She looked at Qiao Ai carefully for a moment, and suddenly smiled: "Your character is not bad, if you ......"

The last two words came out of her mouth almost as soon as the wind blew and they were gone, and nothing came into the ears of the second person except herself.

She soon smiled softly again, and quietly changed the topic: "Come, see if there are any flowers here that you like." ”

She said as she walked away with Joey.

Most of the flowers she planted are placed in the open air at will, one in the east and one in the west, which seems to be chaotic, but when you look at it carefully, you feel extremely pleasing to the eye.

Under her introduction, Qiao Ai learned that a common bouquet of lilies was divided into such types.

"How about it, which pot do you like, I'll let someone wrap it for you directly later."

Qiao Ai glanced back and was sincerely embarrassed: "You have flowers here...... I like every pot I look at, why don't you give me a few more? ”

Qiao Ai thought for a while: "I'm not greedy, you can give me a pot of one variety." ”

Zhao Konglan glanced at her angrily: "Why didn't you see that you were so greedy before?" Three pots at most, no more. Go and pick the favorite. ”

"Okay." Qiao Ai pretended to sigh regretfully, causing Zhao Konglan to smile helplessly.

Qiao Ai looked over carefully, suddenly found something, turned her head and asked suspiciously, "Aunt Zhao, don't you raise orchids?" ”

Zhao Konglan raised her hand to stroke the delicate green leaf for a moment, and then still smiled lightly: "I am allergic to orchids, so I don't raise orchids." ”

"That's a shame." Qiao Ai said: "Orchid is known as the 'gentleman in flowers', and it matches Aunt Zhao's temperament very well." ”

Zhao Konglan turned around and continued to look at her with the kind of gaze that made Qiao Ai feel a little weird, but she quickly looked away this time, and said casually: "Seeing that you were like that just now, you don't know anything about flowers, so you must not be able to pick out any good flowers, so let me help you." ”

Qiao Ai pursed her lips a little embarrassed: "Then thank you Aunt Zhao." ”

Zhao Konglan personally helped her pick three pots of flowers, and after Qiao Ai carefully asked how to take care of them, she only chose one pot of phalaenopsis.

Qiao Ai explained: "Your flowers are too precious, and I don't have much experience, so it's better to take your time." ”

Zhao Konglan wiped her fingers, more satisfied with Qiao Ai's character, glanced at the time, and left her to continue drinking a cup of fruit tea.

In the open-air environment, the air was full of refreshing and faint floral fragrance, Qiao Ai smiled faintly, and asked curiously about Zhao Konglan's past.

A touch of nostalgia and loneliness flashed in Zhao Konglan's eyes, and she shook her head: "It's all in the past." ”

But she still answered Joey's question about what happened when she first took over her own business.

After drinking half a pot of fruit tea, the smile on Qiao Ai's face was still the same as always, and Zhao Konglan put down the cup: "You can calm down." ”

Qiao Ai raised her hand to refill a cup of fruit tea for her, pretending to be puzzled: "What does Aunt Zhao mean by this?" ”

Zhao Konglan's own temperament is as indifferent and detached as her name, orchid, but when she looks at a person fixedly, the edge that has been carefully concealed by time will appear again.

But this kind of gaze was only for a moment, so fast that people almost suspected that it was an illusion of their own, and she lowered her gaze again: "Qiao's current situation, can't you solve it?" ”

Qiao Ai couldn't help but be shocked by her gaze for a moment, she smiled, and said sincerely: "Aunt Zhao misunderstood, in fact, you have always been my idol, although your past can also be glimpsed from the reports of the year, but how can these compare to your own mouth." ”

"Oh?"

The smile on Qiao Ai's face widened slightly, and she continued: "Of course, if Aunt Zhao didn't hesitate to give advice, then of course it would be the best. "Look

Zhao Konglan smiled: "You." ”

Thinking of the news in the past few days, she naturally guessed: "Do you want me to give you an idea of how to cancel the competition with Li Lan?" ”

Joe Ya vetoed it all out: "Of course not. ”

Facing Zhao Konglan's surprised gaze, the corners of Qiao Ai's lips were dyed with a layer of cool color in the sunset that gradually fell into the horizon: "I want to ask Aunt Zhao how to completely get rid of those moths." ”

"Now that everybody, even you, is looking at the blueprint contest in a week's time, who would have imagined that my real goal was to be a drunkard and not to drink?"

Zhao Konglan pouted slightly, then propped her forehead and laughed: "Qiao Ai, you are really surprising me all the time." ”

"Then Aunt Zhao, are you willing to teach?"

Zhao Konglan lowered her arm: "I don't know much about your Qiao's internal affairs, but I can tell you what methods I used back then." ”

Facing Qiao Ai's serious and cautious face, Zhao Konglan opened her lips lightly and spit out a sentence.

Joe gave a thoughtful expression.

Zhao Konglan let herself think about it, and slowly sipped the fruit tea in her cup.

After a long time, Qiao Ai raised her head: "Thank you Aunt Zhao for your guidance." ”

"I've just told you one thing, it's up to you to do it." She stood up and took one last look at the sunset, where there was only a little light left in the world, and she shook her head, "This doesn't help you. ”

Qiao Ai shook her head: "No, a word of guidance is enough." ”

"When you say that, it makes me feel even more sorry for you."

As soon as Qiao Ai wanted to speak, she heard Zhao Konglan continue: "It's better for me to introduce someone to you." ”

Joe Ellio was a little stunned.

When Zhao Konglan abdicated, because she had no husband, no heirs, and no relatives, she simply imitated the Zen position and directly had capable people living in it, which was once a beautiful talk at that time.

However, it should also be the residence of the capable, Zhao Konglan simply and neatly delegated power, and the capable people did not obey anyone, and forcibly changed the Qiao family, which could be on the same level as the Zhou family back then, into a situation where they can only have the power to fight with the Xiang family now.

It's not that no one wants to invite her out of the mountain again, but she can't see it, and she is immersed in her own world, tending to her own flowers and plants.

Only Mrs. Zhou's eighty years old can let her go out.

Now, she says she wants to introduce a friend to herself!

"He's a well-known master of design." Zhao Konglan smiled slightly: "Do you want to know me?" ”

Of course!

Qiao Ai pressed down in her excited heart: "Then I will thank Aunt Zhao." ”

"Follow me."

Qiao Ai followed behind Zhao Konglan, she couldn't see anything on her face, but she secretly thought about how she should open when she saw someone later.

Until she walked into the villa—