In the quaint courtyard of the Ye family, there were green grass and cistanches. Today, Ye Maoshan was not tending to the flowers and playing with the birds, which was unusual. Instead, he was sitting on a mahogany chair in the main room. There was a cup of tea in front of him. Ye Maoshan picked it up several times but was not in the mood to drink it, so he put the cup down slowly.
Sitting next to him was a dignified and graceful middle-aged woman, a little younger than Ye Lan, but not young either, probably around 40 years old.
She was wearing a royal blue cheongsam with a light-colored scarf draped over her shoulders, and her temperament was quite outstanding.
Her eyebrows and eyes also reveal some of the outlines of the Ye family.
The housekeeper also made her a cup of tea, using a set of white porcelain cups with gold patterns. The tea he brewed was not the same kind of plain tea as Ye Maoshan's, but a cup of mellow Western black tea.
"Thanks."
Ye Shan thanked the housekeeper politely, then slowly picked up the teacup and took a sip.
The Ye family's housekeeper looked at each other and stepped aside, placing his hands politely in front of him, without saying much.
Ye Lan was there too. She was not as leisurely as the other person and was still in the mood to drink tea at this time.
There was a layer of frost on her brow, and although she tried to control her emotions, her eyes still revealed anxiety.
"Dad, they haven't come back yet?"
When Ye Maoshan heard Ye Lan talking, he looked outside, his heart sank, and he shook his head: "Wait a little longer."
Finally, someone came hurriedly towards the main house.
Ye Maoshan picked up the teacup for the fifth time. He saw someone coming in from the corner of his eye, and immediately put the cup on the table and asked, "How is it?"
The person who came in was also about 40 years old, not tall nor short, probably over 175 cm and less than 1.80 meters. He looked rougher than the other members of the Ye family, and his square face revealed his upright character.
Ye Keji was very respectful to Mr. Ye. Even though he was exhausted from the journey and hadn't had a rest, he didn't complain. He immediately said, "Our goods in Independent Island were robbed, and the team leader Wang Fei who was responsible for transporting the goods disappeared along with the goods. Our people in Independent Island haven't figured out the situation yet. They are trying to find out. They will tell us when they have news."
Ye Maoshan stood up, walked around anxiously, put his hands behind his back, stopped again, and looked at him unconsciously: "That batch of goods... was robbed?"
"Um."
Ye Keji is not a direct descendant of the Ye family, but he is a very close blood relative among the side branches and can be considered a cousin of the Ye family.
He poured a glass of water and drank it, his expression solemn. He emphasized to Ye Maoshan again: "The current situation is that the person responsible for transporting this batch of goods has also disappeared. We can't figure out who moved our goods for a while."
The forces in the Independent Continent are complicated and intricate, even more complicated than those in Beijing.
Since they didn't know who did it, they had no way to recover the goods or figure out the reason behind it.
"I remember that Wang Fei is from Wangchuan?" Ye Shan, like Ye Keji, is also a member of the Ye family's branch.
She suddenly spoke up and everyone looked in her direction.
Ye Shan put down her tea cup slowly, smiled slightly, and said in a light voice as if jokingly: "Isn't this obvious? Maybe someone stole the goods and then staged a disappearance... everything would be solved."
Ye Lan frowned and asked her coldly, "Ye Shan, what do you mean by this?"
(End of this chapter)