After a seventeen-hour flight, the 737MAXI landed safely at Seattle-Tacoma Airport.
Due to the time difference, the landing time was 10pm local time.
It doesn't end just after you get off the plane. There is a chance that you will be called into a dark room when you enter the country, which is a bit stricter than the visa interview.
Maybe Zhang Jing’s life is like a blank slate, and this didn’t happen.
Ding Jiaqi was wearing light-colored three-quarter-length jeans, a short-sleeved T-shirt, and white flat shoes. She stood like a blooming white lotus among a group of people, very conspicuous.
It's hard for Zhang Jing not to see her.
Approaching him, Ding Jiaqi smiled sweetly and opened her hands generously.
Many people around him were hugging. Zhang Jing stepped forward and hugged Ding Jia gently, complaining, "I was worried for seventeen hours."
"What are you worried about?" Ding Jiaqi asked with a raised face.
"He was worried about the plane falling."
Wen Li, an old lady she had just met, slowly came over and interrupted.
"Who is this grandma?" Ding Jiaqi asked, blinking her beautiful eyes.
"The client I met on the plane is Wen Li." Zhang Jing introduced the two of them, "Ding Jiaqi, my friend."
Wen Li smiled warmly as a greeting.
At this time, someone came to pick up Wen Li and asked her to leave for now.
Zhang Jing and Ding Jiaqi got into a taxi and drove about fifteen or six kilometers north along Airport Road and entered the city.
Finally, we stopped in front of an apartment building near Seattle’s landmark Space Needle.
"It's very close to the school. I looked for a house online."
Zhang Jing asked out his doubts, "You only have 1,200 yuan per month for living expenses, why can you study abroad?"
"My parents were frugal." Ding Jiaqi explained lightly.
"The location here is not bad, so the rent shouldn't be cheap, right?"
"You've met Qu Xiaoqing. I share a house with her. It's a bit more expensive here and it's a safe neighborhood."
Safe neighborhoods are also so-called wealthy areas, so this money cannot be saved.
All the reasons were normal. Zhang Jing didn't want Ding Jiaqi to live too badly, so he exchanged two thousand yuan for it before boarding the plane, counted out one thousand and handed it over.
"Brother Zhang," Ding Jiaqi solemnly emphasized, "I can't take your money, and I won't go to the hotel with you."
"This is Citiland. If you are looking for a girl, you must look for someone with blonde hair and blue eyes."
Zhang Jingchun's bad mouth is completely a habit and a subconscious behavior.
"Brother Zhang," Ding Jiaqi reminded with a serious expression, "There are many AIDS cases here. You can't have promiscuous sex, drink drinks of unknown origin, and you can't be curious about trying D products."
Ding Jiaqi looks very cautious, which is a good thing.
"I'm just joking," Zhang Jing handed over the money, "You don't need it, I can only use it on others."
After hesitating for two seconds, Ding Jiaqi took the cash and said, "Thank you."
"You're welcome," Zhang Jing looked at the Hilton Hotel across the street, "I'll stay at the hotel across the street at night and go to work during the day tomorrow. I'll treat you and Qu Xiaoqing to dinner tomorrow night."
After hesitating for three or four seconds, Ding Jiaqi stepped on her feet and hugged Zhang Jing, turned around and trotted into the apartment.
Qu Xiaoqing was on the sixteenth floor, an apartment with two bedrooms, two living rooms and two bathrooms. When Ding Jiaqi came back, he joked, "Have you ever felt the taste of love?"
Ding Jiaqi nodded gently.
"Forget it about unrequited love," Qu Xiaoqing advised. "You know in your heart that you and Zhang Jing are not suitable and cannot be together. Our class does not allow it."
Holding one thousand yuan in her hand, Ding Jiaqi refused.
The next day, after having a buffet breakfast at the hotel, Zhang Jing found a telecommunications company nearby and went in to apply for a phone card and data traffic.
Fortunately, there is a third-generation immigrant who can speak some Mandarin, otherwise Zhang Jing would not be able to handle it with his poor English.
Then got in a taxi and headed to 1032 84th Avenue.
The address was given by Wen Li and we will arrive in forty minutes.
Different from ordinary residential areas, each house here is far apart, has many big trees, and has independent front and rear gardens, which looks very eye-catching.
When Zhang Jing arrived, a middle-aged woman wearing home cleaning work clothes was wiping the black iron gate of the yard.
"Good morning, is this Mr. Zhang?" the woman greeted first.
"good morning."
Zhang Jing responded ignorantly. He was frightened by Wen Li pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger. He thought she was just an ordinary old lady, but he didn't expect that she was a rich person.
The woman opened the electric courtyard door from the inside and invited, "Please come with me. Madam is waiting in the living room."
Looking at the yard where football can be played, the tidy lawn, the valuable landscape trees, and the large house in the distance, Zhang Jing was sure that this was the kind of house he couldn't afford.
Take an electric scooter similar to a golf ball and drive along the S-shaped cement road from the entrance of the courtyard to the main building of the house for about two minutes.
Zhang Jing saw Wen Li in the living room to the right of the entrance to the villa's foyer.
It's not a living room, it's a living room only found in houses of a certain level. The floor height is about five meters. The layout is simple, elegant and generous. It is backed by a large floor-to-ceiling window and outside is the green landscape of the yard.
For example, when Liu Laolao entered the Grand View Garden, Zhang Jing asked nervously, "Should I start working now?"
"This is definitely not a job that can be completed in a short time," Wen Li sat on the sofa looking kindly, "Sit down and have a cup of tea."
She walked to sit opposite Wen Li, and the waiter served her fragrant tea.
"Where did you spend the night last night?"
“Hilton Downtown.”
"With your little girlfriend?"
"No, she is not my girlfriend."
After chatting for a while, Wen Li changed the topic to work.
"Behind the manor is Washington Lake. My grandson disappeared five years ago. At that time, two girls traveling with him said he disappeared while diving. When you dive, pay attention to the water plants on the bottom of the lake."
"I will."
"You need to prepare your own lunch while you work, and you need to leave the manor before evening."
"no problem."
"Photography is not allowed in the manor, and all images are prohibited from being leaked."
Zhang Jing agreed.
After understanding the owner's needs and requirements, Zhang Jing officially started working. He followed the housekeeper, an old white man, from the side of the villa to the backyard.
Wherever he looked, Zhang Jing was stunned.
He was already very good at playing football in the front yard, but he never expected that professional golf competitions could be held in the backyard. The green space was large and occasionally dotted with a big tree.
The further boundary is connected to a lake.
These are already exaggerated, but the key is that everything is well maintained.
Maintenance is also the most expensive thing. For example, in this house, Zhang Jing has seen more than ten waiters, cleaners, security guards, and housekeepers.
Follow the butler through the entire backyard golf course to the clean, tidy, and spacious private dock.
Pointing to the well-maintained and beautiful yacht of more than 20 meters long, the butler introduced it in standard Mandarin, "This is the fishing boat that Master Xu Lin was on when he was involved in an accident five years ago. It has always remained the same."
Listening to the butler's introduction, Zhang Jing looked around at the nearby surveillance cameras. There was more than one, as many as seven or eight, and they were still the best ones.
But Wen Li only provided herself with one perspective.
Zhang Jing is not a detective, but he has to care about these because his goal is to find the bones.
