Chapter 6 006
Mid-Autumn Festival just passed, and although the moon was short, it was still bright. Gu Mingyan slowed down and walked side by side with Qingxi. A classic-shaped street light was set up at every distance on the road. Under the light, Gu Mingyan turned his head to see Qingxi. The soft light shone on her delicate face, as if a thin layer of crimson rouge was applied, which made the girl's simple and youthful softness add a hint of charming charm.
Gu Mingyan couldn't imagine the girl who made the water, and she was fighting against the bandits with a knife.
"Are you afraid at that time?" Gu Mingyan stopped opposite Qingxi and asked with his head down, his voice gentle.
Qingxi lowered his eyes and said nothing.
The fiancée seemed to be a little emotional. Gu Mingyan understood and said sincerely: "Grandmother, my mother's thoughts are outdated and she also values family backgrounds, but I don't care about my father, so don't think too much about Qingxi." He was willing to marry her, that's enough.
He agreed with the meaning of marriage everywhere. As the saying goes, Qingxi will not be able to tell others that he doesn't want to marry. The marriage decided by the elders should be left to the elders to solve. Grandma is greedy for vain, so she begged her father when she goes home. Her father loves her the most. When she learns the faces of the female family of the Gu family, she will definitely not be willing to ask her to look at the faces of others.
"The eldest young master is overly worried. I, I just feel a little uncomfortable, tonight's movie..."
"The body is important, you can watch the movies later." Gu Mingyan said with a smile.
Qingxi breathed a sigh of relief.
But Gu Mingyan suddenly bent down, and his handsome face was almost about to touch her.
Qingxi took a step back in fear.
Gu Mingyan didn't chase him, but looked at his little fiancée helplessly: "What did you call me just now?"
Qingxi recalled and then bit her lip.
"When you were a child, you didn't call that." Gu Ming said sternly as if coaxing the child.
Of course, Qingxi remembers that when she was a child, she called him Brother Mingyan according to the teachings of her elders, but everyone has grown up, and she can no longer call her such a close name.
"Let's go." Gu Mingyan touched her head and looked doting.
Qingxi kept up silently.
After walking a few steps, a short smile suddenly came from beside him, and Qingxi looked over in confusion.
Gu Mingyan gently tapped the cuffs of her lace-edged shirt and asked teasingly: "Can you really carry a knife with you?"
What did she do with a knife?
Qingxi smiled self-deprecatingly and explained: "It was quite chaotic at that time. The Western-style knife of the passenger in front slid to me. I secretly picked it up while people were not paying attention."
She only recalled simply, but Gu Mingyan's eyes changed, looking at her with a look like she had just met Qingxi.
It's simple to say that in that situation, not to mention a lady like Qingxi who rarely goes out, even a new-style woman who returns from studying abroad, how many can be as brave as Qingxi? The bandits basically have guns in their hands. His petite fiancée dared to resist with just a small Western knife...
If it weren't for listening to her with my own ears, and there was a carriage that could prove that Gu Mingyan Duan would not believe that under his fiancée's gentle and quiet face, there was a courage that was hard to reach for ordinary people.
It was at this moment that Gu Mingyan was completely sure that his Qingxi, grandmother, mother, including Mrs. Xu, were definitely not the same type of person.
Qingxi slept well that night. After clarifying his intention to break off the engagement, the attitude of the Gu family suddenly disappeared. So I said that I would come to Hangzhou to play for a few days.
In the morning, Gu Mingyan came to the guest room to accompany Qingxi's grandparents and grandchildren to the breakfast. I don't know if it was Qingxi's illusion, but I always felt that Gu Mingyan today seemed not as cold as yesterday. Even when she smiled at her grandmother, she was a little more sincere.
Because of the bad experience in the car, Gu Mingyan suggested going to Nanshan Temple to worship Buddha and burn incense first, which was exactly the same as Mrs. Xu's heart.
The autumn is clear and the sun is shining. On the way to Nanshan Temple outside the city, there are many pedestrians. Qingxi sits next to the window and looks out enthusiastically. The mountains in the distance are covered with green scenery, and the various clothes and styles nearby are much fresher than Xiucheng, not to mention the cars that appear one after another.
As the city was far away, the road began to narrow, and the cars slowed down. When Qingxi looked forward and back, there was actually a queue of rickshaws.
"There are many people coming out to play on weekends, so it is easy to get stuck." Gu Mingyan looked at her and said.
Qingxi nodded.
A harsh horn sound suddenly came from behind. Looking back at Qingxi, a black car in the team drove to the side of the road and tried to overtake. Passers-by avoided the opposite side, so the cars blocked in the middle could not give up. The impatient black car was not afraid. While the wheels were pressing on the main road, the wheels slid into the weeds, and drove forward with a bumpy and tilted body.
"What's the rush for this person?" Old Mrs. Xu frowned and complained, a little worried, "I won't hit us, right?"
Gu Mingyan understood cars and his skills. After looking for a while, he said, "Don't worry, the old lady, the driver is very good at driving."
Old Mrs. Xu couldn't let go and continued to stare.
Qingxi was bored and looked back. As the distance was approaching, Qingxi was shocked to find that the driver was Lu Duo!
Old Mrs. Xu also recognized her. Thinking of Lu Duo's little hooligan temper, Old Mrs. Xu secretly pulled the hem of her granddaughter's clothes.
Qingxi sat down obediently.
Outside the car, Lu Duo honked the horn to chase the pedestrians blocking the road while holding the steering wheel steadily. When he was about to pass Gu Mingyan's Ford, an old man in a long gown refused to cooperate in front of him. Not only did he not leave, he also pointed at Lu Duo with a crutch and started to speak the local dialect in Hangzhou. Lu Duo grew up in the north since he was a child, but later he was taken abroad by his uncle to travel to Shanghai. He knew how to speak English, but how could he understand the local dialect?
But I can guess that the old man must be scolding him.
Lu Duo kept honking his trumpet, his young face full of rebelliousness.
The horn sounded harshly. If it weren't for the fear of being recognized by Lu Duo, Old Mrs. Xu would have scolded him.
Qingxi also felt that Lu Duo was too much. He was wrong with the way to jump into the line to occupy the pedestrian. She turned her head slightly to see Lu Duo, but because Lu Duo was driving in the driver's position, and now the two cars were completely aligned, Qingxi's first sight was the man sitting in the back seat, still wearing black clothes and wide sunglasses. Just as Qingxi looked over, the man felt something and his face turned towards this side.
Qingxi quickly lowered his head, unable to explain why he was afraid of him.
Gu Mingyan noticed her strange behavior and looked at the opposite side. He saw a man in black sitting there. He looked at his fair face and chin under sunglasses. He should be very young. The man faced forward and did not look here. Gu Mingyan looked at Qingxi again and couldn't help but raise his lips. His little fiancée was too shy.
Lu Duo is still confronting the stubborn old man.
Those who watched the fun were annoyed by the horns and blamed Lu Duo. Gu Huaixiu also felt annoyed and kicked the driver in the back seat.
Lu Duo became honest all of a sudden, but the old man in front was still chattering.
Lu Duo's head was about to explode. If he changed to a young man, he would have gotten out of the car and beat him up, but it would be embarrassing to be heard from him.
"Uncle, what did the old man say?" Lu Duo rubbed his head and asked.
Gu Huaixiu leaned lazily against the back of the chair and did not mean to translate it for his nephew.
When he did this, Lu Duo became even more angry: "Uncle, I always feel that your outfit looks like a blind man."
Gu Huaixiu had no expression on his face.
A chuckle suddenly came from the car next to him, and a short sound disappeared quickly. The uncle and nephew turned their heads at the same time, and saw a girl in a light green shirt lowering her head in the car window opposite, covering her mouth with her white little hands, and her slender jade fingers made her blushing cheeks look as bright as peach blossoms.
Gu Huaixiu looked away first.
Lu Duo was so happy that his head poked out of the car window and greeted Qingxi enthusiastically: "What a coincidence, I've met Miss Qingxi again."
Qingxi could only respond and nodded softly.
Gu Mingyan glanced at Lu Duo and asked with a look on his face.
Qingxi introduced Lu Duo to him: "This is Mr. Lu Duo who saved us in the car yesterday."
Gu Mingyan suddenly realized, put down the car window and stretched out his hand to Lu Duo: "Thank you Mr. Lu for his bravery. I am Qingxi's fiancé. I don't know where Mr. Lu lives? I want to thank him for saving his wife."
Lu Duo then seemed to have just seen Gu Mingyan glanced at him, but did not shake hands with Gu Mingyan, and analyzed seriously: "I saved Miss Qingxi, not your fiancée. If I changed someone, even if she was your fiancée, I might not be able to save her, so Mr. Gu doesn't need to thank me."
Gu Mingyan's eyes sank.
Qingxi is sandwiched in the middle, which is quite embarrassing.
Mrs. Xu had already experienced Lu Duo's eloquence. Her polite and prospective grandson-in-law could not say that she was a kid, so she urged the driver to drive quickly. The road ahead was just a little empty, and the driver tactfully accelerated, and soon left the black Buick squeezing in the path behind.
"Mingyan should not bother with him. The third master of the car industry is domineering because he has a little wealth and doesn't understand any politeness." Old Mrs. Xu looked back and said disdainfully.
Gu Mingyan had recovered as usual. Seeing Qingxi quietly and not hating Lu Duo very much, Gu Mingyan said, "No matter what, I am grateful to him for saving you and Qingxi."
Old Mrs. Xu was even more satisfied with him: "It's worthy of being a student, look at this vision."
"Sorry, I'm implicated you." Qingxi apologized in time. If it weren't for her, Gu Mingyan would have been ridiculed. Gu Mingyan was not wrong at all today. But Qingxi was surprised that Lu Duo was kind to her, why did he confront Gu Mingyan when he saw him? Looking back on the train yesterday, Lu Duo seemed to look down on the Gu family.
"It's just a trivial matter, Qingxi is too polite." Gu Mingyan said with a smile.
The atmosphere was eased, and Qingxi continued to enjoy the scenery outside the window.
The incense in Nanshan Temple was in full bloom, and in Qingxi, Gu Mingyan accompanied Mrs. Xu on the left and right, and went to the Main Hall to burn incense.
"Yeah, isn't this Mingyan?"
The middle-aged woman's surprise laughter came. The three of them stopped and turned around. They saw a wife wearing a cheongsam, who was about thirty years old, with a rosy complexion and a shallow cinnabar mole on her eyebrows, which looked a bit like the Guanyin Empress in the temple. Beside the woman, there was a girl in a beige dress, holding a red bag in her hand, and waved her hand at Gu Mingyan in a generous manner. She was very beautiful. After simply meeting Gu Mingyan, she observed Qingxi curiously and politely.
Gu Mingyan first introduced the visitor to Mrs. Xu. The middle-aged woman was Mrs. Chen, and the girl in white dress was named Chen Rumei.
"Rumei is my junior sister, we are studying in a university in the UK." Gu Mingyan said calmly.
Old Mrs. Xu's eyebrows thumped. The woman mentioned by her granddaughter last night, who was suspected to be involved with Gu Mingyan, seemed to be called Rumei?
"Hello Mrs. Chen, Hello Miss Chen." Grandma was stunned and Qingxi smiled and greeted her.
"I've known Ming Yan had a fiancée from a lady from a wealthy family. She looked so beautiful. Looking at her painful appearance, she made us look like a eyebrows to the sky." Mrs. Chen took Qingxi's hand, looked up and down, and had a friendly tone, and liked Qingxi very much.
Qingxi didn't know what to say.
Chen Ru smiled with her eyebrows and lips, looking at Qingxi and said, "My mother likes beautiful girls. She always praises everyone she sees. Unfortunately, today, we have finished the incense. If you have time another day, please invite my sister to visit our house."
Qingxi can only thank you.
"Then let's go first." Chen Ru's eyebrows put their mother's arm and said goodbye. From beginning to end, she did not look at Gu Mingyan more.
"Let's go too." Gu Mingyan didn't care about Chen Rumei's departure and continued to be the guide of his fiancee and his mother.
Qingxi was a little confused. These two people seemed to be just ordinary classmates?
Gu Mingyan went to get incense, and the old lady Xu took the opportunity to come to her granddaughter's ear and whisper: "Did you see it? Gu Huifang is deliberately lying to you."
Qingxi smiled bitterly, laughing at Gu Huifang's boring tricks, and laughing at his grandmother's various protections for Gu Mingyan, but his grandson was just like this.
Gu Mingyan walked over with three incense sticks.
Old Mrs. Xu worshipped first, and Qingxi looked at the solemn Buddha with treasure and worshipped three times devoutly.
First, I asked my father to win the chef competition successfully, second, I asked her and Gu Mingyan to successfully break off the engagement, third, I asked her family to be healthy and happy, and the restaurant business was prosperous.
After entering the incense and visiting the scenery in the temple, the three of them slowly went down the mountain.
There was still a traffic jam on the way back to the city, but there was no one trying to overtake anymore, and Qingxi never met the mysterious Mr. Gu San again.
Chapter completed!