Chapter 10 Chapter 10 The effect is great
Ding Yixia stood up and called out "brother", then looked at Su Yun. She looked at her carefully for a while and also greeted Su Yun: "Sister Yunyun."
"Do you still remember me?" Su Yun retracted his gaze, raised his hand and touched her head with a smile.
"Remember, Sister Yunyun is here to see Dad?" Ding Yixia didn't know why Ding Yihua invited Ding Yihua to come, and thought that Ding Yihua's friends were taking turns to visit.
Su Yun nodded: "Yes, by the way, let's see if there is anything I can help with. You are still here so late, don't you have to go to school tomorrow?"
Ding Yixia lowered her head in embarrassment: "Tomorrow is Saturday, Sister Yunyun."
It's broken. It's been too long since she's had a normal work cycle. Su Yun even forgot about weekends. She laughed dryly and said, "Haha, Sister Yunyun is too busy. She forgot about it."
There is a generation gap of three years between them. Su Yun felt that there was not much to talk about with the kid, and Ding Yixia was really too socially anxious. She kept her head down and looked very nervous. Ding Yihua had no choice but to let her secretary send her back to the city, as she had to go to the company to keep an eye on it tomorrow.
Watching the secretary and the short Ding Yixia leave, Su Yun was a little worried: "Your sister seems to have a serious social anxiety disorder. Is it really okay for her to stay at the company?"
Ding Yihua had an indescribable expression: "She is indeed socially anxious, but... her methods are quite strong. The company seems to be managing her well. My father suddenly ran into trouble last year. I was on the rise in the government, as you know. My mother is an actress and doesn't know how to manage, so Xiao Xia took over directly at the time. The board of directors has not had any complaints so far."
Later, Su Yun found out that Ding Yixia only looked timid, but he was actually a coward who did cruel things and subdued those people in the company who had disloyalty because they saw that Uncle Ding was in trouble.
Uncle Ding was resting in the ward. He was not in good condition, and even though he was taking the best medicines, they could not keep him awake a little longer every day.
After entering the ward, Ding Yihua closed the door first to prevent the wind from blowing in. He brought a chair to Su Yun and said, "Sit down first. I'll pour you some water. My dad is awake for a short time every day, so I thought of arranging a meeting for you when he wakes up and has more energy."
Su Yun responded casually and gave Lin Lang a look, asking him to go check on Uncle Ding's condition. In terms of medical treatment, she was fourth in the funeral home. The first and second were two masters, the third was Lin Lang, and she was fourth. Moreover, she only had a bunch of obscure theoretical knowledge, and her understanding might not be very good.
Ding Yihua turned around with two glasses of water and saw Lin Lang taking the patient's pulse on the other side of the bed. He was stunned for a moment: "Eh? Not... Su Yun, are you coming?"
"He is my employee. Technical matters should of course be done by employees. The boss only needs to paint a rosy picture - no, just make decisions." Su Yun took the water cup and said righteously.
"...Sometimes, we still have to respect the Labor Law." Ding Yihua reminded gently.
Lin Lang then switched sides to examine Uncle Ding. It didn’t take too long before he said, “It’s evil spirits that have entered his body. Mr. Ding, has your father bought anything in the past year? Or has he come into contact with anything regularly?”
The symptoms caused by evil spirits entering the body can be serious or minor. For example, children may just start to get sick. It is not like seeing dirty things as rumored, but just a bad environment and poor body resistance that lead to various adverse reactions.
Generally speaking, it won't reach Uncle Ding's level, even though he is considered an old man now. Unless he is in contact with the source of evil energy every day, no matter how strong a person's body is, he can't withstand breathing the virus every day.
Ding Yihua frowned, "That's too much. My dad is just an ordinary middle-aged man. He likes fishing, skewers, tea, antiques, etc. These are all things that cost a lot of money and can be seen every day. If I check them one by one, there will be too many."
"Then what did he buy a month before he fell ill last year? It will be fine as long as he bought it within this time period. It must be something he bought." Su Yun narrowed the scope a little bit. If it doesn't work, he can just expand it.
Even if they are a family, they would not know clearly what each other bought. Ding Yihua usually does not live at home, so if he is asked now, he really doesn't know. Asking his mother is even more useless. He can only ask the housekeeper and the life assistant, as these two should know the most complete information.
The housekeeper came to accompany him every night and arrived soon. Ding Yihua quickly called him and asked him to go back and get the account book first. The life assistant could only pay him overtime and ask him to make a trip to check all the things that Uncle Ding had purchased.
Although only one month's account book was required, in the end there were three thick volumes delivered, including expensive and cheap items, as well as small stones bought for ten yuan from the stone market. These stones were not bought to be mined for jade, but to be kept. It was a relatively new industry, called stone keeping.
Su Yun looked through it once and felt dazzled. Fortunately there were photos on it, otherwise she would not want to look at it after a while.
Ding Yihua was also watching from the side. He had never expected that his father would actually buy so many random things, including some luxury goods for ladies, which were obviously bought for his actress wife. He bought a bunch of exercise books and books for his daughter, and even some weird books like "Teach You One Sentence to Navigate the Officialdom" for Ding Yihua.
As she was flipping through the pages, Su Yun saw a jade ring. She turned it over, then turned it back again.
The jade ring is very beautiful, with a magpie carved on it. The tip of the magpie's mouth is just a little red, as if the magpie is holding a plum, which is very beautiful.
Ding Yihua saw it and became nervous: "Is there anything wrong with this ring? I've seen it before. This ring is very beautiful. I gave it to my mother, but my mother is very nice. She just got a role in a play last month."
"Can't you see that this is supposed to be a couple's rings?" Su Yun held up the photo and asked in confusion.
Hearing this, Ding Yihua subconsciously looked at the housekeeper. He must be the one who sorted out these daily necessities, so he should know the most about them.
The housekeeper immediately replied, "When the gentleman bought it, it was a single ring. The lady even asked about it and complained about why there was only one. If he wore it out, it would not be a pair with him. The gentleman said there was only one at the auction and the other one might have been lost."
Ding Yihua didn't know if this was a problem, and looked at Su Yun nervously: "Is it a ring that can't be worn?"
Su Yun hesitated for a moment and did not come to a conclusion directly. Instead, he took out the photos and bills: "I can't be sure, I will take out all the things that are wrong first, and then screen them. I hope it is among the things I saw today."
Su Yun took a quick look at the rest of the things. There were all kinds of things that Su Yun found strange. In addition to the ring, there was also a tea pet, an antique and a pot of flowers.
The tea pet is a color-changing ceramic gecko. It is not expensive, but looks very cute, like something a bored old man would like. The antique is a statue of Guanyin, which is quite old judging by its age. Experts have determined that it is at least 500 years old. The only pity is that there is a fine line on the back of the jade bottle, but it cannot be seen from the front.
The last pot of flowers was just a simple daffodil, which was poisonous, but as long as you didn't eat it, it was fine to keep it in the villa. Su Yun picked this flower out because she thought it was growing too well.
Su Yun placed these photos in front of the housekeeper and life assistant and asked them about the details.
The housekeeper said first: "This tea pet was bought at a street stall when the gentleman went for a walk in the park. This kind of small vendor is probably no longer available."
"This antique was bought at a legitimate auction house. Since it was a defective antique, it didn't get a good price. The museum seemed to have determined that it was a collectible antique and didn't need to be included. As for this flower, I bought it while buying materials with my fishing friends. They each got a pot." The personal assistant replied.
Su Yun thought thoughtfully: "In other words, these things were bought from different people, and there is no way to determine whether the seller has ulterior motives?"
The assistant nodded hurriedly: "Yes, I paid with my card, and there was no problem at all. If I want to make a move, I can only go to the seller, but the sellers are all old acquaintances, they won't cheat me like this. If I'm caught, I won't be able to do business in the future."
Especially in auction houses and fishing tackle shops, the customers they receive every day are either rich or noble. To offend one is equivalent to offending the entire circle. Who would ruin their own financial future?
After much thought, Su Yun decided to go home with Ding Yihua. She wanted to see these things.
Ding Yihua had no objection, but glanced at his father and hesitated: "Then my dad..."
"I can only solve the source of the problem. As for whether my uncle can wake up, we have to wait for my other two employees to come back. Their medical skills are better. You shouldn't have been to the grassroots this weekend, right?" Su Yun thought of this. If Ding Yihua hadn't been there with him, the subsequent investigation would have been difficult to carry out.
"Not yet, but I'm leaving next Wednesday. If I'm too late, you can ask Xiao Xia for help." Ding Yihua was afraid that Su Yun would find it troublesome and not help, so he quickly promised that Ding Yixia could also do it.
Su Yun thought it was all right, so he asked him to go find the selected things tonight. With the life assistant there, he led them to the Ding family villa with ease, and the housekeeper stayed to take care of Uncle Ding.
On the way, Ding Yihua also told Su Yun some things he knew, such as what his father liked to buy, where he liked to go, and that his mother would actually bring things home. If none of those things were the reason, would the things be among the things his mother brought back?
Knowing that Ding Yihua was anxious, Su Yun did not interrupt, but listened carefully and raised any questions she had.
When Su Yun returned to the Ding family villa, she had already understood most of the situation. She felt that the problem was still with the antiques. Generally speaking, the only things that a family like theirs could come into contact with were haunted antiques that they bought without knowing much about, which made them easy to be harmed.
Because Uncle Ding likes them, he puts all the things in the study and doesn’t put them away so they can be seen as soon as the door comes in.
Su Yun was taken by Ding Yihua to see those things. The ring was left at home. Ding Yihua's mother was going to join a crew and would not wear too many jewelry. The tea pet was placed on the coffee table in the living room, and the flowers were placed in the corridor outside the study, blooming beautifully.
There was a separate shelf in the study room for the Guanyin statue. Su Yun walked over and observed from the side. He saw the crack on the jade bottle and then handed it to Lin Lang: "What do you think?"
Lin Lang examined it carefully and said, "There is a little bit, but it's not enough to make a person that sick."
It's not surprising that few things coming out of underground are clean. Su Yun looked around and looked out of the window.
The study is on the second floor with a large balcony. Outside is the villa's large garden. Even in this season, it is full of brightly colored flowers. The design is good and does not make people feel coquettish, messy or breathless. Instead, it is a very comfortable combination.
Su Yun turned around and said to Ding Yihua: "The flowers in your garden are blooming beautifully."
Ding Yihua smiled and said, "Yes, because my parents still have some old habits. You know, they are nouveau riche, so they don't have any elegant hobbies. They don't like flower arranging either. They just want to grow something, vegetables and fruits, but they are always laughed at, so they can only grow flowers."
His words were full of subtle realities. If Ding Yihua had power, he would be complimented for farming and sharing happiness with the people. But if they were just nouveau riche, they would probably be laughed at for being pretentious if they grew flowers.
Su Yun comforted him, "This proves that uncle and aunt are amazing. They grow the crops themselves and they grow them so well. I don't know how to grow crops at all. I can't even keep them. I rely entirely on my employees to maintain the business."
Ding Yihua sighed, "Hey, you don't have to comfort me. I know they have been laughing at me for many years and I'm used to it. But these flowers give me a lot of comfort. They seem to know that the person who raises them is not in good health, so even though I have taken less care of them in the past year, they are still growing beautifully."
"Ah? It should be the gardener who is working hard, right? Trying to let uncles and aunts see them growing well." Su Yun replied casually.
"But our family... doesn't have a gardener." Ding Yihua hesitated.
Su Yun looked back at him and said, "You can also take care of the housekeeper and the servants. You pay them high salaries, so of course you have to take good care of them."
Ding Yihua blinked, but he still insisted, "These flowers should not be taken care of by many people. Our family did not hire many servants. Originally, we only had a housekeeper, a nanny, a cook and five servants, and they all had their own jobs. The garden originally only had a lawn, which my parents planted little by little."
Later, Uncle Ding fell ill, and Ding Yihua's mother had to take care of him. Even though she had hired many doctors and nurses, she still had no time to take care of the garden. The housekeeper wanted to hire a gardener, but Uncle Ding said no, as he didn't like others touching his things, so he just let the housekeeper use an automatic device to water the plants.
"That is to say, no one has taken care of these flowers for a long time, right?" Su Yun asked, pointing to the flowers below.
Ding Yihua gave an affirmative reply. In fact, his father had come back many times in the past year, and every time, the flowers in the garden bloomed beautifully. He thought that they had been well taken care of at the beginning, so there was no need to work hard to maintain them later.
Su Yun looked at the flowers below with uncertainty and said, "At least seven or eight varieties below are very delicate. They are not that expensive in themselves, but they are delicate. Once no one takes care of them, they will be infested with insects, get sick, and wither, and will also affect other flowers. If no one takes care of them, your garden would have been full of insects a long time ago."
Because Su Yun said that, Ding Yihua made an internal call and asked the nanny if the housekeeper had secretly hired a gardener again. The reply was no, and the nanny secretly said that after the husband fell ill, the housekeeper asked a servant in the family to help water the plants, but the servant did not understand and just watered them randomly every time.
Some of these flowers were watered too much, while others were not watered enough. The nanny wanted to help, but she didn't know how to do it herself. After asking around, she found that everyone only had a vague idea. So she changed the method to taking turns watering the flowers every day. They were worried that they would damage them and would have to apologize to the housekeeper, but the flowers were still fine.
Su Yun heard it clearly nearby, and when he hung up, he said directly: "Now, I am sure that it is not the things your father bought that are problematic, but the flowers below."
Ding Yihua didn't even put down the microphone, he was stunned: "Huh?"
"Haven't you noticed that the flowers and plants in your house are growing exceptionally well? Including that newly bought pot of daffodils. Don't they look like there's flesh and blood buried in the soil?" Su Yun said as he looked quietly down at the garden.
The situation was beyond Ding Yihua's understanding. He just followed Su Yun's instructions in a daze. He first asked the servants downstairs to get some shovels, watering tools and fertilizers. By the time he reacted, he and Su Yun were already standing in the garden.
The servants turned on incandescent lamps for them, making the garden as bright as day, and every flower could be seen clearly.
Su Yun squatted down and randomly picked a flower to examine. "It is indeed blooming too well. Generally, flowers that bloom well have either good genes, good soil, or good fertilizer. Lin Lang, dig this one out."
Ding Yihua wanted to stop them: "Do you really want to dig it up? This is what my parents have been working hard to grow for many years."
"Not all of them. We'll randomly select some within a year and infer based on behavioral logic that the flowers planted later will definitely be at the edge. Since there are no flowers near your fence, that means they are planted from the inside to the outside. Just dig a little in the outer circle. When the problem is solved later, I'll plant them back for you." Su Yun reassured Ding Yihua.
Hearing that not all of it had to be dug up, Ding Yihua breathed a sigh of relief and immediately went to help Lin Lang. The servants watched from the side, waiting for instructions.
While they were digging, Su Yun walked deeper into the garden. When he came in, he found that the garden was growing very well, so well that it made people wonder if there was a corpse buried underground. Perhaps there was no fertilizer that could be more fertile than a corpse.
Lin Lang moved quickly. In no time he dug out all the flower roots, leaving only a little bit broken inside. He handed the flower to the servant and took a flashlight to check the hole he had dug.
Ding Yihua also dug a hole. He was more careful and dug a bigger hole. Seeing Lin Lang looking at the hole, he asked, "Is there anything underneath?"
Hearing this, Lin Lang reached out and grabbed several handfuls of soil. He spread the soil out, pinched a small handful from time to time and smelled it, then shouted to Su Yun in the garden: "Director, there is something wrong with this soil, it is double-layered."
Su Yun turned around when he heard the voice and asked, "How do you know?"
"I can smell it. It tastes different." Lin Lang answered honestly.
The servant next to him listened, wanting to say something but stopping himself, he could not help but say: "In fact, the master and the mistress used the traditional method to ferment the soil, so the top layer smells different... It's normal."
The so-called traditional method of composting is to ferment feces into fertilizer. It has a strong smell, but the effect is good and lasts for a long time.
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