Chapter 88 Taicheng - 2 The virtual screen is very large...

The virtual screen was huge, and Tang Bufan quickly moved to the side, afraid that he would be filmed.

“Young Master Louis.” Angus greeted Lu Yi gently, his silver-gray eyes scrutinizing Lu Yi through the screen for a moment, a kind smile appearing on his handsome face despite his age: “Long time no see, you’ve grown up.”

Lu Yi has been away from home for almost a year. When Tang Bufan first met him last year, his face still had obvious boyishness. Now, not only has he grown five centimeters taller, but his facial features have also matured, and he is gradually showing signs of youth.

Tang Bufan couldn't help but take a closer look at Lu Yi beside him. He had deep eyes, a high nose bridge, slightly thin lips, and healthy light tan skin. Compared to a year ago, he had become less gentle and more heroic.

Even his curly blonde hair has taken on a dashing look.

His child is getting more and more handsome. Tang Bufan couldn't help but smile. He used to be straight, and because of Wolf Uncle, he was even prejudiced against homosexuality, but he ended up being completely captivated by Lu Yi, who was also a man.

Noticing Tang Bufan's gaze, Lu Yi turned to look at him. Seeing Tang Bufan smiling gently at him with tender eyes, Lu Yi couldn't help but smile back, a sweetness he himself didn't realize.

"Long time no see, Angus." Lu Yi remembered that he was video chatting with someone, so he didn't look at Tang Bufan for too long and looked back at the screen.

"Is your friend next to you?" Angus asked, noticing Lu Yi's head turning away earlier.

“Yes, he is.” Lu nodded, unable to hide his happiness and joy. A hint of shyness appeared on his increasingly handsome face: “He and I… are already engaged.”

Angus was somewhat surprised, then smiled kindly and offered his blessings: "Congratulations on your engagement."

Then he posed a profound question: "You're already an adult, why don't you just marry your wife?"

“Uh…we feel the world is a bit chaotic right now, and it’s not a good time to get married.” Of course, Lu Yi wouldn’t say that he originally wanted to get married right away, but Tang Bufan refused. So he immediately found a suitable reason: “We want to go back to the Western Federation and then formally make our vows and get married in a church.”

A church wedding? Tang Bufan listened from the side; he really hadn't expected a priest to appear at his wedding.

Lu Yi was a serious person, so Angus did not suspect his reason. He glanced at the lower right corner of the screen with his silver-gray eyes, probably having seen Lu Yi's current location.

“Young Master Louis, are you planning to visit the head of the Eastern Federation?” Angus was very helpful. “Please tell me your needs, and I will take care of it for you.”

“…My fiancée is a fugitive from the Eastern Federation.” Lu Yi then got to the point. He said seriously to the general in front of him, “Because we are not officially married yet, we are still two independent natural persons in law. I am worried that he will be arrested by the Eastern Federation after entering Taicheng. I would like to ask you to draft a statement on behalf of the Western Federation to prove that our engagement is protected by the Western Federation.”

Angus understood. He wasn't surprised at all to hear that Tang Bufan was a fugitive from the Eastern Federation. He just asked with some concern, "Would it be convenient for Madam to appear on camera?"

Lu Yi turned his head, and Tang Bufan immediately tensed up. Sitting in the driver's seat, he quickly tidied his hair with his hands and took off his wolfskin coat, revealing a chestnut-colored crew neck sweater underneath, which was old but still relatively clean.

Exposing your neck makes you look more energetic. Tang Bufan stood tall and straightened his back, adopting the posture for an interview.

Seeing that Tang Bufan was ready, Lu Yi moved slightly to the side and patted one of his legs: "Teacher, come here."

Tang Bufan didn't want to sit on his lap, so he lowered his voice and called to him, "Get up."

"There's only one chair..."

Tang Bufan didn't waste any more words with him: "Get up."

"..." Lu Yi got up with a wronged expression and went around to the back of the chair.

Tang Bufan then sat down in the passenger seat and entered the camera's view. He gave a gentle and polite smile and greeted the middle-aged man on the virtual screen: "Hello, General Angus."

Angus scrutinized him through the screen. Tang Bufan had fair skin and red lips. His features were soft yet striking, making him very photogenic. Angus raised an eyebrow slightly. Even though he had guessed that Tang Bufan's looks were probably not bad, after all, he had captivated the young master of their Western Federation, he still hadn't expected him to be so outstanding.

It's perfect for taking photos. That's Angus's idea.

Tang Bufan was immediately reminded of Anderson by the general's raised eyebrow. He then noticed that the general had silver hair and silver eyes, just like Anderson...

Oh right, Anderson's father was a general, that's him... Tang Bufan only remembered this then, and couldn't help but take another look at the middle-aged man.

Anderson was nonchalant, always sporting a sneer, his long silver hair cascading freely, which made it difficult for him to immediately meet the gaze of the kind and serious-looking middle-aged man in military uniform in front of him.

"Hello, Madam." Angus greeted Tang Bufan and began asking for his information: "May I ask your name?"

"Tang Bufan," Tang Bufan calmly announced his name.

Angus looked to the side with his silver-gray eyes. There should be another virtual screen there, and Tang Bufan's information should have already popped up on it.

It's probably his arrest warrant, Tang Bufan thought.

“…You don’t look much like the person in the photo,” Angus said, looking at the handsome but haggard young man on the wanted poster. Although the features were similar, there was a significant difference between him and Tang Bufan in the video.

Sure enough, they were looking at his arrest warrant. Tang Bufan's heart skipped a beat, but he remained calm and waited for the general's next questions.

“They said you were arrested for being a hidden protester, but you don’t belong to any organization…” Angus said, his gaze returning to the screen. He stared at Tang Bufan, confirming, “If you’re just a protester, it’ll be easier to handle. Are you sure you don’t belong to any protest organization?”

Having an organization behind him and not having one are completely different levels of judicial trials. If Tang Bufan has an organization behind him, then it will be much more difficult for the Western Federation to vouch for him.

"..." Tang Bufan didn't know how to answer Angus's question, so he turned around to look at Lu Yi behind him.

He was an experiment of the Rebooters organization, but he was not a member. Tang Bufan himself couldn't say whether he belonged to the Rebooters organization or not.

Lu Yi thought for a moment, then leaned into the frame and said to Angus, "Yes, he has no organization."

Tang Bufan's information is false. He never lived in the Eastern District Underground City. Even if the Eastern Federation conducts a detailed investigation into him later, they will only find that his information is "blank". So no matter what happens later, he can just deny it.

Tang Bufan's turn around just now had given Angus a sense of certainty.

“Okay, I will immediately work with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to draft a statement confirming your engagement to your wife, so that he can accept the protection of our Western Federation.” Angus did not expose their lie. He was one of Lu Yi’s mentors and knew the boy’s abilities. Since Lu Yi said no, then no.

However, such a statement representing the entire Federation requires the approval of the head of state, so Angus said to Lu Yi, "After the document is drafted, I need to submit it to your father for review first."

"..." Lu Yi paused for a moment, but he knew in his heart that this was an essential procedure, so he nodded.

"Don't worry, your father will stamp it." Angus said, then looked at Tang Bufan deeply again: "Since Madam is the lover you have chosen, then the head of state will definitely protect him."

Hans and Tang Bufan had never met, so of course he didn't care about Tang Bufan, but he wanted a grandson, and Tang Bufan would give birth to a grandson for him.

Afterwards, Angus glanced at Lu Yi's current location and politely ended the video call. He needed to draft the document before the two arrived in Taicheng, because it was a cross-federal guarantee statement and involved the sensitive resistance faction, so the document would not be simple.

After the video ended, Tang Bufan leaned back in his chair and let out a long sigh.

"Fortunately... he didn't mind my age," Tang Bufan said with emotion. It was his first time meeting Angus, and he found him to be very kind and gentle.

Lu Yi looked down at him, "Does the teacher care a lot about age?"

“It’s not like you’re the one who’s ten years older.” Tang Bufan looked back at him with a sigh: “If you were 20, it would be a bit more acceptable, but you’re only 18. Most people would blame the older one.”

"Really?" Lu Yi tilted his head slightly.

"If your son falls in love with a 28-year-old when he's 18, wouldn't you be worried?"

“No,” Lu Yi said calmly. “That was his choice, and he must have had his reasons.”

Tang Bufan was speechless, unsure whether Lu Yi was too open-minded or he himself was too old-fashioned.

“18 is too young, too immature.” Tang Bufan raised his hand and gently pinched his cheek, then got up from the passenger seat: “As a teacher, I find it hard to agree with a child getting married at 18.”

After he finished speaking, he gestured for Kai to open the hatch, "I'll go prepare lunch."

Lu Yi, feeling wronged because he was "too young and immature," didn't go out with Tang Bufan. Instead, he returned to the passenger seat and waited for the metal partition to close again before having Evelyn contact the others.

Now that his movements have been exposed, Lu Yi has decided to openly represent the Western Federation to visit the Eastern Federation, so there are some things he needs to prepare.

Upon seeing Tang Bufan return, Wan Bing, who was secretly reading a pamphlet about Taicheng, quickly hid the pamphlet and a hearty smile appeared on his wrinkled face.

"Madam, you're out?"

"Yes, the road is quite easy to walk on. I see the snow on the roadside is starting to melt." Tang Bufan smiled at him and asked, "Mr. Wan Bing, do you have anything you like to eat?"

"Anything is fine, Madam, please do whatever you like." As a guest, Wan Bing felt embarrassed to wander around the carriage, so he continued to sit by the window and look at the scenery outside.

Tang Bufan opened the freezer and looked inside. In addition to frozen meat, there were more than a dozen fish that Lu Yi had caught in the icy stream. So he took out two to thaw, and then carefully looked at the list he had posted on the refrigerator door, which was a list of the supplies he had collected for his stay-at-home lifestyle.

Tang Bufan opened the cupboard and took out three packs of braised beef noodles, intending to make stir-fried noodles. He also opened a can of ham, sliced ​​it thinly, and found peas, spicy bamboo shoots, and peanuts among the snacks. Tang Bufan took a few packs of each and poured them into a small dish as side dishes. Then he walked to the middle of the carriage, pulled down the folding ladder on the roof, and climbed onto the roof.

Kai slowed down automatically. Tang Bufan opened the plant cultivation box, picked two fresh lettuce leaves, closed the box door, and got out.

"Wow, they even grow vegetables on the roof of this car?" Wan Bing found it very strange.

“Yes, that’s right.” Tang Bufan smiled at him. “Don’t we Chinese love growing vegetables?”

When Wan Bing heard him say "Chinese," he was taken aback. In the minds of these surface orcs, they were residents of the "Eastern Federation." However, when he thought of Tang Bufan coming from the Eastern District Underground City, he understood.

“Mrs. Tang looks very cultured.” Wan had nothing to do, so he chatted with Tang Bufan: “Our Eastern Federation began the revival of Chinese culture a hundred years ago. Now, primary schools teach Chinese characters, and English is only taught in middle school.”

Tang Bufan cared a lot about the current education system, so he asked while washing the vegetables, "Is there a primary school in town?"

“There’s a school where teachers take students with excellent grades to Taicheng for exams,” Wan Bing said. “The top students attend free schools; Taicheng will arrange everything for them. For the less prestigious ones, parents have to pay to send them there themselves.”

Tang Bufan thought of Wan Qi's group of children, so he asked, "How many did your older brother's family send in?"

"Sigh, they're all stupid, they can't even get 60 points." Wan Bing laughed with relief: "But our family has good bloodline, mixed with husky genes. When the orc kids are old enough, we send them to the army directly, and the sub-orc kids stay by our side and marry them off to good families."

"..." Tang Bufan was speechless, only then realizing that their family actually had Husky blood... which is quite a powerful large dog.