Abnormal Gourmet Chronicle-Chapter 1168 - 560: Dearest Little Brother (Part 3)
The nursing home staff led the three to the door of Lin Qi's room. Qin Huai glanced at the room number, 307, and indeed, outside the room sat a caregiver playing on their phone, ready to assist.
Seeing Qin Huai and the others arrive, the caregiver looked up and smiled at the four, indicating that even though they were playing on the phone, they were still on duty.
The staff member opened the door for the three of them: "Technically, the first visit by non-relatives is limited to one hour, but as long as Mr. Lin is willing, you can visit from now until 12 noon, and then from 2 PM to 6 PM."
"You can have lunch at our nursing home's restaurant at your own expense."
"Alright, thanks for your hard work." Qin Huai quickly replied, watching the staff member leave.
An Youyou was the first to walk in, closely followed by Qin Huai, while Shi Dadan cautiously closed the door from behind.
An Youyou, carrying a basket of fruit and milk, happily ran into the room. The nursing home room was not large, but it was very clean, had good lighting, and no unpleasant odor.
"Little seven, I've come to see you!"
An Youyou's first sentence blurted out and startled Qin Huai. Just as he wanted to stop An Youyou from diving straight into the topic and give the old man some buffer time, especially since he was dealing with an elderly person with Alzheimer's, Lin Qi's response left Qin Huai even more surprised.
He was now a typical old man, with his face and hands covered in age spots. He was thin and with a somewhat droopy skin on his hands, his face full of wrinkles, hair all white and sparse, completely unrecognizable as the little half-grown boy of the past, Lin Qi. Yet, he very nimbly ran towards An Youyou, exhibiting a little brotherly demeanor as he took the fruit basket and milk from the leader's hand, his eyes brimming with tears of excitement, and he said in a hoarse voice:
"Boss, I've finally waited for you to come find me!"
"I sent you letters for more than a dozen years, and none of them reached you; they all got returned."
"The people here are not good people. I wanted to go back to the village to wait for you, but they wouldn't let me. Every time I escaped, they caught me, and now they've stationed two people outside to keep watch on me daily."
Lin Qi, right from the start, complained to the boss.
Qin Huai: ...Really, brother, accepted it so easily? Accepted the fact that your boss is resurrected, still alive after half a century, having gone through such changes, the look's entirely different?
Your level of acceptance rivals Xia Mubing's.
No, it's even stronger than Xia Mubing's; you accepted it without even an explanation.
Do all you elderly people have such strong abilities to accept?
Just as Qin Huai wanted to ask the two to hold off on family recognition, and wondered if they could follow procedures and sit down to introduce each other's basic situations, Lin Qi said something that made everyone present unable to sit down.
"Boss, I originally saved up 10 gold bars for you. Over the years, due to the children in the family not being promising, they spent some, leaving only 5 a few years ago. My wife fell ill a few years ago, and after spending on her, only three are left now."
"Boss, you won't blame me, will you?"
An Youyou: !!!
An Youyou was genuinely remorseful now, feeling she was truly undeserving in her past life for not thinking of looking for Lin Qi. Compared to Jiang Weiguo and Xu Chenggang, Lin Qi was her dearest little brother!
An Youyou's voice turned extremely gentle: "Of course not, where are those three gold bars? You didn't put them in the bank, did you? My current identity makes it inconvenient for me to fetch them."
"They're not in the bank, boss. I remember you told me to bury them under the big tree in the village, so you can dig them out overnight."
"There's no surveillance in the village."
