Chapter 55 Chapter 55 Jingshui Villa
It was already very late when they returned to Lu's house. Everyone had already gone to bed. Lu Xuan followed behind them the whole time without saying a word, but his steps were quite steady and he was not too drunk.
Qiao Wu did not go back to rest immediately, but went to the main house first, took out lemons from the refrigerator, and found some honey.
Turning around, Lu Xuan was leaning against the refrigerator door like a ghost, looking at her and the medal on her body with resentful eyes.
Qiao Wu said with a smile: "How old are you?"
"I'm one year older than you." Lu Xuan pointed at himself. "You have to call me brother."
He was even more dissatisfied when he heard this. He followed Qiao Wu, leaning on the counter with one hand and asked curiously, "Qiao Wu, why don't you ever call me brother?"
Qiao Wu didn't look up and continued what he was doing: "How can you act like a brother?"
Lu Xuan seemed to be lost in memories. He thought for a long time before saying, "I've given you everything."
Isn't this what being a brother is all about?
Even the combination of the safe was known only to her.
"I've given you everything." Qiao Wu teased, "Why don't you call me sister?"
"That's different."
"What's the difference?"
"I'm older than you."
"Age doesn't explain the problem." Qiao Wu handed him the honey water. "For example, I'm the one taking care of you now, and you're the one being petty."
A slightly sweet smell instantly invaded his nasal cavity, and Lu Xuan's mind became clearer at this moment.
He actually didn't drink much, because Qiao Wu said that he couldn't drink too much without people around him, otherwise he would be at their mercy.
But when he saw Qiao Wu appear, he couldn't help but get a little drunker.
She can also manipulate him.
He doesn't mind.
He picked up the cup of honey water and took a sip. He watched Qiao Wu packing up, looking thoughtful. Then he freed a hand and pressed her wrist: "Then I'll take care of you."
Qiao Wu: “?”
Lu Xuan quickly drank the honey water, then snatched the rag from Qiao Wu's hand and got down to work.
He sorted the honey and swept the lemons into the trash can. These simple actions seemed like big things to him.
Qiao Wu: "This isn't for cleaning countertops."
Lu Xuan looked at her blankly with the handkerchief in his hand: "?"
"I don't mean to ask you to take care of me." Qiao Wu gestured for him to let go of his hand, "You don't have to do this."
But Lu Xuan didn't let go.
He stared at Qiao Wu: "Do you treat me like a child?"
Qiao Wu wanted to ask, aren’t you?
"I can't do it." Lu Xuan was unhappy. "But I can learn. Can you change your mindset and stop treating me like a child?"
Although he is inferior to Qiao Wu in many aspects, he... does have his merits.
"I persevered and managed to do this during your absence," he said. "So can you look at me from a different perspective? I'm not a lazy person."
This is a bit serious.
But Qiao Wu didn't really underestimate him. She just gave him some guidance in the areas where he was lacking.
I didn't expect him to react so strongly.
"Okay." Qiao Wu took a step back. "Just do it if you want."
Lu Xuan lowered his voice a little: "That's not what I meant."
"If I'm going to do something, the focus should be on doing it, not talking about it," Qiao Wu said. "What's the point of you giving me a military order? Weren't you just angry about fighting with someone for the passenger seat?"
Lu Xuan disagreed with this and corrected him, "Only very important people can sit in the passenger seat."
"You should stop reading the domineering CEO's script. Haven't you read the documents I sent you yet?"
Qiao Wu poured himself a glass of purified water and said, "Life is life. If I apply those perfectionisms to life, how can I live my life?"
The person is sitting in the passenger seat, but you insist on asking him to get off. What's the logic behind this? It's not a very sensitive identity.
"Then let me ask you, if the person sitting in the passenger seat wasn't Liao Liao, but Lu Ning or your second brother, would you still let them get up?"
In her opinion, these people have the same status in her heart, regardless of order.
So the question of who owns the passenger seat is really childish.
But the questioner was unintentional while the listener was attentive. Lu Xuan's movements obviously slowed down, and he thought seriously with his slow mind.
He still wanted to sit in the passenger seat.
He was about to speak when Qiao Wu said, "Any close relationship will not be reflected in formalism."
Lu Xuan's tone was vague for a moment, and his eyes were wandering: "Intimate relationship?"
What is his close relationship with Qiao Wu?
Very good friends, childhood sweethearts, special preferences.
Very intimate indeed.
But Qiao Wu felt that enough was enough and didn't want to argue about this anymore. After drinking the water, she pushed the cup in front of him and said bluntly: "Wash it by the way."
Lu Xuan held the cup and didn't think there was anything wrong with washing it.
He made up his mind: "Just wait, I'll show you."
Then he asked, "Will you call me brother then?"
What's so important to be obsessed with?
Qiao Wu raised his eyes: "Brother."
“…”
“???”
“!!!”
Damn?
Lu Xuan's head exploded on the spot.
The cup in his hand fell onto the table with a clang, then rolled to the ground, breaking into pieces with a loud crash.
Qiao Wu was so startled that he didn't have time to catch it.
She leaned against Lu Xuan with a headache: "Don't move."
He called another servant to help him get something to deal with the broken glass on the ground.
After she and the servants finished cleaning up, Lu Xuan was still standing there holding the rag, obediently not moving.
"Lu Xuan?"
Okay, not brother anymore.
Lu Xuan's eyes changed again and again, but in the end he didn't say anything to her and turned away.
After a while, he turned around again, leaned over and looked at her seriously.
"You wait," he said.
Qiao Wu was confused.
What are you waiting for?
But Lu Xuan had already turned around and left, as if he was floating. He pressed the elevator button twice before it lit up.
23 years.
This was the first time Qiao Wu called him brother.
So this is how it feels.
Lu Xuan looked down at his chest, feeling bloated and a little numb, not sure if it was because he drank too much.
If I had known this earlier, I wouldn’t have spent so much time worrying about ranking and friends.
Can Lu Ning and Lu Yingchi be brothers? No.
Lu Jinzhi...
Lu Xuan frowned. It was good enough that the monkey didn't need anyone to take care of it. It was impossible for it to take care of people.
Neither can I.
Then there is only you, unique.
He leaned his head against the elevator car like a boneless person, letting the cold air lower the temperature of his face, but in the end he couldn't help but laughed out loud with his head down.
Qiao Wu downstairs was still confused. Seeing that it was almost time, she decided to go back and rest.
Just as I turned my head, I saw a tall figure standing at the door.
She paused.
In fact, what Lu Xuan said was not wrong. Lu Jinzhi always stood in a certain position without anyone noticing, quietly watching everything.
How long have you been here?
"You're still awake?"
Before she boarded the plane, she sent him a message saying that she would arrive late today.
"Come back after reading." Lu Jinzhi didn't come over, but asked, "Are you going home?"
"Um."
Lu Jinzhi nodded: "Let's have a meeting."
Qiao Wu subconsciously asked, "Go to your room?"
The servants who were still cleaning up nearby could not hide their astonishment when they heard this.
They could only go in to clean at a certain time specified by the second young master. They were not allowed to stay too long, touch too much, or make too much noise. Each one was more difficult to please than the other.
"It's too late." Lu Jinzhi turned sideways, looking like he was about to leave. "We'll talk on the way."
Usually, Qiao Wu would go back in the mansion’s car, but today Lu Jinzhi obviously had no intention of taking the car, so she walked beside him.
"Is it about work?"
"At home."
"Um?"
The servants at home didn't report what happened today.
"Those..." Lu Jinzhi's voice faltered slightly, and he changed his words after realizing the direction wasn't clear enough. "Lu Xuan and the others' age isn't proportional to their mental maturity. You don't need to be too patient with them."
Qiao Wu: “…”
While this has some truth to it,...
"Is it appropriate for you, as a brother, to say that?"
"Why not?"
Qiao Wu hesitated for a moment, but remembering that Lu Jinzhi once said that if she had any questions, she could ask directly, so she didn't hide it too much.
"Haven't you ever paid attention to their outrageous behavior in the past?"
"have."
Lu Jinzhi said calmly, "But we should get along equally. I give them space, but I can't give them too much patience."
In his opinion, he did not approve of the inexplicable exclusion and isolation of Lu Xuan and others, and he would not interfere too much.
As long as the dog food is distributed regularly every day, it will not starve to death.
Qiao Wu suddenly realized: "Is this the tsundere style that only belongs to your overbearing CEO?"
It was obvious that Lu Jinzhi didn't understand the strange words she came up with.
It's funny, he even felt that in Qiao Wu's eyes, "dominant" was a derogatory term.
"Boss." He raised his eyebrows. "Boss."
He understood.
I was also really confused: "Am I domineering?"
"Compared to Qin Lian, you are indeed not very domineering."
"Why should I compete with that impolite thing?"
"I'm nothing."
Lu Jinzhi smiled.
Realizing that his words were somewhat ambiguous, Qiao Wu changed his words: "But you all have many common problems."
"for example?"
Qiao Wu didn't expect Lu Jinzhi to understand these emotional matters on his own, and how could this lack of empathy not be considered a kind of domineering CEO syndrome?
She was amused by the thought: "Apart from your status and titles, you are just ordinary people, more or less have shortcomings, you should understand each other."
She thought about it and suggested seriously: "How about we hold a family meeting every Sunday so that you can get to know each other?"
Lu Jinzhi imagined the scene and felt a little disgusted.
He said sincerely, "It's better not to."
"Yeah, it's quite embarrassing." Qiao Wu dismissed the thought. "People like you tend to put yourselves in a high position, so you neglect the most basic communication, which leads to a gap between you."
I remembered Lu Jinzhi.
"Rule 10 of the 'Mine-Clearing Guide for the Rich': The beginning of conflict is not having a mouth."
"Have you memorized it?"
"I don't really want to." Lu Jinzhi said helplessly, "But I can't control it."
The impression was too profound, and he always had a good memory.
"You have a mouth." Qiao Wu first affirmed him, "but you choose to have a mouth."
The mouths of others are very poisonous.
"Although having a blood relationship is worse than having no blood relationship at all," she smiled, "but it's best if you can have one. At least you won't be walking the path alone in the future."
Lu Jinzhi glanced at her and said, "I don't want to go alone."
But I didn't want to take the dog for a walk either.
"Lu Jinzhi." Qiao Wu looked up at him. "Do you know how many officers there are on those large cargo ships that dock at the port?"
"At least three."
"So even if you're the captain, you can't support a giant ship by yourself. Even a giant ship needs a pilot to sail in and out of the harbor, right? This is true for the Lu family, and it's also true for the Lu family. Just because a family is too small doesn't mean it won't capsize. In fact, the Lu family is the engine of the Lu family. You should understand these principles better than me."
Of course Lu Jinzhi understood.
The books he read were the same as those Qiao Wu had read.
But he had always thought that he could be the engine of the Lu family.
In this respect, he is not as good as Qiao Wu.
Not hearing his answer, Qiao Wu continued, "So if you are dissatisfied with their behavior, you can tell them directly. Since you are their older brother, they won't say anything."
"The same to you?"
"I'm your subordinate." Qiao Wu laughed. "Are you dissatisfied with me?"
"Don't call him brother." Lu Jinzhi said calmly, "He doesn't deserve it."
This sentence was beyond Qiao Wu's expectations. She asked in surprise, "So this is why you want to have a meeting with me?"
Lu Jinzhi nodded and offered his own opinion: "I think you have set your bottom line too low for them."
As an adult, you should know what you should and shouldn't do.
"Tolerance will only become a bargaining chip for the situation to escalate."
Qiao Wu could not refute this point.
She did find that Lu Xuan and the others were too dependent on her, so she was trying to let go little by little and guide them to move forward on their own.
"Don't worry, I know what's going on."
Lu Jinzhi felt that Qiao Wu was very smart. She should understand what he wanted to say and he also trusted her.
"One more thing." Since things had come to this point, Qiao Wu didn't intend to hide his intentions, so he briefly mentioned what had happened today, "I've decided to invest."
Lu Jinzhi stopped, as if he hadn't heard clearly, his dark eyes slightly darkened: "What?"
"In terms of prospects and development, I'd feel more secure if I had a territory of my own," Qiao Wu said. "Didn't you tell me to give Feifei a try?"
Lu Jinzhi chuckled: "So you flew to the eaves of someone else's house?"
As soon as this other family came up, Qiao Wu knew what Lu Jinzhi cared about: "It has nothing to do with Qin Lian. Qin Tianrui and I are simply cooperating. I will not participate in the cooperation or competition between the Qin and Lu families."
"In fact, if Qin Tianrui hadn't existed, there would have been Li Tianrui or Wang Tianrui in the future," she said. "I have to build my own nest."
Lu Jinzhi did not answer immediately.
The scales in his head were already tilted as far as they could go.
Putting Qiao Wu on a separate scale, all her choices were balanced and there was no objection.
But once it is placed on his scale, the scale will tilt towards him.
All the plans he had just balanced were turned to ashes in an instant.
Qiao Wu smiled and said, "From now on, you have to call me President Qiao."
Seeing her smile, the scales tilted to the other side again.
She likes it very much.
In fact, the rational Libra had already given the answer, but Lu Jinzhi found that he seemed to have begun to add other invisible elements to the Libra.
He lowered his eyes and could only give a rational answer, then extended his hand: "Boss Qiao, please give me your guidance."
Qiao Wu shook his hand and said, "Please give me your guidance."
The two of them had already reached her small building. Qiao Wu released her hand and asked, "Should someone come pick you up?"
"No need." Lu Jinzhi put his hands in his pockets, "I still have something to think about."
As expected, being a CEO isn't that easy. Qiao Wu nodded and said, "Then go to bed early."
She waved and turned into the yard.
Only after seeing her back disappear did Lu Jinzhi withdraw his gaze, frowned slightly, and turned into the night.
"Xiao Wu?" Qiao Zhiyi was still waiting at home. He looked towards the door after hearing the voice and saw Lu Jinzhi's back through the window. "Is that the Second Young Master?"
"right."
"Why did you come back together?"
The small building is not near the main house, so there is nothing to do here so late.
"I have something to tell you." Qiao Wu walked over to him, bookmarked the book he was reading, and closed it. "Didn't I tell you to go to bed early?"
"I don't have that much sleep, I'll go to bed now." Qiao Zhiyi stood up and looked outside again. "You work with the Second Young Master, how are you getting along with him?"
He has been in the Lu family for so many years, and he has always been neither too close nor too distant from the second young master, and he cannot figure out what the young master is thinking.
"He's very nice," Qiao Wu said. "It's easy to communicate with him."
Qiao Zhiyi was stunned: "Are you talking about the Second Young Master?"
Good communication?
"Um."
Do young people have their own way of communicating?
Qiao Zhiyi thought about it and felt that his relationship with the other young masters was not so good before, so he didn't think too much about it. He said, "Oh, Xiaowu, the old man asked me to tell you that he plans to stay at Jingshui Villa for a while before the temperature drops. The autumn scenery there is beautiful. We will go this weekend and you can come back on Sunday night. You can go there on weekends from now on."
After all, Lu's house is relatively close to the urban area, and many of the buildings in the house are man-made.
But Jingshui Villa is built on the lakeside in the suburbs, next to a forest park, and the scenery has always been beautiful, but people rarely go there once a year because their family members are not at home and are busy with work, making it inconvenient to go there.
"Okay." Qiao Wu nodded. "I'll contact the housekeeper over there tomorrow and have them pack up."
The housekeeper there is only responsible for the daily maintenance of the villa and has no authority over other matters.
When they were young and the eldest young master had not passed away, they lived there during the winter and summer vacations. There were their childhood clothes in the villa, but now they have grown up and everything needs to be prepared again.
The next morning, Qiao Wu got up early and called the villa manager first, then went over to check it out himself.
Jingshui Villa is not as big as Lu’s house. It is a single-family house with a servant’s room.
So unlike in the main house where each person has a whole floor of rooms to themselves, everyone lives in pairs on one floor.
Originally, Lu Jiang lived on the top floor, but now he is still in a wheelchair all day and no one wants to expose him, so Qiao Wu arranged a room for him on the second floor.
When she came here, she was young and had two little sticky buns with her, so everyone wanted to share a room with her.
But because Lu Xuan was one year older than her, she slept with the nanny and Lu Yingchi, who was four years younger than her. Now there was Lu Ning, so they had to redistribute the space.
Qiao Wu thought about it and decided to give the choice to them.
At noon, the Lu family also arrived.
They were obviously a family, but they insisted on having their own car each, and lined up in a whole row.
Moreover, Qiao Wu discovered that there was a truck following at the end.
She looked with wide eyes and found that the person on the truck was actually the princess.
Lu Yingchi also brought the princess with him?!
"You're only here for two days." Seeing him approaching with his horse, "Are you not planning on going back to class?"
"I'll take it back when the time comes." Lu Yingchi said arrogantly.
"Don't bother it..." Before Qiao Wu finished speaking, he saw Lu Ning grunting and dragging several large boxes, some on her back and some on her chest.
They are all her dolls.
She was reluctant to let the servant take it.
As for Lu Xuan, there were several large boxes filled with his clothes and skin care products, and the servants ran back and forth several times.
Only Lu Jinzhi was normal and brought a suitcase.
As expected, I shouldn’t have come here early. I should have kept an eye on them the whole time: “Are you moving in?”
"I'll take my baby with me wherever I go." Lu Ning had never been here before. She was very excited and felt like she was on an autumn outing as well.
It’s just that my love for the baby is a bit heavy and I can’t lift it: “Which room is mine?”
"We haven't chosen a room yet." Qiao Wu shared some of the dolls with her and asked the servant to take the old man and her father in first. Then he handed the printed rooms to the others and said, "See which one you want to live in?"
After being called "brother" yesterday, Lu Xuan was in a very good mood and had no desire to compete with others.
It was just a room, he didn't care.
It's not like Qiao Wu can call anyone brother just because they live somewhere.
And he needs to be mature and considerate now.
"Whatever." He said lazily, "It doesn't matter where you lived before."
Others weren't very interested in the room either.
Lu Yingchi led the horse and looked over: "Then I used to live..."
Wait a moment.
His voice stopped abruptly, and vague memories suddenly came flooding back. The hand holding the reins exerted force in vain, pulling the princess's head forward.
"Where you lived before, you should live now?" He slowly turned his head to look at Qiao Wu, his voice stumbling. "Is this... not possible?"
As soon as he finished speaking, the paper in Qiao Wu's hand was taken away.
Lu Jinzhi stood behind Qiao Wu, looking at him with a smile.
There was a hint of coldness in his voice: "Did your brain and your horse run away together?"
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