struggle in a small town

Chapter 139 I Feel Someone Outside Your Dad
After school started, the business of the expansion center returned to normal.

During the week, apart from those brought by Hailan to take wedding photos, only scattered tourists came to play.

However, the number of tourists on weekends has more than doubled than before.

Lin Zhiyuan proudly showed off his business acumen to Zhang Xuejiao: "Did you sign the contract with Hailan right?"

"Yes~"

Since Lin Zhiyuan wanted to listen to Rainbow Fart, Zhang Xuejiao naturally offered it: "My husband is simply a rare genius who is rare in a hundred years. From now on, I won't read the Financial Times without your name."

Lin Zhiyuan couldn't close his mouth in a smile: "It's exaggerated."

"Where is this going?" Zhang Xuejiao said seriously: "Give me some time, and I promise to write a [-]-word commendation letter and stick it on the gate."

Lin Zhiyuan hugged her up: "Honey, some people say I'm a dog licker."

"What is licking a dog? Knowing that there is no result, it is impossible, and the other party doesn't like me at all, but he insists on stalking him to give him warmth, and doing something that can only touch him, that's called licking a dog."

Zhang Xuejiao kissed him: "You coax me, and I coax you too. We are pleasing each other."

Lin Zhiyuan smiled and asked: "When I chased you back then, didn't it count as licking?"

"In order to court a female bird, a male bird will brighten its bright feathers. In order to court a woman, a man will say a few nice words as a lick?"

Zhang Xuejiao recalled what Zhang Jianguo did: "When my father chased my mother, it took a lot of effort. My grandfather didn't like my father back then, thinking he was worthless, but my mother liked it."

"In order to get my grandpa to agree, my father sent rice, noodles, and oil when he had nothing to do. Today he repaired the radio, and tomorrow he bought electric fans. He spent all his spare time in it. It took more than two years to marry my mother."

Lin Zhiyuan answered, "Understood, I'm going to deliver rice, noodles and oil this weekend."

"Crazy!" Zhang Xuejiao smiled and thumped him: "My parents have opened a supermarket, what do you need?"

Sanqin Fangxie, just after she finished saying this, the phone rang, and it was my mother.

She talked about her father's embarrassing things behind her back, so she inevitably felt a little guilty: "Mom?"

Liu Huifang sounded worried: "Xiaoxue, come back, Mom has something to tell you."

"What's wrong?" Zhang Xuejiao immediately became nervous: "My grandma is not feeling well?"

"No, no, it has something to do with your father, so come back quickly."

Zhang Xuejiao repeatedly agreed: "I'll go back right away, don't worry!"

"You come back alone, don't take Xiaoyuan with you."

Before Zhang Xuejiao could ask any more questions, Liu Huifang hung up the phone.

Zhang Xuejiao was really confused.

She couldn't figure it out, what's going on at home that Lin Zhiyuan shouldn't know about?
But since my mother said it, she should be obedient.

Lin Zhiyuan saw her solemn expression: "What's wrong?"

"My mother asked me to go back alone, and her tone was not very good."

Lin Zhiyuan was really worried, and suggested: "I'll go with you, and wait for you by the roadside, if there is something to do, there will be time."

Zhang Xuejiao entered the door and saw Liu Huifang sitting on the sofa, her whole body was full of sadness, which was very abnormal.

"Mom, what's wrong with you?"

Liu Huifang sighed heavily: "There is something wrong with your father, I think there is someone outside him."

"What?" Zhang Xuejiao seemed to hear the Big Bang: "There is someone outside my dad? How is that possible!"

"What are you shouting for! Let your grandma hear it!"

Zhang Xuejiao hurriedly took a look at the room where her grandma lived, it was quiet, she should be fine, right?

Liu Huifang sighed again: "Half a month, your dad gets up at 03:30 every day, and goes out at four o'clock sharp, saying that he is going fishing. I don't understand why you have to get up so early for fishing?"

Zhang Xuejiao subconsciously asked: "Then does he have any fish when he comes back?"

"Sometimes yes, sometimes no."

Zhang Xuejiao thinks this is quite normal. Fishing, in her opinion, is just a matter of luck.

Liu Huifang added: "When there is no fish, you can either get some wild vegetables or a bag of soil when you come back. He has padded the land in the northeast corner of the backyard, saying it is for growing some vegetables."

Zhang Xuejiao tasted the product, and her voice became even lower: "Do you think my dad joined some strange organization? Fishing is fishing, what are you doing with soil?"

"I think there are people outside him, and all that is done is a cover-up."

Zhang Xuejiao would rather believe that her father joined a cult than that he was having an affair.

To put it bluntly, he's as rough as he is, frizzy in his actions, and doesn't know how to say a few good things. Who would talk to other women?
Most importantly, he has no money!

All the valuable things in the family, such as houses, cars, and bookcases, are all in Liu Huifang's name.

A man who should retire in a few years and has no money in hand, which woman is blind enough to have an affair with him?
But since Liu Huifang raised a question, Zhang Xuejiao had to help solve it: "Where is my father?"

"In the store." Liu Huifang added new information: "Your dad always comes back after eight o'clock, so don't delay the opening of the store."

Zhang Xuejiao nodded, thought for a while, and gave a reliable solution: "Mom, don't worry, I will get up at three o'clock tomorrow and squat at the door to see what my dad is doing."

In order not to make Zhang Jianguo suspicious, Zhang Xuejiao even borrowed a car from Hailan to save her father from finding out.

At 03:30 in the morning in September, the weather is still a bit cold.

Zhang Xuejiao and Lin Zhiyuan huddled in the car, folded their arms and waited quietly for Zhang Jianguo to come out.

There are almost no pedestrians on the road, and occasionally a car passes by, bringing some wind noise.

Zhang Xuejiao was bored waiting, and joked with Lin Zhiyuan: "Don't we look like scoundrels?"

"Nonsense, it's obviously a plainclothes stalker."

The two chatted a few words, and Zhang Jianguo drove out.

Lin Zhiyuan cheered up and followed him far away, keeping a distance of more than 20 meters.

The vehicle shuttled through the silent city, quickly left the urban area, and continued to drive east.

Lin Zhiyuan was unfamiliar with the road: "Where is the front?"

"We're almost at the crematorium."

Speaking of which, the gate of the funeral parlor appeared in front of him, but Zhang Jianguo was still opening to the east.

Zhang Xuejiao looked solemn: "Going forward, you will reach the county."

After driving for about ten minutes, Zhang Jianguo turned onto a small road, which seemed to be going to the village.

Lin Zhiyuan didn't dare to follow closely, and waited for a while before turning around.

In the end, the two were dumbfounded. How could there be Zhang Jianguo in front of them?
Zhang Xuejiao looked at the village not far away, and her head grew big: "Is my dad really related to a woman in the village? It's too ridiculous!"

"I don't believe it." Lin Zhiyuan drove forward: "How addictive is it? You ran out to have an affair at four o'clock in the morning?"

There was a car light coming from behind, Zhang Xuejiao turned her head: "There is a car."

Lin Zhiyuan accelerated his driving speed.

As a result, the car behind was walking and turning.

Lin Zhiyuan pulled over and stopped: "Do you think Dad will also be abducted from there?"

"Who knows."

Zhang Xuejiao desperately looked in that direction, but it was too dark to see anything.

Lin Zhiyuan suggested: "Go and have a look."

What can we do now?
It's all here, it's definitely not going to work if you don't figure it out.

Zhang Xuejiao promised her mother.

Lin Zhiyuan reversed the car slowly, and drove in along the rut in front, and soon saw several small cars parked not far away, including Zhang Jianguo's car.

Zhang Xuejiao was very worried: "Oh my god, what are these people doing!"

(End of this chapter)