Chapter 66: Turtle Didn’t Pay Attention To Whether She Jumped Off The Building
“Are you hungry?” Jiang Yuan asked this question while already taking out her phone to search what red-eared sliders eat.
The red-eared slider complained pitifully, “Family, who understands? Turtle hasn’t eaten for three days!”
Jiang Yuan was amused by its tone, her eyes curved into crescents.
Hearing that she was still laughing, the red-eared slider immediately became unhappy, “Family, this two-legged beast is laughing at turtle after hearing that turtle hasn’t eaten for three days!”
“How did you hear that I was mocking you?” Jiang Yuan lowered her smile and said solemnly, “I just said, you’re not allowed to call me a two-legged beast.”
Red-eared slider: “Then what’s your name?”
“Jiang Yuan.”
“Okay.”
“What do you want to eat?”
Red-eared slider: “Are you going to treat me, two-legged beast?”
Jiang Yuan: “…”
I won’t treat you.
Not a word I like to hear.
Seeing that she suddenly stopped responding, the red-eared slider said disappointedly, “Family, who understands? This two-legged beast is deceiving me.”
Jiang Yuan frowned: “You deceived me first.”
Meng Xiaokai, holding a pen, listened with a bewildered expression: “Miss Jiang, what did the turtle say? Please translate it so I can record it.”
Jiang Yuan: “No need to record yet, I haven’t started asking it yet.”
“Okay,” Meng Xiaokai nodded.
The red-eared slider stretched its neck to look at her and asked in confusion, “Two-legged beast, when did turtle deceive you?”
Jiang Yuan, angered, put on a stern face: “You clearly agreed not to call me a two-legged beast.”
“Sorry,” the red-eared slider apologized to her, “Turtle has a bad memory and forgot.”
Jiang Yuan: “…”
With such a poor memory, can she expect it to provide any useful information?
The red-eared slider sighed again, “Turtle hasn’t eaten for three days, so it has no strength and no memory.”
“Is your memory bad because you’re hungry?” Jiang Yuan’s gaze brightened slightly, and she quickly asked, “Then what do you want to eat?”
The red-eared slider tried hard to widen its eyes and asked expectantly, “Can I eat anything I want?”
Jiang Yuan: “Yes.”
“Then turtle wants to eat pork, shrimp, lamb, rice…”
The red-eared slider listed a pile of food. Jiang Yuan turned to Meng Xiaokai: “Mr. Meng, can you help prepare some food? The red-eared slider hasn’t eaten for three days and needs to eat its fill to provide information.”
“Is that so?” Meng Xiaokai stood up. “What do you need prepared? I’ll have a colleague go buy it.”
Jiang Yuan: “Rice, pork, shrimp…”
“Okay,” Meng Xiaokai nodded and walked out of the conference room.
Jiang Yuan looked at the red-eared slider again, “I’ve already asked someone to buy it.”
“Family, how can there be such a good two-legged…”
“What did you say?”
The red-eared slider quickly shut its mouth, “Turtle didn’t say anything.”
“Consider yourself sensible,” Jiang Yuan snorted lightly.
Twenty minutes later, the red-eared slider, which had claimed to be hungry for three days, finally got to eat.
After it finished eating, it was also lunchtime for Jiang Yuan.
The door of the conference room was knocked on from the outside. Si Heng pushed the door open, holding two lunchboxes.
“Lunch is here!” Meng Xiaokai said with a smile.
Si Heng walked to Jiang Yuan’s side, put down the two lunchboxes, and said softly, “Miss Jiang, eat first.”
“Thank you, Captain Si,” Jiang Yuan nodded.
“What’s for lunch today?” Meng Xiaokai also leaned over, thinking one of the lunchboxes was his.
Seeing this, Si Heng said lightly, “Go outside and see for yourself.”
Meng Xiaokai blinked, feeling a little wronged, “Boss, didn’t you get one for me?”
Si Heng: “I didn’t know what you wanted to eat, so go choose for yourself.”
“So that’s how it is,” Meng Xiaokai nodded, but as he walked out of the conference room, he felt something was still not quite right.
Boss didn’t know what I wanted to eat, but knew what Miss Jiang wanted to eat?
No, are Boss and Miss Jiang that familiar with me?
Jiang Yuan opened the lid of the lunchbox, and a strong aroma of meat wafted out. Inside the lunchbox lay steaming braised pork ribs, braised chicken with chestnuts, and shrimp with broccoli.
The man’s deep, pleasant voice slowly sounded, “I didn’t know what Miss Jiang liked to eat, so I chose the same as mine. If you don’t like it, you can have it replaced.”
“I will not,” Jiang Yuan looked up and met his gaze, smiling lightly, “I like it very much.”
Si Heng curved his lips slightly, “That’s good.”
He unwrapped the disposable chopsticks and, after rubbing the ends lightly, handed them over.
“Thank you, Captain Si,” Jiang Yuan quickly thanked him.
Si Hengmo raised an eyebrow, “Call me Si Heng from now on, no need to be so polite calling me Captain Si all the time.”
“Okay,” Jiang Yuan readily agreed, “Then you can call me by my name from now on too.”
“Alright,” the man’s thin lips curved into a slight arc, and his mood seemed to be very pleasant.
However, this harmonious atmosphere was broken by the boisterous Meng Xiaokai.
“Here I come, here I come!” He strode in with his lunchbox and plopped down in the seat between Si Heng and Jiang Yuan.
The smile on Si Heng’s face disappeared with Meng Xiaokai’s arrival.
Meng Xiaokai glanced at the dishes in Jiang Yuan’s lunchbox and said enviously, “Ah, you have braised pork ribs. They were all gone when I went out just now.”
Hearing this, Jiang Yuan smiled and asked, “Do you want some? Just take it, I haven’t eaten it yet.”
“That would be too impolite!” Meng Xiaokai said he was embarrassed, but his chopsticks slowly reached out.
Si Heng’s eyes deepened, and his brow slowly furrowed.
Meng Xiaokai’s chopsticks were halfway extended when they were grasped by another pair of chopsticks.
He followed the chopsticks and blinked, reminding, “Boss, the dish is in front of you. These are my chopsticks, you’ve grabbed the wrong ones.”
“Of course I know these are your chopsticks,” Si Heng looked at him displeasedly, but his tone was calm, “If you want to eat ribs, take them from my side.”
“Thank you, Boss!” Meng Xiaokai grinned and took two ribs from his lunchbox.
After finishing lunch, Jiang Yuan walked to the turtle tank and found the red-eared slider dozing after eating its fill.
She chuckled, “You certainly know how to enjoy yourself, taking a nap after eating.”
The red-eared slider opened its eyes to look at her, “Turtle isn’t sleeping.”
“Then that’s good,” Jiang Yuan pulled over a stool and sat down, her delicate brows showing more seriousness, “Do you know Qiu Ailin?”
Red-eared slider: “Who?”
Jiang Yuan thought for a moment, took out her phone, found a photo from Qiu Ailin’s Moments, and showed it to it, “Do you know this human?”
The red-eared slider strained to widen its eyes, stared at the photo for a while, and nodded, “Turtle knows her. It was she who starved turtle for three days. She’s a terrible two-legged beast.”
Jiang Yuan continued to ask, “Did you see her jump off the building yesterday morning?”
“No,” the red-eared slider shook its head, “Turtle was sleeping yesterday morning. Turtle didn’t pay attention to whether she jumped off the building.”
Jiang Yuan frowned, her mood suddenly becoming a little disappointed.
“Family, who understands? Jiang Yuan, the two-legged beast, is ignoring turtle,” the red-eared slider shouted again.
Jiang Yuan: “…”
She sighed softly and changed her approach, “Did you see anyone suspicious looking for Qiu Ailin yesterday morning?”
