Fu Zhengzheng looks back and sees a woman coming this way.

The woman seems to be in her forties. She is fair-skinned and tall. The coiled hair on top of her head and the figure flattering clothes make her look very graceful.

“A friend of mine.” Ji Muxian answers tonelessly.

“Friend?” The woman asks.

“Hello, madam.” Fu Zhengzheng greets her politely. Suddenly, she notices that she is familiar with the clothes on the woman. She asks Ji Muxian, “Who is this?”

“My mother.”

“Your mother? God, I thought she was your sister!” Fu Zhengzheng sighs and then shakes her head. “If I knew she is so young, I should have reminded you to change a dress of more fashionable style.”

Ji Yashu is very happy when she hears that. She holds Fu Zhengzheng’s hand and asks kindly, “Miss, what’s your name?”

“My name is Fu Zhengzheng.”

“Fu Zhengzheng, Zhengzheng. Sure enough, a beautiful girl has a good name.” Ji Yashu praises. Then she complains to Ji Muxian, “Son, why don’t you tell Mom that you have a girlfriend, do you really treat Mom as the air?”

Girlfriend? Fu Zhengzheng is shocked, and then she immediately shakes her hands, “No, madam. You have misunderstood. We are not boyfriend and girlfriend; we are just ordinary friends.”

“Ordinary friends?” How can Ji Yashu believe that? She just saw them hugging each other.

Ji Muxian says in a low voice, “Mom, don’t you look after Xiaoxiao? She will run away again.”

“Oh, I forgot Xiaoxiao! Son, take Zhengzheng to lunch at noon.” After saying that, Ji Yashu hurries to go back.

“Your mother misunderstood.” Fu Zhengzheng smiles unnaturally and then seems to talk to herself, “I thought you were married, but you even don’t have a girlfriend.”

“Is it strange?” Ji Muxian glances at her.

“No, no.” Fu Zhengzheng laughs. She always thinks that his eyes are very sharp, so she dares not talk to him more. Guessing that she can’t find Zhou Bing, she wants to leave here, so she waves her hand and says goodbye to Ji Muxian.

Seeing Ji Muxian doesn’t say anything, she walks away quickly.

After walking for a long time, she still doesn’t reach the gate. She is somewhat depressed and feels that she might be going in the opposite direction, so she hurries to find guidepost.

When she looks around, she is shocked by an old house which is totally different from the resort.

How can the old house be so similar to the one where Nian Xi used to live?

Fu Zhengzheng runs quickly to the fence of the house and looks at the house carefully, but finds it is strange.

The structure of every house in the resort is much the same, but only this one seems old and looks quite incongruous.

She clearly remembers she was told that this area would be razed to the ground. How could one house be left? That’s too odd!

But she can’t misremember Nian Xi’s house!

She is somewhat confused.

“What are you doing here?”

The sudden sound frightens Fu Zhengzheng. She looks back and finds that is Ji Muxian again.

“I, I’m lost.” Fu Zhengzheng scratches her head. Why does she always meet him today? She feels as if she was haunted by a ghost.

“Oh?” Ji Muxian has been observing her for a long time. There are guideposts everywhere in this resort. How can she get lost?

“I want to find a guidepost.” Fu Zhengzheng stops looking around.

Ji Muxian points in one direction, “That way.”

“Thank you.” Fu Zhengzheng gives him a sweet smile of gratitude and turns away.

Ji Muxian watches Fu Zhengzheng leave, thoughtfully.

“Is you familiar with her, second brother?”

Ji Muxian looks sideways at Han Siqi and smiles, “Fairly familiar.”

“What do you mean by ‘fairly familiar’?”

Ji Muxian walks up to Han Siqi and lightly pounds him on the chest. “Don’t worry about my business. Go and take care of your Beauty Qiao.”

Han Siqi’s face darkens, “Don’t mention her.”

“If you choose to take into account eldest brother’s feelings, you should not show grievance here.” Ji Muxian says sincerely and earnestly.

Han Siqi doesn’t reply him butt asks again, “What is the relationship on earth between you and the woman just now?”

“Is this a very important question?” Ji Muxian is a little strange.

“It’s very important.” Han Siqi pauses and then adds, “It concerns your marriage.”

Ji Muxian bursts out laughing. “You care enough about your second brother. As for marriage, when the water comes, the canal will naturally come into being.”

Listening to Ji Muxian’s evasive words, Han Siqi frowns. In his impression, his second brother does not seem to have dated. What occupies him is only investigating cases. Even if he was later transferred to be a community policeman, he has also been devoting himself to his work. It is really rare for him to be so careful and gentle to a woman.

He even mocked his second brother, who spent every day with a bunch of men, that there must be a problem with his sexual orientation.

But now?

Fu Zhengzheng was suspected of stealing, Ji Muxian clarified for her; Fu Zhengzheng fell down the dam, Ji Muxian desperately rescued her; Fu Zhengzheng also helped him pick gifts for their mother’s birthday.

Ji Muxian even looked at her affectionately. Is all this not enough to explain something?

Does his second brother’s heart accidentally fall on Fu Zhengzheng?

Should he be happy for his second brother?

Thinking of that, Han Siqi has a sharp pain in his heart. His eyes become more and more complex as he watches the place where Fu Zhengzheng disappeared.

*

Fu Zhengzheng, who didn’t see Han Siqi, rushes out of the resort and then takes a long breath.

She doesn’t want Ji Muxian to know what she is investigating. If he knows, he may investigate her and may find out that she is the one who testified against Li Ming.

Standing outside the resort, she looks inside again, reflecting the old house in her mind, and doubts pour out again.

But now she can’t come here in the daytime. If she comes into the old house at night, she can determine whether the house is Nian Xi’s or not.

What if it is really Nian Xi’s home?

Suddenly, Fu Zhengzheng’s heart beats faster: if it is Nian Xi’s home, can it indicate that there is a certain relationship between Nian Xi and the Han family? Maybe she can find Nian Xi following this clue.

For a while, all the cells of her body become active.

She didn’t expect that investigating Zhou Bing would bring so much harvest!

Thinking of Zhou Bing, she thinks of her main purpose of coming here today and returns to that community where Zhou Bing lives.

When she passes the South Grocery Store, the shopkeeper sees her and waves to her, motioning her to enter the store.

“Miss, have you found Zhou Bing?” The shopkeeper, an old woman in her sixties, gives a small stool to Fu Zhengzheng with the intention of asking Fu Zhengzheng to kill time with her.

Fu Zhengzheng shakes her head.

The shopkeeper whispers to her, “Are you a policeman, Miss?”

Fu Zhengzheng is shocked. The shopkeeper says proudly, “I guess so. I am very good at judging people.”

“Actually, some policemen came to me to inquire about Zhou Bing a few days ago. I didn’t want to talk to them. But they were right to ask me about it. There is nothing that I don’t know in the community! Miss, I think you are a good person. Just ask me whatever you want to know. I promise to tell you everything I know.”

Fu Zhengzheng is flattered when she hears that. She thinks for a while and then asks.

Coming out of the South Grocery Store, Fu Zhengzheng returns to Han Siqi’s private residence when it is almost lunchtime.

As she enters the door, Chen Qiaolan comes out. When she sees it is Fu Zhengzheng, she immediately asks, “Zhengzheng, where have you been this half morning?”

“After I took Fu Xing to kindergarten, I wandered around. What’s wrong?” Fu Zhengzheng asks curiously.

Hearing that, Chen Qiaolan blames, “Why didn’t you turn on your cellphone when you wandered around? Master Siqi called several times to ask if you had returned home. I guess he is worried.”

Han Siqi?

Fu Zhengzheng takes out her phone at once. Sure enough, there are many unanswered calls. He might call after she left the resort. She now remembers that in order to track Zhou Bing, she muted her phone.

Didn’t he know that she was going to take Fu Xing to kindergarten today? Why did he make so many calls at that time?

She is a little puzzled and doesn’t want to figure it out. She is tired of the ambiguous affection between her and Han Siqi. She is going to put her whole mind on investigating Zhou Bing and Nian Xi’s house.

She goes into the kitchen to help Chen Qiaolan cook. She is going to have a rest after the meal and then goes to the teahouse that the shopkeeper told her. The shopkeeper told her that the teahouse would open today and many people that she wanted to find would go there.

After the meal, she goes upstairs to rest.

After she lies down for a while, Han Siqi calls.

“Where did you go in the morning?” His questioning tone makes Fu Zhengzheng very uncomfortable.

Doesn’t she have any freedom?

Although she is unsatisfied, she answers his question in a very calm tone, “After taking Fu Xing to kindergarten, I wandered around.”

“Where did you wander around? Who did you meet?”

Should I report that? Why don’t you report to me where you have been and who you have met?

Fu Zhengzheng is annoyed and says in a fit of pique, “I went to date a man.”

Anyway, every time he would say that she went to date a man even if that was not the truth.

“Well, you can’t live without a man?”

“You can’t live without a woman, can you?” She retorts.

The phone is silent for a few seconds, and then the cold voice sounds again, “Come back to work this afternoon.”

Work? Afternoon?

When she thinks of the teahouse, she immediately says, “Will tomorrow be OK?”

“This afternoon.” Then he hangs up the phone.

Fu Zhengzheng throws her mobile phone on the bed angrily.

Why should I be fired or go to work as you tell me?

Believe it or not, I will fire you?

Anyway, Xu Yan has done everything alone when she didn’t go to work these days. There won’t be any problem if she doesn’t go to work for half a day. If Han Siqi asks, she will tell him that she doesn’t feel well.

Fu Zhengzheng decides to do as she has planned.

When she wakes up, it is more than three o’clock in the afternoon. Fu Zhengzheng tidies up herself, greets Chen Qiaolan and then goes out.

When she walks out of the community and comes to the main road, she reaches out to stop a taxi. A car soon stops beside her, but it is not the taxi she wants to hail.