After a long time, Lawyer Henry's car slowly drove into an old road in the new district. Both sides of the road were full of dense plane trees, which were about to cover the entire head. The winter sun was scattered on the ground, which seemed very out of tune with the hustle and bustle of the outside city.
The car was going very slowly, but the old road was very narrow and long. Time here seemed to be frozen. The traces of old Shanghai were still discernible, and even the sky above the sycamore leaves was filled with the old flavor of the 1930s.
"Do you still want to go in? It seems that we have already reached a private residence?" The driver was far behind, and hesitant with the steering wheel in his hand.
Tingli looked up at the meter, and the red display showed that it was already 130. She turned her head and looked out the window. She could vaguely see the old-style house at the end of the distance, so she simply paid and got out of the car.
When she came here just now, she noticed that there was a small platform 500 meters outside the old Sycamore Road, and she could take the bus back later.
This area was indeed very quiet. Walking on the road, Tingli only heard a slight sound of the wind. The dark green car had long disappeared, but Tingli estimated that it must have stopped in front of the house in the distance that was vaguely visible in the dense trees.
As she walked, Tingli even had a special intuition that the lawyer drove here directly with a briefcase containing Momo's photo when he was not happy with her conversation. There was no reason for the client he wanted to meet, and there was no reason why he was not the person she was looking for.
Once this intuition came into being, Tingli seemed to be more certain in her heart. Thinking that her daughter was very likely here, just a thousand meters away, Tingli hurriedly quickened her pace and gradually ran wildly.
A gust of wind blew in her ears, and a fallen leaf circled and danced behind her.
At the end of the ancient road, evergreen coniferous shrubs were entrenched at the foot of the black Iron Gate. The red-walled mansion deep in the plants still retained the prosperity of the Kuomintang period.
Standing under the huge Iron Gate, there was a sense of vicissitudes of time and space as if it was out of touch with the modern world, and inexplicably gave people an indescribable sense of depression.
Throwing off the depression, Tingli rang the doorbell at the side of the Iron Gate without hesitation. To her surprise, there was no questioning. With a "bang", the Iron Gate retreated directly to both sides. Tingli was a little surprised. She thought that to enter such a gate, she would have to spend at least some effort.
Well, it was opened. Just consider it her luck.
Eager to find the child, Tingli started to jog after entering the Iron Gate, along the blue brick path in the courtyard. When she was about to run to the mansion, an old man in his fifties or sixties suddenly came out of the side room. Seeing her, he asked in confusion:
"Hey, who are you and how did you get in?"
"I'm looking for Lawyer Henry!" Tingli said nothing more and did not stop. The lawyer's dark green car was quietly parked beside the mansion.
Under the surprised gaze of the old man, Tingli rushed straight into the house. She expected that they would suddenly run into her daughter Momo in the house without any preparation. To put it bluntly, this feeling was like catching an adulterer in bed.
Some people would feel happy and straightforward. Finding her daughter, Tingli would not want to stay in such a place for a minute and would leave with her daughter in her arms.
However, she felt disappointed and depressed again. The huge hall was as quiet. There was no laughter or even footsteps. Except for herself, she was not in the mood to appreciate the furnishings here, let alone marvel at the decoration here. The only thing she thought about was her daughter.
"Miss Smith!"
She exclaimed. It turned out that there was someone under the French window separated by a glass wall in the huge hall. The owner of the voice was naturally Lawyer Henry who she had been following all the way. As for the opposite side of him, Tingli noticed that another man was sitting opposite him. How to describe this feeling?
When Tingli's eyes suddenly met his, she felt a numbing sensation on her head, as if she was struck by lightning. Suddenly, she was stunned, and it was the same as before, with an indescribable feeling...
"Miss Smith, how did you find this place?"
The lawyer stood up from the sofa and walked towards her in disbelief. After walking a few steps, he suddenly realized and turned to the man opposite and said, "I'm sorry, Mr. Romano, such an accident suddenly happened and made you see her..."
"Where is my daughter?"
There was not much time for her to be shocked, and there was not much time for them to kick her out before she had any results. At this moment, she was 100% sure that he was the sperm father she was looking for.
Although it was difficult for her to admit this fact, it was no longer important. In the empty house with classical facilities, Tingli left the hall and rushed up the stairs without waiting for their answer. She shouted as she ran: "Momo, Momo..." If Momo had been there, if she heard her voice, she would have answered loudly immediately.
However, no, nothing. Tingli pushed the door again and again but was disappointed again and again. This shouldn't be the case. Could she be wrong? When she pushed open the bedroom on the far right of the second floor, she suddenly saw a sky-blue bed in front of her. It was a very fam