In the evening, Qiqi returned to Tan Palace. This time she was even more powerless than the day before yesterday. She walked to the gate with worries, and the servant came to greet her again: "Miss Qiqi."
Qiqi didn't even raise her face this time, she just answered hesitantly.
This time the servant didn't even ask, and said directly: "You sit on the sofa for a while, and I'll get you a glass of juice."
Qiqi responded casually.
But when the servant came out of the kitchen with juice, she saw no one in the hall. She looked up and saw that people had gone upstairs and entered the room. Huo Shaoting came back relatively early that day, at almost five o'clock. When he arrived in the hall, the servant came to him and whispered: "Miss Qiqi is back, but she went upstairs right after she came back."
Huo Shaoting held some pastries in his hand. When the servant saw them, he realized they were from Liufangzhai: "These were brought from the Huo family's old house."
Huo Shaoting whispered: "The old lady asked me to bring it over and put it on the plate."
Liufangzhai is the favorite pastry of the old lady of the Huo family. Not only is this pastry extremely expensive, it is also extremely rare to buy. Of course, it is on every plate in the Huo family, but Mr. Huo rarely eats this kind of sweets. Why? I went back to the Huo family's old house today, brought these, and asked her to put them on a plate.
The servant thought about the people upstairs and immediately understood: "Okay, I'll load the plates."
She didn't expect that Mr. Huo was very kind to Miss Qiqi. No wonder, after all, she was Miss Lina's sister.
After the servant left, Huo Shaoting took off his collar and tie and went upstairs. After taking only two steps, he stopped and looked at the servant: "Qiqi is back?"
The servant also stopped and hurriedly replied to her: "My mood is very wrong."
Huo Shaoting naturally felt that something was wrong with the people upstairs in the past few days. He said, "Yeah, I understand."
Without saying anything more, the servant continued to the kitchen.
Huo Shaoting came down after changing his clothes and answered the phone downstairs. It was of course a business matter. He stood at the floor-to-ceiling window and answered the call for a long time before the call ended.
After Huo Shaoting returned to the hall, he glanced upstairs again, just once, and sat down on the sofa.
Qiqi came downstairs at this time, and naturally went to the kitchen to help. She wanted to distract herself with other things, but when she reached the hall downstairs and saw Huo Shaoting, she stopped in her tracks .
Huo Shaoting was looking through the newspaper in his hand.
Qiqi didn't expect that he would come back so early today. She was silent for two seconds before moving forward, walked up to Huo Shaoting and called out: "Brother Shaoting."
After she finished calling, she headed towards the kitchen.
But Huo Shaoting said, "Wait a minute."
After Qiqi heard the word "wait", she stopped again, but she didn't look back and just stood there with her shoulders clasped.
Huo Shaoting put down the newspaper in his hand. He didn't put anything in just now. He just said to the person standing there: "Come here."
Qiqi moved twice after hearing his words and walked towards him. Huo Shaoting looked at her expression and asked seriously: "What happened? Tell me."
Qiqi remained silent.
Huo Shaoting still looked at her, but there was a bit of displeasure in his eyes: "Aren't you willing to say it?"
Qiqi still shook her head and said nothing.
Huo Shaoting took out his cell phone and said, "Then let me call and ask your classmates."
When he made this move, Qiqi rushed over and grabbed Huo Shaoting's hand, her face full of exhaustion: "It's really nothing, Brother Shao Ting."
There was no warmth on Huo Shaoting's face: "You didn't say so, did you?"
Qiqi knew that the matter could not be kept secret, so instead of asking him to ask Xu Li, she might as well tell him directly.
"Someone at school took a photo of your car. On the campus website forum, someone said... I am being kept by someone."
When Huo Shaoting heard this, his face was grim: "When did it happen?"
Qiqi whispered like a mosquito: "The day before yesterday."
His expression became even colder: "Why are you telling me now?"
Qiqi grabbed his hand and shrank.
"If I don't ask you, are you not going to tell me?"
Huo Shaoting looked at her coldly for a long time: "Wait here."
After saying that, he got up from the sofa, then took his mobile phone to the side and made a call. This call was directly made to the school director.
Qiqi kept standing there, not knowing how he would handle this matter. She just listened to him standing there, asking the school about the situation on the phone. His tone was very stable, but definitely not gentle.
Even from a distance, Qiqi could hear the school director's voice on the phone, explaining and explaining so carefully.
Huo Shaoting listened at first, and in the next few minutes, he briefly explained to the school director directly: "This matter will be resolved today. I don't want such rumors to appear in the school again."
"Okay, Mr. Huo, I will handle it immediately."
Huo Shaoting was the first to hang up the phone. After the call ended, he walked over from a short distance away and looked at her with cold eyes and a cold face.
After a while, he sighed: "Come upstairs with me."
Qiqi didn't know what he wanted her to do upstairs, but now she was no longer paying attention. After he went upstairs, she followed him upstairs.
But when she arrived in the room upstairs, Huo Shaoting was already sitting on a chair smoking and waiting. When he saw her come in, he frowned and twisted the cigarette out of his hand in the ashtray, with curls of smoke drifting from his thin lips.
After Qiqi walked up to him, neither of them said anything. Huo Shaoting did not look at her immediately, but just stared at the scattered sparks in the ashtray.
And Qiqi didn't know what she could say in front of him about this matter, and she also felt his coldness towards him these days.
Finally, at this moment, Huo Shaoting finally raised his eyes and looked at her.
The next second, he clasped her wrist and pulled her hand hard. Qiqi fell directly into his arms. Qiqi's first reaction when she fell into his arms was to struggle, but when he hugged her At that moment, his other hand pressed directly on the back of her neck, pressing her face into his neck.
The two are close to each other.
In that moment, Qiqi didn't move anymore, her whole body was like a pool of water, limp in his arms, she shed tears and sobbed softly.
Huo Shaoting could feel the fright and humiliation she had suffered in the past few days. Listening to her whimpering in his ear, his hand moved from the back of her neck to her head.
He also closed his eyes and listened to her cry.
She was someone who didn't even dare to cry too loudly, so how could she tell him what he had suffered.
Qiqi was like a frightened bird, still in his arms, struggling muffledly with her hands on his chest, but after struggling for several minutes to no avail, she only felt herself being held tighter and tighter by him.
Qiqi finally gave up resistance and sobbed in his ear.
In that dark room, Huo Shaoting whispered to her in her ear: "You should tell me, do you know?"
His frown was filled with blame and a hint of unnoticeable distress.
Qiqi said, "I don't know how to talk to you."
