Troublesome – Chapter 88

It’s Nothing

You said there was something.

Jin Shuilan’s reward lasted for half an hour, the two of them just lay on the sofa and talked for a while, occasionally Lu Zhenqiu would kiss Jin Shuilan once, and then be pressed onto the sofa by Jin Shuilan and fiercely kissed back, when Maomao squeezed in, both were panting, Lu Zhenqiu bit her lip, feeling a numbing, stinging pain, she changed the subject: “What are you eating tonight?”

Seeing her thoughts, Jin Shuilan sat up straight, also helped Lu Zhenqiu’s body sit straight, and arranged her beautiful hair for her, saying: “Let’s go out to eat?”

Lu Zhenqiu nodded: “Okay.”

She had not yet strolled around the vicinity since coming here, it had always been the company and the hotel, a two-point one-line, she heard that there were many delicious foods nearby, now she had the chance to go for a stroll.

Jin Shuilan saw her eyes suddenly light up and knew she wanted to go out, subsequently she went into the room to change clothes, changing into a knitted shirt and casual pants of the same color series as Lu Zhenqiu’s, she was afraid Lu Zhenqiu would be cold, so she had her take off her jacket and put on her own down jacket, it was a bit big, the collar stood up, wrapping Lu Zhenqiu inside, revealing only half her face, Jin Shuilan then tied her beautiful hair up behind her head, to prevent it from being messed up by the wind outside and being difficult to manage.

Maomao also jumped and bounced seeing the two change clothes, but Lu Zhenqiu shook her head: “No, the place we are going has a lot of people, you can’t go.”

She patted Maomao’s head: “Next time I will take you for a walk.”

Maomao seemed to understand and sat on the floor, no longer making a fuss, Jin Shuilan and Lu Zhenqiu got on the elevator, when it reached the teens floors, two streamers came up, half of Lu Zhenqiu’s face was buried in her clothes, her bangs covered her forehead, revealing only a pair of eyes, so those two streamers did not recognize her, and were idly chatting about the nearby delicious food, when the elevator was about to arrive, a few more people came up, squeezing and pushing inwards, Lu Zhenqiu was pressed into the very back, a colleague was standing by her side, Lu Zhenqiu turned her head to look, and before she could retract her gaze, Jin Shuilan was standing in front of her, the two were face to face, Jin Shuilan just happened to block all her lines of sight, and also blocked the sight of others looking at her.

As if being isolated in a world that only belonged to Jin Shuilan, Lu Zhenqiu raised her eyes, the elevator’s incandescent light was bright, shining on the corner of Jin Shuilan’s eye, sparkling.

She suddenly extended her hand to hug Jin Shuilan, in front of so many colleagues, her hands wrapped around Jin Shuilan’s waist, Jin Shuilan’s down jacket was open, Lu Zhenqiu’s face pressed against her knitted shirt, a fluffy touch, she even nuzzled it, Jin Shuilan only felt her heart instantly soften.

Suddenly she didn’t really want to go out anymore.

Right now she really wanted to carry Lu Zhenqiu back!

The surrounding sounds were sometimes far and sometimes near, ethereal and gradually distant, one of Jin Shuilan’s hands was curled at her side, one hand supported the handrail on the edge of the elevator, she turned her body sideways, and when no one was paying attention, she lowered her head, and moved close to Lu Zhenqiu’s ear, Lu Zhenqiu thought she was going to speak, and was turning her ear to listen, when she was unexpectedly bitten.

The tip of a tongue swept across her earlobe, Lu Zhenqiu’s mind instantly went blank, her face rapidly flushed red, her pair of eyes shimmering with glistening light.

Soon they reached the first floor, the surrounding people dispersed, only the two of them were left in the elevator, Jin Shuilan asked: “Do you want to ride it one more time?”

Lu Zhenqiu returned to her senses, shot her a glare and got off the elevator, after the two left the hotel, Jin Shuilan drove the car, there was still a faint scent of perfume in the car, Jin Shuilan asked her: “What do you want to eat?”

“Umm…” Lu Zhenqiu couldn’t say a one two three, so she simply said: “Let’s go to the food street first?”

Jin Shuilan nodded, and drove directly to the vicinity of the food street, after parking the car Lu Zhenqiu said: “There’s a buffet restaurant with very good reviews, should we go take a look?”

“Okay.” Jin Shuilan asked: “Where is it?”

Lu Zhenqiu followed the navigation on her phone, and raised her head: “Just ahead.”

The two entered the door and chose a spot, just as they sat down, Lu Zhenqiu said: “The Stirred Emotions’ small group has gotten a lot of new people.”

Jin Shuilan nodded: “En, I know.”

Lu Zhenqiu asked: “When does it start?”

Jin Shuilan thought for a moment and replied to her: “Zibo said to wait until after the New Year passes.”

Lu Zhenqiu gave a sound of assent: “I have been listening to the radio drama these few days.”

The first installment of the radio drama had already come out, she listened to it over and over again, more attentively than Jin Shuilan, Jin Shuilan laughed in spite of herself: “The response is pretty good.”

The presale had already passed five thousand just after it came out, Lu Zhenqiu’s performance was especially good, Ji Zibo kept praising his own ability to pick people, Jin Shuilan looked at Lu Zhenqiu, her eyes filled with a smiling expression, Lu Zhenqiu said: “Because everyone’s performance was very good.”

Jin Shuilan nodded.

Lu Zhenqiu looked at her, the hot steam from the hot pot curled up, she said: “I want to tell you something.”

Jin Shuilan raised her eyes, and nodded: “What is it?” After she asked, she said: “I also have something I want to tell you.”

Lu Zhenqiu pinched her chopsticks: “Tell me? What is it?”

Jin Shuilan hesitated for two seconds: “You first.”

Just as Lu Zhenqiu opened her mouth, a voice came from behind: “Qiuqiu?”

She turned her head, it was Xiao Yu and her roommate.

Xiao Yu walked to her side: “I just said it was you, she still said it wasn’t, how come you…”

Looking more closely, opposite was Jin Shuilan.

Xiao Yu’s voice died for a few seconds: “Hello Teacher Jin.”

How did Jin Shuilan come here?

Xiao Yu winked at Lu Zhenqiu, Lu Zhenqiu said: “She came for vacation.”

“Vacation?” Xiao Yu wasn’t a fool, she smiled: “Vacation is good.”

What kind of going nowhere else, but running to the neighboring city for a vacation, isn’t it just because she missed Lu Zhenqiu, she understood, Lu Zhenqiu’s face grew hot from her look, she cleared her throat: “Have you eaten?”

“Just finished.” Xiao Yu said, she had ordered some barbecue in the evening, and not being full, she pulled her roommate to come out together, she had just been paying the bill when she saw someone who looked like Lu Zhenqiu, so she came over to see.

Besides, even if she hadn’t eaten, she couldn’t possibly be a third wheel!

Xiao Yu pulled her roommate: “Then we’ll go first, you guys eat slowly.”

Lu Zhenqiu nodded.

Xiao Yu suddenly turned her head again and said: “Let me tell you another piece of good news, Lu Yan just went back, said they are going to switch someone else to come over, you finally don’t have to see her, are you happy or not?”

Lu Zhenqiu glanced at Jin Shuilan, opened her mouth, and nodded: “Happy.”

Xiao Yu was even happier than her, this Lu Yan was usually arrogant and condescending, looking down on you, looking down on her, this time her program was stopped, and surprisingly no one helped to plead with Manager Mo.

But this matter was Lu Yan’s fault to begin with, who would be thoughtless enough to go help, in case they implicated themselves, it would not be good, so when Lu Yan left no one said half a word, and those who had long seen her as unpleasant were even secretly happy.

Xiao Yu was one of them, upon hearing the news she shared it with Lu Zhenqiu without stopping for a moment. She waved at Lu Zhenqiu: “Leaving, bye bye.”

Her roommate also said hello to Lu Zhenqiu and Jin Shuilan, Jin Shuilan nodded slightly, her side profile calm, Lu Zhenqiu bit her lip, looked towards Jin Shuilan, the latter cast her eyes on her, and asked: “Lu Yan?”

Lu Zhenqiu seemed like she had been caught doing something wrong, she lowered her head, and said: “My roommate is Lu Yan.”

Jin Shuilan looked at her, Lu Zhenqiu said: “And some unpleasant things happened.”

“What things?” Jin Shuilan’s tone gave no hint of her emotions, Lu Zhenqiu also didn’t know if she was angry now, she explained: “My original roommate was another person, she switched with someone else, and then she also spread some rumors, yesterday they were exposed by me, later she was called away by the leadership…”

Jin Shuilan looked at her fixedly.

Lu Zhenqiu said: “I didn’t deliberately hide it from you, I was just about to tell you.”

Jin Shuilan nodded, and asked: “Why didn’t you tell me yesterday?”

Lu Zhenqiu said: “I wanted to wait until it was handled before telling you.”

She raised her eyes, and met Jin Shuilan’s gaze, her own gaze calm: “After I entered Sanshui, there have always been some rumors, saying my opportunities are too good, my luck is too good…”

“That is because you have the ability.” After Jin Shuilan finished speaking, Lu Zhenqiu continued the words: “But other people won’t think so, that’s why some rumors came out.”

“So I thought, I would wait until I handled these rumors, then tell you.”

Jin Shuilan gripped her chopsticks tightly.

Lu Zhenqiu said: “I know you have the ability, if I had told you yesterday, perhaps you would have helped me handle it better, but I feel that these things, are things I can handle myself, and besides there were already rumors, to have you help me handle it again, I feel it’s not good.”

She said it very tactfully, but Jin Shuilan heard the meaning.

Originally Lu Zhenqiu already had countless rumors at Sanshui, if she herself intervened again, wouldn’t that just confirm the rumor that she had someone behind her? At that time, it would truly be a case of having reason but being unable to explain, so she wanted to use her own method to handle it, even if it was clumsy, even if it wasn’t smart enough, but this was the best way she could handle it.

And the matter had already been perfectly resolved by her.

Jin Shuilan nodded slightly.

Lu Zhenqiu looked at her, and asked: “You’re not angry, are you?”

Jin Shuilan shook her head: “No.”

Lu Zhenqiu’s heart was put at ease, she said: “It’s good that you’re not, I was originally planning to tell you, but it ended up being said by Xiao Yu first.”

Her tone was much more cheerful, Jin Shuilan’s face was expressionless, she just put down her chopsticks and said: “Got it.” As her voice fell, her phone rang, Jin Shuilan looked down at the flashing name on the phone screen and said: “I’m going to take a call.”

Lu Zhenqiu nodded.

Jin Shuilan left the table to take the call outside, Lu Zhenqiu sat on the chair putting hot pot balls in while waiting for Jin Shuilan to come back, during which Xiao Yu sent a message: 【Is a certain someone coming back tonight?】

What kind of question was that!

Lu Zhenqiu didn’t hesitate: 【I am going back.】

Xiao Yu: 【Aiya, you’re willing to come back, Teacher Jin came a thousand li to see you, you’re not going to accompany Teacher Jin at night?】

Lu Zhenqiu poked at the screen.

Xiao Yu was so wordy she didn’t know how to reply.

Jin Shuilan looked at Lu Zhenqiu through the glass, she was fiddling with the hot pot base on one side, and looking at her phone on the other, her expression was pleasant, her smile obvious, she sighed lightly, and said to the person on the other end of the phone: “I’m not going to the evening party this year, you will still be my substitute.”

Although the person on the other end of the phone was puzzled, they didn’t ask much, Jin Shuilan hung up the phone and watched Lu Zhenqiu for several minutes, finally she lowered her head and entered the shop.

Just as she sat down, Lu Zhenqiu passed her the dipping sauce, saying: “The taste is pretty good, you try it.”

Jin Shuilan took it, used her chopsticks to dip into the sauce, Lu Zhenqiu asked with a smile: “How is it?”

“The taste is not bad.” Jin Shuilan said: “You mixed it yourself?”

Lu Zhenqiu nodded: “You can add some vinegar, over here is chili oil, you can also add a little.”

Jin Shuilan added a little vinegar and mixed it, hearing Lu Zhenqiu ask: “By the way, you just said you had something to tell me, what is it?”

Her eyes were clear and bright, the light from the chandelier reflected in the bottom of her eyes, Jin Shuilan looked at her own tiny reflection, and only after a long moment did she open her mouth: “It’s nothing.”

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The author has something to say:

Thirty red envelopes, memeda.

Lu Zhenqiu: Really nothing?

Jin Shuilan: It’s nothing.

Lu Zhenqiu: The one who isn’t well-behaved is to be punished.

Jin Shuilan: …

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