Chapter 176
At night, when the Bentley car passed the entrance of Tai On Residence, Assistant Peng turned his head to Shen Ron in the back seat and said, “CEO Shen, are you still going back to Shen Mansion at this late hour?”
Shen Ron dozed his eyelids slightly, not looking out the window, and asked while rubbing his temples with his fingers, “Where is it now?”
“It happens to be in front of the Thaumaturgical Residence.” Assistant Peng replied.
“Then go back to the Thaumaturgy.”
“Good.” Assistant Peng turned the steering wheel, turned the car into the downstairs of Block E of Tai On Residence and parked it, got out and pulled the back seat door for Shen Ron: “CEO Shen, I’ll take you up.”
“No need.” Shen Ron shook his head.
“But you’ve been drinking.”
“I’m not drunk, I’m just a little tired.” Shen Ron walked inside the apartment building on his long, slender legs.
Assistant Peng saw that he really wasn’t very drunk, as it were, and drove away from the Taian residence.
Entering the house, Shen Ron tugged the tie from around his neck as he made his way inside, heading straight for the dining room and taking a garbage bag out from inside Lin’s cabinet.
Last week, he left home in a hurry after dropping the half-eaten instant noodles because of a company emergency, and he hasn’t returned for so many days, so I guess it’s already moldy.
His movement to open the trash bag paused at the sight of the empty tabletop, and after surveying it, he looked down at the table again and saw no sign of instant noodles.
He took out his phone and dialed Assistant Peng’s number, who quickly picked up, “CEO Shen, what’s up?”
“You came over here to clean up?” Shen Ron asked, looking at the empty desk.
Assistant Peng was confused, “No, I don’t have the password to your house, what’s wrong, CEO Shen.”
Shen Ron closed his eyes and shook his head, “Nothing more.”
He hung up the phone and thought for a moment, thinking to himself that his memory was getting so bad that he couldn’t actually be sure if he had cleaned the dumplings out in the first place or not.
He went into the bathroom and took a shower and went out on the patio to water the roses before he went back inside and lounged in bed.
Because of a shortage of staff, Cheng Lydia worked five days in a row before she finally had two days off.
At breakfast time, Isaac was better behaved than ever and finished his bowl of porridge in one go.
Cheng Lydia surveyed the extraordinarily well-behaved man and stroked his little head with a smile, “Why is Isaac being so good today?”
“Because I want to get to ‘Happy City’ soon and play.” Isaac exclaimed.
Cheng Lydia froze, when had she ever promised him that she would take him to the City of Joy?
Cindy chuckled from the sidelines, “Once the little guy hears play, he’s more than willing to do anything he’s asked to do.”
“But … when did I say I was going to take him to ‘Happy City’ to play.” Cheng Lydia said.
“Didn’t you promise him that when you saw ‘Happy City’ on TV last time? I thought I’d take him to LS City since we’re already here anyway. So just now when he wouldn’t get up, I coaxed him that I’d take him to ‘Happy City’ after breakfast, and he rolled out of bed in a flash.”
Cheng Lydia smiled and stopped talking.
It’s not a big deal to take Isaac there, ‘Happy City’ is built in the West End, a bit away from Shen, and it’s been open for a little while now, so Shen Ron, a busy man, shouldn’t be running there all the time, and there’s no need for him to manage it himself.
“Mom, Ella, hurry up you guys.” Isaac was getting tired of waiting.
Cheng Lydia stroked his head and got up from the table with a smile, “Don’t be in a hurry, we’ll go out as soon as Mummy and Ella go and change.”
“Come on, Cindy, come back and clean up the dishes again.” Cheng Lydia said to Cindy with a glance at her already impatient baby boy, then went abruptly back inside to change into her going out clothes.
It wasn’t exactly close to the ‘City of Joy’ from Taianju, and the three of them got on the bus that led there.
Cheng Lydia noticed that after three years of absence, LS City has changed again and is more beautiful than before, especially the western suburbs which are developing particularly fast.
The last time I visited, the playground had just started construction and there was dust everywhere. Now, three years later, Cheng Lydia came back and found that not only had the playground gates been built in an extraordinarily grand manner, but even the nearby road had been repaired.
I remember when I came here to evacuate the masses, there was a lot of unpleasantness, and she cost Shen Ron $50 million in compensation.
Now that I think about it, those things are as clear as if they had just happened yesterday.
Cheng Lydia bought her tickets at the ticket center and Isaac couldn’t wait to rush in.
“Isaac, you wait for mommy …” Cheng Lydia busied herself with catching up.
Since it was a weekend and a new opening, there were so many visitors inside the playground, she was really afraid that Isaac would run out of sight if she wasn’t careful.
“Mom, I want to ride the merry-go-round!” Isaac said with an excited look on his face as he pointed to the carousel in front of him.
Cheng Lydia smiled and nodded, “It’s okay to ride the wooden horse, but you have to promise mommy that you won’t wander off or she won’t find you oh.”
“I promise you mom, I won’t wander off.” Isaac agreed cheerfully.
“Okay, come on, let’s go on the wooden horse!”
Cheng Lydia took Isaac on the merry-go-round while Cindy was busy taking pictures of them from outside the guardrail.
Isaac was a big fan of the new and fun rides here, and had to have a go at anything that was kid-friendly and crazy sweaty.
Cheng Lydia wiped the sweat from his head with a sweat towel and asked with a big smile, “It was that much fun?”
“There is.” Isaac nodded and pointed to the ice cream in the hands of a child next to him, “Mom, I want ice cream too.”
Cheng Lydia saw his hot, flushed little face and nodded, “Okay, mommy will go get you one.”
She stood up and said to Cindy, “Cindy, you watch Isaac while I go get him an ice cream.”
“Okay, you go.” Cindy took Isaac’s hand.
“Cindy, what would you like to drink? Is green tea okay?”
“I don’t need it, I’m not thirsty.” Cindy waved her hand.
Cheng Lydia smiled and nodded, heading for the sweet shop next door.
“Isaac, are you tired? Do you want to sit here and wait for mommy?” Cindy asked Isaac, pointing to the lounge chair next to her.
Isaac nodded and the two walked together to the lounge chairs and sat down.
“Can you take a picture for us, big sister?” A young couple approached and asked Cindy with a big smile.NôvelDrama.Org: text © owner.
Cindy nodded and took the camera that was handed to her.
“Sister, we want to take a picture of that Ferris wheel, can we get it?” The girl asked.
Cindy looked and looked and shook her head, “The picture isn’t full.”
“Try standing a little this way, big sister.” The boy said.
Cindy stepped a little to the side as he instructed and nodded with a smile, “Now it’s okay.”
“Then please take a few more pictures for us.”
“Okay.”
Cindy took four or five shots in a row for them, and the young couple looked at the screen with great satisfaction and walked away saying thank you.
Cindy returned to the lounge chair and noticed that Isaac, who had been sitting in the chair, was nowhere to be found, her heart suddenly clenched and she began to scan around to take stock.
When Cindy searched around for a few dozen meters and couldn’t find Isaac, as it were, she hurried to the sweet shop in front of her and said to Cheng Lydia who was in line, “Lydia, Isaac has gone off somewhere, so help along and look for him.”
As soon as she heard that Isaac was missing, Cheng Lydia’s whole heart went cold and she couldn’t be bothered to buy or sell ice cream.
With so many people in the amusement park, it’s not easy to find someone.
Cindy was even in tears as she searched for it, “I was sitting nicely in a chair with Isaac and a little couple asked me to help take a picture, I wasn’t paying attention and Isaac was gone, what should I do …”
“How would I know what to do? Let’s split up and look for them.” Cheng Lydia was on the verge of tears, too.
Cindy suddenly took her hand and said, “Lydia, do you think that little couple could be human traffickers? I should have known I wouldn’t have taken their picture, sorry Lydia …”
Cheng Lydia stopped in her tracks, closed her eyes to keep herself calm, and said to Cindy, “Look around while I go to the radio station to register a missing person message.”
“Good.” Cindy left at a brisk pace.
The amusement park was so big and it was not so easy to find the radio station, Cheng Lydia asked the staff all the way and searched all the way, almost crying out.