This is Li Xing's mother, Wang Hua, who has been ill for some time.

  After Li Bo introduced Wen Qi, Wang Hua was about to get busy cooking. Wen Qi politely declined, saying she had something to rush back to, and this kind of place made her feel repulsed from the bottom of her heart.

  But no sooner had she stepped out of the door than the yellow dog in the yard suddenly rushed out and pounced on her with a ferocious expression.

  Wen Qi was so scared that she sprained her ankle. At this time, Li Bo went out and picked up a brick to throw at the dog. The yellow dog was so frightened that it ran into its kennel in a flash.

  She painfully looked at her swollen ankle, it's not serious but she also can't drive now, this time she really can't leave.

  Wang Hua fetched some medicine to apply on her, while Li Xin, who had been staring at Wen Qi's ankle with a numb face on the brick bed, had dark skin like his father due to years of exposure to the sun.

  Li Xin inadvertently exchanged a glance with Wen Qi, revealing a mouthful of big white teeth in a laugh. She shrunk her legs and inexplicably felt a chill run down her spine.

  Dinner was a simple egg drop soup with steamed buns, Wang Hua slaughtered a chicken to make broth for her son's health, and as Wen Qi was a guest, she added more chicken meat when serving the rice.

  But Wen Qi had no appetite and excused herself saying she was uncomfortable and went to the outer room.

  She took out her mobile phone and tried calling He Jie in the inner room just now, but it showed no signal, so she thought of trying outside.

  But for some reason, this place doesn't have a signal either, even though it's not in a mountain valley.

  Can only wait for it to subside and then try going out.

  After dinner, Wang Hua arranged for her to rest in the room next door, which only had a bed and a dusty cabinet.

  "This is Ah Xin's room," Wang Hua explained. "You've twisted your foot, and it's getting dark, so just make do with staying here for the night, and you can leave again early tomorrow morning."

  Wen Qi limped along behind her, nodding his head, thinking hard about how to get in touch with He Jie. If something unexpected happened on the way back, wouldn't that be a loss.

  At eight o'clock in the evening, Wen Qi finally found a place with a signal in this house. She immediately dialed He Jie's phone number.

  "I'm working overtime, make it quick."

  Wen Qi's words were blocked and swallowed back, after a while, she replied: "N-nothing."

  "Alright, ancestors, I'm outta here."

  He Jie was very busy, so busy that she wouldn't even recognize her own relatives. Wen Qi didn't dare disturb her when she was like this.

  After a moment's consideration, she flipped to He Mingzhen's phone number, but then remembered his attitude at the hospital that morning. Hadn't it already decided that they would have no relationship from now on?

  Wen Qi's heart was vexed and her mind was in disarray. In the end, she gritted her teeth and called Xia Wei. The phone rang for a long time before there was any movement on the other end.

  "Xia Wei Jie, are you in Nan Cheng now..."

  Xia Wei only heard the buzzing sound of electricity and couldn't hear Wen Qi's voice clearly. She asked repeatedly, but couldn't get a response.

  "No signal again?!"

  Wen Qi had spent half a day's effort to get the signal, but now it was cut off again. She hung up the phone in frustration and turned around to see someone standing at the window, giving her a fright.

  The sky had darkened and she couldn't see the man's face very clearly, all she could see was a black shadow standing in the window.

  "Who? Who is it?" Wen Qi plucked up her courage and walked over.

  The man didn't speak, he just stood quietly by the window, staring at her as if she were a prey in a cage.

  He was still some distance away from him. Wen Qi stopped and carefully identified the man's face in the dark, asking tentatively: "Li Xin?"