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The two young people sitting at the table were stunned when they heard this, Qiao Baolin hurriedly put down the spoon in her hand, and interrupted their conversation, "Auntie!"

"Huh?" Ms. Qiao glanced at her niece inexplicably, not realizing Qiao Baolin's embarrassment.

Qiao Baolin looked back indifferently, with mixed feelings in her heart.Her aunt is a refurbished foreign style, she speaks English with a foreign taste, eats a mouthful of foreign food, and even changed her name to Joanna, which shows how happy the restless heart inside is. .Qiao Baolin didn't agree with her in terms of marriage, and they couldn't reach an agreement. She immediately dismissed the idea of ​​talking to her tactfully in front of outsiders, and hastily drank two spoonfuls of cream soup before leaving the banquet in a hurry.

But at this moment, Lu Liuyun, sitting under the eaves of the Qin family's eaves and watching Qing, has found out that today's nominal network is actually a blind date for him in disguise, and he is also uncomfortable in every possible way, so he reluctantly spends lunch with Ms. Qiao , declined her kindness to stay, and immediately bid farewell politely.

Ms. Qiao bumped against the wall at home and outside, her face was a little embarrassing, and after Lu Liuyun stepped out of the gate of Qin's house, she stepped on her high-heeled shoes and went upstairs to find her niece.Qiao Baolin was distracted from practicing the piano in the piano room, when she heard familiar footsteps behind her, she played five wrong beats in a row, and the song was simply out of tune.

"Pauline, where are you going?" Seeing her closing the piano case, Ms. Qiao hurriedly called out to her as if she was getting up to leave.

"Auntie, my heart already belongs to me." Qiao Baolin couldn't be bothered by her, and said what was in her heart as if angry.

"The retired former army commander?" Ms. Qiao sneered, and said in a disdainful tone, "Even Zhou Hengxi's reinstatement may not make people look up to him, let alone he is just a mere university lecturer now."

"How do you know..." Qiao Baolin opened her eyes wide in surprise, she didn't expect her aunt to know her thoughts like the palm of her hand.

"There's nothing you can hide from me." Ms. Qiao attaches great importance to the lifelong events of her niece. She usually tells Qiao Baolin's classmates who come to visit at home. How can she not know the girlish feelings she hides in her diary? .Today, the whole family has been honest to this point, and there is no need to hide anything, Ms. Qiao walked up to her niece and said with good intentions, "You are just too young to know how to plan for yourself. "

Qiao Baolin lowered her head and turned her body slightly, deliberately not to meet her aunt's eyes. Ms. Qiao straightened her body and continued to pour good medicine into Qiao Baolin's ears, "Why don't you listen to persuasion, my good little girl? Will this aunt harm you?"

"Auntie, I don't want to go against my will." Qiao Baolin lowered her eyelashes, bit her lips so white, and there were two suppressed cries in her throat.

"Such a stubborn temper, you will suffer in the future." Ms. Qiao neither hated nor scolded, she simply didn't know what to do with her.

Qiao Baolin turned her back and secretly wiped away her tears, as unmoved as before.Ms. Qiao stood in front of her niece, sighed helplessly, and left her alone in the piano room, then turned and went downstairs to tell the old lady who was waiting to be dispatched, "Go and call uncle, just say this door Family affairs can’t be done.”

When the car arrived, Lu Liuyun returned to the Zhou mansion and threw his coat on the sofa, and asked Zhou Hengxi who was sitting in front of the coffee table sorting out the materials, "Guess who I met when I went to Qin's house today?"

Zhou Hengxi put down the document in his hand and looked up at him, "Acquaintance?"

"It's the hexagram that I know you." Lu Liuyun sat on the sofa, picked up Zhou Hengxi's cup and took a sip of water.

Zhou Hengxi felt a little puzzled when he heard this, and turned to Lu Liuyun and said, "Talk about it, let me tell how mature I am from that person?"

"The female student who gave you the book." Sitting on the sofa, Lu Liuyun covered his mouth and yawned, and raised his wrist to rub the corners of his eyes.

"Joe Pauline?"

Zhou Hengxi was slightly surprised when he saw Lu Liuyun nodded noncommittally.

"Unexpected?" Lu Liuyun sat on the sofa and sighed, "I didn't expect that either."

Seeing that he was hesitant to speak, Zhou Hengxi asked, "Did the talk go well today?"

"Hey, I'm not going to talk about business. It's obvious that they have been blinded by them." Lu Liuyun leaned on the sofa, loosened the tie around his neck uncomfortably, and sighed, "Uncle Qiao is really, what's the matter?" It's time... It's a good thing it's time to spend time on such an embarrassing incident."

Hearing this, Zhou Hengxi almost made a guess in his heart. He rubbed Lu Liuyun's hair, and said softly, "Mr. Qiao is also very kind, but I didn't expect our little third master to be named 'Grass' long ago." Lord."

Lu Liuyun was so teased by him that he rolled his eyes, put his arms around Zhou Hengxi's waist, "Hey, I'm really tired."

"Sit here and sleep for a while if you're tired, and I'll go out and buy you some food later." Zhou Hengxi raised his head and supported Lu Liuyun's head, fearing that it would hurt if he got up against his neck for a long time.Lu Liuyun gave a vague "hmm", leaned on his shoulder and moved his head. After Zhou Hengxi received the documents in his file bag, he turned his head and found that Lu Liuyun had actually fallen asleep.

Zhou Hengxi was afraid that he would catch a cold while sleeping like this, so he raised his hand to send him upstairs to sleep, but when he looked down, he saw two white hairs growing on the top of Lu Liuyun's head, his left hand stopped in front of him, and he carefully pulled out the other hand, He took the coat thrown on the sofa and covered it for Lu Liuyun.

His little third master has never suffered, nor has he experienced life and death. When he was young, he refused to obey and wanted to fight against the old man. Now that the person who scolded him has fallen, it is really troublesome. Don’t worry that someone in this family will punish him up.It's just that the grievance in my heart is suppressed, but I have to bear it all.

Thinking of this, Zhou Hengxi sighed silently. Even if he wanted to shoulder some things for Lu Liuyun, he couldn't replace them after all.

At this time, Miura Xinjiu, who was far away in the Japanese Concession, was sitting in his mansion talking and laughing happily with the wealthy Japanese households in China.Recently, thanks to the blessing of Eiichi Sanada, he has been in the limelight in public, and he has shown that he is about to gain power, which has attracted those speculators to come to the door to show courteousness.Destiny is such a reality. When people are going against the wind, they will suffer a lot when they do things, but when they are under the sun, there is no need to ride the wind everywhere under the clear sky.

"Everyone comes to my humble house today, and I don't have any good things to entertain you. Last time, my father sent me some local snacks from Japan. I haven't had time to unwrap them. I just took out some of the local snacks that my distinguished guests are visiting today." Miura said. Xin Jiuxian quietly brought Miura Donghui into his words, deliberately letting the guests here hear that his seemingly down-and-out husband is still very concerned about his father.

Sanada Yongichi is the best at catering to the atmosphere in such occasions. He listened to Miura Shinhisa's words with ease, reached out his hand to pick up a piece of pastry from the tray, put it in his mouth, and said "oh" expressively with his thumb, Sitting in the middle of the crowd, he praised, "It really is the taste of my hometown."

Under the introductory words of this witty gentleman, the other people in the room picked up pastries to exhaust their praises, but they didn't know that the "taste of hometown" they said was just that Hiroseto picked it up from a snack shop in the commercial street. It's just an ordinary pastry brought back.

Anyone who wants to make a good show must have a clown in full bloom.Seeing the funny scene in front of him, Miura Shinjiu raised the corners of his mouth slightly, lowered his eyelids to see the sarcasm in his eyes.During this period, many people who wanted to please him took the initiative to provide him with the recent movements of several major merchants in Japan.When the subject changed, there was indeed heavy news about the Aoki Club.

The former in-law of the Miura Club, President Aoki, hastily withdrew the cooperation project that the two companies were negotiating with, and even sent the eldest daughter Aoki Kotoori back to England in a hurry.Others still don't know that this good thing of in-law alliance has come to an end because of Miura Furo's death.All he thought was that the two giants of aristocratic families had a estrangement because of interest factors, which affected the marriage of the two families.

Hearing this, Miura Shinjiu raised his eyebrows while sitting on the sofa, brought the hot coffee in his hand to his lips and took a sip, keeping the matter secret.It was inconvenient for others to say more when they saw this, so they followed Sanada Yongichi's butt and slapped their eyes, and took the matter away.

After seeing off the wave of rich and idle people in the living room of Miura's house, Wu Yuezhou, who was waiting outside the door, dusted off his clothes covered in soot and came out of the car.Miura Shinjiu stood on the steps and whispered to him, with a meaningful smile on his face, "Remember, I want to live, Mr. Wu, please don't miss me."

It was evening, Lu Liuyun shivered, and found that the electricity in the Zhou mansion was cut off.He got up from the bed with his coat loosely folded. The light in the room was very dark. He stretched out his hand and opened the curtains, only to find a row of street lamps outside standing in darkness under the drowsy sky.The voltage in this area has always been unstable, so Lu Liuyun didn't take it to heart, just put on his clothes neatly, and prepared to go find Zhou Hengxi.

The Zhou mansion was very quiet, Lu Liuyun could clearly hear his own footsteps as he walked on the clean floor.He went all the way from the study upstairs to the living room downstairs, but he didn't find Zhou Hengxi.In the end, I still felt in the dark and saw a note left by him on the small coffee table, saying that someone had gone out to order food, and asked him to stay at home and wait patiently.

Lu Liuyun stood alone in the living room, rubbed his hands, shook the thermos on the table, and found that it was empty without any sound of water.He reluctantly put the things back, went to the wall and tried the switch, but the house was not powered on yet.Lu Liuyun pushed open the door of the living room and wanted to go to the yard to get some air, but when the door was half-opened, he realized that something was wrong.

Outside the mansion, two rows of electric lights on the side of the road were already on, and the whole street was brightly illuminated. Only Zhou's mansion was still immersed in darkness, eerily quiet.