After being hungry, go to eat desserts. Although the energy supply is sufficient, it often makes people lose their appetite after only one or two bites.
- Young Master Luo was raised by others, and his temper was unruly. How could anyone dare to ask him to take care of him? Of course he did not understand such trivial matters.
Tang Ran knew but didn't say it. She was lying on the plain solid wood high table, and after two mouthfuls of mousse, she slowly put down the dessert spoon.
The rooms in the main building of the Luo family are soundproofed. Sitting on the round wooden bench in the ear room, she could only vaguely hear the occasional voice from the corridor.
After waiting for a while, no one came back, Tang Ran took out his mobile phone from the pocket of the jacket he was wearing.
Putting it on the table, Tang Ran knocked on the phone.
"Luo Luo."
"… here."
After being quiet for a second or two, it was still that cold, lazy and uncle's voice.
Tang Ran curled the corners of his mouth, "I think Luo Xiu was a bit fierce when he first met, but he was actually very gentle and nice. What do you think?"
"Don't send out good person cards," Luo Luo said lazily, "Be careful of being deceived."
Tang Ran was slightly startled.
This is a new language module, and she has not done it with Luo Luo before. I don't know which keyword triggered it...
She chatted down curiously: "Why did he lie to me?"
The ai assistant of the mobile phone let out a laugh, cold and indifferent, with a bit of contempt: "Deceiving money and sex, deceiving body and heart."
The little girl was lost in thought.
After a while, Tang Ran got up, shook his head, and said seriously, "Luo Xiu won't."
Luo Luo didn't respond to her - after the response time, the voice assistant has automatically entered a sleep state, and if she wants to chat, she can only wake up again.
Tang Ran thought about it and didn't call Luo Luo out again. She fumbled for the edge of the table and carefully got down from the wooden bench.
The blind stick was placed at the corner of the table, Tang Ran picked it up and propped it up lightly, and tried to walk in the direction of the ear room door.
After bypassing the layers of bookshelves, Tang Ran found the door based on her memory. She took the cold metal door handle and pressed it down gently.
"Click." The door was pulled open.
outside the door.
Accompanied by a light snort, a half-sentence voice that was as cold as immersed in ice water was ringing: "Before I go back, let them think about what they have left to do—"
"Luo Xiu?"
"… "
Luo Zhan's figure froze.
He put down his phone and turned to look at the door of the ear room.
The girl with her eyes closed was holding her blind cane and raised her head blankly towards his direction. I don't know if I was frightened by his undisguised irritable tone just now, the fingers holding the door were pressed tightly, and the small nails were all bright.
Luo Zhan put the phone back in his trousers pocket, and hid the manic depression between his eyebrows. He suppressed his voice, "Why did you come out?"
"I've been staying for a long time, it's time to go home." Tang Ran hesitated and asked softly, "Can you have someone take me back to the annex? My driver should be waiting for me there."
"… "
Luo Zhan looked back and saw the thick night outside the window of the same corridor. He turned around, "Do you have the driver's phone number? I'll escort you off after letting him go around the main building."
Tang Ran was stunned, "But the main building doesn't allow guests' cars to come here..."
"It's okay, I'll tell you."
Tang Ran hesitated, "Would it be bad for you if Luo Zhan found out?"
Luo Zhan floated his eyes, "My surname is Luo too, I can still make up my mind about this trivial matter."
"… it is good."
Tang Ran went to the side and called the driver.
Luo Zhan took out his phone and looked down. The call has not been hung up, and the other side has been waiting silently.
Luo Zhan frowned slightly, put the phone to his ear, and his voice became cold and lazy, "I have something to do tonight, and I can go back later. Before I get to the laboratory, no one should move the robot one more finger."
"Okay, okay Brother Zhan." The opposite side responded cautiously.
There was a "beep" in the speakerphone, and the phone hung up.
In the laboratory of the K-Big Junior Class, after a strange silence, several boys raised their heads and looked at each other.
After a long while, someone cautiously said: "You just now, did you hear, who is Brother Zhan talking to?"
"Is that really Luo Zhan's voice? Although I didn't really hear it, but that tone - I can't imagine it was him."
"I can still hear Brother Zhan talking to people like this in my lifetime. I will die without regrets."
"Hehe, when Brother Zhan comes back tonight and sees this robot, we can all die without regrets."
"But who the hell was talking to him just now? To make him change his mind and come back to clean up us first—cough, clean up the robots?"
"… "
When a few boys fell into deep thought, the one who was closest to the phone, who was also in charge of talking on the phone, said cautiously, "It sounds like a little girl."
The laboratory was silent for a few seconds.
"Ha ha ha ha-"
"You think the little girl is hallucinating, that's Brother Zhan, how can you talk to the little girl like this?"
"That's right, it's rare for Brother Zhan to take a look at any girl. With his scourge face, if it weren't for the temper of an uncle who likes to ignore any girl, would he be single until now hahahaha …”
The boy who was mocked tugged at his hair in distress and muttered, "But I'm listening, it sounds like a little girl's voice."
"… "
The main building of the Luo family is dimly lit.
On the marble road where few motor vehicles appear, a black convertible car was parked at this time.
The Tang family's driver who was in charge of picking up Tang Ran stood uneasy by the door, looking up at the porch of the main building's duplex back door.
The faint sound of music swayed into the air from the terrace on the front of the second floor, melodiously riding the night, floating around the street lamps with simple patterns.
When the driver waited and became more anxious, the back door under the porch was finally pushed open.
The driver looked up quickly, and saw a familiar petite figure walking out with a blind stick. Next to her was a slender and handsome young man, who was a few steps behind the girl and raised her arms to help prevent her from accidentally falling.
The man was wearing a black baseball cap, and his face was hidden in the shadows, revealing only a half-line white and sharp jaw. The slightly pursed lines of the thin lips reveal a bit of coolness and indifference, and the rest is indistinguishable.
The two set off one high and one low, stepping down the steps one by one. The lights behind them made the shadow of the building so old, like a dusty picture scroll opened in front of people's eyes.
The driver was stunned for two seconds, and then he quickly opened the door behind him.
The two stopped in front of the car.
The driver held the car door, remembered what Tang Ran had said on the phone, and hesitantly looked at the person beside the girl, "Master Luo Xiu?"
"Yeah." Luo Zhan answered vaguely in a low voice, frowning when his eyes under the brim caught a glimpse of the convertible car. "It's cold at night, why don't you drop the hood?"
The driver looked at Tang Ran.
The little girl who was holding the door to get in the car stopped for a while, "I... Because of some things in the past, I'm not used to small cars in closed spaces."
Luo Zhan's eyes stopped slightly.
In his memory, the girl's pale face appeared in the rain when he first encountered it.
[Can't you take a taxi?]
[No, no.]
[?]
[Then I will go back by myself. Thank you.]
[Afraid that I will abduct you?]
[…]
She didn't explain at that time, and she already had the answer at this moment.
Luo Zhan frowned, wanting to ask something, but finally held back.
"Well," the teenager held onto the car door, "get in the car."
Tang Ran: "This coat..."
Luo Zhan didn't interrupt her and listened to the girl finish.
The little girl was a little embarrassed, but she was extraordinarily honest: "It's a little cold at night, can I give it to you next time I see you?"
Luo Zhan endured it, but still couldn't. He lowered his voice and smiled lazily and seductively: "Next time? How many times do you want to see me?"
Tang Ran, who was sitting in the car, raised his face in a daze, "Grandpa Luo hasn't told you about going to the laboratory?"
Luo Zhan stiffened.
After two or three seconds, he sighed silently, straightened up with a headache, "I said it. I'm teasing you."
The little girl was silent for two seconds, then nodded quietly: "Okay."
Luo Zhan helped the girl put her skirt into the car, then closed the door, "It's convenient for us to contact you, let's change the phone number?"
"Well." Tang Ran agreed without hesitation, she took out her phone, "Luo Luo."
"… here."
The lazy and pleasant voice is particularly clear in the quiet night.
The driver who had been putting wooden stakes next to him finally broke his work at this moment. He looked up at the phone in Tang Ran's hand in surprise, and then turned to the boy who was wearing a black baseball cap, hiding most of his face and showing only half of his handsome chin—
Whether it's timbre texture or that uniquely cold, laid-back tone, the two voices clearly overlap at a bizarre level.
Luo Zhan coughed softly. He leaned over to the car door and took the phone away from the girl. Tang Ran closed his eyes and raised his head, only to hear a hoarse and pleasant voice ringing in his ears at some point:
"Don't bother with it, I'll come."
"… Oh."
Tang Ran felt that the ear on the side that was approached was a little numb and a little hot; the voice that was already familiar was so real and close to her ear, as if it had many small hooks, scratching her. Half of the body was full of fine numb itching.
This feeling was very unfamiliar, making Tang Ran a little dazed and at a loss for a while.
"All right."
I don't know how long ago, the phone returned to Tang Ran's hand. There is still a little strange temperature on the shell.
Tang Ran recovered. The girl raised her head into the darkness and asked softly, "Is the note Luo Xiu?"
Luo Zhan: "Single word, Luo."
Tang Ran asked inexplicably, "Why not Luo Xiu?"
Luo Zhan narrowed his eyes, "Are you going to save the phone numbers of the Luo family members other than me?"
"… "
I don't know where the coolness came from, and Tang Ran fell into silence.
After a few seconds, she seemed to realize something, shook her head, and said in a serious tone, "Don't be afraid, I don't want to be friends with Luo Zhan, I only want to be friends with you."
Luo Zhan: "..."
Luo Zhan was helpless, and while straightening up from the car door, he touched the top of the little girl's head, "Okay. Wait for me to pick you up."
"Well. Goodbye, Luo Xiu."
Enduring the unpleasantness of hearing that title, Luo Zhan sighed: "Goodbye."
"… "
The car started and drove out.
With Luo Zhan's advance notice, the journey was smooth and unobstructed.
Arriving outside Luo's house, the driver couldn't help but glanced at the little girl who was quietly holding the blind stick in the rearview mirror.
"Xiao Ran, was that Master Luo Xiu just now?"
Tang Ran turned his face, "Yeah."
The driver was silent.
Tang Ran heard something unusual and asked softly, "Uncle, what's the matter?"
"It's okay." The driver frowned, "I just feel that the eldest young master of the Luo family seems to be younger than his age."
… is also far less approachable than rumored.
The driver frowned.
Although he didn't show it tonight, he could still feel the indifference and rebelliousness that the boy wearing the baseball cap showed from his demeanor. It's not like targeting him deliberately, it's more like a habit developed from childhood to adulthood.
But the eldest young master is not favored in the Luo family, he really shouldn't have such a temperament and habits...
"Uncle?" Tang Ran was puzzled by the silence.
The driver couldn't help but ask, "Is this Young Master Luo Xiu calling for the release?"
"Um."
"That should be because I think too much." The driver smiled embarrassedly.
The Luo family was able to release people to the main building, except for Mr. Luo and Luo Zhan's parents who settled abroad, there were only two young masters left.
If it wasn't Luo Xiu, it couldn't be that young master...
Thinking of Luo Zhan's temperament in the rumors of the family, and thinking of the young man who was gentle in his words and deeds when he took the girl in the car tonight, the driver was a little ridiculous at his delusion.
He shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Today, I was fascinated by this Luojiazhuangyuan, and my mind was a little awake. Okay, Xiaoran, be careful if you catch a cold, and I'll take you back."
"Um."
The night of the jungle on the roadside was torn apart by the taillights of the car, and slowly healed.
At the end of the road, the lights are mottled, and the Luojiazhuang Courtyard is adorned in the vast canvas-like night scene, reflecting the galaxy above the sky like water in the distance.
In the night sky, the birds returning late fell into the branches that split a clear moon, and looked at the street lamps under the trees.
A figure stood in the shadow of the lamp.
Luo Zhan slowly relaxed his body and leaned on the quaint street lamp. He half-raised his head, looking lazily at some kind of inexplicable bird that was not afraid of people among the tree branches above his head.
What escaped from the thin lips was a low and mocking smile: "What did you say?"
In the night, the voice on the other side of the phone is also very clear, and the gentle slowness is fully revealed:
"I said, since it was your people who broke the robot, then you can make a robot for Tang Ran - I'm only responsible for handing over gifts, not your people."
Luo Zhan's eyes cooled down, "I didn't ask you to be responsible. But let me be a robot... What do you think?"
Luo Xiu asked with a smile, "Do you have a better way?"
Luo Zhan's voice was cold: "It can't be worse than this method."
"Well, is it."
"You want to see me joking, right?"
"Yeah. What can make people feel more happy than watching the most unruly young master of the Luo family hide his minions and pretend to be gentle and obedient to take care of a little girl?"
"… "
After a long while, Luo Zhan sneered.
"You dream - I'm crazy to do that."