Chapter 162: Looking for Someone – The Daily Life of a Sickly Young Lady in the Compound

Chapter 162: Looking for Someone - The Daily Life of a Sickly Young Lady in the Compound

Lin Qing thought, so what if I’m not that nice? Nice people often get walked all over, and she never wanted to be a good person!

"Let her think whatever she wants!"

Lin Qing suddenly looked at Cen Xi and asked, "Nan, do you think I’m not nice enough?"

Cen Xi touched her hair and said, "I don’t need you to be nice! Besides, we both discovered the matter together. You didn’t say I’m not nice enough, and I didn’t say you’re not nice enough. Neither of us is that nice, so let’s not point fingers!"

Lin Qing couldn’t help but laugh out loud.

"You’re right! I’m not nice, and you, who let me get away with everything, aren’t either. We’re a perfect match!"

"Right!" Cen Xi nodded with a smile.

The two looked at each other and laughed!

"Wait, did you even wash your hands?" Lin Qing, after laughing, looked at the big hand still on her head and suddenly said.

Cen Xi froze and pulled his hand back.

"Ew! You didn’t wash your hands?"

"Oops!" Cen Xi laughed awkwardly.

"No big deal, we’ll just wash our hair tonight!"

"Ugh, you know how long it takes to dry my hair, right?" Lin Qing smoothed her long hair.

"It’s okay, it’s okay! I’ll help you dry it, no problem!" Cen Xi made a bold promise!

"You promised!"

"I did."

"Good! Then it’s settled!"

Cen Xi breathed a sigh of relief, glad that was over.

...

"Er Zhuang, where’s your big brother?" Qin Xianglian came to her sons' room and saw only Su Erzhuang alone, with the eldest completely missing.

"Ah? Oh! Big brother, he went out!"

"He went out? When? Why isn’t he back yet?" Qin Xianglian was both angry and anxious.

What time is it? That kid has no sense of time!

"Did your big brother tell you where he was going?"

Su Erzhuang shook his head, "I don’t know, he left this afternoon. I wanted to go with him, but my butt was killing me." Su Erzhuang looked bummed; his brother had promised to take him on an adventure, but his butt hurt too much to go.

"He left this afternoon and still isn’t back?" Qin Xianglian panicked and rushed out of the room yelling, "Mom, mom, Da Zhuang’s gone!"

"What? What did you say?" Mother Su shot up from her seat.

"What? Da Zhuang’s missing?"

Qin Xianglian was so anxious that she started crying, at a complete loss. "Yes, yes, Er Zhuang said he left in the afternoon. Look how late it is now!"

Mother Su was panicking too. It was already dark, and her eldest grandson still wasn’t back!

The thought that her eldest grandson might have had an accident made Mother Su nearly collapse.

Mother Su immediately thought of Mother Li, the neighborhood manager. Although she didn’t always see eye to eye with Mother Li, in such an emergency, Mother Li was the only person she could think of.

"Go, go find Mother Li and ask her to organize people to help us search!"

"Yes, yes, I’ll go right now!" Qin Xianglian hurried to the backyard.

"Mother Li! Mother Li! Help! Help!"

Mother Li’s whole family was startled by Qin Xianglian’s desperate cries. Mother Li even dropped the chicken she was eating.

"What’s all the yelling about?" Li Xiaomei muttered under her breath.

Mother Li gave her a look. "Mind your tongue!"

Li Xiaomei stuck out her tongue and mumbled, "Got it, got it!"

Qin Xianglian rushed into the Li household and pleaded, "Mother, Mother, sobbing… my Da Zhuang is missing!"

"What? Your Da Zhuang is missing!" Mother Li got serious right away. A child missing—could it be a kidnapping?

"Is it only your Da Zhuang?"

"Yes, yes." Qin Xianglian didn’t get why Mother Li asked.

Mother Li breathed a sigh of relief. If only Su Da Zhuang was missing, it probably wasn’t a kidnapping. That naughty kid probably just wandered off to play and forgot to come back.

"What about your Er Zhuang? Doesn’t he usually stick with your Da Zhuang all the time?" Mother Li pressed.

"My Er Zhuang didn’t go out with his brother this time."

"Your two kids are usually inseparable. Does your Er Zhuang know where your Da Zhuang went?"

Qin Xianglian cried, tears and snot streaming down her face. "No, he doesn’t know!"

Mother Li was frustrated by her cluelessness. She didn’t know anything, and even if they wanted to search, where would they start?

"I’ll go with you to the police station to file a report!" Mother Li thought this was the right thing to do. If a child is missing, it’s better to involve the police.

Qin Xianglian hesitated at the mention of going to the police station. What if Da Zhuang just wandered off? Would he get in trouble if they reported him missing?

"Maybe…"

"What do you mean? Not reporting it?" Mother Li immediately guessed her thoughts from her hesitant expression.

Mother Li asked expressionlessly, "How else are you going to find him without reporting it?"

Qin Xianglian hunched her shoulders, closed her eyes, and voiced her idea, "Mother… you could ask people to help us search… that… that would be enough!"

Mother Li was furious. "Ask people to help you search? Do you think we’re all more capable than the police?"

"No… no, I…" Qin Xianglian quickly shook her head.

"Mom, Mom, don’t be angry. Finding the child is what matters." Feng Xiaoli stepped in quickly when she saw her mother-in-law’s angry expression.

It wasn’t that she wanted to help Qin Xianglian, but she was afraid there might really be a kidnapper.

"Alright, alright, stop talking. I’ll go and ask the neighbors to help look for the child," Mother Li said as she stood up and walked out the door.

Qin Xianglian quickly followed, bowing in gratitude, "Thank you, thank you!"

"Enough already, no need for thanks. Use that energy to raise your two kids right and stop causing so much trouble!" Mother Li didn’t want to argue with her anymore.

As the neighborhood manager, Mother Li still had some influence.

Most of the young men from the backyard were called out, while the women stayed at home, as it wasn’t safe to leave the house unattended.

Mother Li headed to the front yard.

"Old Zhou, Zhou Qin, Su Dazhuang from the Su family has gone missing. You should come along and help look for the child!"

"What? Sister Lian’s Da Zhuang is missing?" Zhou Qin jumped up, agitated.

Qin Xianglian rushed over to Zhou Qin, bursting into tears, "Zhou Qin, my life is so bitter! Da Zhuang is gone, he’s gone, wuwu..."

Mother Li rolled her eyes at the scene. Qin Xianglian was asking for help to find the child, but why was she making such a fuss?

His wife was sitting right there—how could she act like this?

Mother Li didn’t want to get involved, "Alright, get ready and head out. I’ll check next door." With that, she left them and headed to the neighboring house.

"Huh? Mother Li, what brings you here?" Lin Qing was eating when someone suddenly walked through the door.

"Su Dazhuang is missing, I wanted to ask Cen Gong to help look for him!" Mother Li explained directly.

Lin Qing and Cen Xi exchanged shocked glances: ??? What’s going on?