Chapter 605 The meaning of travel (1)
When Su Chengyi pushed open the door and walked in, Chu Qingmian had already changed into her bear pajamas and was about to sort out the work at hand one last time before going to bed and carefully check whether Party B had done anything secretly.
Last time, it was because she didn't check the contract in person and missed some small details. The sharp-eyed Wei Peilan discovered it, grabbed her pigtails, and educated her over it for several days.
Chu Qingmian put on her nightcap and yawned reluctantly.
In fact, if it weren't for the fact that she had to wait for Su Chengyi to finish talking to her father, she would have fallen asleep due to exhaustion. However, she was worried about something at the moment, and no matter how tired her eyes were, her brain was still awake.
Unexpectedly, before she even read the terms of her contract, someone pushed the door open and entered with great force.
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Chu Qingmian was startled. Before she could reprimand this person for his rude behavior, the person who came took the initiative.
Su Chengyi walked to the bedside and took off her nightcap. The eldest lady's long black hair cascaded down like a waterfall, carrying the familiar aroma of fructose.
The cool breeze outside the door followed his footsteps and movements and took advantage of it. Chu Qingmian's scalp felt cold and she shivered. She glared at him and said:
"What are you doing! Give me back my hat, it's so cold! And Su Chengyi, you don't even knock on the door when you enter a girl's room!"
"Get up."
Su Chengyi twirled her little bear nightcap, feeling secretly amused.
"Huh?!"
Chu Qingmian was slightly startled and blinked twice but didn't react.
"Why do you want to get up?"
She asked subconsciously.
"Let's sleep on the road later."
Su Chengyi raised his wrist and looked at his watch to make sure it was time.
"On the way?!!"
Now it was even more difficult for Miss Chu to understand. For a moment, she even wondered if she had fallen asleep when she read the contract. She must be dreaming now, otherwise why did Su Chengyi say something so inconsistent.
"Yes."
Su Chengyi nodded. He didn't seem to want to explain at this moment. He looked down at his watch again, and then at the cute young lady who still had a look of surprise on her face.
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After a few seconds of silence, he bent his knees to the edge of the bed and lifted Chu Qingmian up from the bed.
"Hey! Su Chengyi!"
The sudden feeling of weightlessness startled Chu Qingmian, and she had no choice but to hook her arm around his neck in panic.
"Hey, what are you going to do?"
Despite her busy schedule, the eldest lady still used her hand to poke Su Chengyi's face.
"Speaking of which, where is your cloakroom?"
Su Chengyi paused, lowered his head and asked.
Chu Qingmian smiled, her eyebrows curved.
"Turn left when you go out!"
In fact, as long as you are with Su Chengyi, it doesn't seem to matter where you go.
Miss Chu's cloakroom was almost as big as someone else's entire home. Su Chengyi put her on the dressing table and sat down, and then began to pick out clothes for her one by one under her command.
"Take out Su Chengyi's sweater and let me take a look. It seems a bit too thick for a base layer?"
"The one on the left, ah, no, no, a little further to the left, yes!"
"Okay, I decided to wear the same color as you!"
While the eldest lady was struggling, Su Chengyi felt like she was watching a fashion show.
Many clothes have not even had their tags removed, and the numbers on them are really staggering, but most of them are gifts from brands on their own initiative.
As the most popular little rich lady, she is positioned as an SSSVIP user among most brands and a big benefactor who needs to raise funds, so any new products of the season will be sent to her in advance. The gifts for the New Year holidays are never missing.
This kind of treatment is also available to Chen Jinzhi now, but because of her status as a big star, the brand hopes to get some advertising effects from her. If she is willing to be a free model, it would be better if she wears it when walking to the airport.
When Chu Qingmian came out of the fitting room, she had already arranged her clothes and hairstyle.
She specially chose a gray coat, a shirt and a very student-like plaid skirt in the same color as Su Chengyi.
The two people were reflected in the mirror, looking like a Japanese high school couple photographed by the school photography department for a magazine cover.
Su Chengyi lowered his head and looked at his watch. The time was just right.
"You can talk now! Where are you going? Do you need me to remind you, Mr. Su Chengyi, it is now 22:33 Beijing time."
Chu Qingmian came closer and asked again because she was really curious.
"You'll find out soon."
Su Chengyi raised her lips, took her hand and walked downstairs.
The fireplace in the living room had been extinguished and it was quiet. Only the nanny on night duty was still doing some scattered chores. When she saw the two people coming down, she said hello in a low voice.
"Did my dad go to bed? What were you talking about just now? Oh, he didn't say anything strange, did he?"
Walking to the living room, Chu Qingmian thought of this matter again and couldn't help but ask worriedly.
"No."
Su Chengyi shook his head and took an orange from the fruit plate on the table.
Although there were still a lot of questions that he didn't understand, Chu Qingmian followed suit and picked an apple.
A very large and bright red apple can only be held with two hands.
Being "held hostage" by Su Chengyi towards the door, Chu Qingmian hugged her apple and raised her head in confusion, just in time to see Uncle Gao waiting outside the door.
"Uncle Gao?"
she asked with some surprise.
At this point, Uncle Gao should have left work long ago, but he is still here today, and he is still looking energetic in a suit and tie.
"Miss."
Uncle Gao responded and looked at Su Chengyi aside.
Su Chengyi looked at him and nodded.
"Let's go."
"Okay."
Uncle Gao took out his gloves from his pocket and put them on, his expression calm and professional.
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Chu Qingmian was silent for a long time, feeling very isolated from the whole world.
"Hey! What are you two so mysterious about? Why does Uncle Gao seem to know everything? Su Chengyi, please speak up!"
Listening to the eldest lady's ferocious protest, Su Chengyi just pretended to be serious and suppressed his smile. He did not answer, but just said something like you will know later.
Chu Qingmian pestered him for a while and finally realized what this guy didn't want to say. No one could pry out any clues from his mouth, so she had to give up.
The two got into the back seat of the Maybach one after another. Uncle Gao tied up his gloves and started the engine. The destination was very clear.
Chu Qingmian initially wanted to guess the destination through navigation, but that place seemed familiar to Uncle Gao. He did not turn on the car navigation, so even the last clue that could be guessed was interrupted. This didn't work, and that didn't work either. Miss Chu had no choice but to slump down in the soft back of the Maybach's back seat in frustration.
Fortunately, I picked up an apple when I went out.
Adhering to the concept of turning grief and anger into appetite, Chu Qingmian began to nibble on the apple.
Su Chengyi rested his elbow on the car door and glanced at her from the corner of his eye, secretly amused.
Apple is actually a very magical fruit. It is the most common and the most undesirable fruit.
In most cases, the apples in the fruit basket are the last fruits to be consumed, making people wonder whether they are used to make up numbers and weigh scales.
But the good thing about apples is that they are cheap, available all year round, and have rich nutritional value. One is quite filling when you are hungry.
Occasionally, there are times when people want to take a bite.
Such as now.
Su Chengyi saw that Miss Chu was eating deliciously, and she was a little curious whether this slightly larger apple was really more delicious than ordinary apples.
"I am enjoying my meal now, and I am not curious about where we are going?"
After watching for a long time, Su Chengyi couldn't help but ask.
"Hmph, you wouldn't tell me anyway."
Chu Qingmian held the apple and rarely took the time to glare at him.
"If I don't tell you, you won't guess?"
Su Chengyi held up his chin and asked with raised eyebrows.
It seems so.
Chu Qingmian pursed her lips and started brainstorming.
"Let's go have a late-night snack! I remember Xu Yang said in the group a few days ago that a particularly delicious barbecue restaurant opened in his hometown, and he said that we would book it there for our next gathering. You and I must go there to eat first. ! ”
"No, I don't even remember seeing this message from Xu Yang."
Su Chengyi shook his head and denied.
The group chat messages of their "Space Saving Team" are 99+ every time they open WeChat, although most of them are contributed by Xu Yang alone.
As he gets older, this guy's ability to talk seems to have evolved. He no longer needs anyone to compliment him, he can talk a lot eloquently by himself.
What's more, Han Bing would sometimes yell at him when he couldn't stand it anymore, and Lin Tong would reply to his messages because he couldn't bear to let him perform a one-man show, so that the "Save the Universe Team" group chat was always open at any time. Very lively.
Occasionally, Su Chengyi would take a moment to take a look at it when he had free time, but he would just skim over it to see if he had missed any important news.
News such as "A new delicious barbecue restaurant opened in my hometown" cannot be classified as "important", so his brain naturally ignored such information for him.
"What?! It's not this!"
Chu Qingmian grabbed her apple and continued to think hard.
"Oh my god, could it be that my dad sent you to catch me to work!!! What happened to the company again? Ahhhh, I just said why others are missing! It's because the casting negotiation for that variety show collapsed Or is the album’s performance not satisfactory? ”
Thinking of this possibility, Chu Qingmian felt like her hair was standing on end.
It's no exaggeration at all, it feels like the world is spinning.
Especially at night when I thought it was a rare rest day, I thought I could happily spend a whole bowl with my boyfriend, talking about poetry, poetry and life ideals after a long time, but in the end I had to go back to the company to work overtime.
It's no different than the end of the world.
Seeing that the eldest lady had entered a fragile state on the verge of collapse, Su Chengyi quickly shook his head in denial:
"No, it has nothing to do with work."
"Ah!! That's good."
Hearing what he said, Chu Qingmian instantly breathed a sigh of relief.
No matter what you say, as long as you know that it has nothing to do with work, no matter where the destination is, it seems to be much easier to accept.
"As long as you don't go to work, it's fine. It's so rare for you to have a holiday and it would be too pitiful for you to accompany me to work. I don't want it."
Chu Qingmian raised her eyes, turned the apple in her hand to the other side that had not been bitten, and handed it to Su Chengyi's mouth.
It was hard to resist the eldest lady's hospitality, so Su Chengyi lowered his head and took a bite. This was a sandy apple, juicy and sweet, and it tasted really good.
"Guess again?"
Su Chengyi chewed the apple and said vaguely.
"Well, it's not about eating late night snacks or working overtime. Do you want to take me out to play?"
Chu Qingmian's eyes lit up, and there was a bit of anticipation in her beautiful eyes.
"But at this point, where are you going to take me? With your personality, you don't know how to go to bars. You can't take your girlfriend to an Internet cafe to play games for a night out like Xu Yang, who is so smart! < br>
And if this is the case, it seems a bit unreasonable to recruit Uncle Gao to work overtime. ”
Chu Qingmian overturned her conjecture, blinked twice, and looked confused.
Su Chengyi looked at her lowered eyelashes, she looked quite cute, and couldn't help but reach out and pinch her cheeks.
"Idiot."
"Okay, I can't guess, just tell me directly."
Chu Qingmian thought for a while and realized that she would fall asleep if she continued to guess, so she wavered in her coquettishness.
"When school started, we talked about the story of ALICE. What were you telling me at that time?"
Su Chengyi fiddled with her bangs and asked.
"I said."
Chu Qingmian's voice was hesitant, and she said slowly:
"Su Chengyi, come with me to watch whales."
"So, what did I answer at that time?"
Su Chengyi continued to ask.
"You said you would definitely accompany me this year."
"So, what month is it now?"
"It's December."
Chu Qingmian's speaking speed became slower and slower, as if she couldn't believe it.
"Correct."
Su Chengyi smiled slightly.
"So, let's go see the whales now."
The mottled night outside the car window passed quickly like pages of silhouettes. Chu Qingmian blinked, somewhat suspecting that she was dreaming, and even Su Chengyi's voice in her ears became a little hazy.
Chu Qingmian could see him looking at her as usual and talking slowly about something, probably about the specific arrangements for this unexpected trip, but at this moment, she remembered the story he told at that time.
"The end of the world is here, the tigers in the forest have all melted into butter, the birds have gathered together to chirp and sing their last hymn, and the whales at the bottom of the sea dive like submarines.
I took you on the last ark called ALICE, and you said with tears in your eyes that you would repay my life-saving grace with your life. I shook my head and said"
The sounds from different time and space overlapped, and the boundary between dreams and reality was separated. Chu Qingmian heard Su Chengyi's calm tone as always.
"Let's go whale watching."
(End of chapter)