Two months later, in the courtyard of a farmhouse in a small remote fishing village around Linghai City, Jiang Yu was walking back and forth with a crying baby in his arms, patting him. The door of the room was pushed open and Lin Cheng hurried in with a bottle of milk powder, “Yu’er, hurry up. Here is the milk powder.”
Jiang Yu hurriedly took it and fed it into the little one’s mouth. The crying finally stopped. The little one hugged the bottle with two little hands, gurgling and drinking eagerly.
Lin Cheng wiped his sweat, and a silver-haired grandmother followed him through the door, asking with a smile, “The child is not crying anymore?”
Jiang Yu smiled gratefully at her, “Yes, he has finally stopped crying. Thank you, grandma.”
“It’s okay.” The old grandmother smiled and waved her hand. These two youngsters appeared in their village last night and both of them were not very old, even more, they had a child with them. The two call themselves brothers, saying that the child belongs to their sister, but she is busy, and their parents at home don´t have time, so the two of them took the child to visit their sister in Linghai City. Who would have thought that their wallets and luggage have been stolen along the way.
Seeing that these two young people are neat and well-behaved, and the children stick to them when they are not crying, the grandmother didn’t suspect that they were bad people. Seeing that they were penniless, she took pity on them, so she kept them in her house for one night.
Early this morning, the child cried. It seems to be hungry. The only person that lived in the house was the old grandmother, so there was no food for a baby of just a few months old. The grandmother took Lin Cheng out to find milk powder, most of the village’s young and strong people went out to work, leaving only some elderly people and small children. The grandmother took Lin Cheng to the end of the village, where a family also had a baby of about the same age.
The family was very enthusiastic, and when they heard that a little milk baby was crying from hunger, they not only gave a box of milk powder but also helped to brew it in a clean bottle and let him bring it back directly.
“I’ll go make you breakfast.” The old grandmother smilingly turned around and went to the kitchen.
Lin Cheng breathed a sigh of relief and glanced at the little one who was contentedly holding a bottle in Jiang Yu’s arms, with tear marks still hanging from the corners of his eyes, and whispered, “Fortunately, Naonao cries like a human, otherwise, we’d be in a lot of trouble.”
The little guy’s nickname is Jiang Naonao (1), for no other reason than that he can cry too much. When he was born, all the mermaids in the clan have come to see him, and they surround him every day since a baby born from a merman was rare. As a result, in less than two months, they couldn’t take his crying anymore, so they would hide when they saw him. The patriarch grandfather said that it was because he is of mixed blood that he was noisy since he was born. He was weaker than the average mermaid baby and couldn’t eat the food at the bottom of the sea. Unlike Lu Qing’s son, who was already two years old, after only two days at the bottom of the sea, he was swimming around with his little tail wagging every day to attract fish and turtles, playing happily.
And probably because of the mixed blood and the small age, the child would cry tears like a human.
After Naonao drank a whole bottle of milk, he burped and fell asleep in Jiang Yu’s arms. Jiang Yu carefully put him on the bed, and Lin Cheng went to the kitchen to help the grandmother make breakfast.
Jiang Yu sat by the bed and looked at the little one who was sleeping with his eyes closed. When they went ashore, the little one was naked. Lin Cheng took advantage of the night to run to the home of a family with a small baby, and in exchange for a pearl, they obtained a change of clothes and a small quilt.
After eating breakfast, Jiang Yu and Lin Cheng were planning to leave with Naonao. The grandmother did not feel comfortable leaving two half-grown children with a baby and asked the grandfather next door to drive a tractor to send the two to the town to take the taxi. Knowing that they have no money on them, she stuffed a few hundred dollars into them.
The two did not resist. When they left, Lin Cheng quietly left a few pearls under the pillow, as a thank you gift.
The tractor drove to the town for half an hour, and there were cars in the town going directly to Linghai City. The uncle warmly sent them to the bus station before leaving.
When they were in the village, Jiang Yu and Lin Cheng showed their faces without any scruples because there were only grandparents who didn’t chase stars and didn’t know them. It was different when they got to town. Lin Cheng’s song was playing in a canteen next to the bus station.
Lin Cheng was more famous than Jiang Yu, so Jiang Yu asked Lin Cheng to wait outside while holding Naonao. He went into the canteen, bought a hat and a mask and came out. The two covered their faces before getting into the car to Linghai City.
From the town to Linghai City it was around three hours. Jiang Yu was afraid Naonao cried on the road, before getting on the bus he gave him a bottle of milk powder. Naonao likes milk very much, so after drinking the milk he quietly laid in Jiang Yu’s arms asleep.
When they arrived at Linghai City, the two did not dare to return to the house where they lived before, but took a taxi to the old city, looking for a cheap small hotel to stay in.
Since Naonao had drunk milk, he was no longer crying. Lin Cheng accompanied him in the room to play while Jiang Yu went downstairs to find the innkeeper to borrow a computer. He wanted to see what has happened in the two months they were away.
It took about half an hour for Jiang Yu to return, and Lin Cheng was teasing Naonao with a small ball. Seeing Jiang Yu come back, he hurriedly threw the small ball to Naonao and asked, “How was it?”
Jiang Yu looked puzzled, “The Internet has no news of our disappearance. The company’s official blog said that you and I were recording a variety show.”
“Ha?” Lin Cheng was stunned. They took the child away at that time and suddenly disappeared. How did it become in the recording of a variety show?
“Did Gu Yang do it?” Since it was an official blog, it must have been ordered from above. Jiang Yu said as he remembered Gu Yang who was also at the hotel the day they took the child away.
Lin Cheng wrinkled his eyebrows. If it was Gu Yang, what did he want to do? Pei Yun’s child was missing, and he did not suspect him. Did Pin Yun no go to Gu Yang? He did not answer Gu Yang’s phone that day, and Gu Yang’s most precious car was randomly thrown on the beach. Gu Yang should know that he stole the child.
Both people were puzzled. Lin Cheng sighed and said, “Do not think about it anymore. We first need to get some money.”
In addition to the hundreds of dollars given by the grandmother, the two men were penniless. At that time, they thought that they would not go ashore when they went back to the sea, so the two of them didn’t bring anything. Now when they have come ashore once again, they were worried that Pei Yun will arrest them at the house where they lived before, and dare not go back to get the money.
As soon as Jiang Yu turned his head, he saw that Naonao stuffed the ball into his mouth and quickly took it out. When you make a fuss (Naonao), you are about to cry (2).
Jiang Yu quickly took out the dried fish that he bought in the small supermarket downstairs and stuffed it into his mouth. Only then did he stop crying. He held the dried fish in his little hands and used his small teeth to chirp and grind his teeth.
In order to eat, the baby mermaid will grow teeth at birth, and the same will be true of Naonao. The child didn’t like the food at the bottom of the sea, so he was very hungry when he was at the bottom of the sea. When he got ashore, he put everything in his mouth.
“I’m going to boil water to give him milk powder.” Lin Cheng went to boil hot water. Jiang Yu glanced at the remaining milk powder and felt the money left in his pocket. Sigh. The money is not enough for milk powder.
Naonao drank the milk and fell asleep. Lin Cheng took out the pearls that the two had saved from the bottom of the sea and said, “I’m going out to change money.”
When he first went ashore without money, he lived by exchanging pearls for money. Fast transactions. Although the price was not as good as in the regular store, they will not ask the origin of the pearl, nor will they be curious about his identity.
“It’s better for me to go. You stay with Naonao.” Jiang Yu took the pearls from his hand. Lin Cheng was too famous, and he was afraid that Lin Cheng would be recognized.
Moreover, he glanced at Lin Cheng’s small belly, which also carried a fish egg. It had been two months, and because Gu Yang was not around, Lin Cheng was a bit unstable recently. He was not at ease with Lin Cheng going out alone. This time they came back onshore for two reasons, in addition to Naonao not being used to the food under the sea, the most important was that Lin Cheng was pregnant with a fish egg.
Lin Cheng did not say anything but told Jiang Yu the way to contact the man that he used to sell pearls to, and then urged him to pay attention to safety.
Jiang Yu came out of the hotel and took a taxi to the address Lin Cheng told him to go. The person’s address was not far, just about ten minutes. It is a small Internet cafe hidden at the end of the street.
The internet cafe was pandemonium, with people smoking, and from time to time came the sound of cursing and hard tapping on the keyboard. Jiang Yu pulled the mask upward and pressed down the duck-tongued hat, walked to the front desk at the door and knocked on the table, and said, “I’m looking for your boss.”
The receptionist was a young boy who was playing a game. He was very upset by the interruption and asked impatiently, “Who are you? What do you want from our boss? If you want to surf the Internet, it’s five dollars an hour, with a deposit of twenty dollars. Show me your ID card.”
“I don’t want to go online. I want to see your boss.” Jiang Yu patiently said again, “You ask him if he wants the goods, he will know.”
The young boy looked at him twice before reluctantly going upstairs. After a while, he came down and said, “The boss wants you to go up.”
Jiang Yu followed the young boy upstairs and went to the innermost room, where a man in his thirties was sitting on the sofa looking at his phone and smoking.
Seeing him come in, the man waved his hand and told the young boy to close the door when going out, then asked Jiang Yu, “Where are the goods?”
Jiang Yu took out a plastic bag from the bag he was carrying, opened it, and pushed it in front of him.
The man put out his cigarette, reached out, grabbed a handful of pearls, and exclaimed, “It’s been a long time since I’ve seen such good quality pearls. I remember the last time I saw such good pearls was two years ago. It was that boy who introduced you here. What is your relationship with him?”
Jiang Yu said, “Nothing to do with you. Do you want these pearls?”
The man put down the pearls and laughed: “Yes, of course, I want them. Wait, I’ll go get you the money.”
He got up and squatted in front of a safe next to him. Jiang Yu waited for a while and urged, “Have you got the money out?”
“Not yet, wait a minute. What was the password again?” The man muttered without looking back.
Hearing his words, Jiang Yu’s heart tightened. This man was lying. Why?
He did not have time to think about it. He put away the bag with pearls and said quickly: “I’m not selling.” And walked towards the door.
The man was stunned for a moment. He didn’t expect this to be easy, but he didn’t expect for the young man to be so alert. He quickly turned around and saw that the young man had already opened the door and went out.
Jiang Yu hugged the pearl and flew downstairs, went to the door, a black SUV rushed over, and stopped in front of him. The door pulled open and two burly men in sunglasses and suits came down, reached out, and yanked him.
“That’s him.” The owner of the Internet cafe came out after him and said to the two strong men.
Without waiting for Jiang Yu to speak, the strong man on the left took out a handkerchief and stuffed it into his mouth, then used a cloth bag to cover his head and pushed him into the car.
Jiang Yu was pinned in the back seat by two strong men, unable to move. He couldn’t see the road, and he couldn’t speak, his heart beating wildly. Were they Pei Yun’s men? How could they have found him so quickly.
Jiang Yu’s heart was panicking, and he didn’t know how long the car had been driving before it stopped. Jiang Yu was handcuffed with his hands in his back and was dragged out of the car by the strong men.
His feet stumbled. Jiang Yu only felt that he entered the elevator and quickly came out, stepping on a thick carpet under his feet, and then seemed to be brought into a room. The strong man who grabbed him spoke: “Boss, the man was brought.”
“Who told you to tie him up like this?” The voice of a strange man gritting his teeth rang out in the room, “Untie him, and take the cloth bag off his head.”
The hands that were cuffed backward were released, and the cloth bag over his head was taken off. Jiang Yu’s frightened eyes froze when he saw the man in front of him.
The man also froze when he saw him, then said angrily, “Where is Lin Cheng? Where is he?”
Jiang Yu looked at the man and sighed with slight relief. Great, the person who had arrested him was Gu Yang, not Pei Yun.
Gu Yang was going crazy. After the hotel that day, Lin Cheng disappeared without a trace for two months. He asked people to look everywhere, only to find his car and the mobile phone Lin Cheng had left by the sea. In order to find the person, he almost searched the entire Linghai City, but fortunately, he also has a relationship on the gray side. It was found that Lin Cheng had a business transaction with an Internet cafe owner two years ago.
At that time, he felt that there was little hope. After all, Lin Cheng had contact with the owner of the Internet cafe two years ago. However, he still threatened the boss and left his contact information. Unexpectedly, he was really caught. As soon as the boss called him, he immediately sent someone over to arrest him.
“…… What do you want to do to Cheng Cheng?” Seeing him so angry, Jiang Yu asked warily.
“What do I want to do to him? That’s what I want to ask you guys. What are you doing stealing someone else’s child?” Gu Yang was angry and speechless. Before Lin Cheng asked him for invitations to the banquet, he got two of them without saying a word. He didn’t expect that the purpose of going to the party was to steal someone’s child.
Lin Cheng said that day that he was a little uncomfortable, went upstairs to rest, and came down after a while, saying that he wanted to go back early. He wanted to send him home, but Lin Cheng refused. He asked for his precious car key and left first.
Not long after Lin Cheng left, the nanny of the Pei family came down in a panic, saying that the child was taken away by a bodyguard and disappeared. Pei Yun went to question the bodyguard, but the bodyguard had a look of disorientation and couldn’t speak. Pei Yun’s face changed at that time and asked the remaining bodyguards to check who was not in the hall.
He felt that something was not right and immediately called Lin Cheng. No one answered, and then he turned off the phone. He made a decision immediately, and immediately called the hotel manager and asked him to set off a fire alarm first, scaring everyone in the lobby to run outside the hotel, making it impossible for Pei Yun to find out who was not in the lobby. Then he asked the manager to take out the monitoring of the day, saying to the outside world that the monitoring of the day was broken.
Later, he looked at the surveillance cameras in the hall. As soon as Lin Cheng went upstairs, Jiang Yu went to the bathroom. Until Lin Cheng went downstairs again and the child disappeared, Jiang Yu never came back, apparently slipped away through the back door over there.
Fortunately, that hotel was one of his family’s properties, otherwise, with this monitoring, Pei Yun will be able to call the police to arrest the two.
“What exactly are you doing stealing people’s children?” Gu Yang asked with a taut face. He dares to go missing, and for two months.
“Although Pei Yun is the father of the child, he is not good to the child.” Pei Yun should have been hiding the true identities of his son and Lu Qing and never told anyone. Remembering that he had never heard anything related to mermaids on the internet or here with Guy Yang, Jiang Yu calmed down and explained, “The one who gave birth to Pei Yun’s son is a friend of Cheng Cheng and me. We are helping him (3) get the child back.”
The person who gave birth to Pei Yun’s son? Gu Yang thought this statement was a bit strange, he asked, “You mean the mother of the child? Wasn’t that child born as a surrogate?”
“No.” Jiang Yu shook his head. “It was born by our friend. Pei Yun locked up our friend and separated him from the child. He managed to escape, so we helped him save the child and sent him and the child back to his hometown. The old home is very far away, and we were worried that Pei Yun will not stop looking for them, so Cheng Cheng and I, left with him.”
So it is for his friends. Gu Yang pondered so that the explanation. It made sense.
“Where’s Lin Cheng?” He wrinkled his eyebrows, not very happy to open his mouth to ask. This is in Linghai City, Pei Yun is nothing. He didn’t ask him for help and kidnapped the child during his birthday. He has to crack his brain to see what is in it.
Jiang Yu hesitated slightly for a moment and said, “I’ll take you there.”
“Let’s go.” Gu Yang picked up the coat on the sofa and headed for the door.
Jiang Yu followed him out the door and surveyed the surroundings. This should be a club. The decoration is very expensive at first glance, the thick carpet stepped on it without sound. When they came around the corner, Gu Yang saw someone coming towards him and let out a low curse, and quickly put the coat he was holding over Jiang Yu’s head and said quickly, “Hide behind me.”
Before Jiang Yu could react, he was pulled behind him. Then he heard a voice coming from the front, “Yo, Young Master Gu is also here.”
“Mr. Pei, President Qin, why are the two of you coming up?” Gu Yang opened his mouth and asked the manager on the side unhappily, “Didn’t I tell you not to let people come up to this floor?”
This club is also one of his family’s properties. He just instructed to not let other people up.
The manager said, “Mr. Pei and Mr. Qin were invited by Mr. Gu to come up.”
Gu Yang had a brother who had more power than him in the company.
“It seems that we are the ones who interrupted Young Master Gu’s date.” The voice from earlier spoke again, “President Qin, let’s go in first.”
“Hmm.” A man answered in a low voice.
When he heard Gu Yan say, President Qin, Jiang Yu had a vague premonition. When hearing the man’s voice, he clutched the coat Gu Yang threw over his head, biting his lips tightly, unable to resist the urge to probe from behind Gu Yang and take a look at Qin Shen.
Notes:
Literally Nanonao (闹闹) means to cry or to make a fuss. Lol who would name their child like that. It’s a pun with the bb name but it doesn’t’ make much sense in English. In Chinese he and she are pronounced pretty similar so one is talking about a male and the other is talking about a woman.
Two months later, in the courtyard of a farmhouse in a small remote fishing village around Linghai City, Jiang Yu was walking back and forth with a crying baby in his arms, patting him. The door of the room was pushed open and Lin Cheng hurried in with a bottle of milk powder, “Yu’er, hurry up. Here is the milk powder.”
Jiang Yu hurriedly took it and fed it into the little one’s mouth. The crying finally stopped. The little one hugged the bottle with two little hands, gurgling and drinking eagerly.
Lin Cheng wiped his sweat, and a silver-haired grandmother followed him through the door, asking with a smile, “The child is not crying anymore?”
Jiang Yu smiled gratefully at her, “Yes, he has finally stopped crying. Thank you, grandma.”
“It’s okay.” The old grandmother smiled and waved her hand. These two youngsters appeared in their village last night and both of them were not very old, even more, they had a child with them. The two call themselves brothers, saying that the child belongs to their sister, but she is busy, and their parents at home don´t have time, so the two of them took the child to visit their sister in Linghai City. Who would have thought that their wallets and luggage have been stolen along the way.
Seeing that these two young people are neat and well-behaved, and the children stick to them when they are not crying, the grandmother didn’t suspect that they were bad people. Seeing that they were penniless, she took pity on them, so she kept them in her house for one night.
Early this morning, the child cried. It seems to be hungry. The only person that lived in the house was the old grandmother, so there was no food for a baby of just a few months old. The grandmother took Lin Cheng out to find milk powder, most of the village’s young and strong people went out to work, leaving only some elderly people and small children. The grandmother took Lin Cheng to the end of the village, where a family also had a baby of about the same age.
The family was very enthusiastic, and when they heard that a little milk baby was crying from hunger, they not only gave a box of milk powder but also helped to brew it in a clean bottle and let him bring it back directly.
“I’ll go make you breakfast.” The old grandmother smilingly turned around and went to the kitchen.
Lin Cheng breathed a sigh of relief and glanced at the little one who was contentedly holding a bottle in Jiang Yu’s arms, with tear marks still hanging from the corners of his eyes, and whispered, “Fortunately, Naonao cries like a human, otherwise, we’d be in a lot of trouble.”
The little guy’s nickname is Jiang Naonao (1), for no other reason than that he can cry too much. When he was born, all the mermaids in the clan have come to see him, and they surround him every day since a baby born from a merman was rare. As a result, in less than two months, they couldn’t take his crying anymore, so they would hide when they saw him. The patriarch grandfather said that it was because he is of mixed blood that he was noisy since he was born. He was weaker than the average mermaid baby and couldn’t eat the food at the bottom of the sea. Unlike Lu Qing’s son, who was already two years old, after only two days at the bottom of the sea, he was swimming around with his little tail wagging every day to attract fish and turtles, playing happily.
And probably because of the mixed blood and the small age, the child would cry tears like a human.
After Naonao drank a whole bottle of milk, he burped and fell asleep in Jiang Yu’s arms. Jiang Yu carefully put him on the bed, and Lin Cheng went to the kitchen to help the grandmother make breakfast.
Jiang Yu sat by the bed and looked at the little one who was sleeping with his eyes closed. When they went ashore, the little one was naked. Lin Cheng took advantage of the night to run to the home of a family with a small baby, and in exchange for a pearl, they obtained a change of clothes and a small quilt.
After eating breakfast, Jiang Yu and Lin Cheng were planning to leave with Naonao. The grandmother did not feel comfortable leaving two half-grown children with a baby and asked the grandfather next door to drive a tractor to send the two to the town to take the taxi. Knowing that they have no money on them, she stuffed a few hundred dollars into them.
The two did not resist. When they left, Lin Cheng quietly left a few pearls under the pillow, as a thank you gift.
The tractor drove to the town for half an hour, and there were cars in the town going directly to Linghai City. The uncle warmly sent them to the bus station before leaving.
When they were in the village, Jiang Yu and Lin Cheng showed their faces without any scruples because there were only grandparents who didn’t chase stars and didn’t know them. It was different when they got to town. Lin Cheng’s song was playing in a canteen next to the bus station.
Lin Cheng was more famous than Jiang Yu, so Jiang Yu asked Lin Cheng to wait outside while holding Naonao. He went into the canteen, bought a hat and a mask and came out. The two covered their faces before getting into the car to Linghai City.
From the town to Linghai City it was around three hours. Jiang Yu was afraid Naonao cried on the road, before getting on the bus he gave him a bottle of milk powder. Naonao likes milk very much, so after drinking the milk he quietly laid in Jiang Yu’s arms asleep.
When they arrived at Linghai City, the two did not dare to return to the house where they lived before, but took a taxi to the old city, looking for a cheap small hotel to stay in.
Since Naonao had drunk milk, he was no longer crying. Lin Cheng accompanied him in the room to play while Jiang Yu went downstairs to find the innkeeper to borrow a computer. He wanted to see what has happened in the two months they were away.
It took about half an hour for Jiang Yu to return, and Lin Cheng was teasing Naonao with a small ball. Seeing Jiang Yu come back, he hurriedly threw the small ball to Naonao and asked, “How was it?”
Jiang Yu looked puzzled, “The Internet has no news of our disappearance. The company’s official blog said that you and I were recording a variety show.”
“Ha?” Lin Cheng was stunned. They took the child away at that time and suddenly disappeared. How did it become in the recording of a variety show?
“Did Gu Yang do it?” Since it was an official blog, it must have been ordered from above. Jiang Yu said as he remembered Gu Yang who was also at the hotel the day they took the child away.
Lin Cheng wrinkled his eyebrows. If it was Gu Yang, what did he want to do? Pei Yun’s child was missing, and he did not suspect him. Did Pin Yun no go to Gu Yang? He did not answer Gu Yang’s phone that day, and Gu Yang’s most precious car was randomly thrown on the beach. Gu Yang should know that he stole the child.
Both people were puzzled. Lin Cheng sighed and said, “Do not think about it anymore. We first need to get some money.”
In addition to the hundreds of dollars given by the grandmother, the two men were penniless. At that time, they thought that they would not go ashore when they went back to the sea, so the two of them didn’t bring anything. Now when they have come ashore once again, they were worried that Pei Yun will arrest them at the house where they lived before, and dare not go back to get the money.
As soon as Jiang Yu turned his head, he saw that Naonao stuffed the ball into his mouth and quickly took it out. When you make a fuss (Naonao), you are about to cry (2).
Jiang Yu quickly took out the dried fish that he bought in the small supermarket downstairs and stuffed it into his mouth. Only then did he stop crying. He held the dried fish in his little hands and used his small teeth to chirp and grind his teeth.
In order to eat, the baby mermaid will grow teeth at birth, and the same will be true of Naonao. The child didn’t like the food at the bottom of the sea, so he was very hungry when he was at the bottom of the sea. When he got ashore, he put everything in his mouth.
“I’m going to boil water to give him milk powder.” Lin Cheng went to boil hot water. Jiang Yu glanced at the remaining milk powder and felt the money left in his pocket. Sigh. The money is not enough for milk powder.
Naonao drank the milk and fell asleep. Lin Cheng took out the pearls that the two had saved from the bottom of the sea and said, “I’m going out to change money.”
When he first went ashore without money, he lived by exchanging pearls for money. Fast transactions. Although the price was not as good as in the regular store, they will not ask the origin of the pearl, nor will they be curious about his identity.
“It’s better for me to go. You stay with Naonao.” Jiang Yu took the pearls from his hand. Lin Cheng was too famous, and he was afraid that Lin Cheng would be recognized.
Moreover, he glanced at Lin Cheng’s small belly, which also carried a fish egg. It had been two months, and because Gu Yang was not around, Lin Cheng was a bit unstable recently. He was not at ease with Lin Cheng going out alone. This time they came back onshore for two reasons, in addition to Naonao not being used to the food under the sea, the most important was that Lin Cheng was pregnant with a fish egg.
Lin Cheng did not say anything but told Jiang Yu the way to contact the man that he used to sell pearls to, and then urged him to pay attention to safety.
Jiang Yu came out of the hotel and took a taxi to the address Lin Cheng told him to go. The person’s address was not far, just about ten minutes. It is a small Internet cafe hidden at the end of the street.
The internet cafe was pandemonium, with people smoking, and from time to time came the sound of cursing and hard tapping on the keyboard. Jiang Yu pulled the mask upward and pressed down the duck-tongued hat, walked to the front desk at the door and knocked on the table, and said, “I’m looking for your boss.”
The receptionist was a young boy who was playing a game. He was very upset by the interruption and asked impatiently, “Who are you? What do you want from our boss? If you want to surf the Internet, it’s five dollars an hour, with a deposit of twenty dollars. Show me your ID card.”
“I don’t want to go online. I want to see your boss.” Jiang Yu patiently said again, “You ask him if he wants the goods, he will know.”
The young boy looked at him twice before reluctantly going upstairs. After a while, he came down and said, “The boss wants you to go up.”
Jiang Yu followed the young boy upstairs and went to the innermost room, where a man in his thirties was sitting on the sofa looking at his phone and smoking.
Seeing him come in, the man waved his hand and told the young boy to close the door when going out, then asked Jiang Yu, “Where are the goods?”
Jiang Yu took out a plastic bag from the bag he was carrying, opened it, and pushed it in front of him.
The man put out his cigarette, reached out, grabbed a handful of pearls, and exclaimed, “It’s been a long time since I’ve seen such good quality pearls. I remember the last time I saw such good pearls was two years ago. It was that boy who introduced you here. What is your relationship with him?”
Jiang Yu said, “Nothing to do with you. Do you want these pearls?”
The man put down the pearls and laughed: “Yes, of course, I want them. Wait, I’ll go get you the money.”
He got up and squatted in front of a safe next to him. Jiang Yu waited for a while and urged, “Have you got the money out?”
“Not yet, wait a minute. What was the password again?” The man muttered without looking back.
Hearing his words, Jiang Yu’s heart tightened. This man was lying. Why?
He did not have time to think about it. He put away the bag with pearls and said quickly: “I’m not selling.” And walked towards the door.
The man was stunned for a moment. He didn’t expect this to be easy, but he didn’t expect for the young man to be so alert. He quickly turned around and saw that the young man had already opened the door and went out.
Jiang Yu hugged the pearl and flew downstairs, went to the door, a black SUV rushed over, and stopped in front of him. The door pulled open and two burly men in sunglasses and suits came down, reached out, and yanked him.
“That’s him.” The owner of the Internet cafe came out after him and said to the two strong men.
Without waiting for Jiang Yu to speak, the strong man on the left took out a handkerchief and stuffed it into his mouth, then used a cloth bag to cover his head and pushed him into the car.
Jiang Yu was pinned in the back seat by two strong men, unable to move. He couldn’t see the road, and he couldn’t speak, his heart beating wildly. Were they Pei Yun’s men? How could they have found him so quickly.
Jiang Yu’s heart was panicking, and he didn’t know how long the car had been driving before it stopped. Jiang Yu was handcuffed with his hands in his back and was dragged out of the car by the strong men.
His feet stumbled. Jiang Yu only felt that he entered the elevator and quickly came out, stepping on a thick carpet under his feet, and then seemed to be brought into a room. The strong man who grabbed him spoke: “Boss, the man was brought.”
“Who told you to tie him up like this?” The voice of a strange man gritting his teeth rang out in the room, “Untie him, and take the cloth bag off his head.”
The hands that were cuffed backward were released, and the cloth bag over his head was taken off. Jiang Yu’s frightened eyes froze when he saw the man in front of him.
The man also froze when he saw him, then said angrily, “Where is Lin Cheng? Where is he?”
Jiang Yu looked at the man and sighed with slight relief. Great, the person who had arrested him was Gu Yang, not Pei Yun.
Gu Yang was going crazy. After the hotel that day, Lin Cheng disappeared without a trace for two months. He asked people to look everywhere, only to find his car and the mobile phone Lin Cheng had left by the sea. In order to find the person, he almost searched the entire Linghai City, but fortunately, he also has a relationship on the gray side. It was found that Lin Cheng had a business transaction with an Internet cafe owner two years ago.
At that time, he felt that there was little hope. After all, Lin Cheng had contact with the owner of the Internet cafe two years ago. However, he still threatened the boss and left his contact information. Unexpectedly, he was really caught. As soon as the boss called him, he immediately sent someone over to arrest him.
“…… What do you want to do to Cheng Cheng?” Seeing him so angry, Jiang Yu asked warily.
“What do I want to do to him? That’s what I want to ask you guys. What are you doing stealing someone else’s child?” Gu Yang was angry and speechless. Before Lin Cheng asked him for invitations to the banquet, he got two of them without saying a word. He didn’t expect that the purpose of going to the party was to steal someone’s child.
Lin Cheng said that day that he was a little uncomfortable, went upstairs to rest, and came down after a while, saying that he wanted to go back early. He wanted to send him home, but Lin Cheng refused. He asked for his precious car key and left first.
Not long after Lin Cheng left, the nanny of the Pei family came down in a panic, saying that the child was taken away by a bodyguard and disappeared. Pei Yun went to question the bodyguard, but the bodyguard had a look of disorientation and couldn’t speak. Pei Yun’s face changed at that time and asked the remaining bodyguards to check who was not in the hall.
He felt that something was not right and immediately called Lin Cheng. No one answered, and then he turned off the phone. He made a decision immediately, and immediately called the hotel manager and asked him to set off a fire alarm first, scaring everyone in the lobby to run outside the hotel, making it impossible for Pei Yun to find out who was not in the lobby. Then he asked the manager to take out the monitoring of the day, saying to the outside world that the monitoring of the day was broken.
Later, he looked at the surveillance cameras in the hall. As soon as Lin Cheng went upstairs, Jiang Yu went to the bathroom. Until Lin Cheng went downstairs again and the child disappeared, Jiang Yu never came back, apparently slipped away through the back door over there.
Fortunately, that hotel was one of his family’s properties, otherwise, with this monitoring, Pei Yun will be able to call the police to arrest the two.
“What exactly are you doing stealing people’s children?” Gu Yang asked with a taut face. He dares to go missing, and for two months.
“Although Pei Yun is the father of the child, he is not good to the child.” Pei Yun should have been hiding the true identities of his son and Lu Qing and never told anyone. Remembering that he had never heard anything related to mermaids on the internet or here with Guy Yang, Jiang Yu calmed down and explained, “The one who gave birth to Pei Yun’s son is a friend of Cheng Cheng and me. We are helping him (3) get the child back.”
The person who gave birth to Pei Yun’s son? Gu Yang thought this statement was a bit strange, he asked, “You mean the mother of the child? Wasn’t that child born as a surrogate?”
“No.” Jiang Yu shook his head. “It was born by our friend. Pei Yun locked up our friend and separated him from the child. He managed to escape, so we helped him save the child and sent him and the child back to his hometown. The old home is very far away, and we were worried that Pei Yun will not stop looking for them, so Cheng Cheng and I, left with him.”
So it is for his friends. Gu Yang pondered so that the explanation. It made sense.
“Where’s Lin Cheng?” He wrinkled his eyebrows, not very happy to open his mouth to ask. This is in Linghai City, Pei Yun is nothing. He didn’t ask him for help and kidnapped the child during his birthday. He has to crack his brain to see what is in it.
Jiang Yu hesitated slightly for a moment and said, “I’ll take you there.”
“Let’s go.” Gu Yang picked up the coat on the sofa and headed for the door.
Jiang Yu followed him out the door and surveyed the surroundings. This should be a club. The decoration is very expensive at first glance, the thick carpet stepped on it without sound. When they came around the corner, Gu Yang saw someone coming towards him and let out a low curse, and quickly put the coat he was holding over Jiang Yu’s head and said quickly, “Hide behind me.”
Before Jiang Yu could react, he was pulled behind him. Then he heard a voice coming from the front, “Yo, Young Master Gu is also here.”
“Mr. Pei, President Qin, why are the two of you coming up?” Gu Yang opened his mouth and asked the manager on the side unhappily, “Didn’t I tell you not to let people come up to this floor?”
This club is also one of his family’s properties. He just instructed to not let other people up.
The manager said, “Mr. Pei and Mr. Qin were invited by Mr. Gu to come up.”
Gu Yang had a brother who had more power than him in the company.
“It seems that we are the ones who interrupted Young Master Gu’s date.” The voice from earlier spoke again, “President Qin, let’s go in first.”
“Hmm.” A man answered in a low voice.
When he heard Gu Yan say, President Qin, Jiang Yu had a vague premonition. When hearing the man’s voice, he clutched the coat Gu Yang threw over his head, biting his lips tightly, unable to resist the urge to probe from behind Gu Yang and take a look at Qin Shen.
Notes:
Literally Nanonao (闹闹) means to cry or to make a fuss. Lol who would name their child like that. It’s a pun with the bb name but it doesn’t’ make much sense in English. In Chinese he and she are pronounced pretty similar so one is talking about a male and the other is talking about a woman.