Mr. Su's Love Investigation Report
Chapter 160 Mid-Autumn Festival

Chapter 160: Chapter 160 Mid-Autumn Festival

Tu Hengsha found it somewhat amusing, talking to her like this, how wary was he of her?

At that moment, Hao Ren arrived and called out to her, "Little Sha, let’s go!"

She and Hao Ren had a task today too, but they were back by noon.

"I’m starving! Let’s go eat!" Hao Ren invited Tu Hengsha to the cafeteria.

It was lunchtime, and the cafeteria was quite crowded. The two of them got their meals and found an empty table to sit down and eat.

Whether it was for a meal or not, the lady gave everyone a fried egg on their rice. Tu Hengsha used her chopsticks to separate the yolk and pushed it to the edge of her plate, eating only the egg white.

"Not eating the yolk?" Hao Ren asked her.

"Yeah..."

"Give it to me."

Just as Hao Ren was about to reach for the yolk on her plate, another pair of chopsticks beat him to it. Hao Ren blinked, and the yolk was gone. Across from him, there was an extra plate and a person, and Tu Hengsha’s yolk was already on the other plate.

Su Ronggui.

Wasn’t he out with Chen Qi? Wasn’t the meeting supposed to last all day?

The rice grains in Tu Hengsha’s mouth became hard to swallow. She seemed to sense the strange looks from her colleagues around her. The female colleague who had gossiped about her and Su Rongxing behind their backs was sitting diagonally to her right. She seemed to hear her whispering. Were they talking about her?

She felt humiliated.

"Let’s go, Hao Ren. I’m full." She got up and left.

Hao Ren was in the middle of shoveling a large mouthful of rice when he heard her, looked down at his own meal, and silently put down his chopsticks.

Of the three people at the table, only one was left in the end.

Su Ronggui.

He sat there upright, holding his chopsticks, yet he hadn’t taken a single bite.

In the afternoon, the newspaper office handed out mooncakes.

Hao Ren saw them and tossed the gift box on the table. "Five-Kernel again! Can’t our leader improve his taste a bit?"

Tu Hengsha laughed. "You don’t like Five-Kernel? I actually like it! My mom likes it too! I remember when I was a kid, we even bought those six-inch big Five-Kernel mooncakes. They seem hard to find now."

Hao Ren gave her the mooncake. "If you like them, you can have mine!"

"Why give it to me? I already have some!"

"If I keep it, I’ll just toss it. Don’t waste food! If you like it, take it home! We don’t really care about the Mid-Autumn Festival; it’s just another workday for us! Who knows where we’ll spend it this year!"

As the two were talking about mooncakes, Chen Qi came to assign a task to Tu Hengsha—during the Mid-Autumn Festival, go to Beishan Prison to interview the officers and inmates on how they celebrate.

Tu Hengsha felt blank and was stunned in place.

"What’s wrong? Is there a problem?" Chen Qi asked her.

She was a bit dazed and shook her head. "No."

"And, it’s with Su Ronggui..."

"Can I not go?" She blurted out immediately.

Chen Qi looked at her silently and searchingly.

"Can’t someone else go?" She insisted.

"Does it matter, Tu Hengsha?" Chen Qi said. "There’s still a long way to go; can you guarantee you’ll never partner with him? If you want to avoid suspicion, you might as well leave Chenjiang and avoid it all together! Being in the same office every day, even eating the same egg, you eating the white, he the yolk, what suspicion is there to avoid?"

"..." Tu Hengsha was speechless. Who told him to eat her egg?

"Enough! A clear conscience doesn’t fear a crooked shadow! If you have a guilty conscience, avoiding won’t help! Besides, everyone has their own tasks; you can’t just switch!"

Tu Hengsha no longer fretted over whether to go to Beishan Prison. After her first impulsive reaction, she quickly made a decision: Go!

But it wasn’t because of Su Ronggui—it was because... of Dad.

Tu Hengsha, are you stupid! She secretly scolded herself. Such a good opportunity and you wouldn’t go? After twenty years, you can finally see him and even spend the festival together. Wouldn’t you go?

Feeling both uneasy and somewhat excited, Tu Hengsha went home with two boxes of mooncakes to tell her mom the first thing.

Seeing her come home with two boxes of mooncakes, Shu Hui smiled slightly at the sight of the gift box. "I was just thinking of going to buy two boxes of Five-Kernel mooncakes, and you brought them back! Just in time, give them to me, and I’ll send them to your dad!"

"Mom..." She put down the mooncakes. "This time, can’t I go send them?"

"Aren’t you working?" Shu Hui packed the mooncakes and placed them with the other things to be brought in.

"I am!" Still steeped in her anxiety, her voice trembled a bit. "But, it’s to interview at the prison."

"Is that so?" Shu Hui’s expression grew dazed too.

"Yes, Mom, I’m about to see him..." That title, one she hadn’t uttered in twenty years, was suddenly hard to say, so she replaced it with "him."

Yet Shu Hui held her hand, sighing, "The prison called today. They said he’s doing well in there, and for this Mid-Autumn Festival, they allow family visits to spend it together. But... your dad refuses..."

"Really? Then... are you going?" If Mom went too, it’d be the first family reunion in twenty years!

"We’ll see!" Shu Hui waved her hand. "Go and eat. I’ll pack some more."

"Alright." Tu Hengsha knew that every time her mom prepared things for her dad, she would be busy for a long time. In the end, not much could be packed, only to be taken out and put back in repeatedly to savor and contemplate.

With this on her mind, even while eating, Tu Hengsha kept thinking, trying hard to remember what her dad was like before, and wondering how he had changed now. What would she say to him when they met during Mid-Autumn? Would he recognize her as his daughter? Would she recognize him?

Lost in thought, her phone rang.

She looked and saw it was Su Ronggui calling.

Without hesitation, she hung up immediately.

A few seconds later, a message came, two words: Come down.

Was he downstairs? Calling her down?

She ignored it.

After a while, another message came: I’m right downstairs at your place. If you don’t come down, I’ll come up and find you.

"..." Would he know which apartment she lived in?

However, her heart still felt uneasy. She didn’t want him barging in! How would she explain to Mom? Say he was a lifesaver? She no longer wanted to talk to Mom about the lifesaver!

She hesitated for a while, but eventually, she quietly opened the door to check.

The night was as dark as ink. With the moon nearing full, it shone bright as a silver platter, radiant and clear. The world was awash with silvery light, flowing gently over everything, even the row of elm trees in front of the apartment building, whose leaves glowed brightly in the darkness.

A person stood by the trees, wearing dark clothing with shoulders bathed in moonlight.

He raised his wrist to check his watch, seeming to calculate time. Then, she saw him start walking toward the building entrance.

Was he really coming up?

She was startled. Closing the door, she hurried down.

"Where are you going?" Shu Hui asked her.

"Going down to buy something," she replied outside the door, and quickly went downstairs.

At the stairway entrance, she met him face to face.

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