Chapter 244, The Lantern Bearer
Regardless of whether he met Pei Xiao at Beichen Base this time, Jiang Ran had originally planned to go to Dongchao Base.
Not only for Chu Yuan, but also for Mrs. Huo Zhigui.
As if casually, Jiang Ran asked, "Captain Pei, I remember your mother is a daughter of the Huo family? So, you and Huo Lingyin are siblings."
"Yeah." When Pei Xiao mentioned his mother, his eyes changed subtly when he looked at Jiang Ran. "Do you know my mother?"
"I know." Jiang Ran said casually, "Wei Ya Ge told me."
Why did Wei Yage tell her this? Pei Xiao pondered: "Does she know Si Xu's background?"
After the disaster, Huo Zhigui only went to Xiling Base once, for Si Xu.
It must have been at that time that Wei Yage heard words that he shouldn't have heard.
"Well, yes, she overheard it."
Neither of them revealed Si Xu's background, but they both knew it well.
A bitter smile appeared in Pei Xiao's eyes, and he laughed at himself: "You also think that what my mother did was too much, right?"
"It's... okay." Surprisingly, Jiang Ran didn't blame Huo Zhigui for abandoning Si Xu. She pondered how to phrase it. "Even knowing there was no future, she still chose to give birth to the child and entrusted it to her best friend to raise... I think, at that time, this was the most perfect way she could think of to handle the situation."
Her only dissatisfaction with Huo Zhigui was what the woman said after seeing Si Xu.
Without knowing the truth, Huo Zhigui directly put all the blame on Jiang Yize in order to seek forgiveness from the abandoned child - this is too unkind.
It’s strange to say, since Jiang Yize used to often go to the Dongchao base for meetings, wouldn’t it be very simple for Huo Zhigui to get information about Si Xu?
When did she learn about Si Xu's presence at the Xiling Laboratory? Before Jiang Yize's death? Before the disaster? Or after the disaster?
The more he thought about it, the more strange it seemed. Jiang Ran touched his chin and asked Pei Xiao: "What kind of person is Madam Pei?"
Pei Xiao had never thought about this question.
In his eyes, his mother was a woman who always maintained her elegance, treated people gently and reasonably, handled things flawlessly, and even when she was angry, she would not make a big fuss.
She took aristocratic etiquette and upbringing to the extreme.
——As Mrs. Pei, as the mistress of the Pei family, this is enough.
He respected his mother because he understood that woman's persistence and pride.
But if you ask him what kind of person Huo Zhiju is, he can't think of any other word except elegant.
"Thinking for so long..." Jiang Ran muttered, "It seems that Madam Pei is a very mysterious person."
“…”
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As a landmark building in Beichen City, the Light Tower was previously just a tourist attraction.
It was built a hundred years ago, and its imitation European architectural style makes it out of place in this city with a long history. It is said that this lighthouse was once designated as a renovation project by the government.
No one could have imagined that after the end of the world, it would actually play its true role.
In front of the platform downstairs, patrolling psychics were constantly coming and going. The observers sorted out the intelligence they received and handed it to the psychics to be delivered to the Huo family compound.
All work is proceeding in an orderly manner.
On the red tiles of the top floor, the young woman stood upright, looking down at the city.
Behind him, Si Xu seemed bored, yawning with one hand covering his lips.
The man stayed up late last night and got up early today, feeling that he was seriously sleep-deprived.
Hearing the yawn, the woman turned around and looked at him with a half-smile, her words tinged with sarcasm: "Ever since you got a girlfriend, Professor Si, you haven't had as much energy as before."
Si Xu glanced at her and said in a flat tone: "Oh, you speak as if you know how I used to be."
“…”
The woman snorted, her eyes fixed on one spot: "I saw your girlfriend... with the eldest young master of the Pei family."
"Why, when you see a pretty girl, your brain goes off the rails? — No need to add the second half of the sentence."
"...How did you find a girlfriend when you're so sharp-tongued?"
"Why would that have to happen? You're not sharp-tongued and you don't have a boyfriend."
The girl couldn't stand it any longer: "Si Xu, are you here to cause trouble for me?"
"What's wrong with you that I should bother you?"
"you……"
"I came to you to buy information."
Buy intelligence?
The woman looked surprised and asked, "Is there any information in this world that Professor Si Xu can't get?"
Si Xu said calmly: "I didn't expect that I was so powerful in your eyes. I didn't even know I was so powerful myself."
“…”
"Okay, enough of the nonsense, Suxin, let's get down to business."
You've finished disliking me, and now you're getting down to business? Jiang Suxin's mouth twitched: "What information do you want?"
"I want to investigate a woman named Si Nian and Qin Huai."
"Investigating Qin Huai again?" Jiang Suxin blurted out, "Who is Si Nian? She has the same last name as you, your sister?"
"Do I look like someone with a younger sister to you?"
“…” You pretend I didn’t say anything.
The woman played with a tuft of hair that had fallen down, squinting at Si Xu. "You know, I'm a businessman—you want Qin Huai and that... Si Nian? You want information about them, fine. What can you offer me in exchange?"
"I have news for you too." Si Xu smiled slightly, "Luo Yuting is at Beichen Base."
Hearing this name, the woman's face turned cold and she said sarcastically, "I'm the lighthouse keeper of this lighthouse. Do you think I don't know this kind of news?"
"I certainly don't underestimate your sensitivity to intelligence."
The woman looked at him coldly: "Then why did you mention him?"
Si Xu changed his posture and leaned against the wall, his eyebrows and eyes smiling, calm and composed: "I just want to tell you that I didn't tell Luo Yuting about your stay in the lantern tower."
The woman was stunned for a moment, then completely enraged: "Si Xu, you bastard! Are you going to betray me?!"
Si Xu remained calm: "We have no friendship nor cooperation, so how can you say I'm betraying you? I know that lamplighters always regard money as less than their own possessions. So how about I trade this information with you?"
"exchange?"
"Give me the information about Qin Huai and Si Nian, and I can make sure Luo Yuting will never find you."
The woman couldn't believe it: "For a lifetime?"
"Why? You don't want to?" Si Xu suddenly realized, "Could it be that you are actually trying to be reluctant? Jiang Suxin, when did you become so scheming?"
Jiang Suxin's eyelids jumped fiercely: "When did you become so talkative, you bastard? Do you know that you are really annoying now?"
She pointed to the exit on the top floor of the lighthouse: "Get out."
Si Xu turned around without hesitation: "Contact me when you figure it out. Remember, my time is limited."
(End of this chapter)
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