Chapter 15

Chapter 15

Pei Yuming ignored her and said to Su Jin, “Go back to your seat.”

Su Jin did not move. Instead, she tried to talk him down. “Yuming, whatever it is, talk it out. If you keep this up, none of us will be able to get together again.”

“Su Jin, stay out of it today. I can’t explain this to you. If you can’t bear to watch, go wait in the guest bedroom for a while too.”

Su Jin sighed and turned back to her seat.

Pei Yuming glanced at the two younger ones sitting on the sofa.

Lu Zixuan was wearing a black T-shirt and white pants. The simple casual outfit looked clean and fresh on him. In both build and looks, the boy was far better than his father. It was just that Lu Dong had ruined his personality. He was just as weak and slippery, and nothing reliable ever came out of his mouth.

His gaze kept drifting over the elders in the room. Clearly, he was also trying to guess what on earth had happened.

Pei Yuming carried the knife over to him, frightening Lu Zixuan into shrinking back. “Uncle Pei, you…”

Pei Xiaobei also made a halfhearted attempt to stop him. “Dad…”

Pei Yuming ignored his daughter and lifted his chin. “Zixuan, stand up. Let Uncle see if there’s anything in your pockets.”

Lu Zixuan obediently got to his feet and turned out both pockets of his pants. There was nothing inside.

Pei Yuming nodded, then said to him, “Go to the guest bedroom. What happens here has nothing to do with you kids.”

“Oh.”

After Lu Zixuan left, Pei Yuming gave his daughter’s backpack a rough check as well. Though he knew perfectly well she could not have done something like poison someone to death, Pei Yuming had always been meticulous and rigid in the way he did things. Especially at a time like this, he could not let even the slightest possibility slip by.

In the end, Pei Xiaobei was also driven into the guest bedroom.

Only five people remained in the room. Excluding Su Jin, who had already been searched, and Pei Yuming himself, that left only Bai Xue, Lu Dong, and his younger brother.

When Pei Yucheng saw his brother’s gaze sweep over him, he very consciously brought over his jacket for inspection.

All he had on him was a set of keys and a few bills.

“Then should I go to the bedroom too?” he asked tentatively.

“No. You stay.” Pei Yuming gave him a look, clearly wanting his help.

“…All right.”

Now only Bai Xue and Lu Dong were left.

This was roughly what Pei Yuming had anticipated from the start.

Both of them looked at him warily. Pei Yuming said to Lu Dong, “Bring me your jacket.”

He knew that when Lu Dong came today, he had only brought two bottles of wine. He had not brought a bag.

Lu Dong did not move. Instead, he said in a reproachful tone, “Lao Pei, isn’t this going a bit too far?”

Pei Yuming was not buying it. He said to his brother, “You go.”

Pei Yucheng glanced at Bai Xue and Lu Dong, looking troubled. “Brother Lu, sorry about this.”

As he spoke, he moved to take the jacket draped over the back of Lu Dong’s chair.

Unexpectedly, Lu Dong was unusually firm this time. He stood up and blocked Pei Yucheng, shouting in panic and anger, “Have you made enough of a scene yet?”

Seeing this, Pei Yuming rushed over from the doorway and used the knife to force Lu Dong to hand over the jacket.

“Let go!” Pei Yuming said. “Or do you want to find out whether I’ll really use this thing?”

Just then, Su Jin beside Lu Dong and Bai Xue across from him also came over to pull at him. Pei Yuming was afraid of accidentally killing someone the way he had before, so he did not dare truly stab out with the hand holding the knife.

“So it was you after all!”

Seeing Lu Dong fight back with everything he had, Pei Yuming became even more convinced that his guess was right.

What finally ended the chaos was a phone that fell to the floor.

Lu Dong was the first to react. He bent down to pick it up before anyone else, but Su Jin, who was closest, got to it first.

“Give it to me, honey.”

“Give it to me, Su Jin.”

The two men spoke at the same time.

Su Jin looked at the two men in front of her and asked the question everyone present wanted answered.

“Why do you have another phone?”

“Work,” Lu Dong said evasively. “Too many people to keep in touch with.”

“But you’ve never used it in front of me.”

Bai Xue cut in then as well. “We’ve never seen you carry two phones either.”

Pei Yuming gave her a dark look, then said to Su Jin, “There’s no point asking him. Just look.”

Su Jin swiped the screen with her finger. “It has a password.”