After being busy all night, Su Ling was extremely tired. Lin Feng forced Su Ling to go to bed. Su Ling wanted to wait for news from the police, but after taking a shower, he lay down on the bed and fell asleep as soon as he touched the pillow.
He was sleeping soundly when the cell phone on the bedside table suddenly rang. He woke up from his sleep and answered the call in a daze.
"Xiao Ling, Mr. Bai is in trouble and is now in Zhangjiang Hospital."
The junior brother's urgent voice sounded on the phone. Su Ling sat up suddenly, frightened. He didn't even have time to put on his slippers and ran downstairs barefoot.
Half an hour later, Su Ling and Lin Feng rushed to Zhangjiang Hospital and found Zhang Qingyun.
"Little Brother, what's going on?"
Su Ling asked anxiously. Although Grandpa Bai was over seventy years old, he was well maintained and looked very young. How could he suddenly have an accident and be rushed to the hospital for emergency treatment?
Zhang Qingyun said, "The day before yesterday, I made an appointment with Mr. Bai to borrow his 'Spring Mountain and Fish Playing' for appreciation. I was too busy yesterday and only remembered it at 9:30 pm, so I drove over to deliver the painting..."
At 10:20, he arrived at Mr. Bai's home and found that the door was not closed. No one responded when he called out, so he went in curiously to take a look. He found Mr. Bai lying motionless on the sofa. He immediately called 120 and then performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation on Mr. Bai.
When the ambulance arrived, Mr. Bai's heartbeat and breathing had recovered, but he was still in a coma. After two or three hours of rescue in the hospital's emergency room, he was finally saved. He woke up once during the process and kept thinking about Su Ling, so he called Su Ling.
Su Ling breathed a sigh of relief. Lin Feng supported him and sat him on a chair in the corridor.
"Did the doctor tell me the cause of the illness?" Su Ling asked worriedly, looking at the door of the intensive care unit.
Zhang Qingyun's expression was grim. "Mr. Bai has marks on his neck. The doctor said it was asphyxiation that caused him to fall into a coma. If I had come any later, he might not have been able to be saved."
Su Ling was stunned. Was it murder?
"Have you called the police?" Lin Feng asked.
"We've called the police, but we can't confirm who the murderer is right now. We can only wait until Mr. Bai wakes up," said Zhang Qingyun.
Su Ling came back to his senses, looked around, and asked doubtfully: "Little Brother, have you seen Wen Xi?"
"Wen Xi?" Zhang Qingyun was stunned. "I went to Mr. Bai's house last night, but I didn't see him."
Su Ling frowned, biting his fingers in thought. Wen Xi was Grandpa Bai's grandson. When Grandpa Bai got into trouble, he disappeared. What was even more puzzling was that when Grandpa Bai woke up in the middle of the night, he didn't call his grandson, but called him instead. Why?
Unless... the murderer is Wenxi!
Su Ling was shocked by his own idea.
He didn't want to imagine a 20-year-old young man as a criminal, but this matter was too strange and made him suspicious.
"It's better to contact him. After all, he is Grandpa Bai's only relative in Country Z." Su Ling said.
Zhang Qingyun shook her head: "I don't have his phone number, so I can't contact him."
Neither did Su Ling.
He and Wenxi had no friendship, so naturally he would not rush to exchange phone numbers.
Lin Feng pondered and said, "I'll have someone check it out."
He took his cell phone and made a call. After a while, the other party called back and said he would come to the hospital.
Su Ling and Zhang Qingyun looked at each other, wondering who he was calling.
Lin Feng finished the call and returned to Su Ling. "It's Officer Huang."
Officer Huang is the criminal police officer in charge of the kidnapping case. When investigating Li Ting and others, he found that Wen Xi had been very close to them in recent days. At six o'clock last night, Li Ting, Shen Wei and Wen Xi booked a presidential suite at the Longting Hotel. As for what they did in the room, it is unknown. At 8:20, Li Ting and Shen Wei left in a hurry, and Wen Xi walked out of the hotel at 8:37.
"Wen Xi was with Li Ting and Shen Wei last night?" Su Ling was surprised.
"Well." Lin Feng said, "Whether he was involved in the kidnapping is still under discussion."
Zhang Qingyun was confused as she listened. "Wait, a kidnapping?"
Su Ling said with a complicated expression: "Xiao Qi was kidnapped yesterday, but the real target was me. Li Ting and others were the masterminds behind the scenes."
Zhang Qingyun stared in shock.
Su Ling told Zhang Qingyun about the thrilling kidnapping incident last night. Just as he finished, Officer Huang arrived. He took over Bai Jincheng's case and found Wen Xi to be a major suspect.
At five o'clock in the morning, Bai Jincheng woke up. Su Ling went to the intensive care unit to see him. Looking at the old man wearing a respirator, he felt heavy-hearted.
"Grandpa Bai..."
Grandpa Bai was the person Second Grandpa had been waiting for his whole life. Su Ling respected him very much and couldn't bear to see him lying so weakly on the hospital bed.
Bai Jincheng's eyes moistened when he saw Su Ling. Su Ling held his hand and comforted him: "It's okay, you are out of danger. Take good care of your injuries, and you will recover in a few days."
"Hmm..." Bai Jincheng's throat was injured and he could only make vague sounds.
Su Ling bit his lip and asked, "Grandpa Bai, who did such a heavy blow to you?"
Bai Jincheng closed his eyes for a long time, a look of regret appeared on his face, and he wrote two words on Su Ling's palm.
Wenxi.
It turned out to be Wen Xi!
Su Ling couldn't believe it.
How could someone be so vicious as to kill his own grandfather?
What kind of moral degradation and distortion of human nature is this?
***
After confirming that Wenxi was the murderer, the police immediately started a hunt and found out that he had bought a ticket to Country M, but did not board the plane. He left the airport at two o'clock in the morning and disappeared.
It was already seven o'clock in the morning when Su Ling and Lin Feng returned home. They had not slept all night and were extremely sleepy.
Aunt He made millet porridge for them out of concern. When they finished drinking it and went upstairs to catch up on some sleep, Su Qi just came out of the guest room and bumped into them.
She stayed in the villa last night and slept until dawn. Today, she had to rush back to the academy. She found Su Ling and Lin Feng looking sleepy and asked curiously, "Brother...did you not sleep well?"
Lidya Su yawned. "Your brother Lin and I just came back from the hospital and haven't slept all night."
"Ah? Hospital?" Su Qi was nervous. "Are you feeling unwell?"
"No." Su Ling waved his hand, "It's Grandpa Bai's business."
He briefly mentioned the case, and Su Qi was stunned. Such a bizarre thing happened that night. Not only was Wen Xi involved in the kidnapping case, but he also killed his own grandfather.
"Are you going back to the academy?" Su Ling asked.
"Yeah." Su Qi nodded. Yesterday's kidnapping incident had caused such a big stir that the academy must have known about it. If she went back today, she would probably be caught and questioned for a long time.
It's really a headache.
"Do you want me to take you home?" Su Ling yawned again.
"No, no." Su Qi declined. My brother is already so sleepy, wouldn't he be tired driving if he keeps driving?
Su Ling nudged Lin Feng with his elbow and asked, "Help me find a driver."
Lin Feng: "Okay."
After sending Su Qi out, Su Ling lay down on the bed and slept peacefully, leaning on Lin Feng's arms, pinching the flesh on his arm with his fingers from time to time.
Lin Feng rubbed his forehead with his stubbled chin. "Go to sleep."
Su Ling closed his eyes, but his head was still excited and he couldn't fall asleep for a while.
"I've been thinking about it, but I can't figure out their motives."
"Don't think about them, think about me." Lin Feng patted his back.
Lidya Su lifted his eyelids, opened his mouth and bit him, and said vaguely: "What do you want?"
Lin Feng held his hand, put his lips to his ear and whispered: "Here, here, and here... they are all yours."
Su Ling was indeed amused by him, and squeezed even closer to him, barely holding up her head, and kissed him on the lips. "I'll taste you again when I wake up."
"Okay." Lin Feng pressed his head down and adjusted his posture. "Go to sleep."
"Hmm..." Su Ling leaned on his shoulder, smelling the comfortable scent on his body, and fell asleep peacefully.
**
Unsurprisingly, the kidnapping incident became a hot topic on Weibo. Under the control of the public relations department of Lin Group, the discussion of the topic gradually decreased, and everything was guided in a good direction. However, Su Ling's identity was exposed layer by layer.
The son of the Su family in City S, the managing partner of the Lin Group, and the last disciple of the traditional Chinese painting master Zhang Qianyi.
As soon as these three prominent identities were revealed, they sparked heated discussions. Netizens were very curious about why the rich young man went to the countryside to farm, why he started live streaming to sell goods, what kind of family feuds did he get involved in, and why he was kidnapped?
The soft article that Xiang Jia wrote before finally came in handy.
Lin's Group developed the Liuxian River Corridor. The president's wife personally went to the countryside to experience the original ecological rural life. She transformed herself into an online anchor and selflessly live-streamed and sold goods for the villagers, boosting the local economy and increasing farmers' income.
Through Xiang Jia's vivid description, combined with the beautiful scenery of Phoenix Mountain, and pictures showing the simple smiles of tea farmers, the topic was forwarded by various heavyweight big Vs, which immediately elevated the topic's significance.
At the same time, an interview report about President Lin from S City Financial Magazine was released online. In the photo, the young and handsome President Lin was casually sitting on a single sofa drinking coffee, which attracted a lot of attention from netizens and helped Su Ling absorb half of the popularity.
Lin Group's stock price continued to rise, making its competitors envious and jealous.
Among them, the Su family, who had always regarded the Lin family as their rival, could no longer tolerate it.
The silver Lexus with smooth lines was driving in the efficiency zone. Lin Feng took the steering wheel and turned the car steadily into a lush road. Su Ling sat in the passenger seat, holding his chin and admiring the towering trees on both sides of the road.
Tomorrow is Mr. Lin’s 90th birthday. Early this morning, the two of them put on formal clothes, took some simple luggage, and went to the Lin family’s ancestral home a day in advance.
The Lin family is a century-old family. The Lin clan members live together and form a small town. The huge ancestral home is located in the center of the town. Only direct descendants can live there, and collateral descendants have to move out after three generations.
Mr. Lin has four sons and one daughter, all of whom have grown up. There are fifteen grandsons, granddaughters and grandchildren in total. It is a bit crowded to live together in the ancestral home. The young people couldn't stand the old rules of the ancestral home and moved out after they became adults.
Lin Feng was young, but of a higher generation, which also meant Su Ling was of a higher generation. He hated being called "Auntie" by his peers. When he and Lin Feng first got married and lived in the ancestral home, he felt uncomfortable in every way. Fortunately, Lin Feng listened to him and bought a villa in Xiangyan Mountain. They only went back to the ancestral home during the Chinese New Year.
After passing an archway and officially entering the Linjia Town, Su Ling saw some ancient buildings and felt overwhelmed at the thought of having to deal with a bunch of unfamiliar "relatives".
As a "male daughter-in-law", he was really unwelcome in the Lin family.
"Tick-tock, tick-tock—"
The cell phone rang. Su Ling looked down and saw that it was an unfamiliar number. He picked up the phone hesitantly.
"Hello, hello, what are you looking for—"
"Su Ling!" The middle-aged man's gritted teeth came out of the microphone, "Before you left the Su family, didn't I tell you that you were absolutely not allowed to use the Su family's name outside and bring shame to the Su family? Now, you're actually dragging your sister along to embarrass yourself online!"
Su Ling listened to him nagging patiently, then showed a sarcastic smile and said calmly: "Who are you? Do I know you?"
"Evil son!" the other party roared.
Lidya Su took away his phone, scratched his ears, and said nonchalantly, "Mr. Su, if there's nothing else, I'll hang up."
On the other end of the line was Su Ling's biological father, Su Qinghong. Hearing Su Ling's words, he was so angry that he almost had a cerebral hemorrhage. He took a few deep breaths and said to Su Ling stiffly, "I demand that you withdraw the charges against Su Dan."
Su Ling sneered: "Impossible!"
Without waiting for Su Qinghong to speak, he hung up the phone and blocked the other party.
Lin Feng parked the car on the side of the road and turned to look at him worriedly.
Su Ling threw the phone aside and leaned on his shoulder.
“How annoying.”
He murmured.
"Don't be sad, baby."
Lin Feng stroked his soft curly hair.
"I want to go back to the village." Su Ling closed his eyes. "King and Lion must miss me so much."
It's only been a week since I returned to S City, and annoying things have started to happen one after another. The village is still better, it's quiet, leisurely and more comfortable.
"Next month, you will come with me to Country L and then return to the village together, okay?" Lin Feng said softly.
"Huh? Going to Country L?" Su Ling raised his head and blinked in confusion.
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