jdhmnovel Chapter 195 How could a perfectly healthy person just disappear?
Chapter 195 How could a perfectly healthy person just disappear?
Deng Xiuzhen turned around and saw that Liu Lanlan had followed her. She turned to Liu Lanlan and said, "Lanlan, we are here to do some work, not to go and look for your mother."
"You're not going to..."
"Lanlan, hurry back, don't delay their work!" Zhang Liuying caught up with them, grabbed Liu Lanlan and walked into the company.
"I'm not going back! I want to go with them to find my mother!" Liu Lanlan cried and struggled, shouting loudly as she did so.
"If you don't behave, I'll hit you!" Zhang Liuying dragged Liu Lanlan into the company, her threatening words echoing through the air.
Deng Xiuzhen frowned and turned her head to look at Yan Wenying.
Yan Wenying was looking at Deng Xiuzhen with a somewhat reluctant expression. When she saw Deng Xiuzhen looking over, she quickly said, "Why don't I go and take a look, and try to persuade Sister Zhang not to frighten the child?"
Deng Xiuzhen sighed and said, "Forget it, let's hurry up and get to work. We can't keep people waiting. If the customers are not satisfied, the company will not be able to continue operating. We can coax Lanlan when we get back."
"Do you think Sister Zhang might really hit Lanlan?" Yan Wenying asked worriedly after walking quite a distance.
Deng Xiuzhen kept walking and said, "It shouldn't be, right? Lanlan is still so young, and Xiao Zhang is a mother too."
"But, it seems like Lanlan doesn't want to be with Sister Zhang," Yan Wenying muttered.
Deng Xiuzhen was taken aback and turned to look at Yan Wenying. After thinking for a moment, she said, "Let's finish this quickly and go home as soon as possible. I'll take Lanlan home then."
Upon hearing this, Yan Wenying seemed to have her worries resolved, a smile appeared on her face, and her steps became lighter as she walked in front of Deng Xiuzhen.
The alley was quiet, and sunlight filtered through the dilapidated houses, casting strange patterns on the ground.
Deng Xiuzhen felt a chill run down her spine and involuntarily quickened her pace. Her foot, which had not yet fully recovered, slipped and fell.
He stumbled and spilled his things all over the ground.
Yan Wenying, who had already walked some distance, turned around upon hearing the noise. Seeing that something had fallen, she quickly ran back and asked with concern, "What happened?"
"It's nothing, I just slipped," Deng Xiuzhen said, bending down to pick up her things.
"Let me do it. You haven't recovered yet, so don't exert yourself." Yan Wenying quickly gathered the items together.
She let Deng Xiuzhen take some, and kept the rest for herself.
The two arrived at the old man's house quickly.
"You've finally come!" The old man leaned against the door, leaning on his cane, and almost cried when he saw them.
"Please come inside and sit down." Deng Xiuzhen went inside, put down her things, and then turned around to help the old woman to the backyard to bask in the sun.
"Xiaoying, go cook, I'll clean up first." After the old woman sat down, Deng Xiuzhen asked Xiaoying to cook. She put the sheets, duvet covers, and dirty clothes into the washing machine to wash, and then moved the cotton quilts from the bed to the yard to dry.
“Your bed is quite nice, it must be quite old, right?” Deng Xiuzhen said to the old woman with a smile.
"Hmm, quite a few years." The old man seemed a little sleepy and wasn't as talkative as usual. He only replied briefly and then fell silent.
Deng Xiuzhen helped the old man put on a thin blanket, then carried a bucket to fetch water to wipe the tables, chairs, and cabinets.
"Dinner's ready! Dinner's ready!" Yan Wenying moved a small table into the yard and placed it in front of the old man.
"Aren't you eating together?" The old man asked, puzzled, seeing that there were only his own bowls and chopsticks on the table.
"We'll eat in the kitchen, so we won't disturb you," Yan Wenying replied with a smile.
The old man didn't insist and started eating on his own.
Deng Xiuzhen and Yan Wenying quickly finished their meal and continued cleaning.
The two women were efficient, and since the elderly woman had been hiring help frequently lately, and the house was clean, they finished their work quickly.
The blankets drying in the yard weren't dry yet, and the elderly women couldn't clean them up themselves, so they couldn't leave.
Yan Wenying was worried that Zhang Liuying would scold Lanlan, so she was somewhat absent-minded and eager to leave.
He mentioned it several times, saying he would leave first and let Deng Xiuzhen keep the old man company and chat with him. He would go back after collecting the clothes and bedding.
Deng Xiuzhen did not agree to either of them, only saying that she was a little tired, and that the two of them should take the quilts and make the bed together before leaving.
Yan Wenying had no choice but to stay.
Deng Xiuzhen brought out a reclining chair and helped the old woman lie down. She herself sat on a stool and dozed off against the wall.
Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Yan Wenying look at him, then at the old man, and then at the east side of the courtyard wall.
Then he went inside, closed the door, carried a stool out, and leaned it against the wall not far from Deng Xiuzhen. Soon, even snoring could be heard.
Looking at the old man again, his face was calm and peaceful, as if he were asleep.
Deng Xiuzhen was a little stunned: Could it be that she was wrong?
Li Xiaomei lured Liu Youzhen here to be harmed. If Li Xiaomei didn't know this place or the old woman's situation...
That must be because someone inside the company leaked the information.
At first, she suspected it was Zhang Liuying, since the text message was sent to her.
Moreover, Zhang Liuying interrupted Liu Lanlan at the company entrance, which seemed somewhat deliberate, as if she was trying to cover something up.
But why did Zhang Liuying want to harm Liu Youzhen?
Deng Xiuzhen couldn't understand it.
When they entered the alley, Yan Wenying walked ahead of her. Except when she almost tripped and turned around, Yan Wenying went straight to the old woman's house.
She felt that Yan Wenying should have been here before. But observing the reactions of the old man and Yan Wenying, it seemed that the two did not know each other at all, and had only met today.
She was afraid the two of them were faking it, so she pretended to be asleep to see if they would do anything.
As a result, they both fell asleep, and slept very soundly!
In addition, in order to find out what was going on, she cleaned the house despite her aching hands.
She just brought all the cotton wadding out of the bed to air it out.
The sheets and duvet covers were hung on the rope, while the cotton wadding could only be hung on the wall.
She took the opportunity to kick and shove the entire wall to inspect it.
Then, he walked back and forth, testing the ground all over again.
No abnormalities were found.
But Qin Yanlin disappeared while cleaning the yard.
I didn't hear a sound at all. Since I didn't hear any sound, I'm certain that Qin Yanlin didn't leave through the door.
Because the old man's door always creaks and groans no matter how he opens or closes it.
There were no signs of climbing on the courtyard wall, and he didn't leave through the gate. How could a grown man like Qin Yanlin have simply disappeared?
Deng Xiuzhen couldn't understand it.
She went through the layout of the house in her mind again, but couldn't find a place where anyone could be hiding.
She was even afraid that the house had hidden walls or secret rooms. She knocked on every wall and checked the floor, but couldn't find a single mouse hole.
The old man's flower bed should have been fine.
After all, when Qin Yanlin disappeared, she and the old man were in this room, and the old man was still lying on the flower bed.
She still tried to find everything, leaving no stone unturned, and checked everything thoroughly, but found no hidden mechanism.
Deng Xiuzhen felt that this world was somewhat fantastical and beyond her comprehension.