Lu Jingchen directly escorted Xu Yan out, and outside there were already several military vehicles parked. A dozen soldiers in uniforms stood there with straight backs. When they saw Xu Yan come out, they immediately saluted, their movements surprisingly uniform.

Only after Xu Yan left did Lu Jingchen turn around and return to the villa, heading straight to the back garden.

As he passed through the living room, he picked up something Xu Yan had left on the table before continuing to the back garden.

In the back garden, Song Nianhuan and Lu Wangshu were in the orchard, with Lu Wangshu holding a small basket, closely following Song Nianhuan.

The little girl stood on tiptoe and carefully picked a small bunch of grapes, then cautiously placed it into the basket Lu Wangshu was holding.

The butler, seeing Lu Jingchen approaching, immediately came up respectfully and called out, "Young Master..."

Lu Jingchen responded with a light "mm" and then calmly instructed, "I have to go out tonight to deal with something. The young master and young miss will stay here. You help me look after them tonight."

The butler knew it was due to the old lady and young mistress being kidnapped, making it impossible for them to break free, and the young master couldn’t sit at home peacefully waiting for news.

If he didn’t act, it was likely no one could find the old lady and young mistress and rescue them.

Nodding directly, the butler promised, "Rest assured, Young Master, the young master and young miss can be entrusted to me. The security system here in the old house is quite high; nothing will happen to them."

Lu Jingchen walked directly behind the two children, speaking warmly, "What fruits have you picked?"

Song Nianhuan heard Lu Jingchen’s voice, immediately turned around to look at him, and sweetly called out, "Daddy..."

Lu Jingchen raised his hand to stroke her little head, and Lu Wangshu also called out, "Daddy, why are you here? Is Mom coming to pick us up?"

The man’s hand paused but quickly returned to normal, directly saying, "Mom hasn’t come back yet. She’ll probably be busy for a few days."

Naturally, Lu Jingchen didn’t tell the two children about Song Qiao’s incident, after all, they were still young, and knowing might cause unforeseen consequences.

Having said this, Lu Jingchen took the basket from Lu Wangshu’s hand and handed him the item, saying, "Hold onto this; it’s from your Uncle Grandpa."

Lu Wangshu accepted it but with a somewhat confused look, asked, "Was the old gentleman earlier Uncle Grandpa?"

Lu Jingchen nodded.

Song Nianhuan saw the bag was very pretty, took it from her brother’s hand, and then asked in confusion, "What’s Uncle Grandpa?"

Lu Wangshu shook his head, "I don’t know either." Saying that, he looked up at Lu Jingchen and asked, "What’s Uncle Grandpa?"

Lu Jingchen explained, "It’s Grandma’s brother; you call him Uncle Grandpa."

The children immediately understood.

Lu Wangshu looked at the bag in his hand, not knowing what’s inside, as it was packaged like a gift box.

After looking at it, he asked again, "Daddy, why haven’t we seen Grandma today? Isn’t Grandma home?"

Usually, when he came, Grandma would make a lot of delicious food for him because Grandma hadn’t seen his sister before, so this morning when Dad said they were bringing them here, he immediately agreed and told his sister that Grandma’s cooking is delicious, better than what can be bought outside.

But unexpectedly, they didn’t see Grandma upon coming here.

Lu Jingchen responded with a "mm," "Grandma is not home; she’ll be back in a couple of days."

Then, he added, "Tonight you and your sister will stay here. Daddy has matters to deal with and won’t be home to look after you. You must listen to the butler and be good, alright?"

Song Nianhuan asked innocently, "Daddy, are you going to find Mommy?"

Lu Jingchen was stunned but still nodded, "Yes, Daddy is going to find Mommy, so you must listen to the butler and be good, understand?"

The two kids immediately nodded obediently.

...

After Song Qiao helped Xu Qian with her wound, she breathed a little more easily. Those people weren’t as hard to talk to as she thought, they even brought them a basin of water. Song Qiao suddenly found that maybe those people weren’t so bad.

If not for being paid to do the job, perhaps they wouldn’t have so many negative interactions.

The door was opened from the outside again, and Song Qiao looked at the doorway warily, only to find a very young boy coming in, looking about nineteen or twenty years old.

The boy appeared a bit shy, seemingly not like a bad guy, but Song Qiao was very aware of her situation now. After all, this group was the ones who grabbed and detained her, and she knew they wanted her dead.

Xiao Ye came in carrying two bags, with his gaze falling on Song Qiao, a slight smile appeared on his face, explaining, "You don’t have to fear me, I won’t do anything to you, I never participate in doing bad things; it’s all done by our boss."

Furthermore, their boss wouldn’t let him get involved, saying he’s too young.

But he hadn’t been to school for a long time, having followed the boss since he was twelve for eight years; without the boss, he wouldn’t have survived in this world.

Song Qiao paused and looked at the boy directly, asking, "Since you don’t do bad things, can you do a good deed and let us go?"

Xiao Ye shook his head decisively, "I can’t let you go, that would mean I’m doing a bad thing."

Song Qiao choked, speechlessly saying, "How can letting us go be a bad thing?"

Xiao Ye, quite naturally, replied, "Boss went to great lengths to bring you here, if I let you go, that’s betraying him, doing bad things behind his back, and I won’t betray our boss."

After all, Boss saved his life once.

Song Qiao was speechless, thinking for a moment, then asked, "Who is your boss?"

Xiao Ye smiled, tilting his head slightly, looking at her, "Miss, do you have a crush on our boss? Our boss is single too."

Song Qiao, "..." When did she have a crush on their boss? She hadn’t even seen him!

She frowned slightly, her tone a bit unpleasant, directly saying, "Sorry, I’m married and couldn’t be interested in your boss."

Pausing, she continued, "Anyway, I’ve been caught here by you, you should tell me who your boss is so at least if I die, I can die knowing."