“Uh-huh.” Lan Yu Feng nodded.
Zi Ge hurriedly took it, somewhat excitedly picked open the yellow cowhide bag to. Drawing it out, he hadn’t looked at it yet, and then looked at Lan Yu Feng, his heart was still unavoidably nervous.
Lan Yu Feng handed her an encouraging look, she took a deep breath and pulled the report out. Directly impatiently reversed to the last page, seeing those figures, her brain was confused for a moment, a bit dumbfounded and unable to shake her head.
Lan Yu Feng took a shallow sip of water and lifted his eyes to look at her calmly. There was an obvious loss on her face.
“Not the result you wanted?” He asked knowingly.
Zige pursed her lips and shook her head, “Our match is low.” The tone, a little gloomy.
Lan Yu Feng put down his water cup and looked at her with an unchanged expression, “There’s nothing wrong with it, and you don’t need to dwell on the murderer.”
Ziggy forced a smile, “That’s exactly what I was thinking.”
She retrieved the test results in her cowhide bag and looked at him, “I want to meet with Zhuo Zhenbang soon.”
Lan Yu Feng mused and nodded, “I’ll make the arrangements.”
The sun was shining just right, pouncing on the entire garden. The garden was covered in greenery, mesmerizing people. Zige gently pulled her hair back, dragged her suitcase, and stood in front of the villa.
She tilted her head slightly, looking at the strange villa and imagining the strange owner.
Cheuk Chun Pong …
Could he really be the one who hurt Dad?
“Days! Miss?” The door to the villa was pulled open from the inside and the servant looked at her in surprise.
“Sister Li.” She smiled slightly, easily searching for this person’s existence from the information Lan Yu Feng had given her. She smiled elegantly, “Long time no see.”
“It’s been a long time!” Sister Li came forward and embraced her. “You girl, why have you suddenly returned to China? I haven’t even heard Master mention it!”
“My dad doesn’t know I’ll be back yet.” Ziggy spoke as softly as she could.
“You hurry in, and I’ll go upstairs and call the master! Master will be so happy to see you!” Sister Li pulled her bags in, let her in, and thumped her way upstairs.
Looking at that athletic departing figure, Zi Ge stood in the hall somewhat stunned, surveying the even stranger surroundings in front of her.
It was obvious that Zhuo Zhenbang really loved Zhuo Yunruo, and there was an oil painting of Zhuo Yunruo hanging on the vintage wall of the hall. Zi Ge couldn’t help but pause under the painting and tilted her head to look at it, secretly marveling at the similarity between the two.
If it wasn’t for the difference in temperament and demeanor, I’m afraid it’s something that even I would have misrecognized.
Until this moment, Zige still couldn’t believe how two people who looked so much alike could be completely unrelated by blood.
“Yunruo!” A middle-aged voice rang out from upstairs. Zi Ge turned around at first, and saw a middle-aged man jogging down from upstairs in a windy manner.
Once, across the street, she had seen this man. On the photos, she had also seen it countless times. However, this time, this close, a living Zhuo Zhenbang stood in front of her, Zi Ge felt that Zhuo Yunruo’s brows and eyes and he really have some resemblance.
In other words, she also bears some resemblance to Zhuo Zhenbang.
“Dad.” A good-natured low call, “You slow down, you already have a bad heart.”
“You girl, thanks for remembering that dad has a bad heart!” Zhuo Zhenbang went downstairs and wrapped his arms around Zi Ge in his arms. That broad chest pressed over with a father-like thickness and composure, causing Zi Ge’s nose to turn sour almost at once.
“Girl, why are you crying just after coming back?” Zhuo Zhenbang pulled his daughter away from him, and when he saw her red eyes, he was immediately distressed. “Quickly don’t cry, how embarrassing to let sister-in-law Li look at you.”
Sister-in-law Li laughed on the side. Zhuo Zhenbang hurriedly waved his hand, and Sister-in-law Li immediately drew paper towels over. Zhuo Zhenbang personally wiped Zige’s tears with his own hands, and that loving look made Zige feel like she was in a trance. She choked back a sob and whispered, “I just miss dad too much …”
She didn’t lie.
Zhuo Zhenbang’s love for his daughter made her unable to help but think of her adoptive father. In the future … it will never be possible to feel this kind of compassionate love that her father gave to her …
“Silly girl, dad misses you too.” Zhuo Zhenbang wrapped one hand around Zige’s shoulder and sidled up to instruct Mrs. Li, “Quickly go and re-list the menu for the kitchen, and make all of Miss’s favorite foods.”
“Yes, Master.”
Sister Li entered the kitchen with a smile on her face.
“Come on, let’s go upstairs as father and daughter and talk for a while.”
After spending the entire afternoon with Zhuo Zhenbang, Zige felt that his image had been completely turned upside down in her mind.
Previously, when she heard Geng Jing talk about him, all that came to mind was a ruthless old fox. However, now that she had seen him, she realized that in front of her daughter, he was the same as any father.
The night, slightly deeper.
She pulled open the bedroom door and probed around, thinking about how to ask Zhuo Zhenbang to borrow the computer before she saw her sister-in-law Lei coming over with two bowls of soup.
He policed the body side. “Miss.” Seeing her, Mrs. Li smiled, “Come, bring the left side of this ice-sugar pear soup.”
“For me?” Ziggy asked as she served it.
“Not really.” Sister-in-law Li smiled, turned sideways, and nudged the study that was still lit on the side, “This was personally explained by the master, saying that your voice has changed a little bit, and that it should be a problem with your voice, so I was asked to cook this for you to moisturize your throat.”
The voice changed?
Zi Ge was startled and subconsciously touched her throat. Lan Yu Feng had noticed this problem long ago, and her and Zhuo Yunruo’s voices were also very similar, it was just that people who were close and careful could still tell one from the other. Rather, he didn’t expect Zhuo Zhenbang to notice it so quickly.
Hopefully, he won’t get suspicious too early.
“Master is so good to you, he’s been chanting about it every day since he returned home. Now that it’s good that you’re finally back, there’s even more smiles on Master’s face.”
“Yes?” Zige subconsciously looked toward the study. And looked down at the other cup of soup that Sister Li was carrying, “Is this for him?”
“Uh-huh. Healthy heart. Master has a lot on his mind lately, and he looks sad every day, and if it weren’t for Miss coming back, I wouldn’t have seen a few smiles on his face.”
A lot on your mind and a sad face? Is it because of the hurt you’ve caused your father that you’ve been keeping it on your mind?
Thinking this way, Zige took the soup from Mrs. Li’s hand with a smile and said, “I’ll give it to my dad, just to talk to him.”
“All right, that’s better. His Lordship must be happier.”
As Zige stood outside the door of the study, she heard Zhuo Zhenbang’s angry voice coming from inside the door.
“Is that how badly you guys do things?”
“Bunch of losers!”
“I don’t care what you have to do to get the body out of the police station!”
“Can’t get it? Good! If you don’t get it, you’ll never get the money in your life!”
The soundproofing effect of the study door was actually considered very good, but Zi Ge still heard some of it clearly in a blur.
Police … bodies …
It’s really Zhuo Zhenbang.
Hand, tightly squeezed the soup bowl. The bowl was obviously very hot, but, she didn’t feel it at all, and for a long time she could only stand there dumbfounded.
Cheuk Chun Pong …
Killer …
He was fuming when the door was pulled open from the inside with a loud bang.
“Yunru? Why are you standing in the doorway staring?” Zhuo Zhenbang looked at his daughter in surprise.
Zige was so shocked that she took a step back, and for a moment, she only felt that this man was a beast without humanity. God knows how much patience she had to have to hold back from drenching this bowl of soup all over his head. Quickly, calming down, she collected all her emotions.
Zige raised her face, “I came to bring you soup. I was going to go in, but I didn’t bother since I saw you were busy.”
Zhuo Zhenbang opened the lid of the soup tureen and smelled it with an intoxicated look, “Sure enough, what my daughter sent me is different. Even the flavor smells a lot better.”
When he said this, his eyes and demeanor were full of love, where was the cruelty and unkindness he had just shown?
Zige hated him. When this man was ruthless enough to mutilate a life, did he ever think about how disappointed his daughter would be when she found out everything?
“Then you should hurry and drink it while it’s hot.” She brought the soup into the study, and Zhuo Zhenbang followed his daughter in again. Zi Ge didn’t move to survey the entire study, and her eyes landed on his private notebook.
Lan Yu Feng said that Zhuo Zhenbang had a notebook that no one could touch. Come to think of it, if the information on that crime was really in his hands, then he might have put it in this notebook.
“Why are you just standing around gawking? Quickly sit down.” Zhuo Zhenbang waved his hand with her, scooped up the soup and took a sip, saying repeatedly that it was good before asking her, “Have you drunk the pear soup that I asked Mrs. Li to make?”
“It’s still in my room, was planning on going back for a drink once I found you.”
“That stuff has to be drunk while it’s hot, to moisten your throat.”
“Okay, I’ll go back and drink it right away.” Zi Ge glanced at Zhuo Zhenbang and then lowered her eyes to the computer resting on the side, “Dad, do you still want to use this laptop tonight?”
Hearing Zige’s question, Zhuo Zhenbang’s eyes floated slightly and looked at her with a smile, “What’s wrong?”
“If you don’t want to use it tonight, I’d like to take it to my room and use it.”
“You want to go online this late? You’ve been on an airplane all day, you should rest earlier.” Zhuo Zhenbang painfully swept a glance at Zige, “Look at you, you’ve lost weight again! Stay home for the next few days and let Mrs. Li give you a good tonic.”
“Dad, lend me your computer. Please …” Unable to get it, Zi Ge could only hold Zhuo Zhenbang’s arm and pout, “I’m jet lagged, and I can’t sleep at all at this hour.”
Zhuo Zhenbang seems to be considering it.
After pondering for a while, he finally patted his daughter’s hand and nodded his head in response, “Okay, who asked dad to have such a precious daughter like you. Take it take it, whatever you want dad can give you.”
Zhuo Zhenbang spoke with sincerity and was full of love as a father. She did not doubt for a second that for Zhuo Yunruo, he could give everything. But why would such a father do something as ruthless as that?
Ziggy held the computer and went into the bedroom. Immediately brought the door closed and turned on the computer.
She eagerly clicked on the computer’s files. Each one opened without the ‘g’ mark that Geng Jing said belonged to her adoptive father. Could it be hidden, or not on this computer at all?
Just as she was about to search out the hidden files, the door to the room was abruptly pushed open from the outside. The sudden movement made her heart jump and she almost immediately pressed her hand down on the mouse.
“Yunruo.” Zhuo Zhenbang stood in the doorway, looking at her with a smile, his eyes betting on the computer screen.
Zige’s heart was beating straight, but on her face she had to be calm. Without moving, she moved the computer to her lap, avoiding Zhuo Zhenbang’s line of sight, and while quickly closing all the windows, she spoke to Zhuo Zhenbang, “Dad, why are you in here?”
“Looking for something?” Zhuo Zhenbang carried a bottle of wine in his hand and walked towards Zige, “Tell dad what you’re looking for and dad will tell you.”
“Nah. Actually … I’m not looking for anything, just saving something.” Zige stood up as she spoke, trying her best to hide her emptiness, lifting her eyes to steal a glance at Zhuo Zhenbang’s expression.