Xu Qing played with the computer, pondering how to concoct a story to hoodwink Qin Hao.
Of course, he could choose not to make up anything. If it came to tattling, dealing with the old man and the others would be much simpler. But if he could come up with a story now, with Qin Hao acting as an inside man, it would make Jiang He's later integration into society and all the necessary procedures that much easier.
Last time the census counted over thirteen million "black households," people with various reasons for lacking household registration. Although living like this was troublesome, being unregistered wasn't a major issue in itself. What Xu Qing had always worried about was not just the issue of being unregistered but also the risk that Jiang He's very existence might be exposed too soon, complicating the eventual resolution of her status.
