An hour and a half later, Bai Zhenzhen and Huo Xiang walked out from the gate of the Civil Affairs Bureau with a little red notebook each.
Huo Xiang snorted.
Without him, would Su Meng and Bai Zhenzhen know each other?
“Okay, okay, let’s have a good meal and celebrate!” Bai Zhenzhen said cheerfully and patted Huo Xiang’s shoulder again, “Master Huo, you treat me!”
“No problem!” Huo Xiang agreed without hesitation. After all, he is now a rich man with 10,000 yuan.
“By the way, your identity…hasn’t been activated yet.” Bai Zhenzhen lowered her voice and asked Huo Xiang.
This kind of thing really can’t be said.
At this moment, the voice of the system rang in Huo Xiang’s mind.
–System: “Congratulations to the knight for completing side quest three! Mission reward will be activated soon!”
— Huo Xiang: “Come on! I’m ready!”
–System: “Okay, now the system will take you to meet the key person—your grandfather, Mr. Huo Zhengqi.”
Huo Xiang looked at Bai Zhen Zhen with a face full of excitement and said, “Zhen Zhen, we’ll be able to meet our grandfather soon!”
“Really?!” Bai Zhenzhen was also very happy.
Although Huo Xiang had also told her that the appearance of Huo’s family was only the system’s setting and they were not real.
But people are not grass and trees. Even if you know it’s just a dream, you will still involuntarily want to cherish the beauty in front of you, even if you are in a dream.
“Are you going to see Grandpa now?” Bai Zhenzhen asked again, “Should I go with you?”
Huo Xiang was silent for a while and asked the system in his head, and after getting an affirmative answer, he said to Bai Zhenzhen, “We can go together.”
“That’s good!”
Su Meng asked curiously: “See your grandpa? Which grandpa are you seeing?”
“Of course, it’s my grandfather!” Huo Xiang replied proudly.
“Your grandpa is here too?”
Bai Zhenzhen came on a whim and said with a smile, “Why don’t you let Sister Meng go with us too?”
Thinking about it, it is also a scene that can make people dumbfounded, and it is not bad to “show off” in front of Su Meng.
“Ah, I won’t go. You two are going to meet your parents, and I, an outsider, should not get involved.” Su Meng hesitated.
“It doesn’t matter. It’s the first time we’re going to see his grandfather. Huo Xiang is an orphan. He didn’t find his relatives until today, and they haven’t had time to recognize each other yet!”
Su Meng was stunned: “What? An orphan? What is this situation?”
Bai Zhenzhen couldn’t help laughing, and Huo Xiang also burst out laughing.
“Hey, hey, don’t you laugh! Didn’t you say that the two of you are distant relatives, and you were married by your parents since you were young?” Su Meng realized that she had been deceived in the middle of her speech, and her tone immediately raised a few points: “Okay, you dared to play me like a monkey! It’s a shame that I trusted you so much! I thought there was such a poisonous oath!”
“Okay, okay, I’m going to treat you to a big meal today; can’t I apologize to you?” Bai Zhenzhen was afraid that Su Meng would be angry, so she hurriedly hugged her and coaxed her, “By the way, Huo Xiang will go to meet his relatives later, and there is a big surprise about to be revealed!”
“What surprise?” Su Meng got interested in this topic again.
Bai Zhenzhen squinted her eyes: “That surprise can be described as—stone shattering, appalling!!”
After eating and drinking, Huo Xiang followed the system’s prompts, took a taxi, and headed for the destination.
Huo Xiang walked briskly, and his tone of the answer was a little fluttering: “Then what? If it wasn’t for the password my grandfather gave me, how could I get in? The security in this villa area is very strict, and the password is changed every day. Only the owner will know.”
Su Meng nodded thoughtfully.
She tugged on Bai Zhenzhen’s sleeve again and asked, “Is Huo Xiang’s family so rich? Then how did he become an orphan?”
“It was because of a car accident.” Huo Xiang responded first.
After all, this is not the first time his identity has been activated, and Huo Xiang already knows his “life experience” well. He roughly described the story that he was in a car accident with his parents when he was three years old, and he got separated in the car accident.
When Su Meng heard this, her sympathy overflowed again.
“Wuwu, how pitiful! You became an orphan when you were three years old, and you haven’t been able to find your relatives for more than 20 years. It’s miserable…” Su Meng sobbed twice, and suddenly she was taken aback and asked again, “Then how did you find your grandfather this time?”
“It was my grandfather who discovered me somehow, then found out my mobile phone number, sent me a text message, and asked me to meet him at his place and confirm my identity, by the way.”
“So that’s the case…” Su Meng suddenly realized
Bai Zhenzhen asked casually, “Was it like this last time?”
Huo Xiang nodded: “Almost. However, the meeting place was in a hotel, not a villa.”
Bai Zhenzhen said: “It seems that the system has been upgraded, and the facilities are much more upscale!”
The two looked at each other and smiled.
Su Meng on the side was puzzled again: “What are you two talking about? Why can’t I understand a word? Did Huo Xiang go to see Grandpa?”
“Yes, I did, but…failed.” Huo Xiang prevaricated casually. (T.N.: Huo Xiang is dodging her question here.)
Su Meng made up some plots by herself and then sighed, “Hey! This kind of thing makes me afraid of oolong! The hope that was finally ignited was finally extinguished…”
“Don’t worry, it’s not an oolong this time!” Bai Zhenzhen gave Su Meng a bright look. “Besides, it will surprise you!”
(T.N. I think here oolong means the complexity of their situation; I couldn’t find any other meaning to this.)
Su Meng raised her eyebrows: “You have said this many times; I want to see what kind of surprise it is!”
The three of them walked for five minutes before passing through the huge villa area and coming to the innermost, largest, and most gorgeous villa.
“I’ll ring the doorbell.” Huo Xiang said.
Bai Zhenzhen nodded, then rubbed her hands together nervously, looking forward to this meeting very much.
“Ding dong—”
“ooooh!”
As the doorbell rang, Su Meng suddenly yelled.
Huo Xiang turned around and looked puzzled at her. Bai Zhenzhen on the side was also very puzzled.
“I remember! I know where this is!” Su Meng spoke loudly.
Bai Zhenzhen frowned and asked, “Have you been here before?”
Su Meng’s eyes widened as she looked at Bai Zhenzhen and asked back, “Zhen Zhen, what are you talking about? Don’t you remember? Not only have I been here, you’ve been here too!”
“I …… have also been here?” The corners of Bai Zhenzhen’s mouth twitched.
She was sure she didn’t have amnesia.
However, she couldn’t remember where this place was at all.
“To be precise, you brought me here!” Su Meng said earnestly, “Just a month ago, Leng Haochen held a party, and you said that it was embarrassing for you to come here alone, so you drag me along. Did you forget it?”
“What?!” Bai Zhenzhen was completely dumbfounded.
Huo Xiang, who was standing at the doorbell, was also at a loss.
With a trembling voice, Bai Zhenzhen confirmed to Su Meng again: “Are you… sure?”
“Sure! Sure! One hundred percent sure!” Su Meng nodded solemnly, pointed at the door of the villa, and said firmly, “Here——100% is Leng Haochen’s villa!”
As soon as Su Meng finished speaking, the door of the villa was opened from the inside.
An old man with gray hair came out slowly, and his eyes fell on Huo Xiang.
“Huo Xiang, my grandson…it’s you!” Mr. Huo was so excited that he couldn’t hold it back; his scarred eyes instantly turned red.
Huo Xiang quickly held the hand that Mr. Huo extended.
Compared with the embarrassment of “recognizing the ancestors and returning to the clan” the first time, this time he has to distract himself a lot.
“Grandpa, it’s me.” Huo Xiang’s voice was also a little choked up.
Suddenly, she remembered Su Meng’s words just now, so she asked Su Meng: “Sister Meng, didn’t you say that this house is the villa of Leng Hao Chen’s family? How come the one who came out was not him?”
Su Meng answered without thinking: “Of course, he’s not the one who came out! Have you ever seen the owner of the villa personally come out to open the door?”
Su Meng’s words gave Bai Zhenzhen a very “scary” thought.
She couldn’t be sure, nor did she dare to be sure.
“So, the person who came to open the door now…” Bai Zhenzhen asked tentatively.
“This is Old Huo!” Su Meng blinked. “The housekeeper of Leng Haochen’s house—Old Huo!”
Bai Zhenzhen: “…”
——This surprise is shocking and appalling!
