Chapter 20 Chapter 20 Part 2
Zhong Hejing laughed, and only she knew how much self-deprecation there was in her laugh.
"I'd never met anyone so inconsistent before I met you," she said.
"Then what should we do?" Qiao Wu also laughed, "It's better to trust our intuition."
Seeing that Qiao Wu wasn't so easy to fool, Zhong Hejing didn't want to beat around the bush since she had said so. To be honest, she felt a little exhausted. "My hunch is that you called me here for more than just this. Mr. Lu is in the hospital, Lu Jinzhi hasn't returned to China, and as for the others... I guess their hearts aren't in the company. So what do you need from us?"
Apart from this, she couldn't think of anything else.
Qiao Wu was amused by her seriousness. Seeing that she was no longer the same person she once was, he pushed the snacks in front of Zhong Hejing and began to flip through the workbook on the table again. "If this was about work, I wouldn't choose to talk to you here, in this way, and I wouldn't even mention any so-called friendship. That would be too informal. I invited you here in my own name, so of course it's just a private matter."
She received a call from teacher Lu Ning today, asking if Lu Ning had left her homework at home.
So Qiao Wu went to her room and took a look, and sure enough, he found the homework.
The other end was probably using an external speaker, so Lu Ning's voice came over immediately, speaking confidently and confidently: "I said I wrote it!"
This was the first time the little lady did her homework seriously. Even though she didn't understand any of the questions, she still filled up every exercise book.
I never expected that I got up in such a hurry the next day that I forgot my exercise book on the table. When I got to school, the teacher said kindly that it was okay.
It can’t be okay!
If you write something, you must let the teacher know, otherwise it will be in vain!
So she made sure to ask the teacher to call home to verify.
After learning the whole story, Qiao Wu was at a loss whether to laugh or cry. In order to fulfill the child's dream, he even opened the exercise book and prepared to take a photo and send the homework page to the teacher.
It turned out that there were so many practice questions, but I didn’t get any of them right.
Fortunately, she was not allowed to go to the international class at that time, otherwise she might not even understand the questions and would just copy them directly.
So Qiao Wu was correcting Lu Ning's homework during his free time while waiting for someone.
She flipped through two pages and realized that Zhong Hejing had no intention of leaving, so she understood.
This was the second time she brought up private matters, and if she didn't leave, it meant that Zhong Hejing was willing to continue the conversation.
In fact, Zhong Hejing didn't think too much about it. She just watched Qiao Wu checking his homework naturally. She had the illusion that she just came to a friend's house for afternoon tea. The long-lost relaxation made her not want to leave for the time being.
Even though she said before she came that she was not very familiar with the person in front of her.
She had a rare appetite and picked up the snacks on the table and started eating them slowly.
The atmosphere was so harmonious that she finally put aside those messy thoughts.
"As far as I know, Zhong Shixia isn't the type to deliberately pick fights." She found a lighthearted topic, "It must really just be a misunderstanding with Lu Ning."
Qiao Wu asked, "Don't you hate them?"
"A child who hasn't grown up." Zhong Hejing thought of the slap. "I can't say I hate him."
This is the truth, she just feels powerless.
If she had a healthy body, these problems would not exist.
"Were you already in poor health before they arrived?"
Zhong Hejing: “Yeah.”
Her illness was no secret.
At first it was just insomnia and anxiety, but later there were some physical reactions.
But when Zhong Hejing went to the hospital for a check-up, the doctor only said that she was too tired and under great work pressure, and the psychological burden had always been heavy, so various physical reactions were induced by psychological problems.
I have been controlling it with medication and seeing a psychiatrist regularly.
But now, even if she has reduced the intensity of her work, her immunity is declining sharply. Not only are there some physical reactions, but she also does not have enough energy for daily life.
"Actually, after seeing you yesterday, I was very worried about you." Qiao Wu said frankly, "If you don't mind, would you like to go to the Lu family's hospital for a checkup?"
Zhong Hejing was frightened too much today.
Many people have said the word "worry" to her, but in the end, there was only one purpose: worry that she could not inherit the company, or worry that she could inherit the company.
They are all quite pure.
Does Qiao Wu belong to the former or the latter?
"The Lu family isn't so poor that they'd want to take our company seriously, right?"
Qiao Wu laughed: "I already said it has nothing to do with the Lu family, it's just me."
Zhong Hejing responded reflexively: "Are you worried about me too?"
“…”
Realizing what stupid thing she had said, Zhong Hejing couldn't help laughing.
In fact, it doesn't matter where you go to see a doctor. She knows that she has some psychological problems, and it may be fate that has led her to this point.
"You're not someone who would easily let your guard down," Qiao Wu said. "Even if you were sick, you would still have doubts. If you don't want to go, then I suggest that in addition to looking for the cause within yourself, you should also look for it in others. You could check out any medications or health supplements you've taken, or even your family doctor, servants, or nanny."
Zhong Hejing's body suddenly froze. Her expression turned serious as she looked at Qiao Wu inquiringly: "Are you saying that my illness might be man-made?"
"There's no harm in checking it out. Living in such a complex environment, there's no harm in being more cautious."
"Why do you feel this way?"
"Maybe it's because... your desire to live is very strong." Qiao Wu pointed at the snacks on the table, "So I believe you have a very strong heart. Unless there are unexpected events, you won't be easily defeated by some small things."
Qiao Wu studied psychology, and everything Zhong Hejing did and every action showed that she was an extremely positive person. The so-called psychological problems might exist, but they would not be serious.
In the original plot, Zhong Min was drugged by his so-called father using the same method.
At this moment, Zhong Hejing finally understood the purpose of Qiao Wu's invitation to meet her.
It is a very obvious reminder.
"Thank you," she said softly.
Qiao Wu didn't continue the topic: "If you like this snack, come here often when you have time."
Just as Zhong Hejing was about to speak, she heard the sound of horse hooves behind her.
She turned around and saw someone riding a black horse coming straight towards her.
Lu Yingchi?
Zhong Hejing has heard many people's comments about Lu Yingchi. Lu Yingchi is becoming more and more difficult to discipline. He is an out-and-out bastard second-generation rich kid who often makes Mr. Lu so angry that he curses at him.
He even jumped off a building last year.
Thinking of this, she turned her head back. She had just beaten her younger brother at home yesterday, and she didn't want to see these annoying things again today.
"I heard that a guest is coming." Lu Yingchi rode his horse closer and squinted his eyes to see clearly who was in the pavilion.
When he came back, he didn't hear clearly, but he heard that Qiao Wu let the person in and even allowed him to drive the car directly to the back house, which made him even more furious.
Besides the Lu family, is she still being someone else's dog?!
Is she Nezha?! With three heads and six arms?!
This is almost an octopus! No, it's a centipede!
He gritted his teeth secretly, wanting him to see who this person was.
Qiao Wu put down his homework and looked up: "So this is how you meet guests?"
Lu Yingchi thought to himself: I'm lucky enough that I didn't let the princess trample on that person, and you still expect me to be polite.
Qiao Wu: "Come down."
Seeing that the other person seemed to be a woman, Lu Yingchi frowned and got off the horse.
It’s a waste of time to ride the princess out.
Qiao Wu frowned: "I remember you have classes this afternoon."
"Don't look at me like that. I didn't skip class!" Lu Yingchi tied up his horse and walked over, explaining with a sour face, "The teacher changed the class this afternoon."
"Then come and say hello."
"What are you fighting for..."
Lu Yingchi walked over and finally saw who was sitting there: "Zhong Hejing?"
Qiao Wu rolled up her homework book and tapped his arm: "Call me sister."
Lu Yingchi dodged and said, "Don't push your luck!"
Since Qiao Wu asked him to say hello, he should be able to listen, so he pulled out a chair and sat down: "Why are you here? The old man is not at home."
Lu Yingchi didn't pay much attention to business affairs. She only vaguely remembered that Zhong Hejing seemed to have inherited her family's company and became the president, so she came to discuss business.
"I invited her here," Qiao Wu said. "She is my guest."
"Your guests?"
Lu Yingchi is even stranger.
He doesn't know about others, but isn't it common knowledge that Qiao Wu and Zhong Hejing don't get along?
Qiao Wu nodded: "So if you are rude, please leave."
“…”
Lu Yingchi sighed softly.
Between leaving and infiltrating the enemy camp, he chose the latter and reluctantly called out, "Sister."
Zhong Hejing was so frightened that she drank some water to calm herself down: "Hello."
It's so weird.
If Lu Yingchi wasn't so tall and strong now, she would have suspected that she had traveled back to more than ten years ago when Lu Yingchi followed Qiao Wu like a little shadow.
How did you become so obedient?
"What's this?" Lu Yingchi saw the exercise paper on the table, picked it up and flipped through it casually, then muttered non-stop, "Fuck, what kind of awful handwriting is this? I can write better than her with my feet, and she can understand it herself? Also, are there any correct questions here? She can even perfectly stagger the answers to the multiple-choice questions? Does she really have a brain?"
Qiao Wu simply threw all the unfinished workbooks to him and said, "If you have nothing to do, why don't you help her correct them?"
"Why me?" Lu Yingchi was unhappy. "My time is precious and I can't waste it on this kind of garbage."
"She stayed up very late last night doing her homework, very seriously," Qiao Wu said. "But she forgot to bring it today, and when the teacher called me, she felt very aggrieved. I think she's just starting out at a new school, so she must be really hoping to do better."
Lu Yingchi: "..."
"You can't even solve junior high school problems?" Qiao Wu looked at him suspiciously. "They say your intelligence declines after you get into university..."
Lu Yingchi grabbed the pen from the table and drew a big red cross on the homework without even looking at it: "Shut up."
Qiao Wu curved his lips and said, "Remember to be careful."
"Today I'm going to let her know what a difference in IQ is!"
So Qiao Wu used a fork to pick up a piece of cake for him and said, "Good luck to you."
She originally wanted Lu Yingchi to take it himself, but she didn't expect Lu Yingchi to eat it from her hand without even raising his head.
Qiao Wu's movements only paused slightly, almost imperceptibly, but he didn't take it seriously.
Not to mention feeding cakes, it was common to feed them rice and water in the past.
Zhong Hejing next to him was stunned.
Was she truly so ill that she was having this kind of delusion? Qiao Wu was feeding Lu Yingchi?!
Lu Yingchi was still looking at his homework with his eyes downcast, and didn't seem to take the previous action to heart.
But only he himself knew that his eyes were now filled with the red crosses on the homework paper, and he didn't concentrate on reading a single word. The last few seconds seemed like years to him, and countless things were running through his mind.
What happened to Qiao Wu?
Why do you have to feed him cake with your own hands? He is so old, does he have no hands to eat it?
If I don't eat in front of outsiders, wouldn't that be giving her no face?
But if I eat him, I will lose face!
By the time he reacted, he had already eaten the cake.
And! Right! Qiao Wu's hand!
Realizing this, Lu Yingchi's whole body was burning with anger, and his peripheral vision kept falling on the white hand on the table.
Qiao Wu didn't seem to want to continue feeding him. The fork that belonged to him was already placed in his direction, with cream on it.
So sweet.
When did the pastry chef at home make desserts so sweet!
Lu Yingchi didn't look up, holding the pen: "I want to drink tea."
Qiao Wu glanced at him and saw that he was still seriously correcting Lu Ning's papers, so he poured him a cup of tea.
But this time she pushed the teacup in front of Lu Yingchi. Lu Yingchi was a little confused, and he subconsciously lowered his head when he saw the hand handing it to him.
He didn't come back to his senses until someone hit him on the head.
Seeing that his chin was about to rest on the table, Qiao Wu was puzzled: "Where are your hands?"
Lu Yingchi was stunned for a moment, then he immediately reached out to pick up the tea and drank it all in one gulp. Then he put the cup on the table with a thud, got up and left with the homework on the table.
Qiao Wu was used to his erratic behavior: "Take the princess back."
After walking a few steps, Lu Yingchi walked back again, untied the princess and led her away without saying a word.
Zhong Hejing didn't understand either: "What's wrong with him?"
Qiao Wu thought about it from another perspective: "Maybe he didn't know how to do those questions, so he went to look up the answers."
This possibility is the greatest.
"Lu Yingchi and Lu Ning are on good terms now?"
"We're all family, how can it be bad?"
"It seems to be pretty good with yours."
Qiao Wu picked up the cup that Lu Yingchi had just placed on the table and chuckled, "To me, they are also family."
The way the two get along doesn't seem fake.
Zhong Hejing nodded thoughtfully.
As Lu Yingchi walked away with the princess, he was in a daze. He grabbed the princess's ear and kept asking her, "Princess, she fed me cake. Why do you think that is?"
"To please me?"
"It's so funny, am I that easy to please? She's dreaming."
"Don't worry, I won't hand you over to her just because of this cake for the time being."
"You think it's too cheap, right? It should be worth several bucks."
The princess was annoyed beyond endurance, and with a shake of her head, she walked forward haughtily.
On the other side, Zhong Hejing was still thinking about Qiao Wu's reminder, so she didn't sit for long before getting up and saying goodbye.
Qiao Wu saw her off to the car.
As soon as the two of them reached the road, a black Porsche rushed over.
Although he knew the other party wouldn't hurt anyone, Qiao Wu subconsciously reached out and pulled Zhong Hejing aside: "It's Lu Xuan."
Zhong Hejing thought that there was probably no one else in this family except him.
But this is consistent with his personality. If Lu Yingchi is still in school, his news can only be known from people in the circle, but Lu Xuan is often on the hot search.
Although none of the entries were favorable to him, Zhong Hejing felt that most of them were true.
After all, Lu Xuan is indeed a rich second-generation who is quite arrogant and difficult to discipline, and does things unconventionally. The older he gets, the more unpredictable his temper becomes. He acts like a big shot because he is indeed a big shot. As for his poor acting skills and bad temper,
Not a single one of them wronged him.
The Porsche braked slamming beside them.
After getting off the car, Lu Xuan didn't even look at who was standing next to him, and ran towards Qiao Wu.
He gritted his teeth and asked, "Are you going to care about Lu Jinzhi?"
Qiao Wu asked knowingly, "What happened to him?"
"What's wrong?" Lu Xuan pointed at his phone, "I can't use any of my cards!"
He was so angry that his hands were shaking as he spoke: "Fuck you, I've never heard of the term 'insufficient balance' in my life!"
Today Yu Xiu brought his new agent to the company and said that he felt sorry for what happened last time and wanted to treat him to lunch.
Lu Xuan didn't want to go at first, but when he thought that today was the first day after all and it was Qiao Wu who paved the way for him, he went anyway.
He has always been wealthy and doesn't care how much money he spends. He has never asked others to pay when he goes out to eat, not to mention that this person is his agent. It doesn't make sense to let others pay the bill.
However, his card was suspended.
Every one of them was stopped!
As for the card that he had used to sign the contract with the company, the small amount of remuneration on it had been spent completely sometime ago. He never carried any money on him.
So when he had dinner today, he didn’t even have enough money in his WeChat balance!
not enough!
Lu Xuan still can't forget the way Yu Xiu and his new agent looked at him.
Yu Xiu even mocked him while paying the bill: "It seems like you don't even have enough money to buy jewelry for your housekeeper."
It's such a shame and humiliation!
What’s even more infuriating is that Lu Jinzhi actually blocked him!
"Either you take care of Lu Jinzhi now, or..." Lu Xuan raised his hand, wiped his neck, and said sinisterly, "Or I will wait for him at the airport and assassinate him on the day he returns home."
Zhong Hejing looked at Lu Xuan and then at Qiao Wu.
There was so much information in those words, how could Qiao Wu still control Lu Jinzhi?!
Qiao Wu suppressed the corner of his mouth that was raised: "Isn't this a good thing?"
"What did you say?"
"This way you can prove that you are capable enough to rival Lu Jinzhi, and that you can afford to hire me." Qiao Wu spread his hands and said, "If you want to be the first choice, this seems to be the only way."
Zhong Hejing thought that if this kind of nonsense was told to Zhong Shixia, the child would hesitate for a few seconds.
But Lu Xuan's rising anger suddenly stopped.
Zhong Hejing, who witnessed it firsthand: ...
Unpredictable temper?
No, can you believe this?!
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