Chapter 85 In the Amusement Park

"Good morning, Brother Xiaolin. Can I invite you to go to the amusement park with me? Many of my classmates heard that you were coming to Yuanshang and they also want to meet you."

The next morning, before the frost and fog had dissipated, Yuan Zhixin stood in the courtyard, smiled brightly at Lin Guantang, and invited him to go out and play.

Lin Guantang had nothing to do, so it was fine for him to help take care of other people's children.

He actually wanted to ask Huo Shizhen if he wanted to go, but Huo Shizhen didn't seem to have any intention of going out. And thinking about having a group of half-grown children surrounding him, he might not be able to tolerate it. Children probably wouldn't like to play with an ice-faced guy.

By then, it might even lead to a terrible effect of mutual dislike.

So in the end, Lin Guantang followed him to the amusement park alone.

After arriving at the amusement park, we found out that the person who was originally responsible for looking after Hara Chixin was actually someone else.

"Hello, I'm Yuan Zhili, Xiao Xin's second sister, and also your fan. I heard you were coming to Yuanshang, and I really want to meet you in person."

The woman in the elaborate and gorgeous dress introduced herself to him, then said a little embarrassedly:

"I'm sorry, because I'm also an alpha. If Huo Shizhen knew about this, I'm afraid it would cause unnecessary misunderstandings. After all, this is an amusement park, so I can only ask Xiaoxin not to mention my existence."

Wouldn't it be more likely to cause misunderstandings if he used the child as an excuse and secretly met without telling Huo Shizhen?

You don't really think you can hide it from him.

Fortunately, the relationship between me and Huo Shizhen is still clean, so it's okay.

Lin Guantang shook his head, indicating that she didn't need to worry too much, Huo Shizhen wouldn't care about it.

Yuan Zhixin showed a suspicious look:

"How is that possible? This is an amusement park, a holy place for couples. What couple wouldn't care if their partner played with strangers in an amusement park? Unless there's no love between them—I'm not saying he doesn't like you. Well, Huo Shizhen might just not be good at expressing himself."

Haha, he is so good at expressing himself.

Lin Guantang twitched his lips. It was the first time he heard someone say that Huo Shizhen was not good at expressing himself. He was just too lazy to communicate normally. When it came to the skill of sarcasm, he was eloquent.

As they were talking, the friends who had made an appointment with Yuan Zhixin had already arrived at the agreed location.

After seeing Lin Guantang, he became obviously more excited. Without waiting for Yuan Zhixin, the middleman, to introduce him, he came over with shining eyes, took out his account and asked him if he was really classmate Xiao Lin.

After getting a positive answer, she started shouting excitedly, gave him the gift she had prepared earlier, and asked him why he didn't post any updates. Her tone was full of resentment and aggrievedness.

Lin Guantang was a little surprised. He never thought that there were people who were really looking forward to him sharing his daily updates.

To be honest, before this, Lin Guantang had no sense of identity with the so-called "Internet celebrity" identity. It was only at this moment when he was excitedly surrounded by a group of teenagers who wanted to take photos with him and said all kinds of nice things to him that he felt like "it turns out that I also have fans."

Think about it again, the number of followers has grown to hundreds of thousands. Even if you exclude the zombie fans added by the platform, there are still hundreds of thousands of real friends who have never met him following him. It feels heavy and there is a real sense of burden.

It’s not that I feel it’s a burden or hardship, but I just don’t know how to repay this expectation.

Fortunately, the students' liking for Lin Guantang was not too deep. They did not have any great infatuation with him, or really wanted any special care from him.

After taking a group photo and asking a few simple questions, their interest shifted and they started queuing up for various rides.

Lin Guantang and Yuan Zhili followed behind and watched them, while they talked about the account "Xiao Lin Classmate", and the topic of discussion became more diverse.

Yuan Zhili also runs his own public account and has made many reasonable suggestions on how Lin Guantang should develop his own business line. However, Lin Guantang is not proficient in this area and has no plans to shift the focus of development to the Internet, so for the time being he can only listen and communicate more if necessary in the future.

Before they knew it, it was lunch time. They found a fast food restaurant. Yuan Zhixin and his three classmates sat together, while Lin Guantang and Yuan Zhili sat in adjacent seats. They could see the three children as soon as they looked up.

The three middle school students have already started talking about their expectations for future differentiation, and their discussion also includes what kind of secondary sexual characteristics other students in the class will differentiate into.

The warm atmosphere also infected Lin Guantang, and he couldn't help but speak:

"Hara Chishin, he will also differentiate into A in the future."

Yuan Zhili was curious:

"Why do you say that? Can you see the differentiation characteristics?"

“It just feels like the probability is very high.”

Lin Guantang smiled. He hadn't yet developed this kind of vision.

"Your older brothers and sisters are all A's, and you are also A's. The probability that he is A's is very high, isn't it?"

Yuan Zhili showed a strange expression, sneered, curled his lips, and said in a low voice:

"My eldest brother is A, sure, but my eldest sister isn't necessarily. Humph, she said she's not even a member of my family."

It seemed like I heard something extraordinary.

Lin Guantang lowered his head and took a sip of his drink, deciding to pretend he heard nothing.

However, this topic brought back bad memories for Hara Chiri, but she didn't intend to let him go and continued to whisper:

"Xiao Lin, you may not know this, but my eldest sister used to be an omega. But I don't know when she became an A. But no one thought there was anything wrong. Why do you think that is?"

How come it's developing into a horror story?

He came here to seek refuge, not to solve the mystery of the Yuan family.

Lin Guantang blinked, tilted his head, and made a thoughtful gesture, then skillfully pretended to be stupid:

"I can't guess. Since no one thinks anything is wrong, maybe you remembered it wrongly."

Yuan Zhili shook his head:

"Impossible. I remember it clearly. My eldest sister cried because she was divided into O. That was the first and only time I saw her cry. There's no way I could have remembered it wrong. And she used to be so gentle, but now she's so scary and speaks so coldly. I suspect... my eldest sister was replaced. The original eldest sister in the family is not my eldest sister at all."

Lin Guantang looked at the bright sunlight and felt like breaking out in a cold sweat.

Very good, now the topic has changed from solving the mystery of the Yuan family to the real and fake young lady.

But he is not a psychic, so there is no point in telling him these things.

Lin Guantang withdrew his gaze and met Uehara Chiri's gaze, as if waiting for him to make a suggestion.

After staring at each other for a few seconds, Lin Guantang gave up, sighed, and said:

"What does Miss Yuan want me to do?"

Yuan Zhili smiled brightly and said straightforwardly:

"Let Huo Shizhen make a request. If he wants to take the position of the head of the family, he must first undergo a blood and pheromone test."

After saying this, Yuan Zhili said angrily:

"I know her purpose. She's here to steal our family's wealth. She deliberately found a beta gambler to get close to my eldest brother, hoping to drag him down with her so she can take over. How can our Yuan family be taken over by an imposter of unknown origin? We absolutely cannot allow this!"

ah?

Wasn't that beta someone Young Master Yuan paid for himself?

Yesterday, Miss Yuan didn't mention anything about her relationship with that beta...

However, there is really no need to mention this kind of thing. No matter what the truth is, it will inevitably be misunderstood if it is mentioned, so it is better not to mention it.

That's okay.

Lin Guantang looked at Yuan Zhili's angry expression. Although he could understand her feelings, he didn't think that doing so would prove anything.

Even if we take a step back and assume that the former eldest lady is really someone else in disguise and is able to hide it from everyone, there is no way that she would reveal any flaws in these two key clues.

Even if it is re-verified, I am afraid the result will not be what the original author wants.

Moreover, Huo Shizhen had no intention of getting involved in the Yuan family's household affairs, so Lin Guantang didn't feel the need to force him in.

Lin Guantang slowly suggested:

"Actually, you can go and discuss it with your eldest brother. Huo Shizhen may not be willing to get involved in your family affairs."

Yuan Zhili curled her lips, and seemed not very satisfied with her eldest brother:

"Big Brother would just say I'm crazy, and asking for blood and pheromone tests out of nowhere is too abrupt and would definitely arouse suspicion. She won't do it."

Isn't this very clear to you?

Lin Guantang said helplessly:

"Isn't Huo Shizhen's request abrupt?"

"That's different."

Yuan Zhili said:

"Since Grandpa chose him to be one of the judges, it's reasonable for him to ask for verification. Besides, he's known for his difficult personality, so if he makes any difficult or bizarre requests, everyone will just think it's normal."

The logic was so self-consistent that Lin Guantang was unable to refute it. He could only sigh that Huo Shizhen was really notorious.

Yuan Zhili concluded:

"But I don't know him well, so I need your help, Kobayashi. The future of our Hara family now rests in your hands."

She paused, gave Lin Guantang a sincere expression, and said something that shocked Lin Guantang even more:

"As long as you help convince Huo Shizhen, I can give you whatever you want as long as I have it. To show my sincerity, I have asked someone to transfer 100,000 star yuan to your O Academy account."

Lin Guantang: ...!

Isn't this forced buying and selling?

And why do I need to deposit money into the O Hospital account? I can't withdraw cash.

Lin Guantang's expenses at O ​​Academy only include food, water, electricity, and internet, plus textbooks, tuition, and other miscellaneous fees. One thousand star dollars a month is more than enough, and one hundred thousand... He may not be able to spend all this money even if he studies at O ​​Academy for ten years.

Before Lin Guantang opened his mouth to refuse, Yuan Zhili quickly said:

"It's okay. This is a gift I voluntarily give to you. Even if you can't convince him, I won't blame you. After all, he's a cold-blooded man who wouldn't even give face to his own grandfather. It's understandable if you fail to convince him."

"So don't worry about it, and don't pay me back. I just want to show my sincerity so that you can feel at ease and don't have to worry that I'm deceiving you and doing things for nothing."

He is indeed not worried about being cheated, but he is now starting to worry about how to pay back the money.

He wasn't brave enough to accept a large sum of money from a stranger for no reason.

Perhaps he had anticipated that Lin Guantang would want to pay back the money and quit, so before lunch was over, Yuan Zhili left on the pretext of having other things to do, leaving Lin Guantang alone to look after the group of middle school students.

Lin Guantang wanted to ask someone directly if there was a way to return the money that had been deposited into the O Hospital account, but he didn't have time - at least not today.

Lin Guantang was already dizzy with exhaustion after being dragged around non-stop by a group of energetic teenagers. No matter how fun the amusement project was, if there was no rest time, he would be too tired to continue.

Lin Guantang began to suspect that Yuan Zhili ran away in a hurry not because she didn't want to hear his rejection, nor because she was really busy, but because she just didn't want to see the child.

By the time the sun set, Lin Guantang was too tired to walk. Fortunately, it was time for the park to close. He just had to wait for someone to pick up the young people before he could declare it was over.

Lin Guantang found a clean step to sit down and rest. Several young people surrounded him, chattering about today's activities. They didn't feel tired at all and even invited Lin Guantang to go hiking and camping with them tomorrow.

That’s not necessary.

Lin Guantang chose to refuse without thinking.

In fact, even if you accept it, there is a high possibility that you will have to cancel the appointment tomorrow.

Because it started snowing.