It was quite unexpected, but after that night, Lu Linglong could no longer get through to Zhang Chulan on the phone. In the days that followed, he still didn't come back or return her calls, and no one knew whether something else had happened.
Then, a week later, just as Lu Linglong, Lu Lin, and Zhi Jinhua had grown impatient waiting and were preparing to say their goodbyes to Annie, Zhang Chulan and Feng Baobao finally returned to Z City. After sending a message, they showed up at Annie's house right on time that evening.
Clearly, those two had come to mooch food and lodging, just like the five who had been hanging around Annie's house all this time: Lu Linglong, Lu Lin, Zhi Jinhua, Zhuge Qing, and Fu Rong?
Of course, Fu Rong was the exception.
She had been personally hired by Annie as her private chef. Staying at Annie's house was a proper job: not only were her meals and lodging covered, she also received a generous salary. That was nothing like the others—Lu Linglong, Lu Lin, Zhi Jinhua, Zhang Chulan, Feng Baobao, and Zhuge Qing—who were just freeloading.
Whatever the case, Zhang Chulan had finally returned!
Naturally, right after dinner, Lu Linglong and the others immediately asked him and Feng Baobao about what had happened. What was the story behind Xiao Xiao and the others' deaths? And why had Zhang Chulan let Ma Xianhong go?
Zhang Chulan only answered the questions he could.
He told them what he had already mentioned on the phone. As for what he couldn't talk about—how he had passed out again, suffered serious internal and external injuries, and how the old farmer's art might be Qi-Body Origin-Flow, or Divine Spirit, or even both—he kept his mouth shut. He also said nothing about