Chapter 173 Plan
The eldest brother of the Shan family is still working overtime. He usually lives in an apartment close to the company, but his home has been targeted, and it is not safe for him to stay outside alone. Shan Yun urged him to come back quickly, at least the old house is safe.
Ning Hanqi agreed to stay here to help them see if Mr. Mo, who would be arriving tomorrow morning, had prepared any new tricks, but they had to go home first to get the medicine for tonight and tomorrow morning.
Ning Hanqi drank the bitter-tasting medicine in small sips and looked particularly well-behaved. Who would dare to believe that such a beautiful and gentle girl had just easily broken the two arms of an adult man?
Only a person like this would dare to call back a ghost to continue the relationship, right?
"Ahem..." The eldest brother had not come back yet. Shan Yun, the most steady person in the family, coughed twice, signaling others not to stare at him all the time, which was so rude.
Xia Yingnuan covered her face, desperately wanting to escape this dream. She tried to hypnotize herself into thinking that perhaps her parents were holding a relative's child, but the next second her parents said, "When Nuannuan grows up a little, we'll send her to play with you."
Xia Yingnuan took a deep breath...
"Ning Hanqi." Seeing that his little daughter still didn't move, her taciturn father spoke up: "Children need to grow up with their parents, otherwise they will be like the children in the orphanage."
The father's words immediately hit Ning Hanqi's soft spot. The child was obviously shaken, and Mother Xia took the opportunity to take the baby back.
After leaving Ning Hanqi's familiar arms, the baby let out a thunderous cry even though he was still being held by his mother.
"Patta, patta..." Little Ning Hanqi's eyes turned red, and she shed tears as she watched the child being taken away. Xia Yingnuan felt so distressed when she saw this, so she thought, "Just take the child back to play with me. At least I won't be sold by the senior."
Ning Hanqi's mother and Xia's mother exchanged contact information. Her little daughter liked this child so much, so as a mother, she naturally hoped that the other party could visit her more often. She also felt distressed when her daughter cried.
Xia's mother agreed readily, but Xia Yingnuan knew that the two families would not have any contact in the future. Perhaps it was because the senior's parents had an accident not long after, so they lost contact.
Xia Yingnuan looked at her junior schoolmate who was wiping her tears, and felt so pity for her. It was just a dream anyway, so she might as well snatch her childhood self back and give it to her senior schoolmate!
Xia Yingnuan seriously considered the feasibility of this matter, but the next second the world spun around, and the dream disappeared all of a sudden, dragging her consciousness into darkness.
When she regained consciousness, Xia Yingnuan subconsciously hugged the things under her tightly and shivered in the wind.
This was a strange situation. Xia Yingnuan, crouching on the wall with her hands and knees, smiled awkwardly but politely. Why was she there this time? But the perspective here was also strangely familiar...
Oh! She remembered!
The villa next door was her original home. Xia Yingnuan had only climbed over the wall once in her life, and that was when her parents forced her to marry that old pervert, and she ran away.
If it was really this time, she should be able to hear the old bitch screaming soon.
"Oh no! The young lady ran away!" Ning Hanqi stood up barefoot. After a series of mishaps, her figure, which had become much thinner, walked to the window and opened the curtains. She felt a tightness in her chest and needed to breathe.
The scenes in the dream were clearer than ever before, making her unable to distinguish between dreams and reality for a moment.
She gently touched the place where she was kissed. It was a dream that she had never dared to imagine. It was precisely because the possession was fleeting that the loss was more heartbreaking and unwilling.
Ning Hanqi's fingers gripping the curtains turned slightly white. Nuannuan said not to find the murderer and not to seek revenge. Okay, she would stop for a while.
But she will try her best...
The half-open curtains let in a little light, and suddenly a furtive figure came into Ning Hanqi's sight.
She frowned and immediately pulled the curtains up, leaving only a gap.
The feeling of being stared at made Kou Zishu's heart tighten, and almost the next second she looked up at the window.
"Officer Kou! What are you looking at?" Xia Yingnuan appeared silently behind Kou Zishu and patted her shoulder.
For a police officer who is on alert, this is a very dangerous move. If Xia Yingnuan had not only solidified her hands while the rest of her body was still in a virtual state, she would have been hit in the face by Kou Zishu's elbow.
"..." Xia Yingnuan watched helplessly as the other person's hand passed through her face at lightning speed. She trembled all over when she reacted, and hid behind a tree not far away.
"S-sorry! I didn't mean to!" Kou Zishu hurriedly chased after him and apologized, "I really didn't mean to! Just now, that was a conditioned reflex!"
"Conditioned reflex?! If I were a human, my face would have been twisted by that blow just now! Woohoo, I'm going to tell Sister Hanshu in a dream that you hit me!" For some reason, Xia Yingnuan always felt like teasing Kou Zishu, and the effect would be doubled if she brought Sister Hanshu along.
"Because of some things that happened before... I really didn't mean it! Can you, can you not tell Director Ning? I will definitely pay attention next time!" Kou Zishu clasped his hands together and pleaded anxiously.
Ahem, Xia Yingnuan felt a little embarrassed seeing the honest person trembling with fear because of her. Forget it, forget it, she won’t bully her anymore.
"Just kidding, I won't tell her."
Honest man Kou Zishu was a little confused about whether Xia Yingnuan was really joking or just joking, but when she saw that there was still a slight redness in Xia Yingnuan's eyes, she thought that she was scared by her, and her guilt deepened.
"I'm sorry... I'll be more careful next time."
"Okay, okay, I won't bully you anymore." Seeing the depressed look of the heroine, Xia Yingnuan began to condemn her own bad taste in her heart. It turned out that the guilt of bullying honest people would be very heavy.
"What were you looking at just now? So focused?"
Kou Zishu looked at the window that had made her feel strange just now, "Miss Xia, were you...looking at me from there just now?"
Xia Yingnuan glanced at the direction she pointed. It was the master bedroom. She had just done two "bad things" and was hanging outside, feeling guilty and "reflecting" on them, when she saw Kou Zishu lurking around below. She found it so amusing to watch him anxiously spinning around, sometimes trying to climb a tree, sometimes trying to scale a wall. She didn't even bother to interrupt him immediately.
"Yes, are you here to see me?" Xia Yingnuan didn't feel at all that she was younger than the other person. She floated a little higher than Kou Zishu and patted her head.
Kou Zishu didn't care about the hand that was messing with her head. Just now, she felt someone looking at her from the direction of that window. So it was Xia Yingnuan?
The man and the ghost were unaware that there was a time difference between what the other person said and they themselves, and a misunderstanding arose.
"Aren't you afraid of danger coming here so late at night? And you still have to go to work when the sun comes up, don't you feel sleepy?"
Kou Zishu spoke very honestly, "Because of the immense pressure from your case, no one in our bureau, from top to bottom, can sleep well. The director has completely lost all his hair."
hiss……
Even though she was the victim, why did she feel so guilty? Xia Yingnuan touched the top of her head and felt a chill. She didn't know if it was from the director's resentment.
"We've basically locked on to our target. It's the remnants of a drug trafficking organization that Director Ning once arrested. They wanted to take revenge on her, but ended up implicating you. I know this is just superficial. The person who killed you must be much more powerful. It can't be one of those ordinary people."
Kou Zishu had already consciously given Xia Yingnuan a thick halo of a big boss. The person who could kill her was definitely not the ordinary criminals they had found on the surface.
"But the higher-ups want an explanation. Director Ning, Director Ning thought this was the truth. She has been feeling guilty about your matter and has not had a rest these days. Moreover, she doesn't believe in those supernatural things..." Kou Zishu lowered her head and spoke incoherently. Xia Yingnuan almost didn't understand what she meant.
"I know, I know. That's good." Xia Yingnuan expressed her understanding. Let the police track down the ghost? Putting aside whether ordinary police could beat ghosts, she was afraid that Kou Zishu would have to undergo ideological reform first.
"You wouldn't feel so guilty about this that you couldn't sleep in the middle of the night and came to me, right?" Xia Yingnuan laughed out loud. This was truly Kou Zishu's character.
"...Don't worry, if they can't track me down, I will continue to investigate and will definitely give you an explanation!"
"Bang!" Xia Yingnuan hit her head directly with the rolled-up painting.
"Are you stupid? You knew it was dangerous, but you still rushed up there?"
"I can't let the criminal go unpunished just because it's dangerous." Kou Zishu's conscience had already been greatly condemned by what she had just said about the police station being unable to apprehend the real murderer for Xia Yingnuan. Since she had the ability to continue the investigation, how could she possibly give up?
"You're such a stubborn ass..." It's no wonder she refused to give in. Xia Yingnuan poked Kou Zishu's head with the painting. If she continued to investigate alone, she'd end up with the same outcome as in the future. Or else, could she find some help? After all, they were helping her solve the case.
"Let's not talk about this for now. You've arrived just in time. Take a look at the gift I prepared for you." Xia Yingnuan stuffed the rolled-up painting into Kou Zishu's hands and said, "I drew this especially for you. If you encounter anything powerful at night, it will help you stay alive!"
Kou Zishu was flattered. She had seen with her own eyes that the cat in the painting subdued the ghost that almost killed itself with one claw. This must be a very powerful and precious thing.
"This is too expensive, I can't accept it!" Kou Zishu subconsciously wanted to refuse.
"Just keep it if I tell you to. It's not Chinese New Year and you don't want the red envelope. Isn't your life more important than it? I drew it specially for you. By the way, do you have any money on you?" Xia Yingnuan turned into nothingness so that Kou Zishu couldn't touch her and couldn't return it.
"Money...cash? I'll bring some with me." Kou Zishu took out two bright red banknotes.
"Lend it to me for a while, I'll return it to you later!" Xia Yingnuan took the money and disappeared.
"No need to return it..." Kou Zishu's voice still couldn't catch up with Xia Yingnuan's speed.
"Crack." There was a sound like a dry branch being stepped on and Kou Zishu almost jumped up like a cat with its fur standing on end.
It was just dawn when a figure in a windbreaker stood in the distance.
That’s right, it’s indeed this!
This was truly the most embarrassing moment in her life, and it was all thanks to her own parents.
She still clearly remembers that day when her mother suddenly called her, her anxious words so unclear that she thought something had happened to the old man, so she hurriedly asked for leave from school and ran back.
After she came back, the old man sat calmly on the sofa and told her that there was a problem in his company, and then asked her to prepare to get married.
Moreover, the man she married was not a good one, but a lecherous old man who could be her father. In order to prevent her from escaping, they even locked her in a room and waited for the marriage, and even discussed giving her leave of absence from school.
The feeling of being betrayed by her family made her confused, but Xia Yingnuan refused to accept her fate. She gritted her teeth and jumped down from the second floor. She accidentally sprained her ankle, and then she struggled to climb up the wall. She was frightened by the shouting of the nagging aunt hired by their family, and she fell directly from the wall, injured all over. She looked really embarrassed.
Fortunately, she met her senior at that time. Originally, Xia Yingnuan didn't want to cry in the street in such a shameful way, but when she saw the person coming, she couldn't hold back her tears and screamed "Wow". She can still remember the senior's helpless and nervous look at that time, and she couldn't speak clearly.
Now that I think about it, I wasn't the only one who was embarrassed at that time.
Xia Yingnuan moved. In this dream, she seemed to have replaced herself and lost her ability as a ghost and could not float. In other words, she was really trapped on the wall!
It seems that I will be embarrassed in my dream again. Xia Yingnuan sighed and counted to ten silently.
"Nuannuan?" Ning Hanqi's voice, slightly shocked and nervous, came from under the outer wall.
"Senior!" Xia Yingnuan turned her head slightly and revealed a smile that was uglier than crying.
So the senior sister’s sweet dream was the two most embarrassing moments in her life?
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"Don't move!" Ning Hanqi's heart was in a knot, fearing that this little ancestor would toss him so hard that he would accidentally fall down.
She put down her bag, took a running start, and used the fulcrum to flip directly over the wall, then jumped down holding Xia Yingnuan.
"Wow..." Xia Yingnuan made an admiring sound. She had heard that her senior sister was quite skilled before, but this was the first time she saw it!
"What are you talking about? Do you know how dangerous that was?" Ning Hanqi frowned. In the company, this look would definitely make all the employees tremble with fear, but in front of Xia Yingnuan, who was spoiled by her, it didn't have any deterrent effect at all.
Not only did Xia Yingnuan smile without any remorse, she even dared to reach out and rub Ning Hanqi's face, "Senior, don't be angry, smile~"
Ning Hanqi put her down in a bad mood. As soon as Xia Yingnuan's defenseless foot touched the ground, she jumped up in pain.
Xia Yingnuan cried out in pain and fell directly onto Ning Hanqi again. Wasn't this a dream? Why could she still feel pain?
"What's wrong with your foot?" Ning Hanqi then discovered that Xia Yingnuan's ankle was swollen like a big bun.
"I accidentally sprained my ankle while jumping out of the window." Xia Yingnuan confessed honestly.
"...They locked you up?" He had to jump out the window instead of going through the main door of his own home. Ning Hanqi couldn't think of any other reason besides being restricted in his personal freedom. Add to that the information she had just found out...
"Do you want to go home with your senior?" At least at this time, Nuannuan cannot be handed over to her parents. Ning Hanqi's expression darkened, and anger brewed in his heart.
"Yes!" Xia Yingnuan was waiting for this sentence, and she agreed before Ning Hanqi finished speaking.
After being taken back to the home where she lived for three years, Ning Hanqi asked a family doctor to treat Xia Yingnuan's feet, while Xia Yingnuan was thinking about how to talk to her senior about that serious topic.
"Nuannuan, I... heard about your family's situation, so, so..." After sending the family doctor away, Ning Hanqi hesitated outside the door for a long time with a document in her hand. She was always the calmest and best at hiding her emotions, but nervousness appeared on her face. Only after she was mentally prepared did she open the door and walk in.
Xia Yingnuan was not unfamiliar with this document. After reading it, her senior sister proposed the marriage agreement. However, she was shocked, scared and uncomfortable at the time and did not notice the expression on the senior sister's face when she handed the document to her.
This time the dream replayed the scene of that day. She had thought that the senior sister should be confident and calm, and would not change her expression even if Mount Tai collapsed before her eyes. However, it was through the dream that she saw the uneasiness and nervousness in the senior sister's eyes.
Xia Yingnuan suddenly had a thought in her mind: if she rejected her senior sister at this time, would she cry?
Ahem, she was just joking.
The others were a little more restrained, but Old Man Shan didn't give his eldest granddaughter any face. After being reminded, he simply stopped pretending and started chatting with Ning Hanqi about family matters. He didn't know the relationships between young people, so he tried to introduce some of the more promising grandchildren to her.
"Grandpa, grandpa!" Shan Yun drove the wheelchair like a speeding car, and instantly appeared beside her dear grandpa and covered his mouth. Is that something she could say casually? "It's already late, grandpa, go back to sleep!"
Although Lao Xia was not around, she just felt the air temperature around her suddenly drop, which was definitely not caused by natural factors! !
"Wait! Why are you so reckless? Grandpa hasn't finished what he wants to say!"
How dare they let the old man finish his words? Shan Yun was ready to come over and coax the old man back, but this time the old man really had something serious to say.
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