Chapter 231 Key? Map?

When Fu Zhengzheng sees the strange number on her phone, she thinks it’s her brother’s and connects the phone excitedly at once, but unexpectedly, she hears Qiao Keren’s urgent cry for help!

She is startled and asks instantly, “What happened?”

“My mummy has a high fever, but we dare not go out, because we feel bad guys are watching us.”

“Don’t go out. I’ll be there soon.”

“What’s wrong?” Seeing she looks abnormal, Han Siqi asks right away.

“Deng Anyu has a fever.”

Then Fu Zhengzheng walks outside, and Han Siqi follows her quickly.

It’s already after midnight, and it’s still cold on the night of the early spring.

After they get out of the car, Han Siqi holds Fu Zhengzheng’s hand and asks, “Are you cold?”

Fu Zhengzheng grins, “No. Your noodles make me energetic.”

They rush to the room where Qiao Yunhan and his family live and then send Deng Anyu to the hospital nearest to the municipal police office.

The doctor on duty examines her and says, “The patient is weak originally. What’s worse, she is scared excessively and gets a cold, so she has a fever. It’s not serious. Take some medicine and have an infusion for two days. Then she will be fine. This is the prescription. Pay the fees, take the medicine and then go to the infusion room.”

Qiao Keren takes over the prescription at once and is ready to go out.

“Miss Qiao, wait!” Fu Zhengzheng stops her immediately, turns aside and looks at Han Siqi, “Siqi, go with Miss Qiao.”

Han Siqi frowns and wants to refuse, but when he sees Fu Zhengzheng pointing to her injured arm, he shuts up.

Qiao Keren takes the hint, curls her lips and waves, “There are so many people in the hospital. It should be fine. I can go alone.”

Then she turns around and walks out in haste.

Han Siqi says to Fu Zhengzheng, “Take care”, and then goes out fast after Qiao Keren.

Fu Zhengzheng smiles and helps Deng Anyu go to the infusion room with Qiao Yunhan.

After Deng Anyu is seated, Qiao Yunhan looks at Fu Zhengzheng and apologized, “Miss Fu, sorry to bother you.”

Fu Zhengzheng shakes her head and replies sincerely, “Because of me, you come to C City that you are unfamiliar with— do you think I am hypocritical?”

Qiao Yunhan shakes his head and says with a long sigh, “We are to blame for pampering Keren too much before. Although I always appreciate Siqi, I have been not optimistic about their marriage from the beginning. But I know Keren’s temper that she won’t give up easily until it is completely hopeless.”

“Why do you mention what happened in the past? Keren has suffered the hardship that she deserves.” Deng Anyu who keeps closing eyes interrupts in a low voice suddenly.

Qiao Yunhan strokes his wife’s forehead and responds quietly, “Suffering is a kind of growth. Doesn’t Keren act more calmly than before? Blessings always come along with misfortunes.”

Deng Anyu doesn’t say anything else.

Fu Zhengzheng knows Deng Anyu doesn’t like her usually, but she doesn’t take it to heart. She smiles, brings a cup of hot water with a disposable dixie cup and gives it to Deng Anyu.

“Aunt, have a cup of hot tea.”

Deng Anyu takes it over and says slowly, “Thanks.”

“You are welcome.” Fu Zhengzheng smiles and sits down nearby.

Qiao Yunhan looks out. Finding Qiao Keren hasn’t returned, he asks suddenly, “Miss Fu, may I ask you a question?”

“Sure.”

“What did those men look for?”

Fu Zhengzheng meditates and roughly tells him the identity and death of Li Xiaomeng and what happened around the coffer.

Qiao Yunhan stares at her with his eyes wide open, shakes his head and sighs, “I never thought there would be so many stories with twists and turns.”

When they are talking, Qiao Keren and Han Siqi enter after a nurse.

Fu Zhengzheng rises quickly to give way for the nurse to infuse for Deng Anyu.

The nurse goes out after she finishes. Qiao Keren adds water to her mother’s cup and gives her some pills, “Mummy, the doctor told you to take these pills.”

Deng Anyu takes over the pills and looks at her daughter fondly.

Qiao Keren bends over to comfort her mother softly, “Mummy, have a sleep. When you wake up, infusion will be over and then we can go back.”

Deng Anyu nods relievedly and closes her eyes obediently.

Qiao Keren rises, looks at Fu Zhengzheng and points to the small balcony aside, “Fu Zhengzheng, how about going there to have a talk?”

Fu Zhengzheng has waited for it for a long time, and she nods immediately.

On the balcony, Qiao Keren looks at the indistinct moonlight and says as arrogantly as before, “Fu Zhengzheng, although you help our family this time, don’t expect that I will be grateful to you.”

Fu Zhengzheng smiles, “Miss Qiao, I am a policewoman now. It’s my duty to protect you, and I don’t need your gratitude.”

Qiao Keren pauses and then says, “I don’t know why those men affirm that Li Xiaomeng gave me something before she died. When I got home, I found my bedroom had been rummaged through. In the beginning, I thought a thief broke in. I was afraid my parents would be worried, so I didn’t tell them. Unexpectedly, they have an ulterior motive. You look for me for the same reason, right? But Li Xiaomeng didn’t give me anything before her death.”

Then Qiao Keren suddenly gnashes her teeth, “I took her as my good friend before, but unexpectedly she would have her eyes on Siqi and take advantage of me to enter Han family. I was really blind!”

Fu Zhengzheng breaks in, “Do you know how Li Xiaomeng died?”

“It’s reported that she died from a car accident. Her baby died as well. She got what she deserved! By the way, is it Siqi’s baby?”

“Of course not.” Fu Zhengzheng tells roughly again what Li Xiaomeng did as she just told Qiao Yunhan.

Qiao Keren is doubtful, “You’re asking about a key? Why did those guys hint at a map?”

“Map?” Fu Zhengzheng is confused too.

“Yes. They interrogated me with a knife, but I really didn’t know anything, so I asked then to give a hint. When daddy opened the door for you, they spoke the word ‘map’. Is it the map of the coffer that you mention?”

“Map?” Fu Zhengzheng mutters, “Is there a map for the coffer?”

She takes out her phone to call Yang Tao about the coffer map, but Yang Tao says he doesn’t know that.

Qiao Keren gives a thin smile and says, “Perhaps I was too nervous and mistook it.”

After Fu Zhengzheng hangs up the phone, she drops her eyebrows slightly and lowers her voice, “Fu Zhengzheng, if I say what I did in the past was all instigated by Li Xiaomeng, will you believe me?”

“Yes! Li Xiaomeng is too foxy while you are too innocent and loved Siqi so deeply then. Love can make a person become unreasonable and be deceived by an evil one easily.”

Qiao Keren stares at Fu Zhengzheng and finds her eyes are full of sincerity. She asks with doubt, “Don’t you hate what I did to you and Fu Xing?”

“I did when Fu Xing was hurt.”

Hearing that, Qiao Keren lifts her eyebrows and says, “I hated your guts too at that time. I couldn’t sleep well every night because of my hatred, and I almost ground my teeth.”

Then her eyes become red, “At that time, I thought Han Siqi was my whole world. Without him, I couldn’t survive. Later, I was taken to C City by my parents with force. Looking at them become a dozen years older within only two months and worry about me every day, I realized how willful and selfish I was. But Fu Zhengzheng, though I don’t hate you, I still dislike you. Even if you save my family for ten more times, I won’t wish happiness to you.”

Fu Zhengzheng responds lightly, “The happy life comes from your own discovery, operation and maintenance rather than other’s wishes.”

She thinks of Lin Yongcheng suddenly and sighs, “Everyone is pursuing happiness hard, but she doesn’t know happiness can actually be found when she turns around.”

Qiao Keren looks up at the night sky and suddenly finds that the moonlight becomes clear and bright. She pauses for a few seconds and sighs, “The happiest thing for me is that daddy and mummy will be healthy and can wear smiles every day.”

“They will!” Fu Zhengzheng smiles and brings the topic back, “We doubt there is a mysterious man behind Li Xiaomeng. We must find out the man. We have investigated all relations of Li Xiaomeng in B City, but we haven’t found any information about the mysterious man. Among all the people that have contacted her, only you are left.”

Qiao Keren meditates for quite a while and shakes her head, “She didn’t mention such a person to me.”

“Please think again.”

“No indeed.” Suddenly, Qiao Keren’s eyes light up, “Oh, I once saw Li Xiaomeng get into a man’s car. The man opened the door for her and fixed her hair. They looked intimate. Is it a clue?”

Fu Zhengzheng becomes excited, “Of course! What does the man look like?”

“The man gave his back to me, so I didn’t see his appearance, but I felt he might be young. Er…he has the similar height and figure to Han Siqi.”

“Where did you see him? When?”

Qiao Keren answers the questions one by one.

“Anything else?”

“Anything else? No, I went to the bar with my friend at that time and didn’t pay much attention. After that, I forgot to ask her.”

Although she doesn’t know many clues, Fu Zhengzheng is very glad and takes out her phone again to call Yang Tao and tell him the information.

After she hangs up the phone, she wants to talk with Qiao Keren about Lin Yongcheng, but Qiao Keren has entered. She only has to go back to the infusion room.

Qiao Keren sits beside her mother and stares at the infusion bottle. Qiao Yunhan and Han Siqi are talking in a low voice.

Seeing Fu Zhengzheng come in, Han Siqi stops talking, comes to her and says with a smile, “Are you tired? Sit down for a rest.”

“I’m not tired.” Fu Zhengzheng shakes her head and replies smilingly.

Fu Zhengzheng’s phone rings and it’s a strange number again.

“Zhengzheng, have you gone to bed?”

“Brother! Not yet!”

“I know you will wait for me. I’ll be back soon.”

The nurse has taken away the syringe needle for Deng Anyu. Fu Zhengzheng calculates the time in her heart and says, “OK.”

After Deng Anyu rests for a few minutes, Qiao Yunhan and Qiao Keren help her go out of the hospital.

When they get to the staff quarter building of the municipal police office, Qiao Yunhan refuses to be sent upstairs by them and asks them to go back for sleep.

Fu Zhengzheng disagrees and insists on sending them upstairs, saying she won’t be relieved until she sees them enter the room.

Qiao Yunhan doesn’t think so, “Look at where it is. They aren’t so reckless, are they?”

Qiao Keren persuades her father, “Daddy, let her go upstairs. With the time you spend on giving precedence to each other, we will get upstairs.”

Qiao Yunhan smiles and then they go upstairs together.

Qiao Keren takes out the key to open the door.

The staff quarter is a small common apartment with only a bedroom and a bathroom, which can be seen clearly.

Qiao Yunhan smiles, “As I said, everything is OK. Please go back to sleep.”

Fu Zhengzheng nods and goes out with Han Siqi.

“Wait!” Qiao Keren shouts suddenly.