278: Attack on Ji Yan

Attack on Ji Yan

The little guy continued, "Moreover, I have already collected some advance pay from my customers. The teachers always tell us to be honest. Thus, since I've already taken my classmates' money and given it to my subordinates, I must continue my business at least until the end of the semester. If I am forced to terminate it early, I hope that my customers can bring this issue up with you themselves."

The principal, "…"

The teachers, "…"

The parents of Xi Xiaobao's subordinates who were listening in, "…"

*

In the blind school.

Yu Zilong was done for the day.

"Thanks Mr. Yu, the kids really enjoyed today," The director of the blind school thanked Yu Zilong again.

"Sir, I think I enjoyed more," Yu Zilong smiled at the school director.

"Okay, our two attendants will be there for you always. If you need anything, you can ask them for it," The director informed Yu Zilong while contacting the two attendants.

"Yes sure."

"So I will leave now. Let's meet tomorrow," The director bade goodbye to Yu Zilong.

"Okay, have a good night sir," Yu Zilong responded back.

After having dinner, Yu Zilong brought the blind kids in a hall of the premises, "Come on boys, let's have some fun."

"Come, have a seat everyone," Yu Zilong guided the kids to their tables, "Be careful."

"So today I have brought for you the movie called Charlie Chaplin," Yu Zilong announced to the kids.

"Sir, can you please show us some chinese movie. We can't understand this black and white," the two attendants assigned by the director of the blind school requested to Yu Zilong.

"Oh, you want to watch a chinese movie," Yu Zilong paused, "Come with me."

He took the two attendants to a room and started a chinese movie on the laptop in the room.

"This is your chinese movie. You guys enjoy, I will go to the kids," Yu Zilong said.

"Ok sir, thank you," the attendants thanked Yu Zilong.

Yu Zilong then returned to the hall in which the blind kids were sitting.

"So, Charlie Chaplin is now entering the cage. The tiger is frightened seeing him and thinking that how did this man enter the cage.." Yu Zilong narrated the scenes going on in the movie to the blind kids.

"Hahaha," The children all laughed at the funny narration done by Yu Zilong. All of them were enjoying the movie very much.

On the other side, Mr. Ji Yan entered a swimming club as usual.

"Good evening, sir," The receptionist of the club greeted Ji Yan as usual.

"Good evening, how are you?"

"I am fine, sir. How was your day?"

"Oh, fine fine. Thank you. All well with you?"

"Yes, thank you sir. Have a nice time," The receptionist said to Ji Yan.

Ji Yan then entered the changing room and had a shower. After that, he wiped himself with a towel and opened his locker to take out his swimming googles. Just as he was about to close the locker, the mobile placed in his locker rang.

"Yes, wifey."

"Today was a busy day in office. We had four consecutive meetings," Ji Yan started updating his wife about his day.

Meanwhile, a man was whistling behind him while peeing. The man's appearance resembled the first suspect of the case whose wife was sick while his voice resembled Yu Zilong.

Ji Yan peeked at the man in the back and said to his wife, "Okay, I'll talk to you after I return home."

Just as he turned around, he was startled by the whistling man blocking him.

"Hello, Mr. Ji, long time no see. You didn't come to club for so long. How are you?"

"I am good," Ji Yan didn't recognize the man.

"Going home?" the man asked.

"No, up for a swim. See you," Ji Yan walked towards his locker to keep his phone back in the locker.

*

"Splash!"

Ji Yan dived into the swimming pool and took his time swimming leisurely.

Suddenly, the lights of the club went off. The people swimming in the pool looked around before someone called the waiter, "Waiter, why did the lights went off? Go and check."

"Okay, Sir!" replied the waiter.

Meanwhile, Ji Yan who was resting on the corner of the pool was pulled into the water by someone fiercely. His mouth was covered by the hand of the person who pulled him inside, so he couldn't scream and even if he did, his voice wouldn't be audible to anyone around them.

Ji Yan struggled fiercely in water but could not get out of the hold of the attacker. He tried his best to remove the hand of the attacker from his mouth so that he could breathe but unfortunately he was not able to do so.

The lights were still off when Ji Yan stopped struggling. The murderer released him in water while Ji Yan's body floated to the top of the pool.

*

The next morning, in the club.

"How many people were there with Mr. Ji last night?" Yun Jian asked the manager of the club.

"Approximately five or six people ma'am," the manager replied.

"Members or non-members?"

"Members."

"Fine," Yun Jian walked towards her junior officer.

"Ma'am, I got a call from hospital. Mr. Ji is in a critical situation," the junior officer reported to Yun Jian.

Yun Jian sighed, "Mr. Ji regularly came to the club for swimming but still he drowned..This seems like an attack."

"Any update on Yu Zilong?" Yun Jian asked her junior.

"Ma'am, the people who are following Yu Zilong confirmed that yesterday the whole night, Yu Zilong was in the blind school. I don't think that he has done anything," The junior officer said to Yun Jian.

"It doesn't seem this simple," Yun Jian sat on the side of the pool.

She then walked to the reception with her junior, "Please lead us to the surveillance room."0

"Yes ma'am," the receptionist led the way, "By the way ma'am, I wanted to inform you that there was an electricity cut for about 15 minutes yesterday in the swimming pool area. And when we checked, we found that the fuse itself was missing," The receptionist informed Yun Jian.

Yun Jian nodded. They then checked the surveillance cameras of the previous night of the club.

"The footage of changing room is missing," The junior officer noticed.

Yun Jian sighed, "Also fifteen minutes footage of the swimming pool too is missing."

*

Since it was the Chinese new year, it was finally the day when Xi Ting was going to take Qin Yan home to his parents.

They had celebrated the New year's eve yesterday night and thus Qin Yan was in the moonlight villa. The little bun had already went to his grandparents' house from where he would be visiting his great grandparents too.

"I wanted to visit the flower market and buy a potted plant for your grandfather today," Qin Yan pinched her spoon and stirred her congee a few times before scattering a little meat floss on it and eating a mouthful, "What kind of plant does your grandfather like?"

She must gift them with something that was to their liking on the first visit. She would not need to purchase something valuable for them that she could not afford. The status of the Xis also meant that there were few things they coveted. The gift she bought would be a good one as long as it was chosen with care and to their liking.

"You can get one that's easy to care for, one that can grow well with a little water and no fertilizer," Xi Ting said. His slender, bony fingers pinched a small clump of meat floss and scattered it on his congee. The whitish congee gleamed with reflected light and looked appetizing paired with the fragrant meat floss.

"The old man likes to grow plants, but he's the opposite of a green thumb. In the beginning, he had high hopes, and he bought many rare plants back home and cared for them. He fertilized and regulated the environmental temperature for them, but they didn't bloom and their leaves all wilted. This made him the subject of my grandmother's teasing for a month. Next, I bought him some plants that were easy to look after, but he fertilized them to death. He did not dare to fertilize his plants at all after that, so the plants I buy for him are all easy to care for. The species is not a matter of concern as long as it looks festive," Xi Ting explained. He noticed that there was no meat floss left in Qin Yan's bowl, and he reached over to scatter a pinch onto it.

Xi Ting could not help to laugh as he recalled an event, "One year someone brought him an epiphyllum plant. The old man was so happy, but then the plant did not blossom at all after a long time, and the few leaves it grew wilted. From then on, the old man stopped trying to care for those rare plants."

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