In My Desperate Time

“4 million? Did you eat his one-thousand-year ginseng?”

Steven Song asks me surprisingly.

He's still in the mood to joke. I'm nervous to death!

“Never mind. Anyway, I can’t pay it off for a while. So I'd better go out to relax and get some inspirations. When do we leave tomorrow?”

“Eight in the morning. I will pick you up at Louis’s house.”

Pick me up?

Forget it. It is difficult to figure out Frances Louis’s minds. Steven Song is also a man. I am afraid that he will be unhappy and lose his temper.

“At the dock, right? I’ll go there by myself.”

Then I go back to my office.

If I stayed here much longer, I'm afraid that people will think I'm doing something shady with Steven Song.

This morning Frances Louis told me to go home early. So as soon as I get off work, I hurry home without stopping.

When I get home, he hasn’t gone home yet.

Damn him! He asked me to come home early but he doesn’t come back?

Then why did he order me to come home early?

sleeves and go into the kitchen. I let Betty sit

bought the spareribs. I'm going to make sweet

rise up. I hold the ribs and stand a little further,

have told you not

Louis’s voice comes behind

carrying drop into the pot.

The pain is sharp.

Louis rushes over. He quickly turns off the fire, and takes my hand to flush under

the cold water flushing my hand, but after the flush, it

are many red spots on my hand, someone is big and someone is small, and the biggest one is probably as big as a coin. I've burned myself before,

What a bloody year!

and now my hand is burned. Now these are

have told you not to go into the kitchen. You treat it

horribly pale. It is the first time I ever see

he was before, he had self-control. But today,

for the burn? I've been

entrance, I should not have been frightened, nor

I murmur.

his sharp eyes make me

I wuss out immediately.

“Nothing.”

first-aid kit, searching in it for a while, then looks up and asks

the

have been cooking for so many years. Usually I won’t be burned.” She says for a while, looking at the long face of Frances Louis and saying, “I will go out to buy scald