Chapter 6: The Western Palace Villa Maternity Nurse Auntie

  This place is still ten meters away from the front of Qu Creek Road. I hurriedly ran all the way, stretching out my hand to stop a taxi on Qu Creek Road. At this time, that person's car was just passing by my side. After a minute or so, I finally stopped a taxi. I got into the passenger seat and quickly instructed the driver to chase after the Mazda 6 in front of us.

  At this time, the Mazda 6 had disappeared from view.

  I carefully distinguished the red paint marks on the road surface, passed two intersections, and hastily asked the driver to turn left. Fortunately, this driver's driving style was quite aggressive, overtaking all the way, and finally caught up with that Mazda 6 after several turns.

  I squinted at the license plate, confirmed it was correct, and finally let out a sigh of relief.

  That person is still driving forward in a daze. I know his destination must be where Chen Ziqi is. So let the driver follow this car. The driver jokingly asked if I had a fight with my girlfriend, and I gave him a thumbs up saying "Master, you understand men, it's miserable! When a girlfriend gets angry, she drives away, and I have to chase after her."

  The driver smiled and said, "I've seen this situation many times before. Your girlfriend is probably a rich family's princess, so it's normal for her to have a big temper." You're not from around here, are you? You chased after a Shanghai girl? Not bad, although she has a big temper, but your child's household registration problem is solved, isn't it? Her parents will still help you take care of the kid, right? Maybe even the housing issue is resolved. You've solved three problems with this one move, so what's a little hardship? Just bear with it and it'll pass.

  I cursed in my heart: Uncle, why are you talking so much nonsense? Hurry up and take care of me. If I get lost, I'll fight with you. But after all, I'm asking for his help now, I don't dare to speak out, can only follow along.

  Fortunately, this driver didn't mess around either. The Mazda 6 in front accelerated all the way, and this Santana 2000 wasn't left behind.

  I told Master not to get too close, don't let her know I'm following, or she'll be even more annoyed. The driver said don't worry, I have a plan.

  Two cars got on the inner ring elevated road together and then turned onto the north-south elevated road. I looked at the taxi meter and saw that the number had already exceeded 50 yuan, my heart aching with pain.

  That Mazda 6 drove off the elevated road and stopped near the Huxi Workers' Cultural Palace. I breathed a sigh of relief, as this place is familiar to me. From here, it takes less than 15 minutes to walk to my alma mater. When I was in graduate school, I often came to hang out around here. The Huxi Workers' Cultural Palace, also known as "Xigong", has a market inside that specializes in selling all sorts of small trinkets for girls, with many cheap options available, making it a paradise for girls; there's also a flower, bird, fish, and insect market, which is my own personal paradise.

  It's just that I often come to this place, but I never knew that Chen Ziqi was also here.

  I saw that Mazda 6 enter the Xigong, quickly got off the taxi, gave the driver a red ticket, didn't want change, and hurriedly walked towards the Xigong.

  The south side of the flower, bird, fish and insect market is a piece of forest, all are very old trees, lush and dense, blocking out the sky. The forest leads to a narrow road that can only fit one car, winding deep into the distance, with a white small building standing at the end, and the car parked beside it.

  I saw that there was no one in the car, so I quietly walked to the side of the car and pulled down the bottle with the magnet together. The paint inside had already leaked out. I casually threw it into the depths of the shrubs under the trees. I looked up at this small building that looked like a villa.

  It seems that this Chen Ziqi is indeed a very wealthy man, who has built a small villa in such a golden location, in such a secluded corner. This villa may not be eye-catching, but the price must be staggering.

  I wasn't stupid enough to walk into this private villa, I just kept a distance and pretended to be a tired pedestrian resting on the curb.

  It's been a long time since anyone came out. It was almost noon, and the sky was still gloomy, as if it had reached summer, the haze was getting worse. I didn't have breakfast, my stomach was growling with hunger. Helplessly, I ran to the store at the west palace gate, bought two steamer baskets of small buns, took them back and ate while waiting.

  I just want to know what Chen Ziqi looks like.

  A bicycle bell rang out, I turned my head to look, and saw an aunt riding a bicycle, swaying over slowly, with many vegetables in the basket.

  It seems I won't be able to wait for Chen Ziqi today - I thought he would definitely come out to eat, but looking at this auntie, she's probably the nanny his family hired to cook.

  When the aunt passed by, she glanced at me and didn't pay much attention. She locked the car, carried the vegetables and meat into the small villa. Five minutes later, I walked over and took the aunt's bicycle away.

  It's okay, I've practiced a few times before, so the weight of this bicycle is no big deal for me. After walking towards the woods for a while and making sure that nobody would come here, I took out my usual tin foil lock-picking tool from my bag and got to work on the bike lock. Okay, since I opened that iron door at the funeral home, I've become like a habitual thief, with crime tools always in my bag.

  Or rather, after I opened that iron door of the morgue and walked in, I entered a world completely different from what I had experienced before.

  I fixed the bike lock, then ran to the Xigong store that specializes in women's products and picked out a pair of sunglasses that looked decent on me. I put them on and stuffed the old ones into my bag. Then I ran to the restroom inside the flower, bird, fish, and insect market and changed into another set of clothes from my bag. After that, I returned to the woods, pushed my bike to the edge of the forest, and waited quietly.

  After about an hour, Auntie came out of the villa and saw that the bicycle was gone. She anxiously searched around.

  It's normal to lose a bike these days, isn't it? Don't worry about it, auntie... I thought to myself with a sneer, pushing my bike for a few steps before turning to the auntie and saying, "Auntie, you're in such a hurry, did you lose your bike?"

  Auntie saw me pushing her bicycle and ran up to me in three strides, asking what was going on.

  I said I came to Xigong to play, and I had an emergency, but I couldn't find a toilet, so I went into the woods to relieve myself. But then I saw someone secretly unlocking a bicycle lock, which made me suspicious. As a socialist youth who upholds justice, how could I ignore this suspicious situation? So I was just about to go over and question him when he saw that things weren't going well and ran away quickly. I didn't chase after him. Since the bike thief unlocked the bike in the woods, the original location of the bike must not be far from here. So I came out to ask around. Unexpectedly, as soon as I came out, I saw you here looking anxious.

  Aunt just saw that the bicycle was lost and almost cried, but after hearing what I said, she burst into laughter and said: "Oh my, thank you so much, you've helped me a lot."

  I hastily modestly said: "Auntie, don't thank me yet, to be honest, I can't just hand the car over to you because I don't know if this car is really yours!"

  Auntie heard this and became anxious again, hastily saying that this car is indeed hers, but how can she prove it?

  "Auntie, don't worry, the thief who stole the bike has opened the chain lock. Look, it's here," I said, pointing to the bike basket. "I'll lock it up again. If you're the owner, you must have a key, right? If you can open this lock, it will prove that the bike is yours."

  Aunt took out the key and opened the chain lock. I smiled and said, "It seems that this car is indeed yours, Auntie. Sorry about that, I couldn't just give the car to anyone, in case I gave it to the wrong person, which would be counterproductive."

  The aunt who had lost and regained something was beaming with joy at this moment, pulling me to say "Thank you so much, young man! Oh my, your heart is so kind, not only are you good-hearted, but also clever. I just love young people like you." Seeing that you're sweating profusely, I'll treat you to a drink, come on.

  I handed the car over to Auntie. Auntie pushed the cart and wanted to say something, but I walked straight out. Auntie hurriedly caught up. After walking away for more than ten meters, she finally spoke up and said that since Auntie said so, then I won't be polite.

  Auntie said don't be polite, you've helped me so much, if I didn't treat you to a drink, I'd feel guilty.

  I smiled and said, "Auntie, are you working for several families? If you need to rush to the next one, then hurry up and leave first. This little thing doesn't count as anything, it's what I should do."

  Auntie said it's okay, so I'll just do this one household. It's not too far away anyway, I live on the other side of Shunyi Road, I buy enough vegetables in the morning, cook at home first, let them eat first, then come here to cook. Come again in the afternoon and sweep the room, that's all.

  I asked: "I heard that usually doing a month's confinement nanny is taking on several jobs at once, how come you're only doing this one household?"

  The aunt said that this family gave a lot of money and was already very satisfied. After all, she still had to take care of her family, so she didn't accept any more.