Chapter 63

Xia Zhongqin flew from Wuhan to Pudong Airport overnight, and then took a taxi from Pudong back to Suzhou to pay respect to the elderly.

It was already seven o'clock in the morning when we arrived at the Sunset Red Nursing Home.

"Zhong Qin." As soon as Xia Zhongqin got off the taxi, Zhu Hongmiao, who had been waiting outside the gate of the Sunset Red Nursing Home, hugged her in her arms.

From the moment he received Zhu Hongmiao's call at twelve o'clock in the morning until now, Xia Zhongqin was in a state of being out of body.

Because she was going to Wuhan to attend the PMO training meeting, this was Xia Zhongqin's first time traveling far away. The night before yesterday, she specially went back to the Sunset Red Nursing Home after work. Before coming back, she sent a WeChat message to Wang Haiyun. Wang Haiyun, who always treated her as his own daughter, naturally took the time to cook a table of her favorite dishes.

At night, the two of them slept together in Wang Haiyun's room for the first time, and then talked about recent work and life events.

Xia Zhongqin originally wanted to tell Wang Haiyun about her relationship with Lian Yijian, but she and Lian Yijian had not been dating for even a month, and it was just in the budding stage. She was afraid that Wang Haiyun would worry again, so she wanted to wait until the relationship was stable before telling Wang Haiyun.

She didn't know which would come first, the accident or tomorrow. Xia Zhongqin's eyes were red and swollen. She thought her tears had dried up, but when Zhu Hongmiao held her tightly in her arms, her tears burst out again.

"Zhong Qin, the dead cannot be resurrected. The boss will be heartbroken to see you like this." As she said this, Zhu Hongmiao gently patted Xia Zhongqin's back to comfort her.

As Wang Haiyun's right-hand man, Zhu Hongmiao has been with Wang Haiyun for seven years. The two are not only in a superior-subordinate relationship, but are also as close as sisters in private. Not long ago, she was recommended by Wang Haiyun for promotion to deputy director of the Sunset Red Nursing Home.

After Xia Zhongqin calmed down a little, with the support of Zhu Hongmiao, the two walked towards the gate of the nursing home together.

When the two of them reached the gate, it was slowly opened from the inside.

As he passed Gao Quan, the security guard at the Sunset Red Nursing Home, he said, "My condolences."

Thanks to Zhu Hongmiao, everything in the Sunset Red Nursing Home is running normally as usual.

The two of them went to the bedroom where Wang Haiyun lived before his death. Zhu Hongmiao closed the bedroom door and turned on the air conditioner in the room. Then she took Xia Zhongqin's arm and sat down on the sofa in the bedroom.

Zhu Hongmiao told Xia Zhongqin every detail of Wang Haiyun's car accident.

The accident happened so suddenly that Zhu Hongmiao only said on the phone that Wang Haiyun was dead in a car accident and asked Xia Zhongqin to come back quickly. She did not have time to talk about the specific details of the accident.

It turned out that Wang Haiyun was on his way back from the Animal Husbandry and Animal Husbandry Expo in Nanjing when he was rear-ended by a mixer truck on the highway. The collision was so severe that Wang Haiyun's car caught fire instantly and the fire was very large.

The section of the highway they were driving on was relatively remote. By the time the highway police arrived, half an hour had passed and Wang Haiyun and his entire car had been carbonized.

Zhu Hongmiao had just finished telling the whole story of the car accident when Xia Zhongqin, who had been listening quietly, said, "Aunt Hongmiao, don't worry, I won't do anything stupid. I will take care of Mother Wang's funeral."

Xia Zhongqin's voice was very hoarse, and it no longer had the softness it used to have.

"The boss had already bought the cemetery before he died, and I have also selected the clothes to be placed in the cenotaph. They are all the clothes that the boss liked." While saying these words, Zhu Hongmiao had already stood up and took out a pile of clothes from the closet in the room. On the top piece of clothing was a real estate certificate, an ICBC savings card, a notary office certificate and two Pacific Accident Insurance policies.

Zhu Hongmiao placed the pile of clothes on the sofa. She took the property ownership certificate, the notary office certificate, two Pacific accident insurance policies, and an ICBC savings card and handed them to Xia Zhongqin. "Qin'er, the eldest brother had the Modern Garden house notarized at the Sucheng Notary Office two years ago. If she were to die in an accident, you would be the first heir. The year after your parents had the car accident, the eldest brother bought accident insurance for you and her. The coverage amount for both of you is two million each. Just like the property, the eldest brother also wrote your name as the first heir on the insurance."

"The password for your ICBC savings card is the same as the day and year you came to the nursing home, Qin'er. I'll take care of the eldest brother's funeral. Qin'er, you just need to take care of yourself now."

When she was seven years old, she experienced separation from life and death for the first time. At that time, the little girl was held tightly in Wang Haiyun's arms. From then on, the two depended on each other. Wang Haiyun treated her as his own daughter, and Wang Haiyun became her only relative in the world.

Even after eighteen years, Xia Zhongqin still remembers how, after her parents had a car accident, she was kicked around like a ball in the mourning hall by her uncle and her uncle. Neither side wanted her, simply because the family of the truck driver who hit and killed her parents was very poor and had no money to pay compensation, and her parents did not buy accident insurance, so both sides regarded her as a burden.

In the end, it was her parents' mutual friend Wang Haiyun who adopted her and arranged her parents' funeral. Her parents' house located in Golf Garden, Suzhou Industrial Park was forcibly auctioned off by the court when she was ten years old because her father helped her uncle to guarantee it and her uncle's business failed.

The long-forgotten past flashed through Xia Zhongqin's mind quickly like a movie.

"Aunt Hong Miao, is the mausoleum that Mother Wang bought in Xishan?"

The tomb for her parents, bought by Wang Haiyun, was located in Xishan.

"Yes, it's in the West Hill. I heard from the boss that it's next to your mother's tomb."

After listening to Zhu Hongmiao's words, a doubt that had been in Xia Zhongqin's mind for many years finally had an answer.

Every year during the Qingming Festival, Wang Haiyun would take Xia Zhongqin to Xishan Cemetery to visit her parents' graves. There was an empty grave next to her mother's grave. Over the years, there were no empty graves in Xishan Cemetery anymore, but the one next to her mother's grave remained empty. It turned out that Wang Haiyun had prepared it for her.

Just as Xia Zhongqin was lost in thought and reminiscing, a call came in on her cell phone. It was Lian Yijian calling.

Xia Zhongqin left in a hurry at twelve o'clock in the morning. She did not send WeChat or call Lian Yijian. She had planned to ask Lian Yijian for leave after arriving at the Sunset Red Nursing Home.

Xia Zhongqin didn't answer the phone immediately. She was thinking for a long time and only picked up the phone after it rang for the second time.

Before she could say anything, Lian Yijian's anxious voice came from the other end of the phone.

"Zhong Qin, where have you been? I sent you a WeChat message to arrange breakfast. Just as I arrived at your door, Dong Hui came out of the room and said that she went back home at 1 a.m. yesterday and you were not in the room."

Xia Zhongqin replied according to the draft he had prepared in his mind: "Brother Yi Jian, there's an emergency at home that requires me to come back. It happened suddenly, so I left Wuhan in the middle of the night. It was too late, and I didn't want to disturb your rest, so I didn't send you a WeChat message. I need to take three days off."

Aside from the flaw in her voice, Xia Zhongqin's responses on the phone were steady. However, Lian Yijian, who was always quick to respond, naturally sensed something was amiss and asked, "Is there anything I can help with? Zhongqin, are you feeling unwell? Why is your voice so hoarse?"

Xia Zhongqin was afraid of being exposed if they continued chatting like this, so she quickly replied: "Thank you for your concern, Brother Yi Jian. I can handle it myself. It may be because I didn't get enough rest. I will catch up on some sleep later. Brother Yi Jian, don't worry..."

Before Xia Zhongqin could finish her words, a noisy voice came from the other end of the phone, "Yi Jian, are you done talking? We're all waiting for you."

These words were like a life-saving straw to Xia Zhongqin. Xia Zhongqin continued, "Brother Yi Jian, go have breakfast first. I wish you a smooth training."

As Lian Yijian replied with "OK", Xia Zhongqin hung up the phone first.

Just as Xia Zhongqin hung up the phone, Wang Haiyun's bedroom door was roughly opened from the outside, and then a man with a face full of flesh appeared in the room.

The man was tall and strong, standing out in the room.

The man was none other than Wang Haiyun's half-brother Wang Haidong.

In Xia Zhongqin's memory, this was the third time she met Wang Haidong.

The first time was at Wang Haiyun’s father’s funeral eight years ago, and the second time was at the end of last year, when Wang Haidong went to the Sunset Red Nursing Home to ask Wang Haiyun for money, and the first thing he asked for was 200,000 yuan. In the end, Wang Haiyun called the police.

Although they are both children of the same father, there is a huge difference between their knowledge and character. Wang Haiyun is of noble character and successful in his career, while Wang Haidong, who is almost fifty years old, still lives a life of luxury. When Wang Haiyun's father Wang Mingyu was alive, Wang Haidong lived a fulfilling life relying on Wang Mingyu's generous pension.

With Wang Mingyu, his trusted supporter, gone, Wang Haidong suddenly lost his main source of income. He now barely gets by on his mother's meager pension. Despite having good hands and feet, Wang Haidong refuses to find a job, often due to laziness, and remains unmarried.

Seeing him coming with such a threatening look, Xia Zhongqin already knew why Wang Haidong came, which was nothing more than Wang Haiyun's inheritance.

After knowing what kind of person the other person was, Xia Zhongqin didn't even bother to say hello and just looked at Wang Haidong expressionlessly.

Xia Zhongqin's knowing expression completely infuriated Wang Haidong. He strode over to Xia Zhongqin and said viciously, "Haiyun is gone. Don't think you can take all her inheritance. I'm one of her few relatives. If anything, the inheritance should go to me, her brother. How can you, an outsider, get it?"

"The house in Boss Modern Garden has been notarized, so you don't have to worry about it." Zhu Hongmiao picked up her cell phone and called the guard room.

Gao Quan arrived in less than two minutes. Upon seeing Wang Haidong, he quickly explained, "Some of the elderly man's family members came to visit him just now. I wasn't paying attention, and he sneaked in."