Chapter 14: The Devil Is Around
In the hall of the Su family, a table of people was eating dinner.
Mrs. Su and Su Yuanyuan were eating with great interest about the collocation and taste of a certain lady at the birthday party last night, and Mr. Su and Su Yichen chatted about the company's operation with each other.
Although the Su family has always attached great importance to their own status as an upper-class person, unlike other big families, they did not uphold the traditional virtues left over from China for 5,000 years at the dinner table.
When Chi Xiaoqing eats, it's basically like eating alone, and she will never interject unless someone asks her questions, such as now.
"Xiaoqing, it's been so long since you were discharged from the hospital, has Haoxuan contacted you?" Master Su was particularly concerned about her and Leng Haoxuan's affairs, and as soon as Mrs. Su and Su Yuanyuan heard Leng Haoxuan's name, they immediately became as energetic as chicken blood, Chi Xiaoqing glanced at Mrs. Su and found that she even had tense facial nerves.
Apricot eyes swept over Su Yichen's face, and Chi Xiaoqing replied, "No." ”
The answer to these two words made Master Su's face sink, Mrs. Su and Su Yuanyuan were relieved, and immediately breathed a sigh of relief, what about Su Yichen?
"Brother, Brother Haoxuan hasn't been a guest at our house recently, is he so busy with work. Su Yuanyuan asked Su Yichen with concern, the Leng family and the Su family now have business dealings, Su Yichen and Leng Haoxuan have officially become partners since the last time he came to visit the Su family, so Su Yichen must know a little about him.
"I don't know. Su Yichen replied, glancing at Chi Xiaoqing, who continued to bow her head to eat.
"Dad, Mom, why don't we visit the Leng family one day?" Su Yuanyuan boldly proposed, there was no shortage of suitors around her, but Leng Haoxuan, a handsome and capable diamond king, was not so easy to find.
"Ahem. Master Su coughed twice and warned his daughter not to be presumptuous with his eyes.
Su Yuanyuan pursed her lips and said unconvinced: "What's the matter, the courtesy is still exchanged." ”
After hearing this, Master Su's expression became more serious, and it seemed that he was going to prepare to train people.
Seeing this, Mrs. Su immediately touched her daughter's elbow and asked her to stop talking nonsense, and Su Yuanyuan stopped talking.
There was no one at the table for a while, and there was an indescribable awkward atmosphere in the air.
After being silent for a while, Master Su looked at Chi Xiaoqing and said, "Xiaoqing, tomorrow night is the twentieth anniversary of the establishment of the Leng Group, you can go as a representative of the Su family." ”
In one sentence, everyone at the table looked up at him, surprised, puzzled, angry, confused, and aware.
"Dad!" Su Yuanyuan was obviously the most breathless.
"Yuanyuan. Mrs. Su stopped her daughter, not wanting her daughter to force the master, after all, he was the head of the family, and his status and reputation were all given to him.
"Dad, Mom, what's so good about Chi Xiaoqing? Let her represent the Su family? Isn't this obviously about embarrassing our Su family?" Su Yuanyuan has always been mean, and now she is even more unforgiving, because Chi Xiaoqing's is indeed threatening her.
"Shut up! I said, you can't interfere in the matter between Xiaoqing and Leng Haoxuan! I tell you, put away the thoughts that you shouldn't have in your head as soon as possible. "Master Su seems to be really angry.
"What do you mean by the idea that you shouldn't have? I shouldn't have it, can she? Hmph, ridiculous! Women all over the world can have fantasies about Brother Haoxuan, but she can't! Because she doesn't have that qualification!" Su Yuanyuan stood up angrily, pointed at Chi Xiaoqing and yelled, and ran upstairs angrily.
"Yuanyuan, sir, I'll go see her. Mrs. Su put down her chopsticks and said anxiously that she loved this little daughter very much.
"Whatever she wants, sit down and eat. "Master Su's face is darker than charcoal.
Mrs. Su could only sit down, she looked at Chi Xiaoqing, who was still indifferent, with hatred in her eyes, presumably attributing her daughter's training to Chi Xiaoqing.
Dead girl, see how I clean you up in the future. Mrs. Su thought to herself.
"Xiaoqing, did you understand what you just said?" asked Old Master Su looking at Chi Xiaoqing's forehead.
"Uh. ”
Chi Xiaoqing raised her head at this time, and replied lightly, as if she hadn't heard the quarrel just now, and Mrs. Su's resentful eyes at this time had no effect on her.
"That's good, Yichen, you will be your sister's driver tomorrow night and send her to Leng Haoxuan, eh, no, you will have a lot of business cooperation with Haoxuan in the future, and you should also attend." Master Su's arrangement seemed to be deliberate, the two fathers and sons glanced at each other, Su Yichen nodded slightly, and did not look at Chi Xiaoqing.
"Brother, then I'll trouble you. For the first time, Chi Xiaoqing took the initiative to call Su Yichen her brother in front of her family, Mrs. Su's face showed a hint of surprise, she glanced at Master Su and her son, both of whom seemed to be deliberately hiding something, her eyes with a few wrinkles but still well-maintained turned a few times, and she was even more sure that her husband and son must be hiding something in Leng Haoxuan's matter.
Su Yichen's face changed for a moment, and he quickly returned to normal, and he smiled slightly at Shangchi Xiaoqing's eyes: "This is what I should do." ”
Late at night.
Chi Xiaoqing sat at the window, looking at the scenery outside and couldn't sleep.
The man who had said he would protect her for the rest of his life was now going to deliver her to another person, and that person turned out to be a demon.
Why?
Can you tell her? Give her a reason, a reason to die.
The second time, I attended the banquet with Su Yichen, and the person I wanted to see was Leng Haoxuan.
The breath of two people spread in the car, the cool breeze outside, the winter wind shed tears, and the streets were full of bleak scenes, but it was still lively, people would not choose to hide because of the season, no matter how cold it was, the earth would still turn.
No matter how unwilling you are, what should happen will still happen.
Chi Xiaoqing looked at herself reflected in the car window, she put on a gorgeous dress again tonight, this time the mood was completely different from last time, last time she misunderstood, this time she recognized the facts, everything was like being teased, ridiculous.
"Brother, do you remember the first time you saw me?"
The first time he saw her, it was in the orphanage, Su Yichen was standing behind Master Su, at that time he was twenty and two, and his face still had a more or less bookish smell, but it was more calm and restrained, as now.
"Remember, you were eighteen years old and a child. ”
"But I was an adult by then. "Eighteen years old, the age of the flowering season. I remember Zhang Ailing has such a sentence: When she met him, she became very low, low to the dust, but her heart was happy, so she bloomed in the dust.
But her heart couldn't bloom, because the two fathers and sons of the Su family were coming to take her home, leaving the orphanage, she didn't know what to do in the future life, but for the sake of Feiyu, she had to do it.
"In my heart, you've always been a child. "Only children need protection, don't they?
"So in your heart, I've always been your sister, right. "What has been buried in the heart should burst out when it can no longer be hidden, when it can no longer be hidden.
"It's here. Su Yichen didn't answer her question, because in front of him was the venue for the 22nd anniversary of the establishment of the Leng family, and the magnificent five-star hotel in front of him was a property belonging to the Leng family, and it should have been full of guests.
Chi Xiaoqing glanced at the gorgeous star-rated hotel, knowing that the person she didn't want to see was inside, in her heart, her body unconsciously produced a sense of rejection, she took a deep breath, and tried to overcome this feeling that she shouldn't have, she had no choice.
Chi Xiaoqing took Su Yichen's hand and stepped into the venue, just like a prince and princess, attracting the attention of many people.
Unfortunately, on the other side of the palace, the prince still had to merge the princess into the hands of the devil.
"Congratulations, Leng has today, you are the first hero. Su Yichen held the champagne and toasted to Leng Haoxuan.
"Thank you. Leng Haoxuan raised the champagne, and his eyes looked at Chi Xiaoqing behind Su Yichen intentionally or unintentionally.
Chi Xiaoqing looked at the upper-class people at the banquet with a straight face, and did not intend to congratulate Leng Haoxuan hypocritically.
Obviously, standing with these two men, she will always be the focus of her gaze, Chi Xiaoqing saw the people around her pointing at her and talking in a low voice, but this did not make her have any emotional ups and downs, and other people's opinions were no longer important to her.
"Miss Chi, do you mind dancing with me for the first time?" Leng Haoxuan finished his speech on the stage, applause, and then the symphony sounded, and he stretched out his hand to Chi Xiaoqing, who was standing not far away, in the middle of the dance floor.
Su Yichen had already gone to meet the customer she knew well, and she was nowhere to be seen, but she could feel that his eyes were now focused on her in a corner.
The whole body was in an uproar, and there was a lot of discussion, whispering.
She learned from other people's smiles and put her hand in his palm, maybe at this moment, others thought she was Cinderella who didn't know what shit luck she had eaten, maybe at this moment, she was in the hands of Master Su and Su Yichen, maybe at this moment, she should cooperate with the plot to deceive herself that she is very happy.
"You're beautiful tonight. The two of them slowly waltzed in the center of the dance floor, and she assured that it was the most striking thing she had ever lived, and that it was so obnoxious.
Waltz was not something she could learn in the Su family, but Master Su had always insisted on letting her learn, and there were some upper-class social etiquette, Su Yichen thought that she was teaching her by hand, so she jumped up and moved very elegantly.
Others didn't know to look at it, and thought that she was really living a pampered life in the Su family.
Her eyes tried to find the familiar figure in the crowd, and was led around by Leng Haoxuan, and finally found him in the gap of the crowd.
And there was another familiar figure standing beside him, Chi Xiaoqing quickly swept over the woman's face, and then pretended to be casual and closely followed Leng Haoxuan's footsteps, the loss and melancholy in her heart hit like a flood, she has been fiercely suppressed from leaving the Su family until now, but seeing Su Yichen and Yi Lingling talking and laughing again, her heart is like a knife.
"Thank you. She responded to him lightly, the woman is pleasing to the person, but her beauty will definitely not be for Leng Haoxuan.
"Do you know why I want you to dance with me for the first time?" Leng Haoxuan stared at her carefully dressed face, and her deep eyes were like a river of spring water, unable to see the bottom.