Chapter 37 Chapter 37 Have a cup of coffee
Lu Jinzhi sometimes wondered if his contact information was too easy for others to obtain. How could any strange person call him?
Where did you find it? He was born at home.
Also, how is Qin Lian related to Qiao Wu?
Her life on this business trip seems to be very rich.
Before he was ten, Qiao Wu's life basically consisted of school and the Lu family, but at the age of twenty-two, Qiao Wu's life scope has far expanded far beyond before, as has his social life.
He suddenly realized that he knew very little about the current Qiao Wu.
Lu Jinzhi glanced at the time.
This point is not enough to report safety.
On the other side of the show, the recording of the students' relatives and friends ended early.
Qiao Wu did not rush back to the hotel, but waited for Lu Xuan to get off work in the coffee shop outside.
Because the program crew had a confidentiality agreement, she didn't look at her phone during the recording, and only now did she have some time to deal with work.
There is a new message on top.
Last time, because she ignored the messy messages that "she" had sent to Lu Jinzhi, she was questioned by Lu Jinzhi outside the airport. She learned her lesson deeply and pinned everyone in the Lu family to avoid missing any key information again.
Lu Jinzhi: I need the details of your real resume.
CV?
Qiao Wu didn't think too much about it. After all, she was now working under Lu Jinzhi, so it was normal for the boss to ask for her resume.
But what does a real resume mean?
Qiao Wu was a little embarrassed. Her educational background was simple, but her experience in the past twelve years was completely blank. If she wrote down what "she" had done in the past, she would receive a letter of dismissal from Lu Jinzhi in less than a minute.
And what matters most are the details.
After thinking it over, she decided to be honest and replied, "I didn't have any work experience before this, so I don't have any specific details."
Lu Jinzhi: "Career planning."
Qiao Wu suddenly realized that this was indeed necessary.
"I'll send it to you later."
Lu Jinzhi: "In addition, the weekly report will be changed to a daily report."
daily?
This was not a demanding request, but Qiao Wu remembered that she had sent Lu Jinzhi weekly reports a long time ago, but he had read them without replying, or had not read them at all. What was going on?
"Okay, I'll send it to you on time every night."
She had not been sitting in the coffee shop for long when the program recording ended. When she walked out after receiving the message, she saw Lu Xuan wearing sunglasses and looking around. After locking his eyes in her direction, he strode towards her with a stern face.
What's wrong? Wasn't everything fine during the recording?
"What's going on between you and that bird?" Lu Xuan asked immediately. "Why did you want to watch her performance?"
Qiao Wu: "She is considered my friend."
"Friends?" Lu Xuan, who had been happy about the word for a long time the day before, suddenly became furious, his tone rising several degrees. "How many friends do you have? Just adding WeChat makes you a friend?"
Qiao Wu was somewhat baffled by his attitude, and she didn't really like his questioning attitude. Her smile faded slightly: "Lu Xuan, this is my private matter. I also have the right to make friends. This is not a reason for you to be angry with me."
Seeing that her smile was gone, Lu Xuan felt a lump in his throat. He said coldly, "You came here to keep me company. I paid for it."
“…”
Qiao Wu was helpless: "Your fifty thousand yuan is not even enough for the hotel room for the next few days. Do you really think I am accompanying you on this business trip just for the money?"
"What else?"
"I told you, you're my friend." Qiao Wu said patiently, "I'm here to accompany you out of friendship, and the same goes for Liao Liao. Of course, I can accompany her too."
Lu Xuan refused to listen. He pointed at the studio and sneered, "There are so many people here, everyone is watching, and my friend is in someone else's camera! Do you understand that I'm the one who called you here? If anyone can do it, then I'd rather you not come!"
"What's wrong with fifty thousand? Is fifty thousand cheap? That's all the money I have! And you said that this is what an ordinary family would spend for a long time!"
Lu Xuan squeezed her shoulders tightly: "Qiao Wu, what do you think of me?"
They said they were his employees, but they didn't take him seriously at all;
He said he was his financial backer, but he was more patient and more talkative than anyone else.
He just asked a question, but now she is giving him the cold shoulder!
Qiao Wu turned his head to glance at the big hand on his shoulder, frowning slightly, but this time he didn't say anything.
Lu Xuan waited for several seconds but didn't hear her explanation. He followed her gaze and saw his hand. He froze and immediately withdrew his hand. His anger also subsided a lot because of this episode.
His fingertips curled lightly, and his thoughts froze.
She looked so omnipotent, but her shoulders were thinner and skinnier than he had imagined.
I'm frowning. I hope it won't hurt?
He didn't mean it, he was just angry.
"you……"
"Can you speak properly now?" Qiao Wu asked.
Lu Xuan: "What?"
"If you can talk nicely, we can talk later." Qiao Wu said calmly, "If not, calm down first and we can talk later."
"I've always been talking to you nicely!" Lu Xuan said angrily.
Does speaking louder mean you’re not speaking properly?
Qiao Wu already knew why he was so angry from his few words. She sighed: "You are different from her."
"What's the difference?"
"I didn't grow up with her. I praise her because she is excellent." Qiao Wu raised his head. "Praising you is biased."
What's the meaning.
Lu Xuan's mind suddenly turned: "Are you saying that I'm not good enough?"
“…”
There was really no way to continue communicating with this elementary school student. Qiao Wu's patience ran out, and his face was expressionless: "If you think so, I can't help it."
"Why can't you do it? You have a way!"
I just wanted you to coax me, but you came up and got angry and gave me a dark face!
"Are you still leaving?" Qiao Wu turned around. "If you don't leave, I don't know if someone will be squatting nearby taking pictures of you."
Lu Xuan's body stiffened, but he followed her away honestly.
After the two figures disappeared, two people not far away also got on the car one after another.
Qin Tianrui asked: "Brother, I really didn't do anything to him."
At most, some negative information was filmed, but it hasn't been released yet.
"You dare."
"Then why are you still looking at him?"
Qin Lian didn't want to communicate with someone whose cerebellum had not fully developed. He kept thinking about the scene just now.
Originally, he called Lu Jinzhi on a whim. He was somewhat sincere, but not much. After all, he was just a housekeeper. As long as he spent enough money, he would definitely find a suitable one.
But the scene just now made him change his mind temporarily. Lu Xuan was not much easier to manage than his younger brother. Just a look and a few simple words could make Lu Xuan put away his sharp edge. Even Lu Jiang couldn't do it, but the housekeeper did it.
He is now very interested in this butler.
It would be nice if I could take care of these people in his family.
I just don't know how much money it will cost.
Tsk, Lu Jinzhi seemed quite satisfied with her.
But Lu Jinzhi has always valued interests. As long as the money he spends exceeds Lu Jinzhi's range, Lu Jinzhi should let it go.
On the other side, after getting in the car, Lu Xuan pressed his whole body against the window.
"Lu Xuan."
Lu Xuan's voice was cold and hard: "What for?"
He glanced at the corner of his eye and turned his head subconsciously to see Qiao Wu leaning towards him. Before he could react, his sunglasses were taken off his face.
Seeing the pair of eyes behind the sunglasses, Qiao Wu felt helpless and wanted to laugh, as expected.
"Why are you crying?"
"Nonsense, I'm not crying." Lu Xuan snatched the sunglasses and put them on, raising his chin. "The makeup artist didn't do my eye makeup right today, and my eyes are uncomfortable."
"Well, if you say so, then so be it."
Qiao Wu went along with him, and the anger he had just felt because of his questioning subsided a lot.
She knew that Lu Xuan had a strong possessiveness since he was a child, but it was ruthlessly suppressed. However, she didn't expect that he would still be so confused after growing up.
If it was a child, Qiao Wu might not care too much, but Lu Xuan is already 23 years old.
She didn't want Lu Xuan to still use his childhood thinking to deal with everything.
Perhaps it was because she came back after twelve years and still treated him the same way as she did twelve years ago, so he couldn't change his mind. She was no longer the little Qiao Wu of the past.
"Lu Xuan." Qiao Wu sat up straight, but still looked at him, "I have something to tell you."
"I have ears."
Qiao Wu didn't force him, but said quietly: "I am 22 years old this year."
Lu Xuan didn't understand.
"Let's put aside our friendship. As I said before, I'm now an employee of the Lu family. If I follow the normal work process, my private life outside of working hours has nothing to do with my boss. After get off work, I will return to my own home, have my own friends and private life. You are not allowed to interfere with these things. Do you understand?"
I don’t want to understand, but it’s explained in such detail that I have to understand.
He didn't say anything.
"I'm not your toy or your personal property." Qiao Wu knew he had heard it, and continued, "You can't sneak me into your schoolbag and take me to school with you anymore."
Lu Xuan didn't say a word until the car stopped in the hotel parking lot.
He followed Qiao Wu into her room and went straight to the guest room, but did not close the door.
Qiao Wu watched him packing the luggage he had left here last night.
The young master never knew how to tidy up. He stuffed all the bottles and jars into the suitcase and folded his clothes in a mess, but he didn't seem to think there was anything wrong. His movements were neat and efficient, and he finished all the tidying in just five minutes.
Then he came out dragging a large suitcase and walked past Qiao Wu and headed outside.
Qiao Wu did not catch up.
But the tall figure stopped at the door of the room, his hand on the door handle, and he was reluctant to open the door.
Qiao Wu waited quietly.
Finally, Lu Xuan asked in a hoarse voice, "You accompanied me to the company, gave me the card, and came here with me. Is it all because of work?"
Qiao Wu replied: "No."
Lu Xuan stood there for a few seconds: "I'm going back."
Qiao Wu still didn't catch up, she felt that Lu Xuan needed time.
In fact, Lu Xuan did need some time. After he returned to the room, his suitcase was placed at the door without being moved. He threw himself into the sofa without even turning on the light, looking up at the dim ceiling.
Qiao Wu's words kept turning around in his mind, until his brain was about to crash.
He had no idea why he went into the room to pack his things. At that moment, there was only one voice in his heart telling him to stay away from her. If he stayed away from her, he would wake up.
But the moment he reached the door of the room, his steps felt as if they were filled with lead.
The urge to stay here and his rationality kept clashing in his mind. In the end, he didn't know where he pulled out the most conspicuous question from.
She said no.
That's why he could feel relieved and walk out.
Lu Xuan didn’t know why things turned out like this. He obviously didn’t care about Qiao Wu, so what did he care about?
She said he couldn't try to sneak her away in his bag anymore.
Lu Xuan couldn't find any memories of the two of them over the years, so he could only frantically recall his childhood.
So he habitually regarded her as his property, trying to make her stay by his side all the time and play with him only.
But Qiao Wu is 22 years old. How could he become 22 in an instant?
How should he face the grown-up Qiao Wu? How could this person keep changing?
If she was still the same as before when they first met when she returned to China, even if she really went with Lu Ning or anyone else, he would abandon her without hesitation as he had originally planned.
But she didn't.
So he could only find his instinct from his confused cognition, and that instinct was to tie her up tightly.
But now, if he were asked to change his thinking and perspective to face the 22-year-old Qiao Wu, he would have no idea.
She was right, it was just that friends had grown up.
When your friend grows up and happens to work in your home, you will be nice to her out of friendship, but that's all. You can't interfere too much in her private life.
Lu Xuan figured it out, but he still felt uncomfortable.
I don’t know how I finally fell asleep on the sofa. I only know that I was going back and forth in my dreams the whole night, sometimes dreaming about my childhood, sometimes dreaming about the present.
I also dreamed that Qiao Wu told me not to continue playing with him.
He woke up suddenly.
Someone is ringing the doorbell.
Lu Xuan dragged his tired spirit to open the door, and saw the neatly dressed and energetic person at the door, feeling very unbalanced.
"You made me like this, but you slept soundly."
The person following behind Qiao Wu: "???"
Wait, is this something they can listen to?
Only Qiao Wu knew what Lu Xuan was talking about, but seeing his attitude, he probably figured it out.
She walked in and saw the suitcase still standing at the door of the room. She also saw that he was still wearing yesterday's clothes. "The camera is outside, and you want to be in the camera like this?"
Lu Xuan immediately said, "Don't come in!"
He quickly opened the suitcase and cursed inwardly when he saw that everything inside was wrinkled.
Qiao Wu squatted down: "Go take a shower first, I'll iron it for you."
Her hair brushed against his cheek as she moved, and Lu Xuan's heart trembled slightly. He casually took out a piece of clothing from the suitcase, and when he saw Qiao Wu reaching out to touch his suitcase, he immediately grabbed her arm and lifted her up.
Qiao Wu: “?”
Lu Xuan said sullenly, "I'll find it for you."
He pulled out two pieces of clothing from the suitcase and handed them to Qiao Wu, then closed his own suitcase tightly.
The man who just a few days ago was trying to tear off his clothes to show off his chest muscles and demonstrate his worth, now finally realized that the person in front of him was a 22-year-old woman of the same age as him.
When he came out of the shower, Qiao Wu was standing outside ironing his clothes, with her head slightly lowered and her hair swaying gently with her movements.
For the first time, Lu Xuan looked at this person from the perspective of a grown-up and found that she was really different from the past. Her every move was more steady than before, and her face had lost its childishness and had become fully grown.
No wonder those people would exclaim in amazement every time they saw her. It turned out that this was what the doll looked like when it grew up.
It was strange, Qiao Wu said he was glowing.
But he felt that every time he saw Qiao Wu, it was she who was shining.
The person in his sight suddenly raised his head, glanced at him, and then lowered his gaze again: "Breakfast is delivered, and the camera is still outside. Let someone come in when it's ready."
This is not an ordinary room, and the people living here are not ordinary people, so the photographer was tactful enough not to follow in.
Lu Xuan hummed and opened the door: "Come in."
Then he said to Qiao Wu, "Eat first."
"I've eaten." Qiao Wu hung up his clothes. "I'll send you off later and then I'll go back."
The recording for friends and family has come to an end, and the program team wants to keep it here because they want to shoot more materials to facilitate later editing.
Lu Xuan paused as he sat down at the dining table, eating his exquisite breakfast with bland taste until Qiao Wu finished and sat down in front of him.
A card was placed in front of him, containing the fifty thousand yuan.
Lu Xuan looked up.
"Come on." Qiao Wu said with a smile, "I'll wait for you to come back."
That smile was too dazzling.
Even though the other person has grown up, he still can't escape the shadow of his childhood, because she always looked at him with this smile.
Knowing that he couldn't fit her into his schoolbag, she just smiled and said, "Your schoolbag is too small. Can I wait for you at home?"
At this moment, Lu Xuan's heart suddenly relaxed, and the entanglement of the whole night disappeared.
Whether it was the old Qiao Wu or the grown-up Qiao Wu, he wanted to put her in his schoolbag and take her away.
Because she is still herself, what does it have to do with whether she has grown up or not?
He suddenly smiled and said, "My suitcase should be big enough."
"What?"
It should be able to accommodate you.
Lu Xuan thought to himself.
But he still didn't say it, it was too childish.
He is also the grown-up Lu Xuan. A 23-year-old cannot say such things, otherwise he will be laughed at.
He quickly finished his breakfast, picked up the clothes that Qiao Wu had ironed, and went back to his room to change.
After he put on his clothes, the image of Qiao Wu standing in front of the window ironing his clothes appeared in front of his eyes. He lowered his head and smelled it as if possessed by a ghost.
His peach blossom eyes drooped slightly with a hint of disappointment, and he did not smell the scent on her body.
When he walked out of the room, Qiao Wu was sitting on the sofa talking to the camera and recording footage. Seeing him coming, he smiled at him and said, "Be careful on the road."
It was as if the person who was coldly reasoning with him yesterday was not her.
She is always like this. Every time she does something that makes people angry, she gives them a sweet treat.
But it is very popular.
Lu Xuan let go of the self who had always been obsessed with whether he cared or not, let go of the employees and financial backers who were trying to cover up their guilt, and faced the fact that he cared about more than just a name.
She is a very special person, a friend he has recognized since childhood.
As long as it's her.
He may not interfere with her freedom, but he will also prove that he is not a child anymore and he will treat her like an adult.
"Wait." He put on his sunglasses. "I will take first place."
Qiao Wu smiled: "I'm looking forward to it."
After Lu Xuan left, Qiao Wu also returned to her room to pack her things. However, her flight was in the afternoon, and since it was still early, she planned to go for a walk around. After this trip, she could go back and bring some gifts for the little kids at home.
But she didn't expect to meet Qin Lian again in the elevator. She nodded: "Boss Qin."
"Qiao Guan..." Qin Lian paused for a moment and changed his address, "Do you mind calling you Qiao Wu?"
"certainly."
Qin Lian took a step aside and asked, "Don't you have to go to the production team today?"
Qiao Wu: "Yeah."
The program was sponsored by Qin's group, and it was because of this that Qiao Wu felt comfortable letting Lu Xuan participate.
So she was not surprised that Qin Lian knew her movements.
"Are you free?" Qin Lian asked with a smile, "I'd like to buy you a cup of coffee."
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