Chapter 706

Chengdu Wuhou District, Dalong Wei Hot Pot Restaurant.

Because it was afternoon and there were still more than two hours before dinner, there were not many customers in the restaurant.

It was already summer, and it was indeed getting hotter. A middle school student in a school uniform walked out of the school and entered the hot pot restaurant. He asked for a red pot soup base and some side dishes.

Soon, the waiter served the soup base. The soup base began to slowly melt as the bottom of the pot boiled, and the smell of hot pot slowly permeated the air.

The student used chopsticks to pick up a piece of tripe and put it into the boiling hot pot. After waiting for ten seconds, he took it out and dipped it in the oil dish, then put it into his mouth and chewed slowly.

It was like he was eating hot pot alone, but he was enjoying it. If he was not wearing the school uniform of the opposite middle school, perhaps no one would think that he was just a middle school student. Because no matter his actions or expression, he looked like a person who had experienced many vicissitudes of life and had a story to tell.

When the student put the third piece of tripe into his mouth, a middle-aged man in a white short-sleeved shirt walked into the hot pot restaurant. The man looked a little older, perhaps because of his beard. His image subconsciously reminded people of those unrestrained heroes in wuxia novels.

"Oh, didn't you treat me to dinner? Why are you eating yourself?"

The man walked straight to the table of the student who came first and sat down. He picked up the chopsticks and put two plates of tender beef into the pot. Then he rubbed his hands as if he could not wait for the beef to be cooked so that he could gorge himself.

"Who knows when you will come. You, Yan Huihong, are the most unpunctual in the circle."

The person who came later was Yan Huihong. Then, the person who was qualified to sit at the same table as Yan Huihong naturally had a high status. However, this person was really a little too young.

"Hey, you really don't care about what you say. You're just like a friend of mine." Yan Huihong smiled. He had a rough personality, or rather, he belonged to the type that was rough but had a fine side, so he always gave people a forthright feeling. Of course, he was a listener who had been hanging around for a long time after all. Naturally, he could not be too pure. Chivalry and helping the weak, getting rid of evil and doing good would naturally not appear in him. He was also not that idle and bored.

"Like Lan Lin, right?"

The student put down the chopsticks and took a sip of the soy milk on the table.

"Sigh." At the mention of Lanlin, Yan Huihong sighed. Obviously, the impact of Lanlin's death on him has not really been eliminated.

"So, what are you doing in Chengdu?" the student asked.

"Because I found something interesting." Yan Huihong put a large piece of beef into his mouth, then took out his mobile phone and placed it on the table, "Click on the photo album yourself, there is no password set. Chen Guang, I think you'll be interested in these photos. "

The student's name was Chen Guang. It was a rather delicate name, but it was also one of the more commonly used names. Over a decade ago, it would have been fine, but now, the name Chen Guang was often used in all sorts of cliché romance novels, which made him feel a little helpless.

Chen Guang picked up Yan Huihong's phone and opened the photo album. What he saw was a voluptuous woman in bed. Chen Guang raised his head and looked at Yan Huihong.

"Haha, keep flipping, keep flipping. You can ignore the rest."

"You remember this place, don't you?" Chen Guang suppressed the disgust in his heart and continued scrolling down. It did not take long for a rather strange photo to appear. It was an old photo. However, it was likely a photo taken using a phone. In the photo was a large iron gate. Behind it were two buildings and a small empty space. There were quite a number of children's toys on the ground, such as seesaws and slides.

"You remember this place, don't you?" Yan Huihong asked with a chuckle. "I heard that you grew up in an orphanage in Chengdu."

"How can you be so sure that I grew up in this orphanage?" Chen Guang asked, waving the phone.

"Intuition." Yan Huihong used the back of his hand to wipe off the grease at the corner of his mouth. "It's really just intuition."

"Other than intuition?" Clearly, Chen Guang did not believe this reason.

"Other than intuition, I once met several other Listeners from Chengdu. I met them before I was an Advanced Listener or even an Advanced Listener. Those few are no longer around. They either died in the story world or in the real world. However, all of them told me that they came from an orphanage.

I'm very curious. Which orphanage could be so amazing to have so many Listeners? Don't you think so? "

"The orphanage closed down when I was very young." A look of reminiscence appeared on Chen Guang's face. Clearly, the orphanage was the first place in his life where he had clearly felt warmth. Although the information Yan Huihong had given him earlier clearly stated that there was something strange about the orphanage, that was a completely different matter.

"Who opened it?" Yan Huihong continued asking. "The reason I came to Chengdu this time is to get to the bottom of this matter."

"It was opened by a husband and wife. Both of them are entrepreneurs. I remember when I was young, every time the husband and wife came, all the children in the orphanage would be very happy. They would surround them and call them 'Uncle Director, Aunt Director'. The day they came was a festival for the orphanage. Not only would they bring gifts and toys, even the food on that day would be better than usual.

"Later on, the husband and wife got into a car accident and passed away. Their son stopped funding the orphanage. Thus, half a year later, the orphanage was completely disbanded. The older children went out into the world to find work while the younger ones were taken in by the government-run orphanage. I was one of those orphanages."

"Do you still remember their names?" Yan Huihong asked.

Chen Guang shook his head. "I was only three back then. How could I remember so much?"

"Are you interested in this matter now?" Yan Huihong gulped down another big piece of beef. "This matter is not ordinary."

"I know now that it is not ordinary. I didn't have this feeling in the past." Chen Guang's fair fingers tapped the table lightly. "You should know more than that."

"Ha ha! The husband and wife have a son, the young master who stopped funding the orphanage back then. When I found out about him, I was stunned for a moment. Guess what? He is also a listener. I even met him in the world where Lan Lin died."

"Oh." Chen Guang nodded. "What level is he at now? He should still be alive, right?"

"I'm not too sure about that for now. I reckon he is at the mid-level veteran level at best. He's not dead yet, but I'm quite surprised. That fellow is just a mental patient. To think that he is still alive."

…

"You were born from my mother's surrogate pregnancy?"

In a milk tea shop behind Kindness Love Hospital, An Le found it hard to accept after listening to Su Bai's story. However, the expression on his face was not one of shock. Rather, he found it absurd and hilarious.

"This woman really has no bottom line. She dared to start surrogacy over 20 years ago. She has always been at the forefront of the trend."

Clearly, An Le's feelings for Weng Aijuan were not good.

"If you don't like your mother, why did you come to see her?" Su Bai asked after taking a sip of the milk tea.

"Because I wanted to see her in a miserable state. Every time I return from the world of stories or from other places, I will find some time to visit her. Because of her, I have always been mocked during my childhood. I don't even have a reason to refute them. Everyone in the street knows what kind of woman she is.

To tell you the truth, I've always heard from her that she has a rich son. Sooner or later, he will come to pick her up and live a good life. I even wanted to find that rich son and kill him in front of her so that she would completely give up on this idea. I wanted her to live in despair, but after I hypnotized her, I found out that she didn't know anything about that so-called son. "

Su Bai smiled and pointed at himself.

"He is sitting in front of you now. You can do it now."

An Le shrugged helplessly. "That's right. But I'm very curious. Why did your parents find a woman like her to be their surrogate mother? I think normal parents should be more cautious when it comes to choosing a surrogate mother. It's just like parents who plan to use other people's sperm for artificial insemination should have a lot of observation and evaluation of the person who used the sperm."

Speaking of this, An Le suddenly froze again. As if he had grasped something important, he asked,

"More than 20 years ago, was there already the ability to do artificial insemination surgery in China?"

An Le was a very smart person. Su Bai never denied this. Obviously, he had found something wrong with Su Bai's description.

"Your mother is like this, and your father doesn't care?" Su Bai asked. The reason why he spent so much time arguing with An Le was to ask about Weng Aijuan's husband.

"My father?" An Le paused for a moment, "A very pitiful man. I remember that year when he took me home from kindergarten, my mom called a wild man into the house to do that kind of thing. My dad covered my eyes and mouth and stood in the kitchen, not daring to make a sound, but I could feel that his body was trembling. Obviously, he had been holding it in for the sake of his child, but I matured early, and there are some things that I actually know in my heart."

Listening to An Le's words, a completely different picture emerged in Su Bai's mind.

A middle-aged man in overalls hid in the kitchen, covering his son's mouth and eyes while admiring the scene of his wife being cuckolded in front of him. He was smiling, he was happy, and he was so excited that his whole body was trembling …