229 The Little Spy’s Equipment and Mission
On another brand new afternoon, a blue BMW was parked by the roadside near Pei Ningle’s home. In the back seat of the car, a deeply planned espionage operation was about to unfold.
“I bought the thing for you. Do you know how to use it?”
While asking, Lu Qi put a small electronic device into Fu Jiu’s chest pocket.
Fu Jiu nodded. “I know, such a simple thing.”
As she spoke, her small hand touched the thing in her pocket through her clothes and pressed it. After waiting for a few seconds, she took the small thing out, pressed the same button, and then pressed another button on the other side.
Immediately after, Fu Jiu’s voice just now played from it—”I know, such a simple thing.”
Lu Qi reminded, “Turn it off now. Start it when you see Pei Ningle and the others. The battery capacity of this miniature recorder is not large.”
Fu Jiu quickly turned off the power button.
Lu Qi took out her phone, checked the time, and pondered.
Fu Jiu sat obediently on the side, quiet, not daring to make a sound.
The performance in front of Pei Ningle and the others earlier really made the girl feel uneasy. After all, in her heart, Sister Qiqi was both a teacher and a role model to her. Although she never got angry with her, her majesty was impossible to ignore.
After thinking for a long time, Lu Qi said, “Send the text message now.”
“Right now?”
“Yes, send it exactly as I wrote for you. Remember not to reveal anything when you talk to them face to face.”
Fu Jiu nodded while taking out her phone and sent the pre-edited text message to Pei Ningle:
【Sister Little Le, I quarreled with that cousin again. She’s super annoying! I’m coming to seek refuge with you!】
After sending it, while waiting for the other party’s reply, Fu Jiu looked at this text message and couldn’t help but sigh, “Sister Qiqi, you imitate my way of speaking so well…”
Lu Qi smiled without speaking.
Less than half a minute later, Fu Jiu received a new text message from Pei Ningle on her phone:
【Little Jiu, where are you? You probably can’t find my home. I’ll come pick you up.】
Lu Qi glanced at it and said, “You can go now. Good luck.”
Fu Jiu raised her hand and saluted seriously, “Yes, Commander Lu!”
Fu Jiu’s salute froze. In the car, there was silence for two seconds.
Lu Qi finally couldn’t help but complain, “That’s not a military salute. Yours is the Young Pioneers’ salute…”
**
At the entrance of the residential complex, Pei Ningle picked up Fu Jiu, who was even shorter than herself, and led her back to her room.
Although one was an adult artist and the other was a junior high school student, in the eyes of others, they looked more like a pair of sisters with an age difference of no more than three years.
Entering the door, Pei Ningle found a pair of new slippers, changed shoes with Fu Jiu, took off their coats, and sat on the sofa.
As soon as she sat down, Fu Jiu complained, “That cousin of mine is really annoying. She’s not my mom, yet she manages my studies! And my parents don’t even care, why does she interfere randomly!”
However, Pei Ningle patted her shoulder and said seriously, “Academic performance is indeed very important. Is there anything wrong with your sister managing this?”
Fu Jiu was stunned. “Sister Little Le, your own studies…”
Pei Ningle: “My studies are not good, which is not a good thing. I worked hard when I was in middle school, but I just couldn’t learn. I didn’t go to university, which is not a good thing either. If my college entrance exam scores were okay, I could also join a music club in university.”
Fu Jiu murmured, “You clearly said in the show that you wanted to pursue your dream…”
Pei Ningle shook her head. “Pursuing dreams is pursuing dreams, studying hard is studying hard. These two things don’t conflict. And, can you tell me, which dream is it that makes you unwilling to study?”
Fu Jiu thought for a moment, suddenly not knowing what to say.
If she were really a rebellious girl, she should be angry out of shame now. Fortunately, Pei Ningle was not Han Yixuan and didn’t notice the small flaw in her acting.
“I want to be like you, Sister Little Le,” Fu Jiu replied, “Singing on stage is really great.”
But Pei Ningle continued to press, “What you yearn for, is it the shining appearance of singing on stage, or the act of singing itself?”
Fu Jiu thought for a moment, lowered her face a little embarrassedly, and tried to change the subject, “Sister Little Le, you speak very nicely too. Your Chinese grades should be good, right?”
“My Chinese grades are not good either. I can write lyrics, but in composition, I can write argumentative essays and narrative essays, but I can’t write poetry. Reading comprehension and so on, I’m not very good at either…”
Speaking of this, Pei Ningle was not in the mood to pursue Fu Jiu’s dream anymore, just recalling her own exam experience back then, feeling a little melancholic.
But Fu Jiu suddenly had a flash of inspiration and asked, “Sister Little Le, how about you try tutoring me?”
Pei Ningle was stunned instantly, pointing to herself. “Are you mistaken? You want me to tutor you?”
Fu Jiu shrank back. “Forget it, I was just joking. Sister Little Le is so busy…”
“No, no, no, the problem is not being busy!” Pei Ningle shook her head. “The problem is, my academic performance is not good.”
Fu Jiu: “My grades are even worse!”
Pei Ningle: “But…”
Fu Jiu: “And I’m only in the first year of junior high. Sister Little Le, you’ve been through the third year of high school. Teaching me will definitely be no problem. Qiqi… actually that cousin also tutored me, but she disliked me for being stupid and didn’t teach me properly.”
Pei Ningle frowned slightly and thought carefully.
Recently, the creation of her third original song had hit a bottleneck again, and she couldn’t find inspiration for a while. The music festival was over, and there were still about two weeks before the next recording of ‘Sing My Song’ in the Imperial Capital. During these days, she couldn’t do much, and seemed to have a lot of free time?
Fu Jiu added, “But forget it. Sister Little Le has to record shows and write songs. You must be very busy…”
Pei Ningle shook her head and interrupted, “Actually, I happen to be free. How about we try starting today?”
Fu Jiu blinked her eyes, her gaze full of surprise. “Sister Little Le, you actually agreed?”
Pei Ningle patted the little girl’s head and smiled. “I told you, I happen to be free recently and have nothing to do. Trying once or twice is no problem. But in a few days, I won’t be able to accompany you…”
“It’s okay, it’s okay,” Fu Jiu held her small face in her hands, beaming with a brilliant smile. “I’m very happy that Sister Little Le is willing to tutor me once!”
**
“In a sense, you really are a genius…”
In the car, Lu Qi finished listening to the recording, looked at Fu Jiu, her eyes quite complicated.
Fu Jiu put her hands behind her back, a little uneasy. “Sister Qiqi, is it bad for me to do this?”
Lu Qi: “No, good, very good!”
However, Fu Jiu was still a little confused. “Sister Little Le is very sincere to me, but I secretly recorded it. This…”
Lu Qi pinched the girl’s cheek and smiled. “You are sincere to her too, no problem. And there is no need to record next time. I have confidence in your acting skills. I don’t want to spy on Little Le’s secrets, I just want to learn some things about Wang Heng from her. Anyway, it won’t cause any harm to Little Le, right?”
