He took the opportunity to steal a glance at Qiao Nian, seeming a little puzzled, but did not stay for long, and said politely: "The two guests, drink slowly, call me if you need anything."
"Thank you." The girl said lazily in a hoarse voice.
The clerk picked up his tray, looked at her several more times before leaving, and walked away, looking back every few steps.
Qiao Nian waited for her to leave, then casually inserted the straw on the table into the Coke, lowered his head and took two sips of the Coke while holding the straw in his mouth.
"What do you want from me?"
Mr. Ye didn't come here to drink water in the first place. Seeing that she spoke first, he thought for a while before speaking slowly: "After you left last night, someone found me and talked to me about you."
"Who?" Qiao Nian put down the Coke and sat back.
Ye Maoshan observed her expression and said, "Your grandmother."
Qiao Nian was originally leaning in a crooked position, with her almond-shaped eyes half-closed, looking a little sleepy, and her whole body exuded laziness and carelessness.
Until Ye Maoshan said the word "grandmother".
The aura around her became cold.
Although Qiao Nian didn't make any big moves and just pushed the Coke in front of her with her hand, people could clearly feel her bad temper.
"What does she want from you?"
Ye Maoshan looked at her with heartache. Because he felt so sorry for her, he had to tell her, "It wasn't her who found me herself. She asked someone to find me."
"That person said she cared about you a lot, and asked me about your previous experience in Raocheng, and what majors you studied at Qing University... She also asked me tentatively if I knew what you were doing in Independence Island."
Qiao Nian recalled that she had not told Grandpa Ye that she had gone to the Independent Island. Although Grandpa Ye knew that she was in the Independent Island later, she had indeed kept it a secret from them.
Her eyelashes trembled when she heard this, and her dark pupils looked at the old man sitting opposite her, with a guilty look on her face, but she didn't know where to start explaining to him. Fortunately, Ye Maoshan saw her restraint and immediately raised his hand and said gently: "You don't have to explain to me what you did. I know you have been investigating your mother's death. Even if that brat didn't say it, I could guess a little bit myself, and I also know that you are not going around the city."
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to hide it from you and Aunt Ye." Qiao Nian felt more and more guilty. He sat up straight and apologized to him solemnly.
Even if Mr. Ye felt a little sad before, the fact that he later went to Independence Island to see Qiao Nian showed that he no longer took it to heart.
"Let's talk about that guy from last night." He said to Qiao Nian: "I made up a few sentences and didn't tell him anything. He didn't see that he got anything out of me, so he stopped talking to me."
"Yeah." Qiao Nian didn't take these little tricks to heart: "It doesn't matter if you tell him, it won't affect me."
Ye Maoshan had a worried look on his face. He hesitated and didn't know how to start, so he asked her, "Niannian, are you looking into your mother's affairs?"
Independent State…
That’s where Ji Qing came from back then.
Qiao Nian felt guilty for hiding the fact that she was going to the Independent Continent from him, so she sat up straight, her fair face looking serious: "Yes, I've been checking."
"How much have you found?"
"But I didn't find much. It was so long ago that many things are hard to find."
Ye Maoshan hesitated for a moment, thought about it, and began to speak: "I know a little about your mother, but not much, maybe I can help you."
For the next hour, he briefly told Qiao Nian how Xia Jiqing appeared in Beijing and how he saved him once.
Because of this reason, the two families arranged a baby marriage, waiting for Ji Qing to become pregnant and give birth to a child in the future.
(End of this chapter)