Chapter 76 Rescue

Due to busy work and continuous rain these days, the matter of finding a roommate has been put on hold.

The temperature has dropped sharply, the wind is cold, and the capital has entered early winter. Vendors selling roasted sweet potatoes and candied haws can be seen everywhere on the roadside. When you get off the subway, you can smell all kinds of aromas.

Lin Zhi couldn't help it and picked a large red sweet potato with caramelized skin. Finally, she didn't have to worry about dinner today.

On the way home, Lin Zhi wore headphones and didn't pay much attention to what was going on around her. It wasn't until he turned into the dark alley that he realized that someone seemed to be following him.

Because the right path she used to take was under construction, she had no choice but to walk on this trail every day recently.

The trail is located in a residential area, surrounded by more than a dozen deep alleys, large and small. It is dark and long with no end in sight.

I usually don't notice anything when I walk during the day, but now the light is dim, because it's raining and there are no people around, it actually looks a bit scary.

Lin Zhi took off her headphones and listened with bated breath for a while. The voice behind her seemed to have disappeared again.

She breathed a sigh of relief and suspected that it was because she had been so busy at work recently that she began to hallucinate.

Unexpectedly, just after taking two more steps, a black figure suddenly jumped out from the deep alley next to her, clamping her body, and her mouth and nose were instantly covered.

The man was so strong that Lin Zhi was unable to move almost instantly. She struggled desperately, but she couldn't shake the man in the slightest.

Seeing that the man was about to drag her further and further away, Lin Zhi became more and more panicked, her eyes were scarlet, and she bit the man hard in desperation!

 "hiss-"

The man was bitten by her, his hands loosened in pain, and he cursed in a low voice: "Fuck!"

Lin Zhi took the opportunity to turn around and looked at the man wearing a raincoat. His eyes gradually became frightened!

She recognized the scar on the corner of the man's mouth. He was clearly the man who visited her house a few days ago!

The man didn't say anything when he saw her break away. He just pursed his lips tightly and reached out to catch her.

Lin Zhi was scared and anxious. In the darkness, he remembered that he still had the roasted sweet potato he just bought in his hand. He threw the sweet potato directly into the man's eyes and ran towards the bright place next to him. While running, he shouted: "Help! Help!"

The roasted sweet potatoes that had just come out of the pot were still scalding hot. The man was so suddenly hit by her that he immediately covered his eyes and leaned against the wall and screamed.

Gu Qingbei heard the child's cry and quickly followed her voice to find her.

Lin Zhi ran out of the alley and ran into a familiar embrace. Her long eyelashes trembled. When she saw clearly that the other person was Gu Qingbei, tears instantly burst out of her eyes.

"Don't cry, tell me what's wrong?" Gu Qingbei hurriedly wiped her tears. The child's large tears that kept pouring out made his heart seem to tear open.

"Someone kidnapped me, over there." Lin Zhi's voice trembled, her hands shaking violently, and she pointed towards Gu Qingbei in the direction just now.

Gu Qingbei gently held her hand: "Don't be afraid, I'm here. Do you see who it is?"

Lin Zhi nodded: "It's the man who came to my house to look at the house two days ago. There was a deep scar on the corner of his mouth, and I recognized it."

"Okay, well done." Gu Qingbei stroked her back gently, "Don't worry, he can't run away."

Even though all the blood in his body was surging at this moment, he wished he could go over and beat the other person up right now. But looking at the crying child in front of him, he hesitated.

His top priority now is to comfort her and not let her have any psychological shadow. As for that man, if he had clues, he would be able to find him.

Also, he had to move the child, and she definitely couldn't live in this place anymore.

Lin Zhi was horrified by the scene just now. It took all her strength to run to Gu Qingbei. Now she felt weak all over and her feet were too weak to take a step.

"Don't be afraid, I'll carry you back." Gu Qingbei took off his coat and put it on her body, then slowly squatted down, "Come on, come up."

Lin Zhi pursed her lips, closed her long eyelashes lightly, and slowly lay on Gu Qingbei's back under Gu Qingbei's urging again.

His back was broad and warm, and the familiar woody fragrance lingered on the tip of his nose. Lin Zhi sniffed, and her uneasiness gradually subsided a little.

 "Mr. Gu, thank you."

 "No...it's okay..."

Gu Qingbei couldn't ignore the warmth of the child's body and the two strange feelings coming from his back. His throat tightened and he trembled a little when he spoke.

The temperature is low at night in early winter, and the moonlight hangs coldly on the treetops. There was a thin layer of white frost hanging on the car windows on both sides of the road.

Every house is brightly lit, and everywhere you look up you can see busy silhouettes of women under the lights in every house.

Lin Zhi tightened her coat tightly. The path that had scared her so much just now felt inexplicably warm at this moment.

After arriving home, Gu Qingbei gently placed her on the sofa in the living room and then walked to the kitchen with familiarity.

On the way just now, the child told him that she hadn't had dinner yet. Looking at the fewer ingredients in the refrigerator than before, Gu Qingbei frowned. It seemed that he had to make soup noodles again today.

Fifteen minutes later, he came to the living room carrying a bowl of steaming hot noodle soup. He caught a glimpse of the child on the sofa and felt a pain in his heart.

She still maintained her original position, wrapping her arms and legs, curling up into a small ball and burying herself in the corner of the sofa.

"Come, have some noodles." Gu Qingbei gently took off her coat and handed her a spoon and chopsticks.

Lin Zhi took it and mechanically took a mouthful of soup and put it into his mouth. The warm and fragrant feeling not only soothed her taste buds, but also relaxed her nerves.

"Tell me, why did that person kidnap me? Is it because he failed to rent a house before? Is he taking revenge on me?"

Gu Qingbei couldn't bear to see her painful and entangled look, so he took out a napkin and handed it to her: "Don't think about this now, finish eating the noodles first. No matter what the reason is, let me think about it and deal with it. You can just If this thing didn't happen today, forget about it as soon as possible."

 Let him think about it? Will he handle it?

 Lin Zhi was startled. Did she understand these words?

The steam rose from the bowl and almost hit her face. Lin Zhi's long eyelashes stained with moisture trembled, and she lowered her eyes and took a quick sip of the soup.

 She wanted to see and ask him if he meant what she understood.

But when the words came to her lips, she was swallowed back. She was afraid that she would think too much, that she was being sentimental and that he was just treating her as an employee.

 after all...

 After all, he still has Jiang Nianchu.

It wasn't until he finished the bowl of noodles that Lin Zhi seemed to remember a very important thing, that is, why did Gu Qingbei suddenly appear here?

 "By the way, Mr. Gu, it's so late, why are you here?"