Chapter 587: Chapter 587
Pu Sangzhi had been unable to contact Huo Feng for a whole day.
Early in the morning, she and her mother hurried back from Cangnan Longgang, feeling they owed an explanation to the people around them.
So, after returning, they didn’t continue to hide but went to Ye Qingcao’s home.
The day before, Ye Qingcao’s mother, Xu Hui, had driven around looking for them for most of the day, frantic and distressed.
Today, seeing that both mother and daughter had returned of their own accord, Xu Hui harshly scolded Chen Huifen and then wept bitterly with her.
Pu Sangzhi, standing beside them, shed tears along with the two elders, feeling terribly upset yet also moved.
Afterward, Pu Sangzhi started trying to contact Huo Feng.
She had thought that since Huo Feng had been drinking heavily the night before, he definitely wouldn’t wake up for a while this morning.
So she had messaged him early on, and when he didn’t reply, Pu Sangzhi thought he would surely respond when he woke up.
However, she waited all morning and didn’t receive a single response.
By noon, Pu Sangzhi started to grow anxious.
She called Huo Feng many times and sent many messages, but her calls went unanswered, and her messages disappeared like stones dropped into the sea.
Latter on, the anxiety in Pu Sangzhi’s heart gradually turned into panic, and she imagined some terrifying scenarios...
For instance, what if he drunk too much and passed out somewhere?
Or what if he had an accident on some road after drinking too much, and nobody knew about it?
Or even... what if he drank too much and suddenly died?
Concern creates chaos.
Unable to receive any reply from Huo Feng for a long time, Pu Sangzhi truly panicked!
She began contacting other people...
She reached out to Huo Feng’s ten brothers, contacted Huo Feng’s grandfather, and reached out to everyone she knew who knew Huo Feng.
In the end, after going through the whole list, not a single person knew where Huo Feng was.
After that, the fear in Pu Sangzhi’s heart ran rampant!
Aside from frantically calling and messaging Huo Feng, she found she could no longer just sit at home.
So, she put on a mask and a hat and went out to look for Huo Feng.
The city was so large, and there were so few places she and Huo Feng had visited together; it was really hard to find him!
She left at 4:00 PM, searched many places, and even went to Wenzhou Railway Station, waiting desperately there...
Because she feared that Huo Feng would book a random train ticket and really abandon everything here to wander to another city.
Huo Feng had always had such thoughts.
Craving freedom, he had entertained this idea last time he was falsely accused and left to wander alone.
That’s why Pu Sangzhi feared he would take such action...
Eight o’clock in the evening...
She was still wandering around the railway station, clinging to a faint hope, delusional that she might be able to intercept Huo Feng there.
Pu Sangzhi glanced at her phone.
After running around all day, her phone only had 10% battery left.
Pu Sangzhi was beside herself with worry, distressed, and dared not make many calls, only checking her messages in fear that her phone would run out of battery...
Huo Feng’s ten brothers kept in touch with her, intermittently providing her with new information.
Of course, it was all useless information...
Pan Bo: "Big sis, still no luck finding Brother Feng! We’ve searched so many places!"
Gu Yang: "Big sis, are you still searching? Maybe you shouldn’t look anymore. Maybe Brother Feng will come out once he cools down, right?"
Lin Yuhao: "I haven’t found him either, big sis! I have to go home; my dad is looking for me, sorry..."
It seemed like his brothers had been searching all day, but there wasn’t a trace of news.
Pu Sangzhi knew they had done their best, so she couldn’t demand more of them and could only reply one by one: "Thank you, don’t search anymore. I’ll wait at the railway station for a while longer."
Afterwards, his brothers sent her messages, urging her to hurry home and not to wait any longer!
The straightforward Gu Yang didn’t mince words: "Knowing Brother Feng’s temperament, he might be hiding on purpose just to make you anxious! Big sis, don’t be foolish anymore, go home!"
Gu Yang’s personality was such that he could probably never read the room.
That he included "he might" in his sentence was already the extent of his ability to lie.
However, the intelligent Pu Sangzhi, this time, couldn’t see the meaning behind his words, and didn’t take his advice seriously.
Using the last bit of battery, Pu Sangzhi replied to each of the brothers: "It’s okay, I’ll wait a bit longer. You all rest; I’m not chatting anymore, my phone is about to die."
This time, all 10 brothers were frightened by Pu Sangzhi’s excessive tenacity.
No one expected that this sister-in-law, who always seemed so high and mighty, was actually so devoted to Brother Feng!
The brothers always assumed it was Brother Feng who shamelessly kept clinging on, but nobody anticipated that she loved Brother Feng so deeply, with equal intensity.
Under Huo Feng’s command, the ten brothers joined forces to deceive Pu Sangzhi for an entire day.
Only when they were tired of lying and prepared to wrap things up did they feel a twinge of conscience and secretly messaged Huo Feng without Pu Sangzhi’s knowledge. ɴᴇᴡ ɴᴏᴠᴇʟ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀʀᴇ ᴘᴜʙʟɪsʜᴇᴅ ᴏɴ 𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹·𝗳𝗶𝗿𝗲·𝗻𝗲𝘁
They specifically told Huo Feng that Pu Sangzhi was waiting alone at the train station and, more pitifully, was about to run out of phone battery...
Of course, Pu Sangzhi had no idea of their misdeeds!
At 8:30 p.m., Pu Sangzhi was still waiting at the train station, and by then, her phone battery had dwindled to 5%.
Unable to endure it any longer, Pu Sangzhi asked a passerby for a self-service charging station within the station, and the passerby pointed her to the waiting hall...
Pu Sangzhi, inexperienced and unsure, nervously wondered if she’d be allowed in without a ticket...
But reality didn’t allow her the luxury of hesitation.
With her phone about to die, Pu Sangzhi decided to seek out a staff member to ask if someone without a ticket could be allowed into the area.
Of course, if that wasn’t possible, she was also prepared to ask if they had a power bank she could borrow.
Before Pu Sangzhi had the chance to take any of these actions, she received another message on WeChat from Pan Bo...
Pan Bo had sent her a screenshot from Huo Feng’s Moments, posted just a minute ago.
Pan Bo added a message: "Sister-in-law, Brother Feng just posted on Moments!"
Upon seeing Pan Bo’s message, Pu Sangzhi hurriedly tapped on the screenshot and indeed saw Huo Feng’s freshly posted Moments!
There were no words in the post, just a picture.
And in the picture was the night sky, a street lamp and the moon forming a line...
Seeing that photo, Pu Sangzhi immediately thought of the place: Jinhe Park!
Her lips curved into a smile; she quickly replied to Pan Bo, "Thank you, I know where he is. I’ll go find him right now."
After sending the message, Pu Sangzhi, with her phone’s last bits of battery, called for a taxi and then endured the ride home.
As she settled into the taxi, she let out a long sigh of relief, her heart, which had been held high in suspense all day, finally resting in this moment.
Pu Sangzhi’s nerves, tense for the whole day, finally relaxed...
He hadn’t done anything rash.
He hadn’t left the city or gotten into a drunken accident...
With these thoughts, the corners of Pu Sangzhi’s lips spontaneously curled up in relief.
But then, when she unlocked her phone and saw so many unanswered WeChat messages to Huo Feng and calls that went through all day without a response...
The corners of Pu Sangzhi’s mouth drooped subtly, and her eyebrows knitted slightly in a complex emotional entanglement.
She wondered whether his not responding was a sign that he didn’t want to deal with her, or that he hated her, or perhaps, it was his way of retaliating?
He must be angry now, right?
He must be angry with her...
Pu Sangzhi felt unsure about how she should face him upon returning.
At 9:20 p.m., Pu Sangzhi finally arrived at Jinhe Park.
She got out of the taxi, paid the fare with cash since her phone had died.
After arming herself with a hat and a mask, Pu Sangzhi hastily ran into the park.
It didn’t take long for her to find her way to the park bench where the street lamp and moon formed a line...
Everything here was so familiar...
The cobblestone paths, the modestly sized park, the occasional oden stall...
Arriving here, watching all these familiar scenes, Pu Sangzhi could always reminisce about the beautiful times spent here with Huo Feng, about the beautiful words they had shared.
Soon, she located the public seat they had sat together on.
Pu Sangzhi gazed at the bench from a distance...
Her sights fixed on Huo Feng sitting there...
She just watched him from afar, observing his hunched figure sitting there...
Pu Sangzhi felt a warmth around her eyes and a slight sting in her nose, a sudden urge to cry overwhelming her.
Finally, she had found him...