Usually after class, Wen Xian would not linger too long in the classroom, but tonight after their class, many children’s hands were stained with paint, so they all lined up to wash their hands.
Wen Xian constantly remembered that she was already an adult now, must respect the old and love the young. So she very consciously lined up at the end, waiting for them to finish washing before going over.
And Gong Yan casually threw his phone to her: “Put it with you, I’ll come back after washing.”
Wen Xian looked at this little brat’s departing back with a face full of black lines, recently his domineering CEO tone was getting heavier and heavier, she didn’t really dare to imagine what Mother Gong heard from him every day.
After five minutes passed, Wen Xian suspected Gong Yan might have washed his hands and then gone to the restroom, but at this moment, Teacher Lin who had already left suddenly turned back, standing at the door and asking: “Wen Xian, did you see Gong Yan?”
Wen Xian slightly blanked: “He went to wash his hands.”
On Teacher Lin face appeared a somewhat surprised expression: “I just went to look and didn’t see him, I’ll go check again.”
Hearing this, Wen Xian also immediately got up and walked outside, but when she went out, Teacher Lin’s figure was nowhere to be seen. Wen Xian didn’t have time to think about other things, she had to find Gong Yan first.
At this moment there was no one in the restroom either. Wen Xian pressed her lips together, then called Gong Yan’s name behind the door of the men’s restroom, but no one responded to her.
Her heart panicked, just as she was about to call for someone, there was a bit of movement from the back door area. She hesitated, walking toward the back door, and as the distance closed, the sound also became clearer.
“Mm— let go of me!”
It was Gong Yan’s voice!
Wen Xian quickly ran toward the back door, through the crack in the door she saw Gong Yan being tightly covered over the mouth by a person wearing black clothes, his small face flushed red as he struggled, seeming to see her, he struggled even harder.
Seeing Wen Xian appear in sight, the person covering Gong Yan’s mouth gave a look to the two people waiting by the door.
As soon as Wen Xian opened the door, a black shadow suddenly rushed toward her. Before she had time to react, her mouth and nose were tightly covered by someone with cloth. She couldn’t even struggle before losing consciousness.
And the person, seeing Wen Xian already tied up, casually threw Gong Yan onto the ground.
Wen Xian was thrown onto a van, the door closed and the car sped away.
Gong Yan shouted in panic: “Xian-jiejie!”
And the bodyguards originally guarding the back door had all gone to the front door, because not far from the art studio entrance there had been a small explosion, everyone’s attention was focused there.
And Duoduo, seeing fewer and fewer people at the door, couldn’t help but go into the art studio to look for Wen Xian.
But she searched all the classrooms and didn’t find Wen Xian. Wen Xian’s bag and art supplies were all scattered on the table; she didn’t even bring her phone.
Duoduo felt more and more uneasy in her heart.
After Gong Yan got up from the ground, he immediately ran back to the art studio to call for someone, and happened to bump into Duoduo at the studio entrance, her face also anxious.
As soon as Duoduo saw Gong Yan she asked: “Yan Yan, did you see Xian-jiejie?”
Gong Yan was both scared and anxious in his heart, his small face tensed up, but his voice unconsciously carried a trace of crying tone: “Xian-jiejie was taken away by someone, I only saw three people, there must be another one driving.”
Duoduo was stunned, that explosion was fake.
This night, Licheng fell into chaos.
Not just Shen Lingge’s people, even Qin Zan’s people were also looking for Wen Xian.
Far away in London, Shen Lingge was unable to immediately receive Duoduo’s call, he was attending a meeting. So Duoduo called Xiao Song instead, and Xiao Song standing in the corner raised his eyes to glance at Shen Lingge, then walked out of the meeting room.
As soon as he picked up the phone, he heard Duoduo’s crying voice, she sobbed and said: “Xiao Song, quickly tell Young Master, Miss is missing wuwu.”
Xiao Song froze, he somewhat difficultly asked: “What do you mean missing?”
Duoduo cried louder and louder: “Miss was kidnapped by someone.”
Xiao Song did not hesitate in the slightest, immediately turned around, entered the meeting room, walked to Shen Lingge’s side and bent down to tell him about Wen Xian’s matter.
Everyone in the meeting room saw the man who had always been cold and calm in front of them these past days, after his assistant finished speaking, his expression changed greatly, and immediately he stood up and left the meeting room.
Xiao Song had no time to explain and just chased after.
For Shen Lingge, anything could wait, but Wen Xian’s matter could not wait.
The driver was waiting downstairs, Xiao Song had already contacted the airport, they were now preparing to set off for the airport.
When Shen Lingge picked up his phone, the phone almost slipped from his hand, but before he could call the bodyguard captain, he received a call first.
Shen Lingge’s face looked very bad, his masseter muscle already tightly clenched: “Speak.”
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Wen Xian woke up amidst darkness, she was lying on a cold floor, her head also dully ached. She slowly blinked her eyes, from her angle, she could only see a small window above, faint moonlight spilling in.
She quietly listened for a while, it was very quiet around, this place seemed to have only her alone.
But besides that there was also the sound of wind and annoying insect noises.
Wen Xian bit her lip, right now she did not know what time it was, Shen Lingge must know she was kidnapped.
Yu was not by her side.
Yu almost never separated from her, she didn’t know where she was, also didn’t know if at this kind of distance, Yu could still hear her looking for it. Even so, Wen Xian still silently recited Yu’s name.
At 3 a.m., when everyone was anxiously spinning around.
A brush silently slipped out from Wen family villa, under the night, no one discovered it.
At this moment, Qin Zan was also not asleep, he furrowed his brows looking at them checking the surveillance.
His face was very cold, aside from worrying about Wen Xian, even more he was blaming Shen Lingge. He had clearly reminded that man, yet he still let Wen Xian meet with an accident.
At this moment Qin Zan couldn’t help but doubt, whether his concession was correct or not.
Shen Lingge fundamentally had no way to protect Wen Xian well.
…
At the very west of Licheng there was a desolate mountain, decades ago this mountain was not in today’s unattended appearance. Back then it was said there was a gold mine in the mountain, attracting many gold prospectors and people hoping to get rich overnight.
But in the years after, not only did no one find gold, there were even people who lost their lives because of it.
Since then, there were fewer and fewer people in this mountain, until it became the desolate appearance of today. But in this mountain there were still many traces left from when people lived here back then.
Abandoned warehouses, old wooden houses.
At this moment, inside a wooden house, several kerosene lamps were lit, a few men sat together.
One middle-aged man, after taking a puff of smoke, sighed and said: “Decades-old matter, that was Wen family ancestors’ sin, Wen Tianlin is also dead. This little girl doesn’t know anything.”
In the corner there also sat a man with a fierce appearance, on his left arm there was a scar. He was the person that day driving on the airport road brushing past Shen Lingge and them, he was also the mastermind of this plan.
Zhang Zhengwei took a deep breath of smoke, from his hoarse throat squeezed out a few words: “Don’t forget what you all promised Miss Xu, took people’s money, must do things properly.”
The middle-aged man furrowed his brows: “She let us kidnap this little girl, we already kidnapped her, I don’t want to get involved in human life.”
These people, except for Zhang Zhengwei whose heart was all about revenge, the rest all came for money. Hearing the middle-aged man say this, for a moment they also felt a little shaken in their hearts, carrying a human life on their backs would be a big matter.
Zhang Zhengwei’s grandfather was once one of the gold prospectors of this Ming Mountain. Back then, Wen Tianlin’s grandfather Wen Zhen had recruited a group of gold prospectors to Ming Mountain to pan for gold, but in the end, Zhang Zhengwei’s grandfather died on Ming Mountain.
Later, his father also went to Ming Mountain to find the cause of his grandfather’s death, but his father also did not come back.
Since then, his mother went crazy, a good home just disappeared. The scar on his hand was left when his mother lost control.
After Zhang Zhengwei grew up, he once went to look for Wen Tianlin, but Wen Tianlin denied this matter. He said the Wen family never recruited any gold prospectors. Just one simple sentence denied two lives.
Originally Zhang Zhengwei’s heart for revenge had gradually faded along with the Wen family’s downfall. But two months ago, someone claiming to be a Wen Corporation employee came to find him. He claimed that after Wen Corporation went bankrupt, he didn’t get any wages or compensation, yet that Wen family’s eldest young lady who should have fallen still lived in a villa and drove a luxury car. He proposed the plan to kidnap Wen Xian.
But more than a month ago, that man was arrested by the police. Just as their plan was at a standstill, Miss Xu appeared. She was the person funding their entire plan.
And that so-called Wen Corporation employee was just someone she found as a front, to let others focus their attention on the Wen family bankruptcy incident from four years ago, and not on the gold prospecting incident from decades ago.
As for the gold prospecting incident, Xu Chuwei also spent some effort to investigate, after checking for a long time only then finding out they had all been deceived. Someone had used Wen Zhen’s name to recruit a batch of gold prospectors.
The Wen family had nothing to do with these matters, but Xu Chuwei didn’t care about these things, she only wanted them to get the job done.
At 4 a.m.
Except for two vans with fake license plates, all the vehicles that had appeared at the art studio entrance last night had already been tracked down; Qin Zan and Shen Lingge’s movements were very fast.
The other side had meticulously planned for a long time. That night more than ten vans appeared at the art studio entrance, all with fake license plates, and those people were all just paid to drive around in circles, they knew nothing.
The remaining two vans, one had disappeared from surveillance, one got on the highway, and at the next toll station they would be able to intercept them.
On the plane.
Shen Lingge sat silently on his seat, listening to Xiao Song reporting the latest situation: “Miss Wen is very likely on that van that disappeared from surveillance. That child saw one of their faces, the police are already searching.”
Shen Lingge didn’t speak. He just bent over, elbow resting on his knee, single hand clenched in a fist, lightly supporting his forehead.
After Xiao Song finished reporting, he did not speak anymore.
No one knew what Shen Lingge was thinking at this moment.
At this moment, Shen Lingge was only continuously silently reciting Wen Xian’s name in his heart, whether disappearing into thin air or summoning teleportation, right now he only wanted to go to her side.
He knew, she could bring him to her side.
Shen Lingge had always been waiting, but he never managed to wait.
In order to confirm whether Yu was by Wen Xian’s side, Shen Lingge had Duoduo search through Wen Xian’s bag. She did not find the pen Shen Lingge mentioned in Wen Xian’s bag nor in Wen Xian’s room.
So Yu was by Wen Xian’s side.
But the more he waited, the more Shen Lingge became afraid. He was afraid whether something had happened to Wen Xian, but what he feared even more was that Wen Xian, for his sake, would not let Yu bring him to her side.
She would choose to protect him.
Shen Lingge painfully closed his eyes.