Chapter 30: Two Fox Masks
There was a long silence on the phone.
If Yang Kang still doesn't know what he's up to, then he's wasted his time in this line of work.
"You and him..."
"He bullied my husband."
Yang Kang silently took the phone away, confirmed that it was indeed the person calling, and pressed his palm against his temple twice. "Isn't your man the second master of the Pei family?"
A nephew who didn't even graduate from university dares to bully his uncle who holds power in the Pei Group?
He must be sleeping day and night and hasn't woken up yet.
"Brother Yang said, 'Let's see if we accept it or not.'"
If he says he won't answer, can he really just not answer?
If we find someone else, what if they can't keep their mouth shut and expose this? It won't be as simple as just Young Master Pei driving under the influence and speeding.
"You're really my ancestor." Yang Kang gritted his teeth, giving him a heads-up: "Let me make this clear, I just happened to be passing by, I don't know anything else."
Luo Yunqing readily agreed.
After hanging up the phone, he saw Chen Zhao looking at him with a bewildered expression. He touched his face. "What's wrong?"
"The landlady is such a strange person."
He had been married to his boss for less than a month and had only known him for two months. Yet, this one thing alone was worth all the effort he put in, even risking walking the line between legality and illegality, without ever considering what would happen if he failed or was discovered.
Leave yourself no way out.
"I'm one with Ali. Whoever bullies him is bullying me." Luo Yunqing beckoned, "You go and investigate the person who took the photos, and then..."
The voice grew lower and lower, but Chen Zhao was terrified. "Boss lady, what if the boss finds out about this?"
"If you don't tell, and I don't tell, how will Ali know?" Luo Yunqing rolled her eyes secretly, pulled the covers up again, and lay down. "Alright, hurry up and get on with it. Ali will be coming up soon."
…………
He still overestimated Pei Yanli.
Around 2 p.m., he drifted off to sleep again before Pei Yanli woke him up for lunch.
Just a pot of tomato and beef brisket.
The taste was pretty good; it was stewed until soft and tender, not sour or salty, and palatable.
"How is it? Is it alright?" Pei Yanli had been watching him intently from the first bite, afraid that he might even frown.
"It's delicious!" Luo Yunqing swallowed the meat in her mouth, picked up another piece with her chopsticks, and nodded repeatedly. "I can have it with three bowls of rice!"
"That's an exaggeration." Though she said it was an exaggeration, a smile had already appeared in her lowered eyes. She added a piece of food to his plate and said, "It's delicious. I'll make it for you again tomorrow."
I ate tomato and beef brisket for two days in a row, six meals in total.
On the third day, Luo Yunqing rushed back to school, leaving a home-style cookbook on her desk in the study before she left.
If he kept eating, his face would turn into a tomato.
"Xiao Luo, are you feeling better?"
As soon as I stepped into the drama club's activity room in the afternoon, the first thing I saw was You Jianan, who walked over and swept the floor from top to bottom.
His shout caused everyone else to drop what they were doing and look over.
It was quite rare to see Pei Hengzhi there as well.
Luo Yunqing glanced around, then looked away, and pinched her cheek with a smile: "It's completely healed. Look, I've even gained weight these past two days."
"Really?" You Jianan couldn't quite tell; on the contrary, she felt that he had lost a lot of weight compared to before.
"Yes." Luo Yunqing ignored the gaze that was staring directly at her face and said almost boastfully, "My husband cooks me delicious food every day!"
"Ha! Second Master is so virtuous." Cheng Xu then came in and added, turning around and clapping his hands, "Come on, everyone stop and listen to me. This year, Yanxi Opera has been discussing with us about whether we can do a joint performance for the New Year's Eve party, with our two schools putting on a big show."
"That's a great idea."
"I heard that Yanxi Opera has recruited a lot of handsome men and beautiful women this year!"
...
The drama clubs of the two schools often performed together before, so there was nothing surprising or dissatisfying about it.
After that, Cheng Xu went to find Yang Ying to connect with the playwrights of Yanxi Drama Club, while everyone else went about their business.
Yu Jianan was also in charge of purchasing costumes for the club. She was planning to go and listen to what kind of play they were going to perform when she was pulled back as soon as she took a step out.
"What's wrong, junior?"
"Why is he here?" Luo Yunqing gestured with her chin toward Pei Hengzhi's direction.
After the leadership reshuffle, Xia Lin directly removed him from his position as vice president, making her intentions clear, yet he remained in that position.
"Um... I'm not too sure either." You Jianan lowered her eyebrows and changed the subject: "You're free tonight, right? Why don't you come to my dorm? I designed a new skin recently, want to take a look?"
Luo Yunqing glanced into the distance almost imperceptibly, then shook her head slightly: "Tomorrow. Tonight is Liang Hao's birthday in our class, and he specially invited me. I can't possibly not go."
"I see." You Jianan wasn't in a hurry. "Then tomorrow."
…………
At 6:30 pm, the club activities ended.
As soon as I stepped out of the cultural activity center, my phone vibrated.
[Secretary Xiao Chen]: Liang Hao just sent me a message that Pei Hengzhi has agreed to attend his birthday party.
[Secretary Xiao Chen]: Over there with the boss...
[Luo Yunqing]: I told him I was going to a classmate's birthday party, and he didn't suspect anything.
[Luo Yunqing]: After dinner, remember to remind him to take his medicine.
In the old house, the servants would prepare and deliver the medicine whenever it was time to take it. Now that they have moved to Four Seasons Cloud Top, there are usually only two cleaning servants at home. Pei Yanli often forgets about the medicine when she is busy with work, and he always has to coax her, give her a kiss, and then she takes the medicine.
You'll be really disappointed if you don't get a pre-medication kiss today.
I'll finish this when I get back.
Luo Yunqing put away her phone and went to the Speed Club first. In just three days, Zhang Shuyan had almost completely modified the Mercedes-Benz.
"Want to try running now?" Zhang Shuyan tapped his shoulder while carrying a large wrench.
Looking at the time, it was almost eight o'clock, and the birthday party had already started. Luo Yunqing shook her head, "I have some other things to do. I'll take the car for a test drive."
"Try it out?" Zhang Shuyan raised an eyebrow. "Where do you want to try it out?"
"Keep it a secret for now."
Luo Yunqing waved to her and drove off from the training base.
Actually, you don't even need to try it out; you can feel it as soon as you put your foot on it. This modified Mercedes is much better than his other supercars in every aspect.
The most important thing is comfort.
Zhang Shuyan truly deserves to be called a genius in car modification.
Driving from the high-speed training base to Trueme, even with the speed limit, only takes about half an hour. Luo Yunqing parked the car nearby and leisurely strolled over with the gifts.
In private room number 03, the atmosphere was lively after several rounds of drinks.
The only two who weren't very happy were Pei Hengzhi and today's birthday boy. He timidly held his wine glass and kept glancing at the door. When Luo Yunqing pushed the door open and the light shone into the dimly lit private room, his face turned unnaturally pale.
But soon, Liang Hao smiled again and went to greet her: "Yun Qing, you're here."
"Sorry I'm late."
"No, no, it's good that you came." Liang Hao felt guilty and didn't dare to look him in the eye.
Soon, a gift bag came into view.
“I remember you like photography.” Luo Yunqing stepped to the person’s side, lowered her head, and said, “Here’s a camera for you. Take as many pictures as you like.”
Liang Hao hurriedly took it, saying, "Thank you, thank you."
"Next time, please don't film anything you shouldn't have."
"Yes, yes, no more filming, no more filming."
When Chen Zhao approached him, Liang Hao knew he had gotten himself into trouble; he shouldn't have sold the photos for the tens of thousands of yuan Pei Hengzhi had given him.
But he had no idea that the photo would end up in that kind of place.
If I knew...
"Happy birthday."
Liang Hao was taken aback, then looked up. "Yun Qing."
"It's your birthday today, cheer up." From the results Chen Zhao found out, Luo Yunqing was willing to believe him once because she was being used by Pei Hengzhi.
There can only be one, and there can't be a second.
"Yes!" Liang Hao nodded emphatically.
Just as he accepted the gift and was about to invite the person to sit down, a high-pitched voice suddenly cut in.
"What are Xiaoqing and Haohao whispering to each other?"
Pei Hengzhi not only came, but he also brought Song Xuechen with him. They stayed close to Luo Yunqing from the moment she entered, inseparable.
"What does it have to do with you if I'm talking to my classmate?" Luo Yunqing said with a smile, but her words were quite impolite.
Someone immediately noticed the discord between them and changed the subject: "Yunqing, come, come, you're late, you have to punish yourself with three cups."
"Okay." Luo Yunqing took the opportunity offered by the others, then suddenly remembered that she had driven. "But I'm really sorry, I... I can't hold my liquor. How about a soft drink instead?"
"Then it has to be doubled."
"good."
Luo Yunqing then picked up the empty wine glass on the table, poured six glasses of orange juice, drank them all in one go, and then joined the game they were playing.
"We're playing Truth or Dare right now." The class monitor rolled up his sleeves and raised his thick eyebrows at him. "Want to play?"
Luo Yunqing: "What's there to be afraid of?"
“You don’t drink alcohol, so let’s make it clear first: if you lose, you have to drink two glasses of orange juice.” The class monitor smacked his lips. “That doesn’t seem very satisfying. How about this: you drink your least favorite strawberry juice.”
"no problem."
Luo Yunqing readily accepted the newly shuffled cards, but unexpectedly, she had a bit of bad luck right from the start. "I choose... truth or dare."
"Truth or no!" The class monitor quickly brought over a bowl of strawberry juice, grinning. "Our Yunqing is so beautiful, how many boyfriends has she dated before?"
"One."
"Huh? I don't believe you."
Not to mention the class monitor, the others didn't really believe it either.
With Luo Yunqing's looks, she must have been very popular in the past.
"Really." Luo Yunqing smiled, her eyes crinkling, and glanced at the two seemingly mismatched people diagonally opposite her. Her eyes flickered slightly. "My first love is my husband."
As soon as he finished speaking, a chorus of "Eek!" erupted in the private room, completely obscuring the person who had spilled wine with a shaky hand.
"Ah Heng, the wine is all over my pants."
"Um."
Pei Hengzhi picked up another cup, filled it to the brim, and glanced at it while tilting his head back to drink.
Among the dozen or so people, only one light seemed to always shine on Luo Yunqing's face. Why was he always so happy when his second uncle was mentioned?
First love? Ha!
If they weren't switched at birth, the person who would have met him first would have been...
What is he thinking?
Pei Hengzhi took a sip of wine and went to pour more, but he couldn't help but tilt his ear to listen again.
Where did he go with his second uncle in the days following the wedding? What did they do? They… No way, his second uncle is disabled, what could he do?
"I saw your photos on WeChat Moments. You went to Lover's Island with Second Master Pei, right? I heard the hot springs there are very famous. You two..."
"Of course I'll take a bath, it's very comfortable."
The questions that followed became increasingly bizarre.
"How is Second Master?"
"I've heard that older people are more caring."
"Although he's not even thirty yet, he's still ten years younger."
Luo Yunqing will only ask one question to get the truth from me; she will not answer any of the others.
Aside from his first bad luck, he seemed to have found the trick and was no longer caught by the class monitor making him drink strawberry juice. On the contrary, the class monitor himself lost three or four times in a row, and his embarrassing secrets, such as secretly taking his sister's blackhead strips to apply to his legs and tearing off a large piece of leg hair, were all exposed.
There were also those who, after getting drunk, chose to play dare, ran to other private rooms, and came back with their faces flushed red, directly pushing the atmosphere of the birthday party to a climax.
Only Pei Hengzhi drank one cup of wine after another in silence.
"Aheng, drink less." Song Xuechen was an outsider at this gathering. Apart from the birthday boy, she didn't know anyone and could only stick to Pei Hengzhi all night.
I don't know what's wrong with him, he just keeps drinking.
"Xiaoxue." Just as she was about to call the waiter for hangover medicine, Luo Yunqing walked out from the crowd with a glass of orange juice. "I heard you two are together. Congratulations."
Upon seeing him, Song Xuechen was reminded of September 28th, the night before his wedding, and turned her head away with a livid expression.
Seeing that he didn't move, Luo Yunqing laughed and raised her voice: "You're not giving me face!"
"you!"
“Xiaoxue isn’t feeling well and can’t drink.” Pei Hengzhi reached out to stop Song Xuechen and poured a full glass of whiskey. “I’ll drink it for him.”
"Aheng~" Song Xuechen grabbed his arm and gave Luo Yunqing a provocative and smug smile.
"Oh, you two have such a good relationship." Luo Yunqing couldn't be happier. "Then you two must get married soon. I'm still waiting for my niece-in-law's tea."
Half of the whiskey was spilled.
Luo Yunqing took a symbolic sip of orange juice, then turned and went back into the crowd.
As the gathering drew to a close, around ten o'clock, Luo Yunqing sent a message to Pei Yanli.
【AAA Xiao Luo】: The party is over.
[Husband]: I'll have Chen Zhao pick you up.
【AAA Xiao Luo】: Okay~ (waiting obediently)
After sending the message, I opened the chat window with Teng Zaiye.
[Luo Yunqing]: Is everything ready?
[Collecting scrap, waste paper, old appliances]: Okay, but what do you need this for?
[Luo Yunqing]: Useful.
[Luo Yunqing]: Since you've finished making it, send it over. Trueme backdoor, I'll be waiting for you there.
What is he up to now?
Without delay, Teng Zaiye took his things and went there, sensing that he was about to witness a lively scene.
After circling around to the back door of Trueme, Chen Zhao actually showed up too.
"What good thing are you two secretly plotting?" He took out two exquisitely crafted fox masks from the car.
Two days ago, Luo Yunqing commissioned him to make a mask, and he felt something was off. It instantly reminded him of the rabbit he had tricked away at the auction house before.
"Keep it a secret." Luo Yunqing took the masks, gave one to Chen Zhao, and put on the other herself, then said, "If you're curious, remember to watch tomorrow's news."
After saying that, he waved and left.
Chen Zhao must be crazy, going through all this trouble with him so late at night. "Boss lady, if you really want to do that, can't you do it by yourself?"
"I don't have a voice changer."
Chen Zhao: "..."
Does he have it?
“I stutter, and he brought Song Xuechen with him today. If I open my mouth, I’ll give myself away. Besides…” Luo Yunqing reached out and pushed him into the passenger seat of the Mercedes, “How about letting you experience my driving skills?”
Chen Zhao: If he could, he wouldn't.
But now there's no room for refusal.
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After the party ended.
Song Xuechen practically helped Pei Hengzhi out, muttering repeatedly, "It's Liang Hao's birthday, why did you drink so much?"
"I'm happy." Pei Hengzhi shook his head and took out his car keys. "You drive."
"All right."
Song Xuechen took the keys and was about to help the person to the back seat when suddenly a powerful force rushed from behind the car and crashed straight into the McLaren.
"Are you all blind?!"
Looking back, they saw it was just a Mercedes, yet it dared to hit them.
The Mercedes then reversed and then crashed into him again.
"Boss lady, isn't that a bit too harsh?"
"Shut up!" Luo Yunqing snapped in a low voice, then said, "Open the window."
The passenger-side window slowly rolled down.
"Stretch out your hand."
Chen Zhao did as instructed.
"Make a fist with four fingers, thumb pointing up, then reverse and point downwards."
"Press harder, twice."
After Chen Zhao finished, he turned his head in shock.
"You dare to provoke me like that!" Pei Hengzhi glared with bloodshot eyes and staggered into the driver's seat.
The Mercedes immediately reversed and turned around.
Chen Zhao looked at the people who had actually been lured behind the car and couldn't help but worry: "Boss lady, what if something happens..."
"Don't worry, I won't bump into anyone else, I know what I'm doing."
The McLaren was led by the Mercedes to head straight for the suburbs, driving alongside it several times.
The roar echoed through the valley.
Luo Yunqing glanced sideways and accelerated again with a tap of the accelerator.
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