Xue Ling was embarrassed and whispered: "Afang has been away from home for more than a year. We don't know exactly what she is doing outside. How do you think you can help?"
Cheng Tianyuan frowned and said: "She always said she was doing business. What she was doing specifically, she always said investing in Internet cafes. When asked where she was, she said several places every time, in several districts of the imperial capital. What exactly is it?
No, I’m not sure at all.”
He knew that she didn't tell the truth, but he really didn't have the energy to control her, and she didn't want to be controlled, so he kept letting it go.
Xue Ling thought for a moment and said, "Let's find a private detective to check her current situation first, and then decide what to do."
"Private detective?" Cheng Tianyuan felt funny for a moment and couldn't help but ask: "Isn't this someone only on TV?"
Xue Ling answered with a smile: "There are also in real life. There are several in the imperial capital! But people generally don't hang such signs, and some even don't hang anything at all. They rely on introductions from familiar customers. The main reason why I know this is
He Miaomiao told me."
Cheng Tianyuan thought of the name and asked, "Is it that Lawyer He?"
"That's her." Xue Ling explained: "In this industry, it is very important for her to grasp customer information, and she must often deal with such people quietly. After all, only if you know yourself and the enemy, you can win every battle. This industry has always existed, but because it involves other people's privacy, many
We are always in a legal gray area, so we are very low-key."
Cheng Tianyuan nodded: "Then please quickly ask Lawyer He to introduce a suitable one."
Xue Ling responded and picked up his phone from the table beside him.
"The second and third children still have some follow-up work to do. You go check it out and I'll make a call."
Cheng Tianyuan immediately walked out.
Ten minutes later, he poked his head back.
Xue Ling was lazily flipping through the magazine and explained: "I have already called and asked for the address and phone number of the most authoritative and fastest 'information center' in the industry. We will go there early tomorrow morning."
"Do I need to make an appointment?" Cheng Tianyuan asked.
Xue Ling nodded: "He Miaomiao has already said hello to me. Just go before ten o'clock tomorrow morning. She is a regular customer there. With her as an introduction, people will not charge extravagantly."
"The fees...are there certain standards?" Cheng Tianyuan asked.
"Yes." Xue Ling said: "I heard He Miaomiao say that if it is a high-ranking family or a wealthy person, the price will definitely be expensive. Of course, we must clearly distinguish the specific information we want, the more private it is.
The more expensive it is. A Fang is just an ordinary person, and her relatives only asked them to investigate because they were concerned. The fee will not be too high. Lawyer He is a gold medal lawyer in the legal industry. Once she discovers the phenomenon of arbitrary charging, as a professional, she estimates
I can’t spare them either.”
Cheng Tianyuan nodded: "Then it's decided."
Xue Ling asked: "Where's the homework? Are you done?"
"Everyone is ready." Cheng Tianyuan explained: "Everyone except the eldest son has gone to bed. My parents have gone to bed. Xiao Yue and Xiao Han are not here tonight. They watched TV for a while and felt it was a little too quiet.
Just go to bed and sleep."
Xue Ling smiled bitterly: "We are all used to it. Suddenly they all go back. They will definitely not be able to react for a while."
"Their grandparents are back." Cheng Tianyuan said: "It would be better for them to go back. With Uncle Zhilan and Auntie as the center, their parents will have more time to spend with them. A Heng decided to live with them.
I also hope that Xiaohan can receive better care and that I can spend more time with my parents."
Xue Ling squinted his eyes and threw the magazine aside.
"Every change is a new beginning. I don't know if it's good or bad, but I still have to look forward. I'm going to hang the clothes and go to bed early."
"Yeah." Cheng Tianyuan said, "I'm going to boil a little more water so that the children can drink it when they get up tomorrow."
Xue Ling opened the balcony door and walked to the washing machine.
Suddenly, she heard a low voice coming from the balcony next door.
——I have an elective class next Tuesday night, and I don’t know if I’m free. I’ll send you a message then. Okay, good night... good night.
Xue Ling couldn't hold it in anymore and laughed softly.
The next moment, a dark head poked out from the darkness of the balcony next door - it was Cheng Huanran!
He was so embarrassed that he whispered: "...Mom."
Xue Ling shrugged: "You're still up so late? Didn't you complain earlier that there wasn't enough time to sleep every day?
"I...make a call." Cheng Huanran had an awkward smile on his handsome face. He didn't dare to meet his mother's eyes, and glanced left and right: "Mom, what are you doing here?"
Xue Ling replied: "Hanging clothes."
She opened the lid of the dewatering drum, took out the washed clothes, shook them off one by one, and hung them on the clothes drying rack.
Cheng Huanran leaned against the balcony railing, looking at the starry sky, and said nothing for a long time.
Xue Ling hung her clothes quietly.
Cheng Huanran suddenly said: "Mom... there is something I want to tell you."
"Yeah." Xue Ling continued to shake his clothes and asked, "What's the matter?"
Cheng Huanran sighed quietly and asked: "Mom, have you ever met someone you liked before... but he didn't like you?"
Xue Ling's movement of shaking clothes stopped, and then she smiled.
"No. When we were studying in the past, both male and female classmates were very pure. Some boys wrote to me, including those from other departments, but I rejected them all."
Cheng Huanran was surprised and asked: "Why?"
Xue Ling replied: "None of them are my type, so I rejected them!"
Cheng Huanran smiled and said: "My mother is so beautiful, she must have been very popular before."
"It's okay!" Xue Ling said with a smile.
The atmosphere of the conversation between mother and son quickly became harmonious.
Xue Ling explained: "When I first found out that I was going to marry your dad, a man I almost didn't know, I was reluctant at first. I even blamed your grandpa and grandma for why they agreed to such a marriage in the first place. Later grandpa told me
, saying that your father was very good to me when I was a child, and I was very attached to him, and only loved him to play with me. Grandpa also explained the origin of our two families, and told me that your father is a good, steady and responsible man.
, let me give him a chance and try to live a good life with him. I married to Chengjia Village with anxiety. Later, I fell in love with your father for a long time, and our relationship became deeper and deeper. Then, with you, the family grew stronger and became what it is now.
Similar appearance."
Cheng Huanran held his chin, his handsome and bright face full of smiles.
"I can see that you love daddy very much, and daddy loves you very much."
Xue Ling chuckled and said: "You half-grown child, how do you know what real 'love' is! The 'love' and 'emotion' you know at this time are completely different from the 'love' we understand.
the same."
Cheng Huanran asked curiously: "What's different? Why is it different?"
Xue Ling hooked her fingers at him and whispered: "You are all ignorant of emotional impulses at this time, and we are living a steady life. Your feelings at this time are intense and flamboyant, and some of them are even incorrect, but this is youth
.Everyone will have a period of ignorance and emotion in youth. Some people are vigorous, some people are secretly in love, and some people are even desperate. But as you come into contact with more things and get older, you will find that youth is quite beautiful.
, but it’s a pity that they are all too immature and don’t understand anything. Things that were life-and-death at the time may, in hindsight, be just a trivial matter as trivial as sesame seeds and mung beans.”