Chapter 23 Chapter 23 Written by Lu Jinzhi
It must be Lu Xuan and Lu Ning, the two disappointing ones.
He was talking about the error rate of Lu Ning's homework. Who could tolerate it?
Qiao Wu said with a smile: "I didn't say I was going."
"You said you wanted to think about it."
"I won't consider it for now."
Does that mean I have to consider it later?
Lu Yingchi didn't say anything until the car drove back to Lu's house.
When Qiao Wu wanted him to get out of the car and park it himself, he suddenly turned his head and asked: "What is fighting for honor?"
If attending classes properly every day and not fooling around isn't enough, then what is?
Qiao Wu was stunned for a moment.
When she said that to Lu Ning, she was half joking, but she didn't expect that the word had spread so widely.
Since Lu Yingchi wanted to talk, she didn't mind taking this opportunity to have a good talk with him.
"Do you want us to become like Lu Jinzhi?" Lu Yingchi asked.
In the eyes of others, Lu Jinzhi is the most ambitious one. The old man also hopes that they can shoulder the responsibilities of the group like Lu Jinzhi.
Qiao Wu smiled and said, "No."
She felt that she did not have the ability to decide everyone's future development, nor did she want to decide who would do what. She would just do her best and leave the rest to fate.
She said, "If you can be responsible for yourself and your family, then you will be proud of yourself."
What is this bullshit?
"Isn't this simple?"
"Is it simple?" Qiao Wu raised his eyebrows. "Then I'll wait and see."
Lu Yingchi gave her a strange look, then slammed the door and left.
In fact, Qiao Wu was quite curious about what he would do. When she came back after parking the car, she found that Lu Yingchi had not gone upstairs yet.
The servants around him were at a loss, while he sat downstairs with an expressionless face, cracking walnuts.
There was a huge pile of them, and there was a basin next to them, as if they were going to smash the table too.
What is this for?
Lu Ning happened to run in with her schoolbag on her back. The moment she saw Qiao Wu, she raised her head and said, "I'm back..."
"Bang!"
The sound of a hammer striking down startled Lu Ning. She then realized there was a person sitting behind the sofa. The yellow hair was so conspicuous that it was impossible not to recognize him.
Lu Yingchi raised his hand and lowered it, carrying 80% of his personal grudges, clean and brutal.
Lu Ning walked forward and saw the table full of walnut shells. Her face darkened. "What are you doing? Are you trying to scare me?"
With a clatter, Lu Yingchi pushed half a basin of peeled walnuts in front of her: "Eat."
Lu Ning: “???”
What a psycho!
"I hit it with my own hands, and you have to stuff it up your nose even if you have to." Lu Yingchi held up a small hammer in his other hand, the veins on the back of his hand bulging, and he was full of threats. "From today on, you stay here and do your homework. You are not allowed to go upstairs until I have checked it."
Lu Ning has never forgotten the sight of her homework book being covered with red crosses. The main thing is that she just drew the crosses, but Lu Yingchi was so anxious to correct her mistakes that he even wrote "Are you a pig? You can't even do this" behind her wrong questions.
So in the next two days, when Lu Ning handed in her homework, the teacher would ask her with a smile, "Didn't your parents correct your homework this time?"
As a result, her homework book was surrounded by her classmates, which was so infuriating!
She rolled her eyes: "Are you sick?"
She doesn't use the study room that's so big in her room, but comes here to do her homework. Doesn't she have any respect?
Lu Yingchi pointed at her with a small hammer and said, "I won't say nice things for the second time. Come and sit here."
Feeling that the hammer was about to fall on her head in the next second, Lu Ning's scalp tightened and she gripped the strap of her schoolbag tightly: "Qiao Wu, look at him!"
To be honest, Qiao Wu didn't know why Lu Yingchi suddenly did this. She looked over with a puzzled look.
"Isn't this responsible enough?" Lu Yingchi frowned.
oh!
I see.
"I think this is a good idea." Qiao Wu took two steps back, not intending to intervene anymore. "Your uncle's academic performance is more than enough to help you. Finish your homework and have dinner. I'm going to go get busy now."
Lu Yingchi was instantly proud and waved his hammer: "I'll count to three."
Lu Ning measured the difference in combat index between herself and Lu Yingchi in three seconds, and the other party still had a weapon in his hand.
Then he got scared.
She slowly moved over with her schoolbag in her arms. She was dizzy from the smell of the half basin of walnuts and couldn't tell who had the problem in the brain.
She sat down cautiously: "I'm not stupid, I just have a poor foundation. Don't be too aggressive, otherwise I will really fight with you."
Lu Yingchi glanced at her and said, "Shut up and write."
Lu Ning swallowed her anger, took out the homework and spread it out, biting the pen and struggling to read the questions.
The dog-like handwriting irritated Lu Yingchi so much that his eyes hurt: "I will buy you a copybook tomorrow, practice hard."
"..." Lu Ning's ears turned red, and she stretched out a hand to cover half of her homework. The next second, a picture flashed through her mind.
She had left her homework book at home before. In addition to the one corrected by Lu Yingchi, there was also one by Qiao Wu. The handwriting of the two was very similar.
"Do you practice the same calligraphy as Qiao Wu?" she asked, "or do you have the same calligraphy teacher?"
If that's the case, then she wants it too.
Lu Yingchi paused in peeling the walnuts.
None of that, it’s just that Qiao Wu’s handwriting has always been beautiful. In the beginning, Qiao Wu held his hand and taught him how to write, and later he would subconsciously imitate Qiao Wu’s handwriting.
In this house, there is only a portrait of his and Qiao Wu's handwriting.
This is the part of Qiao Wu that belongs only to him.
With this realization, Lu Yingchi's mood, which had been gloomy for a long time, improved a little.
He snorted softly: "You are not worthy of this level."
Lu Ning: "...Stop knocking! I don't want to eat!"
"Why don't you eat it? How can you show your worth if you don't eat it?" Lu Yingchi threw another one in. He looked back and saw Qiao Wu, who was in front of the computer, looking at something so focused that she didn't notice him. So he lowered his voice and asked, "Do you know that someone wants to poach her?"
"What?"
"You know Zhong Hejing... never mind, you probably don't know her well." Lu Yingchi whispered, "Anyway, all you need to know is that she's a very ambitious woman. She even wanted to be your second aunt."
“!!!”
Lu Ning was shocked.
That's really ambitious.
Lu Yingchi got angry when he mentioned this, and he hit her again: "I heard with my own ears that she used stock dividends as a condition to get Qiao Wu to work with her, that broken shell of the Zhong family."
Although Lu Ning doesn't like Lu Yingchi, at least they are on the same front on this matter.
She frowned: "So you are acting like a harmonious family brings prosperity to me now?"
"This walnut is so smart? It can even use idioms."
Lu Yingchi felt that his hands were blessed, and that eating the walnuts he cracked would not only help people get into college, but would also enlighten fools.
As expected of him, awesome!
He said gloomily, "Anyway, if you insult me with your shitty homework again, next time I'll hit your brain instead of the walnut with this hammer, okay?"
"snort!"
Lu Ning lowered her head in anger.
While Qiao Wu was working, he looked up and saw that these two people could sit together peacefully for such a long time, which was strange.
She smiled and lowered her eyes again.
After receiving the thank-you document, she read it carefully first, so after Xu Chao sent it to her after sorting it out, she checked it again. After making sure that the other party's work ability was indeed good, she asked him to send the document to Lu Jinzhi.
In fact, since her last chat with Lu Jinzhi, she has not had any direct conversation with him.
It was just that she would send him some "daily" and "weekly" reports from home on a regular basis.
But Lu Jinzhi never replied, except for the last time they met unexpectedly at the company and had some interactions.
She thought for a while and then sent the details of the dinner.
I thought Lu Jinzhi would read the message but not reply just like before, but this time, within a few minutes, Lu Jinzhi sent a message.
It is flight information.
Lu Jinzhi: "Meet me at the airport."
This message was sent to her mobile phone to ask her to go to the airport to pick it up.
Qiao Wu was a little surprised, but quickly replied, "Okay."
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At this time, Lu Jinzhi, who was abroad, took his eyes off his phone and started to look through the documents Xu Chao gave him again.
He had already learned most of the information from various channels. He just wanted to know what difference could be made after being examined by Qiao Wu that would make her so confident in front of Xu Chao.
After opening each document, he did not find any abnormalities in any place where Xu Chao had marked it, but he found differences in the lower right corner of each page.
It is a shallow watermark - a paulownia leaf.
A corner of his memory was torn apart, and Lu Jinzhi found the same trace as this leaf in his countless clear memories.
Having another child at home didn't matter to him. Lu Xuan was already noisy enough anyway, and having another one would prevent Lu Xuan from bothering him anymore.
Just as he wished, both Lu Xuan and later Lu Yingchi relied on Qiao Wu far more than anyone could have imagined.
Lu Jinzhi couldn't understand this feeling.
Just like he didn't know why they would cry when no one was with them, the books he had read reminded him that there is gain and loss, and between having no one to accompany him and having no money to spend, Lu Jinzhi always chose the former without hesitation.
But it is undeniable that compared to the stupid Lu Xuan and Lu Yingchi, Qiao Wu does make him like him more.
Because she is quiet, smart and non-clingy.
So sometimes when he couldn't stand those two idiots pestering her, he would occasionally lend a helping hand.
He once thought that his choices would always be right. After his elder brother passed away, he would find the best solution in an instant and take on the responsibilities of the family after his elder brother.
When he realized that he could not communicate normally with Lu Jiang, he would withdraw in time and leave to give them space.
Solutions are always more direct and effective than useless entanglement.
But when he thought back to the past twenty years, the few things that puzzled him were all related to Qiao Wu.
Obviously Qiao Wu is not a genius, but why is she so smart and insightful?
Why did someone whom he did not dislike before become unbearable to him from a certain moment on;
And why, on the first day after I chose to take responsibility for the Lu family according to the best plan, I felt sad when I returned home and saw Qiao Wu and others from afar.
Lu Jinzhi still remembers those almost imperceptible emotions vividly, but he has not found the answer, and no one will tell him the answer, because everyone has changed, so there is no need for him to spend time looking for it.
Before those inexplicable changes, there was this maple leaf.
Qiao Wu has loved reading books since he was a child, all kinds of books, and he also likes writing and drawing.
Coincidentally, he is too.
The Lu family has many children, so one of the houses in the Lu residence was converted into a library, and the books in it cover astronomy, geography, academics, and entertainment.
The other children rarely go there, only he and Qiao Wu are regular visitors there.
Qiao Wu doesn't like to write or draw on shared books. She will prepare a lot of notes and leave her thoughts and traces in certain places when reading so that she can find them again.
So he always saw many sticky notes in the same book they had read. There was this leaf in the lower right corner of each note. It was small and inconspicuous, but it appeared in the corners of many books.
Lu Jinzhi found it hard to imagine that someone five years younger than him could have such ingenuity.
No one knew that every time he walked into the library alone and opened a book and saw a familiar mark, he would stare at it for a long time and see her emotions at that time.
Later he developed a habit of carrying notes with him and leaving a little mark on the page when he turned it.
The books he and Qiao Wu had read were intertwined, and they had unknowingly left behind many sticky notes of different colors, so even if he had read a book, he would occasionally flip through it.
In this way, he would suddenly find a new note on a book, which was a conversation and response left to him by Qiao Wu at a different time but in the same place.
In the years that followed, the library had many more books, but not a single note with a picture of a sycamore leaf.
He was the only one flipping through the books one after another, and gradually even he could not leave any traces on them. Now, he had been away from Lu's house for two years.
But the sycamore leaves appeared again.
Lu Jinzhi didn't understand, so he kept looking for a solution. It was obvious that there was only one person who could provide the solution now - Qiao Wu.
So he took a screenshot of the watermark and sent it to Qiao Wu: "What is this?"
Qiao Wu replied quickly, "The documents Xu Chao sent went through my hands. Mark them well. If you need accountability later, you can come to me."
It makes sense.
But it was not the answer Lu Jinzhi wanted.
He scrolled up and found the book "Traditional Overlord Mine Clearance Guide", which had shocked him so much that he didn't read to the end or even click on it again.
Without exception, leaves fell at the very end.
Lu Jinzhi suddenly realized that he might need to go to the library again after returning home.
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Lu Ning has a monthly reading assignment at school, so while Lu Yingchi hadn't come back to supervise her homework, she dragged Qiao Wu to the library at home and asked Qiao Wu to pick out a few suitable books for her.
She has self-awareness. If she chooses by herself, she may only be able to understand fairy tales. Moreover, letting Qiao Wu come over can also express her desire to "do well".
"This is what it looks like inside?" She looked around curiously. "It's bigger than the library at my old school."
There are five floors in total, with a hollow middle. There is a sofa and a desk in the center of the first floor. The spiral staircase leads up one floor at a time, and there is a small sofa on each floor. The books are densely and neatly placed on the wall.
Lu Ning raised her head, her heart suddenly filled with awe for knowledge.
Suddenly she approached Qiao Wu gently and sniffed him.
Qiao Wu was amused by her actions: "Are you a puppy?"
"This is the smell on you!" Lu Ning felt like she had discovered a new world.
She always thought that the bookish scent on Qiao Wu was pleasant, but she could never find a similar scent, and she didn't know that such a perfume existed.
At this moment, I suddenly realized that it was here.
The smell in the library was even stronger, with a faint scent of incense left behind by the servants after cleaning.
But the one on Qiao Wu is more refreshing and comfortable.
Qiao Wu didn't know she still had a scent on her body. She lowered her head and sniffed, but didn't smell anything: "Maybe? I used to like coming here."
"You haven't read all these books, have you?"
"No, there are a lot of new books."
Because there were so many books, the servants would update the data on the computer here every time a new book was added. However, Qiao Wu remembered that there were a few books suitable for Lu Ning to read, so he did not check them. Instead, he pushed the wooden escalator in the corner and walked to the bookshelf he remembered.
The wooden escalator is very heavy and stable. In the past, when she was too lazy to go to the sofa, she would just sit on it and watch. Even now, she doesn't feel it is dangerous or shaking.
Qiao Wu took out a book and handed it to Lu Ning: "This."
Lu Ning tiptoed over to take it and read the title clearly: "Sophie's World"
Fortunately, she could understand the name, so the content shouldn't be too profound.
She flipped through it casually and found a note inside. The handwriting on it was neat and beautiful, and the person who wrote it had also drawn a sycamore leaf.
This definitely wasn't done by Lu Yingchi.
"Did you write it?" she asked.
Qiao Wu was looking for a book. He lowered his head and saw it, with a hint of surprise in his eyes: "It's still there."
"I have the habit of leaving some notes and personal reflections when I read. If you feel that it is in the way, you can return it to me first."
"I don't."
Since Lu Ning didn't ask Lu Yingchi about the calligraphy copybook and calligraphy teacher used by Qiao Wu, she could only start from here.
She put the note away carefully: "I'll look at them together."
Although she took a quick glance, she didn't quite understand.
But if there were traces of Qiao Wu in these boring books, they would be more interesting.
She was also reading the books that Qiao Wu had read.
Then will she think the same as Qiao Wu at that time?
Humph, then she and Qiao Wu have a resonance of souls. They are nothing like that idiot Lu Yingchi, who may have never been to the library, hahaha!
Lu Ning instantly became excited: "Find me the book you took notes in!"
Qiao Wu didn't understand, but agreed with her: "Okay."
Lu Ning continued to flip through the pages, trying to see how many notes there were, but she discovered that the last one also had handwriting from other people besides Qiao Wu.
What? Who else in this family is so studious besides me?
This handwriting...first rule out Lu Yingchi, then rule out Lu Xuan.
She had seen Lu Xuan's signature, which was as ugly as a duck's skin.
That……
Lu Ning's eyes suddenly widened: "Is this written by Second Uncle?"
"Hmm?" Qiao Wu was stunned. "Let me see."
Lu Ning handed her another note.
Qiao Wu lowered her eyes. The notes above were much more mature and powerful than she remembered, which meant that they were written by Lu Jinzhi in the past ten years.
Just one sentence.
"Where will Sophie's boat go?"
Sophie is the protagonist of this book. She is a fictional character created by a father to teach his daughter philosophy. In the open ending of the book, Sophie, who has gained self-awareness, untied the ropes of the boat, perhaps leaving the world of the book.
So he's asking about an ending that doesn't exist?
Qiao Wu looked for a few seconds and suddenly came down from the ladder.
"Aren't you going to look for it anymore?" Lu Ning followed her closely.
Then she saw Qiao Wu walk to the table, pick up a pen, and lean over to write his own notes on Lu Jinzhi's note.
She asked in horror, "How dare you write this?"
Although Lu Jinzhi is not in the country, there is no guarantee that he will not come back to see me.
Qiao Wu closed the pen cap and smiled: "Why not?"
"He hates it most when other people touch his things," Lu Ning said fearfully. "He'll get angry, and he won't care who you belong to."
Qiao Wu thought for a moment and said, "Probably not."
"Why?"
But this time Qiao Wu didn't answer. She put down the pen, took the book from Lu Ning's arms, put the note carefully inside, and said softly, "Keep it safe."
Lu Ning took the book in confusion, but Qiao Wu had already returned to the ladder to pick out a book.
She lowered her head and opened the book, seeing the reply with the ink still wet.
"Will cross the free sea and go wherever she wants."
Lu Ning secretly made up her mind.
She must finish reading this book! And then see what these two are talking about!
Sitting on the wooden ladder, Qiao Wu took out another book and opened it. In addition to her notes, there were also some notes left by Lu Jinzhi. Some of them she had read, but some were unfamiliar to her.
So when she wrote that sentence, even Lu Jinzhi now should not be angry.
Because she is the only one in the world who can give Lu Jinzhi an answer.
Although this answer is twelve years late.
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