In Ouyang Ancient House, Dong Muya and Min Endong had a new research object. The mysterious figure of Mrs. Lan aroused their great interest. As a result, I was completely immersed in the underground database from beginning to end, almost to the point of forgetting to eat and sleep.
Xia Qiu prepared dinner for them alone. Neither of them came up, nor did Ouyang Xiaolen appear. She was about to go to Yongchuan Forest to look for him, but she saw his figure swooping down outside the floor-to-ceiling window of the living room.
She opened the window for him from the inside, stared at him for a long time, and asked, "Who is that girl?"
"Haha, a sister appeared out of thin air. She said that her father and my mother are biological siblings." Ouyang Xiaoleng responded to her. In fact, the moment he entered the living room, his sensitive nose smelled the aroma of the food. He guessed that it must have been cooked by Xia Qiu, and he felt warm in his heart.
"Oh?" Although Xia Qiu thought that this was indeed an unexpected development, she still had some questions, "Why did she choose to appear at this time? Why didn't she come to meet you before?"
"She didn't come to recognize me, she just wanted me to help her find the whereabouts of her father. According to her, her father returned to China alone many years ago and began to investigate the cause of my mother's death. The result was not long after Then we lost contact with that place." Ouyang Xiaoleng repeated to Xia Qiu what Ran Mingzhu told him.
"How come no one has ever mentioned that you have an uncle? Does Hongye know these things?" Xia Qiu felt more and more bizarre the more she listened.
"I find it strange too. Besides, it's still unclear whether the so-called Ran Mingzhu is real or fake." Ouyang Xiaoleng responded.
"Ask Hongye. If what she says is true, will you help her?" Xia Qiu continued to ask.
Ouyang Xiaoleng's eyes suddenly showed a hint of loneliness, and he replied quietly: "I still know that my mother cut off contact with her family in order to marry my father. Their marriage was not recognized, but My family has never asked anything about me. To them, I don’t belong to that family at all, so I don’t want to have anything to do with them.”
"Well, I can understand. But don't you think his disappearance may have something to do with Qingyun?" Xia Qiu felt sorry for the loss beneath Ouyang Xiaoleng's frozen appearance.
"Maybe..."
Ouyang Xiaoleng had already thought of this possibility, but Mingzhu's aggressiveness reminded him of the situation when the entire family isolated his mother. He didn't want to have too much contact with the people who had hurt her. As a family of monster hunters, that family was incompatible with monsters, so why should he worry about it
Xia Qiu was about to continue chatting with Ouyang Xiaoleng when the cell phone in her pocket rang. She took out her phone and saw an unfamiliar number displayed on the screen. When she picked up the phone, she heard a girl's voice on the other side.
"Hey, is this Xia Qiu?"
"Who are you?"
"Ran Mingzhu, please come to me at No. 53 Pufang Street. I have something I want to show you."
"What?"
Just as Xia Qiu was about to ask her what she wanted to show him, the other party hung up the phone.
"I've told her not to get you involved, but she just wants to go against me." Ouyang Xiaoleng was unhappy, and his face looked even colder.
"I still want to see what her purpose is. Anyway, I am familiar with the place she mentioned." Xia Qiu, however, was not worried about his own safety at all.
"I had expected you to say that. I'll go with you. I don't think she can do any tricks." After Ouyang Xiaoleng said this, he glanced in the direction of the restaurant.
"Are you hungry?" Xia Qiu asked him with a smile.
"Yeah!" Ouyang Xiaoleng responded. In fact, he didn't feel hungry at all, but he didn't know why he wanted to take a bite immediately when he thought it was cooked by Xia Qiu.
So after the two simply ate something, they walked towards the place agreed upon by He Ran Mingzhu. They arrived at their destination, No. 53 Pufang Street, where there was a four-story apartment. Because it was a European-style building, it seemed a bit incompatible with the Chinese style of the entire street.
However, Mingzhu was standing at the door of the apartment. She seemed to have expected that Ouyang Xiaoleng would go to the appointment with Xia Qiu, so she was not surprised by his appearance.
After nodding to the two of them, she said, "Come in with me!"
"Wait, where is this place?" Ouyang Xiaoleng asked.
"Isn't it written clearly? Yujin Apartment." Ran Mingzhu pointed in the direction above the apartment door, and then continued a little impatiently, "Don't ask so many questions, you will know when you go in."
As soon as she entered Yujin Apartment, Xia Qiu was attracted by the huge crystal chandelier above her head. In this not too wide lobby, this chandelier was a bit too gorgeous. The man standing at the front desk has gray hair, rosy white and energetic. He is wearing a white shirt, a black vest, a black suit and trousers neatly ironed, and a small black tie with a sense of joy. He always feels like England. A housekeeper in a large family, not like an apartment manager.
"Is there anything I can do to help you, young lady?" He asked Ran Mingzhu politely.
"My name is Ran Mingzhu, I called before!" Ran Mingzhu answered straightforwardly.
"I remember, are you here to get that diary?" the apartment manager continued to ask.
"Exactly!" Ran Mingzhu nodded.
"Wait a moment, I may need you to show a valid ID to prove your identity and your relationship with the guest who stayed at the time." The apartment manager is very serious and responsible.
Ran Mingzhu took out a passport from her pocket. The passport clearly said Japan. Inside the passport was a certificate proving the father-daughter relationship between her and Ran Tianyou. She handed her passport and certificate to the front desk of the apartment. The man checked it carefully, then lowered his head to open a drawer behind the front desk, took out an old diary from it, and handed it back together with her passport and certificate. .
Then he asked again: "Please put this away. Do you need anything else?"
"Were you here when my father moved in?" However, Mingzhu always felt that someone who was so meticulous about his work might be able to recall some details of that time.
"Yes, I have been running this apartment since I inherited this old house more than thirty years ago, and I have been managing it myself."
"Can you still remember some of what happened at that time?"
"Your father is an impressive man, and I have the ability to always remember the faces of the guests I have met, so now I can still remember his appearance."
"Really? Is there anything that concerns you?"
"He was in a hurry when he left the apartment that day, but he specially handed this diary to me, and then something strange happened. First, I was very sure that he stayed out all night that night, but the next day he worked as a cleaner to help When he cleaned the room, he found that all his belongings were missing. Because your father had already paid three months' rent, I didn't think too much about it at the time and just assumed that he might have come back that night. "The apartment manager suddenly remembered something when he said this, "That's right!"
He looked through his notepad, then took out a bunch of keys to open the money drawer, and counted out three old hundred-yuan bills from the bottom and handed them to Ran Mingzhu.
Ran Mingzhu asked doubtfully: "What is this?"
"The monthly room fee at that time was 120 yuan. This is extra money. I have been keeping it for him!"
"Thank you!" Ran Mingzhu said after taking them.
It's hard to imagine that after such a long time, this administrator would still keep a diary that his father gave him at that time, and the extra few hundred dollars, which made Xia Qiu sincerely admire this old man. But what also aroused her great interest was what exactly was recorded in this diary.
After leaving Yujin Apartment, Ran Mingzhu suggested finding a place to look at the diary together. At this time, Ouyang Xiaoleng was also deeply attracted by this mysterious diary, and perhaps he could get information about Qingyun from it. The three of them walked to a cafe on the same street. After casually ordering something to drink, Ran Mingzhu couldn't wait to open the diary.
The cover of the diary is made of leather with a snap button in the middle. The quality is very good. After so many years, the snap button is still very tight and makes a loud bang when it is opened. Although the inner pages of the diary have turned yellow. , but the text above is also clear and changeable.
The diary is mixed with Chinese, English, Japanese, Latin, and even many symbols that Xia Qiu cannot understand. However, Tianyou should have directly recorded all the information he investigated into this notebook first.
"This is indeed my father's handwriting, but it doesn't quite agree with his habits." Ran Mingzhu said to herself as she read down.
"How do you say it?" Ouyang Xiaoleng asked.
"He will indeed record all the very detailed information, but according to his habit, he will analyze and organize it on the night he gets the information, but as you can see, there is no organized content in the diary." Ran Mingzhu pointed to the diary. Corner explained.
"Perhaps he was too busy those days, or maybe something happened in the future before he could sort it out..." Ouyang Xiaoleng was about to continue, but Ran Mingzhu rolled his eyes at him.
She affirmed: "I know my father. Although he left when I was very young, my mother told me many things about him. I will never be mistaken about his habits."
"There's a lot of information in this." Xia Qiu sighed as he looked at the dense handwriting in the diary.
"Yes, I'm afraid I won't know what information is useful for a while." However, Mingzhu felt a little depressed when facing the dense rows of small characters.
"I know two people who may be able to help you figure out the information recorded in this diary faster." Xia Qiu said to her with a smile.
"Are they humans?" Ran Mingzhu asked based on her first reaction.
"Yeah!" Xia Qiu confirmed her guess.
"Emon hunter? Information dealer?" Ran Mingzhu continued to ask.
"No, they are the managers of the database that stores various records and books in the demon world and the human world." Xia Qiu explained to her.
"There are still such strange people in the world. I should really meet them."
"Hey, do you really want to take her to see Dong Muya and the others?" Ouyang Xiaoleng was still a little doubtful about Ran Mingzhu's identity.
"If you believe us, please give this diary to me and Xiao Leng first!" Xia Qiu did not directly answer Ouyang Xiao Leng's words, but turned to Ran Mingzhu and said.
She trusted her instincts very much, but Mingzhu couldn't believe the pain and shock she felt about her father's disappearance. Although Ouyang Xiaoleng always disguises his feelings, she understands that his desire for family affection is no different from ordinary people. If he helps Ran Mingzhu, they can not only obtain useful information, but also If he reconciles with his mother's side of the family, then it would be the perfect ending.
"for you!"
However, Mingzhu hesitated for a few seconds before closing the diary and choosing to hand it over to Xia Qiu. Rather than suspecting that they would keep this diary as their own and exclude herself, she was more willing to choose to believe them this time.