Lu Xizhan also used to be proud of herself because of her youth and promise. In her world, there may be fewer emotions and six desires, so the human touch in her bones has turned into a driving force for hard work. For her, learning and thinking are too simple. Everything about her, including becoming the youngest female professor, seems to be all in her life plan, and there are no surprises or surprises to speak of.She prefers to read Lu Xun's articles in her spare time, because she is the same kind of person as this Mr. Zhou. Lu Xun of that era was the pioneer of the times. Because of his thorough thinking, he often felt a sense of loneliness derived from wisdom. , happened to be the same as Lu Xizhan, because she was too good, so there was nothing that could catch their eyes.

The appearance of Qiao Yixia made her feel the existence of human kindness. She no longer immersed herself in the ocean of knowledge, but wanted to join hands with her to watch the ebb and flow of the tide, watch the flowers bloom and fade side by side, and appreciate the beauty of the world.

Returning to Qiao's this time is a new experience for Qiao Yixia. She has successfully become a full-time employee of Qiao's, and she can coordinate work and life with ease.

As long as Lu Xizhan shows the slightest willingness to teach in the local university, she can imitate the principals of the schools who "visit the thatched cottage three times". Although there was a drug counterfeiting case before, her academic attainments are beyond reproach. This well-known professor at home and abroad is going to teach in his own school.In public and private, it is a matter of getting the best of both worlds.

The desolate land was full of pits and hollows, and the dead branches and fallen leaves rendered a scene of desolation. The person standing beside Lu Xizhan exhaled, and suddenly felt that his breath turned into frost, making him shiver with cold.

"Professor Lu, you'll be there in about 10 minutes." The speaker was Zhang Ze, a retired police officer who used to be Officer Peng's immediate superior.

"En." Lu Xizhan only hummed lightly, and walked in without haste.

It was severe cold at this time, and the coming of the cold air made her throat sore and unbearable, and her breathing became difficult and short. She walked in front of Zhang Ze, took out the spray from her pocket, and sprayed it lightly twice, and then she felt better .The most taboo thing for asthma is catching a cold, and it is most likely to recur during the alternation of seasons.

The abandoned factory in front of me, or a piece of ruins, is more appropriate. According to Zhang Ze, it was an abandoned factory that no one cared about at the time. Due to the gloomy environment, few people paid attention to it. It was dilapidated, with only a few pieces of broken tiles and iron sheets, and it exuded an unpleasant smell.

"At that time, we were here and found the Qiao family siblings." Zhang Ze said thoughtfully.

Lucy glanced at him, and he continued: "I will never forget the scene that day, that poor boy was covered in blood and was stabbed several times, let alone the Qiao family, even we watched I was so distressed that I was about to cry, do you know Professor Lu, such a small child, after he left, his big eyes were still open, so clear and bright, as if he had a thousand words to say..."

"Where are the girls?"

"Girl, the whole person is like suffering from insanity. She is crazy and stupid. When she sees me, she will jump up and bite me, saying that I am a bad person and will kill me. We think she is probably scared, after all. At that time, she was only a minor child, and then she was sent to the hospital..."

"Where is the prisoner?" She said indifferently, "If I remember correctly, this case was not closed back then."

"Yes." Zhang Ze nodded, "This is also a stone in my heart. At that time, this kidnapping case was considered a major case, so it was assigned to our serious crime team to investigate. Not only that, but also investigated Experts from other cities came to help us. It’s a pity that the criminals left too little evidence at that time. We used lasers and other instruments to make a lot of determinations, but we didn’t find any marks left by the criminals, fingerprints, There are no footprints or hair. Even the knife that killed the boy did not leave any fingerprints, which really caused great difficulties for us to investigate the case."

"Where was the call between the kidnapper and you at that time? Can't find out his exact location?"

"The kidnapper called Qiao's family first, but the Qiao family didn't call the police immediately after receiving the call. This is also a common problem in kidnapping cases. Parents are afraid that the kidnappers will tear up their tickets. The first thing that comes to mind is often not the police. It was a money transaction. Hey, but how could the kidnappers do it so easily? Mr. Qiao took the money at the place agreed by the kidnappers, but there was no trace of his daughter or son, nor even the kidnappers. Of course the kidnappers It is impossible for him to see the real face clearly, so he called Mr. Qiao to leave first, saying that he would put the child back after getting the money and confirming that it was genuine. He also listened to his son's voice. Mr. Qiao had no choice but to leave temporarily. .Unfortunately, I waited and waited, but my daughter and son never came, so I called and called the police. But the kidnappers had already escaped." Zhang Ze said, every detail of the accident was deeply imprinted on his memory. in mind.

Lu Xizhan didn't speak any more, his high boots were stepping on the muddy ground, now there was a wind, the dust was flying, and there was a big tree with withered leaves not far away. There are strong traces of years of erosion.Lu Xizhan took a few steps forward, walking towards the pile of ruins step by step, she squatted down, and gently closed her eyes.

"Professor Lu..."

Zhang Ze called her and was about to walk towards her when she stretched out her hand to silence her.Zhang Ze didn't dare to get closer, for fear of affecting her thinking.Just stood there and waited.

Lucy is tall and tall, and she looks like an elf queen in a fantasy in this wasteland: "Which hospital did you send the siblings to after you rescued them?"

"Ah, the one in the city center is a courtyard..."

Lucy said: "Officer Zhang, thank you very much for today."

"Professor Lu, you are welcome. To tell you the truth, after I retired, I have been reading your works at home. Your "Twelve Mystery Dreams" portrays every dream deeply. Xiao Peng told me that you want to re-investigate I am very happy about this case, if Professor Lu lends a helping hand, then "

"Also, Officer Zhang. I hope only you know what happened today. I know, and Officer Peng knows.

"That's natural." Zhang Ze only thought that Lu Xizhan wanted to wait until the case came to light, so he didn't think much about it.

After separating from Zhang Ze, Lu Xizhan received a call from Charles. After staying in China for so many years, he finally decided to go back to the United States.Charles is not a stingy person, especially for Lucy, he always hopes to give her the best. On the one hand, she is his benefactor; on the other hand, he really likes her and loves her like a family member she.

It was clearly daytime, but the magnificent symphony was playing on the top floor of the resplendent hotel. The violinist was elegant and noble, the saxophone player was handsome and unrestrained, and the conductor's gestures were all extravagant.Lucy sat beside the crystal table, holding a delicate Hermès teacup, the fragrance of the tea lingered in her mouth, breathing out the fragrance of the room.On the opposite side, Charles had handsome eyebrows, a neat suit, and stars shining in his blue eyes. He looked very much like a European noble prince in the Renaissance.

"We will always be friends."

"of course."

He smiled slightly, and looked softly at the beautiful and picturesque woman in front of him: "You are the best woman in my heart, so you must be happy. I have given Mike full control over everything about the branch office, and I have told him However, you are his immediate boss."

"Charles, I am no longer a shareholder of Shijing."

"I know, but without you, there would be no Shijing. So whether it's Shijing or me, I will always remember your love. Don't say what you need, even if you just use me, it doesn't affect how I feel about you. A good guy. At least for me, yes."

Lu Xizhan shook his head and looked at him with a slight smile: "Your Chinese is getting better and better."

"Thank you for teaching me well." Charles has always been a very serious man. He rarely stuck out his tongue playfully, blinked his eyes, and his long eyelashes curled up. He was so cute. He looked at the preoccupied man in front of him. Lucy couldn't help asking, "You have something on your mind?" Lucy can hide her thoughts very well, she is a typical person who doesn't show emotions, but now she can't even pretend to be indifferent, Charles It is inevitable to worry about her.

"I'm thinking about a question."

If it was left in the past, Lucy would have told him no coldly, and I don't know if it was because he was leaving that her attitude towards him was a bit better, but Charles likes her, as long as she is a little warm to herself A little bit is enough for him to be happy all day: "What is it?"

"If you and I are both kidnapped by the kidnapper at the same time. The kidnapper didn't keep his promise and let us go after he got what he wanted. Then the game is over for both of us."

Charles didn't know why she asked such a question suddenly, but he thought about it carefully and said, "It should be."

"Then is there a possibility that I just killed you and left me?" Lu Xizhan drank the tea in the cup and said calmly.

Charles puffed up his cheeks and said unconvinced: "Why? If you keep you, he won't be afraid of danger, because you remember his appearance and voice, and you may tip off him and kill him... "

Lucy suddenly laughed, and shook her head while laughing. Charles was a little annoyed by her teasing, and asked her why. She shrugged and folded her hands under her chin: "Because I'm beautiful."

"What kind of reason is that!" Charles also laughed at the nonsensical answer, "Then I'm still handsome. Why did you kill me cruelly and leave you behind. I protest."

"Because I am not only beautiful, but also smart. The kidnapper is an angry youth, patriotic and family-loving. Although he is greedy for a little money, he still hopes to leave a smarter me to raise the overall intelligence level of the Chinese people and contribute to the country."

For some reason, Charles felt that Lucy looked at him like he was looking at a three-year-old child, so he quit immediately. Although he liked her and could tolerate her unconditionally, no matter what, he still had the dignity of a man, okay? , What's the matter with this kind of eyes looking at children.Also, what's with such a nonsensical answer? Is the person in front of me really Lu Xizhan?Could it be that he is bewitched?

"I can't tell you, so I won't tell you." Charles picked up the chopsticks awkwardly, and put a piece of ribs on his plate.

"Well. But I have something else to tell you."

"You say it."

"'Tipping off' is not used in this way. I tell the kidnappers secrets, but I tell the police about the crimes of the kidnappers. That is not rewarding. Charles, our Chinese culture is extensive and profound. Don't be self-defeating. Huh?"

Charles was so angry that his face was flushed, and he was about to retaliate, but when he looked up at her crooked eyes, straight nose, and cherry lips that were slightly parted from eating, he couldn't say anything. up.He has been friends with her for so long, but he can't get enough of this face. He has seen many beauties in the mall, but none of them are more beautiful and temperamental than Lu Xizhan, especially her natural beauty. He was so angry that he couldn't say a single harsh word, as if a little harshness would tarnish her elegance.

The two of them ate what was on the dinner plate quietly. Charles ate slowly on purpose, wanting to cherish the last time, look at her a few more times, and keep her in his memory forever.Maybe there will be very few chances to meet again in the future, but there will always be a place in my heart that belongs to Lu Xizhan, and no one can take it away.

"Actually, there is another possibility, that is, if you are alive, so am I."

"Huh?" Charles was in the sadness of parting, confused by Lucy's sudden words, and looked at her with a cute face.

Lu Xizhan looked away indifferently: "It's nothing." Anyway, I told him, but he didn't understand.

When lunch was about to end, Lu Xizhan received a call from Qiao Yixia, saying that Baiying and Shanglu had come and wanted to go to the train station with her to pick them up.Qiao Yixia asked her where she was, and she told the truth. Originally, she also wanted to introduce Charles to Qiao Yixia, and slowly told her about Shijing.

"Boyfriend?" Charles asked, seeing her sweet face.

"girlfriend."

"Oh, it's boring. I wanted to see which warrior conquered my queen. By the way, let me express my deep jealousy for him."

"It's my wife."

"...?"

Lu Xizhan said unhurriedly, "I said, it's my wife."

When the two were talking in the hall on the first floor after dinner, Charles happened to see a beautiful woman coming from not far away through the glass, and Lucy had his back to the glass, naturally he didn't know that Qiao Yixia had come.Charles thought of Lucy's tease to him just now, and suddenly said, "Can you give me a hug, dear?"

Before Lu Xizhan could react, he couldn't help but hug her tightly, which made Lu Xizhan quite conflicted.Just as he was about to break free, he turned his head and saw Qiao Yixia who had just entered the hall, but Charles was so strong that it was difficult for him to push him away.

Charles put his thumb on her cheek, which looked very intimate, and then kissed her. Both of them knew that Charles didn't kiss her face, but only his own fingers, but from the perspective of others, it seemed very As if kissing the cheek directly, Lucy's face turned pale, and finally the volcano erupted.Charles blinked at her, and said in a low voice: "My queen, aren't you eloquent? Now I want to let you experience what it means to be unable to argue." Then he walked forward and brushed shoulders with Qiao Yixia When they passed, they smiled at each other.After Charles walked out of the hall, he turned around and waved at her with a look of gloating.

Lucy swore that she would tear him to pieces.

Qiao Yixia walked to her side slowly, only to hear the notification tone of her text message, and Lucy opened the message without changing her expression, it was from Charles.

——Girlfriend is very beautiful, I wish you happiness.I love you!

If it wasn't for the fact that she slammed her phone angrily in public, she would have smashed it into pieces unceremoniously.About to leave, he finally became fearless, and he just teased him a few words, he was pushing himself into the fire pit.

"The charm of our family is still the same as before." Qiao Yixia glanced at the phone screen as if nothing.

"Cough." She coughed dryly, not knowing what to say.

"Aren't you a professor of psychology, why don't you guess what I'm thinking now?" Qiao Yixia looked into her eyes and said.

Explain, like cover up.Do not interpret, like default.Soft, like a confession, hard, like a disguise.When her Ph.D. supervisor asked her to complete the French-English double translation of the thesis within two days, several other students complained, but she didn't even frown.But the current scene is so complicated that she would rather spend a day writing a [-]-word foreign language essay.

Lu Xizhan didn't say anything, and walked out with a straight back.Qiao Yixia hugged her tightly from behind, and the body temperature of the two fused together.Originally, due to the reports a while ago, Lu Xizhan was already "little famous", but it was not all infamy. At first, many outsiders only knew that she was Lu's daughter, and they didn't know much about her status as a psychologist. , After reading the news on the Internet, I found that this young and beautiful woman has won numerous awards and is outstanding in intelligence. The negative impact of the fake drug case on her was gradually covered up.

Just now Charles and Lucy were talking in the lobby. Although there are usually few people in this kind of hotel, at least there is a receptionist.A secret is no longer a secret.

Qiao Yixia turned her body around and pressed her lips to her regardless. She wanted to push her away, but in the end she gently hugged her back and kissed her under the gaze of others.As long as Qiao Yixia doesn't take the initiative to leave, she will cooperate with her, even if she hates this feeling of being intimate with her lover in full view.

"Happy?" Lucy asked.

"Well, I'm happy."

Lucy rubbed her hair: "Let's go."

Sending Qiao Yixia back to the car, Lu Xizhan didn't get in the car, but closed the car door: "I forgot to take something."

Seeing that Lu Xizhan had turned back again, the front desk lady subconsciously turned off her phone and put it underneath.

"Delete."

Lu Xizhan's icy voice was completely different from just now, and the lady couldn't help shivering.But she is not willing to let the amazing photos she finally took be destroyed like this. You know, if she exposes this photo and submits it to a newspaper, she will make a lot of money.

"I see that you are very gossipy. Shall I call the editor-in-chief of the newspaper and your manager by the way, and tell her to let go of you and let you chase your dreams?"

"Miss Lu, I..." The lady wanted to cry when she said that, she lowered her head and took out the phone and handed it to her, "It's all here..."

Lu Xizhan ticked off the photo of Qiao Yixia kissing her just now, deleted it, and then put the phone on the counter: "If you like it, you can keep these photos for yourself, or if you want to expose them on the Internet, put them in magazines She, I don't care about everything, you can do whatever you want." The lady took the phone and found that Lu Xizhan only deleted the photos of Qiao Yixia, but kept the photos of her and Charles.

"In addition, if you dare to speak out about Miss Qiao's visit today, I will make you so invisible that you can't even see the sun the next day. Don't look at me like this. I even do such outrageous things as counterfeit medicine. If you can figure it out, what else can’t you do? If you don’t believe me, I don’t mind you giving it a try.” Lucy took out a stack of banknotes from her purse, “I don’t bring much cash with me today, is this enough? "

In fact, when she walked out of the hotel, Lu Xizhan knew very well that she would neither disclose the fact that Qiao Yixia had been here, nor expose the photos of herself and Charles.From a psychological point of view, if Lu Xizhan really sends out all the photos she took, it will be counterproductive to some extent. Although she has no direct evidence, if she is in a hurry to jump over the wall and adjust the surveillance, it will still be counterproductive. Being able to see everything and leaving her with a few pictures actually satisfies her self-soothing needs.Coupled with her firm tone, she didn't mind the relationship with Charles at all, which made the front desk lady feel completely uninterested.However, even if she really exposed the photos, Lu Xizhan didn't care, she was no longer a member of the Lu family, and if there were any scandals, she would only be smeared, and Charles, a big man, would not Because such a small piece of news is affected in any way.

But Qiao Yixia is different, she is the future successor of the Qiao family, there can be no mistakes, and Lu Xizhan does not allow her to have any black spots, because she will never allow anyone to use bad words to describe her .

"What did you forget to take?" Qiao Yixia asked after returning to the car.

Lu Xizhan turned the Chanel in his hand: "Lipstick. How come Shanglu and Baiying are free to come here? Handle the case?"

Qiao Yixia started the engine, and then said: "I heard that Yingzi is not feeling well, and the pregnancy reaction is very serious. In addition, the two of them have rarely asked for leave, so they were specially approved for two days off. They wanted to come to us for fun, Let's chat."

"I have nothing to talk to them about."

"Proud."

"I'm not arrogant, I'm proud."

"Pride keeps one behind."

"That's right. It feels terrible to be at the forefront without any room for improvement. I also want to see what the world looks like in the eyes of ordinary people."

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