Author: hoenimochi (Page 75 of 95)

       Luo Yunguang didn’t put down the teacup anymore but put the hand holding the teacup on his knees, he said to Li Zhenran, “Zhenran, Zhenruo is gone, why do you want to track down these things? It’s better to let him go in peace.”

       Li Zhenran said in a deep voice, “How can he go in peace? Uncle Luo, do you think he was really killed by a roadside robber who didn’t have eyes on the road? He wanted to know the truth of his identity until the moment he died. Even now, he still doesn’t know why he died. Do you think he can rest in peace? “

       Luo Yunguang looked at Li Zhenran and seemed to think about it for a while. He then asked, “What do you want to know?”

       Li Zhenran said, “We all know that the fourth child is not my father’s son, but I just learned something recently that the fourth child’s mother, Zhao Yuqiong, was pregnant with the fourth child before she left her hometown. She was pregnant before she came, did Dad not know about it?”

       If Luo Yunguang said he didn’t know, Li Zhenruo would definitely not believe it.

       He only saw Luo Yunguang tap his fingers on the teacup, and after a while, he said, “Your father did know.”

       Li Zhenran and Li Zhenruo looked at each other.

       Luo Yunguang continued, “Zhenruo’s mother, that Miss Zhao and her boyfriend just came out of their hometown, and her boyfriend abandoned her. She met your father at this time, and your father liked her very much. However, she insisted on giving birth to the child, and your father could not dissuade her. As a result, she became seriously ill soon after the child was born, so she entrusted Zhenruo to your father, who adopted the child out of affection for her.”

       “You lied,” Li Zhenruo said calmly, although he was a little angry, he suppressed his emotions.

       Li Zhenran stretched out his hand and patted his back soothingly.

       Luo Yunguang looked at Li Zhenruo, as if puzzled, “Why do you think I lied?”

       “Uncle Luo,” Li Zhenruo knew that what he said might be inappropriate, but he was eager to say something, “We know a lot more about this matter than you think, so there is no need to bring out the joke that Li Jianglin loves Zhao Yuqiong. You know who he loves, or who he only loves in this life. The matter about Li Zhenruo is not Li Jianglin’s son, everyone already knew, but Li Jianglin initially wanted to cover up the truth that he had already known, so he drove Li Zhenruo out of the Li family because he didn’t want the rest of the Li family to know that he knew about it. He pretended to be a victim and left all the damage to Li Zhenruo to bear. Now you say he loves Zhao Yuqiong?”

       Li Zhenran still stroked Li Zhenruo’s back and said softly, “Okay, let me talk to him.”

       Luo Yunguang looked a little stunned. He stared at Li Zhenruo for a while, and said, “You have been investigating this matter for a long time? Why?”

       Li Zhenran said, “Because that’s my brother.”

       Luo Yunguang has been away from the Li family for a long time. He didn’t know what the relationship between Li Zhenran and Li Zhenruo was. At this time, he seemed to really believe that Li Zhenran and Li Zhenruo were a pair of deeply affectionate brothers.

       The atmosphere seemed to freeze for a while.

       After a while, Luo Yunguang said to Li Zhenran, “Zhenran, listen to my advice. It is better for you not to know these things.”

       As soon as he said these words, the expressions of Li Zhenran and Li Zhenruo instantly became a little subtle, because they didn’t understand why Li Zhenruo’s affairs had something to do with Li Zhenran.

       Li Zhenran pondered for a while, and then said to Luo Yunguang, “What if I had to know? Uncle Luo, there are people in the Li family who are playing tricks right now. The fourth child might just be the first one, I don’t know if I’ll be the next one, no matter what your motive is for refusing to talk, I must know the truth to protect myself.”

       “Playing tricks?” Luo Yunguang frowned when he heard Li Zhenran’s words. He looked a little irritable and said, “I thought of that, I knew something could go wrong!”

       “Uncle Luo?” Li Zhenran called him.

       Luo Yunguang seemed to be in deep entanglement. He frowned and lowered his head, clenched his right fist to his lips, and said nothing for a long time.

       When Li Zhenruo was about to lose his composure, Li Zhenran put his hand on his shoulder and pressed it hard, signalling him to stay calm.

       At this time, Luo Yunguang’s wife came downstairs and reminded them in a low voice that it was very late.

       Only then did Luo Yunguang come back to his senses and stood up and said to Li Zhenran, “It’s so late, and the hotel here is not good, so why don’t you just stay here for the night?”

       Li Zhenran didn’t refuse, and replied, “Thank you, Uncle Luo, I’ll let you arrange it.”

       Although there were rooms, there were not many beddings at home. Luo Yunguang’s wife arranged for them to sleep in one room. Luo Yunguang asked them if they could make do with it. Li Zhenran said it was not a problem and that anything was fine.

       Li Zhenran came out of the bathroom, went back to the room and closed the door. He saw Li Zhenruo sitting on the bed in a daze, and said to him, “I’ll turn off the lights.”

       Li Zhenruo nodded.

       Li Zhenran turned off the light, and instantly it was pitch black. He stood there for a while, and when he got used to the darkness and could see the room clearly from the street lights outside, he slowly walked to the bed and sat down.

       He touched Li Zhenruo’s hand, held it in his hand, and asked him, “What are you thinking about?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “He knew we were coming, and he has been avoiding us today. I really can’t believe a word of what he said now.”

       For so long, he had been trying to find the truth. He had been running around again and again to find those who might know the clues, but Luo Yunguang was different. He was not as honest as Aunt Wu and Zhao Yusheng. He was Li Jianglin’s right-hand man in the past. Every word that sounded sincere was likely to be a fabricated lie.

       Which of the sentences he could believe?

       Li Zhenran pulled him to his side, stretched out his arms to hug him, and said, “Don’t think so much, we can tell which sentence is true and which is false, just like you said, we already seized so many things, even if he hides what he hides, it will be known one day.”

       Li Zhenruo put his face in his arms and said, “If only I were really a cat.”

       Li Zhenran thought for a while, and then said, “That’s not bad.”

       Although it was an unfamiliar environment, the surrounding environment was quiet, plus he was leaning on Li Zhenran’s arms, Li Zhenruo fell asleep not long after.

       This night, he slept quite deeply. When he woke up in the morning, he turned over and found that Li Zhenran had already woken up.

       Li Zhenruo rubbed his eyes, looked at the unfamiliar ceiling and thought about where he was for a while. He then reacted, got up and got ready to continue to spend time with Luo Yunguang.

       He got dressed and walked over to open the curtains. When the sun was shining in, he saw Li Zhenran standing in the garden on the first floor talking to Luo Yunguang.

       Luo Yunguang was rolling up his sleeves while arranging the flowerpots in the garden.

       Li Zhenruo opened the window and heard Li Zhenran say to him, “Uncle Luo, have you ever thought that that person might still be against my father?”

       Luo Yunguang originally lowered his head and said nothing, but now he raised his head to look at him.

       Li Zhenran said, “You can’t bring this secret into the coffin. From the day the fourth child’s incident was discovered, it will be brought before us sooner or later. I don’t want the next person to be involved in it for no apparent reason. “

       Luo Yunguang had been a little agitated since last night, but now it became more serious. He looked at Li Zhenran and suddenly dropped a flower pot in his hand.

       Li Zhenruo couldn’t help but be slightly taken aback by the crisp sound of the flowerpot falling to the ground.

       Luo Yunguang said, “Have you thought about how serious this matter is? Have you considered your father’s position?”

       Li Zhenran said solemnly, “What about us? We are not complete individuals? The fourth child can’t know his background until he dies?”

       When Li Zhenruo heard this, he couldn’t help raising his hand to cover his face.

       Luo Yunguang looked at Li Zhenran with a fierce glint in his eyes. He finally said fiercely, “Okay, since you must know, then I will tell you, but after knowing this, you should not regret it.”

       Li Zhenran took a deep breath, stood up straight, and said, “I won’t regret it.”

       Luo Yunguang said word by word, “None of you four are Li Jianglin’s sons.”

       Li Zhenruo suddenly widened his eyes, leaned forward, and clasped the windowsill tightly with his fingers. He thought he must have heard it wrong.

       However, Li Zhenran frowned slightly. He concealed his expression well, only hesitating to say what he was going to say.

       After Luo Yunguang finished saying this, he lowered his head and continued to take care of his flowerpot.

       Li Zhenruo already knew that he was not Li Jianglin’s son, although he was very surprised at this time, he thought that the person who was hit harder should be Li Zhenran.

       Somewhat panicked, Li Zhenruo turned around and ran towards the door, then hurried to the small building, and ran into the yard in slippers, slightly gasping for breath to grab Li Zhenran’s arm.

       He raised his head to look at Li Zhenran and asked him with his eyes if he wanted to believe Luo Yunguang’s words.

       At this moment, Li Zhenran patted the back of his hand comfortingly and looked at Luo Yunguang, “Uncle Luo, do you know what you mean by this sentence?”

       Luo Yunguang didn’t even raise his head, “I told you not to ask, but you still ask. Don’t you want to know why? Li Jianglin and Zhu Yun have no children. It’s not that Zhu Yun can’t have children, it’s that Li Jianglin can’t. The four of you are all adopted, and I was the one who went to find and take back a newly born boy for him.”

       Having said this, he paused, rubbed the soil from the scissors used for pruning the branches next to the flower table, and then continued, “The eldest was bought from a young couple, and the third and fourth were from single mothers who were abandoned by men and who don’t want a child until it’s born. As for you, your identity is the simplest. You are an orphan, and your parents seem to be gone. You are all taken back as illegitimate children. Li Jianglin never planned to tell you your true identity. I believe you yourself don’t want to know.” After saying the last sentence, Luo Yunguang also gave Li Zhenran a meaningful look.

       Li Zhenruo was immersed in incomparable shock. He imagined countless possibilities, but he did not expect it to be like this. He tried hard to see Luo Yunguang’s expression, trying to distinguish whether what he said was true or false, but for some reason, he believed that what Luo Yunguang said was true at this time.

       Luo Yunguang put down the scissors. He stood up straight, and said to Li Zhenran, “I said you wouldn’t want to know. You’d better honestly bring this secret into the coffin with me, Second Young Master Li.”

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Yesterday’s chapter was Zhenruo (真弱) at the beginning, but later I felt that something was wrong, so I changed it to Zhenruo(臻弱), but I didn’t expect it to be wrong…¹the author make a typo on Zhenruo’s name

Although many readers have guessed the truth, I still have to bite the bullet and write it down. I am not that unprincipled and even if you have guessed it, I will not change the outline!

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       The narrow streets were very lively with people coming and going. A kitten on the side of the road with a rope tied around its neck raised its head and called Li Zhenruo “meow meow” twice. Li Zhenruo squatted down and touched its head, watching it rubbing on his leg.

       Li Zhenran stood beside Li Zhenruo and said to him, “Let’s go to the neighbourhood first.”

       Li Zhenruo nodded, stood up and left slowly with Li Zhenran, in spite of the kitten’s cry to stay. This county was not big, and they didn’t know anyone, so they had nowhere to go. They were just strolling in a small unfamiliar city.

       The thoughts in his head were too chaotic, and Li Zhenruo didn’t even try to sort them out. No matter what the truth was, he could only just accept it by now. He didn’t have a better choice.

       Li Zhenran stretched out his hand to wrap his arms around Li Zhenruo’s waist and put his palm on the back waist for a long time. Even through the clothes, Li Zhenruo could still feel the temperature of Li Zhenran’s palm.

       After a while, he turned to Li Zhenran and said, “I may lack love.”

       Li Zhenran was stunned because of his inexplicable words, and smiled, “I’ll make it up to you.”

       He never got tired of listening to sweet words. Li Zhenruo thought to himself, he was quite happy now, he had lost some things and gained some things. It was not easy to compare and measure each other, whether he was losing more or gaining more. He had no idea.

       After they walked around for a while, they looked for a place to eat something. When it was almost dinner time in the afternoon, Li Zhenruo knocked on Luo Yunguang’s door again, and this time still no one answered.

       They weren’t sure if there was anyone in their home. The store next door had closed, and the other one said they didn’t know when he would come back.

       So they waited for a while. The rest of the store was closed when he came back, and the door of Luo Yunguang’s house was still closed. Li Zhenruo went over to knock on the door but got no response.

       “No one’s there?” He felt a little strange, he stepped back and looked towards the two-story building inside the gate. He didn’t see a human figure, but he could vaguely see a faint light. He wasn’t sure if it was the reflection of a nearby street lamp or the light in the room.

       Li Zhenruo made up his mind, and he said to Li Zhenran, “I want to go in and have a look.”

       Li Zhenran glanced around and made sure that there was no anti-theft power grid around the iron gate, so he said to him, “Go ahead. Be careful.”

       Li Zhenruo reached out and took off his jacket and handed it to Li Zhenran.

       As a result, Li Zhenran just reached out to pick it up, when the coat left Li Zhenruo’s body and he disappeared out of thin air, leaving a cat hair fluttering in Li Zhenran’s palm.

       Li Zhenruo smiled a little embarrassedly, although he knew it was meaningless, he still habitually rolled up his long sleeves, then hid in the dark and transformed into a cat form, and climbed up along the brick wall next to the iron gate.

       Li Zhenran stood outside the door and saw Li Zhenruo’s forelegs climbing on the wall with his buttocks falling down and swaying for a while before he climbed up with difficulty and suddenly smiled.

       It became easier for Li Zhenruo to climb over the courtyard wall. He trotted along the courtyard wall until he came to the vicinity of the building, and climbed the second-floor window on the pipe.

       When he got close, Li Zhenruo heard the sound of someone walking inside. He was sure that there was someone in the room and climbed to the outside of the window of the room where he had just seen the lights. Li Zhenruo looked inside and saw the inside of the room. With the TV turned on, a married couple who were in their forties sat beside the bed, and the man among them was Luo Yunguang.

       Luo Yunguang was at home, but he didn’t open the door for them.

       Li Zhenruo didn’t have time to be angry, he turned around and climbed along the pipeline to the yard on the first floor, turned back into a human shape, walked over and unlocked the door of the big iron gate from the inside.

       Li Zhenran was standing outside the door, looking at him in surprise, “Someone’s inside?”

       Li Zhenruo nodded, “Yes.”

       The people upstairs heard the noises, Luo Yunguang rushed to the window and shouted loudly, “Who is it?!”

       Li Zhenran and Li Zhenruo stood there and looked up at the same time.

       Luo Yunguang left the window at this time. They listened to the movement as if Luo Yunguang had come downstairs in a hurry.

       Li Zhenruo and Li Zhenran looked at each other and waited quietly for him.

       Luo Yunguang went down to the first floor and opened the security door from the inside while swearing fiercely, “Who are you people? Barging in and trying to steal something? I’m calling the police!”

       He was holding a cell phone in his hand as if he had already pressed 110 and was ready to dial the number.

       However, at this moment, Li Zhenran shouted first, “Uncle Luo, do you remember me? I’m Li Zhenran?”

       Luo Yunguang was stunned for a moment. He stood by the door, frowned and looked in this direction, carefully looking at the slender and handsome young man under the street lamp, “Who do you say you are?”

       Li Zhenran said, “I am Li Jianglin’s second son, Li Zhenran.”

       Luo Yunguang put down his phone and walked towards them slowly until he approached Li Zhenran, looked at his face seriously and said, “Yes, you really are Zhenran.”

       Li Zhenran smiled at him, “Uncle Luo, I haven’t seen you for many years.”

       Luo Yunguang looked a little stunned, “Why are you here?”

       Li Zhenran didn’t answer him directly, but reached out and pulled Li Zhenruo to his side, and said to Luo Yunguang, “Uncle Luo, do you remember? This is my brother, Zhenruo.”

       Luo Yunguang’s expression suddenly became strange. He first walked to the wall and turned on the lights in the yard, looked at Li Zhenruo’s face through the lights, and then said, “He—isn’t he…”

       Li Zhenruo didn’t know what Li Zhenran meant, but he still cooperated with Li Zhenran and said, “Uncle Luo, look at me carefully, you carried me when you were younger, did you not?”

       When Luo Yunguang left, Li Zhenruo was still young. He could recognize Li Zhenran who had grown up, but he might not be able to recognize what Li Zhenruo would look like now. But if he really wanted to think about it, this Li Zhenruo looked too young now, and it didn’t match the age of Li Zhenruo himself.

       But for Luo Yunguang, it wasn’t this that puzzled him. He just looked up at Li Zhenran, “I saw the news last year. Li Zhenruo is gone.”

       Gone means dead.

       Li Zhenran was exposed by him, and he was not embarrassed at all, but smiled and said, “It turns out that Uncle Luo has been following us all the time.”

       Li Zhenruo’s case has been reported by the media, but he was not a star himself, and the response he could cause in society was limited. The case was not a serious case, so it had not attracted a lot of media attention.

       Luo Yunguang could know that if it wasn’t for the fact that he still had contact with Li Jianglin, then he was very concerned about the movements of the Li family.

       When he heard Li Zhenran say this, Luo Yunguang did not refute, but looked at Li Zhenruo and said, “Who is this little brother?”

       Li Zhenran put his hand on Li Zhenruo’s shoulder and said to Luo Yunguang, “My friend’s younger brother. I’m joking with Uncle Luo, don’t be angry.”

       Luo Yunguang then laughed a little, “How can I be angry. You still haven’t answered yet, why did you suddenly find your way here?”

       As soon as he finished speaking, his wife’s voice came from the second-floor window, “Who is it? Do you want to call the police?”

       Luo Yunguang replied, “Two nephews, don’t worry about it, it’s fine!”

       Li Zhenran said to him, “Won’t Uncle Luo invite us in and sit down? It’s really not easy for me to come all the way here.”

       When he heard this, Luo Yunguang seemed to have just reacted, and quickly said to them, “Look at my head, it’s useless when I’m too old. Come into the living room with me and sit for a while.”

       Having said that, he led the way and asked Li Zhenran and Li Zhenruo to follow him inside.

       Li Zhenruo slowed down and said softly to Li Zhenran, “His ears are fine, why hasn’t he opened the door for us?”

       Li Zhenran said nothing and touched Li Zhenruo’s head.

       Luo Yunguang was warm to them by this time, letting them sit down on the sofa and calling his wife down from the second floor to pour them tea.

       The topic inevitably returned to Li Zhenran’s purpose for coming here, this time Li Zhenran no longer avoided it but said, “Uncle Luo, I accidentally learned something about more than 20 years ago, and I want to ask you about some old things.”

       Luo Yunguang sat on the single sofa opposite them, frowning slightly, “What happened more than 20 years ago?”

       Li Zhenran nodded, “You were my father’s closest brother at that time. I believe my father will not hide anything from you.”

       Luo Yunguang picked up the cup, blew the tea leaves and shook his head with a smile, “What are you talking about, if I know, I will tell you.”

       Li Zhenran said, “It’s something about my fourth brother Zhenruo.”

       Luo Yunguang slowly put down the cup and glanced at Li Zhenran, “Zhenruo is gone.”

       Li Zhenran nodded when he heard the words.

       During this process, Li Zhenruo didn’t speak. He knew that he was a stranger to Luo Yunguang at present. If he asked a question rashly, not only would he not get an answer, but it would arouse the other party’s suspiciousness, so he kept listening to Li Zhenran quietly.

       Luo Yunguang mentioned again that Li Zhenruo was dead. They all knew about it. Li Zhenran pretended not to understand what he meant and asked, “So what?”

       Luo Yunguang said, “He’s not here anymore, what’s the point of pursuing the past?”

       He said this, but it made Li Zhenran and Li Zhenruo convinced that he knew something.

       Li Zhenran said, “Uncle Luo, the matter about the fourth child is not Dad’s son, did you know that?”

       When he heard this question, Luo Yunguang didn’t answer immediately, but he didn’t show any surprise. He just stretched out his hand to pick up the teacup he had just put down and moved it to his lips to take another sip.

       Li Zhenruo silently observed his expression. He saw Luo Yunguang’s eyes fixed on the teacup, he was obviously thinking about how to answer. Not only did he know this, but he probably didn’t plan to tell them the truth now, so he needed to delay for a while to consider what kind of answer to give them.

       Luo Yunguang had been away from the Li family for so many years. It sounds like he had no information, but he had lived a good life in this place. Li Jianglin still treated him well and so until now, he still wanted to help Li Jianglin hide something, wasn’t that the case?

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       When Li Zhenruo heard that Yu Bingwei actually had chosen to break up with Li Zhenzi, Li Zhenruo would have laughed out loud if he hadn’t been concerned about Li Zhenran’s presence here. However, the smile on his face was not concealed, and he said, “It’s a good breakup.”

       Li Zhenzi frowned and looked at him, “What does my affair with her have to do with you?”

       Li Zhenruo didn’t want to say more, mainly because he didn’t want Li Zhenran to think too much. He grabbed Li Zhenran’s finger and put it to his mouth and bit it lightly, stood up from his lap and said, “Forget it, it really has nothing to do with me, do as you like it.”

       Li Zhenzi was a little upset when he saw their two actions being close, and said, “Don’t bring a man to my place to show your affection.”

       Li Zhenruo snorted coldly.

       Li Zhenran also stood up, patted Li Zhenruo’s face, and said to Li Zhenzi, “Then I’ll go first, you should be careful these two days.”

       Hearing Li Zhenran said he was going to leave, Li Zhenzi was somewhat reluctant, but he finally stood up and said, “I know.”

       Li Zhenran said, “There are too many people coming and going in the hotel, and if you are afraid that your place is not safe, I will find a place for you. After you made a contact, someone will pick you up.”

       Li Zhenzi nodded, looked at Li Zhenran, and said in a rare sincere tone, “Thank you, second brother.”

       Li Zhenran patted his shoulder.

       After getting into the car, Li Zhenruo said in a muffled voice, “Why are you being so nice to Li Zhenzi?”

       Li Zhenran drove the car out of the parking lot and asked him, “How nice I am?”

       Li Zhenruo put one hand on the edge of the car window, “I haven’t seen you care so much about my affairs since I was a child.”

       Li Zhenran smiled when he heard the words, “Do you want to say that you are jealous?”

       Li Zhenruo said frankly, “Um.”

       Li Zhenran reached out and pinched his jaw, “The timing is different, the circumstance is different, and there is no comparison.”

       Li Zhenruo looked at him, “Are you trying to say that now you and Li Zhenzi are going to fight against Li Zhentai?”

       Li Zhenran replied, “I didn’t want to deal with him, but I can’t let him screw me over.”

       Although such a big thing happened from Li Zhenzi’s side, the Li family was calm and no one mentioned it at all. Only occasionally when Li Zhenruo used his cell phone to surf the Internet, he would realize how much of a fuss this matter was.

       But Li Jianglin was not willing to ask, so other people naturally dared not mention it in front of him. Even Wang Ma secretly asked Li Zhenran what happened to Li Zhenzi.

       Li Zhenran said to Wang Ma, “Don’t worry, he is in his twenties, and he will handle his own affairs.”

       The temperature was getting lower and lower day by day, and Li Zhenruo felt like he was starting to shed his fur. As long as he stayed at home, there was cat hair everywhere.

       The aunt who cleaned the house didn’t like cats very much, so she disliked him a little. It was fine when there are other people around. If there is no one else around, the cleaning aunt will always drive him away with a broom when she saw him.

       Once he was lying on the couch quietly, and that aunt was also holding a hand-held vacuum cleaner, which was buzzing and waving at him to scare him away.

       Li Zhenruo was a little depressed.

       Fortunately, Li Zhenran didn’t dislike him no matter what, even if he was nestled in Li Zhenran’s arms and rubbed his fur all over him, Li Zhenran had no objection.

       It was a pity that Li Jianglin still giving Li Zhenran a cold shoulder.

       Regarding Li Zhenran’s unrepentance, Li Jianglin didn’t know if he would rather be tough with him to the end. Until now, half a month has passed, and neither father nor son was willing to give in.

       And so Li Zhenzi went into hiding. All the work was remotely controlled on the internet and telephone, and no one knew where he was.

       One afternoon, Li Zhenran was sitting on the bed reading a book, and Li Zhenruo was lying between his legs. He stared at the middle of his pants for a long time and when he just had the urge to bite down, Li Zhenran’s cell phone rang.

       At the same time that Li Zhenran connected the phone, Li Zhenruo gave a serious bite, causing Li Zhenran’s “hello” to instantly rose a few octaves.

       Li Zhenruo raised his head and looked at Li Zhenran. Li Zhenran carried him by the back of his neck and threw him off the bed, and said to the person over the phone, “I’m fine, you can talk.”

       Suddenly Li Zhenruo thought of trying to scare him. Li Zhenruo lowered his upper body and raised the back half of his height, making an ambush to attack, aiming at the middle of Li Zhenran’s legs.

       As a result, Li Zhenran answered the phone, raised his foot and kicked him in the face as he jumped up, causing Li Zhenruo to roll in midair and fall onto the bed.

       “Well, okay, I see, you send me the address.”

       This was Li Zhenran’s last sentence. He then hung up the phone and said to Li Zhenruo, “Uncle Luo’s address has been found.”

       Li Zhenruo’s hair was originally standing at first, and he wanted to fight with Li Zhenran. When he heard this sentence, he was stunned and raised his head to look at Li Zhenran.

       Nowadays, the internet was too developed. Unless Luo Yunguang could find someone to change his identity, he could only live in seclusion in the deep mountains and forests, to ensure that he would not be found.

       Despite this, Li Zhenran still spent some time because he didn’t want to alarm Li Jianglin, otherwise, it should be faster.

       When he saw Li Zhenruo stunned, Li Zhenran scratched Li Zhenruo’s chin with his toes and said, “Want to find him?”

       Of course.

       Li Zhenruo really wanted to know the past between Li Jianglin and his mother, but when he got closer to the truth of the matter, he suddenly felt a little afraid, and he was always afraid of knowing something terrible.

       Just like when he went to Zhao Yuqiong’s hometown at that time, the words he heard from Zhao Yusheng’s mouth made him feel depressed for a long time.

       Li Zhenran saw him lying motionless, shaking his feet in front of him, “What? Got attacked at the vital point?”

       Only then did Li Zhenruo come back to look at him.

       Li Zhenran probably guessed what he was thinking, and continued to gently scratch his chin with his toes, “Don’t worry too much, I’ll go with you.”

       Li Zhenruo hugged Li Zhenran’s feet and pressed his chin to the back of his foot.

       Li Zhenran said to him, “No matter how bad it is, it will not be worse than the time you died. What do you think?”

       When Li Zhenruo heard him say that, he thought to himself, how worse could it be? Anyway, he was kicked out of the house and died once. He clearly knew that he was not Li Jianglin’s son. No matter what happened to Li Jianglin in the past, it had nothing to do with him. He didn’t need to be so frightened, he just needed to understand the past clearly.

       Finally, Li Zhenruo nodded.

       After Luo Yunguang left the Li family back then, he went directly to other provinces and lived in a small county town.

       His life was very simple. For a long time, he really seemed to live in seclusion. If it was then, Li Zhenran might not be able to find out his whereabouts. However, now, he was not too young. He had a daughter who seemed to have just graduated from college, and the family lived a dull and happy life.

       Through his means, Li Zhenran was able to find out some traces of Luo Yunguang’s life, including the identities of his wife and daughter registered under his household registration.

       The distance was a little far, so they didn’t drive, but bought tickets to fly there directly.

       When he arrived at the nearest city, Li Zhenran borrowed a car from a friend and drove Li Zhenruo to that small county.

       The small county town was very old with many old houses with red bricks and blue tiles have wooden façades. For Li Zhenruo, who was not yet 24 years old, it was like a picture that can only be seen on TV.

       Although the memory was a little fuzzy, Li Zhenruo still remembered that Luo Yunguang and Li Jianglin had a very good relationship.

       Li Jianglin was a sentimental person, which could be seen from his attitude towards Wen Chun’s parents. If Wen Chun was not the daughter of his old friend, Li Jianglin would definitely not insist on marrying Li Zhentai and Wen Chun.

       But why did Li Jianglin allow Luo Yunguang who was his right-hand man for many years to live in such a cramped and dilapidated old county town?

       The narrowest old roads in the county were not even accessible by car.

       Li Zhenran parked the car on the side of the road, opened the door and got out of the car with Li Zhenruo and walked in together.

       Li Zhenruo put his hands in his pockets and said to Li Zhenran as he walked forward, “Is there any conflict between Li Jianglin and Uncle Luo?”

       In fact, Li Zhenran was not very old at that time. He recalled it and replied, “I didn’t notice it.”

       “Don’t you think that with Li Jianglin’s attitude towards his subordinates, he wouldn’t treat Uncle Luo like this?”

       Li Zhenran said, “It could be that Uncle Luo wants to retire himself.”

       Li Zhenruo walked in front of him, turned around and faced him, “Uncle Luo was not very old at that time, right? So he retired at a young age and lived in poverty in this small county?”

       Li Zhenran stopped, “Perhaps you misunderstood, this small county is indeed very poor, but it does not mean that Uncle Luo is poor.”

       Li Zhenruo frowned at him.

       Li Zhenran continued, “As long as you have money, you can live a good life anywhere.”

       Li Zhenruo thought for a while, nodded and said, “Okay.”

       In fact, Luo Yunguang’s living environment was really not as depressing as they imagined.

       According to the address obtained by Li Zhenran, they asked all the way and found that Luo Yunguang’s house turned out to be a small two-story building. On one side of the street, there was a big closed iron gate between the two shops.

       The street was narrow, and there were not many pedestrians.

       When they asked for directions, Li Zhenruo curiously asked the old man on the side of the road why this street was so old. The old man told them that this street was originally an old street in the old city and was the earliest commercial street in the county. Later, other streets were demolished, but this old street was not demolished because it was mostly private property. In the end, it was simply preserved as a pedestrian street. Every night after dinner, everyone liked to take a walk on this street.

       What Luo Yunguang owned was not only a small two-story building in the centre of the earliest commercial street but also all the shops around the small building were his.

       Li Zhenran looked at Li Zhenruo with a “See” expression on his face.

       Li Zhenruo ignored him and knocked on the big iron gate with his hand.

       The owner of the shop next to him poked his head out and said, “Not in, come later You see him and his wife are out this afternoon.”

       Li Zhenruo retracted his hand and said, “Oh, thank you.”

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       When you often walk by the river, how can you not wet your shoes?

       Li Zhenzi had an indulgent private life, and it was not the first time that he hooked up with a married woman. After all, one day he would be kick on the iron hotplate. When they first heard the news, not to mention Li Zhenran, even Li Jianglin was not surprised.

       It was just that since Li Zhenzi ran an entertainment company and had a handsome appearance, he had already been targeted by various media. As soon as the incident broke out, it naturally spread all over the world and became the headlines of gossip news.

       At this time, Li Zhenran took out his mobile phone and searched randomly, and saw the secretly photographed photos of Li Zhenzi and the actress kissing. The actress was currently well-known. She and her husband were famously loving couples before, and her husband’s background was not simple.

       Li Jianglin clasped his hands on the table and sighed deeply.

       Now, everyone was still unclear about Li Zhenzi’s situation. Li Zhenran said, “I’ll give him a call later.”

       Li Jianglin was not looking good, and he said, “Let him solve his own affairs.”

       First, he hooked up with his eldest brother’s fiancée, and then it was revealed that he had committed adultery with a married female star. No matter how much patience Li Jianglin had, he was about to run out with this son.

       Li Zhenruo looked up at Li Zhenran, lowered his head and ate his dinner silently.

       He really didn’t know if Li Zhentai was messing with Li Zhenzi, but if he saw Li Zhenzi, he could only send him the words: You deserve it!

       There was also Li Zhentai, the more small moves he made, the easier it was for Li Jianglin to lose patience, let’s see how long he could stay proud!

       Li Jianglin left the dining table without eating much. It seemed that his sons were making him very angry, so he went back to the study and closed the door.

       Li Zhenruo went around the back of the building and jumped onto the windowsill. He looked into the study through the glass and saw Li Jianglin sitting on the reclining chair, doing nothing but staring at the ceiling in a daze.

       There were three or four pictures hanging on the walls of the study, all of which are of Zhu Yun.

       Li Jianglin locked himself in such an environment every day. No one knew what or who he was reminiscing.

       Li Zhenruo suddenly wanted to know the truth about those years. He wondered if Li Jianglin, Zhao Yuqiong or Yuan Dong knew each other originally, so he adopted their child, and he never thought about telling the child the truth.

       Could Yuan Dong also be dead?

       But if that was the case, why was he kicked out of the house at that time? He was not his son, he knew it.

       Li Zhenruo couldn’t help but raise a paw and press it to the window glass. From this angle, his paw seemed to be pressing Li Jianglin’s chest.

       Suddenly, someone reached out and picked him up from the windowsill.

       Li Zhenruo was taken aback and turned to look, only to find that it was Li Zhenran.

       Li Jianglin seemed to have noticed it too and looked out the window from the study.

       Li Zhenran pointed to the cat in his arms and showed it to Li Jianglin. He then carried Li Zhenruo and left while saying, “Follow me to find the third child.”

       They sat in the car, Li Zhenruo changed into a human appearance but still remained silent. He raised one foot and stepped on the seat under him.

       Li Zhenran glanced at him and asked, “What?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “What’s the point of looking for Li Zhenzi? He should bear the consequences for his own sins.”

       Li Zhenran smiled when he heard the words, “Even if Dad doesn’t care about him now, I still have to go see him.”

       Li Zhenruo couldn’t help but glance at Li Zhenran, he suddenly felt that compared to his past self, Li Zhenran was actually really good to Li Zhenzi.

       However, he couldn’t help but remember that because of the western project, Li Zhenran seemed to have a clear intention to win over Li Zhenzi.

       In fact, this was completely understandable. If Li Zhenran were to compare Li Zhenzi and Li Zhentai, Li Zhenzi was the most deserving of their brothers in this family to be won over. First, he had no ambitions for Yunlin, and the other was that Li Zhenzi was in charge of an entertainment company as big as Yunyi. He had a lot of scoundrels friend outside, and the resources in his hand were very rich.

       The random thoughts that suddenly broke into his head made Li Zhenruo stare at Li Zhenran for a while.

       Li Zhenran reached out and touched his head and said, “What are you looking at?”

       Li Zhenruo grabbed Li Zhenran’s hand, put it on his lips and kissed it. Since that time he ran away from home, Li Zhenran had been much gentler to him than before. Now he thought of what Li Zhenran said to him in the coffee shop from time to time, he thought Li Zhenran was probably frightened by him, afraid that he would run away again.

       This kind of tenderness was probably a constant reminder that he loved him.

       For Li Zhenruo, this was also very useful, so he grabbed Li Zhenran’s hand and kissed it again. He thought to himself that it seemed like a long time since Li Zhenran had thrown him out of bed, but Li Zhenran, who left him out of bed in the past, loved him too.

       After all this time, Li Zhenruo could feel Li Zhenran’s feelings for him.

       He saw that Li Zhenran was driving smoothly, but the direction was not toward Yu Bingwei as he thought. He couldn’t help but feel a little strange and asked Li Zhenran, “Where is Li Zhenzi?”

       Li Zhenran said, “In the hotel.”

       Li Zhenruo said strangely, “Not with Miss Yu?”

       Li Zhenran glanced at him, “Do you want to see Miss Yu?”

       Li Zhenruo was stunned for a moment, not understanding why Li Zhenran was inexplicably jealous, and said, “I don’t…”

       “Really?” Li Zhenran said, “I thought you wanted to see her very much.”

       In fact, he still had a little thought. After all, he hadn’t seen her for a long time, but Li Zhenruo didn’t want Li Zhenran to be jealous of Yu Bingwei at all, and only said, “I’m not interested in her.” After a while, he added, “I am not interested in all women.”

       Li Zhenran didn’t say anything, just looked at him.

       He quickly added, “I’m not interested in humans other than you.”

       After this sentence, there was still no response from Li Zhenran.

       After a while, Li Zhenruo suddenly turned around and said to Li Zhenran, “I’m not interested in cats all over the world! Is that enough?”

       Li Zhenran finally responded, “That’s fine.”

       When the car drove near the hotel, Li Zhenran found a reporter squatting beside him. He called Li Zhenzi while taking Li Zhenruo upstairs in the elevator together.

       Finally, when they arrived at the suite Li Zhenzi was staying, the door was opened from the inside.

       Li Zhenzi looked at them and seemed a little dissatisfied that Li Zhenran brought someone, but still said, “Come in.”

       Li Zhenruo walked in behind Li Zhenran. He reached out and closed the door, and felt that the air in the whole room was a little stuffy.

       Li Zhenzi looked more or less dishevelled. Although it had only been half a day since the photos were exposed by the Internet media, the pressure he bore was not to be underestimated.

       He sat by the bed, Li Zhenzi lit a cigarette and asked Li Zhenran, “Do you want it?”

       Li Zhenran shook his head and said, “No need.”

       Li Zhenruo went to the window and opened it, trying to dispel the smell of smoke in the room.

       Li Zhenzi looked at his back and asked Li Zhenran, “You still have this kid with you? Not afraid of Dad’s thunderous wrath?”

       Li Zhenran pulled out the chair in front of the dressing cabinet and sat down, and said to Li Zhenzi, “I can afford it, but it looks like you can’t afford it anymore.”

       “fvck!” Li Zhenzi couldn’t hold back the swear word, “Someone is shadowing me.”

       Li Zhenran didn’t ask him why, but Li Zhenruo turned to look at him from the window.

       Li Zhenzi said, “My house is very secluded, and I am very careful when entering and leaving. Those people rented a high-rise house on the opposite side and secretly photographed the inside of the house with a high-power camera. If they hadn’t been tipped off, I believe no one would have known about it. “

       Li Zhenruo couldn’t help saying at this time, “You slept with someone else’s wife.”

       Li Zhenzi looked at him and seemed a little unhappy, but he still explained, “Her husband is not a good thing. Do you think they are really in love? If they are really in love, she will not come out and fool around with another man.”

       Li Zhenran said at this time, “The husband of that Miss Zhang, whose name is You Bo, don’t you know what he does?”

       Li Zhenzi took a puff of cigarette irritably, “Doing import and export business.”

       Li Zhenran leaned forward slightly, “Not only that, his background is not very clean, I asked someone to check it for me, you should be careful these days.”

       Li Zhenzi’s face became even worse.

       Li Zhenran said, “If you are caught by a reporter, you will scratch your skin at most. You should be more careful about whether You Bo will do anything.”

       Li Zhenzi snuffed out the cigarette and threw it heavily on the ground. He swore emotionally, and said, “I must know who is behind me.”

       After he said this, he was suddenly stunned. He seemed to be sorting out in his head who had a deep hatred with him, starting with the people around him, and then he raised his head to look at Li Zhenran.

       Li Zhenruo stood by the window and clearly saw the two brothers staring at each other for a moment. Li Zhenruo always felt that everyone had the name in their mouths and didn’t say it.

       But Li Zhenruo couldn’t help mocking Li Zhenzi, “If you don’t sleep with other people’s wives, who will catch you in the act?”

       Li Zhenzi snorted coldly when he heard the words, “If you don’t seduce my second brother, do you think Dad will hand over all the business to the eldest?”

       Li Zhenruo didn’t refute angrily, but just said with a laugh, “Would you like to try to persuade him to leave me?”

       At this time Li Zhenran said, “You two, stop arguing, it’s pointless.” After he said that, he extended his hand to Li Zhenruo, “Come here.”

       Li Zhenruo looked at him for a while but went over to hold his hand and was pulled by Li Zhenran and sat on his lap.

       Li Zhenran pinched Li Zhenruo’s chin and said in his ear, “Don’t say the word ‘leave’ to me.”

       Li Zhenruo raised his head, facing Li Zhenzi’s direction, and saw Li Zhenzi turn his eyes away in disgust.

       He suddenly couldn’t help but ask, “Where’s Miss Yu?”

       Li Zhenran’s hand pinched his lower jaw even harder, and Li Zhenruo almost cried out in pain.

       Li Zhenzi responded strangely, “You said Yu Bingwei? We broke up.”

       Li Zhenruo didn’t care about the pain, and while reaching out to grab Li Zhenran’s hand, he asked, “Break up? Why?”

       Li Zhenzi looked a little frustrated, “She took the initiative to break up with me.”

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       Uncle Luo’s full name was Luo Yunguang. Before Li Jianglin made a fortune, Luo Yunguang had been following and working for him and was loyal all his life.

       Li Zhenruo still remembered that when he was young, Luo Yunguang went in and out of Li’s house every day, and then suddenly disappeared one day. When he asked, Li Jianglin said that Uncle Luo wanted to retire and went back to his hometown with his wife.

       After that, there was no news about Luo Yunguang.

       They drove back to the city where they left in the morning and stayed at the hotel.

       Li Zhenran sat on the edge of the bed and made several calls in succession, asking someone to help him track Luo Yunguang’s whereabouts.

       Li Zhenruo was lying on the bed with his head resting on his arm and looked at him without saying a word.

       When Li Zhenran finished the call and waited for news, he reached out and stroked Li Zhenruo’s hair and asked him, “What’s the matter? Didn’t you already know about some of those things?”

       The fact that Li Zhenruo was not Li Jianglin’s son was no secret for a long time. Even now that Li Jianglin knew this in his heart at the beginning, Li Zhenran seemed to think that it should not have such a big impact on Li Zhenruo’s emotions.

       “I was just thinking…” Li Zhenruo said slowly, “He knew that I was not his son, why did he kick me out of the Li family at that time?”

       Li Zhenran’s thumb gently rubbed his forehead, “Maybe he doesn’t want others to know.”

       Li Zhenruo raised his head a little to look at him.

       Li Zhenran said, “Look, he hasn’t told us about this until now, and he may not plan to let others know in the future.”

       Li Zhenruo covered his face with his hands when he heard the words, “But I still feel bad. It’s obviously not my fault, but I ended up being the one who was abandoned.”

       “It wasn’t your fault in the first place,” Li Zhenran said, holding Li Zhenruo’s arm and half dragging him onto his lap, facing him face to face, “No matter what, it’s not your fault, you are not to blame.”

       Li Zhenruo looked up at him.

       Li Zhenran bent down and kissed his lips gently.

       After a while, Li Zhenran’s cell phone rang. He answered the phone, listened quietly to the person on the other side, and hung up after two minutes.

       Li Zhenruo had been waiting for him.

       When the phone hung up, Li Zhenran looked at Li Zhenruo and said, “Uncle Luo didn’t go back to his hometown after he left, and those old brothers in the past didn’t know where he went. They said that if he wanted to check his whereabouts, only Dad might know.”

       Li Zhenruo was a little surprised.

       Li Zhenran said to him, “We can only go back first. There is no way to rush this matter. I will let people check his whereabouts slowly, and there will always be news.”

       Li Zhenruo thought about it. There was no better way at present, so he stretched out his arms to hug Li Zhenran’s waist and nodded.

       He was not in a good mood. He always felt that this matter was not that simple, but he had simply become a victim. Not only did he not know who killed him, but now he even became more and more confused about why he died.

       On the way home, he was a little lethargic, and on the highway, he suddenly and silently changed back to the appearance of a cat, slumped on the seat and didn’t want to move.

       At first, Li Zhenran planned to drive directly back to the apartment in the city, so as not to let the rest of the family know that they had returned, but Li Zhenruo said that he wanted to go back to the Li family.

       He was very frustrated, but he had no plans to give up. Only the closer he was to Li Jianglin, the closer he could get to the truth.

       It was still afternoon when they got home, and Li Jianglin was in a rare good mood, so he took dog biscuits and fed Erhuang.

       Li Zhenran parked the car in the garage, and when he got out of the car, he saw that Li Zhenruo was still unmoving on the seat. He reached out and grabbed one of his cat legs to pull him out. Li Zhenruo reacted very quickly and hugged Li Zhenran’s arm with his front paws, and was taken out of the car by him.

       Because Li Jianglin noticed his car coming in just now, Li Zhenran carried Li Zhenruo and didn’t go back to the house, but went around to the front of the kennel and greeted Li Jianglin, “Dad.”

       “Back so soon?” Li Jianglin asked without looking back.

       Li Zhenran just responded, “Um.”

       Erhuang originally concentrated on asking Li Jianglin for dog biscuits, but seeing Li Zhenruo seemed distracted, he first wagged his tail to show affection to Li Zhenran and then wanted to jump up and touch Li Zhenruo.

       Li Zhenran reached out and stroked Erhuang’s head, and said to Li Jianglin, “I’ll go in first.”

       But unexpectedly Li Jianglin said, “Wait a minute, I have something to tell you.”

       When he heard this, Li Zhenran had to stop, and so he also put Li Zhenruo on the ground.

       As Erhuang saw this, he immediately circled around Li Zhenruo excitedly. Li Zhenruo was listless, hugged Erhuang’s leg with his paws, and rubbed his face between his fluffy dog ​​hair. Erhuang actually fell down, his body formed a circle, and Li Zhenruo was placed in the middle, letting him lie on top of him.

       Li Jianglin said, “You went out alone?”

       Li Zhenran put both hands in his trouser pockets and replied, “Yes.”

       Li Jianglin asked him, “Have you thought it over?”

       Li Zhenran was originally looking at Li Zhenruo lying in Erhuang’s arms, and when he heard the words, he looked at Li Jianglin, “What should I think clearly?”

       Li Zhenruo raised his head and looked at the two of them.

       Li Jianglin leaned on crutches with both hands and stood up straight, “A young man, is it worth it?”

       Li Zhenran didn’t speak.

       Li Jianglin sighed, “You’ve put in a lot of effort to make Yunlin what it is today. Some words may not be appropriate to say now, but among the three brothers, you are the one I valued the most, and I don’t want you to get together with a man, much less to give up your career easily for a man.”

       “Dad,” Li Zhenran said, “I never thought about giving up my career for anyone, and whoever I’m with should not affect my career.”

       Li Jianglin snorted softly, “You will not have a stable family, nor will you have children, your private life will be noticed by the media, and everything in the future may be magnified and exposed to the public’s attention. Even a slight breeze may have an impact on Yunlin’s reputation.”

       Li Zhenran replied, “It’s possible, but none of these will affect me. I believe that even so, Yunlin will develop better in my hands than in the hands of the eldest brother and the third child. The eldest brother married a woman, but he doesn’t have a stable family. I can’t say anything about the third one, but if he doesn’t change his nature, it’s probably difficult to have a stable family. Many things are too much for you to think about, it should not be so complicated.”

       Li Zhenruo had never heard Li Zhenran say these words, and he was a little stunned.

       Li Zhenran continued, “As for children, I don’t really care. I didn’t think that in the future, it would be my children who would inherit Yunlin. It could be the children of the eldest brother, or the children of the third child. I will not live for children in this life, I want to just think about my own life.”

       Li Jianglin was silent for a long time, and said, “Maybe what you said makes sense, but I still won’t agree.”

       Li Zhenran was also quiet for a moment, and he asked Li Jianglin, “Will you disown me as your son because of this?”

       Li Jianglin didn’t seem to expect that he would ask this question, and immediately replied, “No.” He really won’t, even if Li Zhenran did such a dirty thing, he never thought of disowning him.

       Li Zhenran took a deep breath and said, “Then I can not want Yunlin for him.”

       Li Jianglin looked a little surprised, his brows furrowed and he looked at him.

       Li Zhenran said, “I can start a business by myself, or I can go to work for others. Since I already had the education and work experience, I believe it is not difficult to find a job that can support myself.”

       Li Jianglin’s voice was a little angry, “Is this how you treat your hard work on Yunlin?”

       Li Zhenran looked at Li Jianglin and shook his head slowly, “Dad, you shouldn’t treat Yunlin like this. Although the third child’s heart is not in Yunlin, I still want to persuade you that you rather give Yunlin to the third than to the eldest brother. It’s not Yunlin that I worked hard for, it’s you that have worked hard for Yunlin your whole life, you should be more careful.”

       Li Jianglin clenched his crutches and leaned hard on the ground.

       Li Zhenran said, “Dad, it’s windy here. I’ll help you go in and rest.”

       Li Jianglin’s chest heaved and he shook his head, “No need.” After he said that, he turned around and walked towards the house.

       Li Zhenruo couldn’t help standing up and looking in the direction where Li Jianglin left.

       In the evening, Li Zhentai had entertainment outside and did not come back for dinner, and the atmosphere at home seemed a bit dull.

       Before dinner, Li Zhenruo was lying on the chair and stared blankly at Li Jianglin. Li Jianglin had just come out of the study, stood at the door and unbuttoned a button on his neckline.

       Zhu Kai just came back from the outside and glanced at Li Jianglin, “Dinner is ready?”

       Li Jianglin was upset and didn’t want to pay attention to him. He frowned and didn’t speak. He walked towards the dining room by himself.

       Zhu Kai saw Li Zhenruo and said strangely, “The second child is back?” After he said that, he walked directly to the chair Li Zhenruo was lying on, stretched out his hand and grabbed his leg, “Fat cat?”

       Li Zhenruo didn’t intend to be polite to him, and his sharp claws lit up and grabbed at his face.

       Zhu Kai also reacted quickly and took a step back to avoid it, but he was still startled and raised his legs to kick Li Zhenruo down.

       Before that, Li Zhenruo jumped down and ran towards Li Zhenran who had just come downstairs.

       Li Zhenran picked him up and said, “Let’s eat.”

       Li Jianglin walked to the dining table and sat down. His phone suddenly rang. He answered the call, and the person on the other end said something in a hurry.

       Li Zhenruo noticed that Li Jianglin’s face was getting worse and worse. After a while, he hung up the phone, raised his head and said to Li Zhenran, “Your younger brother has an affair with a married actress and was caught on camera by a reporter.”

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Everyone is paying attention to Zhenruo’s date of birth. In the beginning, he said that he was twenty-three years old. It took me a long time to count the number of days to confirm that he was born in 1992 and this year he is exactly twenty-three years old.

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Tsk tsk tsk, when will Zhenzi grow up?

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       The car stopped at the gas station on the highway to refuel. Li Zhenruo took a breather and went to the small supermarket to buy two bottles of water.

       Zhao Yuqiong’s hometown was even further away than his visit to Aunt Wu’s place before, it was almost at the junction of the two northern provinces. Li Zhenruo didn’t quite understand why Zhao Yuqiong chose to leave her hometown and come here alone. Eventually, she died alone without any relatives to accompany her.

       Li Zhenran stood beside the car and waited to refuel.

       Li Zhenruo noticed that the young woman working at the gas station was talking to him. When Li Zhenran looked down at her, she smiled coyly.

       He shook the water bottle in his hand, Li Zhenruo walked over and hugged Li Zhenran’s shoulder from behind, stood on tiptoe and asked in his ear, “Is it done?”

       Li Zhenran looked back at him, “It’s almost done.”

       After refuelling, the young woman took out the fuel nozzle. Li Zhenran paid the money and called Li Zhenruo to get in the car.

       It was too much to force themselves to arrive at the destination in one day, and it would be inevitable that they have to travel up to the mountain in the dark. So Li Zhenran directly booked a hotel in the halfway city, and the two planned to stay for one night.

       Li Zhenruo opened a bag of potato chips and fed them into Li Zhenran’s mouth by hand.

       Li Zhenran drove the car and looked ahead, opened his mouth to hold the potato chips, and also held Li Zhenruo’s fingers.

       Li Zhenruo looked at him for a while, then slowly pulled out his fingers, put them in his own mouth and licked them.

       In the afternoon, when they arrived at the city where they stayed at night, as soon as they got off the highway there was a car at the exit to pick them up, the people were arranged by Hua Yi Bang, and they were directly shown the way to the hotel.

       After they parked the car and placed the luggage in the room, Li Zhenran and Li Zhenruo came out of the hotel and walked slowly along the road.

       They were in an unfamiliar city. The place was not big, but it was quiet and clean.

       The two walked to the edge of a big river and sat down on a bench by the river, and the cool breeze with the moisture of the river came blowing. In the distance, a few children were chasing and playing, and a young mother was walking slowly with a stroller.

       Li Zhenruo took the initiative to hold Li Zhenran’s hand first and then felt that Li Zhenran grab his own hand together into the pocket of his clothes. Through a thin layer of fabric, he could feel the other party’s body temperature.

       In the evening, Li Zhenran took a shower and came out of the bathroom, and lay directly on the big bed. He had been driving today, and he seemed to be a little tired, so he closed his eyes for a while.

       Li Zhenruo lay beside him and touched him with his leg.

       Li Zhenran ignored him.

       Li Zhenruo touched him again.

       This time, Li Zhenran reached out and grabbed his thigh, pulled his leg away, and said, “What are you doing?”

       Li Zhenruo rolled over and sat on Li Zhenran’s waist with his legs apart, lowered his forehead to touch his forehead, and whispered, “Are you able to do me?”

       Li Zhenran didn’t open his eyes, just smiled and didn’t speak.

       Li Zhenruo kissed his lips and said vaguely, “fvck me, hurry up.”

       The next morning, they only drove for half a day, and they arrived at their destination before lunch.

       Zhao Yuqiong was born in a small county in the mountains. They were driving on a mountain road all morning, and Li Zhenruo was a little carsick. He wondered if he was a cat, it would be less dizzy. As the result his cat body was almost thrown out. Fortunately, the windows were closed.

       Li Zhenran reached out and grabbed him, and said, “Don’t make trouble.”

       Li Zhenruo suddenly became angry, but he obediently changed back into a human form and remained silent with a pale face.

       When the car drove into the county, it drew some attention. He wondered if the roads in the county were not receptive because the roads were winding turns and complicated. So when cars and people came from other places, it was particularly eye-catching.

       Along the way, most of the local people that Li Zhenruo saw were dark and thin, but they were quite tall. However, Zhao Yuqiong was fair-skinned, so she must have been a beauty here back then. As for the man in the photo, although he looked tall and handsome, he still had the traces of a local.

       The place was too small and there were no good hotels. Li Zhenran didn’t really want to stay overnight here. He hoped to finish things earlier and return to the previous city accommodation.

       The address was checked before departure, and a local person was contacted through a friend, who was a police officer in the county seat. After they entered the city, the officer got into the car and showed them the way.

       They went to the place where Zhao Yuqiong’s parents lived. What Li Zhenran learned was that Zhao Yuqiong’s father had passed away, and only her mother was still alive, living with Zhao Yuqiong’s eldest brother’s family.

       It was much more convenient to have the police officer lead the way. The car was parked near the county public security bureau. The police officer said the place was within ten minutes of walking, and led them through a narrow alley to the back street. They arrived at a store selling cement tiles.

       The police officer asked in the local dialect, “Is Zhao Yusheng here?”

       An old man looked out from the inside, with a rice bowl in his hand, probably eating lunch, and inexplicably looking outside.

       According to what Li Zhenran had explained to him before, the police officer said to the old man, “Are you Zhao Yusheng? There are two lawyers from the city who want to ask you about your sister.”

       Zhao Yusheng suddenly became nervous, “What lawyers? Which sister of mine?”

       Li Zhenran asked, “Is Zhao Yuqiong your sister?”

       Zhao Yusheng looked a little dazed, his brows furrowed tightly, and his tone was still a little worried, “She has been gone for a long time, and I haven’t seen her in more than 20 years.”

       Li Zhenruo couldn’t help but ask, “You haven’t been in touch?”

       Zhao Yusheng shook his head, “There is no contact, she never came back here, and I don’t know where she went.”

       Although he knew that the person in front of him was his uncle, to Li Zhenruo, he was still just a stranger, and he couldn’t feel too many emotions. He even had some anger toward Zhao Yusheng’s indifference to the affection between his sisters.

       Li Zhenran raised his hand and patted Li Zhenruo’s back lightly to comfort him, then stepped forward and asked, “May I ask why she left at that time?”

       Zhao Yusheng was slightly more alert this time and looked at Li Zhenran suspiciously without speaking.

       The police officer next to him took out his police card and showed it to Zhao Yusheng, and said, “Zhao Yusheng, don’t worry, they came from a big city and came here specifically for your sister’s business.”

       Zhao Yusheng still seemed a little hesitant. He leaned in to look at the police card carefully, and then asked, “What happened to Zhao Yuqiong?”

       Li Zhenran said, “She has died of illness.”

       Zhao Yusheng couldn’t help but be stunned.

       Li Zhenran continued, “She still left some remnant at that time, but there wasn’t much, about 2,000 yuan worth. If your identity is confirmed, we will return the money to you.”

       Zhao Yusheng heard the words and said quickly, “I’m really her eldest brother, and we still have a photo of us at home, as well as an old household registration book.”

       Li Zhenran said, “If it’s convenient, please show us later, but there are still some things I want to ask about Zhao Yuqiong. Why did she leave her hometown alone at that time?”

       Zhao Yusheng said, “She didn’t leave alone, she left with that man!”

       “That man?” Li Zhenran asked Li Zhenruo to show him the photo, and then handed it to Zhao Yusheng to show him, “Is it this man?”

       Zhao Yusheng squinted his eyes for a while, and said, “It’s this man, I still remember it, his name is Yuan Dong. This man is a useless rogue gangster, at that time Yuqiong must be with him, and later there was a child. Father was so angry that she was thrown out, and she followed this man away.”

       Li Zhenruo’s expression instantly became shocked, he turned to look at Li Zhenran and saw Li Zhenran also slightly frowned.

       Li Zhenran asked Zhao Yusheng, “You said that Zhao Yuqiong was pregnant before leaving home?”

       Zhao Yusheng nodded, still looking at the photo, he sighed slowly, and asked them, “You say Yuqiong is dead, what about Yuan Dong? What about their child?”

       Before Li Zhenran could answer, Li Zhenruo said, “She didn’t end up with Yuan Dong, and that child was gone before it was born.”

       Zhao Yusheng sighed deeply and handed the photo back to Li Zhenran, “At that time my father said that the man is not good and told her not to be with him, but the little girl just didn’t listen no matter how much he tried to persuade her. She didn’t come back after so many years, and Dad called out her name when he died.”

       When he said this, Zhao Yusheng, who had been calm all along, suddenly couldn’t hold back his emotions. He raised his hand to wipe away his tears, and then asked, “Then what happened after her death?”

       Li Zhenran said, “She was buried in the cemetery.”

       Zhao Yusheng shook his head and said, “A place far away from home… oh my!”

       Li Zhenruo asked again, “Are you sure that Zhao Yuqiong was pregnant with Yuan Dong’s child before she left her hometown?”

       Zhao Yusheng nodded, “How can I’m not sure? There was such a big fuss at the time, not only do I know it, but all the neighbours knew about it at the time.”

       Li Zhenran raised her hand and put it on Li Zhenruo’s back, pressed it a little harder, and then said to Zhao Yusheng, “Do you remember when she left?”

       Zhao Yusheng recalled, “It should be 1991. It was summer, June or July.”

       Li Zhenruo’s expression became more and more serious.

       Li Zhenran nodded, reached out and shook hands with him, “Thank you for cooperating with us, we are almost clear about Zhao Yuqiong’s situation, you should take this inheritance.” After that, he took out more than 2,000 yuan from his wallet, There was no detail, and it was handed over to Zhao Yusheng.

       Zhao Yusheng reached out his hand to get it, and asked, “Do I need to show you photos and household registration books?”

       The police officer next to him said, “No need, we believe in your identity. You can collect the money, sir.”

       Zhao Yusheng wrapped the money and put it in his trousers pocket, and asked Li Zhenran, “Where is my little sister buried, can you write me the address?”

       Li Zhenran said to him, “Give me a piece of paper.”

       Zhao Yusheng quickly took out a pen and paper. Li Zhenran took it and buried his head and wrote a series of numbers on the counter. Then he said to Zhao Yusheng, “This is my phone number. If you want to pay homage to Ms. Zhao Yuqiong, you can contact me and I will find someone to take you there.”

       He picked up the note and put it away carefully, Zhao Yusheng said, “Thank you, Mr. Lawyer.”

       In fact, it was very unlikely that Zhao Yusheng will be able to visit Zhao Yuqiong’s grave in his life, not to mention the old mother who was nearly 90 years old, they didn’t even dare to let her know the news.

       Li Zhenran took Li Zhenruo’s shoulders and said, “Let’s go.”

       Li Zhenruo nodded. The two of them left with the police officer and returned to the vicinity of the Public Security Bureau. Li Zhenran and Li Zhenruo thanked him again and then opened the car door and got in the car.

       Li Zhenran was not in a hurry to start the car, he turned to look at Li Zhenruo, and saw that Li Zhenruo’s face was a little pale.

       So he reached out and stroked Li Zhenruo’s back, then pulled him into his arms with some force, and hugged him comfortably.

       Li Zhenruo said, “Zhao Yuqiong left her hometown pregnant in the summer of 1991. I was born in April of 1992 and happened to be the child of her and Yuan Dong. In other words, she was pregnant before she met Li Jianglin in the city. Li Jianglin has no reason not to suspect that her child was not his own.”

       Li Zhenran’s face was also a little gloomy, and he stroked Li Zhenruo’s face with his palm and said, “What are you thinking?”

       Li Zhenruo looked up at him, “Zhao Yuqiong is not Li Jianglin’s true love, but a woman who Li Jianglin spent money to find outside to give him a baby. At that time, it was too early, so it is understandable not to do a paternity test when the child was born, but wouldn’t he doubt the identity of the child if he had been born so long? “

       Li Zhenran didn’t speak.

       Li Zhenruo said, “Li Jianglin knew it. He knew from the beginning that I was not his biological son.” When he said this, his tone was full of affirmation.

       Li Zhenran patted his shoulder gently, “Let’s go back first.”

       Li Zhenruo sat up straight. After Li Zhenran started the car, he suddenly grabbed Li Zhenran’s arm and asked, “Can we find out what happened back then? How did Li Jianglin know Zhao Yuqiong?”

       Li Zhenran thought for a while and said, “It’s hard unless you find someone who knows.”

       “The insider…” Li Zhenruo fell into deep thought, and now there are almost no old people around Li Jianglin. Suddenly, he remembered someone and said to Li Zhenran, “Uncle Luo, do you remember?”

       Li Zhenran nodded.

       Li Zhenruo said, “Let’s go to Uncle Luo, I believe he will know.”

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Notes:
Ah, is this why there’s not much commotion when Li Zhenruo was ‘disowned’?

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