Chapter 64: What's Our Relationship?

  "Uh, he's with me now. But because of his identity, he can't see you. Grandfather, after we investigate the truth about these things, we..."

  Grandpa suddenly became excited and interrupted me: "Don't investigate anymore, don't look into that matter. You must help me tell Haicheng to stop investigating that matter. I'll go back tomorrow and make a new ID for him so he can live with you here and get married properly. Don't worry about anything else, just let it be. Just say that to him. We won't meet again, I'll pretend my grandson is really dead. If you have kids in the future, secretly send me a message and I'll come take a look from afar. Child, child..." Grandpa turned to me, his rough hands holding my face, "Help me take care of Haicheng, be sure to tell him to stop investigating that matter."

  "Grandpa must know something, feeling the severity of the matter, that's why he doesn't want us to investigate further." "Why? Why don't you let us continue investigating? Grandpa, do you know something?"

  "Don't ask, don't ask anything. Go back, go back. Let's not see each other again, let's not see each other again. Meeting will only put Haicheng in danger. Go, kid."

  The old man started crying again, and I couldn't say a word, so I quietly retreated from the guest room. Outside the door, Little Bell was holding his phone, and when he saw me come out, he hurried in to hand it over: "General, it's Deputy Director Huang on the phone."

  Huang Deputy Director, it should be said that Su Haicheng's mother. When I closed the door, I heard the old man say: "Suyun, don't worry, the child is fine, just finished the examination. My grandson is sturdy. Granddaughter? If it were a granddaughter, I would like her too."

  Grandpa didn't tell Su Haicheng's mom about this lie either, so I'll just keep going with it. I don't know if this is good or bad for me, but at least the crisis has been temporarily averted.

  It was already dark when I returned to A Tian's bar. When I faced Su Haicheng again, I hadn't even had time to say anything before my stomach started growling loudly. He hastily approached me, put his arm around my shoulder and led me out saying: "Let me take you out for dinner, you must not have eaten all day."

  Don't even mention it, I haven't eaten all day. This morning I overslept, at noon I was directly in the hospital, with so many things going on in the hospital, where would I have time to eat?

  Just as we were walking out, Kakashi shouted from behind us, "Hey, hey, brother! Those two have gone to eat, shouldn't you be treating me to a meal?"

  "Street stall, 8 yuan for a boxed meal, go eat it yourself."

  Su Haicheng didn't invite me to eat a 8-yuan boxed meal, but instead drove A Tian's car and took me to a private restaurant in the city center.

  That private house restaurant, decorated very uniquely, gives people the feeling of being in a small living room at home. The space is not big, with only four tables, and I didn't know until much later that this private house restaurant doesn't accept outside customers, it's just an internal gathering place, you need to have a card here to consume here.

  Su Haicheng found a seat near the window, on which was spread a blue-checked tablecloth. From the window, he could see the river view outside. This place is indeed a private domain.

  While waiting for the dishes to be served, Su Haicheng poured me a cup of tea and said, "I told my grandfather that you're my girlfriend. We live together now."

  "Grandpa cried." I took the teacup with a bit of embarrassment, "After hanging up the phone, Grandpa asked me to tell you not to investigate this matter anymore. He said it very agitatedly, repeatedly telling me that I must tell you not to continue investigating. I think Grandpa must have found out something and knew the severity of the situation, so he told you not to go on."

  "Is there still a way back at this point?"

  "Suhai City, I think that formation is quite terrifying. Even if we wait until the beginning of spring and the lock appears, what then? We take the key to unlock it, but after unlocking... Don't even get me started on how dangerous the process will be, let's just say we don't know what's locked inside. Is it valuable? We have no idea. Most importantly, someone went through so much trouble to trap it with such a large formation, there must be a reason. If we recklessly open that lock, won't something happen?"

  "I understand what you're saying, but Chen Siyi, I don't want my brother to die in vain. Although Grandfather has warned me not to investigate further, I insist on doing so for the sake of my brothers. Perhaps it's not just for my brothers, but also for the ordinary people living in the nearby village. And for those brothers who were incinerated in that car accident nine years ago."

  I fell silent. I knew that for me, a woman like Su Haicheng, being able to settle down would be the best outcome. But it wasn't the same for him. I didn't want to hold back his footsteps because of me.

  "He continued, 'Have you ever thought that nine years ago, those brothers with black faces, they didn't know anything, completed their mission and retreated, but still got killed in a designed car accident, or were cremated without any explanation? There was one called Mazi, according to Hei Lian's words, he should have been cremated at the time, but we found his skull in that cave. This means that nine years ago, someone had already tried to investigate this matter, but failed. Maybe we will succeed. If we do, then after another nine years, there won't be any more incidents like this in Zhaizi. Nor will there be a small team that gets burned to death after completing their superior's orders. I want to end all of this and break the cycle here.'"

  Listening to Su Haicheng's words, I suddenly felt that my own thoughts in my heart were really weak. The purpose of Su Haicheng doing this thing is much more noble than what I imagined. He is a military officer, and I think I should support him in doing so. Even if in the end we can only be nameless heroes.

  I was just about to speak when the dishes started coming up. With the waiter around, our conversation paused for a while. After all the dishes were served, Su Haicheng said to me: "We let Heilian go and check on the matter of that corpse."

  "What about those two corpses? Were they really dressed in clothes? Were they the ones you burned?" I was also drawn into this topic, and even forgot to eat with my chopsticks.

  Su Haicheng supported his temple with one hand and said casually: "He's gone missing, this answer shouldn't be surprising, right?"

  "They... came back?"

  "Not yet certain. I'll get Kaka to buy a set of listening devices, and I plan to put the equipment in your living room today. At Tian's side is a bar, and it's not good for us to be there for a long time either. His bar originally has a manager and waiters, so even if he's not around, business can go on as usual. Putting the listening device at your place, you don't have any objections, right?"

  I quickly smiled and shook my head at him, but somehow felt a little uncomfortable in my heart. The listening device was placed in my place, which means Kakashi would be there, and Aten might also appear. Kakashi said that the boss might go too. My house is so small, how can it fit so many people? Although they are all familiar faces, and after these two events, basically all of them have gone through life and death together as brothers. But... Alas, I thought I would be with Su Haicheng alone, but now it seems there's no chance with so many people around.

  Maybe he saw me poking at the rice with chopsticks but not eating and had some thoughts, so he asked: "Do you have any opinions on this matter?"

  "What? No!"

  "Earlier, I suggested opening a room in the hotel. But Ah Tian said that using an ID card to register would make it easy to be found out, so it's safer at your place. If you think it's inconvenient, we can go open a room instead."

  "No need, no need, it's fine like that. It's just... uh, from now on, I'll sleep in the bedroom." Before, when he had just moved in, I slept on the sofa for several nights. If that device is in the living room, I'd still rather sleep in the bedroom.

  Su Haicheng turned away, his face expressionless. I thought he was in a different mood today, talking so much, and now he's like this again, is he angry? "Then I'll sleep on the sofa, you sleep in the room," I said timidly, hoping he wouldn't object to that either.

  He turned around and said, "What's our relationship?"