Task One
The old dean seldom sees young people visiting him.
Because young people generally do not choose to adopt children, and most adopted children will subconsciously refuse to return to this environment after leaving.
So when he saw the three people, especially a beautiful child like Shi Youchen, his first reaction was that they had come to the wrong place.
However, the beautiful child stated their purpose very politely, saying that they wanted to learn about the Mo family's charitable deeds over the years and then spread such positive energy to society.
"He's a great philanthropist. He adopts a group of children every year, provides them with food and drink, and sends them to school." He is a bit old, and he has to wear reading glasses and step on a small wooden stool. His hands are shaking as he searches through the file books.
"Some of the adopted children would occasionally come to see me, an old man. They have all grown up well and are good children."
He pulled out a stack of files from a pile and handed it to Shi Youchen tremblingly.
"This is the file of the child you mentioned. The records of the children adopted by the Mo family in the same year are all kept together." After he said that, he carefully stretched his legs from the small wooden stool to reach the ground.
A hand reached out from the right and held his arm firmly.
"Be careful." Lu Quezhi looked worriedly at the leg of the small wooden stool that was missing a small piece.
The old dean looked at Lu Quezhi with a kind look and smiled. He said, "Son, you have to eat well so that you won't end up like me when you're old."
Lu Quezhi was stunned for a moment, then smiled shyly: "Yeah!"
Ying Yungui looked at him with a complicated expression, but Lu Quezhi's expression was mostly blocked by his drooping hair and could not be discerned.
Shi Youchen spread out the file on the coffee table, turned on the projection function of the bracelet, and projected the contents of the file page by page onto the gray and white wall.
"July 1, 150th year of the new calendar, 27th batch, adoption list: Mo Ling, Xiao Qi, Shen Shen..."
After carefully reading the basic information of each child in the file, Shi Youchen had something brewing in his eyes.
Ying Yungui noticed that he seemed to be in a bad mood, so he reminded him at the right time: "So she is this 'Mo', we thought she was the 'Mo' of the Mo family."
The director waved his hand and said, "When the children here were brought back, many were very young and had no idea of their own names. Most of them were nicknames given to them later in the orphanage."
Shi Youchen suddenly said, "Being adopted by the Mo family means starting a new life. I'm sure they will have their own unique names in the future." His eyes flickered as he stared at a page of information on the display screen.
The director said with great satisfaction, "Yes, Shen Shen called me the year after he was adopted and told me he had a name, Chen Yishen. I was so happy for him."
Lu Quezhi was shocked and looked at Shi Youchen suddenly.
But Shi Youchen's face was calm, and there was a hint of an unknown smile in his tone: "Wine is deep and affection is deep. It's a good name. I guess he is also a person who values feelings."
"Yes, Shen Shen comes back to see me every ten days or half a month. By the way, he just called me this morning and said he would come over tomorrow. He also bought me some winter clothes."
"That's such a coincidence. Please be sure to let us interview Mr. Chen." Ying Yungui actually heard a hint of excitement in Shi Youchen's tone.
...
That night, in the courtyard of the villa, there was an altar with Strelitzia reginae planted beside it.
Shi Youchen lowered his head and looked at the branches of flowers that were gazing out into the distance. He said to Ying Yungui, who was sleepy beside him, "Since you're feeling sleepy, why don't you lie down properly?"
Ying Yungui rubbed his eyes, looking at the hazy moon half covered by clouds, feeling very melancholy: "I was just awakened by physiological instinct, what's wrong with me." I just happened not to draw the curtain, happened to get out of bed from the left, and happened to see the lonely beauty under the moon.
Shi Youchen said mercilessly: "Maybe your kidneys are not in good condition."
Ying Yungui: “…?”
"It doesn't matter. Now that I'm here, I have something to ask you." He continued to talk, "Do you still remember the leader of the operations team that assisted in public security?"
Ying Yungui racked his brain for a long time, and finally remembered the man and woman in the discussion room of the Public Security Bureau whose faces turned stiff after being hit by a stack of documents thrown by him.
"That guy who's dressed like asexual? Which style do you like?!"
"You should apologize to all the people working in public security-related work. That's a uniform. Besides, I don't like men." Shi Youchen felt that he might have become accustomed to this man's magical train of thought, and he was not angry at all.
"His name happens to be Chen Yishen."
"?" Ying Yungui tilted his head. He had just woken up, and even though it took him a few minutes to walk to Shi Youchen's side, he still couldn't completely get out of that beautiful dream, so at this moment he couldn't keep up with the beauty's thoughts.
Shi Youchen raised his head and looked at the man who had suddenly fallen silent. Under the moonlight, his sharp jaw corners were shrouded in a soft light, and the silver earring was shining coldly.
"Guess what? If it's that team leader who comes to the orphanage tomorrow, will he be simply surprised or panic when he sees us?"
Ying Yungui stared at Shi Youchen's eyes in fascination. The undisguised calculations in his eyes made him happy and indulged.
...
Chen Yishen didn't expect that he would see Shi Youchen again, and in the orphanage where he grew up.
"Mr. Shi! Why...why are you guys here?" His tone was filled with surprise, without a trace of panic. At least that's how Ying Yungui and Shi Youchen sounded.
Unless he has superb acting skills, he really seems to be unaware that He Guansheng's Secretary Mo is Mo Ling, who was adopted from the same orphanage as him.
Shi Youchen didn't rush to verify it, but whispered in his ear: "This is the association's social mission, don't make it public, just cooperate with us."
Chen Yishen believed his words without a doubt. After all, Youchen had been calm and intelligent during the previous two missions, and didn't seem like someone who would lie. So he cooperated with the interview very well.
"Do you remember the year you were adopted?"
"Of course I remember. It was the summer of the 150th year of the New Calendar."
"Do you still remember the other people who were adopted with you?"
"We all went to school together in the first few years, but we lost contact after graduating from junior high school. I don't know what they are doing now."
"No contact means no contact information, right?"
"No, I couldn't get in touch with him. I haven't seen him through text messages, phone calls, or class reunions." Chen Yishen felt a little disappointed when he said this.
“How did you end up on this career path?”
"As you know, I was adopted by the Mo family. When we reach adulthood, we will be taken to assess suitable career paths so that we can make the greatest possible contribution to society."
"Could you please share the results of the evaluations conducted by several other people during the same period?"
Chen Yishen scratched the back of his head and said awkwardly, "I really don't know about this. Other people's evaluation results are confidential."
"That is, you don't know their career direction or where they end up."
"Yes, but everyone will definitely develop according to the evaluation results. There will be no exceptions."
"Thank you for your cooperation." Shi Youchen remained calm throughout.
Chen Yishen's face became redder and redder, until even his neck was red. He said shyly, "If you still need my help, you can always come to me."
Before Shi Youchen could reply, Ying Yungui glanced at him and said, "We're very busy at work and don't have much free time. We'd better not disturb you."
Shi Youchen put away his notebook, his attitude completely different from Ying Yungui's: "If necessary, I will bother you again." He said to the old dean and Chen Yishen.
Ying Yungui: “…” He looked at Chen Yishen unhappily before turning and leaving.
...
The three returned to the villa and began to sort out the known clues.
Shi Youchen first asked Lu Quezhi, "Do you think Chen Yishen lied throughout this?"
Lu Quezhi shook his head in denial.
"Then let's just assume that what he said was true."
"So it seems that he really hasn't contacted the other people since graduating from junior high school. He doesn't know their career paths, let alone that Secretary Mo is Mo Ling."
"Do you think there is anything suspicious?" Shi Youchen turned to Ying Yungui.
Ying Yungui was playing with darts and said sarcastically, "Didn't you say you would go to him if you had any problems?" Suddenly, he felt very irritated and threw the five remaining darts in his hand at the same time, all of which hit the bull's eye.
Shi Youchen could hear the child was upset.
"It's just polite talk. It's troublesome to deal with. I don't like it."
Ying Yungui automatically understood his words as "It's troublesome to deal with Chen Yishen, and I don't like him", and was happy.
So he hooked his fingers and the dart stuck in the target flew towards his hand.
"I think the key point lies in the occupations of these adoptees. Isn't that assessment very strange?" Someone felt relieved and spoke in a much calmer tone.
Shi Youchen nodded, indicating that he agreed with him.
Lu Quezhi suddenly asked, "I don't think the profession, or rather the identity, of 'business boss's secretary' is something to be ashamed of. So why would you even skip a class reunion?"
"So it's probably not their own will that caused them to lose contact."
"It's the Mo family's order after the so-called evaluation."
"After all, if we want to monitor various companies, the simpler the social connections of the spies we send out, the better." Shi Youchen stood up, took a dart from Ying Yungui's hand, and threw it at the bull's eye, but it lost its strength halfway and fell to the ground.
Lu Quezhi was puzzled: "Monitoring various companies?"
Shi Youchen took another one, but Ying Yungui did not stop him and looked at him leisurely.
"The investors and people in charge behind He Guansheng's company are clearly the Mo family. Why would they place a secretary beside this ostensible boss?"
"I guess business operations are just a cover. What virtue does that loser He Guansheng have to deserve the Mo family's stare at him like this?" He said as he threw the second dart.
Ying Yungui moved his fingers slightly, and the dart actually hit the center of the bull's eye.
Shi Youchen glanced at him and then said, "Since there are useless people, we need external help to achieve our goals. Mo Ling was assigned to guide He Guansheng."
"Thinking back on our previous scenes, she wasn't surprised at all that there would be a next job location."
Ying Yungui grabbed Shi Youchen's hand, spread his palm upwards, put all the remaining darts into his hand, then opened the drawer under the coffee table, took out a few more targets, and slowly walked to the wall to hang them side by side.
"So it's obvious that the Mo family wants to 'pull' and 'monitor' more than just this one company." Shi Youchen said as he threw a few darts and gave Ying Yungui a look.
All the darts hit the center of every bull's eye without deviation.
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