"Your dad is really a great father," Su Bai said to An Le.
"I don't know why, but I always feel that your praise seems a little harsh," An Le said.
"Don't think too much. Okay, I still have something to do, so I have to go." Su Bai stood up and pointed at An Le, "You pay the bill."
Looking at Su Bai's back as he walked out of the milk tea shop, An Le bit his lips. As a smart and conceited person, from the time Su Bai met until he left, his heart had been very depressed, and depression often led to anger.
After all, the huge difference in strength between the two sides had brought about this meeting atmosphere that was completely dominated by Su Bai. For An Le, it was an insult and trampling on his pride. Clearly, in the previous story world, this guy was just a prisoner, and his life was still in his hands. If he had made up his mind earlier, this guy would have been dead long ago. How could he have the chance to become the current senior listener and show off in front of him?
But some things had already become an established fact, and there was no way to change it. Even An Le himself knew in his heart that there was a terrifying gap between senior listeners and senior listeners.
Whether it was in the story world or the real world, it was rare to see a senior listener and a senior listener doing a mission together because the two parties were really not on the same level.
For Su Bai, Weng Aijuan's matter was just a small interlude, but it was too much to say that it was something more serious. In a real sense, she should be a dispensable person to Su Bai, especially after figuring out what she looked like. Su Bai believed that the next time she called out to him in her dreams, the probability of him sensing it was really not high. On the one hand, he saw it clearly, and on the other hand, he had forced Weng Aijuan to see it clearly.
The rich son who had always imagined that he might lead her to a good life turned out to be a bankrupt wage earner. The blow that Weng Aijuan suffered was really too big. It was no less than the feeling of being caught by the other man's wife and sisters when she was rolling in the sheets with another man in the factory.
But this guy, An Le, really had the style of his father. His father was a listener, but he was happy to watch his wife keep wearing a green hat, and he couldn't help but enjoy it. An Le clearly had the ability to change his and his family's living conditions in an instant, but he still happily watched his mother, who had embarrassed him since he was a child, endure the double mental and physical torture.
This father and son really didn't need to do a paternity test, they were definitely biological.
When he got into a taxi again and arrived at Baiyun Airport, it was already past seven o 'clock in the evening. The plane left at half past eight. Su Bai passed the security check and happened to be boarding there. Sitting in the plane, looking at the dazzling lights outside, Su Bai subconsciously put his hand on the porthole.
To be honest, sometimes Su Bai asked himself in his heart, if the little fellow was still by his side, would he still hold on to that man and woman?
He would probably not let go, but he might not be as determined as he was now.
Sometimes, Su Bai felt that his abnormal mental circuit was very convenient. He could face a lot of suffering and torture without collapsing, but sometimes he also had to bear the distress brought about by it, and that was, he couldn't help but be indifferent to many things.
In the violent roar, the plane from Baiyun Airport … took off.
…
Joy City was a relatively crowded place in Chengdu's Wuhou District. Large plazas that combined goods, food, and cinemas were very popular across the country.
However, Yan Huihong was standing helplessly outside an open-air cafe on the ground floor of Joy City. He felt helpless because this place used to be the ruins of the orphanage. Now that it had been completely demolished, it was impossible for him to get any more information from this place.
Chen Guang came out with two cups of coffee and handed one to Yan Huihong. Chen Guang, the person involved, was very calm when it came to Great Joy City. In fact, Chen Guang was also very calm when it came to the strange and unusual orphanage. His calmness made Yan Huihong feel like the eunuchs were panicking instead of the emperor.
"Since you aren't interested in this, why did you agree to come with me to investigate?" Yan Huihong asked after taking a sip of coffee.
"If I were an experiencer or a low-level listener, I might hate the orphanage to death and curse it non-stop for three days and three nights after hearing the news, but I'm a high-level listener now. Given the fact that the higher-ups leave on trains from time to time, I don't think I have too much emotional impulse to hate it."
Chen Guang was telling the truth. It was like a human trafficker selling a child to a wealthy family. When the child found out the truth and saw that his biological parents were still living in a bungalow, and his siblings had either dropped out of school, worked for a living, or married young, would he still be able to hate the human trafficker who had abducted him?
Of course, this example was a little extreme, but it was also based on a common sense of human nature.
"Actually, there is a lot of information about the orphanage. A lot, so much that I can't believe there is so much information." Yan Huihong smacked his lips and burped. The spicy smell of millet spread out. "Clearly, the couple didn't purposely erase the orphanage's existence. So, even after so many years, it's very easy to search for it again. After all, the orphanage's procedures are complete. It was even issued a certificate and a flag by the district. It was even on the f * cking newspaper.
But it's all bullsh * t. There's not a single useful information. There's not even a name list. Which child stayed there in the past few years? There's nothing, including the orphanage you were accepted into. There's only your name and a picture of you when you were young. "
"Hehe." Chen Guang chuckled subconsciously. He understood that this wasn't some hidden information. Instead, there were many things that hadn't been popularized or developed back then. For example, the orphanage back then. The higher-ups couldn't wait to get rid of these burdens. They casually handed out certificates and commendations, but no one really did the detailed work back then. No one would bother to keep track of the details. On top of that, the orphanage closed down later on. Naturally, it became an awkward existence akin to a 'headless case'.
How many children had been raised in orphanages? How many of them had become listeners like him? How many of them had died? How many of them were still alive? All of this was still unknown.
Chen Guang gave it some thought and suggested, "We can post a thread in the listeners' forum and ask around."
Yan Huihong shook his head. "No. We can't let everyone know about this."
Chen Guang didn't say anything because there was no need for him to. Although Yan Huihong looked like a great hero with a full beard, he wasn't that warm-hearted. He had his own reasons for investigating this matter. Naturally, he didn't want others to get a share of the spoils.
As for why he wanted to let Chen Guang know, it was probably because he was the person involved. Even so, Yan Huihong didn't tell him the whole story.
"You mentioned before that the son of that couple also became a listener, right? We should be able to find some clues from him. Where is he now?"
"I can't find him for the time being. The information I got someone to find out is that he stayed in Chengdu for a while after becoming a listener. I think he went to Shanghai, but I don't know where exactly he is staying in Shanghai."
"Let's go to Shanghai, then." Chen Guang reached out and touched his chin, which still looked very young. "I'm actually quite interested in that young master who cut off the orphanage's funding."
"Truth be told, from a certain point of view, he was doing a good deed by cutting off the funding. Otherwise, more children from the orphanage might become listeners in the future," Yan Huihong said.
"Who knows?" Chen Guang stretched his back. "I won't be going to class in the afternoon. When are you leaving?"
"To Shanghai?"
"Where else can I go?"
"Give me two days. I still need to visit a friend living in Weichuan."
"All right." Chen Guang nodded. He was quick to agree.
"Let's keep in touch." Yan Huihong pointed at the phone in his hand before walking to the roadside to hail a taxi.
Watching the taxi disappear from his sight, Chen Guang picked up his phone and dialed a number.
A short while later, the call connected.
"Hello, Lord Little Light. Why are you looking for your most loyal servant, Hai?"
A bewitching voice came from the other end of the phone. It was Gongzi Hai's voice.
"Hai, a high-ranking listener has begun investigating us," Chen Guang said.
"I don't care about the matters of high-ranking listeners. Not everyone is as monstrous as you, able to rise through the ranks so quickly." Gongzi Hai said in a somewhat vexed tone. He was still a veteran. He could not interfere with the matters of high-ranking listeners.
"But among us, you are the only one who can contact big sis," Chen Guang emphasized.
"It will be very difficult to contact her now, unless big sis takes the initiative to contact me," Gongzi Hai said with a sigh.
"In that case, let big sis know the next time she tries to contact you."
"Ah Guang, is there a need to be so cautious?" Gongzi Hai asked in a puzzled tone.
"Heh heh." Chen Guang chuckled. "This is the third listener to contact me to investigate the orphanage. Clearly, someone deliberately exposed this matter."
