Chapter 80

Qing Li would like to quickly go to the cafe to see if Qi Yuyu gave her something or a message.

But then until Christmas Eve, Yue Zhi are abroad on business, in order not to arouse suspicion, she has been staying in the manor, did not go to Singapore.

Every day, the door does not go out, living like a self-absorbed little girl.

“Maiden, tonight let the base of the cook got a few good dishes, we want to drink, you come?” Menggema ran to the villa to call her, “there is my wife special from Colombia sent over specialties Oh, she said you last year in the emerald mine security over there in the three months very like to eat, specially instructed me to do must call on you.”

Qing Li originally wanted to refuse, because she had to control herself not to get too close to anyone, but when she heard what Montgomery said, she finally nodded her head.

Mongema’s wife, Ms. Lily, a typical South American woman with a waistline three times as thick as Green Pear’s, warm and loving, sharp and spirited, even if she was always alone to take care of her family, she also took good care of her four children, and even managed to hold a gun and fight off the thugs who came to her door in the middle of the night to try to rob her.

In the saddest and darkest days of Qingli’s life when she was sent to Colombia for security after being rejected by Yue Zhi at the Dabao Sen Festival, Ms. Lily was like a passionate sunflower, brightening up Qingli’s life without any reasoning and giving her motherly warmth and care.

After she returned to China, Ms. Lily often sends her messages of sympathy and concern, she can refuse the Monogram, but there is no way to let down Ms. Lily’s heart.

Qing Li followed Mongoma to the base, they set up a few tables under the canopy next to the playground, next to the farther side of the place also lit two half a person high fire racks, the atmosphere to make a particularly good.

Other than the few who had gone outside on a mission, and the Falcon, Elephant, Blackskin and Woodpecker who had followed Yue Zhi Liang Jin outside for security, everyone else was here.

Even Xiji, who was clearly living in the villa with her and had not gone out on a mission, but was so godlike that he could not be seen at all, was also there.

However, Qing Li’s eyes skimmed over Xiji, and then looked over to the other side of the table, on Singota, whom she hadn’t seen in over four months.

Singota also saw her, the eye with the removed eyeball was wearing a black eye patch, still using the other eye to faintly look at her, his eyes were like the sea at night, calm and accommodating.

Qing Li wanted to go over and ask him how his health was, and if his rehab was going well, but she hesitated with her feet and didn’t walk over to him, but it was Singota who smiled, patted, and looked at the empty seat next to him, “Come over and sit down.”

“Yeah.” Aonashi then forced a smile and sat next to Singota.

“Singota, pour Cherry a drink.” Someone shouted.

Singota then reached out to reach an empty wine glass, but his fingers bumped into Thomas’s glass next to him, and it tipped over, spilling half of the wine inside all over the table and dribbling down the leg of Thomas, who was on the other side of him.

“Again!” Everyone couldn’t stand it and laughed, making cheap jokes, “Singhota, how many times have you made Thomas wet tonight!”

Thomas waved the fork in his hand, “Hurry up someone and switch places with me!”

“Don’t! Willing to bet! You’ll just keep sitting there tonight!” The crowd laughed again, not in the least bit careful to take care of Singoita’s emotions, instead they treated this as a fun thing to do, a badge of honor for Singoita, and kept making jokes about it.

Qing Li knew it was better, for Singota’s self-esteem, it was better instead, but she looked at the wine glass that had collapsed on the table, and her heart ached as if she had run thirty kilometers under weight, her chest rising and aching, making it difficult for her to breathe.

Singota had already poured her a glass of wine, “Ignore them, they’re all crazy, drink up, and this dish, Mongema made it especially under Ms. Lilly’s tutelage, try it.”

He used a large spoon to serve some of the beef rice sausage and whatnot from the traditional Colombian cuisine baiza platter into a small bowl in front of Aonashi, “The spices were ground in a traditional stone trough, the sausage blood sausage and a few other things were made by Ms. Lilly herself tor the team over there to be flown in, have some more.”

His hearing was severely damaged, causing him to speak in a somewhat strange and harsh tone.

Qing Li was in tears as she ate.

It’s been almost half a year since Cameroon came back, except for that night when she looked at her parents’ photo album, she barely cried once, and rather than being indifferent and calm, she turned on some sort of defense mechanism.

In the past, she surrounded Yue Zhi like a loyal pet, or a puppy without asking for anything in return, and after being hurt so many times, she could only stay within a range that she thought was safe, looking at the side of Yue Zhi, who she once longed for and felt happiness, and didn’t dare to take a step forward without forgetting the past and looking forward to the future.

But when she looked at Singhota, who could never return to normal like before, she could no longer hold back her tears.

Sorry has been said enough, what she can take care of, what she can pay for, what she can stay away from, she has tried her best to do, she already doesn’t know what else to do, but her heartache can’t be stopped, because she knows that just like Xingota’s eyes can’t come back, she and Yue Zhi can’t go back either.

Just thinking about this, she couldn’t stop her heartache.

The tears made the rice more salty, and she stuffed her mouth with spoonful after spoonful, stuffing her cheeks so much that they bulged, crying as she ate.

Singota didn’t say anything, raising his hand to touch her head but retracting it before he could touch it, “I’m going back after the New Year.”

Qingli cried straight hiccups, sniffed and raised her eyes, her upturned eyebrows are naturally cold, but her red eyes and the tears contained in them make her look aggrieved and pitiful, “Back where?”

“Norway, my parents have a small cottage by the sea there, remember what I said, in the future I might have to become a fisherman, to dive for fish.” Singota even smiled when he said this, “If I catch a good fish, I’ll send it to you to try.”

In fact, Singota had wanted to leave after his leg injury had completely healed, but turning over the New Year his contract with Yue Zhi had expired just in time, he did not intend to renew it and was ready to leave Southeast Asia to go back to Northern Europe.

“Didn’t he say he wanted you to stay?” Qing Li had heard Yue Zhi talk about this.

Putting aside the fact that he was once a communications soldier in the Special Forces, even if he wasn’t fighting, Singota was one of the world’s top hackers and communications masters, and Yue Zhi was willing to raise his annual salary to keep him working at Yue’s.

For Singhota this choice was actually not bad, after all, he now had to walk with a cane, turning his head too fast would accidentally lose his balance and fall, he simply couldn’t do any other work, but the keyboard didn’t even have any problems for him to type blindly.

However, he ultimately refused Yue Qi’s offer and decided that he would go back to his hometown.

“Sooner or later, I’ll have to leave.” Singhota said, no matter what other reasons there were for wanting to leave, sooner or later, this reason was already enough.

Qing Li wiped her face and nodded, “You’re right, sooner or later, you’ll have to leave, and it’s good to leave now.”

In the past few days, Shen Jun’s domestic violence scandal was raging, twice taken away by the police station and released, Yue Zhi hadn’t done anything yet, and Yun Sheng’s stock price had been falling.

She also checked the news of Li Chaoke’s party and found that the internal problems were also serious, the conflicts were getting intensified and there were already signs of a split.

The mountain was raging, just like in Cameroon before, she always felt uneasy in her heart, as if there was a storm coming.

It was indeed a good thing that Singota had left, at least it was safe.

The next day, she checked in with West Pole, put on her soldier’s badge, and rode her bike over to Singapore, to the cafe she had once made an appointment with Qi Yuyu, but didn’t come in.

As soon as she walked in, a waiter over at the bar gave her a deep look, smiled, and nodded at her.

Green Pear nodded back at him and sat down in one of the booths inside against the wall, which was almost like a private room because of a tall pot of flowers and trees that covered half of it.

The waiter from earlier came over with a tray, placing the menu in front of Qing Li, “Ms. Qing Li, see what you want to order.”

Qing Li looked at this waiter who had accurately reported her name the first time they met, and was certain that Qi Yu Yu had indeed left something for herself here, “I’ll take a look first.”

The waiter left first.

Qing Li opened the menu and saw that there was an envelope sandwiched in the center, not just any envelope, it was small, only the size of a bank card, like she had torn a piece of paper and pasted it up herself.

She pinched it, then tore it open again, there were only two thin memory cards inside, and nothing else.

“A latte.” Aonashi said to the waitress, then wiggled the cigarette between her fingers, “Got a lighter?”

She was offered a cup of coffee and a metal lighter.

Taking the limited edition Dupont lighter from her pocket that Singhota had given her when he knew she could smoke but she hadn’t used it once, she lit the cigarette in her mouth and exhaled a puff of smoke before quickly unloading the back cover, taking out two pieces of the cotton wick, putting the memory card in it, and burning the extra wick and the papier-mâché envelope after putting the back cover back on.

After finishing her coffee, she left the café with her stuff in her pocket.

A hundred meters away in a corner, Xiji watched her get on the motorcycle before she also entered the coffee shop, and came out a few minutes later to call Yue Zhi, “There is indeed a cafe, she called to make an appointment once in the first half of the year, but the person didn’t come.”

“I gave the waiter stuffed some money and he said everything, Qi Yuyu came the night before she died, showed him Qingli’s picture, and entrusted him to deliver something to Qingli, it was a small envelope, he touched it, and it was filled with two memory cards or something like that, because the envelope was glued and could only be torn open, so he wasn’t really sure what it was exactly, Qingli asked him for coffee and a lighter, took the something and left.”

Yue Zhi didn’t say anything for most of the day, so Xiji waited in silence.

“Did she go to your party last night?” After a long time, Yue Zhi suddenly asked.

“Went.” Xiji was a little impatient, “You’re still afraid that she’s bored out of her mind to pull this stunt, Tori Lili sent those worthless food all the way, you think about what to do now first, do you want me to go directly to snatch it back?”

Yue Zhi sighed, “No need, just let it be, I can probably guess what’s in those two memory cards, she knows …… just know it, if she comes to question me, I’ll explain, a hard snatch will just only make her farther away from me.”

Other than that, there wasn’t much that Green Pear couldn’t know.

“Just keep an eye on her and don’t let her run around.” Yue Zhi said.

“Got it.” Xiji hung up the phone and left.

Qing Li took the things back to the manor, put the lighter that contained Qi Yuyu’s relics on the table, looked at it for a long time, and finally threw the things into the drawer, and along with the ring that was once customized, temporarily sealed it up.

She didn’t dare to open it.

Just like that ring represented her true heart that she couldn’t easily deliver anymore, these two chips also represented the darkness of Yue Zhi that she didn’t understand, she didn’t dare to open them easily anymore.

If she opened them, she might not be able to paralyze herself anymore, and she and Yue Zhi would not be able to maintain the status quo, or even have to leave again.

Knowing that it is a knife, but also stabbed into their hearts, she was afraid of that kind of pain, really afraid.

And Yue Zhi waited for her questioning for a long time not to, also held back did not take the initiative to mention, because she did not want to let her know that he sent people to follow her, the delicate balance between the two maintained for more than two months.

Until Yun Sheng was on the verge of bankruptcy, Li Chaoke directly killed Yue Zhi’s office.