Chapter 18: Punishing Chen Ma
This jerk doesn’t come home to eat, he’s just out there kidnapping kids to play, right?
Meng Qinian tsked, hugging Nan Yuanman tightly: “What do you mean kidnapping? Can’t such a cute child be mine?”
Meng Lei sneered: “You could give birth to such a cute child?”
As soon as the father and son met, the smell of gunpowder instantly became strong.
Nan Yuanman blinked her round, watery eyes, and politely stretched out her hand toward Meng Lei in a milky voice: “Uncle, can you give the small coffin back to me?”
“Small coffin?” Meng Lei was stunned for a moment, and only when he saw Nan Yuanman’s gaze fall on the red small coffin in his hand did he suddenly come to his senses. He looked at her with surprise and uncertainty: “Is this yours?”
This was the first time Meng Lei had faced such a tiny girl, and his voice unconsciously softened.
Meng Qinian got goosebumps all over his body, and disdainfully said: “Old man, just talk normally, why are you acting all sissy? Don’t you find it disgusting?”
Meng Lei’s face darkened, grinding his teeth. This brat!
“It’s mine.” Nan Yuanman nodded.
Meng Lei remembered that the weird white mist had dissipated when this small coffin was thrown over, along with the scream that rang in his ears, and the car door that he didn’t know why opened…
His gaze on Nan Yuanman carried a bit of caution and scrutiny as he asked Meng Qinian: “What just happened…?”
“Uncle was under a ghostly illusion just now.” Nan Yuanman raised her chubby little hand and grabbed behind Meng Lei.
The black little ghost trembling on his back was caught in her hand.
Meng Lei only felt a lightness behind him, and his body, which had been somewhat heavy and fatigued for days, suddenly became much lighter. He widened his eyes and looked at Nan Yuanman’s empty hand in shock: “What… ghostly illusion?”
Meng Qinian asked with a face full of surprise and uncertainty: “There really are ghosts in this world?”
“Yes, do you want to see?” Nan Yuanman chanted incantations with her fingers, raised her hand, and dimmed the fire on Meng Qinian’s head a bit.
Meng Qinian’s vision blurred, and in the next second, he saw the black thing in Nan Yuanman’s hand that looked like a lump of charcoal.
It seemed to notice that Meng Qinian could see it, baring its teeth and roaring at him. Its coal-black features tore open due to the ferocious expression, looking quite terrifying.
“Holy—!” Meng Qinian shuddered in fright, almost unable to hold back from throwing Nan Yuanman out. His face, which had regained some color, instantly turned pale, and his legs went weak.
There really are damn ghosts in this world!!
Nan Yuanman fiddled with the little ghost in her hand. The little ghost, which originally looked extremely fierce, trembled like a sheep in her hand and didn’t dare to move.
Meng Qinian was particularly impressed by this and completely believed that Nan Yuanman was a heavenly master.
She glanced at Meng Qinian, whose face was pale, put the little ghost into the small coffin, and said to Meng Lei: “Someone raised this little ghost and drove it to harm you.”
“If Uncle needs me to help exorcise this little ghost, I can give you a 9.99% discount for big brother’s sake.”
Meng Qinian’s mouth twitched. His face was really worth a lot.
Meng Lei asked hesitantly: “You’re a heavenly master? Little friend, you weren’t hired by this rascal to put on an act to trick me, right?”
It wasn’t his fault for thinking this way; it was just that this matter was too fantastical.
Not to mention that Meng Qinian was unreliable. Ever since his mom left, nothing he did had been worry-free.
Moreover, how old was this child? Not even six yet? At this age, she couldn’t even recognize words properly, so how could she be a heavenly master?
Meng Qinian had just calmed down when he heard Meng Lei’s words, and his face immediately darkened: “Believe it or not, I don’t care if you die!”
“Forget it, Perfection, let’s go. I’ll take you home and let him find someone else to deal with it!”
Meng Qinian huffed and carried Nan Yuanman away. Nan Yuanman rested her little chin on his shoulder, looked at Meng Lei, and said: “Uncle, if you want to find someone else, you should do it soon. I don’t know if she only raised this one little ghost. If this fails, there will be a next time.”
She looked at Meng Lei’s glabella, which was gradually becoming dark: “Next time, Uncle won’t have such good luck to escape.”
Although Meng Lei was half-believing and half-doubting, Nan Yuanman’s words still stirred some waves in his heart. So when the assistant came to handle the earlier accident, he asked the assistant to get a copy of the nearby surveillance footage.
The assistant was very quick. In less than ten minutes, the surveillance footage was sent to his mobile phone.
Meng Lei didn’t go home and sat in the car, opening the footage to watch.
When he saw himself opening the car door and walking to the side of the road as if possessed, a chill ran down his spine, and his limbs turned cold.
When he saw the small coffin flying from the left side smashing him back into the car, his cold limbs finally regained a bit of warmth.
Only then did he realize he had broken out in a cold sweat.
At the same time, he realized that what Nan Yuanman said earlier was true. If… if she hadn’t arrived in time, then earlier he would have already…
Thinking this, Meng Lei couldn’t wait another moment and quickly took out his mobile phone to call Meng Qinian.
The phone rang twice before being decisively hung up.
Meng Lei: “…” This brat!!
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Meng Qinian huffed and cursed Meng Lei all the way, while Nan Yuanman perfunctorily responded to him, her eyelids gradually growing heavy.
She had gotten up too early this morning, and now that it was dark, it was exactly Nan Yuanman’s bedtime.
As Meng Qinian was talking, he felt a weight on his shoulder. Turning his head, he saw Nan Yuanman’s chubby cheek pressed against his shoulder, her big eyes tightly closed, sleeping soundly.
The little girl’s face was soft, and the baby fat felt extremely good.
Meng Qinian’s voice unconsciously softened, feeling warmed in his heart that Nan Yuanman trusted him so easily, yet he couldn’t help saying: “You really aren’t afraid at all that I’ll sell you.”
He adjusted Nan Yuanman upward to make her lie more comfortably, and for a moment, he wanted to just take her back to the Meng family.
Anyway, she wasn’t favored in the Jiang family. If he adopted her as his own sister, he would devote his life to spoiling and protecting her.
But thinking about the current messy situation in the Meng family, Meng Qinian tsked and still carried her toward the Jiang family villa following his memory.
Forget it, he’ll deal with the Meng family matters first…
As soon as Meng Qinian brought Nan Yuanman near the villa, Chen Ma, who was waiting outside like a sitting duck, spotted them instantly.
She was stunned when she saw Meng Qinian, her eyes darted around, then she turned her head and shouted loudly inside: “Butler Li! I’ve found Miss Nan!”
This loud voice startled Nan Yuanman and Meng Qinian.
Meng Qinian frowned, giving Chen Ma a displeased cold glance.
Chen Ma was startled by Meng Qinian’s look, her voice unconsciously lowering a bit, but her tone still complaining: “Miss Nan, how can you run around like that? Do you know how worried the young master and madam were about you?”
“To even trouble someone else to bring you back, that’s really too inconsiderate! Get down now! Go back and properly apologize to the young master and madam!”
Meng Qinian’s face darkened, and just as he was about to properly scold this old woman, the startled Nan Yuanman unhappily took out the small coffin and smacked it on Chen Ma’s head: “You’re really too noisy.”
“I don’t like hearing you talk. When I’m here, don’t talk. Oh right, you like making people stand as punishment, so tonight you’ll stand here. You can go in when that so-called Miss Xin Xin comes back.”
Chen Ma instinctively raised her hand to block, but she was not as fast as Nan Yuanman.
She only felt a chill on her forehead, a cold sensation creeping up her spine. She instinctively opened her mouth to curse, but no sound came out.
Not only could she not make a sound, she also couldn’t move.
She was frozen in the position of standing at the doorway, only her eyeballs could move.
Chen Ma: “!!!”
