Chapter 211: Senior Bridesmaids
Watching the smog outside engulf the tall buildings and overpasses closest to the window, Jane Eyre held up the clean brown porcelain cup, took a sip of the boiled water inside, and poured the remaining alkaline roots into the pot of cactus on the chest of drawers next to her.
"Drinking a glass of boiled water in the morning has the effect of cleansing the intestines. This is what she tells herself every day when she gets up and washes. In fact, in Beijing, what she misses most is the water in her hometown in Zhejiang. When she moved in with her parents, she was only a fourteen-year-old junior high school student, and she didn't like nostalgia at a young age like Dante. So, after so many years, immersed in the trends and rhythms of life in the 21st century, many of the daily things in her hometown that she was exposed to as a child have been blurred with time, and her mind has become blurred in her mind when she returned to her hometown twice in the summer vacation of the year she was admitted to university and the early spring of the year when she was twenty-seven years old, just like the buildings outside the window in her eyes today. However, the taste of the clear and sweet water of her hometown seems to remain deep in her tongue and heart, and it is even more intense at this time in the morning.
On the table were two slices of warmed bread, a fried egg, and a glass of warm milk, and the white porcelain plates and cups in which they were held were almost as clean as mirrors. Tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, bread and milk will be replaced by Chinese dim sum and thick congee, eggs will be replaced with boiled eggs, and a plate of pickles will be added. If she is interested in picking up her mobile phone and taking a picture of the breakfast she prepares for herself every day and posting it on Weibo and WeChat, she believes she can also get a lot of clicks and messages, but she hates to do that.
"This is a letter that I finally got with a reliable relationship: the case handler confirmed that there is indeed a woman living with Zheng Haohui. This has been confirmed by both the Emperor's Homes and the Resort...... However, none of them had seen what the woman looked like, because she always covered her face. On the day of the wedding, Zheng Haohui drove her there first, and the people at the resort said that she had her head down, her face was covered by a scarf, Zheng Haohui put his arms around her, and accompanied her into the bridal room, and then she never came out......"
"It's best not to think about things that bother you when you eat, such as work, otherwise it will affect your appetite and mood, as well as your digestion. Jane Eyre firmly agrees with this view of an expert on a TV wellness program, but unfortunately she is forced to put it into practice many times. However, now, she took the initiative to recall Xingtian's words.
"Yes, of course they have to take fingerprints, there are other samples, and they go to the resorts and villas to take them at the beginning...... Hmph, this is the most evil sect, they haven't even found a fingerprint or hair of this Jia Yan...... No, it's not that they're stupid, it's that there are no places at all, as if they have been specially cleaned, there are Zheng Haohui's, there are staff, but there is no such woman. ”
With the last sip of milk, she also stopped combing through the latest information from two days ago. After washing the dishes to a shiny new state, she returned to her bedroom. The faint morning light pierced through the fog and cast onto the dark yellow curtains, making the whole room dark. Jane Eyre closed the door and sat in front of the crimson dresser, looking in the mirror at her forty-year-old self, silently admiring her tarnished face and sagging skin. As a person who works in school, her makeup is elegant but not thick, and she highlights her maturity and calmness, which certainly enhances her professional femininity, but it is difficult to hide her helplessness as a woman.
She got up and took off her pajamas, opened the closet next to her, and took out a few beautiful clothes that she was usually reluctant to wear. Fortunately, due to her relatively healthy eating habits throughout the year, her figure has not changed much, and these clothes can still be worn. It's just that she wore them today, not for herself, nor for some "self-pleaser".
"To be a bridesmaid again? Okay, how many times are you going to be?" said her mother coldly to her on the phone last night. In fact, Jane Ai remembered clearly that from the first time she was twenty-three years old, this would be the fifth time. The first time, she was still very excited and had some expectations, but after that, she became more and more numb to this identity. The bride is a colleague in her office, and she just celebrated her 32nd birthday last month, and asking Jane Eyre to be a bridesmaid does not mean how close the relationship between the two is, the real reason is that this colleague can't find a female partner who has been friends for many years and has never been married.
"I hate to press gold threads year after year, and make wedding clothes for others. Mother's literary attainments are very limited, but she memorizes these two lines of poetry by heart, "Always be a bridesmaid, when do you plan to be a bride?" "Mom, I said it, you don't have to worry, I know it in my heart." "Don't be perfunctory with me, if you have a number, how about talking to me?" "Mom, it's getting late, you can take a good rest." I know you care about me, rest assured, I have patience with my affairs, and you have to have faith in me. ”
Hearing the silence on the other end of the phone for a while, and finally there was a "beep" sound, Jane Eyre hung up the phone.
Last night's conversation was not suppressed by the thought of the "bystander", and it came back to Jane Eyre's mind. Originally, she didn't want to tell her mother about it, but a former student of her father at the school was also invited to the wedding, so she said that she had slipped out when she called to greet her mother. As for the reason why I don't want to talk about it, one is naturally that I don't want my mother to be stimulated, and the other is that she almost doesn't need to be this bridesmaid. My colleague is married to the nephew of the head of a publishing house, and according to the original plan, the two of them should have gone to Southeast Asia for marriage leave. Three days before the original wedding date, a colleague answered a phone call at noon, but hid in the toilet and sobbed until he was discovered by other colleagues when he went to the toilet. took her back to the office and asked, it was actually her husband and her wedding makeup artist who got it. The makeup artist was in her early twenties, she was smart, and she was dressed up very charming, and this girl pretended to be gentle and sent her a text message, claiming that she had a relationship with her husband, and that her husband was ready to repent of her marriage. It seems that this marriage is going to turn into a farce, but who knows that the next development of things has taken a turn - her husband did not cheat, it was the makeup artist who accidentally fell in love with him when she tried on makeup, thinking that he was her true destiny, so she learned the routine in the romance drama to come up with such a trick. After such a toss, the truth was revealed, but their wedding date was delayed and had to be postponed for a while. However, this just happened to give Jane Eyre the opportunity to conduct an investigation for the foul team in the name of the bridesmaids.
"You don't have to guess to know that Zheng Haohui has been treated as a suspect. Jia Yan didn't see anyone dead or dead, and even the traces were cleaned up, so if I handled the case, I had to suspect that he did it, and now he seems to be absconding in fear of crime. However, Xingtian also said that the police did not seem to react to Zheng Haohui's "chat records", as if they had not seen those self-talk at all, and he couldn't tell why. Through contact with Hongdu Beauty, Jane Eyre has already known the name and address of the model performance company they work with, that is, the company to which the two cake angels tied at Zheng Haohui's wedding belong. Today, she was determined to go there as a bride. I have heard that some models will be taken care of, and even be "little three", whether it is true or not, combined with Zheng Haohui's suspicion and the experience of her colleagues, she has a hypothesis: one of the two angels played more than just the role of a victim in the process of Jia Yan's disappearance. Today, I went to find out the clues, and I can also see if the two of them may be "little three" with ulterior motives.
Beautiful and well-fitting clothes are worn on her body, which adds a lot of color to her. Jane Eyre's mood fluctuated in the face of her own reflection in the mirror, and Dante might recall a time a few years ago when she was dressed so beautifully, but she didn't.
Mom, do you think I don't care more about this than you do? It's just that whenever I really care, the end result is that someone gets hurt, either me or me and him.