I'd acted on impulse, but I believed Lü Qiaolan wasn't the sort of person to do anything reckless, and she didn't mean any harm.
I took out my keys and unlocked the door to the Greenleaf Paranormal Agency.
Lü Qiaolan followed right behind me. I could hear that her breathing was a little uneven.
She must have guessed something, right?
"Wait here a moment," I told Lü Qiaolan before entering the agency and closing the door.
Lü Qiaolan didn't follow me inside, nor did she say anything.
I looked around the empty agency, took a deep breath, and called out, "Ye Qing."
"You know Lü Qiaolan's outside, right?" I walked a few steps forward but didn't sit down. I spoke softly, yet my voice still echoed through the silent agency. "I dreamed about Lü Qiaolan last night, and you too... Lü Qiaolan doesn't know the teddy bear was sold. She didn't throw it away. She wants to find it now. Um, about what you said yesterday—having Chen Xiaoqiu bury the teddy bear—is there any way we could change the plan?"
I asked Ye Qing for his opinion, trying to sound conciliatory.
I didn't know what Ye Qing meant by having Chen Xiaoqiu bury the teddy bear in Hui Township, or what purpose it served, but it certainly wasn't an idea he'd come up with on a whim.
I waited for a while, but Ye Qing didn't answer.
"Ye Qing?" I called again, unable to hide my disappointment.
Now I really didn't know what to tell Lü Qiaolan.
Tell her the teddy bear had gone to Hui Township? That place was dangerous.
Just tell Chen Xiaoqiu to bring it back when she returned? Ye Qing wouldn't tell me what burying the teddy bear was supposed to accomplish.
I was caught between