your voice my world

Chapter 9
Lu Miao went to Wu Manman's appointment at night.

Since getting along during this period, Wu Manman has almost regarded her as a bosom friend.

Thinking about all the things these days, Lu Miao is reluctant to give up Wu Manman's line.

Wu Manman made an appointment at a high-end restaurant in the city at seven o'clock in the evening.

It's okay for Wu Manman to ask her out, just to get together, and to satisfy her desire to gossip, to secretly see Xu Jiaqian's new boyfriend, the popular actor Li Junhao.

Lu Miao remembered that when Xu Jiaqian was in Macau, she was still determined to win Qiao Ze, and within a few days, she had a new boyfriend who was a celebrity, which surprised Lu Miao.The little girl's mind was spinning so fast that she couldn't keep up.But she is clear that Xu Jiaqian and Wu Manman have been in touch.

Xu Jiaqian has a sweet mouth and can praise others. She is to Wu Manman just like Wu Manman is to Huang Jiayin. Wu Manman has flattered Huang Jiayin for a long time, and suddenly a little girl came and flattered her all day long. , she naturally likes it.But Xu Jiaqian is just a little yellow-haired girl after all, and Wu Manman doesn't bother to discuss many things with her, and just accepts her favors as a sister.

She came here specially for dinner today. According to Xu Jiaqian, she came to help her identify her new boyfriend.

Xu Jiaqian and Li Junhao just dated for a few days, Li Junhao chased her, she wanted to enter the entertainment circle, so she naturally wanted to climb the big tree of Li Junhao first, and today I specially asked Wu Manman to come over, just want her to help take a look, Li Junhao Whether it is reliable or not.

Wu Manman will make an appointment with Lu Miao. In her words, she is too boring to be alone, and she wants to ask Lu Miao to come over as a companion.

In order to prevent Li Junhao from finding out, Xu Jiaqian specially reserved a box with inside and outside, she and Li Junhao were outside, and Wu Manman and Lu Miao were inside.

When Xu Jiaqian and Li Junhao arrived, Lu Miao recognized him at a glance, not because of the billboards all over the floor, but because he was also in the box that night.

At that time, Xu Jiaqian was drunk, and was staggered in the arms of other men, and he watched indifferently from the opposite side.

Based on this alone, Lu Miao directly denied this man, even if Li Junhao at the dining table changed his indifference that day and became more gentle and considerate to Xu Jiaqian.

After the meal, Xu Jiaqian secretly asked Wu Manman for his opinion, and Lu Miao bluntly said that this man is unreliable.

Xu Jiaqian was upset because Lu Miao lost her role, seeing Lu Miao denying the only chance she could seize, she was not happy at the moment, and looked at her with her lips pouted: "I I didn't ask for your opinion..."

These words made the atmosphere suddenly awkward.

Wu Manman smoothed things over with a smile, but Lu Miao ignored Xu Jiaqian.

At this moment, Xu Jiaqian felt conscious of saying something wrong, grabbed Lu Miao's arm and apologized to her in a low voice, and then spoke for the man: "Li Junhao is a good man, you can see that his reports are all very positive image, people are also very considerate, he dotes on me. Besides, he and I are schoolmates, he is my senior brother, he knows everything."

Lu Miao did not speak, did not express opinions, and did not make comments.I thought Xu Jiaqian was just pure-hearted and infatuated with big stars, but I didn't expect her to have other plans.

The next morning, Lu Miao saw the entertainment headlines pushed by the whole network - Li Junhao's love affair was suspected to be exposed, and the accompanying picture was a photo of Xu Jiaqian and Li Junhao dating.

Li Junhao is a popular and popular actor, and his public image has always been positive. As soon as the news of his relationship broke out, the entire Weibo exploded, and the hot searches related to romance were all "explosive", and Xu Jiaqian followed it.The whole network started with Xu Jiaqian's background, and in just half a day, her popularity was brought up by Li Junhao.

Wu Manman called Lu Miao, and praised Xu Jiaqian for his scheming, he looked innocent, but he was careful, and he quickly opened up his popularity by virtue of his popularity.However, Li Junhao is a popular celebrity, and he is willing to let her be so popular, so he probably has true love for Xu Jiaqian.Wu Manman couldn't help but boast that Xu Jiaqian was quite good at hooking up men. When she mentioned this, she couldn't help but persuade Lu Miao to be optimistic about Qiao Ze. After all, the man Xu Jiaqian really liked was Qiao Ze.

Since asking her out last night, Wu Manman has been inquiring about her and Qiao Ze's situation intentionally or unconsciously, as well as Qiao Ze's recent whereabouts.

On Huang Jiayin's birthday that day, what Lu Miao and Wu Manman said was just arguing with Qiao Ze, and they lost contact.

Lu Miao knew that Wu Manman still wanted to use her as a breakthrough point to get a chance to get in touch with Qiao Ze from her.

Apart from knowing that Qiao Ze was in contact with Shang Qi and Wu Manman as Suo Fei's general manager, Lu Miao knew nothing about the others, let alone what kind of existence Suo Fei was to Shang Qi and Wu Manman.

On the other end of the phone, Wu Manman tried to persuade her: "Miao Miao, to be honest, Mr. Qiao is handsome and rich, he looks much better than your boyfriend, you really don't want to take good care of Mr. Qiao? I see he cares about you."

Lu Miao's voice was a little low: "He won't answer my call anymore."

"If you don't answer the phone, you will always know where he lives, right? It's okay for a woman to be soft occasionally, and it's all for men."

Lu Miao hummed, and didn't say whether to ask or not. He was on the bus and happened to pass by the restaurant where he had dinner last night. There was a recruitment notice for waiters posted at the entrance of the restaurant.

She changed her mind and got off the bus when it arrived at the stop.

Wu Manman heard the stop announcement from the other end of the phone: "Why did you get on the bus?"

"I have no money." Lu Miao got out of the car, "When I was with Mr. Qiao, I spent his money. Now that I have such a fight with him, life is stretched."

Lu Miao asked Wu Manman again: "Sister Man, do you have a good job introduction?"

"I have to ask about this later." Wu Manman's tone sounded perfunctory, "Where's your boyfriend?"

"He's just in business. How can he have any money just after graduation? Last time, I drove Mr. Qiao's car to Sister Jiayin's birthday. I always thought that it was enough for my boyfriend to treat me well, but now that I think about it, I am still too naive, and the days without money are too sad."

"That's not it." Wu Manman took the opportunity to persuade her, "You have to weigh the money in your wallet to buy cosmetics, so I always advise you to go back to Mr. Qiao. You said that if Mr. Qiao is fat and big-eared, it's fine." Yes, but the person is also upright and straight, with good facial features and temperament, even if you are a poor boy, you have made money by sleeping with such a man for nothing, what do you have to dislike?"

"Could it be that..." Wu Manman paused, "Mr. Qiao is not good at that?"

Lu Miao choked on his own saliva.

Wu Manman became more and more curious: "It's not really that bad, is it? Otherwise, you would give up him and choose your boyfriend for no reason?"

Lu Miao had no choice but to bite the bullet and reply: "It's... not so good."

"I knew it." Wu Manman put on the posture of someone who came here, "It's impossible to let a handsome, rich and considerate single man go, and find a poor boy who is not as good as him in everything.

"It's a pity. Looking at Mr. Qiao's physique and figure, I thought he wouldn't be bad in bed..."

Lu Miao found that this topic could not be discussed anymore, so she still wanted to make a patch to save Qiao Ze's face: "Actually... it's not bad, it's just not... harmonious... um... just don't take care of women very much. feel..."

The more I talk, the more I can't make it up.

Wu Manman only thought that she was taking care of Qiao Ze's face, and comforted her plainly: "I understand, you don't need to explain."

"..." Lu Miao's scalp was a little numb, "Sister Man, it's good that you and I know about this kind of thing, don't spread it, if Mr. Qiao knows..."

"I understand, don't worry, I won't say it."

After hanging up the phone, Lu Miao was so annoyed that she wanted to scratch her head. She felt a little sorry for Qiao Ze. It didn't matter how much she slandered his reputation. It was just a false name, but when it came to male abilities, it always Not quite right.

In this annoyed mood, Lu Miao walked into the restaurant where he had dinner last night, and pointed to the recruitment notice at the entrance of the restaurant to ask about recruiting part-time waiters.

She wanted to apply for a job as a waiter, not only to make money, but also to make money.

She passed the restaurant interview without a hitch and went to work that evening.

This restaurant is one of the most well-known restaurants in Anseong. The bad thing about the well-known restaurants is that the acquaintances who want to "encounter" have not yet met, and those who don't want to meet will meet unexpectedly.

On her third day at work, she met Qiao Shi and Shen Yu's family who came here for dinner.

Lu Miao didn't see the person clearly at first, and when he saw someone coming in, he took the menu and went to the table, only to find that it was an acquaintance, and he was a little embarrassed at the moment.

Qiao Shi also recognized Lu Miao at a glance: "Lu Miao, why did you come here to work?"

She doesn't know Lu Miao very well. Apart from knowing that she was kicked out of the anti-drug team by her elder brother, she doesn't know much about her work. Even if she asks Qiao Ze, he can't find out why. He always chokes her in a few words. gone back.The only time I inquired about her occupation was when Qiao Ze said "juggling, watching dogs" when we first met, but now I didn't expect her to be a waiter in this store.

Lu Miao was a little embarrassed by her confused eyes, but she quickly became calm and handed over the menu neatly: "I have nothing to do recently, and I am idle at home. I want to find a part-time job."

Qiao Shi frowned: "My brother...does he know?"

Lu Miao shook her head: "I don't know."

Qiao Shi frowned in confusion: "Aren't you living at my brother's house?"

"No, I've already moved out."

Qiao Shi's eyebrows frowned even deeper: "Why did you move out suddenly? Did my brother bully you?"

"No." Lu Miao was afraid that she would misunderstand, so she quickly explained, "I just don't think it's good to bother him like this all the time."

Qiao Shi unconsciously looked up at her, Lu Miao's eyes were magnanimous, it didn't look like he had any problem with his elder brother, but he was really polite, as if it was just the relationship between the landlord and the tenant.

She was a little puzzled, thinking that Lu Miao would have something to do with her elder brother. Recently, Qiao Ze took Lu Miao with him a lot, even when he came to her house to pick up the dog a few days ago, he had to take Lu Miao with him.The way he looked at Lu Miao always made her feel unusual, but seeing Lu Miao's understatement now, it seemed that she was just thinking too much.

Qiao Shi was confused, and when he went back, he made a detour to Qiao Ze's house.

Joze is at home alone.

As soon as he opened the door, Qiao Shi poked his head into the room: "Brother, where is Lu Miao?"

Qiao Ze pressed her head with his palm and pushed her away: "What are you doing?" He turned sideways.

As soon as Qiao Shi entered the house, he opened the door of Lu Miao's room, and it was indeed empty.

She turned to look at him: "Brother, did you drive him away?"

Qiao Ze ignored her, greeted Shen Yu, reached out to hug Xiao Qiao, and teased her by pinching her little cheek.

Qiao Shi knew that he loved his daughter very much, so he tugged at the corner of his clothes and looked at him with tilted head: "Brother, don't you consider having one?" He added, "Give birth to a daughter like Lu Miao!" Definitely cute."

Qiao Ze glanced at her: "Say what you have to say."

Qiao Shi: "I saw Lu Miao."

Qiao Ze frowned: "And then?"

"What happened to you and her?"

"Are you really too busy? Come to me in the middle of the night to inquire about gossip."

"That's right." Qiao Shi answered happily, "Who told me to see someone sleeping on the street in the middle of the night."

Joze's eyes slowly fell on her face.

Qiao Shi stood up: "Okay, I won't be annoying people here anymore."

She hugged Xiao Qiao: "Honey, we're going home, goodbye to uncle."

Little Qiao waved her little hand obediently: "Bye, uncle."

When Qiao Ze looked at Qiao: "Where did you see her?"

Qiao Shi refused to let him get his wish: "Don't you think I'm gossip? I don't gossip anymore." He kissed little Qiao on the cheek again, "I wish uncle sweet dreams."

Little Qiao followed her wishes, and said in a childlike voice, "Uncle, it's a sweet dream."

Qiao Ze didn't move when he looked at Joe.

Qiao Shi took a step back quietly, retreated to Shen Yu's side, and waved at Qiao Ze: "Brother, we are leaving. Good night."

Qiao Ze answered her two words without moving his eyebrows: "Good night."

As soon as he downplayed it, Qiao Shi was not sure about his feelings for Lu Miao anymore, so he simply couldn't resist me and dragged Shen Yu away.

Qiao Ze closed the door, went back to the sofa, took the notebook, and stopped after typing a few lines. For some reason, he couldn't keep typing. The sentence "Who made me see someone sleeping on the street in the middle of the night?" The influence of the past is still there, and his mind is full of Lu Miao who may be living on the street with nowhere to go.

He knew her tendencies so well that even if she really had nowhere to go, she wouldn't ask anyone for help.

If he hadn't really met Lu Miao, Qiao Shi wouldn't have come here to tease him intentionally or unintentionally.

Qiao Ze finally couldn't hold back, and sent a message to Qiao Shi: "Where is Lu Miao?"

Qiao Shi's message came back quickly: "Didn't you say that she is a juggling girl who watches dogs at your house? Why do you suddenly care about her? Your dog misses her?"

Qiao Ze replied her with three words: "Don't talk nonsense."

Qiao Shi didn't dare to flirt too much, so she quickly replied, "We met her when we were having dinner." She gave him the address of the restaurant.

Qiao Ze immediately drove to the store.

As soon as he opened the store door, he saw Lu Miao not far away who was putting away the dishes with his head down.She didn't see him, she was clearing the table with her back to him.

He sat down behind her: "waiter."

"Here we come." She responded instinctively, put down the plate, took the menu, turned around and found that it was Qiao Ze, and was taken aback for a moment.

Qiao Ze was looking at her with calm eyes.

Lu Miao was in a daze for only a few seconds, and quickly realized that he handed over the menu: "Hello, what do you want to order?"

Qiao Ze took the menu, ordered a few dishes at random, then closed the menu and handed it back to her.

She also just processed his order in a businesslike manner, and turned around and left after politely saying "you wait a moment".

Qiao Ze took out his mobile phone and sent her a message: "Why are you here?"

Lu Miao quickly replied with three words: "Make money."

Qiao Ze remembered that the last time she took Lu Bao to juggle on the street, she said it was to "make money", but in fact she was investigating the case under the guise of making money.

"What time do you get off work?" He asked back the message.

Lu Miao didn't reply, she didn't know if she was busy or pretended not to see, she wasn't in the hall, and another waiter brought the dishes.

Qiao Ze ate for half an hour without seeing anyone, so he put down his chopsticks: "Pay the bill."

It was another waiter who came over, Qiao Ze glanced at the waiter number on the bill: "Where is number 037?"

The waiter saw that his tone was cold and his face was a little heavy. He was worried that he was looking for trouble, so he didn't dare to delay. After saying "wait a moment", he hurried to find someone. After a while, Lu Miao finally appeared.

"Pay the bill." He pressed the bill with his fingertips and handed it to her.

Lu Miao picked it up and looked at it: "One thousand three hundred and eight."

Qiao Ze took out [-] cash from his wallet: "You don't need to look for the rest."

Lu Miao glanced at him in surprise, and drew 14 from the wad of money: "Thank you, I will charge you one thousand and four, and you will collect the rest first."

Qiao Ze looked at her without moving: "You dare to accept tips from other customers, but you don't dare to accept tips from mine?"

Lu Miao was a little embarrassed. Tips were indeed allowed in the shop, but usually it was a hundred or ten yuan, and at most it was two or three hundred yuan. He threw out more than 1000 yuan at once, and she didn't dare to take it.

Qiao Ze didn't urge her, he looked down at his phone, looking a little careless.

After a while, the phone in Lu Miao's pocket vibrated.

She picked it up and looked at it. It was a message from Qiao Ze: "Activity funds."

Lu Miao paused, and accepted the money: "Thank you. Just wait a moment."

After paying the bill, Qiao Ze didn't leave, he was in the car, waiting for Lu Miao in the square opposite the hotel.

Lu Miao didn't get off work until 10:30. She didn't know that Qiao Ze was waiting for her. After getting off work, she said goodbye to her colleagues and walked to the bus stop.

The house she rented was far away from the urban area, and there was no car to go home at night, and the part-time waiter shop did not provide accommodation, so she had to rent a room for a week in a small hotel nearby, which cost 30 yuan a night.

Her day's salary plus tips can be five or six hundred, which is enough for her to stay in a hotel.

Qiao Ze watched her get on the bus and drove after her until she got off the bus and turned into a dilapidated small hotel in the old town.

Her room was on the first floor, and he could see her room number right outside the door.

He watched her enter the house, got out of the car and walked over.

There was no one at the front desk, not even someone to stop him.

He knocked on the door.

Lu Miao had just changed out of her overalls when she suddenly heard a knock on the door and held her breath and asked, "Who is it?"

"It's me." A familiar low voice.

Lu Miao looked down at her pajamas, pulled off a coat and put it on, and went to open the door.

Just as the door was opened halfway, Qiao Ze had already pushed the door open, stepped into the room, and closed the door behind his back.

He took a look at the room, the dilapidated bed, the windows pasted with wooden boards and iron nets, it was not much better than the small hotel where she stayed before.

The only good news is that the bed looked clean.

"I checked the house carefully, and there is no dead body." As if understanding his concerns, she explained nonchalantly on the side, then raised her head and asked him, "Why are you here?"

Qiao Ze didn't return, looked at her, and slowly crossed his arms around his chest: "The door of the living room is unlocked, there is no one at the front desk, the aisle is not monitored, and strangers come and go at will. You live in this kind of place? There is no corpse hidden under the bed." Now, are you planning to turn yourself into a corpse under the bed?"

Lu Miao's voice weakened: "I'm a policeman..."

Qiao Ze glanced at her: "Then, Officer Lu, I followed you all the way, did you find out?"

Lu Miao's face turned red, she lowered her eyelids in embarrassment, avoiding his gaze, and answered him dumbly: "I'm so poor, who would be so short-sighted?"

"What about sex?" Qiao Ze asked, "If you don't worry about being robbed of money, don't you worry about being robbed of sex?"

"..." Lu Miao touched his face, "I look very safe."

Qiao Ze glanced at her, but he didn't see where she was safe. She was seduced and committed crimes all over her body.

He turned his gaze away, pulled over the chair, and sat down opposite her: "Why didn't you report back to the team?"

Lu Miao pursed her lips: "I want to slow down and adjust my state."

Qiao Ze: "Why did you run to be a waiter?"

Lu Miao: "Lack of money." He said and handed him the tip, "Your activity funds."

Qiao Ze looked at her without moving: "Speak human."

Lu Miao glanced at the room, and her voice weakened: "I've lived in this kind of place, isn't it the truth?"

Qiao Ze just turned his head to see her not moving, his face was very pale, and he didn't speak, making it clear that he didn't listen to her nonsense.

Lu Miao's scalp was numb from his stare, so he whispered: "I want to join Qixun Venture Capital." As he spoke, he secretly looked up at him, "Wu Manman can help me."

"Wu Manman has approached me a few times during this period, and I feel that she still wants to use me to win you over. She is a frequent customer of this store, and she also knows that I am in a cold war with you. Now she is living in disgrace and is looking for a job everywhere. I I mentioned to her about looking for a job, seeing me like this, she will definitely help me." She looked at him hesitantly, "But I don't know if I'm doing the right thing. I don't know if I should go to Qixun Venture capital, continue the original job, or go back to work in the team honestly... I can't make up my mind, so I want to give myself a period of time to buffer."

Qiao Ze stared at her for a while, then stood up: "Why didn't you discuss it with me?"

Lu Miao avoided his gaze, and her voice sounded a bit bitter: "You have made the decision for me."

Joze: "..."

He looked at her: "do you want to come back?"

Lu Miao shook her head: "I didn't think clearly." After hesitating for a while, he raised his head and asked him, "If I go back, can I also sign an agreement with you?"

"..." Qiao Ze looked at her, "What agreement?"

"It's just..." She pursed her lips, "During the duration of the cooperation, there cannot be any relationship beyond cooperation."

Joze: "..."

It took him a lot of effort to suppress the pressure that was blocking his chest.

She looked at him secretly, and explained anxiously: "I don't mean anything else, I just feel..."

"I agree." He interrupted her.

She looked up in surprise.

His face was calm, just like when she first met him.

"Any other conditions?" he asked.

She shook her head: "No more."

Qiao Ze: "Alright then, you move back tonight first."

Lu Miao doesn't really want to move back. The matter between her and Qixun Venture Capital has not yet been settled, and she is starting to feel uncomfortable under the same roof as Qiao Ze.

Qiao Ze didn't force her, and changed her to a hotel-style apartment under the name of Shen Yu, which has high confidentiality and security, and there is a secret passage, so it is not easy to be caught or suspected when coming and going.

Lu Miao stayed here, and the work in the restaurant continued, and Wu Manman, as she expected, called her two days later and asked her to have dinner.

She hesitated and hawed on the phone, and declined on the pretext of having something to do.

For several days.

Until a week later, Lu Miao met Wu Manman who hadn't seen him for many days in the restaurant.

Lu Miao pushed open the door of the box with the menu in her arms, and saw Wu Manman sitting at the dining table. When her eyes turned around, her face changed into an embarrassing expression in a timely manner, and then she turned hastily and wanted to leave. Wu Manman was surprised stopped.

"Why are you here?" Wu Manman asked.

Lu Miao stopped with his back to her.

Xu Jiaqian was also there, she came here with Wu Manman, she also looked surprised when she saw Lu Miao, her eyes turned from her face to her body, and then back to her face, after confirming back and forth, she called out uncertainly She asked, "Sister?"

Seeing that Xu Jiaqian was not in Lu Miao's plan, she felt a little headache, but she still had to turn around and called Wu Manman in embarrassment: "Sister Man."

Wu Manman was still in shock, looking from her face to the waiter's suit on her body, and then back to her face again: "Is this what you said was wrong?"

Lu Miao avoided her eyes in embarrassment: "The salary of the part-time job here is good. I... want to earn some money. Recently... money is a little tight."

"How much money can you earn? How much do you want to come here?" Xu Jiaqian took the words and looked a little annoyed, "If you are short of money, tell my brother, didn't he give it to you? Less money? Although it can’t make you rich, it can also ensure that you don’t have to worry about food and clothing.”

Lu Miao turned her face away: "I don't spend money from the Xu family."

Wu Manman accompanied her to see a psychiatrist. She probably understood the grievances between her and the Xu family. It could be seen that she was jealous of Xu Jiaqian. After all, it was the Xu family who had abandoned her. Turning to Xu Jiaqian, she said, "Qianqian, go out and see if Sister Chen has arrived. If she is coming soon, give me a call."

After sending the person away, Wu Manman looked at Lu Miao: "Although Qianqian's words are ugly, they are true. Do you want to be a waiter for the rest of your life?"

Lu Miao shook his head and lowered his voice: "Who wants to do this if there is another way out, but I haven't learned any skills with Mr. Qiao in the past few years. I can only find a job at the front desk, with a salary of two to three thousand a month. , it’s better to be here, where you can earn seven or eight hundred a night, and the most important thing is that you have the opportunity to meet rich men.” Then he looked at her quietly, “Sister Man, you said I’ll go back and find Mr. Qiao’s What are the chances of winning? I still can't let him go."

"A few days ago he came to the restaurant for dinner and gave me a tip of 1000 yuan, but he still kept a straight face." She brought up the incident of that day with a little embellishment, "Afterwards he came to eat almost every night, and he also gave tips. , but still with a straight face."

"That's what you care about." Wu Manman analyzed to her, "He's waiting for you to bow your head. Sometimes men are cheap, and they have to lose it to know how to cherish it. For a person like Mr. Qiao, he just has to be so hard to get, he can't Acted too hard on him and wouldn't let him go."

"I think it's better for you not to go back to work at his place, lest he really think that you have to be him, and he has to give him a sense of crisis before he knows you are good." Wu Manman said and looked at her, "You just come Let's go to our company, I'll ask Shang Qi for you later, let him put you in a position in the company, his salary is not bad."

Lu Miao nodded: "Sister Man, I'm sorry."

Wu Manman is a very efficient person, and he brought news to Lu Miao the next day.

Su Ming still lacks an assistant, so let her try it out for a while.

When Wu Manman gave her the news, she had just returned to the downstairs of the hotel apartment. She hung up the phone and was about to notify Qiao Ze. She didn't expect to see Qiao Ze standing at the door of her room as soon as she got out of the elevator.

"Why are you here?" she asked in surprise.

"Come and take a look." The man stood at the door, watching her approach, he naturally stretched out his palm to her, and took the bag from her hand, "How are you doing?"

"I met Wu Manman last night, and she asked me to be Su Ming's assistant."

Qiao Ze raised his eyebrows slightly: "Su Ming?"

Lu Miao nodded: "Yes."

Remembering what he had told him to establish contact with Su Ming, she asked him again in a low voice: "Does he have a problem?"

Qiao Ze shook his head: "No."

The hand has naturally stretched out to the combination lock, and quickly typed the combination.

Lu Miao gave him a strange look, wondering how he knew the password to her room, and was about to ask, when a "Miao Miao" came from the opposite side, she instinctively raised her head, and saw Huang Jiayin walking towards her.

"Sister Jiayin?" She greeted in surprise, seeing Qiao Ze's movement paused out of the corner of her eye, he glanced at her sideways, opened the door, and turned his back to Huang Jiayin.

Huang Jiayin was staring at Qiao Ze's back in a daze.

He was wearing a long black windbreaker with a stand-up collar today, and the stand-up collar covered half of his head.

Qiao Ze, who had unscrewed the door, quickly entered the room, slammed the door shut, and slammed it hard, as if throwing a temper tantrum.

Lu Miao recalled the glance he cast over just now, but for a moment, her face showed a bit of embarrassment, grievance and embarrassment. She raised her hand to knock on the door, but put it down resentfully, and rushed to the door uncomfortably. Huang Jiayin came up and greeted: "Sister Jiayin..."

"Why are you here?" She asked in embarrassment. She stood in front of the door, looking like an abandoned animal. She turned her head to look at the door a few times, then pursed her lips and looked back.

"Come and see a friend." Huang Jiayin had already walked to the door, seeing her embarrassed expression, turned her head to look at the closed door, and asked with a smile, "Why, did you lose your temper with your boyfriend?"

Lu Miao nodded hesitantly, then shook her head: "He...is not my boyfriend."

"Just...just...a friend." She said tactfully, and looked at her expectantly again, "Sister Jiayin, you met me at the hotel today...can you...don't tell my boyfriend?"

Huang Jiayin saw that she looked embarrassed and awkward, and that she really felt embarrassed to be bumped into a room, so she smiled: "No."

She turned her head and glanced at the closed door: "That one just now... Mr. Qiao?"

Lu Miao nodded in embarrassment: "Well, he has some ear problems and his hearing is not very good, don't mind."

Huang Jiayin frowned: "Is your hearing not very good?"

Lu Miao nodded: "A few years ago, I got sick and hurt my ears, and it hasn't recovered. I have a slight hearing impairment."

Huang Jiayin nodded thoughtfully, then looked at the door calmly.

Lu Miao patted the door panel once and for all, begging him to open the door.

After begging, he gave Huang Jiayin an awkward look, took out his phone, and sent a text message to Qiao Ze.

Huang Jiayin stood with her for a while, seeing that she had been begging the man in the room mournfully, but the door had not been opened, so he comforted her and left first.

When she entered the elevator, she turned her head to look at Lu Miao, who was still knocking on the door humbly with her head up, looking like she was about to cry.

As soon as he got out of the elevator door, Huang Jiayin called Wu Manman: "Manman, that Mr. Qiao has a problem with his ears?"

"Yes." Wu Manman said on the other end of the phone, "His hearing is not very good. It is said that it is the sequelae of illness several years ago, and he has not recovered."

Wu Manman asked her again: "What's wrong?"

"It's okay, I saw Lu Miao and him in the hotel just now."

Wu Manman was taken aback for a moment, then smiled and said: "Sure enough, they got mixed up, so I said how could it be broken."

"He has a boyfriend after all." Huang Jiayin said, "Call her boyfriend and ask him to come and pick her up."

She reported the hotel address and room number to Wu Manman before hanging up.

Lu Miao waited for Huang Jiayin to leave for a while before pressing the password to enter the house.

Qiao Ze was standing on the balcony, with his back to the door, looking downstairs, with his hands casually in his coat pockets, standing casually and lazily.

Lu Miao walked towards him, stood by his side, and looked downstairs with him.

He turned his head and glanced at her: "Is she gone?"

Lu Miao hummed lightly.

Qiao Ze nodded, looked back at the busy traffic downstairs, and didn't speak again.

Lu Miao stood with him for a while, but finally couldn't help it, she turned her head and asked him, "What's your relationship with her?"

Joze: "It's okay."

Lu Miao was a little annoyed by his attitude, pursed her lips, stopped talking, turned and went back to the room.

Qiao Ze looked back at her, pondered for a while, followed into the room, and sat down on the sofa opposite her.

"What's wrong?" he asked.

She looked up at him, with some resentment: "I have worked so hard to cooperate with you in acting, so I can't have the right to know?"

Qiao Ze glanced at her: "Apart from knowing that her name is Huang Jiayin, do you know her well?"

Lu Miao shook her head: "I don't know, all I know is that her family is very well off, and Wu Manman doesn't seem willing to reveal the rest."

"Her name is Huang Jiayin. She is the daughter of Huang Chang, the chairman of Huicheng Group, and the sole legal heir of Huicheng Group." Qiao Ze looked at her and said slowly, "Huang Chang is our goal."

Lu Miao nodded thoughtfully: "Is she your girlfriend?"

Just after asking, Qiao Ze glanced over: "Do you mind?"

Lu Miao shook her head: "No. I just don't want to die for no reason."

Qiao Ze stared at her for a while, then turned away: "I don't have a girlfriend."

Lu Miao: "Is that your ex-girlfriend?"

Qiao Ze turned his head to look at her: "Which eye do you think she looks like my girlfriend?"

"The way she looks at you." Lu Miao looked at him hesitantly with puffy eyes, "You look like a heartbreaker."

Joze: "..."

He didn't want to talk to her, so he turned his head and looked at the big bed: "I have to stay here for a night tonight."

Lu Miao: "..."

"Huang Jiayin didn't leave." He said, he had stood up and glanced at the room, "You also tidy up later, come back with me tomorrow, you can't live here for the time being."

Lu Miao sighed, got up slowly, and glanced at the sofa: "Then you sleep on the sofa tonight."

Qiao Ze looked back at her: "In your eyes, don't I already transcend race and gender?"

"Didn't you..." Looking at him that day, Lu Miao swallowed the words in embarrassment, "In short, you can't sleep on the bed, or you'd sleep on the floor."

Qiao Ze ignored her, sat down on the sofa, picked up a newspaper and flipped through it.

Seeing that he didn't make a statement, Lu Miao stopped arguing with him, and silently hugged the quilt and went to sleep on the sofa.

"I gave you the bed." She said, standing in front of the sofa with the quilt in her arms, looking a bit resentful.

Qiao Ze looked up at her, his gaze shifted from her face to the quilt he was holding, and then slowly fell back to her face, raising his eyebrows: "Are you sleeping on the sofa?"

Lu Miao pursed her lips and nodded: "You don't want to sleep."

Joze: "I never sleep on the sofa."

Lu Miao didn't want to talk anymore: "Then get up, I want to sleep."

Qiao Ze looked at her motionless: "The bed has enough space."

Lu Miao didn't even think about it: "I don't want it."

Qiao Ze nodded, stood up, without forcing: "Another day, don't accuse me of not being sympathetic."

Lu Miao didn't want to pay attention to him, she spread out the sofa and quilt silently, and then she lay down on the sofa with her back to him, wrapped up like a rice dumpling.

As soon as the person lay down, the phone rang.

Her mobile phone was placed on the coffee table, and Qiao Ze passed it over for her. He glanced at the screen on the way, and glanced at her when he saw the word "Wen Lai".

Lu Miao has turned around and reached out to him.

Joze handed her the phone.

"Miaomiao, just now Wu Manman called me and said that he met you at the hotel...with a man..." As soon as the call was connected, Wen Lai hesitated, "You also gave me the name of the hotel and the room number. what's going on?"

Lu Miao didn't expect Huang Jiayin to sue Wen Lai, she pondered for a while: "Why did you answer her?"

"I just said that you are not that kind of person. She saw the wrong person. You are on a business trip recently."

"That's good." Lu Miao was a little relieved, "Thank you. I did meet Huang Jiayin in the hotel, but it was not what they thought."

Wen Lai was silent for a while: "That's good."

He gave a few more instructions before hanging up the phone.

"Wen Lai is coming?" Qiao Ze asked.

Lu Miao shook her head: "No, Huang Jiayin had someone notify Wen Lai, but he managed it."

Qiao Ze nodded, didn't ask any more questions, and sat down on the side sofa. Lu Miao lay on the sofa with his back to him, and refused to go back to the bed no matter what.

She was tired from working at night and fell asleep quickly.

Qiao Ze didn't really let her sleep on the sofa, but carried her back to the bed while she was asleep.

In her deep sleep, she didn't have the defenses she had when she was awake. Just as he picked her up, she already approached the heat source instinctively, and rubbed against his arms like a kitten, making his body tense.

He put her on the bed, but was reluctant to leave. He held her hand, put his forehead against hers, closed his eyes, finally calmed himself down, turned around and spent the night on the sofa.

When Lu Miao opened his eyes the next day, he saw Qiao Ze nestled on the sofa. His tall body was nestled on the narrow sofa. He looked a little pitiful, even half of the quilt fell on the ground.

She felt a little sorry, and got up to pick up the quilt for him, she walked up to him lightly, picked up the quilt and was about to cover him, when he reached out his hand abruptly, and grabbed her wrist, accurately and ruthlessly, Lu Miao's His wrist was almost broken by him, and he made a sound without realizing it.

The pressure was relieved, Qiao Ze let go of her, turned over and sat up.

"Sorry." He frowned and looked at the red mark on her wrist, "I don't like people approaching me casually when I'm asleep, and my body will enter an instinctive state of defense."

"..." Lu Miao couldn't help but glanced at him, "You are too defensive."

"In the future, your wife will be kicked out of bed by you."

Mumbling in a low voice, she thought he couldn't hear it, but she didn't expect him to answer in a low voice: "During the few days in Macau, did you get up from under the bed every day?"

"..." Lu Miao choked.

Joze pulled her wrist and rubbed it for her for a while, seeing that the red marks dissipated, he let her go, got up to wash, packed her luggage with her, and moved back to his place that morning.

Lu Bao hadn't seen Lu Miao for several days, and when he saw her, he was overjoyed, wagging his head and tail around her, and licking her palm.

Lu Miao hadn't seen it for several days and missed it so much that she squatted down to play with it as soon as she entered the house.

Qiao Ze ignored the person and the dog, carried her luggage into the house, and went back to his room. After a while, he took out a document and handed it to her.

Lu Miao took it in surprise: "What is this?"

Joze: "The agreement you want to sign."

Lu Miao recalled the conditions that he raised with him that day, took a rough look at it, and it was indeed an agreement to restrain Qiao Ze, and during the cooperation period, she would not have any behavior beyond the cooperation relationship with her.

She took the pen, signed her name neatly on the document, and handed it to him.

Qiao Ze threw it aside without even looking at it, and he had already entered the kitchen to make breakfast.

Lu Miao's work has been temporarily settled. She and Wu Manman have set a time for reporting. Today is the last day of the waiter's work. Wu Manman came here specially for dinner to praise her.

When he was about to get off work, Xu Jiaqian rushed in suddenly, out of breath, and greeted Wu Manman, who then rushed towards Lu Miao and grabbed her arm: "Sister, sister, I want to report anonymously, Li Junhao is taking drugs, send someone to arrest him quickly."

Wu Manman suddenly looked at Lu Miao.

Ever since Xu Jiaqian entered by mistake in Macau, Lu Miao knew that there would be such a day sooner or later, and he had already thought of thousands of ways to deal with it, so facing Xu Jiaqian's incoherent speech, Lu Miao just looked at her a little helplessly: " What’s wrong with you?"

"The star is taking drugs, it's making headlines." Panting, Xu Jiaqian had already forgotten what she was afraid of, and tightly pinched her arm with her fingers, "It's in the villa in the Lake Bay District, gathering people to take drugs, hurry up and let me Your former colleagues go."

Wu Manman's focus was on the last sentence: "You used to be a policeman?"

Lu Miao shook her head: "No, I did an internship in the police force, but I was eliminated before I became a regular."

Wu Manman: "What major did you study in university?"

Lu Miao hesitated for a second: "Anti-drug major."

Xu Jiaqian was in a hurry to arrest someone, and interrupted hurriedly: "That's okay, you still have some police friends you know, let them go quickly."

Lu Miao shook her head: "I'm not familiar with them."

She took the mobile phone to Xu Jiaqian: "Shouldn't it be enough to call the police directly at this time?"

"Reported, but find an acquaintance for double insurance."

Wu Manman's attention finally turned to Xu Jiaqian: "Jiaqian, what are you doing?"

"Report drug use." Xu Jiaqian was already panting, "I just want Li Junhao to fall."

Wu Manman frowned: "Isn't he your boyfriend?"

"So what." Xu Jiaqian looked at Lu Miao as he spoke, and his voice was pleading again, "Sister..."

Lu Miao looked more and more at a loss: "No, I really can't help. I was kicked out by the police force, and I went back to make trouble. I went to them and no one would care about me. If you have called the police, you will be fine. Yes, the police will definitely deal with it.”

Wu Manman also comforted her: "That's right, don't worry about it. If you really call the police, the police will deal with it." She glanced at her phone, "Miao Miao, are you going to get off work too? You."

Lu Miao nodded: "Okay."

She asked Wu Manman to take her back to the small hotel where she stayed a few days ago.

Wu Manman looked at the small hotel hidden under the green trees, and looked at her in surprise: "You live in this kind of place?"

Lu Miao nodded embarrassingly: "I don't have any money...otherwise I wouldn't be a waiter."

"Change to a better place, it's not safe for girls to live in this kind of place." Wu Manman warned, watching her get out of the car and enter the hotel before driving away.

Xu Jiaqian was still in Wu Manman's car.

Wu Manman glanced at the small hotel from the rearview mirror, and asked Xu Jiaqian, "Your sister used to be a policeman?"

"Not really." Xu Jiaqian scratched her head and looked at her, "She used to be an intern there, but she was eliminated due to incompetence, and couldn't find a serious job. My brother originally wanted to arrange for her to come to our company, but she refused. come over."

Wu Manman: "Why?"

"Because my parents abandoned her." Xu Jiaqian was also not sure, "I don't know very well. My brother has been trying to help her these years, but she refused to ask for a dime. You see, she would rather be Qiao always takes care of her and doesn't want to spend my brother's money, I think she's a bit weird."

Wu Manman glanced at the rearview mirror thoughtfully, but didn't speak any more. After returning, she asked someone to investigate Lu Miao's background.

Lu Miao stayed in the hotel for one night, and she sent a message to Qiao Ze, mentioning the situation tonight to him.

Joze let her rest in peace.

The next morning, when Lu Miao woke up, his phone rang.

She picked it up.

"Are you awake?" It was Qiao Ze's voice, which sounded hoarse early in the morning.

Lu Miao yawned: "Well, I just woke up."

"Open the door first." Qiao Ze said.

Lu Miao glanced outside the door in surprise, stood up and opened the door uncertainly.

As soon as the door opened, he saw Qiao Ze standing at the door.

He seemed to have been here for a while, holding the phone in his right hand and sticking it to his ear, looking at her. His tall figure almost filled the space at the door, and he was still wearing the usual black trench coat with a stand-up collar, with some water droplets on the collar. It's raining outside.

Lu Miao didn't expect him to be at the door, and was a little stunned for a moment.

"Morning." He whispered, his palm suddenly reached out to her, slid across her hair, and looked down at her, "Did you not sleep well last night?"

"No." Lu Miao tilted her head to avoid his hand uncomfortably, opened the door, and let him in, "Why did you come here so early?"

"I was out last night."

Lu Miao suddenly didn't know what to say, and it took a while to say: "I'm fine."

Qiao Ze didn't speak, but pushed her: "Go wash up first, and have breakfast later."

Qiao Ze took her to a nearby tea restaurant. As soon as Lu Miao sat down, she picked up her mobile phone to check the news. She didn't see any reports of celebrities taking drugs. She looked at Qiao Ze strangely: "Did no one call the police last night?"

"Team Xiao sent someone there, but there is no one in the villa." Qiao Ze brought a cup of hot milk for her, "There are two possibilities, Li Junhao and the others noticed Xu Jiaqian's intentions, or the news leaked out and they withdrew early. Or, Xu Jiaqian deliberately exposed you in front of Wu Manman."

Lu Miao frowned and thought for a while: "I think the second possibility is more likely."

Qiao Ze didn't make any comments. He didn't know Xu Jiaqian well. Judging from the short contact, he didn't like the girl's style very much. She seemed simple and straightforward, but she always had a bit of scheming, completely different from Lu Miao's directness. different.Lu Miao is a muscle, and he is hopelessly stunned.

After breakfast, Lu Miao and Qiao Ze went home. This time Lu Bao didn't welcome him as enthusiastically as before. He was playing with something in his kennel, barking from time to time, and having fun.

"What's wrong with it?" Lu Miao asked Qiao Ze strangely.

Qiao Ze glanced back at it: "I guess I found some toy in another corner."

Lu Miao felt strange in his heart and walked towards it.

Seeing Lu Miao, it yelped twice excitedly at her, picked up the thing spinning under its paws, and jumped towards Lu Miao like offering a treasure.

Lu Miao took it strangely, just picked it up and glanced at it, his face immediately burned, and it was the female massage stick that it brought back, the problematic thing that Qiao Ze said.

Qiao Ze also just looked up and glanced at her.

Lu Miao hurriedly threw the things back to Lu Bao, embarrassed and embarrassed: "Why do you still keep such things?"

"..." Qiao Ze glanced at her, "Why do I still have this kind of thing?"

Qiao Ze bent to pick it up, Lu Miao looked at the thing in Qiao Ze's hands, it looked so weird, especially when Wu Manman used Qiao Ze as the male protagonist to substitute these things a while ago, it was hard for her to imagine that this person was always calm and calm. The appearance of a man controlled by lust.

Qiao Ze looked up at her, but saw that she was blushing and staring at the things in his hand.

His palm shook in front of her: "You can look at this thing with fascination, what do you want to do?"

Lu Miao blushed from embarrassment: "What do you want to do..."

She reached out and took the things over: "Last time you said that Lu Bao wouldn't bring things home for no reason, is there anything wrong with them?"

Qiao Ze couldn't see that it was in her hand, so he changed hands and took it back.

"Hidden drugs." He said, shaking the thing, "There is a small hollow in the upper part, and someone hid drugs inside."

"Online drug trafficking?" Lu Miao asked with a frown, watching him take the thing apart, and sure enough, he saw the hollow part inside.

She remembered that Lobo first brought this thing back in express packaging.

"It's online drug trafficking." Qiao Ze took out his mobile phone, opened Penguin, and switched to a new account. There were several QQ groups flashing, "This is a case of using the Internet to sell drugs. Through Taobao stores, or The QQ group conducts online purchases and payments, and then disguises them as sex toys, and delivers them to buyers through logistics.”

He casually clicked on an active QQ group: "This is a drug trafficking group in Ancheng."

He shook the massage stick in his hand: "This is just one of the drug-taking groups that we found out based on the logistics information of this thing. There are 431 members in the group, and 10 people are the group owner and group manager. In addition to the drug-taking group, there are three other groups in it." ——Those who provide sources of goods, those who specialize in attracting addicts, and those who retain people through pornographic video performances or teaching drug use and drug production methods. These three groups have strict division of labor and organization, and cooperate closely.

"There are more than a dozen groups like this, and there are more than 2000 people involved in drugs. The entire drug trafficking chain has six layers, and this is only the third layer." Qiao Ze shook his head. The thing in his hand, "The owner of the thing brought back by Lu Bao is in our community. He is in the third layer of the entire chain. Downwards, he gathered several groups of addicts and disguised drugs as tea and chocolate." , sex toys, etc., are sent to addicts through online sales, so as to earn the difference; upwards, he is an ordinary member of a higher-level drug addict group, and purchases sources from the second-tier chain.”

He swipe his long finger on the QQ group, and freeze on a paragraph of text: "500 sea cabbage, 1000 diamonds, 1500 pony, please contact me privately."

"This is just one of the communication codes." Qiao Ze closed the interface, "There are tea, hairspray, speakers, etc., you can think of it, you can't think of it, it's hard to guard against."

"It's similar to Zhou Jun and his ilk, but it's more concealed, the scope of damage is wider, and it's more difficult to detect." Qiao Ze looked at her, "But the source of the drugs still points to the same group of people."

With a light lift of Qiao Ze's arm, the things in his hand fell into the trash can with precision.

"I still say the same thing, find out the source of the poison, block the source of the poison, and cut off the flow of the poison." Qiao Ze clapped his hands and pointed to his ear, "It was injured while tracing the source of the poison. We almost completely blocked this opening, but we didn’t expect to fall short in the end... In less than a year, this drug trafficking network has secretly moved from offline to online, and it is still growing.”

Lu Miao looked at him hesitantly: "Why did you fall short?"

Qiao Ze was silent for a while, and did not answer her directly: "We have lost a very important piece of evidence, so now we can only collect it from the beginning. And this broken gap started from Qixun Venture Capital. So you want to sneak into Qixun Xun Venture Capital has the right idea.”

"Evidence?" Lu Miao frowned and looked up at him, "What evidence?"

Qiao Ze didn't answer her directly, but just glanced at the coffee table.

There is a document pressed on the coffee table.

Lu Miao picked it up hesitantly, it was the confidentiality agreement he asked her to sign last time.

His attitude was already very clear. The information below was already confidential. He had to make sure that she was on the same side as him.

Lu Miao picked up the pen, hesitated for a while, and wanted to sign it, but Qiao Ze's hand suddenly reached out and pulled out the document.

Lu Miao looked at him in surprise.

"You need to adapt to Qixun Venture Capital for a while." He put away the documents.

Lu Miao groaned, not sure what he meant.

Lu Bao didn't know the emotional fluctuations among human beings, so he lay obediently on the side and didn't move. Seeing Qiao Ze throw the female massage stick into the trash can, he went to pick up the trash can and turned the things out , picked it up, and brought it to Lu Miao like offering a treasure, and shook his head at her, so unhappy.

Lu Miao: "..."

She took a peek at Joze.

Qiao Ze was also staring at Lu Bao, seeing her looking over, he raised his eyes to look at her.

Lu Miao was a little embarrassed, silently took two steps back, and distanced herself from Lu Bao. Unexpectedly, Lu Bao followed suit, yelling at her with the thing in his mouth.

Lu Miao looked at Qiao Ze hesitantly: "Did you not take out all the things hidden inside?"

Qiao Ze glanced at her: "Are you questioning my professional ability?"

Lu Miao muttered: "I didn't see that you have any professional ability, except for directing me to do this and that." He said and looked up at him, "It's just that when you scare me, you show up in time. Every time, Shenlong sees you There is no beginning or end.”

"And holding your broken computer every day, I don't know what you're tinkering with." Lu Miao pointed to his computer on the table, "What are you busy with all day long?"

Joze: "Play a game."

Lu Miao pursed her lips and almost rolled her eyes at him.

"And that..." Lu Miao looked at him, "Wu Manman will definitely investigate me, have you processed my background information?"

Qiao Ze glanced at her: "You treated yourself like a lost girl, so naturally follow your script."

(End of this chapter)