Chapter 55 The Disappearing Couple

Chapter 55 The Disappearing Couple

Chapter 55 The Disappearing Couple

Ning Zhe squatted at the door and chatted with his grandfather for a while, and got a general understanding of what happened yesterday from his perspective.

Around seven o'clock this morning, my grandfather came back from a night fishing trip at the reservoir. From a distance, he saw a large group of people gathered at the Bishui Bay. A bright yellow cordon was drawn on the shore. Policemen and reporters were all on the scene, and there was an ambulance parked outside. Many family members who came to claim the bodies gathered on the stone steps on the shore, and the staff were processing the procedures for them. Many of them came in such a hurry that they forgot to bring their household registration books and identity documents, so they had to run back home to get them.

After my grandfather made some inquiries, he found out that there was an electric leak in the underground cables of the manor, which caused the death of many people.

Ning Zhe's grandfather is a very traditional Chinese patriarch. His ancestors suffered a lot from the landlords. Therefore, he has always had a natural hostility towards this luxurious project built on the edge of the town. He especially believes that such a large-scale project will affect the water quality of Taojiang River, which will lead to his empty-handed fishing.

So my grandfather was gloating over this accident, waiting to see the boss behind the manor investigated. It would be even better if he saw him fined and imprisoned on the news... until a neighbor who knew him came over and said to him, "Old man, stop laughing. Does the guy inside look like your grandson?" His smile froze on his face.

There was nothing much that happened afterwards. After the doctor examined Ning Zhe, Feng Yusu drove the car with his grandfather to send him home. He left Bai Zhi to watch over him while he returned to the crime scene to cooperate with the investigation.

Of course, her identity was not suitable for appearing in front of public cameras, so the person who accepted the news interview was Tian Chengyun.

Was what happened last night reported as a safety accident... Ning Zhe took out his cell phone and searched for related reports, and finally his eyes stopped on the scene where Tian Chengyun was being interviewed.

"Tian Chengyun?" Ning Zhe frowned. He knew Tian Chengyun. To be precise, it was Old Li who knew him.

Lao Li and Tian Chengyun were both lucky people who happened to break some of the rules while escaping, as were Xie Yaoan and Liu Yunzhi. However, among the four, only Xie Yaoan and Tian Chengyun survived successfully, and the other two had died.

During the interview, Tian Chengyun did not mention at all that the manor was blocked by unknown means, nor did he say anything about ghosts or weirdness. He just followed the news reports and described what happened last night as a simple safety accident.

"Tian Chengyun was silenced? By whom?" Ning Zhe became curious.

There was a person, or an organization, who blocked the manor last night and threw a ghost in there, just like releasing an alligator gar into a pond full of koi, killing people all over the beautiful manor.

After the massacre, he blocked the news again. He somehow silenced the survivors, including Tian Chengyun, and disguised the whole incident as a safety accident, dealing with the aftermath perfectly.

And the reason why that person did this seemed to be for... Zhao You.

"Hey, Azhe, why didn't you tell me you were coming back? Why did you run to the manor in the middle of the night?"

Grandpa asked as he smoked a cigarette, "Did you secretly date a little girl and got caught by her mother in the middle of the night?"

Ning Zhe was about to open his mouth to refute, but then he thought, this is a good idea, so he doesn't have to think of another way to explain, so he asked back: "Why, you want to catch me in a premature relationship?"

"Bullshit about premature love. When I was your age, my child was already two years old." Grandpa said nonchalantly, "But I was wondering why you look down on those girls who have been thinking about you. It turns out that you have ambitions of becoming a phoenix by marrying a daughter of a wealthy family?"

"This sentence is usually used to describe women who marry into wealthy families... If a man has ambition, he should make his own way. Relying on women is not a skill." Ning Zhe shook his head and said, "Don't mention that. Modern society does not advocate early love and early marriage. You want to have a great-grandson? At least wait until I reach the legal age of 22."

Grandpa looked hopeless and said, "I would have been dead by then."

"Then I will take your great-grandson to your grave to burn paper." Ning Zhe said.

"You kid..." Grandpa shook his head, feeling very disappointed with his friend.

This is the atmosphere in backward areas. Many of Ningzhe's female classmates in junior high school are now mothers. Although they are not married yet, they can have children first. Ningzhe has become accustomed to this feudal and magical atmosphere.

Ning Zhe was arguing with his grandfather when suddenly a soft hand reached out from behind and gently patted his shoulder. Almost as a reflex, Ning Zhe turned around subconsciously and grabbed the hand on his shoulder, trying to violently break the white and delicate wrist. Fortunately, Ning Zhe looked up and found that the owner of the hand was Bai Zhi, so he did not continue to use force.

"What's wrong?" Ning Zhe asked softly.

Bai Zhi lowered her head and said nothing, struggling slightly with her hand that he was holding.

Ning Zhe then let go of her hand, and finally heard her whisper: "Mom didn't reply to my message..."

"Huh?" Ning Zhe was stunned.

She unlocked her phone and turned the screen towards this side. Ning Zhe looked up and saw that the last message on the chat interface was sent 13 minutes ago. It was a notification from Bai Zhi to Feng Yusu, saying that Ning Zhe had finally woken up and asked her to come over quickly.

The message sent by Baizhi showed that it had been read, but there has been no reply until now.

"I just called my mother, but no one answered." Bai Zhi said nervously, "I can't contact her."

"Have you tried calling your dad?" Ning Zhe asked.

"Ah... I'll try." Bai Zhi nodded and opened the dial-up interface.

...So you've never thought of asking your biological father for help? Ning Zhe couldn't help but hold his forehead.

He felt that Baizhi's family was quite strange, with a mother who never had to do housework, a father who was obsessed with work and completely ignored his family, and a mentally ill daughter. The relationship between the three was very distant. When they encountered problems, they did not think of asking family members for help. They did not act like a family at all.

Only the aunt's maternal love for Baizhi can be regarded as a kind of family love.

After Bai Zhi dialed the number, she put the phone to her ear and waited for a while, but the call didn't go through. She dialed the number again, but still no one answered.

"How could this be?" Bai Zhi put down her phone in a daze, and looked at the words "the other party's phone is turned off" on the screen, feeling at a loss.

She had no choice but to walk behind Ning Zhe again and whispered, "I can't get through to Dad on the phone either."

The couple lost contact together? Ning Zhe was a little confused, so he asked again: "Did your mother tell you where she went?"

"She went to the hospital." Bai Zhi answered truthfully: "There was an accident in the manor yesterday. Dad was also injured at the time. Although his life is not in danger, he is also in the hospital for observation. Mom went to the hospital to see him."

Ning Zhe looked strange. Her father was injured and hospitalized, but as a daughter, she was guarding a stranger's bedside?

He became more and more confused about Baizhi's family situation.

"Okay..." Ning Zhe stood up: "Let's go to the hospital to find them."

Just check what happened last night.

(End of this chapter)