Soon, a hurried figure comes into her sight. She hides behind the tree intentionally. When the person moves close to her, she breaks cover and appears in front of the person suddenly while roaring in a hoarse voice.

“Freeze!”

“Ah! What do you want to do?”

The person stops immediately and screams. When seeing that Fu Zhengzheng is standing in front, the person pats the chest and curses.

“Bad Zhengzheng, you scared me!”

Fu Zhengzheng bursts into laughter and looks up and down at Sun Qiubo whose face turns pale with fear.

“What are you looking at? Haven’t you seen a pretty girl?” Sun Qiubo says, but her face flushes. She explains quickly, “I came to talk about something with Menghuai. It was too late, and he had to be on duty. I feared to go back alone, so I crashed out here.”

How can she not understand Fu Zhengzheng’s inquisitive eyes?

Fu Zhengzheng clears her throat and says, “Explanation is used to conceal something. A couple of lovers stayed in a single room. Um, if nothing happened, you could say goodbye to Menghuai.”

Sun Qiubo responds shyly, “You’re talking nonsense!”

Fu Zhengzheng laughs loudly and then whispers to Sun Qiubo’s ear, “Do you need me to help you carry your things from Ten-Mile Sunshine Resort to Menghuai’s home?”

“Bother!” Sun Qiubo pinches Fu Zhengzheng’s arm by surprise.

“Ouch!” Fu Zhengzheng gasps, but she still doesn’t give up, “Why do you pinch me? Who do you want to give you a hand, me or Menghuai?”

“Hey, be quiet!” Sun Qiubo hurries to cover Fu Zhengzheng’s mouth, because she sees some people come out of the staff quarters behind.

Fu Zhengzheng pushes away her hands and is amused by her embarrassed look.

“You’re concealing it, but Menghuai has a loose tongue. Perhaps these guys have known his girlfriend stayed overnight here.”

“Come on. Will he tell others?”

“Maybe. If everyone knows it, you will belong to He Menghuai in life and death. Gossip has a great effect!”

Sun Qiubo curls her lips, “Now that gossip has such a great effect, why isn’t it that He Menghuai will belong to me in life and death?”

“You had a good night, but Yang Tao stayed overnight in the office pitifully. I’ll tell him to apply to the leader for another room.”

“He doesn’t need to. It’s exceptional last night. We’ll never…” When Sun Qiubo sees Fu Zhengzheng grinning, she realizes she has fallen into her trap, so she can’t help kicking Fu Zhengzheng in anger.

Fu Zhengzheng is well prepared. She leaps away and then screams with laughter.

“Bye!” Sun Qiubo leaves immediately.

Fu Zhengzheng holds her back, “Hey, don’t go away. You haven’t told me your plan with Menghuai.”

“I told you yesterday, didn’t I? My parents demand to follow the custom of my hometown. He and his family should go to my house to propose a marriage. Then they should send betrothal gifts and money to me, which can be regarded as engagement. After that, my family members will come to B City to talk about the wedding date with them.”

Fu Zhengzheng is surprised, “So complex? Can’t the wedding date be fixed when Menghuai and his parents go to A City?”

Sun Qiubo feels upset, “No. According to my mom, that’s the custom of my hometown. There are more customs before the wedding. In the evening before I came back to B City, my mom talked to me for such a long time that I felt dizzy. They are not as so reasonable as Tian’s parents.”

“They love you and want to give you a grand wedding. It’s the most important thing.”

“I’m bored with the unnecessary and overelaborate formalities, or I wouldn’t have discussed with Menghuai here till midnight yesterday. Then I wouldn’t be laughed at by someone.” Sun Qiubo pouts her lips and glances at Fu Zhengzheng.

Fu Zhengzheng grins, “I didn’t laugh at you. You behaved furtively. How Menghuai responded?”

“Now that he can marry me, doesn’t it mean that he is lucky enough? How can he object? Of course, he will do whatever my parents demand.”

“You can’t take it in that way. Menghuai doesn’t object at all. It proves he loves you sincerely and doesn’t want to put you in a tough spot between them. Don’t take Menghuai lightly. He is a popular guy in the police office. Many girls have a crush on him. Don’t give a chance to the girls.”

Sun Qiubo glares, “Doesn’t he dare!”

Fu Zhengzheng laughs, “It’s not that he dare not. Instead, he doesn’t want to. If he had feelings for one of the girls, how could he be overwhelmed by you?”

“Fu Zhengzheng, whose bosom friend are you?”

“Of course, I’m Writer Sun’s bosom friend.” Fu Zhengzheng holds her arm and winks at her.

Sun Qiubo raises her hand, looks at the watch and asks, “Don’t you have to work?”

“I have to work. I sneak out to see you.”

“Do you know about Tian’s pregnancy?”

“Yes. I went to see her last night. Oh, she almost vomited … everything up.” It’s horrible for Fu Zhengzheng to recollect it.

“She called me this morning and says she would go to the hospital for examination. It seems that she can’t go to the restaurant recently.” It seems that Sun Qiubo has got into trouble, “I planned to take Menghuai to see my parents and do what they demand, now that they have agreed, in case they go back on what they have said. If so, we have to spend time and energy to negotiate with them again.”

“How to deal with it?” Fu Zhengzheng feels anxious for her.

Tian Xin is pregnant and reacts so strongly. Her parents-in-law won’t allow her to go to the restaurant. Even if Tian Xin wants to, Sun Qiubo won’t agree. But the marriage of Sun Qiubo and He Menghuai can’t be delayed.

“I’ll cope with it and talk with my parents. Let’s talk later. I have to go to the restaurant.”

“OK. Let’s both think about it and try to figure out a better solution.” Sun Qiubo walks to the parking lot, and then Fu Zhengzheng goes back to the office building.

Fu Zhengzheng calls Li Yin. Li Yin says she has departed and will call Fu Zhengzheng when she gets to the countryside. Fu Zhengzheng warns her to be careful and then hangs up the phone.

When it’s the time to go off duty in the afternoon, Fu Zhengzheng is thinking about how to go home when Han Siqi calls her. He says he has arrived at the gate of the police office. She packs her things up quickly and rushes towards the gate. Sure enough she sees Han Siqi’s car parked aside.

After getting into the car, she complains sympathetically, “I can drive to work by myself tomorrow.”

Han Siqi smiles and says while starting the car, “I’ll drive you to and from work every day.”

“Brother has come back?”

“Not yet.”

“Look at you. You not only have to work but also worry about me. You have become thin recently. If it continues, even if you can stand it, I can’t.”

“I don’t need to be so busy anymore from tomorrow on. Zhongxu has come back.”

“Really? Cool. Now that he has come back, your burden will be shared.” But Fu Zhengzheng feels worried again soon, “Do you feel easy to leave such a big project in C City to Yongcheng?”

“Qiao Yunhan gives directions to Yongcheng now, so it’s unnecessary to worry about it. I forgot to tell you. Yongcheng and Qiao Keren brought Aunt Lin and Xiaoyue back this afternoon and got the marriage certificate by the way.”

“So quickly? Did you see them?” Fu Zhengzheng isn’t surprised about the result, but she never thought it would happen so soon.

Han Siqi nods smilingly, “No. Yongcheng told me on the phone. The guy was so happy that his speech was even inarticulate.”

Fu Zhengzheng laughs too, “No wonder you feel easy.”

They get home. Before entering, they hear laughter inside it. Fu Zhengzheng walks fast in, sees people inside it and can’t help laughing too.

Zhu Linglong is sitting next to Ji Yashu and talking with her. When she looks up and sees them enter, she asks smilingly, “Gee, why do you come back together? You don’t go the same way usually, right?”

Min Zhongxu interrupts and explains, “It must be that Siqi picked Zhengzheng up from work.”

“Men picking up their wives from work are all good husbands.” Then Zhu Linglong glances at Min Zhongxu.

Min Zhongxu straightens his body, “Darling, don’t worry. I will pick you up from work every day.”

Ji Yashu is discontented, “Linglong has been pregnant for two months. Will you let her work?”

Min Zhongxu realizes he flatters in a wrong way and grins embarrassedly, “Don’t misunderstand. I mean I will take better care of Linglong.”

“You’re clever.” Zhu Linglong laughs complacently.

Fu Zhengzheng walks in and sees Fu Xing and Xiaoxiao sitting close to Tian Xin. She goes over to take them away, points to Tian Xin and Zhu Linglong and tells the two kids, “You can’t squeeze casually now. Aunt Zhu and Aunt Tian have babies.”

Fu Xing responds at once, “Mummy, we’ve known that. Mummy, when will you have a baby?”

Fu Zhengzheng is surprised. Seeing Ji Yashu’s smiling eyes, she smiles embarrassedly, sits down by Tian Xin and changes the topic, “How is the examination in the hospital?”

Tian Xin smiles, “Everything is fine.”

Fu Zhengzheng wants to discuss with her about Qiubo. At this moment, Chen Qiaolan comes to call them for dinner. Everyone stands up and walks to the dining room, so she has to give up.

As soon as entering the dining room and smelling the dishes, Tian Xin feels sick and rushes to the bathroom to vomit. Ji Muxian and Ji Yashu follow her immediately. Listening to the sound of terrible vomiting in the bathroom, Han Siqi can’t help frowning.

Chen Qiaolan sees his facial expression. She gives him a bowl of rice and smiles, “Women are all like this at the beginning of their pregnancy. Miss Linglong is exceptional.”

Zhu Linglong’s mouth is watering at the dishes on the table. She is about to pick up dishes with chopsticks. Hearing her name, she looks up immediately and finds others haven’t begun to eat, so she puts chopsticks down embarrassedly.

Han Tengyue looks at her tenderly and says, “Linglong, enjoy yourself now that you are hungry. You don’t need to wait. Xingxing, Xiaoxiao, you can eat too.”

Han Siqi asks Fu Zhengzheng in a low voice, “When you were pregnant with Xingxing, were you like Tian or Linglong?”

Fu Zhengzheng understands his meaning and says deliberately, “I vomited more violently than Tian.”

At this time, pale-faced Tian walks out with the help of Ji Muxian and Ji Yashu. Han Siqi stares at her for quite a while and doesn’t say anything more.

After dinner, they go back to the room. Fu Zhengzheng washes and then turns on the TV to watch news. Han Siqi who is sitting in front of the computer says suddenly, “Zhengzheng, come here. I have a word with you.”