Chapter 1162 – Li’s Dilemma

　　As the sky darkened, inside the Cold Mountain Orphanage, the rich aroma of meals wafted out.

　　The two of them, Cao Yuan and An Qingyu, set up a round table under the shed in the center of the courtyard, and the children, carrying steaming dishes, came out of the kitchen and set them on top of the round table playfully.

　　”Wu Quan! It’s time to eat! Why are you still staring?”

　　Li Xiaoyan saw Wu Quan standing under the rain curtain on the eaves of the house, looking up at the sky in a daze, and pouted her lips as she reminded him.

　　Wu Quan returned to his senses and without a word, walked to the table and sat down, like a silent statue.

　　”Aiya Xiao Yan, what are you calling him for? He’s just a piece of wood.” Qian Cheng sat down beside Liu Xiaoyan, “He wants to be left alone, so let him be left alone.”

　　Cao Yuan took a seat next to Wu Quan and glanced at him, reaching out to pat his shoulder:

　　”What? Something on your mind?”

　　”…… No.”

　　Wu Quan bowed his head and replied.

　　”During the teenage years, there are always a lot of worries and bumps in the road, it’s easy for people to close themselves off, I used to be the same way.” Cao Yuan seriously counseled, “But there are some things that can’t be changed once they happen, we still need to look away.”

　　Wu Quan remained silent with his head lowered.

　　”Come come come! Prepare to eat! Come and taste my craftsmanship, Grandpa!”

　　Old man Liu carried a plate of braised pork, smilingly walked out from the kitchen, placed it in the center of the round table, and swept his gaze around, stopping at an empty spot.

　　”Where is he?”

　　”Seven Nights went out for a smoke, he’ll be back soon.” Baili Chubby answered promptly.

　　”Smoking? It’s not a good thing to smoke often, it hurts your lungs!” Old man Liu muttered, “In the past, Shen kid also liked to smoke this, every time he scolded him, he didn’t listen …… tsk, after you guys go back, also help me persuade him.”

　　Baili Fatty was stunned, “No problem.”

　　Just as everyone was talking, Lin Qiye walked in through the door with a black umbrella.

　　”Coming? Hurry up and eat!” Old man Liu said.

　　Lin Qiye and Baili Chubby glanced at each other and nodded imperceptibly before sitting down at the table.

　　”Grandpa, I casually made a few dishes, I don’t know if they’re to your liking, let’s eat first!”

　　The crowd served chopsticks one after another.

　　”Big brother, tell us more about brother Qingzhu!”

　　”Yes brother, wasn’t he awesome in the army!”

　　”Brother Qingzhu can beat ten people by himself!”

　　Liu Xiaoyan and the others spoke up, looking blearily at Lin Qiye, who smiled helplessly, and after a moment of contemplation, pontificated:

　　”Drag brother …… oh no, Shen Qingzhu after entering the army, repeatedly made great achievements, the most noteworthy of which is an undercover operation against the drug trafficking organization called [Believers] …… ”

　　As Lin Qiye recounted, the hearts of everyone in the Cold Mountain Orphanage began to stumble, and for a while surprisingly, no one even cared about the food on the table, only Wu Quan, who was sitting in the corner, seemed to be a bit distracted.

　　”So thrilling!”

　　”Brother Qingzhu is so powerful! Actually destroyed an entire drug trafficking organization by himself!”

　　”That’s for sure! Brother Qingzhu is the best, back then in Linjiang City, in terms of fighting, who could beat Brother Qingzhu? He wasn’t even afraid of fire, how could he be afraid of drug dealers?”

　　The children chattered and discussed.

　　”Big fire?” An Qingyu was a bit puzzled.

　　”Oh, just a fire.” Old man Liu took a sip of white wine and said, “It was about four years ago, we had an accidental fire here, the backyard side was almost all burned out, at that time, we were all trapped in the house and almost died from the smoke.

　　Later still, Shen kid who went out to buy food and Wuquan came back in time, rushed into the fire one by one and saved us out, at that time, I don’t know how, I just felt my head go black, and then the fire all went out.”

　　”At that time we were all frightened.” Liu Xiaoyan patted her chest in hindsight, “I still remember to this day, Wuquan, who was left outside the fire scene at that time, kept crying, crying especially loudly, and her voice was mute the next day.”

　　”The Wu Quan at that time was a coward!” Qian Cheng laughed.

　　”How dare you talk about him? At that time, you were trapped in the fire and pissed yourself in fear.”

　　”Liu, Liu Xiaoyan! Don’t you talk nonsense!”

　　”Hmph, who’s talking nonsense?”

　　”……”

　　After finishing dinner, Old Man Liu packed up a few houses for Lin Qiye and the others, so he took the children back to bed.

　　Back when this orphanage was built, Old Man Liu had gotten a small dormitory, and the dozens of square feet of house had six or seven bunk beds, enough to sleep all the children.

　　In the past, old man Liu had his own bedroom, but it is said that after the fire four years ago, old man Liu did not dare to let the children sleep on their own, so he moved to the small dormitory and slept in the bunk beds with the children.

　　There were three other small rooms at the back of the courtyard, Lin Qiye’s four guessed and decided to allocate them, in the end, Lin Qiye and An Qingyu both had one room each, while Cao Yuan shared a room with Baili Chubby, and Jiang’er’s main body was in the trunk at the edge of the city so he didn’t have to worry about living there.

　　However, under Lin Qiye’s summons, everyone gathered in his room.

　　”Seven Nights, how’s the situation?” Baili Chubby opened his mouth and asked.

　　”Dean Liu, was indeed beaten up.” Lin Qiye slowly said, “Although I wasted all those punks who made a move, the problem isn’t solved …… In the end, those punks who came to the door to cause trouble were just hired thugs by Li, even if this batch is exterminated, they’ll still hire someone else.”

　　”Acquisition won’t work either …… How about going directly to the legal route? Or find the Nightwatchman headquarters to step in?”

　　”Not really.” An Qingyu immediately shook her head.

　　”Li’s group wants to demolish this old city, all kinds of formalities and permits are already complete, the demolition compensation is also very reasonable, it’s completely reasonable and lawful, even if we make an article on the matter of them hiring people to force the demolition, based on this, it’s impossible to mess up the whole group, at most it’s just to pay some fines, or to punish a scapegoat that was pushed out by them. ”

　　”Then there is no other way?”

　　The crowd fell into silence.

　　After a long time, Cao Yuan spoke tentatively, “Why don’t we go to the Li Group ……”

　　”The Vigilantes are an organization that protects the country and are only responsible for dealing with incidents on the supernatural side, striking out at a private business without any reason or evidence is punishable.” Lin Qiye directly interrupted Cao Yuan.

　　He paused for a moment and continued:

　　”I’ll think of a way to deal with this matter, it’s not too early now, let’s each go back to our rooms and sleep, we’ll set off back to the capital early tomorrow morning.”

　　The crowd looked at each other and could only leave helplessly.

　　When the crowd was far away, Lin Qiye turned off the electric light and lay down on the hard board bed, slowly closing his eyes.

　　The night was getting thicker and

　　Misty vapor mixed in between the dense raindrops filled the heavens and earth, and

　　After an unknown amount of time, Lin Qiye’s eyes opened and looked at the darkened compound outside the window, his figure transformed into a flash of night and disappeared into the darkness.