Chapter 195: How could a living person just disappear?
Deng Xiuzhen looked back and found Liu Lanlan following her. She turned to Liu Lanlan and said, "Lanlan, we are going to do something now, not to look for your mother."
"Aren't you going to..."
"Lanlan, go back quickly and don't delay them from work!" Zhang Liuying chased after them, grabbed Liu Lanlan and walked towards the company.
"I won't go back. I want to go with them to find my mother!" Liu Lanlan cried and struggled, shouting loudly.
"If you don't listen to me, I'll beat you up!" Zhang Liuying dragged Liu Lanlan into the company and her threatening words came over.
Deng Xiuzhen frowned and turned her head to look at Yan Wenying.
Yan Wenying was looking at Deng Xiuzhen with a look of pity on her face. When she saw Deng Xiuzhen looking over, she quickly said, "Why don't I go and take a look and persuade Sister Zhang not to scare the child."
Deng Xiuzhen sighed and said, "Forget it, let's get back to work. Don't keep people waiting for too long. If the customers are not satisfied, the company's business will not be able to continue. I'll come back and appease Lanlan."
"Do you think Sister Zhang will really beat Lanlan?" After walking for a long time, Yan Wenying asked worriedly.
Deng Xiuzhen kept walking and said, "That shouldn't be the case. Lanlan is still so young, and Xiao Zhang is also a mother."
"But, I see that Lanlan doesn't seem willing to be with Sister Zhang." Yan Wenying muttered.
Deng Xiuzhen was startled and turned her head to look at Yan Wenying. After thinking for a while, she said, "Let's finish the work quickly and go back early. I will take Lanlan home then."
After hearing this, Yan Wenying seemed to have untied the knot in her heart. She smiled, walked briskly, and walked in front of Deng Xiuzhen.
The alley was quiet. The sunlight shone through the dilapidated houses, leaving strange patterns on the ground.
Deng Xiuzhen felt panic in her heart and quickened her pace involuntarily. Her foot, which had not yet fully recovered, accidentally slipped.
He stumbled and the things fell all over the floor.
Yan Wenying, who had walked a distance away, turned back when she heard the noise. Seeing something had fallen, she quickly ran back and asked with concern, "What happened?"
"It's okay, I just slipped." Deng Xiuzhen said as she bent down to pick up something.
"Let me do it. You haven't recovered yet. Don't use too much force." Yan Wenying quickly gathered the items.
Deng Xiuzhen took some of it, and she took the rest for herself.
The two soon arrived at the old man's house.
"You're finally here!" The old man was leaning against the door with his cane. He almost cried when he saw them.
"Please come in and sit down." Deng Xiuzhen went into the house, put down her things, turned around and helped the old man to the yard behind the house to bask in the sun.
"Xiaoying, go cook, I'll clean up first." After the old man sat down, Deng Xiuzhen asked Xiaoying to cook. She put the sheets, quilt covers, and dirty clothes into the washing machine, and then moved the cotton wool on the bed to the yard to dry.
"Your bed is very nice. It must be quite old, right?" Deng Xiuzhen said to the old man with a smile.
“Yes, it’s been quite a few years.” The old man seemed a little sleepy and was not as talkative as usual. He only replied briefly and then said nothing more.
Deng Xiuzhen helped the old man put on a thin blanket, then took a bucket of water to clean the tables, chairs and cabinets.
"It's time to eat! It's time to eat!" Yan Wenying moved the small table to the yard and placed it in front of the old man.
"Aren't you going to eat together?" The old man asked in confusion when he saw that there was only his own bowl and chopsticks on the table.
"We'll eat in the kitchen together. We won't disturb you." Yan Wenying smiled and answered politely.
The old man didn't insist and just started eating.
Deng Xiuzhen and Yan Wenying quickly finished their meal and continued to clean.
The two of them were efficient in their work, and as the old man had hired help quite frequently recently and the house was clean, they finished the job quickly.
However, the quilts drying in the yard were not dry yet, and the old woman couldn’t clean them up by herself, so they couldn’t leave.
Yan Wenying was always worried that Zhang Liuying would be mean to Lanlan, so she was a little absent-minded and wanted to leave in a hurry.
After mentioning it several times, he said he would leave first, leaving Deng Xiuzhen to chat with the old man alone, and would go back after collecting the clothes and quilts.
Deng Xiuzhen didn't agree, but just said that she was a little tired. So the two of them folded the quilts and made the bed before leaving.
Yan Wenying had no choice but to stay.
Deng Xiuzhen brought out a reclining chair and helped the old man lie down, while she herself sat on a stool leaning against the wall and took a nap.
Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Yan Wenying looking at him, then at the old man, and then at the east side of the courtyard wall.
Then he went into the house, closed the door, brought out a stool, and leaned against the wall not far from Deng Xiuzhen. After a while, even snoring sounds could be heard.
Looking at the old man again, his face was calm and peaceful, as if he was asleep.
Deng Xiuzhen was a little stunned: Could it be that I was wrong?
Li Xiaomei tricked Liu Youzhen here to be victimized. If Li Xiaomei didn't know this place, she didn't know the old man's situation.
Someone inside the company must have leaked the information.
At first, she suspected it was Zhang Liuying, after all, the text message was sent to her.
Moreover, at the company gate, Zhang Liuying interrupted Liu Lanlan's words, which seemed a bit deliberate, as if he was trying to hide something.
But why did Zhang Liuying want to harm Liu Youzhen?
Deng Xiuzhen couldn't understand.
When they entered the alley, Yan Wenying walked in front of her. Except when she almost fell, Yan Wenying turned back. The rest of the time, Yan Wenying walked straight to the old woman.
She thought Yan Wenying should have been here before. But from the reactions of the old man and Yan Wenying, it seemed that the two did not know each other at all and had only met today.
She was afraid that the two were pretending, so she pretended to be asleep to see if they would react in any way.
In the end, both of them fell asleep and slept very soundly!
In addition, in order to find out the situation, she cleaned the house despite the pain in her hands.
Just now she specially moved all the cotton wool on the bed out to dry in the sun.
The sheets and quilts were hung on the rope, and the cotton wool could only hang on the wall.
She took this opportunity to kick and pound the walls and check them all over.
He walked back and forth again, trying to step on the ground again.
No abnormalities were found.
But Tan Yanlin disappeared while cleaning the yard.
But I didn't hear any sound. If I didn't hear any sound, I could be sure that Tan Yanlin didn't go out from the door.
Because the old man's door would creak no matter whether it was opened or closed.
There were no signs of climbing on the courtyard wall, and he didn't leave through the door. How could a living person like Qin Yanlin disappear?
Deng Xiuzhen couldn't understand.
She went over the situation in the house in her mind again, but couldn't find any place where the Tibetans were.
She was even afraid that there were partitions or secret rooms in the house. She knocked on the walls and checked the floor, but she couldn't find even a rat hole.
There should be no problem with the old man's flower bed.
After all, when Qin Yanlin disappeared, she and the old man were in this room, and the old man was lying on the flower bed.
With the mentality of not letting anything go and not missing anything, she searched and checked again, but found no mechanism.
Deng Xiuzhen felt that this world was somewhat mysterious and beyond her understanding.
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