Lu Nianzhen's words gave Ning Yuqi inexplicable comfort. She watched Lu Shan follow Qin Shuyi out of the office with mixed feelings in her heart.
It's just that since I met Lu Nianzhen, thank you words have been said too many times, and Ning Yuqi herself was a little embarrassed to say it again.
Lu Nianzhen didn't care, didn't want to see Ning Yuqi's tangled appearance, and turned to a topic: "I will fly to T City to attend a meeting in a few days. If you stay here alone, Qin Shuyi and others will definitely trouble you. No, come with me."
Lu Nianzhen had a natural tone and added: "Don't worry, this is required for work, and all expenses can be reimbursed."
Ning Yuqi thought about it before and after, she had to sigh that Lu Nianzhen was really thoughtful, but the reason that really made her nod was because she cherished the hard-won opportunity to be alone with Lu Nianzhen.
"Well, don't think too much about today's affairs. It is not difficult to find out the truth of the matter." Lu Nianzhen calmly patted Ning Yuqi's shoulder twice.
Ning Yuqi finally felt a little better in her heart, and decided not to think about these messy things anymore. After all, if she really wants to go to the T city with Lu Nianzhen on a business trip, she still needs to put the work at hand first.
Busy until the end of get off work, Ning Yuqi still had one-third of her work unfinished, so she decided to stay and work overtime.
Lu Nianzhen smiled, did not comment, but did not leave. Instead, he sat quietly in his seat waiting for her to get off work, looking thoughtful.
Ning Yuqi carefully retracted her gaze and was about to check the last set of data when she suddenly heard a scream from the office next door.
That was Qin Shuyi's office, and the owner of the voice just now was also Qin Shuyi.
Ning Yuqi was puzzled, put down the documents on hand and walked out of the office, and Lu Nianzhen also walked out.
The door of Qin Shuyi's office was wide open, and Qin Shuyi sat down on the ground embarrassedly, her pale face lost blood, and her hand was tightly covering the position of her calf, with a painful expression, she couldn't help but gasp.
There was a kettle upside down by her feet, and the boiling water splashed all over the floor was still steaming.
"It hurts... I'm so hurt." Qin Shuyi seemed to have exhausted all her strength to barely say a word.
Lu Nianzhen still had some affection with her. Seeing that her expression didn't seem to be fake, she thought it was important to go to the doctor, so he walked over and picked her up and said, "I'll take you to the hospital."
Ning Yuqi also immediately followed, but after walking only two steps, Qin Shuyi forced her to endure the pain and said: "You...let her go."
Ning Yuqi was startled and went to see Lu Nianzhen subconsciously.
Lu Nianzhen didn't expect that at this time, Qin Shuyi still cared about this, but in order to appease her emotions, he still obeyed her wishes.
"Yuqi, you stay here first, and I will come back to pick you up when I send the senior sister to the hospital."
Ning Yuqi nodded sympathetically. She knew that this kind of thing would be done by anyone, and she shouldn't be careful. But when she watched Lu Nianzhen disappear at the end of the corridor with Qin Shuyi in her arms, she still felt a pain in a corner of her heart.
Qin Shuyi's situation was more serious than Lu Nianzhen had imagined, and it was already two o'clock in the morning after the inspection and dressing.
During this period, Lu Nianzhen sent a message to Ning Yuqi to express her apologies and asked her to take a taxi home by herself, but after the message was sent, it seemed as if the sea had fallen to the ground and there was no response.
Lu Nianzhen thought of buying a small thing the next day to make her happy when she was angry and playing a petty temper.
He saw all kinds of cartoon pendants on Ning Yuqi's mobile phone, bag, and keychain. He wanted to like these little things very much.
On the way to work the next day, Lu Nianzhen made a deliberate detour to the mall and bought a cartoon doll. He took the doll and walked into the office under the surprised eyes of everyone, but did not see the familiar figure.
Ning Yuqi has never been late or left early for more than a month since she started work. Even if she has something to do, she will ask Lu Nianzhen for leave in advance to explain the situation.
Lu Nianzhen frowned, suddenly having a bad feeling.
"Beep-beep-"
After Lu Nianzhen dialed Ning Yuqi's number for the fifth time, the voice from the handset of the mobile phone was still waiting to be answered.
Only then did he realize that Ning Yuqi was never a person who likes to play tricks, at least she never showed such a side in front of him.
She always looks empathetic, and she has a calmness and sophistication that is not suitable for her age, which makes him feel distressed for no reason.
Lu Nianzhen put away his mobile phone irritably, and his inability to reach Ning Yuqi made him uneasy. He eagerly wanted to appear in front of her and explain everything to her last night, and wanted to press her into his arms.
With this kind of anxiety until the end of get off work, Lu Nianzhen took the car and hurried directly towards his destination—Ning Yuqi's residence.
During this time, he made several calls to Ning Yuqi, but there was still no one answered.
Snow started to fall again outside the car window. Lu Nianzhen stopped the car, opened the door and walked down. The cold wind blew across his cheeks, but he still couldn't feel the cold.
He leaned on the car and looked at the floor where Ning Yuqi's house was. There was no light on, and he could only return in disappointment.
When he arrived at the office the next day, he still didn't see Ning Yuqi's person. He couldn't help but worry, and called Zeng Xuan to ask him to check it out.
Zeng Xuan immigrated here with his parents when he was five years old, and he is naturally much more familiar with him.
"What? A quarrel?" Zeng Xuan couldn't help teasing him on the phone.
Lu Nianzhen was lacking in interest, but still said truthfully: "I hope it is, but it seems that things are not that simple."
Zeng Xuan listened to his sullen tone, and put away his teasing, vowing to say: "Okay, then I will send someone to investigate now."
After hanging up the phone, Lu Nianzhen felt uneasy, and was about to put the phone in his pocket, but the bell rang again, but this time it was Qin Shuyi who called her.
Qin Shuyi's voice was still weak, and asked aggrieved: "Nianzhen, where have you been?"
Lu Nianzhen was a patient in her, and did not expose her negative emotions to her.
"Working." He replied concisely, terrifying.
Qin Shuyi was stunned for a moment, her nose sour, and then she was already crying: "Nianzhen, can you come and accompany me?"
Lu Nianzhen subconsciously wanted to refuse, but when he spoke, he suddenly remembered something. He changed the front of the conversation and said, "Okay, then I will come over in the afternoon."
Qin Shuyi was startled, but she didn't expect that he would promise to be so refreshed, and joy came to her heart.
Lu Nianzhen did what he said, and went to the hospital after lunch. There was only Qin Shuyi in the ward, staring out the window in a daze.
Lu Nianzhen knocked on the door politely. Qin Shuyi immediately turned her head, with a smile on her eyebrows, and said, "Nianzhen, you are here."
Lu Nianzhen nodded politely, did not sit down, and directly explained his intentions.
"I came here today because I want to ask you something." He looked cold, not like joking.
Qin Shuyi's heart shuddered, and she became nervous for no reason, but she still pretended to be calm and smiled: "Okay, sit down and talk."
Lu Nianzhen didn't answer her voice, and asked herself: "Sister, is your cufflinks really stolen by Yuqi?"
Qin Shuyi never expected that he would come here again for Ning Yuqi, and his heart was suddenly filled with jealousy.
"Yes." She lied without changing her face. "The cufflinks were found in her drawer. Who else was it that she stole?"
Lu Nianzhen listened blankly, and then said coldly: "But I sent someone to Yuqi's school yesterday to check the check-in record, and I also asked her tutor. It can prove that she was there after two o'clock that afternoon in school."
Qin Shuyi didn't expect that Lu Nianzhen would be so concerned about Ning Yuqi's affairs, but she had already colluded with Lu Shan.
"It may be that Lu Shan was wrong that day. The person who came into my office was not Ning Yuqi." But she didn't intend to even Ning Yuqi was innocent. I still have physical evidence."
Lu Nianzhen looked at the strange Qin Shuyi in front of him, and decided not to care about any affection.
"If I remember correctly, you also have a copy of the drawer key that Yuqi uses now."
That set of keys was given to her by Lu Nianzhen at the beginning. During that time, he always had to go on business trips to socialize. It was inconvenient to avoid the inconvenience, so he left a key for Qin Shuyi in case of emergency.
But all this happened before Lu Nianzhen and Ning Yuqi met. If Qin Shuyi hadn't deliberately picked up the matter, he would have forgotten that there is still such a thing.
Qin Shuyi knew that Lu Nianzhen was smart and thoughtful, but it was still unacceptable to be pierced by him in front of him, and he could only deny it.
Lu Nianzhen didn't force her to admit it. After all, his purpose of coming here today was just to warn Qin Shuyi to restrain herself, and stop thinking of using a crooked door to pour dirty water on Ning Yuqi.
He had to leave after speaking, but Qin Shuyi stopped him before he reached the door.
"Nianzhen." He didn't need to turn his head to know that she must look like a pear blossom with rain, but he didn't feel distressed, on the contrary, he only felt very nauseous.
He is now disgusting with Qin Shuyi's hypocritical manner.
"What else do you want to say?" He didn't turn his head, his tone was cold.
Qin Shuyi whispered and whispered, "Nianzhen, are you really going to keep me out of time for an irrelevant person?"
Lu Nianzhen corrected her and said: "You are wrong, Ning Yuqi has never been an irrelevant person to me."
By now, he finally dared to face his feelings squarely, and he was not afraid to make his love for Ning Yuqi obvious to the public, as long as she was willing to appear in front of him again.
Qin Shuyi couldn't accept what he said, and still planned to use tears to make Lu Nianzhen change his mind. .
"Nianzhen, if I did not do well enough, you tell me I will definitely change it." Qin Shuyi's eyes flushed, "I have known you for seven years, and you and that Ning Yuqi have only known each other for a few days, how can you bear the heart... . ... ”
Before she finished speaking, Lu Nianzhen interrupted her next words: "But I like this because it has nothing to do with time."
He thought he might have fallen in love with Ning Yuqi the first time he saw her, but at that time he stubbornly believed that it was impossible for him to fall in love at first sight.
Lu Nianzhen let out a sigh of relief when he came out of the ward, and decided to ignore Qin Shuyi again. The most important thing is to find out about Ning Yuqi's whereabouts first.
As the car drove smoothly, Lu Nianzhen dialed Zeng Xuan's phone and asked him to speak before Zeng Xuan started talking.
"Nianzhen, I'm about to call you." Zeng Xuan said in a mixed mood, "The things you asked me to check have results. I asked someone to check the flight and passenger information in the past few days, and I found that Ning Yuqi has Ride records."
"What?!" Lu Nianzhen was startled, and stepped on the brakes to the end, almost running through a red light.
Zeng Xuan continued: "The destination is Jiangcheng, which means that Ning Yuqi has already returned to China."
Lu Nianzhen listened in a daze, knowing that Zeng Xuan couldn't be joking about this kind of thing, but he was really wondering what Ning Yuqi was doing without saying a word.
Thinking about it, he couldn't help being a little angry, and obviously he could explain all this, but Ning Yuqi chose to leave without saying goodbye, not even giving him a chance to explain.
Lu Nianzhen hung up the phone with a heavy heart, and directly booked the plane ticket back to Jiangcheng after some consideration.
This was the third day Ning Yuqi returned to Jiangcheng. She was guarding her mother's bed, her expression tired, as if she was about to fall asleep at any time.
That afternoon, Lu Nianzhen had just sent Qin Shuyi to the hospital, and Ning Yuqi received a call from Xue Ming. She learned that her mother had a sudden cerebral infarction, causing massive intracranial hemorrhage and was being rescued.
She almost couldn't hold the phone in a panic, and before she had time to pack her luggage, she went straight to the airport.
The journey of more than ten hours is particularly long. Ning Yuqi prayed silently in her heart all the way, praying for her mother to be safe.
When she rushed to the hospital, her mother's operation had just ended, and she was rushed to the hospital in time, barely saving her life. It's just that the sequelae caused by cerebral infarction are irreversible, and it is unknown when the patient will wake up.
She stayed by her mother's bed all night, and only remembered the next morning that she hadn't called Lu Nianzhen until now, and suddenly found out that she was missing. Would he be worried
But she rummaged in her bag but couldn't find the phone. Then she realized afterwards that the phone should have been lost.
She got up anxiously and was about to go to the nurse's desk to ask someone to borrow a mobile phone and explain the situation to Lu Nianzhen, but the door was suddenly opened.
The person here is not someone else, but Xue Ming.
"The doctor is urging to pay the fee again. Have you done anything about the money?" Xue Ming sat down on the side of the bed, his tone of course as if Ning Yuqi was the cash machine for the whole family.
Ning Yuqi glared at him and motioned to him to lower her voice.
Xue Mingxie laughed and said, "Why? Are you afraid that I would wake her? If only she can wake up like this, it will save us from jumping around here."
Ning Yuqi knew that Xue Ming was heartless, and his family affection was inferior to him, but when he really showed this greedy and selfish side in front of her, she was still deeply disgusted.
Xue Ming only stayed in the room for a few minutes before leaving, but as soon as he left, Ning Yuqi also suddenly lost the idea of calling Lu Nianzhen.
What can you say even if you make a phone call? Do you want to borrow money from him
Ning Yuqi couldn't do it. That was her last bit of sad self-esteem. She owed Lu Nianzhen too much, and she couldn't repay it long ago. The only thing she could do was to prevent him from being involved in her own housework.
Perhaps it happened to break the contact with him, which is a good thing for both of them.