Fu Zhengzheng holds back his happiness and calmly says, “No problem. I’ll ask when I get back. But I don’t know what the key looks like. How shall I ask?”

Bald Liu looks around. Probably because he doesn’t find any paper and pen, he rubs his hands and says, “I will draw it for you when I come back. When will you be free in the daytime tomorrow?”

“Daytime…” Fu Zhengzheng thinks for a while and shakes the head, “I am free only in the evening. How about tomorrow evening?”

However Bald Liu is still unable to suppress his anxiety. “Tomorrow evening I will ask for a day off for you. You come earlier and I will wait for you at the intersection. You take the picture first to ask your parents.”

The picture is quite secret. Will Bald Liu’s picture be true?

Seeing Fu Zhengzheng hesitating, Bald Liu immediately reassures her, “Don’t worry. Your salary will not be deducted. I have nothing but filial piety. Please help me.”

Fu Zhengzheng nods. “Okay, I’ll try my best.”

Bald Liu looks out and changes into a serious expression, saying, “Miss, we use our working hours to do private affairs. If Mr. Zhou knows, he will certainly blame us.”

Fu Zhengzheng immediately understands. “I understand. I will not tell others.”

“Well, it is late. You can go back today. I’ll find someone to take your place.”

“Thank you for your caring.” Fu Zhengzheng “thanks” him. After packing up, she leaves work.

After walking out of Qixing Teahouse for a long distance, Fu Zhengzheng can’t restrain her excitement and enjoys the joy of getting clues under a tree.

Shall it be called “it takes no time to get here” or “there is always light at the end of the tunnel”?

She can tell from Bald Liu’s look that he must have seen the picture of the key secretly. When she gets the picture of the key and gives it to Yang Tao, she will make achievement for him.

She has come to B city for so long. Although the task of investigating Weihan has finished, she feels she hasn’t done anything and always wants to achieve something.

She is lost in her thought for a long time until the cold wind makes her shrink. Then she reaches out to stop a taxi to go home.

After Fu Zhengzheng gets into the car, Ji Muxian quickly shows up from the darkness and stops a car to follow her.

After getting on the taxi, Ji Muxian thinks of the information he collected today about Fu Zhengzheng.

Fu Zhengzheng, a 24-year-old woman, is a bachelor majoring in secretarial science. She is now the assistant to the vice president of Weihan. She lives with a 5-year-old boy named Fu Xing, studying in Little Sun Kindergarten. She calls the boy son, but the boy’s history is unknown. Now they live in Room 301, Unit 2, Building 5, Happy Community.

This address was found in the file of children in kindergarten. He visited the Happy Community and learned that they were taken away somewhere by a mysterious man after a fire.

He also learned that Fu Zhengzheng wasn’t fired by Weihan as she said. Although he does not know why she was lying to him, he feels that there are more and more suspicions about her.

He came to Qixing Teahouse for one purpose: trying to find out where the key is.

Six years ago, Li Ming’s case was handled by Ji Muxian. After Li Ming was arrested, someone confessed that Li Ming had a small vault, which was his accumulated wealth over the years, including the fortune about the dog-eat-dog case, but Li Ming did not acknowledge it. Later, after Li Ming was executed, the rumor of the small vault disappeared.

A few months ago, there were rumors again that the key appeared in B city.

He quietly investigated the matter and found Zhou Bing and his subordinates after investigating for several times. He finally determined that there was indeed a small vault. But he “came across” Fu Zhengzheng every time he traced clues. What a coincidence!

When the taxi in front of him stops not far from Qinyuan Mingyuan, he feels something strange. Seeing Fu Zhengzheng speaking to a security guard, he asks the taxi driver to wait. He doesn’t get off until she comes in.

When he reaches the door, he is stopped by the security guard. After he hands over his certificate, the security guard immediately salutes him and lets him in.

When he turns a corner, Fu Zhengzheng snaps in a low voice at a distance, “Who?” He stops and dodges to one side. Watching Fu Zhengzheng slow down, he knows Fu Zhengzheng has a certain sense of anti-reconnaissance, so he doesn’t catch up. After she goes far, he turns to the security room.

He shows his certificate again and learns from the security guard about the residence of Fu Zhengzheng. When his eyes fall on the name of the head of the household— Han Siqi, Ji Muxian is stunned.

*

After getting off the taxi and passing the gate, Xiao Wang, a security guard, calls out to Fu Zhengzheng, “Miss Fu, we caught a thief under the eaves of your house tonight. After our interrogation, he admitted that he was stepping on your house. We will strengthen patrols, but you also have to close the door tightly in the evening.”

“Ah? Was there such a thing?” Fu Zhengzheng is shocked. She thinks that the thief found her sneak out through the rooftop. Fortunately, the thief was caught. There were only an old woman and a child at home. What if they met the thief?

She can’t sneak out through the rooftop anymore!

After praising the security guards, she quickens her pace of returning home.

Maybe she is walking too fast, she feels her shoelace is loose. She immediately stops and bends down to tie her shoelaces. After a glimpse of the figure behind her, she immediately turns back and snaps softly, “Who!”

When she looks fixedly, she finds no one behind her. Thinking of what the security guard told her, she deliberately slows down and listens vigilantly to the voice behind her. But she doesn’t hear any sound except the sound of the wind until she arrives at the door of her home. Therefore, she suspects that she has misheard it.

After entering the house, she checks the windows and doors everywhere. She still can’t set her mind at ease, so she comes to check Chen Qiaolan’s room. Chen Qiaolan wakes up immediately, and Fu Zhengzheng explains that she worries that Fu Xing would kick the quilt at night. Then she hurries upstairs.

After taking a bath, Fu Zhengzheng lies on the bed, thinking about the picture of the key to be obtained excitedly. When she is ready to turn off the light and sleep, she suddenly thinks that she hasn’t turned on the small phone, so she immediately gets up to fetch it. Sure enough, Yang Tao has sent a signal to her.

“I am here.”

“Someone was shadowing your home downstairs.”

Shadow?

“Did you find out who it was?”

“He only admitted that he was coveting your property. But I don’t think it was that simple.”

“Oh, I see. I will pay attention to it.”

“Zhengzheng, there are ten days to go in a month.”

“Well, I’ll contact you in ten days. Good night.”

After deleting the message, she puts the small cellphone back and touches her own mobile phone. She picks it up and resets its ringer, but finds that there are more than ten unanswered calls, which are all from Han Siqi!

Before going out from home, she muted her phone.

She hurries to press the dial-back button, but it is cut off immediately.

What if he is with Qiao Keren at night?

She feels jealous somehow. In a fit of pique, Fu Zhengzheng turns off the phone and throws it back to her handbag.

*

The north wind whistles. Fu Xing stands on the windowsill, looking out at the branches shaken by the wind. He looks at Fu Zhengzheng worriedly and says, “Mommy, what a strong wind.”

“Oh.” Fu Zhengzheng, who is reading a magazine, doesn’t even raise her head.

“It must be cold outside.”

“Oh.”

“Daddy left last night. He certainly didn’t bring any clothes.”

“Oh.”

“Mommy, I’m going to call Daddy.” Fu Xing climbs down the windowsill and goes to the fixed-line telephone.

Fu Zhengzheng puts down the magazine, gets up and grabs Fu Xing. “Call him? Do you think he is as old as you, who need Mommy to help you put on clothes?”

“I miss Daddy.”

“You can miss Mommy.”

“No.” Fu Xing resolutely refuses.

“What?” Fu Zhengzheng glares at him.

Fu Xing immediately explains, “Mommy is here. I’m already with Mommy, but Daddy is not here. I can’t stay with Daddy, so I want to call.”

Just as they are arguing, the fixed-line telephone suddenly rings which frightens them.

Fu Xing gets rid of Fu Zhengzheng’s hand and runs over happily. “It must from Daddy.”

It is impossible. It must be a call selling houses or insurance. Fu Zhengzheng laughs secretly and then lies down to read a magazine.

After all, Han Siqi usually calls her on her cell phone.

Well, it seems that her mobile phone is not on!

Listening carefully, she finds it is indeed from Han Siqi. Fu Xing is sitting on the back of the sofa talking on the phone.

“Daddy, do you feel cold?”

“Mommy doesn’t go out. She is reading.”

“I will take care of Mommy. Daddy, do you miss Mommy?”

“Fu Xing! What are you talking about?” Fu Zhengzheng glares at Fu Xing with her hands on her waist.

Fu Xing ignores her anger. His two eyes laugh into a line, saying, “Mommy, Daddy said he missed you very much. Do you miss Daddy?”

Fu Zhengzheng rolls her eyes at him and says angrily, “Why the hell I miss him?”

“Daddy, Mommy said she missed your head.”

Fu Zhengzheng hears the laughter on the phone and finds it funny and annoying.

But Fu Xing immediately says to her, “Mommy, Daddy said he missed your head too.”

Looking at his son sending word seriously, Fu Zhengzheng can’t help bursting out laughing by his funny way.

“Daddy, Mommy laughs when she hears you miss her head.”

What?

Fu Zhengzheng hangs up the phone. “Don’t you need money to make a phone call? That’s it.”

“Mommy, I haven’t said enough yet!” Fu Xing climbs up to protest.

Fu Zhengzheng takes him down, saying, “I will not take care of you if you break your leg, and I will throw you into the street to beg.”

“Daddy will take care of me.”

“Even if he takes care of you, he will marry a woman to be your stepmother.”

“Who is the stepmother?” Fu Xing questions.

“Don’t ask. Do your homework!” Fu Zhengzheng pats Fu Xing’s butt and puts his small schoolbag in front of him.

Fu Xing unwillingly opens his small schoolbag.

“Your daddy told you last night that when he comes back, he will check your homework. He doesn’t like children who don’t do homework. Didn’t he?”

Hearing that, Fu Xing starts to do homework earnestly.

Her son is so obedient when she mentions Han Siqi’s name. When will he listen to me like this? Fu Zhengzheng feels depressed.

Winter nights always come very early. When it is getting dark, Chen Qiaolan’s voice comes from the dining hall, “Xingxing, time for dinner.”

“Oh, have dinner!” Fu Xing puts away his homework and runs to the dining hall quickly. “Grandma Chen, I’m hungry.”

“Well, if you’re hungry, eat an extra bowl of meal.” Chen Qiaolan serves him meal smilingly.

Fu Zhengzheng immediately takes over her bowl, saying, “Let me do it. Sit down, Aunt Chen. I will serve you meal.”

Then the doorbell rings.

Suddenly, Fu Xing climbs down his chair and rushes to the door. “Daddy is back. I’ll open the door.”

Fu Zhengzheng quickly puts down the bowl and blocks in front of Fu Xing. “Go back. Let Mommy open the door.”

Although the security of Qinyuan Mingyuan is well-known, she has to keep a lookout. After all, besides Han Siqi, only Han Sixian has been here once. Now they have both gone to another city. Who else will come?

Fu Zhengzheng looks into the peephole and is surprised. How come it is he?