"Li Jingxiang?" I guessed. After the battle in Jinling, Li Jingxiang stayed to take care of her master who was seriously injured. Now that Shen Xingyue had recovered, her master should be almost well too. But shouldn't the master and disciple have returned to Qipan Mountain? Why would they come to Fucheng?
"Haha, Jingxiang is here, but there's someone else!"
"Who?" I really couldn't remember.
At this moment, the phone was taken by someone else, and a voice that I couldn't be more familiar with came through, "Kid, where have you been hiding? I’ve been looking for you so hard!"
"...Auntie? How did you get here?" I was surprised. The last time I contacted her, I lied and told her I was staying in the Northeast to start a live streaming business and wasn't returning to Jinling. She worked in Shanghai, which was close before. Northeast is quite far.
"How could I not come? Something happened at our hospital recently, and it needs to be closed for renovation for a week. So I went to Jinling to find Xingyue. That's how I found out what you've been up to. Not bad, kid, you've made something of yourself!"
I didn't dare to respond carelessly, not knowing what Shen Xingyue had told my aunt. I could only laugh it off and say it was okay, it was okay.
"Where are you living now? I'll come find you," my aunt said.
"Uh... Auntie, I'll come find you," I said. The place I'm living has a very heavy yin and demonic energy!
"Okay, Xingyue and I are at Milan Patisserie. Yueyue said this is where you two had your blind date?"
"...Ah, sort of. I'll be right over then." I hung up the phone with a dark expression and turned to look at Yaoyao and the others. "My aunt is here. I'm going to see her. Do you want to come along?"
"Should I go?" Yaoyao asked, her expression devout and her tone gentle, as if she were going to meet her parents-in-law.
Bingbing was sensible and knew her place, or rather, her ranking. She said she wouldn't go and took Jing Shen with her. They went shopping, and Bingbing bought Jing Shen a new smartphone. Jing Shen's was too old. I asked her to buy a few more SIM cards and phones so everyone could switch them. Bingbing, being local, knew where to get them on the "black market."
On the way, I tried to communicate with Shen Xingyue on WeChat, wanting to find out how much my aunt knew about me to avoid exposing myself later. But Shen Xingyue didn't reply to my WeChat. She might be chatting with my aunt.
Forget it, I'll just play it by ear.
When I arrived at Milan Patisserie, to my surprise, I saw Shen Xingyue's red Volkswagen Beetle again. I don't know where she dug it up from.
I didn't need to call to ask for a private room. With my Qi-reading technique, I saw Shen Xingyue in the private room by the window at the southernmost end of the second floor. Besides her, there was another red aura, which naturally belonged to my aunt.
Yaoyao and I went upstairs, knocked, and entered the private room. I hadn't seen my aunt in a long time, and I felt like her appearance had become somewhat unfamiliar, and her beauty had declined somewhat (perhaps because I had seen too many beautiful women lately, and of high quality). But after all, she was my own relative. Children don't dislike their mothers for being ugly, and dogs don't dislike their families for being poor. This is even more so for my aunt and me.
I gave her a big hug. While hugging her, I quickly gestured to Shen Xingyue, signaling her to check her phone. Shen Xingyue unlocked her phone screen, looked at my WeChat message, shook her head, and mouthed to me, "I didn't say anything!"
That put my mind at ease.
Letting go of my aunt, she looked at Yaoyao behind me. "And this young lady is?"
"Uh..." Since my aunt knew nothing, I decided it was best not to tell her the truth, to avoid her worrying about me. "Her name is Jin Yao, we all call her Yaoyao. She's my live streaming team's... general manager."
"Oh, Miss Jin, hello." My aunt immediately resumed her professional doctor persona, with her left hand in her pocket and her right hand extended for a polite handshake. "I am Wu Chengfeng's aunt. My name is Wu Mi, for secret."
"Hello, Auntie," Yaoyao extended both hands and shook my aunt's hand respectfully.
So my aunt's full name was Wu Mi. When I was little, I always heard my parents and grandmother call her Er Ya, so I thought her real name was Wu Er Ya!