Chapter 349: Love on the Left, Affection on the Right

My aunt didn't let me send her off in the end, not even letting me go downstairs to relax. She stood at my door, her eyes fixed on Li Lian's door, deliberately speaking in a loud voice: "Xiao Feng, be a good cadre, don't let your parents down!"

I knew she was saying this for Li Lian to hear. The basic standard for a good cadre was not to be greedy for money or lustful!

Li Lian's house was quiet, without a single light. I smiled bitterly and said, "Aunt, why not wait a bit longer? Xiao Mi hasn't arrived yet."

"No need, I'm already there," my aunt waved at me to go back.

Watching my aunt go downstairs, my heart was infinitely sad. My smart and beautiful aunt was like a big tree, covering me from wind and rain at any time.

As soon as my aunt left, Li Lian's door opened silently. She poked her head out from the crack of the door, gave me a weak smile, and clicked her tongue, saying, "This aunt of yours is a formidable woman."

I gave her a white look and said, "You are too."

Li Lian laughed with satisfaction, lowering her voice and saying, "Want to come in and sit for a while?"

I shook my head. She was alone at home, wearing extremely sexy pajamas. I wasn't afraid I couldn't withstand her temptation; I was afraid that walls had ears.

Refusing Li Lian, I returned to the room and firmly closed the door. Seeing the milk left over, I couldn't help but feel ripples in my heart, staring at the milk carton, lost in thought for a long time.

A gust of cold wind blew outside the window, shaking the withered branches and making them crackle. Suddenly, I remembered my appointment with Lin Xiaoxi, and my heart trembled. I hurriedly found my phone, preparing to call her.

The phone kept ringing, but Lin Xiaoxi didn't answer. Hanging up, several scenarios appeared in my mind. The first scenario was that she had met with misfortune. Although Chunshan County was located in the mountains, there was no shortage of street hooligans. During the "Strike Hard" campaign, Chunshan County also created a record of executing five people at once. Thinking of this, I became uneasy, secretly blaming myself for being heartless. How could I let a weak woman walk alone on the cold street?

The second scenario was that Lin Xiaoxi deliberately didn't answer my call. She was very angry and refused to answer when she saw it was my call.

If that was the case, it would be fine. As long as she was okay, it didn't matter if she answered the phone or not.

I comforted myself, but I was uneasy, walking back and forth in the room in frustration.

Lin Xiaoxi didn't answer the phone, and without her whereabouts, I couldn't set my mind at ease. Since I had a secretary and a driver, letting them do some things was more effective than doing it myself.

I called Yu Wei, and Yu Wei answered quickly, but he was stammering.

I was angry and said sternly, "Where are you?"

Yu Wei clearly felt my anger and had to honestly confess, "County Magistrate Chen, I'm at Lao Can's Qilin Villa."

"Which Lao Can?" I didn't react for a moment.

"Lao Diao, Diao Min," Yu Wei explained, "I thought you didn't need the car tonight, so..."

My mind immediately conjured up Diao Min's 600-square-meter villa. Until now, I didn't know Lao Diao's villa had a name called "Qilin Villa."

Good fellow, the name was grand enough! I exclaimed in my heart. This Lao Diao was indeed a person who had seen the world.

"Oh!" I deliberately dragged out the tone. No wonder when I asked him to pick me up last time, he could do it easily.

I knew one thing: people who went to Qilin Villa were not ordinary people. Yu Wei, a small driver, was not qualified to enter the heavily guarded Qilin Villa. Since he said he was there, he wouldn't dare lie to me, so he was definitely there. The question was, who brought him?

This question hovered in my mind for a long time. Yu Wei was my driver, which meant he was my person. According to the organizational principles of Party and government cadres, managing one's own people was a responsibility. I decided that before work tomorrow, I must find out who brought him.

Hanging up Yu Wei's phone, I lost interest in Lin Xiaoxi's whereabouts. In the small Chunshan County, Lin Xiaoxi was a celebrity, and even if the hooligans had two guts, they wouldn't dare touch her tiger's butt easily.

Suddenly, a mosquito's buzzing sound came to my ears. Squinting to look, I really saw a slender mosquito dancing in front of me. I reached out to grab it, but grabbed the air, so I cursed hatefully, "Grass! In weather cold enough to freeze birds, there are still mosquitoes?"

I didn't hit the mosquito, but my body started to itch. It was as if this mosquito, which had survived the disaster, had bitten me. Remembering that there was a water heater in the bathroom, my heart stirred, and I decided to take a bath.

I didn't have mysophobia, but I wasn't a sloppy person either. In Suxi Township, in the freezing weather, I would take a bath every three days. But during this busy period, I seemed to have not taken a bath for a long time. My body became more and more itchy, as if thousands of small insects were crawling on me.

Entering the bedroom, I opened the wardrobe, and there was a bathrobe hanging inside. Opening the bedside drawer, there were two boxes of underwear.

I knew these were all arranged by Li Lian.

After taking a bath, I felt warm all over. I originally wanted to watch TV, but remembering that there was a Standing Committee meeting tomorrow morning, I simply returned to the bedroom, preparing to sleep.

Lying down, I couldn't close my eyes. Once I closed them, the events of the past few days flew before my eyes like a revolving lantern. I had no choice but to lean against the head of the bed, take out a cigarette, and prepare to light it.

Taking the cigarette, I couldn't find a fire. After a flurry of activity, I still couldn't find it, so I had to run to the kitchen, turn on the gas stove, and light the cigarette.

The room suddenly became quiet, as if I could hear my own heartbeat. This scene was exactly the same as when I first arrived in Suxi Township six years ago.

Six years ago, I was lonely and lonely at night, and my heart was as transparent as water. Six years later, I was still lonely, but my heart was no longer like water; my heart had become a cloud, a cloud I couldn't even touch myself.

Six years ago, I was like an abandoned puppy, pitifully licking my own wounds alone. Six years later, I had become a ferocious wolf, protecting myself with eyes that didn't trust anyone.

From a dog to a wolf, it was not a natural evolution of species, but the wolf's nature remaining in the dog's blood, constantly and crazily breeding under social pressure.

In fact, I couldn't bear the tears of aging parents missing their wandering children, and I couldn't bear the pressure of survival on young shoulders. I couldn't bear every yellow leaf falling in autumn, and I couldn't bear the shivering shoulders in the cold winter.

I wasn't a sentimental person, but there was a softest place in my heart, just like many people. Whenever this place was touched, I would cry inexplicably, and even want to cry out loud.

When people are lonely in the middle of the night, they always think of many people and things they don't have time to think about.

A cigarette was held between my fingers, and faint blue smoke drifted in the air. I forgot to smoke, letting the cigarette burn slowly, just like my life, flowing quietly in this calm night.

My aunt's figure seemed to be still swaying in front of me. Thinking of her entrustment, I decided to call Huang Weiwei.

Huang Weiwei wasn't surprised at all that I would call her in the middle of the night. It seemed she had been waiting for my call, and as soon as it rang, she answered.

She was silent on the phone, and I could hear her calm breathing. I knew she was waiting for me to speak, but I didn't. Holding the receiver to my ear, I enjoyed the sound of her calm breathing.

"You don't want to talk?" Finally, she opened her mouth, her voice soft, directly touching my heart, making me almost cry.

"Weiwei!" I called her affectionately: "Haven't you rested yet?"

"Preparing to rest, what about you?" She asked me: "Is work hard?"

"It's okay! I've only worked for one day, I haven't felt it yet," I said, putting out the cigarette butt.

"Feng, do you miss me?" She suddenly said this, and her shy face immediately appeared before my eyes. She wasn't a girl good at expressing emotions, even love!

"Miss!" I said heavily: "Miss you very much!"

She gave an "um," and I could feel her face full of peach blossoms, her happy mood, and her intoxicated look.

"I love you! Weiwei!" I said. This was the first time I said the word "love" to her. In my life, this was the first time I said "I love you" to a woman.

Thinking of Xue Bing back then, although we had long regarded each other as the only reliance in this life, I had never said this to her. It wasn't that I didn't want to say it, but every time I wanted to say it, a voice would appear in my heart: if I said it, I would be blaspheming love.

Yes! In my life, who have I loved? Love on the left, affection on the right. Xue Bing? Sister Yuebai? Jin Ling? Or Chen Meng?

It seemed I hadn't loved anyone; maybe I was greedy for their bodies! If so, I was really a despicable person!

I trembled inexplicably, which was felt by Huang Weiwei on the other end of the phone.

She asked softly: "Are you cold?"

I said: "A little." I hugged the quilt tightly.

"Feng, I love you too! Love you very much!" She said on the other end of the phone, making me moved to the point of soreness in my nose. They had all said they loved me, but none had ever made my soul tremble like Huang Weiwei's. I understood, this was love, an emotion of infinite concern, but always silently concerned.

We chatted one sentence after another, each sentence seemingly plain, but it could make our hearts walk closer.

"Feng, take time to go home," she said, stopping halfway.

"Okay!" I said: "I'll go back when I have time."

"I'll take you to see our house," she said, her voice as small as the hateful mosquito just now.

"Our house?" I repeated her words, thinking of the wedding room my aunt told me about, and my heart tightened. We had gone to see houses together before, but we didn't buy them in the end. My money was still with me. Was this wedding room bought by her family for us?

I felt unhappy. For a man to let a woman's family pay for his house was a very faceless thing.

Huang Weiwei didn't feel my abnormality yet, and was still excitedly saying: "It's our house! The renovation is also done. You were too busy, so we didn't ask for your opinion, and I don't know if you like it or not."

"Like it!" I said insincerely: "As long as it's what you like, I like it."

"Really!" She laughed on the phone and said: "I said so. Chen Feng will definitely like it. Aunt said not necessarily."

"Aunt knows too?" I became even more unhappy.

"Yes. The house was bought with the money from Aunt's investment dividends. Actually, it was all handled by Aunt. Aunt is so capable, I wish I had half her ability." Huang Weiwei sincerely praised my aunt.

My wedding room was bought with my aunt's money! Although she used the excuse of dividends, I still faintly felt it wasn't such a simple thing. ===== CHAPTER 350 =====