Chapter 120: Breaking out of the cocoon and turning into a butterfly?

Qin Hengzhi chuckled: "If you want two people, then it's just the two of us. If you want to liven things up, we can call friends or classmates."

Lu Qiao asked with surprise: "Do you have friends here?"

Qin Hengzhi: "I'm not an alien; why wouldn't I have friends? There are quite a few comrades-in-arms in Jiangcheng; I'll just introduce you to them."

Lu Qiao laughed: "Can one swim in the river?"

Qin Hengzhi: "Yes, but, can you?"

Lu Qiao: "I can learn if I can't."

Qin Hengzhi looked at Lu Qiao with focused eyes: "Then let's just be the two of us."

Lu Qiao tilted her head, biting the cherry stem, her gaze sweeping over his serious handsome face, then burst into loud laughter.

Qin Hengzhi looked at Lu Qiao helplessly, unable to resist tapping her forehead with his finger.

Lu Qiao didn't dodge, her eyes shining as she ate cherries happily.

Qin Hengzhi's heart felt hot, and his mood was also cheerful and soaring. He didn't speak again, just tilted his head to watch Lu Qiao eat cherries.

He discovered that this girl was very leisurely.

She didn't have the feeling of being uncomfortable when being watched at all.

Although he didn't want to think about it, he couldn't help but think of the Lu Qiao of the past.

Speaking of the time she fell into the water by the lake, he had watched the whole thing from the side.

At that time, he was indifferent.

Liang Aishu and Shen Yun were hugging by the lake, and Lu Qiao, who had rushed over, was crying and accusing them, but those two stood together facing her, making Lu Qiao, standing alone, look especially pitiful.

Obviously, Shen Yun was deliberately provoking her, saying ambiguous things. Lu Qiao couldn't win the argument, so she started pulling at Shen Yun.

The two girls then fell in together. His angle couldn't see clearly who pulled whom.

Then Liang Aishu was stunned for a moment, then jumped in. At that time, he still didn't move.

So he saw Liang Aishu save Shen Yun first, and he thought he would continue to save the next one, but he didn't expect Liang Aishu to seem to collapse on the shore of the lake, while Shen Yun hugged him and cried.

They had completely forgotten there was someone else in the lake.

The memory stopped abruptly.

Qin Hengzhi's eyes darkened slightly, glancing at Lu Qiao without a trace.

Is this breaking out of the cocoon and turning into a butterfly?

Lu Qiao handed the white porcelain basin containing the cherries to Qin Hengzhi: "You eat too; let's talk about something while we eat."

Qin Hengzhi knew Qiao had something to find him for, but didn't know what it was.

Lu Qiao first talked to him about Chang An.

"Can I ask you about Deputy Factory Director Lin? For example, his family situation—I don't know if it would violate discipline?"

Qin Hengzhi was stunned for a moment and said: "Depends on the extent to which you want to know."

"I want to know if his family has a lost younger brother."

Qin Hengzhi's brows raised slightly, and the gentle and lazy expression finally changed.

He looked at Lu Qiao seriously and was silent for a moment: "Lin Lao currently has one son and three daughters, but he actually has another younger son, born in 1949, who was taken away when he was ten months old and hasn't been found to this day."

Lu Qiao stood up excitedly.

Her eyes were sparkling as she looked at Qin Hengzhi sitting on the sofa.

"The night I watched the performance, I felt Lin Lao was especially familiar. At that time, I thought, have I seen him somewhere? But no matter how I thought, I couldn't remember.

Then I saw Chang An, who is the mute husband of Zhou Li. He and Zhou Li are now in the food factory. After seeing him, I discovered he looks especially like Lin Lao."

Qin Hengzhi also stood up, looking at Lu Qiao with burning eyes.

The Qin family and the Lin family were family friends, but Lin Lao was fourteen years younger than his grandfather. According to age, he called Lin Lao "Uncle Lin."

They weren't in the same compound and didn't interact often, but he knew Uncle Lin had a younger son who was lost and hadn't been found to this day.

In the vast sea of people, lost when he was only ten months old, it was impossible to find him.

So now, very few people in the Lin family mention that lost child.

Qin Hengzhi asked: "Do you know Chang An's situation?"

"Not very well, but I know the basics. His hometown is a small village in the southwest, which is where Zhou Li went to the countryside to settle. He was adopted and was also born in 1949. This is accurate, but the birth month is August of 1949."

If he was lost when he was ten months old, then there's no way he could have been born in August.

Qin Hengzhi looked at Lu Qiao, his voice low: "First tell me your thoughts."

Lu Qiao: "Isn't the inspection team coming to offer condolences on Saturday morning? If they could walk through the food factory, that would be great. Personally, I still don't suggest telling Chang An directly.

Because he had his own children, his foster parents treated him very badly. In the Chang family, he was a beast of burden. Now that he has followed Zhou Li to the military factory and entered the food factory, he will soon have commodity grain and a city household registration. For him, this is no less than a rebirth.

Now if we suddenly tell him he is very likely Deputy Factory Director Lin's biological younger brother, the younger son of Lin Lao of the Aviation Bureau, it would be fine if it were true, but what if it isn't? Can Chang An's mentality return to normal? This is what I'm mainly worried about."

Qin Hengzhi looked at Lu Qiao with approval: "You are young, but you think very thoroughly."

Lu Qiao smiled proudly.

Qin Hengzhi said: "Let's do as you say. Find a way to let them go to the food factory, let Lin Lao appear in front of Chang An openly yet naturally. As for what happens next, Lin Lao has his own arrangements."

Lu Qiao nodded. If Chang An and Lin Lao have a relationship, that would be best. If there is no connection, Chang An will continue to live his little life with his wife and children.

Chang An's matter was basically settled. What Lu Qiao wanted to talk to Qin Hengzhi about was another matter, and also the most important one.

In the neat and solemn military representative office, Lu Qiao raised her eyes slightly and looked at Qin Hengzhi standing opposite her.

She put away the casual expression on her face, her clear and bright peach-blossom eyes shining with inexplicable brilliance.

Qin Hengzhi didn't know why Lu Qiao looked at him like this.

But he knew Lu Qiao had something to say to him.

So, Qin Hengzhi stood in front of Lu Qiao, looking at her very focusedly.

He also put on a posture of listening attentively.

Lu Qiao asked directly: "Do you have a way to make the City Fishery Company not covet Red Star Lake within five years?"

Qin Hengzhi: "..."

He thought Lu Qiao would ask him about his family's opinion of her, or invite him to the Lu house. Actually, there were many thoughts, although they were fleeting, he had indeed thought a lot.

Human brains, when not blank, are constantly thinking.

But no matter how he thought, he didn't expect Lu Qiao to make this request.

Within five years?

That is his term of office as a military representative.

But does it have anything to do with his term?

Qin Hengzhi said seriously: "Can you give me a reason?"

Lu Qiao thought about it and also said seriously: "Not for now."

She could say there were iron boxes and gold and silver jewelry at the bottom of the lake, but that would bring up the next question, and after answering that, there would be the next one.

Lu Qiao didn't want to be so troublesome. If Qin Hengzhi didn't agree, she would go and ponder her slightly wicked method. ===== CHAPTER 121 =====

If Qin Hengzhi does not agree, she will then ponder her other slightly unscrupulous method.