Reborn As Super Heiress

Chapter 1042: Chapter 1038: Is it you?

”It’s just a smartphone, Miss Huo, you can handle it as you like. Rest assured, a gentleman’s word is his bond, and we won’t say anything unnecessary.”

Knowing that Huo Sining wasn’t going to pursue the matter further, Liu Cheng felt relieved, and his once ghastly pale face began to regain some color, even breaking into a smile.

Huo Sining was a bit secretly impressed, his temperament was really something. Just a moment ago, he was about to lose his soul with a gun pointed at him, and now he could smile as if nothing happened. His speed of recovery was truly admirable.

”Alright, I’m too lazy to banter with you. Handle your warehouse as you see fit. No need to ask me, but here’s my suggestion: take advantage of the 50,000 yuan you just received and improve your warehouse with some management equipment. Otherwise, with your current set-up, who’d want to rent such a dump unless they’re a sucker like me?!”

When Huo Sining finished speaking, the surrounding officers were stifling laughs, and Liu Cheng also had an awkward smile as he scratched his head, embarrassed, ”Alright, I’ll sort it out later; I’ll definitely listen to you.”

Huo Sining shook her head helplessly and turned back to the old experts and the colonels, ”Alright, let’s go.”

Both colonels immediately responded with a ”Yes,” and began to organize the officers to board the vehicles in an orderly manner, followed by the experts getting into the car they’d arrived in with Huang Zhenlong. Huo Sining opened the car door, ready to drive the Maybach that didn’t match her style back to the city.

Just as Huo Sining was about to get in the car, Liu Cheng, standing nearby, called out urgently, ”Miss Huo!”

Puzzled, Huo Sining turned back, seeing Liu Cheng looking at her with some excitement, and asked, ”I know this question may be abrupt, but if I don’t ask, this doubt will haunt me and leave me restless, so I must ask.”

Huo Sining frowned, ”What do you want to ask?”

Liu Cheng’s eyes were filled with excitement and anticipation as he gathered courage to ask, ”Those things you just transported, are they artifacts? Were they brought back from Dongyang? Are they related to the items stolen from the National Museum of Ping An Ye?”

Huo Sining glanced at Liu Cheng but didn’t deny it, only giving a faint smile, ”You asked me three questions at once. Which one should I answer? You barely escaped with your life, shouldn’t you learn from this lesson?! There are countless secrets in the world that you don’t know about, are you planning to solve every mystery?”

With that, Huo Sining opened the car door, got into the driver’s seat, executed a perfect turn, and prepared to leave. Yet Liu Cheng was still unwilling to give up, continuing to ask, ”Miss Huo, did you bring those things back to the country?”

This direct question nearly made Huo Sining stumble. She sighed in resignation, glanced sideways at Liu Cheng outside the window, ”Haven’t you heard the saying ’curiosity killed the cat’? What you need to know will naturally come to you, and what you shouldn’t know, don’t pry or ask too much!”

With that, she waved her hand, stepped on the gas pedal, and the car shot out like an arrow, disappearing around the corner.

Liu Cheng stood there dumbfounded, but he distinctly saw, at the moment the Maybach rushed past him, the young girl inside flashed him a smile, a smile that clearly confirmed his suspicions.

Watching Huo Sining’s car drive off, the armored vehicles behind also followed her, majestically retreating along the way.

Soon, the warehouse yard returned to being empty and peaceful. If it weren’t for the mess of crushed stones and shrubs scattered in the corner, Liu Cheng might have thought everything that happened was just a dream.

It was only then that Zhao Yang finally awoke as if from a dream, stood up, and watched the cars moving farther away, becoming tiny black dots, he couldn’t help but ask, ”Old Cheng, what the hell was that? What was with the armored vehicles and the army? Why did those soldiers detain us?”

Liu Cheng snapped out of it, and upon hearing Zhao Yang’s question, he flared up in anger, raising his foot to kick Zhao Yang, ”You bastard, how dare you speak! If it weren’t for you drunk-talking, would I be in such a mess? You nearly cost me my life, you fool!”

Zhao Yang was scolded by Liu Cheng and sobered up a bit, with a few vague images flashing through his mind, though he couldn’t piece them together. All memory cut off before being detained by the officer. He only remembered Liu Cheng’s phone being confiscated by the woman who rented the warehouse, and then they were threatened. Later, Liu Cheng asked that woman about artifacts and the National Museum, but he couldn’t understand any of it.

Now Zhao Yang was even more puzzled, ”Explain, what’s going on here, who exactly is that woman?”

Liu Cheng, however, remained tight-lipped, refusing to mention it again, ”Why do you care so much? Better off not knowing. In any case, it’s nothing good, better let it die with us. Didn’t you hear what they said, if we talk too much, they’ll drag us to the station or throw us into the army. I haven’t lived enough to want to end just like that!”

Zhao Yang’s mind was in a muddle, but thinking about being taken to the station or the army made him shiver instinctively, afraid to think any further, muttering, cursing under his breath:

”Damn it, finally met a wealthy woman, thought I’d milk her for a bit, but she canceled the rental after just one day. Now look, the cash cow flew away just like that!”

Liu Cheng heard this and chuckled despite himself, ”You were going to milk her, were you? You must have a death wish. You think she’s easy prey, but if you provoke her, she might just summon an army in anger. Didn’t you see those colonels calling her boss? If those soldiers come back, it won’t be up to you who milks whom.”

Zhao Yang was just venting; he hadn’t figured out what was going on, but from what he saw after sobering up, he clearly noted that the officers and military personnel there took orders from the woman named Huo. Even using his toes, he could guess that Miss Huo was not a simple character, someone you can’t mess with or afford to offend.

Unlike Zhao Yang who was just running his mouth, Liu Cheng was thinking more deeply. After returning to the city with Zhao Yang, he silently opened his computer and started searching.