freeallnovels Chapter 3733 Secret Room?
Chapter 3733 Secret Room?
Chapter 3733 Secret Room?
"You guys are really... messing around!"
Old man Li slammed the table heavily.
In the corner of the canteen, besides Ah Bang, there were two gardeners who did odd jobs at the welfare home. At this time, the three of them lowered their heads and dared not say a word.
Due to the heavy rain, the two gardeners and handymen did not go home tonight... But for this man with a rich nightlife, it was too hard to stay in a small rest room during a power outage.
So the two bored gardeners decided to make a midnight snack - free-range chicken hotpot would be best!
But neither of them wants to kill chickens late at night, so what should we do?
Isn’t there a hardworking and conscientious person in the hospital?
It's done!
So the two gardeners used the excuse that the dean was ill and that stewing chicken soup for him would help him get better quickly, and asked Ah Bang to go to the chicken coop late at night to catch chickens and then slaughter them!
They picked some greens, bean sprouts and so on from the vegetable garden... The charcoal stove for hot pot was already lit, and they were just waiting for Ah Bang to come back from killing the chicken.
"Uncle Li, it's not that serious! A chicken isn't worth that much... At most, they can just deduct it from our wages, it's not a big deal. We're just bored, we just want to have a few drinks." Gardener Jia Han licked his cheeks and said, "How about we go together? I finally got the stove lit!"
"Get lost!" Uncle Li said angrily, "I have no objection to what you want to do, but it is wrong for you to deceive Ah Bang and instruct him like this. You should have some conscience!"
The two of them kept silent, they felt good about the scolding... The salary at the welfare home is quite good in the local area, and the daily routine is easy, which is better than the pile of troubles at home.
This old man Li is one of the most senior people in the hospital. They will gain nothing by going against him.
"Next time, next time for sure... Oh, there won't be a next time, we promise!" Gardener Yi Han said quickly, "We'll save half of this chicken to stew for the dean... I'll stew it! I promise it'll be ready at dawn and I'll deliver it personally!"
"You are the best!" Old man Li snorted coldly.
He had scolded them enough, but he couldn't just fire these two people... This matter still had to be decided by the dean. Old man Li could only do this much. After condemning them a few more times, he took Ah Bangge and Luo Qiu back to the kitchen.
The two gardener buddies glanced at each other at this time.
"How to fix it?"
"Let's eat... the food is ready, we have to make it, so who cares?"
"Hey, come on, fix it!"
……
"Why don't you go wipe your face? What are you standing there for?"
Looking at Brother Ah Bang who was standing there at a loss, Old Man Li looked as if he was disappointed in his friend.
Then I saw Ah Bang silently picked up the rag and started wiping his face.
Old man Li was both angry and amused. He reached out and snatched the rag from him. "You idiot, even if you wash it by hand, it's better than using this rag. Are you stupid?"
"hey-hey……"
Ah Bang then fetched some water in a basin, walked to the side and started washing his face - this time he did use cleaning tools, but he used detergent.
Seeing this, Old Man Li put two big white steamed buns, a small dish of pickles and some white porridge in a bowl and put it in front of Brother Ah Bang. "Eat it, and then go to sleep. Don't hang out with those two guys too much in the future. Don't do anything you think is wrong!"
"oh oh!"
Then I saw Ah Bangge picked up the food, ran to the threshold of the kitchen door, squatted down and started to wolf it down.
At this time, Luo Qiu also packed some midnight snacks to comfort Zi Ling's mother.
He glanced at Ah Bang who was eating happily, thought for a moment and said, "How long has he been in the welfare home?"
"Two years...almost three years, right?" Old Man Li thought for a moment and said, "Do you know where Ah Bang came from?"
"I've heard a little bit." Luo Qiu said casually, "Not much."
"This is a child with a miserable life. A flash flood took away everything at home." Old man Li shook his head. "It's a pity that Ah Bang is too old. We can't raise him like a child. So we can only let him do some work here and provide him with food and shelter."
Luo Qiu nodded. "It's getting late. I'll send some food over first. Old sir, you should also go to bed early."
Old man Li opened his mouth with an expression that seemed to be unsatisfied, but he had no choice but to give up.
When walking past Ah Bangge, Luo Qiu suddenly said, "In fact, considering the dean's current condition, it is more appropriate for him to eat lighter food. If you are interested, you might as well make some vegetable porridge."
Ah Bang, with his mouth full of steamed buns, raised his head subconsciously when he heard this.
Luo Qiu smiled and said, "But let's wait until the rain stops. After all, if you get caught in the rain too much, you'll get sick."
"Oh oh..."
After bidding farewell to Old Man Li and Brother Ah Bang, Luo Qiu carried the incubator and walked back the way he came. When he passed the corridor, the three spirits that were different from the other deceased children appeared again.
"If you hadn't said anything to me..." Luo Qiu didn't even look back at them, "then I wouldn't have done anything either."
They were motionless.
The rain hit their bodies violently and penetrated them easily... like a thin layer of mist, they gradually dissipated in the mist.
"There's too much thunder tonight, so let's stop fighting." Luo Qiu said calmly.
There was a flash of lightning in the sky...and then there was no thunder.
……
……
"I'm sorry, Sister Tiantian. I didn't know I would scare you."
"……fine."
Cha Tiantian pinched her eyebrows subconsciously, and when she was reaching for the key, she was suddenly grabbed by a hand. She almost flew into the sky on the spot. Only after she saw clearly that the person coming was Zhang Lan did she breathe a sigh of relief.
——Being so timid, am I such a failure as an adult... Will these little brats look down on me?
Cha Tiantian's mind was in a mess under the light, "What... do you want to talk to me about?"
"I...I'm a little scared." Zhang Lan begged, "Sister Tiantian, can I sleep here tonight?"
"It's not in your room..." Cha Tiantian opened his mouth subconsciously, then reacted, "Oh, that's right, the kid who shared a room with you moved out after he graduated and was admitted to a university in another city... You sleep alone now."
"I... I can't sleep." Zhang Lan looked like she was about to cry. "As soon as I closed my eyes, I seemed to be able to see Brother Yu's appearance. He looked so miserable, and was covered in blood... I was so scared!"
Cha Tiantian hugged Zhang Lan and said, "It's okay. We haven't found him yet. Maybe Chen Yu is lucky and not injured. He just couldn't find the way back...Okay, you can stay at my place tonight."
"Thank you, Sister Tiantian." Zhang Lan nodded meekly.
Cha Tiantian started to wash up. Before entering the bathroom, he looked back at the silent Zhang Lan and couldn't help but sigh... The emotions between the children who grew up together in this welfare home are very complicated.
They are like friends and family. If some other unusual feelings develop between them, it will be even more complicated... From my impression, Chen Yu and Zhang Lan seem to be quite close?
She quickly finished washing up, and when she came out, Zhang Lan was already curled up on the bed, leaning against the wall and fell asleep... Seeing this, Cha Tiantian had no choice but to gently put Zhang Lan on the bed and covered her with a quilt.
"Chen Yu... where are you... please stop playing..."
Whispering in a dream.
Cha Tiantian couldn't help but smile bitterly. It looked like they were really in love.
She shook her head and walked to the desk beside her and sat down. She just opened her laptop, connected her mobile phone, and was about to use the hotspot when she hesitated.
"never mind."
Cha Tiantian let out a sigh, quickly closed the computer, turned off the gas lamp, and lay down on the edge of the bed - apart from the sound of rain and Zhang Lan's breathing, there seemed to be no thunder.
……
……
Just as I was about to knock on the door, the door of the dean's office opened instantly - and Li Zi's sparkling eyes appeared.
"I heard footsteps!" Li Zi said with a smile.
Luo Qiu also said to Li Zi in a friendly manner: "Late night delivery, meat buns are okay?"
Li Zi said sternly: "Please beat me like a dog!"
Regardless of whether this canine transformation is proper or not... Luo Qiu has come in anyway.
"Sister Ren has been sleeping for a while, let's not wake her up, okay?" Li Zi whispered, "She must be tired today."
Luo Qiu put the incubator down, glanced at Zi Ling's mother, and said nothing. He then looked around the dean's office. Li Zi had already opened the incubator impatiently, "Wow, it's still hot!"
She took a bite directly, her mouth bulging as she asked, "Where are Miss Youye and Baizhi? Are they asleep?"
"It should be." Luo Qiu nodded, picked up the pear and placed it on the tablet on the coffee table to read. "You are looking for old news. It seems to be local news here."
Lizi nodded. "Sister Ren heard that three children were missing from the welfare home this year. She felt something was a little strange, so she asked me to look up some information and related reports... But I didn't find anything useful. My tablet and phone are running out of battery, and my power bank can't hold up."
Luo Qiu reached into his pocket and took out a power bank.
"Thank you!" Li Zi took it happily. "Although I didn't find anything substantial, I did find a missing person notice. It turned out to be the same person as one of the three children who went missing from the orphanage."
"Is this a missing person notice issued by the welfare home?"
"That should be the missing persons notice for all three children." Li Zi shook her head, "But only the nine-year-old child... and it wasn't issued by the welfare home. The contact information was a woman named Mu... That's it, take a look."
Li Zi opened the photo album on her phone and showed Luo Qiu a screenshot.
She thought for a moment and said, "I was wondering if this Miss Mu was someone the child knew, or a relative... But if she had any relatives, she wouldn't have to live in an orphanage, right?"
Luo Qiu took a picture from Li Zi's phone and said, "Maybe you can wait until tomorrow to ask the nurses here."
"This is the only way." Li Zi nodded and subconsciously reached for the thermal box. Finding that there was only one bun left, she closed the thermal box awkwardly.
Zi Ling's mother was sleeping soundly at the moment. Although the two men spoke in a low voice, which was normal, they did not wake her up.
Li Zi glanced at Luo Qiu secretly, and when she was about to say something, Luo Qiu suddenly walked to the bookcase nearby.
"Maybe we don't have to wait until tomorrow." He pulled out a thick book from the bookcase.
"Oh, that's right! The roster!" Li Zi suddenly realized.
The columns on the cabinet were all rosters compiled by year, making them very convenient to search... Therefore, Li Zi immediately took the roster from Luo Qiu and started searching.
At the same time, Luo Qiu picked up another very old booklet and began to flip through it.
Soon.
"Found it, Jingjing... This is the child!" Li Zi's fingers slid across the roster. "Let me take a look. It says here that Jingjing was four years old when she was admitted to the hospital. Five years ago... She was abandoned at the door of the orphanage. There was only an envelope with her name and birthday, and three thousand yuan... That was it. There wasn't even a last name... Isn't this too irresponsible?"
"Maybe it's to avoid being found." Luo Qiu thought for a moment and said.
Li Zi pondered and said, "Could it be that Ms. Mu, who posted the missing person notice, is Jingjing's relative or something like that... or even her mother? Could it be that she has been secretly paying attention to Jingjing's growth?"
Luo Qiu said: "As expected of a news reporter, you have a good imagination."
"Hey..." Li Zi scratched her head shyly.
Luo Qiu said at this time: "But this Ms. Mu didn't seem to have been searching for too long."
Lizi nodded. "Yes, I found this missing person photo, but I couldn't find any other information about this woman... Did she give up?"
"You can call and ask according to the contact information."
"Then we can only wait until tomorrow." Li Zi shook her head, then curiously leaned over to look at the roster in Luo Qiu's hand, "This is Sister Ren's..."
She subconsciously glanced at Luo Qiu, and felt her heart suddenly tremble at this moment, as if she had an indescribable sense of fear... Li Zi instinctively shrank her neck.
"S-Sorry, I didn't know..."
"It doesn't matter." Luo Qiu smiled slightly.
Li Zi only felt that the inexplicable chill in her heart seemed to be melted away by the spring breeze. She was lost in Luo Qiu's smile at this moment... and felt that she could no longer think.
"It's not a secret to put it here." Luo Qiu said casually, and put the roster back. He glanced at Ren Ziling, "Besides, she never cares about others knowing her past."
"That's right..." Li Zi nodded and hurried back to the sofa and sat down. Her whole body was tense and her mind was going through ups and downs like a roller coaster.
—Shit, this Xiao Luo can’t be some kind of innate succubus body, I can’t bear to watch this any longer… If you continue to watch, your hundreds of years of innocence will be at stake, Zhu Li!
Although...Li Zi still chose to continue peeking.
It seems like the fatal attraction of the magnetic field of life.
Just when Li Zi was in a daze, a bang suddenly came from the small room in the office...it was particularly loud.
Zi Ling's mother was suddenly awakened.
When she opened her eyes suddenly, she saw her big son at first sight. After being stunned for a moment, she quickly ran to the inner room, "Old woman, are you okay?"
……
The dean woke up and just accidentally knocked over the glass of water.
"Why don't you turn on the light?"
"The wires outside may have been broken." Zi Ling's mother shook her head and helped the dean sit up. "How do you feel?"
The dean suddenly asked, "Girl, what time is it now?"
"Ah?" Zi Ling's mother was stunned, and subconsciously took out her cell phone to take a look, "It's almost two in the morning, it's still early... Can you still sleep? Sleep a little longer?"
"No." The dean frowned, as if he wanted to stand up, but he had no strength and sat down again.
"Hey, just tell me what you are going to do and don't move, okay?" Zi Ling's mother said unhappily.
The dean was silent for a moment before he said, "Then help me. I want to go somewhere."
"Where are you going at this late hour?" Zi Ling's mother asked angrily, "Don't you care about your body?"
"Will you help me? If you don't, I'll go by myself..."
"I'm afraid of you!" Zi Ling's mother heaved a heavy sigh, but still helped the dean stand up, "Where are you going?"
"Storage room."
Zi Ling's mother couldn't help but be stunned.
……
The storage room is also in the same building as the dean's office, but strictly speaking, it should be a basement filled with miscellaneous items... When I opened the door, a stale smell wafted in.
Zi Ling's mother used her palm to shake off the dust and asked, "What are you looking for?"
The dean was sitting on a wooden box, panting a little. She slowly pointed to the corner where some picture frames and drawing boards were placed. "Move those things away first, then take this key and open the door."
As she spoke, she tremblingly took out a key from a small pocket sewn inside her clothes.
Zi Ling's mother couldn't help but be stunned, and subconsciously looked at Luo Qiu and Li Zi who were traveling with her.
Seeing this, Luo Qiu took the initiative to walk over and clear away the debris in the corner... He did find a door, but it was a floor door with a small keyhole.
"There's actually a hidden basement here?" Zi Ling's mother was immediately shocked and looked at the dean in disbelief. "Old woman, you actually kept it from me for so long... What's down there?"
"You'll know when you go down." The dean sighed, "Hurry up... time is almost up!"