Chapter 153: A Guest Comes From Afar

Not many people know the phone number of the new home, Cheng Ming can guess who it is with his toes. But he guessed wrong, it was actually his dad’s, he didn’t work properly, what was he doing calling home.

“Hey, Dad, what’s up? It’s not like you left any papers at home, is it?”

“I haven’t been rough and tumble to that point, you’re at home, the URA side of tomorrow’s meeting ahead of schedule, I still have to go on stage to make a report, a few days later, I also have to go to the provincial head of the training, a bunch of shit all thrown to me as a temporary worker.” Cheng Hongyuan whined.

“I was going to take leave and leave early to go to the train station to pick up people, now I can’t get away, I’m afraid that the guests will wait too long and think that I’ve gone back on my word, it’s not a good idea for me to ask someone else to do this, so if you’re free, you’ll go to the train station and pick up people for me.”

The train station. Did Dad mean Auntie Lian Ying and Xu Juan when he said guests?

Cheng Ming could not remember the exact date when the mother and daughter came to Nanming City, but vaguely remembered that it was one day during the summer vacation when he returned home from the Internet cafe and found two strangers sitting at home.

Cheng Ming thought at first that they were guests, but he didn’t expect them to stay there, or for two years.

“Who?”

“An old friend of mine and her daughter, who is about your age, you haven’t seen them and they don’t know you. So you remember to hold up a sign to go so they can see you, my friend’s name is Lian Ying, Lian as in connection, Ying as in novelty, and remember to give my name and ID number.”

“Lian Ying? Dad’s old female friend?” Cheng Ming deliberately asked, teasing Dad a bit, now it was considered solid.

Auntie Lian Ying and her dad had a great relationship, but what exactly was the relationship, Cheng Ming’s previous life was not concerned about, and then later, even wanted to ask the opportunity was gone.

“Cough cough, this matter will trouble you first, the expenses on the road will come back to me for reimbursement at night.” Cheng Hongyuan said atmospherically.

“By the way, Dad what’s your ID number?”

“You don’t remember?”

“Mom and sister’s do remember.”

“Why don’t you write that down for me, I’ll need it later to fill out the material.”

Cheng Hongyuan hurriedly reported the identity card number, and the voice of urgency came from the other end of the telephone receiver and hung up the phone.

Cheng Ming turned around, not realizing that Chen Ziyi was standing right behind him and nearly collided.

“Why don’t you make a sound, god forbid, scare me.”

“Aren’t you on the phone? Going out?”

“Well, Dad asked me to pick someone up at the train station, it’s pretty far, I won’t be back for a while, do you want to wait for me here or go back first?”

“I’ll go back.” Chen ZiYi stretched a big lazy waist and said, “Anyway, what should be said about the main thing has been said, right, the details will be left to be discussed slowly later, it’s not something that can be finalized in a day, as the work progresses, it’s also possible to overthrow the original plan.”

Chen Ziyi was actually so nice to talk to, Cheng Ming thought she would be dead set on staying, was there a trick?

“This is leaving?”

“What? Want me to be alone? I’m not doing that, and it’s not like I can’t stay a little longer if you beg me to stay.”

Chen Ziyi hung her head down, her fingers tangled in her hair.

How dare you do that?

Who’s lusting after whom, anyway.

Cheng Ming heartlessly waved his hand and said, “No drama, no drama, go home early so that your father won’t worry about you.”

“He doesn’t have time to worry about me, so why is it that I only have two choices, to go or stay, and there’s no option to go with you?”

“Come on, I’m there to pick up someone, not to have fun.”

“Talking like you’d call me if you went to play? You never seem to initiate a call?”

When he received that pseudo love letter from Wang Lei, Cheng Ming had thought about calling Chen Ziyi to ask for a clarification of what happened, but Chen Ziyi broadcast it first.

“It can’t be helped, the phone bill is too expensive, and I’ll get beaten up by my parents if I call indiscriminately.” Cheng Ming said with his hands spread out.

“Are you short of that few dollars? Big Boss Cheng.”

“You can never have too much of this money stuff.”

“And what’s with the qq messages, every time I deduct you first before you reply to me, and often invisible, do you think I don’t know you’re online every day?”

Chen Ziyi poked Cheng Ming’s chest and said, “Letting girls take the initiative to contact you, doesn’t your conscience hurt?”

“It doesn’t hurt if you don’t have a conscience.”

“Decided, I’ll never call you again, same with qq messages, I’ll come over tomorrow to play with Ri, when are you guys home?”

“At home in the morning.”

Cheng Ming is going to find Wang Hao to play poker in the afternoon, the duelist can not retreat from the battlefield, not to mention that the woman can not affect the poker game.

“I’ll go first, no need to see me off.”

Chen Ziyi walked towards the door, dashingly waving her hand towards Cheng Ming.

“I didn’t want to send you either.”

“It’ll kill you to make a show of it! See you tomorrow.”

Chen Ziyi turned her head and spat her little tongue out at Cheng Ming.

Sure is an interesting woman, but also a headache.

Here they are. Are they finally coming? It’s a bit of a surprise, but they are supposed to be like the wind, arriving and leaving suddenly.

Cheng Ming thought about many possibilities.

It would be like in a previous life, when he came home one day and they were sitting at home on the couch as guests.

Because of what Cheng Ming did, it changed the fate of many people, which in turn created a butterfly effect causing them not to come back to the city.

Obviously, Cheng Ming does not yet have the ability to influence Auntie Lian Ying and Xu Juan, who are thousands of miles away, and the only change that has come about is that his dad, who has rejoined the URA, is wrapped up in his work, and it turns out that he is there to pick up the pieces.

But their future destiny will definitely change because of themselves, this kind of self-confidence Cheng Ming still has, at least they will not let them leave without saying goodbye, to leave contact information and address, and even leave them.

Even if leaving them behind would cause a lot of trouble, whether it was on the side of Dad and Mom and Auntie Lian Ying, or Xu Juan and herself with this bunch of girls.

Cheng Ming first found a piece of cardboard from the packing box of the electrical appliances and wrote Lian Ying’s name, and after a little hesitation, did not write down Xu Juan’s name.

It’s better to try not to show your reanimator’s vest.

Lavishly hailed a cab and headed straight for the train station south of downtown.

The closer he got to the train station, the harder Cheng Ming’s heart beat, excited and nervous, even terrified.

People were coming and going in the train station, Cheng Ming held up a sign and shouted, “Is Auntie Lian Ying here?” causing passersby to look at him.

Cheng Ming searched for a familiar figure in the crowd, and there was none, not over here either.

Would it be better to wait at the exit of the train station?

I didn’t ask Dad what time the train was, but it could be late.

It was just a guess, but they seemed to be from the north, and their Mandarin was quite standard.

Cheng Ming then stood at the exit of the corresponding station and waited.

If Cheng Ming didn’t recognize them, that would indeed be troublesome, but she remembered their faces.

When the train arrived at the station and the crowd swarmed off the train, Cheng Ming caught a young woman in a black dress pulling a suitcase with one hand and holding an expressionless young girl with the other.

“Auntie Lian Ying! Here, here.”