Chapter 34: Emotion
The light shone in through the window from the outside, and was imprinted on the back of the person in front of him, as if the halo of light had merged with his whole person. The wind slowly brushed the ends of the hair, bringing up the scatters, floating in the air, gently floating back and forth on the deep facial features, there was a kind of thrilling sexiness.
Zhuo Feng has not seen his love leak like this for many years.
Looking at the photo in his hand, although he did not show a trace of gloomy, such a person, sitting on the white and dusty sofa, suddenly seemed to be the pure white and flawless true to the white as far as the eye could see, only the eyes with ink like an abyss were exciting.
Although they have been friends for many years, every time they see Zimo, they are a little stunned by his appearance.
Zhuo Feng took two steps and finally saw the photo in his hand clearly, and a strange deep thought flashed in his eyes.
"You.... Seems to care a little about Leng Yunxi? Zhuo Feng narrowed his eyes and carefully examined Qiao Zimo's demeanor as he sat opposite his sofa.
Looking back, apart from the company of those three months in Europe, Leng Yunxi and Zimo did not have much intersection. Even, vaguely, there seems to be a tacit boundary between them. No one will take it lightly. Take the three of them getting along on weekdays, as long as he is present, Leng Yunxi will almost never take the initiative to talk to Zimo.
It's awkward, but it's not like it.
It seems that from the very beginning, the two got along lightly, without a little spark.
This is also why, when he saw Qiao Zimo's eyes revealing such a hidden but vaguely treacherous look, he would be shocked.
For so many years, except for official business, he has never seen Qiao Zi Mo Ken spend a single bit of thought on anything.
The person across from him glanced at him slowly.
Zhuo Feng didn't know why he suddenly felt a stiffness behind him, and the inquiring expression on his face was a little deformed. "If you don't want to say it, forget it."
It's not shocking.
This person had never shown such a Ling Ran momentum to him in his eight lives, so that he suddenly felt a sense of danger that someone was hanging around his neck.
The white sofa is soft and delicate, sitting on it like a ball of cotton wool, but behind Qiao Zimo is like the prosperous brocade in the sky, which makes the green blossom between his eyebrows more and more outstanding.
Even those eyes, which are as deep as ocean waves, are like tourmalines, exuding a suffocating luster.
"Don't you think she's special?"
Just when Zhuo Feng gave up asking, Qiao Zimo opened his mouth unprecedentedly.
Zhuo Feng was stunned for a moment, almost suspecting that he had a broken ear.
In his lifetime, he could hear Qiao Zimo use the word "special" to describe a person.
In his memory, this person can look at others more, and it can be regarded as a "VIP" preferential treatment.
"The appearance is really good, and the identity is okay. However, in City B, you and I have seen a different color, and there is definitely one better than Leng Yunxi. "Although Leng Yunxi's aura is never here for ordinary people, in terms of appearance and background, it is not blessed. At the very least, with his fingers, he can count more than five. This is all domestic, not to mention the princesses of various royal families in the world.
Qiao Zimo's vision has always impressed him beyond words, coupled with his appearance, to be honest, he has doubted countless times how many best people are throwing their arms at this person behind his back.
"It's not these." Qiao Zimo turned his head slightly, letting the sun shine on half of his face, at that moment, people only felt that he was not shrouded in this soft light, but that this man was manipulating the light.
Whatever he wanted, the light changed to his liking.
Otherwise, how can there be a person who is dazzling everywhere and extreme everywhere!
He lowered his eyes slightly, the pupil was just half covered, and looked at the center, bringing out a twist of magic.
Zhuo Feng's palms trembled, and he almost stared out of his eyes.
Qiao Zimo didn't seem to notice his best friend's shocked expression, but fell into a kind of blurred memory slightly, supported his jaw, and said slowly: "The first time I saw her, I was actually earlier than you. Old Man Leng's chess skills were originally a little famous in the circle. He has a strong temper and is upright, and I didn't go to see him for anything at work, but because he had something to ask for, he bought face, and he should repay his friendship back then. ”
Hearing Qiao Zimo suddenly mention "back then", Zhuo Feng's face suddenly regained its calmness, and with a kind of innate coldness, he quietly regained his senses.
Back then, when this word came out of Qiao Zimo's mouth, no matter who heard it, there would be a terrifying and cold feeling. It was too mysterious in the past, and even he still doesn't know what happened at the beginning.
It was his father, the most high-profile person in the country, who had also specially advised him not to talk to Qiao Zimo about the past.
But, he didn't expect that it was Zimo who was the first to mention the past.
It's just that this topic is just passing by.
"Old Man Leng received a blood inkstone at his birthday banquet, which spread quickly in City B. Speaking of which, that thing is valuable, but it is far from being top-notch. The main trouble is that the original owner of the blood inkstone. Qiao Zimo suddenly smiled at Zhuo Feng: "The owner of 'Gu Yuxuan' is quite open-minded, and for the sake of an old tree, he will give up his entire net worth. It's a pity that the affairs of that old street are not enough to rely on a cold family. ”
Words, speaking of which, that's enough.
Zhuo Feng's mind had already recovered at this moment, and it was clear at one point. No matter what kind of friendship Qiao Zimo and Old Man Leng had, at the beginning, the renovation of the old street was silently suppressed, and there was definitely a shadow of Zimo.
It's just that he didn't expect that this would be the opportunity for Zimo and Leng Yunxi to meet.
"The Leng family's tradition of preferring women over men seems to be no different from the legends in the outside world. The old man definitely thinks more about Leng Yunxi than the only grandson of the Leng family. In that night talk, he and Old Man Leng sat in the deep ancient house, holding a word in their hands, and their minds were calm, but they saw her coming gracefully, gracefully. The eyes are full of light and fragrance.
At that moment, he seemed to smell a faint fragrance, so much so that he could sense it a long time later, as soon as she approached.
"But then we met when she was studying abroad, and you looked like she was a stranger." Zhuo Feng was a little puzzled, obviously he was a person he had met, why when he introduced the two of them to each other that time, the appearance of the two of them was no different from the first time they met.
It hurt him to speak in vain.
Qiao Zimo only glanced at him, and like that, it seemed that the explanation had lowered his level.
"Have you really figured it out?" Zhuo Feng was still a little unsure.
What kind of person can play lightly, what kind of person must be cautious and cautious, he doesn't want Zimo's decision to be endless.
"Aren't you curious, how did Leng Yunxi do it?" He didn't seem too lazy to answer his words, and turned to another topic.
Zhuo Feng was stunned for a moment, these words, there was no beginning or end, he was a little incomprehensible, Qiao Zimo was referring to .......
"She has the momentum of the cold family, she will fall down, and she will 'assist in the investigation' when she says that she is 'assisted in the investigation'. It stands to reason that if she was looking for Grantham to testify, she didn't need to go far at all, she could have stayed in City B, why did she have to follow us to Europe? Why did she have to wait three months? ”
As soon as he spoke. The details that have been ignored by Zhuo Feng have gradually surfaced.
The three months of coldness and indifference, demeanor and elegance gradually rushed out of his mind, and something was automatically omitted by him, but he still couldn't figure out his thoughts now.
Qiao Zimo glanced at him and continued: "Why did the Zhan family receive the 'transfer order' when she held a charity dinner and her reputation entered the UK? ”
Zhuo Feng shuddered, and there was an unspoken impulse that suddenly made him stand up suddenly: "You mean, she, has already planned a qiē?" ”
Qiao Zimo smiled faintly.
Coincidental? How can it be.
If there is a coincidence in this world, it is probably inseparable from luck. But there are a few things in the world that can be swayed by luck, and most of them are the result of extremely fine control and manipulation.
Why three months?
He also speculated for a long time, and it was not until he returned to City B that he remembered that crucial section.
Regardless of whether the name of "assisting in the investigation" is true or not, that organ does things and goes from the procedural point of view, and three months is the final bottom line.
She, from the very beginning, pressed this bottom line and planned this qiē.
The opportunities of the Zhan family are not bad, if it were not for the support of Qiao Lao, it would be impossible for them to reach their current position in City B. But it was precisely because of Qiao Lao that they chose the wrong step, and they took the wrong step.
He smiled, and a sight flashed in his eyes.
When she was in the Vatican, she stood in "The Last Judgment", her eyes were as calm as water, like a cloud plucked from the sky, kneaded into water little by little, and slowly poured into the dark and quiet eyes, ethereal and quiet.
At that moment, he vaguely guessed something. It wasn't until the Leng family's final turnaround that he clearly saw what kind of absolute control power this woman was holding in her hands?
She can endure it, and endure the pain of heart-burning that no one can bear.
It can also be cold, cold-eyed, and the wind is light.
Once shot, the thunder is unpredictable, the killing is decisive, the strategy is exhausted, and the water is not leaking!
It's really a good scheming, a good skill, a good calculation!
The sunlight outside the window seemed to dim because of the smile on his lips, and the slight breeze had stopped at some point.
Zhuo Feng looked at his unfathomable smile, shook his head and sighed, and by the way, he took the extremely clear photo from his hand.
The two people in the photo are obviously at a drinking party, and there is a prosperous place behind them, full of gorgeousness, but they don't seem to be able to enter their eyes at all. When I touched my eyes, there seemed to be something warm in my eyes.
Even after a long time in love, looking at the plausible appearance of these two people, even Zhuo Feng couldn't figure out what their relationship was.
More than three months ago, that night, the Count had walked slowly from the river, and had this smell with him when he entered the dining room.
Not radical, not enthusiastic, but there is a sense of peace that people can't ignore.
To be honest, if it's an ordinary person, forget it, this earl is not a person to think about.
Although he seems to be polite and has outstanding etiquette, in fact, he is definitely a cold person.
If you don't believe it, we'll see.
He was still sighing here, Qiao Zimo didn't move, and when he moved, the object of interest turned out to be such a troublesome character, who knew that the other party's cool eyes flashed away from him at this moment, and then, put on his coat and turned away.
Zhuo Feng was shocked: "Where are you going?" Tomorrow it's time to go home. "On this visit to the United States, I finally only had two days off, why did he just leave?
Someone, who had disappeared into the hallway, waved his hand: "Go find someone." ”
Zhuo Feng covered his face with his right hand, and he couldn't say anything.
This, this, shouldn't this be true because of a photo, he Qiao Zimo is actually going to the UK like this.
It was only a quarter of an hour before and after the conversation between the two, but Leng Yunxi's side had already tossed and turned because of the sky-high price at the auction, and the entire jewelry brand was noisy again, and even her other jewelry brand "Gu Yuxuan" had many customers who began to inquire about reservations.
Even though the security measures of the hotel where he stayed were extremely good, Leng Yunxi was a little uneasy by the enthusiasm that swarmed him. Plus, after the dinner that night, Christina's stalking, for Grantham's sake, didn't do anything to her. Who knows if this person doesn't know if he can't look at his face or is really carried away by fame and fortune, he moved to the hotel where she lived the next day, and ran to the door of her room early in the morning to wait for her to get up. Acting like a conscientious and good employee under the boss, he followed the trend step by step, and carefully reported the recent developments of the Hong Kong company.
To tell the truth, whether it is her identity as Mr. Zhang's "girlfriend" or her biological father Qiao Lao, none of them are for her to see, even Christina once seduced her when the Leng family had not turned over, but anyone with a normal brain, now seeing the fate of Zhan Wenlan and the Zhan family, can't wait to leave her at the end of the world, but move forward without fear of death, this is really rare.
Yunxi drank coffee, put Christina in the living room, entered the dressing room alone, changed clothes and came out, and happened to see Grantham also sitting in the living room, obviously just arrived.
Christina was sitting five meters away from Grantham, and it seemed that she was a little detached at all.
This scene is far from the appearance of the two of them attending the dinner together that night.
Yunxi looked at Grantham with bad intentions and smiled, and the other party replied to her with a helpless expression.
"Since Miss Leng has an appointment with the Earl today, I won't bother, it just so happens that there is another show today, and now it's time to go and prepare." Christina smiled, her expression unnatural for a moment, then quickly disguised herself, bowed slightly to the two of them, turned and left.
"What did you do to her? Why is it that when I see you now, it's like seeing a god? "As Grantham, Christina has always been strange to her, why is it that she sees him now like a mouse sees a cat?
Grantham's eyes swept over Yunxi, with a slightly surprised look, as if he hadn't heard her words, got up, gently lifted her hand, and draped his coat over her: "I haven't been chased by the media for the past two days, how about I'll take you to breathe?" ”
Yunxi groaned slightly, feeling that the matter at hand was basically over, but she was just staying in the UK to let the headlines spread her impression to the hearts of the public, and lay the foundation for her jewelry brand, and now there is really nothing important, so she nodded, picked up the handbag by the way, and naturally asked, "Where to go?" ”
Grantham tapped her forehead slightly, "Secret." ”
Yunxi's eyes flashed, and he glanced in the direction where Christina could be said to have fled, and then bowed his head slightly: "Whatever you want." ”
Wearing sunglasses and a huge hat on their heads, the two quietly left from the hotel's special passage from the other side of the media reporter's circle.
The crowd around them looked curiously at the two of them.
Seeing that the two were far away and would no longer be captured by reporters, they took off their hats, left only their sunglasses, and shuttled from one after the other through the paths.
The base is for an exotic couple to come here for a vacation.
Wearing sunglasses, he couldn't see his face clearly, and most of the British people on the side of the road speculated like this.
Ordinary celebrities walking on the road, if they don't want to be exposed, their expressions and behaviors are the same as those of passers-by, at most they will be thought to be "bumping into the face" with celebrities, and no one will really come up to ask or explore in detail.
Therefore, it is very strange that the two most popular people in the media at the moment have walked all the way down the alley to the Palace of Westminster.
Looking at the magnificent building in front of him, a typical Gothic Revival building, Yunxi looked back at Grantham with some surprise: "PceofWestminster?" "The Houses of Parliament, the seat of the British Parliament (including the House of Lords and the House of Commons). What did he bring her here for?
"Come, follow me." Ignoring Yunxi's surprised expression, Grantham gently held her hand, crossed a street, and the two of them reached the front of the building.
Outwardly, the edifice is topped by a large number of small towers, while the walls are adorned with pointed arch windows, graceful reliefs and cornices, and stonework ornaments on the lace-trimmed windows. The two of them bought tickets and entered the gate amid the crowd of passengers. Although he knew that this was a place that the British were proud of, Yunxi was still stunned by the colorful landscape in front of him.
The ceilings and walls are full of carved walkways, canopies, niches, brightly colored mosaic mosaics, large watercolor murals, paved with yellow, sky blue, and brown floor tiles.
The main attraction is the interior decoration of the upper house of parliament and the rooms where parliamentary celebrations are held. The corridors of the royal palace, which were used for grand occasions, as well as the rooms where the king wore formal dresses to attend the ceremony, and the waiting hall, where parliamentarians exchanged views and made partial decisions, were all beautifully decorated. The ceiling of the Upper House of Parliament is completely covered by relief statues of birds, animals, flowers, etc., which appear in the coat of arms. The walls are embossed with wooden wall skirts, and there are also 6 watercolor murals on the wall skirts. Bronze statues of the 18 lords who forced the king to sign the Magna Carta of British Liberty are placed in niches between the windows, as if watching the canopy at the top of the king's throne, the rows of scarlet leather seats, and the woollen pockets of the Speaker of the House of Lords and Officer.
Yunxi thinks that perhaps the British claim to be "low-key" is a bit unworthy of the name.
The extravagance here can be traced back to 1097, although it has been renovated many times, but in her bones, it is still a gorgeous and complex beauty, which really changed her understanding of Britain a lot.
"Every country has its own complexities, just like your country, which has a long history and is famous for its ancient times, but it has gone through ups and downs, and England, which seems rigid and dogmatic to the Americans, and arrogant and uncreative to the French, what about the United Kingdom in your eyes?"
Grantham suddenly spoke softly in her ear, and his tone was as usual, just like that time in front of the old street of City B, they met at the breakfast stall and teased Shui Mulian while drinking soy milk.
Yunxi slightly checked out his thoughts, and then carefully looked at this historic building, and gradually understood one or two, and couldn't help but smile at him gently.
There were people around who had been looking at them, and when they entered the building, they took their eyes, and now her smile amazed the audience, and many people suddenly felt that these two people were familiar. Someone took out his mobile phone and immediately found that this person was not only familiar, but it was not an exaggeration to say that he was a real "celebrity" across the country.
Suddenly, those who have mobile phones take out their mobile phones, and those who have cameras take out their cameras, and they don't care about thirty-seven twenty-one, they have to step forward to take a group photo.
Leng Yunxi and Grantham suddenly couldn't cry or laugh, the scene was a little unstable for a while, and even the relevant personnel of the building came out to maintain the order of the scene, and when they were empty, they put on sunglasses, drilled into the air quickly, and ran out at once.
Along the road, I found a nondescript café and sat down, and then I smiled and took off my sunglasses.
"Ran all this far just to show me the Palace of Westminster? Is it necessary? Although it was the seat of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, with Leng Yunxi's understanding of him, this person definitely did not consider this.
"I always feel like you don't like to walk around when you go to a country. It's not good habits. You know, the most important thing to understand a country is not to read news reports or browse those photos on the Internet. Be sure to see for yourself. Grantham smiled and ordered coffee for the two, so he simply followed her example and put his hands on his chest: "The most important thing is that I am also a shareholder of 'Gu Yuxuan', and your move this time is such a big acquisition of a jewelry brand, and even the effect of 'Gu Yuxuan' has come up." I'm thinking about us. ”
When Yunxi heard him say this, his eyes paused slightly, then he looked up and down, and shook his head helplessly: "No matter how you look at it, you don't look like a nobleman." ”
"What does that look like?" Grantham looked at her a little strangely, and couldn't help but answer.
"Like a born businessman." Even "Gu Yuxuan" moved out, but he just came out casually to relax, as if he had a legitimate goal.
Grantham suddenly laughed, "Compared to you, who is the real businessman!" ”
He had never seen anyone more shrewd than her.
Yunxi raised an eyebrow, "Now let's talk about what you did to make Christina so afraid of you." "I've played and played, and she hasn't forgotten the topic he turned away lightly in the morning.
Grantham looked at her, "You care about her?" I don't know why, he suddenly asked.
Yunxi was a little surprised, and even a little inexplicable: "I thought you knew about her complicated relationship with our family. "To put it mildly, Christina is her employee, and to put it mildly, they are feuding.
The coffee was delivered, and the waiter wanted to have a conversation with the two of them, but saw that the atmosphere between the two was a little weird.
The aroma of hot coffee permeated the two of them, as if adding a touch of distance all of a sudden. The waiter paused and left their table full of regret.
Grantham clasped the rim of the coffee cup with his fingertips, quietly looked at the milk foam on it, and said softly for a long time: "Christina and Xiaoyun, who do you think is more important between them?" ”
"In addition to having a close relationship with Mr. Zhang, probably, they have a pathological obsession with fame and fortune." Yunxi took a sip of coffee, it tasted pretty good, and he couldn't help but look at the empty seats around him again, and he couldn't help but feel a little sorry for the store.
"Then which of them do you think has the means?" and Xiaoyun, Grantham once co-made movies with her, and Christina, but because of his mother, they have been socializing a lot lately. In essence, he definitely knew a little more than Yunxi about these two people.
"What do you want to say?" The cup in Yunxi's hand was gently placed on the table by her, and she looked at the man who never spoke ill of others behind her back, frowning slightly.
"You have to be careful with Christina." It seemed that after hesitating for a second, Grantham finally betrayed his previous principles and put gentlemanly demeanor behind him for the first time: "Although she is close to Mr. Zhang, she is very clear about her position. Between her biological father and Mr. Zhang, she has always remained neutral, and even vaguely leaned closer to Mr. Zhang. But, unlike Xiaoyun, she doesn't blindly agree. This person's ambition is very heavy, and fame and fortune occupy a very important place in her heart. Xiaoyun's approach is to obtain it through a man, and her approach is to use a man as a means, but in the end, she will definitely come out. "Mr. Zhang's previous women don't know how many, and Xiaoyun ended up so miserable in the end, that is, she didn't think clearly about her position from beginning to end. thought that he could rely on Mr. Zhang to make Yunxi face a desperate situation, but in the end he was thrown away as waste.
And Christina was at ease at the end of the "deal" from the start. She attached herself to Mr. Zhang in order to get the opportunity to stand out in the entertainment industry as much as possible. She obviously hates her biological father, but she never makes the relationship irreparably embarrassing. Leave a line in everything, advance and retreat, and defend. At the age of sixteen, his mind is already so sophisticated. If you follow Leng Yunxi for a long time, you don't know what moths will be born.
"You're not optimistic about her at the moment, and you're still going to match the two of you?" What Grantham observed, she didn't doubt, but she was surprised that such a scrupulous man would say so clearly about the dirtiness that Christina was hiding behind his back, which was not his style.
Grantham glanced at the gradually darkening sky outside the window, and said quietly: "I have to go back to China tomorrow, and there are some things that must be made clear to you, otherwise, I don't worry." ”
That's a rush enough. He's only been in London for three days, and he's leaving again so soon?
Is there really something going on, or is it something else?
Yunxi pursed her lips and did not speak again.
Grantham looked at her with some hesitation: "Shui Mulian, that girl misses you very much, next time I have a chance, I will take her to see you." Although his mother tried her best to reconcile him with Christina, his mother and his father have divorced, and there are too many factors in his marriage, and it is impossible to change anything because of her subjective thoughts. Not to mention, as Christina, it's really too much worse than him. When Christina clarified this matter, and saw that the photo of him and Yunxi at the banquet that day was published on the cover, she immediately thought that he and Leng Yunxi were in a relationship, so she immediately began to stay away from him in case Yunxi was unhappy.
Such a calm attitude of judging the situation also made him start to investigate Mr. Zhang behind her.
Today, although the name of Yunxi's Hong Kong company remains unchanged, there are too many tricks and feet done there.......
A fierce color flashed in his gentle blue eyes, and he looked at Yunxi and smiled slightly.
"Before I go, I still have a wish, I hope you can help me achieve ......."
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It seems that there are more than 2,000 words missing, cough cough, I'm sorry, I'll make up for it tomorrow.