Chapter 120: Chapter 113: Grandpa Bai (Part 2)
She didn’t notice Mr. Bai’s eyes dim slightly upon hearing "Chengdu" and then he softly muttered with some desolation, "Chengdu... my daughter is also in Chengdu..."
With a light sigh, Mr. Bai stood up and went into the kitchen to get some snacks for the girl.
Su Xiaomeng tried to calm herself down.
"Hello?"
"Hello?"
"Sob... Mom..."
The emotions she had just managed to settle down collapsed again with the familiar voice of her mother.
She didn’t want them to worry and intended to calmly concoct a reason, but the little girl who had been pampered since childhood couldn’t stay strong after being confined for almost 24 hours...
"Xiao Meng..."
"Girl, what’s wrong with you? Who bullied you?"
"... Dad, Dad..."
"Girl, speak clearly, don’t cry."
"I want to go home, I want to go home today, Dad, help me book a plane ticket, I want to come back tonight, I miss you... sob..."
On the other end, Su’s mother’s expression stiffened as she coldly asked, "Where is Yin Shixiu?"
The Yin Family by now had been turned upside down by Yin Shixiu.
He meant what he said, that until Su Xiaomeng was found, no one would have peace.
His actions were indeed defiant, but after Zhou Mengqin’s harsh words in the morning, she stayed in her room and didn’t come out again.
As for the old man, although some antiques were broken, he didn’t argue with Yin Shixiu, just let him search to his heart’s content.
The two elders’ thoughts were rather straightforward.
Since Su Xiaomeng wasn’t taken away by them in the first place, the more fiercely Yin Shixiu fought now, later, when he realized he had wrongly blamed them...
At that point, they could make some demands on him, with much more leverage.
As time ticked by, it was nearing four o’clock...
Yin Shixiu’s heart sank further, slowly realizing that perhaps... it indeed wasn’t his parents who took Xiao Meng away.
Yin Meng had been calling all her classmates the entire day.
Shan Minglang was nervously gripping his phone, waiting for any news from Shan Mingxu...
The phone vibrated—
He quickly swiped to answer:
She’s missing.
Those four words were like bombs thrown at Shan Minglang.
Next came another message:
We messed up, tell our uncle the truth, send people to search the mountain, don’t delay.
"Thud"...
Shan Minglang stood there, completely at a loss.
What does brother want him to do? To stand in front of their uncle who now seemed possessed by King Yan and tell him...
That Su Xiaomeng was taken by them and now she’s lost in the mountains?
Standing behind Yin Shixiu, Shan Minglang’s hands and feet began to tremble unconsciously...
If they were only aware of the situation’s severity by noon, then after spending the afternoon here, Shan Minglang fully realized...
Severe? No, it’s the end of the world, for him and his brother.
"Little, Little... Little..."
Shan Minglang stammered behind Yin Shixiu for a long time, when Yin Shixiu was about to turn around, his phone suddenly rang...
Glancing at the caller ID, his heart skipped a beat, and he quickly answered in a serious tone—
"Mom—"
"How did I talk to you during the New Year? Yin Shixiu!"
Su’s mother’s icy voice came through the phone.
Yin Shixiu immediately responded, "Xiao Meng, she—"
"I entrusted her to you! Not for her to end up crying so hard she can’t breathe, calling me in helpless sadness saying she wants to come home immediately!"
Yin Shixiu’s heart suddenly tightened.
Crying to the point of being breathless... covering up sorrow...
Little girl...
"Where is she... now?"
"You’re asking me? I let her go to Beijing with you, and now you’re asking me, someone still in Chengdu, where she is?"
"Mom, it’s not what you think, I also don’t know—"
"Enough."
Su’s mother cut him off, took a deep breath, and then calmly said, "Don’t bother looking for her anymore, and from now on, don’t meet with Xiao Meng. Pack up her things and mail them to Chengdu for me."
Yin Shixiu froze.
"If you don’t send them, then we don’t want them either. I will personally pick up Xiao Meng. No need for the esteemed Fourth Young Master of the Yin Family to trouble himself, I will have the lawyer handle the divorce procedures."
"Mom, please don’t—"
"Don’t call me mom, I’m afraid it will shorten my life—click!"
The call was cut off, and Yin Shixiu looked at his phone, veins throbbing on his forehead!
What on earth is going on?!
Standing behind Yin Shixiu, Shan Minglang...
He felt like he was standing at the edge of a cliff, sneaking a peek below where a raging fire awaited, with countless sharp swords thrust in...
As if ready to stab him full of holes and then burn him to ashes.
To speak, or not to speak...
If he spoke, it felt like "suicide," if not... it felt like he would be "murdered" later.
"Uncle, is it... Xiaomeng’s mom?"
Yin Meng, standing nearby, saw that Yin Shixiu’s eyes were filled with bloodshot veins after finishing his call and hurriedly asked.
Yin Shixiu took a deep breath, nodded, and then looked at Yin Meng, "The classmates you’ve contacted, any news?"
Yin Meng pressed her lips tightly and shook her head.
Yin Shixiu took another deep breath, "Looks like we still have to call the police... Meng Meng, you go inform them, I’ll go back to the community to get the surveillance footage and send it to the police station, maybe they can find more detailed clues."
"Okay!"
Yin Meng said and picked up her phone, ready to call the police—
"Sister..."
Shan Minglang’s voice sounded, he called softly, and his voice was trembling.
"What is it?"
Yin Meng casually asked, but upon seeing Shan Minglang’s pale face, sweat like soybeans pouring from his forehead...
Her heart skipped a beat, sensing something was wrong.
Shan Minglang swallowed, "Don’t... don’t call the police."
Yin Shixiu had already started walking but stopped upon hearing Shan Minglang’s words.
"Why not call the police?"
Yin Meng sensed her brother... probably caused big trouble.
"That, that aunt... Aunt was, was taken away by me and brother..."
"Boom!"
Coincidentally, Yin Shaohui and Zhou Mengqin timed it right.
Thinking Yin Shixiu should have caused enough trouble, they came out of the room together, just standing at the staircase heard their grandson’s words...
"Minglang, you’re not joking, right?"
Yin Meng’s heart skipped a beat, seriously confirming.
Shan Minglang hurriedly explained, "Aunt came home the first day and angered grandpa and grandma! Brother and I went to her school, her senior told us aunt is a shameless little slut! Brother and I couldn’t get over it, so we wanted to teach her a lesson, we just wanted to—"
"Where is she?"
Yin Shixiu interrupted Shan Minglang coldly.
Shan Minglang was so scared his back went cold, his body shrunk, stammering, "In the warehouse of the resort villa on Jiuling Mountain."
Yin Shixiu felt his heart stop, his cold gaze swept over Shan Minglang but didn’t linger much, he took a deep breath and asked lightly, "Did Ming Xu come back at noon to pick her up?"
"Uncle..."
Sweat slid down Xia Lingming’s forehead, honestly, "When brother went, she was already... gone."
"Brother was going to let her out on the mountain, but when he got there, the door lock was broken, she should have... run away herself... So..."
Yin Shixiu’s fist clenched, knuckles cracking, "You two really are something!"
Saying this, Yin Shixiu left the house, got in the car, and sped off.
On this side, Shan Minglang looked at Yin Meng in despair, "Sister, what, what do we do?"
"Did you and Ming Xu lose your minds? Went to the school to inquire about her? Your elder sister has been living in the same dorm with her for more than a year! You didn’t ask me?"
"... Ah?"
Shan Minglang looked dumbfounded.
"Don’t you know she’s pregnant? With that big belly, are you blind? If anything happens to Xiaomeng, you’d better prepare yourselves!"
"... I, I thought brother went early to let her out, but... brother thought I went, then..."
"We’ll talk after we get in the car."
Grandpa quickly descended the stairs, Zhou Mengqin glanced at Shan Minglang, speaking coldly.
"... Oh."
Shan Minglang hurriedly followed the elder two, Yin Meng made a call to have the driver bring the car to the entrance of Zheng Garden.
On the way, Shan Minglang explained the whole story in detail, not daring to embellish a word.
Yin Shaohui and Zhou Mengqin listened and their faces turned ashen.
Their hearts might explode from the anger caused by these grandchildren sooner or later.
Zhou Mengqin, at her age, having birthed four children, naturally knew how dangerous it was to lock a pregnant woman in a damp warehouse on a mountain without food or water for nearly twenty-four hours in such weather.
Even if dissatisfied with the daughter-in-law, the life in her belly was undeniably Yin family blood.
And that displeasing daughter-in-law, no matter how bad, was someone else’s precious child...
If anything happened, it would be heartbreaking.
Yin Meng told them, Xiaomeng had already called her parents, she seemed fine, just uncertain where she was, unsure if she was hurt...
Yin Shaohui gently patted his wife’s hand, comforting her not to worry too much.
Shan Minglang blinked his big eyes, his handsome face looked lifeless.
... Finished.
Su Xiaomeng was starving but after drinking two big bowls of porridge and eating a large piece of cake, Mr. Bai stopped her from eating more.
"Go take a hot bath in the guest room on the third floor, change clothes, there are some fairly clean clothes in the room, take them and wear them, then have a good sleep, it’s getting late now, tomorrow morning, Grandpa will take you down the mountain."
"Grandpa... won’t this bother you too much?"
Mr. Bai nodded, then smiled, "Ever since I was fishing there, and you, this dirty girl appeared, it’s already a disturbance."
Su Xiaomeng felt awkward.
"Alright, you’re pregnant, go rest quickly, if you don’t sleep, won’t the little babies want to sleep?"
"... Okay."
Su Xiaomeng’s eyes were actually barely open, so she didn’t refuse again, better to be a bit thick-skinned!
She went upstairs.
Entered what was called the guest room, it was very clean as if someone was always cleaning it.
The room was still filled with a familiar faint scent of plum blossom.
Su Xiaomeng sniffed twice, felt very comfortable, her mom sometimes lit this scented incense at home as well.