Chapter 99: A woman is pleased with herself
Chapter 99: A woman is pleased with herself
2018年06月29，下午16:02。
Baizhi returned home as usual, took out a box of yogurt from the refrigerator and held it in her hand, walked to the stair railing and said to the people upstairs, "Mom, I'm back", then sat on the sofa, tore open the yogurt and ate it while watching the commercials on TV.
A box of yogurt was quickly finished, but there was still no sign of my mother.
Baizhi tried to send a few messages to her mother, but after waiting for a few minutes, there was no sign that the messages had been read. She then tried to call her, but still the call didn't go through.
Feeling something was wrong, Bai Zhi ran to the laundry room and found the housekeeper who was ironing clothes: "Aunt Liu, do you know where my mother went?"
"She's upstairs." The housekeeper looked puzzled. "Madam went out after lunch, and came back in a hurry not long after. She stayed in the room the whole time and never came out again. Xiao Chen cut the fruit and called her but she didn't respond."
"Is that so..." Bai Zhi left the laundry room angrily, trotted back to the living room, went upstairs and came to the door of Feng Yusu's room.
Knock, knock, knock—Bai Zhi knocked on the door, but no one answered.
Knock, knock, knock - I knocked on the door again, but still no one answered.
Bai Zhi, who was beginning to get worried, pushed the door open and ran into the bedroom without even changing her shoes.
As soon as I entered the room, I saw a noblewoman in a purple lace-trimmed corseted dress sitting in front of a dressing table, carefully adjusting the angle of her eyelashes with an eyelash brush in front of the mirror. The table was filled with all kinds of cosmetic bottles and jars. Feng Yushu was so focused that she didn't even pay attention to the cell phone that kept vibrating next to her.
How bizarre! My mother actually puts on makeup? Bai Zhi remembered that Feng Yushu usually wore no makeup at all. When she was going out, she would at most put on a little light makeup that looked the same as her natural face. She had never seen her mother put on makeup so seriously since she was a child. Not even once.
"Do you have any important public event to attend today?" Bai Zhi walked to her mother's side, bent down to look at her beautiful face in the mirror, which was as delicate as a lotus emerging from the water, and asked softly.
"Ah!...Azhi? When did you come back?" Feng Yusu was startled.
"Today is Friday, and there are no classes until 3pm." Bai Zhi looked at the time on her phone and said, "I waited for more than an hour at school, but you didn't come to pick me up, so I called my dad's driver to pick me up."
"Sorry... Mom forgot. I didn't even know today was Friday." Feng Yushu smiled apologetically. "I'm sorry. Please forgive me. I'm going to the mall later. Is there anything you want? I'll buy it for you and bring it back."
She knew that her daughter didn't like to go out and basically wouldn't leave her room except for school.
"No." Bai Zhi shook her head and asked curiously, "Why do you have to put on such heavy makeup just to go to the mall?"
If you don’t know, you might think Feng Yusu is going to attend some high-end social event.
"Well, well..." Feng Yushu lowered her head slightly, a shy blush appearing on her fair face: "Actually, Ning Zhe and I have an appointment to meet at the mall today."
"Oh..." Bai Zhi nodded thoughtfully.
"So, mom is leaving?" Feng Yuxu fixed her makeup and jewelry, stood up from the dressing table, picked up a carefully selected purple bag that matched her outfit today, and prepared to go out.
"Please buy me some writing paper and bring it back." Bai Zhi suddenly said. "Written paper? Got it."
Feng Yusu went out excitedly. Bai Zhi returned to her room, sat on the bed and looked up at the starry sky on the ceiling, wondering what she was thinking.
Suddenly, her eyes went dark, her body went limp, and she collapsed on the bed.
"Come again..."
At 5 pm, Feng Yushu arrived at the 'Patra' shopping center in the center of Yundu City. It was a very Western name, a relic of the mainland's early blind westernization. Now the people of Yundu are more accustomed to calling this disc-shaped landmark building in the city center the 'cornucopia'.
The bottom of the cornucopia is a parking lot, and the first floor is a super-large farmers' market, a distribution center for all kinds of fresh vegetables, meat and other foods. The areas above the second floor are divided into different business areas, and the top floor is an open-air park that looks like a sky garden.
The place where I agreed to meet Ning Zhe was in the open-air park on top of the cornucopia.
Feng Yushu now also felt a similar feeling to homesickness. The closer she got to the place where they had agreed to meet, the more uneasy and nervous she felt. She would take out a small mirror from time to time to see if she needed to touch up her makeup, or she would tug at her collar to make her deep cleavage more obvious, or adjust the lace fringes on her waist to highlight her already exaggerated waist-to-hip ratio.
Feng Yusu herself didn't know what was wrong with her. Her heart was pounding in her chest. She went from being impatient at the beginning and wanting to see him right away to being extremely nervous now. She just hoped that he would come later and later so that she would have more time to prepare.
No, no, no, it's too late. She would worry that he stood her up, or that he had an accident...
"What are you thinking about?" Just as Feng Yusu was struggling, a hand gently patted her left shoulder.
She turned around and saw the familiar face that she had dreamed of countless times. All her complicated emotions melted away like ice and snow in early spring, turning into a soft, "You're here?"
"I've been here for a long time." Ning Zhe sat down on the bench behind Feng Yushu and looked at the child who was feeding popcorn to the pigeons on the rooftop not far away. "I saw you looking around nervously, and I thought someone was following you, so you walked around several times before you dared to show up."
"Ah... No, no, no one followed me. I came here alone, and the driver didn't bring anything either." As if to prove something, Feng Yuxu opened her bag and showed it to Ning Zhe: "I didn't bring my cell phone either. I don't have any electronic products on me. You can search me..."
"It's okay, I believe you." Ning Zhe didn't seem to care.
Even if he didn't believe in Feng Yusu, he had to believe in the fairness and absoluteness of the ideological stamp as a rule.
"Thank you..." Feng Yusu lowered her head, her burning gaze quietly examining his profile through the thin veil on her forehead.
"Why are you looking at me? Have you finished what I asked you to do before?" Ning Zhe held his forehead with one hand: "I didn't ask you to come here to stare at me in a daze."
"I've done it, I've done it." Feng Yushuo nodded repeatedly as if waking up from a dream. "I've already got the personal belongings of the security guard named Tian Chengyun who was interviewed by the TV station in Bishuiwan Manor, including his mobile phone card and ID card, which you asked me to find before."
Ning Zhe didn't ask her how she got it. According to the rules of Ye Yao, it was not difficult to take something from the heavily guarded evidence library.
(End of this chapter)