Durin's Diary

Chapter 965 Unsatisfactory

Chen Xiaohu sat on the hood of the car, the young man eating a lollipop as he waited.

The Marquis of Chang Le in the Chang Le Fang before him was the person he was looking for.

His chief secretary, nicknamed Rabbit Head, stood beside the car, shaking his leg: "Sir, why haven't they come out yet?"

"Maybe he's thinking about how to escape the city through the underground passage," Chen Xiaohu said with a smile on his face.

It's good that they escaped. He wanted to see how these charlatans and scoundrels, pretending to be something they were, managed to get away with their indestructible mouths in front of Mr. Dulin.

What a Chang Le Hou! He just bought the title with money he swindled. I thought they would retire from their criminal ways, but alas, a leopard can't change its spots.

At this moment, Gao Ti Lao, who had gone in to deliver the message, came out and said, "Lord Chang Le invites the two distinguished guests in."

"Old Zhang, keep an eye on the car. Don't let that gambler from the neighborhood scratch it." After instructing the driver, Chen Xiaohu snapped his fingers.

His chief secretary, carrying a briefcase, followed him into Chang Le Fang.

"Doesn't your Marquis of Chang Le care about this mess?" As soon as he entered, Chen Xiaohu almost tripped over the smoke inside.

“Chang Le Fang doesn’t restrict guests’ status, so it’s naturally not as luxurious as places that come from the heavens.” After the little demon standing to the side finished speaking, he gestured to the tall hoof old man that he could leave.

Once Gao Ti Lao left, she gestured for Chen Xiao Hu and his rabbit-headed secretary to follow her.

"I never expected that the young lady from Changle Prefecture would come to take care of me personally."

"Others recognize my father's identity as Marquis Chang Le, so Director Chen, please don't belittle yourself. Others may not know, but don't you know who my father is?" The girl smiled and glanced at Chen Xiaohu.

Chen Xiaohu smiled – the only good thing this current Marquis of Changle, formerly the leader of Changle Prefecture, did in his life was adopting this little dwarf demon girl in front of him.

This damned leader of a gang of swindlers, who had been a villain his whole life, ended up saving the only youngest daughter of a secret service agent in his old age.

The story begins ten years ago. The Special Intelligence Bureau's security station at Yumen Pass was attacked by a group of alien assassins. They somehow learned that the little girl's family was leaving Yumen Pass. The alien assassins, whose operations had been thwarted many times, were emboldened and came up with the idea of ​​attacking the train after it left Yumen Pass.

That time, hundreds of innocent civilians and dozens of retired soldiers died. The little girl's parents hid her and her brother and fought the assassins until the last moment, creating conditions for more civilians to escape.

However, the reinforcements arrived too late. After succeeding in their attack, the assassins wanted to eliminate all traces of the assassins. After her brother bravely came out of his hiding place to suffer for her sake, the leader of the group in Chang Le Prefecture, that old swindler, could no longer pretend to be deaf and dumb. He intervened to save her, used poison to injure the alien assassins, and even used the Dead Man's Pill to awaken the dead, thus killing all the alien assassins.

A person like him, who could hide his true nature his whole life, would be extremely difficult to find fault with.

However, the one good deed he did exposed his identity. After being arrested, Zhao Xiangguo, who was in charge of the Special Affairs Bureau, met with him and asked why.

Chen Xiaohu was too young at the time, and only saw the interrogation footage later.

When the old swindler boarded the train, he sat in the same carriage as the couple. He watched the young dwarfs walk step by step toward their deaths, but they refused to back down, simply because they wanted to buy time for the elderly and women and children.

He watched him and her die, watched that young man stand up to die but never revealed his sister's location until his death, and he couldn't bear to watch any longer.

The sight of so many young people dying before his eyes stirred a slight unease in his conscience, so he stepped forward and, using every means a poison master could muster, slaughtered all the surviving alien assassins. He spoke of it casually, but in the video, his hands trembled—he was a fraud, but his conscience was not entirely dead; faced with a matter of principle, he ultimately chose to step forward and walk into the trap.

Ultimately, several prime ministers and His Majesty personally signed the decree to buy a title. The head of Chang Le Prefecture gave up most of his wealth to become the Marquis of Chang Le, and he was to raise her.

Over the years, everyone has watched this young lady of Chang Le Fang grow up. She remains untainted by the mud, and some say it is thanks to the Marquis of Chang Le. But Chen Xiaohu understands how deep the hatred in this girl's eyes is.

She knew her adoptive father had risked his life to save her, so she didn't resent him; she resented herself for not being able to die with her parents and brothers.

For the past two years, she has been applying to the Special Affairs Bureau, but Zhao Xiangguo has always suppressed her academic performance and deliberately rejected her applications by using her adoptive father's identity as a problem.

Why? Because this girl is the only one still alive in her family. As long as the men of Changtang are not all dead, they will never let her go back to the Special Affairs Bureau to risk her life for this land.

So Chen Xiaohu could only follow her silently through the crowd. Some gamblers would reach out, but each time they would be snatched away by the pipe in her hand.

“Changlefang is a mixed bag, far superior to anything above ground. I apologize for making Director Chen laugh.” She stopped at the top of the stairs: “My father is upstairs. Please come in.”

"Miss, don't you want to know why I'm here today?" Chen Xiaohu asked with a smile.

“I know there’s never anything good going on, but my father swore an oath before my parents’ tombstone. Others may not believe him, but I have to believe him. As for his subordinates, I don’t know.” As she said this, the young lady brushed her long sideburns behind her back, then smiled and bowed: “Please come upstairs, Director Chen.”

"Having a daughter like you is a blessing for Marquis Chang Le." Chen Xiaohu also bowed, then led his rabbit-headed secretary upstairs.

"No need for a body search. Director Chen is here to see me. What are you searching for?"

Chen Xiaohu, who had stopped in front of the door, heard the sigh of the old weasel standing in front of the one-way glass.

The two kittens, who were originally about to search him, nodded slightly and then retreated.

Chen Xiaohu walked into the room: "The Marquis of Chang Le should know why I have come."

In his current state, he felt that the Marquis of Chang Le was truly unaware of the situation—after all, if Chen Xiaolong had come, he would probably have already boarded a ship and fled westward by now. Staying here would only be waiting for death to fall from the sky.

The old weasel turned around. As a creature that had reverted to its ancestral form, its appearance was just like that of its beast relatives. However, if one underestimated it because of this, one would really suffer a great loss.

He cleared his throat: "Of course I know. Prime Minister Zhao and Prime Minister Luo called me last night to ask about the little female dragon in Lord Dulin's household. I asked all the old folks in the clan, and they all said they didn't know. To be honest, I'm old and don't have the energy I used to have, so you should ask them. It would be great if Lord Dulin could come. I heard him say that he has the ability to make lies fall apart on their own and will definitely be able to give me justice."

"Actually, he has already given me something. If you are sure, please drink this medicine."

After Chen Xiaolong finished speaking, he instructed his chief secretary to take a small box from his briefcase, open it, and place a bottle of medicine on the table.

"A fine medicine, full of natural power. Even the most ordinary pharmacists in the Celestial Master's Mansion cannot make such a potion, let alone a poison master like me. It's too nourishing. I'm an old man who believes that medicine is three parts poison. I never even dared to dream of such a thing." With that, the old weasel reached out, took the potion, pulled out the cork, and drank it all in one gulp.

Then he put down the bottle and sat down in front of Chen Xiaohu.

"Please ask me anything, Director Chen, and I will answer every question."

(End of this chapter)