Chapter 69: Water Account

  Tonight has been too much, especially with the appearance of someone who sounds exactly like Zhong Ling'er, and Wu Lele's life or death is still unknown. I blame it on that monster in the water. Doubt, worry, and hatred have made my eyes red, but instead of fearing the monster in the water, I've gained more courage to face her. It's infuriating me, I'm so angry that I want to bite her to death!

  Unexpectedly, from the lower water to the lower pool, it was surprisingly smooth.

  When I emerged from the water, I found a person sitting on the shore outside the pool. She was sitting on a rock, with her head resting on her knees, staring at me motionlessly.

  "Hurray!" I was overjoyed and hastily swam out of the water pool, came to Wu Lele's face and grabbed her shoulders, asking: "Are you okay?"

  "You're finally here, I've been waiting for you for a long time."

  I looked her up and down, saw that she was really okay, and then put my mind at ease. I asked her what she was waiting for me to do, why didn't she swim over? Wu Lele said: "I just wanted to see how you would treat me. If you didn't come down to find me, I'd sit here until I died."

  These words are really heartbreaking, I said you're such a big person now, yet you still have this childish temper. Of course, I would come to find you, do you think I and Hao Ge would ignore you? Wu Lele chuckled: "I knew you and Dead Haozi wouldn't ignore me." She stood up, patted her butt and said: "Alright, let's go up now." I said wait a bit longer, Wu Lele asked who we were waiting for. I asked her what happened after she fell into the water earlier, was it the monster in the water that pulled her in? But Wu Lele raised her head, being mysterious on purpose and said: "I won't tell you!"

  Looking at her like this, she must not have been disadvantaged in the water just now, otherwise she wouldn't be so optimistic.

  Since she didn't say anything, I won't ask again. As long as she's fine, that's all that matters. I decided to wait for another two or three minutes, Zhang Yunhao will use my phone to call his phone, and see if I can hear the ringtone of his phone from here.

  I came to the entrance of the cave on the shore, took out my mobile phone and shone it inside. If the person who was talking to us with Zhang Yunhao's mobile phone earlier was speaking to us from underwater, she might be hiding in this cave. I tried to push away the stones blocking the entrance, but I don't know if it was because I was too tired tonight, I pushed for half a day without moving them. Wu Lele asked me what I wanted to do, I said nothing, patted my hands, worried that Zhang Yunhao would get anxious waiting upstairs, so I said let's go up.

  Afraid of meeting that monster in the water again, I called Wu Lele to follow closely behind me. We got into the water together and swam side by side, smoothly swimming out of the water surface.

  As soon as we reached the shore, Zhang Yunhao came forward to greet us. He grabbed one hand of mine and one hand of Wu Lele's with each of his hands and pulled us up onto the shore. With a smile, he said: "I knew you wouldn't die." Wu Lele snorted and said angrily: "I finally see your true face, you deadbeat!" Zhang Yunhao asked her what she meant, and Wu Lele pretended to be angry, saying: "Nothing, I just saw that when I wasn't coming up, you didn't even come into the water to look for me. You're afraid of death and don't care about friends..." Zhang Yunhao immediately cried out in protest, and I said, "You two stop arguing, we've been busy all evening, it's time for us to head back."

  I put on my clothes and tidied up with them, tonight we suffered a great loss, Zhang Yunhao was seriously injured by the stone statue, his mobile phone and flashlight were lost together with Wu Lele's, now only I have one flashlight left, but the battery is running out, judging from the dim yellow light, it can probably last for less than half an hour. Fortunately, we are all fine, especially Zhang Yunhao and Wu Lele, I thought they were dead, which made me heartbroken for a while.

  After going through this, I thought to myself that from now on, I should be nicer to them and not wait until they're really gone before feeling regretful. By then, everything would have been meaningless.

  I asked Zhang Yunhao if he had called his cell phone, and he said he did, but the other party didn't answer. Then he handed me the phone and said that there was an unanswered call just now, unfortunately it only rang once before the phone went dead, and I don't know who made the call.

  As the flashlight's light grew weaker, we hastily descended the mountain. Fortunately, it was a cement road and wide enough that as long as we walked steadily, we didn't have to worry about falling, so we walked very quickly.

  On the mountain, I saw a light far away at the foot of the mountain. From afar, it looked like the light from a flashlight, and there were two lights. The three of us guessed who it might be. Zhang Yunhao and Wu Lele said it was Zhong Ling'er and that man. I didn't say anything, and for some reason, my heart felt extremely uncomfortable. I don't know if it's because I've been soaking in the water for too long and got sick.

  When we walked down the mountain, the flashlight had exhausted its battery and finally went out. We got on the car.

  As soon as Wu Lele got on the car, she fell asleep. I saw that her clothes were all wet and was worried that she would catch a cold, so I took off my clothes to cover her with them. She opened her eyes, looked at me, and asked in a spoiled tone: "What are you doing?" I said nothing, and she asked again: "Then why did you take off your clothes and expose your back?" I said wasn't it for you as a blanket? She looked half-believing and half-doubtful, and then shyly said: "Don't take advantage of me while I'm sleeping." I couldn't help but laugh and said you're thinking too much, go to sleep, don't think nonsense. Wu Lele pouted again: "I'm so cold, give me some warmth." I said your words are really many, can you quietly sleep? Wu Lele hummed: "You're so petty!" Zhang Junhao laughed and said: "Dage (brother), just hug her, after all, she's your wife, don't be shy."

  "I'm not his wife," Wu Lele said with a sour tone: "His wife is that little goddess Zhong Ling'er." Zhang Yunhao chimed in, "That's not accurate, Zhong Ling'er at most is a concubine, you're the legitimate wife." I angrily said, "If you two continue to gang up on me, I'll kick both of you down." Zhang Yunhao was unafraid, saying if you can drive, then go ahead and kick us. Wu Lele said, "Haozi, if we join forces to kick him, won't our chances of winning be higher?" Zhang Yunhao immediately responded, "Of course, I'm just afraid you won't be able to bring yourself to do it." Wu Lele said, can't bring myself to use my hands, but can use my feet...

  Can't take them anymore.

  The car entered the city, I asked Zhang Yunhao to go to the hospital to check his face first, he said it was nothing, our clothes were all wet, and we sent me and Wu Lele back home first.

  I arrived at the apartment building and told Wu Lele to go up first, then I went to the hospital with Zhang Yunhao.

  After arriving at the hospital, the doctor applied medicine to Zhang Yunhao's face while asking who he had fought with. I said that he had just quarreled with his girlfriend and accidentally ended up like this. The doctor laughed and said that girls nowadays are really too violent!

  After leaving the hospital, we went to have a midnight snack and brought a roasted chicken for Wu Lele. After returning home, that girl changed into another set of clothes, looking much more elegant, but with a tired expression on her face. I handed the roasted chicken to her and asked why she didn't sleep, she said she was waiting for us to come back.

  I charged my phone and turned it on, only to find that the missed call was from Mr. Qian. I couldn't help but wonder what this rich guy wanted with me. Was he going to return the check to me?

  Too tired, didn't think much, fell asleep as soon as I lay down.

  The next day, I was woken up by the ringing of my mobile phone. I picked it up and saw that it was an unfamiliar number. Just as I was about to answer, the other party hung up. I looked at the time and was shocked - 11 o'clock! I quickly jumped out of bed, put on my clothes, rushed out of the living room, and hurriedly knocked on Zhang Junhao and Wu Lele's door, telling them that we were late. They lazily responded with a "oh" and didn't pay attention to me anymore.

  A bunch of lazy pigs!

  Anyway, skipping class is a done deal, I think I'll just go to school this afternoon. Feeling hungry, was thinking of going for instant noodles, phone rang again. Saw it was the same number as before, so I picked up. Didn't expect it to be Niu Niu's voice, asking me why I didn't attend class today. Thought I misheard, how did she come to care about this? Isn't she treating me like an enemy? Is she actually warm-hearted towards me despite her cold exterior?

  I said I overslept and then asked her what's up, but all I heard was "My godfather is looking for you."

  So that's how it is! I secretly mocked myself, really loving to be overly sentimental.

  I asked her what Mr. Qian wanted with me, she said she didn't know either, he called my phone last night but I didn't answer, and this morning too, so he found Niu Niu instead, when she said that, Niu Niu let out a very disdainful snort, as if calling me made her lose face. In anger, I hung up the phone.

  After a while, Niu Niu called again and asked me why I hung up on her. I said coldly: "Next time your father wants to find me, tell him to call me himself. You'd better not call me again." After finishing speaking, I hung up the phone and threw it onto the sofa. Just as I walked to the kitchen door, the doorbell rang. I opened it and saw that it was a delivery person, who asked if I was Mr. Zhang Yunhao. I said yes, and he said there was a package for me.

  I closed the door and saw that it was a package about the size of a mobile phone box, but there was no sender's address. I wondered who would send something to Zhang Yunhao and what it could be.