Yu Xingchen put Yin Yin down and turned on the flashlight of his mobile phone to shine forward. The two of them tentatively walked towards the door, calling as they walked: "Tuanzi, come out."
But the cat's voice never sounded again.
Yu Xingchen said: "Did you hear wrongly?"
Yin Yin shook her head: "It's Tuanzi! I recognize her voice!"
Yu Xingchen: "Then let's knock on the door and have a look. I just don't know if the master is back."
She rang the doorbell, but there was no response or any sound from inside. She knocked on the door again without giving up: "Is anyone at home? My cat seems to have run into your house."
She put her ear against the door and felt a familiar smell lingering on the tip of her nose, but she couldn't remember where she had smelled it.
She didn't think much about it, and knocked on the door for four or five minutes, but still no one responded, and she never heard the cat meow again.
Yin Yin's eyes were full of disappointment: "But that voice was clearly Tuanzi's. Mommy, do you think it was Tuanzi who ran in by himself?"
Yu Xingchen: "It's possible, but the owner doesn't seem to be at home, and we can't get in."
She was a little worried. It would be terrible if the cat ran in and caused trouble!
They shouted a few more times, but received no response, and then turned around and left angrily.
Across the door was Chu Shanhai, who was leaning against the door tightly, holding his breath. When he heard the footsteps getting further away, his soul seemed to be sucked away with them.
She pressed her palm on the door: "Stars."
The voice was full of deep nostalgia, mixed with unbreakable sadness.
Not far away, a big black cat with green eyes shining quietly sat in front of him.
Chu Shanhai squatted for a long time and waved to the black cat: "Come here."
Tuanzi came over and stood in front of him obediently, letting his big hands stroke its smooth hair, docilely and enjoying it.
Chu Shanhai smiled bitterly: "It would be great if she was as good as you."
Tuanzi let out a "meow" sound.
Chu Shanhai patted its head: "Go back, don't make her anxious."
After saying that, he picked up Tuanzi, stood up, opened the door, and put it outside. Tuanzi said "meow" to him again, then turned around and ran back.
Chu Shanhai had been to Yu Xingchen's house before. The first time the cat saw him, he shrank and hid far away. The second time, like Yin Yin, it clung to him and refused to come down.
Seeing how clingy this cat was, he couldn't help but think of Yu Xingchen in the past.
When they first met, she was still a little reserved and couldn't let him go, but by the second and third times, she clung to him. Although she didn't say anything, her actions were warm and bold, and her invitation was obvious.
That kind of unreserved demand fascinated Chu Shanhai, who had just started eating meat, and he still can't let it go.
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Less than five minutes after Yu Xingchen carried Yin Yin home, Tuanzi let out a "meow" and jumped in from the window. When Yin Yin saw it, she burst into tears and laughed. She hugged the cat and kissed and pinched it: "Where are you running to?"
Yes, Yin Yin is so worried about you."
Tuanzi raised his head and licked the palm of her hand, making the little girl giggle.
Yu Xingchen also knelt down and pretended to blame: "You, you are running around at night, be careful of others taking you away!"
Yin Yin: "It just ran to Uncle Zhou's house. Look at the red mud on its feet, which is only found in Uncle Zhou's yard."
Yu Xingchen took a look at Tuanzi's paw, and sure enough, there was a touch of red soil between her fingers. She stretched out her hand and poked Tuanzi's head: "Why don't you agree? I haven't been home for so long, are you being wild?
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Tuanzi gave her a dissatisfied "meow".
Yu Xingchen said to Yin Yin again: "Uncle Zhou's family has moved away. Now someone else lives in that yard. From now on, don't visit me when Mommy is not at home. Our neighbors are still 'strangers' now."
Yin Yin nodded: "I know." She frowned and looked at Yu Xingchen with some confusion: "But Mommy, why don't dumplings come out at a stranger's house?"
Yu Xingchen was stunned.
Tuanzi knows how to recognize babies. She and Yin Yin called it in the yard for so long just now. Why didn't it make a sound or show up?
She touched Yin Yin's head: "I guess that family hasn't come back, and Tuanzi doesn't know yet. Like you, she thought it was still Uncle Zhou's house. I'll ask tomorrow to see if Tuanzi went to the next door to cause trouble. Go take a bath and go to bed.
La, are there classes tomorrow?"
Yin Yin said "Yes" obediently, hugged the dumplings and left.
With doubts in her heart, Yu Xingchen went to the yard again, stood on a high place and looked at the next door.
There was still no light or sound over there.
But she always felt that there were a pair of eyes looking at her in the darkness, which made her a little creepy.
She shuddered and went back to her room.
When she went out the next day, she specifically looked at the courtyard next to her. There was no one inside, but the courtyard door that had been left ajar last night was now locked.
Back at the company, she was very busy.
Chu Shanhai's acting style is different from hers. Some of the projects he handled boldly in the past, she had to slowly get back on her own track. She is considered a relatively rational person in her career. There is something to be said for the projects Chu Shanhai handled.
, she is very optimistic about them, but their backgrounds are different, and she does not have much ability and energy to continue their development.
They had an agency business, and they had several brands to connect with. They were about to conclude negotiations, but when Yu Xingchen came back, they all stopped.
What she wants is stability.
She could see that the colleagues who took over these tasks had regrets in their eyes when they heard her decision, and some even asked directly why.
At first, she explained politely, saying that this was different from the company's strategic development direction and needed to be adjusted. But then she got tired and gave me a cold look, and the others stopped talking.
She selfishly thought that this was her own company and she was the only one with decision-making power.
But unexpectedly, an unwilling employee told Chu Shanhai about the situation.
After all, it was an order they had been working hard on for a long time and were about to succeed.
Unexpectedly, when Chu Shanhai heard this, he was silent for a while and said in a cold voice: "She is your boss, listen to her."
Everyone could only curl their lips and accept it silently.
Yu Xingchen was so busy that he had several small meetings in the morning. When he finally got a break and went back to the office for a drink of water, he received a message from an unknown number.
"The agency of 'Huichi' is exclusive to City S. As long as you get the agency right, you can immediately realize profits and expand Jiachen's local influence. This is the final stage of negotiations, and I don't recommend that you stop it."
Yu Xingchen could use his toes to guess who sent this message.
She only felt her blood rising, and replied rudely: You are a bitch!
She threw the phone into the corner of the sofa and felt dizzy, and the scene in front of her began to turn white again!
Panic surged inside her.
Recently, the dizziness has become more and more frequent, and it is often accompanied by blurred vision. It is impossible for her not to be afraid.
After she regained her clarity, she picked up the phone again and saw a new message on the screen: I beg you one last time. Don’t worry about leaving the company to me. As long as you perform the operation, I will listen to whatever you ask me to do.
your.
Yu Xingchen quickly scanned the content, dragged the number into the blacklist without hesitation, and then dialed another number.
On the other side was a deep and majestic man's voice.
"Miss Yu."
Yu Xingchen curled his fingers into his palm, took a deep breath, and said, "Mr. Chu, you said before that you owed me a favor when I left your son."