After the meal, Zhuang Jing took the initiative to help Ye Xingyu clean up in the kitchen. The latter couldn't help but asked: "Don't you have to work today?"
Zhuang Jing replied with a smile: "We in management are only responsible for decision-making. As long as important plans are arranged, the specific implementation will be done by the people below, so I may or may not go, it depends on my mood!"
This is not wrong. After all, she is the chairman's daughter. She doesn't have to work hard every day. Sometimes she doesn't want to work, so she can just give herself a few days off. It's good!
"What about you? What are you going to do today?" Zhuang Jing, who had just finished wiping the table, secretly looked at Ye Xingyu who was washing the dishes, as if he was looking forward to it.
"I plan to go back to my hometown and send my sister back." Ye Xingyu didn't notice Zhuang Jing's expression and told the truth, "This girl skipped classes, skipped home, and sneaked out without telling my mother. I can't let her
Stay here forever.”
Zhuang Jing also learned about this matter from Xue Qing and knew that the other party was not making random excuses, but she was inevitably a little disappointed.
Originally, Ye Xingyu wanted to investigate the matter of poisoned wine first, and then take his sister back to his hometown, but now there are no clues and there is no way to start. It is better to send his sister back early to avoid delaying her studies, and at the same time, it also allows her mother to relax.
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After that, Zhuang Jing answered the phone and went to the company to handle the work.
Ye Xingyu spent some time tidying up the house, and then drove back to his hometown with his sister.
Originally, he wanted to leave the little black cat to Zhuang Jing to take care of him for a few days, but Zhuang Jing left in a hurry, Ye Xingyu forgot to tell him, and because his phone was broken, he couldn't contact him.
Xue Qing, on the other hand, liked the little black girl very much and couldn't bear to separate. She would hold her together until life and death. Ye Xingyu had no choice but to let her go. They got into the car together with the cat and the two of them.
Ping County is a remote small county at the junction of the two provinces. It is more than 300 kilometers away from the city in the northwest direction. Even if you drive by yourself, it will take several hours to reach it.
Ye Xueqing did not expect that the first trip in her life would end so quickly. She was about to return home and face her mother and teacher, and she would inevitably feel depressed.
"Brother, I don't want to go to school anymore." Ye Xueqing muttered in a low voice, not as if she was joking.
"What's wrong?" Ye Xingyu, who was driving, asked patiently.
"The teacher doesn't like me and often scolds me, saying that I am a disaster and affects everyone's learning!" Ye Xueqing told her troubles with a somewhat aggrieved expression.
After hearing this, Ye Xingyu felt a little unhappy and defended his sister: "What kind of teacher are you? You actually said this to my sister? Our Xueqing is so cute, how can it be a disaster?"
"Anyway, I don't want to go to school!" Ye Xueqing turned her head and looked out the window with her big eyes, feeling very bad.
"It's not okay not to go to school. The worst we can do is change schools, find you a good teacher, and get to know some new classmates..."
Ye Xingyu was talking nonstop, trying to persuade his sister in various ways, while Xue Qing didn't say a word, just looking at the scenery passing by outside the car window. I don't know if she listened.
After a while, Ye Xingyu almost ran out of words. When he turned around, he found that Xue Qing had fallen asleep.
The little black cat was lying on Xue Qing's belly, also sleeping.
Ye Xingyu couldn't help but shake his head and laugh, and continued to concentrate on driving.
When I arrived in Ping County, I arrived at my doorstep at exactly one o'clock in the afternoon.
This is an old two-story house with brick and wood structure, facing the street.
The first floor is turned into a shop for business, and the second floor is a living room for people to live in. The total area of the upper and lower floors is only a few dozen square meters, which is not spacious.
The small shop downstairs looks very simple. It doesn't even have a formal sign. There is only a small blackboard hanging on the wall outside, with two lines of chalk written on it. The top is "Braised vegetables and cold dishes" and the bottom is "Welcome to taste."
The items sold include both meat and vegetables, such as chicken feet, chicken wings, radishes, dried tofu, etc. Seven or eight varieties are laid out on the table, and they are all weighed on a scale and sold by the pound.
A graceful middle-aged woman was sitting behind the counter, knitting a sweater with her head down. She didn't notice a car stopping on the street until Ye Xingyu got out of the car with her sister and called "Mom".
Look up.
Tang Lian, who is nearly fifty years old, has soft eyebrows and does not look old. Only the crow's feet at the corners of his eyes are more obvious.
When she saw her son and daughter appearing together, she couldn't help but smile, picked up the unfinished sweater in her hand, and came out of the store to greet them.
Judging from the color and style of the sweater, it should be knitted for Ye Xingyu and is almost finished.
Because her son is not around, Tang Lian, as a mother, is particularly concerned about him. Every winter she knits a sweater for him and sends it to him, and this year is no exception.
Although Xue Qing ran away from home, she was not afraid of her mother. She walked over to her mother with the little black cat in her arms and said "I'm hungry" without any intention of being punished.
Tang Lian did not reprimand her harshly. He just glared at his daughter and said angrily: "You girl, you are so brave. You actually ran out without saying a word. Aren't you afraid of encountering bad people and betraying you?"
Not to mention, Xue Qing really ran into bad guys when she went to Licheng this time. Fortunately, Ye Xingyu showed up in time, otherwise the consequences would be disastrous.
But of course she wouldn't admit it, and she kept saying something harsh and retorted: "How can there be so many bad people? I just miss my brother and go see him!"
Ye Xingyu did not interrupt the conversation between his mother and his sister. He walked to the back of the car, opened the trunk, and took out his sister's backpack and an almost full suitcase.
The suitcase is not big. It was taken from Zhuang Jing. The things inside are also gifts that Zhuang Jing bought for Xue Qing. Most of them are clothes and some daily necessities.
Tang Lian mistakenly thought it was Ye Xingyu's luggage, so he ignored it, looked at the car on the roadside, and asked curiously: "Where did this car come from? Did you buy it?"
Ye Xingyu replied casually: "I didn't buy it. I got it in the lottery. I was lucky and won the first prize."
Tang Lian was doubtful, but did not ask carefully, and instead said: "You haven't had lunch yet, right? I'll do it now!"
"No need to bother!" Ye Xingyu waved his hand, then pointed to a simple small restaurant across the street and said to his mother, "Let's go there to eat. We can order a few dishes and it won't cost much."
Tang Lian thought to herself that although there were still ingredients in the refrigerator, it would take a lot of time to cook them freshly. She was afraid that her two children would be too hungry to wait, so she nodded in agreement.
However, Tang Lian had already had lunch, so she stopped going and said, "You go and eat by yourselves. I've already eaten, so I stayed to look at the store!"
After saying that, she put the sweater in her hand on the counter and planned to take the schoolbag and suitcase from her son.