Chapter 143: The reborn of paranoid boss cannon fodder wife
Chapter 143: You Are Trying to Reach the Sky
Wood landing is equivalent to reaching the shore.
Xiao Cheng should be trading in the timber market right now.
As soon as Bai Lu had this thought, the phone rang.
Xiao Wei's eyes lit up, but he didn't get up. Instead, he turned to Bai Lu and said, "Big brother is calling. There must be something important. Answer the phone quickly."
Bai Lu glanced at the displayed number, confirmed it was the one that had called back before, and to avoid Xiao Cheng bringing up the matter of asking Wang Hao to answer the phone, she picked up the handset and spoke first.
"Ah Cheng, have you eaten? Have you reached the shore? Is everything going smoothly? Have the deals for those fir woods been completed? What are you doing now?"
As soon as Xiao Cheng's name was mentioned, the girl's voice automatically muted the phone.
Listening quietly until she finished, Xiao Cheng answered one by one, "I've eaten, already reached the shore, everything is going smoothly, the fir wood deal is completed, just had dinner with Jiang Zengang."
Xiao Cheng had arranged with the buyers before leaving the province, so trading upon reaching the shore was a natural course of action.
Bai Lu immediately added, "Make sure you secure the money. Don't get cheated. There are many scammers out there. Are you on the street or somewhere else? It sounds a bit noisy on your end, with street vendors shouting and car horns. Why haven't I heard the voices of Luo Shiliu and Xiao Dazhuang? Aren't they with you?"
After listening for a while, Xiao Cheng finally understood why the girl at home suddenly behaved so strangely.
He chuckled lightly, "At the entrance of a restaurant, on the opposite street, with people and cars around. Luo Shiliu and Xiao Dazhuang are finding a place to stay; they haven't come back yet."
Ignoring the meaningful chuckle in the receiver, Bai Lu instructed, "Make sure to keep the money safe. Don't let anyone deceive you. There are many fraudsters out there. You're in an unfamiliar place, so be careful yourself..."
In the midst of her lengthy advice, Xiao Cheng responded with a simple "okay" when she finished the last sentence, his voice low, mellow, and slightly magnetic.
Then he asked, "Has anyone else come to see you today?"
Xiao Cheng probably knew that when he was away, there would be troublemakers knocking on the door.
Bai Lu sighed in relief, "My mom and my younger brother came to see me, but they left after a while."
Knowing that she didn't want to say more, Xiao Cheng didn't press further and spoke softly, "Wait for me to come back."
"Um..." Huh???
After an instinctive response, Bai Lu realized that Xiao Cheng's words seemed a bit off.
In the past, when Xiao Cheng went out of the province for development, he never returned. The original owner had already fallen into the river, and Xiao Wei was also missing. For Xiao Cheng, the new town had no sentimental value.
After earning a considerable amount of money through numerous setbacks, Xiao Cheng returned once to move the grave. Since then, he never came back.
Now, Xiao Wei was not missing, still at home, and Xiao Cheng had family ties to cherish, so he decided to return.
Bai Lu accurately grasped the truth and responded seriously, "You don't have to worry about home. I'll take care of Xiao Wei. Do what you want to do. Just come back before the college entrance exam, or you can bring Xiao Wei with you. I'll leave this place after I finish my exams. Xiao Wei is only seven years old; it's not suitable for him to stay in the new town alone."
The phone suddenly fell silent.
Silence persisted, and time passed without awareness.
After a long time, when Bai Lu thought there might be no signal on Xiao Cheng's end and he couldn't hear, just as she was about to speak, a cold hum sounded in her ear, cold and brisk even through the receiver.
He seemed angry.
"Are you listening?"
"Take care of yourself, hang up!"
His displeasure was evident in his tone, reminiscent of the night he was drunk and insisted on her shaving her head.
Bai Lu didn't know if he was drunk again or suddenly in a bad mood. She quietly waited for him to hang up.
But he didn't hang up for a long time.
"Xiao Cheng?"
"What!"
The child was indeed angry.
Bai Lu turned to look at the little bald head, handing him the handset, "Do you want to talk to your brother?"
Xiao Wei: "..."
You want to use me as a shield, right?
On the other end of the phone, Bai Lu heard someone calling Cheng Ge, sounding like Luo Shiliu and Xiao Dazhuang.
"If you have something to do, go ahead."
"Hang up the phone!"
The child didn't listen, drinking alcohol again and inexplicably getting angry. Bai Lu didn't want to bother with him.
"Just hang up."
Without hesitation, Bai Lu put the phone back on the landline and returned to her room, paying no attention to anyone.
Xiao Wei looked at Bai Lu's back with sympathy.
Even in the face of a crisis, she could still read a book.
After dinner, bath, washing clothes, and hanging clothes, the phone in the main house didn't ring.
Bai Lu and Xiao Wei tacitly forgot that there was still a telephone in the house, each returning to their own rooms to sleep.
Whether they could sleep or not, no one knew.
On the other side of the moon.
Luo Shiliu and Xiao Dazhuang ran their legs off, finally finding the "most formal hotel" mentioned by the big brother. They quickly completed the check-in procedures, enduring the fierce gaze of the big brother.
Tomorrow they still had to investigate the market situation of the electronics market. Tonight, couldn't they sleep well?
Who was the little brat who had angered this dragon? They must teach him a lesson when they went back!
Just before Xiao Cheng closed the door, he coldly said, "Do you know where to gather tomorrow?"
"We know! We know!"
"Next to Jianghai Park at the entrance of Yekuke Restaurant on the right side, Neighboring Nianxiangren Restaurant on the left side."
After Luo Shiliu and Xiao Dazhuang finished answering, a door slammed in their faces, cold and without any warmth.
"Tsk—I want to know which little brat caused trouble. Watch me deal with him!"
Xiao Dazhuang strongly agreed with Luo Shiliu's words, "I'll deal with him too!"
Tonight seemed exceptionally long.
Xiao Cheng lay on the bed looking at the ceiling. After a while, his gaze shifted to the bedside telephone.
After a while, he turned back to the ceiling.
The dim and gentle light, the empty room, quiet and silent, separated by an invisible boundary.
Even the most beautiful ceiling couldn't hold the distracted gaze. Unconsciously, it returned to the landline on the bedside table.
After a moment, it turned back.
Ceiling, telephone, back and forth.
On a night without stars, even the moonlight seemed dim, as if it heralded the approach of a storm.
Bai Lu was frying chestnuts in the kitchen with the light on.
Xiao Wei had already eaten breakfast and gone to school. The electric chestnut roaster in the kitchen hummed, diligently working, and the preheated sand emitted a fragrant aroma.
Three rounds of sugared chestnuts were already out of the pot. Bai Lu skillfully scooped a spoonful of maltose syrup, ready to pour it into the pot.
Suddenly, the light in the room flickered, and a black shadow swiftly passed from the angle reflected by the window.
The kitchen had two windows, one facing the side of the main house and one facing the outside wall.
The direction the shadow rushed towards was the outside wall.
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