Chapter 232: You Need To Prepare Yourself Mentally
Because there weren’t many procedures, the recording was announced to end at three in the afternoon.
“Pitter-Patter, Us Falling in Love in Summer” officially wrapped up.
As the little megaphone from the program group shouted that work was over, the guests who had been sentimental and gazing deeply at each other the second before immediately broke character and cheerfully shouted “off work.”
Everyone was busy with packed schedules, so as soon as it was time to clock out, they naturally changed clothes and left immediately, not staying a moment longer.
Xuan Xia was among the first group rushing to get off work.
The return ticket booked by Ji Ziyao was for that evening, so as soon as work ended, they grabbed their luggage and left the island, heading straight to the airport.
It wasn’t until they boarded the flight back to Yanjing that Xuan Xia had a moment to take out her mobile phone.
Sure enough, there were already quite a few messages on her mobile phone.
The earliest ones were from Chang Zhendong and Qu Xingxuan of Qinghui Temple, as well as Ding Lu; the latest was from Zhou Shiqing to her.
She first chose Ding Lu’s messages.
Ding Lu had sent messages to thank her for arranging people to watch over the Guan Jinjun couple last night.
However, with Qinghui Temple ahead and Qu Xingxuan behind, Ding Lu had apparently heard some news from both sides, so she asked Xuan Xia in the messages what to do next about the Guan couple.
Ding Lu bluntly revealed that she was conveying her uncle’s, Guan Jinjun’s, intentions: if Xuan Xia was confident she could handle this matter, then please let Xuan Xia take care of it, and not trouble the Daoist Masters of Qinghui Temple.
“Ding Lu: Don’t overthink it. It’s not that there’s any problem with Qinghui Temple; it’s just that my uncle is afraid the media will make something out of nothing and report some strange content later.”
“Ding Lu: It’s not just the media; my uncle is also worried about his peers spreading rumors. After all, he is in real estate.”
Xuan Xia understood what she meant.
The Daoist Masters of Qinghui Temple were so conspicuous that it was easy for people to make certain associations, and it might really affect Guan Jinjun’s business.
Xuan Xia thought for a moment and edited a message to reply to Ding Lu.
After replying and waiting a few seconds, guessing that Ding Lu probably wouldn’t contact her so soon, she switched to check other messages.
She originally wanted to look at Chang Zhendong and Qu Xingxuan’s messages first, but Zhou Shiqing’s message to her immediately caught her line of sight.
However, Xuan Xia really didn’t understand what Zhou Shiqing meant by sending such a message.
“Zhou Shiqing: After the program ends, you won’t delete my contact info, right?”
Xuan Xia was full of question marks; how did this guy’s brain come up with the idea that she would delete his contact info after the program ended?
Why would she delete it?
Compared to her deleting him, she should instead worry that Zhou Shiqing would delete her first, right?
With that in mind, she immediately edited her thoughts into text and sent them back.
Xuan Xia: “Teacher Zhou, are you hinting that I need to cooperate with you in mutually deleting our contact info?”
The message was sent without a rejection notice.
Xuan Xia thought to herself, thank goodness, it seems she hadn’t been deleted by him yet.
After a second of gratitude, she switched to check the earlier messages from Chang Zhendong and the others.
Because he wasn’t clear about Xuan Xia’s exact relationship with Ding Lu, Chang Zhendong took it seriously and had the two Daoist Masters he sent last night to protect Ding Lu’s uncle and aunt guard them all night.
The night passed peacefully without incident.
So early in the morning, Chang Zhendong hurriedly sent Xuan Xia a message to report that all was well, so she wouldn’t worry.
Besides that, he didn’t say a single word related to Guan Jinjun’s matter.
Xuan Xia knew Chang Zhendong was very tactful and might even be aware that Guan Jinjun didn’t want Qinghui Temple involved, so she immediately edited a message of thanks and sent it back.
After replying, she opened Qu Xingxuan’s messages.
However, Qu Xingxuan’s messages were different from Chang Zhendong’s simple all-clear report.
Xuan Xia couldn’t help raising an eyebrow as she looked at them.
“Qu Xingxuan: My dear god, are you an old traditional Chinese medicine doctor, referring tough cases or what?”
“Qu Xingxuan: This family, if not for their deep blessings, would have died hundreds of times already, believe it or not?”
“Qu Xingxuan: When are you coming back? Are you handling this job yourself, or planning to pass it to Qinghui Temple?”
“Qu Xingxuan: Let me say this first: if you’re planning to handle it yourself, don’t forget to bring me along. But I think it’s pretty complicated; you need to be mentally prepared.”
“Qu Xingxuan: But when exactly are you coming back? This family has deep blessings, but they can’t hold out much longer; we need to act fast! Otherwise, no one can say for sure.”
Xuan Xia’s line of sight fell on the word “complicated” in the second-to-last message, and she also glanced at the words “mentally prepared.”
She thought while waiting.
But after quite a while, there was still no sound at all.
If it was really so complicated that mental preparation was needed, Chang Xi should have given her some hint no matter what.
Since Chang Xi wasn’t saying anything now, she had an idea in her mind.
She immediately replied to Qu Xingxuan.
“Arriving in Yanjing at dawn.”
After thinking, she also asked Qu Xingxuan.
“Can you make time tonight? If so, help keep an eye out for any situations tonight.”
Almost as soon as Xuan Xia sent the message, Qu Xingxuan replied.
“Qu Xingxuan: Don’t worry!”
Xuan Xia wouldn’t know that Qu Xingxuan had been waiting for her reply all day.
Moreover, without Xuan Xia needing to specially ask, Qu Xingxuan had already prepared to guard the Guan couple that evening together with the two Daoist Masters from Qinghui Temple.
What he didn’t say was that, compared to the two Daoist Masters from Qinghui Temple, the Guan couple seemed to have a better impression of him and trusted him more.
Qu Xingxuan guessed this was probably because of Xuan Xia, so he didn’t specially mention it to her.
“Be careful.”
Xuan Xia had already guessed that Qu Xingxuan wouldn’t refuse, so she couldn’t help reminding him.
After chatting about this, it was time for the plane to take off, and Xuan Xia planned to rest a bit during the flight.
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Just past dawn, the flight landed on time at Yanjing Airport.
Xuan Xia picked up her luggage and then refused Ji Ziyao’s offer to send her home.
Ji Ziyao had a huge opinion about this until he saw that the person picking her up was Ding Lu, after which his expression returned to normal.
Xuan Xia got into Ding Lu’s car and hadn’t even had time to thank her when Ding Lu already expressed her thanks first.
“Thank you so much, Xuan Xia. You just finished work and it’s the middle of the night, yet you can’t go home to rest.”
No matter what the final result would be, just for the fact that after her schedule ended, Xuan Xia rushed back by plane without going home to rest first but directly handling her matter, Ding Lu felt this friend was totally worth making.
They say it’s easy to add flowers to brocade but hard to send charcoal in snow; Ding Lu knew she owed a huge favor.
Not just her; her uncle would definitely remember this favor too.
Hearing this, Xuan Xia smiled faintly, “Sister Xiao Lu, no need to thank me. You’re working hard too, coming to pick me up in the middle of the night.”
“I’m just making a quick trip; it’s no big deal.” Ding Lu said in a nonchalant tone.
With a step on the accelerator, the car quickly sped off into the night.
