Half a month passed.
Spring Festival was over, and the temperature began to rise.
An An, under Ling Xiao's expectant gaze, brought Ruan Ruan to Old Master Qin's hospital room to play.
"Brother An An, are Dad and Mom discussing something?" Ruan Ruan had a bit of a talent for gossip.
"Perhaps," An An fiddled with a new toy that Ling Xiao had just given him. This time, it was a small concealed weapon. He had to learn how to use it to protect his mother Ruan Ruan and himself.
"Hmm, why isn't it working like this?" An An pondered for a long time, muttering to himself.
Uncle Ling Xiao never taught him how to use the things he gave him. Although he was smart, it still took a lot of brainpower to figure things out!
A rescuer's voice soon rang out, "Try moving the lever on the side first, then press it."
"Try it quickly!" Ruan Ruan urged An An to try when he heard someone explain how.
An An, however, did not move. He suddenly looked up in the direction of the voice. "Great-Grandfather? You're awake?!"
"Shen Feng, quickly go call Dad!"
Shen Feng obediently rushed out.
Qin Han slowly propped himself up to sit. His body felt incredibly weak after not moving for so long.
However, seeing An An as soon as he woke up, did this mean that Xiao Youyou had not left his grandson?
Thinking of this, Qin Han felt much more at ease. "An An."
"Where is your mother?" Old Master Qin remembered how Huo Rou had held An An when she left. Where An An was, she should also be.
An An had not received any news from Huo Rou for half a month.
His eyes reddened.
Seeing that the situation was not right, Old Master Qin, looking worried, struggled to sit up. "What's wrong? Huh?"
The resolute old man was flustered and didn't know what to do. He fumbled, trying to get out of bed to comfort An An, but his limbs were not strong enough.
"Grandpa!" Qin Ning Yi entered the room just as he saw Old Master Qin trying to get out of bed. He quickly went to support him. "You just woke up, don't rush to move. Let the doctor do a check-up first."
"An An..." Old Master Qin looked in An An's direction, urgently pushing Qin Ning Yi to go and comfort the child whose eyes were red.
After the doctor's examination, An An was also taken outside by Ruan Ruan to play with the security guards.
"So, that child..." Old Master Qin asked tremulously about Huo Rou.
When Grandma Liu heard him mention Huo Rou, her heart ached. They all said that Huo Jin Yi's child was innocent, cheerful, smart, and adorable, a little sun that everyone in the team praised.
But the Huo Rou she saw had lost the demeanor of a normal girl. Her gentle, watery eyes were filled with chilling coldness. The child had suffered greatly over the years.
"Old Qin, you and Ning Yi should talk about what happened back then."
That year.
A special poison was rampant, highly contagious, and incurable. The Feng Huo Special Operations Team received news to intercept a transaction and obtain the medicine for research.
"That operation was top secret. All arrangements and deployments were handled with the highest level of secrecy. After departure..."
Qin Ning Yi continued Old Master Qin's words, "Upon reaching the designated location, Cheng Guozhong revealed the location information, causing concentrated fire from the enemy. Feng Huo suffered heavy casualties."
Huo Rou's father, Huo Jin Yi, who was the commander of the Feng Huo Special Operations Team at the time, was killed in the sudden enemy assault. As he sacrificed himself, he desperately protected the poison he had obtained.
The information he had found was the same as what Huo Rou knew. Cheng Guozhong had violated regulations by bringing his mobile phone, and a single call had exposed everything.
The facts were simple and clear. Cheng Guozhong, knowing he was on the list of participants, had uncharacteristically brought a communication device that was not allowed.
Even though his call content had been technically destroyed, the timing of the call perfectly matched the timing of the Special Operations Team's exposure. This was an undeniable fact, and even with the destruction of the content, his guilt could still be established.
The hospital room was deathly silent.
It was precisely because he had found all this out that he was extremely puzzled why his upright and enlightened grandfather would stake everything to protect Cheng Guozhong.
Old Master Qin's eyebrows moved as he heard him speak. "You've actually found out so much."
He sighed leisurely. "Since you know what happened, don't you also think that Cheng Guozhong is the traitor, and that he has a ninety-nine percent suspicion regardless of what happened, right?"
Qin Ning Yi remained noncommittal. He naturally had his doubts. The matter was so clear-cut, everything was too simple and smooth.
Meeting his puzzled gaze, Old Master Qin showed a hint of satisfaction in his eyes. He was indeed his grandson, quickly realizing the problem. He changed his tone, "However, I saw Cheng Guozhong's leave request."