NFBE Chapter 166 Are you at home?
Chapter 166 Are you at home?
For three consecutive days, Fu Runing didn't see Xiaoting at night.
Every time at that time, she would look out the window, but miraculously, the man never appeared.
However, Xiao Jingting actually called a housekeeping company to come to the house to exterminate mosquitoes and insects, and cleaned every corner of the Fu family villa.
She and Xiao Jingting got along well these two days. Could this be the reason why Xiaoting didn't come out?
The air in the early summer evening is filled with the fragrance of camphor trees.
Fu Runing walked back home from the yard feeling refreshed. Fu Jinbei glanced at her as he passed by and said jokingly, "Oh, are you waiting for your lover outside?"
Fu Runing was too lazy to pay attention to him. She made a face at him and turned to go to the study to talk to her father.
Dad was visibly thinner than before. Fu Runing concealed the negativity in her eyes and walked up to her father with the pear soup.
"Auntie stewed it today, it's delicious. I heard you coughing during the day."
Fu Zhangnan took the bowl from his daughter and said, "Thank you, Ningning."
Fu Runing responded in an exaggerated tone: "You're welcome, Dad!"
The father and daughter usually like to speak in such an exaggerated and funny tone.
She was raised by her father, who knew how to play with a one-year-old girl, could coax a five-year-old girl, and could even play with a twenty-five-year-old child.
Fu Runing sat down beside him and saw a box on his desk. The box was a few years old and contained some letters and diaries, which were the testimony of the relationship between his father and mother and were all well preserved by his father.
When Fu Runing saw him take it out and look at it again, her nose felt a little sore.
"Dad, are you missing mom again?"
Fu Zhangnan did not deny it, but just smiled gently.
"Yeah, I miss her every day."
Fu Runing suppressed the sourness in her nose and pretended to be jealous, "I know you only have mom in your heart. I'm not even as good as a tiny strand of mom's hair."
Fu Zhangnan smiled, picked up the draft paper on the table, and wrote her name on it with a pen.
"Ningning, look at the word 'Ning'. It has a roof with a treasure on top, a heart in the middle, and the character 'yong' at the bottom. You are the treasure that our whole family has cherished with all their heart. Isn't it a little heartless for you to say this now?"
Fu Runing raised her chin proudly.
How could she not know that many of her social media account nicknames are Xiao Xin.
When she was in school, she always felt that her name was very difficult to write. Unfortunately, the surname Fu had many strokes. There were three characters in the name, and two of them were so difficult to write. She never came back to make a fuss.
Her father explained her name to her again and again, and every time he explained it, she would feel the love of her parents.
This was the umpteenth time her father had explained this to her.
Fu Runing's voice was filled with loneliness. "Besides you, who else can say nice things to make me happy in the future?"
"Of course there will be. Our Ningning is such a nice girl, how could there be no one to comfort her? Even if there is no one to comfort her for the time being, we have to make ourselves happy, right?"
Fu Runing really didn't want to cry, so she could only nod vigorously.
She picked up a photo from the box. It was an old black and white photo. The woman in the photo had picturesque eyebrows and eyes, and her expression was gentle and tough, as if no hardship could defeat her.
She picked up the photo gently and put it down again with a gentle movement.
Fu Runing felt that she was not as strong as her parents, and she could not bear the separation.
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After chatting with Fu Zhangnan, Fu Runing left the study.
The moment she closed the study door, the tears that were already welling up in her eyes fell uncontrollably.
She quickly walked back to her room, covering her mouth with her hands to prevent herself from making any sound.
At this moment, her cell phone started buzzing.
Fu Runing took it out and saw that it was a call from Xiao Jingting.
She didn't want to answer the call and hung up.
But within a few seconds, the phone rang again.
Fu Runing didn't know what urgent matter he had that required him to call her now, so she swiped the answer button with emotion.
"What do you want to do again?"
Her tone was unfriendly, full of impatience and questioning, as well as a heavy nasal and crying tone.
Xiao Jingting on the other end of the phone didn't say anything.
"Are you okay? If not, I'm hanging up." Fu Runing's tone became even more impatient.
The man on the other end of the phone then asked in a deep voice, "Are you home?"
"Where else can I be if I'm not at home?"
After saying this, Fu Runing hung up the phone. She didn't want to talk to anyone now.
She threw her cell phone away and crawled into the quilt, covering herself tightly so that even if she cried a little, no one would hear her.
Twenty minutes later, a car sped up outside the Fu family villa.
The man pressed the smart recognition lock on the door as if he knew the place well, walked straight through the empty living room, and went directly to the second floor.
But this time his steps were a little more hurried than usual.