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Li Yin?

She answers it immediately.

“Zhengzheng, could you download Angelic Music for me? I want to listen to what can ease pain and improve sleep.” Li Yin’s voice sounds soft.

“What’s wrong? Are you feeling uncomfortable?”

“Yes. I can’t fall asleep with pain. My computer isn’t here.”

“How about taking a Pad for you?”

“So long as I can listen, it’s OK.”

“Got it. I’ll download the music for you.”

Fu Zhengzheng puts down the heat preservation container, goes upstairs quickly, takes out the Pad and downloads the music. Then she goes to the hospital with the Pad and the heat preservation container. Xiaohui is about to feed Li Yin. Fu Zhengzheng takes the heat preservation container over instantly. She lies that she has had lunch and asks Mrs. Liu and Xiaohui to eat, while feeding soup to Li Yin.

After Li Yin has the soup, Xiaohui tidies, and Mrs. Liu goes to the infant room to see the baby. Fu Zhengzheng talks with Li Yin.

They talk until 2:00 p.m. when Li Yin looks drained. Thinking that Li Yin didn’t sleep sound last night, she gives the Pad to Li Yin and then goes to the infant room to see the baby.

Liu Lin’s aunt is standing outside the infant room and looking at the baby with expectancy. Fu Zhengzheng talks a little with her and is ready to go back. It comes to her mind that she doesn’t take the heat preservation container, so she returns to Li Yin’s ward.

She meets Xiaohui at the door, who comes out to fetch hot water. Xiaohui intends to open the door for her. She raises the forefinger before her lips. She tells Xiaohui that she comes back to get the heat preservation container and asks Xiaohui to go about her own business.

Xiaohui nods and goes to the fetch hot water.

Fu Zhengzheng pushes the door lightly and enters. Li Yin has closed her eyes. The ward is quiet and only melodious music can be heard.

Fu Zhengzheng creeps to the table, picks up the heat preservation container and is ready to leave. Perhaps disturbed by her moving figure, Li Yin opens her eyes and looks at Fu Zhengzheng.

“Did I…” Fu Zhengzheng wants to say, “Did I wake you up?”, but she finds Li Yin just glances at her and then closes her eyes slowly. She swallows the words back on the tip of her tongue, looking at Li Yin strangely and feeling something wrong.

Li Yin ignores her. She leaves the ward suspiciously.

When she goes out, Xiaohui comes back with hot water. She tells Xiaohui some points for attention and then leaves.

It’s past 2:00 p.m. when she gets back to Ten-Mile Sunshine Resort. She wants to go upstairs for a rest, but when she sees Fu Xing and Xiaoxiao writing on the tea table with Ji Yashu around, she enters the sitting room immediately.

“Mom.”

Ji Yashu asks smilingly, “Have you had lunch?”

“I have had lunch outside.” Fu Zhengzheng isn’t hungry, so she lies.

“What are the two kids drawing?” Fu Zhengzheng walks closer to look.

Xiaoxiao tilts her head to one side and asks, “Aunt, would you like to join?”

Fu Zhengzheng touches her pigtail and asks with a smile, “What?”

Fu Xing shows Fu Zhengzheng a piece of paper, “Mummy, I am playing the game of treasure hunt with Xiaoxiao. Mummy, do you think my drawing is good?”

Fu Zhengzheng sees the circles and dots on Fu Xing’s paper and thinks of the trap map of the coffer instantly. She grabs the paper immediately and asks hurriedly, “Who told you to draw it?”

“Is it good?” Fu Xing throws his head towards Xiaoxiao complacently, “Sister Yan says treasure maps are all like this.”

Hearing that, Fu Zhengzheng slips the paper into her pocket while asking tentatively with a smile, “You liked to play the game of man hunt by making marks, didn’t you? Why do you play treasure hunt now?”

She has taken Fu Xing back to B City for some days. He has never mentioned the treasure map before, but now he draws it. She doesn’t feel right.

Ji Yashu breaks in with a smile, “They gave up that man hunt game long ago. They can play more and more kinds of games. Xiaoxiang told them a story named Frog and the Treasure. Perhaps because it’s fresh for them, they begin to draw the treasure map.”

Chen Xiaoxiang?

At this moment, Xiaoxiao calls, “Aunt Xiaoxiang, have you finished your work? We’ll play the game.”

Chen Xiaoxiang is walking downstairs. Hearing that, she walks fast to them. Seeing Fu Zhengzheng, she smiles and then twists her head to smile at Xiaoxiao softly, “Xiaoxiao, good girl, play with your brother Xingxing. I will cook yummy food for you after I finish my work, OK?”

Ji Yashu smiles at Fu Zhengzheng, “The two kids like Xiaoxiang very much now. Once coming back from the kindergarten, they will stay with her, asking her to tell stories or playing games with her. Xiaoxiang is popular with kids.”

Xiaoxiang is embarrassed by the praise, “I’m flattered. Xingxing and Xiaoxiao are nice and cute.”

Fu Zhengzheng looks at Chen Xiaoxiang and asks, “What else do you need to do? Leave it to me. You can play with Xingxing and Xiaoxiao. I don’t know how to play the game of treasure map.”

“No, how can I leave the housework to you?” Chen Xiaoxiang waves, “Kids usually set the rules of a game by themselves, don’t they? It’s easy. You only need to act like a child.”

Fu Zhengzheng wants to say more when Han Tengyue walks downstairs and goes to the study while waving at Fu Xing.

“Xingxing, I’m going to write.”

“Grandpa, I’ll take the paper for you.” Fu Xing throws down the “treasure map” and follows him instantly.

“Me too.” Xiaoxiao follows them happily.

Chen Xiaoxiang seems to sigh with relief. Ji Yashu smiles, “They are clingy and must be a headache for you, right?”

Chen Xiaoxiang waves, “No. Xingxing and Xiaoxiao are so clever and nice. I like them very much. I’m only afraid that they think I can’t tell many stories and thus don’t play with me. When I’m free, I will read more books.”

“There are many books in the study. You can read as you like.”

“Thank you, madam.”

“It’s the time to cook ginseng soup for Tian, isn’t it?”

“I’ll cook it now.” Chen Xiaoxiang smiles at Fu Zhengzheng and then heads for the kitchen gladly.

When Ji Yashu sees Fu Zhengzheng staring at Chen Xiaoxiang’s figure, she smiles, “Xiaoxiang is deft and nice, just like Qiaolan’s personality. I like her. If she is willing, I intend to keep her working here, even if Qiaolan comes back.”

“She is indeed good.” Fu Zhengzheng responds smilingly, but she can’t help casting her glances to Chen Xiaoxiang, deep in thought.

At dusk, Han Siqi comes back. After dinner, they go upstairs. He tells Fu Zhengzheng that the doctor has examined Li Yin and hasn’t found any mental disorder.

“Normal? Then why did she have hallucination?”

Han Siqi shakes his head, “I don’t know. Is it related to diet?”

“Li Yin said her body hurt and asked me to download Angelic Music that could ease pain. I also downloaded some music that’s good for sleep into the Pad and took it to her at noon.”

“OK. It doesn’t matter. There is another Pad in the drawer below. If you need, you can take it out.” Han Siqi doesn’t take it seriously. He sits down before his computer and turns it on. When it’s just turned on, his cellphone rings.

Fu Zhengzheng intends to talk with him about Chen Xiaoxiang. Seeing that, she keeps silent.

Soon Han Siqi hangs up the phone and stands up.

“Zhongxu called me to discuss something. I may not come back soon. Sleep earlier.”

“Oh.” Fu Zhengzheng doesn’t ask more because it’s about his work. She hands his coat to him and sees him off. Then she closes the door and returns to the inner room.

She walks to the desk, opens the drawer and takes out the tablet. But after pressing the power button for quite a while, she fails to turn it on. She guesses it’s out of power, so she recharges it. Then she wants to turn on her own computer, but she finds that Han Siqi’s computer is on, so she sits down before it.

I won’t download anything nor receive any file. I just log in the Angelic Music website. The computer won’t be infected with a virus.

Fu Zhengzheng comforts herself in this way. She logs in her e-mail box, finds the link from Li Yin, clicks it and looks carefully. She finds that there are more comments from users. The comments have various contents. She browses through dozens of pages and divides the comments into two types: a few users regard it ineffective and uncomfortable to listen while most speak highly of the product.

Is her feeling wrong?

Fu Zhengzheng shuts the webpage disappointedly.

When she left Li Yin’s ward, Li Yin was listening to the music she downloaded online. She felt Li Yin staring into space. At that time, an idea flashed through her mind, “Li Yin might have hallucination because of listening to Angelic Music.”

However, when she browsed through the feedbacks and comments of the users on the website of Angelic Music, she didn’t see anything about hallucination.

Perhaps she is oversensitive.

After washing quickly, she lies on the bed.

Thought it’s past 10:00 p.m., she isn’t sleepy at all.

Zhu Ting hasn’t sent her any message since yesterday. Fu Zhengzheng is wondering if Fu Wenhai puts more trust in Zhu Ting after what happened last night.

Fu Zhengzheng can’t help calling Yang Tao to ask about Zhu Ting. Yang Tao tells her that Fu Wenhai went to Lingshan Nunnery with Zhu Ting this morning and went downhill at dusk. It seems that they are closer now.

She corrects him, “You should say Fu Wenhai is closer to Zhu Ting. Have you received any information from Pu Xiangchen?”

“Not yet. Maybe because Fu Wenhai’s mind is occupied by Zhu Ting recently and he racks his brains to test her, other things are delayed. By the way, a colleague told me you often went to Shuguang Hospital recently. What’s wrong?”

“Not me. It’s Li Yin.” Fu Zhengzheng tells Yang Tao that Li Yin fell from upstairs, but she doesn’t mention her suspicion that Li Yin fell due to hallucination.

“So careless? I’ll go to the hospital to see her tomorrow.”

“As for Liu Lin…”

“He may be released from the prison this month. I’ll go to the prison tomorrow to see if I can help him come out earlier.”

“If he can come out earlier, Li Yin may not be in danger anymore.”

“What danger?” Yang Tao is alert.

“Um, nothing. I mean he can take care of Li Yin. Thus, Li Yin will be more relaxed.”

Yang Tao doesn’t ask more. After a small talk, he hangs up the phone.

Fu Zhengzheng puts her cellphone aside. Then she tosses and turns and can’t fall asleep.

Can’t I fall asleep unless I listen to Angelic Music?

She gets up while mocking herself, puts on a coat and is ready to take a walk outside – anyway, Siqi hasn’t come back, and she can wait for him while walking.

She opens the door lightly and goes downstairs. When she just walks down a few steps, she hears someone talking downstairs. Their voices are low, but she faintly hears her name in the dialogue. She feels curious and creeps downstairs.