Chapter 1570 - 1569: No Searching My Room

Chapter 1570: Chapter 1569: No Searching My Room

Chapter 1569: You Are Not Allowed to Search My Room

Third Aunt Qu hurriedly pulled out the Spiritual Jade Pendant she’d exchanged with Ou Pengfei: "This Spiritual Jade Pendant cost me twenty antiques to get."

Third Uncle Qu snapped, "What are you taking that out for? Who doesn’t know you traded twenty antiques for the Spiritual Jade Pendant? Does anyone really think you’re the killer? You don’t even dare kill a chicken—how would you dare kill a person?"

Ou Zhengren cast a glance at the people of the third branch, feeling extremely stifled. The two Spirit Jade Pendants his own two children had brought back had both ended up in the hands of the third branch. And both were taken by force, by buying and trading under pressure—how could he possibly be pleased?

But he knew that once something ended up in the hands of the third branch, getting it back was harder than reaching the sky.

"Everyone’s already here, no one is allowed to go back. We’ll start searching from the Old Master’s room."

Old Lady Qu, who hadn’t said a word until now, suddenly stood up: "Zhengren, what did you just say? You’re going to raid my home?"

Ou Zhengren was taken aback for a moment, then looked at the Old Master: "The Old Master agreed to it."

Old Lady Qu flew into a rage: "You old thing, do you suspect it was me who sent someone to kill your daughter?"

The Old Master hurried to placate her: "We’re just ruling people out, that’s all. Just sit here for a bit and let them check—what’s the harm in that?"

"No. I’ve lived to this age, and now I’m being bullied by a junior who wants to ransack my house—where am I supposed to put my old face? My room is not to be searched!" She turned to Ou Zhengren. "You’re my own son, and yet for the sake of an outsider you’re going to bully your own mother?"

Ou Zhengren had a headache: "Mom, that’s not what I meant—"

"Then what did you mean?"

"We were the ones, the Ou Family, who sent a car to pick up Big Sister. Big Sister almost died in that car, and the two drivers, Gou Fu and the other one, were silenced because of it. The Spiritual Jade Pendant on Driver Gou went missing. I just want to rule things out—"

"By launching this raid, you’re starting with suspecting your old mother first, that’s why you want to raid your old mother’s room, isn’t it? Anyway, I don’t care. I don’t have that kind of face for people to trample on. My house is not to be searched!"

Ou Zhengren was at his wits’ end.

"Forget it, we won’t rule your mother’s room out. We’ll start ruling out other rooms." The Old Master made the final decision.

Ou Zhengren, helpless, was just about to agree when Pengfei spoke up: "Since Grandma doesn’t want to be ruled out, then we shouldn’t use this method of ruling out anyone at all."

Ou Zhengren did not agree: "We don’t need to search the Old Lady’s room, but we can at least search other people’s rooms."

Pengfei sighed: "If the Old Lady thinks this way, I’m sure the others think the same. As your son, I feel we’d better not use this elimination method."

He had suggested to his father that they start with the Old Lady’s room precisely because his Master had said the Jade Pendant was in her room. If Grandma’s room couldn’t be searched, what was the point of searching any other rooms?

Who doesn’t have some secret in their room? If he went and exposed them all, wouldn’t everyone else in the Ou Family end up hating him to death?

So he simply decided not to search any rooms.

However, after what happened today, would the Old Lady destroy the Jade Pendant or move it elsewhere? Should he start mobilizing his own forces?

As the heir of the Ou Family, the family had selected a group of talented orphans for him when he was still a child, to accompany him, to study and grow up alongside him. When he took over the family, this group of children would be his support.

But his words made Old Lady Qu wary: did this grandson know something?

Impossible. She had handled matters so secretly that even the old man didn’t know. How could he possibly know? This must be a coincidence.

Even so, she had to find a way to deal with that Jade Pendant as soon as possible!

She’d originally thought it was some kind of treasure, which was why she’d kept it. She hadn’t expected that this "treasure" would turn out to be the very root cause of trouble.