Chapter 31 I just want you to accompany me

Although Qiao Qiao refused to agree to anything, only said that she was really busy with work, Lu Ze no longer forced her, and when Qiao Qiao finished eating and it was not too early, he drove her to work.

Although it was pouring rain outside the office building, it didn't affect the busyness of work in the office building, and Qiao Qiao didn't take a breath until lunch. Because the securities department is nominally a newly established department after the venture capital came in, and the current employees are all recruited by Li Jinzhou and Qiao Qiao just after the interview, so the department often goes out to eat together at noon.

The atmosphere of the lunch chat was relatively relaxed, and someone happened to talk about the topic of wanting to buy a car, and a male colleague who had just come in couldn't help but ask Qiaoqiao: "Deputy Director Qiao, how much did your boyfriend buy the George Patton SUV that he drove in the morning?" This car is so rare on the domestic road, I saw it once at the auto show, and I paid attention to it for a long time this morning, this car is so beautiful. ”

Hearing this, Li Jinzhou glanced at Qiao Qiao and didn't speak.

Several other female colleagues' eyes lit up when they heard the gossip, and Deputy Director Qiao was unmarried, and they all knew it, but they didn't hear that she had a boyfriend?

Qiao Qiao shook her head calmly and said, "Today I am restricted and it rains heavily, and a friend drops me off." I don't know how much he bought it. ”

Well, Qiao Qiao denied it, they are not easy to ask as subordinates, it is a female colleague who wants to buy a car, by the way, he changed the topic and asked the male colleague who spoke at the beginning: "Is the car beautiful?" What is the approximate price? ”

The male colleague searched for the picture with an envious look and showed it to her, but the female colleague was immediately speechless, can this be called beautiful? The appearance is rough and heroic, and the sturdy body shape is similar to that of a military armored vehicle. Should this be described by the word pretty? And the low-profile ones cost nearly three million, let alone the high-profile ones, she couldn't afford them at all.

The male colleague who is addicted to cars is talking to her endlessly about how the car is crash-resistant, the safety factor is super high, and even bulletproof oxygen supply equipment and anti-biological and chemical gas systems.

In this voice like a background explanation, Li Jinzhou leaned back and asked Qiao Qiao on the right hand side at a volume that could only be heard between the two: "The car that went to Spain with your friend?" "It is said that the car driven by a man reflects his character, but the car driven by Lu Ze is unexpected, but it can roughly show the financial resources. looks good and has no shortage of financial resources, but it is a strong competitor. And sure enough, it wasn't that he didn't stand guard, but he happened not to meet it.

"Well, the rain is too heavy and the traffic is restricted, and he just happened to drop by." Jojo explained it again and again.

Hearing Qiao Qiao's hum, Li Jinzhou smiled, thinking that it was really Lu Ze, and said: "Why bother friends, I'll just take you over when the traffic is restricted in the future, so as to save people a trip." ”

"No, no, it's just raining too much today." The boss's suggestion, Qiao Qiao also refused. It's not that he thinks Li Jinzhou is courting her and refuses to chase her, but that Li Jinzhou must be just polite in this context.

Li Jinzhou did not force it, after a meeting in the afternoon, he called Qiao Qiao to go in, and said: "The securities department is almost recruited, I took over the work related to bank credit from their original finance department, and now the company's overseas business development momentum is very strong, I have made an appointment with a few banks to talk about cross-border two-way RMB cash pool business, Chinese and foreign joint-stock systems have, we have to eat with them one by one in the recent evening, each of the capital costs and specific plans must be considered, and this matter will be handed over to you to take the lead in the future." ”

Qiao Qiao nodded and took the relevant information. Then, under the predictable scenario of Li Jinzhou, she was even busier. He wants to drink in business, and Li Jinzhou didn't drive himself, but the company had a driver, so he asked the driver to pick up Qiaoqiao to work every day, and then let the driver send Qiaoqiao home at the end of the night, covering all the time from work to getting off work. And with a driver sent by the company to pick up and drop off, instead of him driving the pick-up himself, Jojo would not be so wary of refusing.

In this way, Qiao Qiao couldn't accept Lu Ze's invitation, and he didn't even have a reason to restrict his driving and not drive a car, let alone pick up and drop off his work.

In addition, Qiao Qiao refused to let Lu Ze deliver breakfast every day, she was busy for nearly half a month, and the two of them didn't see each other.

When Qiaoqiao was busy and took a breath and the matter was a little less urgent, she was finally moved by Lu Ze's message. Lu Ze asked Qiaoqiao, if he was really so busy, couldn't he come out for half a day on his birthday?

Jojo hesitated, hesitated, hesitated when he saw the message, and then replied to him, "Which day?" ”

I got a message back in seconds: "Today." ”

Today is Saturday and there are not many things that are too urgent, and the weekend is not a working day in the first place, so it's a big deal to add a little more tomorrow and Sunday, and Jojo agreed. was thinking about what birthday gift to buy, Lu Ze's phone called directly, and Qiao Qiao closed the office door to answer the phone.

"Qiaoqiao, I'm downstairs in your company."

Qiao Qiao is helpless, this guy knows that as soon as this reason comes out, she will definitely be soft-hearted and agree, right!

She admits that she attaches great importance to birthdays, because since everyone has been busy after graduating from college, she often celebrates her birthday by herself, and in fact, she doesn't celebrate birthdays much, just receiving a few blessing messages and text messages, and then going to a big dinner by herself in the evening. If you happen to be too busy and have to work overtime, that's fine.

But just now she thought that Lu Ze had probably celebrated his birthday alone all these years, so she relented.

So she held her mobile phone and blessed seriously: "Lu Ze, happy birthday." ”

Lu Ze was silent for a while, and replied in a low voice: "Thank you, I'll wait for you downstairs." ”

When Qiaoqiao came downstairs, she found Lu Ze's car at a glance, she pulled the car door and got into the car, and apologized while fastening her seat belt: "I'm sorry, I just found out about the time is too tight, so I didn't buy you a birthday gift, can I buy you a gift when I go shopping for a while?" Then buy a cake, well, and then I'll treat you to dinner. ”

Lu Ze, who hadn't seen Qiaoqiao for many days, kept following her every move, and responded, "No need." You don't have to buy anything, just play a ball and have a meal, and you don't have a treat. ”

Jojo buckled his seatbelt and said, "You're welcome, you have a gift for your birthday." ”

Lu Ze smiled back at her: "Then you pick out clothes for me?" You don't need to buy it, just help me refer to it. ”

Picking out clothes for others is a very intimate thing in itself, Qiao Qiao remembered the scene when he accompanied Lu Ze to buy clothes last time, and then looked at the two buttons of his shirt today, and the Adam's apple and collarbone could be faintly seen, as well as the appearance of the cuffs rolled up to the elbows, Qiao Qiao shook his head resolutely, resisting the temptation of beauty: "Then let's buy you a cake." ”

Lu Ze asked Qiaoqiao: "Do you like cakes?" Jojo shook her head.

Lu Ze drove and said, "Then you don't need a cake, you can accompany me out as a gift." Qiao Qiao quieted down, feeling that he might not have heard his love words attack for a long time, and his immunity was a little low for a while. As long as he is accompanied, he feels that it is a birthday gift, and he is a little soft-hearted.

In fact, Qiao Qiao was wrong, Lu Ze just wanted her to accompany her.

When the car stopped at the door of a squash court, Qiao Qiao held his forehead, "You really like squash ball, you play, I see you play." ”

Lu Ze responded to her with a smile: "No, there are badminton and tennis balls attached here, and I will take you to play badminton." He had already seen Qiaoqiao's incompetence in ball games, but he inexplicably missed the past when he was a ball feeder for her. It's a pity that just that time, I haven't made a successful appointment since then, and today I have a rare opportunity to revisit it.

This is probably the place where Lu Ze often comes, he is familiar with the way, and even the equipment is stored here.

The scene when playing seems to be a copy of the day when he was on the beach in the past, except that Lu Ze is playing in a white shirt because of Qiaoqiao's preferences, and occasionally the range of movements is too large, and when he raises his hand to hook the ball, the exposed waistline attracts attention very much, mainly attracting Qiaoqiao's attention. The occasionally vaguely exposed mermaid line and abdominal muscle line swayed and swayed, which always made Qiao Qiao feel as if she was reminding her of the days when she was seduced by Lu Ze with delicious food and love words.

Although today is Saturday, because I am also going to the company, Qiaoqiao is still dressed more formally. But fortunately, she only had to stand there to catch the ball that Lu Ze gently tossed, no matter where she shot randomly, in short, as long as she could cross the net, Lu Ze could save her, and then gently and accurately send the ball to her racket.

Even if her ball didn't cross the net and fell to the ground, Lu Ze came over to help her pick up the ball, and the muscle lines in her back tensed under her shirt when she bent down to pick up the ball. Qiao Qiao felt that Lu Ze probably didn't ask him to come to play, and he was probably deliberately teasing her. But didn't you already know that...... But I still agreed to come out......

The two of them fought for about half an hour, and a group of young people who had just entered passed by their venue, and suddenly a young girl turned around and shouted excitedly: "Senior Brother Lu Ze!" ”

A group of young people all turned around, "Lu Ze? Damn, no, it's really you! I said you parked your car outside, and they said you just left your car here. "I asked him to play basketball before he came out, and he said he didn't have time! I just said he was just in the car! Damn, I knew that there were enough people to play 3v3! "I mean, the back is familiar, but from such a formal style of dressing to such a soft style of play, I don't dare to recognize it!" "That's called playing? Damn, you call that balling? That's hydrangea throwing! Lu Ze, your painting style has changed! ”

In the end, the young man who teased the hydrangea threw the hydrangea squeezed his eyebrows at Qiao Qiao on the other side of the field, and asked Lu Ze without deliberately lowering his voice: "Sister-in-law?" ”

Qiao Qiao heard it, and when she walked over from the opposite side of the venue, Lu Ze hadn't explained to the other party, so she spoke: "Ordinary friends." ”

Lu Ze didn't deny it, he should do whatever Qiao Qiao said, he just pointed to this big group of people and introduced it to her, just two words: "roommate." ”

"Damn, did you introduce that! You haven't stayed in a bedroom for a day! Besides, are we all your roommates? Then there are two girls! Another one is a sister-in-law! ”

The other party and Qiao Qiao got to know each other one by one, five men, three Lu Ze's undergraduate friends, one graduate student roommate, and one doctoral student roommate. They said that Lu Ze had not lived in the dormitory for a day, but the bed fee had been paid, but the empty bed was for them to throw away and use as they pleased, so it was not wrong to call a roommate. The two women, the younger one who called Senior Brother Lu Ze was the younger sister, and the older one was her sister, who was matched into the wife of one of the undergraduate friends.

The young man who loves to ridicule is called Zhang Bo, and he is the youngest one, so he often shouts from his sister-in-law and sister-in-law. However, they are all in the same class, and they are said to be older and younger, but they are only about a year apart. He obviously didn't believe that Qiao Qiao was an ordinary friend, so he sighed and said to Lu Ze: "If you didn't refuse to come out today, we would have gone to play three-on-three basketball, and we wouldn't have come over to play badminton." ”

Lu Ze didn't reply, the junior sister who called him "Senior Brother Lu Ze" was called Chen Ting, raised her head and asked him: "Senior brother, it's been almost a year since you graduated with a doctorate, what a waste of majors to open a squash court like this, I'll go back and tell the tutor if it's okay, there must be a chance to stay in school, there must be a job." ”

Lu Ze still didn't answer, Qiao Qiao looked sideways when he heard this, this squash court is Lu Ze's? However, these classmates don't seem to know that Lu Ze still has a company under his name, but it's not unusual for her to not know that Lu Ze also has a squash court and doesn't know his student days. There are many sides to people, and they don't all have to be explained.

Qiao Qiao thought about it, in fact, she was only familiar with Lu Ze in front of her with a different painting style, and Lu Ze in front of her maternal relatives, and she didn't know much about other aspects of him. Of course, she has been hiding, and she has not thought of taking the initiative to understand.

Because Lu Ze ignored people, it was a little embarrassing for the little junior sister's kindness to be ignored, so she was a little in tears, her sister looked at Qiao Qiao, and took her sister's hand to comfort her. Qiao Qiao thought that this little junior sister probably liked Lu Ze, but it was not strange at all, the senior brother who was good-looking, athletic, and rich should be quite popular.

Lu Ze pointed to the venue they had booked, and motioned them to play badminton by themselves, and finally asked Qiao Qiao out once, not wanting to waste time at all. However, Qiao Qiao quit and was unwilling to play "tossing ball" in front of so many Lu Ze's acquaintances. She gave up the venue, saying that she was tired and went to take a break and let them play on their own.

Qiao Qiao sat on the rest bench against the wall and drank water to watch Lu Ze and Zhang Bo play singles, recalling the first time he saw Lu Ze playing squash for the first time, full of violent and savage power, the style of smashing is full of explosive power, badminton is actually the fastest ball game, the hitting sound is fierce, and the ball speed seems to be able to bring the sound of the wind.

The badminton that I played with Jojo for half an hour was intact, but it was scrapped in less than ten minutes and replaced with a new ball. Qiao Qiao, who replaced the waste ball, played with it in his hand, and several feathers were violently smashed and exploded, and Shun couldn't go back.

Half an hour later, Zhang Bo got off the field, panting and sitting next to Qiao Qiao to rest and fill the water, and changed someone to go up to fight with Lu Ze.

Zhang Bo gasped and asked Qiao Qiao with a smile: "Are you really an ordinary friend?" Jojo nodded, of course.

"Okay." Zhang Bo put the empty bottle on the ground, opened another bottle of mineral water and continued to drink, and said: "Then he must be chasing you, the little junior sister is about to fall out of love, but originally she is no different from falling out of love." ”

Qiao Qiao was silent, of course she knew that Lu Ze was chasing her, but she wouldn't admit it everywhere.

Zhang Bo raised his eyebrows and smiled, "Aren't you curious how I know?" ”

Jojo was not curious and explained repeatedly: "Ordinary friends. ”

"Hey, just like that, it feels like Lin Dan is patiently and carefully lowering his level to adapt to the level of a kindergarten girl and feeding badminton, do you understand? You know at a glance that he likes you, but it's rare, I've never seen him like this. Eighteen years old to now, ten years ago. Zhang Bo didn't care that Qiaoqiao kept repeating the words ordinary friends, and asked himself how he found out.

"But did you come here on the spur of the moment? You are also dressed very formally, and why is Lu Ze still wearing a shirt, it is rare to see him wearing a shirt, and he is exercising so vigorously that the buttons are about to collapse. Zhang Bo was strange.

Qiao Qiao rested her chin on the water bottle, looking at Lu Ze's sweat-soaked white shirt facing her, the waist and abdominal muscles exposed when she jumped, the arm lines when smashing the ball, and the buttons that were about to be violently smashed and collapsed as Zhang Bo said, and thought to herself, it was not improvised, probably he did it on purpose......

"He didn't live in a dormitory when he was in college, and he didn't go to work after graduating with a bachelor's and master's degree, so he opened a squash court, and he didn't participate in any student activities and entertainment activities. But as long as we make an appointment for sports, he will be there when he is available, no matter what kind of sports. I couldn't make an appointment today, but I found you here, hehe. Zhang Bo continued to ridicule, Lu Ze has always not talked much about his own affairs, he doesn't live in the dormitory, he doesn't participate in any group activities except for various sports, and there are many little girls who like him when he is in school, but none of them succeed, even the little junior sister who has insisted on it for several years can't talk, so Zhang Bo is really curious about Qiaoqiao.

Jojo doesn't want to explain the words ordinary friend anymore. Chen Ting and her sister, who happened to play the women's singles for a while, also sat down, Qiao Qiao felt that it was no good thing, and wanted to get out of the way for them to sit and go to the other side by herself, but was stopped by Chen Ting. Chen Ting's sister also asked Zhang Bo to play ball with her for a while, leaving space for the two of them to chat.

Qiao Qiao thought that it was really no good, and then Chen Ting opened her mouth to chat with her and asked her how she knew Lu Ze. Qiao Qiao felt that she was not obliged to give her the facts, and replied vaguely: "I met by chance." ”

"Then do you like Senior Brother Lu Ze?" Chen Ting is very direct, everyone can see it, and she is not stupid. She saw Lu Ze fall in love at first sight when she was in school, and she liked Lu Ze for many years, and she chased her sister to become the wife of their dormitory master, and she was still standing still. But if it's cold, it's cold, if you don't pay attention to people, you won't ignore people, anyway, Lu Ze has an attitude towards everyone.

But just now I saw that Lu Ze was not a painting style for Qiao Qiao, and she couldn't deceive herself.

Qiao Qiao insisted: "Ordinary friends." "Neither answer like nor answer no.

"Then why did you agree to hang out with him?" Chen Ting didn't listen to perfunctory.

"Because it's an ordinary friend." Qiao Qiao was unmoved, whether she agreed to Lu Ze or not had nothing to do with the little girl chasing Lu Ze.

Although Turtle Shell Qiao is a turtle shell to Lu Ze, he is also a turtle shell to outsiders, which completely makes Chen Ting unable to find an entry point for conversation. But Chen Ting only had time to ask a few words, and Lu Ze saw her go to talk to Qiaoqiao, so he left the scene directly. Lu Ze is not stupid, of course he knows that Chen Ting has been chasing him, but just like Gao Mingxuan, who chased him at the beginning, he didn't care at all, he felt that Chen Ting, who fell in love with him at first sight, had simply insisted on it for so many years.

"Let's go, let's go eat." Lu Ze's hair was full of sweat dripping down, constantly crossing the side of his face and neck, he wiped the sweat, but it didn't work at all, the whole shirt was soaked and stuck to his body, the shoulder and back muscles, waist and abdomen lines, the whole was exposed.

"You go take a shower and change your clothes before you go, didn't you drive it here, you don't have spare clothes here?" Jojo was afraid that he would catch a cold, but also because he couldn't leave because he looked at the time. When Lu Ze first came here to get the equipment, she secretly ordered an urgent birthday cake for people to send over, but it hadn't been delivered yet.

Of course, there are clothes, and even for a long time, almost for several years, Lu Ze has made this place his home at all, and there is everything here. But he replied with no change in his face: "No." The car is outside, so I won't catch a cold, so I'll just go home and change my clothes and cook by the way. ”

Although Lu Ze didn't say it directly, Qiao Qiao understood, did he arrange the birthday dinner directly at his house?