Chapter 9 Newspaper Clippings

"Mom, aren't you asleep yet?" Qin Yu put down the water glass and looked at Qin Peihan with some surprise.

"Well, I went for a walk for a while and just came back." Qin Peihan walked towards her.

Qin Yu opened his mouth: "It's so late, are you still going for a walk?"

"I can't sleep, I'm too obsessed with thinking about you two siblings." Qin Peihan said with a self-deprecating smile.

"I'm sorry, Mom, for making you worry." Qin Yu apologized to her guiltily.

"Xiao Yu, in fact, my mother understands what you have encountered." Qin Peihan pulled her to sit down. "You are about to graduate, so I shouldn't care about you so much. But Xiao Yu , do you know why mother is so opposed to you intervening in your curiosity?"

Qin Yu shook his head: "I don't know."

"Because your biological father was killed like this. So Xiao Yu, mom can't just watch you in the whirlpool, but still stand by and do nothing." Qin Peihan held her hand tightly and said seriously .

"My biological father was killed? But didn't you say... So you came to my room last night, right? This is not my dream!" Qin Yu stuttered with excitement.

Qin Peihan closed his eyes and seemed to be seriously thinking about the past.

"At that time, a shocking case occurred in Jiangcheng. Many police officers were busy working on it, but they could never find the answer. I only remember that it was a dark cloudy day, and the sea that day was full of strange dead birds. .And your father also disappeared without a trace in that case."

"So my father just disappeared, right?" Qin Yu seemed to see a glimmer of hope.

Qin Peihan slowly shook his head: "The investigators at the time said that your father slipped and fell into the sea. But how could he slip and fall into the sea after working as a tower guard for so many years? But the police opened a three-day and two-night investigation. The science and technology of that era was not as advanced as it is now. After several rounds of searching, we still found no results, and your father did not come back."

"He loves the sea so much, and he loves the work of guarding the tower so much. If he just disappeared and left, he will definitely come back. But over the years, I have asked friends in Jiangcheng to help inquire several times, but there is no news about your father. Come to think of it, he must have returned to the sea like those birds, right?" Qin Peihan said, taking out a newspaper clipping with a sense of time from his pocket, "This is a record of the time. Tonight I Suddenly I remembered it, so I took it out for a walk, wondering if I could recall any key information."

When Qin Yu saw this, he immediately took the newspaper clipping carefully: "Is this the 'Lighthouse Bluebird Case' in Jiangcheng?"

The Lighthouse Bluebird Case occurred in the 1990s. It is said that at that time, Jiangcheng, which had not snowed for a long time, received an unprecedented heavy snowfall. Several bluebirds escaped the blizzard, but they could not escape that disaster. Although local police officers have tried their best to investigate the truth behind the death of Blue Bird, the circumstances are still unclear.

This large-scale death of bluebirds is also a tragedy that the locals have not seen in decades.

"Yes, because the dead birds are all green, for the convenience of people's records, they are collectively called 'blue birds'. And your father, on the day of the incident, received a letter from an unknown source. I went to deliver food to him at that time , I heard him mention it accidentally. But we all thought it might be someone's prank, so we didn't pay attention. Because there was only one word written in the letter." Qin Peihan stopped here.

When Qin Yu heard this, his breathing suddenly stagnated.

She seemed to...guess what the word was.