Chapter 51 Chapter 51: Don't touch me
Come and see the stars?
"Isn't today Monday?" Qiao Wu didn't quite react. "So sudden?"
"It's not sudden." Lu Jinzhi said, "I finished my work and came here this afternoon."
The road was dusty and his car was already covered in dust, but he just leaned back and leaned against it.
Qiao Wu reminded: "Dirty."
Lu Jinzhi didn't move, and looked at her puzzledly: "I'm already here, dirty?"
He couldn't stand dirt and mess and had high demands, but he was not stupid. He knew exactly what to do in what environment. He was already very tired after a day of bumpy ride and didn't want to continue standing and talking. At this time, dirt was no excuse to stop him from resting.
Qiao Wu was stunned.
Come to think of it, she had been climbing up and down all day and her body wasn't very clean, so she sat down next to Lu Jinzhi: "You said the company has been busy lately, I thought you would be very busy."
"There's always work to do." Lu Jinzhi tilted his head back slightly, gazing at the starry sky. "But you can only see the stars once."
When she tried to share the starry sky with him but failed, he started looking for air tickets and quickly planned his work plan and itinerary for the next two days in his mind.
He never wants to compromise himself, nor does he want to make choices because of troubles. He just does whatever he wants.
"Why can't you see it once?" Qiao Wu thought he was exaggerating. "Don't you have an astronomical telescope in your room?"
Lu Jinzhi smiled and raised his hand.
A cold white wrist was presented to Qiao Wu. His bony hand formed a sharp contrast with the black watch, giving off an inexplicable sense of abstinence.
"The star at 21:42 on October 25, 2025, will appear only once."
Qiao Wu was amused by his inexplicably serious persistence: "So you ran so far for this?"
Lu Jinzhi withdrew his hand and said nonchalantly, "As long as it's within reach, it's not far in my opinion."
He does have the confidence to say such things.
Maybe it was because Lu Jinzhi's trip this time was a private one and he just came to see the stars, so Qiao Wu didn't tell him about work, but chatted with him instead.
She whispered, "You've become more talkative as you grow up."
It was obvious that before she was trapped by the plot, Lu Jinzhi was still a young man who hated noise and liked to be alone. Even if the two of them stayed in the library together, he could read books for a whole day without saying a word. It was often only after he left that Qiao Wu could find the labels he left on the books he had read. It was obvious that he could just look up and say something.
Lu Jinzhi: "Language is the most intuitive way to express."
After joining the company, he realized that there were many twists and turns in one's thinking. If people don't explain it clearly, they will never know what to do.
"That's right." Qiao Wu nodded in agreement. "After all, few people can understand you."
"The same to you?"
"Me?" Qiao Wu didn't dare to say how well she knew Lu Jinzhi, because she only had an ordinary brain. "Probably not too well."
Lu Jinzhi turned his head and asked: "Why don't you ask?"
"Will you tell me if I ask you?"
"meeting."
To be honest, it was the first time that Qiao Wu had a face-to-face communication with someone with this kind of personality. For a moment, he really didn't know how to start. The lie detector robot at home would probably never be used on Lu Jinzhi.
Lu Jinzhi smiled: "But you already know me better than most people."
"Anyone who spends every day with you would understand."
Lu Jinzhi remained noncommittal: "Like the ones at home?"
“…”
The quantifier "条" is very clever.
Qiao Wu's shoulders were shaking with laughter. Why hadn't she realized before that Lu Jinzhi's nature was so interesting?
"How was it? Seeing the stars with your own eyes."
This time it was Lu Jinzhi who laughed: "Do I look like an artistic person?"
Qiao Wu: "What about that?"
Are you bored because you've eaten too much?
"No." Lu Jinzhi crossed his long legs lightly and said casually, "To the naked eye, the stars all look the same."
The astronomical telescope at home is only there because I read a book about it in the past and was curious about the universe in that area, not because I just enjoy looking at it.
Just like the starry sky above our heads, it looks different wherever we look.
Maybe he would look up when he left the company, but he would definitely not spend hours running to the mountains to look.
"But you're the only one who invited me to watch the stars." He patted the hood beneath his hand, "So I'm paying for you."
Because the invitation put him in a good mood.
Lu Jinzhi's words also made Qiao Wu feel very good. She was honored to have a friend who believed in her so much and would come thousands of miles to see her just for her casual words.
"What a pity! It would be nice to have a drink right now."
Although I don’t like drinking, this scene is very suitable for clinking glasses.
"There will be."
It was almost ten o'clock when Qiao Wu's phone rang again. It was Lu Ning calling.
At this time, people usually cannot rush home to report before the curfew, so Qiao Wu took over.
Unexpectedly, the voice on the other end was so excited.
"Qiao Wu, I want to report this!!!" You don't need to look to know what Lu Ning's eyes are shining with expression, "Second Uncle hasn't come home yet!"
Someone nearby whispered, "I heard he didn't go to the company this afternoon."
It was Lu Yingchi who had just returned to the Lu residence and found that all his car keys were gone.
Qiao Wu: “…”
She slowly turned her head and looked at Lu Jinzhi, who had an unclear expression.
Three seconds later, he put his cell phone in Lu Jinzhi's hand.
But Lu Ning and Lu Yingchi were still unaware of the coming danger, and each one was more active than the other.
Lu Ning: "He won't even eat with us when you're not home. He says one thing to our faces and another behind our backs."
Lu Yingchi: "I think he is not very convinced. He hasn't even set a small goal and has no ambition."
Lu Ning: "Yes, this family can't be supported by us alone, he is also a part of it."
Lu Yingchi: "You were feeding insects in the mountains, and he dared to skip work."
Qiao Wu raised an eyebrow at Lu Jinzhi.
Aren't you going to interrupt?
Lu Jinzhi listened quietly as the puppies at home listed all his seven deadly sins. Then he heard them ask, "Can we get a reward together if we report it together?"
There was no response, so Lu Ning shook her phone in confusion: "Hello? Qiao Wu, are you listening?"
Before Qiao Wu could say anything, Lu Jinzhi said slowly, "I'm listening."
For a moment, the person on the other end of the phone was silent, as if he was a chicken with its neck strangled.
After a long while, Lu Yingchi said suspiciously, "I think I heard the monkey's voice."
Lu Ning asked softly, "Did I hear it wrong? Do you have a voice changer?"
Lu Jinzhi's voice was gentle and smiling: "You heard right, I am Uncle Monkey."
“…”
"What reward do you want?" Lu Jinzhi said patiently, "It happens to be in the countryside, I'll burn it for you all."
“…………”
There was a series of ringing sounds on the other end of the line, and then the phone was hung up.
"What the hell?" Lu Yingchi was almost hit on the hand by the hammer, "Why is he with Qiao Wu?!"
I was still video chatting last night, and today I saw him in person?!
"You two are so close." Lu Ningsheng slumped over the table helplessly. "I'm done. I'm really done."
Once you call him Uncle Monkey, you will always be Uncle Monkey.
She is going to assassinate Zhong Shixia tomorrow!
"Is your card frozen too?"
The minor hurriedly took out his phone and found that everything was fine and there was no movement.
Lu Yingchi's face looked unhappy: "Where are your car keys?"
"car?"
Although Lu Yingchi and Lu Xuan had bought a car and put it in the garage when they didn't have a driver's license, she had no interest in these things and had never been embarrassed to ask others to buy them for her before, so until now, her small garage only had...
Lu Ning asked seriously, "Can he lock the four-wheeled bicycle?"
The two looked at each other and felt that if they went to sleep tonight they would have to worry about not seeing the sun tomorrow.
"I don't think so," Lu Yingchi said. "We can't let him do whatever he wants so recklessly."
"Then what about stealing his eggs?"
"..." Lu Yingchi grabbed a handful of walnuts and stuffed them into her mouth. "How many points did you get in the Chinese test this time?"
Qiao Wu could already imagine the chaotic situation on the other side.
She pressed her eyebrows and said, "Do you really have to scare them like this?"
You have to wait until they finish speaking and lay the groundwork before you give them a fatal blow.
"If others don't give me any feedback, I can only ask for it myself." Lu Jinzhi returned the phone to her, his voice a little lighter, "I'm the one being sued."
"I won't do anything to you."
This sounded interesting. Lu Jinzhi stared at her with interest: "What else do you want to do to me?"
"Not so good." Qiao Wu took his phone and smiled. "My friend is coming over today. I'm so happy."
Hearing this, Lu Jinzhi's playful expression faded slightly. He stared into her eyes for a few seconds and suddenly said, "That's better."
"Um?"
"It's too dark." Lu Jinzhi looked away. "If you don't say it, I can't sense your emotions."
Although I came here on my own initiative, I also want to get some feedback.
In an instant, Qiao Wu felt a sense of empathy for him. Perhaps he had been living alone in his own world, just like her who came from another world.
From what Lu Yingchi and the others said, all he could intuitively feel was the other party's dislike, so if he didn't say anything more to see their reaction, he would not be able to correctly get the other information in their words.
Qiao Wu asked him, "Will it be very hard for you?"
"Not really." Lu Jinzhi just felt lonely occasionally.
So he was always lonely during the twelve years that Qiao Wu was away.
"If I ask you now where you have been for the past twelve years, will you tell me?"
"I said I've always been here, but for some reason I can't communicate with you. Would you believe me?"
"I believe it." Lu Jinzhi said without hesitation, "You are someone I recognize."
At this moment, he suddenly didn't feel lonely anymore, and even empathized with the other person's loneliness, which was rare.
After receiving this recognition, Qiao Wu suddenly gained a lot of courage. She asked, "Can I ask you a question?"
"Um."
"What would you do if I never came back?"
She always recalled the "get out" in her dream and Lu Jinzhi's lonely figure in the rainy night, which has troubled her until now and she has not been able to let it go.
Lu Jinzhi frowned slightly.
He was rarely confused about something, but he never got an answer to this one.
"I don't know," he answered truthfully. "I once thought about firing him."
But he wasn't sure whether he would change his mind at the last moment.
“But there’s a chance it will just be put aside.”
"Put it aside?"
With Lu Jinzhi's personality of weighing things against facts, is his past self important enough in his heart to allow the original "her" to continue to exist?
Qiao Wu couldn't help but ask, "Were those ten years important?"
So important that it can even transcend twelve years or more.
"I don't know." Lu Jinzhi smiled, "But if we can foresee the current result, then it is very important."
Realizing that Qiao Wu had misunderstood him, he laughed: "I'm just a little smarter than others, but I'm not a god. For many things, I only know what to choose when the time comes."
To put it another way, except for his slightly better brain than ordinary people, he is not as good as ordinary people in other aspects.
Ordinary people can at least intuitively feel joy and anger, which is the basic of being a human being.
But he won't.
Lu Jinzhi has always had a clear understanding of himself.
Qiao Wu understood what he had not finished saying, and realized that his dream was not the original ending of the plot, but a premonition.
If it weren't for those ten years, Lu Jinzhi would have driven "her" away without hesitation.
But because of those ten years, Lu Jinzhi chose to put her aside. Maybe he was waiting, or maybe he couldn't bring himself to do it. Until the last moment, he just said "get out". That was his unique tolerance for her and the last way out he left for her.
She couldn't help but be moved: "Thank you."
Lu Jinzhi straightened up slightly, his gaze fell on her eyes, and suddenly said, "You never cried when you were a child."
Of course, she is already so old, why is she crying? Living in such an environment, she can't even laugh.
Qiao Wu wiped the corners of his eyes and suppressed the bitterness in his eyes: "I am happy now."
"Um."
There was something Lu Jinzhi might not have had an answer to in the past, but now he had one.
If the current Qiao Wu disappears again, ten years, twelve years.
He could be sure this time that he would wait.
Because he was sure that there would never be such a person in his life again.
So it's worth it.
The autumn nights grew colder as they deepened. The village chief had already sent a message to inquire about their situation out of concern. Qiao Wu didn't want to disturb others' rest, so he took Lu Jinzhi back. Unexpectedly, when he entered the yard, everyone was still there.
As soon as they saw Lu Jinzhi, everyone stood up.
Several confused village officials also stood up and asked blankly, "What's wrong?"
Why does this look like welcoming the emperor?
"This is my friend, Lu Jinzhi," Qiao Wu introduced. "He came to play with me."
Zhong Min and Guo Liyan's expressions were a little distorted, and they swallowed the two words "Mr. Lu" that they were about to say hello to.
Who do you want to play with?
Although everyone knew that Qiao Wu was the chairman of the Lu Foundation, since a young master named Lu had come the day before, everyone thought that this person was the same as the previous one.
"We were worried you wouldn't come back so late." The village chief hurriedly brought a stool and said, "My friend, please sit down."
Lu Jinzhi doesn't have the same problems as Lu Yingchi. His problems vary from person to person.
What's more, he had done charity work in the countryside before going abroad, so he was quite accustomed to the environment and sat down naturally.
Qiao Wu sat down next to him: "I was busy talking to a friend, sorry."
"It's okay, it's okay." The village chief noticed something was wrong with the atmosphere after he finished speaking. "Why aren't you talking?"
Among all the people, Guo Liyan was a subordinate of a subordinate, who didn't even dare to speak to Lu Jinzhi at the dinner; Zhong Min was a rookie who didn't have any power yet; and the other geologist had only seen this legendary figure on TV news.
Not to mention Cong Yi, who had bullied Qiao Wu in the morning.
After meeting Lu Jinzhi, they became more honest than each other.
Lu Jinzhi also asked in a gentle voice: "Why don't you speak?"
Zhong Min always remembered what his sister had said: no matter what they said behind his back, Lu Jinzhi was a person not to be offended, so he stood up and said in a calm tone: "I'll pour you some water."
Guo Liyan reacted: "Let me give you a leg massage."
Lu Jinzhi: “…”
Others: “???”
He pulled his stool a little further away from the two men.
Qiao Wu blocked Guo Liyan's move and turned to introduce Lu Jinzhi: "These are the village cadres. You have also met Zhong Min, Zhong Hejing's younger brother. The other two are geologists, Teacher Sun Ye and Teacher Cai Hongda. This is Cong Yi, their student."
Cong Yi had already prepared for Lu Jinzhi to come and avenge Qiao Wu, but she didn't expect that Qiao Wu didn't even mention her identity.
She looked at Qiao Wu in surprise.
But the latter had a calm expression and didn't take her surprise seriously at all.
"This is Guo Liyan, my new assistant." Qiao Wu didn't forget why Guo Liyan came to her side. She didn't mind being a stepping stone for others, so she introduced him naturally, "Liyan, don't be too nervous."
Lu Jinzhi had been silent until he heard this. He took a sip of water and repeated her words as if he didn't understand: "Li Yan?"
"My last name is Guo."
Lu Jinzhi hummed: "Are you familiar with each other?"
"We've been working together for several days." Qiao Wu wondered, "How could we not be familiar with each other?"
"That makes sense." Lu Jinzhi nodded calmly, "Then how long have we known each other?"
“…”
Qiao Wu was stunned for a moment, then reacted: "No, you really want to be so serious about this?"
"Shouldn't he?" Lu Jinzhi put down the cup and looked back quietly, "Is he also your friend?"
Before they knew it, the people around them fell silent again.
Several village cadres who were already married and had children looked at each other in bewilderment.
That doesn't sound like a friend.
If it's a friend, it seems like it's crossing the line?
Do rich people call this kind of relationship friends?
Even Guo Liyan forgot what he was going to do. He stared at Lu Jinzhi blankly, his hands hanging down unnaturally.
Everyone in the Lu family has possessiveness towards Qiao Wu, but Lu Jinzhi is obviously different.
He was too frank and direct, and he equally and sensitively excluded those who were close to Qiao Wu, including his friends, and he could still openly stake out his territory to prove his status.
Lu Jinzhi is not like Lu Yingchi who has not yet stepped out of the ivory tower. He is calm and smart, and naturally knows what he is doing.
he……
Guo Liyan's heart was pounding because he realized that there was a very long gap between him and Lu Jinzhi.
But he couldn't admit in front of Lu Jinzhi that he was just Qiao Wu's subordinate.
So he remained silent.
Qiao Wu imagined the scene of herself changing her name to Jinzhi, and found it a little hard to accept, so she said honestly: "We are all friends."
"You will invite him too..."
"No." Qiao Wu quickly held his arm and said, "Drink some water, please drink some water."
Inviting others to watch the stars and traveling so far away is normal for a genius like Lu Jinzhi who lacks emotions, but it is really strange for ordinary people.
Lu Jinzhi lowered his eyes and said nothing more.
After a few seconds, he pulled his arm out from under her hand.
He is not one of those two little dogs with no sense of boundaries.
Men and women should not touch each other.
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