"I'm sorry."
Cassie sincerely apologized.
Gu Xinzhou looked at a billboard not far away that advertised rural family fun.
She smiled at Cassie, full of expectation like a teenage girl, "Cassie, let's go have some rural joy, shall we?"
Cassie smiled indulgently, "At your command!"
That day, Gu Xinzhou and Cassie, with McDull in tow, had a blast as if they were a family of three—they picked strawberries in a big greenhouse, fished by the pond, harvested vegetables in the garden, and chased chickens around the fields.
They had so much fun, turning their harvest over to the farmhouse for processing.
The meals tasted exceptionally delicious.
Gu Xinzhou ate a lot, and so did McDull.
Cassie laughed and said, "You two can really eat! It's as if those steamed dumplings and wontons earlier were for nothing."
Gu Xinzhou swallowed a mouthful of food and beamed, "Farming burns all the calories we've eaten!"
McDull looked left at Cassie, then right at Gu Xinzhou, and snickered to himself.
If things kept going this way, would Uncle Cassie soon become his daddy?
Would he soon have a daddy?
Just then, Gu Xinzhou's phone rang.
She put down her utensils and took it out to look.
Caller ID: Unknown number.
She answered, "Hello."
A familiar and irritating voice came through, "Baby, where are you?"
Song Zhen's voice!
Gu Xinzhou's originally joyful expression instantly collapsed!
Just as she was about to end the call, the person on the other end said, "Don't hang up just yet."
Gu Xinzhou: "..."
She hated most that Song Zhen always had the ability, no matter how peaceful her life was, to destroy the happiness she had worked so hard to build in an instant!
And he understood her psyche very well.
His guesses were always so accurate!
Gu Xinzhou glanced at McDull, not wanting to swear and curse in front of her son, she said coldly, "Spit it out, I'm busy!"
At the same time, she gestured to McDull to keep silent.
McDull obediently lowered his head and kept eating without saying a word!
Cassie, pretending to be focused on his meal and not looking around, pricked up his ears, trying hard to hear some tidbit of the conversation.
"When are you coming back to the city?" asked Song Zhen, his voice like a beguiling nocturne under a starry sky, with the power to stir the heart, "Your car is now parked at Wan'an Town's Shunfu Building. It's been there for a full three hours."
Gu Xinzhou: "..."
Song Zhen: "I'm already here. You've been busy in the farmhouse for three hours, what have you got to show for it? I'm quite hungry, mind if I join for a bite?"
Gu Xinzhou: "If you're sick, go see a doctor, okay?"
She stood up in fright, pulled the hood on McDull's collar over his head,
and at the same time, she made a beeline for the exit of the restaurant!
Song Zhen said in a gentle voice, "I'm hungry, and I miss you.
Seeing you at the rural joy with another man for so long has made me uncomfortable.
So I couldn't control myself, and I drove here."
"You're not here!" Gu Xinzhou stood in the courtyard, looking at the neatly parked cars, "Your car isn't here at all!"
"I'll be there in ten minutes."
"You're sick!"
Gu Xinzhou sprinted back and said to Cassie, "Song Zhen is coming! He's just ten minutes' drive away!"
Cassie, also scared, swiftly picked up McDull and stood up!
The three of them hustled to pay the bill and fled in a disarray!
Seated in the office of the Gemini Building at Fengyun Group, Song Zhen looked at the location of Gu Yibo's car. In just five minutes, it moved and was speeding away, the corners of his mouth curling up into a faint smile.
The car that Gu Yibo was driving was originally driven by Song Zhen for half a year. Seeing that Gu Yibo truly liked it, he sold it to him at a base price.
Song Zhen could track the car's GPS location on his phone.