Chapter 136: He's Not Married, You're Not Married
Soon a cup of strong original coffee was served, Le Chen took a sip of the coffee, and looked at Ling Yanbing with staring eyes, "Yan Bing, I remember that you like to drink original bitter coffee, are you still it?" β
"Yes," Ling Yanbing was slightly stunned, she didn't expect Le Chen to remember her habits, was this a coincidence?
She didn't think deeper, after all, Le Chen is an excellent private detective, he is observant, he pays attention to the qiΔ around him, and it may be normal for him to remember other people's habits at one time. After all, this is related to his profession, and only in this way can he be careful to peel back the mystery step by step and find the truth behind it.
Le Chen's soft gaze stayed on Ling Yanbing's pink little face, wondering if drinking the same sugar-free coffee would taste the same life? Would he be closer to her then?
Ling Yanbing took another sip of coffee, although the coffee is bitter, but the taste is not only bitter, but also sweet, just like life, there is no smooth sailing, only those who have experienced strong winds and waves, and can have the courage to face the future will be the real winners.
"Yan Bing, say it, there is something you want to ask me. As long as it's your business, I will definitely help to the end, and I won't charge money! Le Chen put down the coffee and went straight to the point.
"Le Chen......" The more he said this, the more embarrassed Ling Yanbing felt embarrassed to speak, she thought that Le Chen was willing to come here to see her, just because she used to be Liu Jingqing's girlfriend, after all, she would know him, and only because of Liu Jingqing.
Xuan Xixi saw that Ling Yanbing had not spoken, so he helped her and said, "That's the case, Le Chen, aren't you a famous private detective?" So we'd like to ask you to help investigate something. β
"Oh?" Le Chen frowned slightly, obviously interested, "What is it, let's hear about it." β
"I want to find ......" Ling Yanbing stopped talking, she didn't know if she should look for it anymore, after all, it had been fifteen years, was it still possible to find it?
And even if you find it, does it really make sense? If Xiao Ruoshui is already married to someone else and has children. Will her sudden appearance disturb him, and will it ruin the good memories of fifteen years ago that belonged to them?
Some things are like this, I wanted to know it at first, but when the truth really appeared, I found that it was not what I wanted at the beginning, and hope eventually turned into disappointment and despair.
"Yan Bing, let me tell you for you." Xuan Xixi knew that Ling Yanbing was embarrassed to open this mouth, so she looked at Le Chen and said in a condensed voice: "Le Chen, that's the case, Yan Bing has a long-lost friend, and she wants to find him." β
Le Chen was slightly stunned, and quickly asked, "Friend?" What kind of friends? β
Only Ling Yanbing knew that thing best, so she could only say it herself.
Ling Yanbing took a deep breath and began to say: "That's right, fifteen years ago, when I was in Tianxi Orphanage, I met a little boy who was five years older than me, his name was Xiao Ruoshui, one day he was adopted by a very beautiful woman, and then there has been no whereabouts for him, I want to know where he is now?" Can you help me find him? β
"Xiao Ruoshui?" Le Chen frowned slightly, he also knew something about Ling Yanbing's life experience, after all, he was very familiar with Liu Jingqing, he knew that she was not Ling Wanli's biological daughter, she was originally from Tianxi Orphanage, and was later adopted by Ling Wanli from Tianxi Orphanage and became the second lady of the Ling family.
"The beautiful woman who picked up Xiao Ruoshui, do you know her name?" Le Chen couldn't help but ask, if you want to find someone, you must have enough clues, so that you can be sure of finding it as much as possible.
Ling Yanbing shook her head, "I don't know her name, it happened so suddenly that I didn't even have the courage to see that little boy for the last time." β
"Fifteen years ago? Tianxi Orphanage? Xiao Ruoshui? Le Chen pursed the corners of his mouth and smiled, "Yan Bing, although you don't provide many clues, it will be a little difficult to find, but this makes me feel more challenging, don't worry, I will definitely try to help you find Xiao Ruoshui's whereabouts and bring him to you." β
"Thank you, Lechen." Ling Yanbing smiled at Le Chen, thanking him for his willingness to help her, I believe that with his help, he will definitely be able to find Xiao Ruoshui, after all, he is an excellent detective.
"No thanks, this matter is on me, and I will do my best to find it!" Le Chen's face was full of confidence, and he looked at Ling Yanbing with a smile: "Yanbing, give me your mobile phone number, I will notify you as soon as I have news." β
"Sorry, I lost my phone." Ling Yanbing remembered that the mobile phone she had been using before had been thrown into the lotus pond by Tian Shaoyin, and later she transferred the mobile phone that Tian Shaoyin gave her to Ling Jinfeng.
"It's okay, here's my business card, you can always call me and ask how my search went." Le Chen took out a white business card from the pocket of his jacket and handed it to Ling Yanbing.
"Okay," Ling Yanbing took the business card, looked down, and the front of the business card was written in the big words 'Lechen Detective Agency', with red letters on a white background, which looked exceptionally clear, and a good-looking dragon-shaped Logo was also printed, which should be the logo of Lechen Detective Agency.
Flipping through the back, there is his mobile phone number, as well as the specific address of Lechen's detective agency.
"Without further ado, Yan Bing, I'll help you find Xiao Ruoshui and wait for my good news." Le Chen drank the coffee in one gulp, then stood up, "Okay, I'll treat you to today's coffee." β
"Waiter, pay the bill." Le Chen walked to the front desk and quickly settled the account, then turned around and walked out.
He didn't have much intersection with Ling Yanbing before, and he won't have it now, he won't destroy this delicate relationship between him and Ling Yanbing, this distance is just right, he will only lend a helping hand and give her help when she needs help.
He didn't need anything in return from her, just looking at her from afar, it was enough, just guarding.
Although Ling Yanbing didn't provide many clues, he would still try his best to find it, hoping to find Xiao Ruoshui as much as possible.
Although he didn't know who Xiao Ruoshui was from Ling Yanbing and why she was going to marry Tian Shaoyin, he still suddenly wanted to find him, but he wouldn't ask what the real reason was, so he would just take it as one of her wishes.
He knew that the orphanage was a place where there was not much warmth to speak of, and only well-behaved and sensible children could be adopted, maybe Xiao Ruoshui was her only relative.
"Look, I'll just say, it must be reliable to find Le Chen, he agreed without saying a word." Xuan Xi pursed his lips and smiled, complacent.
Ling Yanbing was not so calm, but frowned slightly, "I feel very sorry to trouble him like this suddenly." β
Xuan Xixi pursed his lips and said, "Why don't you want to go, it's a big deal that you invite him to drink wedding wine on the day you get married." β
"Will he come? Probably not. Ling Yanbing frowned slightly, after all, he and Liu Jingqing were good friends, it should already be very difficult for him to say words of blessing, let him watch his good friend's former fiancΓ©e marry someone else, he would definitely not be happy.
"I don't think so, because he likes you, and it will hurt him to watch you marry someone else." Xuan Xi clutched his chest and quipped with a smile: "Ah, it hurts...... It's really painful here......"
"Xixi, don't talk nonsense, Le Chen is Liu Jingqing's good friend, how can he like me?" Ling Yanbing hurriedly said, but she didn't know that this was actually the truth.
Xuan Xixi pursed his lips and said disapprerovingly: "I didn't talk nonsense, Le Chen is because he is a good friend of Liu Jingqing, so he won't tell you, but he just secretly crushes you in his heart." β
Ling Yanbing frowned slightly and looked at Xuan Xixi, "How is this possible?" Hey, don't be kidding, or I'm going to be angry. β
"Don't be angry, let me tell you the truth." Xuan Xixi hurriedly held Ling Yanbing's hand, "Actually, when I first called him at Tianxi Orphanage, he said that he didn't have time, but when I changed my words and said that you were going to ask him for help, he suddenly had time, and immediately asked me where I wanted to meet, he changed so much before and after, didn't he like you, what is it?" β
"Maybe he suddenly remembered that he had time again, so he ......" Ling Yanbing didn't want to believe it, nor did she want to destroy the relationship with Le Chen.
It's good to be a friend, she doesn't want to be his crush.
Ling Yanbing withdrew her hand from Xuan Xixi's palm, not wanting to dwell on this issue anymore, "Okay, let's go." β
The two of them left the cafΓ© together and sat down in the park in front of them.
"Yan Bing, to be honest, do you think Tian Shaoyin will really forget that little girl?" Xuan Xixi still couldn't help but worry about Ling Yanbing.
"I think he will, maybe he, like me, has never been able to find the little girl from more than ten years ago, or he wouldn't have regarded me as her stand-in, looking for her shadow in me." Ling Yanbing hesitated for a moment, but decided to believe him.
"What if he finds it one day?" Xuan Xixiu raised his eyebrows slightly and asked rhetorically.
"This ......" Ling Yanbing was stunned for a moment, she really never thought about it.
If that little girl really came back, would Tian Shaoyin not want her and be with that little girl directly?
I can't imagine, after all, she doesn't know Tian Shaoyin very well, and the reason why Tian Shaoyin likes her may be just because she has a lot of similarities with that little girl.
Seeing Ling Yanbing's hesitation, Xuan Xixi knew that her worry was right, she hurriedly held Ling Yanbing's hand, "Yanbing, this is not good, if he just treats you as a stand-in for that little girl, and doesn't want to really forget her, you'd better not marry him, or he will give up sooner or later." β
"But we've registered, and now I'm nominally his wife." Ling Yanbing bit her lip slightly, but still chose to believe, "I believe him, he will definitely forget that little girl and live a good life with me." β
"I hope so." Xuan Xixi then asked, "By the way, if Le Chen really helped you find Xiao Ruoshui, what would you do when you saw him?" β
Ling Yanbing said without thinking: "Don't do anything, I just just want to see him again, just know that he is doing well, I won't let him keep any promises." Because I'm already going to marry Shaoyin, all I have to do is forget about him and settle with him. β
"What if he doesn't marry either?" Xuan Xi frowned slightly, and asked again: "Yan Bing, have you ever thought that Xiao Ruoshui may have come back to look for you, but he can't find you." β
"Is that possible?" Ling Yanbing smiled bitterly, if he really came back to find her, why didn't she meet her once, could she be so disconnected with him? Repeating missing out all your life?
"Perhaps," Xuan Xi stared into Ling Yanbing's eyes, "Yan Bing, didn't you say that after you were adopted by the Ling family, there was a fire in the Tianxi Orphanage?" Could it be that he came back to look for you, thinking that you were buried in the fire, so he gave up looking for your whereabouts? β
"I ......" Ling Yanbing wanted to speak and stopped, this kind of speculation that Xuan Xixi said was not impossible.
Xuan Xixi sighed, "If that's the case, you are wrong to blame Xiao Ruoshui, he didn't forget you, he just thought you were dead, so he gave up looking." β
"Is that really going to be like that?" Ling Yanbing clutched her chest, feeling a faint pain there.
Why hasn't she thought so much about it for so many years, Xiao Ruoshui has never come to Tianxi Orphanage to look for her, does she think that she was buried in that fire.
"There are some things that we don't know, so we will speculate wildly, maybe when the truth is really in front of us, we will know that we were wrong before." Xuan Xixi looked at the gazebo in the distance and said meaningfully.
"Could it be that Brother Ruoshui, he didn't forget me at all? He just thought I was buried in that fire, so he didn't come to me again. Ling Yanbing's heart suddenly became very chaotic at this time, worried that it would be true.
"If that's the case, what are you going to do?" Xuan Xixi threw the question at Ling Yanbing.
"I, I don't know......" Ling Yanbing bit her lip slightly, and her heart began to hesitate.
"If Le Chen really finds Xiao Ruoshui, he is not married, you are not married, and he wants to fulfill his promise when he was a child to marry you, will you agree?" Xuan Xixi then asked.
"I don't know." At this time, Ling Yanbing's heart felt even more dazed, if Yiqiqi was really like Xuan Xixi said, could it be that she had been wrong to blame him for so many years?
Xuan Xi pursed his lips and smiled: "I hope I just think about it too much, Yan Bing, when Le Chen finds Xiao Ruoshui, there will be an answer as soon as he finds it, whether he forgets you negatively, or just a misunderstanding, the truth will always be revealed." β
"Well, now all I have to do is wait for news from Lechen." Ling Yanbing nodded, really looking forward to the reunion with Xiao Ruoshui, hoping to figure out that qiΔ