After being busy all night, Su Ling was extremely tired. Ru Feng forced Su Ling to go to bed. Su Ling wanted to wait for news from the police, but he took a shower, 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 rang on the phone. Su Ling sat up with a jerk, frightened. He didn't even have time to put on his slippers and ran downstairs barefoot.

Half an hour later, Su Ling and Lu Feng rushed to Zhangjiang Hospital and found Zhang Qingyun.

"Little Brother, what's going on?"

Su Ling asked anxiously. Although Grandpa Bai is over 70 years old, he has taken good care of himself and looks 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 in the evening, so I drove to deliver the painting..."

At 10:20, he arrived at Mr. Bai's home and found the door was not locked. No one answered his call, 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 CPR 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 rescue and kept thinking of Su Ling, so he called Su Ling.

Su Ling breathed a sigh of relief, and Lu Feng supported him and sat 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 looked serious. "There are marks on Mr. Bai's neck. The doctor said he fell into a coma due to suffocation. If I had come a little later, he might not have been saved."

Su Ling was stunned. Was it murder?

"Have you called the police?" asked Lu Feng.

"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 in confusion: "Little Senior 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 and bit his finger in thought. Wen Xi was the grandson of Grandpa Bai. When Grandpa Bai got into trouble, he was nowhere to be found. 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 Winsey!

Su Ling was shocked by his own thought.

He didn't want to imagine a 20-year-old young man as a criminal, but this matter was too strange, which made him suspicious.

"It's better to contact him. After all, he is the only relative of Grandpa Bai 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 Wen Xi had no friendship, so naturally he would not rush to exchange phone numbers.

Lu Feng groaned and said, "I'll have someone check it out."

He took his cell phone and went to make 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.

After finishing his phone call, Lu Feng returned to Su Ling. "It's Officer Huang."

Officer Huang is the criminal police 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," said Lu Feng, "Whether he was involved in the kidnapping remains to be discussed."

Zhang Qingyun was confused as she listened to this. "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 it."

Zhang Qingyun stared in shock.

Su Ling told Zhang Qingyun about the thrilling kidnapping incident last night. Just as he finished, Officer Huang came. He took over Bai Jincheng's case and found that Wen Xi was 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 man that Second Grandpa had been waiting for all his 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 yourself 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, "Master Bai, who did such a heavy thing to you?"

Bai Jincheng closed his eyes for a long time, a look of regret revealed on his face, and he wrote two words on Su Ling's palm.

Winsey.

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?

How is this moral degradation and distortion of human nature?

***

After confirming that Wen Xi was the murderer, the police immediately started a manhunt. They found out that he had bought a ticket to Country M, but did not board the plane. He left the airport at 2 a.m. and lost track of him.

It was already seven o'clock in the morning when Su Ling and Lu Feng returned home. They had not slept the whole night and were extremely sleepy.

Aunt He made some millet porridge for them out of pity. 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 till dawn. Today she was going back to the academy and noticed that Su Ling and Lu Feng looked sleepy. She asked curiously, "Brother...did you guys not sleep well?"

Su Ling yawned. "Your brother and I just came back from the hospital and didn't sleep all night."

"Ah? Hospital?" Su Qi was nervous. "Are you feeling unwell?"

"No." Su Ling waved his hand, "It's Master 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 related to the kidnapping case, but he also killed his own grandfather.

"Are you going back to college?" Su Ling asked.

"Yeah." Su Qi nodded. The kidnapping incident yesterday was too big a fuss, the college must have known about it, and when she went back today, she estimated that she would be caught and questioned for a long time.

It's such a headache.

"Do you want me to take you home?" Su Ling yawned again.

"No, no." Su Qi declined. My brother is so sleepy now, won't he be tired if he drives again?

Su Ling nudged Lu Feng with his elbow and asked, "Help me find a driver."

Feng: "Okay."

After sending Su Qi out, Su Ling lay down on the bed peacefully and fell asleep, leaning in Lu Feng's arms, pinching the flesh on his arm with his fingers from time to time.

Rui Feng rubbed his forehead with his stubbled chin. "Go to sleep."

Su Ling closed his eyes, but his mind was still excited and he couldn't fall asleep for a while.

"I thought about it over and over again, but I couldn't figure out their motives."

"Don't think about them, think about me." Lu Feng patted his back.

Su Ling lifted his eyelids, opened his mouth and bit him, and said vaguely: "What do you want?"

Li Feng held his hand, put his lips to his ear and whispered: "Here, here, and here... they are all yours."

Su Ling was amused by him, and she leaned into his arms, raised her head with difficulty, and kissed him on the lips. "I'll taste you again when I wake up."

"Okay." Lu Feng pressed his head and adjusted his posture. "Go to sleep."

"Hmm..." Su Ling leaned on his shoulder, smelling his comfortable breath, and fell asleep peacefully.

**

The kidnapping incident unsurprisingly became a hot topic on Weibo. Under the control of the public relations department of the Rui Group, the topic of discussion 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 S City, the general partner of the Lai Group, and the last disciple of the traditional Chinese painting master Zhang Qianyi.

As soon as these three prominent identities were revealed, they immediately sparked heated discussions. Many netizens were very curious about why the rich young master 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 had written before finally found its place of use.

The Laishi Group developed the Liuxian River Corridor. The president and his wife went to the countryside to experience the original ecological rural life. They transformed themselves into online anchors 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 innocent smiles of tea farmers, the topic was immediately elevated to a higher level after being forwarded by various heavyweight influencers.

At the same time, an interview report about the president of the Rui Group was published by the S City Financial Magazine. In the photo, the young and handsome president of Rui Group was casually sitting on a single sofa drinking coffee, which attracted many netizens to scream and absorbed half of the attention from Su Ling.

The shares of the Lai Group continued to rise, making its competitors envious and resentful.

Among them, the Su family, who had always regarded the Lu family as their rival, could no longer tolerate it.

The smooth silver Lexus was driving in the district. Lu 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 Grandpa Lue's son's 90th birthday. Early this morning, the two of them put on formal clothes, took some simple luggage, and went to the Lue family's ancestral home a day in advance.

The Lui family is a century-old family. The Lui 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.

Grandpa Lu has four sons and one daughter, all of whom have grown up. There are also grandsons, granddaughters and grandchildren, a total of 15 people. Living together in the ancestral home is a bit crowded. The young people couldn't stand the old rules of the ancestral home and moved out when they became adults.

Although Lu Feng was young, he was of a high status, which also made Su Ling of a high status. He was very reluctant to be called aunt by his peers. He felt uncomfortable living in the ancestral home after marrying Lu Feng. Fortunately, Lu Feng listened to him and bought a villa in Xiangyan Mountain. He only went back to the ancestral home during the Chinese New Year.

After passing a memorial archway and officially entering the town of Lujia, Su Ling saw some ancient buildings and felt overwhelmed at the thought of having to deal with a bunch of unfamiliar "relatives".

He, as a "male daughter-in-law", is really unwelcome in the Lu 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 call hesitantly.

"Hello, how are you? What are you looking for?"

"Su Ling!" The middle-aged man's gnashing voice came out of the microphone, "Before you left the Su family, didn't I tell you that you were not allowed to use the Su family's name to embarrass the Su family? Now, you drag your sister along to embarrass yourself on the Internet!"

Su Ling listened to him patiently, smiled sarcastically, and said calmly: "Who are you? Do I know you?"

"Evil son!" the other party roared.

Su Ling took away the phone, picked his ears, and said nonchalantly: "Mr. Su, if there is nothing else, I will hang up."

On the other end of the phone 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.

Lu Feng stopped the car on the side of the road and turned to look at him worriedly.

Su Ling threw his cell phone aside and leaned on his shoulder.

“That’s annoying.”

He murmured.

"Don't be sad, baby."

Lu Feng stroked his soft curls.

"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, quiet, leisurely and more comfortable.

"Next month, you and I will go to Country L and then go back to the village together, okay?" Lu Feng said softly.

"Huh? Going to Country L?" Su Ling raised his head and blinked in confusion.