A taxi drove slowly on the driveway leading to the city center. The speed never exceeded 50, and even a bicycle could run faster than it. Liu Jiangqing, who was still hanging his injured arm, looked out the window in a daze, completely lost.
He heard Lu Yunqian calling him next to him.
"Fang... eh, Liu, Liu Jiangqing?" Lu Yunqian was about to call him by the nickname she was used to, when she suddenly remembered the embarrassment she had caused in City B before, so she quickly changed her name and called him by his nickname.
Liu Jiangqing did not respond.
"Liu~Second Master?"
"..."
"Lord Landlord?"
Seeing that he kept ignoring her, Lu Yunqian simply lowered her voice and called out the nickname again. As expected, Liu Jiangqing suddenly looked sideways, her eyes full of contempt.
"Hahahaha, it seems that you prefer this title, so I won't change my words!" Lu Yunqian laughed, her face full of pride.
"Why are you calling me?" Liu Jiangqing asked dissatisfied.
"I see that you are unhappy, so I want to talk to you." Lu Yunqian said as she took out a mint candy from her omnipotent backpack and handed it over, "Here you go."
"No." Liu Jiangqing turned her gaze to the window again.
"Forgot you have no hands, I'll help you peel it off." Lu Yunqian didn't care about Liu Jiangqing's cold look, neatly tore the candy plastic paper from the seal, and handed it over again, "Here you go, I used to
My injured brother used to coax me like this, so I won’t feel uncomfortable after eating it.”
Liu Jiangqing was indifferent.
"If you don't hold it, I will feed it to you." Lu Yunqian approached Liu Jiangqing playfully.
"...Don't move." Liu Jiangqing admitted defeat, stretched out his left hand to take the candy and put it into his mouth. Suddenly, a strong mint smell spread from his mouth to his nose, and finally went straight to his brain, making his whole head feel cold and tingling.
I felt a lot more energetic instantly.
"It's delicious! I like this super mint candy the most, it's sweet and refreshing." Lu Yunqian said happily when she noticed the sudden change in his expression when he ate it.
"Well!"
Liu Jiangqing, who was stimulated by the strong mint smell, wanted to vomit but was embarrassed to spit it out. He could only keep it in his mouth silently, breathing slowly while muttering in his heart: Where did this guy come from as an alien? Take Zhou Hei Ya for lunch and eat it.
The mints are so oozing, but they still taste delicious. Are they going to kill you?
"Huh?" Lu Yunqian tilted her head and looked at Liu Jiangqing, who had her eyes closed tightly, "Is it so delicious that you can't speak?"
Liu Jiangqing took a breath slowly, feeling that her breathing was like ice slag. She leaned on the back of her seat and asked weakly: "Xiao Yuan wants to see you, why do you want me to join in the fun?"
Lu Yunqian was startled, and then she understood the reason why he had been depressed. After thinking about it, she said: "First of all, brother Xiao Yuan is our coach. If he says he has trouble with us, of course that includes you! Besides, I think you are bored.
It’s not good to recuperate at home, why not go out for a walk more often.”
"I don't recognize him as the coach." Liu Jiangqing's tone was as cold as the mint in his mouth, "He is not the one who trained me."
"..."
Lu Yunqian hung her head helplessly. Liu Jiangqing didn't like Xiao Yuan for a day or two. Ever since they first joined the bloody world last year, they had been dissatisfied with Jiang Yuan Ren Ziliu, as if he was a natural enemy.
So I stopped trying to persuade him. But since he had promised to go before going out, it meant that he still valued Xiao Yuan, so there was no need to worry too much about this meeting.
After arriving at the designated drop-off point, they followed the navigation for about ten minutes. Lu Yunqian and Liu Jiangqing stopped in front of a very majestic-looking building.
Lu Yunqian opened her mouth in surprise and read out the three wooden characters carved on the gray-white stone wall word by word: "Yuan Jiang Pavilion, Lord Landlady, is my navigation correct? Is this here?"
"Well, I can admit that he is the boss." Although Liu Jiangqing still looked indifferent, he was also slightly surprised by the design and scale of the building. At the same time, he noticed a piece of water standing at the door.
There is a sign with the words "Closed for Business" written on it.
The two of them were looking at the words Yuanjiang Pavilion on the street. Suddenly, a man walked out of the hollow wooden door next to them and said to them in a loud voice: "You two, why don't you go in and take a look?"
"Brother Xiao Yuan!" Lu Yunqian walked towards the man in surprise, her eyes were like seeing the idol she had admired for a long time.
"Haha, someone at the door said they saw you coming, so I will come out to pick you up first." Xiao Yuan said gently to Lu Yunqian, then turned to Liu Jiangqing, who was slowly following behind, and stretched out his right hand, "Hello,
Liu Jiangqing, we meet again."
Lu Yunqian looked at Liu Jiangqing cautiously, a little worried that he would start a fight here. However, Liu Jiangqing just hesitated for a moment and then stretched out her left hand and shook Xiao Yuan's hand politely.
"Hello." Liu Jiangqing said.
"Let's go, go ahead and take a few sips of the tea I made. Everything is ready." Xiao Yuan stepped forward to lead the way. The guard at the door opened the door on one side in time and respectfully invited the three of them to go in.
Entering the Yuanjiang Pavilion, Lu Yunqian was once again shocked by the space design inside. This kind of place looked like a place where only the upper class would come to drink tea and talk business. It was not something ordinary people could afford. But there was something strange about it.
What's more, except for the lobby on the first floor, there are some sounds of knocking and construction coming from the second and third floors, as if something is being repaired.
"Brother Xiao Yuan, are you closed today?" Lu Yunqian looked up at the second floor where the ding-ding-dong-dong was making the sound, and asked curiously.
"We will not be open for business in the future. The second and third floors are being renovated. This will be the registration venue for our club from now on." Xiao Yuan said and led them deep into the hall and into a corridor with a sliding door. After the door was closed,
The loud decoration sound disappeared instantly, which is enough to prove how powerful the sound insulation effect of the room here is.
"ah?!"
Looking at the huge wooden carvings of mountains and seas inlaid on the corridor wall and the light-transmitting skylight above her head imitating a line of sky, Lu Yunqian instinctively exclaimed from her throat, and her expression became nervous. On the one hand, because these were too much
The high-end decoration scenery, on the one hand, I can't believe that this place is actually going to become the territory of the Zero One Team.
She moved her feet mechanically, and the level of horror in her heart could not be expressed with the word "ah". Rather than being surprised, it was more like being frightened, and she even suspected that she had just heard Xiao Yuan's meaning wrongly.
At this time, Xiao Yuan was no longer the steady senior she had "accidentally met" in the All-Stars, but an "upper-class businessman" with a superior identity and status, who was completely different from her own world.
Unconsciously, Lu Yunqian walked slower and slower, and gradually distanced herself from Xiao Yuan, allowing Liu Jiangqing to walk in front.
"This is where I usually surf the Internet. It's a bit messy, don't mind it." Xiao Yuan stopped in front of a small door, opened it and walked in. (To be continued)