Novel Bin Chapter 254 Someone Has Drowned
Chapter 254 Someone Has Drowned
The travel agency of Fang Diandian’s family has organized a charter flight tour group to South Island during the Spring Festival. She hears that Yan Hua and her family are here and takes the flight to come over.
“Do you come alone?” Yan Hua looks around.
Fang Diandian answers. “Yes! Sister Duo, you don’t have to worry about me. The hotel and everything have been arranged. By the way! Where do you live? I’ll visit you tomorrow.”
“Why don’t you stay with me?” Yan Hua suggests. “How boring it is for you to live alone in a hotel.”
“Is it inconvenient?” Though Fang Diandian asks so, her eyes glisten.
Yan Hua gives her a poke on the forehead. “There is nothing inconvenient. Let’s go!”
Tang Cao sees that after sending Brother Ruoxian away, his elder sister brings back another person who is the silly Fang Diandian. He is glad. “Where did you come from?”
“That’s none of your business!” Fang Diandian hides behind Yan Hua and squints at him.
Yan Hua says, “Take Diandian’s luggage to the room, which is the one opposite you.”
“Why will she live here?”
“I invited her.”
Bai Susu comes back from the back garden and is very happy to see Fang Diandian. “Hey, Diandian is coming. Come to South Island to travel?”
“Hello, Aunt! Happy New Year!” Fang Diandian hurriedly comes out from behind Yan Hua to say hello.
“Mom, Diandian comes to play alone. I ask her to live here.” Yan Hua says and glares at Tang Cao. “Why don’t you move?”
Bai Susu takes Fang Diandian to the sitting room. “OK, welcome to stay here. More people, more lively!”
Tang Cao hears that the three women have already begun to say what seafood is delicious. He rolls his eyes and lifts the luggage upstairs. Gungun and Wuyou go downstairs to eat meal. When they see Tang Cao take the suitcase, they think that he is leaving.
“Uncle, are you going back to Yanjing?” Gungun asks.
Wuyou looks at the pink suitcase and says, “It’s not uncle’s suitcase.”
“You are clever. It’s Fang Diandian’s.” Tang Cao touches the heads of the two little children and takes the luggage to the room.
Gungun knows Fang Diandian, who also came to their house before. He pulls Wuyou to run downstairs, approaching to the three adults. “Aunt Diandian, happy New Year!”
“Happy New Year, Gungun and Wuyou!” Fang Diandian takes out two red envelopes from her pocket with excitement. She apparently comes prepared.
Gungun and Wuyou take over the red envelopes. “Thank you, Aunt Diandian!”
“I almost forget that.” Bai Susu also takes out three red envelopes from under the tea table. “Diandian, take it!”
Fang Diandian is embarrassed to take that, so she hurriedly pushes it back.
“You can’t refuse what the elders give you.” Bai Susu stuffs the red envelope into her hand. “Take it, otherwise Gungun and Wuyou can’t accept yours!”
Fang Diandian can only accept it, but she is still embarrassed. She gives out two, but receives three. So finally she earns one...
“Don’t be embarrassed.” Yan Hua pats her. “I’ll show you the room. By the way, you can change clothes for dinner.”
In the evening, Lang Ruoxian who has arrived in Yanjing makes a video call with Yan Hua. He says that he is going to Africa the day after tomorrow. Yan Hua’s expression changes after hearing this.
“Don’t worry. I’ll bring more people there and I won’t go to dangerous places.” The man persuades her softly over there. “I promise to make a video call with you everyday so that you can see if I am safe, OK?”
Yan Hua nods, because Lang Ruoxian was kidnapped there before, so she always feels that it is not a safe place.
“That’s a deal. We need to take a video call every day.” Yan Hua wants to ask him why on earth he is going there, but she swallows the words back before asking.
Lang Ruoxian knows at a glance that she has already been suspicious. He smiles. “I’ll tell you when things get settled. Be a good girl!”
Yan Hua snorts with an expression how smart I am. The two lie chatting until Yan Hua falls asleep and then Lang Ruoxian hangs up the video call.
Fang Diandian’s arrival frees Yan Hua. Tang Cao and Fang Diandian take the two little children to the seaside to play every morning. They often bring back shellfish and crabs picked up on the beach. They take a nap after lunch and run out in the afternoon.
In fact, basically Fang Diandian plays with the children. Tang Cao goes to the beach but just lies there playing with his mobile phone. In his word, he just keeps up appearances. In case anything happens, women and children should be protected by him.
“What can happen?” At that time, Bai Susu laughed at her hapless son. “You are just too lazy.”
But something really happens in a few days.
“Mom!” This afternoon the four come back, looking pale. Gungun comes in and runs to Yan Hua to hold her.
“What’s the matter?” The three persons who are playing mahjong with Chang Pei’e all stand up and walk to the sitting room.
Fang Diandian looks pale. “There is... a man died.”
It turns out that on the beach there was a drunken man getting drowned today, just near them. The corpse floated up and drifted past Fang Diandian. She screamed at a glance.
“His face was swollen.” Fang Diandian shivers. “It was too terrible!”
Tang Cao also shrinks weakly on the corner of the sofa. “We will not go to the tourist beach to play in the future. I think I will have nightmares tonight.”
Previously, they all played on the private beach at the side of the sanatorium, but in the afternoon, there were many children on the public beach, which was lively, so they moved over there.
But such a terrible thing happened...
“Grandma...” Gungun in Bai Susu’s arms whispers, “I will never go to the seaside again.”
Seen from his little ghastly pale face, he is obviously frightened. Bai Susu hugs the little fellow lovingly. “No, we are not going there again. We’ll play in the backyard pool.”
“Hua, take them upstairs to take a bath and change clothes quickly.” Chang Pei’e sees that even Wuyou’s expression is not good, so she hurriedly asks Yan Hua to take them upstairs. Tang Cao and Fang Diandian also go upstairs to tidy up dizzily. Neither of them comes downstairs for dinner.
In the evening, Yan Hua allows Gungun and Wuyou to sleep with her in a big bed. Gungun was frightened in the daytime. He grabs her hand without loosening. Yan Hua hugs the two children in her arms separately and pats them to sleep. After the two little children fall asleep, she goes downstairs quietly.
Chang Pei’e and other people are watching TV in the sitting room.
“Look, the local news channel is reporting it!” Bai Susu turns up the TV.
This is the first drowning accident in the local area this year. Journalists give follow-up reports. The man who drowned just got married, with a son who is younger than one year old. The family of three went out to play with their friends. He drank a lot of wine when eating meal at noon, and directly jumped into the sea. Finally...
“How poor...” Chang Pei’e pushes her glasses. “Look, his wife is so young. How poor!”
The reporter on TV interviews the man’s wife in the hospital. The young woman is holding the little baby and crying her heart out.
“It’s common sense that you can’t swim after drinking. Who can they blame since he is an adult?” Tang Yao, as a man, is not as sentimental as they are. “He is not responsible for himself and ignores his wife and child.”
Yan Hua sees the woman on TV cry and fall to the ground. The people around the woman are holding and persuading her. Yan Hua shakes her head and stops watching.
Because of this accident, Gungun really stops going to the seaside. Every day he plays with Wuyou in the backyard swimming pool, or goes to see the small animals in the sanatorium. Tang Cao enjoys the leisure and continues to play the game called “Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner” with Chen Xiaopang and other people.
“Why don’t you play it?” Yan Hua asks Fang Diandian.
Fang Diandian’s recovery hasn’t been faster than those of Gungun and Wuyou. It is estimated that she saw the body with her own eyes, so she has been listless for several days.
“Tang Cao!” Bai Susu shouts, “You can take Diandian to play together and let her divert her attention.”
Fang Diandian curls her lips. “He thinks that I’m not good at game operation and doesn’t want to take me to play.”
“As if he were good at it.” Yan Hua pulls Fang Diandian to sit down opposite Tang Cao. “Do you hear that? Take Diandian to play with you together.”
Tang Cao doesn’t lift his head. “Wait a minute. Wait a minute!”
“Deduct your pocket money!” Yan Hua threatens him.
Tang Cao trembles his hand, and the game character he is controlling dies.
“F**k!” Chen Xiaopang’s voice comes from the earphone. “Let you run but you don’t move. Why are you standing there absent-mindedly? Is there any beautiful woman to watch?”
Before Tang Cao answers, Yan Hua leans in and says loudly. “I’m talking to him. You can take Diandian to play next round.”
“Sister?” Chen Xiaopang’s tone immediately changes. “Happy New Year, Sister! When will you come back? I’ll give you a New Year’s greeting.”
“I will go back soon. Are you still abroad?” Yan Hua talks with him.
When this round of game is over, Chen Xiaopang starts arranging for Fang Diandian before Tang Cao saying anything.
“Come on, come on, take another sister of mine to play. Diandian, add me as your friend to join the team!”
Two days later, Fang Diandian runs to Yan Hua mysteriously and says.
“Sister Duo, Tang Cao seems to like a girl.”
Yan Hua is making dried pineapples, which she learns from a house maid in the kitchen of the sanatorium. There are many tropical fruits in South Island, and the dried pineapples are thick and big.
“Who does he like?” Yan Hua is surprised.
“The female anchor who played the game with us.” Fang Diandian says as if she feels wronged and acts rashly. “She is a game anchor and of course her skill is very good.”
Yan Hua glances at her. “Are you jealous?”
“I... I... I am not!” Fang Diandian is so excited that she almost bites her tongue.
Yan Hua sees that Fang Diandian looks like having had a very poor lie which reveals the truth. She says with a smile. “About our Tang Cao, I dare not say anything else. But if he really likes any girl, he will be serious, taking marriage as the premise. He will not have feelings with girls casually, or my mother will break his legs.”
“What does it have to do with... with me!” Fang continues to be excited. She sees Yan Hua looking at her with a foxy smile, blushing to her ears, stamping her feet and running away.
At the end of the meal, Yan Hua casually asks, “Tang Cao, who are you playing games with?”
“Just a few people!” Tang Cao takes a look at Fang Diandian. “This silly girl, and Chen Xiaopang. There are also two childes and an anchor.”
Fang Diandian stares at him. Tang Cao provokes her. “Why? Don’t you admit it? If it weren’t for me to save you, your game character would have died at the beginning of the game.”
“Is that anchor male or female?” Yan Hua asks again.
“Female!” Tang Cao says casually, “Her technology is really good. Chen Xiaopang introduced her to take us to play.”
Yan Hua exclaims. “Haven’t you seen the real person?”
“I’ve seen her live.” Tang Cao thinks and says, “I forget what she looks like. I’ve been watching her play the game.”
Fang Diandian who has been listening carefully suddenly fills another bowl of food.
Yan Hua holds back laughing. “Then the anchor played the game with you for free?”
“Sister, you don’t know this!” Tang Cao robs a crab from the Fang Diandian’s bowl. “There are many skilled female anchors. She played games with us on live broadcast. Our appeal is much stronger than hers. At least I am recognized as Yanjing’s most handsome playboy!”
Tang Cao peels a crab leg but it is robbed by Fang Diandian when he is unguarded. He glares at her and continues to say, “Besides, we gave her a reward. In short, she took us to play the game but she took advantage of us.”
“Hey! Fang Diandian, if you rob my crab again, I shall beat you...”