“I’ll take it.” Zhang Huaxiu came over and picked up the phone. “Hi, who is this?”

“Hi, I am Shu Jianyang, Shu Yan’s cousin. She had turned this shop over?”

“Oh, you are Yanyan’s cousin? No, she had me help her manage this shop and hasn’t been in in a while. She might be home. Have you tried her at home?” Zhang Huaxiu was aware that Shu Yan had a cousin that she was close to.

“Yes, I just tried her home. They said she was out.”

“Oh, maybe she went over to the office then. Let me give you the number to her office. Just call her there.” Zhang Huaxiu gave Shu Jianyang the number.

Shu Jianyang looked at the cop next to him innocently, “They said she’s at her office.”

Shu Jianyang took a deep breath to stop himself from slapping Shu Jianbin. “Comrade Cop, I think we need to have a talk about this.”

“Sure, let’s take our time to talk about this.” Murder charges, and three of them no less. They would be spending a lot of time talking over it.

“Those sitting outside filing a police report were my Second Uncle and Aunt. I am guessing that they said I’ve killed Shu Yan, my cousin. Gosh, that imagination. They should be writing scripts for television shows. What a waste of their talent.” Shu Jianyang snickered.

“So your cousin is still alive?” The cop who was going to interrogate him immediately caught the message.

They’ve waited for a few days and, never mind about Shu Yan, even Shu Jianyang had disappeared. The deposit that they had paid was already gone and they had been asked a few times for payment. Running out of options, the family checked their mother out of the hospital.

Shu Youfu yelled at Lin Zixiang on their way back. “Look at your stupid idea. You weren’t able to trick her to come back and we ended up spending a bunch of money at the hospital.”

“Oh, you think it was easy? I’ve starved myself for so long just so I could lose a bunch of weight and taken a bunch of random pills on top of that.” Lin Zixiang gritted her teeth when she thought about Shu Yan. “Just like Xiao Feng said, that girl is like a whole different person since the divorce. She used to come running back when I had just a headache or a fever in the past. Now she won’t even come back even if I have died. Do you think Shu Jianyang didn’t even make the call at all?”

“She, she just wants me to die~~~~~” Lin Zixiang rolled in the bed while holding onto her stomach. “I don’t want to live anymore. I am so sick already and my daughter still refuses to come and visit me. Will she only come after I die?”

“You look quite lively to me right now. I am sure you will be around for a while long. Anyways, if you wan to head to capital city, we can take off right now. If you don’t want to go today, then I am not going to wait around. Same words as Shu Yan, you have three sons and you them on a pedestal when you raised them. Why are you look for your daughter instead of any of your sons now?” He had never heard of such a thing within 8 villages and a 10-mile radius.