Xu Nuo and Luo Junchang were making love in order to have a baby. In the king size bed in the New World Hotel they tried various positions.
Luo Junchang liked to fasten his eyes on her clean face and light eyebrows after she removed her make-up. Xu Nuo had good skin, fair and clear and flawless. It was said she began to use facial mask when she was only thirteen.
Having taken an after-intercourse shower in the bathroom, Xu Nuo nestled against Luo Junchang and said, “Hubby, we are of one family now, aren’t we? You can love none but me, you know?”
Luo Junchang toyed with her wet hairs, taking a towel to dry them. “Of course, I love you very much now.”
Xu Nuo raise her head to gaze at him, “I heard six years ago a German Company Ozanger had cooperated with OSY Company for the development of Bancegreen?”
Luo Junchang stopped. “How did you know?”
“My father told me about it. My father, who will be your father-in-law, used to do business with the founder of OSY, how could he have no idea about it?
Luo Junchang nodded. “I had heard it mentioned from the President before. And the drug was banned, because it would do harm to the patient’s heart after taking it.”
“So do you have any materials about information on Bancegreen, or the detailed customer list and the sort of things? I want to have a look.” Xu Nuo pushed her face close to him.
“It was a few years ago. Besides, the production of the drug has been stopped for a long time. Now I have little impression about it. You can just ask the President or his son about this.”
‘The President’s son?” Xu Nuo felt a bit queer.
“You know him too. Dai Jingcheng, Jiang Youyou’s boyfriend. He is the son of the company’s president, Dai Hui. Perhaps his father will give him such important things.”
Xu Nuo felt a scalp tingling. What, Jiang Youyou’s boyfriend? That homely guy, he was actually the son of the president? What a mess!
Many a rich person didn’t like to show off and prove how much money they had. They drove ordinary vehicle, wore very plain clothes.
“Well, we can’t achieve this year’s annual target, and I probably can no longer take the position of the GM. In that case, I’ll go to work for your father.” Luo Junchang said jokingly.
Xu Nuo couldn’t fall asleep the whole night. She was unable to make herself calm down. She didn’t think Dai Jingcheng was actually the son of the president. Normally speaking, he should have chosen her as his girlfriend-she had a good family, a good looking and a good shape, how could Jiang Youyou be compared with her? Luo Junchang is the General Manager, but he was after all an employee who could be laid off at any time.
Humph!
“What are you hmphing for? Why shouldn’t you get to sleep?” Luo Junchang came nearer to give Xu Nuo a hug. It was really a good feeling to have a wife. It was warm.
Even when they were going sightseeing in Disneyland, Xu Nuo was unhappy. What was the fun there? Such a small place. There would be new one built in Shanghai, much bigger. Perhaps she would have interest to go Shanghai Disneyland. Xu Nuo disliked the crowded place. Until they went shopping did Xu Nuo feel better. And the Centurion black Card her father had given her now came in handy.
Xu Nuo was extremely happy when she swiped the card. She also bought a suit for Luo Junchang. And the large suitcase couldn’t hold all of her shopping.
Would they have dinner with her future mother-in-law when they were back home? Luo Junchang helped her with the luggage, and Jian Yemei the mother was waiting at the balcony anxiously.
Jian Yemei felt a little sad to think that the son she reared for more that thirty years was now grabbed by another woman, especially when she saw her son had to carry such a heavy suitcase, she felt so sorry for him.
Xu Nuo saw Jian Yemei was looking at them at the gate, so she greeted her by saying “We’re back, Mum.”
Then they went into the house and she began to display her shopping, and Jian Yemei was watching beside. She got a cashmere sweater, in the color of grey. She was fairly satisfied.
She casually pick up a bag. It was a white lychee leather bag, seemingly quite good in quality. “It must cost at least thousands of yuan.” Jian Yemei asked.
Luo Junchang blurt out, “Thousands of dollars? It cost three hundred and seventy thousand Hong Kong dollars.”
“Ah?!”Jian Yemei thought she had got something wrong. Three hundred and seventy thousand Hong Kong dollars to buy a bag. With this sum, she could buy a house.
Xu Nuo cast an angry look at Luo Junchang, smiled and said immediately, “Never mind, Mum. This is a limited edition and it will appreciate in the future. Many of my friends also have the bag of this brand.”
Seeing the roomful of clothing mountains, shoes and hats, in addition to a dressing table with four drawers full of bottles and jars of skincare products, Jian Yemei couldn’t help but say, “Xu Nuo, Can you be more economical with the shopping later?”
Xu Nuo looked at Jian Yemei with a surprised expression, “Mum, I spent my own money and I think I have the freedom.”
“Your own money? You’ve got married, so the money belongs to both of you. Can you return this bag costing three hundred and seventy thousand Hong Kong dollars? I don’t think it tallies with you to carry the bag, for you just got married…” There was a slight tremor in Jian Yemei’s voice. “Don’t you think it’s too extravagant for you? You’ve already had over seventy pairs of shoes and you bought another twenty-odd when you went to Hong Kong this time. You have only two feet.”
Xu Nuo laughed. “Don’t make a mistake, Mum. After getting married, my money will still be mine, and Junchang’s money will also be mine. Since this will be mine, naturally I will spend it in a proper way. What’s more, we’ve only been engaged.”
On seeing the situation, Luo Junchang was afraid that the thing would turn worse, so he hastily suggested, “Well, Mum, will you be out to the dinning room first? We’re coming for the dinner at once.”
Jian Yemei pulled a long face. She took time and efforts to cook all the dishes on the table, yet Xu Nuo disliked them for either too sweet or too salty. She finally even went to look for pickles in the fridge.
“My dishes aren’t tasty?” Jian Yemei put down her chopsticks.
“They are tasty, indeed. But I like my rice accompanied with pickles” Xu Nuo tore the pickles bag open and poured them into her rice bowel.
Luo Junchang became awared that there would be a lot of troubles in the future days. Why was she a little different from the girl who had come to his for the first time?
Could it be because of that list? A bad premonition flashed through Luo Junchang’s mind
After the dinner, Xu Nuo locked the door from inside to make a phone call to her father in the room. “Yes, daddy, I went back to Luo Junchang’s. That list wasn’t in Luo’s hand at all. He’s just a puppet. That’s so annoying. And the food they prepared tasted unimaginably bad. I want to go back home, daddy. Tell the tweeny Deng to prepare a pizza for me. I haven’t had enough food in his.”
“You just stay at Mum’s tonight. I’ll have to work tomorrow, so I’ll drive back my home. Byebye, Autie.”
Jian Yemei shook with anger on hearing the title “Auntie.” As soon as Xu Nuo left, she said to her son, “Did you hear that she called me ‘Auntie’.”
“It doesn’t matter. She is only not accustomed yet.”
Xu Nuo was so upset that she lost her temper when she got home. The bag was thrown on to the table then bounced to the ground. “What the hell she was doing? Why should I put up with her criticism because I spent my own money buying a bag? After all I didn’t spend her money.”
Xu Changchun sat on the sofa, sighed. “Forget it. You’ve already got married. To be a wife you should try to change yourself and don’t be obstinate and self-willed.”
“See what kind of marriage you’ve arranged for me. It was all your bad ideas to try killing two birds with one stone. You know, Luo Changchun is a nothing and a nobody in the company. He didn’t even have the company’s confidential documents. If we can’t achieve the annual target by the end of the year, he probably can’t keep the GM position any longer. Anyone, Tom, Dick and Harry, can take his position. If I had known this earlier, I would have had a date with Dai Jingcheng. I just got to know that his family should own a villa by the sea. Look at this humble house of ours. How could you say it’s a villa? You even can’t see the see. And there are other residence within one hundred meters. How could it be called as townhouse? In my opinion, this is only a tumbledown house. It really ticks me off.”
“Dai Jingcheng had died.” Xu Changchun wore a grave look. “And he was actually in the bed of another woman and was burned to death with her.”
“Ah!” Xu Nuo let out a cry of surprise, with a little bit joy. A lot of people would gloat over other people’s misfortunes. Jiang Youyou probably wouldn’t have a chance to marry into the purple.
“Perhaps Dai Hui has got to know something, and he has hired someone to conduct the investigation. Be careful when you go out and back home in recent times. Or just ask for leave and stay at home.”
Xu Nuo puzzled and asked, “Then what can we do next? If we can’t get the list, Uncle Li won’t support us, and our company can’t be listed. What on earth does he want that list for? Isn’t it just the customer profile of “Bancegreen” that we cooperated with OSY six years ago? Why do you all want to get it? And why that Dai Hui won’t give it to you directly when he knows exactly what you want? Will it be ok if he just make an offer?”
Xu Changchun said in a very low voice, “There are other mysteries in the thing, you little girl don’t have to know so much.”
Xu Nuo nodded, “Now that Dai Jingcheng has died, the only one that kept the list must be his father, the president of the OSY Company.”
“You should go to bed first.”
Xu Nuo gave her father a hug and went back to her own room to follow the hot TV series “Desperate Housewives”