"Second Master Xu, are you going to treat Master Xiao to dinner tonight?"
Wang Tong suddenly asked.
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"……Um."
Xu Qingzhu responded hesitantly, as if he had a bad premonition.
Sure enough, as soon as he finished speaking, he saw Wang Tong's eyes narrowed into slits with laughter, and he asked him cheerfully, "Can I have a piece too?"
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Xu Qingzhu:......
He felt like he couldn't laugh or cry.
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Seeing Xu Qingzhu's silence, Wang Tong kept up his efforts, "Really, I'll sit outside."
"When you've finished chatting, call me and I'll come in."
"How's it going, Mr. Xu?"
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"It seems you rejected him."
Xiao Xiao couldn't help but curl his lips slightly when he heard this.
Obviously, he didn't see the pot-bellied Mr. Wang when he came.
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Xu Qingzhu nodded and confirmed Xiao Xiao's guess, and then said: "But I promised him to hand this to Master Xiao personally."
He took out a business card from the business card holder he carried with him and handed it to Xiao Xiao.
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Xiao Xiao took it and looked at it. It was a very clean business card with only a name and phone number on it.
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"Lao Wang very much hopes that when he calls next time, Master Xiao will not refuse to answer his call."
Xu Qingzhu said leisurely, thinking of the numerous instructions given to him by Lao Wang at noon, he couldn't help but smile a little bit from the corner of his eyebrows.
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Xiao Xiao also laughed a little. He glanced at the number on the business card and put it away.
"Okay, I think he should be able to get through to me next time."
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"Haha~"
Xu Qingzhulang laughed out loud.
Compared to the first time they met, the aura around him was a bit brighter, and there was no longer a faint shadow between his brows.
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"Master Xiao."
Xu Qingzhu suppressed his smile and looked very solemn, "It was a bit inconvenient for other children to be present yesterday."
He stood up and bowed deeply to Xiao Xiao, "Master Xiao, thank you."
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Xiao Xiao was stunned for a moment, and then a bitter smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, "Uncle Xu, please get up."
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After a few breaths, Xu Qingzhu slowly stood up.
He showed a somewhat emotional smile to Xiao Xiao, "Yesterday was the first time I heard her voice."
"This is really a big surprise."
"Thank you, Master Xiao."
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Xu Qingzhu is not a fool.
He had been with Ling Feng for more than ten years. It could almost be said that Ling Feng had been by his side as long as he could remember.
In the following decades, he never gave up waiting for Ling Feng to come back.
That maple tree was the place where he spent the longest time in the past years.
Even so, he never heard Ling Feng's voice once.
I have never seen a maple tree change color for him.
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It happened that Master Xiao came, the maple tree changed color, and Ling Feng even called his name.
If he said there was no connection, he would never believe it.
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However, "I always feel a little sad."
Xu Qingzhu sat back down and said suddenly.
He had been with her for such a long time, but it was because of outsiders that she responded to his waiting.
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If it weren't for Master Xiao, would she have planned to never let him know of her existence?
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They are obviously very close.
Did she really watch him wait endlessly for her disappearance?
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You should know that when he first discovered that she was missing, he went crazy.
His pain, his unwillingness, his resentment, his confusion, his fear, his worry, and his tears, couldn't all of these make her call his name?
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Although Xu Qingzhu did not continue speaking, Xiao Xiao quickly understood what his sadness meant.
This was also the question he once asked Ling Feng.
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Xiao Xiao looked at Xu Qingzhu, who looked melancholy and bitter, and hesitated whether to tell him the truth? Or make up a nice lie?
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"Does she have something to hide?"
Misunderstanding Xiao Xiao's silence, Xu Qingzhu expressed his suspicion.
In other words, the conjecture that I hope for.
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"Uncle Xu, it is a monster."
Xiao Xiao still chose to tell the truth since he felt that the other party had the right to know the truth.
The expression on Uncle Xu's face paused, and he was a little unable to react. After a few seconds, he said with some confusion: "Well, I know."
"You told me."
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"Monster cultivation pays attention to cause and effect."
"If it forcibly maintains a connection with you, it will cause unnecessary cause and effect."
"This is detrimental to its practice."
Xiao Xiao paused, looked at Uncle Xu's stunned expression, and explained a few more words, "It is extremely difficult for plants and trees to become monsters."
"It takes thousands of years to transform into a human form."
Therefore, its caution is understandable.
Moreover, "Monsters are cold-blooded by nature."
"Especially those monsters whose true form is vegetation."
"They don't understand affection, they don't understand love."
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"Ling Feng probably doesn't understand how you have been feeling, Uncle Xu."
"It thinks you're doing well."
"It knows that you are married and that you have a child."
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"It's also kind of a shame that your kids can't see it."
...
Xu Qingzhu felt a little confused.
After a long time, he finally spoke, but what he asked was, "Then Ling Feng talked to me yesterday -"
"Doesn't it matter?"
There was a bit of worry in his eyes.
...
Xiao Xiao looked at Uncle Xu with some surprise.
He thought that even if Uncle Xu wasn't angry, he might still be a little estranged from Ling Feng.
did not expect......
He couldn't help but smile slightly, "It doesn't matter."
"You didn't see it."
"It just makes you hear the sound of it."
"It won't have much cause and effect."
"This price is completely within the range it can bear."
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"Really? That's good."
Uncle Xu's tense expression relaxed.
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"But, Uncle Xu, if you want to hear its voice again later, it will probably be... difficult."
Xiao Xiao reminded Uncle Xu.
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"Ah, it doesn't matter."
Uncle Xu shook his head, "I'm already very satisfied."
There was a bit of hesitation on his face. After a few struggles, he said with some difficulty, "Ling Feng...do you still remember me?"
"it-"
Have you always considered him... a friend?
He was suddenly at a loss to ask questions.
He also wanted to ask, was it a misunderstanding that he thought she remembered his name?
In fact, she had forgotten it, but Master Xiao told her.
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"It remembers you."
"I remember your name too."
Xiao Xiao's tone was soothing and he spoke slowly so that Uncle Xu could hear it more clearly, "It blurted out your name at that time."
"And even though I asked it to call your name once."
"But I'm not sure it will definitely agree."
"However, even though it was a little difficult, it didn't hesitate for too long before agreeing."