Chapter 590: Chapter 589: 563: Coward and Anomaly

“Hahaha!” Lin Zeguang laughed loudly at Yu Minglang’s obviously unsettled back.

In the car, Xiao Qian’s face flushed as she witnessed everything. As Yu Minglang got in the car, he started the engine and handed Xiao Qian the chocolate.

“Replenish your energy.”

“Get lost!”

Open car windows let the outside sound in, and Yu Minglang felt something was not quite right.

“What’s the matter?” A man in his pajamas emerged from the residential building. He looked to be in his forties, wearing glasses, slightly bald, and had a square face, resembling someone who had been working in an office for a long time.

“Ah! Isn’t that my wife’s clothing?” The middle-aged man who came out exclaimed in surprise.

“What’s going on?” Xiao Qian asked Yu Minglang.

“It seemed like I just heard a peculiar sound——” Yu Minglang’s car had already driven off, passing by Lin Zeguang and the middle-aged man who came out when he heard the noise.

Yu Minglang only heard that one sentence and felt something was a little strange. He looked back and saw that the middle-aged man was talking to Lin Zeguang.

“Anything unusual?” Xiao Qian asked.

Yu Minglang turned his head, “Nothing. That man must be the one whose house was robbed, and he came out when he heard the noise.”

Because the encounter with the car and the person was just a momentary thing, Yu Minglang hadn’t heard it too clearly during the brief seconds, and the feeling of unease had quickly passed.

But based on the situation, the man who came out later should be a resident of this building, and the thief stole the clothes from his house. The man came out to check when he heard the noise.

Xiao Qian casually remarked, “Why is this middle-aged man with glasses not asleep so late?”

At this time, most households should be deep in sleep. It was precisely because of this that the thieves dared to come out and act.

“Looking at his appearance, he seems to be more like a white-collar worker or a bureaucrat. It’s normal for people who work in such places to have work pressure and sleep problems.”

Yu Minglang judged this from the middle-aged man’s looks.

“But this guy is not a good person either.”

Yu Minglang’s words made Xiao Qian curious. She turned her head, but those people were already far away from them, and she couldn’t see them very clearly through the car window.

“How can you tell that he’s not a good person?”

“That window-climbing thief probably wasn’t lying. He’s a newbie in crime, and his actions are extremely clumsy. He made a lot of noise climbing the security window. When I went to catch him, this man’s bedroom window was open. If he wasn’t asleep, he should have heard the noise.”

“Did you see that man?”

“Yeah, I glanced into the window when I caught the thief. This man is a second-floor resident, and his bedroom is just opposite the thief. He didn’t even draw the curtains. If he hadwanted to intervene, all he had to do was stick his head out the window and shout, but he didn’t.”

On the contrary, as people passed by, the man came out when he heard the noise. It was clearly hindsight.

Xiao Qian snorted, “There are plenty of such people in society. They don’t care about anything that doesn’t affect them and don’t dare to make a sound if they’re not in danger. Even his wife’s clothes were taken away, and he didn’t dare to stop it. Coward!”

“Exactly, a coward!” Yu Minglang joined in the scorn, looking at the clothing scraps Xiao Qian had put away. They were all in the bag now.

“No one can see my wife’s intimate clothing except for me. Look how considerate I am. I didn’t let Da Guang come, and protected my wife’s tempting appearance from others!”

He shouldn’t have mentioned it. Xiao Qian became even angrier and pushed him a bit, “You dare to talk! The whole world knows what we just did!”

Yu Minglang still felt wronged, “That’s your fault.”

“You have the nerve to say that with a straight face?” Xiao Qian really wanted to slam him.

“Alright, I won’t mention it anymore! Let’s go back to our house, shall we? Xiao Mei, I can see you’re both ashamed and angry. Oh dear, is your OCD about to kick in? In order not to let you torture yourself with excessive handwashing, I’ll use a Nobel Prize-winning medical treatment in the future— Ah! Don’t pinch me while I’m driving, be careful!”

“You shameless guy! You have no filter! If you don’t want to be pinched, don’t say things that provoke me!”

“Seriously, Xiao Mei, don’t suppress your feelings. You’re about to get sick, right? If you get sick, Elder Brother will treat you ~ ”

“Not. Needed!”

The night wind carried the playful banter between the two far away. Xiao Qian found that the antidote to OCD might be a thick skin. Yu Minglang kept teasing her on the way, urging her to have a relapse so he could give her an injection.

But there was no OCD or sleepless nightmares that night.

Only holding each other in sleep, dreamlessly.

Early the next morning, Xiao Qian was still deeply asleep when Yu Minglang took the bottle of wine and left the house.

It made no sense that Xiao Qian had been through so much and was fine, remaining calm even during the threatening phone calls, only to have an episode after eating a meal and receiving an expensive bottle of wine.

Yu Minglang didn’t plan to let Xiao Qian come into contact with that weird boss again. Although he didn’t know why Xiao Qian suddenly became provoked, he intuitively felt that it had something to do with this bottle of wine.

So he didn’t intend to let Xiao Qian go back, got in his car and went back to the Porridge House to return the wine bottle, planning to interrogate the boss about why he had given Xiao Qian such an expensive gift.

When he arrived, the security door was already closed. A chubby man was mopping the floor and said without looking up when he saw Yu Minglang enter.

“We begin business at 11 in the morning. Come back later for buns.”

“Where’s the boss of this place?” Yu Minglang realized that this man was not the one he was looking for.

The fat man looked up, “I am. What’s the matter?”

“Where’s yesterday’s boss?” Yu Minglang asked.

“Yesterday? Oh, I was on leave yesterday and had a friend watch the shop for a day.”

“Was his name Xuan?”

“You have business with him?”

“Where did he go?”

“He went abroad.”

“Went abroad? What does he do?”

“I can’t tell you that. It’s my friend’s privacy. Do you have any business with him?”

Yu Minglang glanced at the bag in his hand. Qian Bao said this bottle was a genuine antique, and he wouldn’t return such a valuable item without seeing the actual person.

“Do you have his contact information or can you tell me when he’ll be back?”