Chapter 23 The dove occupies the magpie's nest
Before they could answer, a crisp and sweet voice suddenly came from the corner of the second floor, "Sister-in-law Wang, who is here?" Is Brother Zhao back?"
None of us answered for a while.
I could see that they were a little confused and didn't know how to deal with the current situation. I don't understand what this is.
We were all silent.
A few seconds later, a curly figure appeared from the corner of the stairs, she walked down the stairs, wearing Qin Zhao's often worn white loungeclothes, and on her feet were my bunny slippers.
The woman was a little surprised to see the existence of another strange woman besides Sister-in-law Wang and Xiaoyue, and asked, "Is there a guest coming?"
"Miss Sheng, she is ......" Sister-in-law Wang was a little embarrassed and didn't know how to introduce my identity.
"The slippers on your feet are mine. β
In fact, what I originally wanted to say in my heart was, hello, I am a friend of Mr. Qin. What I don't want to say is such a sentence.
After saying that, I thought that people always have to pay for their impulses.
But at that moment, the speed of the real reaction in my heart far overshadowed the correct thinking of my brain.
When I saw her coming down the stairs like a hostess, there was a moment when I felt a little jealous.
Only a little bit.
Although I don't know the woman in front of me.
But as a woman's natural sixth sense, I intuitively feel that she should have some special relationship with Qin Zhao.
I'm pretty sure that in the few years I've been with Qin Zhao, I've never seen her.
She should be twenty-six or seventeen years old, very well maintained, there are some very subtle traces of microplastic surgery on her face, she should have been a little botulin, and her apple muscles are filled with a little hyaluronic acid, which looks soft and cute, weakening the strong sense of her facial features. What makes her overall appearance even more glamorous.
Naturally, others can't see it, but a woman like me, who has been mixed up in three religions and nine streams since childhood, and later entered the Phoenix Building by mistake to beg for a living, is naturally a little more sensitive to women than others.
She has a natural nobility in her gestures, and she belongs to the kind of woman who has a very temperament.
At first glance, she is a famous lady.
When the woman heard me say this, there was no trace of embarrassment on her face, and she naturally instructed Sister-in-law Wang, "I'm sorry I don't know, just look at the cute style of these slippers, Sister-in-law Wang, bring me another pair of other slippers." β
"No need, I mean although this pair is mine, but since you wear it, wear it, not to mention that you have a fair complexion, and you look good in white, with this set of loungewear, it is very suitable. β
I smiled and complimented, and then said to Sister-in-law Wang, "How long will it take for Mr. Qin to come back." β
Mr. Qin said that there was a sudden temporary meeting, and it would take about an hour to get home. β
I nodded and understood.
The strange woman held out her right hand to me and said enthusiastically, "Hello." My name is Sheng Yanan, and I am Qin Zhao's ...... Friend. β
"Hello Miss Sheng, my name is Chen Qing. Nice to meet you. β
I didn't take the initiative to mention what my relationship with Qin Zhao was. First, I knew I shouldn't mention it, and second, I wasn't qualified to mention it.
"Since Mr. Qin is not here, I will leave first and come back another day. I said hello to them, picked up the bag in the hallway, and was about to leave when the sound of the door opening behind me suddenly sounded.
Qin Zhao saw me standing at the entrance for the first time, and asked, "Why don't you go in." β
Then I saw Sheng Yanan standing opposite me.
"Yanan, you're running away again. β
The tone was a little doting, not the slightest surprise that she appeared here.
Sister-in-law Wang asked, "Sir, don't you still have a meeting, why are you coming back now?" β
"The meeting was cancelled at short notice. Qin Zhao said as he walked into the house.
Sheng Yanan stood there without moving, she looked at me who was still standing opposite her, and the corners of her mouth hooked up a smile, "Brother Zhao, don't you tell me who this is?"
Qin Zhao glanced at me and said without the slightest hesitation, "It's the project manager in charge of the entertainment club, and I made an appointment to talk about the project today." β
"I see," Sheng Yanan nodded, and he didn't know whether he believed or didn't believe this statement, "But Brother Zhao shouldn't have chosen such a time, it's not early, and it's not appropriate for a girl to be a girl." β
"It was my negligence. Qin Zhao looked at me, "It's indeed a little late today, otherwise Miss Chen, please go back first, and we'll talk another day?"
"That's fine. I nodded calmly, suddenly felt a little uncomfortable in my heart, and looked at Qin Zhao with a provocative smile, "Mr. Qin, introduce my identity, you should also introduce this beauty to me." β
"She's a good friend of mine who grew up together, and we're friends in the world. Qin Zhao looked at me with an unclear look in his eyes.
"Oh, it turned out to be a childhood sweetheart. I thought you'd say fiancΓ©e too. Thankfully not. I nodded, with a hint of gunpowder in my tone, and said to the two of them, "Don't disturb the world of the two of you, take your leave." With that, he took his bag and turned around and went out.
After going out, I didn't know where to go for a while, and there was no place for me Chen Qing in the huge S City.
At that moment I realized that I was a man with nothing.
No money, no status, no home, and no love.
Am I unworthy? I suddenly fell into a kind of self-doubt, many men have said they love me, but they can't even give me a home.
How ridiculous it is.
It's like duckweed growing in water, no matter how lush and prosperous it is on the surface, it still has no roots after all.
I didn't take the elevator, I went down several floors in the hallway, and it was so quiet that I couldn't hear even a word of speech.
I sat in the corridor for a while, lit a cigarette, held the phone in a daze, and then the phone flashed, I saw that the name of the note was "Chen Ranfeng", so I let it flicker until it went out, and after a while, the phone screen lit up again, I didn't want to answer, but I picked it up after thinking about it.
"Hey?" the voice was loud in the silent hallway.
"Miss Chen," Chen Ranfeng's voice was a little hurried, "Mr. Qin asked me to come to Huaiju to pick you up, and you can wait for me at the door of the unit." β
"Okay, I got it. β
After hanging up the phone, I didn't go out, but stepped on the cigarette butt and lay on my side on the platform between the two stairs, slowly curled up into a small ball.
The property management of the community is very good, and there is a cleaning aunt in the corridor every day to clean it, and there is no worry about soiling the clothes at all.
I lay on the cold countertop, clutching my handbag in my hand, my mind empty, as if I was thinking about a lot of things, but I didn't seem to think about anything.
During this period, Chen Ranfeng called me countless times, but I didn't answer, just stared at the wall in a daze.
The phone rang again after a quiet moment, and it was a specially set ringtone.
I picked it up, and the same deep voice came from the other side, "Where?" β
"Don't worry about Mr. Qin. After speaking, I hung up the phone with a "snap", and after thinking about it, I felt that I should call Chen Ranfeng back, and I just called, and it was connected in an instant.
"Miss Chen, my ancestor, where are you?" Chen Ranfeng's anxious voice came from the other end of the phone, "I was about to search the community, so I had to call Mr. Qin, but he didn't know." Where are you, ancestor? β
"I'm in the hallway. "At least one more person is worried because they can't find me. It's pretty good, too. The staircase is a long way from the elevator entrance, and I thought about how many floors there would be, so I went straight down.
The corridors were originally full of voice-activated lights, but the lights on the floors I was on seemed to be broken, and I called Chen Ranfeng back while groping my way down, not wanting to step on one steadily, and stumbled heavily in the dark corridor.
"Ahh I let out a small cry of pain.
Chen Ranfeng heard it and asked me what was wrong, I sat down and rubbed my ankles, "I just broke a little." β
"Miss Chen, don't move, tell me the specific location, and I'll pick you up." β
I tried to stand up, but I didn't want my ankle to still hurt, so I sat down and waited for Chen Ranfeng to pick it up.
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"How's it going, can you still stand up?"
Chen Ranfeng asked me.
"Looks like it's not going to work. "I tried to stand for a while, but it still hurt to the bone.
He lowered his head and thought hard about how to get me to the car, I was hungry, sore and sleepy, and my temper was naturally worse.
"You are such a big man, you have strength, can't you carry me?"
I yelled at him in the worst of my heart.
"This ...... It's not good......" He was still hesitating, and the twisting and pinching made people look very angry.
"Don't worry, just let you carry me, not what you want to do to me. I laughed angrily, "Or you're just here and I'm staring at it all the time?"
"Okay, Miss Chen, I'll carry you. β
He seemed to be determined, crouched down in front of me, and carefully carried me downstairs.
After he put me in the car and settled me, he sat in the driver's seat and said, "Mr. Qin asked me to take you to Qingxi." β
When I went back to Qingxi before, Qin Zhao ordered people to move most of my usual belongings to Qingxi, and now Huaiju only left the pair of slippers and one or two changes of clothes.
I now understand what this means, the dove occupies the magpie's nest, and now that the magpie has returned, the dove has to give way.
I'm the dove with the wrong name, and to put it bluntly, a pheasant.
"I don't want to go back to Qingxi today. I said to Chen Ranfeng.
He obviously didn't expect me to say this, and was a little at a loss for a while, "But this is President Qin's order......
"Mr. Qin, Mr. Qin, are you a repeater?" I touched an item in the back seat and picked it up and smacked it towards him, "Do you have to listen to his orders?"
"Are you his dog, you just go around him, don't you have your own thoughts?"
I knew I shouldn't take my anger out on him, but I couldn't control it.
Chen Ranfeng looked at me, and a trace of blood slowly flowed from the corner of his forehead.
But he didn't realize it himself, but looked at me stubbornly, "Miss Chen, you have to go back to Qingxi today." β
"What if I say no. I sat firmly in the car, "I just won't go back to Qingxi today, what can you do with me?"