Chapter 51 Utilization
In the lobby on the first floor,
Shen Hongyuan was chatting with an acquaintance.
He didn't look very good.
Because the rules of this place were simply inexplicable.
His son Shen Xingyu was a senior member and could enter the second floor.
But he, the father, could only stay on the first floor.
Even though Shen Xingyu was now in charge of Shen's, this kind of differential treatment still made Shen Hongyuan very angry.
Not to mention, today he couldn't stand his younger son's pleading and brought Shen Xingran here.
As a result, when he entered, he was stopped outside by Shen Xingran because he was not a member.
He said that only senior members and above could bring people in.
Now Shen Xingran could only stay in the car and wait.
Shen Hongyuan stood outside the elevator on the second floor.
He didn't want to let others see that he was trying to go upstairs and get blocked, so he took a wine glass and pretended to admire the view from the window next to him.
Some friends around him were discussing:
"The one from the Ji family came today, right?"
"I heard that he was in contact with a foreign company."
Everyone's mind was surging.
If there is really a big project, it will be good for most of them.
If you can't get a big head, it's good to drink soup with him.
I just don't know if I can seize this opportunity.
When talking about Ji Min, someone asked:
"Is there a boy following him?"
"It seems so. I don't know whose child he is. He looks pretty good."
Shen Hongyuan listened and suddenly had an idea.
Ji Min...
I don't know what kind of person he is.
Let Xingran get in touch with him when there is time.
His little son is always successful in interpersonal communication.
At this time, an acquaintance looked at Shen Hongyuan and asked, "Didn't you say you would bring Ranran here today? Why didn't you come?"
This sentence almost hit Shen Hongyuan's lungs.
Of course, he couldn't tell the truth. He
just said, "The child was in a good mood. He felt noisy and said he didn't want to come."
After he answered, the person who had just asked the question came closer. He
poked Shen Hongyuan with his elbow and asked, "What's wrong with your wife recently? I heard from my son that you have a biological son who is wandering around?"
The gossip in the upper class circle is the most eye-catching.
As soon as this person opened his mouth, the attention of the people around him shifted from Ji Min to him.
Even an old friend of Shen Hongyuan said,
"I heard that it's not an illegitimate child. If it's a biological child, how could it be wandering around?"
Shen Hongyuan's heart lifted.
Recently, this is not the first time he has been asked this question.
Last time, Mrs. Shen went to catch the "illegitimate child" in public, and inadvertently exposed Lu Ran's identity.
In addition, Lu Ran had caused trouble several times before.
Families present, such as the Chen family and the Lin family, have long known Lu Ran's identity.
Rumors spread from one to ten, and from ten to a hundred.
The last time Shen Hongyuan went to the company, there were also rumors within the board of directors.
The changes in the members of the Shen family are very noticeable.
Shen Hongyuan's face sank slightly.
At this moment, there was even a flash of ruthlessness in his eyes.
Shen Hongyuan would not allow anyone to truly destroy the peace and interests of the Shen family.
It seems that Lu Ran can't be kept.
We need to find an opportunity to send him away and keep him under guard.
Shen Hongyuan thought of an excuse in his mind.
Just as he was preparing to think of a way to brush off the rumor,
suddenly,
the waiter at the elevator entrance on the second floor became nervous.
Then, with a "beep", the elevator stopped.
This reminder sound was more effective than anything else.
Those who had been looking at Shen Hongyuan with great interest before, all turned their heads and stared at the elevator entrance vaguely.
Those who could go to the second floor were more than one level higher than those on the first floor.
Regardless of whether they were the most eye-catching ones, it was always good to be able to strike up a conversation.
Under a sea of different looks,
the elevator door quietly slid open.
The person in charge standing outside walked out first.
He bowed and waited outside.
Then Ji Min's wheelchair drove out gently.
Some people still remembered the initial rumor.
They subconsciously looked up at the back of the wheelchair, wanting to see who could push Ji Min's wheelchair. They
saw that it was that style.
Maybe they could cater to his taste.
But as soon as they looked over, they were completely stunned.
They saw a young boy curled up on Ji Min's broad and heavy wheelchair.
The boy was thin, curled up in the arms of Ji Min, who was broad and tall.
Like a well-behaved cat.
He was sleeping soundly on Ji Min's chest.
His whole body was covered tightly with a navy blue cashmere blanket, revealing only a small part of his fair cheek and fluffy black hair.
With good eyesight, he could see the boy's milky white cheeks pressed against the diamond collar on the man's chest.
Half of his face was red.
Shen Hongyuan also stretched his neck to look over.
When his eyes touched the person in Ji Min's arms, he was stunned.
Lu Ran?
It turned out to be Lu Ran?
At this moment, Shen Hongyuan had no way to describe his feelings.
He had heard that a young boy had been following Ji Min recently.
His family didn't seem to be well off.
Somehow he caught Ji Min's eye.
Ji Min even allowed the child to touch his wheelchair for the first time.
But Shen Hongyuan never expected that
this boy was actually his good-for-nothing biological son who had been missing for fifteen years.
Even if Ji Min was holding Shen Xingran who was waiting in the car outside,
Shen Hongyuan would not be shocked.
But how could it be Lu Ran?
Or rather...
how could it be Lu Ran!
Shen Hongyuan's impression of his son was still at the beginning.
Half a year ago, Mrs. Shen called him impatiently and asked him to do a paternity test.
Shen Hongyuan thought that this person was just imagining things again.
When he got there, he found out that his lost son had been found.
Shen Hongyuan was a little surprised at the time.
Such a young child did not die in the mountain flood that year.
Shen Hongyuan subconsciously felt that there was a conspiracy.
Maybe someone knew that they had a child lost that year, so they deliberately found an orphan to confuse the water.
Unfortunately, the paternity test was done several times.
It was indeed his son.
Shen Hongyuan still remembers the first day Lu Ran returned to the Shen family.
He stood in the spacious and bright living room of the Shen family, looking cramped and out of place.
After fifteen years away, he only had a timid look caused by poverty.
A waste.
Not even half as useful as Shen Xingran.
Shen Hongyuan simply made a final conclusion about his son.
He then completely ignored him, and only when he was in a bad mood occasionally, he would point at the things on Lu Ran that he didn't like and get angry.
Until one day, this timid son suddenly changed.
Shen Hongyuan was a little scared.
But no matter how much trouble he made, it was nothing more than a minor quarrel at home.
Shen Hongyuan would hide away when he was annoyed.
But for some reason, this child who should have been covered up quietly, actually appeared frequently in rumors related to the Shen family.
First, there was a big fuss in front of the Shen family's gate.
Let people in the nearby wealthy circle know that a strange child has moved into the Shen family.
Then, the rumor of the illegitimate child, which had not been very strong at first, became more and more intense.
It got to the point where Shen Xingran, who spread the rumor, couldn't hold it back.
Then Mrs. Shen took the initiative to expose the illusion of the so-called "illegitimate child". She
almost revealed Lu Ran's identity herself.
And then it's now.
Shen Hongyuan never thought that one day he would be able to meet Lu Ran in such an occasion and under such circumstances.
He watched helplessly.
Ji Min just held Lu Ran in his arms, sitting in a wheelchair, and drove past him.
The wheelchair moved into the crowd.
The boy who had been sleeping soundly in Ji Min's arms suddenly shook.
He raised his head in confusion.
The navy blue thin blanket slipped a little, revealing his entire face.
Shen Hongyuan saw that this son whom he had never taken a liking to,
poked his head out from Ji Min's arms.
Those black eyes with a well-behaved shape found him accurately in the noisy crowd at the banquet.
The boy sat in Ji Min's arms.
In front of everyone at the banquet, he called him in a confused but clear tone: "Dad?"
In an instant, the eyes of everyone at the banquet shot towards Shen Hongyuan like needles.
Shen Hongyuan had nowhere to hide.
All the words he had prepared on his lips were instantly invalidated.
Ji Min's wheelchair happened to stop, and he looked sideways at Shen Hongyuan.
"Is the head of the Shen family here?" the man said in a calm voice.
Seeing Ji Min speak.
Some people around were quick-witted and immediately took the opportunity to interrupt.
"Old Shen, is this your biological son who is living outside?"
"Why don't you introduce him to us?"
"Oh, if we had known earlier, we, the elders, would have prepared some gifts in advance."
Amid the chatter, Shen Hongyuan had become the center of the topic.
Shen Hongyuan looked at the man in the wheelchair and the boy in his arms.
At this moment, Shen Hongyuan's mind was in a state of confusion.
The next second, his expression changed, revealing a docile look, and he announced to the people around him with a smile:
"This is my little son."
"He got lost when he was a child, and my family was devastated. My father was bedridden because of this. We searched for him for many years, and finally found him in recent days." "
I am preparing to find a formal occasion to introduce him to everyone and officially take him home."
"Who would have thought that we would meet today first."
"But don't worry, everyone will officially meet him next month at the latest."
Shen Hongyuan is also a seasoned businessman.
At this moment, he did not forget to make a joke: "My little son has been lost for more than ten years, and the gifts for these ten years cannot be missing!"
He said it openly, but some people did not give him face.
Just as everyone was about to start a lively conversation, they heard the boy in the wheelchair timidly say, "Dad, why are you suddenly willing to take me home?"
Shen Hongyuan's face froze.
People began to look at him with suspicion.
Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, Lu Ran even shrank back into Ji Min's arms, and said with fear: "Didn't you tell me to get as far away from you as possible? Now you are taking me home, are you going to beat me?"
The surroundings became completely quiet.
A group of old men stared at Shen Hongyuan with scrutiny.
What does that mean?
Not letting his own son into the house?
The head of the Shen family looks like a decent person, why does he beat a child?
Ji Min in the wheelchair also raised his eyebrows at Shen Hongyuan.
Shen Hongyuan's face turned green.
But facing the gazes of the crowd, he looked at Ji Min in the wheelchair again.
He still forced a gentle expression: "What are you saying, kid? It was inconvenient before, but now I will definitely take you home."
After that, he walked to Ji Min's wheelchair again. He
looked at the boy nestled in Ji Min's legs with concern and asked: "Why are you sleeping so soundly? Did you drink?"
He looked at Ji Min again: "Mr. Ji, thank you for taking care of this child."
This was the first time that Shen Hongyuan spoke to Lu Ran in such a good father's tone.
Although he tricked Shen Hongyuan, Lu Ran was distracted at this moment.
His attention was not on Shen Hongyuan. He
only vaguely heard that the man stopped talking, and then he struggled a little, trying to jump off the man behind him.
It was natural for him to follow Shen Hongyuan away.
But as soon as he moved.
An arm was wrapped around his waist.
The arms were not used with much strength, just hidden under the blanket, folded loosely.
But through the thin sweater, Lu Ran could clearly feel the muscle lines on the man's arms.
And the sense of power implied in them.
Ji Min's metacarpal bones were still very wide.
With five fingers spread out, they could easily cover most of Lu Ran's waist.
Sensing this extremely slight, but called restraining force.
Lu Ran's eyelashes trembled, and like a quail, he obediently nestled back in the blanket.
"Master Shen."
Ji Min's calm voice sounded in Lu Ran's ears, "I will personally send the young master back tonight."
The person in charge at the side was startled when he heard it.
No wonder Ji Min just said that he would worship this young man as a young master.
He is indeed a young master.
Shen Hongyuan choked slightly, but did not say anything to stop him.
After Ji Min said that, he took the person and left by himself,
leaving behind a lot of discussion.