The old man hurried to the bathroom and upon seeing himself in the mirror, his face was filled with helplessness. His hair was as messy as grass, his face recklessly unshaven, barely distinguishable from a beggar on the street.
Bai Xiao had already poured the hot thermos water into the basin and mixed it with some cold water. Their home didn’t have the facility for bathing; they all cleaned themselves this way.
If the old man wanted to complain, he probably couldn’t; it was his own choice to come and suffer.
She gave him a new towel and then went out, closing the door behind her.
Yu Shaohua chuckled to himself behind the door; it seemed he was one step ahead of his wife after all. He had said that her plan wouldn’t work, but she insisted on trying it, and this girl showed real mettle.
What’s the use of saving face when you’re old?
Bai Xiao picked up the phone and dialed Dean Yu Shaohua, "Dean Yu, there’s a Mr. Yu currently at my place. It would be best if you arrange for someone to come and pick him up."
Yu Shaohua had spent the entire night awake, his own father had suddenly vanished, and the old lady had no clue where the old man had gone. Most importantly, he was said to have gone to look for Bai Xiao. However, when they knocked on Bai Xiao’s door last night, there was no answer.
With Bai Xiao not home and the old man missing, how could he, as a son, not be anxious?
Not having returned home all night, and now receiving this call, he finally breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed the old man had been with Bai Xiao. How the old man managed to get into Bai Xiao’s house was a mystery; still, the old man was always one step ahead. He couldn’t afford to hold him back.
"What, he’s at your place? That’s problematic now; I’m about to leave for a meeting in the province and can’t come to pick him up right away. Doctor Bai, could you take care of him for a while, or maybe you could take him to a hotel, I’ll pick him up when I return."
Telling lies becomes effortless after a while; your face doesn’t even blush, and you start to believe them yourself.
Bai Xiao was speechless. This whole family must be hereditary debt-dodgers.
"Dean Yu, then I’ll take Mr. Yu to the hotel." He definitely couldn’t stay here; she had other things to tend to and couldn’t afford to spend all her time entertaining an old man.
She thought of An Zhiyuan and his obligations, and with a change of heart, she dialed his number, only to be met with continuous ringing but no answer.
She remembered An Zhiyuan’s mission and figured he wasn’t around.
It seemed she would have to turn to someone else to deal with Bai Mei this time. In Yun Province, she didn’t know too many people she could ask for this sort of challenging favor, going to Myanmar with unknown risks and not something to be taken lightly.
After some thought, she called Jiang Shaoqing.
Having influence in Yun Province was no issue for Jiang Shaoqing, finding familiar faces wouldn’t be difficult.
And sure enough, her call was connected immediately.
"This is Jiang Shaoqing!"
This man’s voice was so pleasant to listen to. If she didn’t already have An Zhiyuan, whose voice was even more extraordinary and possessed an addictive magnetism/sexiness, she might have been attracted by this voice. These men were nothing but enchanting beings.
"I’m Bai Xiao! I need your help."
Direct and to the point.
Jiang Shaoqing glanced at his watch, "6:30 in the morning, you’re not sleeping, nor do you let others sleep?" Could it be that this woman hadn’t slept at all?
"Sorry, it’s really urgent, or else I definitely wouldn’t call you."
"What is it?"
There weren’t many things that could make Doctor Bai so anxious.
It must be something serious.
"I need some helpers who can go to Myanmar with me, not tomorrow, not in the future, but today, right now. We’re up against armed forces, so there’s risk involved."
The brevity of her request was somewhat infuriating to Jiang Shaoqing.
What in the world was this woman up to?
Wasn’t An Zhiyuan keeping tabs on his wife?
Letting her wife run amok!