Chapter 337 - Orange Ice Cream (1/2)

Chapter 337 Orange Ice Cream

The evil-looking piece of jewelry turned out to be a protection amulet. The matter had now taken in a completely different path, way beyond what Zhang Heng initially expected.

He thought all along that the series of mishaps befalling Tian Tian’s household were related to her paintings, where they seemed to serve as warnings. By using this method, she intended to tell those around her about the impending threats. Unfortunately, no one noticed it. Perhaps, she attempted to tell the people around her, but no one believed her, thinking that these were all mere coincidences.

After therapy, she stopped sharing these paintings until Zhang Heng accidentally discovered them. As for the last picture of her hiding under the bed, the evil eye must have been referring to Zhang Heng, the intruder, and not the guardian talisman. When Zhang Heng bent down and looked under the bed, his eyes appeared before Tian Tian, automatically fulfilling the painting’s prophecy.

As a result, Zhang Heng’s previous investigation strayed in the wrong direction. Tian Tian appeared to have nothing to do with the awful string of mishaps. No, that couldn’t be right. She was undoubtedly related to this matter, but despite that, she was also the only one in her family that remained unharmed. Why?

Whoever or whatever that had been attacking Tian Tian’s family clearly harbored a great deal of malice toward them. But why then was Tian Tian unhurt? Was it because she was still young? Zhang Heng did not think so. How could someone cruel be enough to hurt a pet dog but spare someone’s life because of

age?

He must be missing something important. While thinking about this issue, Zhang Heng walked home, and on the way, he received a phone call from his mother. She was craving ice cream and specified that it had to be an orange flavor. So, he detoured to a nearby Wal-Mart and tried to look for the orange-flavored ice cream in the freezer. Alas, there wasn’t any, and in the end, he bought her a box of original-flavored ice cream and a bag of oranges.

When returning home, Zhang Heng met the little girl who visited Tian Tian. She stood by her window and was peering into the room with its curtains drawn. Suddenly, the girl sensed someone approaching her from behind. She quickly turned around to leave, only to be stopped by Zhang Heng. “Are you a friend from Tian Tian’s homeroom? What’s your name, and do you also live in this community?”

The little girl took two cautious steps back and ran away without saying anything. Zhang Heng didn’t go after her. He just stood there and watched the little girl get further and further away from him. Parents would usually instruct girls her age to never talk to strangers under any circ.u.mstances, and was hence unsurprised by her reaction. Although she disclosed nothing to Zhang Heng, he was now sure that she lived around this area.

Kids her age were typically only allowed to move around in the courtyard of the same building since most residents knew each other, and it was considered as a safe and familiar environment.

In fact, this was the third time Zhang Heng saw her in less than a week. The first time she was there, she had entered Tian Tian’s house to visit her, but in her last two visits, she just stood outside the house and looked through the window. Judging by how comfortable she was around the house, she must be in good terms with Tian Tian.

A close mate? Zhang Heng stopped staring at the little girl. He took the ice cream and oranges with him and headed home first. When he opened the door, he saw his mother sitting on the couch barefoot with her legs crossed. The controller in her hand made clicked noisily as she played King of Fighters with his dad. However, the Kyo Kusanagi she controlled was crushed by Athena Asamiya, no thanks to his father, and she was clearly losing the game. When she saw Zhang Heng coming in, she immediately tossed the controller away and yelled, “Yay! My ice cream is here! You’re lucky this round… we’ll fight again after eating.” However, after unwrapping the ice cream enthusiastically, she was disappointed when she discovered it was original-flavored.

“Where is my orange-flavored ice cream?!”

Zhang Heng then threw an orange at her.

“Here, just eat this orange. There was no orange-flavored ice cream in the supermarket.”

Zhang Heng’s mother held the orange in her hand and became lost in thought.

“Aren’t you a little too cruel to your mother?”