"Sister, sister! It's time to eat, and my sister-in-law asked us to go back to the backyard to eat."
Ling Jiujiu opened her eyes, and Ling Qing's little face came into view.
It's broad daylight.
"Sister, what were you doing last night? I woke up in the middle of the night and didn't see you."
Ling Jiujiu's heart skipped a beat, and her confusion suddenly drifted out of the sky.
"When did you wake up?"
"In the middle of the night, I woke up from the cold. I touched my side, but there was no one! I thought you must have gone to the bathroom, and I said I would wait for you, but I was too sleepy, so I fell asleep while waiting."
Ling Jiujiu felt relieved. Fortunately, the girl didn't get up to look for her.
"I went to the toilet, and then I became thirsty again, so I went out to get some water."
"Let's go, wash up and eat."
Ling Qing dragged her downstairs.
Today they are going back to Anzhou City. After breakfast, grandma started loading things into their trunk, including dried beans, pumpkins, old hens, cornmeal...
She had been paying attention to Ling Guozhi's actions all morning, especially the phone calls. If nothing unexpected happened, Ling Guozhi would receive a call at noon.
At around 10 o'clock, Ling Guozhi's cell phone rang. He glanced at the screen and turned to go to the side room.
Judging from the expression, it must be Zheng Luomei calling.
Ling Jiujiu pretended to be teasing the cat and followed her. Not too far away, she could faintly hear a few words, accompanied by affection and chuckles:
"Go back after lunch... Hehe, of course... I tried it, the old lady likes it very much... Tomorrow, tomorrow at noon... You can go anywhere... Okay, it's hot, don't run away, I can go back and feed you in time ...Tsk, don't talk nonsense, it's nothing... No matter how important it is, it's not as important as you... The director is not as important as you..."
It seems that Zheng Luomei won't go to Ling's house to feed the pig-nosed turtles at noon.
That's fine.
This surprise was given to Ling Guozhi.
He originally planned to have lunch at home before leaving, but after hanging up the phone, Ling Guozhi lied and said that there was something going on at the bureau and that he would leave immediately.
The turtle is still more important than the parents.
After bidding farewell to grandma and her second uncle's family, Ling Jiujiu and Jiang Qiuying got into Ling Guozhi's car. Jiang Qiuying took the passenger seat and Ling Jiujiu sat in the back seat.
Along the way, she kept thinking, what would happen if Ling Guozhi went back and found that the money was lost?
She was 90% sure that Ling Guozhi would not call the police because the money came from improper sources.
Apart from her parents, she has the key to her house, and Zheng Luomei also has it.
Mom didn't have any suspicion, and neither did she. Zheng Luomei was the most suspicious.
She just wants to draw the fire to Zheng Luomei. Even if the couple gets together in the future, this incident will become a permanent thorn between them.
The mountain road was uneven and shaky. Ling Jiujiu didn't sleep all night, and now she fell asleep in the car. She slept soundly and didn't even dream.
When I woke up, the car was parked downstairs.
My mother's voice came to my ears:
"Jiu'er, get off the car! Wake up! We're home."
Ling Guozhi moved a box of things and had already reached the door of the building.
He anxiously went upstairs to see his pig-nosed turtle.
"Take these two light ones and let's go." Mom said, handing her a bag of dried prunes and a bag of dried mushrooms, then she carried a long pumpkin on her shoulders, and another bag of millet in her hand, and went upstairs. went.
The fun is about to begin.
Ling Guozhi stood stupidly in the middle of the room, looking at the messy home, his face turned black.
Mom put down her things and shouted in panic:
"What's going on! Why is it in such a mess? It was robbed?"
Ling Guozhi ran into the bedroom and paused slightly when he saw that the safe was still locked.
He squatted down, tremblingly flipped the combination lock, and "click", the safe door opened.
It was empty except for the keys and name stamp.
Ling Guozhi looked ashen and sat slumped on the bed.
"Is the money gone? How could there be a thief! Call the police, Guozhi, call the police! Oh, you just touched the safe. There should be fingerprints on it..."
Mom looked at the open safe and panicked.
"Shut up! You idiot!" Ling Guozhi scolded in a low voice.
Over the years, Ling Guozhi has made all the money in the family. I don’t know when he started to speak rudely to his mother. At first, her mother dared to resist, but after spending too much time with her palms facing up, she slowly started to I swallowed my anger.
After Ling Guozhi finished cursing, he picked up the phone.
Ling Jiujiu on the side suddenly panicked.
Does he want to call the police?
Fortunately, Ling Guozhi dialed a seven-digit number, not 110.
"Hao Jun... I'm at home. I just came back from the mountains. Are you busy?... I have something to do here. Can you come over?... Hey, okay, okay."
She remembered that Ling Guozhi had a cousin named Chen Haojun who worked at the police station, but he didn't have much contact with him.
Putting down the phone, Ling Guozhi walked out of the room and directed Jiang Qiuying:
"From now on, no one is allowed to clean up anything, no one is allowed to move, no one is allowed to touch anything, and the scene is protected. Hao Jun will come later, and you both said you don't know what he asked! Do you hear that?"
Ling Jiujiu's heart skipped a beat.
Ling Guozhi really dared to call the police?
With her clumsy way of committing the crime, she couldn't escape the police's eyes, and the money hadn't been dealt with yet.
If you should make a second plan, you should put the money somewhere else.
what to do?
what to do?
The air pressure at home was so low that her mother held her still and did not dare to move. Ling Guozhi had been standing on the balcony smoking and observing the situation downstairs. After more than 20 minutes, he suddenly put out his cigarette and ran towards the door. Go, when you open the door, you carefully wrap your hands with your sleeves before touching the door handle.
A middle-aged man was welcomed into his home.
