Su Hai couldnāt help but laugh, "How can you say sheās missing? Donāt worry! She definitely wonāt wander off from here, maybe sheās just being playful. Letās go look for her."
Sheng Ning also felt she was being overly anxious, perhaps seeing Hai Lan made her feel nothing good would come of it.
The two of them went around the entire courtyard, and since the family couldnāt wait for them to return, they had the assistant come out and help search, but they still couldnāt find her.
The three of them met on the road beside the Hai Familyās house.
"Did you find Anāan?"
"No!" The assistant shook his head, "I asked around, but no one saw a little girl carrying a casserole."
"What about the duty room? Did you go there?"
"Yes, I did. The person on duty today said they didnāt see a strange little girl either."
Su Haiās expression became increasingly grave.
Sheng Ning was almost frantic, glaring at Su Hai, "Didnāt you say she couldnāt be missing? Why canāt we find her?"
"Itās strange!" Su Hai also encountered such a situation for the first time.
"I had Anāan go to the Hai Family to deliver something, she definitely wouldnāt run off on her own. Even if she wanted to play, she would complete the task first before going to play! Plus, sheās not familiar with this area, where would she go to play? Anāan is a good child, she wouldnāt be playful at all." Sheng Ning was so anxious she was close to tears, pacing back and forth on the ground to calm her inner agitation.
Su Hai thought of Anāan in the countryside, going to the town market to sell bean sprouts every day before dawn, and nodded in agreement. Anāan was indeed a good child, able to endure hardships at sixteen or seventeen, doing things that many adults couldnāt do, so how could she be playful?
She was supposed to deliver something to the Hai Family, but the Hai Family said they didnāt see her. He believed Hai Shuangjie wouldnāt lie, so where could Anāan be?
Su Hai rubbed his temples, he had just mentioned the Hai Familyās complexities, and now it seemed to be coming true.
The pacing Sheng Ning suddenly stopped, sniffed the air vigorously. It was the smell of mushroom soup, although faint, it could still be detected upon careful sniffing.
"Whatās wrong?"
Sheng Ningās expression changed, "Anāan must be in trouble, thereās the smell of mushroom soup, right here. Itās probably because the soup spilled, thatās why thereās a smell." After speaking, she looked down, searching for traces on the ground. Indeedāthere was a small dark patch on the cement road, from where the smell emanated.
Su Haiās face changed drastically, he went directly to the nearby trash can. The trash can now had no cover, so just by bending down, he could see what was inside.
Sure enough, the broken casserole was thrown in the trash can.
Sheng Ning noticed Su Haiās actions and followed him. When she saw the casserole in the trash can, her eyes were blazing with anger.
"Someone must have done this on purpose, absolutely, otherwise why would the casserole be deliberately thrown into the trash can?" Sheng Ning was furious, thinking about how Anāan was missing and wanting to kick Su Hai in anger.
The person she suspected most here was Hai Lan, maybe Hai Lan knew Anāan was her sister, so she took it out on Anāan.
"Iām going to confront Hai Lan, no wonder she didnāt say a word just now, turns out she was feeling guilty." Saying this, she rolled up her sleeves and turned to leave.
The assistant became anxious at the sight, was she going to fight? "No way, Iāll stop her."
"Donāt stop her," Su Hai shouted, "Anāan is Ningningās soft spot, if Hai Lan really dared to touch Anāan, sheād better be ready to be torn apart!" Su Hai could see that Ningning, the girl who never asked Old Master for anything, actually approached him today for Anāanās education. This was already beyond her expectations. Back then, when Xu Qigang disappeared, Ningning was so worried she couldnāt sleep and endured in silence.
This time, she directly lost her composure.