Chapter 55

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe squatted at the door and chatted with his grandfather for a while, understanding roughly what happened yesterday from his perspective.

Around seven o'clock this morning, his grandfather returned from night fishing at the reservoir. From far away, he saw a large group of people gathered at Bishuiwan. Bright yellow warning tape was pulled along the shore, police and reporters were all on the scene, and ambulances were parked on the periphery. Many family members who came to claim the bodies gathered on the stone steps by the shore. Staff were handling procedures for them, and many of them came too hurriedly, forgetting to bring their household registration books and identity documents, so they had to run back home to get them.

His grandfather asked around and found out that it was the manor's underground cables that leaked electricity, killing quite a few people.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's grandfather is a very traditional Chinese patriarch. His ancestors suffered a lot from landlords, so he has always held a natural hostility toward this luxurious project built on the edge of the town, especially believing that such a large-scale project would affect the water quality of the Tao River, thereby causing him to catch nothing while fishing.

So regarding this safety accident, his grandfather held a somewhat gloating mentality, just waiting to see the boss behind the manor investigated. It would be even better if he could see him fined and jailed on the news... until a neighbor he knew came over and told him, "Old man, stop laughing. Look at that one inside, doesn't he look like your grandson?" His smile then froze on his face.

Later things were nothing much. After the doctor checked his body, Feng Yushu drove to help his grandfather send Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe back home, leaving Bai Zhi to watch over him, while she returned to the crime scene to cooperate with the investigation.

Of course, her identity is not suitable to appear on public camera, so the person who accepted the news interview was Tian Chengyun.

So last night's incident was reported as a safety accident... Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe took out his phone and searched for related reports, finally letting his gaze linger on the footage of Tian Chengyun being interviewed.

"Tian Chengyun?" Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe frowned. He knew Tian Chengyun; to be precise, Old Li knew him.

Both Old Li and Tian Chengyun were lucky ones who happened to break through some rules during the escape process. Xie Yaoan and Liu Yunzhi were too, but among the 4, only Xie Yaoan and Tian Chengyun successfully survived; the other two had already died.

In the interview, Tian Chengyun did not mention at all that the manor was sealed by unknown means, nor did he say any words related to ghosts or strange things, just cooperating with the news report, describing last night's event as a simple safety accident.

"Tian Chengyun was silenced? By whom?" Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe became curious.

There is such a person, or an organization, who sealed the manor last night and then threw a ghost inside, just like putting an alligator gar into a pond full of koi, killing the beautiful manor until it was strewn with corpses.

After the slaughter ended, he then sealed the news, not knowing what method he used to block the mouths of the survivors represented by Tian Chengyun, disguising the whole thing as a safety accident, perfectly cleaning up the mess.

And the reason that person did this seems to be for... Zhao You.

"I say, Zhe, you didn't even tell me when you were coming back. Why did you run into the manor in the middle of the night?"

His grandfather asked while smoking: "Were you sneaking around dating a little girl, and got caught in the act by her mother in the middle of the night?"

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe was about to open his mouth to refute, but on second thought, this is also good, saving him from having to think of other ways to explain, so he asked back: "Why, are you going to catch me for puppy love?"

"Puppy love my foot. When I was your age, my child was already two years old." His grandfather looked indifferent: "But I say, why don't you look at those girls who have always been thinking of you? It turns out you have the ambition of a mythical bird, hooked a young lady from a wealthy family, and want to fly onto a branch to become a phoenix?"

"This sentence is usually used to describe a woman marrying into a wealthy family... If a man has ambition, he should leap over the dragon gate himself; relying on a woman doesn't count as ability." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe shook his head: "Don't mention that kind of thing. Modern society doesn't advocate early love and early marriage. You want to hold a great-grandson? At least wait until I reach the legal marriage age of 22."

His grandfather had an expression of 'rotten wood cannot be carved': "I'll be dead by then."

"Then I'll take your great-grandson to burn paper at your grave," Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe said.

"You brat..." His grandfather shook his head, hating that iron wouldn't become steel.

The atmosphere in backward areas is like this. Many of the female classmates in the same grade as Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe in junior high school are already mothers now. Although they aren't married yet, they can have babies first. Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe has already gotten used to this feudal and magical atmosphere.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe was arguing with his grandfather when suddenly, a soft palm reached out from behind and patted his shoulder lightly. Almost reflexively, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe subconsciously turned around, grabbed the hand on his shoulder, and was about to violently break the fair and tender wrist, but fortunately, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe looked up and found that the owner of the hand was Bai Zhi, so he didn't continue to exert force.

"What's wrong?" Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe asked softly.

Bai Zhi lowered her head and didn't speak, struggling slightly with the hand he grabbed.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe then let go, and finally heard her say in a small voice: "Mom didn't reply to my message..."

"Huh?" Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe was stunned.

She unlocked her phone and turned the screen toward this side. Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe looked up, and the last message on the chat interface was from 13 minutes ago. It was a notification Bai Zhi sent to Feng Yushu, saying that Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe had finally woken up and asking her to come over quickly.

The message Bai Zhi sent showed 'read', but until now, there was no reply.

"I just called Mom, but still no one answered." Bai Zhi said nervously: "I can't contact her anymore."

"Have you tried calling your dad's phone?" Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe asked.

"Ah... I'll try." Bai Zhi nodded and opened the dialing interface.

... So you never thought of finding your own father for help? Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe couldn't help but support his forehead.

He felt Bai Zhi's family was quite strange: a mother who didn't touch spring water with her ten fingers, a father addicted to work and completely ignoring the family, and a mentally abnormal daughter. The relationship between the three was very distant, and when they encountered problems, they didn't think of seeking help from family members; they didn't look like a family at all.

Only Auntie's maternal love for Bai Zhi could be considered somewhat like a relative.

Bai Zhi finished dialing, held the phone to her ear, and waited for a while, but the call didn't go through. She dialed again, and it was still no answer.

"How could this be?" Bai Zhi put down the phone somewhat blankly, looking at the 'power off' status displayed on the screen, feeling at a loss.

She had no choice but to walk behind Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe again and whisper: "Dad's phone can't be reached either."

The couple lost contact together? Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe was also confused now, so he asked again: "Did your mom tell you where she went?"

"She went to the hospital." Bai Zhi answered truthfully: "There was an accident at the manor yesterday. Dad was also injured at the time. Although there was no life danger, he was also hospitalized for observation. Mom went to the hospital to see him."

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's expression was strange. Her own father was injured and hospitalized, yet the daughter was guarding the bedside of a stranger?

He understood Bai Zhi's family situation even less.

"Alright then..." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe stood up: "Let's go, go to the hospital to find them."

Just in time to check what exactly happened last night.

(End of chapter)