Xia Yuzhen slowly raised her eyelids and glanced at her coldly.
"Can't find it."
"lost."
"Been missing for seven days."
There was no ripple on his wrinkled face, as if he was talking about an insignificant person.
Zhuli's heart fell to the bottom but hope rose up, and she threw away the hand holding her collar.
"Then why did you say she was dead!"
Lifting her feet to cross the threshold, she wanted to find her by herself.
"Don't go, just treat her as dead."
Xia Yuzhen's face turned pale, and she spat out these words feebly.
Zhuli was indifferent, with a dead silence on his face.
As long as there is a glimmer of hope, she will not give up, and will not give up on her only relative.
It started to rain at some point, the winter rain mixed with mist swaying in the cold wind.
Thin raindrops gently fell on her hair and shoulders. She crossed her arms and quickened her pace.
"Aunt Zhang, have you seen our Suisui family?"
She knocked twice on the door panel with her fisted hand, and she was greeted only by the dull sound of raindrops.
Zhuli wiped the rain off her face and found a corner to sit down in despair.
The rain streaking across the phone screen coincides with three o'clock in the morning.
She didn't want to disturb Aunt Zhang, she was afraid that she would be anxious too.
But she asked many people but there was no news about Suisui. She really didn't know what to do.
The raindrops are like silver needles falling on any part of the body, causing heart-piercing pain.
Leaning against the wall, she closed her eyes in a daze.
In the darkness, she saw her father asking her why she didn't take good care of her sister.
Zhuli woke up again when she was woken up by the ringing of her cell phone in her pocket.
I felt chills all over as soon as I moved, and I sneezed several times before I managed to recover.
"Hello?"
The hoarse voice through the receiver made the man anxious.
"Where are you?"
After a few seconds of silence, Jing Huaizhi asked softly.
After hearing the man's clean voice and caring tone coming from the receiver, she couldn't hold back any longer.
Almost crying, she told him that she tried hard but couldn't find her.
"I, I tried really hard, but I still can't find her..."
"If I had cared more about her, she wouldn't have abandoned me."
"I'm still late. Do you think she is angry with me and is hiding from me on purpose..."
Zhuli collapsed to the ground, her fingernails deeply embedded in the gaps between the wall tiles, and she refused to let go until she turned her fingernails over completely and started bleeding.
Tears kept pouring out of her empty eyes. If something happened to her sister, she would not forgive herself.
There was no response from the cell phone held to her ear for a long time, and she seemed to realize that her behavior was very inappropriate.
He hung down as if resigned to his fate.
This is her family matter, why should she bother him.
However, in just a moment, someone hugged his shoulder.
The heavy breathing wrapped her tightly like a down quilt.
The hot fingertips brushed away the tears from the corners of her eyes with heat.
"it's not your fault."
The man pressed against her tightly, and the warmth from his body temporarily warmed her up.
"You go and get some sleep first, and I'll help you find her."
Jing Huaizhi looked at her deeply and took out a band-aid from his pocket to temporarily treat her wound.
"I can't sleep, I have to go find her."
Zhuli struggled to stand up from the ground.
squeak-
Aunt Zhang opened the door and saw Zhuli soaked in water outside the door, and the man squatting next to her.
"Pear, when did you come?"
"Why didn't you call me? Look at how you..."
When his eyes moved to Jing Huaizhi, who had a gentle temperament, he paused.
He pulled Zhuli over, and when he spoke again, his tone was not as friendly as usual.
"This is our Lizi's family matter, so I won't bother this gentleman."
"Pear, come in and talk."
After saying that, Aunt Zhang tried to close the door but was held by a protruding hand.
"Her business is my business."
The man's undisguised voice echoed in the ethereal rain.
"There is a body beside the shallow pond. Do you want to go and take a look?"
Just when Aunt Zhang was about to refute him, Village Chief Zhang stood behind them with a tired face.
Zhuli suddenly rushed out and almost fell.
But she couldn't care less.
Silently praying in my heart that it wasn't her.
A cordon was set up near the pond, and under the protection of the police, Zhuli tremblingly opened the white cloth covering the body.
The corpse was soaked in the river water, and she couldn't help retching.
He turned his face and continued scanning, remaining silent for a few minutes.
She calmly stood up and shook her head at the police: "No, she is not my sister."
"thank you all."
Zhuli bowed to them, but the steps he took were like stepping on clouds, every step was unreal.
If it's not Suisui, then where on earth is she going?
She walked further and further, and she didn't even know where she was.
Where is the end of the road?
Finally, she lost her strength and fell down.
"Pear, why don't you look for me?"
"She had been missing for a week before you came back, and the teacher said she was not at school."
"Probably abducted..."
"Pear, please forgive me."
...
When I opened my eyes again, the surrounding environment was very unfamiliar.
She raised her hands and covered her ears, trying to resist everyone's persuasion.
"woke up?"
The man got up from the sofa and sat down on the edge of the bed.
Zhuli's eyes were filled with tears but she couldn't shed them.
"Is there any news about my sister?"
She asked vaguely, but she didn't want to trouble him.
Once the seeds of this contradiction are planted in the heart, they will quickly take root and sprout.
Jing Huaizhi said nothing and raised his hand to tidy up her messy hair.
"Don't worry, I have sent many people to look for him. There should be news soon."
"sorry to bother you."
Zhuli's eyes became more and more hollow, and he was running back and forth about her affairs for a long time.
She knew that a family like hers would drag him down sooner or later, which was why she had been reluctant to mention her family members other than Suisui to him.
Last time on his birthday, he barely revealed a few words in order to explain.
The man frowned and stared at her in confusion.
What is she saying?
trouble?
The palm he had just lowered wanted to pinch her chin again, wanting to ask her carefully what was causing trouble.
"Boss, the company is so busy, you should go back first."
Zhuli lifted the quilt and lowered his eyes.
"I can do it alone. If I really can't handle it, I'll call you."
The look in his lowered eyes was dark and unclear.
The fingers raised in the air paused for a few seconds, and then the chin was pinched and lifted.
"Bamboo pear."
Jing Huaizhi called her name with a half-smile.
Zhuli's back suddenly stiffened, and her intuition told her that nothing good would happen every time he called her full name.
"Um."
A thick sound came from the nasal cavity.
He lowered the anxiety in his voice and sneered: "Who do you want to trouble?"
"Director Guan or Manager Qiao?"
A dangerous dim light flashed through his narrowed eyes.
She stared at him in shock, her expression a little erratic.
Isn't it disgusting to say that Director Guan is disgusting with her?
Or was he reminding her of something?
