“Here, everything from my mission is here.”

Once opened, there were three golden fish, five large golden fish, and some Yuan Shikai coinage, old and new.

Pearl necklace, agate bracelet, and even a couple of gold pieces.

The scattered money and tickets need no mention, at least a hundred or two hundred bucks.

In this pile, the least valuable were these items.

Wen Ran instantly drew a sharp breath, “Did you sell it, or was it stolen?”

“Stolen.”

Actually, Xiao Chenye didn’t intend to; sometimes, when you encounter things like this, there’s really no choice.

With a bitter smile, he said, “This stuff is incredibly dangerous.

Ranran, did you know? This trip, if I hadn’t been careful, might have ended disastrously.”

Truck drivers meeting their end in foreign places aren’t rare.

If the journey were entirely uneventful, the county transport team wouldn’t be silly enough not to have two people per trip.

It’s simply that these two look out for each other.

“Take your time telling it.”

To put it simply, they encountered robbers targeting big trucks.

Xiao Chenye, along with his partner brothers, relying on having guns, fought back against five or six strong men.

But ultimately, however skilled, fists could hardly beat four hands; carelessly, he got struck.”

Since they suffered, surely they had to find a way to compensate.

They pressed on to the thieves’ hideout, digging out a box full of gold and jewels.

Xiao Chenye discussed with his brothers, each took a little something, leaving the rest and reporting it.

It’s not that they didn’t want to be greedy.

But, simply put, this matter had to have a reasonable explanation.

If it didn’t align, trouble would be enormous.

Rather than take it all and be fraught with worry, it’s better each to get a small share, and throw out the big piece, whoever can take it, let them manage the mess.

Coming back like this, bringing back both people and goods to the county transport team, even garnered praise.

Xiao Chenye chuckled nervously, “Hahaha, if nothing unexpected happens, soon a commendation letter will arrive.”

Wen Ran could only comment: You lucky brat, full of surprises!

“Alright, keep the stuff safe for future use.”

“Yep, save it for the kids.”

“…Shameless?”

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