Chapter 40: Carsickness Upon hearing this, Xia Yiqing replied...
After hearing this, Xia Yiqing thought that there must be something wrong with either her ears or the man's brain.
Otherwise, the Xia family is in the west of the city, and the Qi family is in the east of the city. The economic strength of the two sides is completely different. How could they be on the same route after driving for almost three or four hours?
After thinking about it, Xia Yiqing guessed that it was normal for Qi Hanmu to not remember much since he had been in the hospital for so long.
So when the elevator was still two floors away, she smiled at Qi Hanmu and shook her head, "The two companies are too far apart. Plus, you just got out of the hospital, so you shouldn't go through so much trouble."
I thought these words would be understood as being generous and sensible, but I didn't expect Qi Hanmu to not even frown.
Of course, it didn't loosen up either.
He just looked at her with those dark eyes that were always indifferent and only open to her.
After a long pause, the man continued in a steady voice, "It's not far. I can handle the documents in the car. Let's go to your company first."
"bite--"
The elevator happened to go down and stopped in front of them. The doors opened to both sides, revealing that it was full of people.
Xia Yiqing glanced over and saw a gap.
She quickly looked back, estimated her figure, Qi Hanmu's, and Luo Miao's figures, and felt that there was no problem, so she raised her leg to go in.
The people inside are also very polite.
When they saw Xia Yiqing coming over, they raised their hands and pressed the door-opening button, and automatically squeezed to the side. Those who had children picked them up or led them to the corner.
When Xia Yiqing walked over and found a large space next to her, she turned around and found Qi Hanmu still standing there.
His brows were furrowed, and even though he tried to hide his expression, he couldn't hide his sickness.
This person tilted his head slightly to the side, his hands unconsciously clenched into fists, and his fingertips trembled slightly.
It didn't look like he was rushing to the elevator with her.
She was almost on the elevator.
Why was Qi Hanmu standing behind her, like an unmarried girl, with his lips slightly pursed and not looking at anyone?
The only thing missing is a handkerchief to cover his lips.
"Let's go."
Seeing that the man still didn't move, Xia Yiqing took a step back, said to the people in the elevator, "Sorry, please press the button for me, thank you," and then looked at Qi Hanmu.
She touched the man's pale and bruised back of his hand, deliberately avoiding the place with needle pricks.
"Don't you want to leave?"
"dirty."
"ah?"
“It’s crowded and dirty.”
Xia Yiqing was silent for quite a while.
Looking at the anxious crowd in the elevator and the person standing motionless beside her, she smiled and said, "Sorry, you guys get off first. We won't leave for now."
"good."
The person who had been helping to press the elevator button spoke, and the button in his hand turned into the door closing button.
The two iron doors of the elevator flashed with the reflection of white lights, approached each other, and slowly closed, covering the people in the elevator car.
It wasn't until the elevator began to descend that Xia Yiqing looked at Luo Miao in confusion, "Assistant Luo, has your Third Master always been so averse to interacting with outsiders?"
Luo Miao shuddered when he was suddenly called out, and was met with the boss's cold and sharp eyes. He then understood.
"I don't know about this either. How about you ask the Third Master, Madam?"
Then, those almond-shaped eyes, as gentle as water, looked at Qi Hanmu and blinked, "Why do you think they are dirty?"
"A lot of people."
Xia Yiqing held her forehead and said, "But the hospital is crowded right now. Otherwise, we can take the elevator tonight or take the stairs."
Seeing Qi Hanmu's expression slightly relaxed, she added, "The stairs probably don't lead down to the garage. If Third Master wants to drive, he'll still have to take the elevator."
"No, I'm not driving." The man turned and headed towards the emergency exit. He lowered his eyes to estimate the distance, took two steps, and turned back.
"Let's go, I'll take you there."
Emergency exits are for emergencies.
Even though this hospital is a famous private hospital owned by the Qi family and has countless investments, the evacuation passages inside are still cramped and small.
With the help of the light, you can see a faint green sign inside.
Xia Yiqing fumbled around on the wall but couldn't find the light switch, so she had to give up.
The light was not very good. When Xia Yiqing started walking, she didn't dare to take big steps. She touched the wall with her hands, stretched her legs to test the water, and slid down step by step, sticking to the wall.
She didn't get a good rest last night and was forced to get up early this morning. Even if Xia Yiqing tried to be patient and not complain, she couldn't stop yawning one after another.
"Sleepy?"
The man's voice was clear, his figure was straight, his brows were cold, and there was no sign of him being a patient at all.
Instead, her eyelids felt as if they weighed a thousand pounds, drooping heavily and looking like they would fall off at any moment.
Still remembering that she couldn't fall asleep in a strange place, she was firm and said, "It's okay, I can do it."
Just as he finished answering, his feet suddenly felt empty.
Xia Yiqing's heart suddenly rose to her throat, her eyes widened, and the feeling of weightlessness bit her at this moment, trapping her limbs and dragging her into the abyss, making her unable to move.
Just when she was in despair, a hand came from behind, passed through her waist, and forcibly lifted her off the ground, hanging her in the air.
Calm, powerful, and reassuring.
The raging waves in her heart surged up and drenched Xia Yiqing from head to toe.
Her heart was beating wildly, thump-thump, and her breathing was uncontrollable, becoming more and more rapid.
Even until the hand slowly retracted and fell, and Xia Yiqing's feet felt the ground, her heart was still overloaded and she hadn't recovered.
"Thank you, thank you."
Only after her tongue regained control did Xia Yiqing stammer out a few words.
There seemed to be a certain gaze passing across his face, heavy but not uncomfortable.
Xia Yiqing mustered up her courage, raised her chin slightly, and looked straight into the man's deep eyes.
"Thank you for helping me just now."
The frost and snow were still in the man's eyes, but they slowly melted away, as if announcing the early arrival of spring.
He raised his hand and pointed at the stairs under Xia Yiqing's feet. His eyelids fell down to hide the sparkling eyes. "Look at the road."
"oh."
The road ahead was very short, but Xia Yiqing lowered her head and looked at the road carefully, not daring to make a mistake.
The feeling of being across my waist just now replayed in my mind over and over again.
Qi Hanmu's hands were a little cold, but his arms were very strong. It might be because he had gained some weight during the hospitalization, so it didn't hurt, but rather made people feel at ease.
The three of them walked out of the emergency exit on the first floor and met a shocked cleaning lady.
The old lady looked them up and down, perhaps because she was knowledgeable, she lowered her head, waved the broom, and continued to work.
In the corner, Xia Yiqing could still hear the old lady complaining to someone on the phone.
"Is the hospital elevator so crowded? I saw several young people coming out of the emergency exit today."
Xia Yiqing took a step forward, her eyes quietly moved to glance at Qi Hanmu.
Nothing could be seen on his face, his dark eyes were still cold, he just glanced in her direction with his eyelashes drooping.
The girl's eyes immediately turned back and her breathing became a little disordered.
"Get in the car."
Qi Hanmu's voice was always cold.
He signaled Luo Miao to sit in the front with his eyes, reached out to open the car door, made sure there was enough space for someone to get in, stood aside, supported the roof with his left hand, his eyes cold, "You go in first."
Although she knew that he did this to prevent her from hitting her head, Xia Yiqing's heart still couldn't help but jump again.
She sat down and the man followed her in.
This car was a modified Maybach with a lot of space inside. Xia Yiqing quietly stretched her legs to reach the front driver's seat. Even when she stretched them almost straight, there was still ten centimeters of space left.
"Want to kick the seat?"
Qi Hanmu's cold and thin voice came over immediately.
"No, no," Xia Yiqing shook her head like a rattle, her ears reddening with shame after being caught red-handed.
"I'm just, stretching, stretching."
"Well, is there enough space? Do we need to add more?"
Xia Yiqing blinked, looking blankly at the man in front of her who seemed to have been led into a ditch by her, and suddenly felt a little guilty.
She lowered her head and pursed her lips again and again, "No, it's fine."
"like?"
When asked about her private feelings, Xia Yiqing twisted her hands unconsciously, but heard Luo Miao's voice fade away, and only Qi Hanmu's highly recognizable voice echoed in the car.
She raised her head unexpectedly and found that a partition had been raised between the back seat and the front seat.
This object blocked out the road conditions and sounds ahead. Xia Yiqing subconsciously turned her head to look out the window, and saw traffic all around her.
There's a traffic jam.
Seeing that the girl didn't answer, the man was silent for a while, lowered his eyes, and let his bangs cover his eyebrows.
His voice was low, inadvertently mixed with a bit of loneliness, "It's okay, if there's anything you don't like, I can ask someone to change it."
With the baffle in place, the distance between the two people in the back seat seemed to be narrowed madly invisibly.
After all, only each other's voices can be heard.
"No, there's nothing I don't like, no need to change it."
Xia Yiqing was telling the truth.
Even if she has a car when she grows up, it will only cost a few hundred thousand yuan.
The Xia family claimed to pursue "thriftiness" in the cars they used for travel, but she clearly saw that Xia's father's car often cost hundreds of thousands of yuan.
After being pointed out, Father Xia didn't think anything of it. "If I want to discuss cooperation, I must drive this kind of car to show off.
"What are you women doing in such a nice car? Anyway, at the dinner party, you can only smile and drink and solicit investment, and that's something that men have to do."
It was also him who begged Xia Yiqing to marry Qi Hanmu three years ago, "Qingqing, you are the last hope of the Xia family."
When Xia Yiqing mocked him by saying, "Don't you always say women are useless?", he was able to bend and stretch, "Women,
"You are a human being just like men, there must be a reason for that. Now is the time for you to contribute to the Xia family.
"Have you forgotten how we cultivated you and trained you to become one of the four beauties of Jiangcheng?"
Xia's mother also burst into tears. "Qingqing, this company is your parents' hard work. How can you bear to see it destroyed like this?"
With everyone singing the same tune, Xia Yiqing was sent to Yiyuan Garden and completely became the close associate of Qi Hanmu, the Third Master Qi.
“Hmm…”
The car was stuffy, and Xia Yiqing's vision slowly came into focus. She heard a muffled voice coming from the throat of the person next to her.
He doesn't seem to be feeling well.
In fact, as a marriage partner, Qi Hanmu is very qualified, even outstanding.
He treated her differently, visibly.
Ever since establishing a relationship with Qi Hanmu, the Xia family has risen to prominence.
That is to say, it is because Xia's father's appetite has been too big recently, which has caused problems in Xia's capital turnover, and this has led to some minor conflicts.
There was a rustling sound. Xia Yiqing looked closely and saw Qi Hanmu slowly taking out a bag, a plastic bag, from the storage compartment between them.
The thought that had just emerged in her mind was confirmed by the rustling sound of the bag when the man lowered his head.
Unlike other people who feel carsick, they look haggard and ignore others.
Qi Hanmu didn't even frown. He quietly spit the acid water into the bag, took three or four breaths, then took the water and rinsed his mouth.
The movements are very light throughout.
If Xia Yiqing was sleeping, she would not be woken up.
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