In My Desperate Time novel Chapter 106

I pick up the pieces and put them all in a bag, and take it out of the door.

Frances Louis will be back in the evening, so I must solve it during the day.

I call Steven Song and tell him I'd be late. I get the leave permit so easily. It’s nice to have a boss buddy.

Then I call Mindy Sue. She tells me a shop that restores antiques, and I go there excitedly.

The boss is a woman of about thirty, not glamorous, but graceful, who looks very comfortable.

When I get in, she is cleaning an inkstone.

She sees me come in and gives me a soft smile.

“Hello.” I go up to her and take the bag out. “Ms, please have a look at this vase and would you repair it?”

The boss puts down the inkstone and takes over the bag.

She frowns when she sees the pieces.

“Broke into pieces.”

My heart suddenly stops and I ask her hurriedly, “Can it be repaired?”

Oh no. It must be repaired. Or I can’t pay it off even if I die one hundred times.

“I will try my best but I can’t promise.” The boss replies.

“When? Can it be repaired today?” I ask anxiously.

If this vase can't be fixed today, I would definitely die.

The boss, perhaps touched by my expectant and eager eyes, looks at me and says, “Since you're in a hurry, I'm not going to do anything else today and will focus on this. But I'm not the boss. I'm just an employee.”

She smiles at me and dumps out the pieces.

“I remember this blue-and-white porcelain vase. It is not very big. But it must be difficult to be repaired because it has been broken into forty or fifty pieces now.”