Chapter 182 - Dabing Was Hurt (1/2)
Chapter 182 Dabing Was HurtTang Xia and Song Sisi were both taken aback, when they heard the sound at the door. They thought of the man, as mentioned by the housekeeper.
“If this man had arrived before they came, chances were that he was the initiator of all these weird events!”
“It could be that Zhang Yaoyao might have been murdered by him! Considering that Zhang Yaoyao was alone in the room when she died, it could be conjectured that the man might have been the one who poisoned her.”
Someone was pounding ferociously on the door. “Could it be that man?” They became even more frightened when they thought of this. “What should they do? All the others were out and there were only the two of them left!”
“Did he plan to kill them, since they were alone in the house?” Thinking of this, Tang Xia took up a vase from the table, at once. “What to do? What to do?”
While they were still contemplating their next move, suddenly, Fang Yan’s voice could be heard, from the door.
“Open up! Dabing is hurt!”
On hearing his voice, Song Sisi rolled her eyes at Tang Xia, as if mocking her for being so timid.
Tang Xia put the vase down immediately, and rushed to open the door, without even looking at Song Sisi. The housekeeper was so excited that he raised his head and cast his eyes towards the door, when he saw that the three men were back.
Tang Xia opened the door, and Fang Yan walked in, carrying Dabing. The rain was still heavy, their raincoats had failed to keep their clothes from being soaked by the rain.
The two men laid Dabing on the couch, and discarded their raincoats immediately. Fang Yan said, “Dabing was hit on his back, by a falling stone”
Tang Xia asked at once, “What happened when you went out?”
Fang Yan looked at Song Sisi, who was silent, not knowing what was on her mind.
Looking at his silent friends, Ye Yifan sighed in his mind. “Dabing is in a coma. We have to send him to the hospital now!”
“The hospital?” Tang Xia was suddenly at a loss. “They had been stuck here, without any food to eat. How could they even get to the hospital? If they could do that, there would be no need for the three of them to try to find the way out, and Dabing would not have been injured, either.”
Song Sisi also found that this remark sounded quite incredulous. “How could they get to the hospital? They had been stuck here for so long, without even adequate food.”
The housekeeper was silent, and slipped away, unobtrusively.
Seeing the various expressions on everyone’s faces, Ye Yifan got up and pulled Tang Xia to a corner, which made Song Sisi jealous, when she saw them huddling together. But under such conditions, she was not in the mood to bother about them.
Fang Yan also looked at them coldly, but he said nothing, since Song Sisi did the same.
Tang Xia looked at Ye Yifan, in confusion. “What’s wrong?”
Ye Yifan looked very serious and said in a low voice,
“Not long after we went out, I observed the surroundings and thought there was nothing wrong. At that time, Dabing was five or six meters behind me, but after a short while, when I looked back, I found him lying on the ground, in a daze, about one or two meters from me.”
Tang Xia was puzzled. “You mean someone pushed him?”
Ye Yifan fell silent. “In my opinion, Dabing would not have been able to move so fast. But there were only the three of us at the moment.”
Tang Xia said, with some confusion, “Could it be Fang Yan? You would definitely not do that, then he should be the only suspect. But he… Why?”
This had made Ye Yifan confused as well. He didn’t understand why Fang Yan would push Dabing, for no reason. But it came to him that Zhang Yaoyao had also died, for no reason.
Tang Xia looked up at Ye Yifan and said, “Last night, I heard Song Sisi going out when I was still in a daze from my sleep, so I followed her. But I lost sight of her when she suddenly turned at the corner.”
“I hung around and tried to look for her. When I turned back, I found Fang Yan standing behind me. He then asked me what I was doing.”
Ye Yifan was puzzled. “Did you make a mistake?”
Tang Xia was uncertain about this. “I’m not sure. Then I argued with Fang Yan for a while. He told me that Song Sisi had been in the room all this while. I didn’t trust him. But when we returned to the room, she was there. I could not tell whether she was really asleep or not”
Ye Yifan thought about this, touching his jaw.
“Last but not least, Fang Yan then accused me to be the murderer, the one who killed Zhang Yaoyao.
Ye Yifan paused and cast his eyes over Tang Xia. Indeed, Fang Yan’s behavior seemed quite suspicious, at this point.
But accusing a man of being Zhang Yaoyao’s murderer, because he was wandering along the corridor at midnight, was a little rash, and would seem like it was an attempt to frame him.
Tang Xia looked back at Song Sisi, who was watching their every movement, as if they were about do something excessive.
Song Sisi glared fiercely at Tang Xia, when she saw Tang Xia looking at her. But Tang Xia ignored her and looked at Ye Yifan.
“Song Sisi said something to me when you were out. She kept saying that I was Zhang Yaoyao’s killer.” Of course, she didn’t tell him how she had threatened Son Sisi by saying that she would kill her first.”
Ye Yifan looked at her in bewilderment. “Why are they so convinced that you killed Zhang Yaoyao? What’s their purpose for setting up such an elaborate trap for you last night?”
That sounded so strange.
“Ah! Yes!” Tang Xia appeared to have realized something. She looked around.