Chapter 28: Using My Grandma To Spread Rumors About You
Lu Qiaoge didn’t bother to figure out the reason. Just as she was about to ask how to get it up, she heard the old turtle say: 【A human is coming, it’s that handsome young man who entered the wrong room.】
Lu Qiaoge turned her head and saw Qin Hengzhi holding a fishing rod and an iron bucket, walking toward her unhurriedly.
At this moment, there was no one in this area, but not far away was the guard tower for the military factory patrol.
Even so, Lu Xiaosi saw a strange man walking over, quickly put down the net bag in his hand, ran swiftly in front of Lu Qiaoge, and stared at the approaching man with big vigilant eyes.
Although he was very good-looking, Lu Xiaosi didn’t let his guard down.
Lu Qiaoge looked to the left and right, then silently looked at the fishing rod and small iron bucket in Qin Hengzhi’s hand.
Although she didn’t think Qin Hengzhi had come specifically to find her, it felt like that was the fact.
So, what caught his attention?
Where was he hiding just now, and then he discovered her?
Lu Qiaoge smiled: “It’s actually Representative Qin. Good morning!”
Then she rubbed Xiao Si’s head. The little guy with his small body was still thinking of protecting her: “Xiao Si, this is Representative Qin from the military factory. Say hello.”
At this time, Qin Hengzhi had already walked up to Lu Qiaoge, glanced impassively at the cat looking at him together with the turtle, and the swallow still perched on Lu Qiaoge’s shoulder, and smiled faintly: “Good morning.”
His voice was pleasant, like a spring breeze brushing the face.
Even Lu Qiaoge couldn’t help but be dazed for a moment.
Having a beauty greet you good morning first thing in the morning was quite comfortable.
Lu Qiaoge looked at Qin Hengzhi with a beaming smile.
This ‘chance encounter’ put her in a good mood. Just right, she had something to remind him of.
Lu Xiaosi raised his head, blinked his big eyes, and said softly: “Representative Qin, good morning!”
Even though Qin Hengzhi’s eyes held a smile, the aura around him carried cold sternness and chill.
Xiao Si was always sensitive. Unlike Lu Qiaoge who didn’t care, he felt a bit uneasy and shifted his body slightly.
Only then did the naughty swallow react, flapping away in a flurry. The old turtle didn’t dare move. This man was very formidable; he had once sneaked underwater to look at the steel billets sunk at the bottom.
Lu Qiaoge also felt that Qin Hengzhi wouldn’t come without reason.
Could it be that he was carrying out a task and accidentally saw her?
She told the old turtle in her mind: “Eat yours, pretend you don’t understand anything.”
The old turtle gauged the distance. At its speed, running was out of the question.
It could only bury its head in eating, though it wasn’t too worried in its heart.
For Lu Qiaoge, it was actually very reassured.
Qin Hengzhi noticed Lu Xiaosi’s wariness and tension. He smiled warmly at Xiao Si: “I saw you scooping fish just now. How is it? Are there many fish?”
Lu Xiaosi sensed his goodwill and felt much better. He still said softly: “It’s okay.”
Lu Qiaoge reminded faintly: “Xiao Si, you dropped the net bag just now.”
Only then did Lu Xiaosi widen his eyes and run back to the previous spot.
Lu Qiaoge glanced at Qin Hengzhi: “Representative Qin, aren’t you going to work today? Are you planning to fish?”
Qin Hengzhi curved the corners of his mouth.
But he pointed at that cat: “I remember it was there at the restaurant that day too.”
Lu Qiaoge nodded: “You’re right. It’s my family’s Hua Hua.”
Qin Hengzhi pointed at the swallow flying away and said meaningfully: “That swallow looks familiar too. I remember it was with your family’s calico cat at the time.”
Lu Qiaoge looked at Qin Hengzhi in disbelief: “Swallows all look the same. How did you determine that this swallow is that swallow?”
Then Lu Qiaoge patiently explained: “But my family’s calico cat does indeed have a few swallow friends.”
Qin Hengzhi chuckled: “A cat and swallows as friends? Is that possible?”
Lu Qiaoge nodded seriously: “Anything is possible!”
Qin Hengzhi laughed lightly, his dark eyes as if dotted with fine sunlight.
“You saying it like that is quite fresh.”
But then he didn’t pursue further, instead leisurely packing up his fishing rod. Lu Qiaoge stood beside him, very close, and asked in surprise: “Are you really going to fish?”
Qin Hengzhi glanced at the young woman close at hand. Up close, he discovered that Lu Qiaoge’s eyes were clear like the autumn sky.
They seemed to contain no impurities, transparent to the bottom.
But actually, this young woman was not that simple!
Qin Hengzhi leisurely threaded bait onto the hook, saying slowly: “Or what?”
Lu Qiaoge smiled slyly: “I thought you saw me and wanted to come talk to me.”
Qin Hengzhi paused, turning his head to look at the smiling Lu Qiaoge in astonishment.
But Lu Qiaoge didn’t give him a chance to speak, putting away the smile on her face.
She said: “Actually, even if I didn’t run into you, Representative Qin, I was going to find you?”
The little girl was so polite, always using ‘you’ formally.
But she was looking for him?
Qin Hengzhi stood tall by the lakeside, casting the fishing rod into the water, but also replied in a low voice: “What do you want with me?”
Lu Qiaoge said mysteriously: “I offended several people. They’re planning to report me recently, and also use my grandmother to spread rumors about you.”
Qin Hengzhi nearly choked on his saliva.
Did she mean it literally?
Or the meaning beneath the literal?
Gazing at Lu Qiaoge, Qin Hengzhi asked faintly: “How are they going to spread rumors?”
Lu Qiaoge still kept her voice low: “Didn’t you save me? The people I offended are planning to make an issue out of that.”
Qin Hengzhi asked casually: “What issue can they make out of that?”
Lu Qiaoge raised her eyebrow: “…I’m pondering that too.”
Qin Hengzhi: …
Wasn’t it just preparing to use something like ruining her innocence?
Qin Hengzhi looked straight ahead, his handsome brows and eyes bathed in a layer of faint golden light from the morning sun, making his whole person seem somewhat unreal.
But his fishing rod moved. In the time it took to speak, a carp about half a foot long was hooked out of the water by the extremely quick-reacting Qin Hengzhi.
【Save me, Lu Qiaoge. I know you can understand me. Quickly save me!】
That big carp wailed in despair.
【Serves you right. Greedy mouth, coming to eavesdrop. Little girl, ignore it. Becoming a meal for those soldiers is also a good deed.】
This was the old turtle’s voice.
Lu Qiaoge was still pondering how to tell Qin Hengzhi that these people were going to use ruining her innocence as leverage, but unexpectedly a big carp was hooked out of nowhere, now struggling fiercely and in terror in mid-air.
【Lu Qiaoge, if you save me, I’ll go find that kind of grass the old turtle mentioned for you.】
【Meow meow meow, I want to eat the big carp.】
【Dead cat, dare to eat me? Let my bones choke you to death!】
【Little master, I want to eat steamed carp.】The calico cat raised its head unwilling to show weakness.
Lu Qiaoge’s mind was a chaotic mess, but she immediately ran to the lakeside, grabbed the fishing line, and along with it the fishing rod and naturally that terrified big carp.
This fish was no small fish.
What the old turtle said was probably right. If not for its excessive curiosity, such a shallow lakeside wouldn’t catch such a big fish.
