"Mr. Zhou!" Lu Xiaoqiao greeted the man inside.
Lin Ziyang noticed Lu Xiaoqiao's reservedness and thought that the little girl might be frightened by her uncle's aura. After all, her uncle had been in a high position for a long time and had a stern face. It was unknown when he last smiled. Even he felt a little scared, let alone a little girl who had not yet experienced worldly affairs.
He patted Lu Xiaoqiao's shoulder in a comforting manner and said softly, "Xiaoqiao, don't be so polite. It's not like we don't know each other. Just call him uncle like Lin Lin and I do!"
Lu Xiaoqiao raised the corners of her mouth slightly, said "OK" softly, then bent down and sat in the car.
Lin Ziyang then got in the car and sat down. While fastening his seat belt, he briefly introduced the young man sitting in the passenger seat and Lu Xiaoqiao. He then asked Lu Xiaoqiao for the address and started the car and drove away after the navigation was debugged.
The car was driving on the inky black asphalt road. The temperature inside the car was just right, forming a sharp contrast with the scorching heat outside. The unbearable heat just now subsided in an instant.
Lu Xiaoqiao straightened her back, folded her knees, and held the backpack on her knees with both hands. She glanced at the young man who was the co-pilot. She just learned from Lin Ziyang that this man was Zhou Qizhen's childhood friend and also a colleague. He seemed much more approachable than the man sitting next to her.
In fact, she was not very afraid of Zhou Qi Zheng. Of course, she was a little afraid, after all, he had such a strong aura and was an elder to her good friend, but she was mostly afraid of him out of guilt.
The reason was that good friend Lin Lin concealed her identity when she was in college. One time, Zhou Qizheng was driving her home, and someone took a photo and posted it on the school forum, saying that Lin Lin was being kept by a rich man. Rumors spread for a while.
Lin Lin originally wanted to confess her identity to Lu Xiaoqiao, but was afraid of losing this good friend because of her previous lies. Her hesitant attitude caused Lu Xiaoqiao, who originally believed in Lin Lin, to misunderstand her.
At that time, Lu Xiaoqiao pulled Lin Lin aside and said all kinds of bad things about Zhou Qizhen.
In order to make the little sister see the truth, she was trying to persuade her earnestly, but she didn't know how long Zhou Qi, who came to the school to resolve the trouble, had been standing behind her.
Lu Xiaoqiao was not sure about the rest of the words, but the sentence "old, old man" might have really touched his heart.
After knowing the whole story, when Lu Xiaoqiao and Lin Lin also called him "Uncle", he actually replied, "Do I look old?"
From then on, whenever Lu Xiaoqiao saw him again, she would call him Mr. Zhou.
I couldn't help but secretly glance at the person next to me. The light outside the car window was sometimes bright and sometimes dim. Occasionally, a beam of light would shine through the window into the car and happen to fall on the man's face, making his already handsome face even more three-dimensional.
The last time Lu Xiaoqiao sat in this standard posture was when she was in elementary school. However, at this moment, after just sitting for a while, she felt a burst of pain in her back and waist, and she didn't know what to do.
"How did you hurt your hand?" Zhou Qizhen suddenly asked.
Lu Xiaoqiao looked at him blankly, only to see that his brows were furrowed. Following his line of sight, her eyes also fell on the wound on her body that had just been scratched by Zheng Yan.
She subconsciously shrank her hand, her expression slightly unnatural: "I accidentally broke it."
Lu Xiaoqiao lied with her eyes open, and we couldn't let her say that she was scratched because of a fight.
Zhou Qizheng pursed his lips tightly, and the slightly tense lines revealed his dissatisfaction with Lu Xiaoqiao's answer. His eyes revealed a hint of displeasure, and he asked softly, "Did you fight with someone?"
He asked directly, without any euphemism, which made Lu Xiaoqiao embarrassed and didn't know how to answer.
Hearing Zhou Qizhen's question, the man sitting in the passenger seat turned around suddenly and cast his gaze towards Lu Xiaoqiao, then shifted his gaze towards Zhou Qizhen, his eyes full of gossip.
Lin Ziyang, who was driving in front, took advantage of the time while waiting for the red light to look back at Lu Xiaoqiao: "Xiaoqiao, were you injured in the fight? Is it serious?" Because of Lin Lin, Lin Ziyang has always treated Lu Xiaoqiao as his own sister. When he heard that Lu Xiaoqiao had a fight with someone, he couldn't help but feel worried.
Seeing that they were all looking at her, as if they were determined to get an answer from her, Lu Xiaoqiao could only vaguely reply, "It's not what you think."
Zhou Qizheng saw that she didn't want to say more, so he didn't ask any more questions. However, seeing that her skin was originally as delicate and white as porcelain, but now it was covered with scars, he felt annoyed: "Let's go to the hospital for a check-up!"
Although she knew Zhou Qizhen's good intentions, for Lu Xiaoqiao, who grew up in the countryside, it was just a little skin breakage and some bleeding, which could not really be called an injury, let alone going to the hospital. "It's okay, I'll go back and disinfect and apply some aloe gel later."
Zhou Qizhen didn't say anything else during the rest of the journey, and Lu Xiaoqiao felt relieved.
Fifteen minutes later, the navigation indicated that we had arrived at our destination.
Seeing Lin Ziyang about to drive into the community, Lu Xiaoqiao hurriedly said to him, "Brother Ziyang, you can just park your car on the side of the road. It's hard to park or turn around in this old community. My unit is very close to the gate, so I can just walk there by myself."
Lin Ziyang didn't listen to her and drove the car in stubbornly: "There is no elevator in your old neighborhood. You can't move it if it's so heavy. It's more convenient for me to drive. Don't be polite to me."
Lu Xiaoqiao thought of her roommate who hadn't replied to her message yet. It was inconvenient to make a phone call in the car. With all the luggage and the pet cage, it was indeed a bit difficult for her to carry it alone. Besides, other people's cars had already driven in, so she stopped pretending to be hypocritical.
Drive to the bottom of the unit and park the car.
Lin Ziyang asked Lu Xiaoqiao to carry the relatively light pet cage, while he carried the heavy suitcase.
After saying goodbye to the two remaining people in the car, Lu Xiaoqiao led Lin Ziyang upstairs.
At this time in the car.
Co-pilot Li Yuxuan looked back.
I saw my friend's eyes slowly rising up as the sensor lights on the unit floor gradually lit up...
"Stop looking! I want to see why we didn't go down together just now."
Zhou Qizhen withdrew his gaze and ignored Li Yuxuan's words.
Seeing that his friend did not respond, Li Yuxuan became more interested! He finally asked the question that he had been holding back all the way: "Is it her?" He raised his eyebrows after saying that.
Based on Li Yuxuan's understanding of Zhou Qizhen, it is impossible for him to have such an attitude and expression towards an ordinary person of the opposite sex.
Zhou Qi was leaning on the back seat, glancing at Li Yuxuan calmly: "I don't know what you are talking about."
"Your soul has gone up with others, yet you are still pretending! And just now..." Before Li Yuxuan could finish his words, Zhou Qizhen suddenly kicked his seat.
Li Yuxuan turned around and saw Lin Ziyang had already come downstairs and was walking towards the car.
What does it mean to be afraid of being heard?
Li Yuxuan had a smile on his face and a look of 'I knew it' in his eyes. When Lin Ziyang opened the car door, Li Yuxuan turned around and sat down.
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