Huo Shaoheng's phone rang and rang, but no one answered.
Usually, Gu Nianzhi would have hung up by now, but this time she left a message: "Uncle Huo, this is Nianzhi. It was my 18th birthday yesterday. Did you come to see me?"
After leaving the message, Gu Nianzhi went to the bathroom to shower.
She had not taken a proper shower at He Zhichu's house the day before; she had dried her hair—which had been wet from the rain—and washed her feet, and that had been it.
She showered, dried her hair, and immediately collapsed on her bed, already asleep.
She was fully refreshed by the next morning. She got up, bright and early, and went to the Committee of Appropriations at US Congress for another day of work.
At noon, she went to the Commission for Unrestricted Ocean Travel to look for Brother Huang—only to be told that he had taken the day off!
