Chapter Thirty-Four: The Elder Sister of the Single Root is Cheated

  My brother agreed with me that he wouldn't tell anyone, including my dad and mom. He even made a gesture like on TV, pulling his finger across his lips to guarantee secrecy. I think this will be a surprise for my parents later.

  But my brother sometimes says in school that he has guessed the murderer, but every time he can't explain why, he keeps saying it's intuition. Some people tease him that he should become a police officer, his intuition is so sharp. This makes me think of TVB's drama "The Mysteries" A and B, if my brother really has this skill, it's not bad at all. But still, he gets envied by many boys and girls.

  But honest brother-in-law is not quite suitable for telling lies, he never says who the murderer of the case is when I'm around, probably because he's guilty. Who knows, one day, when I was collecting English homework, I found that Li Fang didn't hand it in again, he usually has a smooth tongue, I wanted to go over and ask him, probably he would make up another excuse, and he was with brother-in-law and the others, so I said to Xuan Yuan: "Xuan Yuan, help me get Li Fang to hand in last night's English homework, there is still one person who hasn't handed it in, I need to keep looking at who hasn't handed it in."

  Xuanyuan hadn't said a word, and then he left. At that time, his cousins were chatting happily and didn't notice Xuanyuan walking towards them. Just as his cousin was about to reveal the murderer, everyone else held their breath and listened intently. Suddenly, Xuanyuan interrupted, saying: "Li Fang, you haven't handed in your English homework again, have you? Little girl is telling you to hurry up and hand it in."

  Li Fang and others were all startled, Li Fang touched his own little heart and said: "Xuanyuan, you really are a ghost in the back, walking without making any noise. Do you know that scaring people can kill them? Luckily I don't have heart disease, otherwise I'd make you pay for spiritual damages." "You're just being too serious, others aren't as scared as you are. If you haven't done anything wrong, you won't be afraid of ghosts knocking on the door at midnight. Hurry up and hand in your homework, don't drag it out again. Little girl, you have to turn in your homework notebook after this class."

  "Oh, I see! So that's why Xuan Yuan class leader is doing errands. It turns out our English class representative has spoken up. No wonder, no wonder."

  While saying that, she raised an eyebrow and glanced at the people next to her. I found out that another person hadn't handed in their homework yet. Then, looking at Li Fang's expression of not having handed in his homework, I walked straight over. I heard my brother-in-law say: "No way, don't spread rumors, my sister is definitely not dating Xuan Yuan, they are just pure classmates and friends, they often argue with each other because neither of them can convince the other, they are both kids who love to study."

  "Yes, they are happy troublemakers, don't you think?" Li Fang smiled with a knowing expression, as if no explanation was needed. Xuan Yuan Rui didn't object either. I maintained a serious face and said: "Li Fang, are you going to hand in your homework or not? If you don't, I'll send it for you and tell Wu Laoshi that you can't even handle the workload. You have nothing better to do, so just memorize a few more vocabulary words. Look at how many mistakes you made on yesterday's dictation. Here you are, chattering nonsense and trying to amuse my older cousin."

  Li Fang this guy still had a smile on his face, saying: "Again it's the spirit of the back, really a pair. Class representative sir, I'm handing in my homework, following your orders, I'll go to my seat and recite words." I don't know what they said before, but "spirit of the back" and "a pair", I can roughly guess what they mean, I won't bother with them, their mouths are on their own faces, I'm not concerned, the clear one is clear, the turbid one is turbid. But three people make a tiger, miss, didn't you think of that?

  After that, they dispersed. Actually, this time I told my brother's suspect was a suspected murderer, not the real one. I think his guess was wrong this time, and he can calm down for a while. Lately, he has been too obsessed with Conan, it's time to give him a wake-up call. What if one day Xuan Yuan gets him to reveal the secret between me and him?

  On Saturday morning, the phone at home rang out of the blue. I looked at the alarm clock in a daze and saw that it was only six o'clock. The sky was still not bright, and I grumbled about who was calling so early to disturb my peaceful sleep. It's rare that I can sleep in today. The phone rang for a while, but no one went to answer it, so I got up to pick it up. To my surprise, it was Auntie's voice on the other end of the line: "Little Lu, you have to help me out this time, I'm going to die." Her voice was shaking with sobs.

  My sleepiness was driven away, and I hastily said: "Auntie, what's the matter? I'll call my mom to answer the phone, wait a minute." I quickly ran from the hall to my mother's room, shouting for her to answer the phone, it was Auntie calling, seemingly urgent. My mom put on some clothes and rushed downstairs to pick up the phone. My mom and Auntie talked for a while, during which my mom said something like "you go to where she usually goes", "call her classmates" and so on, I suspected that my sister had run away from home in a huff. Sure enough, after hanging up the phone, my mom called out to my dad to quickly get up and find my sister. I said I wanted to follow along too, and my mom didn't object. I called Meng Nainai to ask for leave, she agreed, so I quickly got dressed and washed up, then went out with my parents.

  I remember that in my previous life, my older sister ran away from home when she was in the second year of junior high school and was deceived very badly. Later, she told Yuanyuan about the situation, and I also heard a little bit about it. The problem is that I am reborn, but Yuanyuan is not. Now only I know a little bit of information. And are the situations in this life and the previous one the same?

  Let's ask the landlady about the situation first. It turned out that my sister had been living alone downstairs, and her daily life was quite regular. Under the landlady's arrangement, she learned to be a nurse, which has only been for almost a year. This morning, when the landlady got up, she surprisingly didn't see my sister. My sister went to bed very early yesterday, so I don't know if she ran away last night or got up early and ran away this morning.

  It's similar to last time, only the time is later. But who else did my sister know? The only thing I can be sure of is that my sister ran away last night and she will appear near the gearbox factory. Last time our search location was wrong, we always thought my sister would appear at the ice rink and game room.

  How can I make everyone think what I say is right? And going to the transmission factory nearby to squat, it's really not easy. After all, I don't know the specific location and direction. It's really hard to do. But time waits for no man, in a day or two, my sister will be threatened by her so-called boyfriend to go to C city to do hard labor, or even be sold. What to do? My mind is a mess, just like Wang Yanbing said in "Special Forces 2" that Li Erniu's brain is a chaotic stir-fry.

  All I heard was my dad saying, "The places Qingqing usually goes to are the ice rink and the game hall, right? I remember one year during Chinese New Year she even took BaoBei there. Should I go take a look?" "Yeah, let's go take a look," Mom chimed in.

  "Elder sister is not there." I didn't know how to stop myself, and directly said this sentence. The aunt suddenly grabbed me and said: "Xiao Xiao, do you know where Qingqing is? Quickly tell me, I'm so anxious that I could die if we can't find your sister, I won't live either." Alas, why did it have to come to this? In the previous life, even though you couldn't find elder sister, you still lived a carefree life. So later when elder sister came back, she had a big grudge against you.

  I closed my eyes and said, "I don't know where my sister is either, but I do know she has a boyfriend who works at the transmission factory or something. The exact location isn't clear though." Guess we'll just have to make do with what we've got.

  "Dad asked again: 'Eh, baby, why didn't you tell us earlier? Do you know what that person looks like?' 'I don't know, I just heard about it, so...'"

  I clearly saw Yuanyuan's hesitant expression, she must know something, but she didn't dare to say it because she was also secretly dating and hiding it from her family. In two years, when she graduates from high school and turns 20, that boy will still be around at the banquet. I hinted to my dad to take a look at Yuanyuan, and he saw it, then asked: "Yuanyuan, do you know something? Hurry up and say it, in case something happens."

  "Second uncle, actually... actually... Qing might really be at her boyfriend's place. I know what her boyfriend looks like, but as for where he lives specifically, I'm not quite sure either. We can go take a look."

  We went to the vicinity of the gearbox factory, and as soon as we arrived, Yuanyuan sister called out: "It's that guy who bought cigarettes in the small shop. We can just follow him." The young man didn't look like a good person, probably a hoodlum. We followed him in several groups, with my dad and uncle leading the way. They caught up to the young man at his rental house, but my sister wasn't there. At first, he denied everything, then his story was full of contradictions. We threatened and intimidated him until he finally confessed - he had sold my sister to Hong Jie, the boss of Jiulong KTV! Oh, sis, you're so gullible, this time you got cheated really badly...

  As for who this Hong Jie is, I don't know, but judging from the look on my dad's face, she probably isn't someone to be trifled with. It turns out that this Hong Jie is actually the wife of our city's gang leader, and everyone calls her "sister-in-law" when they see her - who knows if they're really married or not? My dad is still the general manager of the hotel, and he's also accompanied businesspeople to that place before, even though my mom always strongly opposes it and my dad doesn't approve either. However, some businessmen just have a taste for this sort of thing, and there's nothing you can do about it. Although my dad says he doesn't have any relationship with Hong Jie, he says he wants to go meet her anyway. I'm a bit worried - if we can resolve this matter with money, that would be best; it's better not to get involved with these kinds of people.

  We kids naturally went back to our respective homes. As soon as I got home, Xuan Yuan Ruo called me and asked why I didn't go to practice piano. I was very surprised how he knew about it. He said that Meng Nainai is his grandfather's old friend, and I told him there was something at home. He asked if it was serious, and I suddenly had an idea: "Xuan Yuan, does your family have any connection with ours?"

  Xuanyuan said: "It's not about friendship, but on N city's turf, I still have to give the Ding family some face."

  "That's really great, it's not a big deal, and there's no deep grudge. Here's what happened... Who can you send to rescue my older sister?"

  "Don't worry, it's okay, my brother will take care of it, just wait for the good news."

  "Are you going?" "I should go, what's wrong."

  "Take me along then, I want to go and have a look too. My dad will definitely not allow it, so you take me to have a look then. Besides, you don't know my older sister."

  "I know your sister's name is Nan Qingqing, that's all I need to know, no need for introductions. Besides, how do you know I don't know her?"

  "Take me with you, please..."