The time has reached 7:45, and people in the hall are drinking and laughing, and they are still lively and cheerful. However, on the second floor, everyone in the Lu family looks anxious.
Mother Lu's face was so anxious that she turned red. She didn't care about her manners at all. She took her mobile phone and dialed Tian Zhi's number over and over again.
What time has it been? Where are the people?
The dinner will start at eight o'clock. At that time, Mr. Lu will lead Lu Xixin down from the second floor.
But now it's 7:45, and Lu Xixin is nowhere to be seen.
On the other side, Tian Zhi looked at Mother Lu's calls one after another on the phone, and her lips were almost bleeding.
She didn't dare to answer the call at all, and even if she did, she didn't know how to explain Lu Xixin's disappearance. Should she say that she accidentally got scratched while driving, and then left the eldest lady alone on the subway?
As soon as this statement comes out, Mrs. Lu will definitely eat her heart out.
Mrs. Lu may not pay attention to some minutiae and some subtleties, but as a wealthy lady, she has a special car when she comes in and out, and she doesn't take the subway at all, unless it's urgent.
Let Miss Lu, who is well-groomed and has difficulty moving around in a dress, take the subway.
This is a serious dereliction of duty.
After Mrs. Lu learned about this, she would definitely fire her, and even Mrs. Lu couldn't stay.
Tian Zhi looked at the constantly vibrating cell phone, and finally broke down emotionally, squatting on the ground and crying.
She picked up the phone tremblingly.
"Tian Zhi, why don't you answer the phone?" Mother Lu asked on the phone.
This gentle and elegant lady got angry for the first time.
"Madam." Tian Zhi wiped his tears, "I'm sorry, I can't find Miss Xixin."
"What?" Mother Lu was shocked. She wanted to pull Tian Zhi out of her phone and ask her how she did things. But now is not the time to hold Tian Zhi accountable, but to find Lu Xixin as soon as possible.
Mother Lu reluctantly suppressed her anger and tried to speak calmly: "Tell me, what is going on?"
Lu Chengji was standing next to Lu's mother. Seeing that her mother was unstable, he stepped forward to take the phone away.
Opened his mouth: "Explain!"
Hearing the gentle and calm male voice coming from the phone, Tian Zhi's suppressed emotions suddenly collapsed.
It’s the eldest young master!
Hearing the crying coming from over there, Lu Chengji's pretty eyebrows wrinkled slightly, he tapped the phone twice with his slender fingers, and said, "Where are you?"
His voice was gentle and quiet, with a calming power that instantly soothed Tian Zhi's emotions.
"I'm at the intersection of Xinyang Road." She replied.
"Okay." Lu Chengji nodded, then motioned to the assistant beside him to come over immediately.
Lu Chengji stood in the center of the room, tall and tall, with an outstanding demeanor, and a calm and steady aura in his every move.
Looking at him, the rest of the Lu family calmed down instantly, as if they had a backbone.
Lu Chengji changed his hand to answer the phone and asked, "When did the eldest lady disappear?"
"7:10."
"Why did you get off the car and in which direction?"
Tian Zhi bit her lip: "The car broke down. Miss, I'm going to take the subway."
"Subway?" Lu Chengji confirmed, "In other words, you let her get off the train alone and take the subway alone."
Hearing this, Tian Zhi's expression changed instantly and he immediately explained: "I, I want to repair the car."
Lu Chengji was impatient: "Can't you just leave your business card and deal with it afterwards?" Since the person is fine, it means it was a minor car accident. There are many ways to deal with minor car accidents, but Tian Zhi chose the most inappropriate one.
Who is Lu Chengji? He doesn't need to listen to a long narrative at all. He can make a judgment with just a few points.
This is a serious dereliction of duty by Tian Zhi!
Lu Chengji didn't know Tian Zhi very well, but she had been with her mother for several years without making any mistakes, so she obviously wouldn't make such an obvious and low-level mistake.
And when this happened, it was either because of her brain twitching or because she did it intentionally.
Realizing this, Lu Chengji changed his tone, and his originally gentle and honest voice became sharp and forceful: "Who asked you to set up Miss? Who else is involved in this matter? You'd better confess as soon as possible. If something happens to Miss
, think about your own fate."
The last sentence had a solemn tone.
Tian Zhi simply couldn't withstand Lu Chengji's pressing questions and explained everything in one go.
Hearing the words Cheng Zishan, Lu Chengji's eyebrows narrowed and he turned to look at the person behind Lu Yaqing.
With just one look, Cheng Zishan's legs went weak, she broke down and waved her hands: "It's not me, it's not me. I don't know where Miss Xixin went? I just let her squeeze into the subway."
There is actually something about Cheng Zishan!
Mother Lu looked over in shock, her eyes subconsciously falling on Lu Yaqing.
Lu Yaqing reacted quickly and immediately avoided Mother Lu's gaze. At the same time, she turned to look at Cheng Zishan, looking at her with a look of shock and disbelief: "Zishan, why did you let Sister Xixin squeeze into the subway? She was wearing
Dress, inconvenient."
When she heard the word "dress", Cheng Zishan instantly calmed down. This matter could be big or small. She could treat it as a joke, or she could treat it as someone with evil intentions and a design for the eldest lady.
The key lies in how she explains it.
Lu Yaqing's words reminded her, and Cheng Zishan quickly explained: "It's my fault, I want the eldest lady to make a fool of herself, because she keeps bullying Yaqing, and I'm so angry, so... I didn't expect her to disappear, she didn't do it at all.
subway."
After hearing this, Mother Lu was anxious and angry. She pointed at Cheng Zishan and was speechless for a long time.
This kid is so naughty, how could he make such a joke?
Knowing that Mother Lu had passed the test, Lu Yaqing raised her eyes and glanced at Lu Chengji quietly. Seeing that he just had a sullen face and said nothing, her heart sank, knowing that this matter could not be resolved.
Therefore, Lu Yaqing immediately said: "You are very wrong in this matter. I can no longer keep you by my side. But the top priority now is to find Sister Xixin. Your responsibility will be held later."
It's almost 8 o'clock. Everyone in the Lu family can't stay upstairs any longer and must go down quickly.
You should appease the guests and explain why Lu Xixin did not show up.
Because everyone from the Lu family had gone upstairs, people in the hall had already started talking, speculating that something had happened.
It's almost 8 o'clock, and the eldest lady of the Lu family doesn't show up, nor does anyone else. This is so strange.
Gu Xiuming stayed away from everyone and sat on a chair in the corner by the door with a lazy expression. He held a goblet in his hand and swung it around, watching the red wine inside ripple in circles.
A buddy came over to look for him: "Hey, your fiancée is going to show up, why don't you take a look?"
Gu Xiuming raised his eyes, his eyes turned up, and his clear and noble eyebrows had a hint of evil, just like the style of the Wei and Jin Dynasties, Liu Gongzi, but the tone of his words was not very polite: "If you don't know how to speak, just shut up.
!”
The buddy chuckled and continued to move forward: "Xiu Ming, you are really not curious. She is the real eldest lady of the Lu family, your real fiancée. I remember when we were young, we played house together."
As a child?
Gu Xiuming leaned back, crossed his legs, held the bar in one hand, and supported his chin in the other.
He really doesn't remember his childhood.
What was Lu Xixin like as a child?
Probably very pretty. Because Gu Xiuming has liked to play with pretty girls since he was a child. If she was not pretty, he would not play house together.
But no matter how beautiful the girl is, she cannot withstand the wear and tear of time. After being beaten by wind and rain, the flowers will either wither or become frosty and cold plums.
Gu Xiuming didn't like either withered flowers or frosty plum blossoms.
One is disabled and the other is cold.
Boring and boring.
If it weren't for his close relationship with the Lu family, he wouldn't even want to come today.
Seeing that Gu Xiuming was not interested in Lu Xixin, the others became a little more bold and started to make fun of her.
"I don't know what Miss Lu, who grew up outside, is like. Is she even half as good as Lu Yaqing?"
"What are you thinking about? It would be great if you can catch up to one-tenth of Yaqing."
"That's right. People outside look like this. They are either shy and timid and have a family spirit, or they are bitter and cunning, or they are vain and ambitious."
While he was talking, the door on the side was suddenly pushed open, and a graceful figure walked in.
The long skirt like fire wrapped around her concave and convex figure, and her profile was delicate. From Gu Xiuming's angle, you could see her plump forehead, crow-winged eyelashes, and tall and petite hair.
nose.
She walked from the darkness and walked into the light and shadow. Her fiery red dress made everyone around her turn into a back figure and lose their color in an instant.