Bamboo horse is not a gentleman

Chapter 1

Yuan Qing said that if he was not able to get married by the age of 30, it would definitely be Lu Bai's fault.

The weather in early spring and March is always unpredictable. It was sunny and sunny the day before yesterday, but this morning I turned my face and felt that the severe winter has come back for a stroll.Even so, the army composed of office workers, school-goers, and morning exercise grandparents still went out against the chilly spring breeze, bustling the streets and alleys of Lucheng.

Occasionally, when a young girl who is wearing thin clothes and shivering from the cold passes by a coffee bar with the "Ama" signboard in the middle of Xiaxi Road, the busiest street in the city center, she can't help but slow down and take a look inside. The sitting handsome guy wearing black-rimmed glasses, with an extraordinary temperament and delicious looks, swallowed silently at him.

This handsome guy's surname is Lu Mingbai, and he is the protagonist of this article.At this moment, he crossed his long legs, hugged the soft white dumpling pillow in his arms, casually pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose, and glanced at the man surnamed Xu who was sitting across from him in a neat suit.Under his deep and inexplicable gaze, the man in suit surnamed Xu straightened up somewhat uncomfortably, subconsciously pressed his swollen belly with his briefcase, and picked up the coffee cup on the table with one hand, trying to shrink his Chinese face Into that square inch.

When the imitation European-style chime clock at the entrance of the coffee bar struck No.12, Lu Bai's deep cello-like voice suddenly sounded:

"Where is Mr. Xu currently in high school?"

The man in the suit was obviously not mentally prepared. A mocha coffee stalk was stuck in his throat, and he almost didn't spit it out:

"Cough, cough, at the beginning of the year...I jumped ship. Now I am working as an IT engineer in a foreign trade company."

Lu Bai raised his eyebrows, his eyes full of focused doubts:
"Oh, has Mr. Xu ever been on a blind date before?"

"Acquaintance, acquaintance."

"How many times have you met?"

"We met a few times, but...it didn't go well."

"Well, I can see it."

At this time, two women's titters erupted from the adjacent table:

"Look, two men are on a blind date!"

"Really? But who is that cunning woman sitting next to the handsome guy in glasses?"

"I don't know, the looks are not in the same class at all, maybe they are distant relatives or something."

"Distant relative" Yuan Qing blushed, lowered his head, and quietly stepped on Lu Bai's foot under the table. Pour all the creamer into a mug filled with half a cup of black coffee.

"Is Mr. Xu currently planning to get married? If so, when do you plan to get married?"

"I'm not young anymore, and my family members are in a hurry. Naturally, the sooner the better." Speaking of this, the man in the suit raised his coffee cup again, and glanced at Yuan Qing opposite him from an extremely tricky and unobtrusive angle. glance.

Lu Bai used a small spoon to stir the black coffee rapidly until the white creamer lost its armor and completely hid in the black vortex:

"Oh... I wonder if it's convenient for Mr. Xu to disclose the current economic situation?"

The man in the suit finally got rid of the shackles of the coffee cup, raised his head and chest, and looked imposing:

"I have a Toyota and a house within the third ring road."

Lu Bai nodded, as if he was quite satisfied with the man in the suit's honest explanation, and asked in a very natural tone:
"So, how long will Mr. Xu's mortgage and car loan be repaid?"

The facial expression of the man in the suit froze in an instant, from being proud in the spring breeze to being messy, incoherent, and faltering in the wind:
"It takes three years to repay the car loan, and 13 years to repay the house and mortgage. But, how do you know...?"

"Look at your temperament."

At this moment, Yuan Qing really wanted to stuff his head into the belly of the table and never see the sky.

The man in a suit surnamed Xu had blue veins on his forehead, turned his head and complained to Yuan Qing:
"Miss Yuan, I have endured it for a long time from the beginning until now. I clearly agreed to meet alone, why are there outsiders present?!"

"You think too much." Before Yuan Qing could speak, Lu Bai shook his head with a serious face, and said firmly, "My relationship with Ms. Yuan is not an outsider, at most—her childhood sweetheart, old classmate And an ex-boyfriend."

A soldier can be killed but not humiliated.

Scholars can be humiliated but not humiliated again and again.

The man in the suit was so angry that his entire face turned green. He stood up abruptly, gave Lu Bai the middle finger, picked up the briefcase that had slipped by his feet, and rushed out of the cafe.

Mr. Lu Xun said: Either erupt in silence, or perish in silence.

So Yuan Qing could only choose to roar:

"Since when did I become your ex-girlfriend?!"

"I still keep the love letter you gave me nine years ago." Lu Bai rubbed his ears, took a sip of the milky black coffee, "Don't tell me you were killed by that kid who ran away just now. I was so angry that I suddenly lost my memory.”

"On the contrary, I remember very clearly that you rejected me within ten seconds of receiving the love letter. Now that I think about it, I really remember it!"

"Well, I have long said that I don't approve of students falling in love while they are studying. Besides, there are three typos in a [-]-character love letter, which makes me very suspicious of your IQ and sincerity."

If he could kill with his eyes, Lu Bai would have fallen at Yuan Qing's feet countless times, and it would be bloody, but before Yuan Qing had time to attack, he heard a burst of gloating laughter.

Yuan Qing turned around furiously, Xiao Yang, the owner of Ama Café, appeared out of nowhere, clutching his belly and laughing:

"Hahaha, this dialogue is really wonderful, it's a classic version of flirting, Dabai, you can really consider writing a romantic comedy about urban vindictive enemies!"

"Thank you for your suggestion. I am determined to specialize in suspense reasoning." The man put down his mug and said lightly. "Also, call me Dabai again. Believe me, I will definitely beat you into Bibendum."

Boss Xiao automatically filtered the second half of the sentence, patted Lu Bai on the shoulder, and said earnestly:

"Dabai, oh, Lu Bai, Brother Yu has something you must listen to. Now the suspense market is fiercely competitive, and the romance novel world is chaotic. A new star like you is so much needed!"

Yuan Qing & Lu Bai: How did you see that he (me), a super vicious (high IQ suspense writer) can stand out in the world of romance where true love is paramount, twists and turns (collapsed logic, blood everywhere)? !
"Boss Xiao, from the past to the present, my reply is only four words: Thank you for your kindness."

Lu Bai held his head high, and answered like two-five-eight thousand.

Yuan Qing has lived for 28 years. Up to now, there are two things that she can't figure out: one is that Lu Bai, who was originally studying law, was an online writer, and a high-cold suspense writer. , it is conceivable that from then on, every hero and heroine born in his works will definitely let go of their girls and get farther and farther away from the Kangzhuang Avenue.The second is that Xiao Yang, a five-foot man with thick eyebrows, big eyes, rough skin and thick flesh, is crazy about romance novels.I remember that when she first entered college, she went to the boys’ dormitory to look for Lu Bai, and knocked on the door until her hand cramped up, and then a tall boy came out from the inside, with his head lowered, looking intently at the book in his hand, and asked in a rough voice: "Student, who are you looking for?" When she saw clearly the words "Huan Zhu Ge Ge" on the book cover, her jaw almost dropped to the ground in shock.

Therefore, to this day, she still has a different understanding of Xiao Yang's Ama Cafe.

"Lu Bai, since you're here, call Xia Weiwei, let's get together?"

"Let's talk about it another day, let's go!"

A familiar and deep voice rang in his ears, like a breeze brushing his neck, Yuan Qing was slightly startled, and found that the alpaca-colored scarf that was originally hanging on the back of the chair had already wrapped around his neck, being held by Lu Bai like a dog leash in hand.

"Are you trying to strangle me?"

"Let's go, I'm hungry." Lu Bai answered the question calmly.

He stopped, looked sideways at Yuan Qing, his narrow and deep eyes sparkled, shining through the thin lenses like a lake in the night, and then continued to walk out of the cafe with his long legs, waiting for Yuan Qing When Qing fully woke up, he was already standing on the sidewalk beside the flower garden, blowing the cold wind, waiting for Lu Bai to drive his little white Audi from the garage.

"Get in the car." Lu Bai laughed through the half-open window.

"No, I'll take the bus back!"

"Still angry about what happened just now?" The man said teasingly, obviously not aware of his fault at all, and even proud of it.

"Are you happy to see that I can't get married!"

"Don't forget, I only agreed to come to check on you after repeated requests from Aunt Wang Yuqian. What's more, the guy your mother introduced this time is worse than the last one. He has black skin, short legs and low IQ. It was a waste of money." Not to mention my time, when you were on a blind date, you didn't spend as much time watching him as I did, so you can say with certainty: This person is definitely not your type."

"I see, maybe it's your thing!" Yuan Qing was so angry that he could barely speak.

When Ome gets angry, her face, which seems to be made of white skin, will be habitually stained with carmine, with a pair of big watery eyes and bulging cheeks, like some kind of furry animal with small claws.

Lu Bai couldn't help itching, he stretched out his index finger and poked the pink cheek:

"In my lifetime, I will learn from the sun and the moon. I would rather be straight than crooked."

Yuan Qing knocked off the teasing claw with a "slap", turned her head and walked forward.

Lu Bai was not in a hurry, started the car slowly, followed her slowly and said to himself:

"Oh, it's really hard to be a good person! It seems that I can only use dinner to make up for my broken heart. What should I eat? Fish soup or braised beef?"

"How about curry pork cutlet omelet rice and chicken wings?"

"Will the chicken wings be made of red wine chicken wings, cola chicken wings or honey grilled wings?"

"By the way, what about dessert? How about tomato jelly cheese? Or milk pudding?"

Gollum...

What ghost sound?

Ahhh, she is not hungry, why is her stomach screaming non-stop?
It must be an auditory hallucination!

gurgling... gurgling...

Aww, I can't stand it!

Yuan Qing stopped in his tracks, turned his head, stared wide-eyed, and bluffed:
"I want to make up for it!"

Lu Bai almost burst out laughing, stepped on the brake, stopped the car, opened the door of the passenger seat for her, watched her sit beside him unwillingly, and put on her seat belt.

The air conditioner in the car released warm air, which instantly dispelled the chill of early spring. The nerves that had been tense for a day because of the blind date gradually eased, and Yuan Qing quickly narrowed his eyes and fell into a drowsy state.

After an unknown amount of time, when she opened her eyes, she immediately met a pair of narrow and deep eyes, and she was covered with a man's heavy coat.He was obviously still terribly angry about the failure of the blind date before, but before he knew it, he fell asleep under the nose of this guy, and the face of that Mr. Xu had become blurred in his memory.

"How long have I slept?"

"Not long, at least the wolf hasn't been recruited yet."

Yuan Qing looked out of the window. When he woke up, the time had already slipped to the afternoon, and the sun was shining lazily all over the ground. Under the cover of the gently swaying green trees, the Qingzhu community where Lu Bai lived and the not far away The supermarket is right in front of you, and a little golden retriever sneaks over without anyone noticing, blatantly raising its hind legs and urinating on the Audi's front wheel...

"Why didn't you wake me up?"

"The premise is that you can be woken up by me." Lu Bai said as he got out of the car, and the little golden retriever walked around his long legs and ran away.

After maintaining a sleeping position for a long time, Yuan Qing's back was sore and her legs were numb, and her head was a little hypoxic due to the high temperature of the air conditioner. She jumped out of the car stiffly, and the early spring wind swept over like a knife like a sword.

"Ahhh!!!"

Yuan Qing sneezed without warning, and tears flowed down her face, causing a couple passing by to give her a disgusted look, and then they were together sweetly.

Lu Bai waved his paw in front of Yuan Qing's eyes, jokingly said:

"Don't look at it, your saliva is about to flow out."

The couple seemed to have heard the man's teasing, and quickly turned their heads to look at Yuan Qing's "saliva", and burst into weird laughter at the same time.

Yuan Qing:! ! !
(End of this chapter)