Chapter 540: 540
The exercise of love started in warmth, and finished in warmth .
Xia Lei and Jiang Ruyi were already sitting in the living room watching television, their clothes all nice and orderly when Jiang Shuqing and Yang Lan got home . The two of them behaved normally, like nothing had happened earlier .
Yang Lan started preparing lunch, and Jiang Ruyi went to the kitchen to help her . Xia Lei and Jiang Shuqing chatted and drank tea .
Xia Lei abruptly remembered about Long Bing before they started the meal . He was here at Jiang Ruyi’s place eating, but Long Bing was alone at his place . What about her?
‘It’s not good to leave her alone at home . Why not call her over to eat together? She and Jiang Ruyi are sort of familiar with each other too, so she wouldn’t suspect anything, right?”
At that thought, Xia Lei pulled Jiang Ruyi to one side and told her about Long Bing staying at his place .
“Why didn’t you say so earlier? I’ll go call her over to have lunch . ” Jiang Ruyi did not think more deeply about it and she went upstairs to call Long Bing to come down and join them .
Jiang Ruyi did not simply see Long Bing as a familiar face . Her being able to become police chief was all thanks to Long Bing, so Jiang Ruyi owed Long Bing a huge debt in this regard .
Jiang Ruyi knocked on the door of Xia Lei’s flat and Long Bing paused when she saw Jiang Ruyi in the doorway . “Oh, Chief Jiang . Hello . ” But in her head, she was grumbling, ‘What is Jiang Ruyi doing here? Did she guess at the relationship between myself and Xia Lei?’
She had a guilty conscience, and she could not help being nervous and having wild thoughts even though she was facing Jiang Ruyi, who was of the same ‘level’ as her, and not the wife, Shentu Tianyin .
Jiang Ruyi was not thinking so deeply, and she smiled . “Miss Long! Why didn’t you drop by to say hello though you were here? My home is just downstairs . Come to my place for a meal . ”
“Uh… No need to go to the trouble . I can just eat anything . ” Long Bing felt awkward just thinking of the setting . Xia Lei, Jiang Ruyi, and herself… The three of them eating . What the heck was that?
Jiang Ruyi pulled Long Bing by the hand . “Come, come . You’re a good friend of our Lei, so what is there to be awkward about?” Then she suddenly seemed to realise something and she corrected herself . “Heh heh, oops . It’s not our Lei, it’s… Lei and I are good friends, and you’re good friends with Lei too . We’re all good friends . ”
Long Bing looked wordlessly at Jiang Ruyi, and thought, ‘This idiot had better not meet Shentu Tianyin . She dares to steal Shentu Tianyin’s man with this standard of concealment? She’ll get found out as soon as they meet . ’
Long Bing could not refuse Jiang Ruyi’s great show of hospitality either, so she followed her to her home .
Xia Lei couldn’t help exchanging looks with Long Bing as soon as the door opened . Both of them felt rather guilty . They didn’t even dare to have their eyes meet for too long . He looked at her, and she looked at him, then they both looked in different directions .
Jiang Ruyi introduced Long Bing to Jiang Shuqing and Yang Lan .
They warmed up right away when they heard she was Long Bing . They had long heard of this mysterious, illustrious and powerful woman, and their Ruyi had been able to become Chief of Police all thanks to her too . This was a huge kindness which had been bestowed upon them, so how could they not treat Long Bing well, when she had come to their home?
The five of them sat around the table and ate . Jiang Ruyi picked food up with her chopsticks and put it in Xia Lei’s bowl, and Yang Lan did the same for Long Bing . Xia Lei poured alcohol for Jiang Shuqing . The atmosphere at the table was quite harmonious .
“I want to eat sweet-sour ribs,” said Jiang Ruyi softly . She was sitting on Xia Lei’s left .
Xia Lei picked up a piece of sweet-sour rib and put it in Jiang Ruyi’s bowl . Jiang Ruyi smiled .
Long Bing gave Xia Lei a look .
Xia Lei paused, then picked up a piece of sweet-sour rib for Long Bing and said in an affected manner, “Chief Long, Auntie’s cooking is very good . Please try this too . ”
Long Bing wanted to laugh but she showed no emotion on her face . She just nodded slightly .
Xia Lei, however, was groaning to himself . ‘How am I to continue with this meal? This is just Jiang Ruyi and Long Bing . What if Shentu Tianyin, Long Bing and Jiang Ruyi have a meal with me one day? Won’t I die then?’
Love was a double-edged sword, but the sword Xia Lei was holding had edges on the hilt too .
“Lei, let’s go on a stroll around the markets when we’re done eating,” said Jiang Ruyi .
“Nn . What do you want to buy?” asked Xia Lei casually .
“Maternity wear . ”
Clatter! The chopsticks in Xia Lei’s hand fell to the table .
Long Bing was gnawing on the piece of sweet-sour rib Xia Lei had given her, but she froze in that second . The piece hung half-in, half-out of her mouth, and she looked rather comical .
Jiang Shuqing and Yang Lan stared blankly too . The two elders had their eyes fixed on Jiang Ruyi . If they had the magic of teleportation, they would have not hesitated to teleport Jiang Ruyi to the other end of the Earth . How could she have let slip something like this to Long Bing!
Jiang Ruyi then realised that she had let it slip, and she panicked . Her face turned red, and she stuttered, “Haha, ahem… Why are you guys looking at me? You couldn’t have heard me say maternity wear, right? What a joke . I was saying… saying sportswear . I want to go buy sportswear . I put on a bit of weight recently . I need to lose weight . ”
No one in the flat was hard of hearing, and all of them had clearly heard her say ‘maternity wear’ . Her insistence that it was ‘sportswear’ was a good bit of quick thinking, but it was useless .
Long Bing gave Xia Lei another look .
Jiang Ruyi kicked Xia Lei under the table to tell him to back her up .
Xia Lei gave a cough . “Ahem . Okay, I’ll go with you to get sportswear . ”
Jiang Ruyi then said, “Let’s eat, let’s eat . ”
Long Bing continued gnawing on that piece of sweet-sour rib, but she thought to herself, ‘Jiang Ruyi is pregnant . Is the old saying that women with plump hips are more fertile actually true? Haha, this is going to be interesting . Shentu Tianyin and Xia Lei haven’t had their wedding ceremony yet, and she’s not pregnant with Xia Lei’s child, but Jiang Ruyi the mistress is already pregnant . If Shentu Tianyin found out about this, Xia Lei would have at least a layer of skin peeled off of him, even if he doesn’t get killed . Hold on… My buttocks are quite plump too . I didn’t use any protection with Xia Lei so far . Will I get pregnant? What do I do if I do get pregnant?’
“Do you have anything scheduled in the afternoon, Chief Long?” Jiang Shuqing quickly changed the topic . “If you’re free, I would like to invite you to the scenic spots of Haizhu . It is beautiful there . ”
No Comments Yet
Post a new comment
Register or Login