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Qiao Wu's ears felt a little hot from the slight breeze he brought with him. She took a step back and said, "Swallow it."
"Damn it." Lu Yingchi, whose pocket money was deducted again for no reason, got up from the ground and pointed at Lu Jinzhi indignantly. After yelling at him for a long time, he found the only person who could make the decision for him.
He turned to Qiao Wu and said, "You heard it too. Why are you still not doing anything about it? What kind of good person would mess with the bank like this all the time? We are all from the same family, why are we so anxious to fight each other?"
Living under the same roof with such a person, it is really difficult for him to guarantee that he will not become a criminal suspect like Lu because of money.
Also, is Lu Jinzhi crazy?
Even having kids at home is annoying enough, why are you fighting for your daddy!
When did you do such a childish thing?
"Don't bully the young man because he is poor." Lu Yingchi gritted his teeth.
Unexpectedly, Lu Jinzhi glanced at her gently and said in a very negotiating tone: "If she asks, I can consider it."
Lu Yingchi: “?”
Qiao Wu understood what Lu Jinzhi meant: "..."
"Get out of here." She didn't even raise her eyes. "This is my room now."
Lu Ning, who had to go to school the next day and had also received a large sum of money, was very sensible. She got up and pulled the angry Lu Yingchi, patting his rumbling belly as he drank milk. "Woo woo, sister is leaving with uncle, be good to mom and dad."
Qiao Wu's eyelids twitched when he heard this, and he kicked her on the butt: "I'm not a mother, I'm nothing."
Lu Ning hurriedly covered her butt and pushed Lu Yingchi, who was shouting that he was okay with being the "second dad", away.
Noticing that there was a completely unconscious person standing next to him, Qiao Wu turned around and sat down on the sofa: "You go out too."
Lu Jinzhi moved, but he didn't go to the door. Instead, he took off his coat and put it aside. He squatted down and picked up the small things on the carpet. He asked naturally, "Why don't you ask someone to clean it up?"
"It's not that difficult."
Originally, she and Lu Ning were doing just fine, but once Lu Yingchi arrived, it became like the kindergarten nap room after waking up from a nap.
And Lu Jinzhi seemed to be completely careless with her mouth, she didn't want to leave any risks.
"Leave it there, I'll fix it later."
Lu Jinzhi didn't listen.
Although he doesn't know how to breastfeed, he can still put things in place.
When Qiao Wu heard the voice, he looked up and saw him studying the instruction manual. It was a very novel scene.
The second son of the Lu family had never even helped his younger brother and niece to feed their baby bottles in all these years, but now he was building a cage for a kitten.
"Lu Jinzhi, how come you are more patient with a cat than with your brothers?"
Lu Jinzhi, who had quickly read the method, picked up the boards and raised his eyebrows: "Because they don't call Wuwu."
Qiao Wu suddenly felt that this name was not so good.
It's normal for others to shout, but Lu Jinzhi always has a strange tone.
"Can you tone it down a bit?" she asked.
"Um?"
Lu Jinzhi, who was assembling a small cage, seemed to smile and lowered his eyes, "I hid it."
"Why don't you try hiding it again?"
With a click.
Lu Jinzhi closed and opened the cage door, and after testing it and finding no problem, he stood up and carried it to Qiao Wu. He placed the cage on the table and asked, "Have you ever liked anyone?"
"No." Qiao Wu answered subconsciously.
A soft laugh came from above.
Realizing what he was laughing at, she raised her head and was about to deduct some points to dampen his enthusiasm.
The next second, Lu Jinzhi said, "So you don't know, it's hard to hide love."
Qiao Wu was stunned.
"I'm trying my best, woo woo." Lu Jinzhi raised his hand and gently touched her hair, which was a little messy because of these things, and asked softly, "Can you understand?"
Qiao Wu felt that he was taking advantage of the fact that she was busy and unable to do anything he wanted.
"Twenty points will be deducted for any touching."
Lu Jinzhi glanced at his hands and said slowly, "Isn't that a bit too much?"
It was just a touch of hair. When Qiao Wu was wondering if it was indeed a bit too much, the tip of his eyebrow was gently stroked by the slightly warm fingertips.
The instigator had already withdrawn his hand, his expression and tone were very natural: "I've already deducted it, I'll make up for it."
Qiao Wu felt that he had met his match.
If she touches him a little more, will Lu Jinzhi become more demanding and ask for more touches?
This is the first time I have encountered someone who not only did not correct his mistakes after being deducted points, but also demanded to have the deducted benefits repaid.
She stuffed the empty bottle into Lu Jinzhi's hand and said, "If you have nothing else to do, just pack up and get out. I need to rest. I'll wash the bottle while I'm at it."
"Something." The bottle spun around in Lu Jinzhi's hand, but he didn't let go. Instead, he asked, "Are you free this weekend?"
Their work overlapped a lot, and Qiao Wu subconsciously began to plan his time: "What's going on?"
"Chasing you."
Qiao Wu: “…”
Although she had prepared herself mentally, she still felt uncomfortable every time she heard such blunt and explicit words from Lu Jinzhi.
"What?" She was a little confused. "Aren't you chasing me?"
Lu Jinzhi raised his eyebrows in confusion: "I didn't do anything."
Qiao Wu was in a complicated mood.
Then what's the point of all these dirty talk he says all day long? Why isn't it in the book she reads?
Lu Jinzhi must have been reading secretly behind her back!
"Want to eat together?"
Qiao Wu said expressionlessly: "We eat together every day."
"I want to eat alone with you."
These two words suddenly reminded Qiao Wu of her unusual relationship with Lu Jinzhi, and also made some normal actions become ambiguous.
"Lu Yingchi has some classmates coming to his house this weekend, and I need to give them guidance. I'm not sure about the time."
Lu Jinzhi was silent for a few seconds.
I feel that Lu Yingchi is just like this kitten that has not been weaned, clingy.
"Can you tell me the exact time?"
"What if you don't have time?"
"That's my business."
Qiao Wu smiled silently.
"good."
After Lu Jinzhi left, Qiao Wu put Wuwu in the cage, set the alarm to feed it on time, and then quickly packed up and went to bed.
After going upstairs, Lu Jinzhi stood on the terrace for a while.
Since the room where Qiao Wu lived was the one her father used in the past, it was very close to Lu Jiang's room for convenience, and naturally very close to his as well. He could see her window from the terrace where he lived.
She fell asleep.
Lu Jinzhi withdrew his gaze, returned to the room and sat down at the desk. He usually didn't look at work after get off work, but recently it was an exception.
In order to leave enough private time for Qiao Wu, he had to work overtime.
This was the first time that Mr. Lu was so willing to work overtime. He didn't mind even though he hadn't slept much recently.
At three o'clock in the morning, when the cell phone rang again, Qiao Wu opened his eyes in a daze.
This kind of fragmented sleep is really unbearable.
She rubbed her temples and poured out the water she had prepared in advance. Just as she was about to test the temperature with a thermometer, she heard a rhythmic knock on the door.
At this time, Lu Ning was worried that the kitten would come over?
But the person standing outside the door was still Lu Jinzhi.
Qiao Wu's sleepiness had dissipated a lot, and he subconsciously recalled the time: "You haven't slept yet?"
"I want to ask you that too." Seeing her sleepy eyes and the thermometer in her hand, Lu Jinzhi frowned slightly.
He woke up once every three hours and thought something had happened.
Following his gaze, Qiao Wu lowered his head and suddenly realized: "Wuwu is still too young."
Lu Jinzhi took the thermometer from her hand and said, "Whoever raises it should feed it."
"So she's not going to school?"
"Don't you want to think about yourself?"
Although he said so, Lu Jinzhi pushed the door open a little and walked in. When he entered, he turned down the lights in the room a little, keeping only basic lighting so that the light was not so glaring.
Wuwu had been taken out by Qiao Wu and placed on the sofa with a diaper between them.
Everything is placed beside it.
Lu Jinzhi picked up the bottle and asked, "How much?"
Because he was sleepy, Qiao Wu didn't come back to his senses until he started to make the milk powder. He walked over and said, "40 will be fine."
"Give it to the servant tomorrow," Lu Jinzhi said. "There are so many people in the house, each one should feed it once a night."
Qiao Wu had actually thought about this question.
This way everyone can actually rest well.
But she might be a little stubborn, so she never did it.
Not hearing her voice, Lu Jinzhi raised his eyes.
Qiao Wu didn't hide it. In fact, she had no reason to convince Lu Jinzhi, so she answered truthfully: "Its name is Wuwu."
Because the cat's name is Wuwu, she doesn't want to let anyone else raise it.
Lu Jinzhi looked at her quietly for a few seconds, then looked away.
The genius has a strong ability to learn. Even though he has only seen it once at night, he can now easily get started.
Qiao Wu, unable to intervene, could only sit beside him: "Why aren't you asleep yet?"
"work overtime."
Qiao Wu nodded. Just by thinking about the location of Lu Jinzhi's room, she knew why he had discovered it. She decided not to turn on so many lights when she got up to feed the cat tomorrow.
The main reason was that she was a little confused after just waking up. She was worried about falling and also worried that the light was too dim and she might do something wrong.
But now Lu Jinzhi turned down the lights again. She, who usually had a regular schedule, couldn't help but close her eyes when she had nothing to do while watching.
When Lu Jinzhi put down the bottle and turned around, the person next to him had fallen asleep leaning against the sofa.
After putting Wuwu in his hand back into the cage, he leaned on the sofa, half-turned sideways and acted so recklessly that he even took in the breathing of the person in front of him into his dark eyes.
This Wuwu is still cuter.
There were not many things left in this room, so he went back to his room and got a blanket to cover Qiao Wu.
I sat down next to her and took out my phone to search for things to pay attention to when raising a cat.
He respected her choice.
At 6:30 in the morning, Lu Ning, who had already arrived at the restaurant, had not seen Qiao Wu yet, and even his second uncle had not come down.
"Did they sleep in today?" Lu Ning asked, "Should we go wake them up?"
Lu Yingchi glanced upstairs and glared at her: "Don't you know how many times a day the cat needs to be fed?"
It was only last night when he went back to search for cat-raising guides that he realized how difficult it was to take care of such a small cat. He wanted to go upstairs to get the cat down, but he gave up because he was worried that Qiao Wu was asleep.
"From now on, the cat will be mine." Lu Yingchi pointed at himself. "Just make it clear, I'm its father from now on."
"But you don't have any money." Lu Ning could still tell who was the big and small king. She counted them one by one, "Woo Wu's milk powder costs money, and from now on, cat litter, cat food, cat toys, injections, and physical examinations will all cost money. What will you use to support it? Fatherly love?"
Lu Yingchi felt that all the Waterloo in his life occurred in this family.
He went to puncture Lu Jinzhi's tire in a moment!
"I will be rich," he said. "My classmates and I will start a business together."
Lu Ning hesitated for a moment: "Let's not do that."
"Do you look down on me?"
"No," Lu Ning said honestly, "I heard that wealthy families are most afraid of their children starting their own businesses. You shouldn't just endure hardship."
“…”
Lu Yingchi didn't want to talk to someone as stupid as her.
Lu Yingchi has been very busy recently, so Lu Ning doesn't go to school with him anymore.
After he left, Lu Ning, who went back to her room to get her schoolbag, hesitated for a moment, but still came to the door of Qiao Wu's room.
The door is closed.
Thinking that Qiao Wu had not gotten up yet, she felt very guilty. She bowed to the door, then lay down and tried to see a little of Wuwu's shadow through the crack in the door.
But she couldn't see anything, so she could only whisper to the crack in the door: "Woo woo, sister has to go to school, then..."
I haven't finished speaking yet.
The tightly closed door suddenly opened, and then a pair of long legs appeared in front of her.
This... When did Qiao Wu's pajamas change to this style?
Lu Ning raised her head.
Then the pupils suddenly shrank!
Her eyes and mouth turned into an "O" shape, and before she could say anything, the man leaned over and pinched her mouth into a duck shape.
The man lowered his eyes with a somewhat tired look, his eyes neither cold nor hot.
Behind him, Qiao Wu was sleeping soundly on the sofa covered with a blanket.
Lu Ning felt that this was a naked threat, and she subconsciously closed her mouth.
Only then did Lu Jinzhi gently close the door.
He let go of her hand and stood up, gently kicking Lu Ning, who was still lying on the ground with her butt sticking out. "Performance art?"
He woke up and fell asleep intermittently, and his voice became a little hoarse after a whole night.
Lu Ning got up and said, "Second Uncle, did you come out of Qiao Wu's room?"
Lu Jinzhi glanced at her calmly: "No."
"...I saw everything! You were still in your pajamas! Did you sleep with her?!"
Lu Jinzhi paused slightly.
Due to continuous fatigue, he couldn't control his expression very well. His eyelids were cold and tight. He reached out and pulled Lu Ning's head in front of him.
Lu Ning was startled by his expression. She didn't know what she had said wrong, so she held her head and admitted her mistake: "Uncle, can you please stop hitting my head?"
It took a lot of effort to become a little smarter.
Then she felt someone pulling her head apart from the middle.
"Second Uncle?" Lu Ning trembled, "Why are you picking my head?"
Do I have to open it with my bare hands like I do with a watermelon?
Lu Jinzhi said lazily, "So this is a head, not a ball with a wig on it?"
"?"
Lu Jinzhi patted the back of her head: "Empty."
“???”
Do you know how valuable those bowls of walnuts are?!
"Think before you speak." Lu Jinzhi pressed the elevator button.
"But you just came out of Qiao Wu's room."
"Because of your cat." Lu Jinzhi replied calmly.
In an instant, Lu Ning went from being angry to feeling guilty. It turned out that her second uncle was also there to feed the cat for her.
She lowered her eyebrows and said: "Second uncle, thank you for feeding me!"
"I didn't help you."
"ah?"
"Help her."
It took Lu Ning three seconds to realize who "she" was.
She sighed, "It's still a privilege."
It can make someone like my second uncle, who has never done housework, become a nanny.
Lu Jinzhi, who was leaning against the elevator without any emotion, blinked his eyelashes suddenly after hearing this. The elevator door opened, and he blocked it with his hand and called out, "Lu Ning."
Lu Ning walked in: "Here!"
Lu Jinzhi tilted his head slightly: "What did you ask me that night?"
That night?
In Lu Ning's memory, there was only one time when she and her second uncle had a question-and-answer session at night.
She tried to say, "Is Qiao Wu your privilege?"
"The last sentence."
Lu Ning didn't understand why, but she still repeated honestly: "Do you like Qiao Wu?"
Then she saw her second uncle, who had been listless, suddenly smile.
Those indifferent eyes were filled with a gentleness she had never seen before, and there were many things she couldn't understand. In short... he looked like Uncle No. 2.
Then I heard my second uncle hum.
Before Lu Ning could react, her uncle released his hand that was blocking the elevator door. As the elevator door closed, she heard a low yet clear sound...
"like."
At this moment, Zhong Shixia, who had just walked out of the house, heard his cell phone rang.
He looked down and found that it was a message from Lu Ning.
With lots of exclamation marks.
Lu Ning: "Master!!!!!!!!!!"
"."
Forget it, I'm used to it.
It was already past nine in the morning when Qiao Wu woke up again.
The curtains were drawn tightly, leaving only a few dim lights from last night in the room. Wuwu was sleeping soundly in the cage, and she was covered with a blanket that did not belong to her. It was obvious who the owner was. She had smelled the smell on the blanket when Lu Jinzhi held her that day.
There is a note on the table.
Written in Lu Jinzhi's vigorous handwriting above was the time of every feeding and every reaction of Wuwu after she fell asleep.
The last time was an hour and a half ago.
So Lu Jinzhi hadn't left since he arrived last night? She hadn't heard the alarm ring either.
Qiao Wu stared at the blanket on his body for a while, then slowly folded it.
Maybe the sofa was too comfortable, so she didn't feel any pain anywhere, but as she folded, her thoughts inevitably became a little distorted.
Why is it different from what is shown in the TV series?
After the heroines fall asleep, don’t the heroes always carry them to bed?
Of course, she didn't want Lu Jinzhi to hug her, but she didn't quite understand Lu Jinzhi's train of thought.
When she went downstairs, everyone in the family was out and there was breakfast prepared for her in the kitchen.
"Sorry, I overslept today." She said while eating, "Next time you can ring the bell to wake me up at the time."
The servants looked at each other and answered truthfully, "The Second Young Master said we can't disturb you."
Qiao Wu paused.
"Don't listen to him."
No one said anything.
Perhaps this statement may seem a bit excessive to others, but since housekeeper Xiao Qiao said it, no one else dared to disobey.
After all, the second young master really listens to her.
Qiao Wu ate breakfast and took out his phone to send a message to Lu Jinzhi: "When did you leave?"
After a while, the other party called directly via video.
I don’t know when Lu Jinzhi developed the habit of video chatting with people. Except for the confession in the hotel that day, as long as Qiao Wu and he have the same schedule, the video records between the two of them have always been more than text.
Maybe it's his personal hobby.
Qiao Wu respects.
Lu Jinzhi's face soon appeared on the screen. He should be in the office. Compared to last night, he had washed and combed his hair, and looked much more energetic, but he still looked a little tired.
Qiao Wu didn't even want to ask him why he didn't wake him up, as it seemed like he was asking a question he already knew the answer to.
"Thank you," she said.
Lu Jinzhi stopped what he was doing and stared at her quietly.
Even through the camera, Qiao Wu still felt uncomfortable being looked at: "What?"
"Let's see when you can stop saying thank you to me."
Qiao Wu was annoyed. Has saying thank you become a bad habit?
Then he asked, “When did you leave?”
"A little after seven o'clock." Lu Jinzhi held up two fingers. "You have two choices now. One, leave the key to the door with me, and I'll go feed the cat at night. Two, put the cat in my room, and I'll leave the key with you."
Qiao Wu felt that the surroundings around him suddenly became quiet.
She looked back and saw that the servants who were busy with their own work were a little stiff, obviously having heard what had just been said.
“…”
In fact, what she wanted to say was that she basically had the keys to everyone's room at home, so there was no need to be so surprised.
But Lu Jinzhi is indeed a little special.
"I choose three," she said.
"Three." Lu Jinzhi put his hand down and said with a smile, "Then we can only live in the same room."
Qiao Wu looked at him with a frown, feeling that the evil in this man's bones would be revealed in the details at all times.
But she knew this man's character of sticking to his word, and she also knew why he did this.
If she refused, Lu Jinzhi would probably climb into her room from his terrace in the middle of the night.
Only then did Qiao Wu realize that if Lu Jinzhi was determined to do something, she couldn't coax him to give up and correct himself like she did with other people.
Lu Jinzhi took a step back, respected her choice and did not send the cat to someone else.
No, it's a big step back.
Judging from what he said yesterday, he didn't have much affection for the cat, and he only gave in because of her.
She raised her eyebrows: "Can Lu Ning and the others enter your room too?"
"Um."
It is clear what is important and what is not.
There was nothing shameful in his room, but he just didn't like others entering his private space, and he didn't want Lu Yingchi and others to come in and out of Qiao Wu's room all day.
Even fishing requires baiting, let alone chasing a wife.
The cost of the room he gladly paid.
What's more, those puppies didn't dare to act rashly in his room.
But it must be said that Qiao Wu was much more accepting of handing Wuwu over to Lu Jinzhi than to anyone else, because they were all family, just like when she had handed Lu Ning or Lu Yingchi over to him before. What's more, Lu Jinzhi also gave her the key, so the choice was in her hands, and she could come in and out at any time.
It is more reasonable than letting a suitor like him come in and out of her room at will.
She also took a step back.
"good."
After finishing breakfast, she was about to hang up the phone when she suddenly thought of the question she was wondering about just now.
She deliberately asked, "You just let me sleep on the sofa all night?"
Unexpectedly, Lu Jinzhi asked, "You won't wake up?"
"meeting."
With such a loud noise, of course she would wake up.
Qiao Wu understood: "Are you afraid that I'll feed the cat?"
"No." Lu Jinzhi said slowly, "It's rare for me to stay, I'm afraid you'll chase me away."
“…”
Seeing that she was speechless, Lu Jinzhi chuckled: "Do you like hugs?"
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