Different Wavelength

Chen Ziyi gave a faint smile as she shook her head.

"No, just that.... for now.. I think." Chen Ziyi tried to recall if she missed anything until se felt sure of everything she told Lin Cheung.

She didn't think she missed anything.

"I don't have anything much that I want to add on. I explained most of the details to brother Cheung already."

Chen Rumin nodded her head at that.

Truthfully, she was aware of the comprehensive discussion progress that her daughter had on what she wanted for her bedroom.

When she had a conversation with her friend's subordinate on her daughter, the man had share with her few of the things that he discussed with her daughter,- on what they had decided with, which part that her daughter had passed to her to make the decision, including the bay window seat idea that her daughter came up with.

Lin Cheung kept praising her daughter for being quite enlightened with all the trend and decisive of the things she wanted, making the discussion process smooth and productive, and how he wished that he could meet 'young' client like her daughter again.

Chen Rumin kept nodding her head and would occasionally gave a small smile as she listened to him. Although she had no idea to what extent well-informed her daughter became and since when it happened, she was happy and feeling proud listening to all the praise given to her daughter.

There were no flatters coming from the man. It was obvious that the young man enjoy talking to her daughter. Believing the character of the man that her friend assigned to her daughter, it made her happy more listening to all the good words.

According to the young designer's explanation, although it was a brief one, she could assume that, the discussion was indeed quite productive and fruitful. Listening to her daughter's words now, it seems that the man telling the truth. Both of them had reach their final say. Other than the things he need to acquire final confirmation from her, the man can proceeds with anything that he had discussed with her daughter.

Quite a surprised.

She indeed told her daughter to plan beforehand and decide by her own on what she wanted for her bedroom's furnishing and decorating, but she had not expected that her daughter could have everything done in one discussion. She had asked the man if her daughter had request for something that might be not possibly done, but none of negatives words came from the man's lips.

"So what is another thing that you want to talk about?" after a while, Chen Rumin asked as she casted her eyes back on the TV screen.

Few seconds passed, there was no response but silence from her daughter. She was going to tell her to just spit it out, but her daughter had cut her off before that happen.

"I need to go to grandfather's house."

"Grand..Father's house?" Chen Rumin casually asked, looking back at the TV screen and reached out the remote control that she put aside before.

"Why..do you want to go your grandfather house? It's been so long. I rarely bring you there, I don't think you have something to do at that house. AND I don't think you even had memories in that place," Chen Rumin added.

Chen Ziyi titled her head a bit to the side, puzzled with what she heard from her mother.

'Been so... long??'

Taking her time to reorganize her thoughts, Chen Ziyi was confused with how the subject of her message somehow didn't reach her mother's brain, that her mother seems talking about another different subject.

It was as if they were not in the same wavelength that the messages that she tried to send would not be decoded by her mother even if she send it again.

Not noticing her daughter who had a puzzled look on her face, Chen Rumin kept pressing the remote control button with her long fingers, changing the channel looking for an interesting program.

"It's been years I think. What kind of thing you need to see at the house?"

"Mom. It's only been a year----ah."

"W-What is it?"

Chen Ziyi raise her white fingers to her lips.

No wonder. No wonder her mother had no hateful expression on her face. She was expecting a cold look but her mother was too cool.

Too cool to be told.

Her eyes then turned to her mother who seems still oblivious with the supposed subject in their current topic.

"Mom. It's ...grandpa's house. Not grandfather as in your father. It's the one in the Blue West city.-the currently alive one,... for the moment."

"For the moment.." Chen Ziyi mumbling, unconsciously lowered her gaze as she reminded of the memory of the incident that had not happen yet in this life.

"Ohh.. grandpa, not grandfather..." Not hearing the 'for the moment' part from her daughter, Chen Rumin slowed down her motion pressing the remote control button.

Slowly let the remote control fell from her grasp, she was also looked like trying to recollect her thoughts.

There was obvious confusion on her face as she tried to take in what her daughter had just told her. After a full two minutes, she tilted her head a bit while her eyes fell on her daughter figure.

"Why.. do you need to go to that house?" Crossing her arms over her chest, Chen Rumin asked.

Hearing the Blue West city's name, no need to mention 'grandpa' or 'grandfather's house', Chen Rumin definitely became aware of whose house her daughter was planning to go to.

Chen Rumin in fact did not pay much attention to her daughter after the first request turned out to be just a small matter. Such one small request can even make her daughter use that pleasing tone eventually made her loosening her guard to listen to another one.

It felt so long since she heard the name of Blue West city came from her daughter. Not even the name call 'dad', 'brother' that her daughter had adored so much before. Their life were free of any of the Zheng's family matters that Chen Rumin felt relieve and peace for good.

Now her daughter suddenly mentioned the city the Zhengs resided at, and even planned to go to the house, indeed made her mood today turned foul for nothing.

That cold look. And the cold tone came from her mother. That's what in her expectation when she had decided to tell her mother her plan. Not the cool and so casual look she got earlier on.

Knowing her mother, Chen Ziyi became alerted of the need to reassure her mother of her real intention for visiting the Zheng's family house. Putting herself in her mother's shoes, her mother probably have the idea that she might be facing some dilemma and difficulties to separate with the her father's side and worried that she would change her decision once she stepped into the house.

Sighing, Chen Ziyi approached her mother.

***

After few minutes of talking and persuades, Chen Ziyi left her mother and went to her bed. She did not forget to give a peck on her mother's head, imitating her mother's routine these few days, before she slipped to her bedroom. Fortunately, the peck was good enough to subside her mother's foul mood.

Lying down on her bed, she was thinking on what she should do for the rest of the day until she remembered that she had not yet read the messages from her class group chat.

Scrolling upwards looking for the last messages she read, she began skim through them until the current ones.

Fang Peizhi: [Can't we just go there one of these days before An Huiyin and Bai Muyin's flight date?]

Lin Chao-xing: [Yeah Yeah! I don't think it will be easier for us to gather full as complete again.]

Lu Zixin: [You can't just simply decide the day you want to go there. They have their day for certain occasion and some even make a reservation for that place. We only have few days, sigh I don't think we will be able to make it in time.]

Fang Peizhi: [Do we even have to make reservation for such place? I thought it was for public uses.]

Lu Zixin: [What is that such place? Don't underestimate the place! It's because the place was like that, a reservation must be made.]

Reading Lu Zixin's comment, a thought flashed into Chen Ziyi's mind, but because her attention was more on the chat that she had not finished reading yet, she brushed off the fleeting thought.

Fang Peizhi: [Calm down. Don't get mad...]

Scrolling down the chat to the end, and put on response in between, the friends finally came to their conclusion.

Giving her respond agreeing to the plan, Chen Ziyi closed the chat group and went to her private chat with Han Meirong.

Han Meirong: [Want to cancel our appointment?]

Chen Ziyi: [ Um. I don't mind. We can just meet along with others on the day itself]

Han Meirong: [Then,..]

Han Meirong: [How about.. have you told aunty Chen about it?]