Chapter 170

"I don't know where he lives, maybe we can go ask him. Do you want to go now? I can accompany you. If there are not many people there, maybe I can burn some more paper money."

The car owner said.

Leyuan thought for a moment and said, "He knows nothing. There is no point in asking him."

The car owner said, "That's right. If he still says he doesn't know when we ask him, then we'll have wasted our time. In that case, you can rest here for a while and then go out to look for it. It may not be found right away. Don't you have any idea?"

Paradise said, “Yes.”

After resting for a while, Leyuan went out to look for Zhong Ahfu's residence. Zhong Ahfu lived in a huge residential complex and was the owner of a villa there. He lived with his wife and son. It was said that he had a younger sister, but she did not live there. She was sent to study abroad, and no one knew what she was studying. The security was very strict and no one was allowed to enter casually.

The park tried to offer delivery, but it is a loss for deliverymen to go in because it is too big and they cannot find the destination for a while. It takes a lot of time and there is a high possibility of overtime and failure to deliver the items. The security guards rarely let deliverymen in, and there are not many deliverymen who go in. They are all familiar faces, and their number is decreasing. They are reluctant to go in and feel they are at a loss.

A stranger suddenly wanted to go into the park. The security guard looked at him and thought something was wrong with him, as if he was an ant trying to sneak in. After talking to him for a long time, he still stopped the man outside.

The amusement park could only try to be a courier again, but was stopped again because the security guard stretched out his arm and said to him: "You can go to the post next to it and leave your things there. Someone will pick them up and deliver them to your doorsteps. It's like door-to-door delivery, so you don't have to worry about it. Let's go."

There was nothing we could do but leave the park.

Seeing that neither of the two identities could get in, the security guards were becoming more and more vigilant as they were familiar with the park's layout. The park knew that it should find another way, but it couldn't think of any good solution for the time being and could only sigh in despair.

"It seems that we can't get in?"

The car owner asked.

"yes."

Paradise answered.

"It's no good being so tense all the time. Talking to him probably won't help. Why don't we relax and go out to play? I know you don't have money. Let's go for a walk! I know a park where you can walk slowly and don't need to pay for admission. Let's go for a walk while it's getting late. When we come back, it will be night time. We can go to bed right after washing up."

The car owner said.

"Okay then."

Paradise agreed.

The two went out for a walk, and halfway through the walk, Leyuan suddenly remembered that in the column introducing Zhong Ahfu, there was some useful information about the past. It said that after Zhong Ahfu became rich, he strongly supported a local school. Originally, the school was on the verge of bankruptcy, but it survived because of that money. Zhong Ahfu also visited the school, and everyone was very grateful to him.

Paradise thought maybe it would be worth a visit to the school.

The owner asked, "So you're not going to your residence?"

Leyuan said, "I can't get in. What can I do even if I know someone is inside? I can't just walk into his house and say, 'Hey, your brother is dead but he still wants to see you.' People will think they've seen a ghost, a thief has entered, or someone wants to kill him. How can I get in?"

If I want to convince a stranger to trust me, wouldn’t I be more like a liar if I didn’t have any fame or money and didn’t even know them?

The car owner said, "That's right. Where are you going now? I can drive you there."

Paradise sighed: "It's not too far, I can go there by myself, but I should probably stay there for a while tonight and try my luck, maybe we can meet."

The car owner said, "Then I will go home by myself."

Rakuen nodded.

The two separated, and Leyuan went to the vicinity of the school and walked around the perimeter of the school. After walking a circle, he didn't see anyone. When he was walking the second circle, someone inside called him. Leyuan turned around and saw that it was a security guard. He walked over and said to him, "We don't allow idle people to stay here!"

Leyuan said: "This is not your school's territory, why do you have to meddle in other people's business? Even if it is your territory, I have never heard of any school interfering with what happens outside the door when the doors are closed. Who do you think you are? If you say it is not allowed here, then it is not allowed!"

The security guard blushed: "Go away! There are students staying in the dormitory. I already see you walking around here. If you are not a good person, the students will be scared. Who knows if you are here to help the traffickers?"

Paradise said: "If you don't know anything, don't mess around here."

The security guard yelled: "I'm calling the police if you do this!"

Paradise said: "It's up to you, call the police."

The security guard was furious and took out his cell phone to call the police, but the police just said a few perfunctory words and hung up the phone.

The security guard's face turned from red to white and then back to red. He glared at the amusement park and said, "This is all your fault!"

Leyuan snorted, "What does it have to do with me? Why? Didn't you call the police before? You said you wanted to call the police, what did I do to you? You are standing here for no reason, and you dare to quarrel with me."

The security guard yelled, “You!”

The park said, "If you don't go back now, it will be considered as absenteeism, right? Is it useless to complain here or is this your family's business?"

The security guard could only go back with his fists clenched.

I continued walking around the park, but the more I looked, the more upset I became. I walked further away until I came to the open-air playground of another nearby school. I found a chair to sit down and had just taken a break when a person walked out from the shade of trees in the distance. The person had a long black shadow and walked with his head down. He looked very depressed, as if he was in a bad mood. At first glance, he looked like a dumpling.

When he got closer, he could see that it was a normal person. He looked a little familiar. Leyuan took out his mobile phone and searched for information about Zhong Ahfu on the Internet. Comparing the photos, he felt that it was the same person. He stood up and took two steps forward. He wanted to go over and try to get closer to him, but he felt that he was not good at speaking and could not say anything nice. He was afraid of bringing anger back home, which would be a waste of time.

Leyuan was hesitating here, and saw Leyuan over there. He didn't see anyone else around, so he strode over and asked kindly, "Are you lost?"

Leyuan shook his head: "No, I want to say something."

Zhong Ahfu asked: "Looking for me?"

Leyuan whispered, "Yes, you probably won't believe this, so I didn't dare to get too close. I was afraid you would just leave, so I'm standing here."

Zhong Ahfu asked: "Why are you waiting for me here instead of going home so late? Is there something important that must be discussed tonight?"

Leyuan said, "It's a very important matter, but I don't have to tell you tonight. When are you free to listen to me?"

Zhong Ahfu asked him to sit down: "Then let's talk about it now. If things are delayed for too long, maybe things will change."

Leyuan nodded, but didn't dare to confirm it. Next to Zhong Ahfu, he lowered his head and said softly, "What I want to talk about is related to your brother. Can you wait until I finish talking before you get angry? What I said is true."

When Zhong Ahfu heard the word "brother", his face changed color and he looked a little angry, but he still endured it. When he heard Leyuan say this, he frowned with a complicated expression, and his eyes were full of sadness and anger. He frowned and stared at Leyuan, as if he had regarded him as a liar. He opened his mouth, as if he wanted to persuade him to mend his ways, but no words came out.

Leyuan glanced at him and checked with him. What Zhong Asheng had said before was something that only Zhong Asheng and Zhong Afu knew. Zhong Afu's face became uglier and uglier. If there was a hint of abnormal white before, now it was a mixture of red and white with a faint black color. His anger was rising more and more, and it was as if blood was gushing out of his forehead.

Zhong Ahfu gnashed his teeth and asked, "How do you know these things? How do you know those words?"

Leyuan said: “Someone told me.”

Zhong Ahfu asked: "Who told you?"

Leyuan said: "Zhong Ahsheng told me."

Zhong Ahfu said: "Do you know that the person is dead? If you want to deceive people, can you first ask about the good things that happened? You are not going too far!"

Leyuan shook his head: "I'm not lying to you."

Zhong Ahfu asked: "So what are you doing now?"

Leyuan said: "I am just relaying that Zhong Ahsheng wants to see you again, at the place where he died."

Zhong Ahfu was so angry that he wanted to laugh, but he also held on to a glimmer of hope. He looked at the park eagerly and asked, "Why didn't he come to see me?"

Leyuan said, "He doesn't know where you live, and he has forgotten your name and many things, but he still wants to see you. I saw him when I was burning paper on the roadside during the Ghost Festival, and he asked me for help, hoping that I could bring you to him, or that he could find a way to see you. But I saw that he couldn't leave that place easily."

Zhong Ahfu was lost in thought and muttered, "What did he look like when you saw him? What did he say? Tell me everything! Okay?"

Paradise said, “Yes.”

He recounted his entire story of meeting Zhong Asheng from beginning to end. Zhong Afu nodded and asked him to be more detailed. Leyuan had no choice but to tell it again, adding some details that were not clear the previous time. Zhong Afu still hadn't come back to his senses. He treated what Leyuan told him as a story, which was a fairy tale coating on the surface, but was filled with suspense and horror at the bottom. He was half-believing and half-doubting.

He believed because he hoped that this was true, so that he could see the dead Zhong Asheng, but he was doubtful because he was unwilling to believe that such a thing was true. His reason told him that the dead would not be resurrected. He looked at his dead, already dead brother, who could never come back. Only a liar would say these things.