Chapter 35 Fate and Missing

Chaohai City has always been sunny in April, but this week, for some unknown reason, it was always rainy.

The flower-seeing trip to the southern suburbs agreed with Yu Yifeng had not yet been fulfilled, but the meeting on Saturday that Mu Qing did not want to go to, but could not refuse, came first.

At 4:50 in the afternoon, Mu Qing stepped ten minutes before the appointed time and arrived at the meeting place ahead of schedule.

As soon as the car stopped, the waiter in suits and leather shoes was already waiting outside the car door. Seeing him push the door open, he immediately helped him open it with a smile on his face: "Hello, guest, do you have an appointment in advance?"

Mu Qing nodded slightly: "Yes, the name of the appointment should be... Mu Qing."

Mu Qing still had some understanding of his mother's behavior. She's tough and demanding - not just for herself, but for her family. Today's meeting is of a blind date nature. Naturally, she will not use her own name to make an appointment. Most of the time, she will use his name to make an appointment in order to promote Mu Qing.

The waiter responded politely and enthusiastically: "Mr. Mu, please come here."

Mu Qing followed the waiter into this small western-style building full of quaint charm. Looking at the store, he could see the valuable decorations at a glance, and sighed silently in his heart.

In the past, when he went out to eat with his mother, he often went to this kind of restaurant. According to the painful experience in the past, the exquisiteness of the decoration and the taste of the dishes are mostly inversely proportional.

It seems that when I go back tonight, I still have to buy some extra desserts to comfort my injured palate.

He was absent-mindedly thinking about other things, and the room he had reserved arrived before he knew it.

The waiter who led the way stopped at the door, looked at Mu Qing and said with a smile: "Another guest has already arrived early, you can go in directly. The ordered meal will be delivered in 10 minutes, please wait a moment."

"OK, thanks."

The door of the room was half open, and Mu Qing walked in directly. The girl who was leaning against the window watching the night scene looked back and saw him, and immediately felt bright.

She had also experienced this kind of meal called "meeting" several times before, but it was actually a blind date, but it was the first time she met a blind date with such outstanding appearance and body, temperament and dress aesthetics.

The favorability and expectations in her heart were raised unconsciously, she took the initiative to walk over and stretch out her hand to Mu Qing: "Hello, I'm Ke Lingzhen."

With a polite smile on Mu Qing's face, he gently held her fingertips: "Hello, I'm Mu Qing, I'm sorry for being late."

"No, it's because I accidentally arrived early." Ke Lingzhen blinked, showing a slightly playful smile, "After all, meeting with strangers is really not worth looking forward to."

Mu Qing smiled lightly and was about to speak when the phone suddenly rang.

"Sorry, I may have to excuse myself a little."

Mu Qing got up and walked out of the room, came to a secluded place a little far from the room, and answered the phone: "What's wrong?"

The other end of the phone was silent for a moment, then Yu Yifeng's voice rang: "Where are you?"

For some reason, the moment he heard his voice, a strange feeling suddenly filled Mu Qing's heart. This feeling is somewhere between a guilty conscience and guilt, and it is hard to let go for a while.

Quickly suppressing the messy thoughts in his mind, Mu Qing smiled calmly: "I'm having dinner with friends, what's wrong?"

"So that's how it is." Yu Yifeng's voice was very soft, and he seemed to have a faint smile on his face, "Are you a good friend?"

"No, just ordinary friends."

Mu Qing answered lightly, but Yu Yifeng seemed to have a strong interest in this topic, and then asked: "Ordinary friends will go out to dinner together, so you should like this friend very much."

"No, it's a dinner party that has to be dealt with." Mu Qing explained briefly, not intending to let this topic full of thunderous points continue, so he asked Yu Yifeng, "What about you? What are you doing?"

"I'm doing handicraft." The smile in Yu Yifeng's tone was more obvious than before, "Guess what I'm doing?"

Mu Qing subconsciously imagined Yu Yifeng holding small scissors and colored paper in his hands, with sewing kits and colored rags beside him, and couldn't help but chuckle: "To be a princess' magic dress?"

"Wow, you guessed it right!" Yu Yifeng's voice was a little surprised, and he sounded slowly with a smile, "Then I will give you a little more surprises as a reward for you and me having a good heart. already."

"Okay, then I'll wait and see."

Mu Qing responded with a smile, looked at the food delivery truck that was about to reach the door of the room not far away, and sighed regretfully: "I have to go back, and I'll tell you when it's over."

"Okay—bye—" Yu Yifeng dragged his voice to bid him farewell, and hung up the phone first.

Mu Qing put away the phone and walked quickly to the room. If Miss Ke accidentally told his mother about his absence after dinner, he would be forced to be distracted by these unnecessary things again.

"The two of you ordered our spring limited package today..."

After the waiter introduced several appetizers meticulously and quickly, Mu Qing maintained a good attitude and motioned to Ke Lingzhen, "Miss Ke, please go first."

Ke Lingzhen did not immediately move the chopsticks, but looked at Mu Qing with a smile: "Can I call you Mu Qing?"

Mu Qing smiled decently: "Of course it is possible."

Ke Lingzhen said: "Mu Qing, before dinner, I have a small request, can you agree to me?"

"Miss Ke, please speak."

Ke Lingzhen straightened the strands of hair that fell on her temples, looked at Mu Qing with a smile, and said, "It's actually a kind of fate that we can meet here today. So, I hope you can call me by my name, not 'you'. ',is it okay?"

Mu Qing smiled lightly: "It seems a bit too presumptuous for you to call the lady by her first name."

Ke Lingzhen can get Tao Shuang's blue eyes, so naturally she is not a little girl who doesn't understand anything. Seeing that Mu Qing was still estranged from him, he immediately understood his attitude.

She lowered her eyes and smiled, and resumed her previous name: "Many people told me that Mr. Mu behaved like a gentleman, and I was a little skeptical; I saw it today and I know it's true."

Mu Qing smiled and said casually, "It is rare to see such an elegant woman as Miss Ke."

Halfway through the step-by-step meal, Mu Qing's mobile phone on the table suddenly lit up.

Yu Yifeng: [Picture]

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Yu Yifeng: [Picture]

Yu Yifeng: Just now my grandmother was making clothes for the puppy at home, and I followed her to make one for Yunsi.

Yu Yifeng: don't know if the size is right or not. I'll give it a try some other day.

Yu Yifeng: It must be beautiful.

Mu Qing looked at the prompt message with mixed feelings in his heart. In a trance, he felt that he was now very much like a scumbag who left his virtuous housekeeping wife at home and sneaked out to meet a glamorous third party.

Seeing that he stopped and looked at the phone, Ke Lingzhen suggested thoughtfully, "If there is something important, you can deal with it first, don't worry about me."

Mu Qing came back to his senses and forced himself to look away from the screen: "It doesn't really matter, it's just a little personal matter of mine."

The waiter outside the door carefully calculated the speed of the two of them to eat, and delivered dessert.

Ke Lingzhen picked up a small spoon and smashed the chocolate shell on the top layer of the dessert, and suddenly sighed: "Before eating, I thought the sense of alienation between me and you was like this layer of chocolate, which melts when you touch it; But now I realize I was wrong, it's more like ice that won't melt."

Mu Qing smiled: "The fate of people cannot be generalized. Miss Ke is so smart, she naturally understands these things better than me."

Ke Lingzhen sighed slightly, put down the spoon and looked at Mu Qing: "I have a relatively straightforward personality, so I want to ask you candidly - what do you think is the biggest problem between me and you?"

Mu Qing's voice was soft, but his answer was straightforward and direct: "Gender."

Ke Lingzhen's expression stiffened, she almost thought she had heard it wrong: "What?"

"Gender." Mu Qing looked at her with a calm expression, "I don't know if my mother told you in advance when she made an appointment with you, but I don't want to cheat the marriage, so I won't hide it from you."

Ke Lingzhen was stunned for a moment, then smiled self-deprecatingly: "So that's the case, I thought..."

She picked up the napkin and wiped the corners of her lips, and stood up gracefully: "Mr. Mu, thank you for your company today and... frankly, I hope you can find someone you really like soon."

"Thank you." Mu Qing handed her the handbag on the side, "Miss Ke is so good, you will definitely meet someone better and more suitable."

Ke Lingzhen didn't answer, just bowed gracefully and walked out without looking back.

As the night got darker, Mu Qing drove slowly on his way home, trying to find a dessert shop that was still open on the street.

Today's dishes are complex and delicate, but the taste really lived up to his expectations - delicate and beautiful, but small and unpalatable.

It's a pity that it's getting late, and all the delicious dessert shops on the road have closed. Mu Qing sighed helplessly, thinking about going back to make some fruit to eat, but his phone suddenly rang.

It was inconvenient to answer the phone while driving, so Mu Qing pressed the speakerphone directly.

Yu Yifeng's voice came out of the receiver, a little lower than before: "Have you gone home yet?"

"I'm still on the way, I'll be there soon." Mu Qing replied, "I saw the photo you just posted, it's very nice, bring it over someday and let Yun Si try it."

"Is now okay?"

"Now?" Mu Qing glanced at the time, "It's almost nine o'clock now, you came too late, how about tomorrow?"

Yu Yifeng was quiet for a moment, then suddenly laughed: "Okay, then I'll be there early tomorrow, you have to wait for me."

"okay."

The call was quickly hung up, Yu Yifeng was quiet for a moment, and opened the dialog between him and Mu Qing.

The messages in the chat box were still the words and pictures he had posted at around seven o'clock, and there was no reply from Mu Qing.

The screen turned from bright to dark, but a smile slowly appeared on Yu Yifeng's mouth: "I'm really looking forward to it."

He murmured to himself, "Will you explain it to me tomorrow?"