Chapter 43: Cross me (when the memories of the fragments come back...)

Chapter 43
Josie stared at Luo Xiu blankly.
Probably because the eyes were too fierce, the young girl standing by the middle wooden table who came up to serve them was shaking her hands.
A few drops spilled out of the tea cup, and the girl panicked even more. She put down the purple clay pot supported by the soft cloth and quickly bowed her head to apologize to Josie: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry..."
At first glance, he was a new recruit, and he hurriedly apologized, and his face turned pale with fright.
An Yi smiled with a good temper: "It's okay, the teapot is here. I'll take care of these two young masters, go down."
Upon hearing the words, the young girl of the helper boldly looked at Josie on the side. Seeing that the other party was silent, she bowed to An Yi and quickly turned around and went out.
When the girl closed the door of the box, An Yi turned her head back and smiled with her arms on her arm: "Look at you two, what scared the other girl like?"
Luo Xiu raised his eyes and smiled casually: "Don't accidentally hurt people, it's not me who scares people away."
"Oh, what about you," An Yi lightly stepped down on Josie's chair next to him. "Isn't it just a blind date? It looks like you can get it."
Josie turned his head and stared at An Yi, just about to speak.
"Wife?" On the opposite side of the wooden table, Luo Xiu put up his right hand and turned a half circle with the thin tire teacup between his slender knuckles. He looked at the crystal clear tea soup under the light, and smiled coldly, "I'm afraid it's not his turn."
"..."
Josie turned back bitterly again, glaring at Luo Xiu with gritted teeth.
An Yi couldn't help but smiled and turned to Luo Xiu: "Master Luo, are you here to open my eyes today? Didn't you find bickering boring the most? Why are you so careless about every word now? ?"
Luo Xiu didn't raise his eyes and smiled: "It's different."
"Yes, it's different!" Josie finally said what Luo Xiu had just held back. "This is a matter of principle!"
Anyi: "What principle?"
Josie: "Do not bully your friend's wife!"
"?"
Luo Xiu squinted, his eyes were cold like a smile.
Josie was guilty for a second, and then quickly added: "Even if it's a blind date, as a friend, I don't want to dig like this!"
An Yi: "It makes sense."
Josie: "What's more, did you hear what he said to me personally last time that he never takes people's love?"
An Yi typically sees the excitement and is not afraid of big things: "I heard it."
With An Yi's help, Josie straightened her back, turned her head and continued to look at Luo Xiu blankly, trying to condemn him.
Luo Xiu: "I did say it."
Josie: "Huh?"
"But you were just perfunctory on that blind date. You can't talk about your love."
Josie hesitated to probe: "Then if you can talk about your love, you won't dig my wall?"
"..."
Quiet for a while in the wing.
Luo Xiu looked down and smiled: "You don't want to hear the answer."
Josie: "..."
He should know that this man who cut his eyelashes may be hollow and still dripping ink, it is absolutely impossible to have such a thing as principle.
Josie stood up angrily: "I announce that I will break off diplomatic relations with you for three minutes."
After speaking, he turned and left.
An Yi turned her head: "Where are you going?"
"Wash, hands, room."
When the door of the wing was closed again, An Yi turned back. Luo Xiu, who was sitting diagonally across from him, cast his eyes halfway, as if he was thinking about something, not interested.
An Yi smiled and said, "Josie is not really angry, you don't have to go to your heart."
Luo Xiu raised his eyes: "?"
"..."
Looking at each other for a few seconds, An Yi already understood from the silent look in his eyes
Luo Xiu did not even think about it.
An Yi smiled and asked, "Seeing you are a little distracted, I thought you were worried about Josie."
"Well, no." Luo Xiu dropped his gaze back.
"Then what are you thinking?"
Luo Xiu was silent for two seconds and said frankly: "Blind branches."
"Oh, is that Miss Gu, right?" An Yi said, "The call you answered before Miss Gu's phone came in was also about this, right?"
"Ok."
"Should I say that you deserve to be the eldest master of the Luo family?" An Yi joked. "After all, I thought you were ready to retreat to the mountains, but the news is still so clear. Only a little bit of trouble, someone will report to you immediately? "
Luo Xiu sips tea, his expression is still: "You don't come to tease me."
"I'm telling the truth, very frankly."
Under Anyina's scrutiny eyes hidden behind the joke, Luo Xiu nodded indifferently: "Well, you guessed it right."
An Yi ling.
Luo Xiu simply said: "I was looking for someone to investigate her, especially when she left the circle."
An Yi frowned, but stopped talking.
Luo Xiu: "Say something straight."
An Yi thought for a few seconds before she said: "If this Miss Gu is the one who can get your only favor, then I don't think she would like to be investigated privately."
"I know."
"Then you still..."
An Yi raised his head subconsciously, but saw Luo Xianxian looking at him, with an ice-like texture in his brown eyes: "Even if I know, I can only do this."
"why?"
"Only in this way can I control the situation, understand and grasp the factors that will harm her."
An Yi sighed: "Perhaps the problem is that you want to control the situation at all times. I admit that you can do it, but in relationships, this is not an advantage that people will like."
Luo Xiu smiled suddenly.
An Yi asked angrily, "What are you laughing at?"
Luo Xiu raised his smiling eyes: "When did I have the advantage?"
An Yi choked.
"Of those who really know me, you, Josie, Luo Jingyuan, Luo Qingtang, and Luo Zhan..."
Luo Xiu looked back, smiling gently.
"Does anyone think I am a good person?"
An Yi feels sorry: "You don't need to be so pretentious."
"Oh," Luo Xiu smiled and raised a teacup to invite, "Then you say one of my strengths?"
An Yi was stunned.
tender? fake.
Kindness? does not exist.
sincere? Never had.
Facing such a good brother with a very weak moral sense and basically zero empathy ability, An Yi was silent for a long time, giving a thumbs up, "Good looking."
Luo Xiu smiled: "Difficult for you?"
An Yi coughed awkwardly.
Luo Xiu didn't care, and looked back again. He played with the tea cup in his hand and said lightly: "I don't think anyone will like the real me, nor do I need it."
An also puzzled to see him.
Luo Xiu smiled gently: "What do you want to be true? Just want her to like it. What she likes is what I look like."
"..."
An Yi frowned.
Although he has never been in a relationship, his instinct is wrong. But he couldn't tell what was wrong.
In the end, An Yi had to sigh and abandon the topic: "Did you find the reason why Blind Branch retired back then?"
"not yet."
"What should I do now?" An Yi asked, "When you answered the phone, Josie and I looked at the online situation. I didn't expect that in such a short period of time, there was a lot of trouble."
Luo Xiu's thin tire teacup turned between his fingers and stopped, and he chuckled coldly when he saw the waves in the cup.
"Because someone is behind the scenes and wants to make things worse."
An Yi was taken aback, "Your people?"
"Of course not," Luo Xiu frowned and raised his eyes. "Why do you think so."
An Yi regained consciousness and laughed: "It's not that you two are too tacitly agreeing. You just said that Zhuo Yixuan is not a blind branch. In a blink of an eye, the blind branch came forward. I thought you would be happy to see it. Push the boat along the river."
Luo Xiu shook his head: "Now the focus of public opinion is on the blind branch. This is not what I want to see. At this time, adding to the flames will only put her on the cusp of the storm, and I will not do it."
"Since it's not you, who else would it be? Zhuo Yixuan and the people behind her must be impossible. They want this matter to be silent. If you want to talk about enmity, it shouldn't be."
"..."
Luo Xiu didn't speak, but he curled his lips when he heard the words. That little emotion is not close to laughing, more like a mockery of Liang Bingbing.
Seeing his expression, An Yi knows: "You guessed who it is? Does Zhuo Yixuan have any enemies?"
"You don't need to be enmity, it's enough to be driven by considerable interests."
"Benefits? What are the benefits?"
"It's not long after "You Demon" is finished, it is when they desperately want to maintain the best heat."
An Yi was stunned for a few seconds before reacting: "The chief screenwriter of the series had such a scandal, what good is it for them?"
"You don't know this circle. Word of mouth is valued by the directors and actors. Before that, all the management wanted was attention and topical interest."
"Even this scandal does not matter?"
Luo Xiu's tone was calm and almost indifferent: "As long as it is not a problem that touches the bottom line of society, whether it is positive or negative, it can be categorized as traffic and heat."
"..."
An Yi listened dumb for a while, smiled and shook his head: "Are you all playing capital so terrible? As expected, they are a group of people who have been fighting in the dark quagmire from the roots."
Luo Xiu smiled faintly, and poked him relentlessly: "Going back to the source, your origin is not clean."
An Yi immediately turned his face: "This believer, don't speak falsely, my root lies in Taoism, not elsewhere."
Luo Xiu smiled rather than smile: "Really?"
Not waiting for An to speak again, outside the wooden door of the wing not far away, several sounds that seemed to be disputes came back.
The two people in the room stopped at the same time.
An Yi looked back: "What is the situation, there can still be conflicts in the Qiao's annex?"
Luo Xiu put the tea cup in his hand, his eyes pressed, and he casually said: "Probably it is Josie and Joe... Dong?"
An Yi smiled angrily, and turned back: "The orthodox young master of the Qiao family is called Qiao Lin'an, what is the bridge west of the bridge?"
"Ok."
Luo Xiu didn't lift his eyes, obviously he had no interest in whether the Qiao family's son at the competition level was called Qiao Dong or Qiao Lin'an.
An Yi quickly recovered: "How did you know it was Qiao Dong? Bah, Qiao Lin'an is here?"
Luo Xiu: "Guess it."
Anyi: "?"
Before An Yi asked, when the door of the wing opened, it was the young girl who spilled tea by accident and ran in at this moment with a panic expression on her face.
"Two or two gentlemen, do you want to go out and take a look," she pointed to the door of the room, lowering her voice anxiously, "the younger one and the younger one are quarreling."
"..."
An Yi turned her head back with a complicated expression and looked at Luo Xiu.
Luo Xiu raised his eyes: "What's wrong?"
An Yi: "Don't you be a ghost?"
Luo Xiu had a meal: "?"
An Yi: "Otherwise, you just sit in front of me and don't move. How can you guess that Qiao Lin'an and Josie are quarreling outside?"
"..."
Luo Xiu glanced to his side, and the helper looked at the two of them in anxious manner. He nodded at each other: "Let's go out now."
The helper breathed a sigh of relief and quickly turned around.
Luo Xiu then got up and left the table and said, "Because this is the Qiao's annex."
"Ok?"
An Yi looked up, but Luo Xiu had already walked out. When he wanted to understand the logic, he got up and followed out.
When walking around the corridor, An Yi still sighed: "Fortunately, you don't plan to enter our view anymore."
"?" Luo Xiu looked back.
An Yi: "The juniors and disciples in my view are pure and straightforward. If you enter this kind of evil, how can they play with you?"
Luo Xiu smiled and declined to comment.
Under the guidance of the little helper girl, the two walked around the winding corridor.
Turning at the third corner, the helper turned his head: "Just ahead."
As soon as she finished speaking, a sardonic smile came back from behind the door of the moon cave in front.
"I told you a long time ago that you should position yourself, don't move things that you shouldn't move unconsciously, like Qiao's annex, it shouldn't be a place where you can come here with integrity."
Josie's anger also rang out: "I'm just gathering with friends, and it won't hinder you. You don't need to be so aggressive, elder brother?"
"Big brother? Haha, have you heard? He even called me big brother?"
A few echoing laughs were harsh and unpleasant.
Josie's voice became deeper: "You are drunk today, and I don't want to argue with you. My friend is still waiting for me, please let me."
"Let me? Ha, this is the boundary of the Qiao family. I am the next owner of the Qiao family. You asked me to make room for you?" Qiao Lin'an's voice also became gloomy, "You What kind of thing? Hupengou friends who can mix with you, what qualifications do they have to enter our Qiao's annex?"
"Qiao Lin'an, don't you"
As soon as Qiao Xi reached the peak of his anger, he saw An Yi walking out of the Moon Cave not far behind Qiao Lin'an.
Josie looked dark, helpless and complicated.
After An Yi came out, he leaned against the door of the Moon Cave and laughed lazily: "Oh, it's so lively? Second Young Master Qiao, you are big enough to go out to the bathroom. Why do you have to hug you from behind?"
"Who?" Qiao Lin'an turned back ugly, looking at An Yi, his complexion was Panasonic, and he sneered: "Who did I think it was? So it was."
Before the words fell, another came out from behind the door of the moon cave.
Qiao Lin'an's face changed.
When Luo Xiu came out, he didn't look at anyone else, and only turned to his side. He smiled and asked, "Usually fighting with Joe Xi is so fierce, why do you run faster than anyone at this time?"
An Yi: "I'm here to watch the fun, not to help him."
Luo Xiu smiled: "Oh, isn't it?"
At this moment, the few people standing on Qiao Lin'an all recovered and turned their eyes to the center.
Qiao Lin'an at the focal point was obviously uncomfortable. His expression changed a few times before finally he was unwilling and had to soften his tone: "It turns out that Qiao...it turns out that the second brother's guest is Mr. Luo."
When Luo Xiu heard the words, he turned around and came over with a gentle smile: "Mr. Qiao is polite. It's not worth mentioning that it's not worth mentioning."
"…puff."
An Yi leaned on the moon cave gate and laughed.
Qiao Lin'an glared at him subconsciously, but unfortunately his angry eyes were caught in the middle by a pair of gentle brown eyes. He stiffened, and forced a smile: "I, I lost a word after drinking...Mr. Luo don't take it to heart."
Luo Xiu didn't seem to hear anything, and didn't mean to stop when he walked in front of them. Qiao Lin'an and his friends had to avoid them.
Luo Xiu stopped beside Josie: "I thought about it, this is my fault, sorry."
Josie paused before realizing what "this incident" was. He asked with a subtle expression, "Are you sure you want to talk about your personal issues here?"
"..."
Luo Xiu smiled.
Then he turned back and looked at Qiao Linan gently: "Mr. Qiao, were you talking to me just now?"
Qiao Lin'an had an ugly expression, and after struggling for a few seconds, he lowered his head: "Second...Brother, this is my fault, sorry."
Josie was stunned.
This is the same template formula as Luo Xiu. He glanced at Luo Xiu and then understood something.
Josie replied helplessly: "It's okay."
Qiao Lin'an turned to Luo Xiu with a sullen expression, "I'm sorry Mr. Luo what happened today. When I wake up from the alcohol, I will definitely come to my door to make amends for Mr. Luo the next day. I will leave today."
"Mr. Joe walk slowly."
"..."
When the people walked away, Josie withdrew her gaze with a complicated expression, and stared at Luo Xiu: "If it weren't for the word Qiao printed on the side door, I would doubt that this is yours or mys."
Luo Xiu smiled casually.
An Yi also walked up to the two of them. Hearing what Josie said, he raised his chin to Luo Xiu: "Don't think that he is still the reputation he had before you went abroad. You have not been in China for the past two years. For a while, Mr. Luo was sick. , The Luo family has been in charge for a period of time. I don’t know how many legendary stories have spread about him in the circle, right, Luo Xiu?"
"Really," Luo Xiu said softly, "I haven't heard of it."
An Yi sneered: "Needless to say, Luo Zhanke was the young master of the Luo family two years ago, but now he is replaced by the second young master of the Luo family by half of them?"
Luo Xiu didn't hear it, with a gentle smile.
Josie sighed: "Just now you came here in that posture, let alone, it's pretty handsome, did you hook my blind date away?"
When Luo Xiu heard this sentence, he didn't know what he was thinking of, he lowered his eyes and laughed, "No. After we changed the two of us, she must be in front of me."
Josie: "...?"
In return, Josie disliked: "Too bad, isn't it?"
An Yi patted Josie on the shoulder: "Stupid boy, you don't understand, so this is the root reason why you have been so lavish on the surface until now."
Josie shook An Yi's hand even more disgustingly, "You are a Taoist priest who will never marry forever, have the face to say me?"
"I'm doing it for you," An Yi pointed to Luo Xiu, "This is a fairy. I'm afraid you will follow his way, so I remind you, don't go. His mind is dark and crooked. ."
Josie smiled bitterly: "I don't want to, it's a pity..."
An Yi paused, gagging and turning to Luo Xiu: "I didn't even react to what you said just now. Is this Qiao Lin'an okay, does it matter to you?"
Luo Xiu didn't care about An Yi's nonsense words: "His ability and brains are not bad."
An Yi: "I have no problem with my brain and can do it just now?"
Luo Xiu smiled coldly: "He is in control of his own measure. Even if Josie returns to Qiao's house to file a complaint, he can excuse himself for being drunk."
"To make Josie angry?"
Luo Xiu casually said: "If Josie is excited to make a mistake, it probably suits him better."
"..."
Josie and Ann both froze.
In the end, An Yi patted Josie on the shoulder with emotion: "He may not be like that, you almost got into trouble... I just said that people like them have a dark mind."
Luo Xiu frowned slightly and looked back at Qiao Xi: "Given his start in Qiao's house over the past few years, he shouldn't be so against you. Has your father's attitude towards you changed recently?"
Josie was stunned for two seconds and shook her head: "Is there nothing to sacrifice to the ancestors?"
Luo Xiu: "Memorial to the ancestors?"
"Yes, our Qiao family usually pays ancestor worship to our ancestors, usually to visit famous Taoist priests." Josie glanced at An Yi's Taoist priest's bun, and turned back helplessly, "It was my father in the past. , I don’t know what’s going on this year, so he said that I’m too free, so please give me this ring of Taoist priest."
Luo Xiu's eyes flashed across and it became clear.
An Yi interjected blankly: "So it's just an errand coolie to earn a living? Your brother has a problem with his brain, so he should care about it?"
Luo Xiu smiled and sighed, "If Luo Jingyuan suddenly said, I or Luo Zhan would give me the ancestor worship, do you know what we would do?"
An Yi: "What else can Old Master Luo give? Rock-paper-scissors?"
Luo Xiu smiled: "Run, go abroad overnight. Also try to delay the other person's schedule."
Anyi: "?"
Luo Xiu didn't explain any more, and asked Josie: "When will I go, which Taoist temple?"
Josie: "I only have time on weekends. The first Saturday of next month seems to be the 4th, right? The place? It must be the Taoist Temple of An Yi, and I still barely know it there."
Luo Xiu nodded: "Well, I was with you that day."
Josie was startled.
An Yi turned around alertly: "Why are you going to become a monk to harm our Taoist minds?"
Luo Xiu laughed, but did not answer.
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"Blind Branch Goose Daily 2.0"
2020.7.4, Saturday, sunny
Unexpectedly, after the filming was over, I couldn't bring back "Raising Goose 1.0". It seems that I will not have a chance with it for the rest of my life.
Sorry "Raising Goose", for the sake of mom's fan vest, mom can only be sorry for you T^T
I visited the night market these two nights and couldn't find another brown book similar to "Raising Goose 1.0", alas. That color really resembles the eyes of the baby goose, which is a pity.
Forget it, let's use this first. I will cherish you this time, 2.0!
Tips for raising goose this month:
(1) In order to make up for the lack of last month, by the way, pray for the new drama of Baby Goose. Just this month, I will go to Daoji Temple to pray for the baby Goose every Saturday!
(2) Remember to call Ms. Gu Yuan and ask the old Chinese doctor at home if there is any prescription to treat stomach problems.
(3)…………
Gu Nian's nib stopped halfway.
She picked up the vibrating mobile phone from the side, and the caller ID on the screen made her feel trembling.
Gu Nian was at a loss.
It's strange that she didn't do anything wrong except for deleting the blind date. Why did she feel so guilty when she saw Gu Yuan's phone call?
Without understanding, Gu Nian picked up the phone blankly: "Mom?"
Gu Yuan's voice was a little low: "What's the matter with you?"
"Huh? What's the matter?"
"If it wasn't for your Auntie Zhang who likes to surf the Internet, then I don't know until today." After Gu Yuan's voice became louder, she suppressed it again. "You... the one who has been making trouble last week until now. Did you post it yourself?"
"That, I sent it."
"What do you think, huh? Let's say it's OK, let the past things pass, the big living people can't be entangled to death by the things, what are you going to do?"
Gu Nian sighed softly: "Mom, don't worry about it. I know what I am doing and will take care of myself. And you should have seen it too, I haven't mentioned anything yet."
Gu Yuan: "I watched, I know you are not reconciled, but mom now doesn't want you to be so promising and prosperous. Mom wants you to have a good life... Plain is a blessing."
"I know that I have been persuading myself this way for the past two years, using this as a reason to escape with peace of mind, but I know I don't really think so in my heart."
"Have you really thought about it?"
"Ok."
Gu Nian grumbled, and then she saw the book in front of her, her eyes bent down: "Moreover, besides my own inner motivation, I now have an external goal."
Gu Yuan: "Huh? What's the goal?"
Gu Nian chuckled and leaned back in the chair: "I won't tell you a secret."
On the phone, Gu Yuan probably heard that her tone was not a pretense. She was relieved and laughed at her. Gu Nian could not hear her clearly, because Jiang Xiaoqing’s voice came from outside the room at the same time.
"Gu Nian, are you alright?"
"Come here." Gu Nian turned back to the phone, "I have made an appointment to go to Daoji Temple with my roommate today to pray for blessings, and I will call you back when I come back?" "No, I have one more thing left. Just go, don’t give it back to me, I have an appointment with your three aunts to play mahjong."
Gu Nian couldn't laugh or cry: "You said."
Gu Nian didn't think that Gu Yuan could do anything serious, and she was probably a new blind date again.
So she got up from the chair while preparing to pack things.
Then Gu Nian heard that after a few seconds of hesitation, Gu Yuan asked uncertainly: "Last time in the hotel, the boy who drove you back to the room was really not your boyfriend?"
"?"
Gu Nian stopped.
After staying for a few seconds, she asked in confusion: "Hotel? My boyfriend?"
"Yes, it was the one I called you the last time." Mother Gu was dumb and angrily asked, "So you didn't call me this week because you were embarrassed to mention it, but because you just drank the incident. ?"
"...Fragments, fragments?"
Gu Nian clicked in her heart.
When was the only time she was drunk in the past two years, she knew all too well. Out of her escape mentality, coupled with Luo Xiu's comfort, she has been naively not recalling, and really thought that nothing happened that night.
And now what she can hear from Gu Yuan's mouth is obviously at least one thing that has happened that she has forgotten.
After the brain blanked out, Gu Nian trembled and asked, "Did you video call me that night?"
"Ok."
"Is there someone by my side after I picked it up?"
"Yes, you still hugged someone. I thought he was a criminal who wanted to get drunk while you were drunk, so I almost asked the kid to take a photo with his ID card."
Gu Nian was crying and howling in her heart, she had to press her face to be calm, but her voice was a little trembling, "Is it called Luo Xiu?"
"Well, this is how he introduced himself to me."
Gu Nian burst into tears: "Then besides hug him, did I do anything more excessive?"
"..."
There was a sudden silence across the phone.
Gu Nianxin raised it high.
Then Gu Yuan sighed and said earnestly: "I said I wouldn't let you find someone too handsome to be your husband, but I didn't teach you to be a son."
Gu Nian: "..."
Gu Nian: "???"