Chapter 8: The Silent Night
At night, Maple Town was peaceful, and the whole town seemed to be in a deep sleep, and the cold moonlight poured onto the empty streets, silently watching the wind blowing from the wasteland raise gusts of sand and dust in the town.
Emily opened her eyes on the soft queen bed, looked at the darkness of the room, and laughed at herself to herself that she was really old, and that the little girl who had slept until dawn without worry had become accustomed to waking up in the middle of the night.
In the blink of an eye, she has been separated from her husband for almost two years, and the people in her husband's family have always wanted her to go to New York to accompany her husband, but Emily knows very well that this is definitely not the idea of her husband, who has many confidants, and he must prefer to stay here and take care of half of his life savings for him - even if everyone knows that Azeroth. It's unlikely that Mayor Constantine will ever return to the wasteland again, and he won't even survive a day without the Genetic Repair Solution.
Thinking of this, Emily sighed deeply, if she wasn't the eldest daughter of the Edwards family, the current Maple Town must have been very lively, and it was precisely because of the two big families of Constantine and Edwards behind her back that she could stay in the town safely and continue to open her bar.
But all this is based on the fact that Azeroth is still alive, and when he can't hold on, the family of the Constantine family will come to Maple Town to get back the property that belongs to their family, the difference is only a matter of how much she is left behind, after all, she still has the Edwards family behind her, and the people of the Constantine family dare not go too far.
More and more things welled up in her head, Emily finally lost her sleepiness, she walked out of bed naked, planning to go to get the pajamas next to the dresser, the room was still very cold at night, she didn't want to catch a cold for a glass of wine.
However, as her gaze swept over the vanity mirror, she suddenly saw a person standing quietly in the corner of the room.
Emily was taken aback and immediately realized that it was not by chance that she had just woken up, and that it was most likely her subconscious that woke her up when she sensed danger.
She quietly picked up her pajamas, draped them over her body, and slowly sat down on the chair in front of the dresser, her right hand that had fastened the straps of her pajamas slid down and landed right on the first drawer to the right of the dresser.
"If I were you, I wouldn't do that." A somewhat familiar man's voice sounded behind her, and he said, "Wouldn't it be good for us to talk about the ideal life together on such a beautiful night?" ”
Emily's hand rested on the handle of the drawer, and she was silent for a moment at the vanity mirror in front of her, saying, "It's you." ”
"I'm glad you remember me." Cheng Bin walked out of the darkness and stood in the moonlight shining in from the window, his injured left hand had been simply bandaged, and his elbow was bent next to his left ribs.
He put his right hand on his chest and bowed slightly to Emily, "It's really my pleasure. ”
"After all, it's not always like someone soils my floor." Emily thought about it, remembered the speed of Cheng Bin's shot when he knocked down Jimmy's companion in the bar, and decided to completely abandon the pistol in the drawer, if it was faster, this man was definitely the fastest person she had ever met.
She half-turned, folded her legs, put her hands on her legs elegantly, looked at Cheng Bin and said, "Then can you explain what you want to do when you sneak into a lady's bedroom in the middle of the night?" Continuing to stain my skirt after soiling my floor? ”
After hearing Emily's words full of resentment, Cheng Bin was not angry, he looked at her unabashedly.
"Are you hinting at something? Madam! He said: "Just a reminder, you are married, you should pay attention to your words and deeds." ”
Emily laughed, trying to look confident. I don't know if it was because of the hurry, her pajamas were not fastened tightly, so she saw Cheng Bin's gaze fall unscrupulously into the gap between her collars.
Emily didn't try to dodge or disguise, but rather provocatively straightened her chest. This action made Cheng Bin a little embarrassed, he subconsciously looked away, and heard Emily say, "What about you?" What you're doing now doesn't seem to have anything to do with a gentleman. ”
Cheng Bin pursed his lips, realizing that he had unknowingly fallen behind. He simply walked over to the chair at the table and sat down, leaned back in the chair, raised his right leg across his left knee, and then took off his hat and placed it on his right leg.
"Frankly, I'm here to talk about business." He said.
Emily laughed, she knew she had made the right bet, and the man knew his background. Even for the lawless Revenant, it was not easy to offend both the Constantine and Edwards families at the same time. The latter can make it difficult for him to walk in the wasteland, and the former can make him feel the tragedy of the world being so big that there is no place for him.
She tried her best not to irritate the man opposite, after all, the background can only intimidate reasonable people, and all she has to do now is to help the other party stay sane. She smiled faintly and said, "I think you are mistaken, the person who wants to talk to you about business is Mr. Castro, not me." ”
"I know." Cheng Bin said that when he was ready to have a showdown with the other party, instead of continuing to intrigue, Cheng Bin suddenly found that the other party looked quite eye-catching in terms of appearance and demeanor, which was different from Isabel's obvious girlish beauty, which was a style that had been soaked in time and was endlessly evocative.
"Frankly." "I'm not used to being in the business of men," he said. ”
Emily laughed ambiguously, "So ......" she said in a lengthened voice, "You're only in women's business?" ”
"Woman!" Cheng Bin said sincerely: "You are playing with fire. ”
"Someone's scared!" Emily laughed, "So you don't do the business of married women either?" ”
Cheng Bin took a deep breath and decided to end the meeting, he said, "I brought someone with me. She's in the car outside, and you'd better find someone you can trust to bring her in. ”
Emily was stunned for a moment, frowned and said, "What? ”
Cheng Bin didn't answer, just made a gesture to her. Emily hesitated, got up and walked towards the door, and found that Cheng Bin really didn't stop him.
When she opened the door, Emily had the urge to run out of the door and summon the guards, but in the end curiosity prevailed, and she graciously did not close the door, but stood at the door and asked the maid guarding the door to call her most trusted butler, and then asked the butler to go outside the gate, find a car, and bring the people in the car.
"It's a lady." In the housekeeper's puzzled gaze, Emily remembered that Cheng Bin used a female "she" when he mentioned the person just now, so she advised: "Be gentle, don't scare people." ”
After the housekeeper left, Emily closed the door and turned back to Cheng Bin and said, "Don't you want to prompt something before you meet that mysterious guest?" ”
"Of course." Cheng Bin said on the ground: "But before that, you have to answer me a question first. ”
"How many nuclear-powered trucks are there in this town?" He asked.
Emily raised her head slightly and looked at Cheng Bin with a surprised gaze, "So, you've already met Mr. Djugashvili?" ”