"What"s that?" Young Master Shen now was as cool as a cuc.u.mber and was sure that Zhang Mi wouldn"t come up any request constructive.
Zhang Mi sat down in front of him and said seriously, "You can"t have affairs with any other woman before our divorce unless you make it secretly without being discovered by anyone else. But, if there is any report on your rumor with any female star, I will, immediately, divorce you!"
At first, Young Master Shen was rather satisfied with her utterance, thinking he was still cared about. But later he found it strange.
"Why can"t I make it big but am allowed to do it secretly?"
Zhang Mi glanced at him in disdain and responded, "I don"t expect to lose face, and most importantly, my grandpa won"t forgive neither you nor me if he hears that."
Young Master Shen came to realize that the Zhangs" had won a great reputation in the culture circle and that Zhang Mi"s grandpa was an old pedant. In this sense, he thought the request reasonable and nodded, "I agree!"
Looking at Young Master Shen, and then at Zhang Mi, Xin Qing suggested, "Uh...need a contrast?"
"No!"
"No!"
They refused with one voice.
"That makes it feel like I"m selling my soul." Zhang Mi curled her lips and said.
Young Master Shen agreed, "Yeah, I feel the same!"
Xin Qing felt a little uneasy for she had a contract with Ying Qingcang. She must get it back someday...
Xin Qing didn"t know whether it was her illusion. It seemed that Young Master Shen and Zhang Mi were satisfied with their marriage. Zhang Mi picked up her luggage merrily and went to New York with Young Master Shen. Xin Qing took some medicine and hadn"t got a headache for the past one month. Xunxun and Ah Sha were going to have their summer vacation. One morning, Chen Huan visited her house. Xin Qing believed that she must have come for her son. But apparently, she had more than one purpose.
"Xin Qing, I want to let Ah Sha go with me!" Chen Huan asked bluntly while Xunxun also followed, "Ah Sha, will you go with us?"
Xin Qing didn"t think that she could deal with them, and without having a try, she decided to respect Ah Sha"s decision. But before that, she still asked weakly, "Where are you going to take her to?"
Without Xin Qing"s permission, Chen Huan took out a piece of pudding and answered, "The base laboratory." She wrinkled her eyes and continued, "that"s the state secrete!" Then she further explained to Xin Qing, who seemed to be confused, "I"m going to conduct an experiment. Ah Sha and Xunxun can go with me. Don"t worry, they won"t get bored because there are enough things you can"t find outside for them to play with.
But that made Xin Qing even more worried...
She tried to hint Ah Sha, "Ah Sha, will you leave with Xunxun? You should know that you will have to go without mommy"s accompany."
"Will Xunxun go with me?" asked Ah Sha.
Xunxun gave her a kiss suddenly and said, "Of course, I"ll never leave you alone for now and forever!"
Xin Qing"s mouth twitched a little and denounced him in the heart. "How dare you to kiss my daughter in my face! You must have done more than that privately!"
"These two guys are so cute!" Chen Huan seemed to be satisfied and said, "That"s it. Xunxun, you and Ah Sha go upstairs and pick up your luggage."
Xin Qing was annoyed for she hadn"t even heard Ah Sha"s agreement.
"Mummy, I"m going to go with Xunxun, you can go home and stay with my daddy." Ah Sha waved to Xin Qing, and was picked up by Xunxun to the upstairs.
"People always say that a grown girl can"t be kept at home, but they never say the same is an undergrown girl..."
Xin Qing could do nothing but sat down and entrusted Chen Huan, "Please help me take care of her."
"Of course!" Chen Huan took out a needle tubing and said, "Xunxun will look after her girlfriend. Take it easy."
Xin Qing put her hands on her forehead and felt exhausted. Chen Huan seized her hand and said, "Let me take a tube of your blood back to see if there is anything different from before." Then she deftly finished the drawing and added, "I can say that if nothing happens in half a year, you are recovered."
"Thank you so much!" Xin Qing expressed her grat.i.tude. She had heard from Young Master Shen that Chen Huan valued her time so much that she had refused many requests to make drugs for others, but she had always been so concerned with Xin Qing"s condition. Having realized this, Xin Qing felt relieved about Ah Sha"s leaving.
Everyone was in high spirit except Xin Qing when they left. Ah Sha got on the car happily and threw her mummy a kiss, and then left with great delights. Xin Qing snuffled as if she was redundant, "But Asha is the child of our family!".
Till night, she was still worried about Ah Sha so made a call to Young Master Shen.
Young Master Shen thought for a while and said, "I think that is good for Ah Sha. The base is safer, after all. And if you take her to S city to attend my marriage with Zhang Mi next month, she would be dangerous under the spy of the hostile forces. Now the danger is gone."
After hanging up, Xin Qing thought that made sense and thus felt relieved.
At the same time, Ying Qingcang had just hung up the call from boss Wan. He felt that he seemed to be one of his family members no matter how Xin Qing felt.
"Master, Tang Shuang is coming." Ah Nan said through the interphone.
Ying Qingcang frowned and saw Tang Shuang come in before he could say anything.
"Ah Cang!" She came in, with her hands on her stomach. These days she became thinner because of the morning sickness.
Ying Qingcang said after she sat down, "Why do you come out in such a hot day?"
Tang Shuang looked at him, seeming to be wronged.
"I can"t eat anything these days. Even if I don"t care, what about the baby in the belly?"
Ying Qingcang stared at her for a while and stood up and said, "Let"s go out to have something." At the gate, he looked back vaguely at Ah Nan, who agreed with a nod.
"Where are we going?" Tang Shuang got into the car and was about to lie in his arms for coquetry when Ying Qingcang patted his cloth and said, "Keep away, I smell like cigarettes and will do harm to both of you." Tang Shuang grinned and sat back.
"Ah Che, head for the club by the seaside!" Then he glanced at Tang Shuang, "So you are not sure what to have? Let"s try them out one by one until we find something you can eat."
Tang Shuang was surprised. "Ah Cang, but...what about the company?"
"Don"t worry. Nothing is more important than you two," Ying Qingcang smiled, rolling black in his eyes. Tang Shuang never stopped laughing along the road for she was delighted by Ying Qingcang"s caring since her pregnancy. After the birth of the baby, she believed he would be even more kind to her.
But born in the mountains, Tang Shuang was so innocent. She was even not as clever as girls born in an average family and failed to discover the deception in Ying Qingcang"s att.i.tude towards her. Meanwhile, she was so indomitable and pursued relentlessly to what she wanted. She always reached her goal in the most direct way without knowing some people would do anything for their own sake and to defeat and torment their enemies.
The ignorance led to her underestimate of Ying Qingcang and the overstatement of herself. The consciousness about her foolishness didn"t come before she paid the heavy price when chances had already gone.
Tang Shuang was taken by Ying Qingcang to have some fresh seafood but vomited when she smelled the odor. Looking at the dishes on the table, Tang Shuang felt embarra.s.sed and wanted to have another try. But Ying Qingcang stood up and said, "Let"s move to the next one."
Ying Qingcang spent the whole afternoon running through all the well-known restaurants in city S just to find something she could take in. Journalists captured the news and surrounded them when they stepped out of a fungi restaurant.
"Mr. Ying, I have heard that you have visited so many restaurants for Mrs. Tang!"
"Mrs. Ying, aren"t you moved by such a husband?"
"Will he be the successor of the company if the baby is a boy?"
Asked by so many journalists, Ying Qingcang stood in front of Tang Shuang, frowned and said, "Keep away, don"t touch her."
"Keep away, please. My husband Ah Cang is taking me to have lunch." Facing the cameras, Tang Shuang looked very happy and deliberately let those journalists take close-ups with Ying Qingcang. Back in the car, looking at the journalists who were still unwilling to leave, Tang Shuang clapped her chest and said,
"These journalists are so well-informed. They are always the first to know where we are."
The driver, Ah Che looked up and then continued to stare straight ahead. Ying Qingcang said drily, "That is what journalists do."
Next day, seeing the close-ups of Ying Qingcang and Tang Shuang on the newspaper, Xin Qing just threw them into the trash can jealously. Zhang Mi had gone to city S with Young Master Shen and was about to hold her wedding next month. In New York, they would hold it for a second time. Xin Qing decided to return after handing over her work in CK.
The first thing after Zhang Mi"s return was to visit Shi Qianqian.
"Can you believe that? I"m getting married too, and will live in the villa district where you have been longing for."
Shi Qianqian was feeding her son with apple sauce and gave a blank look at Zhang Mi. "Are you sure to do that?"
"Why not? I haven"t fallen in love yet and just 27 after five years. By then, I should have cars and notes to find a good man. Ha-ha!"
Shi Qianqian sighed and said, "Are you sure that you have never thought to marry Young Master Shen?"
"Uhm..." Zhang Mi shrunk her neck under the fire-eating look from Shi Qianqian. "At first...sometimes...I have." She made a strange noise and said, "But that is normal! Every woman will think about that!" She pulled her hair and continued, "But soon I found it hopeless. For a beast who cares nothing more than carnal desire and love-making like him, don"t expect that he would fall in love with anybody. I am not such a fool as to fall in love with him since I know he doesn"t have what I want."
If a girl clearly knew that a man couldn"t give her the love that she needed but still fell in love with him, then she must be an idiot. In Zhang Mi"s vision of love, a man must show all his heart to win her a glimpse of him. Therefore, she would never fall in love with Young Master Shen.