Luo Zhan's voice fell behind, and the round wooden table with trimmed edges was quiet for a long time.
The little girl sitting across from him seemed to think seriously for a long time, finally raised her face, and said in distress: "I left the coin jar in the apartment."
Luo Zhan: "?"
The little girl sighed regretfully: "The coins are all in the coin jar, but not in the house."
Luo Zhan: "… "
After a few seconds of silence, Luo Zhan laughed, frustrated and shook his head helplessly: "I said so, you only think about this?"
Tang Ran hesitated and asked hesitantly, "What else should I be thinking about?"
Luo Zhan didn't speak, and narrowed his eyes lightly.
After a while, his eyes fell, and he smiled lazily: "Forget it, when I didn't ask."
"… Oh."
Luo Zhan lost his mind halfway through lunch. He put the chopsticks on the round wooden chopstick pillow, raised his eyes silently, and looked at Tang Ran across the table.
Still the same as the first time we had lunch together, the little girl looked serious when she chewed the food. She was originally a melon-faced face. When she was eating, her cheeks were slightly bulged by the food, but she didn't make a sound at all. The expression of serious and serious chewing made people want to squeeze.
Luo Zhan coughed in a low voice, turned his eyes away, and suppressed a certain urge in his heart.
Tang Ran was distracted by his coughing sound. Noticing that there was no sound of the chopsticks moving for a long time, she swallowed the food and asked softly, "Are you finished?"
"Um."
"I eat a little slow," the girl said embarrassedly, "I will be faster."
Luo Zhan didn't even think about it, "I'm not in a hurry, the slower the better."
Tang Ran: "?"
Young Master Luo, who accidentally said what was in his heart, felt guilty for 001 seconds and then resumed his lazy smile, "The sun is very good, I want to sit for a while and chat with you."
Tang Ran asked blankly, "What are you talking about?"
Luo Zhan was silent.
A few seconds later, he lightly clasped his fingers and said indifferently, "Talk about your little bamboo horse."
"what?"
"Get a little more information about him..." Luo Zhan raised the corners of his mouth coolly, "It is convenient for me to arrange for someone to help you find out after I go back."
Tang Ran said regretfully: "But I don't know him very well. We have known him for a short time, only a few days."
Hearing this sentence, Luo Zhan's emotions became a little more relaxed, and his clasped fingers loosened a little: "Then talk about the days you met. Do you remember the time and place?"
"Of course I do." After speaking, the girl nodded earnestly to show her confidence in her words.
"… "
Young Master Luo had just relaxed a little, but suddenly tightened up again.
Simply masochistic.
Luo Zhan despised himself in his heart.
The little girl across the table had already bent her eyes, and her smile was soft and quiet: "Because getting to know him was the only happy time I spent in the orphanage, so even if it's been a long time, I won't forget it."
Luo Zhan, who frowned, was stunned. After a while, his eyebrows loosened, "That's fine."
Tang Ran looked up blankly: "Huh?"
Luo Zhan came back to his senses and tapped on the table, "You continue to eat, and remember to talk bit by bit, I'm listening."
"Um."
Tang Ran ate a mouthful of food quietly, thought for a moment and said, "I can remember things earlier, about two years ago. I have been in that orphanage since I can remember, and I will be bullied by older children, and I will also be bullied by older children. I'll be disciplined by the auntie in the orphanage... and I'm not very good at making friends, no one can tell if I've been bullied or scolded."
Speaking of this, the girl smiled a little embarrassedly, "That boy is my first friend."
Luo Zhan's eyes sank slightly.
This time, it wasn't because of jealousy, but just as the girl said the things of her childhood in an understatement, he had a powerless anger.
I don't know who to pour it on, and I don't know how to fix it.
Luo Zhan clenched his fists slightly and lowered his eyes.
Tang Ran was immersed in memories, but did not notice: "He appeared suddenly, in the confinement room of the orphanage. Children who are disobedient or make mistakes will be sent there to reflect." Thinking of something, the corners of the girl's eyes curled slightly, "I go often."
Luo Zhan raised his eyes, "Do you often make mistakes?"
"Well," the girl nodded, hiding a harmless playfulness in her smile, "it was intentional. Because there is one room for one child, so that you won't be bullied."
Luo Zhan frowned again.
Tang Ran's voice softened, "Then one day I suddenly found out that there is a boy who is always in the confinement room. I don't know him, and I haven't seen him before."
The smile on the girl's face faded, and she lowered her head, "I found out later that he was kidnapped. The person who kidnapped him was a temporary worker in the orphanage. That person lied to the dean that he was his own son and had Mental illness, and forged certificates. So no matter how he struggled and called for help when he first went, no one paid him any attention. And the kidnapper…”
Tang Ran clenched the chopsticks in her hand slowly. After a few seconds, she said, "That person will beat him. He is covered in bruises."
Luo Zhan was in a trance.
He didn't know if it was the girl's voice and emotions that made him too immersive, but at this moment, he seemed to feel the pain and despair that went deep into the bones of the helpless child when he was punched and kicked.
Luo Zhan endured this strong sense of discomfort, and he looked up at the girl opposite - the girl's emotional state didn't seem to be much better than his.
Luo Zhan said: "Since it's a sad thing, don't talk about it. The information you said is enough. I will find someone to investigate the orphanage you are in and the kidnapping incident that happened later."
Tang Ran suppressed his uneven breathing and nodded slowly, "Yeah."
Luo Zhan thought for a while, but still asked, "What time is it?"
"Nine years ago, I was seven years old." Tang Ran said.
"..." Luo Zhan was slightly startled.
I haven't heard an echo for a long time, and Tang Ran asked worriedly, "What's wrong?"
"It seems that nine years ago was not a good time for us." Luo Zhan lowered his eyes and smiled lightly.
Tang Ran was at a loss: "Did you also have an accident that year?"
"Yeah." Luo Zhan replied nonchalantly, "I was learning to ride horses when I was 11 years old. I fell off the horse and suffered multiple fractures all over my body. It took me almost half a year to lie down."
Tang Ran was stunned for several seconds: "That must be very painful, right?"
"I don't remember." Luo Zhan supported his cheekbones and smiled lazily, "Probably almost fell stupid. Those were all told to me by my grandfather."
Tang Ran frowned and corrected: "No, you are so smart. The store manager said that you were admitted to the K University Junior Class at the age of 14, so it's still more than two years after you recovered from the injury."
Luo Zhan's mouth twitched slightly.
Luo Zhan didn't ask about the latter matter, thinking that it was a memory that made him unhappy or made Tang Ran sad. When the little girl finished her meal, Luo Zhan led her out slowly.
"The whereabouts of that boy, I will let Luo Xiu check for you."
"Luo Xiu?" The girl raised her head in confusion.
Luo Zhan: "Well, he is related to the media. He is relatively well-informed in terms of news channels and sources."
"Will that bother him too much..." Tang Ran hesitated, "and your relationship doesn't seem to be very good."
"Trouble?" Luo Zhan laughed coldly. "I think he'd love to have this trouble."
Tang Ran was even more at a loss: "Why?"
Luo Zhan naturally wouldn't explain to the little girl that he was restricted and held a handle for her. His eyes moved slightly, and then he said loosely: "There are rumors outside, and we have a good relationship."
"?"
"Brother and brother respect." Luo Zhan was not guilty.
The little girl didn't speak, and frowned slowly.
When the two of them arrived outside the restaurant, Luo Zhan helped Tang Ran to sit on the red supercar that was driven under the porch by the waiter, and when he squatted down and fastened her seat belt, the little girl muttered softly:
"You lied again, Luo Luo. It was you who said that Luo Xiu was bullied by Luo Zhan since he was a child."
Luo Zhan: "… "
Do not live by sin.
The ancients never lied to me.
All of Tang Ran's inspection reports will be available the next morning, and the round-trip time from K city to here will take nearly eight hours.
So after a brief discussion with Tang Ran, Luo Zhan decided to stay there, while the Tang family asked Tan Yunchang to find an excuse to perfunctory.
With a blind girl who can't even get an ID card, it is naturally impossible to live in a hotel-like residence.
Fortunately, Luo Jia and Luo Zhan are not short of human resources. Luo Zhan swiped in the address book, and then found a local son and asked him to arrange a spare villa for one night.
According to the power and industrial distribution of the Luo family, it is not that there is no real estate here.
It's just that Luo Zhan deliberately hides it from his family and doesn't want Mr. Luo to know, so as not to cause trouble.
However, what he didn't expect was that the younger brother happened to be at home and reported to the elders in the family. The elders are good at work, and they flatter the Luo family, so they turned around and called the Luo family with a greeting call.
So Mr. Luo was playing chess leisurely, when he saw the person in charge of wiring at home knocking on the door and quickly entered the room.
"Sir, it's not good—"
"I'm fine." The old man glanced at him unhappily, "I'm in a panic, what's the hurry? Speak slowly."
After he finished speaking, he picked up the tea and brought it to his mouth.
The old man had a smile in his eyes, but he didn't look away from the chess game—the situation on his side was just right, and he saw that this game was a sure win, so he wasn't too annoyed when someone called him bad.
The people who came in had to stop and change their breaths before opening their mouths cautiously: "The Qian family from City M came to talk on the phone and said..."
"What did you say?" The old man took a sip of hot tea, but still didn't look up.
"Said the young master, he, he didn't know where he brought an underage girl, and tonight, tonight, he's going to live in their villa!"
"puff-"
Opposite the chess board.
Butler Lin was sprayed with tea and his smile solidified.