Just after 1 a.m., Xu Qian heard the door open.
"Hey, you're not asleep?" Meng Ziqiu saw the living room light on as soon as he entered the door.
“I remembered something and I need to ask you,” Xu Qian said to him.
"Huh? What is it?"
“You said before that your brother’s classmate told you that Meng Liangchen was taken to Chang’ai Mountain,” Xu Qian paused for a moment, “I asked your brother today. He’s a boarding student. Because you’re rarely home, he stays at school even on his days off. He also said that he’s a senior in high school now, so he gets his holidays later than other students in the school, which means…”
Meng Ziqiu pondered for a moment and said, "You mean, we've been watched for a long time?"
"Ask the other members of the Meng family if anything strange has happened to them." Xu Qian wanted to know whether the other party was targeting him specifically or casting a wide net, as these two concepts are different.
Meng Ziqiu hesitated for a moment and said, "Our family is simple. Besides my brother and me, there is also a cousin in Taicheng. However, my father and uncle separated their family a long time ago, and we don't keep in touch much."
“...Alright then.” Upon hearing this, Xu Qian became curious about how the Meng family had been passed down through generations. Back in Wuqi Mountain, his thirteenth senior brother was from a prestigious immortal family, so how come the younger generation has turned out like this? Or is it just the Qi San branch that is like this?
Meng Ziqiu looked at him innocently. Xu Qian sighed inwardly, "Fine, I'd better go to sleep."
The next day, Meng Liangchen got a new SIM card, and the phone was the latest model he bought at the mall the day before.
He had just arrived home when his brother, Meng Ziqiu, was already waiting at the door.
"Where does your classmate, whose name is 'Shi something', live? I have something I want to ask him."
Meng Liangchen thought for a moment and said a name: "Shi... Heng?"
"Yes, he's the one who told me that he saw you being led into a car by a group of people."
"Oh, okay." Meng Liangchen immediately called Shi Heng.
An hour later, the three arrived at Shi Heng's building.
"Damn it, Qi Rui told me he saw you yesterday, but I still couldn't get through to you on the phone. I thought something had happened to you again. If you don't come back soon, I'm really going to call the police..."
Meng Liangchen gave an apologetic smile and said, "No, I just lost my phone and got a replacement SIM card today."
Shi Heng looked at the other people in the car, his eyes reddening. He pushed Meng Liangchen's shoulder and said, "Are you really okay? You scared me half to death that day."
"Yes, I'm fine." Meng Liangchen shook his head and said, "Thank you."
Xu Qian waited until the two children finished speaking before asking, "Did you see Meng Liangchen being taken away earlier? Was he taken away directly?"
Shi Heng hesitated for a moment. He didn't recognize the young man in front of him, but he still said, "That group of people are only after Meng Liangchen. They don't even look at the others."
"Could you describe the events of that day in more detail?" Xu Qian nodded and asked.
“That day I had arranged to do my homework at Meng Liangchen’s house that night. Later, I saw him on the way and was about to call him when I found that he had been knocked unconscious and taken away in a car. Before I could call him, those people took him away. I wanted to call the police, but I was so nervous that I accidentally dropped my phone and the screen shattered. I couldn’t make any calls, so I went to his house to find his brother.”
Meng Ziqiu nodded. Not only did she come to find him, but she came crying.
"When did your holiday start?" Xu Qian suddenly asked.
"January 17th," Shi Heng replied.
Xu Qian turned to Meng Ziqiu and asked, "When did you get back?"
"I'm 23," Meng Ziqiu said.
Meng Liangchen said, "I only went home on the 23rd. Before that, I was at school and had a lot of things, so I wanted to wait for my brother to come back and then have him drive over to pick me up."
Xu Qian nodded after listening and didn't ask any further questions.
"It's about time, let's go eat first," Meng Ziqiu said.
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