196. Sister Diaochan
Because the Su City Public Security had notified this police station in advance, the ID card photo taking process went exceptionally smoothly.
Although the staff was a bit surprised, they had probably been informed again today and didn’t ask too many questions.
After paying the 60 yuan express processing fee for the ID card and being told to pick it up in 3 days, the three of them walked out of the police station.
Walking out, Su Qi patted her little heart. Every time she entered a police station, it reminded her of those online pictures.
A female police officer holding handcuffs with a caption below: Internet Police Reminder, the Internet is not a place beyond the law.
For some reason, Su Qi always had the illusion that she might get arrested in the future. She quickly shook her head to shake out this ominous thought. She knew about Murphy’s Law.
Thinking of the darkness of prison that was always mentioned on TV, Su Qi felt that with her petite physique, she wouldn’t survive three episodes in prison.
Because the typhoon would make landfall in coastal areas tonight, in just the short time it took to process the ID card, the drizzle had turned into heavy rain.
The rainwater pitter-pattered and pressed on the ground, splashing up flowers of water. As a child who had lived in Hangzhou since she was young, Su Qi was quite used to this typhoon weather.
Every year there were about one or two such typhoons. Perhaps because she was in a “timid as a mouse” state this time, looking at the gray sky, Su Qi just felt a bit uneasy.
Officer Zhang Ru looked at the hand that Su Qi was holding, then at her worried expression as she looked towards the horizon. She found it a bit amusing and helped smooth her furrowed brows, saying, “What are you worried about? Alright, your sister is going home now. Hurry and see her off.”
At the front door, Officer Zhang Ru waved her phone, indicating that her special car was about to arrive.
“Little Ru, why don’t you come to my house for a meal before you go! Let you taste Auntie’s cooking.” Before Su Qi could open her mouth, Lu Ran spoke first.
Her impression of this girl Su Siyang brought back was really good.
When she was 22 years old, she was already married to Su Lujun, and at 23 she had Su Santai. Compared to her, her two sons were simply too slow. Now that she had finally found someone she liked, she didn’t want to let her go.
She was also thinking that during dinner later, she would probe into Zhang Ru’s family. If it really didn’t work out, the two families could arrange an engagement first.
She knew that many boys didn’t look for a partner when they were young, thinking that the country would assign them a wife in their thirties and forties, which was a good thing.
Although Su Siyang was handsome and a celebrity, and probably didn’t lack marriage candidates, Lu Ran felt that this little cabbage Zhang Ru shouldn’t be let go.
Unfortunately, in the end, Officer Zhang Ru didn’t accept Lu Ran’s invitation to stay and got into her own special car.
In the car, Officer Zhang Ru patted her chest in lingering fear.
She always felt that Aunt Lu’s gaze at her just now was very problematic. It was like the feeling of her own mother’s eyes lighting up when she heard there was an outstanding boy nearby.
And most crucially, Aunt Lu was too inscrutable. She couldn’t guess what she was thinking at all. It was better to slip away first. She was really afraid of accidentally getting tied together with Su Siyang.
Seeing Zhang Ru leave by car, Lu Ran wasn’t too disappointed. After all, little girls were all thin-skinned.
She didn’t believe this little girl was simply running around for Su Qi. She felt more that she had ulterior motives. Besides, didn’t Su Qi have her phone number?
If Officer Zhang Ru knew what Lu Ran was thinking, she would definitely tell her straightforwardly that it was really just for her daughter.
After Zhang Ru left, Lu Ran and Su Qi also quickly caught a car.
Sitting in the car, Su Qi was a bit nervous. Although she now knew through the daughter-con mission that her father probably wouldn’t hit her again, just thinking of him made her think of yesterday’s scene.
It was like a mouse seeing a cat, a blood pressure suppression.
Seeing the tightly closed front door, Su Qi breathed a small sigh of relief. Fortunately, her father wasn’t home.
Lu Ran, seeing Su Qi trembling slightly at the front door, couldn’t help but blame her husband. Look how scared the child was.
Even going home cast a shadow. After some thought, she said, “Let me tell you a piece of good news, Little Qi.” As she spoke, she opened the door.
“Your father won’t be coming back for several days.”
Although Su Qi felt it was a bit strange, she had to say, this was really good news.
Sitting on the sofa at home, Su Qi looked around the home she hadn’t returned to for nearly two years. This feeling was very novel, like everything looked familiar but felt different somehow.
It was quite similar to the feeling her group friends described of working hard for a year and then returning home.
The Su family villa was a two-story cottage. But with the three children not coming home, the second floor now seemed to have few things.
After eating her mother’s lovingly prepared dinner, Su Qi pushed open the door to her own room again. Looking at the furnishings that had hardly changed from two years ago, she felt very moved.
It was a feeling of both familiarity and nostalgia.
Although she hadn’t come back for two years, her room wasn’t dirty and messy. It must have been regularly cleaned by her mother.
Su Qi lay on the bed and took a light sniff. It seemed to still retain the scent from back then.
Because of the fragrance, her body scent was very different from before.
Now smelling the scent of her male self on the bedding, Su Qi actually found it unexpectedly pleasant.
Getting up from the bed, Su Qi slowly walked to the bookshelf.
After some searching, she took out a copy of “Romance of the Three Kingdoms” from the shelf. The southern weather was mostly humid and hot. Plus, it had been unmoved for two years, so there was a faint musty smell on the books.
Of course, Su Qi didn’t take this book because she really wanted to read the Three Kingdoms. After opening the book, every two pages there was a painting of hers from back then.
In Su Qi’s current view, the paintings from back then were immature and crude, with light elements, just crude for the sake of being crude. The physiques of the characters were also very traditional, clearly drawn by a novice.
As for why she hid the drawings in this Three Kingdoms book, it was because Su Qi’s enlightening female character for comics was Diaochan.
When reading the Three Kingdoms for the first time, perhaps because most of the descriptions were of males, the appearance of Diaochan made Su Qi’s eyes light up.
Especially when she was used as a pawn in the beauty scheme, the description of her being presented to Dong Zhuo by her foster father.
“Zhuo occasionally fell ill. Diaochan served him without taking off her belt, deliberately pleasing him. Zhuo’s heart grew even fonder…”
Su Qi still remembered that her comprehension wasn’t strong at first. When she heard “without taking off her belt”, she misinterpreted it as “wearing nothing”.
Thinking of that erotic scene, plus the subsequent “deliberately pleasing”, at that moment Su Qi felt many thoughts emerge in her mind.
Until she accidentally walked in on her sixth brother browsing some small websites, and enjoyed “The True Story of Diaochan” with him, Su Qi began her painting journey.
Looking at it now, many of the lines here were still imitating that comic…
Flipping through them one by one, Su Qi found that she could completely understand the excitement back then and the images in her head.
She felt she was gradually becoming excited, but felt something was missing.
What was missing?
Su Qi stood up and looked at her reflection with shoulder-length short hair in the glass window.
It turned out she had lost the tool that could excite her.
At this time, a bolt of lightning suddenly struck from the sky, instantly illuminating the night as if it were day.
As the light dissipated, Su Qi looked at herself in front of the glass window. For a moment, she felt the reflection from the window was actually the image of Diaochan she had imagined back then.
Lying on the bed, Su Qi closed her eyes and was filled with that ghostly scene just now.
Could it be that Sister Diaochan’s spirit appeared?
Could it be that she came to take revenge on me?
No, Sister Diaochan…