Chapter 15: Jiang Xiang Bing, is he going to follow us to get a room and watch...
On the first weekend after the long holiday, Luo Shu was in a daze and slept from sunrise to sunset.
If Gu Jiaqian hadn't been worried that something might go wrong if she continued sleeping, she wouldn't have climbed onto her bed and shaken her awake.
"Luo Shu, I've already finished my takeout and watched an episode of a TV series, and you haven't gotten enough sleep yet?"
Luo Shu mumbled "hmm", turned around and lifted the quilt to cover her head, "Let me sleep a little longer..."
Ever since she came back from vacation, she has been sleepy every day. Gu Jiaqian even suspected that she had taken sleeping pills by mistake, otherwise how could she sleep so well.
"But the phone on your desk rang all afternoon, and there were several calls."
Once these words were spoken, it was like a powerful cannonball dropped into a scattered city.
Luo Shu pulled off a corner of the quilt doubtfully, revealing a confused and questioning look: "Really?"
"I lied to you and you'll never find a boyfriend."
So, is that person among them?
A whole week had passed since she was bitten by the snake. Luo Shu recalled that Fang Qingzhuo went back to Shenzhen with her on the day she was discharged from the hospital after the infusion. No matter how she tried to find topics to talk about along the way, Fang Qingzhuo was not in a good mood. He even pretended to sleep to avoid her in the second half of the journey. Maybe he was really tired after not sleeping well the night before, or maybe he didn't know how to face her out of guilt. Otherwise, in the past, he would have scolded her to shut up.
After landing at the airport, Fang Qingzhuo called a car for her to go back to school, and before parting, he took the initiative to tell her to take her medicine well.
With such expectations, she got out of bed and went straight to the desk to unplug her phone which was still charging and check the messages. There were messages of daily concern from her parents, funny jokes shared by her childhood friend, and Duan Ran asking her to have dinner with him.
The call was also from her parents.
There is no news of that person.
Afraid that her elderly parents would worry, Luo Shu first called home.
She was not home during the National Day holiday. As soon as the phone was connected, Luo's father and mother kept thinking about their daughter and talking about her endlessly.
Gu Jiaqian came back from the bathroom just as Luo Shu hung up the phone. Seeing her change out of her pajamas, she asked, "Are you going out?"
Luo Shu nodded: "Yeah, I'm hungry, let's go to the cafeteria and have a quick bite."
Gu Jiaqian opened the drawer: "Tell me earlier, I have food here, and the local specialties you brought back."
Luo Shu looked in the direction of the voice and saw that the specialty had arrived at the airport. She suddenly remembered that she had asked Fang Qingzhuo to buy it for her. After all, she hadn't paid him yet. How about using this as an excuse to look for him?
Gu Jiaqian continued, "Sisi should be back from the library by now. Why don't you ask her to bring you some food when she passes by the cafeteria?"
"No, I slept for a long time, so I went out for some fresh air."
Luo Shu politely declined Gu Jiaqian's offer to accompany her and went out. Instead of going to the cafeteria, she wandered aimlessly around the campus. Night fell unnoticed, and when she looked up, she found that she had unknowingly wandered to the west gate of the school.
The West Gate is the most remote and shabby gate on the Shenzhen University of Technology campus, bar none. It's also the closest to the dormitories. Therefore, at mealtime, mobile vendors flood the shore like a tide, their electric tricycles jostling for position.
It happened that Fang Qingzhuo had to go to the gymnasium outside the school for something. As soon as he stepped out of the west gate, he saw Luo Shu from afar, standing alone in the Galaxy Stomach Protection Team.
Then someone in the crowd shouted, "The urban management officers are here!"
In an instant, a temporary night market street became chaotic and people dispersed on the spot like birds and beasts scattering.
Zhuang He, who was traveling with us, was holding a basketball and exclaimed, "Thank goodness we had dinner in the cafeteria today. If we had come here, we would have had to go through so much trouble to chase half the block just for a bowl of fried rice."
"Hey, do you think that girl is stupid? She's still standing there waiting for the sauce-flavored pancakes. Didn't she see the stall owner pick up the spoon and run away?"
Fang Qingzhuo looked carefully and saw that it was true. Others had already found other jobs after seeing the situation, but she was stupid enough to wait there foolishly without knowing what was going on, with only eyes for the sauce-flavored pancakes.
Zhuang He sighed and nudged Fang Qingzhuo with his elbow: "Let's go, the game is about to start."
Luo Shu, at the center of the vortex, finally realized something was amiss. The boss was still scrambling to figure out how to grip the handlebars, and there was the commotion of people fleeing all around. She shifted her gaze, observing for a moment before looking back, stunned. The stall where she had been standing was completely empty. The boss had slammed the accelerator and sped away, leaving behind only the shadow of his car and a familiar voice: "I'll definitely be back."
The funny thing is that she looked up at the sky.
Seeing this, Fang Qingzhuo raised his lips slightly: "You go first, I'll buy a bottle of water and come back."
But there is water for sale in the gymnasium.
Although Zhuang He was puzzled, he didn't want to ask too many questions, so he just said, "Hurry up then," and went ahead.
After buying some water, Fang Qingzhuo sat in front of the convenience store and leisurely called a hapless person to express his condolences. The phone rang for only a second before the other party picked up immediately. He got straight to the point: "Is the Jiangxiang pancake delicious?"
Luo Shu listened to the serious but not-so-serious teasing in her ear, stopped walking back to school, and looked around vigilantly. It was pitch black, and there was not even a living thing, let alone a person.
"Did you see it?"
"I've seen so much. Are you asking if the Jiang Xiang Pancake grew legs and ran away, or if some unlucky guy was left to eat air?"
"So, you called me just to make fun of me?" Luo Shu changed her hand to answer the phone.
"What else?" Fang Qingzhuo was in a good mood. He unscrewed the bottle cap and took a small sip.
"I thought you missed me."
All the water that he hadn't had time to swallow spurted out of his mouth.
Here you go again, saying all sorts of weird things.
Fang Qingzhuo wiped the water stains from his lips with his fingers: "Are you sure it only bit your ankle and not your brain that day? Do you want me to take you to get some more injections?"
"That's right. Are you, Fang Qingzhuo, just bored?"
“…”
Without waiting for his reply, Luo Shu said again: "I was planning to find you after filling my stomach."
"What do you want from me?" Fang Qingzhuo continued.
"Of course I miss you. It's not shameful to say I miss you. Unlike you, who is trying to hide it, it only makes it more obvious."
Fang Qingzhuo couldn't stand it anymore and angrily admitted, "Yes, laughing at you is secondary."
He gritted his teeth and said, "Master Tang sent a courier saying it's yours, but he didn't know your delivery information, so he sent it to my house."
Luo Shu suddenly realized: "It should be my batik. Do you want to go and get it for me?"
"You wish. Come find me at the basketball court where we met last time." After saying that, he hung up the phone and left Luo Shu with a busy tone.
The stadium is brightly lit and full of life at night.
The second time she stepped in here, Luo Shu was obviously familiar with the place. The basketball court was just around the tennis court.
Just like last time, he noticed Fang Qingzhuo at first sight, and still he was not wearing a jersey or shorts.
But today he was on the court. After pretending to dribble the ball for a while, he grabbed the ball and ran to the basket at lightning speed. He suddenly jumped up and did a 360-degree windmill turn. He controlled the ball with one arm and slammed it high for a beautiful dunk. The hem of his shirt was lifted up to reveal his abdominal muscles. There was a dull "bang" sound, which was the sound of the ball falling steadily into the basket.
Zhuang He on the side howled excitedly and bumped fists with Fang Qingzhuo, then put on a playful grin, hooked his arms around his shoulders and punched his chest on his back.
Since Fang Qingzhuo had his back to Luo Shu, she couldn't see his expression at the moment and couldn't guess it.
This should be a celebratory gesture, she thought.
In a blink of an eye, the players who were just warming up on the court quickly split into two teams. Zhuang He bent down to pick up the basketball on the ground, picked up the whistle hanging around his neck, blew it hard, and the game began.
Fang Qingzhuo went straight off the court and stood outside the white line. He suddenly raised his eyes and met Luo Shu's gaze across the heat of the fierce competition. He was not surprised. As if he had expected her to be there, he raised his chin slightly and pointed to the lounge chair beside him, indicating her to sit over.
Luo Shu received the signal and trotted over.
As soon as I sat down, before I could even get comfortable, Fang Qingzhuo beside me said hurriedly, "There's mineral water at the foot. Pour it for me to wash my hands."
Even though the word "help" was mentioned between the lines, the tone clearly did not allow her to refuse.
Luo Shu did as she was told without complaint. She picked up the half-full bottle of water and turned the bottle mouth. Fang Qingzhuo immediately extended a pair of palms, which were a little red, probably because of hitting the ball.
The bottle tilted and the palm was filled with water.
Fang Qingzhuo was about to scrub his hands when someone was half a step ahead of him. With one hand, he lifted up the back of his hand, and with the other hand, he put a few little fingers into the water and rubbed them from the palm of his hand along the gaps between his fingers. The touch was strange and itchy, and it amplified and spread infinitely along the nerves, gnawing at his heart and paralyzing his brain.
His temples throbbed, and his brows were filled with forbearance. "What are you doing?"
Luo Shu said as a matter of course: "Help you wash your hands."
"You're crazy. Who asked you to help me?" He suddenly let go, and water splashed all over the floor.
Luo Shu hurriedly pulled her legs away, but it was too late. Seeing her newly bought shoes suffer such an unexpected disaster, her temper suddenly surged. She raised her voice and retorted: "You are the one with the problem. Didn't you ask me to pour water for you to wash your hands?"
Fang Qingzhuo rolled his eyes and said, "Case closed. I have poor hearing."
He snatched the bottle of water from her tightly grasped hand and rinsed both hands alternately.
After a period of silence, cheers and applause suddenly came from the court. Luo Shu, who was still sulking, was startled and her body shook slightly uncontrollably. She looked towards the source of the sound and saw that someone had scored a goal.
Fang Qingzhuo was originally indifferent to scoring goals or scoring points, but when he saw her frightened look from the corner of his eye, he watched the situation on the field seriously.
The first half was about to end. Referee Zhuang He was absent-minded and blew the whistle wrong no less than five times. Fang Qingzhuo had no difficulty guessing that a large part of the reason was due to him and Luo Shu beside him. He shook the water off his hands, put on his coat slowly and stood up.
"Come with me."
Her kindness was taken for granted, and she was scolded for being sick when she helped him wash his hands. Luo Shu was angry and pretended not to hear and did nothing.
Fang Qingzhuo paced a few steps and saw that the man was still clinging to the chair, not moving. He then added helplessly, "I have something for you."
In the past, Luo Shu would have happily followed him around, but now she's become more capable. She tilted her head and puffed out her chest, "Didn't we say we'd stay at your house? What? Are you begging me to go to your house?"
"I haven't seen you for a week, and you've become so nagging." He squinted his eyes and joked.
"If I don't ask clearly, you'll call me crazy." She retorted in a sarcastic way.
Fang Qingzhuo was not used to her giving ultimatums: "So are you coming or not? Anyway, I'm leaving."
"No."
Having said that, I still followed him out of the stadium when I saw him really leave.
Arriving at the open-air parking lot, Fang Qingzhuo asked her to wait at the exit for a few minutes and would be back soon. He found a matte black Rolls-Royce Wraith Black Badge among the rows of cars in the garage. He unlocked it, took a small box from the driver's seat, and mysteriously put it in his pocket. He hadn't taken a few steps when an uninvited guest appeared before him.
"Azhuo, long time no see."
It’s Lin Su.
Fang Qingzhuo raised his eyebrows. It had only been a short while, but he couldn't sit still anymore.
"How did you know I was here?"
Of course, Lin Su would not tell the truth that she overheard him asking the family driver to drive the car to the gymnasium.
"I have something to tell you."
"I'm busy." Fang Qingzhuo didn't even bother to give her a glance. "Besides, it's not like you and I would meet privately."
"You don't want to go home, so I have to come to you in person."
Lin Su had no other choice. If Fang Jueshan had not cut off her card, she would never have resorted to such a desperate measure to block Fang Qingzhuo, the devil.
"In person." Fang Qingzhuo thought it was ridiculous. "Who the hell do you think you are?"
He approached suddenly, and the suffocating memories came back like a flood.
Lin Su was more afraid of returning to her old impoverished life than this, so she bravely questioned, "Did you talk to your father about something? Why did he suddenly tell me not to step into the Fang residence again?"
In the past, no matter how she bought press releases or did some tricks, Fang Jueshan turned a blind eye, but this time, he was determined to teach her a lesson.
That day, after Fang Qingzhuo threatened her in the kitchen, she returned to the company and deliberately exposed the conspicuous red mark on her neck and ran to Fang Jueshan's office to complain.
She was not stupid and knew that she could not openly sow discord between the father and son, so she pretended to be pitiful and asked Fang Qingzhuo if he had a misunderstanding about her and was deliberately targeting her.
She was crying and sobbing, but Fang Jueshan remained calm.
After he signed a document, he slowly said, "Do you want to know why?"
She nodded.
"Because you're walking around the house in high heels and making a lot of noise, so don't come here again."
Later on, I simply cut off her card.
"You're not so naive as to think my dad didn't know about what you did when you were a tutor?" Fang Qingzhuo glanced at her slightly bulging belly, mocking her self-righteousness. "When you took advantage of your position to get into his bed, you should have expected this day to come."
"Impossible, you must have told him." Lin Su repeated hysterically, "Impossible, I'm pregnant with his own flesh and blood."
Fang Qingzhuo looked at her as if she was a lunatic. It was none of his business. It wasn't like he was abandoning his three children.
Luo Shu, who had been waiting outside for a long time, suddenly heard the hoarse shouting coming from inside, and she followed after him out of concern.
"Fang Qingzhuo, are you okay?"
With outsiders present, Lin Suwai'e quickly put away Mo Xuyou's dignity and looked at Luo Shu who rushed to Fang Qingzhuo to carefully check if he was okay, and even opened his coat and touched him. However, Fang Qingzhuo, the difficult guy, contrary to his usual behavior, let her do whatever she wanted.
She covered her lips and sneered: "No wonder he didn't want to go home, it turns out he has a girlfriend."
Fang Qingzhuo, who was cooperating with the full inspection, suddenly grabbed the fair jade hand that was resting on his chest and wrapped it in his palm: "Yeah, then why don't you get out of here quickly."
Slowly interlocking their fingers, a smirk on the corner of their lips silently bloomed in the cool dark night.
"Do you really want to follow us to a hotel to observe and learn?"
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Xiao Zhuo has performed quite well in these chapters!!!
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