Luo Chenghai paused, looked at the bound man, and hesitated to speak.
Qin Jianguo waved his hand, signaling Luo Chenghai to continue.
“Director Guo Huairen of the Beijing Research Institute.”
The man beside him suddenly looked up, only to meet a pair of hawk-like eyes.
Qin Jianguo said slowly, “You’re Director Guo’s man, aren’t you?”
Although it was a question, his tone was certain.
Luo Gang scratched his head. How did this relate to Director Guo from the train?
Luo Chenghai’s eyes flashed with a sharp light, and he instantly understood.
So that’s how it is!
The man’s scalp tingled under Qin Jianguo’s gaze. Remembering who was in front of him, he lost the strength to struggle and replied weakly, “Yes, I am Director Guo’s man. My name is Feng Dachun.”
He looked up again, his expression serious. “But I was really sent to protect Miss Lin! I would never harm her or her family!”
Qin Jianguo nodded slightly, believing Feng Dachun’s words, and turned his gaze to Luo Gang.
“Luo Gang, take him back first! It’s so late, someone still needs to keep an eye on the research institute’s family compound.”
Luo Gang, who hadn’t fully grasped the situation, received the order, immediately snapped his legs together, raised his hand, and gave a standard military salute. “Yes! Old Commander!”
With that, he was about to leave with Feng Dachun.
Qin Jianguo’s voice sounded again from behind.
“Feng Dachun, please give Director Guo a message for me. Tell him that if he has anything, he can come directly to me, Qin, without disturbing the younger generation or being so secretive. I await his arrival anytime.”
Feng Dachun turned back and nodded at Qin Jianguo.
Luo Gang opened the study door and stepped out. Just as he was about to close it, he heard his grandfather say, “Old Commander, should we choose a faster-thinking bodyguard to send over? Gang here…”
He pointed his index finger at his head. “He’s a bit slow…”
Qin Jianguo, who was drinking tea, almost spat it out upon hearing this.
Luo Gang expressionlessly pushed the door open, poked his head out, and said leisurely, “Grandpa, guess how I got the radio from the Little Madam today?”
Luo Chenghai suddenly had a bad premonition.
Luo Gang chuckled and said slyly, “I said my grandpa was uncultured and loved novelties, and the Little Madam lent it to me because she thought I was filial!”
“Alright, I’m leaving now! Grandpa, good night. I hope you sleep well tonight!”
He slammed the door shut, also sealing Luo Chenghai’s angry roar inside.
“You rebellious grandson!!!”
Qin Jianguo watched the grandfather and grandson bicker and dislike each other, and couldn’t help but laugh heartily. At the same time, he didn’t forget to appease the furious Luo Chenghai.
“Chenghai, look how smart your Luo Gang is. He’s learned to ‘use his own methods against him’! Don’t worry about it!”
“Besides, Luo Gang’s personality is suitable. Look how many ‘surprises’ he’s brought us on his first official day on the job?”
Luo Chenghai thought about it and agreed. His grandson, with his serious demeanor, though honest, found it difficult to trust others easily, but he did bring unexpected gains.
Like tonight’s events.
It was also possible that a fool had good luck…
Lin Banxia was busy with Black General’s matters until it was very late. After a simple wash-up, she lay down to sleep.
The treatment she had planned for Qin Mo could only be postponed to the next day.
The next day, Lin Banxia gradually woke up in the sunlight. As soon as she opened her eyes, she saw the outrageously handsome Qin Mo. Her mood immediately soared, and she reached out to pinch his cheek, gently greeting him, “Good morning, husband!”
Qin Mo: Good morning, little wife! The first day sleeping with my little wife~
After getting up, Lin Banxia and Liu Meiyun practiced the Eight Brocades in the small courtyard for half an hour.
Just as they finished, they saw Luo Gang returning from his morning run, holding a letter and waving it at Lin Banxia.
“Little Madam, a letter for you!”
“My letter?” Lin Banxia looked at the letter Luo Gang handed her with confusion and took it. It was from Rongcheng?
Liu Meiyun also curiously leaned over to look.
Lin Banxia opened the letter and knew who the sender was at a glance.
The first sentence in the letter read: Cousin Banxia, I am your cousin Lin Chuqiu.
Liu Meiyun also saw it and her expression immediately soured. She said with displeasure, “Why is Lin Chuqiu writing to us?”
Her voice was somewhat sharp, clearly indicating her dislike for Lin Chuqiu.
Actually, Liu Meiyun used to think that Lin Chuqiu was a good girl. But ever since Lin Chuqiu defended the man who tried to tarnish her daughter’s reputation at the Rongcheng train station that day, Liu Meiyun had mentally categorized Lin Chuqiu as someone she disliked.
After the incident at the train station, Liu Meiyun had also carefully considered Lin Chuqiu’s character on the train.
Then, she was horrified to discover something!
Lin Chuqiu might have been targeting her daughter from the beginning!
The old Lin family had two sons.
Her husband, Lin Zhengde, was the second son of the Lin family. Lin Chuqiu was the child of Lin Jun Cai, the eldest son of the Lin family, and was one year older than Banxia.
When she first married Lin Zhengde, the entire Lin family lived in the village.
The elders of the Lin family had always favored the second branch of the Lin family, giving all the good things to the second branch, while leaving all the dirty and tiring work for the eldest branch. Lin Zhengde’s military allowance also had to be handed over entirely.
Liu Meiyun, who had been doted on by her parents since childhood, naturally couldn’t tolerate the unfair practices of the Lin elders. Especially when the Lin elders deliberately deducted their mother and daughter’s rations when Lin Banxia was just born, leaving her with no milk to feed Lin Banxia.
At that time, Lin Zhengde was still in the military, and no one in the entire Lin family stood up for the mother and daughter.
In a fit of anger, Liu Meiyun took Lin Banxia back to her parents’ home in Rongcheng.
It wasn’t until a month later, when Lin Zhengde returned, that she directly proposed a divorce if they didn’t separate the family.
After understanding the situation, Lin Zhengde returned to the village without a word. Afterward, no one knew what Lin Zhengde did, but he completely separated from the old Lin family, and Liu Meiyun never returned to the old Lin family.
Later, when Lin Zhengde sacrificed his life, Qin Jianguo voluntarily proposed marriage. The military, to compensate the widowed mother and orphaned child, in addition to the due pension, also arranged a formal job for Liu Meiyun at the Rongcheng Machinery Factory and also allocated a small two-bedroom apartment in the machinery factory’s family compound to Liu Meiyun in advance.
Upon hearing the news, the Lin elders, along with Lin Jun Cai’s family, came to Rongcheng and caused trouble at her doorstep every day. They didn’t ask a single word about how Lin Zhengde died or how the funeral should be handled. Their sole purpose, expressed in their words, was that the pension must be given to them, and the formal job position at the machinery factory and the house must also be given to them!
During that period, Liu Meiyun was already grieving over Lin Zhengde’s death. Coupled with the Lin family’s daily disturbances, she couldn’t sleep for entire nights, and her mental state was very poor. Lin Banxia had been sent to Liu Meiyun’s parents.
If Qin Jianguo hadn’t left Rongcheng yet and learned of the Lin family’s actions, he wouldn’t have privately given the Lin family a sum of money and arranged a temporary job at the machinery factory for them, thereby finally getting rid of the Lin family. Otherwise, she feared she would have taken a knife and fought to the death with the Lin family.
At that time, the only person in the old Lin family whom Liu Meiyun had a slight good impression of was Lin Chuqiu.
Because Lin Chuqiu was the only one from the old Lin family who came to pay respects to Lin Zhengde.
And in the following years, with the temporary job at the machinery factory, the old Lin family also settled in Rongcheng.
However, the two families had almost no contact. Until a few months ago, Lin Chuqiu suddenly began to frequently visit the family compound.