Chapter 173 Mutations

It was already past 1:00 a.m. when Cheng Ming returned home, and since the last red flag that he couldn’t get a hard-on, Cheng Ming had rarely stayed up until this point.

Compared to the uneasiness at the beginning of the rebirth, and the urgency of human life, it is more leisurely now.

Cheng Ming’s bedroom door was hidden, letting out a faint light.

Cheng Ming pinched his brows, facing Chen Ziye, he could have gotten away with it.

But his own sister, his own home, but really can not run for a moment, can not run for a lifetime.

Cheng Ming lightly pushed open the door, Cheng Li sat cross-legged on the bed, “Woken up by me?”

“No, woken up by the sound of the phone in the middle of the night.”

“Uh ……”

Chen Ziyi this guy is really disturbing people’s dreams ah, but her look of suffering, and even picked tonight to put the words to explain, I’m afraid that not only this summer vacation can not see each other, was her strong mom sent to foreign countries for further study.

It’s not uncommon for people to go abroad in high school, like his childhood playmates.

“Where’s Mom? Did she get woken up too?”

“No, thanks to me picking up the phone in time. But the other party immediately hung up the phone, like a monkey, don’t let me know who called.” Cheng Li clenched her small fists and said.

Not only do you know who it is, but you’re on good terms with her.

“Enough about the phone call, where have you been, brother? I didn’t see you in the restroom either?”

“Just got back from the new side of the house.”

Omit the words of the large middle passage of the process.

“What’s the point of going to the new house?”

“It’s a long story.”

“Sit on the bed and talk slowly, word for word kind of thing.” Cheng Li said as he patted the empty seat beside him.

Should I tell my sister and Jing about Chen Zi Yi.

Say it, like it’s no big deal.

“Actually, the one who just called our house was Chen Ziyi.”

“Eh? It’s actually her? Then why didn’t you say a word to me and just hang up the phone, I’m going to ask her to make it up to me tomorrow, ah …… no, today.”

“You may not see her today, or even for a long time.”

“Why?”

“Her mom’s coming back, and she’ll probably have to take all kinds of cram classes for the rest of her.”

“So ……”

Cheng Li burrowed into Cheng Ming’s arms and stepped on his thighs, her upper body lying on his shoulders, her head hanging against Cheng Ming’s back.

Cheng Ming, who was afraid that his sister would fall, hugged her thin waist.

Cheng Li sniffled, furrowed her brows, and asked suspiciously, “Brother, you still have a woman’s perfume smell on you, it stinks, go take a shower.”

“Are you a dog? This can even be smelled.”

Chen ZiYi keeps calling Cheng Ming a dog, I wonder if it’s as a counter to Cheng Ming calling her a pig.

“This smell seems to be from Sister Chen, what did you guys go and do so late in the night, it can’t be something you’ve done to apologize to Sister Jingyi, right?”

“Ah, it’s actually ……”

Cheng Ming didn’t hide anything and told the whole story, even the two of them falling together.

“Fell down? Why didn’t you tell me earlier, it didn’t hurt, did it?” Cheng Li asked worriedly.

“Just bumped my head and elbow on the floor.”

Cheng Li first touched Cheng Ming’s head, did not see any blood, slightly reassured, and then straightened Cheng Ming’s arm, looked at his elbow, rubbing the skin of the wound has been scabbed, exuding a faint smell of blood.

“Wow, that was a bad fall, doesn’t it hurt?”

“It doesn’t hurt much now.”

“I’ll go get alcohol, red potion and cotton swabs.” Cheng Li jumped out of bed, fussing.

“There’s no need, the wound scabbed over a long time ago, and I’m so young, with normal platelet function, I’ll be alive and well tomorrow.”

“What if it leaves a scar?”

“It doesn’t matter if there are scars in a place like this, and I’m a man, it’s only normal to have a few scars, right?”

Cheng Li took it upon himself to go and carry the family’s small medicine box, which contained mostly cold medicines that his sister took, as well as alcohol.

Most of the time, my sister had a high fever in the middle of the night, so I rubbed alcohol on her body to temporarily lower her temperature, and then sent my sister to the nearest clinic or hospital when it was light.

Cheng Li took the alcohol-soaked cotton swab and leapt to his feet, “Brother, hold out your hand.”

Is it really caring about him and not trying to play?

The cold alcohol was applied to the already scabbed wound, and Cheng Ming, who ate the pain, closed his eyes tightly and sucked in a mouthful of cool air, saying, “Hiss, you’re gentle ……”

“Hmph, you know it hurts now? Change your hand.”

Tell you to go out in the middle of the night and have a rendezvous with another girl.

“Sister Chen should know that brother you and Sister Jing Yi are boyfriend and girlfriend, right?”

Cheng Li finished applying the alcohol and then the red potion, which was only a small injury, but now it looked quite serious.

“Know.”

Rather, it would be better to say that she was the one who first found out that Cheng Ming and Lin Jingyi’s relationship had gone further.

“Then she definitely has no chance, why would she confess to her brother, wouldn’t it be better to have a secret crush? Isn’t that strange?”

“I also wonder, maybe Chen Ziyi is the kind of person who knows that there is a wall in front of him. But people who won’t die until they hit a wall, right, don’t you know too much? Even know the word crush.” Cheng Ming pinched his sister’s cheeks and said.

“Falling in love is a girl’s favorite topic, you know that word is weird? Brother, don’t keep treating me like a kid, I’m already in middle school.”

“You do realize that you’re going to be a junior in high school soon, and it’s almost time you learned to sleep alone, right?”

“I’m going to sleep, brother, turn off the light.”

Cheng Li threw the cotton swab in his hand and fell back to sleep.

Cheng Ming had to screw the lids on the alcohol and red potion, pick up the cotton swabs on the floor and throw them into the trash can before turning off the lights and going to bed.

“Brother, you smell so bad.”

“It’s not even the red potion you put on it, so go back to your room and sleep if you don’t like the stench.”

“I’m talking about Sister Chen’s flavor.”

“So I’m going to take a shower?”

“What kind of shower is it at night, do you want to wash off the red potion I managed to put on? And hair dries very slowly, the hair dryer is so noisy, and mom has to work tomorrow.”

Obviously you were the one who just told me to take a shower.

Early the next morning, Mom was whispering in her sister’s ear as usual.

Cheng Li gave a military salute toward his mom and said, “Guarantee to complete the mission.”

It’s nothing more than asking her sister to spy on Auntie Lian’s and Xu Juan’s movements and conversations again.

Although divorced, it’s not as easy to let go.

Cheng Li flopped down on the bed, shaking his little legs, his cheek pressed against the cold books and said, “Brother, it always feels so quiet today.”

“It’s just the two of us, after all.”

Chen Ziyi has to get her strength up for her mother’s return, I wonder how her feet are hurting and if they will leave scars, she kinda likes to wear dresses.

Rei, on the other hand, has to watch the store.

Usually at this time of the day, Jing Jing is here early, but today I don’t know what’s holding her up.

“Sister Jingyi is not coming over today?” Cheng Li asked, it’s good not to come, it’s just her and her brother’s world alone.

No, there’s another greaser in the den.

“I should be coming over, it’s a day when we have to write papers, and if there’s something going on in the family, if we’re going to grandparents or grandma’s house, we’ll call ahead and tell us about it.”

“If you’re so worried about her, just call her.”

“Fair enough.”

But the phone rang unanswered for a long time.

“Can’t get through on the phone? No one’s home? Or is it in arrears?” Cheng Li guessed.

“It’s not so bad to be in arrears ……”

The cost of phone calls this summer should skyrocket.

Cheng Li suggested, “Why don’t we go to her house to find her.”

When he said he was leaving, before he left, Cheng Ming didn’t forget to push open the study and instructed, “Xu Juan, we’re going out for a trip, so be a good boy and watch the house.”

Every day, he showed his face in front of Xu Juan to increase his presence.

A trip to Jing’s house was a bust, but her bike was parked nicely under the silo.

“Where the hell did it go? Something shouldn’t have happened.”

Cheng Ming vaguely had a hint of foreboding, is it because it’s been too smooth sailing lately, so it’s oversensitive?

As a reborn person, big events can be predicted, subtle to the people around you, but mostly unpredictable.

Cheng Li waved his hand and said, “Brother you’re thinking too much? The odds are that Sister Jingyi has gone back to her hometown in the countryside, right?”

“But it’s not the weekend, Uncle Lin and Auntie Ren both have to work, so it’s unlikely she’ll go back alone.”

Went back after lunch and still no one was there.

Dad didn’t come home for dinner either, and if he’d had an engagement, he would have said so ahead of time.

It was around eight o’clock before Dad came home from a phone call.

“Little Ming, did Jing Jing come to play at our house today?”

“No, I haven’t seen her around all day today, what’s wrong?”

Shouldn’t it be Uncle Lin’s side ……

“Something big has happened on the URA’s side, your Uncle Lin was arrested by the inspectorate this morning for quarantine review.”

Sure enough it happened, but why did it happen two years early.

Cheng Ming has thought about the possibility of breaking out a year or half a year in advance, and even wanted to find the real embezzlers of the URA first, so that Uncle Lin could execute justice and report upwards.

From the original victim to a whistleblower, because of the whistle-blowing, promotion is not something that one dare not think about.

“Bad ah, it seems that the matter of Ren Mei fleeing with her daughter to escape from the crime is true, the woman is just short-sighted, have been in the system for most of her life, how can this point of reasoning do not understand, where else can you run to these days ah, go abroad to suffer? Even she doesn’t believe her husband, instead she will sit on Xuejun’s charges.”

“Could it be that someone told Auntie Ren and Jing to go into hiding? In a moment of panic Auntie Ren went into hiding first?”

It doesn’t make sense that Auntie Ren would do something so stupid.

“Who knows, it happened suddenly, the Discipline Commission’s action this time was long planned and well-documented, I can’t go back tonight, I’m going to be arrested for questioning later.”

“Dad too? Aren’t you a temp?”

“The URA’s rotten accounts turned up that called a stink, can be traced back to those days when I used to work in the URA, it is estimated that some of the people who have risen from the URA will not be able to run away, Nanming City is going to change the sky.”

“You’ll tell your mom about this later, and tell her to go get Ren Mei and Jing Jing back, and stop running around adding to the chaos.”

“I know, I’m on my way.”

Cheng Ming was in a hurry to drive his sister back home, the first thing his mom said was, “Is Jing Jing with you?”

“No.”

“Mom you already know about Jing’s family?”

“That’s right, it’s even in the newspaper, it’s been all over the city for a long time, this circle is very small, good things don’t get out of the door, bad things spread a thousand miles.”

A newspaper? This was indeed an oversight on Cheng Ming’s part.

As a reborn person, he had long been accustomed to using the Internet to get the latest news. But now the Internet is not developed, big events are easy to see on the Internet. But the big events that were sensationalizing Nanming City couldn’t make it to the stage ah.

In the future, you will have to read the newspaper every day, or you will be in a passive situation again, combining reality to maximize the effect of Futuroscope.

“Then let’s go find Auntie Ren and Jing Jing.” Cheng Ming urged, “First find the people, then find evidence to prove Uncle Lin’s innocence.”

“There’s no need to look for them, they’ve been recaptured.”

“Eh, so soon?”

Nowadays, there are still many dead ends in surveillance, and the Skynet system has not yet been fully constructed, which will indeed make people feel that there are loopholes to be exploited.

“They wanted to go back to their hometown to avoid the wind, but they were reported by their relatives, and now they are probably being questioned. But they are just family members, they won’t be detained, they should be able to go home tomorrow, the probability is that they will be under surveillance, Ren Mei’s job in the Family Planning Office should be untenable, and Jing Jing’s future will also be affected.” Li Ying said pessimistically.

“Mom, Uncle Lin must have been wrongly accused, as long as we prove Uncle Lin’s innocence.”

Li Ying rubbed Cheng Ming’s head and said, “Silly child, the disciplinary inspection has been deployed, usually there is not much room to turn the tide, you don’t worry too much about them, the big deal is that I’ll take them to live in my home, as if the daughter-in-law has passed through the door in advance.”

“Brother, are you worried about Sister Jingyi?”

Cheng Li was confused when he heard the sudden news, the one thing that is certain is that Sister Jing Yi is not a reborn person, right?

Otherwise she should know the situation in her own family better than anyone else, or at least the tragedy of her previous life should have been avoided ah.

“Uh-huh.”

It’s impossible not to be worried, obviously staying together every day is to be afraid that this thing will suddenly happen ah, and as a result, I still didn’t protect her properly ah.

“Brother, can we ask Sister Chen for help? Her father’s a big official, right?”

“It’s hard, and getting her help doesn’t always work, you think you can just let someone go by shouting “Stay under the knife” like in ancient TV shows, don’t you? Everything is about evidence.”

This kind of muddy water, no one wants to beach, everyone is respected far away. If they get involved, I’m afraid they won’t even be able to protect themselves.

“But we can indeed react upward through that channel of hers once we find the evidence before the truth doesn’t get through.”

Going out for an appointment last night seemed like a wise choice.

Although rejected her confession, there is a girlfriend situation acceptance is only a ghost, Cheng Ming acceptance, I guess even friends can not do.

Now at least they can still be friends, and the biggest gain last night was that they knew where she lived at home, and when the phone didn’t work, Cheng Ming could go to her house to look for her. But the premise of all this is to find evidence of flipping.

Compared to Dad’s situation, Uncle Lin’s is much more complicated and involved, so tomorrow he will first go to Jing Jing’s house to find out if the situation is different from what he knows before formulating a countermeasure.

Quiet, wait for me!

Cheng Li’s feeling tonight was that her brother was holding her very, very tightly, as if he was afraid of losing her.