"Let me just say, instead of expecting you to get up early, sister Keiko, you should expect me to become a Hollywood star in the future."
On the other end of the phone, Karasuma's tone contained a familiar tiredness.
"So? Who called?"
"Karasumaru, why don't you take a guess?" Without answering her immediately, Hatoyama Keiko said with a smile: "Friendly reminder, this is a call from Europe."
"Oh, it turns out to be a wooden man."
Karasuma's tone was calm and he spoke the answer without even thinking.
"That's right. If a call from Europe can make you smile, sister Keiko, it can only be a call from a stupid person."
Wooden Man, this is Karasumaru's nickname for Shirakawa Kiyoshi.
The reason is that Bai Heqing always has a cold face and speaks in the same indifferent tone that has not changed for thousands of years. He is like a piece of wood without emotion.
"Want to say a few words to him?" Hatoyama Keiko asked with a smile, not paying attention to her teasing.
"You two can just chat, I won't interrupt."
The sound of a kettle pouring water came from the phone, and Karasuma said calmly:
"After all, I don't know who it is. After learning that the wooden man was missing, I was worried to death all day yesterday. The medicine didn't taste good. I lay in bed in the middle of the night and couldn't sleep. I was still crying. I kept calling the old owner of the Hatoyama family, urging me to find someone, saying that if something happened to the wooden man, I wouldn’t be able to live or anything. I made a fuss all night and waited until morning to finally stop. It really tortured me. Enough...
Tsk tsk tsk, I really didn’t expect that our sister Keiko also has this side..."
It seemed that he was specifically speaking to Shirakawa Qing on the other end of the phone. Not only did Kokarasuma deliberately raise his voice, but when he said the next few sentences, he also deliberately changed his tone, imitating Hatoyama Keiko's tone at that time, giving Shirakawa Qing a sense of purpose. The wave scene reappears.
"Wow! Ah—Don't say it, Karasuma-chan! Don't say it out loud!"
As for the person involved, Keiko Hatoyama desperately covered the microphone and shouted loudly in an attempt to stop Kokarasuma.
If Bai Heqing were in this ward now, he would be able to see that Hatoyama Keiko's pale cheeks were already red at this time.
"What? Someone is shy?"
However, Karasuma didn't seem to want to let her go, and instead made his voice even louder.
"Then why weren't you shy last night when you were on the verge of death?"
"Wow\#*>/!——" Hatoyama Keiko began to scream and talk nonsense.
"Well, it's okay if you want me not to say anything."
Feeling that the time was almost here, Kokarasuma smiled and handed the water cup and medicine that he had prepared to Hatoyama Keiko.
"Take the medicine quickly, and I will forget everything about someone last night."
"It's so bad, how could it be like this..."
Hatoyama Keiko took the medicine as fast as light, took the medicine and swallowed it in one gulp, then picked up the water glass and drank it with a splash.
"Little Karasuma, please wait. I will definitely ask grandpa to transfer you away and replace me with another nurse..."
"Give up. You can't do it. The old head of the Hatoyama family has already said before that I will take care of your daily life in the hospital, sister Keiko."
"Humph, I will definitely find a way..."
"Okay, stop talking nonsense, we still have the medicine."
"Well……"
On the other end of the phone, the two of them were bickering with each other, but on the other side of Paris, Bai Heqing listened to them quietly with a smile on his face.
"White River."
At this moment, at the door of the secret room behind her, Mary poked her head in and took a look, holding a quilt.
"I found it. There is a spare mattress in the bedroom closet... Ah, I'm sorry, are you on the phone?"
"Yes." Bai Heqing nodded towards her, apologetically.
"I got it, then you get busy first." Mary nodded, turned around and left without asking any more questions, hugging the quilt.
"Huh? Huh-huh--"
But at this time, Keiko Hatoyama on the other end of the phone heard Mary's voice, and suddenly let out a very unexpected exclamation.
"Xiao Qing? Did I hear a girl's voice just now? She seemed to be speaking Japanese?"
"Girl?!"
Before Bai Heqing could reply, Little Karasuma over there also exclaimed, "It must be early morning in Paris, right? The wooden man is actually staying with a girl now?!"
"It's a friend I met in London." Faced with the two people's exclamations, Shirakawa Qing suddenly felt a headache.
"Yeah, friend."
"Her name is Sera Marie, she is of English and Japanese descent. She has helped me a lot these days..."
"Yeah, he's a mixed race."
"Then, because of the current situation in Paris, the two of us may have to temporarily squeeze into an apartment for one night tonight..." Shirakawa Kiyoshi said truthfully, he would never lie to Hatoyama Keiko, no matter what.
"Hmm, Xiaoqing is going to cheat." Hatoyama Keiko nodded and made a shocking statement.
"Oh, is the wooden man finally going to cheat?" Xiao Karasuma echoed.
"No!"
Shirakawa Kiyoshi retorted loudly and righteously, startling Mary who was originally in the bedroom.
"Mary slept in the bedroom! I went to the living room to make the floor! I asked her to lock the bedroom door!"
"puff……"
Just teasing him a little, Hatoyama Keiko couldn't help but laugh. She comforted him:
"Okay, I know, no, no, no. Mr. Stewart called and told grandpa about these things an hour ago..."
Speaking of this, Hatoyama Keiko's tone suddenly dropped.
"Xiao Qing, I heard that the bullet almost penetrated your heart, is that true?"
Bai Heqing heard the words and remained silent without answering.
When explaining to Stuart what he and Mary had experienced in the past two days, he told all these things, but he did not expect that Stuart would also tell these details to the old head of the Hatoyama family.
"It's not that exaggerated." After a long silence, Bai Heqing only said this.
Across the phone, the two were silent.
"When will you come back?" In the end, it was Keiko Hatoyama who broke the silence first.
"There is one more thing to deal with, and the time is not yet certain." Bai Heqing replied.
He and Mary will take the earliest flight back to London tomorrow morning. According to the doctor on the freighter, Black Rose will take the initiative to meet with them to discuss the "deal" between them.
According to the doctor, this transaction seems to be related to a batch of "legacy". The specific situation can only be explained by Black Rose herself.
Hearing his words, Hatoyama Keiko didn't ask any more questions.
"Be safe, I don't want anything to happen to you." She said softly.
"Yes, I know." Bai Heqing nodded and replied softly.
"go to bed early."
"Um."
"Ah, right."
Suddenly the conversation changed, and Hatoyama Keiko returned to her previous playful tone.
"You can't attack that little girl in the middle of the night?"
"Absolutely not!!" Shirakawa Seichao shouted back.
Just like that, the somewhat depressed atmosphere between the two was blown away by this joke.
After hanging up the phone, Bai Heqing turned around and saw Mary who was hiding at the door of the secret room and eavesdropping.
"Huh? Mary?"
"Well!"
Mary, who turned around to run away but didn't, turned around when she heard the sound, pulling her hair, her eyes wandering, her expression slightly embarrassed.
"Well, I didn't eavesdrop on purpose, it's just that I just heard you shouting, Bai He, so I was a little curious, haha..."
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(End of chapter)
