Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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After Luo Zhan finished speaking, the wooden table with rounded edges was quiet for a long time.
The little girl sitting opposite him seemed to have been thinking seriously for a long time. Finally, she raised her face and said in distress: “I left the change jar in the apartment.”
Luo Zhan: “?”
The little girl sighed regretfully: “The coins are all in the coin jar, not in the side house.”
Luo Zhan: “…”
After being silent for several seconds, Luo Zhan laughed and shook his head in frustration and helplessness: “I’ve said till this, and you only think of this?”
Tang Ran hesitated and asked hesitantly: “Is there anything else I should be thinking about?”
Luo Zhan said nothing and narrowed his eyes slightly.
After a moment, he lowered his eyes and smiled lazily: “Forget it, just pretend I didn’t ask.”
“……oh.”
Luo Zhan lost his mind halfway through lunch. He placed his chopsticks on the round wooden chopstick cushion, silently raised his eyes and looked at Tang Ran across the table.
It was still the same as when they had lunch together for the first time. The little girl looked serious as she chewed the food. She originally had an oval-shaped face. And when she was eating, her cheeks were slightly puffed up by the food, but she made no sound at all. Her expression of chewing seriously made people want to pinch it.
Luo Zhan coughed lowly, turned his eyes away, and suppressed some kind of agitation in his heart.
Tang Ran was distracted by his cough. Noticing that there was no sound of chopsticks being moved for a long time, she swallowed the food and asked softly: “Have you finished eating?”
“Um.”
“I eat a little slowly,” the girl said sheepishly, “I’ll eat faster.”
Luo Zhan didn’t even think about it, “I’m not in a hurry, the slower the better.”
Tang Ran: “?”
Young Master Luo, who accidentally said what was in his heart, felt guilty for a second and then returned to his lazy smile, “The sun is very nice. I want to sit here for a while and chat with you.”
Tang Ran asked blankly: “What should we chat about?”
Luo Zhan became silent.
After a few seconds, he lightly clasped his fingers and said in a calm tone: “Let’s talk about your little childhood sweetheart.”
“Ah?”
“If I get more information about him…” Luo Zhan raised the corners of his lips in a cool voice, “It will be convenient for me to arrange for someone to help you find him when I go back.”
Tang Ran said regretfully: “But I don’t know him very well. I only knew him for a short time, only a few days.”
After hearing this, Luo Zhan became a little more relaxed and his clasped fingers relaxed a little: “Then let’s talk about the days when you met. Do you still remember the time and place?”
“Of course I remember.” After saying that, the girl nodded seriously to show her certainty about what she said.
“…”
Young Master Luo’s mood, which had just relaxed a little, suddenly became tense again.
It was simply self-flagellation.
Luo Zhan disliked himself in his heart.
The little girl across the table had already bent her eyes and her smile was soft and quiet: “Because knowing him was the only happy time I experienced in the orphanage, so even if a long, long time has passed, I will never forget it.”
The frowning Luo Zhan was startled. After a moment, he relaxed his eyebrows and said, “That’s fine.”
Tang Ran looked up blankly: “Ah?”
Luo Zhan came back to his senses and tapped the table, “You continue to eat, recall it and talk about it bit by bit, I’m listening.”
“Um.”
Tang Ran quietly finished a mouthful of food, thought for a while and said: “I can remember my memories from a relatively early age, probably from before I was two years old. I have been in that orphanage from when I can remember, and I would be bullied by older children. I would be scolded by the aunt in the orphanage…and I’m not very good at making friends, so if I’m bullied or scolded, there was no one I could talk to.”
Speaking of this, the girl smiled a little sheepishly, “That boy was my first friend.”
Luo Zhan’s eyes darkened slightly.
This time it was not because of jealousy, but as the girl talked about those things from her childhood in an understatement, he felt a kind of powerless anger.
He didn’t know who to turn to, and he didn’t know how to remedy it.
Luo Zhan clenched his fists slightly and lowered his eyes.
Tang Ran was immersed in her memories and didn’t notice: “He appeared suddenly, in the confinement room of the orphanage. Children who were disobedient or made mistakes would be sent there to reflect.” Thinking of something, the girl’s eyes slightly curved, “I went there often.”
Luo Zhan raised his eyes, “Did you often make mistakes?”
“Yeah,” the girl nodded, with a hint of harmless playfulness hidden in her smile, “It was intentional. Because there were so many children in one room, I won’t be bullied there.”
Luo Zhan frowned again.
Tang Ran’s voice softened, “Then one day I suddenly discovered that there was a boy who was always in the solitary room. I didn’t know him, and I had never seen him before.”
The smile on the girl’s face faded and she lowered her head, “Later I found out that he was kidnapped. The person who kidnapped him was a temporary worker in the orphanage. That person lied to the dean and said that he was his son who had a mental illness, and he also forged certificates. So no matter how much he struggled and called for help when he first got there, no one paid attention to him. And the kidnapper…”
Tang Ran slowly clenched the chopsticks in her hand, and after a few seconds she said, “That person would beat him, and his body would be covered in bruises.”
Luo Zhan was in a trance.
He didn’t know if it was the girl’s voice and emotions that made him too immered, but at that moment, he seemed to feel the pain and despair that penetrated the bones of the helpless child when he was punched and kicked.
Luo Zhan endured the strong discomfort and looked up at the girl opposite – the girl’s emotional state didn’t seem much better than his.
Luo Zhan said: “Since it is a very sad thing, then don’t talk about it. The information you mentioned is enough. I will find someone to investigate the orphanage where you were and the kidnapping incident that happened later.”
Tang Ran suppressed her uneven breathing and nodded slowly, “Yes.”
Luo Zhan thought for a moment and asked, “When was the time?”
“Nine years ago, I was seven years old.” Tang Ran said.
“…” Luo Zhan was slightly startled.
After hearing no reply for a long time, Tang Ran asked worriedly: “What’s wrong?”
“It seems that nine years ago was not a good time for both of us.” Luo Zhan lowered his eyes and smiled lightly.
Tang Ran was confused: “Did something happen to you that year?”
“Yes.” Luo Zhan responded casually, “When I was 11 years old, I first learned to ride a horse. I fell off the horse and suffered multiple fractures all over my body – I lay on the bed for nearly half a year before I recovered.”
Tang Ran was so frightened that she froze for several seconds: “That must be very painful, right?”
“I don’t remember.” Luo Zhan supported his cheekbones and smiled lazily, “I probably fell unconscious as soon as I fell down. My grandfather told me that.”
Tang Ran frowned and corrected: “No way, you are so smart. The store manager said that you were admitted to the junior class of K University at the age of 14. From this point of view, it was more than two years after you recovered from your injury.”
The corners of Luo Zhan’s mouth curled up slightly.
Luo Zhan didn’t ask about what happened next. Thinking about it, it was inevitably a memory that would make him unhappy or make Tang Ran sad. After the little girl finished eating, Luo Zhan led her out slowly.
“I will ask Luo Xiu to help you check the whereabouts of that boy.”
“Luo Xiu?” The girl looked up in confusion.
Luo Zhan: “Well, he is related to media. He is relatively well-informed in terms of news channels and sources.”
“Would that be too much trouble for him…” Tang Ran hesitated, “And your relationship doesn’t seem to be very good.”
“Trouble?” Luo Zhan laughed coldly. “I think he’s eager to have this trouble.”
Tang Ran was even more confused: “Why?”
Naturally, Luo Zhan would not explain to the little girl that he was restricted and held accountable for her. His eyes moved slightly, and then he said in a casual tone: “There are all rumors outside. We have a good relationship.”
“?”
“Brothers should respect each other.” Luo Zhan didn’t feel guilty at all when saying this.
The little girl said nothing and frowned slowly.
When the two of them arrived outside the restaurant, Luo Zhan helped Tang Ran get into the red supercar that the waiter had driven to the porch. When he squatted down and fastened her seat belt, he only heard the little girl murmur:
“You lied again, Luo Luo. It was you who said that Luo Xiu was bullied by Luo Zhan since childhood.”
Luo Zhan: “…”
You will not live if you cause your own misfortune.
The ancients were sincere and people could not be deceived.
Tang Ran’s inspection report would be available the next morning, and the round trip time from K City to here would take nearly eight hours.
So after a brief discussion with Tang Ran, Luo Zhan decided to stay here overnight, while for the Tang family, he asked Tan Yunchang to find excuses to get by.
It was naturally impossible for a blind girl who did not have an ID card to live in a hotel.
Fortunately, neither the Luo family nor Luo Zhan lacked human resources. Luo Zhan scrolled through his address book and found a local young man, who arranged for him to stay in a spare villa for one night.
According to the power and industrial distribution of the Luo family, it was not that there was no real estate here.
It was just that Luo Zhan deliberately hid it from his family and didn’t want Mr. Luo to know about it, so as not to cause trouble.
However, what he didn’t expect was that the young master happened to be at home and reported the matter to the elder of the family. The elder felt he had done a good job and was eager to curry favor with the Luo family, so he turned around and called the Luo family with a greeting call.
So Mr. Luo was playing chess leisurely when he saw the person in charge of messages at home knocking on the door and quickly entering the room.
“Old sir, it’s not good——”
“I’m very fine.” The old man glared at me unhappily, “You’re in a panic. Why are you so anxious? Speak slowly.”
After speaking, he picked up the teacup and brought it to his mouth.
There was a smile in the old man’s eyes, and he didn’t look away from the chess game – the situation on his side was just right, and he saw that this game was a sure win, so he wasn’t too annoyed when he was called out.
The person who came in had to stop and take a breath before speaking cautiously: “The Qian family over in City M called and said…”
“What did they say?” The old gentleman took a sip of hot tea and still didn’t look up.
“The young master, he, he brought an underage girl from somewhere, and he’s going to live with her in their villa tonight, tonight!”
“Puff–“
Opposite the chess game.
Butler Lin was sprayed with tea, and his smile froze.
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