Ella's look suddenly changed, and she said, "OK, I understand. Thank you, Miss Zhang."
After she hung up the phone, Ella looked at Samuel.
"What time was it?" he asked. But he had already guessed it quite correct in his mind.
"... About eight o'clock, " said Ella uneasily.
'My daughter's all grown up and now she's holding secrets from us, ' thought Ella.
"Who's the man? Is it Brian, or Daniel?" shouted Samuel. His face had completely darkened up.
... But Ella knew nothing, and helplessly looked at her husband.
"We, as parents, are sometimes too careless. Our daughter has... And we had no idea of it, " Ella said. She then sighed.
Samuel all of a sudden stood up from his chair, and clenching his fists tight he hammered them on the table, and said, "I have to talk with these two guys and find out who's the boldest! Which one of them dared touch my daughter, without even ensuring her a legal status yet!"
Ella intended to support Samuel's idea at first, but after a second thought she thought it might be improper to do that.
"Wait! We'd better go and ask Jane first! What if it's Brian, but you ask Daniel. And what if it's Daniel, and you ask Brian... This'll be so shameful for both of us and Janet!" Ella stopped for a moment and persuaded Samuel to calm down and think about it.
Samuel thought that his wife was right, and asked, "Do you really think that your daughter will be honest with you?" 'Right. If Janet really wanted to tell us, she would have already done it, ' thought Ella.
She felt helpless. 'Jane is so stubborn and shy that she definitely won't tell me about this sort of thing!'
"What about... we..." Ella then whispered some words into Samuel's ears; Samuel nodded his head in approval.
"OK, I'll send her a message later, " said Samuel.
Janet was going shopping in the mall when she received a Wechat message from her father. It read, "Jane, we're going back to the old house and staying there for some days. Please take care of yourself, and come and see us at the old house whenever you're free."
'What? Didn't they say that they just went back there to pick up John? Why are they staying there now?' Janet wondered.
"OK, I got it, dad." Janet quickly sent back her text and then continued shopping for clothes.
When she walked up to the men's clothes, a carefully crafted crocodile belt caught her eye.
"Hello! Welcome!" Soon enough, a saleswoman came up and welcomed her.
When she saw her wearing the expensive pink overcoat, the saleswoman knew in an instant that she must be a very wealthy customer.
She then anxiously presented the expensive belt to Janet. "Young lady, this belt is made out of only one single piece of crocodile skin, with nine small diamonds mounted on the buckle, which is also a piece of exquisite workmanship..."
'Not only is it mounted with diamonds, but it's also made of gold!' Janet thought.
She then took a look at the price. 'One, two, three... Oh, nine hundred and ninety thousand dollars!' Janet felt a little dizzy as she saw the price.
"What about the discount?" asked Janet.
The saleswoman stopped talking and thought for a second. "Young lady, this is the only item of this kind, and there's no discount for it, " she said smiling.
'Well! Fine!'
"Please pack it up for me!" said Janet.
The saleswoman grinned an enormous smile on her face, packed up the belt for her, and then guided her on how to make the payment.
After she finished paying for it, Janet looked blankly at the package.
'The belt is not suitable for father's style... and it isn't neither for my brother... Sven? But I'm afraid of arousing any misunderstandings to his girlfriend!' carefully pondered Janet. Actually, Sven didn't have a girlfriend anymore these days, and he didn't even know that he had just missed the opportunity to receive an expensive diamond-gold crocodile belt!
Janet kept pondering, 'Dani... No, Brian! But no no no, Brian wears military uniforms everyday. It doesn't suit him. It seems that Daniel is my last and only choice now...'
But also remembering of his girlfriend, Janet hesitated again.
'Ah! This is so troublesome! Forget it! I'll leave it alone for now! I'm so annoyed now! I'm not even in the mood to go shopping anymore!' Janet thought. She carried the packaged belt she had just bought out of the shopping mall and then directly returned to her cake shop.
After she returned, she devoted herself to working on her desserts.
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