Dear Mr. Lu

Chapter 34

He had already met up with his classmates.

Two were members of his club, and one more was from the press club. His name was Du Taozheng. He was a friend of Zheng Chang. His family had been involved in journalism for several generations, and the editor-in-chief of Haining's official paper, the Haining Daily, was Du Taozheng's eldest uncle.

It could be said that the Du family and the Zheng family were in the same camp.

Zheng Chang had placed Du Taozheng on Luo Wencheng's team so that he could take care of Luo Wencheng, but of course Du Taozheng was also very willing to make friends with Luo Wencheng and was very enthusiastic right away.

They took a taxi to the construction site. The area looked a bit strange. There were high-rise buildings nearby, but there was also an abandoned factory building as well as the unfinished construction site of the Luo family.

"Ten years ago, this land was very hot and subject to speculation. As a result, the Luo family's project collapsed here, and a human life was lost. Some people said that the feng shui here was not good. It was originally intended to be made into a high-end villa area. But the way it went, even if the houses were built, no one would want to buy them. In addition, when the Luo family gave up on their own project, other developers were also discouraged, resulting in this land remaining abandoned to this day."

Du Taozheng had obviously done his homework and spoke eloquently about the history as soon as he arrived.

"But what is very puzzling is that the development rights were acquired by the Luo family at a high price. However, it was given up after a single accident. I even heard they had to use some connection in order to prevent the government from pursuing it. Compared to this, it shouldn't be too much of a problem to arrange the house sales after some proper maintenance. It seems the Luo family put the cart before the horse or something?"

Luo Wencheng said without hesitation: "I was young back then, I don't know much about it."

Du Taozheng nodded and stopped asking questions.

He was clicking away with his camera, and Luo Wencheng and the others were looking for angles and setting up their drawing boards to sketch.

Luo Wencheng glanced at the two members of the club and then focused his attention on Du Taozheng.

It would be very appropriate for Du Taozheng to reveal this matter. But how could he discover the place?

It would be fine to pretend that he accidentally discovered it. At first, Luo Wencheng even thought about sending an anonymous letter to the major newspapers and media to expose it rudely and simply, but not now.

He had Lu Chong's backing. This was both a benefit and a disadvantage. His persona in front of Lu Chong couldn't collapse. A person who did everything possible to retaliate against his former family and had a dark heart would not be liked no matter how much misery he had suffered.

Moreover, this also involved deception.

Once a man like Lu Chong knew that he had been played from beginning to end, it was quite chill-inducing to think how he would react.

Luo Wencheng lowered his eyes, sketching. He quickly finished drawing a picture and kept paying attention to Du Taozheng. When he saw him walking near the place, his heart fluttered. He picked up the drawing board and walked to Du Taozheng's vicinity, pretending to choose the angle. Suddenly he said loudly: "Senior Du, stand there and don't move. I'll draw a picture of you in this scenery, okay?"

"Huh? Like that?" Du Taozhen turned around and thought for a while, "Yes, yes, a person who came to this place to explore the traces of the past and dig up stories, very tasteful. Then you have to draw me looking good, and you have to draw my camera in particular."

As he said that, he raised his camera and pretended to take a shot: "How about it, can you do this pose?"

Luo Wencheng measured with his fingers and said: "It's not very coordinated with the background, Senior Du, take two steps back."

"Like this?"

"A little to the left."

"Is this okay?"

"Senior Du, be natural, your posture is a bit stiff, forget it, you take your pictures, I'll find my own feeling."

Du Taozheng gave a thumbs up to Luo Wencheng and then resumed taking pictures, however, not allowing himself to step out of the frame or make a less than elegant pose. So he basically had to hover around, shooting repeatedly up and down.

The drawing took a little longer for Luo Wencheng to finish, and soon it was time for lunch. All four of them had brought their own lunch and sat down in a clean area to eat and share the morning's harvest.

The sketches were almost done, enough photos had been taken, and basically all the scenes had been explored, so they decided to eat and work for a while before leaving.

Suddenly, Du Taozheng let out a "Huh?"

He was flipping through the photos in the camera. Luo Wencheng was sitting next to him, glancing at the pictures with a normal expression, when Du Taozheng suddenly flipped back to stare at a photo. Luo Wencheng leaned closer: "What's wrong?"

If it was someone who saw this photo for the first time, he would definitely not see anything. But Luo Wencheng was waiting for this, and naturally he could see the clue from the pit in the ground at a glance.

The pit was very deep, with cement blocks, stainless steel, broken wooden boards, and plastic bags piled up in it. It was very messy, but there was something sticking out from under the edge of a cement slab. If you looked closely, you would find that it was a bit like a person's finger, or rather a white bone.

Du Taozheng originally passed by it but the extraordinary sense of smell for pictures that he had cultivated for many years made him instinctively perceive that something was wrong. Now he lowered his head and looked intently. He was immediately taken aback. Seeing Luo Wencheng leaning over, he quickly pretended to be calm and flipped to the next picture: "It's nothing. I thought I got a mouse in it, but I thought wrong."

A member of the club said: "It's normal to have mice. There is a lot of garbage here."

"Yeah, yeah." Du Taozheng's smiled a little stiffly.

Luo Wencheng glanced at him secretly, exploring his expression and then slightly hooking the corner of his mouth. He sat back and stuffed a sushi he brought with him into his mouth and chewed it slowly. The chef's cooking was really delicious.

After the break, everyone continued to be busy, while Du Taozheng was clearly distracted. Seeing that no one noticed him, he returned to the edge of the pit to study it, and his face was getting uglier and uglier.

But when he came back, he looked completely normal and said with a smile: "It's almost time, let's go."