Chapter 481: Two-timing
the next day.
A faint scent of mugwort wafted through the Huo family's garden villa in the imperial capital.
Refreshing and invigorating.
The second bedroom has been converted into a clinic, with a therapy bed and a row of cabinets filled with medicinal herbs.
The Lu family monopolized the use of Chinese medicinal herbs, refusing to allow Qiao Xi to purchase them. Huo Xingzhou had assembled and shipped all of these herbs from Haicheng, and they were a wide variety. He even found a set of golden needles on the market and gave them to Qiao Xi.
Qiao Xi couldn't let go of the golden needles.
Early in the morning, she dragged Huo Xingzhou to the clinic to give him acupuncture to recuperate his body. After all, some people suffer from liver qi stagnation and lack of essence and blood.
Huo Xingzhou took off all his clothes, leaving only a plush blanket covering his lower body.
His upper body had well-defined muscles, and he lay on the therapy bed with his hands casually resting on his head.
Those cold eyes were always looking at Qiao Xi.
Qiao Xi disinfected a newly purchased gold needle, twisted the end of the needle, and inserted it into his acupoint. A small ball of moxa floss was tucked into the end of the needle, which would warm and nourish the body when lit.
Sun Weimeng moved a small round stool and a small fruit plate and sat aside to watch the fun.
He tutted his tongue twice: "Such muscles... are really enviable. Huo Er, how come you can still exercise every day even though you have so much work to do?"
Everyone has only 24 hours in a day, but some people can do so much.
Sun Weimeng looked down at his flat belly. There was no muscle!
He is just a boiled chicken!
While inserting the needles, Qiao Xi said with a smile, "Young Master Sun, you can also go and practice some physical training."
Sun Weimeng didn't hold back and asked casually, "Is there a big difference between the experience of having muscles and not having muscles?"
Qiao Xi's cheeks flushed slightly.
Her eyes were moist and sparkling.
Huo Xingzhou glanced at him calmly: "Don't you have any idea?"
Sun Weimeng said aggrievedly, "I want to sign up for a fitness class too! When I get a full body of muscular muscles, I'll come and show off to you. Your thin layer is nothing."
"Then come back to me when you've developed strong tendon muscles."
Huo Xingzhou looked indifferent, not taking his angry words to heart at all.
Sun Weimeng stuffed a grape into his mouth.
Qiao Xi watched them make a fuss, a faint smile on her crescent-shaped lips. With Sun Shao, a lively young man, around, both Haicheng and the Imperial Capital were bustling with activity.
She twisted the needle and inserted it into the man's Jianjing acupoint, which is used to relieve fatigue and regulate the blood circulation in the shoulders and neck. Huo Xingzhou usually has a lot of work pressure and sits at his desk for hours. She can only do small things within her ability.
Buzz.
The phone on the coffee table vibrated.
Sun Weimeng said enthusiastically: "I'll get it! You guys continue!"
He immediately stood up and ran to the coffee table, picking up Huo Xingzhou's phone. He found that it was not a call from someone, but an unread message with a picture as the message details.
I don’t know who sent it.
Sun Weimeng was very curious.
He glanced at Huo Xingzhou, then at his phone and said, "I wonder who sent you a picture. What's your lock screen password?"
He casually laid down on the therapy bed and said, “Give me your phone.”
Under pressure from his authority, Sun Weimeng obediently placed the phone next to him. But he stayed by the bed, unwilling to leave.
I really want to know what pictures the other party sent to Huo Xingzhou.
Huo Xingzhou unlocked the phone with his fingerprint, and the details of the unread messages quickly popped up.
He clicked on the photo.
The photo filled the entire screen of the phone.
“I’ll go!”
Sun Weimeng exclaimed, "This is shocking news! If Lu Yingxue knew, she would be furious! She might not even be in the mood to attend the needle testing meeting."
Qiao Xi was also curious, so she stuck her head out to take a look and then stopped.
Are the people in this photo Zhong Shao and Xiang Mingzhu?
The picture is a bit blurry.
However, the background of the photo is a high-end hotel, and the two entered the hotel together. The photo also has the time of shooting at the bottom, which is early last night.
In other words, after they separated from Master Zhong, he asked Xiang Mingzhu to book a room in a hotel?
Sun Weimeng laughed and teased, "Master of time management! He's engaged to his cousin sister, and at the same time, he's having a tryst with his younger cousin sister. This is what it means to have two cousins! Is Master Zhong planning to take down both the Lu and Xiang families?"
Qiao Xi listened to Sun Weimeng's words and pursed her lips slightly.
This Mr. Zhong does not do things according to the rules.
Does he really like Xiang Mingzhu?
That's really bad vision.
Qiao Xi felt a vague sense of inexplicable disappointment in her heart, always feeling that he shouldn't be such a person.
Qiao Xi said, "Isn't he afraid of being discovered by Lu Yingxue?"
Huo Xingzhou's eyes flashed with a leisurely smile: "The Lu and Xiang families are busy cleaning up the mess in the stock market and export goods. No one will pay attention to this matter. Zhong Yi also knows his limits. He won't play both sides and still end up in trouble."
"Then why are you..."
"I've sent people to keep an eye on him," Huo Xingzhou said calmly. "In the business world, only those with the same goals can become allies. If one day, what he wants conflicts with what I want, then we will be enemies."
Huo Xingzhou didn't believe Zhong Yi.
Similarly, Zhong Yi didn't believe Huo Xingzhou either.
"Are you allies now?" Qiao Xi asked softly.
"Um."
Qiao Xi was a little worried. "Becoming enemies with the Zhong family would be very dangerous. Young Master Zhong is extremely cunning and decisive. Now that I think about it, he and Xiang Mingzhu are probably not together because they're attracted to each other. Is he using her?"
Huo Xingzhou looked at her and asked, "Do you think someone as arrogant as him would be interested in Xiang Mingzhu?"
Qiao Xi already had the answer in her heart. Zhong Yi looked down on Xiang Mingzhu, but that didn't mean he wouldn't play along.
He even sold his body?
Sun Weimeng had obviously thought of this as well and asked, "Did he and Xiang Mingzhu really sleep together? Tsk tsk, what a pity. I think if they did, Xiang Mingzhu would have gotten the upper hand! That Young Master Zhong is really good-looking."
Even a man like Sun Weimeng thinks it's beautiful.
Huo Xingzhou lowered his eyes and said, of course not.
How could Zhong Yi sell her body?
I guess he wanted to be gentle with Xiang Mingzhu and get some words out of her.
For example, the Xiang family's future plans, plans to save the stock market, etc., so as to better deal with the Xiang family and hinder them.
But in front of Qiao Xi, Huo Xingzhou didn't want to give a definite answer.
He simply said, "You should ask the person involved."
This is my reward for liking that matcha latte last night and for stirring up trouble.
Whenever they found an opportunity, Huo Xingzhou and Zhong Yi both chose to discredit each other in front of Qiao Xi.
This is the tacit understanding between rivals in love.
Sun Weimeng was genuinely curious and nodded, saying, "If I have time, I'll ask him in person. I thought I was already quite extravagant, but I didn't expect this Young Master Zhong to be even more extravagant. Cousins, you're amazing!"
In fact, he felt that something must have happened when a man and a woman went to a hotel to get a room in the middle of the night.
Just as I was daydreaming, the phone vibrated again.
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