Chapter 71 Senior Brother’s Righteousness
The end of July passed in the blink of an eye. As my aunt turned the page on the wall calendar to August, the 7 WCG China Finals was just around the corner.

At the beginning of August, the senior brother with facial paralysis finally replied Lu Mingfei, and the two made an appointment to meet at the old place, Open Mind, the next afternoon.

Actually, Chu Zihang wanted Lu Mingfei to book a place, after all, Open Mind was not close to Lu Mingfei's home. Last time they met, it took Lu Mingfei a lot of time to get to Open Mind. But Lu Mingfei refused and said that they would just meet at Open Mind.

It’s not that he wanted to be polite to his paralyzed senior brother, but Lu Mingfei really didn’t know where there was a suitable place to talk to people near his home.

You can't ask Brother Chu to go to Xinyu Internet Cafe, right?

At one o'clock in the afternoon of the next day, after a simple meal, Lu Mingfei set off.

Because it was not the first time to go to Open Mind, Lu Mingfei spent less time on the road this time. Lu Mingfei arrived before Chu Zihang.

However, although Lu Mingfei arrived at the store early, he did not go in, but stood at the door waiting for Chu Zihang.

Chu Zihang arrived at the store about ten minutes later. Seeing Lu Mingfei standing at the door, Chu Zihang frowned and asked, "Why don't you go in first?"

"Hahaha, I'll wait for you to come before going in."

"Actually, it's totally unnecessary." Chu Zihang walked to the front and opened the door for Lu Mingfei. "Next time, if you come first, you can go in first."

Lu Mingfei touched his head and walked into the store, not wanting to tell him that he was waiting for him to come in together because he had no money.

As soon as he entered the store, the cool air in the store blew away the heat on Lu Mingfei's body. The wind chimes at the door rang like last time, as if welcoming their arrival.

Just like last time, Lu Mingfei and Chu Zihang found a seat in the corner and sat down.

"By the way, I brought the money. Do you want it now?"

As soon as he sat down, Chu Zihang said.

Previously, when they were online, Lu Mingfei had already made it clear to Chu Zihang that he had something urgent to do and wanted to borrow some money from him.

Chu Zihang directly asked Lu Mingfei how much he wanted to borrow, without asking what Lu Mingfei wanted to do with the money or when he would pay it back.

Lu Mingfei thought for a moment and said, "Let's do it now, in case we forget it later."

"Row."

Chu Zihang nodded, and directly took out a small stack of tissue paper wrapped in a plastic bag from his tennis bag and handed it to Lu Mingfei.

"Take a look and see if these are enough. If not, tell me again." Chu Zihang said.

"Enough is enough."

There were many upsets in the 2006 WCG. Even if one only bet on the ones whose results Lu Mingfei remembered, a thousand yuan could turn into a hundred thousand.

Lu Mingfei was not greedy, he just wanted to earn enough to pay for his three-year rent and a trip to Japan. He could borrow 1,000 yuan from his paralyzed senior brother and find a way to borrow 1,000 yuan from Liu Miaomiao, which was more than enough.

Lu Mingfei took the money from Chu Zihang and stuffed it directly into his schoolbag.

"By the way, Senior Brother, you said before that you went back to your father's hometown during this period of time. Did you gain anything?"

Chu Zihang shook his head.

"Nothing?"

"No." Chu Zihang said, "Nothing was gained."

Lu Mingfei frowned: "Not really."

"Yes, I find it strange too." Chu Zihang said, "I haven't heard my dad talk about my grandparents, but I have heard him mention the name of the middle school he attended, and he also said that he was a big shot in the school.

But I worked back to my dad’s graduation date, then sneaked into the archives and found the graduation registration form for that year, but I didn’t find my dad’s name.”

"Could it be that you made a mistake in your deduction?" Lu Mingfei asked. "I thought so too. Although it is unlikely. But to be on the safe side, I looked through the graduate files of the three years before and after my deduced time point, but still couldn't find my father's name."

Lu Mingfei was stunned. "Three years before and after, plus the files from that year, isn't that seven years in total? How long did it take you to go through seven years of graduate files?"

"It did take some time." Chu Zihang nodded: "I sneaked into the school archives every night. It took me about a week to go through a year's worth of files."

"So it took you seven days to go through those files?"

"No, it was fourteen days. After I looked through it the first time and couldn't find my father's information, I looked through it a second time in case I missed something."

Senior Brother Shabei is indeed one of the best students in the history of Kassel Academy. He is indeed born to be an agent.

Just from Chu Zihang's description, Lu Mingfei could imagine him leaning against the wall of the archive room in the middle of the night, holding a small flashlight in his mouth, opening the confidential bag, and flipping through the complicated forms page by page.

However, Lu Mingfei was not too shocked by Chu Zihang. After all, he had survived many storms in his previous life. In his previous life, he had done many more tricks to kill his senior brother than this.

"So, you have been staying in the archives room of your father's school for these days?" Lu Mingfei asked.

"I only stayed there at night. During the day, I rested in a nearby B&B." Chu Zihang said, "It's a pity that I didn't gain anything."

Lu Mingfei came to the same side as Chu Zihang, patted his shoulder, and said to him: "Think positively, maybe having no gains is also a kind of gain."

“No gain is also a gain?”

Chu Zihang chewed over this sentence several times, then suddenly put his hand on his chin and lowered his head to think.

"You are right. Perhaps having no gain is also a gain."

Lu Mingfei was stunned. He originally said this just to enlighten his paralyzed senior brother, but seeing Conan with his head down in deep thought, it seemed that he really remembered something.

Lu Mingfei felt that this scene should be accompanied by a background music:

"All those careless words helped me to resolve my doubts..."

"Thank you for reminding me. Now I have a clue." Chu Zihang nodded. "My father is right. If I encounter something I don't understand, I should ask you."

Lu Mingfei just nodded: "Glad that I can help you."

After all, he actually didn't know how he had helped Chu Zihang.

The main reason was that he didn't know what Chu Zihang was investigating, so he couldn't help Chu Zihang analyze it.

But he did not take the initiative to ask Chu Zihang if he needed his help. He knew that his senior brother with facial paralysis was a straightforward person. If he really needed his help, he would definitely take the initiative to ask.

……

After chatting for a while and eating two pieces of cake, Lu Mingfei and Chu Zihang said goodbye at the door.

Today, I didn't encounter the situation like Chen Wenwen at Open Mind.

Lu Mingfei counted them carefully. Since the summer vacation, he always met one or two female acquaintances every time he went out. Today was a rare day when things were normal. He almost thought he was blessed by the god of galgame.

After getting off the car smoothly, Lu Mingfei first found a bank near his home and prepared to deposit the money lent to him by his paralyzed senior brother into the card, and then transfer it to Su Xiaoqiang by wire transfer.

The bank card was opened in the name of his uncle when he was paying school tuition, and later this card became the bank card that Lu Mingfei bound to QQ. He would use this card to occasionally top up QB or game points.

He went to the ATM, took out the stack of money from his backpack, and opened the plastic bag it was wrapped in.

Then he shouted "Oh shit".

Wrapped in the plastic bag, there were actually twenty red bills? Two thousand yuan?

Senior brother is so righteous!
(End of this chapter)