Chapter 1036: Father and Son Meeting
Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales
The rear door slowly closed. Xia Bingbao got in the driver’s seat, and Yang Ming was sitting in the front pa.s.senger seat. Just now, when the rear door was opened, Yang Ming had already seen the situation inside. It was completely confined. When the door was closed, the situation outside could not be seen.
“Is the location very confidential? Are you afraid that he’ll know?” Yang Ming got in the car and asked Xia Bingbao.
“Yes, allowing him to go see Chen Afu is already an exception. If it weren’t to give you face, this request would not be agreed to,” replied Xiao Bingbao.
“Then why are you letting me sit in front? Are you not afraid that I’ll know the location?” Yang Ming laughed.
“If I let you sit behind, will you not be able to see it?” Xia Bingbao glared at Yang Ming and said with some helplessness. What were the guy’s special abilities? He knew very well.
The two looked at each other and knew what they were referring to.
“I know the purpose of your call. You just don’t want to owe me a favor. Fine. It doesn’t matter. I won’t beg you for anything anyway.” Yang Ming saw Xia Bingbao’s deliberate desire to pay off his favor, so he simply said it out openly.
What Yang Ming said made Xia Bingbao somewhat embarra.s.sed. Yang Ming might become his brother-in-law in the future. If the relations.h.i.+p were too rigid, they wouldn’t be able to get along in the future, so he said awkwardly, “Do you think I am such a person? I was looking for you just to let you get familiarized with the office here and get to know each other, so it’ll be easier to do things later.”
“Really?” Yang Ming obviously didn’t believe it.
“Naturally, it is true.” Xia Bingbao said, “No one can take away your credit. You can rest a.s.sured.”
“I will trust you this once.” Yang Ming didn’t pay much attention to this because he didn’t take what he was doing now as his main business. It was just a matter of trying to catch Chen Afu. If Yang Ming really was told to do something risky, he might as well be an a.s.sa.s.sin.
“Is there someone tracking behind?” Xia Bingbao’s senses were so keen that suddenly he felt someone following behind their car.
“No, it’s one of my men.” Yang Ming looked in the mirror and said, “I will tell him.”
As Yang Ming was talking, he took out his phone and called Zhang Zhishen. He asked him to stop following and wait downstairs at Chen Mengyan’s home.
The car went forward and soon drove out of the Song Jiang City area and entered the city expressway. Near the toll booth at the expressway road junction, a team of people, composed of local and military, was checking the cars.
However, when Xia Bingbao pa.s.sed by, the inspectors just glanced at the investigation pa.s.s in the lower left corner of the car’s winds.h.i.+eld and let them pa.s.s. The license plate number of the Supernatural Investigation Bureau was separate, and the pa.s.s of the investigation bureau was in front. It must be real.
“Your car is pretty bad*ss, right?” Yang Ming smiled.
“You also have a car. I am just afraid that you would not drive it.” Xia Bingbao knew that Yang Ming was just simply saying it, and would never really be interested in this. If Yang Ming were interested in the power of the investigation bureau, whatever happened now wouldn’t happen.
The car turned onto the auxiliary road at the fork in front, then turned right to a very deserted road full of potholes. Finally, they entered a yard that looked like a factory.
However, when Yang Ming entered the yard, he found out that inside was different. It was heavily guarded. There were numerous guards posted who were all loaded with ammunition.
Yang Ming and Xia Bingbao got off the car and walked to the office building with Chen Dazhuang.
Chen Dazhuang didn’t think there was anything wrong with it, because he hadn’t seen much of the world before. He believed that it was a place like the detention center, so there were so many guards posted.
They came to a door, and Xia Bingbao opened it. The three went in together. This was the temporary location for Chen Afu.
Chen Afu was seen writing on the desk inside. He saw someone coming in, looked up, and saw Chen Dazhuang. Suddenly, he was surprised.
“Afu!” Chen Dazhuang ran over quickly, but because of the large gla.s.s barrier in the middle, he could only look at Chen Afu from outside.
“How did you come?” Chen Afu looked at Chen Dazhuang astonis.h.i.+ngly.
“Afu, I am your dad. I came to see you…” Chen Dazhuang’s tears came out as he looked at Chen Afu and said, “Afu, although you have committed the crime and done something wrong, you are my son after all…”
“You… you should go… I don’t want to see you…” Chen Afu was in a panic and replied quickly.
“Afu, why can’t you forgive me…? Back then, I was…” Chen Dazhuang wanted to continue, but Chen Afu turned around and stopped listening.
Chen Dazhuang stood outside and looked for a long time before he sighed, turned around, and went out. Yang Ming was slightly annoyed. How is this Chen Afu so heartless? Chen Dazhuang wanted to see him, so he asked for a favor from someone to make contact. It was not easy for Chen Dazhuang to come, but he ignored him.
“Brother Xia, you can go out with Second Uncle Chen first. I will talk to Chen Afu.” Yang Ming frowned and said.
Xia Bingbao nodded and went out. Although he did not know what Yang Ming was going to do, he believed that Yang Ming would not do anything that would harm the interests of the investigation bureau.
“Just in time. Yang Ming, I have something to say to you…” Chen Afu said quickly after listening to Yang Ming’s words.
“What do you say? What do you want to say to me? Your dad wants to see you. Do you know how difficult it was? He looked for Chen Mengyan’s father, and then pulled a lot of strings to come to see you, but you are ignoring him?” yelled Yang Ming.
“Yang Ming… I am also trying to tell you this… You listen to me first before you scold me…” Chen Afu sighed. “In the past few days, I also realized that what I used to do was really extreme, but later, I really didn’t want to continue to scare people. I was tired of it, but Elder You forced me to do it… I had no choice…”
“Saying this to me is useless. I don’t make the decision on what kind of punishment you will receive,” said Yang Ming faintly.
“I am not pleading with you. I am just telling you my own thoughts.” Chen Afu smiled bitterly, “Moreover, I also decided to cooperate with you to look into Elder You’s voodoo. I am only imprisoned for life…”
“Then, what do you want to say?” asked Yang Ming.
“Chen Dazhuang is my dad. How can I have no feelings about him? Although I hate him for leaving my mother and me when I was very young, he is still my father after all!” Chen Afu exclaimed, “I treated him like that just now because I want him to give up on me. The reason is that I am going to leave Song Jiang soon. We will never see each other again. If I give him hope, wouldn’t he be more upset? What would he do in the days to come?”
After listening to Chen Afu, Yang Ming was a little shocked. He really didn’t expect Chen Afu to say these things. However, it made sense when he thought about it. There were so many things happening, and Chen Afu was punished as well. His mood was naturally different.
“So, I decided to be cold to him so that he can start a new life later.” Chen Afu said, “Yang Ming, I heard from him that I am also related to Chen Mengyan… No matter how much you hate me, how much trouble I have created for you before, I’ll apologize to you here. I hope you will consider our history as cla.s.smates, and my relations.h.i.+p with Chen Mengyan as relatives, so you can help my father more… I know that you are very capable. It is not difficult to find a job for him…”
“You can rest a.s.sured about this. Even if you didn’t say that I would have done the same.” Yang Ming nodded. “However, you are so silly. Do you think that since you are like this, will your father live fine? Will his heart be settled? You didn’t even acknowledge him when he saw you for one last time. How can he feel at ease in his life? He will regret it forever!”
” Ah !” Chen Afu exclaimed. Yang Ming’s words woke him up, so Chen Afu quickly asked, “You… what you said is right… I didn’t think of it before!”
“It’s not too late. Alright, regarding what you said just now, I can promise you. Since Second Uncle Chen is a relative of Mengyan, I will take care of him.” Yang Ming said, “I am going to find him. If there is anything to say, just say it.”
“Okay, thank you, Yang Ming, really…” Chen Afu whispered and nodded.
Yang Ming waved his hand and went out of the room. The resentment of the two people before was nothing in Yang Ming’s view. He was only w.a.n.g Zhitao’s lackey. What the master asked him to do, he naturally did it.
When Yang Ming came out, Chen Dazhuang hurried over and asked urgently, “Yang Ming, what did Afu say?”
“Second Uncle Chen, Chen Afu said that he still wants to see you alone.” Yang Ming said, “Go ahead. He is waiting for you inside…”
Chen Dazhuang’s face was full of joy. He knew in his heart that Chen Afu had changed his mind after Yang Ming and Chen Afu said something. He nodded gratefully and went through the door.
“I didn’t expect you to know how to counsel people!” After Chen Dazhuang entered, Xia Bingbao smiled and spoke to Yang Ming.
“You heard it?” Yang Ming glanced at Xia Bingbao and asked with a smile.
” En .” Xia Bingbao pointed to the tiny earplug in his ear and said, “However, I didn’t mean to eavesdrop. I just listened to the movements…”
“I understand. No explanation is needed.” Yang Ming waved his hand and chuckled indifferently.
To prevent accidents, Xia Bingbao monitored the situation inside. Yang Ming naturally did not care about this.
After about half an hour, Chen Dazhuang was red-eyed as he walked out of the room. Of course, his conversation with Chen Afu was also pa.s.sed to the ears of Xia Bingbao and Yang Ming. Both of them were a little touched.
Chen Dazhuang got what he wanted, and he knew that his son would have to make a contribution to society in atonement for the rest of his life. His heart was also a lot more settled. He said to Yang Ming and Xia Bingbao, “Thank you for giving me this opportunity. Alright, let’s head back.”