"Then..." "Don't ask, don't ask anything."
"Oh. So where are you now? You can at least ask that, right?"
"at home."
Which family?
"Which family are you talking about? Have they gone mad from filming so much?"
"Just ask, after all, you're the kind of person who's only home a few times in ten years. By the way, is your older brother home today? Is he asleep yet?"
"Yes. But I don't know if he's asleep or not. What's up, do you need to talk to him?"
"Yes, there is something I need to take care of."
"What's wrong? You called me, can't I handle it?"
"No way. It's not that I'm looking for my older brother, it's actually my friend who wants to find him."
"Which friend of yours? As far as I know, you don't seem to have many friends."
Wen Yan: "…………Why are you interrogating me like this? Can't I have some privacy?"
"Okay. I checked for you, the lights are off in your brother's room, he's probably already asleep."
"Then I'll talk to him again tomorrow during the day. By the way, my filming will wrap up in another day or two. They rescued us at the abandoned factory, and we've only thanked them verbally, which is a bit insincere. How about we take some things and go visit them when I'm off work? Do you have time these next couple of days?"
“I have the time,” Shen Jingchuan said, but then changed the subject, “but I don’t think you need to go. After all, you’re a public figure, and it wouldn’t be good if you were photographed.”
Wen Yan: "…………Let's not even consider that. What kind of people would be in the first place a kidnapper chooses? Who would take pictures of me?"
"...What you say makes a lot of sense. But I really don't think you need to continue dealing with them. That third brother is a little better, but that Wen Chengcai doesn't seem like a good person."
"Don't feel guilty if you don't show up this time, because I'm your representative. If I go, it's the same as you going, OK? Besides, I don't have the patience to wait for you to finish filming. I'll take care of this tomorrow."
That's how it was settled.
The next day, Shen Jingchuan drove alone to the abandoned industrial park in the suburbs.
When he found the tin shack by following the route in his memory, Wen Cheng was leaning back in a recliner eating sunflower seeds.
He spat the sunflower seed shells everywhere until he saw Shen Jingchuan get out of the car, at which point he got up from the recliner.
"It's you."
Wen Chengcai, still holding the sunflower seeds he hadn't finished eating, walked over to Shen Jingchuan's car and started wandering around.
"That's a nice car, isn't it? How much did it cost? It must have cost a lot of money."
Shen Jingchuan ignored his boundless remarks and only asked the questions he wanted to ask.
"Why are you alone? Where's Third Brother?"
“He went to farm. It’s winter now, so he built a plastic greenhouse. All the vegetables we eat are grown by ourselves.”
"…………" Lazybones. Shen Jingchuan's impression of Wen Chengcai worsened. He criticized us when we were eating, but when others were farming, he was lying at his doorstep eating sunflower seeds.
"Then please take me to find Third Brother. I have something important to tell you."
"It's something important..." Wen Chengcai had already guessed Shen Jingchuan's purpose.
He thought for a moment and said, "You're dressed so smartly. The road to him won't be easy. You might get your shoes dirty and then your expensive car dirty too. You wait here for me, and I'll go get him."
"Alright, then I'll leave it to you!"
"No trouble at all, would you like some sunflower seeds?" Wen Chengcai said, extending his hand to Shen Jingchuan.
Shen Jingchuan flatly refused him: "I won't eat!"
"Okay, wait for me, I'll be right back."
Once he was a distance away, Wen Cheng threw away the sunflower seeds he was holding.
"Pah! Rich people wouldn't even glance at that stuff! Get lost! I'm going to get rich!"
Wen Chengcai knew that Shen Jingchuan must have come to thank him. He had already guessed that Shen Jingchuan and that female celebrity were rich, and he could tell just by looking at the car Shen Jingchuan was driving today.
These people are not just rich!
This time, he needs to have a good talk with his third brother to see how to bring it up properly.
It was precisely because of this thought that Wen Cheng didn't allow Shen Jingchuan to follow.
If he comes, wouldn't I have no way to discuss things with my third brother?
The vegetable garden that Third Brother had cultivated was not far from where they lived. Wen Cheng ran all the way there and quickly found Third Brother and told him his plans.
Unexpectedly, after hearing this, the third brother immediately rejected him.
“Chengcai, we are not saving people for their money, we can’t ask for that.”
"Why? How can you still be so foolish? Can't you see the miserable life we're living? I've already told you they're rich. Rich people could easily scrape a little bit out of us and give it to us to live on for the rest of our lives."
“We can’t ask for it,” Third Brother said, disagreeing with Wen Cheng. “I think my life is fine now, and I don’t need their money.”
“That’s you! You chose to live this kind of life, and you even get a monthly allowance, but I don’t. I’m not doing well at all. Do you know how scared I was when those two were chasing me in their car that night? They might have killed me if they caught me. I paid such a high price, so what if I take a little money from them? If I hadn’t saved them, what use would all that money in their bank accounts be? You can’t take it with you when you die.”
Wen Chengcai became more and more excited as he spoke, and his saliva even sprayed onto his third brother's face.
Third Brother frowned: "Chengcai, you're too impatient. I know you're short of money, and you should know why you've been living in poverty all these years. It's because you always want to take shortcuts and are unwilling to work hard. If you're going to ask someone for an exorbitant amount of money just because you saved them, how are you any different from those kidnappers?"
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