Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Mr. Luo had already asked Lin Yi to look for Tang Shiyu for more than half a year, but Tang Shiyu was also very free and easy, and she followed the principle of letting go to the end – she would never live in a city for more than three years. Within three years, she would definitely leave without any nostalgia or trace.
So during the past six months, they found many of Tang Shiyu’s former residences, but there was no trace of her.
Lin Yi’s people searched several of the most likely cities, but they made the mistake of “not seeing the best place to go” and missed the place where Luo Qingtang and his wife settled.
As soon as Luo Qingtang brought it up, Grandpa Luo immediately sent someone to rush there, hoping to follow the vines of the bridge club to get to the final “melon”.
Lin Yi’s people tried their best and finally got the address of Tang Shiyu’s current residence. However, when they rushed there, they were told by the landlord there that Tang Shiyu had gone deep into the uninhabited area with a field expedition team and had just set off a week ago, with an uncertain return date.
When the news came back, Mr. Luo was so angry that his beard almost stood up to the sky.
“That girl from the Tang family, that girl! She has been a worry since she was little! She is so clever and has a fierce personality, she doesn’t look like a girl at all! I thought she would get better when she grows up, but she is almost 40 years old and still so troublesome. Why is she going to such an uninhabited area?”
“That’s called sexism.” A lazy tone suddenly sounded behind the sofa in the study.
Old Master Luo was startled, then he and Lin Yi, who was listening to the lecture, turned around at the same time. They saw a cold, white, slender hand resting on the back of the black leather sofa.
With the help of someone, Luo Zhan yawned and sat up.
Mr. Luo’s face changed: “Why are you here!”
“Where else would I be?” Luo Zhan closed his eyes, leaning lazily on the armrest with his cheekbones propped up, and said in a weary and casual voice, “I plan to sleep in all the rooms in the main building during the remaining one and a half months of house arrest – I can’t leave the building anyway, so I’m just sitting there doing nothing.”
Mr. Luo reacted and sneered: “Don’t think I will let you out early. You want to show off, so stay at home for three months.”
Luo Zhan sighed. After thinking for a few seconds, he leaned on the back of the sofa and smiled lazily at Mr. Luo: “Let’s make a deal. How about you beat me with our family baguette and then let me go?”
“…”
Luo Jingyuan’s face instantly darkened.
Seeing this, Lin Yi grinned secretly, turned his head and winked at Luo Zhan.
He was most familiar with the old man’s temper, and he knew even more about the beating that was given to Luo Zhan more than a month ago. Although the old man seemed not to take it seriously, he was actually very heartbroken.
The night Luo Zhan fainted, the old man did not sleep all night. He went out for a walk under the pretext of running to Luo Zhan’s bedroom door several times throughout the night. Every time he would lie on the crack of the door and eavesdrop for a long time to make sure that his grandson’s breathing was stable before he dared to go back.
Whenever anyone brought up this matter, the old man would slap them in the face with the sole of his shoe.
Luo Zhan…
Lin Yi sighed and said, “Master, the old man is also doing this for the good of you and Miss Tang Ran. Only if this matter is handled perfectly, will you have no worries. The three-month confinement is also for the Tang family to see.”
Luo Zhan: “You really can’t make compromises?”
“No!” Mr. Luo said in a stern voice.
“Okay,” Luo Zhan held the armrest and jumped out without much effort. The young man leaned on the back of the sofa with his long legs crossed and smiled at Mr. Luo, “Then I can change the conditions, right?”
Mr. Luo raised his eyelids and asked, “What do you want to change?”
Luo Zhan said seriously, “Tomorrow is Tang Ran’s real birthday.”
“Then you can’t go out either.”
“I’m not going out,” Luo Zhan said, “but Lan Jingqian had some problems at the overseas auto headquarters. He just flew back this afternoon, and it will be late at night when he arrives there, so he definitely won’t be able to come back tomorrow to celebrate Tang Ran’s birthday.”
Mr. Luo paused and said, “Do you want to bring her home?”
“Um.”
Mr. Luo was silent for two seconds and agreed: “That’s fine. Lin Yi, you go and arrange it.”
“Yes, old sir.”
After Lin Yi left, Luo Zhan still showed no intention of leaving.
Poor Mr. Luo, at his age, he had to deal with an unreliable son and two even more unreliable grandsons, so he could only handle official business by himself. He was tired for half an afternoon, and when he looked up again, he found that Luo Zhan had not left.
Thinking that he couldn’t prepare to enjoy his retirement life just because of these unworthy grandsons and his father, Mr. Luo frowned and looked at Luo Zhan: “Why haven’t you left yet?”
Luo Zhan: “I’ll wait here for our little girl to be picked up. When the time comes, Lin Yi will definitely come to report to you first.”
The old man snorted coldly.
Luo Zhan was silent for a while, then suddenly asked, “What are you going to do about Tang Shiyu?”
“Just wait and see. How can she not come back?” Mr. Luo paused, “I have already told them to let her return home as soon as they get in touch with her. You don’t have to rush.”
“…”
Luo Zhan supported his hands behind his back and raised his face lazily.
He stared at the ceiling in silence for a few seconds, then sneered softly, “I don’t care whether she comes back or not. What matters in many things is never the cause or process, but the result. I can’t change these most important eighteen years. Even if she can come back, it can’t remedy the damage that has been done.”
“Then why are you asking about her?”
Luo Zhan was silent for two seconds, then smiled: “I don’t care, but Ran Ran probably still cares.”
Before Mr. Luo could say anything else, there was a hurried knock on the door outside the study.
“Enter.”
“Old man, something happened!” Lin Yi walked in quickly, ran straight to the desk, and placed a gold-stamped white folded card in front of Luo Jingyuan.
Luo Jingyuan frowned and picked it up: “What is this?”
“This is…”
Only then did Lin Yi realize that Luo Zhan was also there, and his expression became embarrassed.
Luo Zhan waited for a few seconds with a half-smile on his face, and then he saw Old Man Luo finish reading the card and look up at him with complicated eyes.
The smile on Luo Zhan’s face suddenly faded.
He jumped off the back of the sofa and walked to the table with his long legs: “Did Ran Ran get into trouble?”
Old Man Luo held the card in silence for a few seconds, then put it on the table and slowly pushed it in front of Luo Zhan.
At the same time, he asked Lin Yi in a deep voice: “What’s going on?”
Lin Yi got the promise and said quickly: “I sent someone to pick up Miss Tang Ran from the M City Sanatorium. When our people arrived, Miss Tang Ran was no longer there. I asked someone and the nurse said that she was taken away at noon.”
Mr. Luo frowned: “Someone from the Tang family?”
“Yes,” Lin Yi said, “Tang Shixin went to pick her up personally.”
“……!”
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