Twenty minutes have passed.
Standing at the door of the teahouse was a handsome young man wearing a brown jacket. He had short hair, round eyes, and a black shirt underneath. He looked elegant.
It is Dodo's foster dad, Xie Qiming.
"Here!" Wu Heng waved to the door.
Xie Qiming turned to look at Wu Heng, stunned for a moment, then walked over and sat opposite Wu Heng.
Wu Heng picked up the teapot and poured the other party a cup of oolong tea.
"Sir, are you the one who communicated with me on the phone and said that there was a problem with Dodo's mother's custody agreement?"
Xie Qiming asked with some doubt.
In fact, Wu Heng is wearing a black shirt at the moment, with all his muscles stretching the shirt tightly. He has a domineering bald head and a triangular beard on his chin. He looks nearly thirty years old and does not look like a good person.
"Yes, it's me. Not only Li Ruonan's agreement, she has big problems as a person."
"When was the last time you made a video with kid Dodo?"
Wu Heng looked confident, but this attitude made Xie Qiming a little unsure.
"Yesterday evening, I had a video with Dodo."
Xie Qiming glanced at Wu Heng with some confusion, not understanding why he asked this.
"Dodo calls you daddy and has lived with you for quite a while. As a father, you should be the most aware of her subtle changes. Now think about it carefully. When you were video-recording with your daughter, was there any change in her eyes?"
Wu Heng's words made Xie Qiming look tense. After thinking carefully, he replied with some hesitation:
"There seems to be something wrong, it seems. It seems"
"Scared!" Wu Heng put the tea cup on the table and made a soft sound.
This voice seemed to hit Xie Qiming's heart, and he suddenly woke up:
"Yes, fear. There is a kind of uneasiness in Dodo's eyes, but I thought it was caused by the new environment."
Xie Qiming The more I think about it, the more I feel something is wrong. Children's eyes are the ones that can't hide anything.
He quickly took out his mobile phone and was about to call Li Ruonan. He wanted to find Dodo, but was stopped by Wu Heng.
"Things are not as simple as you think. You might as well listen to me first."
Wu Heng roughly told Xie Qiming that Li Ruonan, Chen Zhenyuan, and Chen Lidong participated in the sacrificial ceremony at Chen Ancestral Grounds and dedicated their unborn children to Mother Buddha.
"It's so possible. It's just nonsense." Xie Qiming didn't believe this at all and was about to stand up, but Wu Heng gently pressed his shoulder with his left hand.
It was as if his body was clamped by machine tool vise, and he couldn't move.
"Young people just can't keep calm. Today's society is all about evidence, so I will naturally give you a chance to verify it!"
After a while, Wu Heng saw Xie Qiming calm down, then let go of his hand and told him the verification method.
Xie Qiming picked up the tea and drank it, calming down his mood, and then dubiously dialed Li Ruonan's video chat.
"Dad."
Wearing a pink floral skirt and a white short coat, the six-year-old Dodo appeared in the video, with two dimples on her smiling face.
"Hey, Dodo, where is your mother?"
Xie Qiming saw that it was Dodo who answered the video, and felt it was just right, so he asked casually.
"Mom has gone shopping. Dad, I miss you so much."
"Dad misses Duoduo too. Last night he dreamed that Duoduo was kidnapped by bad guys, and it was not easy to get Duoduo back. How has Duoduo been at mom's house these two days?"
Xie Qiming followed Wu Heng's instructions and asked calmly.
Dodo on the other side of the video heard this, but pouted and said nothing.
"What's wrong Dodo, are you feeling uncomfortable living at mom's place? Do you want dad to pick you up?"
"Dad, I can't leave. Mom is here with bad guys. She is very afraid of bad guys, so Dodo has to stay with mom. Dad, can you come with mom and drive the bad guys away."
Dodo heard Xie Qiming's words, hesitated for a moment, and still refused.
Xie Qiming's body straightened instantly, and "bad bad" matched what Wu Heng described.
Wu Heng sat opposite Xie Qiming, stretched out his hand to make a shushing gesture, and pointed to his left eye.
He had just told Xie Qiming that if Dodo mentioned "bad bad", he must not ask further, otherwise it would be fatal to Dodo and Xie Qiming.
"My poor Dodo, come closer and let daddy take a look."
Xie Qiming saw Wu Heng's actions, forcibly resisted asking, and continued to speak to Dodo.
Dodo heard this and his whole face was glued to the screen.
"Dodo Why are your eyes so red? Did you not sleep well? Press it with your finger and let Dad see if he is sick."
Xie Qiming taught Dodo to pull his lower left eyelid with his hand, and his expression froze instantly.
Sure enough, there was a prism-shaped red color appearing in the white of Dodo's left eye under his left pupil, as if blood had condensed.
"Bang."
Dodo On the wardrobe behind him, a stuffed rabbit suddenly fell from the counter to the ground.
The doll rabbit lying on its side, with two scarlet plastic eyes, seemed to be staring directly at the mobile phone camera in Dodo's hand.
Dodo took back the hand that was holding his eyes, looked back curiously, and turned back when he found nothing.
"Dad, what's wrong with you?"
Xie Qiming The moment the rabbit fell, his body leaned back suddenly, as if he was frightened by something.
"It's nothing. Dad misses Dodo so much that he feels dizzy thinking about it."
Xie Qiming rubbed his eyes and said calmly with a smile on his face.
He didn't know what happened just now, but he felt something hit him, and he felt an inexplicable creepy feeling in his heart.
As soon as he finished speaking, the sound of the door opening was heard behind Dodo, and Li Ruonan, wearing a gray sweatshirt and a mask, walked in.
"Dodo, who are you videotaping with?"
She asked while putting down a large bag of instant food she bought.
"Mom, it's dad."
Li Ruonan's expression panicked when he heard this, but instantly turned into a smile. He came to the camera and said hello to Xie Qiming.
"Dodo Didn't you sleep well these two days? And why do you seem to have changed places? Is this a hotel?"
Xie Qiming saw Wu Heng dipped in tea and wrote the word "address" on the table, and asked with understanding.
"Oh, isn't Dodo's birthday tomorrow? I'll take her out to play for two days."
Birthday tomorrow?
Wu Heng heard this and knew where to find Li Ruonan.
Because on Dodo's sixth birthday, Li Ruonan took her to the old house where Great Black Buddha Mother's video recorder was stored. During the process of negotiating to buy a house, Dodo was left alone in the corridor outside the house.
Then Dodo, lured by Mother Buddha, went up to the penthouse and watched the video recorder surrounded by countless statues of gods.
Following a burst of horrifying laughter, Dodo's immature childish voice shouted out the phrase: "Huo Fo Xiu one, heart-warming..."
The zebra-colored caterpillar exclusive to Great Black Buddha Mother at the door raised half of its body to the sky in a worshiping posture. This means that the contract between Dodo and Mother Buddha has deepened and they are destined to become sacrifices.
Li Ruonan, who arrived late, panicked and grabbed the camera that had finished playing from Dodo's hand, and shouted "Chen Letong" again.
There were too many deliberate coincidences, it really seemed like she had planned the process long ago.
Now that you know where Li Ruonan is going, just wait and see.
Wu Heng wrote on the table again, "The end."
Xie Qiming nodded unconsciously, as if twisting his neck, and said to the video:
"Okay, you have to pay attention to your safety, Dodo. When you come back to It Comes, dad will make up for your birthday gift. Dad is going to work first. See you Dodo."
"Bye Dad!"
Dodo waved his hand with some hesitation in his eyes. Although her mother was strange, she was her mother. She felt that her mother was very scared, so she had to accompany her mother.
"Sir, please help Dodo!"
Xie Qiming hung up the video, his expression instantly became panicked, and he looked at Wu Heng pleadingly.
He believed it, completely believed it.
Anyone would deceive him, but the emotion contained in Dodo's eyes would never deceive him.