Chapter 74: Keeping Someone In Your Heart
For some reason, Lu Qiaoge felt that Qin Hengzhi’s military uniform was exceptionally straight today, and his eyes were exceptionally bright.
He also seemed exceptionally handsome and otherworldly.
Qin Hengzhi’s eyes were very bright. Just now, when he was riding in the car passing by here, he happened to see Lu Qiaoge prying at the large iron gate behind the department store’s warehouse.
At that time, he had Xiao Su stop the car, and Qin Hengzhi said to Xiao Su, “You drive back first, I have something to do.”
Xiao Su crisply agreed, but inside he was extremely excited.
Sure enough, his family’s Representative Qin was different towards Lu Qiaoge than towards other female comrades.
Representative Qin’s eyes were like radar with positioning—if he didn’t care about someone, would he do this?
After Xiao Su drove the car away, Qin Hengzhi also strode up to Lu Qiaoge.
Lu Qiaoge quickly let go of the hand gripping the railing.
Qin Hengzhi’s eyebrow arched slightly, his eyes like melting ice and snow: “What, couldn’t buy the bicycle?”
Lu Qiaoge looked at Qin Hengzhi.
He was, as always, exceptionally handsome, with every gesture exuding the sharp aura unique to soldiers.
Lu Qiaoge smiled: “Exactly, the salesperson said there was no stock in the warehouse, told me to come back next month. She had one fully assembled behind her counter, but she said it was reserved by someone.”
Qin Hengzhi’s brows furrowed slightly, his tone certain: “There’s stock in the warehouse.”
Lu Qiaoge knew there was stock, just like grabbing tickets for Dragon Country’s Spring Festival travel rush—none available online or at the window, but the train conductor always had some.
These things were always reserved just in case.
It was only early June—already no bicycles left?
“So I didn’t believe it either, so I came to the warehouse behind… um, let my Hua Hua try her luck.”
Lu Qiaoge changed the subject because the calico cat was excitedly darting towards her…
Rat Big and Rat Two also slipped over along the base of the wall.
The first to report was the calico cat: 【I saw it, meow meow meow. There are some, lots stacked over there.】
After the calico cat finished reporting, Rat Big quietly spoke up: 【It’s in warehouse number two, none assembled yet.】
Lu Qiaoge figured Rat Big must be the elf rat little brother.
Qin Hengzhi gave the calico cat a deep look, half-smiling as he asked: “What is this cat saying?”
Lu Qiaoge teasingly arched her brow: “Does Representative Qin want to hear it?”
Qin Hengzhi, seeing Lu Qiaoge’s expression, actually didn’t want to hear it, but he nodded involuntarily.
Lu Qiaoge looked at Qin Hengzhi, her voice warm and soft: “Hua Hua says how can Representative Qin be so good-looking!”
She knew it, she knew it—this girl dared say anything.
Uncontrollably, the tips of Qin Hengzhi’s ears turned red.
He composed himself at the fastest speed, tossed out a sentence: “Follow me.” Then he strode ahead.
Lu Qiaoge admired the military representative’s helpless pursed lips, told Rat Big and Rat Two to hurry home, and if hungry to find her, but absolutely not to run around everywhere.
And she followed Qin Hengzhi’s footsteps.
Of course, when Qin Hengzhi noticed she hadn’t caught up, he imperceptibly slowed his pace.
At the department store’s bicycle counter, the smug salesperson was just about to continue admiring herself when the team leader nearby, who had seen the scene, thought the pretty young woman who left earlier looked a bit familiar.
She walked over and casually asked: “That young woman earlier looked familiar—who is she? Do you know her? Was she buying a bicycle?”
After three questions in a row, the salesperson quietly pouted: “I don’t know who she is, I don’t know her. She wanted to buy a bicycle, but I saw she had an internal ticket, so I wondered if there was a problem, so I told her there was no stock and to come back next month.”
The team leader narrowed her eyes at the obviously guilty salesperson.
She pointed a finger at her and asked: “You really don’t know who she is?”
The salesperson insisted: “I don’t know her.”
The team leader bluntly said: “You don’t know her and you dare make things difficult for her? Why can’t she have an internal ticket? And even if there was a problem, you couldn’t handle it so you could come find me—why lie to a customer?”
The salesperson’s face flushed red, speechless.
The furious team leader continued: “I’m telling you now, her name is Lu Qiaoge, she’s a cadre at the neighborhood committee—having an internal ticket is no issue. Since she joined the neighborhood committee, do you know how many big and small matters she’s handled? Don’t think I can’t see your little tricks—it’s all because of your Sister Duan, right?”
The salesperson bit her lip and lowered her head, saying nothing.
“Your Sister Duan—what good thing is she? Although Zhao Qing isn’t good either, is Duan Xiaoxiang clean? What, can’t live without the man from Old Zhao family? Marrying her brother-in-law destroyed Sun Qin’s family, and she still has the face to be smug—only you few fools in the whole department store say she’s good; who doesn’t curse her behind her back?”
“Besides, Sun Qin and her daughter were forced to leave with nothing, taking nothing. Little Jing, you haven’t married so you don’t know marriage has sweetness but also bitterness. Zhao Xiubo is only eight years old—Zhao Qing heartlessly won’t even give child support, that’s already inhuman enough, but in the end, Duan Xiaoxiang and Old Mrs. Zhao teamed up to sell the child to a mountain village in the northwest to be a child bride. If not for Representative Qin and Lu Qiaoge and them, that child’s whole life would have been ruined. For someone even worse than a beast like Duan Xiaoxiang, you’re still standing up for her?”
The salesperson was startled by the excited team leader and hurriedly waved her hands: “No no, I didn’t!”
The team leader took a deep breath—every family has its own hard-to-recited scriptures. She seemed outwardly glamorous, but who could she tell her bellyful of bitterness to?
Towards Lu Qiaoge, the team leader liked and admired her from the bottom of her heart—this young woman handled things decisively without smoothing things over. It was Sun Qin’s luck to meet Lu Qiaoge.
The team leader said to the salesperson: “Stay put honestly first. I’ll go see if Lu Qiaoge has left. You’re too bold to dare lie—if she gets serious, do you think you can still stand here?”
The salesperson didn’t take it to heart but still didn’t dare speak up.
The team leader turned around and saw the two people walking together.
Wasn’t this Representative Qin and Lu Qiaoge?
Did she bring in reinforcements, or was it a coincidence?
The team leader stepped forward enthusiastically: “I’m Mu Dan, team leader of the hardware group. You’re Lu Qiaoge, right? I recognized you earlier at the bicycle counter. You might not know me, but that time you handled Zhou Li’s family matter, I was right in the crowd—you handled it beautifully.”
Qin Hengzhi stopped in his tracks, not continuing forward.
Even without him, Lu Qiaoge could ride a bicycle home.
Um, just didn’t know if she knew how to ride.
Qin Hengzhi calmly said: “You go get the ticket, I’ll wait for you at the warehouse.”
Mu Dan immediately smiled broadly: “I guessed you were Representative Qin. Good, I’ll take Qiao Ge to get the ticket.”
Although she didn’t know the new military representative from the military factory, she’d heard the young women chattering about him.
They said he was the youngest military representative in the military factory’s history, and a handsome man.
Wasn’t this exceptionally elegant and extraordinary figure the officer right in front of her?
And those epaulets were for a regimental cadre.
So no need to guess—it was definitely Representative Qin.
