Xue Ling looked into his eyes and replied: "As early as a few years ago when I was still in Rongcheng. At that time, I went to your house as a guest, and I had a great chat with Sister Cai. She said that she lived in the east of the city, and her family name was
'Cai'. My hometown is also over there. Later I asked my father and third uncle, and they both still remembered Sister Cai. That's when I found out."
Liao Zongnan smiled darkly, as if he was laughing at himself.
"It turns out... I was the only one who didn't know until a few days ago."
Xue Ling hurriedly shook his head: "That's wrong, very few people know about this. Old Liao, you shouldn't worry about this. Think about how Sister Cai has been with you for so many years, how hard you two have worked to run this family, and how many ups and downs there are.
After all these years, this is what you should be thinking about."
"Yeah." Liao Zongnan nodded lightly.
After a while, he hurriedly left.
Xue Ling shouted: "Husband! I'm hungry! You go downstairs to buy dinner, and call A Heng and ask him to come to the hospital quickly!"
Cheng Tianyuan wiped his wet hands, raised his eyebrows suspiciously and asked, "Do you have anything to do with A Heng?"
"It's something urgent." Xue Ling said seriously: "We must find him and ask him to come to my place."
Cheng Tianyuan had no choice but to say: "Wait a minute. Mom hasn't come back yet. I'll go down again when she comes."
Xue Linghu asked: "Where did my mother go? Wasn't she still there just now?"
"I guess I went out for a walk." Cheng Tianyuan guessed: "She should be back soon."
Xue Ling said: "I'll be fine alone, you can go."
Cheng Tianyuan insisted: "It won't take more than a minute and a half."
After a long while, Mother Xue finally came back.
Xue Ling smiled bitterly and asked, "Mom, where have you been?"
Mother Xue replied: "I'll go downstairs and call your aunt... No one answered."
Xue Ling frowned and asked, "She doesn't work in the hospital, nor is she at home, so where is she?"
"How do I know!" Mother Xue had no choice but to give up.
Cheng Tianyuan hurried downstairs and hung up the phone at Xue Heng's office first. The secretary said that he had left after get off work.
He had no choice but to hang up at home, and it was his old father who answered the phone.
"A Heng? He hasn't arrived home yet. He probably went to pick up A Fang and will come back later. We are waiting for them to eat!"
Cheng Tianyuan said: "Lingling is looking for him, saying there is something urgent. Let them come over after they have eaten."
Then he hung up the phone and went out to buy some fried noodles and came back to eat.
Xue Ling seemed to have something on her mind. She didn't eat quickly and her food intake was less than usual. He coaxed her to eat a few more bites, but she had to eat more with chopsticks.
After eating, Xue Ling urged: "Mom, go down and call my aunt's house and ask her if she's back and if Uncle Zhilan is back."
Mother Xue shook her head: "No, no one will listen. I guess the couple went out."
Seeing that the matter could no longer be concealed, Xue Ling whispered: "Uncle Zhilan went to see Sister Cai yesterday morning and said he had something to go out. Unexpectedly, Sister Cai didn't go back last night and didn't reply all day today, not even a phone call.
.”
"Ah?!" Xue's mother was stunned.
Cheng Tianyuan didn't know why and asked: "Uncle Zhilan? With whom?"
Xue Ling sighed and had no choice but to explain to her husband what her mother had heard from her aunt.
"I guess it was after Uncle Zhilan had a big fight with Auntie yesterday morning that he became very emotional and sad, so he went to talk to Sister Cai. The two of them might have gone out for something... or maybe there was an accident."
Mother Xue muttered: "We're not even a child, what accident could happen? Besides, if there was an accident, shouldn't the call have come already? Including tonight, that's two days and two nights. That's not enough time.
Did they call back?"
"Mom!" Xue Ling said hurriedly: "Maybe there was an accident! Don't make random guesses. If everyone guesses the same as you - then the consequences will be serious!"
Mother Xue shrank her neck and did not dare to say any more.
Cheng Tianyuan never expected that two unrelated people would be old lovers, nor did he expect that the two would meet again by chance because of their relationship with his wife.
"My wife is right, don't make random guesses for the time being. Maybe something unexpected happened after the two of them went out."
Half an hour later, Xue Heng came, but Cheng Tianfang did not.
"A colleague of hers suddenly had something to do at home, so she will cover her shift tonight."
Xue Heng strode in and asked hurriedly: "What's wrong? What are you discussing with me? I have something else to do!"
"You are going to find your father, right?" Xue Ling asked.
Xue Heng's eyes turned, his expression a little abnormal: "...What do you know?"
Xue Ling stared at him blankly and sighed: "I know everything. I may know more than you!"
"Really?"
Then they asked me to go out to look for my dad. I came to the hospital dormitory to look for it, but I couldn’t find it at all. My mom also said that my dad was with his old lover, but I didn’t believe it either. It was almost midnight when I got home, A Fang
She asked me what I was doing so late. I was very upset. I told her it was okay, but she complained angrily to me. In fact, I didn’t know what was going on."
Xue Ling stopped and said anxiously: "You have to find Uncle Zhilan quickly! Auntie is probably going out to look for him too. By the way, have you been to your parents' house just now?"
"We've gone, it's all dark inside." Xue Heng replied, "No one is here."
Xue Ling smiled bitterly and looked at Cheng Tianyuan, "...where will they go? How will we find them?"
Cheng Tianyuan was confused for a moment, "I don't know either."
Xue Heng couldn't help but ask: "Is my dad really with any old lover?"
Mother Xue on the side had no choice but to tell him everything, and said: "Cai Yunyan's lover came here earlier and said that your father went to see his wife yesterday morning and then left together. He has not gone back since last night.
.”
Xue Heng was completely stunned!
"This... this - my dad really ran away with his old lover?! Really?!"
Cheng Tianyuan hurriedly held him down and whispered: "There is no certainty, so we can't talk nonsense. Uncle Zhilan is not such a person, he won't do it."
After Xue Heng was frightened, he quickly said: "Yes! My dad will definitely not do it!"
Cheng Tianyuan reassured: "Ling Ling and I are also worried...worried that they may be in trouble or have some minor accident. If they don't come back tonight, then we have to look for them quickly."
Mother Xue looked outside and said anxiously: "It's dark everywhere at night! Where can I find someone? I'll definitely have to look for him tomorrow!"
Xue Ling thought for a while and said: "You two should drive to the east of the city. Ah Heng, you remember the road and you are responsible for driving. Go for a walk next to our old house, and then go to the Cai family's old house behind, carefully
Look for it."
"Old house?" Xue Heng asked: "No one lives there anymore! Where can I find it?"
Xue Ling lowered his voice: "I heard from my third uncle that Sister Cai and Uncle Zhilan grew up as childhood sweethearts. Our two families lived together in the same old house and they often played together when they were young. They fell in love with each other when they grew up. Unfortunately,
At that time, the family was experiencing a disaster, and other families were drawing clear lines from ours, including the Cai family. The Cai family objected to their being together, so Uncle Zhilan had no choice but to study medicine, and the two of them were separated. After they separated, they also
We didn’t have the chance to contact each other again, and later we both got married and started careers.”
Xue Heng's eyes flashed and he said with complicated eyes: "Let's go to the old house to look for him first."