Chapter 837 No Problem

Zhai Yizhong's original intention was to avoid the elderly and children, as he felt the matter was mysterious and wanted to avoid frightening them.

Upon hearing that Zhai Yizhong was going to take them upstairs, the old lady immediately smiled and said, "You're going upstairs? Then come along. I'll take Tingting back to her room to change her clothes. Tingting was playing outside and her clothes are a little dirty."

Zhai Yizhong was taken aback for a moment, not noticing where his daughter's clothes were dirty, but still nodded and said, "Okay."

Seeing this, Ye Wanxi turned her head and exchanged a glance with Feng Tianyu, smiled knowingly, and followed Zhai Yizhong upstairs.

Zhai Yizhong's attention was focused on the elderly and children, and he did not notice the two's subtle actions.

On the contrary, Bai Haoqi turned around just as the two were looking at each other, naturally taking in this small detail, and a thoughtful look flashed across his eyes.

After Grandma Zhai took the little girl upstairs, she went into the small bedroom next door to change her clothes. Coincidentally, the corridor where the little ball appeared runs through most of the rooms on the second floor.

And the ball appeared right in the middle of the little girl and the old lady's room.

“My wife and I have a master bedroom on the other side, a little further away, so we didn’t notice the commotion here at first. Later we did, though; the elderly and children were all here…”

Ye Wanxi understood what he meant. The two weakest members of the family were here, how could she not worry?

"How long has this phenomenon been going on?"

"It's been about a week."

Ye Wanxi stroked her chin and pondered for a moment, then asked, "So, roughly what time of day does this ball appear?"

"It usually happens around one or two in the morning."

"With the ball so close to these two rooms, can the people inside hear it when it's being bounced?"

Zhai Yizhong was stunned for a moment, then said nervously, "That's the strangest thing. The ball is being bounced right here, but my grandma and the child can't hear anything. On the contrary, the two of us who are far away can hear it very clearly."

Ye Wanxi pursed her lips and after a long while said, "Where is that ball?"

“Here they are.” Zhai Yizhong opened the toy room next to him and took out two small yellow soft balls about the size of grapefruits.

One is relatively new, and the other is relatively old.

"This one is a new one my wife bought. We were originally planning to throw away the old one, but unexpectedly..."

Before inviting Ye Wanxi over, they had indeed thought of many ways to "save themselves," and throwing the ball was a solution that the couple had discussed.

But his daughter really liked the ball and threw it away for no reason. They were worried that their daughter would make a fuss, so after she threw it away, his wife bought a new one.

Who would have thought that that very night, not only did the new ball come out, but the old ball that his wife had thrown away also came back on its own!

This terrified the young couple, who became even more convinced that something unclean had entered their home.

After reviewing the timeline, Mrs. Zhai had an even stronger intuition that the filthy thing was something she had accidentally brought back when she was being followed that day.

“My wife has been paranoid lately and hasn’t been able to sleep well for several days. She was planning to take the day off today to stay home and help me pick up everyone, but something urgent came up at work, so she went out anyway. If all goes well, she should be back by noon.”

As Zhai Yizhong spoke, he handed the ball to Ye Wanxi.

Ye Wanxi looked at the two balls for a while, then put them into Feng Tianyu's hand.

Feng Tianyu glanced at it perfunctorily and then returned the ball to Zhai Yizhong.

Upon seeing this, Zhai Yizhong's heart jumped: "Miss Ye, this..."

"There's nothing wrong with these two balls."

Zhai Yizhong looked surprised: "No problem?"

"Yes. Including your house, no problem."

"But……"

Zhai Yizhong's expression changed slightly. Just as he was about to say something, the door to the next room suddenly opened.

Grandma Zhai led the little girl, who had changed into a blue princess dress, out of the house, and was a little surprised to see the group of people crowded in the corridor.

"Yizhong, didn't you have something to say to some guests? Why don't you take them to the lobby to sit? What are you doing standing here in the corridor?"

"Grandma, I..."

Before Zhai Yizhong could explain, Ye Wanxi interrupted him, saying, "Madam, we just came to get some documents from Mr. Zhai. Now that we have them, we're going back."

Ye Wanxi's words surprised not only Old Madam Zhai, but also Zhai Yizhong.

"Are we going back already?" Old Mrs. Zhai was the first to come to her senses. "Aren't you going to stay and have lunch with us? Ah Yi has already made the arrangements. Why don't you stay for lunch before you go back?"

Upon hearing this, Zhai Yizhong calmed down a bit and said, "Yes, why don't you stay and have lunch before you leave?"

Ye Wanxi smiled and politely declined, "No, we have some things to do."

"Balls." The little girl holding the old lady's hand didn't understand the intricacies of adult conversation; her attention was fixed on the two balls in her father's hand.

After realizing there was something wrong with the balls, the couple never let their little girl touch them again.

The couple had been lying to her that the ball was broken, but the little girl kept thinking about it. Just a couple of days ago, she was even begging them to buy her a new ball. Now, seeing the two balls in Zhai Yizhong's hand, she thought they were new balls her father had bought for her, and her eyes lit up with joy.

"Tingting, this ball..."

Zhai Yizhong was at a loss for how to explain to his daughter, but then he saw Ye Wanxi smiling as she took a ball from his hand and handed it to the little girl.

Is this your ball?

“It’s mine!” The little girl hugged the ball tightly with great joy. “Daddy said the ball was broken. Daddy lied.”

Ye Wanxi smiled faintly and squatted down in front of her, looking into her eyes: "Dad didn't lie to you, he really thought your ball was broken. But actually your ball isn't, it's just about to produce baby balls."

The little girl blinked her big eyes, looking surprised: "Give birth to little balls?"

"Yes, look at the one your dad is holding, it's one of its offspring, isn't it a little smaller than the one in your hand?"

"Really!" The little girl followed Ye Wanxi's gaze and saw the ball in her father's hand. She exclaimed as if she had discovered a great secret.

"Big ball gives birth to little ball, Tingting has two little balls now."

“Yes, with one more ball, Tingting can each have one with her friends and play together, right?” Ye Wanxi said, glancing at the old lady next to the little girl with a smile.

"right!"

Children are simple-minded and are easily coaxed.

Ye Wanxi then stood up and said to Zhai Yizhong, who seemed hesitant to speak, "Let's go downstairs."

Zhai Yizhong had some doubts, but still mindful of the old lady's presence, he nodded and led Ye Wanxi and the others downstairs.

As soon as he reached the bottom of the stairs, and made sure the elderly man and the child upstairs hadn't followed him down and couldn't hear their conversation, Zhai Yizhong eagerly asked, "Miss Ye, what exactly happened? You just said..."

(End of this chapter)