"Fairy Sister?" Gao Mingcheng looked at Gao Lianzhou with an unusually sharp gaze.
Gao Lianzhou shuddered involuntarily and nodded.
“It’s the one I mentioned to you before, Dad, the one who shares the same name as Grandma,” Ying Rongrong explained to Gao Mingcheng.
Gao Hongfei's heart skipped a beat: "Could it be that the person who attacked you, Dad, was her?"
Gao Mingcheng frowned, looked down at the screaming chicken in his hand, and squeezed it again.
"Wow..."
“A single screaming chicken doesn’t prove anything.” He looked at Gao Hongfei and asked, “Did you find anyone in the mountains?”
Gao Hongfei shook his head: "The police have sealed off the mountain and are still searching. There is no news yet."
"Hmm." Gao Mingcheng responded softly, then turned his head and saw Gao Lianzhou pouting unhappily beside him.
"What's wrong? Is there a problem?" he asked.
“Great-Grandpa, it couldn’t have been Fairy Sister who hit you.” Gao Lianzhou defended Xing Zhaozhao. “Although she is indeed very strong, she is definitely no match for you, Great-Grandpa. How could she have easily defeated you?”
Gao Hongfei: "..."
Ying Rongrong: "..."
Is he praising me or insulting me?
Gao Mingcheng didn't seem to care, a faint smile playing on his lips.
He knew perfectly well why he was defeated.
"Besides, after Fairy Sister came to buy things, she went back early this morning. Her home is deep in the mountains, and if she didn't go back early, she wouldn't make it in time. It's impossible for her to still be here so late; she has three children to take care of at home," Gao Lianzhou continued.
"Three children?" Gao Mingcheng's heart tightened, and he subconsciously squeezed the screaming chicken in his hand again.
"Wow..."
"Do you know how old you are?" Gao Mingcheng asked, his voice trembling slightly.
Gao Lianzhou shook his head: "I don't know, I only know that she has two sons and one daughter."
Upon hearing this, Gao Mingcheng's pupils contracted and his nostrils flared slightly.
Even Ying Rongrong, who was standing to the side, couldn't help but frown.
Could it be such a coincidence? It's as if she copied her mother-in-law's experience verbatim; the coincidence is bizarre.
Gao Mingcheng pulled Gao Lianzhou to his side: "Come, tell your great-grandfather how you met her? I want to know the whole story."
"Okay." Gao Lianzhou nodded and enthusiastically told his great-grandfather everything about how he met his favorite fairy sister, like beans pouring from a bamboo tube.
Gao Mingcheng listened attentively, a sharp glint occasionally flashing in his eyes.
Gao Yang was working overtime today. When he got home, he heard from the nanny that his grandfather had an accident. He rushed to the hospital. As soon as he entered, he saw Gao Lianzhou sitting by the old man's bedside, talking excitedly and gesturing wildly, as if he was about to fly to the sky. His usually serious grandfather had an unusually gentle expression on his face.
Hearing someone enter, everyone in the ward turned to look.
"Uncle," Gao Lianzhou called out joyfully first.
"Yes." Gao Yang nodded in response, walked to the bedside, and asked with concern, "Is Grandpa alright?"
Gao Mingcheng shook his head: "It's nothing."
Then he added, “You’ve come at the right time. Lianzhou described that fairy sister he’s been talking about as if she were the best in the world. You’ve met her a few times, so tell me about her.”
Gao Lianzhou was still unconvinced: "Fairy Sister is the only one of her kind in heaven and earth, how could it be me who said that?"
Gao Mingcheng smiled kindly and patted his head.
Gao Yang, watching from the side, couldn't help but be surprised.
The old man was always strict with the boys in the family. The only ones who could make him show this emotion were his eldest sister's twins, especially Fanxing. Perhaps because she looked somewhat like her deceased great-grandmother and had inherited her great strength, she was the old man's favorite.
I never expected that Lianzhou would also enjoy this kind of treatment now.
So, what exactly happened here before he arrived?
Gao Yang also told Gao Mingcheng in detail about Xing Zhaozhao.
Some of it overlaps with Gao Lianzhou's, and some of it is something even Gao Lianzhou didn't know.
Gao Lianzhou crossed her arms, looking displeased: "This isn't fair. I'm so close to Fairy Sister, why does she come to you when she needs something but not me?"
Gao Yang glanced at him but ignored him.
What can a little kid like you, who hasn't even grown all his hair yet, do for you?
"You said she specifically asked you about Zhang Wenming?" Gao Mingcheng's eyes flickered, and it was unclear what he was thinking.
Gao Yang nodded: "He even specifically asked me for the address of Zhang Wenming's second wife, Xie Tingting, which was the address she used to have at the machinery factory."
"Is that so..." Gao Mingcheng responded with a long sigh, pondered for a moment, looked at Gao Hongfei and the others, and said, "I'm all done here. It's getting late, you should all go back and rest early too. I'm a little tired as well."
When Gao Hongfei heard that Gao Mingcheng was tired, he didn't linger any longer and quickly left with the others: "Then we'll go back first, Dad, you should get some rest."
Before leaving, Ying Rongrong turned her head and glanced at Gao Mingcheng, who was sitting on the hospital bed, squeezing a screaming chicken in his hand. She couldn't help but frown slightly.
I had a feeling that something was off about the old man today, but I couldn't quite put my finger on it.
The next morning, Ying Rongrong brought the hospital meal prepared by her family's nanny to the hospital again.
Upon entering the ward, they found the bed empty; the old man was nowhere to be seen.
She quickly went to the nurses' station and asked a nurse, "Excuse me, where is the patient in room 123?"
"You mean General Gao? He went out early this morning," the nurse said.
"Where did you go? Did you go for a walk in the yard? But I didn't see you when I came over just now," Ying Rongrong asked.
"You've been discharged," the nurse said.
"Discharged from the hospital? How come we didn't know?" Ying Rongrong asked in surprise.
The nurse looked helpless: "You know General Gao's temper. We really couldn't stop him. Fortunately, he's in good health and said he'd be back later."
"Do you know where he went?" Ying Rongrong asked again.
"I'm sorry, I don't know either. The old general never mentioned it," the nurse said.
Seeing that she couldn't get any more information, Ying Rongrong had no choice but to leave. However, she immediately called Gao Hongfei to let him know.
Gao Hongfei wasn't worried about anything happening to the old man, but just in case, he still called the police station to ask them to keep an eye out.
On Renmin Road early in the morning, Grandpa Song, as usual, did his morning exercise and chatted with his old friends.
Suddenly, I saw an old man I had never seen before coming from not far ahead. He was tall and straight, with a dignified expression. When he walked, he was ramrod straight from head to toe. It was obvious that he had been a soldier for a long time, and all his habits had been ingrained in his bones.
However, this old man had a screaming chicken hanging from his waist, which looked rather strange.
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