Chapter 55: The World’s Gone Mad, Really Pregnant? (That is the Yohen Tenmoku Tea Bowl valued at over 100 million…)
Getting news from the person tracking his uncle, Le Can immediately put on his coat and went out.
Little E-Donkey (Electric Scooter), activate again!
But this time it was no longer a scan-to-ride shared e-bike, but the first vehicle Le Can bought for himself with full payment after spending a huge sum.
Four-wheeled gold-swallowing beasts were currently not within Le Can’s consideration range.
Once everything settled and Xi Yun honored his promise of the 150 million big house, perhaps then he would get himself a comfortable and safe private car.
Now? For long distances, there were various public transportation tools; for short distances, nothing beat an electric scooter—an effortless and flexible two-wheeled transport.
If he really encountered an emergency, Xi Yun’s garage had a pile of otherworldly luxury cars. Mooching a ride occasionally within two years, Le Can felt his current husband wouldn’t mind.
Especially when Le Can encountered a convoy of luxury cars stuck on a road not far from the villa area, he sincerely felt the charm of his own e-donkey.
The little e-donkey left them in the dust, disappearing around the corner at the very front of the convoy.
In the luxury car queue left behind, someone honked impatiently to urge the car in front while raising an eyebrow in displeasure and confusion:
“Has Qinglin fallen to this state? How can someone riding a piece of junk live in here with us now?”
“That mouth of yours,” the person in the passenger seat shook his head disapprovingly, “will make you suffer a big loss sooner or later.”
Saying that, he looked back at the direction Le Can came from, shock and gladness flashing in his eyes: “Luckily he didn’t hear; he came out of A3!”
Qinglin was the most famous wealthy district far and near; the internal division naturally couldn’t be casual.
Custom villas, townhouses, large flats, hardcover apartments… one could tell the status level and wealth rank of their respective owners just from the residence.
Zone A, those were the top residents of Qinglin. Thank goodness his companion couldn’t free his hands while driving; otherwise, if he complained to the property management, who knows who would be the unlucky one?!
“Damn! Why does A3 still drive that thing on the road?! Wait! Isn’t A3 that guy, the one who left the family not long ago to start his own business, Xi…”
“…Xi Yun.”
“Right, right, right, that’s him! The young master really doesn’t know the suffering of the world. If I were him, I’d stay home even if I had to cling shamelessly.” Speaking, the driver sneered lightly, “Just don’t have that fate.”
“But, those with the fate don’t have the brains. Look, the servants from the house come out without even a proper car to ride, tsk tsk!”
Listening to his companion’s gloating laughter, the person in the passenger seat shook his head secretly. It was better to stay away from some self-righteous idiots.
But having been fair-weather friends for a while, he still kindly reminded him: “So young, might not necessarily be a servant. Heard recently Xi Yun got married, the partner is a male…”
“What?! Just that person riding the two-wheeler? Usually hear how smart Xi Yun is blown up to be; didn’t expect his taste to be not that great either.”
Actually, the driver hadn’t seen Le Can’s appearance, after all, Le Can strictly followed traffic rules and wore his helmet tightly from start to finish.
The passenger was speechless. Finally, he endured and endured, until he couldn’t endure anymore: “His taste is bad?! Could someone with bad taste pick up a Song Dynasty Jian tea bowl from a pile of fakes in Helin?!”
“Bought it for only twenty-something thousand or even less, that is the Yohen Tenmoku Tea Bowl valued at over 100 million! Idiot!”
…
Le Can didn’t know that his riding an e-donkey had actually caused the rupture of a plastic friendship.
If he knew the cause and effect, he would definitely give a round of enthusiastic applause to the two people who fought in the car and got detained.
The little e-donkey sped along like the wind and lightning, nimbly dodging various obstacles on the road, and finally arrived smoothly at the final leg of the journey.
Sui He An International Hospital.
A fully foreign-funded non-public general hospital. Just hearing the name, one knew the patients here were either rich or noble, and the various fees probably aligned with international standards.
After paying off debts and being scammed by him for a sum, Le Wenxin could still be so generous… It seemed this old geezer really valued this child of his old age to the bone.
Just wondered, did Aunt-in-law and the others know?
Le Can sighed in his heart, but his hands nimbly accelerated towards the destination.
When he was still over a hundred meters away from the coordinate location, a public bench for temporary rest appeared in his field of vision.
On the bench sat a stranger wearing a baseball cap with a hoodie hood pulled over it. From a distance, age and appearance couldn’t be discerned; only general movements were visible.
That person held a half-eaten burger in one hand and held up a phone scrolling the screen with the other.
Le Can pressed the handbrake, slowly decelerated, and quickly glanced down at the phone map. Great, it was this person in front of him.
Confirming the target, Le Can temporarily stopped by the roadside and looked around for a parking spot. At this moment, the person a few steps away happened to look up, and their eyes met.
Le Can took the opportunity to size up this paparazzi he hired at a high price.
A tall and thin young man, probably only in his twenties. Likely from staying up several nights staking out, the dark circles under his tired eyes were extremely deep.
The moment he saw Le Can’s face, those bloodshot eyes lit up. Then, after seeing the little e-donkey he was sitting on, the other party quickly moved his gaze away to look around.
Being blatantly ignored, Le Can’s mood was slightly complicated.
He quickly parked the vehicle, then walked to the side of his temporary employee and sat down neatly. “What? I don’t look like someone who would hire a paparazzi?”
The lit-up phone screen waved in front of his eyes; it was indeed the new boss who had found him by a strange combination of circumstances.
Devouring the burger in his hand in two bites, the person who was preparing to get up and find a new meeting point strangely maintained a posture with his butt suspended in the air for two seconds, then sat back down in his previous spot.
“Never seen an employer riding an electric scooter… you’re the first.”
Although Paparazzi Gao Dan hadn’t been in the industry for long and this was considered a cross-industry job, the fee charged wasn’t low. He indeed didn’t expect a customer paying so much money to be so… down-to-earth when meeting him.
Because usually rich people, or people who considered themselves rich, loved their face (reputation) extremely.
When first seeing Le Can’s looks, Gao Dan, who often mixed in the entertainment circle, couldn’t help but brighten up. Professionalism made him search his mind for the identity of the person in front of him immediately.
But confirming there was no such person in the circle, and meeting the boss for the first time was more important, Gao Dan still chose to ignore this stunning-looking ordinary person.
Couldn’t help him make money; no matter how good-looking, it had nothing to do with him.
But this “money-oriented” paparazzi didn’t expect that there really were bosses in this world who didn’t care about face!
Gao Dan couldn’t help but open his phone to check the balance in his Alipay. After confirming the 100,000 deposit wasn’t his imagination, he very calmly went straight to the topic.
“Are you the investigated person’s so…”
“Stop, hold it!” Le Can reached out to stop the person’s guess. “Thinking too much, no!”
Smart people stop at a hint. Gao Dan quickly put away the routine he usually used in his main job.
After two Waterloos (failures), he directly pulled out some things he had collected recently from his bag.
Le Can was stunned for a moment seeing the yellow file bag handed to him.
Quite… formal.
Removing the winding string sealing the file bag, a stack of photos slid from the depths of the bag to the opening.
Without even needing to pick them up specially, Le Can saw Le Wenxin’s face, smiling until it wrinkled, on the top photo at first glance.
And opposite him was a strange woman who looked like she could call Le Qiushan “sister.” Her appearance was gentle and comfortable, not stunningly beautiful at first glance, but could be considered delicate and good-looking.
Just from the surface, this person’s temperament and that of the spicy-personality Aunt Li Qianping should be two completely opposite types.
Seriously, this world has gone mad.
Someone really fell for that fifty-something old geezer Le Wenxin?
In the photo, the two weren’t overly intimate, just holding hands. However, the background of the picture wasn’t simple; it was exactly the VIP prenatal examination room Le Can had received a close-up of on his phone earlier.
Le Can’s expression was complicated and hard to describe: “Really pregnant?”
Gao Dan nodded, pointing to the few thin sheets of paper pressed under the photo. “I found a chance to swap the medical reports in their hands. You can take a look.”
Le Can glanced at the thick-browed, big-eyed Gao Dan in shock, extracting the key items from the file bag—the Blood HCG test slip and the abdominal ultrasound report.
The report showed: Intrauterine early pregnancy, about 7 weeks.
Pregnancy was a done deal. However, regarding that little life the size of a bean in the black and white image… if it knew it got stuck with a father like Le Wenxin, wondered if it would regret this reincarnation…
“Boss, um, there’s something I need to ask for instructions on.”
Le Can, in thought, slightly raised the corner of his eye, passing a look over. “What is it?”
He gathered the things in his hand, preparing to find an opportunity to send them to Le Ruisi and the others, helping the recently depressed atmosphere of the Le family to liven up properly.
“It’s about swapping the medical reports…”
Le Can stopped his movement of organizing things, looking up with some curiosity. In the moment of switching actions, a few photos from the pile happened to slide down to his feet.
Le Can took a quick look but ignored them for the moment. “What about swapping reports?”
Gao Dan rubbed his sore eyes, a bit of embarrassment on his face: “To swap reports, there has to be something to use as a substitute.”
“I originally planned to buy a report from someone else, but people coming to Sui He An don’t lack those few melons and dates (small change)…”
Le Can pursued curiously: “And then?”
“Then an alert pregnant woman was about to report me as a bad guy. I had no choice but to tell her the reason for the matter. Later, she actively helped act, and only then did we successfully swap the reports on both sides.”
“I left her ten thousand yuan. This money…”
Le Can didn’t expect to run into a fellow money-lover. He was slightly speechless for two seconds, then unlocked his phone and transferred the final payment, bonus, and the ten thousand reimbursement all to him.
Final payment 100,000, bonus 300,000, plus reimbursement of 10,000, totaling 410,000.
Gao Dan instantly beamed with joy: “Boss is generous!”
Having paid out a total of 510,000, but with the actual money coming from Le Wenxin’s pocket, Le Can waved his hand indifferently.
“If you really want to thank me, how about finding a chance to help me send these things to…”
Le Can’s motion of bending down to pick up photos paused.
Gao Dan was happily counting his account balance: “No problem. Send it to that scumbag’s family, right? I’ll handle it for you today!”
Le Can picked up one photo from the few at his feet and aimed it at the person beside him.
“When did you take this photo?”
Gao Dan looked at the content of the photo in confusion and recalled carefully.
“Should be around ten this morning, location was the information desk in the first-floor lobby.”
At that time, Gao Dan had just followed the two investigated subjects into the hospital not long ago. He remembered clearly because when taking photos with his phone, he happened to check the time in the upper right corner.
“Boss, what’s wrong?”
Le Can shook his head. He took down the photo in his hand, stuffed all the remaining items back into the file bag, and handed it to Gao Dan.
“I’ll leave delivering the items to the right people to you.”
“I just saw… an acquaintance in the photo.”
Although only a profile, Le Can was very certain. That was Xie Jun’s bodyguard—Yin Wuyu.
“But it has nothing to do with you or Le Wenxin. You go back and rest early today. No rush to deliver the items today; a few days later is fine too.”
Just right, let the old geezer be happy for a few more days.
After all, later on, if he wanted to be happy, he wouldn’t have the time…
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