228 The Enthusiastic Little Fan
This lunch was surprisingly peaceful.
In Han Yixuan and Pei Ningle’s imagination, the menacing Lu Qi might launch a direct attack, or use some means of hiding a dagger in a smile, deliberately praising and secretly belittling in front of Wang Heng. For this reason, the two girls had seriously discussed how to respond. But today’s lunch was unbelievably smooth, making all their preparations hit empty air.
Lu Qi didn’t show any abnormal attitude towards Wang Heng at all, nor did she show any hostility towards Han Yixuan and Pei Ningle. In this way, although Han Yixuan remained vigilant, Pei Ningle’s mind was no longer on this.
After all, the steak in this restaurant was really delicious, the meat was tender and juicy, and the taste was excellent…
Then, just as lunch was about to finish, another unexpected episode occurred.
Lu Qi answered a call, left the restaurant, and when she returned, she brought a little girl with pigtails.
“This is a relative’s child, Fu Jiu, my cousin I guess,” Lu Qi introduced, “Little Jiu, hurry up and say hello to the brothers and sisters.”
This little girl named Fu Jiu looked very well-behaved in appearance, but her speech seemed very cold.
“Hello, brothers and sisters.” After a half-hearted greeting, she sat down at an empty table nearby and put on her headphones, minding her own business.
The place where Fu Jiu sat was separated from the table of Lu Qi and Wang Heng by an aisle, a few meters away.
The set meal in front of Lu Qi was already finished. At this time, she didn’t pick up the knife and fork again, just drank water slowly and continued to chat with Wang Heng about financial topics.
After a while, Han Yixuan asked in a low voice, “Sister Lu, isn’t your cousin going to eat something?”
Lu Qi glanced at the little girl casually. “She has already had lunch, no need.”
Pei Ningle also asked, “Don’t need to order her a drink or something?”
“I bought her a lot of things, food, drinks, and toys,” Lu Qi also lowered her voice, with a hint of helplessness in her tone, “but this child is very stubborn. If she says no, she means no. She’s already in junior high school, but she still throws tantrums like a lower-grade elementary school student at the drop of a hat.”
Pei Ningle: “Why does she throw tantrums?”
“Her parents came to work in Rongdu and brought her along, but those parents are usually very busy and have no time to take care of her. Probably because of this reason, Little Jiu always throws tantrums…”
Before Lu Qi finished speaking, Fu Jiu suddenly took off her headphones and shouted, “Don’t discuss my mom and dad!”
“Weren’t you wearing headphones?” Lu Qi seemed a little shocked.
Fu Jiu huffed angrily, glared at her cousin, closed her mouth, and stopped talking.
Pei Ningle patted Little Xuan’s arm beside her and whispered in her ear, “Their relationship seems a bit wrong…”
Han Yixuan nodded. “Such family relationships are common, but it has nothing to do with us.”
However, at this moment, Fu Jiu’s attention seemed to finally drift to Pei Ningle, and then the little girl was completely shocked.
“Pei Ningle!” She jumped off the chair. “You are Sister Pei Ningle, right!”
The girl touched her cheek and nodded. “Yes, I…”
Fu Jiu ran around the dining table to Pei Ningle, so excited that she was a little incoherent: “Sister Little Le, can I call you Sister Little Le? Your songs are so great! Really, very, very great. I recommended them to my classmates many times, just before transferring… Let me tell you, Sister Little Le, I watched you sing on TV!”
Pei Ningle looked at the others a little blankly.
Han Yixuan smiled. “Little Le, you met a little fan.”
Wang Heng shrugged and didn’t say anything, just silently observing the sisters Fu Jiu and Lu Qi.
Lu Qi smiled. “What a coincidence. It’s rare for Little Jiu to be so enthusiastic…”
Fu Jiu rolled her eyes at her cousin and pouted. “Of course. Sister Little Le is so amazing, unlike you!”
Han Yixuan and Wang Heng looked at Pei Ningle, then at Lu Qi, and smiled meaningfully in unison.
**
After lunch, Lu Qi not only paid the bill but also drove Wang Heng and the two girls back to the entrance of that residential complex.
Facing their thanks, Lu Qi smiled. “Don’t thank me. If you want to thank someone, thank Wang Heng. He’s the one who helped me a lot. Bye, let’s chat again when we have time.”
With that, Lu Qi drove away leisurely.
Before long, the three young people and the residential complex were left far behind by the car.
Only then did the little girl in the back seat finally breathe a sigh of relief and ask, “Sister Qiqi, how was my performance today?”
Lu Qi couldn’t help smiling. “Great, Little Jiu’s performance was really great.”
“But Sister Qiqi, I still don’t understand, why do we have to act like this? Aren’t Sister Little Le and those two brothers and sisters quite easy to get along with?” Fu Jiu lay on the back of the driver’s seat, her head almost reaching Lu Qi’s shoulder.
Lu Qi at this moment was obviously more patient than when tutoring, and explained carefully, “Your Sister Little Le might indeed be easy to get along with, but the other sister is more scheming. Because I’m fighting with them for someone.”
Fu Jiu: “Fighting for someone?”
Lu Qi: “That boy is named Wang Heng. He is very talented. I want to pull him to work for me, so they definitely won’t agree. Wang Heng and Han Yixuan are both Pei Ningle’s managers.”
“So that’s how it is…” Fu Jiu was still a little curious. “How capable is Wang Heng exactly, to make you all want him so much?”
Lu Qi: “For example, capital appreciation capabilities like virtual currency and securities investment, quite impressive.”
This string of words made Fu Jiu a little confused. But she roughly understood that the big brother named Wang Heng should be ‘quite impressive’ in serious matters to be valued so much by Sister Qiqi and Little Le.
“However, that big brother looks pretty good too,” Little Jiu suddenly said.
Lu Qi’s hands holding the steering wheel tightened instantly.
She glanced at the rearview mirror, observed the expression on the little girl’s face, and asked with feigned calmness, “Do you think he looks good?”
“Quite good-looking, is there a problem?”
Lu Qi considered her words and pressed, “Then what is your impression of him? Do you have a crush on him?”
Fu Jiu propped up her small face and giggled. “Sister Qiqi, you really know how to joke. What crush? Such an old brother definitely has a generation gap with me. And if my parents hear the word ‘crush’, they will definitely explode. I told you, junior high students can’t have puppy love!”
Lu Qi breathed a slight sigh of relief.
After all, what she had to do was just send a little spy deep into the enemy’s territory to spy on the enemy. She couldn’t let the spy take over her own nest instead.
