Chapter 42: Weak family affection
After dinner, Lu Xifei and Qiao Yixia took a walk in the garden, Lu Xifei's posture was extremely slender, with a straight back and a reserved pace, no matter how you look at it, she looks like a lady in ancient times, in fact, she is indeed so. As for Qiao Yixia, just for a meal, she seemed to have some sympathy for Lu Xifei, she could strongly perceive that the relationship between Lu Xifei and her family was not so harmonious, Lu Xifei didn't like the daughter of her stepmother who was connected to her blood, but she still tolerated her, and tolerated this cold, impersonal family.
Until he reached the side of an evergreen old locust tree, Luci reached out and stroked the trunk, the dark color of the trunk contrasting sharply with her white hand.
"Once upon a time, there was a swing here." Luci's long hair was lifted by the wind, and he said lightly, "I haven't been back for too long." â
At that time, Qiao Yixia could deeply feel the unhappiness from the depths of Lu Xifei's heart. She had no intention of probing Lu Xifei*, but she still wanted to give her the warmest encouragement: "Cangcang, do you know that you are a person who is difficult to see through, and maybe even you don't know yourself so well. I think you must have a lot of unhappiness hidden in your heart. I didn't have any friends before I met you, and chasing you is not a joke, but I want you to know that I would love to give you happiness and make you less lonely, or rather, to make me less lonely. â
Lu Xifei's hand slowly put down, and she regained her indescribable cold appearance, but the more this happened, the more it made Qiao Yixia's heart sad. Or, in Luci Fei's body, she saw too much of her own shadow.
"I have received your love." Luci put his hand in his pocket, and looked at the old locust tree standing with a pair of aura eyes, "Work hard when you go home, I don't want me to mention my only friend in ten years, she is still a mediocre person who has achieved nothing." â
"Firmament." Qiao Yixia looked at her and unconsciously softened her tone, "Actually, you don't want me to go." â
As always, Qiao Yixia's self-confidence belongs, even in front of Lu Xifei, she still judged her psychology in the form of a declarative sentence. Lucy didn't want her to go, she sure was.
Lucy snorted coldly, but was a little helpless: "Things in this world will never change in any way because of people's subjective opinions. "It's like no matter how much people want to see the sun rise in the west and set in the east, they can only fantasize about it.
"Yes." Qiao Yixia said categorically, "Yes, as long as you speak." â
In a trance, Qiao Yixia felt that Lu Xifei seemed to have lost her mind for a moment, and when she came back to her senses again, she had selectively ignored Qiao Yixia's words. He only said, "Let's go, I'll take you around the city." â
When he said goodbye to Lu's father, the expression on his face was very calm, and there was not much reluctance, but the noble lady looked reluctant to Luxi Fei, and told her to go home often, and Helan Qiubai, as gentle and quiet as ever, said to Luxi Fei that his relatives were close to him.
It wasn't until Meng Qianqian came downstairs in her light green princess pajamas with a ponytail tied to say goodbye to Lu Xifei, that Lu Xifei's calm face instantly changed color.
Her eyes sank, her eyes were full of anger, and there was a very obvious anger, which made people feel cold in her bones, she glanced back at the servants, and said coldly: "Who let her into my room at will." â
A young girl shuddered, and then her eyes kept rolling, and Luci walked up to her and said coldly, "You are very bold. â
The girl's name was Ah Xia, and she was frightened by Lu Xifei, and she didn't dare to raise her head: "Miss, Second Miss, she must go in, I really don't ......"
"I think I have to make you realize who is the real owner of this house." Lu Xifei raised his voice abruptly, looked at her with a frown, and made a decision that could not be ignored, "Pack up your things and get out of the Lu family." â
Ah Xia just wanted to refute, but was pulled by the arm of the older aunt next to her, signaling her not to continue, the girl wiped the tears on her face, covered her face and ran out of the hall.
No one spoke in the hall on the first floor, and I saw Lu Xifei approaching Meng Qianqian step by step with a murderous aura, Meng Qianqian was so frightened that her hand shook and almost spilled the water in the cup.
"Put the cup down."
Meng Qianqian felt that Lu Xifei was a little terrible at the moment, but she was spoiled since she was a child, let alone beaten and scolded, her family didn't even speak loudly to her, and now that Lu Xifei treated her like this, she was even more disdainful, her heart was aggrieved, and she pouted and said, "I don't!" â
Seeing this, Helan Qiubai also stepped forward to hold Meng Qianqian's shoulders and coax her, telling her not to make Lu Xifei angry, a fifteen-year-old girl, where does she know what is wrong and what is wrong, she was persuaded like this, and her heart was even more aggrieved, and tears burst out of her eyes: "It's just a cup, what's the big deal, why does she want to yell at me like this." â
"Meng Qianqian, I'll give you five seconds, put it down." Lu Xifei said word by word.
"One."
"Two."
"Three."
Qiao Yixia trotted to Lu Xifei's side in a panic, put her arm around her shoulders and asked her if she had been smashed. She looked at Lu Xifei's depressed expression when she looked at the debris on the floor, and then looked at the girl with rudeness and willfulness written on her face, Qiao Yixia, who had always had a good cultivation, also had the idea of teaching her a hard lesson.
Fortunately, she wore thick clothes this winter, otherwise the hot water in the cup would have spilled on Luci's body, and she would have been in pain.
witnessed her daughter brutally smashing the cup on her stepdaughter, and the noble lady ran to Meng Qianqian's side to pull her away and blamed her for a few words, while Father Lu stood in place, wanting to say something, but in the end he just shook his head.
Qiao Yixia is the only outsider, but she can see it most clearly, in this family, no one treats Lu Xiqian sincerely, and the noble lady blames her daughter, but she is afraid that Lu Xifei will hurt Meng Qianqian, so she takes the lead.
Helan Qiubai looked at Lu Xi's wet coat and said, "Xifei, go upstairs and change your clothes, there are many newly purchased clothes in your closet." â
Lu Xifei ignored her, and walked straight to the noble lady, who looked a little panicked, but still smiled at Lu Xifei, telling her not to be angry, and to buy a better cup for her another day, and never let her daughter enter her house casually.
"Ms. Du, objectively speaking, you are no different from Ah Xiaben, you, and your husband, are just borrowing from my Lu family. If Ms. Du can't check her own behavior and misdiscipline her daughter, then I have no choice but to give an eviction order. Lu Xifei looked at her eyes coldly, as if ten thousand arrows pierced Du Ling's heart, overwhelming her.
Du Ling didn't speak, but Lu Xifei's father finally spoke: "Xifei." Father Lu took a deep breath, his expression looked a little like crying, "I beg you, don't say a word." â
Qiao Yixia noticed that Lu Xifei clenched her fist, and then turned around and went straight to the other direction, and when she came back, there was an iron box in her hand, she squatted in front of the piece of debris, picking up the ceramic fragments on the ground with her hands, Qiao Yixia also walked over when she saw this, and accompanied her to pick it up, for fear that she would cut Lu Xifei's hand.
- "Brother, you are really ingenious, you can pinch the cup so decently for the first time." She was only eleven years old that year, and Lu Shuye gave her a ceramic cup on her birthday, engraved with a girl with long hair, and a flat-headed boy, and he told her that the cup represents a lifetime, and he hopes to be by her side forever, to be her best brother, and to love her for a lifetime.
- "Actually, my brother is clumsy. "No one can do a good job the first time, even if this person is Lu Shuye, he wants to give the most perfect gift to his sister, if it's not good once, then do it again, there will always be a time when it is flawless. As long as you can see her happy, it's all worth it.
When she left here, she took all the cherished things with her, but she deliberately did not take the cup away, because she knew that her brother and mother were still here, and she could not take all the good memories with her, only in this way could her mother and brother feel that they had traces of zĂ i and know that they would always be with them.
But now, Lucy looks at the fragments, as if her last trace of attachment to this "home" has also been shattered.
After the two got up, Qiao Yixia took the initiative to hold her hand and interlocked her fingers, wanting to give her all her strength. Luci looked at her, shook her hand as well, and said, "Let's go." â
After leaving the Lu family, Qiao Yixia looked at Lu Xifei with a breezy face, and felt that she was so distressing. The more she tried to hide her frustration, the more resonant it became. It is not so much that Lucy was able to come out so peacefully, and not get angry at the girl, or continue to argue with the noble lady because of her good cultivation, but rather that it was the last shred of respect she had for her father and their father-daughter relationship.
"Where do you want to go?" Luci held the iron box in his left hand and asked her.
Qiao Yixia looked at her still wet woolen coat, hooked her lips and said, "Come with me to buy a few clothes." â
There are a lot of clothes in the mall, but for the two people who don't often visit the mall, they are a little unfamiliar. After a while, Qiao Yixia pointed to the long white mink coat in the counter and asked Lu Xifei if she thought it looked good, and Lu Xifei nodded.
Qiao Yixia asked the salesperson to bring the appropriate size of clothes over, and after Qiao Yixia took it, she handed it to Lu Xifei, who looked at her with some surprise, Qiao Yixia only said, "Go and try it." â