Chapter 118 The Hongmen Banquet Hosted by the Lu Brothers
Lu Jianheng chuckled softly and crossed his legs: "I told you to get more sleep and stay up late, you must be weak now."
Lu Qiyun ignored Lu Jianheng's words and turned around to pour a glass of water for Lu Shiman: "Sit down."
These two short words made Lu Shiman stunned for a moment.
She remembered that when she was working part-time at a pet shop, these were the two words that owners often said when they picked up their dogs.
Is Fourth Brother training her like a dog?
"Fourth brother, I'm not a dog." She spoke weakly, but still sat obediently on the chair and took the cup that Lu Qiyun handed to her.
Lu Qiyun turned around, took the cashmere blanket from the teak coat rack, and covered his head with it.
He pressed his slender fingers on Lu Shiman's shoulder through the blanket: "Tell me, what's the matter?"
"Please pour me a glass of water." Lu Jianheng was also very thirsty.
"Pour it yourself."
Lu Shiman finished drinking the water, tightened his grip on the cup, and slowly said, "Fourth brother, don't you want the instrument at the door?"
"don't want."
Lu Shiman swallowed her saliva. With her third brother around, there were some things she couldn't say.
Ultimately, this matter is because of myself.
Lu Jianheng stood up and poured himself a glass of water, took off his mask and drank a few sips, then immediately put the mask back on.
Seeing how cautious he was, afraid of being infected, Lu Shiman couldn't help but roll her eyes.
"Third brother, the more you fear something, the easier it is to obtain it."
"Bah... shut up." Lu Jianheng said unhappily.
The two of them joked around and played in Lu Qiyun's office for the whole afternoon.
As the sky gradually darkened, before Lu Shiman left, she looked at Lu Qiyun with anticipation: "Fourth brother, can I come every day?"
Lu Qijun wanted to refuse, but when he saw the expectation in his sister's crystal eyes, he swallowed the word "can't" and nodded slightly.
"That's great. I'll come again tomorrow. Third brother is gone. Don't bother fourth brother."
After receiving a positive answer, Lu Shiman immediately stood up and put the blanket on Lu Qiyun's shoulders: "Fourth brother, take care of yourself, we are leaving."
When I came out of Lu Qiyun's laboratory, it was already dark.
Lu Jianheng asked directly: "Do you need help from him recently?"
"who?"
"Old Four."
Lu Shiman didn't say anything, opened the car door and got in.
Seeing that she didn't want to talk, Lu Jianheng stopped asking and just asked lightly: "Is it related to the instrument thrown at the door?"
Lu Shiman tilted his head with surprise in his eyes.
None of the Lu family members are stupid.
She is not stupid either, I want to emphasize that!
"Um."
Lu Jianheng stopped talking and remained silent all the way.
A deep male voice streamed from the car stereo: [It doesn't matter if you leave me and gain freedom. The pain is to make me cherish this world. I can shed tears to prove that the past was not in vain.]
The ending tone was hoarse with an electric current, turning into sticky amber in the closed compartment.
Lu Shiman rested her forehead against the slightly cool car window. The neon lights shattered into colorful glass in her pupils. Her eyelashes trembled and her fingertips curled up as if burned by the lyrics.
"Lu Shiman, are you happy?" Lu Jianheng's voice broke the silence in the car.
Lu Shiman looked at the receding city streets and said softly, "Are you happy?"
Lu Jianheng tightened his grip on the steering wheel, wanted to say something, moved his lips, but in the end said nothing.
.......
Lu Shiman comes and goes on time at Fourth Brother's place, just like punching in for work every day.
Most of the time I stayed in the office waiting for Lu Qiyun and then talked to him.
Occasionally I would follow him to the laboratory, watch him do experiments, pass him test tubes, and put in medicines and so on.
No matter how Lu Shiman tried to hint at it, Lu Qijun refused to agree to cooperate.
Lu Shiman couldn't understand why his fourth brother wouldn't agree when it was clearly a win-win or even a win-win-win situation.
Huo Beiyan came to the laboratory to look for his fourth brother several times, each time more anxious than the last. It must be that he couldn't delay any longer.
Lu Qiyun thought that Ji Linshen had ulterior motives. Even she had heard of his cruel and vicious methods. It was unrealistic for a man like him to be her sister's lover.
He couldn't think of the reason why Ji Linshen did this, and it could only be attributed to the fact that he wanted to get something through Lu Shiman.
In addition, the Qin family has been targeted recently and is on the verge of collapse. He feels that Ji Linshen is unfathomable and extremely dangerous.
That day, Lu Shiman came out of the laboratory and called Ji Linshen.
"Are you done with your work? Let's go to that French restaurant tonight. I'm craving red wine foie gras."
"Sorry." Ji Lin's deep voice was like an electric current, and there was a faint rustling of paper in the background. "I have a dinner party tonight and I can't turn it down. I asked my assistant to book a table for two. Can you ask Qin Jiaojiao to come?"
When Lu Shiman heard that he had a dinner party in the evening, she felt a little disappointed, but still understood.
After hanging up the phone, he turned around and called Qin Jiaojiao.
Qin Jiaojiao left Huo Beiyan behind without saying a word and went to the appointment.
As dusk permeated the city skyline, a black Rolls-Royce Phantom rolled over the neon fragments on the ground and stopped in front of the gilded club.
Chu Qi walked around to the right and opened the car door: "Three of the four young masters of the Lu family have arrived, but the third young master Lu has not yet arrived."
Ji Linshen smoothed the front of his suit, the dark patterns on his dark grey tie faintly visible under the corridor light, and his hands at his side were a little wet.
The crystal chandelier cast tiny spots of light on the elevator mirror. He looked at the floor indicator lights with numbers climbing up, and he suddenly felt a little nervous.
The private room is filled with agarwood incense
Lu Qijun lowered his eyes and played with his cufflinks, the dark red agate flowing between his cold white knuckles.
There were regular knocking sounds coming from the table, as Lu Yannan's neatly trimmed nails hit the rosewood, and each sound was precisely caught in the gap between the second hand of the wall clock.
When the minute hand passed the Roman numeral VII, he suddenly withdrew his hand, and his fingertips left a half-moon-shaped indentation on the gold-stamped menu cover.
"What's wrong with the Third Brother?" Lu Chixu frowned, and the celadon teacup made a crisp sound when it collided with the cup holder. "Brother, how do you plan to talk?"
Before he could answer, the door of the private room was pushed open from the outside.
Ji Linshen stepped in, the shoulders of his navy blue suit falling in the cool air from the elevator: "Sorry, I have an urgent meeting."
The corners of his mouth raised in a perfect arc, and when his eyes swept across the three similar faces, he suddenly felt a slight tingling sensation on the back of his neck.
"Mr. Ji is a very important person and has a lot of things to do." Lu Chixu's tone was not very nice, but he did not lose the necessary courtesy.
"Mr. Ji, please see if there is anything that does not suit your taste." Lu Yannan handed over the menu with a smile.
Ji Linshen took the menu, flipped through it casually, and put it aside: "The guest follows the host's wishes."
As he was talking, Lu Jianheng pushed the door open and walked in. Seeing Ji Linshen was already there, he raised his eyebrows slightly, a little surprised: "Am I late?"
Lu Yannan held the handle of the red wine glass and glanced at Lu Jianheng who was late, with a look of displeasure in his eyes.
Lu Jianheng lowered his head to adjust his shirt cuffs, avoiding the glances from his elder brother.
The dishes were served one after another, and an eerie silence filled the room, with everyone secretly guessing what the other was thinking.
"Mr. Ji, do you plan to develop in Jincheng for a long time?" Lu Yannan asked.
"The focus is here right now." Ji Linshen held up the red wine glass, and the water droplets condensed on the wall of the glass slid along the base of his thumb and into the cuffs of his shirt.
"The Ji family's group is the leader in Beijing, so why would they choose Jincheng?" Lu Jianheng took over his elder brother's words and continued asking.
"My mother and grandmother are both from Jincheng." Ji Linshen scooped up a spoonful of snow crab steamed egg, and the crab meat fibers stretched out like flowers in the warm yellow egg custard: "What's more, Jincheng is a good place."
"I love so much."
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