Chapter 707: What’s strange?
Lu Yuanqiu sat aside, not knowing what to say. The words that came to his mouth turned into a complaint: "...I said the company would die."
"But I was just kidding, really social dead?"
Bai Qingxia was used to seeing her father suddenly do things in front of others that made people unable to react. She was afraid that Bai Songzhe's emotions would continue to be unstable, so she continued to whisper comforting words in his ear, as before, and at the same time touched his fist.
Her comfort was indeed useful. Bai Songzhe gradually loosened his fingers, and the letter paper that was crumpled into a ball returned to his daughter's hands again.
After what just happened, Bai Qingxia didn't dare let her father touch the letter again. She handed the letter to Lu Yuanqiu and asked him to hold it farther away.
"Should we report this to the doctor?" Bai Qingxia asked after hesitating.
"That's fine. I'll go upstairs and tell my mom later."
"Ran."
"What?"
Bai Qingxia suddenly heard a word from Bai Songzhe's mouth, and so did Lu Yuanqiu. They both leaned over in surprise.
But Bai Songzhe stopped talking again, staring at the air with unfocused eyes, as if he was immersed in some deep memories.
The tone of his voice during this period was very different from before, so Lu Yuanqiu could hear it very clearly.
Lu Yuanqiu confirmed: "You heard it just now, right?"
Bai Qingxia nodded immediately and added, "This is the second time. The last time was..."
Lu Yuanqiu: "The time when it made you brave enough to... fall in love?"
It was a bit embarrassing to say it, so Bai Qingxia nodded slightly without further expanding on the topic.
Lu Yuanqiu stood up: "I'll go tell my mother now."
…
The next day, the Qingming Festival holiday ended and the two of them once again boarded the high-speed train to Zhucheng, this time with Cao Shuang as their companion.
The psychiatrist's response yesterday was very ambiguous. According to Bai Qingxia, it was basically the same as the answer she received the last time she asked the doctor: "I'm getting better, getting better..."
Su Xiaoya pressed the issue in depth as a colleague and old classmate, but the director of the psychiatry department gave the same unchanging answer. Lu Yuanqiu then understood that it depended on fate when he would be better.
Of course, doctors are not gods and cannot give a specific date. As a family member, we should be satisfied to get a word "getting better" from the doctor. However, Bai Qingxia has waited too long, so long that the words "getting better" can no longer stir up the waves in her heart.
Last night Zheng Yifeng also asked his second uncle, and the answer he got from his second uncle was somewhat unexpected.
Uncle Zheng knew that Zheng's father had gone to the United States when Zheng Yifeng was three years old, which was also the time when Bai Songzhe had the accident. However, only Uncle Zheng and Ye Hui knew about this. Zheng Yifeng had no idea where his father had gone.
Zheng's father returned to China after staying in the United States for five years. Zheng Yifeng was eight years old that year. This explains how Zheng Yifeng's younger brother came into being.
Zheng's father did not explain to his son where he had been for the past five years. Moreover, less than two years after he had been with his father, Zheng's father disappeared again. This time, Zheng's father did not report his whereabouts to anyone, and no one knew where he had gone. This was the beginning of his disappearance without a trace.
As for Yun Tan's death, Uncle Zheng said he was not aware of it, because after Yun Tan divorced Zheng's father, Uncle Zheng had no contact with his former sister-in-law again.
Zheng Yifeng only found out where his mother's grave was when he was eight years old. His father told him after he returned from the United States. He also told him that his mother had been in a car accident when he was three years old.
During a phone call last night, Zheng Yifeng realized belatedly that his impression of his mother's death in a car accident years ago was all his father's one-sided statement, and since he was young, he gradually took this as the truth.
It seems that everything is clear now, but there are still many doubts.
It's almost certain that Yun Tan was murdered in the United States, but what was the cause of death? It's clearly unnatural.
Where did Zheng's father go when he left Zheng Yifeng for the second time? What was the reason for his departure?
Lu Yuanqiu thought it was the United States, but he also felt that Zheng's father might have solved the problem in the United States during his five years there, so he had no strong reason to return.
Third, during the five years that Zheng's father was in the United States, he should have heard about Bai Songzhe's accident. Why didn't he return to China to help? Based on all the information now, they should be true brothers.
Even if he couldn't get away, why didn't Zheng's father go looking for Bai Songzhe when he returned to China five years later?
...Maybe they did, but Bai Qingxia didn't know about it. At that time, Bai Ruoan was not dead yet, and Bai Songzhe was not crazy yet. Their family of three lived a relatively stable life and was not in poverty.
etc!
Lu Yuanqiu suddenly realized something.
He quickly sent a message to Zheng Yifeng to ask.
Lu Yuanqiu: You said your father returned to China and stayed in Lucheng for two years before disappearing? So you were ten years old when he disappeared?
『Zheng Yifeng』: When I was about ten years old, my younger brother was one year old, my father disappeared.
Lu Yuanqiu looked at Bai Qingxia who was sitting by the window next to him in a trance.
The year Bai Ruoan died in a car accident, Bai Qingxia was also ten years old.
Zheng's father disappeared in the same year. Is there something strange about this?
Is Bai Ruoan’s car accident related to Zheng’s father?
They don't have to be tied together... Lu Yuanqiu felt that he was a bit of a conspiracy theorist. Bai Qingxia had told him the cause of the car accident. It was that her brother went out at night to help her get back the toy that was stolen, and he ended up in a car accident on the way.
"What's wrong?" Bai Qingxia turned her head to look at Lu Yuanqiu.
Cao Shuang then picked up two pieces of chocolate and handed them over from the back seat: "Brother Qiu, Sister Xia, have some chocolate. Xiao Yueyue gave them to me."
Lu Yuanqiu and Bai Qingxia turned around to take it and said thank you. Seeing Cao Shuang sit back down, Lu Yuanqiu shared the coincidence he had just discovered with Bai Qingxia.
The girl paused in tearing open the package.
"Let me do it." Lu Yuanqiu helped her tear open the package. He knew that his brother's death was the biggest knife in Bai Qingxia's heart, so sometimes Lu Yuanqiu would not pick on his brother-in-law even if he wanted to tease her, because it would remind Bai Qingxia of that painful memory.
Seeing the girl's calm expression, Lu Yuanqiu explained in a low voice: "I'm not saying that Uncle Zheng hit your brother. I just think that the direct or indirect reason for Uncle Zheng's disappearance may be related to the incident that happened in your family that night. Didn't Uncle Bai get sick during that time?"
“…Maybe I’m thinking too complicated.”
Lu Yuanqiu added, he tore open the package, took out the chocolate and handed it to Bai Qingxia's mouth.
The girl opened her mouth and took a small bite, her thoughts still wandering.
Cao Shuang was lying on the chair at this time, and he said "Wow" with an exaggerated expression: "I'm so envious..."
Lu Yuanqiu: "You're envious for nothing. Xiao Yueyue even gave you chocolate. Isn't that a common gift between lovers? Xiao Xiaxia has never given me chocolate."
Bai Qingxia pulled the corner of her mouth, opened her mouth and ate all the chocolate that Lu Yuanqiu handed to her.
Cao Shuang sighed: "Xiao Yueyue is about to take the college entrance examination. She said she wants to apply to Zhuhai University."
(End of this chapter)
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