Chapter 21 Who is Dai Qing
After returning home, Jun Lan tentatively asked during dinner, "Has anyone heard of the name Dai Qing?"
Old Lin said with a sullen face, "I've never heard of it. Why are you asking this? It's already this late. Do you still have the nerve to try to be my relative? My relatives and friends have laughed me to pieces. Now I don't even dare to leave the house. It's all because of you, this evil person."
Aunt Lin quickly gave Lao Lin a wink, but Lao Lin didn't appreciate it.
"How come I'm wrong?"
Aunt Lin: "She doesn't want to either."
"What do you mean by not wanting to? I think she asked for it."
Jun Lan knew that she was annoying Lao Lin, so she could only eat a few mouthfuls of food in a hurry and go back to her room.
She thought as if she had really seen Daiqing there, and as she was thinking about it, she fell asleep on the table again.
In her dream, she heard a voice saying to her, "Return to your hometown and find the pestle, the pestle..."
"And then? And then, don't leave..."
She suddenly opened her eyes and woke up.
"What is the demon-subduing pestle?" She casually opened Baidu on her mobile phone and looked it up.
"Oh, so this is what it is. It shouldn't be hard to find."
There was a "bang" sound. It turned out that her elbow accidentally knocked the photo frame on the table to the ground.
As she hurriedly picked up the photo frame, an idea suddenly occurred to her.
"Isn't it easiest to trace your roots by looking for clues in old photos?"
Junlan's innate unyielding spirit revived once again. She didn't care that it was two o'clock in the morning and ran to the TV cabinet in the living room where old photos were stored to search through all the boxes for photos.
After searching for about half an hour, she finally found the photo of Daiqing among a pile of old photos. Although the photo had turned yellow and half of it had faded, Jun Lan still recognized it at a glance because of the exquisite makeup and elegant cheongsam.
At this time, Lao Lin and his wife, who were sleeping in the room, were awakened by the noise in the living room and hurried out. When they saw that it was his unfilial daughter who was up late at night looking through photos, Lao Lin said angrily, "I thought our house was robbed, but it turned out to be you. Are you possessed by evil spirits or a ghost? Why are you up late at night looking through photos? If you don't sleep, we have to sleep too!"
"Dad, don't interrupt, let's get down to business. Do you know this person?"
Lao Lin went back to his room, put on his reading glasses and looked at the photo carefully.
"No, old woman, do you know her?"
Aunt Lin took the photo and looked at it for a long time, then shook her head and said, "I don't know him."
Lao Lin: "That's strange. If you don't know her, where did you get her photo?"
For a moment, the three people present fell into silence.
Looking at the new and old photo albums on the ground, Aunt Lin seemed to have discovered a new world.
"Which photo album did you find this photo from?"
Jun Lan pointed to a yellowed photo album on the ground with a peacock embroidered in gold thread and said, "Here, this is it."
"That's right, this woman is most likely a relative of your father's."
Lao Lin: "How can you be so sure? I don't even have any impression of this photo album."
"Of course you don't remember. When Mom passed away, you brothers split up the family property and no one wanted this album. I thought the peacock was pretty beautiful, and the gold thread might be worth a few bucks, maybe even an antique, so I brought it back."
Jun Lan: "Hasn't our family always been in City Z?"
Aunt Lin: "You've lived here since you were born, but your father is from Shandong."
Jun Lan's heart trembled. If she went back to her hometown to find the Demon-Subduing Pestle, wouldn't that mean she had to go back to Shandong? This was really getting more and more troublesome.
Jun Lan: "Dad, do you really have no impression of this woman at all?"
Lao Lin: "No, then no. How many times do you want me to tell you that you stay up in the middle of the night with a rubbish photo and ask me if I know a strange woman? You are crazy to this extent. I really admire you." After saying that, he went back to his room to sleep.
Aunt Lin said to Junlan who was still in a daze, "You should go to bed quickly too. Don't make your dad angry anymore. You have to go to work early tomorrow morning! We can talk about it tomorrow if there is anything." She yawned and went back to her room to sleep.
Jun Lan looked at the woman in the photo and said to herself, "It seems that if I want to know your origins, I must go back to my father's hometown in Shandong."
The next morning, Junlan, who had not slept well the night before, appeared in front of Lihua listlessly.
"Hey, what's going on? Did you steal last night?"
"You may not believe me, but I'm worse off than a thief."
"Huh" Jun Lan seemed to remember something.
"Why isn't the security guy from yesterday here today? I promised to treat him to two big bowls of wonton noodles today."
"Don't you know? Our boss Nangong Yu's female assistant has gone missing. Little Mouse has been assisting the police in finding her these past few days! The most amazing thing is that this time, the boss has been alarmed. I heard that he has to come back in person in a few days to investigate the matter."
"Nangong Yu is the owner of Room 666. How come you came a few months earlier than me and never met him in person?"
"I've only been here a few months and I'm already wanting to meet him in person—what a joke! Old employees like Li Yu and Ji Zhen, who've been here for over a decade, probably haven't seen him many times. They said he didn't even come to the annual meeting. All the big things here are handled by Situ Andy. This time, this female assistant, Liu Xi, must have gotten into some serious trouble that necessitated the boss's personal intervention."
"How can a living person just disappear like that?"
"How do I know? Didn't Little Mouse go to help the police find her? The hotel has so many surveillance cameras, as long as she's still here, we'll definitely find her."
"Do you have a photo of her? We all work in the hotel, maybe I might see her someday!"
Lihua opened her phone and flipped through it a few times before saying, "She's from the Human Resources Department. That's her."
Jun Lan nearly vomited blood when she saw the person on the screen. She said in astonishment, "What a coincidence! I've actually seen her. I bumped into this person on my first day at work, went to the wrong sixth floor, and I never saw her again. I thought she was a guest."
"Hearing you mention it, I'm starting to remember a little bit. I haven't seen her for several days. I thought she was on a business trip, but I didn't expect she was missing."
Everything happened so fast that Jun Lan was a little confused. But then she thought, wasn't this exactly what she wanted? Wouldn't the more chaotic the hotel, the more opportunities it would give Jun Lan to get closer to room 666?
Although Jun Lan laughed secretly in her heart, she was also quite worried about the missing female assistant, because it was that unpleasant encounter that made her feel that Liu Xi was definitely not a bad person, so her disappearance for no reason must be due to some huge conspiracy.
Since the security guard has been assisting the police in their investigation, he must know a lot of inside information. When the time comes, ask him and you might get a lot of explosive news!
It was time for dinner again without any incident. When Junlan arrived at the cafeteria, the security guard was wolfing down his lunch.
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