Mr. Zhou Doesn't Want to Work Hard Anymore!

It was already afternoon when the two arrived at Zhou's house, and Zhou Mingxuan was a little dissatisfied with Zhou Chenxi's behavior of sneaking out without saying hello.

However, in the afternoon, the guests arrived one after another early, and Zhou Mingxuan was too busy with socializing, so he didn't have the energy to take care of him anymore.

Zhou Chenxi and Lu Ji were among the guests, and they walked slowly to the security guard and stopped.

"Please show the invitation card." The security guard said mechanically to them before he could raise his head.

"Friday!" Zhou Chenxi snapped his fingers in front of him, motioning him to look over, "This is a guest I invited over, let me introduce you, this is the president of the Lu Group, Lu Ji."

Before he finished speaking, the guests beside him looked sideways.

Lu Ji of the Lu Group?

Lu Ji actually came today?

Is Zhou Xin going to cooperate with the Lu family or what?

If we join forces, there will be no one else!

The heads of other companies and the big bosses who wanted to come to discuss business with Zhou Mingxuan were all excited.

Lu Ji coughed dryly amidst the commotion.

Who would have thought that he was just an ordinary guest invited by the younger brother of the protagonist today.

Taking a closer look on Friday, isn't this the young master who just slipped out in the morning and didn't even have time to come back for lunch?

He hurriedly said: "Young master, Aunt Zhang just came to see you and said that you didn't eat lunch, let her make something to pad your stomach first."

Zhou Chenxi waved his hand: "We have eaten at noon, so let's go in first!" After speaking, he pulled Lu Luji and walked in.

It was only on Friday that I came to my senses, what did the young master just say?

That's the guest he invited - Lu Ji from the Lu Group? ?

The other guests were also confused, Mr. Lu was actually invited by the second young master of the Zhou family, so what is the relationship between Mr. Lu and the Zhou brothers?

Zhou Chenxi walked all the way to introduce Lu Ji.Seeing Zhao Yiqianer, the bodyguard guarding the garden, he wanted to introduce Lu Ji (Zhao Yiqianer said: I don’t need to introduce him, thank you!), and seeing Zhou Chenxi’s return, Chang Butler, who hurried up to greet him, also wanted to introduce Lu Ji. I would like to introduce Lu Ji grandly. Seeing Aunt Zhang who came to ask Zhou Chenxi if he was hungry, he introduced Lu Ji grandly.

It's almost enough to arrange noodles for Lu Ji in the whole Zhou family.

Usually, Zhou Chenxi has nothing to do at home in this kind of banquet occasion, and someone else is busy with the busy work. He is at most a mascot.

In the past, when Zhou Mingxuan celebrated his birthday, Zhou Chenxi wanted to help, but when he went to the garden, he was rejected by Zhou's mother, when he went to the kitchen, he was rejected by Aunt Zhang, and when he went to the door to greet guests, he was rejected by Chang's housekeeper.Zhou Mingxuan was talking about business with the guests, but Zhou Chenxi couldn't get in the conversation, so he could only hide in the room and watch. He didn't come down until his brother called him.

Today he finally has something to do.

Brother's guest is brother's, only Lu Ji is his guest, he must take good care of Lu Ji.

Zhou Chenxi and Lu Ji walked through the garden, but they didn't see Zhou's mother. Aunt Zhang brought up a bowl of dim sum, and Zhou Chenxi handed it to Lu Ji first.

He ate with Lu Ji at noon, if he was hungry later, Lu Ji would be hungry too!

Lu Ji was a little amused, feeling that he had been treated unusually.

Aunt Zhang had no choice but to serve Zhou Chenxi another bowl of dim sum.

The two were running a small stove when Zhou's mother came in from the back garden.

"There are so many people here so soon?" Mother Zhou whispered.

She is wearing a beautiful dress and has just been looking at her new rose flowers in the backyard.

It seems that Mingxuan has managed Zhou Xin very well in the past two years.

Zhou's mother thought so, and saw her youngest son standing in the corner eating.

"Mom!" Zhou Chenxi waved.

"Chenxi, where have you been?" Zhou's mother came over while talking, and suddenly saw Lu Ji standing beside Zhou Chenxi.

——Is this Lu Ji from the Lu family?

Mother Zhou's heart moved, but she still said: "This is...?"

"This is Lu Ji." Zhou Chenxi introduced Lu Ji again solemnly.

Only then did Mother Zhou politely say, "Hello."

Lu Ji put down the snack bowl and shook hands with her politely: "Hello."

As expected of the person in charge of the Lu family, he has an extraordinary bearing.

Thinking so, Zhou's mother noticed the dim sum bowl that Lu Ji had just held in her hand.

Guests' afternoon tea is almond walnut crisp, with green tea and coffee to choose from.

Zhou Chenxi didn't like to eat these, so Aunt Zhang specially prepared Jiuniang Yuanzi for him, saying that she was afraid that he would be hungry in the afternoon, and now there is a bowl in Lu Ji's hands.

Mother Zhou smiled and said, "Chen Xi, take care of the guests, I'll go talk to the other elders first."

Zhou Chenxi has a sense of responsibility: "Of course."

Zhou's mother left, and Zhou Mingxuan appeared after a while.

He had just finished negotiating business with someone, with a serious face and a straight suit, next to him was a middle-aged man in a suit like him, with wrinkles on his forehead, holding two documents in his hand.

The two stepped out from the reception study room on the first floor, and Zhou Mingxuan shook hands with the other party: "Please do what you want, there are afternoon tea and snacks in the living room, as well as Mingqian Longjing, which I specially asked people to buy in Hangzhou, You can try it, please forgive me for the poor hospitality."

"You're welcome." The middle-aged man smiled and turned to leave.

Zhou Mingxuan raised his head and saw Lu Ji standing beside Zhou Chenxi.

Lu Ji: "..."

Zhou Mingxuan: "..."

Zhou Mingxuan sorted out his expression secretly, and said to Zhou Chenxi first, "Chenxi, where did you go before?"

"Brother?" Zhou Chenxi turned around and said, "I'm going to pick up Lu Ji, he has never been to our house, I'm afraid he might get lost."

Nonsense.

Zhou Mingxuan thought to himself, if an adult opens a navigation system, is there any place in the world that he can't find?

Even if you really can't find it, how about picking someone up for lunch and not coming back?

Having said that, Zhou Mingxuan still had a serious expression on his face, and stretched out his hand to shake Lu Ji lightly: "Hello, Zhou Mingxuan."

"Hello, Luji."

The moment Lu Ji was about to take back his hand, he suddenly felt Zhou Mingxuan exert some strength.

Lu Ji: "..."

"Oh, that's right!" Zhou Chenxi didn't notice it, and suddenly remembered, "Brother, Lu Ji brought you a special gift, do you want to see it now?"

There are not so many guests who need to entertain.

If you open the gift now, it means that Zhou Mingxuan attaches great importance to this guest.

This kind of banquet with commercial purposes has etiquette, and there is a special place in the living room for stacking gifts.

Every year on Zhou Mingxuan's birthday, the corner of the living room would be piled up. In fact, those gifts were all very expensive. Zhou Mingxuan couldn't unpack everything. Make a list for Zhou Mingxuan, and when he attends similar banquets in the future, he will return and return according to the list. There is nothing special, and basically all of them will be put into the storage room.

As for the gift in return, the housekeeper and secretary will arrange it.

The only gift that Zhou Mingxuan would open at the banquet was from Zhou Chenxi.

Zhou Chenxi is the most special to him, no matter what gift his younger brother gives Zhou Mingxuan, he wants others to know.

Parents don't get this kind of treatment.

Moreover, at Zhou Mingxuan's age and status, it was not appropriate for him to open his parents' presents on the spot.

Lu Ji's gift is not special no matter what, but it seems to have a lot of meaning in Zhou Chenxi's heart.

Zhou Mingxuan had no choice but to agree.

Zhou Chenxi then pushed Lu Ji and asked him to get the gift.

Lu Ji went to the place where the presents were piled up, and brought back the gift he had just put down.

"Young Master Zhou, something happened suddenly," Lu Ji politely handed over the gift, and said, "I haven't prepared any expensive gifts, so I will visit you alone at another time."

"Okay, I just wanted to chat with you," Zhou Mingxuan accepted the gift with a half-smile, "Mr. Lu doesn't have to be so polite. Now that we know each other, there will definitely be opportunities for cooperation in the future. When the time comes..."

He opened the box, his expression suddenly froze.

Seeing that his brother's expression seemed wrong, Zhou Chenxi quickly said, "I picked this tie pin together with Lu Ji, do you like it?"

"Oh..." Zhou Mingxuan sighed meaningfully, and glanced at the tie clip on Lu Ji's chest.

It is better not to open this gift than to open it.

Zhou Mingxuan gave a "tsk" in his heart. If he remembered correctly, the tie clip on Lu Ji's tie was the same brand as the one in his hand.

Lu Ji probably didn't have the leisure time to wear a couple's money with Zhou Mingxuan. After thinking about it for a while, he knew why Zhou Chenxi disappeared for a whole afternoon.

"Brother, do you like it?" Zhou Chenxi still looked at him expectantly.

This expression was the same as his usual expression when he blindly bought gifts for Zhou Mingxuan. Zhou Mingxuan put the lid back helplessly: "I like it."

He said to Lu Ji: "Mr. Lu, please do yourself a favor, the hospitality is not good, there are a few elders here, I'll go and say hello to them first."

Lu Ji said politely, "Excuse me."

Zhou Mingxuan took the gift and left. Zhou Chenxi sighed and said, "My brother has a good impression of you."

Lu Ji couldn't laugh or cry, he didn't see that Zhou Mingxuan had a good impression of him at all.

However, Zhou Mingxuan, the older brother, really loved his younger brother.

On the way, many people took the opportunity to get close to Lu Ji, but because Lu Ji is not the protagonist today, he only stood with Zhou Chenxi, and everyone didn't understand the situation, so they just greeted a few politely.Zhou Chenxi was bored, and suddenly said to Lu Ji, "Let's go upstairs, Lu Ji."

Lu Ji raised his eyebrows: "Is it possible?"

"Of course you are my guest, there's nothing wrong with that."

From the moment Lu Ji entered the room, he felt surrounded by Zhou Chenxi. It was his first time attending this kind of banquet that he didn't need any business experience, and he wasn't surrounded by a lot of people. He could even be called doing nothing.

Zhou Chenxi led Lu Ji to the stairs, and saw a painting hanging on the wall near the restaurant.

Zhou Chenxi followed his gaze and found that it was the family portrait he drew when he was a child.

Four matchstick figurines, two of them have expressions like this: "=_=", a woman with curly curly hair raised the corners of her mouth, and the shortest boy with short light flaxen hair has an expression like this " :D".

Lifelike, it is simply a painting of the soul.

Lu Ji bent his eyes: "The painting is really good."

Zhou Chenxi blushed from his praise, and grabbed his wrist and walked upstairs: "Oh, don't look at it, don't look at it!"

The two went upstairs.

Zhou's mother saw their interaction from one side, just as Zhou's father came down the stairs on the other side, Zhou's mother went up to meet him, took his arm and said: "Before we were worried about our little son's life-long affairs, and worried that he would work hard outside alone. No one takes care of it, do you think we are thinking too much?"

Zhou's father said: "Lu Ji? He is not as gentle and elegant as he looks on the surface, but this matter depends on the son's own wishes. I guess Mingxuan is more anxious than us."

Father Zhou and mother Zhou looked at Zhou Mingxuan together.

While Zhou Mingxuan was talking to the elders who came to congratulate him on his birthday, he raised his head and glanced towards the stairs.

Noticing his parents watching him, he gave a dry cough and took a sip of water from the cup beside him.

Zhou Chenxi opened the door of his studio to show Lu Ji, which was full of various paints and easels.

"Look, this is the place where I paint," Zhou Chenxi said proudly, "I used to spend three days fishing and two days drying the net for everything, but only painting lasted the longest, and my dad made room for me. I bought this studio, but I still like to paint in the room, because I’m lazy, and I can lie down after painting.”

Zhou Chenxi led Lu Ji to his room while talking.

Lu Ji smiled and said, "Then what does acting mean to you?"

"Acting?" Zhou Chenxi thought about it seriously, "It counts as faith."

He summed it up in one word.

Only faith can make him persevere.

Lu Ji's expression softened.

Zhou Chenxi pushed open the door of her room and let Lu Ji in.

"Come in!" Zhou Chenxi said, "My room is very comfortable. Anyway, there is still time. Let's sit for a while and go down after dinner."

"Hmm." It was the first time for Lu Ji to experience this kind of lazy guest. Wearing an extremely restrained and exquisite formal suit, he looked a little out of place in Zhou Chenxi's room full of warm colors.

Lu Ji loosened his tie and visited Zhou Chenxi's room.

Zhou Chenxi noticed his graceful wrist and well-defined knuckles. After the tie was loosened, the slightly protruding Adam's apple was clearly visible.

Zhou Chenxi's mouth was dry for no reason, he slid his eyes to the side, and said, "Take off your coat first, and put it back on later."

Lu Ji only unbuttoned the shirt collar, "It's okay, it's because you are too comfortable here, but I'm a little restrained."

Zhou Chenxi didn't dare to look at him anymore, and asked Lu Ji to sit wherever he wanted.

His bed was beige, more than two meters wide, and there were N lazy eggs who had been with him all the time. The floor was covered with fluffy carpets. Zhou Chenxi stood there barefoot, and his whole person looked very gentle.

"I'll pour you Coke, okay?" Zhou Chenxi said nervously, "I have hidden several cans of Coke in my small refrigerator. My brother said that drinking too much can cause high blood sugar. How old do you think he is? Watching me keep in good health, my head is going to grow big!"

Zhou Chenxi spared no effort to black brother to relieve his tension, but Lu Ji felt that Zhou Mingxuan was very good: "He is for your own good."

Zhou Chenxi opened a can of Coke and handed it to Lu Ji. Lu Ji saw a picture book he put on the table, which was very similar to the picture book he secretly drew himself when he recorded "Carp". Lu Ji hesitated for a while. , asked Zhou Chenxi: "Can I have a look at that?"

Zhou Chenxi became even more nervous and said, "No!"

He hurried over in a panic and knocked down the Coke he had put on the table.

The bubbling liquid came out, Lu Ji had quick eyesight and quick hands, and rescued his painting book, and by the way grabbed Zhou Chenxi who almost tripped over with his left foot mixed with his right foot.

"I'm so stupid," Zhou Chenxi said lying in Lu Ji's arms, "I almost fell flat again."

Lu Ji held his waist and said, "I've never seen you fall on the ground, this is the first time, so you are not stupid."

Zhou Chenxi blinked her round eyes and smiled: "Thank you for saving my picture album, but my carpet is dirty, so I have to ask my aunt to come up and change it."

Lu Ji said: "Before you let her come up to change the carpet, in order to thank me for saving it, can you let me see a painting inside?"

He emphasized "one piece" just because he wanted to see the original picture of the color painting that Zhou Chenxi gave him.

"No." Zhou Chenxi said.

"Why?" Lu Ji asked.

——Because there are too many of you that I have drawn in it. Since I met you, I have drawn more and more, and I have drawn more and more. It will almost fill up the whole book. I don’t know how to show you.

Zhou Chenxi was thinking about what to say when suddenly there was a knock on the door.

"Chenxi, your Uncle Cheng is here, go down and say hello to him..."

The door of Zhou Chenxi's room was not closed. Zhou Mingxuan thought he could come in, but didn't think too much about it. When he opened the door, he found his younger brother and Lu Ji in the room, presenting a very strange posture.

Zhou Mingxuan: "..."

Lu Ji: "..."

Zhou Mingxuan looked at Lu Ji's hand on Zhou Chenxi's waist, and his collar, which was fine just now but was now unbuttoned.

The veins on Zhou Mingxuan's forehead twitched lightly, and said to Zhou Chenxi, "Zhou Chenxi, come with me."

The author has something to say: My brother put on the face of the dean.

Thanks to the mines of "Baby Hatchling"!

Thanks to "Xing Qi", "Ms. Liang who didn't want to be named", "Mysterious Passerby", "Messy in the Maple", and "Yu Fatty" for their nutrient solution!