Kunbo got goosebumps all over from Tan Zhe's ardent gaze and instinctively hugged his arms tightly: "Why are you looking at me like that?"
Tan Zhe said with a smile, "There's something I'd like to ask you, sir."
"What is it?" Uncle Kun asked, looking at him warily.
"Where is that abandoned cellar you mentioned?" Tan Zhe asked.
When Kunbo heard Tan Zhe ask this, he immediately relaxed and pointed to the mountain path ahead, saying, "Just follow this mountain path straight up to the halfway point."
"I understand, thank you, sir," Tan Zhe said with a smile, thanking Uncle Kun.
After saying that, he pretended to be puzzled and continued to ask, "How come there's an abandoned cellar halfway up the mountain?"
"There used to be a stone house there, but it has collapsed. It is said that an old father from the village at the foot of the mountain lived here with his mentally ill daughter. During the famine, the old father starved to death, and the mentally ill daughter also disappeared. It is estimated that she died somewhere long ago, and the place was simply abandoned."
As Kunbo spoke, he suddenly clapped his hands and said, "That's right, maybe the ghost I saw before was that crazy girl coming back. I knew that place was unlucky. Even if it was a good place to make a nest, I shouldn't have come. I'm so old, I don't have many days left to live. Why would I throw my life into the hands of a female ghost? I'm leaving now."
After saying that, the old man turned the car around and prepared to leave immediately.
Tan Zhe's heart pounded as he listened, and he quickly stopped the man, saying, "Wait a minute, sir."
Kunbo looked at Tan Zhe warily: "What else do you want? You don't want me to come with you, do you? Don't even think about it. Let me tell you, even though I'm old, I still want to live a few more days."
Tan Zhe chuckled, shook his head, and said, "No, old man, I just wanted to ask you if there are any villages around here? I only see a large reservoir on the map."
"The reservoir was built later. There used to be a village here called Xiaogaozhuang." After saying that, Uncle Kun quickly rode off on his electric scooter and disappeared in a flash.
Tan Zhe turned to look at the path leading up the mountain, his gaze intense. It seemed this was the right place. He was so stupid, so incredibly stupid, wasting so much time. If he had just asked an old man, he might have found it much sooner. Fortunately, it wasn't too late…
A glint flashed in Tan Zhe's eyes, and he headed straight up the mountain...
The Gao family.
After seeing Xing Zhaozhao off, Ying Rongrong flipped through the photos she had gotten from Xing Zhaozhao with great interest, especially the photos of the three of them picking mushrooms and wild vegetables together in the woods. On a whim, she sent one of them to her mother, Wen Sinan.
Beijing, military hospital.
Wen Sinan looked at the difficult patient and her troublesome family members in front of her with a headache, sighed helplessly, and said, "I've said it many times, she's not sick."
Xing Zhaoming's face darkened. He said, "She can't sleep well at night, can't eat during the day, and has lost a lot of weight. How could she not be sick?"
Wen Sinan slammed her hand on the table and said, "What? Do you have to make your wife sick before you're happy?"
Xing Zhaoming said angrily, "I didn't say that. Don't make false accusations. She's already like this. You have eyes, I don't believe you can't see it. There must be a reason, right?"
Wen Sinan glanced at Chen Wei, who looked haggard and was leaning weakly against Xing Zhaoming, and said, "I think this is a psychological problem for her. I suggest you see a psychiatrist."
Chen Wei's expression changed upon hearing this. She tugged at Xing Zhaoming and said weakly, "Never mind, Zhaoming, I just didn't sleep well last night and I'm really sleepy. I'll be fine after a good night's sleep."
Xing Zhaoming helped Chen Wei up with a pained expression: "Never mind, she won't watch it, we won't let her watch it."
Wen Sinan's face darkened, and she waved her hands repeatedly as if sweeping up trash, saying, "Get out of here right now. If you come again, I won't even look at you. If it weren't for our kinship, do you really think I'd want to serve you? You come here every day to cause trouble. Do you really think I have nothing better to do?"
As she was talking, her phone on the table suddenly rang.
Wen Sinan glanced down and saw that it was a WeChat message from her daughter. She opened it casually and saw the photo. Her heart clenched instantly. Her hands trembled as she typed, "Where did this photo come from?"
Ying Rongrong replied to the WeChat message quickly.
Here's another photo, this time of Xing Zhaozhao and Gao Mingcheng's family of five.
Upon seeing Xing Zhaozhao's familiar face in the photo, Wen Sinan realized something. Her heart, which had been clenched, instantly jumped into her throat. Just as she was about to call Ying Rongrong to ask what was going on, Xing Zhaoming, who had just helped Chen Wei leave, returned alone.
“Um…” Xing Zhaoming walked up to Wen Sinan and was about to ask when his gaze swept across Wen Sinan’s phone screen and his expression immediately changed.
Wen Sinan realized something was wrong and quickly turned off the screen, but it was too late.
"What were you looking at just now?" Xing Zhaoming asked.
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