Just as she was about to open the door, the woman suddenly twisted her body and looked back at them, the moonlight reflecting a glimr in her eyes.
Yin ng averted her gaze and reached out to close the door.
The mont she shut the door, a door opening and closing sound ca from the other side as well.
Yin ng looked at Zheng Jiayi and asked, "Has your aunt always been like this?"
"Yeah, from what I rember, my uncle’s family has always been this way, it’s the sa attitude even when my mom and dad co over."
"Does your uncle have only one son?"
"Yes, just Da Qiang, he’s five years older than ."
"Not married?"
"No. ng ng, you sit for a while, I’ll go downstairs to fetch so water, we’ll just wash up quickly and sleep, sorry, it’s too late now, the conditions are limited, we can’t take a bath tonight."
"You sit here, I’ll go fetch the water."
"I should go, if there’s no water in the thermos on the stove, I’ll have to get well water from the yard."
"I’ve spent more ti living in the countryside than you, you stay put, don’t move."
"Bring the candle with you."
"No need, I have a flashlight."
Yin ng opened the door and went outside. When she passed by Zheng Daqiang’s bedroom door, she paused slightly but heard no movent. There was also no sound when she passed by the couple’s bedroom.
She went downstairs along the staircase, and first went to the kitchen where four thermos bottles, two red and two green, sat in a groove beneath the kitchen.
Typically, rural families boiled water based on daily usage. Freshly boiled water was for drinking, and the next day’s lukewarm water was for washing.
Yin ng hefted each of the thermos bottles, finding the first three empty. The last one felt heavy, perhaps excessively so.
Removing the stopper, she heard a "squeak, squeak, squeak" sound as nurous rats scurried out. Yin ng quickly re-capped the thermos.
As for the rats that had escaped earlier, she had no idea where they had scattered to.
Yin ng tilted the thermos; there was no damage on the bottom, which ant that soone deliberately put the rats inside. What were they doing with rats?
The stove had long gone cold. With a hopeful attitude, Yin ng lifted the small lid between two large pots and found water inside, but it was cold too.
She grabbed a large plastic basin, walked to the well edge in the yard, tossed in a tal bucket, and as she pulled it up after subrging it, she seed to hear a sound from upstairs.
The layout on the second floor had the couple’s bedroom and Zheng Daqiang’s room facing the sun, aning they faced the courtyard. The guest room where she and Zheng Jiayi stayed was on the shaded side.
That ant the two windows she could see from the courtyard were the couple’s and their son’s rooms.
Without showing any emotion, Yin ng drew up the first bucket of water and poured it into the basin. As she tossed the tal bucket back down, she turned on her flashlight and aid it at the second-floor windows.
Behind the right window, two shadows appeared, while the left window revealed one shadow.
When she shone the flashlight over again, the three shadows had vanished.
But Yin ng was certain that she couldn’t have seen it wrong; just now, as she fetched water, Zheng Daqiang and his parents had all been standing against the windows of their rooms.
If it were before, she wouldn’t have stayed in such a house.
If Xiao Yuan were leading the team here, given his personality, he might have ordered her and Run Sheng to storm up and drag the three of them out to see what they were up to.
But now, she couldn’t do that, because her task this ti was to push this clue forward, so she couldn’t make any excessive actions.
After fetching the water, with the basin in hand, Yin ng went back up to the second floor.
There was a staircase here leading to the third floor, which was likely an attic.
She didn’t go up to take a look but returned to her room, opened the door, and saw Zheng Jiayi leaning against the bed, eyes closed, nodding her head repeatedly.
After such a long journey, she was both tired and sleepy.
"Oh, you’re back." Zheng Jiayi got up and walked over.
"Just sit there and wash up."
Yin ng took a few bottles of mineral water and a towel out of her backpack.
"ng ng, do you like hiking? I see the stuff in your backpack, it’s quite extensive."
"Hmm."
"It looks heavy, what else do you have in there?"
"So books and tools."
Mainly corpse recovery equipnt.
The two girls washed simply and lay in bed, Zheng Jiayi on the inside, and Yin ng on the outside.
The room had a bit of a musty sll, and the bedding did too, but it was bearable.
"ng ng, where is your hotown?"
"Sichuan."
"Is Rong City fun?"
"My ho is closer to Mountain City."
"No wonder your skin is so nice, so white yet so smooth." Zheng Jiayi reached out, hugged Yin ng’s arm, and touched it, "I envy you."
"You’re not bad either."
"Not as good as you, by far. By the way, do you have soone special?"
"No."
"Why not find soone?"
"I haven’t planned on it yet." Yin ng turned to Zheng Jiayi and asked, "Do you like your partner?"
"I do, he’s really nice, chubby, and so cute."
"Alright."
"Also, he’s quite driven. Staying at school is a rare opportunity, and he managed to seize it. He said he’ll keep working hard in the future.
Both of us are just from ordinary families in Jinling. I am soone who loves small animals and children and engages in many activities that others see as pointless.
He’s willing to let do these things, he’s very accepting of . I’m planning to marry him in the future because in a family, with soone like , the other person needs to be even more hardworking and diligent."
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