the knife of love

Chapter 82 Conversation, childhood sweetheart

The smile on Tang Jingcheng's face didn't have time to put it away.

Lou Qingxiao had already sat on the wheelchair and turned around.

"Miss Tang..." She called out so affectionately that Tang Jingcheng was stunned for a while before she could confirm who the woman in the wheelchair was.

"Sorry, I came without telling you in advance." Sister Xin pushed Lou Qingxiao closer.

Even though Tang Jingcheng was unwilling to have more contact with her in her heart, everyone had already arrived at the door, and out of basic etiquette, she couldn't show a cold face to Lou Qingxiao.

"Miss Lou is here to find something for me?"

"It's nothing special. I've always wanted to come and see you, but the weather has been bad recently and my legs are inconvenient, so I dragged it on until now." After Lou Qingxiao finished speaking, she looked at the surrounding environment, "I don't have much time in this house, either. Come on, the place is quite big, but the location is a bit out of the way, but it is very suitable to live in and recuperate."

"..."

Tang Jingcheng didn't answer, still standing inside the door.

She didn't know why Lou Qingxiao came here suddenly, and she couldn't hear any intentions from this tone, but Tang Jingcheng was really tired of dealing with people, especially with people like Lou Qingxiao who were completely unfamiliar, she felt that every time Every word is consciously going in circles.

"Miss Lou, you probably didn't come all this way just to see me or this house, did you?" Tang Jingcheng held onto the door leaf and glanced at Sister Xin behind her.

"It's not appropriate to stand at the door and talk, why don't you come in?"

"No." Lou Qingxiao didn't mind Tang Jingcheng's eccentric manner of speaking at all, she just glanced at the threshold at her feet, "I can't walk, there is a slope at the door of the place where I live, even Brother Nine at home can't walk." An elevator was specially installed, but it’s not convenient for me to enter your old house, why don’t we find another place to chat?”

Lou Qingxiao's words seem to be unintentional, but every sentence has a mystery.

Isn't it just showing off, showing off Guan Lue's intentions for her.

Tang Jingcheng couldn't take it anymore. Qiu Qiguan taught her a long time ago. He said that being a human being is like carving jade. Don't put everything you already have on the surface. The more you put it on, the more poor you will appear.

"Okay, where does Miss Lou want to chat?"

Tang Jingcheng looked around again, pointed to the ginkgo not far away, and said, "Let's just go there. The weather is fine today, so it's time to go for a walk."

"Okay!" Tang Jingcheng was not pretentious at all, the soles of his shoes were worn on the threshold, and he went out with her.

Because it has been raining continuously for a week, there is a lot of water dripping on the ground, Lou Qingxiao's legs and feet are inconvenient, and the wheelchair is pushed very slowly.

Tang Jingcheng was not a very patient person either, he accommodated her by about tens of meters, but couldn't bear it, and asked, "How about I push you?"

"No, I can do it myself."

Since Lou Qingxiao said so, Tang Jingcheng didn't bother to express his enthusiasm, and put his hands in his pockets.

The two of them walked slowly all the way to the ginkgo road.

Tang Jingcheng was really not in the mood to take a stroll with her in the shade, so he asked directly: "Miss Lou, if you have something to say, just say it, I'm not a person who likes to go around in circles."

Lou Qingxiao laughed, turned the wheelchair to face her, and put her hands back on her knees.

"Okay, since that's the case, I won't make any detours. To be honest, I do have a purpose for coming here today."

"Well, go on."

"I don't know if you are clear, but brother Jiu and I are going to get married sooner or later."

"Not cleared!"

"..." Lou Qingxiao choked for a moment, but fortunately, her mental quality is relatively strong, "Since Miss Tang is not clear, then I will directly clarify with you today. Brother Jiu and I were born in the same alley Yes, we have played together since we were young, and we are considered half childhood sweethearts. Our relationship has been stable for so many years, and we have experienced some things together. We originally planned to get married three years ago. For this reason, I gave up being a policeman. Thinking that something happened to me at that time, my legs were amputated, and the wedding was delayed."

"Yeah." Tang Jingcheng listened to Lou Qingxiao's words seriously, "And then? What do these things have to do with me?"

"Of course there is a relationship. Your existence has threatened our future marriage."

"Heh...then I should say it's an honor!" Tang Jingcheng was really getting more and more annoyed, feeling restless.

"If you are worried that my existence will damage your relationship with Guan Lue, then there is no need. You are childhood sweethearts and have been in a relationship for decades, and I only slept with him a few times." Tang Jingcheng stopped there She rubbed the ground again with the soles of her feet, and on the ground were a few ginkgo leaves that had been crumpled by her.

"To tell you the truth, Guan Lue is your childhood sweetheart, and I have one too. I have liked him since the first time I saw him in my teens. At that time, I still wanted to call him uncle, but that didn't stop me at all. Love this man, he started as an elder, became my teacher, then became my friend, and finally we became a lover and husband and wife...until he died..."

When Tang Jingcheng recalled Qiu Qiguan, he always had a complacent smile on his face.

She didn't know why she said these things in front of Lou Qingxiao, maybe it happened to be right on the topic, or maybe it was because she was eager to prove something, anyway, she just said it.

Lou Qingxiao didn't answer for a while after speaking.

Tang Jingcheng retracted his thoughts and laughed: "Of course, love and fate are two different things. The person I love died. I met Guan Lue when I was in the most pain. I don't deny the feeling that I like sleeping with him." , Guan Lue is indeed a man who is easy to attract women's hearts in bed, but this is only limited to the flesh, and I seldom ask him about other things in the rest of the time."

After Tang Jingcheng finished speaking, Lou Qingxiao looked at her face in disbelief, trying to find a trace of lying in her eyes, but in the end there was nothing.

"You mean, your feelings for Brother Jiu are just..."

"No, no, no... The relationship is still a bit serious. The relationship between me and Guan Lue can't be called a relationship, at most..." Tang Jingcheng couldn't find the words to express it for a while, and rubbed the soles of his feet on the ground. Several dead leaves collapsed.

"Yes, it's like this dead leaf. It's beautiful and green when it first grows from the tree, but it will turn yellow and fall after a certain period of time, and finally it will be planted on the ground to dry and grind into soil."

It was just a cycle of reincarnation.

"Guan Lue and I are like this. We are together when we still have feelings. This is the climax. When we get tired of it, it will turn yellow and wither. Maybe someday we will break up."

After the leaves are scattered, the leaves and branches are separated, which is an inescapable fate.

Tang Jingcheng glanced at the branches that were almost bald, and sneered.

Lou Qingxiao was unable to speak for a while, and finally put her hands in her pockets, taking a breath.

"Did it scare you?" Tang Jingcheng asked with a faint smile.

Lou Qingxiao shook her head: "No, it's just that your words shocked me!"

"Think I'm shameless?"

"No." Lou Qingxiao took her hand out of her pocket, put it on her knee again, and smiled: "It's just not worth it for some people."

She said the last sentence very quietly, Tang Jingcheng didn't hear it.

It was already 10 minutes after the two of them walked back to the gate of the closed house. Sister Xin hurried over to push the wheelchair for Lou Qingxiao.

"I'm done chatting with Miss Tang, sister Xin, go and take out the things in the car."

"it is good."

Sister Xin walked over and took out two paper bags from the trunk.

"Miss Tang, you are here to recuperate from an injury. I came to see you and didn't bring anything with you. Brother Nine asked someone to bring these two boxes of Pu'er back from Yunnan. I'll give you flowers to thank Buddha."

Tang Jingcheng was not pretentious at all, went to pick it up, and saw the jade bracelet on Lou Qingxiao's wrist at a glance.

"Thank you for the tea, the bracelet is very beautiful."

"Really? Brother Jiu brought this to me from Yunnan."

"Really? This is the old pit of the ice species, which is very suitable for you."

Lou Qingxiao was very helpful, and before she left, she told Tang Jingcheng that she would celebrate her 28th birthday in a few days.

"Xiao Tang, you are recuperating here by yourself. You are free anyway. Why don't you come to play with me on your birthday." After a while, she changed from "Miss Tang" to "Xiao Tang".

Tang Jingcheng responded, holding his fingers in his pockets with both hands: "Okay, I will definitely go then."

……

When Yaba walked into the yard from the outside, he saw Tang Jingcheng sitting under the tree alone, with a set of tea sets on the stone table in front of him.

Water is boiling in the electromagnetic pot, and the box next to it is Puer tea cake that has just been opened.

Ning Bo picked it up from the library, the set that was in Guan Zhaorong's study before.

"Sister Tang, how about some tea?"

The person on the stone chair didn't respond, and took some unboiled water and began to heat the teacup.

Ya La didn't care, scratched her hair, twirled a piece of tea cake and smelled it: "Sister Tang, this tea is good stuff, where did it come from?"

"Someone just delivered it."

"Brother Nine?"

Tang Jingcheng raised his eyelids: "That's right." After speaking, he hung down and continued to heat the teacup.

Yala was a little excited: "Did Brother Nine come here just now?"

"No!"

"Then these teas are..."

"It was sent by Lou Qingxiao."

"..." Yaba fell silent for a while, although he had never seen Lou Qingxiao, almost everyone in Jiurongtai knew that Guan Lue had raised a woman in a villa in the western suburbs.

"She came to you...for what?"

"Send tea, it just so happens that I like to drink Pu'er." Tang Jingcheng seemed to be quite happy, the teacup had already been scalded, and the water in the kettle was boiled, she twisted the tea into the cup, opened it first Wash the tea leaves, pour them out, and leave them for the second time.

"Do you want to try it?" Tang Jingcheng handed the cup to Yala first.

How dare Yala refuse to accept it.

"Try it!"

Yaba could only take the cup, feeling that there was something wrong with Tang Jingcheng today.

"Drink!"

"Oh..." Yala took a sip.

Tang Jingcheng immediately asked: "How is it?"

"good."

"Really?"

"Well, it's delicious!"

However, Tang Jingcheng's face changed drastically. Her smiling face just now turned cold. With a sweep of her right arm, she swept the cups and tea leaves on the whole table to the ground.

With a bang, before Yala could react, Tang Jingcheng had already got up and entered the room.

Guan Lue was called by Lou Qingxiao to have dinner, everything on the table was normal, but Lou Qingxiao took out something from his pocket after the meal.

"Ye Qin sent the tea to me. I went to Guan Zhai to find her this morning. I originally wanted to deliver tea for you, but we chatted and chatted. I recorded everything. You Listen to it if you're interested..."

(End of this chapter)