Chapter 32 - Lighting up the Darkness (2/2)

He looked like a young master from a good family.

She smiled and said, “We really have rapport! My name is Meng Yujun. What about you?”

“Lu Ming.”

Her smile was very infectious and Lu Ming could not help but smile.

Meng Yujun put her hand over her heart that had skipped a few beats and said, “I seem to have heard your name before? It should be my imagination, right?”

“Well, my name is very common. If I shout it out, I guarantee that there will be a few who turn back.”

Lu Ming mocked himself.

The two of them had just met for the first time, but they looked like old friends who had not met for many years.

For some reason, Meng Yujun felt particularly relaxed with him.

She asked, “Are you a new reporter? It’s not easy to get in here. You know, the salaries and benefits here are the best in the industry. Many people can’t get in even if they try their best. Were you very nervous during the interview?”

Lu Ming had never been to this place before. He could only say, “It was alright.”

Meng Yujun sized him up again in surprise and said, “Could it be… you were a straight-A student?!”

“Not exactly a straight-A student.”

He would not know what to say if she pursued this topic.

So he asked curiously, “Senior, can you impart some of your experience?”

“Senior?”

When Meng Yujun heard this, she was overjoyed. She said proudly, “Because you call me senior, I will have to teach you the real stuff. Let me tell you, as a reporter, you have to keep the truth in mind!

No matter how great the difficulties ahead are, we have to face them head-on. Everything we do is to deliver the truth to the public! And my life’s dream is to let the light shine on all the dark places! I’m willing to give up everything for this!”

Her eyes lit up as she was saying this.

Lu Ming could not help but be moved.

She continued. “I’ve been in the industry for almost six years, and I’ve seen a lot of things in the world. I was working at the Dawn Daily, but something happened, so I jumped ship and came here.”

Lu Ming was puzzled. “What was it?”

Meng Yujun paused. After seeing that he really wanted to know, she pulled him to a corner and whispered, “I’ve been investigating something.

After a few months of visiting places and interviewing people, I discovered that someone recently bribed the Yongan Cemetery administrator to prohibit people from cleaning the graves in a specified area.

Even visiting was prohibited. No matter how I looked at it, I felt that it was very strange. In addition, my curiosity was aroused, so I stuffed some money into the administrator’s hands. But he hemmed and hawed for a long time, and only revealed this little bit.”

She felt that it was a little regrettable.

If she had more money, the other party might have been willing to tell her more.

“I wonder who did this wicked thing, not even allowing people to sweep the graves. Were their ancestral graves dug up?”

She paused for a few seconds before continuing. “The weirdest thing was that when I wrote the report, the news was suppressed by a mysterious person. Even its popularity on the Internet cooled down immediately.”

It seemed to Lu Ming that this was not a small matter.

He pondered.

Then he asked, “What about the newspaper article?”

Meng Yujun sighed and said, “It was removed as soon as it was published. I’d already published it ten times, but the higher-ups warned me not to investigate anymore.”

Lu Ming was puzzled. “Why do you think that Metropolitan will announce this matter?”

Meng Yujun placed her hand on her chest and said firmly, “Because… everyone says that Metropolitan dares to publish anything. It’s the news media in Shanghai that can give a voice to the ordinary people!

I came here precisely because I believed it!”