Chapter 547 Oh's Instructions (82) [VIP]
There were more than just these two people standing at the door.
Wen Qi turned her eyes and found that in addition to this couple, Wen Yiming was also standing behind her, looking in her direction with a stiff face. He was probably told in advance not to give her, the only person who knew what Xiao Guo had done, a cold look. After seeing Wen Qi, he did not roll his eyes, but just moved his lips a few times, probably muttering to himself that she came back too late and made them wait too long.
As for this younger brother...Wen Qi has no interest in him.
She withdrew her gaze without interest and turned her attention back to the couple.
Under the pale light of the side corridor, Wen Qi looked at her parents carefully and closely for the first time in more than ten years.
The woman's face was already a little smudged with makeup, and there were two obvious eye wrinkles under her eyes. When she smiled deliberately, the corners of her eyes bulged, pulling the skin muscles together and piled up, revealing particularly obvious nasolabial folds and forehead wrinkles.
Only a thin layer of lipstick remained on the outside, and the part near the lip seam had fallen off completely, revealing the white lips covered by the color of the lipstick.
She was not young anymore, and no matter how well she took care of herself, her face was already showing signs of irreversible fatigue. But even so, when she looked at that face, her facial features gradually overlapped with the woman in Wen Qi's memory, who sat in the crib with a baby in her arms, picky and condescending, and ordered her to clean up the glass debris on the floor in an arrogant manner.
More than ten years later, when Wen Qi stood in front of her again, she realized that she was more than half a head taller than the woman in slippers. When she wanted to pretend to be friendly and come over to tidy up her hair, she had to look up slightly.
The man's face was covered with fat, and years of smoking and drinking had dyed his teeth a dark yellow, as well as the gap between his index and middle fingers, where he often held cigarettes.
Compared with the woman whose figure has not changed in more than ten years, his weight has long been rising along with his status and financial resources, and now it has almost become a horizontal square. Apart from the facial features that no longer bear any resemblance to Wen Qi, his figure hardly bears any trace of his youth.
The only thing that remains the same is that after all these years, he is still the same person who only follows his wife and shows off his power.
Wen Qi curled the corners of her mouth sarcastically in her heart, looking at the man who stood behind her wife, slept with her in the same bed for decades, and now had to observe the other's expression subtly after calling her daughter "Qiqi". She felt it was really ironic.
For more than ten years, she has been trying hard to reduce her presence everywhere. It has been a long time since she observed two people so closely. Today, when she really met them face to face, Wen Qi suddenly felt a sense of clarity in her heart.
I haven't seen them for more than ten years. Apart from the big changes in their appearance, they are almost the same as I remember.
"Kid, if you have anything to say, just say it," the woman's voice suddenly sounded, interrupting her observation and thoughts, "What's wrong with your neck?"
Wen Qi subconsciously wanted to take a step back, but when she realized that the woman wanted to touch her neck, she controlled her instinct.
"Did you fall accidentally?" The woman's warm hand fell on her neck, as if she really cared about the child's injury.
Wen Qi got goose bumps all over her body because of her pretending to be gentle. She shrank her neck and answered in a low voice: "No, no..."
I don’t know how much Wen Yiming relayed to these two people.
While pretending to be overwhelmed and flattered by the sudden concern, she was thinking quickly about what to say next.
Her teacher, Scarao, didn't give her much advice. It seemed that he planned to let her do whatever she wanted tonight. And compared to Chen Lei yesterday, she rarely mentioned her parents in front of Scarao, so he couldn't intervene for the time being.
She definitely didn't believe that the couple didn't know that she was being bullied at school. Zhang Weijing and Zhang Xujiao were able to choose her so accurately among so many students with no background in the school. She didn't believe that there was no secret push from these two people.
But the two of them were obviously trying to pry something out of her, so they were pretending to be loving parents. How could she answer like a poor little girl who had been lacking love for a long time and suddenly received attention, so that her words would be more credible...
Before Wen Qi could finish thinking, the man suddenly interrupted: "No? I think the mark on your neck looks like you tripped yourself."
"The thing on her neck must have been pinched by Zhang Xu..." Wen Yiming interrupted impatiently.
"Mingming," the woman raised her voice and turned back to glare at him, "What are you talking about? Your sister must have gotten this wound by accident, right, Qiqi?"
She dragged out the word "Qiqi" for a long time, and the threat in her voice seemed to overflow.
It seems that these two people... want to get information about Xiao Guo from her, but don't want to make the decision for her, so they plan to force her to say that the wound on her neck was not caused by a fight. In this way, even if they need to continue playing the role of a loving father and mother later, they don't have to put on a loving face and go to the school to "seek justice" for her.
You want the horse to run fast but not eat grass, you don't want to pay anything but still want to get information. This is like getting something for nothing. Even if Wen Qi is really a little girl who has been neglected and lacks love for many years, she can't be fooled by such a clumsy face-changing.
Wen Qi looked away silently: "Yes... yes."
It's a pity that she really had to jump into this pit, because she had other intentions.
The couple wanted the information from her, and she wanted their lives. It was a reasonable deal, right?
"That's right," the woman's face showed the first genuine smile of the night, "Mingming said that there was a little conflict between you and your classmates. Can you tell mom why you had a conflict?"
"That's...that's..." Wen Qi stammered, "They want to ask me where the policeman who came to look for me when I disappeared is now."
"Police?" The woman winked at the man, who quickly stepped forward to answer, "Qiqi, when you disappeared, your mother and I were very worried. Which police officer are they asking about?"
"I don't know him either, but they said the policeman's surname was Guo," Wen Qi lowered her head and blinked, "They said Officer Guo came back earlier than the other policemen who came to look for me and myself, and they said I must know where he went, but I really don't know..."
The woman's eyes moved.
This "Policeman Guo" came back earlier than anyone else. After returning, he did not go to work nor report Wen Qi's current situation. Instead, he immediately packed his luggage and took his parents back to his hometown.
The two children of the "big shot" insisted that Wen Qi knew where he had gone, but Wen Qi acted very confused. Does this mean that these two people thought that Wen Qi had some kind of connection with him, but in fact there was not?
Or rather...
Her inquiring eyes swept over Wen Qi's body.
Over the years, she has never paid attention to Wen Qi, but how smart and bold can a child who has been targeted by a group of people since childhood and now lives in a high-pressure environment of bullying every day be? Could it be that this "Xiao Guo" actually showed something, but Wen Qi did not realize his motives?
"Qiqi," she said in a softer tone, "Do you remember what happened between you and the police who came to look for you? You can talk to mom and reminisce a little. Maybe you will remember something."
After saying this, perhaps because she herself felt that her intention was a little too obvious, she quickly added: "If you have conflicts with your classmates, you should resolve them as soon as possible. Now that you remember it, why don't you tell them tomorrow?"
Wen Qi nodded, still timidly: "Well... okay."
She wanted to delay time to make these two people anxious to death. Since they asked her to recall it slowly, she did so slowly.
Wen Qi held the woman's sleeve and sat on the spacious sofa in the living room, and began to talk from the moment she had just left the building. In order to make her recollections appear real enough, the order of her narration was mixed up. She would suddenly remember something halfway through and add it to the previous content, or she would repeat the same information three or four times, as if she had forgotten she had said it.
The woman listened very seriously at first, but the more she listened, the stiffer her expression became. When Wen Qi talked about how she entered a convenience store and found several policemen waiting for her, she finally couldn't listen any more and interrupted, "Qi Qi, can you tell me something... about the police?"
"Something related to the police..." Wen Qi lowered his head and thought hard for a while, "On the third day, the police captain was suddenly seriously injured. Does that count?"
"The captain is seriously injured?" The woman looked up.
"Yes," Wen Qi nodded, "It seems that there was some conflict in their team, so the captain was stabbed by his team members..."
At this point, she pretended to open her mouth and looked up: "Ah, this person can't be that Xiao Guo!"
Woman: “It’s possible…it’s possible.”
She said it twice in a row, with countless guesses flashing through her mind. In the end, she concluded that this "Xiao Guo" might have learned some information, or did something, and then was discovered by the captain. He stabbed the other person in a panic and quickly ran back to his hometown with his parents.
And this thing he accidentally learned was very likely related to that big shot. The reason why he was in a hurry to leave the city and return to his hometown also became clear. He was afraid of being found, and to go deeper, he was afraid of being silenced.
The "big shot" is currently in danger and it is not convenient for him to take action on his own. Xiao Guo, who learned his secret, has a close relationship with Wen Qi, a classmate of his two children, so the task of asking where Xiao Guo has been falls on these two people.
The woman's eyes turned and she said, "Qiqi, you sit here first. Mom and Dad will go take care of the company's business."
She took out her cell phone and immediately planned to call the person who found Xiao Guo.
It had been almost two or three hours since Wen Qi returned home. On the surface, she maintained the look of a loving mother, but in fact, she was extremely anxious. She must have scolded her daughter countless times for being stupid and timid. It took her so much effort for her to remember such crucial information.
The woman and the man left in a hurry and couldn't wait to go to the study to make a phone call. Wen Yiming, who stayed outside, felt that Wen Qi was increasingly displeased with him. He glared at her for a long time, then turned around and went upstairs to his room.
Wen Qi was the only one left in the empty living room.
Wen Qi stood up and stretched her muscles, then walked to the study door and began to eavesdrop.
A man's voice was faintly heard from the other side of the door.
"Ask him what he found. If that doesn't work, just tie him up and bring him back! This is the person that guy is looking for. If we take him over..."
"No," the woman interrupted, "If we send someone over, he will definitely guess whether we know something. Even if we don't know, he will think we know. We want him to remember our kindness, not to make him remember us forever!"
"What should we do then?"
"It's simple. If sending a living person doesn't work, then sending a dead person will be fine," the woman said in a low, vague voice. "Let's create an accident. But before the accident, it would be best if we could find out what secrets he knows about the big shots..."
"Tsk tsk," Wen Qi shook her head and lamented that the development of things was just as expected. She clamped the recorder between her fingertips, took out her mobile phone from her pocket, and made a call.
Ten seconds later, a somewhat puzzled male voice rang out from the other end of the line: "Wen Qi? Are you in any trouble?"
"Brother Xu Ke!" Wen Qi covered the recording port of the recorder and lowered her voice, "I think I know where Xiao Guo is!"
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