RES Chapter 71

Lu Ming did not intend to accept Xia Zhiyan’s inexplicable kindness, nor did he want the secret that Chi Qiu was hiding to be discovered by others.

He knew exactly what Lu Fengshen meant: no matter what Xia Zhiyan was going to do, this doctor was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for Chi Qiu.

Lu Fengshen was different from Lu Ming. When it came to Lu You’s affairs, he was not confined within a circle drawn on the ground.¹restrict sb.’s activities to a designated area or sphere or in this context, not flexible He divided the stealing of the design draft and the introduction of the ophthalmologist into two things. No matter what, he wanted Chi Qiu’s eyes to receive treatment.

“I know you mind Xia Zhiyan’s bad behavior, and I also now can’t accept his behavior. But going for eye treatment is not a bad thing for Chi Qiu, it’s an opportunity.”

“I won’t forgive Xia Zhiyan.”

“Lu Ming! You have to know the importance, right now Chi Qiu is more important than Xia Zhiyan!” Lu Fengshen, after desperately trying to persuade to no avail, compromised in this way, “How about this, aren’t you unwilling to accept Xia Zhiyan’s good intentions? Then I’ll think of a way, I’ll contact this doctor. I have a lot of connections abroad, so I should be able to try. When the time comes, you have to join me and take Chi Qiu——”

Lu Ming interrupted him, “Uncle, I’m sorry.”

In Lu Fengshen’s extremely uncomprehending voice, Lu Ming was unwilling to explain any more.

Before hanging up the phone, he dropped a sentence: “I don’t plan to let Chi Qiu go. This is the end of this matter.”

…

At around eight o’clock in the evening, Lu Ming finished his day’s work and went to a restaurant in a secluded location as promised. He gave his reservation number, and under the guidance of the waiter, he walked into a deserted box.

Time passed minute by minute, but he was always the only one in the box.

Lu Ming took a sip of tea, not in the least anxious. He arrived twenty minutes earlier than the agreed time.

Today, the person who came late was a tall and thin man named Lin Ye. Regardless of spring, summer, autumn or winter, he habitually wore a pair of sunglasses, an old plain clothes, not at all looking like a thirty years old young man.

He had a cigarette in his mouth, and as he approached the door of the box, he snuffed it out.

After pushing open the door, he saw Lu Ming sitting with his back to him, with a cup of tea in front of him. Hearing the sound of the door opening, Lu Ming got up and coldly reached out, “Mr. Lin, long time no see.”

Lin Ye stood up straight, trying to make himself look calmer. He politely went forward to shake Lu Ming’s hand: “Mr. Lu, long time no see.” But in his heart, he thought: this person is still the same, with stoic expression, making people look depressed.

But on the face, Lin Ye smiled as always: “How come you came to see me personally, the sun came out of the west?”

Lu Ming did not respond to Lin Ye’s ridicule.

This made Lin Ye embarrassed. He coughed lightly and sat down, casually picking up the cup of tea at the table and took a sip.

Lu Ming did not say much, he went straight to the point: “I have an important matter, I need your help.”

Lin Ye nodded his head, listening was part of his job.

Lu Ming’s organization was clear; he quickly informed the other party of his important matter, that was, Chi Qiu’s eyes might have regained their sight long ago, and asked Lin Ye to re-investigate Chi Qiu’s past information.

Anyway, at the beginning, Lin Ye received a lot of money and swore that he had not missed any information about Chi Qiu that he could investigate.

And the matter of regaining sight was not a trivial matter; it was impossible to have no news.

Of course, Lu Ming also said: “In the information you gave me at the beginning, it was mentioned that when he was 15 years old, before he met me in the psychological clinic, the Chi family had some difficult ‘family matters’. Before that, Chi Qiu and Chi Lanyan had been in and out of Xingxi Central Hospital frequently, where the ophthalmologist had said that Chi Qiu’s right eye was likely to regain its sight.”

But after this, except for Chi Qiu’s eye being able to perceive lights, there was actually no improvement as well as no sign of recovery.

Lu Ming suspected that it was during this time that Chi Qiu had regained his sight, but he concealed it.

If this was really the case, Lu Ming would like to know the reason why Chi Qiu lied.

In this nearly a year of being together, Lu Ming understood that Chi Qiu was not someone who would easily make such big jokes. He felt that Chi Qiu must have difficulties ‘not to speak’ about it, but he didn’t know what the difficulties were.

Lu Ming knew Chi Qiu’s character and knew that Chi Qiu’s intentional concealment was definitely not an unintentional act, and asking rashly might even destroy the marriage relationship between the two.

For Lu Ming, the marriage between them was very important.

Therefore, he would rather check on his own than forcibly break the peace at this moment.

“Lin Ye, I hope you can help me investigate in detail all the ‘family matters’ that happened in the Chi family during this period.”

Furthermore, Lu Ming had another request. He asked Lin Ye to make a price: “I need you to help me investigate one more person.”

“Who?”

“Myself.”

Lu Ming’s request made Lin Ye feel unbelievable. He looked at Lu Ming incomprehensibly, and repeated: “Yourself? Mr. Lu, with all due respect, your request is too strange. I can’t possibly know yourself better than you.”

Lu Ming folded his hands and said in a deep voice: “After my mother’s death, I lost part of my memory. If it was because of my mother’s death that I was stimulated and forgot everything about her, then, why is my memory of Chi Qiu missing altogether? During this period, something related to Chi Qiu must have happened, but I can’t remember it.”

He added: “I had an accident during a concert in City C before and I vaguely had a dream… But the things in the dream seemed to be pulled away in an instant after I regained consciousness.”

What was left behind was only the image of Lu You torturing him.

He was sure that there should have been an argument about Chi Qiu between him and Lu You, in that room abroad.

“Mr. Lu, you and your mother were abroad at the time and were unfamiliar with the neighbors. I’m afraid I cannot find out the details. Besides, what the outside world can know has been published in the news at the time.”

Lu You’s death, the end of the case, the end of the perpetrators, all crammed into a newspaper, dominating two full pages.

Lin Ye kindly said: “With all due respect, Mr. Lu, if you really want to know what happened to you, why don’t you go to the old place yourself and look at the old things? It might help you a lot in recovering your memory.”

Unfortunately, Lu Ming wasn’t able to go there, he couldn’t face the house where Lu You died. There were too many black memories inside, and if all of them were accepted, the horror would instantly devour him.

“I can’t go.”

“Mr. Lu, I’m sorry.” In this regard, Lin Ye really couldn’t help Lu Ming, “However, for another matter, if you give me a few days, I will give you an answer as soon as possible. We will keep in touch in the near future. ”

At the same time, Lin Ye thought of something. He looked at the iceberg-like man in front of him, got up and then sat down again.

Lu Ming looked at him in confusion.

Only to see Lin Ye fished out a number from his cell phone, copied it down and pushed it to Lu Ming’s eyes: “This is the person you funded before. He has contacted me several times recently, saying he wants to find you. But I didn’t contact you considering that our previous cooperation had ended and you had said at that time that you wouldn’t want to have contact with this person again. Not to mention that you don’t want the other party to know who you were.”

As far as Lin Ye knew, the assistants who helped Lu Ming do this at the beginning had all been fired by Lu Ming, and they also had been relocated to other provinces with a sum of money.

Lu Ming glanced at the number on the note and had absolutely no intention of contacting the other party: “Why would he contact you?”

Lin Ye sighed: “Because at that time when I was dealing with this matter with your people, I accidentally appeared in front of him and he remembered me. We ran into each other because of coincidence, but I didn’t agree to any of his requests.”

Lu Ming frowned and didn’t speak. It seemed that this was a thorny thing.

“But today we meet again, so I have to tell you about it.” Lin Ye’s tone was respectful, mainly because Lu Ming gave money generously. He also felt that there was no harm in working with Lu Ming again.

He smiled, “After all, he is now considered your brother-in-law, and this belongs to your family.”

With those words, Lin Ye did not stay long.

He assured Lu Ming that he would give Lu Ming another piece of information about Chi Qiu within a month at most.

And Lu Ming stayed in his position for a long time after Lin Ye left. He looked at the note with the number written in front of him, thought for a moment, and put it away.

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