Chapter 143: Chapter 143: Clean Your Neck and Wait for Me Chapter 143: Chapter 143: Clean Your Neck and Wait for Me Qingwu walked to the corner of the stairs and suddenly heard strange sounds coming from the basement storage area.
She frowned slightly and whispered, “Pei Jue, wait for me a moment.”
“As long as it takes.”
If it meant making her fall for him, what harm was there in waiting?
Qingwu was momentarily speechless, feeling that Pei Jue’s words carried another implication!
She slid her phone into her suit pocket and walked toward where materials were stored in the basement.
The gallery employees had all gone home, but there were still several people in blue workers’ uniforms in the storage room.
Qingwu glanced around the storage area, crouched, and stepped onto the pipes of the ceiling construction, squatting above the workers to look down.
“Hurry up, add those materials over there too.”
“Adding these materials, won’t they be discovered?”
“Impossible!” The leader was quite confident.
“These materials are colorless and odorless. Once added, they’ll make these artists get poisoned while painting, and the gallery will be in big trouble! Who told Lady Shen not to cooperate and had to oppose the Su Family? She made such a big fuss today that the Su Family’s gallery has become a laughingstock!”
The workers mixed the powder they had with the paint and also added blocks of pre-prepared toxic paint into the original paint.
“Is Lady Shen still in the office?”
“I see the lights above are off; she’s probably left.”
The leading worker took a pinhole reagent out of his pocket, his face full of malice.
“Inject this into her office’s drinking water tank, and if she drinks it, there’s no saving her!”
The other workers hadn’t expected they would go so far as to target Qingwu, and they panicked.
“Even if you want to avenge Sister Feng, you can’t go after Lady Shen. What if the Shen Family comes after us?”
She was the Shen Family’s eldest daughter; if something happened to her, they wouldn’t have enough lives to compensate even if they had ten!
The worker gritted his teeth viciously, “Don’t worry, the Su Family will definitely protect us.”
Who let that young girl be so insensitive? Feng Han was just a little greedy, and for the Shen Family, that was just a drop in the bucket.
She insisted on making an example of her and sent Feng Han to prison, so she shouldn’t blame him for being ruthless!
Qingwu looked indifferently at the workers before her.
Her gaze swept over the warehouse’s surveillance cameras, which, as expected, were all turned off, with every camera that should be showing red dots completely dark.
It seemed these workers came prepared.
After dealing with the paint, the workers looked toward the materials stacked on the other side.
“What about the equipment over there?”
“Leave it be; the materials we provided earlier are problematic. Within three days, most of this exhibition hall will collapse. Ideally, it happens during the day when it’s open, crushing a few customers. That would be interesting!”
They already planned; if the equipment here failed and collapsed, killing people, not even the Shen Family could turn the tide. The gallery would definitely close down.
See what the Shen Family could use to compete with the Su Family then!
“She’s just a country girl come back from the countryside. Does she really think she’s an art-savvy lady? When things go wrong, let’s see how she handles the aftermath!”
“When the gallery is in trouble, they’ll know putting the gallery in the hands of a country girl was a mistake. There’s nothing the Su Family wants to do that they can’t accomplish!”
The workers gritted their teeth, glanced around the warehouse and left, having tampered with just about everything they could.
Qingwu watched as they exited through the back door, her gaze slowly growing colder.
She recognized these workers as the construction team Feng Han was in charge of contacting. They had made quite a bit of money following Feng Han these years, all from cheating the gallery.
Now that Feng Han was in prison, these workers had lost their cash cow and turned to the Su Family to join forces in seeking revenge on her?
Robbery and murder, they left nothing undone.
Qingwu reached up and touched her earlobe. The earring eavesdropper Chu Yuheng tested last time worked well, and she had added a camera function, which was enough to capture all that had happened just now.
The warehouse was silent as Qingwu climbed down from the ceiling, dusting herself off before leaving the gallery.
As she stepped out of the gallery, Pei Jue was standing in front of her with an umbrella.
“It started raining, where did you just go?”
“Handled a little matter.”
It was the first time Pei Jue saw Qingwu in her professional attire. Her neatly tailored cropped pants revealed her slender, fair ankles, and her high heels were elegant and sophisticated, adding a touch of sensuality to her usual chicness.
After dinner, Pei Jue reluctantly saw Qingwu to the Shen Mansion entrance, watching her with some reluctance.
“I’m quite sorry I didn’t see my fiancée’s painting today.”
But he’d saved the video, set as his dynamic phone wallpaper, so he could see her different side every time he picked up his phone.
Pei Jue took a step forward, gently embraced the girl before him, and planted a fleeting kiss on her forehead.
“Goodnight. If you don’t plan to miss me, then dream of me.”
“Goodnight.”
Qingwu turned and entered the house, seeing Elder Shen sitting in his wheelchair with a gossiping expression. His gaze followed her until she was inside, only then coughing twice.
Feigning ignorance, although his gaze remained fixed on Qingwu’s face.
“Little Wu, is it pleasant being with Pei Jue?”
“It’s alright.”
“Alright is good, cough cough. You young folks should be mindful; Grandpa isn’t an old-fashioned person, but you must protect yourself too. Grandpa does look forward to having four generations under one roof, though. What do you say, will your kids carry the Pei surname or the Shen surname?”
Qingwu helplessly looked at Elder Shen, who had clearly misunderstood.
What was Grandpa saying?
She and Pei Jue hadn’t even discussed marriage; how did it jump to kids?
“Grandpa, what are you trying to say?”
Elder Shen hugged a sofa cushion, chuckling happily, “Grandpa’s just recalling what it’s like to hold a baby. Oh dear, it’s been years since we had a little one in the family, and Grandpa looks forward to it!”
“…” Qingwu struggled to find the words, “Grandpa, you could have Big Brother work on that; he’s the eldest of our Shen Family. It’s really not my turn.”
Elder Shen perked up immediately.
“Anyone can! Tomorrow, Grandpa will urge him! Go get some rest, hehe.”
“Goodnight, Grandpa.”
Qingwu turned to head upstairs, hearing Elder Shen happily muttering about naming his future great-grandchild as she closed the door.
She quickly assembled a miniature laptop, her slender, jade-like fingers typing swiftly to open a Dark Web page.
“In the name of High Tower, send this video to the head of the Su Family.”
Ye Zhi opened the video, spewing his instant noodles in shock.
“No way, are the Su Family really this bold? Daring to make a move against you, Boss!”
“I’ll send it right away, need me to add any message?”
Qingwu’s expression was cold as she said indifferently, “Tell them to prepare three hundred million, or the video will be sent to the Shen Family. Either pay up or wash their necks clean and wait for me.”
The Su Family had repeatedly tested her limits, thinking she wouldn’t retaliate?
Her counterstrike wasn’t something ordinary people could withstand.