Chapter 41: Snatching Beauty
Wang Huaizhi followed his instruction and closed the door, walking over but not daring to sit down.
Luo Yingbai made a “please” gesture, saying: “Young Wang, we meet again.”
“Y-yes,” Wang Huaizhi said nervously. “Last time… I’m sorry.”
“It’s okay,” Luo Yingbai said easily. “How is your younger brother?”
This question made Wang Huaizhi’s tightly drawn face suddenly show a helpless panic. He couldn’t hold back anymore, and when he spoke next, his voice was already choked with tears: “I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to harm him, I didn’t want to frame you, I’m sorry, I didn’t do it on purpose… but he’s come looking for me again, and I really don’t know what to do…”
Wang Huaizhi nodded slightly, and Luo Yingbai continued: “You’re afraid of them. For you, whether before or now, making a small video with your brother as if playing a game, or having parents hire someone to attend a parent-teacher conference, the former is obviously easier. If you take your brother out and explain it properly to your family, they won’t worry… unless—”
Luo Yingbai stared at him, and Wang Huaizhi’s face turned deathly pale: “Unless you know that handing Wang Huaming over to that noodle shop owner would lead to something more terrifying than your family finding out the truth. Speak up, who is that person? What does he want with your brother?”
Luo Yingbai walked to the street near the second middle school and saw the noodle shop Wang Huaizhi had mentioned from a distance.
Typically, businesspeople want their signage to be as eye-catching as possible to attract more people into their shops.
But this noodle shop, even in the early summer, still had thick curtains blocking the entrance, with a dirty red cloth stretched over the doorway, bearing the barely legible words “Lao Zhang Noodle Soup” that would discourage anyone from entering.
Wang Huaizhi said the noodle shop used to be quite successful, but its location was somewhat remote. After opening a new shop closer to the school entrance, the old “Lao Zhang Noodle Soup” gradually declined.
After Luo Yingbai’s questioning, Wang Huaizhi finally confessed the thing that scared him.
