Chapter 138: A heavy burden and a long road

Okay, Mr. Yan Xiu, you decide the time and place, then send it to my phone, but I have to pick up my child at 5 in the afternoon, so I have no time after 5.

Okay, if it's convenient, can we add each other on WeChat? Yan Xiu asked politely.

No problem.

Xie Wantang told him that her WeChat ID is her phone number, so he can just search her phone number.

Anyway, since he could get her phone number so quickly, her WeChat ID is naturally not difficult either.

But Xie Wantang didn't expect that she would have a brief encounter with Yan Xiu at the airport yesterday.

But she has no memory of it at all.

"Yan Xiu? I just saw his news a moment ago, and now he's looking for you—could it be intentional?" Xie Yunshu was a little worried, so worried she didn't even feel like eating chips.

"Whether human or ghost, let's meet first and see." Xie Wantang put her phone in her pocket; Yan Xiu had agreed with her to have lunch together tomorrow noon at the restaurant, which is the largest Haishi Grand Hotel in the city center.

The foot traffic is huge.

Xie Wantang knew this was Yan Xiu trying to reassure her and dispel her doubts.

To make her believe he is a good person, definitely not a bad one.

"Are you really going to meet him?" Xie Yunshu asked.

"Yeah, tomorrow noon, you arrange your work, and we'll go together, okay?"

"He invited you, not me." Xie Yunshu isn't the type to tag along for a free meal.

"Actually, he wanted to make an appointment with my mother online, but couldn't get her number; besides, he wants to cooperate with our medical hall, not with me personally."

"Sis, you're not from the medical hall, are you?"

"Of course I am, fine, I'll go with you."

"Yeah, good sister."

Xie Wantang's mouth is actually quite sweet too.

"Heh, Wantang, you went to A Country and your mouth got sweet—did the people there feed you lots of sugar?"

"I've always been like this toward my sister; for her to say that makes me seem a bit ungrateful."

"I..."

Xie Yunshu didn't accept the "ungrateful" label, but at that moment someone from the medicine hall's herbal section came over, asking Xie Wantang to help a bit, to look at the formula and such.

Xie Wantang then left.

Shen Ye saw the screenshot that Xie Wantang had forwarded to him; it was already noon.

When he called, Xie Wantang was eating a boxed lunch with the people from the Chinese medicine hall; she had eaten half of it.

"Senior Martial Brother, you're only seeing this now?" Xie Wantang knew Shen Ye was calling at this time because he must have seen the screenshot she sent.

"Yeah, I've seen it for a while, and I've already had someone investigate Yan Xiu; moreover, the basic information is already in my hands."

"..."

This is why Shen Ye is the senior martial brother and she is the junior martial sister.

Shen Ye, as senior martial brother, handles everything very thoroughly.

So, having doubts, she sent the screenshot to Shen Ye and didn't think of anyone else.

"What did you find out?"

"The information is complete, quite normal, but this person grew up in an orphanage; later, because he was diligent and studious, his outstanding grades earned him investment; previously, he stayed overseas, and he has remarkable achievements in various countries."

"Various countries? So he's a celebrity overseas, but not very well known domestically?" Xie Wantang thought, she had also stayed in A Country for two years, yet she had never heard of this person.

Of course, she was in closed training, so outside gossip wouldn't reach them.

The only thing that could be transmitted in is if Yan Xiu got into trouble.

In her first year of training, Xie Wantang's program was comprehensive, covering everything.

In the second year, they were allowed to choose a direction; Xie Wantang chose criminal investigation because several of her senior brothers work in that field.

The senior martial brother is the most capable, handling major cases, and he has joined the International Criminal Investigation Special Team.

The other several senior brothers are all domestically, in the criminal investigation detachments of various provinces and cities.

She has a total of nine senior brothers; two have sacrificed, leaving seven.

Several senior brothers, destined to remain single for life, independently chose to become soldiers and police officers.

To defend the home and country, they specialize in fighting bad guys and preserving peace in one region.

Xie Wantang has always wanted to join them, but several senior brothers objected, because she has family; if she were gone, not to mention her own birth parents, the Qin family would certainly be grieved, unable to move on from losing her shadow for a long time.

Not allowed to join, Xie Wantang constantly trains her abilities, helping them whenever she can.

In recent years, she has continued to use the name Queen to assist Shen Ye.

In the voiceprint field, the name Queen is already famous, and many people are inquiring about her.

However, besides Shen Ye, even her other senior brothers don't know that she is Queen.

Shen Ye still holds to his old saying: the fewer people who know, the better—even if they are his own close relatives.

Because he fears not the ten thousand, but the one chance.

"Having taken over the Lu Clan Group, he just returned to the country yesterday, and today he's on all the hot searches—almost overnight he became a hot topic; he will soon be very famous domestically." Shen Ye said.

"Also."

Xie Wantang nodded, "Senior Martial Brother, do you think this person has a problem?"

"And you?"

"Well, my intuition tells me he has serious problems; moreover, he wants to cooperate with our medical hall—taking over the Lu Clan Group is already enough, yet he also wants to enter the medical industry—I always feel his motives are strong."

"What motives?" Shen Ye trusts Xie Wantang's intuition.

"I don't know yet, but his taking over the Lu Clan Group—whether it's aimed at Lu Yanze or Lu Yanshen—is a problem; also, he wants to cooperate with the Xie Clan Chinese Medicine Hall, saying he couldn't get my mother's number, so he approached me."

"Besides, we appeared at the same airport yesterday; that means at that time there was only one international flight, and we were on the same plane, yet I actually have no impression of him."

These are all strange.

Xie Wantang is now also paying close attention to the details.

Moreover, each of these details, when analyzed carefully after the fact, is terrifying to ponder.

Xie Wantang always felt she had been singled out by that person, but she had no evidence.

"If they were taking a domestic flight?" Shen Ye asked. He thought Xie Wantang's analysis made sense, and at the same time he could sense her nervousness.

He didn't want her to be so nervous.

"But you just said he came back yesterday?" Xie Wantang immediately countered.

"Yan Xiu indeed returned to the country yesterday, but what if he isn't the real Yan Xiu?" Shen Ye asked with a smile, "In that faceless case so far, we've only caught a few small fry; I've always felt we've only grasped something superficial."

"There are still many deeper things waiting for us to uncover."

"Little junior sister, the road ahead is arduous, but rest assured, Senior Martial Brother will definitely protect you."

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