Ni Jiu (Intoxicated) - Chap 80
After hearing the news, Lian Jue rushed back to the ward as quickly as possible.
During the few steps back from the office to the ward, even the thoughts in Jue’s mind were still positive.
Maybe Shen Tingwei woke up and saw that there was no one in the ward, so he went to the bathroom or something else by himself.
Or maybe Shen Ting woken up and can’t see him, so he hurried out to find him.
But all these fantasies followed Lian Jue into the ward to find no results. He sent everyone to put down their work to rummage the entire hospital, even the bottom of the bed and the lockers that could accommodate the next person were not spared.
When he left the ward, the quilt that had been covering Shen Tingwei was still lying flat on the bed. The brand new pair of slippers that he had prepared had not yet had time to use and were also placed beside the bed. The original number was folded in the cabinet, as if nothing had changed but Shen Tingwei had truly disappeared.
Lian Jue immediately called for the monitoring of every corner of the entire hospital from the time when he left the room.
At first, he was able to maintain a calm and clear thinking, calling the police, arranging people to continue looking for and confirming the surveillance on the shops and roads around the hospital. But after a whole night of no clues, he suddenly felt sick. It’s like being persecuted with paranoia, as if you can no longer trust anyone around you.
He chased everyone out, locked himself in the monitoring room by himself and without blinking a single glance he watched the clear monitoring screen over and over countless times from day to night, and confirmed every person who came and went.
Male, female, similar to him and not similar.
In the end, he could still not believe what was happening in front of him and determined that the surveillance video did not leave the slightest picture of Shen Tingwei leaving the ward.
Shen Tingwei disappeared out of thin air in the short period of time when he was away for less than ten minutes.
The moment Lian Jue started going crazy, it scared everyone.
With red eyes, he broke the glass full of water on the bedside table. The quilt on the bed and the clothes in the cabinet were scattered on the floor. The bottle rack fell among the glass fragments on the floor. The unfinished dextrose dripped on the ground. The bitter medicinal smell and the faint sweetness of the nutrients mixed into the smell of the disinfectant that filled the air causing the atmosphere in the ward to drop to freezing point in an instant.
There was a piercing humming in Lian Jue’s ear that overwhelmed his breathing and his heartbeat. Those collapses that had never happened before Shen Tingwei’s car accident were fully charged at this moment, as if he had been strong for the whole period of time. All of them were completely unloaded at this time. The emotion that drove him to be 30 years late suddenly broke through the shackles.
“Why are you not optimistic about him?” Lian Jue sternly questioned everyone present, scolding them, “In such a big hospital, why can’t you find even a big living person?”
All the medical staff took their breaths lightly and didn’t dare to say a word, for fear that the sound of panting would cause him to be even more manic.
Lian Jue almost frantically grabbed the neck of the doctor who was closest to him. The other side was shocked by the pressure coming from him and panicked to avoid Lian Jue’s gaze.
In the end, Lian Jue just held on to his collar tightly. His fingers that were white with force were trembling and asked him at a loss: “Did you know that he just finished the operation? His wound hasn’t closed yet. His body is not yet well…”
“Know, know…” The doctor’s voice was also filled with unease and dryness from being infected with fear, “Mr. Lian, don’t worry, we will continue to look for him. We will definitely find him…”
Lian Jue gradually let go of him in his words that did not have a comforting effect. He turned his head and looked at the people present with red eyes. He asks if they know he is still pregnant and asks if they know how cold it is outside? After all, when people disappeared in the hospital, everyone has an unshirkable responsibility and everyone’s heart is affected by it. They spend this difficult time with fear.
The last trick was to yell in uncontrollable hysteria for them to get out.
The crowd almost fled away in his anger as if he had forgiven their sins. After leaving the ward, they continued to search for Shen Tingwei’s whereabouts non-stop.
–This is too bizarre, how can a big living person disappear?
When Lin Chen came back from Jiangcheng after receiving the notice, Lian Jue was alone in the messy ward, sitting on the sofa with his back hunched over, staring at the bed with the wrinkled sheets, his eyes were empty and he didn’t know what to do. ‘ What is he thinking? ‘
Lin Chen pushed open the door and walked in. After calling him a few times, he replied “um” slowly.
Lin Chen said that he had already found someone to check Shen Tingwei’s entry and exit records and consumption records but he knew that what he had done was in vain. How could he even think of a way when the person being find didn’t left any clue of his whereabouts.
So Lin Chen was silent for a while and said an affirmative statement without any basis or reason: “Mr. Shen will be safe.”
A few minutes after he finished speaking, Lian Jue suddenly stood up from the sofa and said to Lin Chen, “Give me the car keys.”
Lin Chen’s hand that touched the car key subconsciously stopped when he touched the key in his pocket. He looked at Lian Jue’s state of being so different from usual and worried that if he was allowed to drive alone now, it might not be safe, so he didn’t dare to hand over the key easily but asked, “Where are you going? I’ll take you there.”
Lian Jue was not in the mood to guess the concerns expressed in Lin Chen’s words but felt a little impatient with his hesitation, so he was not obsessed with getting the key.
He walked quickly towards the doornwith a chill in his voice: “Chen family.”
…
When he pushed open the door of the study with the help of the servant, Chen Chulian lifted his eyelids and glanced at him lightly, as if he was not surprised by his arrival which deepened Lian Jue’s suspicion.
Chen Chulian wanted to ask him how he is doing but after seeing Lian Jue’s gloomy face and the helpless look of the people beside him. He snorted coldly, took his eyes back and slammed a sentence, “Why, didn’t you make enough trouble last time? ”
Lian Jue did not deal with him but went straight to the blame: “Where’s Shen Tingwei?”
Chen Chulian thought that Lian Jue was here to question the cause of the car accident but he didn’t expect him to come to him to ask for someone, his face darkened and he said coldly, “How do I know?”
Lian Jue turned a deaf ear to his denial, and repeated what he just said: “Where’s Shen Tingwei?!”
Chen Chulian frowned and habitually expressed his dissatisfaction with him: “That freak? What am I tying him for?”
I don’t know if it was some words in Chen Chulian’s words that stinged Lian Jue, thus breaking the composure that Lian Jue had maintained under the pressure. Chu Lian pierced: “You are investigating
him.”
Chen Chulian dropped the pen in his hand after being questioned by him one after another. The ink was thrown from the document on the table to the dark red solid wood floor, splashing a thick dark blue juice that caught the eye and his voice increased a few degrees. Unreasonably said: “So what? Investigating him means that I want to tie him up? I think you should see a psychiatrist, it might be that you have a mental problem!”
When Yu Man heard the movement and came out of the room. The father and son had been fighting with each other for a long time. The servant who was standing in the corridor has a hesitant expression. Seeing her coming, he hurried to persuade: “Why are you coming out, madam? Go back quickly. Rest more…”
Yu Man waved away the servant and walked to the door of the study. Hearing Lian Jue questioning Shen Tingwei’s whereabouts, she was stunned and asked, “What’s wrong with Xiao Shen?”
Lian Jue stared at Chen Chulian with burning eyes. Chen Chulian was annoyed by his uneasy and unreasonable expression and looked back at Lian Jue impatiently: “He is alive and well and yet he is currently nowhere to be found. Have you gone to the police? What’s the use of looking for me?”
“…lost?” Yu Man stared at Lian Jue in disbelief, “How could it be, I visited him yesterday…” She hurriedly became silent when she said that and quickly glanced at Chen Chulian. Fortunately Chen Chulian, in his anger, he didn’t pay attention to her gaffe.
Yu Man gently pulled Lian Jue’s wrinkled sleeves, soothing Lian Jue’s emotions in the softest way possible: “Xiao Jue, this is really not what Lao Lian’s doing… Lao Lian has been so busy lately that he has no time to go. If you don’t believe in these things, you can ask the people in the company or ask the second uncle, who is staying with Lao Lian every day these days…” She don’t know if her explanations cleared the suspicion for her husband or if she really wanted to give something away. She suggested that she couldn’t help but she maliciously speculated on Chen Xu, who was full of bad water, “Could it be Chen Xu -maybe it was arranged by Chen Xu before…” Then, she thought this possibility was a bit bizarre, so she couldn’t continue.
Before she could finish her sentence, Chen Chulian scolded angrily: “Why are you talking so much to him? He is a mad dog! He will bite anyone he sees!”
“Don’t say a few words.” Yu Man frowned and said. She looked worriedly at Lian Jue’s icy expression and comforted, “If you want to look for it. I will send someone to look for it. I will definitely report if something really happened.”
Her words obviously didn’t have the slightest consolation effect on Lian Jue but it did calm down Lian Jue a little.
Chen Chulian is ruthless but he never hides it. Lian Jue knows that Chen Chulian has no need to lie to him but because of his grief and anger at the moment, he has nowhere to vent his anger, only the person in front of him can express his anger.
“Yes, he’d better not have anything to do with it.” Lian Jue stared at Chen Chulian stubbornly. The taut jaw line was a bit sharp, his voice was dry and hoarse and he almost squeezed a few words out of the gap between his teeth, “If something really did happened, you’ll surely end.”
Lian Jue turned around, waved away the housekeeper who was blocking the door and said in a deep voice, “Everything will end.”
There was a sound of objects falling to the ground behind him. Chen Chulian patted the table heavily, scolding: “I think you are crazy.” When Lian Jue was about to lift his legs to leave, it seemed like he was in a hurry. He scolded irrelevantly, “I’m crazy! You think I don’t know, our Chen family did touched drugs!”
Yu Man’s originally worried expression froze on her face. The moment he said those words, she turned her head in shock and looked at Lian Jue’s back, who hastily left