With a 'smack', Fang Qiao slammed her chopsticks heavily on the table and said coldly, "Your brother-in-law and I are none of your business. If you don't want to eat, get out of here now."
Fang Qiao was truly enraged. Fang Lu, who hadn't taken it seriously before, finally realized that his second sister was completely different from before and no longer granted his every request.
He hesitated for a moment, opened his mouth, but then closed it again, unsure of what to say.
Just then, Cheng Baidong returned with Tiantian after washing her hands and asked knowingly, "What happened? Why are the two siblings arguing?"
Fang Qiao was too lazy to argue with Fang Lu anymore, so she picked up her chopsticks again and said, "It's okay, let's eat."
Cheng Baidong had a smiling, harmless look, but Fang Lu felt inexplicably uneasy looking at his expression.
He shrank back, not daring to say anything more, and obediently picked up his chopsticks, chuckling awkwardly, "Brother-in-law, it's nothing, it's just a joke. Eating is the most important thing."
The meal was eaten in complete silence; the only sounds on the table were the clinking of bowls, chopsticks, and spoons.
After the meal, Xiaojing took the initiative to wash the dishes.
Fang Qiao directly told Fang Lu to leave: "You've finished eating, you should go now."
"Second sister, your house is so big, how could it be so difficult for you to let me stay for one night..." Fang Lu wanted to say something more, but Fang Qiao interrupted him directly.
"No. There's a bus stop right outside the residential compound. You can go back the same way you came."
After Fang Qiao finished speaking, she turned to Cheng Baidong and said, "Baidong, could you please take him to the bus stop outside the family compound?"
Fang Lu didn't want to leave, after all, his mother was still at home waiting to give him a piece of her mind, so he pleaded, "Second sister, it's already dark outside. It will take at least an hour to get back to Nancheng from here, waiting for a bus and transferring. It won't be until after nine o'clock when we get home. Aren't you worried at all?"
"Don't worry." Fang Qiao wasn't buying it: "I advise you to leave early. If you dawdle any longer, and the buses stop running at ten o'clock, you'll have to walk back."
Fang Lu finally accepted reality, gritted his teeth, and glared at Fang Qiao: "Fine! I'm leaving!"
He turned and left, and Cheng Baidong followed him.
"I send you."
Fang Lu said defiantly, "No need! I know the way out."
Cheng Baidong said calmly, "You can't get out without a pass."
Fang Lu choked, unable to resist defending himself: "When I came, the person at the door only asked me to sign and put my fingerprints, and didn't ask me for a pass at all."
“That was during the day, it’s night now,” Cheng Baidong explained. “After 8 p.m., the gate is under strict security, and only those with passes can enter and exit.”
"..."
Fang Lu didn't say anything more and walked out one after the other with Cheng Baidong.
Passing by Li Dan's house, I happened to see her dumping medicine residue in front of her house.
When Li Dan saw Cheng Baidong, she greeted him with a smile: "Baidong, where are you going so late at night?"
Cheng Baidong didn't stop walking and said succinctly, "Go out for a bit."
Fang Lu took the opportunity to steal a glance at Li Dan and found that she was not the young wife he had imagined, but a middle-aged woman who was more than ten years older than him. The wrinkles at the corners of her eyes were almost as many as his mother's. His romantic thoughts from that evening vanished completely.
Cheng Baidong escorted Fang Lu to the bus stop outside the family compound, watched him board the bus, and then went home.
After eating, Fang Qiao was covered in sweat, so she cut up a plate of watermelon to cool off. Just then, Cheng Baidong came back and invited him to come and eat.
It's getting hotter and hotter, and when I go to bed at night, my body feels sticky all over.
Pregnant women are more sensitive to heat than ordinary people. As soon as summer began, Fang Qiao felt unbearably hot, so she slept in her space every night these days.
Fortunately, there is space, and the temperature is just right, neither too hot nor too cold. It's even better than air conditioning, otherwise this summer would be too unbearable.
I slept well all night.
The next day, Fang Qiao got up very early. It was hot and she was too lazy to cook, so the family ate at the cafeteria.
Fang Qiao thought the trouble was over after she sent Fang Lu away yesterday, but she didn't expect that her mother, Yang Fengxia, would come looking for her again the next day.
Fang Qiao went to the gate to greet her. The first thing Yang Fengxia asked her when she saw her was, "Xiao Qiao, did your brother come to see you yesterday?"
Fang Qiao nodded: "He did come to see me, but I only let him stay for dinner before sending him off. Bai Dong personally saw him off on the bus."
"Really?" Yang Fengxia was a little skeptical: "Xiao Qiao, tell me the truth, is your brother here with you or not?"
"What's wrong? Didn't he go back?" Fang Qiao raised an eyebrow.
"No!" Yang Fengxia was almost crying with anxiety: "He didn't come home all night, and your father and I were so worried that something might have happened. So, we went to his factory early this morning to look for him, but his boss said that he had asked his coworkers to ask for leave for him and didn't go to work at all."
Fang Qiao comforted her, saying, "Don't worry. Since he was able to get his coworkers to ask for leave for him, it means he can't go far."
"Why didn't you go home if you couldn't have gone far?" Yang Fengxia gritted her teeth in anger: "You didn't even send a message home, and your whole family was so worried that you were looking for him everywhere, afraid that something had happened to you. It's really infuriating."
Fang Qiao guessed, "He told you yesterday that you were going to kill him, so is that why he's afraid to go back?"
"Bullshit! He's as clever as a monkey. I only tapped him once with a rolling pin." Yang Fengxia waved her hand. "It couldn't be because of that."
Fang Qiao: "Then why did you knock on him? What did he do that everyone hates?"
Yang Fengxia hesitated for a moment, opened her mouth, but in the end said nothing.
"It's nothing, just a small matter."
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