"Uncle, are you talking about Frederick? He is from Country D, and Tianma Group is also a company from Country D," Chu Ying answered indifferently, and never mentioned the blond-haired and blue-eyed foreign boss again.
Han Qing took a peek and found that Chu Ying had no interest in Frederick, so he breathed a sigh of relief. It was good that she had no interest. Wouldn't it be nice for her to stay with him and Grandpa Han like they did when they were children?
The two of them were thinking about their own things and chatting casually, and soon returned to Grandpa Han's residence.
In recent years, the old man has truly treated Chu Ying as his granddaughter. Despite the drizzle outside, he waited in the yard early.
Now there is a dog in the yard. It is not a rare breed, but an ordinary local dog. Chu Ying couldn't bear to see the little guy wandering around, so she brought him home. From then on, he became a member of the Han family.
Seeing the little dog start to bark excitedly, Grandpa Han knew that Chu Ying and Han Qing were about to come back. Sure enough, the staff quickly opened the gate and Han Qing drove his SUV into the yard.
Chu Ying jumped out of the car as nimbly as a little deer, ran to Grandpa Han, and gave him a big hug. "Grandpa, how are you feeling lately?"
Grandpa Han threw down his crutches and did a chest expansion movement, "I'm in great shape!"
Grandpa Han's words were not meant to comfort Chu Ying. Ever since Su Nian came to this world and used the white stone to nourish Grandpa Han's body, Grandpa Han seemed to have taken an elixir of rejuvenation. He became light and healthy, and his physical condition was getting better day by day.
Grandpa Han is now over 80 years old, but he looks like a man in his 60s. Although his hair has turned silver-white, it is still very thick.
The little dog was a stray dog, so it was very well-behaved. It didn't dare to stick to Chu Ying, but just wagged its tail vigorously beside her.
Chu Ying picked up the little dog and said, "Xiao Huang, what are you doing at home?"
As if knowing that Chu Ying was asking this question to himself, the little dog barked twice and wagged its tail even harder.
Han Qing had already gotten out of the car and was watching Chu Ying from the side, shaking his head disapprovingly. "This guy is always running around in the grass, he must have fleas!"
"Uncle, you're talking nonsense. Grandpa cleaned the house so cleanly, how could there be fleas?" Chu Ying didn't believe it at all and still held the little dog affectionately in her arms.
Han Qing made a helpless gesture and said, "Let's go, the aroma from the kitchen is wafting out, let's go eat first!"
The Han family’s food is quite exquisite, and the key is that they have a good chef who is humble and eager to learn.
Chef Zhang was fat and looked like a Maitreya Buddha. When Chu Ying entered the restaurant, he was personally bringing a whole plate of dim sum to the table. When he saw Chu Ying, he was so happy that he didn't know where to put his hands.
"The lady is back!"
"Well, Uncle Zhang, you baked so many lotus cakes?" Chu Ying exclaimed, reached out and pinched an exquisite pastry and put it in her mouth.
Lotus pastries are usually filled with red bean paste, but Chu Ying has a hot constitution, so this lotus pastry is filled with lard, rock sugar and mung bean paste. When you bite into it, the rich green and pink pastry skin complement each other and look very beautiful.
"It's delicious! I feel like Uncle Zhang's cooking skills have improved again!" Chu Ying narrowed her eyes, savoring the snacks carefully with an intoxicated expression on her face.
After finishing one, Chu Ying saw that there seemed to be new varieties in the white porcelain basin, so she brought the white porcelain basin over.
As soon as she picked up the white porcelain basin, she found that there seemed to be something stuck on it. Upon closer inspection, she saw that both her hands were covered with fine icing sugar.
"Huh? Uncle Zhang baked some snacks and baked all the sugar onto the bowl!" Chu Ying just found it very funny. She took the tissue handed to her by Han Qing and wiped her fingers carefully.
Chu Ying's slender fingerprints were left on the white porcelain basin.
Han Qing took a look at the white porcelain basin intently, and then stopped paying attention to it. "Don't always eat snacks, eat something hot!"
Chef Zhang showed off his special skills and every dish on the table was a masterpiece. Chu Ying was quickly won over and nodded repeatedly while eating.
After dinner, Chu Ying returned to her room. When she left, at Han Qing's signal, someone wearing gloves immediately carried the edge of the white porcelain basin and left carefully.
Chu Ying has been well-behaved and sensible during the years she has lived in the Han family. However, a few years ago, Han Qing discovered something strange: Chu Ying would mysteriously disappear every once in a while, and during the time she was missing, a case would occur in the city.
All the cases were thefts, but it was hard to say what was lost. Sometimes they were very valuable cultural relics, and sometimes they were just insignificant souvenirs.
However, all these thefts have one thing in common, that is, without exception, they are all extremely difficult, which means that the thief himself must have a very high level of skill.
Many difficult and suspicious cases will eventually be summarized here by Han Qing. In the past few years, he has collected five similar cases.
It has been exactly five years since Chu Ying came to the Han family.
None of these cases were solved. Han Qing checked them one by one and found that in all the cases, the fingerprints left by the suspects were very thin and they were obviously women's fingerprints.
Considering that Chu Ying disappeared every year, Han Qing speculated about the relationship between the two. Of course, when Chu Ying was still young a few years ago, he didn't have this idea at all, because Chu Ying was still a little girl at that time, and it was common sense that no one would target her.
The real suspicion of Chu Ying came last year. At that time, Chu Ying was in her senior year of high school. The mother of a girl in the class did not know Chu Ying's identity and was thinking of using despicable means to compete with Chu Ying for a place in a prestigious school.
Something soon happened to that girl's mother. She ran a large jewelry store, but tax evasion and cooking the books were the real source of her huge wealth.
The woman's account book was stolen and sent to the tax bureau, resulting in her company being urgently sealed off by a large number of tax officials the next day.
And at this time, Chu Ying also disappeared from home.
It’s not that Han Qing doesn’t worry about Chu Ying’s disappearance, but her disappearance can really be described as coming and going without a trace, with no trace to be found and no way to prevent it.
When Chu Ying disappeared for the first time, Han Qing thought she had returned to her original world and felt very lost.
Unexpectedly, Chu Ying came back after one night.
From then on, Chu Ying disappeared once a year, and Han Qing got used to it. Every time Chu Ying disappeared, he would search the whole city for her, fearing that something had happened to her. At the same time, he was also prepared for Chu Ying to return home and lose her completely.
Unexpectedly, this year the jewelry store case and Chu Ying's disappearance were both brought to Han Qing's attention, allowing him to connect Chu Ying to the case for the first time.
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