Rebirth: At the beginning, the cool school beauty was caught stealing in the supermarket

Chapter 706 Reading Love Letters
Lu Yuanqiu and Bai Qingxia exchanged a glance. The more they listened, the more it sounded like a ghost story.
Lu Yuanqiu pressed further: "A car accident in Lucheng? Did you witness it yourself?"

Zheng Yifeng fell silent again.

He responded on the phone: "Now that you mention it... I was too young when the accident happened. Since I was old enough to understand, I only remember where my mother's grave is. I didn't actually see the car accident, or rather, I was too young and don't remember it."

Lu Yuanqiu pondered for a moment: "What Uncle Bai said in his letter should be true. If you have time, you can ask your second uncle. You can also tell him about the letter... Wait, does your second uncle really not know your father's whereabouts?"

"...I'm not sure now. If the contents of the letter are true, then my dad shouldn't have left Lucheng without a reason. He would have told Uncle Bai. Why didn't he tell my second uncle?"

After saying that, Zheng Yifeng added another reason: "It's also possible that my father disappeared in the United States."

Zheng Yifeng's phone vibrated. He glanced down at it and saw that it was Su Miaomiao urging him. He said to Lu Yuanqiu, "Let's talk about it when we have time. I have something to do right now."

Lu Yuanqiu: "Okay."

After hanging up the phone, Lu Yuanqiu and Bai Qingxia looked at each other in silence for a long time.

He sorted through his messy thoughts and muttered to himself, "His ex-wife was murdered... So it seems that Uncle Zheng and Aunt Yun Tan divorced first, and then Uncle Zheng married Aunt Ye. After the marriage, Aunt Yun Tan was murdered in the United States. Considering the date of the letter, Zheng Yifeng was three years old at the time, just like you. Uncle Zheng set off for the United States and disappeared. But something just doesn't feel right."

Bai Qingxia didn't quite understand what Lu Yuanqiu meant by "something is wrong".

Lu Yuanqiu suddenly widened his eyes: "Right, Zheng Yifeng is 9 years older than his younger brother. If Uncle Zheng disappeared when Zheng Yifeng was 3 years old, that means Zheng Yifeng's younger brother was born 6 years later. So how did Zheng Yifeng's younger brother come to be???"

Could the unspoken implication be that Aunt Ye...?

But that's impossible. Based on Zheng Yifeng's descriptions over the past two years, Aunt Ye couldn't possibly be that kind of person.

Bai Qingxia sorted out her thoughts and couldn't help but remind him, "When he wrote the letter, Uncle Zheng hadn't left for the United States yet. It's possible that after my father's accident, he stayed in Lucheng for a few more years. We don't know if he went to the United States again after that."

"That's true." Lu Yuanqiu slapped his forehead, almost getting lost in this messy timeline.

Bai Qingxia is right. It's impossible to be sure whether Uncle Zheng went to the United States again, let alone whether he is currently in the United States.

But the United States is at least a glimmer of hope; the current situation is much better than the previous state where no one was heard from.

Lu Yuanqiu: "Let's wait and see what Zheng Yifeng's second uncle has to say."

Bai Qingxia hummed in agreement, then seemed to remember something. She picked up the torn envelope and letter from the bedside, bent down and squeezed her two snow-white feet into her slippers, and said to Lu Yuanqiu, "I want my dad to see this letter. Maybe he can remember something."

"Row."

Lu Yuanqiu followed behind, watching Bai Qingxia carefully push open Bai Songzhe's door. As soon as the door opened, Bai Qingxia raised her eyebrows. Bai Songzhe, who should have been taking a nap, was sitting on the edge of the bed with a blank expression.

"He used to be asleep at this time, why is he up today?" Bai Qingxia walked towards the bed with a puzzled look.

Lu Yuanqiu was not surprised at all: "He was never asleep when I came over. Maybe he was afraid that I would do something to his precious daughter. My father-in-law is too vigilant."

Turning around and seeing Lu Yuanqiu's grinning face, Bai Qingxia knew the meaning behind his words, but still retorted in a sticky, low voice, "What can you do... Aunt Zhang is still here."

Lu Yuanqiu poked her waist: "If we lock the room, who will know what we're doing?"

Bai Qingxia let out a soft groan as she was poked. She turned around and raised her pinkish-white fist as if to hit him. Lu Yuanqiu dodged while frowning and putting his index finger to his lips: "Shh! Aunt Zhang is sleeping!" The girl's fist did not fall in the end. Instead, she looked annoyed and reached out to give Lu Yuanqiu's waist a skillful twist.

Lu Yuanqiu let out a flirtatious "Ouch~", then clutched his kidneys and backed away, whispering his opinion: "You're getting more and more violent! Think about how gentle you used to be."

"We'll see how things go now!" Bai Qingxia swung her arms back.

"I'm really going to teach you a lesson today, in front of your dad!"

The two started "fighting" in the small room, but it was actually just Lu Yuanqiu holding back. He didn't dare to use any force, for fear of twisting Bai Qingxia's slender arms. However, this scene fell into Bai Songzhe's eyes again, and Lu Yuanqiu noticed that Bai Songzhe by the bed was looking at him again.

Why do you always stare at me when your daughter is here?
He had originally intended to take advantage of Bai Qingxia's collar tilting again to poke the soft flesh exposed next to her armpit, but after being stared at by his father-in-law, he immediately abandoned his intentions.

“Your dad is looking at me again,” Lu Yuanqiu said, grabbing her arms.

Bai Qingxia turned her head to look at him, and then replied, "When my dad gets better, the first thing he'll do is definitely beat you up for me."

Lu Yuanqiu unusually expressed his strong agreement with this.

The two sat down on the edge of the bed with Bai Songzhe between them. Bai Qingxia stopped exchanging angry glances with Lu Yuanqiu and tentatively unfolded the letter in her hand, showing it to her father.

"Dad, do you remember this?"

Lu Yuanqiu fell silent, his gaze gradually drifting to the words as he watched Bai Songzhe.

Both of them were waiting for his reaction, but unfortunately Bai Songzhe did not react. Lu Yuanqiu couldn't help but tease, "A normal person would probably just be dumbfounded if they saw this."

Bai Qingxia didn't say anything; her mind was focused on her father's expression.

Lu Yuanqiu chuckled: "Should I read it aloud? If this were in high school, the level of social anxiety would be doubled."

Bai Qingxia knew that Lu Yuanqiu was referring to the scene of reading love letters in public, but to be honest, she had never encountered such a scene before, and the grudges between classmates would not be that serious.

After receiving Bai Qingxia's tacit approval, Lu Yuanqiu cleared his throat, straightened his back, and began to loudly recite Bai Songzhe's "love letter".

“Ran!”

"Pull!"

Both of them were stunned by what happened next.

Lu Yuanqiu had just read out the word "Ran" when Bai Songzhe snatched the letter from his hand with lightning speed and clenched it tightly in his right hand.

Lu Yuanqiu and Bai Qingxia stared at each other in surprise, unable to react for a long time.

Bai Songzhe's expression remained blank, his face neither flushed nor out of breath, as if he hadn't done what he had just done. Lu Yuanqiu even felt that his face at this moment was like a seal, sealing away all his expressions of emotions and desires... Had he recovered from his illness?

Bai Qingxia tried to touch her father's right hand, but found that Bai Songzhe's five fingers were clenched tightly.

(End of this chapter)