Chapter 308 - She heard footsteps and talking coming from the outside. (2)
Tong Xuelu did not share the news with anyone at home or the Wei family.
She decided to not mention a word of it, just in case some last-minute changes might happen.
When Fang Jingyuan arrived home that night, she told her family that she would be going to Tong Xuelu’s place for dinner two days later, so they would not need to prepare dinner for her that day.
Mother Fang reminded her gently, “Remember to not go empty-handed. Be sure to bring something with you as a gift!”
Fang Jingyuan pouted a little. “Mom, I’m not three years old anymore. I know to observe common etiquette.”
Mother Fang, “If you do, then how is it that you never told us about what happened to Xuelu a few days back?”
“Xuelu wouldn’t let me tell you.”
Fang Jingyuan gave her Big Brother a stare as she talked.
Fang Wanyuan, “……”
Fang Wanyuan, too, regretted a little when he thought about Tong Xuelu’s incident.
When Fang Jingyuan came looking for help, he had worried that others would think that he cared too much about Tong Xuelu if he took action right away. As such, he was going to ask his friends for help in a couple of days.
Lo and behold, Tong Xuelu was released from the police station that same day, and he never had the chance to interfere again.
Mother Fang, “Xuelu’s parents are gone. I don’t think there will be anyone looking out for matters of her marriage. Why don’t you find out if she needs me to make some introductions.”
Fang Wanyuan’s hand gripped tightly around the chopsticks, worried.
Fang Jingyuan swallowed the meat in her mouth and said casually, “You don’t need to worry about that, Mom. Xuelu has a boyfriend already.”
Xuelu has a boyfriend already!
Has a Boyfriend!
Boyfriend!
Friend!
-end!
Fang Wanyuan felt that he had been struck by lightning. The chopsticks fell from his hand onto the table, making a loud smack sound.
Fang Jingyuan gave him a curious look.
Mother Fang, too, was stunned. “Xuelu has a boyfriend already? Where is he from? How old is he? What kind of work does he do?”
Fang Jingyuan rolled her eyes. “Mom, are you conducting a census survey? I’ve never met her boyfriend. All I know is that he is a researcher and that his grandfather was a commander.”
Both Mother and Father Fang were stunned when they heard that.
Commander!
That was a very high status!
Even when she was with the other Tong family, she might not be able to match up to someone of that caliber.
Somehow, she was able to find such a boyfriend after she had returned to the original Tong’s?
Mother Fang was a little worried. “She wasn’t tricked, was she?”
Fang Jingyuan rolled her eyes uncontrollably again. “Of course not. She got out scratch-free this time exactly because of her boyfriend and a friend of his.”
Mother Fang finally believed it.
As the others started talking about other topics, the words “Tong Xuelu has a boyfriend” were still resounding in Fang Wanyuan’s mind.
How was that possible?
Wasn’t Tong Xuelu fond of him this entire time?
Wasn’t she just buttering up to Jingyuan to get closer to him?
How was it possible that she has a boyfriend?
Frowning, Fang Wanyuan had lost all appetite.
***
Tong Xuelu had yet to treat everyone to dinner when Lai Muqing had returned from the northwest.
She had lost a lot of weight and looked disheveled after the ten rough days of traveling.
Feeling wronged, she had planned to gripe a lot when she returned home. Lo and behold, she immediately saw Xiao Jiu sitting on Gu Yilan’s lap.
Her eyes widened from shock, and it looked like all blood had left her face. She stared straight at Xiao Jiu.
Nobody at the Gu’s said a word when they saw her.
The living room was so quiet that it made one fret.
Sensing that something was wrong, Lai Muqing’s heart throbbed.
She burst into tears and ran over to Xiao Jiu. “Xiao Jiu, you are finally back. Aunty worried so much about you!”
Lo and behold, Xiao Jiu, who had always been clingy with her, instantly buried his face into his mother’s chest and wouldn’t even look at her.
Tears still on Lai Muqing’s cheek, she wasn’t sure whether she should keep on crying.
It was quite awkward.