Eye of Sin

Chapter 513 Old Man Machine

Huo Yan stood on the side of the road, frowning slightly, watching the taxi going away. He didn't turn around until the taxi merged into the traffic flow and was no longer visible.

"Let's go back and eat. The buns are probably cold." He said to Ning Shuyi.

Ning Shuyi withdrew his gaze and followed Huo Yan: "I was a little puzzled last time and felt that his inquiries about you were a bit too personal and too detailed.

At first, I thought maybe it was because I was older, so I didn’t think things through so carefully, and I lacked a sense of boundaries.

As a result, he came over again today and asked for you by name. This is no longer an issue of boundary sense.

I thought you would send him off again, and also find out about this old man's identity information, etc., so as to turn passiveness into activeness. "

"There is nothing to inquire about." Huo Yan looked indifferent and seemed to have no enthusiasm for this matter. "We can all guess that he may be someone related to me.

Although I don’t know how he inquired about me and found me, since I was abandoned by my family when I was a baby and left at the door of the orphanage, no one has gone there to look for me in all these years.

Now that I'm here, it's just that I feel that I have changed from a burden to a person who can bear the burden.

Although I long for family affection, I don't want to drink poison to quench my thirst. I even want to hold on to this kind of utilitarian 'feeling'. "

Ning Shuyi had to admit that what Huo Yan said made sense.

Although she has never encountered this kind of thing or witnessed it with her own eyes, she has seen some similar social news.

It was simply that due to various unavoidable factors, the family chose to abandon the newborn baby, or dump it directly at the door of other people's homes or welfare homes, or give it to others to raise.

Twenty or thirty years later, or even more, when the abandoned child has a future, the direct blood relatives who have been absent come to the door, crying bitterly, regretting the original "helpless act", and forcibly wanting to be separated from the child who was abandoned back then. Abandoned children establish a kinship that "breaks bones and connects tendons."

In this kind of matter, others may stand on the moral high ground and say some innocuous words such as "blood is thicker than water", but only the person involved will be hurt twice because he was abandoned and then taken advantage of.

So now that Huo Yan's attitude is so clear, Ning Shuyi will certainly not say anything more.

"It's probably because of the time you helped a little boy who was almost abandoned by his biological father find his family." Ning Shuyi thought of a possibility, "That time your photo was published in the evening newspaper, it also spoke highly of your work. The units and names were introduced.

Later, in the publicity activities arranged by our bureau, there were also scenes of you showing your face. Although there were not many, it was not difficult to see clearly.

If you look particularly like a relative of yours, and the other party has some suspicions, they come here to check your story and see if it’s possible that it was them..."

Ning Shuyi didn't finish his words, feeling that it was a bit cruel to say "the child they abandoned" in front of Huo Yan.

"So overexposure is not a good thing." Huo Yan smiled sarcastically and did not continue the topic, "Let's go eat!"

Luo Wei didn't know the relationship between the old man and Huo Yan. Seeing that the two people came back soon, they seemed to be in a calm mood and didn't think much about it. Qi Tianhua had also come back now. It seemed that he had heard something from Luo Wei. When he saw Huo Yan and Ning Shuyi coming in from the outside together, he also smiled and nodded to Huo Yan, more or less with a smile. The smell of cheering.

Huo Yan bought too many buns. In the end, Ning Shuyi tasted almost every flavor, and the rest provided food for almost all the colleagues in the team who stayed to work overtime.

"Huo Yan, the steamed buns here are not cheap!" A senior in the team didn't know what was going on and joked, "Next time you invite everyone to eat steamed buns, it would be more cost-effective to just buy them from the canteen!
These stinky mountain pigs can’t eat the fine chaff. You’re going to be in big trouble by buying such exquisite buns to entertain everyone! "

Huo Yan glanced at Ning Shuyi silently: "It's not a loss, it's a good deal."

Ning Shuyi's eyes still stayed on the computer screen, but his two earlobes were visibly red.

By noon the next day, Tong Chujun’s ex-boyfriend’s identity was finally confirmed.

This person's name is Lu Zhibao. He is 28 years old and a native of W City. He currently works in an electronics city as the store manager of a small mobile phone brand.

This small mobile phone brand used to specialize in copycat mobile phones. In recent years, it has transformed into a "1.5 generation" compromise between smart phones and non-smart phones. The target group is those who don't understand smart phones and are familiar with them. Elderly people who need certain functions of smartphones.

Compared with other big smartphone brands, the market of this small brand is obviously much narrower, and the income level of its practitioners is naturally not much higher.

Originally, this was not something particularly worthy of attention, but compared with Ashishiho's previous job, the whole thing became a lot more interesting.

This person’s previous job was in the after-sales service center of a well-known brand of mobile phones, where he served as a maintenance engineer responsible for inspecting products that requested after-sales service due to malfunctions.

And the salary of this job is much higher than that of selling elderly devices he is currently engaged in.

Whether it is from a technical perspective, or from the actual work income and career prospects, Lu Zhiho's track switch is quite unusual.

Afterwards, we dug deeper into Lu Zhibao's personal situation, and soon made new discoveries.

"Look at the address of the house in his name." Ning Shuyi turned the screen to Huo Yan and stretched out his hand to tug on his sleeve.

Huo Yan turned his head and saw the address displayed on the screen clearly.

He has always had a strong sense of direction. Whether he is looking at a map or navigation, he can clearly remember not only the route itself, but also some surrounding areas as long as he has walked it once.

So as soon as he saw the address, he immediately reacted: "This place is from the crime scene. It takes ten minutes by car, ten minutes by battery car, etc., and it only takes more than half an hour on foot."

Ning Shuyi thought for a while, looked at the time, got up and went over to find Zhao Dabao, who had just come back from outside. After discussing with him for a few words, he came back and said to Huo Yan, "I asked Zhao Dabao to check Lu Zhibao's consumption in the past period. Take a note and see if you find anything else.

Let's observe him for a day first. This job is too strenuous, so don't ask him to do it. "

Huo Yan agreed, and the two set off immediately, calculated the time, drove straight to the electronic city, pretended to be strolling around, and walked around on the floor of Lu Zhibao's new workplace.