Chapter 2 My name is Li Chengfeng, I am your uncle
The snow fell all night and finally stopped the next morning.
At the entrance of Angel Home Children's Welfare Institute, the social worker got up to open the door and saw Li Chengfeng outside at a glance.
He rubbed his eyes in disbelief, and his pupils dilated for a moment to make sure it was the man who had come yesterday.
What's going on? Didn’t you place an order for the ‘Scavenger’ yesterday? Why is this man still here?
Was he dreaming yesterday?
That's not right. He clearly received a text message confirming that the order was successfully placed, and the note clearly stated that the 'bento' should be delivered yesterday.
Didn't the 'scavenger' read the notes?
Fuck, they charge so much and they don’t even look at the customer’s notes, what a jerk! ?
Complain, you must complain!
The social worker cursed in his heart and heard Li Chengfeng outside the door ask, "Can I go through the adoption procedures?"
He had no choice but to open the door. "It's cold outside. Come in and sit for a while."
Li Chengfeng entered the reception hall and sat in the same seat as yesterday.
The social worker sat next to him in a daze, distracted.
Li Chengfeng reminded: "Please give me a cup of hot water, thank you."
"Oh, sorry, wait a moment." The social worker quickly stood up and walked to the water dispenser to get a cup of hot water. He suppressed the urge to poison and handed the disposable plastic cup to Li Chengfeng, "Be careful, it's hot."
"Thank you." Li Chengfeng took the cup and drank the hot water in it one sip at a time. He put the empty cup on the coffee table in front of him and asked again, "Excuse me, when can I go through the adoption procedures?"
The social worker was even more confused. Why did this scene seem so familiar?
He calmed himself down and first calmed Li Chengfeng down, "Didn't I tell you yesterday that we have to wait for our person in charge to come back? Otherwise, why don't you go back and wait for news?"
Li Chengfeng shook his head.
The social worker's heart skipped a beat and he said hastily, "We will notify you as soon as the person in charge comes back..."
Li Chengfeng interrupted him, "I don't have a phone number, you can't contact me."
The social worker was speechless for a moment and ran to the wastebasket behind the reception desk to find the information left by Li Chengfeng yesterday. After flipping through it, he found that the contact number column was indeed empty.
It’s already 2023, and there are still people without a mobile phone? !
Is this reasonable?
The social worker looked up and asked, "Is there a landline?"
“Neither do I.”
"Then it would be fine if you have the contact information of an acquaintance or friend."
"None."
"Then how do you usually make phone calls?" The social worker was almost unable to hold back the smile on his face.
"I don't usually make phone calls... Oh, I used a pay phone yesterday, it was very convenient."
“…”
Li Chengfeng: "It doesn't matter, just follow your procedures."
This has nothing to do with our process! ?
The social worker complained in his heart, but forced a professional smile on his face and suggested, "Why don't you go buy a cell phone first?"
Li Chengfeng glanced at him and said slowly: "Okay."
The social worker breathed a sigh of relief, took a piece of white paper from the front desk, wrote down a mobile phone number, and handed the paper to Li Chengfeng.
"This is our work phone number. Once you activate the number, just send us the contact number via text message. Don't worry, when the person in charge comes back, we will definitely expedite the process for you as quickly as possible."
Li Chengfeng took the paper and nodded, "Thank you."
"You're welcome." The social worker smiled sincerely.
Urgent, must expedite!
When you leave, I will place an expedited order with the 'scavenger' and try to send you to see God as soon as possible.
"Do you have anything else to do?" The social worker stood up and made a gesture to see someone off.
Li Chengfeng stood up calmly and said, "I want to see Li Pingan again."
You are almost dead, what are you looking at? What is there to see?
The social worker was thinking, but she didn't show it on her face. She advised him, "Do you really want to adopt Li Ping'an? I mean, she was born with a disability, can't speak, and seems to have some intellectual problems... You are still a bachelor, and you will have to find a wife in the future. It will be difficult to find a partner with a little burden."
Seeing that Li Chengfeng was unmoved and looked like he was eager to be reborn, the social worker cursed inwardly and continued, "And I've read Li Ping'an's file. She and her parents were in a car accident. So many people died, but she was the only one who survived. To put it bluntly, her fate is too difficult and she will bring bad luck to her relatives."
Hearing the word "Keqin", Li Chengfeng finally moved.
He raised his eyelids and glanced at the social worker, then said calmly, "I see your face is dark, you may have a bloody disaster soon, so you'd better be careful with your words and actions."
Social workers usually don't do very clean things, and they are very superstitious about ghosts and gods. Li Chengfeng just hit the nail on the head, leaving him choked on the spot, not knowing what to say.
He looked at Li Chengfeng with some fear, but did not dare to confront him openly. He went to the front desk to get the key and opened the passage to the children's area.
Li Chengfeng entered the children's area and once again saw Li Pingan, who was drawing obediently in the corner, through the wooden fence.
This time, he did not just take a look and leave, but squatted down and waved in the direction of Li Pingan, "Ping An, come here."
When Li Ping'an heard someone calling her name, she stopped painting, looked up, and saw a strange man squatting in front of her.
Although she had met many strange people since she came here, this was the first time she had met someone as strange as this man.
No one knew that one of Li Ping'an's eyes was not born blind, but could see things that normal people could not see.
For example, the man in front of her, through her blind eye, she could see that there was a sword in the man's body.
A large sword secured with a thick iron chain.
The sword was glowing red and bloody, and it looked like a vicious sword. But the strange thing was that beyond the blood light there was a layer of golden light, which was warm and sacred, making people want to get closer to pray for blessings and protection.
These two shades don't go together at all.
The little painter Li Ping'an had a distressed expression on her face. She knew that if she drew this picture, she would probably be laughed at by other children again.
But this sword really makes me want to touch it.
Li Pingan couldn't help but secretly glance at the sword in the man's body, and then again...
It was not until he noticed that the sword moved slightly that he quickly lowered his head and used the drawing board to cover his face.
So cool! It even moves!
Li Chengfeng looked at Li Ping'an who was hiding behind the drawing board and secretly looking at him, and called her again in a soft voice: "Ping'an, come here."
Li Ping'an put the drawing board down, revealing his face. He bit his fingers and looked timidly at the social worker standing next to the man.
The social worker was shrouded in a layer of blood-red light. No matter how beautifully a person with this light smiled, Li Ping'an subconsciously wanted to stay away from him.
But she immediately discovered that there was something different about the social worker today. A hint of black air emerged from the blood-red light on his body.
Li Pingan had also seen this kind of dark energy before.
There used to be a little boy who lived in the same room with me. One day, this kind of black gas came out of his body. The next day, he disappeared, and no one here mentioned his name again.
Li Ping'an felt that the black air was not a good thing and subconsciously did not want to go forward.
The social worker was very satisfied with the fear shown by Li Ping'an. He glanced at Li Chengfeng beside him calmly and sighed, "It seems that the child is shy. Let's go first."
Li Chengfeng squatted there, unmoved.
The social worker cursed inwardly, knowing that he would not give up until he achieved his goal today, so he cleared his throat and said to Li Pingan: "Li Pingan, come here."
Li Pingan didn't want to go over.
But she also knew that if she didn't obey, she would not have food to eat, would be locked in a small dark room, and someone would come to stab her.
The needle that stabbed her was as thick as the ones that the vicious old ladies used to stab pretty girls on TV, and it hurt.
Li Ping'an didn't want to be pricked with an injection, so she slowly got up from the ground and walked towards the man step by step.
The man squatted down and looked at her quietly for a while through the high fence, then said, "My name is Li Chengfeng, and I'm your uncle."
What is uncle? Can I eat it?
Li Ping'an tilted his head and looked at Li Chengfeng. For some reason, he felt that the fierce sword in his body had become gentle.
Li Chengfeng reached out and touched Li Ping'an's head without saying a word, but Li Ping'an suddenly felt his heart swell up.
Since coming here, she has never been touched on the head by anyone.
So this is how my uncle feels.
Li Pingan opened his eyes wide and looked at the rough sword in front of him, oh no, the uncle in front of him.
She decided that even if her uncle didn't give her food, she could still draw for him.
After Li Chengfeng touched Li Ping'an's head, he took his hand back.
Li Ping'an couldn't help but take a step forward and wanted to touch it more. The social worker next to her gave her a warning look, which scared her so much that she immediately ran back to her original place, hid behind a pile of toys, and didn't dare to come out.
The social worker smiled at Li Chengfeng and said, "The child is still shy. Let's go out first and don't scare her."
Li Chengfeng did not insist this time. He stood up and said to Li Pingan before leaving: "Pingan, uncle will come to see you tomorrow."
When Li Ping'an heard this, he poked his head out from behind a pile of toys and stared at him intently.
The social worker sneered in his heart when he heard this: Tomorrow? You may not see the sun tomorrow.
He sent Li Chengfeng out the door, turned around, closed the door, walked a few steps to the drawer behind the front desk, and took out the pager from the secret compartment.
After the Xiaolingtong was turned on, message alerts kept ringing. The social worker clicked on the text messages to check, and then a look of disbelief appeared on his face.
He exited the text messaging interface and made a phone call in a panic.
As soon as the call was connected, he couldn't wait to say, "Boss, the 'scavengers' in City C were busted by the cops!"
The other party was obviously incredulous as well.
The social worker explained: "They are police officers from the Meizi Street Public Security Station, public servants. They didn't dare to use real weapons, so they were all arrested... Shit! Boss, what should we do now?"
The other party had obviously said something. The expression on the social worker's face slowly changed from anxious to calm. Finally, he said with relief: "Yes, yes, of course. With the extraordinary people taking action, it will be useless even if the police come this time. He will definitely not live beyond tomorrow."
After hanging up the phone, the social worker breathed a sigh of relief.
He walked around the hall unconsciously a few times, caught a glimpse of a broom in the corner with his peripheral vision, looked up and saw that the door to the children's area was not closed, so he picked up the broom and walked in.
When the children in the children's area saw him come in with a broom, they all ran into the room and hid. Li Pingan also wanted to run, but the social worker grabbed him and lifted him into the air by the collar.
She grabbed the clothes in front of her neck uncomfortably and kicked her feet a few times in the air.
The social worker thought of the grievances he suffered at the hands of Li Chengfeng, and became furious when he saw Li Pingan. He raised the broom and was about to hit her a few times, when suddenly he remembered what Li Chengfeng had said: come again tomorrow.
Although I knew that with the intervention of a supernatural being, the man was definitely dead and would not come back tomorrow, I still felt inexplicably uneasy.
The social worker put Li Ping'an down and poked her shoulder hard with the broom, causing her to take a step back and fall to the ground. He threatened her viciously, "Little bastard, be quiet, or I'll beat you to death!"
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