Chapter 36
There was a word limit for every message, so she had to split her message up.
“Xiao, this is my house number, 051x8501xxx.”
“Xiao, work hard. Don’t miss me too much. Also, stop looking at your pager.”
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“Xiao, you’re out there protecting our country, and I’m right here thinking of you.”
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“Xiao, I miss you. Mwah!”
As soon as she hung up, she looked around just to make sure that she was alone in the room. It would be embarrassing if her parents found out about what she had just said. The operator from the paging center must be having a hard time transmitting her honeyed words into codes.
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What a blessing it would be to have a cellphone in this day and age.
She then made another call to the Ye family, which was soon picked up by Chen Ya, the housekeeper’s daughter.
Chen Ya used to tease her a lot. She always made Ye Qiao feel that even a housekeeper’s daughter was more like family than her, just to make her feel that all her joy of being in the Ye family was a mockery.
“! dare you!” He hoarsely said in a domineering manner.
“You know I won’t,” Ye Qiao quickly admitted. Frankly, she would never hang up on him.
“What are you doing in your hometown? Did the Ye family give you a hard time?” He originally planned to call her back at the main courtyard since he had not heard from her. The next best thing that he could do was to wait for more news, which he gladly received this afternoon.
“What a good girl,” he thought.
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