Chapter 44: Don’t you want to live anymore?
Deng Xiuzhen felt a little aggrieved. She was doing this for the family, for the family to live a good life, and also for Tan Yanlin to suffer less and live a long life.
Looking back, I feel that I can't blame Tan Yanlin for this, as he didn't know what would happen in the future. From today's perspective, I did buy a few acres of worthless wasteland.
Just as I was daydreaming, the children came back.
Not seeing Zhang Yanlin, Wen Jing asked, "Mom, where's Dad? Why hasn't Dad come back?"
Wen Xin and Wen Yu also looked over.
Deng Xiuzhen didn't want the children to know about their quarrel, so she replied: "Maybe business is good today and you are busy with business?"
After waiting for a while, Tan Yanlin still didn't come back. Fearing that the children were hungry, he left a meal for Tan Yanlin and ate with the children.
In the middle of the night, Tan Yanlin still hadn't returned. Deng Xiuzhen was worried and went out to look. The alley was pitch black and she couldn't see anything, nor could she hear the familiar sound of the motorcycle.
Deng Xiuzhen came back and lay down anxiously, but she couldn't fall asleep and spent the whole night worrying about something.
Tan Yanlin did not come back all night. Deng Xiuzhen got up at dawn, took a walk outside, and found her dog parked next to the house.
I felt a little relieved: Tan Yanlin didn't drive out, so nothing happened. Most likely he went to a friend's house because he was angry.
Wait for him to come back, give him a sincere apology and say some nice words to comfort him.
Deng Xiuzhen made up her mind and went into the house to prepare breakfast for the children.
After dinner, Tan Yanlin did not come back, so Deng Xiuzhen drove out in the Mamu.
If Tan Yanlin is angry, you can wait for him to come back and then coax him. The money-earning Ma Mu at home cannot be left idle.
When she returned home at noon, Tan Yanlin still hadn't returned, and Deng Xiuzhen was a little panicked.
I prepared lunch in a panic, waited for the children to finish eating, told them to remember to go to school later, and then drove out in the Mamu.
I thought that if Tan Yanlin went to a friend’s house, he would not stay away today, but if he was not at a friend’s house, where would he go?
My mother’s family, absolutely not.
My mother-in-law's house? It's possible, but just possible.
Oh, and I also bought a new house but never lived in it!
Thinking of this, Deng Xiuzhen turned the car around and headed straight for Chenjia Bay.
Park the car, open the door, all in one go.
Deng Xiuzhen was very disappointed looking at the dusty and completely untouched room.
When I turned around and prepared to go out, something hit my foot. I lowered my head to pick it up and found it was a keychain. I looked at it carefully and found that it was not Tan Yanlin's.
After careful recollection, Deng Xiuzhen felt something was wrong. She had cleaned the house before repairing the roof. Although not carefully, she had swept the floor, so there was no way this thing would have been left on the ground without being discovered.
The technicians did not enter the house when they were repairing the roof, and even put the drinking water outside the house, and the door was locked. It is impossible for them to drop the key here while they were on the roof.
Deng Xiuzhen's heart skipped a beat: Someone has been in!
She turned on the flashlight, squatted down to check the footprints on the ground, and sure enough, she saw a set of fresh footprints on the thick dust, and there was some fresh soil on the footprints!
Just as I was about to take a closer look, I suddenly felt something flash past the window.
A sense of crisis came over her, and Deng Xiuzhen gave up checking further. Instead, she pretended nothing had happened and walked around the house looking at the roof.
"Xiuzhen girl, are you here to see the house?" When Aunt Chen discovered that Deng Xiuzhen had arrived, she hurried out of the house to talk to her, holding a few cloves of garlic in her hand.
"Well, I'm worried that the house will leak, so I'll come and check it out after a while. Alas, this house is such a loss. I can't live in it, and I can't rent it out either. And I have to come and take care of it frequently." Deng Xiuzhen sighed.
"You've already bought it. There's no use regretting it." Aunt Chen comforted Deng Xiuzhen, feeling very happy.
In her joy, she asked for a guest's invitation for the first time: "Xiuzhen, come to my house for lunch at noon."
"No, it's a great honor to trouble you." Deng Xiuzhen politely declined.
"No trouble, my son and grandson are coming back today, no need to make any special preparations." As she finished speaking, a child who looked to be about ten years old rushed out of the room and shouted, "Grandma, why can't you turn on the TV? Please help me check it!"
"Xiuzhen girl, please help me take a look. I don't know what's wrong with this TV. It might have had spots on it yesterday." Aunt Chen said.
"Okay, I'll go take a look." Deng Xiuzhen agreed readily.
Although she didn't have a TV at home after moving to the city, she watched it all the time when she was in the countryside. She had heard from Tan Yanlin that if there were snow spots on the TV, it might be because the signal was not good or the contact was bad. She just had to adjust the receiving antenna or reconnect the cable.
After entering the house, I checked the line and found no problem, so I went out to rotate the antenna to adjust the direction.
Standing on the ladder, turning the antenna, and asking Chen Ma if she was done, Deng Xiuzhen suddenly felt a chill, like being stared at by a wolf in the wilderness late at night.
She subconsciously looked in the direction where the cold came from, but only saw a middle-aged man and a smiling woman.
The man had a simple and honest look on his face, and he waved and greeted her with a smile.
The woman's face was as smiling as a flower, and she was brushing the fallen leaves off the boy's head.
Aunt Chen said, "Okay, you can watch it now."
Only then did Deng Xiuzhen come down from the ladder.
Mother Chen introduced them to her: the middle-aged man was her eldest son, Chen Chuang; the woman was her eldest daughter-in-law, Cheng Xue; and the child was Chen Yingchao, Chen Chuang's youngest son.
After Deng Xiuzhen greeted them, she said that her children at home were waiting for her to cook, and then turned and left.
When she got home, Tan Yanlin still hadn't come back. Deng Xiuzhen was very upset and felt that Tan Yanlin had gone too far: Even if she had done something wrong, the incident had already happened. What was the point of running away and not coming home? Didn't he want to live his life anymore?
No matter how much she thought about it, there was nothing she could do if Tan Yanlin didn't come back. The child would be home soon and she still had to prepare dinner.
When I took off my coat, I remembered the keychain. I took it out and looked at it carefully. Although the workmanship was exquisite and it was not a common style, I didn't find anything special about it.
After dinner, Tan Yanlin still didn't come back. Deng Xiuzhen thought he must have gone back to his mother-in-law's home in the countryside.
Thinking that there was no one to take care of the child at home, it would not be safe for her to go out alone at night. In addition, she had not slept the whole night and was a little sleepy, so she did not go out and the family went to bed early.
On the third day, Tan Yanlin still didn't come back.
Deng Xiuzhen couldn't sit still anymore. She wanted to go to her husband's house, but there was no one to take care of the child. Then she thought of Old Man Zhao.
Old man Zhao was standing in the wooden kitchen they had built, roasting and smoking bacon. When he saw Deng Xiuzhen, he warmly invited her to sit down.
When she heard that Tan Yanlin had been missing for a few days, she was very surprised. She immediately agreed to look after the children and asked Deng Xiuzhen to go back early. She told her: If the village didn't see him, she should report to the police station as soon as possible.
When she heard that the police station had been notified, Deng Xiuzhen immediately ran to the police station, reported the disappearance first, and then returned to her hometown.
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