CHAPTER 391: CHAPTER 391: DEEP SCHEMES

Gu Lingling was taken to Liu Yating’s house by Yang Yunhai.

After she got washed up and changed, Liu Yating scolded her, "Are you stupid? Just running out like that without giving me a call. I could have picked you up."

"It’s a good thing you met Brother Hai, otherwise you’d have definitely gotten sick."

Gu Lingling obediently nodded along.

It wasn’t that she didn’t call; she hadn’t expected the rain to come down so quickly, otherwise, she would have already been home by now.

At that moment, Yang Yunhai was still sitting in the office of the head of the service department.

"So, satisfied now?" Lei Xingjun asked with a smile after hanging up the phone. "Such a small matter, you had to bother Captain Yang to come all the way here; a phone call would have sufficed."

Yang Yunhai lazily looked at Lei Xingjun. A phone call wasn’t enough to show how angry he was today.

Especially after seeing the little girl drenched by the rain, he was very angry, mainly at himself for not protecting her well.

"They are tech talents, and they deserve our respect," Yang Yunhai stood and said.

"It was our oversight," Lei Xingjun said, "Not staying for a bit longer? Rare to have you here."

They were soldiers from the same year; he hadn’t made it to the Special Team and ended up in the service department.

"No, I have things to do, let’s get together another day," Yang Yunhai said.

Seeing his tired look, Lei Xingjun also knew he might have just returned from a mission; though he felt disappointed about not getting into the Special Team back then, his current position wasn’t bad.

The next day, when Gu Lingling arrived at the munitions factory, she discovered that Director Zhou looked at her differently, "Little Gu, I really apologize for yesterday, it was a mistake on our part."

"It’s nothing," Gu Lingling said with a smile, "I just didn’t expect the rain would come down so fast."

When she learned that they would all be arranged to stay in the guesthouse from now on, Gu Lingling was still quite surprised. Thinking of Yang Yunhai’s dark expression at the time, she felt touched that he stood up for her.

But when Director Zhou tried various ways to probe about Yang Yunhai, Gu Lingling only smiled faintly and didn’t say anything more.

Zhou Baoceng found it awkward and could only walk away sheepishly.

"Little girl, yesterday Old He did you wrong," He Jijun said apologetically.

Letting a little girl run home in the rain late at night, while they, a bunch of men, had nothing to do, was truly embarrassing.

And he had vowed confidently in front of Wang Shuosheng that he’d take good care of the girl once he got her to their department.

"Director, please don’t say that; I really didn’t get much rain," Gu Lingling waved her hand and quickly changed the subject, "Did you find out what the problem was?"

"Yes, we found it," Liu Zhi nodded, "Lingling, come over and help me figure out what this means?"

Gu Lingling quickly walked over; if she continued talking with Old He, she wouldn’t know what else to say.

It was she who suggested leaving yesterday; she couldn’t really blame others.

Tang Wei looked at Gu Lingling disdainfully; this girl really knows how to pretend. Clearly, she had someone in the army yet pretended to go home, making everyone worry about her all night.

She even made their Director so ashamed he wanted to crawl into a hole.

Tang Wei silently added a new attribute to Gu Lingling in his mind: scheming.

If Gu Lingling knew what he was thinking, she would surely slap him without hesitation.