278: Chapter 274 Dissatisfaction 278: Chapter 274 Dissatisfaction As the once king of the military, Tian Mingjian naturally possessed considerable expertise in surveillance and counter-surveillance.
He had been guarding near this dilapidated house on the outskirts of the Capital City for over half a year.
There were those who attempted to use him to find Chen Hai’s whereabouts, but they never succeeded.
Unfortunately, as the saying goes, walk the night often enough and one is bound to encounter a ghost.
“Tian Mingjian, you sure hid yourself well!”
“It’s no wonder I’ve never been able to find where you were hiding all this time.
Turns out, you’re holed up in some godforsaken wilderness!”
“Your boss, Chen Hai, must be hiding in the shabby house behind you, right?”
“I’ve already found this place, so there’s no need for him to hide any longer.
Just notify him to come out!”
Surrounded by four or five people, Ye Cheng, dressed in plain clothes, strode over.
He stopped a few steps away from Tian Mingjian, right at the doorway of the shabby house.
With a sullen face, he sized up Tian Mingjian from head to toe and snorted coldly, saying,
“Young Master Ye, my boss, Chen Hai, is really not in the house behind me!”
“If you’re only looking for me and want to discuss something, can we talk a bit further away, is that okay?”
Tian Mingjian explained, trying to be brave.
He knew that since these people had followed him all the way here, they would definitely not believe his obviously exaggerated words.
But in his current predicament, he couldn’t just stay silent and allow Ye Cheng and the others to enter the house and find Chen Hai!
He was well aware that Chen Hai had told him before he began his profound retreat,
that this retreat was crucial and must not be disturbed in the slightest.
Suddenly confronted by Ye Cheng’s arrival, if Tian Mingjian did nothing,
and this group indeed burst into his boss’s retreat space, disrupting his cultivation and ruining everything midway,
he truly didn’t know how he would explain it to his boss!
“Tian Mingjian, do you really think I would believe what you just said?”
Ye Cheng gave Tian Mingjian a fierce glare, then made a dismissive gesture with his hand.
It looked like he was ready to burst into the house behind Tian Mingjian without a second thought!
Seeing this, Tian Mingjian started to panic.
With a quick flip of his hand, a small handgun appeared in his grip.
In Yanhuang Country, although there was an ongoing gun ban, the enforcement wasn’t particularly strict in this era.
If one had wide connections and knew the right people, obtaining an ordinary firearm wasn’t too difficult.
As a former Gun God of the military, Tian Mingjian was exceedingly familiar with firearms.
Buying guns was one thing, but if he wanted, he could easily assemble one from parts on his own.
“Young Master Ye, you should be clear about my level of marksmanship!”
“You are the biological brother of my boss’s fiancée, and you were also my superior officer.
If possible, I definitely do not want to aim my gun at you!”
“However, without my boss’s permission, no one, including myself, is allowed to enter this house behind me.”
“I hope you won’t force my hand…”
With the gun in hand, Tian Mingjian seemed much more formidable.
Glaring coldly at Ye Cheng before him, he spoke in a chilling tone, each word deliberate and slow.
Taken aback by the situation, Ye Cheng was momentarily stunned, and paused for quite a while.
“Dare to point a gun at me?
Tian Mingjian, you’ve grown some guts?”
“Following you to this place, if I said that I was mostly certain Chen Hai was hiding in the shabby house behind you, well now, I’m one hundred percent certain that he’s in there!”
“Put your gun away and step aside before I lose my temper, or it’ll be on your own head!”
His fierce gaze was intense as if he could tear Tian Mingjian apart.
Although he repeatedly claimed he hadn’t lost his temper, anyone could see the depth of anger seething within him.
“My boss is indeed inside the house behind me, but he isn’t hiding—he is in the midst of cultivation.”
“He personally instructed me that no one is to disturb him before he concludes his retreat!”
“Young Master Ye, as long as you don’t rashly burst into the house, all will be well.”
“But if you disregard the consequences and insist on doing something rash, I will shoot.
I hope you won’t make this difficult for me!”
In the Capital City, when confronted by Ye Cheng, Tian Mingjian, who had always played the role of a submissive subordinate, was now fearlessly holding his ground.
A loud “bang…” echoed.
Perhaps to prove that he really had the guts to fire at Ye Cheng.
While he was speaking, Tian Mingjian’s pistol with the safety off actually had its trigger pulled by him.
But this shot, he pointed the muzzle upward.
The bullet fired from the pistol flew straight up into the sky, vanishing without a trace!
“For over half a year, Chen Hai has disappeared.
You say he’s in ‘Cultivation?’ Do you think I’m an idiot or a child?”
“Do you really think I would believe such a lame excuse?”
His face clouded with uncertainty, Ye Cheng let out a cold laugh.
The ruthlessness of Tian Mingjian before him still caused a flicker of concern in the depths of his heart.
“Chen Hai, if you’re a real man, stop hiding and come out to clear things up!”
“Just days after you got engaged to my sister, you vanished without a trace.
What is the meaning of this?”
“Do you really think that just because my sister is engaged to you, she’s committed to walking down a blind alley with you for the rest of her life?”
“Let me tell you, the girls of the Ye Family aren’t as lowly as you think.”
“My sister took a fancy to you, and that was your good fortune.
If you don’t cherish that, it’s one thing, but to disappear for half a year…
What do you take my sister for…”
Tearing at his throat, Ye Cheng began to shout at the house.
In the social circle that his sister Ye Qingqing was in, whenever her relatives and friends brought up her fiancé Chen Hai, she just showed a bitter face and sighed heavily.
Every time Ye Cheng met with his sister, he couldn’t remember the last time he saw a smile on her face.
Especially during these past two months, his sister seemed to prefer locking herself in her room.
When he accidentally witnessed his sister crying silently in her room, Ye Cheng’s heart broke to the extreme.
At that moment, the thought of killing the unfaithful Chen Hai had even crossed his mind.
If not for this, Ye Cheng wouldn’t have tried every possible means to find Chen Hai’s whereabouts.
To achieve this, he even went so far as to enlist the help of a military expert adept in tracking and counter-tracking.
Following Tian Mingjian, they located this rundown house, and without any delay, he came here with his men immediately.
As for the smokescreen of ‘Cultivation’ and ‘Closed-Door Training,’ Ye Cheng didn’t believe a word and didn’t care to consider it.
His mind was dominated by just one thought.
He wanted Chen Hai to come out and give an explanation, to clarify his intentions regarding his sister Ye Qingqing!
Just engaged and then gone without a word, disappearing for half a year…
Not only was Ye Cheng indignant, but so were Ye Rongzhong and Song Ling as well as all the uncles from the Ye Family.
Only his naïve sister Ye Qingqing, besides silently crying alone in her room,
would insist on defending Chen Hai and trying to find excuses for him when others mentioned her fiancé’s disrespectful absence.
After shouting into the dilapidated house for quite some time with many harsh words, Ye Cheng realized it was like shouting into the void with no response.
Glancing at Tian Mingjian, who was standing guard at the house’s entrance with a watchful eye, Ye Cheng scowled and spat fiercely onto the ground.
“Chen, if you’re not into my sister and don’t want to go through with the engagement, just say it!”
“We can call off the engagement.
That way, my sister Qingqing won’t waste her youth on you any longer.”
“Lemme be blunt, if Qingqing is willing, there’d be a line from the start of the street to the end of guys wanting to be my Ye Family’s son-in-law.”
“Do you really not know your own background?”
“Qingqing agreeing to the engagement was you climbing the social ladder.
Do you really think the Ye Family is desperate for someone like you, a phoenix man?
Do you really think without you, Qingqing couldn’t marry?”
…
The words spewing from Ye Cheng’s mouth became increasingly impolite and were filled with sarcasm and scorn.
What Chen Hai inside the house would react upon hearing these words was perhaps unknown to anyone at the moment.
But Tian Mingjian, one of his subordinates, upon hearing Ye Cheng’s words, had already turned pitch black in anger.
“Young Master Ye, if you want to curse, can’t you do it further away?”
“You shouting at the house non-stop here might affect our boss and disturb his ‘Cultivation!'”
He glared at Ye Cheng and his group, and after a while, Tian Mingjian managed to squeeze out a few words.
“Didn’t you just say that as long as we don’t barge into the house, I can do anything I want?”
“Not dragging Chen Hai out of the house is already very restrained on my part.”
“What?
I’m just shouting a few times outside the house, and you have a problem with that?”
Ye Cheng snidely responded with a glare at Tian Mingjian.
“Eh, it was such a sunny morning, how come all of a sudden, the sky is covered with dark clouds?”
Right at that moment, one of the people who came with Ye Cheng looked up at the sky and exclaimed in surprise.