Chapter 839. Warmth (4)
Not too long after lunch, Mu Yinan went upstairs to his study room and Mu Tangchuan followed him closely behind.
At this moment, inside Mu Yinan’s study room, Mu Yinan was smoking while Mu Tangchuan elegantly steeped some tea. Upon getting a whiff of the faint of smoke, Mu Tangchuan brought the steeped tea to Mu Yinan. “Father, you haven’t been well recently. You should smoke less and drink more nourishing beverages.”
As Mu Tangchuan said that, he took the cigarette away from between Mu Yinan’s fingers and put it out in the ashtray on the side.
“It’s fine. Your mother’s been watching me. I don’t smoke often anyway.”
Mu Yinan picked the tea up and took a sip. His aged eyes suddenly flickered with a faint light as he said in a deep voice, “I’ve gotten someone to find out more about Ah Chen’s matter this time. I’m sure you know more than a little about it too, don’t you?”
Mu Tangchuan sighed and nodded. “I’ve heard from the police bureau, and know a bit more from Li Si.”
“Sigh, it was a slip of the tongue. Unexpectedly, it caused such severe consequences. Thankfully, back then, Ah Rong had objected. Otherwise, we might have brought harm to Ah Chen. We really can’t be sure who did it this time. Was it Qi Qiming? Or Gu Qiwu and the rest? Speaking of Gu Qiwu, right from the start I’ve always thought that he… was too shortsighted. He has deep suspicions, and you suffered some loss under him back then too. All these years, the Mus and the Gus relationship has been fading. This might not be a bad thing for us,” Mu Yinan lamented with some self-blame.
“Father, you don’t need to blame yourself. The children all have their own thoughts. All these years, the Gu family hasn’t been on good terms with us, especially when we reached Gu Qiwu’s generation, so you don’t have to care too much about it either. Actually, there isn’t anything necessarily good about the so-called combining of prestigious families by marriage. Look at Qi Qiming and Wang Qin. Were they not a tragedy? As long as the children are happy, right now they don’t care about those things. They aren’t living as conservatively as the older generation like us.”
Mu Tangchuan thought about it, then lowered his head to take a sip of tea.