Zhang Lan nodded to express his understanding. If Lao Chen's health was not in good condition, then Lao Chen's behavior would be understandable.

He was interested, and just as he was about to say a few more words, the phone in Zhang Lan's hand rang.

Strangers who meet temporarily are just a casual acquaintance. Lao Chen's daughter smiled slightly, stood up to say goodbye and left. Zhang Lan waved her hand to indicate that she wanted to answer the phone.

The call was from Li Yuan. After the call was answered, Zhang Lan asked casually: "What's wrong, Li Yuan?"

"Zhang Lan, where are you now? Are you free now? I want to ask you something. Is it convenient for you to talk now?" Li Yuan said on the phone.

"It's okay. I'm just wandering on the street. Tell me what's going on."

"In that case, I'll go find you. It's a bit unclear on the phone. It's better to say it in person." After hearing Zhang Lan say that he would be on the street, Li Yuan suggested.

"Okay, you can come over. I'm not at the clinic this time. I'll look around for any places to talk and I'll send you the address later." Zhang Lan took a look at the surrounding environment. There was nothing familiar. Tell Li Yuan to send her a seat later.

"Okay, I'll be there in a minute."

After hanging up the phone, Zhang Lan took a look at his surroundings and opened the map software on his phone.

It’s still convenient to view it through the mobile app, and it’s also convenient to find a store or something. After finding a tea place on the roadside on the map, Zhang Lan sent the location to Li Yuan via WeChat, and then walked towards the location.

When we arrived at the place, we found a former roadside newsstand that had been renovated. An independent house, if it had not been remodeled, would look the same as a newsstand in the past from a distance.

I ordered a cup of tea and some snacks and pastries in the enclosed open space outside. I turned on my phone and flipped through it, waiting for Li Yuan's arrival.

Li Yuan arrived very quickly. The store Zhang Lan was looking for happened to be very close to the subway entrance. Li Yuan came directly by subway.

After sitting down, she asked the waiter for a cup of coffee. Li Yuan and Zhang Lan talked about the reason for looking for him.

Now Li Yuan works in the office in Kyoto and basically doesn't take care of things. Although the level has gone up, now that communications are developed, most things are said directly.

Some things cannot be explained clearly over the phone or via video and need to be dealt with in person. If you are not in a hurry, your work unit will send someone to take the high-speed train to Kyoto in a few hours.

If it's a particularly urgent matter, Li Yuan doesn't need to step in for the big deal, and she won't be asked to step in for the blame. Some trivial matters are naturally handled by the lowest level staff.

So most of the time, Li Yuan is relatively free.

Because she is relatively free at ordinary times, in addition to taking care of her daughter, Li Yuan keeps in touch with her former classmates when she has nothing to do. After several classmate gatherings, other classmates also found out that Li Yuan was working as a civil servant for Shan Province in Kyoto.

Then this time, when I was in middle school, a classmate I knew privately begged Li Yuan to help her child.

Originally, Li Yuan didn't want to get involved. She only had the previous impression of this old classmate, and she didn't know anything else specifically. If you refuse this kind of help, you usually refuse it from the beginning. Li Yuan feels that after all these years, it is just a classmate relationship, and it is not funny to ask for help with just a contact information.

As a result, when the other party saw that Li Yuan did not agree, he took a car from his hometown to Kyoto and directly found the place where Li Yuan worked.

After receiving the notice, Li Yuan was very surprised. She had already refused, so why did she come to her door again? However, everyone had already arrived at the door of the unit, and it was a bit inappropriate not to meet each other, so I asked the doorman to notify them to come in.

After meeting, Li Yuan's classmate felt a little embarrassed. After some polite exchanges, Li Yuan found out that her old classmate stopped going to school after graduating from junior high school and soon got married and had children. Now her eldest daughter is sixteen and her second son is already in elementary school.

She came to see Li Yuan because of her eldest daughter's affairs. Her studies were mediocre and she dropped out of school early to find work.

And because of her age, no one wanted her to go out to work, so she just hung out with others of her own age near home.

At the beginning of the year, her daughter said that she wanted to work in a private garment factory in Hong Kong with others. Li Yuan's classmates didn't pay attention, thinking that it was not far from home, a three- or four-hour drive, so they could go if they wanted to.

Then I don’t know what happened, but I was arrested by the police in Xiangshi. Then Li Yuan's classmates didn't know what was going on. They didn't know at all at first. They only found out that their daughter had been arrested after receiving the notice.

Then I couldn't find out if I asked through connections. I only knew that the crime was serious and that I might be sentenced to several years in prison. But Li Yuan's classmates knew that their daughter was a decent student, listened to her family members, and was very well-behaved. It was absolutely impossible for her to do anything illegal.

Hearing Zhang Lan rub his forehead, his daughter was very well-behaved and obedient, and it was impossible for her to do anything illegal. This kind of words sounds very fake. You won't go to school at the age of sixteen and have to work in the society.

If she is really obedient and well-behaved as told to her mother, no matter how bad the family is, they will still help her daughter go to a junior college or something.

Zhang Lan thinks that Li Yuan's classmate may have been hidden by her daughter, but as Li Yuan said, if her classmate gets married and has children early, under the influence of the family environment, her classmate's daughter will do the same thing. The method is not impossible.

Li Yuan went on to say that her classmates now do not believe that their daughter would do such a thing, but they could not find out anything after inquiring. They only said that the facts are all there. After the relevant personnel figure out all the facts, they will be handed over to the prosecutor. It's shut down.

Some acquaintances also told this classmate of Li Yuan that the implicit meaning of this statement is to ask Li Yuan's classmate to find connections quickly so that they can find connections to move their children out before the transfer, so that no criminal record will be left.

Li Yuan's classmate and her husband are from very ordinary rural families. Because they got married early and her husband works outside, Li Yuan's classmate stays at home to take care of the children.

Both parents are honest farmers and have no favorable social relationships. Even when he asked what happened to his daughter, he said a lot of good things to the village party secretary and carried a lot of things there, and they helped him run away.

But it’s okay to ask someone to help spread the word, but if the next step is to fish out the daughter, this person will not interfere. In other words, Li Yuan’s classmate is not worthy of help from the village cadres.

It's true that you are a fellow villager, you don't have any special connections, and you can't get much money out of it. This kind of thing is not worth the various connections people give you.

The most important thing is that if you don’t have connections with your own family, sometimes you have to spend thousands of things to get something done in just one or two sentences, and you may not be able to get it done. (End of chapter)

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