Chapter 131: Doubts
They set off at 10:10 a.m. on Saturday, with Hu Sheng leading the way with Li Zhen in the car, followed by Mary and Zhang Dada. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info Mary drove alone, Zhang Xiaoxiao followed Zhang Dada, and the group drove along the North Ring Road to the highway to Hechuan.
Li Zhen reclined in the passenger seat, her eyes staring out the window, as high-rise buildings flew by, and then patches of verdant fields flew past her eyes. It was like her life, so fast that she couldn't remember what had happened. It's been three years since she last went back, maybe even longer, and she can't remember the time, and time is like a pile of yarn wrapped around her, she can't tell where the head is, she can't find where the tail is, and she doesn't know which section of the yarn or which section has any special imprint. The only thing that wouldn't make her mistake was the man next to her, she turned her head to look at Hu Sheng, and the color of love and confusion overflowed her eyes at the same time and alternated contradictoryly.
"What do you want me to do?" he asked.
"You locked up your study?" she said. As she left in the morning, she heard him call the person in charge of the renovation. He was also seen locking the door to his study.
She had renovated the house before. She didn't move except for the study, which was the only place she liked in the whole house, whether it was the furnishings or the furniture, and the bookshelf above the sky was even more loved by her. She often stayed alone in it for a long time, but after a long time she felt that there was a very uncomfortable smell in the study, and she could not tell what it was, perhaps the smell of the book was moldy, but it was more like the smell of rotting aquatic plants in the ditch. Either way, the smell made her very uncomfortable, and the hourly workers couldn't clean the room anyway. She tried to find the source of the scent, but found nothing. Later, she spent less and less time in the study. But she liked it so much that she decided to take advantage of their absence, and asked the decorator to reinstall it. Exactly as it was now, she hoped to be able to do it when she returned from Longmen. She wanted to see an untouched study with no strange smells.
"Oh, yes. I was just about to tell you about this. ā
"What's the matter?"
"I talked to the renovation workers and they called in the morning and said they couldn't find the same wallpaper. ā
"Yes? They told me there was no problem. ā
"This kind of thing is common, and it's normal to say something big about it in order to take over business. Hu Sheng looked ahead intently and chuckled. "So, I told them not to move. ā
"Need to lock the door?"
Hu Sheng glanced at her quickly.
"Shouldn't it be locked up, that's your favorite place. ā
Li Zhen turned her head to look out the window, and the scenery outside the window changed from continuous mountains and fields to modern buildings. It's time to Hechuan. She thought.
"Do we need to stop in Hechuan before leaving?
"No, just go. ā
"Mary said she wants to go to Diaoyu City, she hasn't been to this place, you give her a call. Tell her we're going straight away. ā
"Why didn't you just tell her?"
Hu Sheng said very reluctantly: "I told her that there is nothing to see there, but she insisted that you decide." ā
Li Zhen did not speak, as if thinking about how to answer Hu Sheng's words.
"Don't you think sometimes Mary crosses the line? Uh~ I mean, she's paying too much attention to your private life. Hu Sheng said in a low voice.
"Can't a colleague be a friend? If you want your subordinates to listen to you, you first have to make them like you. Isn't that right?"
"No, I didn't mean that, I mean-- okay! As long as you think there's no problem, there's no problem. Hu Sheng smiled helplessly, he really hated Mary. "But who told you that your mother was still the dead villain?"
"Tell me what?"
"Make subordinates obedient and make them like you first. ā
"On the book. ā
"Books, oh, yes, you like to read. You like to spend most time in your study. Are those books there all the time?" Hu Sheng rarely went to the study, because Li Zhen liked to be alone inside. Although he didn't go much, he also found that the books in the study were rarely picked up and read because they were covered with dust. He had rebuked the poor part-timer for that, oh, the poor part-timer, and they had given her a lot of money to clean the whole house by herself and to prepare three meals for them, and though they did not eat at home from time to time, it was enough to choke, because she had to do all the work in the day. The middle-aged woman was often unable to complete the work as required and was scolded many times, but they never deducted her wages, so the poor woman always worked for them with all her heart. Once, Hu Sheng wanted to find a book called "A Brief History of Time" in the study, he searched for a long time where he could get his hands and never found it, but Li Zhen told him that he had this book and that she had seen it, so he brought a ladder and climbed it. Before his hand touched the book, he choked on his nose in the thick dust. He angrily called the hourly worker (the poor woman was making lunch for him in the kitchen at the time), pointed to the bookshelf and asked, "You've never done this, have you?" and the poor woman stared at him with wincing pale eyes and said, "Yes." Seeing that she answered so unchangeably, and didn't even make an excuse for herself, Hu Sheng couldn't help but be even more angry, "You'd better give me a reasonable reason, otherwise you won't use it in the future." Hu Sheng knew that money was important to that woman, she had three sons, one in college, one in high school, and one who didn't know what to do, but who was supposed to be worrying about her age, and her husband was nothing more than a plumber. Money was her weakness and why she had tolerated them, as they paid her close to 8,000 yuan a month. If she hadn't made any mistakes, they would have added money to it, sometimes 10,000. It's simply sensational. When the poor woman heard that she was going to dismiss her, she couldn't help but get nervous, and she looked at Hu Sheng pitifully, and her pale eyes were instantly filled with tears. "Sir, I need this job very much, and I have fulfilled all your requests. Do not embarrass me. Hu Sheng didn't really want to dismiss her, but he was extremely unhappy when he choked on the dust of adulthood, this was her dereliction of duty, he just asked the reason. Her infallible look made him want to intimidate her. "Why is there so much ash on this, we gave you money to do hygiene, but you didn't do it well at all, this is called what we asked? You didn't even do the most basic ......" Under Hu Sheng's indiscriminate bombardment, she finally told the truth, it turned out that Li Zhen asked her not to touch the bookshelf.
"Of course, haven't they changed?" said Li Zhen with a smile. It's ridiculous to have a problem that Hu Sheng has no brains.
"Hehe, no, I just think that the books there may need to be moved out to bask in the sun, and I'm afraid they will grow moldy. ā
"Do you smell the musty smell of the study too?" Hearing this, Li Zhen, who was originally lying down, suddenly sat up straight. She looked at Hu Sheng in surprise.
"Oh, oh, no, I mean, they grow mold. What's the matter? Does it smell musty now?"
"Maybe. She lay back down. "Okay, let's go to Diaoyu City. She sighed.
They pulled off the highway and headed straight for the ancient city wall. The two cars behind followed. (To be continued.) )