Seeing An Lan's angry look in front of the camera, I felt really uncomfortable.
I said to her again: "Didn't I tell you when I went out in the morning that I was going to another place?"
"But you didn't say you wouldn't come back!"
I said solemnly: "I really didn't expect it at the time. I thought I would be able to come back the same day, but the matter was not finished."
"Are you really..." An Lan sighed, then said softly: "I'm just worried about you. I asked Gao Sheng, but he didn't know where you were."
"Don't worry, I'll be back tomorrow."
"I must come back tomorrow! I need to take Xiaoman to register in kindergarten the day after tomorrow."
I was in a daze for a moment, and then I remembered that it would be September soon.
I responded twice and said, "I will definitely come back."
"Okay, you should go to bed early. You are quite tired after being outside all day."
"Okay, you should go to bed early, bye."
After hanging up the video call, I opened the calendar on my phone and looked at it. Today is August 30th.
I remember when I was in school, I would register on August 31st and school would start on September 1st.
I didn't expect time to fly by so fast. In the blink of an eye, this summer is coming to an end.
Time is too precious to me, and every minute is too important.
I don't even want to waste time sleeping, but if I don't sleep, I will probably die faster.
After lying down, I also took out my mobile phone and looked up flour mills in Kunming.
There are too many, dozens of them, and there are probably some that are not displayed.
If you want to find someone in so many flour mills who doesn't use his real name, it's really like looking for a needle in a haystack!
Now I can only place my hope on Fu Zhiqiang. I must master Li Liyang's previous evidence of gang involvement before he targets me.
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Early the next morning, I checked out of the hotel. I couldn't keep waiting for news from Fu Zhiqiang. Before he contacted me, I had already started looking for him.
I searched several flour mills on the Internet, and then started looking for them one by one.
Because Ran Xiaoguang did not use his real name, it was quite troublesome to find him.
Fortunately, Zhu Xiaoyan told me that there was an obvious scar at the corner of Ran Xiaoguang's eye, which was important information.
I went to every flour mill and asked if there was any employee who was about 27 or 28 years old and had a scar at the corner of his eye.
Throughout the morning, I visited seven flour mills but found nothing.
Near noon, Fu Zhiqiang finally sent me a WeChat message with a picture of all the flour mills in Kunming, as well as their detailed addresses and contact numbers.
Immediately afterwards, he sent me another voice message: "Brother, these are all the flour mills in Kunming, but I didn't find out about the person you are looking for."
"Okay, I asked seven flour mills this morning and couldn't find anything."
Fu Zhiqiang said to me again: "Brother, the flour mills I just sent you all have addresses and contact numbers. I have an idea. Let's call each flour mill and ask. Maybe it's possible."
The method Fu Zhiqiang mentioned is quite good, but I don't think it has much hope.
But it's better than going to every flour mill to say hello, and it's time to terminate the contract.
I immediately said to Zhiqiang: "Well, let's divide the work and cooperate. I will contact the first 20 flour mills on this list, and you will be responsible for the rest."
"Okay, but brother, is there any other important information about Ran Xiaoguang?"
"There's nothing else going on. He's just twenty-seven years old and has a scar at the corner of his eye. He doesn't use his real name, so asking his name should be useless."
"Okay brother, then I will call you one by one now to find out."
After finishing the conversation with Fu Zhiqiang, I found a quiet place in a park and saved the picture Fu Zhiqiang sent me.
Immediately afterwards, I started to call each house and ask questions. There was no one named Ran Xiaoguang who answered the phone, so I made a note. If there was no sister, I made a separate note.
Not to mention, this efficiency is really good. In just half an hour, I asked more than a dozen questions.
But there was still no news, so I didn't give up and continued to call.
Until I contacted a company called Xinliang Flour Factory. After asking, the other party was silent for a moment, but told me that there was such a person in the factory as I mentioned.
I was about to lose my patience, but after hearing this, I instantly came back to life with full health.
I hurriedly asked the other party: "Are you sure?"
"Before, our factory had a young man with a scar at the corner of his eye who was doing transportation, but I don't know if he is the person you are looking for?"
"Is he still in the factory now?"
"No, he resigned a long time ago, but I still have some impression of him. This young man has a good character and can endure hardships. I am quite impressed."
I wasn't sure if we were talking about the same person, but I didn't want to miss any opportunity, so I said to him: "Well, I will come to your factory now and let's talk in detail."
After the other party agreed, I immediately took a taxi to this flour mill in the suburbs of Kunming.
On the way, I received a call from Fu Zhiqiang. He told me that he had asked me all the questions and he said there was no such person.
I told him that there was something going on here, but I wasn't sure. I was rushing to the flour mill to find out more about it.
After an hour's drive, I arrived at the Xinliang Flour Mill. The scale of this flour mill is not large, and judging from the factory building, it is still quite old.
After calling the person I had contacted before, he quickly came to the door to meet me.
He is a bit older, probably in his fifties, and looks quite kind.
Walking up, I introduced myself: "Hello, I just called you. My name is Chen Feng."
We didn't have too many pleasantries, so he asked me: "Do you know the name of the person you are looking for? I think he is right."
"His name is Ran Xiaoguang, but he probably doesn't use his real name."
"Is your surname Ran?"
I nodded and then he said to me: "It's the same surname, but a different name. I also have his previous ID photo here. Take a look to see if it's the person you're looking for."
As he spoke, he took out his mobile phone, opened a picture and handed it to me.
I looked at the photo in the picture. Although it was an ID photo, I could see that the person in the photo did have a scar at the corner of his eye, and he looked quite energetic.
Of course I don't know what he looks like specifically, but his surname is Ran, so it's a coincidence.
I turned to him and asked, "Do you still have his contact information in your factory?"
"Hey, don't you know if he changed his number? If he didn't change, he might still be able to contact me."
"Then please help me find his contact information, thank you."
At this time, he asked me: "By the way, who are you?"
"I'm not familiar with him. It's mainly because his sister asked me to come to him for something urgent."
After hearing what I said, he nodded to me and asked me to wait.
Then he made a phone call and said to the person on the other end of the phone: "Xiao Wang, please send me Ran Xuejun's contact information quickly. Yes, that's right."
After he hung up the phone, I waited.
I took out a cigarette and handed him one. He waved his hand to me and said very politely: "Thank you, I don't smoke."
I forgot that most people who work in flour mills probably don’t smoke, so I put the cigarette back and started a brief chat with him.
He told me that he was the sales director of this factory. He was deeply impressed by this young man Ran Xuejun and said that he could endure hardships, but he suddenly resigned without knowing why.
We chatted like this, and after a while, the contact information was sent over.
I immediately saved it and typed it.
What I didn't expect was that it actually got through...