Chapter 569
Chen Ge accompanied the father and daughter and experienced all the theme park's attractions that interested them . The girl showed some signs of fatigue at around three or four in the afternoon . She leaned against her father and sat at the resting hall outside of the Haunted House to catch her breath . Her eyes were closed, and she hugged a bottle of water in her arms with a smile still hanging on her face . It appeared like that day had been a lot of fun .
The father looked at his little girl with love in his eyes . His hand lightly touched the girl's head, and he suddenly realized that someone had added a little braid to the girl's hair . He did not know who had done that, but with this small braid, the girl looked more vibrant and lively . The father and daughter leaned against each other . Even though they were both physically impaired, Chen Ge had to admit that the picture that they formed was quite heartwarming .
"Why don't you two rest here for a while? Don't wander off on your own . I'll go talk to my workers at the Haunted House, and then I'll come back to take you home . " Chen Ge maintained his sense of rationality . One of the main reasons that he had agreed to accompany the father and daughter around theme park was because he could make use of this opportunity to get close to them and make them lower their guard .
Of course, Chen Ge did not once think about harming them—he just wanted to get to the bottom of the truth . The girl leaned against her father, and she looked very sleepy, barely able to get her eyes open .
There was still quite a period of time until that woman had promised to come . Chen Ge decided to personally take them home because it gave him the perfect chance to take a look around their family and understand their family situation . He had a feeling that there had to be a relationship between this girl and that water ghost .
Returning to the Haunted House, Duan Yue and Ol' Zhou had completely gotten used to their new identities . Chen Ge told them some things that they needed to be careful about, and then he went searching for Xu Wan . He told her to remember to close the door at 6 pm . After arranging all that, Chen Ge found his backpack and slid the recorder and the comic inside it . Xiao Gu was using the Skull-cracker's hammer as a prop, so this time, Chen Ge did not carry it with him .
"Come on, I'll take you home . " Chen Ge held the bag in one hand . It was hard to deny the sincerity in his eyes . The man scratched his head like he was in the middle of a deep hesitation . "My, sister, no, let, other, people, home . "
"Your little sister doesn't like you bring strangers to your home?" Chen Ge smiled . "I can understand that . She is worried that other people might bring you harm, attracting burglars to the house, but I'm not a stranger, am I? We had so much fun playing together, right?"
After some more persuasion, the middle-aged man finally agreed . After sending the two out of New Century Park, Chen Ge called a taxi and got into the car with the father and daughter . The little girl fell asleep not long after she got into the car . To not disturb her, Chen Ge and the middle-aged man very cooperatively did not say anything . Based on the address given by the middle-aged man, the taxi arrived at a very old residential area at the edge of Eastern Jiujiang .
The place was filled with old apartments that were about six or seven stories high, and the paint on the walls was peeling greatly . Chen Ge could hardly tell what the original color of the walls had been .
"From the looks of it, this place has been in existence for at least two or three decades already, right?"
After paying the cab fare, the group exited the car . "Your family stays here? But didn't you tell me that you lived near Eastern Jiujiang Dam?"
Chen Ge even purposely asked the taxi driver about it when they were coming over, and it seemed that this residential area was quite a distance away from Eastern Jiujiang Dam .
"My, house . " The man then said a few terms that seemed to be connected in some mysterious logic . Chen Ge could not grasp fully what he was trying to expression . Holding the sleeping little girls in his arms, the middle-aged man walked ahead . Since the man did not chase Chen Ge away, Chen Ge naturally followed behind the man .
The middle-aged man might have been intellectually lacking, but he had enough common sense to survive . He walked past the many old buildings to head toward the building that was furthest away . The sun was setting, hanging low in the sky . The surroundings were completely silent . It was still daytime, but for some reason, Chen Ge felt that the area was rather dark .
Perhaps it was just his imagination .
The corridor had a very low ceiling . Chen Ge would bump his head against it if he jumped a little higher . The only sensation that Chen Ge felt once he entered the place was a sense of pressure .
With the middle-aged man leading the man, they climbed up to the third floor . The man reached his hand into his collar and searched for a long time before finding the key that was tied around his neck . Like a child, he took out the key and placed it before his eyes . He studied it for a very long time before opening the door .
"Do you mind if come in?" The man did not say anything . He opened the door and then carried the girl into the room . He placed the little girl on the couch and then half-jogged into the bedroom as if he was in search of something . The place was very clean, different from a dirtiness that Chen Ge had been expecting . Even though the place was sparsely decorated and there was little furniture, everything was cleanly and neatly arranged .
There are only two pairs of slippers, one big and one small . There are also only two toothbrushes in the bathroom . Looks like the man's sister does not live with him . Normally, it is this man who looks after this child .
Someone with a mental problem looking after a child who also suffered from the same problem had managed to keep their living area so clean and neat—this came as quite a surprise to Chen Ge . He looked inside the bedroom . The man was kneeling on the ground . He opened the bedside table and took out a wool blanket .
As if afraid that he might mess up the things inside the room, his every action was very careful and deliberate . After finding the blanket, he rearranged everything before exiting the bedroom . The middle-aged man seemed to only have the little girl in his eyes . He covered the girl with the blanket with as light a touch as he could . He then sat down on the other side of the couch and looked at the girl lovingly, completely ignoring Chen Ge, who was still standing in the room .
"No wonder your little sister does not allow you to bring strangers home . If you run into a bad person, even if he cleared out this place, you probably would not have realized it . "
As he wandered around the room, Chen Ge began to respect the man more and more . The place was not big; there was only one bedroom and one very small kitchen . It was simple, but it felt very warm and homely . The man suffers from this family's hereditary illness and was abandoned by his wife, but he is able to survive with such dignity and determination . That is quite impressive .
Chen Ge walked into the bedroom . When his gaze scanned past the bedside table, he accidentally caught a framed picture that was sitting on it . He picked up the picture frame to take a closer look, and the picture inside the frame looked rather strange to him .
On a bright and sunny grass field, the middle-aged man was smiling blankly while the little girl was running after a fluttering butterfly . There should have been someone who stood beside them, but the person had been cut off from the picture . There was a hole in the shape of a person .
Could this be the child's mother?
He wanted to look for more clues, so he opened the bedside table . Chen Ge found a notebook that was hidden under the stack of clothes . He flipped through it and realized that the notebook was completely empty, but then again, he noticed that many pages of the notebook had been torn out already .
Whose notebook is this?
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