Rebirth of the Millennial: Getting Rich After Parents Get Laid Off

Chapter 99 I will come back safely
The reporter also quickly asked the photographer to point the camera at the backpack that had been dug out.

The muddy backpack was enlarged on the TV screen. When Shen Qingqing and the others saw it, disappointment spread across everyone's face.

That backpack did not belong to any of the three: Li Xunli, Li Xunjin, or the son of the fifth ancestor.

After finding the backpack, the search and rescue team also discovered signs of life using a detector and launched a rescue operation.

The TV station's live coverage ends here.

After that, it was the TV station's late-night theater time, and there were no more live news reports.

The dull and depressing atmosphere once again spread among everyone. They saw backpacks that did not belong to their relatives, and saw that the first group of people rescued after the rescue team launched the rescue was a couple, but there was no sign of Li Xunli, Li Xunjin, and the fifth uncle's son.

No matter how depressed you are, you still have to go to work or school tomorrow.

However, Shen Rongzhou used up his two days of leave at the end of the month in advance. Fortunately, Zhang Zeqin knew his situation and was very quick to approve his leave.

After failing to obtain any useful information, Shen Rongzhou took his two daughters and went back.

To be on the safe side, Shen Hong did not bring her home to live.

The fifth uncle also contacted his grandson to pick him up.

Shen Yangyang had fallen asleep a long time ago and was abruptly woken up and taken to the car to go home.

After settling Shen Yangyang down, when Shen Qingqing took her clothes to take a shower, she saw her father sitting on the sofa in the living room, sighing and scratching his hair with his hands.

"Dad, Mom and uncle will definitely come back safely!" Shen Qingqing walked over and said in a low voice. It seemed like she was asking Shen Rongzhou for confirmation, but also seemed like she was comforting herself.

Shen Rongzhou stopped scratching his hair, took a deep breath, turned to look at Shen Qingqing, and forced a comforting smile: "Yes, Mom and Uncle will definitely come back safely, Dabao, don't worry, hurry up and take a bath and go to bed, you still have school tomorrow!"

Shen Qingqing nodded weakly.

Watching his daughter enter the bathroom, Shen Rongzhou's barely maintained smile dropped to the corners of his mouth, and his eyes stared solemnly at the motionless mobile phone on the table.

Neither the local police nor Zhang Zeqin received any information.

Shen Rongzhou clenched his fists. For the first time, he felt that his idea of ​​living according to the routine for so many years was too cowardly.

If he were in the same position as Zhang Zeqin now, he wouldn't need to wait here for a call that might come at any time. He would have the ability to find someone to ask, or even go out and look for him directly!
After Shen Qingqing came out of the bathroom, she saw Shen Rongzhou leaning on the sofa with his eyes closed. She was about to go over and tell her father to take a shower first and wait for news, when she saw her father's closed eyelids move under the light, and tears flowed out from the corners of his eyes.

Shen Qingqing's steps suddenly stopped. In her memory, she could count the number of times she saw her father cry on one hand. Two of them were during her most rebellious growth period, because he hit her and quarreled with her, and the father and daughter cried and yelled at each other.

There were two other times when her mother was diagnosed with lung cancer and she accidentally caught her father secretly wiping away tears alone.

Shen Qingqing did not go over, but returned to her room silently. The door was not closed tightly, leaving a gap. She sat at the desk, turned on the small desk lamp, and waited for news with her father.

As the night deepened, the sounds of cars on the street outside became fewer and fewer, leaving only a few sporadic hums. Shen Qingqing's consciousness began to become a little fuzzy, and she couldn't help but want to fall onto the table.

There had been no movement in the living room, but after the sound of a car, a cell phone ringtone suddenly rang in the house.

Shen Qingqing stood up suddenly, opened the door and saw her father answering the phone. He choked and shouted, "Wife..."

Shen Qingqing couldn't hold back her tears anymore. She ran over and hugged her father's thighs. With red eyes, she looked up at her father and cried, "Mom!"

Li Xunli on the other end of the phone obviously heard Shen Qingqing's crying, and quickly asked Shen Rongzhou to give the phone to the child.

Shen Rongzhou put the phone next to Shen Qingqing's ear. Shen Qingqing cried so hard that her nose was blocked by snot bubbles. Her voice was muffled and heavy: "Mom..."

"Dabao! Dabao, don't cry. Mom is fine! Uncle is fine too. We are all fine. Don't cry!" Li Xunli's heart was in a knot when she heard her daughter crying like this.

This is also the reason why she decided to make the call to report her safety after being rescued even though she knew it was already late at night.

The father and daughter calmed down with Li Xunli's constant comfort. Shen Qingqing cried so hard that her head was blocked, and Li Xunli ordered her to wash her face and go to bed.

Shen Rongzhou also could not escape Li Xunli's command.

Unlike the sleepless night in the first half of the night, after hearing the voice of the person they cared about, Shen Rongzhou and Shen Qingqing were finally able to sleep peacefully.

Shen Qingqing, who had slept for less than four hours, was woken up by Shen Rongzhou the next morning. She felt like she was being dragged by a ghost and couldn't open her eyes no matter what.

Shen Rongzhou wrung out a hot towel and covered her face with it, letting her relax for a while before she could slowly open her eyes.

Shen Qingqing sat up with a dull headache, pressed down the towel that Shen Rongzhou had covered her face, and asked in a muffled voice, "Dad, when will Mom and Uncle come back?"

Shen Rongzhou's eyes were now bloodshot, and his face was exhausted. It was obvious that he hadn't slept well last night. "It'll take another two days. The damage over there is very serious, and transportation is temporarily blocked."

Shen Qingqing got off the bed: "Are mom and uncle injured?"

"No, when the landslide happened, your mother and the others happened to follow the exploration team into a cave on relatively high ground to rest, so no one was injured." Shen Rongzhou took the hot towel handed to him by Shen Qingqing and looked at his daughter's eyes, which were still red and swollen.

——Or maybe I cried too hard last night.

"So where are they now? Are they still in the cave? Are they safe?" Shen Qingqing asked while putting on her clothes.

"She's not in the cave anymore. She was found last night. She left with the rescue team at daybreak when it wasn't raining. She should be in the hotel they stayed in before. It's a safe place. Your mother told me last night not to worry, and that she'd be back safely." Shen Rongzhou took out a towel. "We had soy milk and fried dough sticks this morning. Go wash up first. I'll wake Yangyang up."

"Okay." Shen Qingqing closed her stinging eyes tightly and walked towards the bathroom.

　The next chapter will be a little later~
　　(End of this chapter)