Chapter 143 Are You Trying to Reach the Heavens?
Once the log hits the ground, it means you've made it ashore.
Xiao Cheng should be trading in the timber market now.
Just as Bai Lu finished thinking about it, the phone rang.
Xiao Wei's eyes lit up, but he didn't get up. Instead, he turned to Bai Lu and said, "Big brother called. He must have something very important to tell you. You should answer the phone."
Bai Lu glanced at the displayed number and confirmed that it was the number that had called back before. To avoid Xiao Cheng bringing up the matter of asking Wang Hao to answer the phone again, she picked up the receiver and spoke first.
"Acheng, have you eaten? Have you made it ashore? Is everything going smoothly? Have you finished trading those cedar logs? What are you doing now?"
On the other end of the phone, Xiao Cheng's first word, "Lu," was automatically muted and replaced by the girl's voice.
After listening quietly to her finish speaking, he answered one by one: "I ate, I've already landed, everything went smoothly, the cedar wood transaction is complete, and I just finished eating with Jiang Zhengang."
Xiao Cheng had already contacted a buyer before leaving the province, so the transaction would happen as soon as he landed.
Bai Lu immediately added, "Then you must keep your money safe, lest you get scammed. There are a lot of scammers out there. Are you on the street or somewhere else? It sounds a bit noisy over there, with vendors shouting and car horns. I can't hear Luo Shiliu and Xiao Dazhuang. Aren't they with you?"
After listening for a while, Xiao Cheng finally understood why the girl in his family had suddenly become so abnormal.
He chuckled softly. "There's a street across from the restaurant entrance with cars and people. Luo Shiliu and Xiao Dazhuang went to find a place to stay, but they haven't returned yet."
Bai Lu ignored the meaningful chuckle coming from the receiver and instructed, "When you go to a hotel, make sure it's a reputable one, safe and secure. Those shady little inns in the middle of nowhere are ruthless rip-offs; they'll skin you alive before you leave. This is your first time leaving the province, and you're unfamiliar with the area, so be extra careful..."
As the long, rambling discourse in his ears came to a close, Xiao Cheng replied with a resounding "Yes," his voice deep, resonant, and slightly magnetic.
He then asked, "Has anyone else come to see you today?"
Xiao Cheng probably knew that whenever he went on a long trip, there would be ungrateful people coming to cause trouble.
Bai Lu breathed a sigh of relief: "My mom and brother came to see me, and then they left."
Xiao Cheng knew she didn't want to say more, so he didn't ask any further questions and said softly, "Wait for me to come back."
"Uh-huh? ? ?
After responding instinctively, Bai Lu realized that Xiao Cheng's words seemed a bit off.
In his previous life, Xiao Cheng went to another province to develop his career and never returned. The original owner of the body had fallen into the river, and Xiao Wei had also disappeared. For Xiao Cheng, Xinzhen truly held no appeal.
After overcoming numerous setbacks and hardships to make a fortune, Xiao Cheng returned once to move the grave, and never came back again.
Now that Xiao Wei is still alive and at home, Xiao Cheng still has family ties to cherish, which is why he has returned.
Bai Lu accurately grasped the truth and replied earnestly, "You don't need to worry about home. I will take good care of Xiao Wei. You can do whatever you want. Just come back before the college entrance examination. Or you can take Xiao Wei with you. I will leave here after the exam. Xiao Wei is only seven years old. He can't stay in the new town alone."
The phone suddenly went silent.
The silence lasted so long that the years and months were lost to time.
After a while, Bai Lu thought Xiao Cheng had no signal and couldn't hear her. Just as she was about to say "hello, hello," she heard a man's cold snort in her ear, which felt chilling even through the receiver.
He seems angry.
Are you listening?
"Take care of yourself, bye!"
His displeasure was obvious, much like the child who insisted on having his head shaved that night when he was drunk.
Bai Lu didn't know if he was drunk again or just suddenly acting out, so she waited quietly for him to hang up the phone.
As a result, he didn't hang up for a long time.
"Xiao Cheng?"
"what!"
The child got angry.
Bai Lu turned around and glanced at the little bald boy, then handed him the receiver: "Want to chat with your brother?"
Xiao Wei: "..."
You want to use me as a shield from gunfire, don't you?
Your older brother told you to wait for him to come back, and you told him you were leaving. You're really asking for trouble.
Another chilling snort rang out, and Xiao Wei decisively shook his head, refusing this hot potato.
Bai Lu heard someone calling "Brother Cheng" on the other end of the phone; it sounded like Luo Shiliu and Xiao Dazhuang's voices.
"Go ahead and do what you need to do."
"Hang up!"
The child is disobedient, drinks alcohol, and throws inexplicable tantrums; Bailu doesn't want to deal with him anymore.
"Fine, I'll hang up then."
Without hesitation, Bai Lu put the phone back on the landline and went back to her room to read, ignoring everyone.
Xiao Wei felt sorry for Bai Lu as he looked at her retreating figure.
Even when disaster is imminent, he can still concentrate on reading.
After dinner, shower, wash clothes, and hang them to dry, the phone in the main house didn't ring.
Bai Lu and Xiao Wei both tacitly forgot that there was a telephone at home, and went back to their respective rooms to sleep.
Whether I can sleep or not, no one knows.
The other side of the moon.
Luo Shiliu and Xiao Dazhuang ran themselves ragged before finally finding the "most reputable hotel" their elder brother had mentioned. They quickly checked in, enduring a barrage of glares from their brother the whole way.
They need to check the electronics market tomorrow, can't they at least get a good night's sleep tonight?
Which little brat has angered this dragon again? We must teach him a lesson when we get back!
Just before closing the door, Xiao Cheng spoke coldly, "You know where we're meeting tomorrow, right?"
"I know! I know!"
"Next to Jiajiahaoweidao Restaurant outside Chang'an Electronic Industrial Zone, to the right of Jianghai Park entrance, to the Yingkeju Tea House, and to the left of Nianxiangren Restaurant."
As soon as Luo Shiliu and Xiao Dazhuang finished answering, a door slammed shut in front of them, cold and impersonal.
"Tsk—if I find out which little brat caused this trouble, I'll kill him!"
Xiao Dazhuang wholeheartedly agreed with Luo Shiliu's words: "I'll kill him too!"
Tonight is exceptionally long.
Xiao Cheng lay on the bed staring at the ceiling. After a while, his gaze shifted to the landline phone on the bedside table.
After looking at it for a while, I turned back to look at the ceiling.
The dim, soft lighting and the empty room silently separated two worlds.
Even the brightest ceiling can't hold a distracted gaze, which inevitably returns to the landline phone.
A moment later, it turned back.
Ceiling, telephone, back and forth.
On a night without stars, even the dawn is gloomy, like a harbinger of an impending storm.
Bai Lu was roasting chestnuts in the kitchen with the lights on.
Xiao Wei had already eaten breakfast and gone to school. The electric chestnut roasting machine in the kitchen was humming and working diligently, and the preheated sand was emitting a fragrant aroma.
The roasted chestnuts were ready, and Bailu skillfully scooped up a spoonful of maltose syrup, about to pour it into the pot.
The lights inside the room flickered suddenly, and a dark shadow flashed past quickly from the angle reflected by the window.
The kitchen has two windows, one facing the side of the main house and the other facing the outer wall.
The direction the dark figure darted was towards the wall.
(End of this chapter)
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