Chapter 28 Chapter 28 Lu Jinzhi is here
Lu Jinzhi left quickly.
Lu Ning was left alone sitting at the table, carefully putting her note back. She stared at her handwriting for a long time.
Isn't this understandable? Why set such high standards?
Also, why did Lu Jinzhi suddenly open her homework? Was it just to humiliate her? Damn genius, she's just a fool in disguise!
During dinner that night, Lu Ning looked around and found that Lu Jinzhi was not there, so she immediately rushed to Qiao Wu and said, "I want to report him."
Qiao Wu: "What?"
"Lu...Second Uncle used inappropriate words and actions today to attack me personally."
It turns out that Lu Jinzhi went to the library today?
Qiao Wu asked with a smile, "What did he attack you for?"
"They said what I wrote was not as good as chicken." Lu Ning complained in a low voice.
Lu Yingchi: "That doesn't count as an attack."
He was relatively sincere this time: "In Lu Jinzhi's eyes, everyone except himself is not human."
Because he had been called a stupid dog without any hesitation before.
So he could call Lu Jinzhi a monkey without any psychological burden.
"He's back?" Lu Xuan frowned. "So where is he?"
Qiao Wu: "The hospital, he will be back later."
Everyone had the same thought in their mind.
It’s better to be late, but it’s best not to come back.
"So is my report effective?" Lu Ning asked unwillingly.
Qiao Wu nodded: "I will tell him."
The hospital at this time.
Lu Jiang was half leaning on the hospital bed, staring at his second son for a long time. Ever since the other party walked into the ward and said hello, he had been looking through documents and rarely raised his head.
He always thought that his second son went abroad two years ago because he was angry with him, so the father and son had very little contact in the past two years.
But unexpectedly, when the second son was asked to return to China, the other party agreed without any hesitation. He came to the hospital to see him on the first day after returning home. Even though he didn't pay much attention to him, it was much better than the other two rebellious sons who would make him angry to death within a minute of coming in.
So regarding what happened two years ago, Lu Jiang felt that he could give in first, so he broke the deadlock first: "How is it?"
Lu Jinzhi continued flipping through the documents and said calmly, "Not very good."
Lu Jiang: “?”
Lu Jinzhi didn't even look up, so he didn't realize his father's expression had gone blank. He continued, "The facts prove that not only are the returns from your decision low, but the group's development has also stagnated."
Lu Jiang: “???”
Lu Jinzhi closed the file: "So now you know who is right?"
Lu Jiang: “???”
Lu Jiang couldn't hold his composure anymore, his face darkened. "You came to the hospital just to talk about this?"
"Um."
Placing the documents on the table, Lu Jinzhi calmly asked, "If there's nothing else, I'll be back."
Lu Jiang's eyes went darker and darker. After not seeing his son for two years, his son's choking skills had improved.
"If you are still angry with me, why did you come back?" he asked, holding his heart.
"Angry?" Lu Jinzhi's brows were devoid of any negative emotion. He smiled and said, "I've never been angry. I just think arguing with you is a waste of time and meaningless. Time will prove you wrong."
Although he was reluctant to admit it, times were always changing. Lu Jiang knew that at his age he was powerless in many things, and compared to the second brother, he did make mistakes in some decisions, but he did not approve of the second brother's behavior of leaving without saying goodbye.
"So you can just leave? If it weren't for this accident you wouldn't have come back?"
Lu Jinzhi: "It's not an accident."
Lu Jiang frowned: "You mean..."
Is someone plotting against me?
"You're old, this is inevitable." Lu Jinzhi said matter-of-factly, "So my original plan was also for about two years."
His father would not change for anyone, so his plan was to come back when he could no longer argue.
Anyway, no matter how much Lu's development declines, he can save it, but his father's idea is more difficult to save than the company.
So his brain automatically made the best choice.
Now that the time has come, he naturally will not refuse to come back, and he will also prove the result of this decision to his father to prove that he is right.
He raised an eyebrow, "You don't evaluate your body during your regular checkups?"
Lu Jiang: “…”
He grabbed Xie Yi who was beside him and closed his eyes tightly: "Call, call a doctor."
Of his three sons, two are thinking about his inheritance, and one is already calculating exactly when he will die.
What a sin, what a sin!
Lu Jinzhi just sat on the sofa and observed the whole process. His eyes swept across Lu Jiang's hand holding Xie Yi's, then gently withdrew. He stood up and said, "I'm leaving."
"Wait a minute." Lu Jiang frowned, "Have you seen Xiao Wu?"
Xiao Wu?
This slightly intimate name made Lu Jinzhi pay more attention to his father. As far as he knew, Lu Jiang did not like Qiao Wu in the past.
"Um."
Lu Jiang asked: "How is she?"
No matter how confident he is in Qiao Wu's work ability now, Qiao Wu will always have to work with Lu Jinzhi in the future, and Lu Jiang does not want any mistakes to happen from the beginning.
What surprised him was that the second brother, who usually had confidence in everything and rarely hesitated, was silent for several seconds this time.
Lu Jiang couldn't help but look up.
Lu Jinzhi suddenly remembered the handwriting on the note in "Sophie's World", which had not changed at all even after many years.
He hummed, "Not bad."
This time Lu Jiang was really stunned.
This was the first time he heard someone who could make his son say something okay.
"Are you talking about her work ability?"
Lu Jinzhi smiled and said, "You're not asking about her?"
No one is irreplaceable at work. As long as you have money, you can choose from all the talents in the world.
Only the uniqueness of that person himself can serve as a condition that makes him worthy of comparison with others.
It was obvious that Lu Jinzhi was very frank and had no idea what serious words he had said.
Lu Jiang wanted to ask more questions, but after Xie Yi rang the bell, the doctor pushed the door open and came in. Seeing Lu Jinzhi standing in the ward, the doctor changed his tone and said, "Mr. Lu."
Lu Jinzhi nodded. The doctor then walked in and asked, "Mr. Lu, what's wrong with you?"
Lu Jinzhi walked to the door of the ward, looked back, and said calmly: "It's incurable. It's the late stage of hypocritical cancer."
doctor:"……"
He didn't dare to speak at all, because every regular physical examination report of each member of the Lu family would be delivered to Lu Jinzhi in full every time.
Lu Jiang was so angry that he jumped up from the bed: "Rebellious son!"
Unfortunately, Lu Jinzhi didn't give him a chance to lose his temper. He closed the door without looking back and left a last word: "Don't abuse medical resources."
The ward was in chaos with noise, and Lu Jinzhi had already walked a long way outside the ward.
In addition to the physical examination report being the basis for him to measure Lu Jiang's health standards, the moment the news of Lu Jiang's illness reached his ears, the hospital's report also arrived.
It is true that Lu Jiang was seriously ill this time, but it was just because he was too tired during that period, coupled with long-standing psychological problems.
The reason why I stayed in the hospital for so many days was simply to find an excuse to force him to return home.
Lu Jinzhi was too lazy to play such a roundabout game with him.
It was already late at night when we returned to Lu's house from the hospital.
The moment he saw the gate of the Lu residence, Lu Jinzhi finally felt a little tired. As soon as he entered, a servant came to greet him: "Second Young Master, do you need anything to eat?"
This was a routine inquiry every time he came back. Although Lu Jinzhi was very picky about the food he ate, he actually didn't have a strong appetite. He would not eat unless he was hungry.
So he refused as usual: "No."
But the difference this time was that the servants didn't leave. Instead, they continued, "Housekeeper Xiao Qiao said that even if you don't eat, you can't go on an empty stomach. It's bad for your stomach, so the kitchen has been ready waiting for you to come back."
Somehow, Lu Jinzhi suddenly remembered one of the items in the "Traditional Dominant Boss" document.
One of the common diseases among bosses is stomach disease.
It's really poisonous.
He didn't come back early, so when he heard that the kitchen was still waiting for him, he lowered his eyes and said, "Hurry up."
The servants were a little surprised, because housekeeper Xiao Qiao had already told them to cook some porridge first, and if the second young master didn't express what he wanted to eat, then serve the porridge, so that he wouldn't feel full too quickly.
"OK."
When Lu Jinzhi arrived at the restaurant, he found that the restaurant had also changed.
There's a mobile TV and an ugly robot.
"What is this?" he asked.
"This is a toy that housekeeper Xiao Qiao bought," the servant said. "It seems to require two people to play with it."
Lu Jinzhi was a little surprised.
How could there be something in this family that only two people could do? He had always thought that everyone in the family was a loner.
As soon as he sat down, he turned on the mobile TV out of habit.
Late-night legal channel, double kill as soon as you open the screen.
Lu Jinzhi, who had no appetite to begin with, blinked slightly: "You want me to watch this while I eat?"
The servant said hurriedly, "This is what Butler Xiao Qiao ordered. The Third Young Master and his men must read it every day and take notes."
Lu Jinzhi: “?”
He suddenly remembered the two awkward rules of conduct on the wall of the living room, and the third rule was indeed written like this.
So he is also included in the code of conduct for elementary school students?
"Where's she?" he asked.
"Is Xiao Qiao the housekeeper?"
"Um."
"When I called her just now to let her know you were safe, you were still in the library. Do you need to call again to confirm?"
Lu Jinzhi raised his eyebrows slightly: "Report that I am safe?"
"There's a curfew at home. Logically, if you don't come back at that time, you need to report your safety to Butler Xiao Qiao in advance. We don't know why Butler Xiao Qiao asked us to report this time."
"Did the others report it themselves?"
"It should be, but so far, the Third Young Master, the Fourth Young Master, and the Young Miss have not returned after curfew."
The kitchen quickly served the porridge that had been cooking for a long time.
The color looked okay. Lu Jinzhi took a spoon and tasted it, his eyes slightly closed. "What is this?"
"Mung bean and lily porridge."
Lu Jinzhi nodded. He didn't like salty porridge, nor did he like sweet food, but this bowl of porridge just suited his taste.
After drinking a bowl of porridge, he asked, "Did she also ask you to cook it?"
Although it is still a question, it is already somewhat certain.
"Yes."
Lu Jinzhi didn't say anything. He wiped his mouth and got up to leave the restaurant.
But he didn't rush upstairs, but went to the library again.
To ensure quietness inside, there are silent sliding doors and carpets on the floor.
Just like Lu Ning didn't notice him in the afternoon, Qiao Wu in the building didn't notice him this time either.
Qiao Wu sat on the wooden stairs on the second floor, one foot high and one low, lightly resting on the stairs. She was concentrating on flipping through the book in her hands. The sound of her pages being turned occasionally rang out in the quiet space.
Lu Jinzhi leaned against the door and had to raise his head slightly to see her, but because the light from the hanging lamps was a bit dazzling, he couldn't see her face clearly.
In his limited memory, he rarely met Qiao Wu in the library. Even if they met, the place was very large, so they were both in their own places, quietly reading their own books.
As he said, Qiao Wu has always been quiet.
But Qiao Wu developed late in her childhood and was never very tall. In addition, she couldn't push the wooden ladder by herself at that time, so she would occasionally come to him and ask softly if he could help her.
The children in the family, even Lu Xuan and Lu Yingchi who are still in their rebellious period, would call him "Second Brother" when they were young.
Only Qiao Wu doesn't know.
Lu Xuan is one year older than Qiao Wu. When he was still calling "Second Brother" in a noisy manner and making people feel annoyed, Qiao Wu, who had just learned to speak, would call him "Lu, Jin, Zhi" word by word.
Every word is clear.
At that time, he thought that children's voices were not always noisy and unpleasant.
He had no sense of respecting elders and only followed his own inner preferences. Qiao Wu could call Lu Jinzhi nicer without calling him brother or young master.
So from the very beginning, Qiao Wu, who was five years younger than him, just called him Lu Jinzhi.
He is an exception in the Lu family, a favored child in everyone's eyes. Even his strict father is kind to him. The older he gets, the more he can tell his own differences.
At the same time, he couldn't understand why some people said he was excellent but at the same time stayed away from him and were afraid of him.
Only Qiao Wu is always like that.
"Lu Jinzhi, could you please help me get that book?"
"Lu Jinzhi, could you please help me push this ladder?"
"Lu Jinzhi, I told Dad that you don't like sweet things."
"Lu Jinzhi..."
Until one day twelve years ago, that person suddenly smiled and called him "Second Young Master".
When Lu Jinzhi looked back, he felt that the person in front of him was very strange for a moment, so strange that he didn't want to look at him a second time.
From then on, there was another voice in his life that he hated.
If you hate it, just forget it.
He did so, so he ignored many messages and flattery from Qiao Wu. He never hesitated about something after weighing the pros and cons, except for the first time he received Qiao Wu's extraordinary temptation.
His mind clearly told him that he could not keep this person.
But he didn't make a choice immediately.
Was it because of the friendship that the old housekeeper had shown him over the years, or was it because of the voice of Lu Jinzhi that he had never heard of again?
He now had another unsolvable problem with this person.
After he waited for a long time, until he had lost his patience and had no more reasons to convince himself, he received a call.
I don’t know what the person on the phone was thinking, and he didn’t speak for a long time.
Then he heard a voice saying "Lu Jinzhi".
Lu Jinzhi felt that his brain was like a sophisticated instrument, which he had always been proud of, but at that moment he did not immediately remember all the information in that sentence.
Instead, he always stayed on the first three words.
It was not until his instrument sounded an alarm that he came to his senses and remembered the complete words that followed.
She wants to borrow a speedboat.
Then borrow it, he thought.
It was a while after he hung up the phone that he remembered to make amends for his mistake.
Received a call for the second time.
For some reason, he asked again who he was before answering.
The person on the other end of the phone still said, Lu Jinzhi.
It is difficult for Lu Jinzhi to understand other people's emotions, and it is also difficult for him to understand his own emotions.
There are only a few times when he can immediately notice the changes in his emotions.
One sad moment was the day he chose to take on the responsibility of being the eldest brother. He watched Qiao Wu talking to others from afar.
The only time he was happy was when Qiao Wu called him that day and answered that he was Lu Jinzhi.
He has always disliked his name because the word "Jin" is not good.
It's just that someone called it something nice, so he reluctantly went along with it.
Later he was worried that if he changed his name, no one would call him by it anymore.
"Lu Jinzhi?"
A soft call pulled Lu Jinzhi out of his memories. He focused his eyes, but still couldn't see the person on the stairs clearly. However, he felt for some reason that this person overlapped with a small figure in his memory.
There are a total of 734,871 books in this library, ranging from astronomy to geography, science, ethics, gods and ghosts, and countless rare manuscripts. Although he did not read all of them, he read quite a few of them.
Lu Jinzhi didn't think anything was impossible.
It's like someone disappears for twelve years and then suddenly comes back.
Why not?
He took a few steps forward, walked out of the dimness at the door, walked around the chandelier in the middle, and finally could see the person on the wooden ladder clearly.
"Um."
As he spoke, he had already walked upstairs.
Qiao Wu has been a bit busy lately, and she can only find some time to come here and continue reading after everything is done in the evening. But it was a bit late today, so her eyes were really tired, so she took off her glasses and put the book and pen on her legs, intending to massage her eyes.
But when I looked down, I saw someone standing at the door.
I don't know how long he stood there, silently.
"Are you still asleep?"
"You can think of me as sleepwalking."
“…”
No wonder Lu Ning reported him.
Seeing that it was getting late, Qiao Wu didn't continue reading. She stood up and put the book back where it belonged, planning to come back next time.
Lu Jinzhi stood at the bottom of the wooden ladder. This time he didn't need to look up. The moment the other party raised his hand, the waistline faintly revealed caught his eye unexpectedly.
His eyelashes drooped.
The figures that had just overlapped for a moment were completely separated at this moment.
The child can already push the ladder by herself and reach the upper bookshelf by herself. Now that she has grown up, she no longer needs him.
"Lu Jinzhi, I'm coming down."
Lu Jinzhi raised his eyes and stretched out his hand before anyone could react.
Qiao Wu was stunned.
Lu Jinzhi was also stunned when he realized what he had done.
He quickly withdrew his hand and took a step back to give her room to get down the ladder.
"I saw it," he said.
"What did you see?"
"Sophie's boat."
Qiao Wu laughed and pushed the wooden ladder to the corner, saying, "So this is why you attacked Lu Ning personally?"
Lu Jinzhi did not agree with this word, but said objectively: "I am just correcting your wrong evaluation of her."
With Lu Ning's level, let alone at the age of 27.
Even if he were 270 years old, it would be impossible for him to surpass others.
Qiao Wu retrieved his glasses from the ladder and put them on: "Not everyone is called Lu Jinzhi. Why can't you be more tolerant of ordinary people?"
Lu Jinzhi, who had been told "this age" in the afternoon, was suddenly comforted by these words at this moment.
He leaned against the bookshelf, and this time he had to lower his eyes slightly to meet her eyes. He liked looking at this place because he could see the person's truest thoughts at that moment.
"I didn't tear up her homework." Lu Jinzhi felt that he had done his best. "Isn't this tolerant enough?"
After hearing this, Qiao Wu realized that Lu Jinzhi was indeed a little more patient with Lu Ning.
If it were the previous Lu Yingchi and Lu Xuan, anything that made them unhappy would generally not exist until the next day.
It’s no wonder that Lu Yingchi called him a monkey, as he indeed cast a huge shadow on people.
"She is quite afraid of you." Qiao Wu said.
Lu Jinzhi commented calmly, "Is this something to be proud of?"
He was scared just standing there, which was useless.
Forget it, playing the emotional card with Lu Jinzhi was a mistake.
Qiao Wu changed his words to something more straightforward: "You remember the code of conduct, right? They are all abiding by the rules now, so I don't want it to be ruined because of you."
Lu Jinzhi tilted his head and said with a smile, "So I asked someone to call you to let you know I'm safe?"
"Is it not possible?" Qiao Wu asked back.
"You didn't tell me when you made the rules, so why should I be within your rules?"
"So I didn't force you."
Because Lu Jinzhi didn't know about it, she didn't ask him to come back or call before the curfew time, but just asked the servant to call her back.
Lu Jinzhi didn't continue with the previous question, but asked: "You are still here so late, are you waiting for a call?"
Qiao Wu did not deny it.
On Lu Jinzhi's first day back home, he went to the hospital. She was worried that he would have a conflict with the old man.
Otherwise, no matter how much she loves reading, she would not stay here so late as she has to get up early the next day.
"Why did you ask someone to make porridge in advance? Are you sure I will eat it?"
The porridge cannot be cooked so quickly to a soft state.
Lu Jinzhi is a person who wants to find out the answer to a problem as soon as possible, so Qiao Wu does not intend to hide it from him.
"Because overtime work requires overtime pay, and you didn't pay them overtime."
On the scale that belongs only to Lu Jinzhi, he has his own way of measuring things.
He has high demands and doesn't eat everything. He is even more unwilling to waste time waiting. So when he came home late and wanted to eat something, he would ask the kitchen to prepare it according to his requirements before he came back, and then pay the chef overtime separately.
In his opinion, what you give should be equal to what you receive.
Therefore, if he doesn't call in advance and you tell him the kitchen is waiting for him, he won't refuse easily.
At least he wanted to make the other party get rewarded for the time wasted.
As for whether to pay overtime after eating, that is his own way of judging.
Just like how he treated Lu Yingchi and Lu Xuan so badly, it was because he felt that these two people were very annoying and had drained his emotions in the past, so on equal terms, he could bully them with peace of mind.
But Lu Ning was not that annoying to him, so he was really more tolerant of Lu Ning.
Although it was a bit despicable, Qiao Wu did use his special habit to morally force him to drink porridge.
In Qiao Wu's assumption, whether Lu Jinzhi drank or not, he should go to rest after the meeting, but she didn't expect him to appear here, so she was not sure whether he was here to ask for accountability or to do something else.
She asked, "So you gave it to me later?"
Lu Jinzhi looked at her quietly for a few seconds, then suddenly smiled and answered irrelevantly: "Father asked me how you are today."
"What?"
"I said it's OK."
Qiao Wu didn't understand.
"I made a mistake in judgment." Lu Jinzhi continued, "You understand me better than I thought."
Even surpassed him.
"There's another question."
Qiao Wu couldn't quite keep up with the genius' train of thought and unconsciously raised his eyes: "Hmm?"
Lu Jinzhi, who was leaning against the bookshelf, stood up straight, leaned forward slightly to level his eyes with hers, and asked her softly, "Who am I?"
Qiao Wu: "Lu Jinzhi."
"Yeah." Lu Jinzhi smiled, "Lu Jinzhi gave it to me."
Because the porridge was cooked to his liking, he gave the chef overtime pay.
"Next time you need to report your safety, just come to me directly," he said.
"You promised?"
This was simpler than Qiao Wu had imagined. She thought she needed to analyze the pros and cons with him and let him weigh the pros and cons.
"Why?" she asked.
"Because the Second Young Master is not within your rules." Lu Jinzhi's dark eyes were filled with a faint smile, "But Lu Jinzhi is here."
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