Chapter 706 Reciting a Love Letter
Lu Yuanqiu and Bai Qingxia looked at each other. Why did this sound more and more like a ghost story?
Lu Yuanqiu pressed on: "There was a car accident in Lucheng? Did you see it with your own eyes?"
Zheng Yifeng fell silent again.
He responded over the phone: "Now that you mention it... I was too young when the accident happened. All I remember is where my mother's grave is. I didn't actually see the accident with my own eyes, or maybe I was too young to remember it."
Lu Yuanqiu thought for a moment: "What Uncle Bai said in the letter should be true. If you have time, you can ask your second uncle and tell him about the letter... Wait, does your second uncle really not know your father's whereabouts?"
"...I'm not sure now. If the contents of the letter are true, then my father shouldn't have left Lucheng without reason. He would have told Uncle Bai, so why didn't he tell my second uncle?"
Zheng Yifeng then found another reason: "It could also be that my father disappeared in the United States."
Zheng Yifeng looked down when his phone vibrated. It was Su Miaomiao urging him. He said to Lu Yuanqiu, "Let's talk about it later. I have something else to do right now."
Lu Yuanqiu: "Okay."
After hanging up the phone, Lu Yuanqiu and Bai Qingxia looked at each other in silence for a long time.
He sorted out his messy thoughts and muttered to himself, "The ex-wife was murdered... It seems that Uncle Zheng and Aunt Yuntan divorced first, and then Uncle Zheng married Aunt Ye. After the marriage, Aunt Yuntan was murdered in the United States. Considering the date of the letter, Zheng Yifeng was three years old at that time, just like you. Uncle Zheng set off for the United States and disappeared, but I always feel something is wrong."
Bai Qingxia didn't quite understand what Lu Yuanqiu meant was wrong.
Lu Yuanqiu's eyes suddenly widened. "Oh right, Zheng Yifeng is nine years older than his brother. If Uncle Zheng disappeared when Zheng Yifeng was three, that means Zheng Yifeng's brother wasn't born until six years later. So how did Zheng Yifeng's brother come about?"
Could it be that Aunt Ye is behind this?
But that's impossible. Judging from Zheng Yifeng's description in the past two years, Aunt Ye can't be such a person.
Bai Qingxia sorted out her thoughts and couldn't help but remind him, "Uncle Zheng hadn't left for the United States when he wrote the letter. It's possible that because my father was in trouble, he stayed in Lucheng for a few more years. We don't know if he went to the United States again later."
"That's right." Lu Yuanqiu slapped his head, almost getting confused by this messy timeline.
Bai Qingxia was right. It was impossible to be sure whether Uncle Zheng had gone to the United States again, and there was no way to determine whether he was in the United States at this moment.
But the United States is finally a hope, and the current situation is much better than the previous state where there was no news at all.
Lu Yuanqiu: "Wait and see what Zheng Yifeng's second uncle says."
Bai Qingxia hummed, then seemed to remember something. She picked up the torn envelope and letter beside the bed, lowered her head, squeezed her two snow-white feet into her slippers, and said to Lu Yuanqiu, "I want my father to read this letter. Maybe he can remember something."
"OK."
Lu Yuanqiu followed behind and watched Bai Qingxia carefully push open Bai Songzhe's door. As soon as the door opened, Bai Qingxia raised her eyebrows. It was time for Bai Songzhe to take a lunch break, but he was sitting by the bed with a blank expression.
"He used to sleep at this time, why is he up today?" Bai Qingxia walked towards the bed with confusion.
Lu Yuanqiu wasn't surprised at all. "He never sleeps when I come over. Maybe he's afraid I might do something to his precious daughter. My father-in-law is way too vigilant."
Looking back and seeing Lu Yuanqiu grinning, Bai Qingxia knew what he meant, but she still retorted in a sticky tone, "What can you do...Aunt Zhang is still here."
Lu Yuanqiu poked her waist: "Once the room is closed, who knows what we are doing?"
Bai Qingxia groaned softly at the prodding. She turned around and raised her pink fist as if to strike. Lu Yuanqiu dodged, frowning and putting his index finger to his lips: "Shh! Aunt Zhang is sleeping!"
The girl didn't throw her fist in the end. Instead, she put on an annoyed expression and reached out her hand to skillfully twist Lu Yuanqiu's waist.
Lu Yuanqiu let out an angry "Aiya~" and then stepped back, holding his waist, and whispered his opinion: "You are getting more and more violent! Think about how gentle you used to be."
"Now let's see the situation!" Bai Qingxia swung his arms back.
"Today, in front of your father, I really have to punish you!"
The two of them started "fighting" in the small room, but in fact it was just Lu Yuanqiu who was unilaterally letting Bai Qingxia win. He didn't dare to use any force for fear of spraining Bai Qingxia's thin arm. However, this scene fell into Bai Songzhe's eyes again, and Lu Yuanqiu found that Bai Songzhe beside the bed was looking at him again.
Your daughter is here, why does she always look at me?
He originally wanted to take advantage of Bai Qingxia's collar tilting down again to poke the soft flesh exposed next to Bai Qingxia's armpit, but when he was stared at by his father-in-law, he immediately gave up the idea.
"Your father is looking at me again." Lu Yuanqiu grabbed her arms and said.
Bai Qingxia turned her head and looked at him, then responded: "When my father gets better, the first thing he will do is definitely help me beat you up."
Lu Yuanqiu rarely expressed his deep agreement with this.
The two of them sat down on the bed with Bai Songzhe between them. Bai Qingxia stopped looking at Lu Yuanqiu and tentatively unfolded the letter in her hand and showed it to her father.
"Dad, do you remember this?"
Lu Yuanqiu fell silent, and his gaze gradually drifted to the words as he watched Bai Songzhe.
The two were waiting for his reaction, but unfortunately Bai Songzhe didn't react. Lu Yuanqiu couldn't help but teasing: "A normal person would probably just die if they saw this."
Bai Qingxia didn't say anything, her mind was on her father's expression.
Lu Yuanqiu laughed slyly, "How about I read it out loud? If this happened in high school, the level of social mortification would be doubled."
Bai Qingxia knew that Lu Yuanqiu was talking about the plot of reading a love letter in public, but to be honest, she had never encountered such a plot, and the grudges between classmates were not that big.
After getting Bai Qingxia's tacit consent, Lu Yuanqiu cleared his throat, held his head high, and began to recite Bai Songzhe's "love letter" aloud.
“Ran!”
“Swish!”
Both of them opened their eyes wide in shock at what happened next.
As soon as Lu Yuanqiu read out the word "Ran", Bai Songzhe snatched the letter from his hand at lightning speed and clenched it tightly in his right hand.
Lu Yuanqiu and Bai Qingxia looked at each other in surprise and didn't react for a long time.
Bai Songzhe's expression remained blank, his face wasn't red and he wasn't breathing hard, as if the action he just took wasn't his own. Lu Yuanqiu even felt that his face at this moment was like a seal, sealing all his expressions of emotions... Was he already recovered from his illness?
Bai Qingxia tried to touch her father's right hand, but found that Bai Songzhe's fingers were clenched tightly.
(End of this chapter)
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