Yu Juanzhou's question made Qiao Min startled, and then she felt a vague premonition in her heart. Yu Juanzhou stopped using his chopsticks, looked at Qiao Min a little, and then leaned forward to get his cell phone.
Qiao Min subconsciously held his hand, "What do you want to do?"
"Call Yu Nian." Yu Juanzhou's eyes were heavy, "I want to find out whether she took the initiative to know my itinerary or someone deliberately told her."
Yu Juanzhou emphasized the word "deliberately".
The meaning couldn't be more obvious.
Qiao Min's heart trembled.
This was also the thought she had just had. Yu Juanzhou was just having a simple social interaction. Why did Yu Nian specifically ask her to check on Yu Juanzhou? Yu Juanzhou had social events almost every night, and it was not uncommon for him to be drunk.
So she had a vague feeling that although it was unclear what exactly happened, it was most likely related to the Jiang Nian Banquet.
"Aren't you afraid of her thinking too much when you call her because of this kind of thing? She just doesn't trust you because she's away from home." Qiao Min intercepted his intention. "Huang Jifa was with you last night, right?"
Yu Juanzhou nodded, but his face still didn't look good.
After finalizing the contract with Huang Jifa, in Huang Jifa's words, he was truly in the same boat, so he introduced some people to him last night, which further expanded his network of contacts. But Yu Juanzhou knew in his heart that Huang Jifa was so proactive and attentive all because Yu Nian participated in the project he cared about most. On the surface, everyone was laughing and making money together, but in fact, he wanted to make more money through Yu Nian?
"So, with Huang Jifa here, how could your sister not know about it? During the time Mrs. Huang was in Bei City, she was only close to your sister." Qiao Min became wise in her anxiety.
Yu Juanzhou looked suspicious, analyzing the credibility of Qiao Min's words.
Qiao Min smiled and said, "Look at your alert face. What's wrong with your sister just caring about your situation? Last time you and Huang Jifa drank as drunk as grandchildren. Do you think your sister can rest assured?"
Yu Juanzhou sighed, "Qiao Min, I found that your words are really..."
"What is it really?"
Yu Juanzhou put aside his discomfort and sat down to continue eating. "You really don't treat me like an outsider."
Qiao Min pretended to be surprised, "You want me to treat you as an outsider? That's fine. Please pay me for last night's driving service, overnight stay at my house, and today's meal. As a friendly reminder, my time is also valuable. The cost would be double.”
"No, no, no, sister, sister, hold your hand high." Yu Juanzhou smiled softly and begged for mercy.
Qiao Min glanced at him and sneered.
"Are you at the Ancestral Head Office?" Yu Juanzhou coaxed her, "I just said it casually, don't treat me like an outsider. Do you think we can still take care of each other if we have a big or small affair, don't you think?"
Qiao Min looked at him with a smile, "Yu Juanzhou, it's true that the business world is not suitable for a young man with a clear breeze. Did he learn from Huang Jifa and become so glib?"
Yu Juanzhou couldn't help but laugh out loud, "You're really good at it. You stepped on me and didn't forget to drag another one down."
Qiao Min hummed and laughed, "Don't blame sister, I didn't warn you. You should be more careful with Huang Jifa, he is not a good bird."
"I know who is suitable for doing business and who is good for friendship. Don't worry." As Yu Juanzhou was talking, he saw that she liked to eat the gherkins in the pickles, so he took a pair of clean chopsticks and cut the gherkins into pieces. Choose from the pickles and put them on the plate in front of her.
Qiao Min lowered her eyes and watched his movements. Naturally, a warm current flowed slowly deep in her heart. After thinking about it, he felt slightly disappointed. After all, he didn't belong to her. In his heart, she was just his sister.
"Okay Yu Juanzhou, you have really grown up." She looked up at him with an open-minded expression, "I just remember when I was in school-"
"Ancestor, can we not mention the old almanac? Isn't the breakfast on the table enough? How about I go buy some more?" Yu Juanzhou quickly stopped her words.
It would be a disservice to him to say it without even thinking about it.
Qiao Min couldn't help but laugh, "What are you going to buy more for? Finished eating?"
"Stop your mouth."
Qiao Min laughed, "Okay, you know how to dig a hole and wait for me to jump down."
Just as Yu Juanzhou was about to get back and forth, Qiao Min's cell phone rang.
Her mobile phone was on the table, so she could see the caller ID from Yu Juanzhou's perspective. He didn't mean to peek, he just saw it as soon as he moved his eyes.
It's Qiao Min's mother.
Qiao Min picked up the phone and connected directly without avoiding Yu Juanzhou.
The room was quiet, Qiao Min's mother had a normal volume, but her voice kept reaching Yu Juanzhou's ears.
"At home? Just you?"
Qiao Min raised her eyes and looked at the opposite side. She wanted to tell Yu Juanzhou that he was at home, but she saw the man opposite waved his hand towards her, signaling her not to say anything.
Qiao Min felt a little uncomfortable when she saw this, but she didn't force it. "Yes, I'm at home. He must be alone. Who can come to visit me so early in the morning?"
"You were in Beishi last night? Didn't you work overtime?"
Qiao Min said without thinking, "Yes, I didn't work overtime."
"You didn't work overtime last night to release Qiao Lu's pigeons?" Qiao Min's mother said in a very unhappy tone.
"Qiao, Qiao Lu?" Qiao Min stopped drinking the porridge and was obviously stunned for a moment.
Qiao Min's mother was even more rude when she heard this, "You're not right, Qiao Min! You even forgot about my blind date?!"
After such a roar, Qiao Min finally remembered, her expression changed, and she quickly stood up. She signaled Yu Juanzhou to eat first, then went into the study to answer the phone.
Yu Juanzhou sat there and ate breakfast unhurriedly, but his heart was not as calm as outside.
He never thought that Qiao Min would face a blind date. In his heart, she was still the proud little girl. It was also at this moment that he truly realized that they were both maturing and getting older day by day, and it was impossible for Qiao Min to live her whole life without falling in love or getting married.
But there are so many men pursuing Qiao Min, why go to the blind date?
Yu Juanzhou was not in the mood to eat. For a moment, he wanted to go into the study, take Qiao Min's cell phone and say, Auntie, don't be too anxious. Qiao Min really doesn't need to go on a blind date now.
There seemed to be a dispute in the study, faintly.
Yu Juanzhou knew that Qiao Min's mother was usually a very gentle woman, but Qiao Min was not someone who could be easily ignited, so the two of them could quarrel, which seemed like something serious.
After another five or six minutes, Qiao Min came out of the study. There was still anger and helplessness on her face, but she returned to normal after seeing Yu Juanzhou.
She hesitated, "Why are you putting down your chopsticks? Are you full? I'm not full yet. As a guest, it's impolite for you to put down your chopsticks first."
Yu Juanzhou didn't pay attention to her teasing and looked at her, "You were supposed to go on a blind date last night, right?"
Qiao Min drank her porridge and waved her hand at him, "Don't feel guilty. My not going on the blind date has nothing to do with whether I went to pick you up or not. I really forgot about it."
Yu Juanzhou was slightly startled.
Qiao Min said softly, "This is a blind date that Ms. Yao arranged for me a month ago. She said that the other party was busy and I was busy too, so I had to book the meeting time in advance and everything would be fine. You also know the nature of my work. Every day There are so many complicated things, I can’t forget a month without my assistant reminding me. I can forget even one day’s events.”
Ms. Yao is Qiao Min's mother, and she likes to call her that. Yu Nian and Qiao Min are best friends, and they usually call Ms. Yao affectionately "Mama Yao." Yu Juanzhou also calls Ms. Yao the same when he sees her.
"The other party is a lawyer?"
Qiao Min nodded, "It seems to be a pretty big law firm that specializes in criminal matters."
After a pause, he added, "My family is from the same family, and my surname is Qiao. It is said that he is the son of a relative of one of Ms. Yao's classmates. Ms. Yao is very funny. She thinks it would be better if they all have the surname of Qiao. This will help future generations. It doesn’t matter whose last name the child comes out with.”
"Have you... chatted with him before?" Yu Juanzhou asked casually.
Qiao Min said, "It's not really a chat, it's just a few polite words when we added each other on WeChat, and we haven't contacted each other much since then. The other party is a lawyer, and he probably spends about the same time as me every day, so we can use it separately."
Yu Juanzhou remained silent.
Seeing that Qiao Min had misunderstood, she explained, "I'm not that busy today, don't get me wrong. And don't be too sensitive. Both you and your sister are very important people to me. It doesn't matter." Things are more important than you."
Yu Juanzhou said softly, "That's not what I was thinking about."
Qiao Min was confused, what was she thinking about?
"Are you going on a blind date?"
Qiao Min nodded, "Go."
Yu Juanzhou was stunned for a moment, feeling uncomfortable for some reason. "Since you don't want to, why do you still want to go? What matters in relationships is that you are willing and I am willing, and forcefulness is not sweet."
"Ms. Yao means that we should try to force each other." Qiao Min smiled.
"You are not a person without ideas." Yu Juanzhou knew her well. Once she decided something, no one could dissuade her.
Qiao Min took a bite of the gherkin slices and it was crisp. She said, "It has nothing to do with whether you have an idea or not. I think blind dates are like dying early and being reborn early. If you keep putting it off, the elders always have a thorn in their hearts. It's better to just go through the motions and live together."
"Did you pass the video? Have you met me in person?"
Qiao Min smiled, "I've definitely never met him in person, and I've never played a video, but he has sent photos, and he looks pretty good."
Yu Juanzhou disapproved and sneered, "The photos nowadays are all fake photos, can you believe it? Who often posts photos of themselves in the circle of friends like you. Others wish they had filter level 10, and you wish you were unkempt."
"Are you tired of taking exquisite photos every day? Think about it, I am working? I am in the fashion circle every day. What is on my face is not makeup but a mask. Why don't you take off the mask when I go home and rest?"
Qiao Min spoke confidently, and then looked at Yu Juanzhou with a smile, "But what do you mean, kid? Even if I am unkempt, am I not beautiful?"
"You are beautiful, you are very beautiful, okay?"
"That's pretty much it." Qiao Min finished the remaining porridge and asked him, "Are you going home to rest or going back to the company?"
Yu Juanzhou has to follow up on matters at the factory today and will meet with Si Tingyuan later to discuss the specific details of cooperation. He has no time to go home and catch up on sleep.
Qiao Min nodded, "Then I'll take you back to the company."
Yu Juanzhou was surprised when he heard this, "Are you sending me off? Aren't you going back to the club?" After asking, he suddenly realized and asked hesitantly, "Are you going on a blind date?"
Qiao Min sighed and hummed, "Death sooner or later is death, but let's just be blind for this day. I was thinking that it would be a rare day off to go to the supermarket and buy a shopping cart full of puffed food, so I could lie down and watch TV dramas. .”
He frowned and lamented again, "It's true. If life is short, why do you make me work so hard? Is it difficult for me to just eat a bag of potato chips?"
Yu Juanzhou didn't say anything, but his face didn't look good.
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Yu Nian felt very tired from her sleep. Her whole body felt cold and hot. She felt as if someone was touching her forehead. She felt it, but her eyelids seemed to be filled with lead and she couldn't open them.
Soon it felt like someone had given her medicine, which was quite painful. She closed her eyes and subconsciously struggled to refuse.
A low voice fell in her ear, "Be good and take the medicine."
The voice is familiar.
She seemed to have returned to the Yu family. When she fell ill, her father would coax her, saying, "Nian Nian, be good, take the medicine and your illness will be cured."
Her mouth was terribly bitter, and even though the voice in her ears was pleasant, she couldn't help but murmur, "Bitter... so bitter."
But soon the bitter taste in her mouth disappeared. Someone fed her sweet honey, and the sweetness spread from the tip of her tongue to her mouth. She stopped complaining about the bitterness and fell asleep again.
It seems that I have sweated a lot, and my body is gradually becoming less uncomfortable. She didn't know how long she had slept, but when she opened her eyes, she felt light and airy.
It took her a long time to sit up from the bed...
Wait, bed?
Yu Nian remembered clearly that she lay on the sofa after Lao Liu left, just to wait for the housekeeper to bring someone in to clean.
She was in the bedroom, looking around and cleaning, but she didn't even know she was on the bed. I looked down and saw that my clothes had been changed. I was about to get out of bed. I tightened my heels and saw that there was a band-aid on them.
The areas worn by high heels have been taken care of.
Yu Nian thought several times that he was dreaming, but he also felt that the man's voice he heard in a trance was real. My head was still a little dizzy. I raised my hand and touched my forehead. Did I have a fever?
Then he saw a cup on the bedside table. There was a note next to the cup, and a pill lying on the note. Yu Nian took a look and wrote a few powerful words on the note: Take medicine after waking up.
The pills were not sugar-coated. Yu Nian tasted them with the tip of his tongue and immediately frowned. Sure enough, it had this bitter taste. When he opened the lid of the cup, he discovered that it was filled with honey water. It was warm and tasted just right.
She recognized the handwriting as Jiang Nianyan, and the handwriting was just like his, cold and distant.
Yu Nian can basically figure out the context of the matter.
Jiang Nianyan knew that she smashed the bedroom before Lao Liu came, so he went back to the room and met her who was sick.
Yu Nian stared at the medicine spread out in his palm and chuckled, "What?" Has your conscience discovered it? Or are you afraid that she will be bored in bed when she is sick, so you want to get her better quickly?
This illness happened at the right time. Yu Nian threw the medicine into the trash can. Did she still want to thank him for his hypocrisy?
She hadn't been sick for a long time, it was like a string that was always stretched and stretched, until last night the string finally broke.
