Chapter 218: A New Beginning
Ruan Anan hugged Zhu Lijuan, who was crying inconsolably, in her arms.
Nothing is perfect, and the fact that Qi Chi didn't grow up crooked is a testament to his strong genes.
Now he is just a little bit in love, and this matter is not essentially the fault of Qi Changan and Zhu Lijuan.
Qi Changan and Zhu Lijuan also had their own reasons for doing so.
If the Nansha Islands had not been in turmoil back then, who would be willing to be separated from their loved ones?
A woman who is in love will have a miserable life, but a man who is in love will only have a perfect family.
Ultimately, it's not a bad thing.
After Zhu Lijuan had cried enough, Ruan Anan continued, "Principal Zhu, don't worry, Qi Chi will be fine."
"I have some serious business to do with him now."
Zhu Lijuan wiped her tears and sniffed her nose. "What's the matter?"
"Interrogate Su Qingyue." Ruan Anan said righteously.
This matter will shake the foundation of the past if it involves opium, and it will not be a trivial matter at that time.
Therefore, we must cut the Gordian knot quickly. Not only the Nansha Islands, but also the sea city must be thoroughly settled.
They are the only ones who are familiar with both Nansha Island and Haishi.
Gao Ruoyun is still young and not suitable to participate in such an action.
However, Qi Chi, Ruan Anan and Zhu Yaoyao have already been involved in this incident and there is absolutely no possibility of them withdrawing early.
When it comes to the foundation of the country, who can just sit there and watch?
When Ruan Anan first arrived at Nansha Island, she was not a person with great love, but after two months of baptism, she has understood the core of people of this era.
Poverty and backwardness are never reasons to give up; they are positive and optimistic and everyone is working hard for the betterment of the country.
Zhu Lijuan nodded, "Okay, good kids, I'll go get you something to eat."
Following Zhu Lijuan to the restaurant, Qi Chi was carefully organizing the lesson plans to be given to the students at the beginning of the school year.
After hearing the sound, he put a chicken feather in the notebook as a bookmark and said, "Comrade Ruan, Captain Xu is not at home. I'm afraid you won't be able to adapt to living alone."
"From now on, you will live in my house with my mother, and I will live in the production team's dormitory."
"You're quite considerate of others." Ruan Anan sat across from Qi Chi, listening to Zhu Lijuan busy in the kitchen and said, "I can live well on my own. You should communicate more with your mother and stop making Principal Zhu suspicious every day."
"I..." Qi Chi was speechless for a moment. He was not familiar enough with his parents, and most of the time their communication was more like a subordinate reporting to his superior.
This is not because his parents are not good enough, but because he simply does not know how to get along with his parents.
After hearing Ruan Anan say this, I also felt that I was a little too cold.
Ruan Anan thought about it and decided to tell Gao Ruoyun about how she and Gao Ruoyun caught two people transporting opium when they came here.
Afterwards, he also told his speculation that there was another Blood Skull lair in Hai City.
Qi Chi held his chin and listened carefully to the whole process. At the end, he took a breath and asked, "Are you asking me if Zhu Wei has the habit of going to church?"
"Yes, I suspect the church is a key place." Ruan Anan did not say why she suspected it, but just said that in her memory Su Qingyue seemed to go to the church occasionally.
Qi Chi is a smart man, so he should be able to deduce a lot of things by himself, right?
"Orphanage." Qi Chi threw down these three words, hurriedly got up and went to Qi Changan's study, found an old map of the sea city, and ran back to spread it flat on the dining table.
He picked up a pencil and drew a circle on the churches in the north and south of Haishi. "These two churches were built by foreigners. You are also from Haishi, so you should know this."
Ruan Anan nodded and pointed to the church in the south. "My home is near this church. It seems to have been abandoned after the founding of the People's Republic of China. I often go there to explore."
"But I was still young at that time, and my memory is all messed up."
"I only remember that one time when I went on an expedition, I seemed to faint and had a fever, and it was Xu Yancheng who carried me back."
"But what does this have to do with the orphanage?"
Qi Chi shook his head helplessly and said seriously, "Captain Xu said you can't remember things from your childhood. It seems you really can't remember them clearly."
"These two churches were indeed abandoned, but were rented out by private organizations and turned into orphanages."
"The children we adopt are orphans from all over the country who have no one else to adopt them."
"It is said that all the funds came from a wealthy businessman in a European country."
"Now it seems that this matter is not that simple, because I remember clearly that Zhu Wei would often go to these two orphanages to volunteer."
"Think carefully about it. How could she, who doesn't even do housework, be a volunteer?"
Ruan Anan rubbed his sore head and said, "It seems my memory is really messed up."
The reason she remembered the orphanage wasn't because of her adventures in the church when she grew up in the orphanage in a previous life.
It was because in her previous life she went on adventures in a church orphanage.
It seems that she must have encountered something terrifying in the orphanage, which scared her so much that she had a fever and fainted and couldn't go home.
Qi Chi didn't know that Ruan Anan, who was only in her twenties, had experienced two life restarts.
In her first life, she was the only daughter of the Ruan family and was pampered by everyone. However, she never expected that on the ship returning home, she would be kidnapped by a pair of grandfather and grandson who practiced witchcraft.
In her second life, her soul traveled to an orphan in the 21st century decades later, with the same name and surname. She finally made a name for herself in the screenwriting circle, but she was furious after seeing the praise for Su Qingyue in later generations.
In the third life, Xu Yancheng caught the old man who practiced witchcraft, and she returned to her own body. However, the memories of the previous two lives were too many and too complicated, so that her childhood memories of the two lives kept overlapping, which eventually led to confusion.
Qi Chi looked at Ruan Anan's troubled expression and cleared his throat. "It doesn't matter if your memory is messed up. What matters is the truth."
"You mean, these two churches are gathering places for blood skulls?" Ruan Anan asked back.
"I think so." Qi Chi was not sure, but when the two of them combined their thoughts, they naturally came to this conclusion.
Ruan Anan held his chin in his hand and thought for a moment, "That's easy. Let's wait until the Nansha Island incident is resolved and then go back. Even if I don't have evidence, I have a way to turn these two places upside down."
When it comes to opium, it is better to kill ten thousand people by mistake than to let one go.
What's more, he just wanted to turn the church upside down and had no intention of actually killing anyone.
Anyway, we are now in a period of ten years of great movement, which is a turbulent era. It is a good opportunity to make use of the background of the times to make a big fuss.
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