Chapter 230: The Little Spy’s Equipment And Mission
Another brand new afternoon, on the roadside near Pei Ningle’s home, that blue BMW car was parked. In the back seat of the car, a deeply schemed espionage action was about to unfold.
“I’ve bought the stuff for you. You know how to use it, right?”
While asking, Lu Qi placed a small electronic device into Fu Jiu’s chest pocket.
Fu Jiu nodded: “I know, such a simple thing.”
As she spoke, her small hand felt the item in the pocket through her clothes and pressed it. After waiting a few seconds, she took out this small thing, pressed the same button, then pressed the button on the other side.
Immediately after, Fu Jiu’s earlier voice played from it—”I know, such a simple thing.”
Lu Qi reminded: “Turn it off now. Start it again when you see Pei Ningle and the others. This miniature recorder’s battery capacity isn’t large.”
Fu Jiu quickly turned off the power button.
Lu Qi took out her mobile phone, checked the time, and contemplated.
Fu Jiu sat obediently beside her, quiet, not daring to make a sound.
The previous performance in front of Pei Ningle and the others had truly made the girl feel uneasy. After all, from the bottom of her heart, Qi Qi Jie was both her mentor and role model. Although she never got angry at her, her authority was impossible to ignore.
After thinking for a while, Lu Qi said: “Send the text message now.”
“Right now?”
“Yes, send the one I wrote for you. Remember not to give it away when you say it to them in person.”
Fu Jiu nodded while taking out her own mobile phone and sending the already prepared text message to Pei Ningle:
【Sister Xiao Le, I quarreled with that cousin again, she’s super annoying! I’m coming to stay with you!】
After sending, while waiting for the reply, Fu Jiu looked at the message and couldn’t help sighing: “Qi Qi Jie, you imitate my way of speaking so well…”
Lu Qi smiled without saying anything.
Less than half a minute later, Fu Jiu’s mobile phone received a new text message from Pei Ningle:
【Xiao Jiu, where are you? You probably can’t find my home, I’ll come pick you up.】
Lu Qi glanced at it and said: “We can set off. Good luck.”
Fu Jiu raised her hand and seriously saluted: “Yes, sir Lu!”
Fu Jiu’s salute froze. In the car, there was silence for two seconds.
Lu Qi finally couldn’t help complaining: “Military salute isn’t like that, yours is the Young Pioneers’…”
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At the residential area doorway, Pei Ningle picked up the slightly shorter Fu Jiu and led her back to her own house.
Although one was an adult artist and the other a junior high student, in others’ eyes, they looked more like a pair of sisters with an age gap of no more than three years.
After entering, Pei Ningle found a pair of new slippers, changed shoes together with Fu Jiu, took off her jacket, and sat on the sofa.
As soon as she sat down, Fu Jiu complained: “That cousin of mine is really annoying. She’s not my mom, but she insists on managing my studies! And my parents don’t even manage me, why does she meddle!”
However, Pei Ningle patted her shoulder and said seriously: “Study grades are indeed very important. What’s wrong with your sister managing you?”
Fu Jiu was stunned: “Sister Xiao Le, your own studies…”
Pei Ningle: “My studies aren’t good, and that’s not a good thing. I tried hard in middle school, but if I couldn’t learn, I couldn’t learn. I didn’t go to university, and that’s not good either. If my Gaokao grades had been good, I could have joined a music club in university too.”
Fu Jiu murmured: “But you said on the program that you want to pursue your dreams…”
Pei Ningle shook her head: “Pursuing dreams is pursuing dreams, studying well is studying well. These two things don’t conflict. Moreover, can you tell me which dream exactly is making you unwilling to study?”
Fu Jiu thought about it and suddenly didn’t know what to say.
If she were really a rebellious girl, she should get angry from embarrassment right now. Fortunately, Pei Ningle wasn’t Han Yixuan and didn’t notice the slight flaw in her acting.
“I want to be like you, Sister Xiao Le,” Fu Jiu answered, “Singing on stage, you look so amazing.”
Pei Ningle continued to ask: “What you admire, is it the shining appearance of singing on stage, or singing itself?”
Fu Jiu thought about it, felt a bit embarrassed and lowered her face, trying to change the subject: “Sister Xiao Le, you speak so nicely too. Your Chinese language grades must be good, right?”
“My Chinese language grades aren’t good either. I can write lyrics, but in compositions, you have to write argumentative essays or narratives, but not poetry. Reading comprehension and such, I’m not good at either…”
At this point, Pei Ningle lost interest in probing Fu Jiu’s dreams and just recalled her own exam room experiences from back then, feeling somewhat melancholy.
But Fu Jiu suddenly had a sudden inspiration and asked: “Sister Xiao Le, how about you try tutoring me?”
Pei Ningle was immediately stunned and pointed at herself: “Are you kidding? You want me to tutor you?”
Fu Jiu shrank back a bit: “Never mind then, I was just joking. Sister Xiao Le is so busy…”
“No no no, the issue isn’t being busy!” Pei Ningle shook her head, “The issue is, my study grades aren’t good.”
Fu Jiu: “My grades are even worse!”
Pei Ningle: “But…”
Fu Jiu: “And I’m only in first year junior high. Sister Xiao Le, you’ve been through third year of senior high school. You can definitely teach me. Qi Qi… actually that cousin has tutored me too, but she thought I was dumb and didn’t teach me properly.”
Pei Ningle frowned slightly and thought carefully.
Recently, the creation of her third original song had stalled a bit without inspiration. The music festival was over, and there were about two weeks until the next time going to the Imperial Capital to record the song’s stage. During this period, she had nothing to do and seemed to have quite a bit of free time?
Fu Jiu added: “But never mind, Sister Xiao Le has to record programs and write songs, must be very busy…”
Pei Ningle shook her head and interrupted: “Actually, I have free time right now. How about we try starting today?”
Fu Jiu blinked her eyes, her gaze full of surprise: “Sister Xiao Le, you actually agreed?”
Pei Ningle touched the little girl’s head and smiled: “I told you, I have free time recently, nothing to do. Trying once or twice is no problem. But in a few days, I won’t be able to accompany you…”
“It’s fine it’s fine,” Fu Jiu cupped her small face with both hands, beaming with a brilliant smile, “I’m super happy as long as Sister Xiao Le is willing to tutor me once!”
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“In a certain sense, you really are a genius…”
In the car, Lu Qi listened to the recording and looked at Fu Jiu with quite complex eyes.
Fu Jiu clasped her hands behind her back, somewhat uneasy: “Qi Qi Jie, is what I did not good?”
Lu Qi: “No, it’s good, very good!”
However, Fu Jiu was still puzzled: “Sister Xiao Le is so sincere to me, but I secretly recorded her, like this…”
Lu Qi pinched the girl’s face and smiled: “You’re sincere to her too, no problem. And next time, no need to record anymore. I have confidence in your acting skills. I don’t want to espionage Xiao Le’s secrets, I just want to learn some things about Wang Heng from her. It won’t harm Xiao Le at all, right?”
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