Chapter 98 - 98 On her Trail
98 On her Trail
Huo Jinyan was certainly in a bad mood. In order not to bring his emotions into the lesson, he had been holding it in, afraid that he would scare the entire cla.s.s with a single, inappropriate outburst.
He was in a bad mood because he did not sleep well; chronic lack of sleep could really make people cranky.
He had no idea how Lu Ning did it.
And the reason for his sleep deprivation was because he had followed Lu Ning to F Prefecture in secret.
The other day, he had spent a lot of effort in the curriculum room digging out Lu Ning’s previous test papers. And he found out that, as that teacher had mentioned, some of Lu Ning’s tests were really strange; she could not do the simple questions, yet she could do the difficult ones.
Although it happened infrequently, this was definitely not a result of sheer luck; these questions could not be understood without some capability. With Lu Ning’s current level of understanding, she definitely should not have been able to understand them; however, she had solved these questions a year or two ago.
Huo Jinyan was certain that Lu Ning was not stupid. At the very least, she must be pretending to be like this.
Huo Jinyan seemed to have found a trace of hope.
Furthermore, he also knew that Lu Ning would sneak out of her house in the middle of the night and take a helicopter to F Prefecture with someone.
All of these were discovered by Chu Ting. At that time, he was really at home; he found out that he was being followed, so he stayed put in his house. On the other hand, Chu Ting was not being followed so he could move freely. Thus, many of these investigations were undertaken by Chu Ting.
Huo Jinyan knew that Lu Ning was a capable person, and that she had been traveling through the dangerous F Prefecture recently. He had no choice but to investigate this, so he quietly went to F Prefecture.
His schedule thus became almost the same as Lu Ning’s, which was why both of them had the same dark circles under their eyes.
The difference was that Lu Ning still had to commute between her part-time job and the hospital at noon and in the evening, whereas Huo Jinyan was able to take a break during this time.
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Huo Jinyan stood by the window and looked at the girl who ran out of the school building and headed straight for the café. His stony gaze carried more suspicion than usual.
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Lu Ning continued living like this every day. It was only on Sundays that she could rest; she would not do anything, and made Song Wenqi agree to this. So, she only had to go to tutor in the afternoon.
Once Sunday was over, she had to follow Song Wenqi to F Prefecture every single day.
On this day, she applied for leave at noon to pick Shen Yunci up from the hospital; Shen Yunci could finally go home to recuperate.
When she arrived, Shen Yunci had just left the hospital with Lu Zhi supporting her.
Seeing her come over, Shen Yunci could not help but grumble, “Mommy had said that you didn’t have to come, so why are you here? You look like you’re in a rush. Are you cold?”
The weather had turned cold. Shen Yunci clasped her hand, her heart aching.
“Look, it’s so cold.” As she spoke, she wrapped her hand in hers to warm it up.
Lu Qing was standing at the back, looking at the thin clothes she was wearing. He did not say anything, but simply took off his coat and covered her with it.
Lu Ning glanced at him, not moving an inch. She did not want Shen Yunci and Lu Zhi to worry, so she accommodated Lu Qing and gave him this opportunity to show concern for his sister in front of their parents.
Shen Yunci could not contain a chuckle when she saw him like this. While she did not say anything, she felt that it was a good thing that he was coming to understand her.
Lu Zhi kept glancing at Lu Ning, and then he finally asked, “Ning’ning, were you the one who paid the hospitalization fees?”
Lu Ning nodded. “Wasn’t it enough? I’ll go top it up.”
She did not think much about it; all she was thinking was that if it was not enough, she would simply pay off the outstanding sum.
“It’s enough, but where did you get the money? Didn’t you give us all you had?”