Chapter 24

Chapter 24

Mu Nanqiao's body was filled with a light woody fragrance, which mixed with the smell of vegetation on the hillside, like a gentle wind.

Lu Qi was not much shorter than him. Looking over his shoulder, the cat took a sneaky look and found that Mu Nanqiao's parents and the engineer had magically disappeared. There was a faint sound of Muchuan Bai on the mountain road.A helpless voice.

"Mrs. Mu, you are speeding, please drive slower..."

Lu Qi's ears were burning and he buried his head in the hollow of Mu Nanqiao's shoulder. He raised his hand and patted the broad shoulder.

"Okay." He reminded in a low voice: "Uncle and aunt are still waiting below..."

"Well, let's hold you for a while." Mu Nanqiao tilted her head slightly and carefully touched his hair with her forehead, "I'll give you a hug and hold my hand, so when will you be my boyfriend?"

Lu Qi deliberately pretended to be confused: "Well, it doesn't make any difference if it's not like this now?"

Mu Nanqiao let him go, but did not distance himself. He stared at him with deep eyes. His gaze seemed to fall on Lu Qi's eyelashes, the bridge of his nose, and finally fell on his lips. His Adam's apple moved, and he said: "There's no difference? You're asking even though you know it."

He clicked and looked away, raising his hand to rub Lu Qi's hair, "It's okay, I won't force you. Just make it to the next level when the ruins bloom next year."

Lu Qi:......

Probably not.

Lu Qi let out a long sigh and whispered, "I feel very sorry. It was that person at that time..."

Mu Nanqiao nodded in understanding, knowing that he was talking about that idiot Lin Yuan.

"That guy has been pursuing me for almost two months. I agreed to date him just because he brought me food." Lu Qi lowered his head as if he had made a mistake, "But you are better than him, ah no... humans and dogs cannot be compared."

Mu Nanqiao laughed out loud, raised his fingers and tapped his forehead gently, "Did he say how hard it is to cook for yourself and then go across half a city to deliver food to you? But you didn'tCome to think of it, it's not you who asked him to deliver food."

He rubbed Lu Qi's soft hair, "You are so kind, Lu Qi. You are so well-behaved and easily kidnapped by morality, so I am actually very happy that you are willing to start as friends with me."

"Rather than impatiently tying you into my hands, I would rather let you accumulate your heartbeat little by little until you feel satisfied and can run towards me with full joy..."He paused for a moment, as if he was joking, but his fox eyes were full of firm tenderness: "You really have to think about it carefully. Once you hold my hand, you can't let go."

"So you are different from Lin Yuan..." Lu Qi's little animal's bioradar dinged a warning, and he murmured in a low voice: "When I was with him, I didn't think too much about it, it was just about falling in love.We broke up if it wasn't suitable, but you..."

Sometimes he couldn't read Mu Nanqiao's eyes.

It looks like a blue, calm sea that can hold up a small boat smoothly and let it drift with the slow waves to any corner of the world.

But under the sea, where the sun doesn't shine, deep, cold undercurrents are always surging. This sea is actually bottomless.

Lu Qi is a slow person, but in some aspects, he is surprisingly sensitive. He is not afraid of diving into the deep sea, but he is just worried that he cannot accurately dig out the pearls buried in the sand on the seabed.

So he was moved but hesitated.

"Speaking of which, I haven't seen the birthday gift you gave me yet." Mu Nanqiao looked down at the small dark blue box in his palm and asked with a smile, "What is this? An engagement ring?"

He changed the topic, and Lu Qi breathed a small sigh of relief, "No, you open it and take a look."

Mu Nanqiao opened the lid.

Inside is a pair of cufflinks.

With platinum as the base, two small paintings were embedded on the shiny metal. Mu Nanqiao carefully picked up one and looked at it carefully in the sunlight.

One is the starry sky and the other is the ocean, miniature in a small circle. Although the painting is small, the details are perfect if you look closely. Whether it is a hair-thin shooting star or a millet-like wave, they are all painted with great care.

Seeing Mu Nanqiao looking intently, Lu Qi rubbed his nose a little embarrassedly, "I learned miniature painting with my senior in college, but I wasn't very good at it..."

What's more, the birthday gift given by Ms. Talia is too explosive and cannot be surpassed by ordinary people.

But this kind of small, overly detailed painting actually consumes a lot of energy. Mu Nanqiao fastened the small box and decided to wear it on the cuff of the dress during the wedding.

"Thank you, I like it very much." He motioned Lu Qi to go down the mountain with him. The two of them walked side by side on the stone steps of the hill. Mu Nanqiao asked: "How long did it take to paint? Such a small thing is too tired for the eyes.”

Lu Qi rubbed his eyes, "Fortunately, it didn't take long."

The last successful one really didn't take long, but there were many previous ones that failed, and the layer was finally sealed.

The two people came down from the mountain and saw Muchuanbai and Talia waiting below. Talia's beautiful light brown eyes stared at Lu Qi's lips for a while, then turned to her son and said: "Дорогой, янемногоразочарованвтебе.*”

Mu Nanqiao:......

Lu Qi tugged on Mu Nanqiao's sleeve for no apparent reason: "What did Auntie say?"

"You are good-looking and she likes you very much." Mu Nanqiao said.

Thalia rolled her eyes, trying to save some face for her son. Although she did like this boy, she pushed Muchuanbai, who was half-smiling, and then said to Lu Qi in a friendly manner: "Xiaolu, give it a try.Are you hungry in the morning? Let's go home. Auntie has prepared a lot of delicious food for you."

"Meow~" Xiao Sanhua, who was left in the car, was frightened by the movement just now, and stretched out her little paws in the cage uneasily. Thalia saw this and smiled: "Oh, and this...My dear, I just delivered the bluefin tuna this morning, I wonder if you like it."

Lu Qi said to Mun Nanqiao in a low voice, a little embarrassed: "Um... don't give such good food to little Sanhua. If you feed her too hard, she will become a picky eater."

"Okay." Munanqiao turned to Thalia and said.

Thalia waved her hand nonchalantly, "Okay, let's eat it for you."

Mu Nanqiao:......

Lu Qi:......

On the way back, Muchuanbai got into the car with the help of his bodyguard. Seeing Lu Qi's eyes filled with concern but not daring to show too much, he smiled gently and said, "I made you laugh."

"No." Lu Qi's round eyes were full of seriousness, "I watched your interview before coming here. You are an amazing person."

"Oh..." Muchuanbai said very kindly and lovingly: "Good boy, there is not a word of truth in those interviews. Don't believe it next time."

Lu Qi: "You are really... humorous."

Talia and Muchuanbai got into Munanqiao's car, and Lu Qi was still sitting in the passenger seat. They passed by the ruined house, and various heavy-duty engineering vehicles drove in one after another to clean up the huge rubble.

Muchuanbai took out his mobile phone, recorded the video outside the window, and said with a smile: "Welcome the old and welcome the new. When your grandfather sees this video, he will definitely stand up with joy."

Lu Qi:......

He remembered that during a certain interview, Muchuanbai's eyes turned red several times when he mentioned his paralyzed father...

Well, it's all an illusion.

However, Mr. Mu once ignored and even allowed his second son's family to bully and abuse Mu Nanqiao. Now he deserves to be betrayed and separated from his family. Lu Qi thought about it and felt quite relieved.

Mu Nanqiao's parents live in another villa area, directly to the east and west of the Mu family's old house, with the longest straight line, which shows how much they dislike that place.

Lunch was indeed sumptuous, and the long black slate dining table was covered with all kinds of delicacies—most of them were cooked by chefs hired from the hotel. Ms. Thalia’s first creation was a Russian vegetable platter, made of radish, radish,Composed of tomatoes, cucumbers and green vegetables, it looks like Northeastern pickles.

Mu Nanqiao and Lu Qi, who was sitting next to her, bit their ears: "Russian food is heavy in oil, salt, and high in calories. My mother stopped cooking it for many years in order to stay in shape. Today she personally cooked two dishes for you, which is..."

Mu Nanqiao's expression was hard to describe.

Lu Qi whispered: "If Auntie serves it, I will eat it even if my stomach is perforated!"

"Детка＊, although your courage is commendable, what my mother did was just a bad look, not vitriol..." Mu Nanqiao laughed: "You don't have to be like this."

Lu Qi blinked and was about to ask him about the Russian word when Ms. Talia had already brought out the second dish from the kitchen.

One, black, burnt, short and fat cylinder.

Lu Qi immediately picked up the small plate sincerely and said to Mu Nanqiao: "Did Auntie bake you a chocolate birthday cake? It looks pretty good..."

Munanqiao took a deep breath, "It's baked potato lasagna, with Spanish ham and cheese in it."

Lu Qi:......

Fortunately, the potato lasagna was just mushy. After cutting off the outer layer, the inside was still perfect. It was a delicious carbohydrate bomb.

Muchuanbai raised his glass gracefully, "Happy birthday, son, and long live the new year."

Mu Nanqiao didn't buy it, "Where is your gift?"

"Oh, this..." Muchuanbai thought, and then he remembered the same thing, "The shipment is late, but surprise, it is always late."

The father and son looked at each other and smiled, clinking glasses gently.

Lu Qi always felt that he saw two big foxes wagging their tails, and was the surprise in Muchuanbai's mouth really just a courier?

After lunch, Muchuanbai returned to the company, but Talia had to perform as the principal of the dance troupe and would fly back to Russia in the afternoon.

She tiptoed and kissed the side of Lu Qi's face, and said with a warm smile: "My dear, next time you and Leonid will go to see my performance, okay? I will leave the best seat for you."

Lu Qi leaned over and hugged her, his eyes bright: "That's my honor."

Thalia turned and walked towards Muchuanbai.

Mu Nanqiao pulled Lu Qi away, but Xiaolu kept looking back, "Ah? Don't we see Auntie off?"

In the peripheral vision, Talia had already bent over, and then her vision dimmed. He was half-carried into Mu Nanqiao's arms and covered his eyes.

Mu Nanqiao half pushed and half hugged him and walked forward. The voice in his ear was low and smiling: "Listen to me, don't look."

Warm breath brushed against his earlobes, and Lu Qi blinked, his eyelashes brushing against Mu Nanqiao's palm.

He was a little unsure whether he had received a kiss just now, as light as a dandelion.