Walking to the door of the boiling water room, ye Zhiqiu saw the white back with a cup of tea inside and recognized who the other party was. He hesitated a little, but finally chose to go in instead of turning away, but he didn't speak from beginning to end.

Lu Jiping closed the cup cover, turned his head and looked at Ye Zhiqiu, who was drawing water from his nose. He muttered in his heart that he was still an impolite girl.

Before leaving, he finally said, "young, smoke less. Smoking too much tar, nicotine and carbon monoxide in cigarettes is not good for your health. As well as your body, you can eat more fish on weekdays. You can't keep up with the nutrition. Some will suffer in the future."

When ye Zhiqiu looked back, Lu Jiping had disappeared from the boiling water room.

"Academician Lu, why are you in the orthopedic department?" the respectful voice of the nurse came from outside.

Lu Jiping said with a smile, "if you pass by, pour a cup of hot water."

————

Huo Zhongxiao injured his arm. According to the doctor's advice, he had to stay in the hospital for at least a week. Ye Zhiqiu stayed with him for two days.

On the morning of returning to city B, she took rouge to the hospital first, and then to the high-speed railway station.

Ye Zhiqiu bought the ticket of that afternoon and returned to Fengcheng. She put Lu Hanyan down at Lu's house and almost rushed to the station. When she arrived in Fengcheng, it was more than 8 p.m. and she was tired, but after picking up the car in the parking lot, she went to the hospital again.

Just on the way, ye Zhiqiu received a phone call.

The last thing she saw this evening was not Huo Zhongxiao, but Huo Zhanming.

Huo Zhanming made the call himself. Hearing the majestic slightly sandy voice, ye Zhiqiu clenched the steering wheel with his fingers. Huo Zhanming asked her where she was because he was already waiting for her in Xingyu capital.

Ye Zhiqiu was not surprised that Huo Zhanming had his own number, but what ye zanwen said hovered in his brain——

"... the Huos won't wait for Huo Zhongxiao because you are disgraced!"

So Huo Zhanming condescended to find her again.

When ye Zhiqiu returned to the Xingyu capital, chief of staff Huo stood next to the car, looked up at the multi-storey apartment in front of him, heard the car whistle, chief of staff Huo turned his head and saw the red sports car turning around.

When Huo Zhanming comes back to find himself, ye Zhiqiu thinks of four words - raise the teacher and ask for punishment.

Before getting off the bus, she thought that she wouldn't really shoot her. Anyway, it's also a society ruled by law.

"Do you live in this building?" the General Staff Chief Huo's tone was as usual, as if he was talking to her. Ye Zhiqiu didn't know how to deal with such an easy-going attitude.

The serviceman stood by the driver's door of the car and waited respectfully.

Huo Zhanming's hale and hearty eyes fell on Ye Zhiqiu: "I've been waiting for you here for an hour. Now come back, don't you invite me up?"

Ye Zhiqiu was stunned.

In front of this kind old man, it is difficult to connect him with the way he left angrily in the ward a few days ago. She won't think that this is Huo Zhanming's performance of accepting himself. The best means for this old man who is mixed with experts in the military and political circles is to be polite before the soldiers. Last time, chief of staff Huo asked her to leave Huo Zhongxiao and didn't he invite her to tea?

Just——

She looked at Huo Zhanming's gray hair and whispered, "there's no elevator here."

“……”

Chief of general staff Huo, who was not satisfied with the old man, gave her a light look. "Then take exercise!" he said, turning his head and telling the serviceman: "wait in the car."

——

All the way to the fifth floor, chief of general staff Huo's pace was slow, his face was not red and gasping, but ye Zhiqiu still noticed the thin sweat on his forehead.

Entering the house, she took out a pair of slippers and put them at the feet of the old man. She put down her key and bag, went to the kitchen, and then came out with a cup of warm water in her hand.

Chief of staff Huo had changed his shoes and came in. He was looking at an oil painting on the wall across the sofa.

That's van Gogh's sunflower. Ye Zhiqiu spent 35 yuan on Taobao.

When she came to the living room, Huo Zhanming also put away his eyes and sat down on the sofa.

The old man looked down at the water cup that ye Zhiqiu gently put in front of him. His dignified eyebrows and eyes moved slightly, and his voice was vigorous and powerful: "I came to you tonight. Why don't you ask?"

Ye Zhiqiu sat in the single sofa next to him and asked, "if I don't ask, you're not going to say it?"

When Huo zhanmingchang heard this "disrespectful" tone, he was not angry. Instead, he looked nostalgic and said, "Zhong Xiao especially liked painting when he was a child. If he hadn't joined the army later, the Huos might have a painter."

Ye Zhiqiu looked at chief of general staff Huo and secretly guessed what he meant when he said such a sentence.

But when it comes to painting, she recalls the scene six years ago when Huo Zhongxiao sat on the sofa smoking and sketching with a pen. Whether a person really likes painting or just as an interest can be seen from the gesture of holding a pen. She still remembers her appearance outlined in simple lines on that piece of paper. There are only a few numbers, but it is extraordinarily vivid. Huo Zhongxiao is not a soldier. Maybe he really has a chance to become a painter.

Chief of general staff Huo suddenly asked, "how's your grandfather recently? I heard that he wasn't in good health some time ago."

"It's a heart problem. It's all right now."

Hearing what ye Zhiqiu said, Huo Zhanming nodded, then remembered the strange little girl, and asked casually. When he learned that Lu Hanyan had returned to city B, he was a little lost. When he put down his water cup, chief of general staff Huo said, "what I want to tell you was almost the same last time."

The topic is a little jumping, but ye Zhiqiu knows that the previous words are just handy to activate the atmosphere. Now this sentence is the main topic.

Huo Zhanming said, "this time I came purely as a father."

"You asked me last time, if you were not Han yongsong's granddaughter, would I not object to you being with Zhong Xiao? Now, I can tell you the answer. If you were not the children of Ye Han's family, I would not stop you. My son is not young, and he has the right to pursue happiness, but because his surname is Huo, he was destined to give up from the day he joined the army instead of his brother Abandoning some things is my helplessness as a father, and it is also the responsibility he must bear. "

Ye Zhiqiu's heart sank, because what he said to ye zanwen is the same meaning in the final analysis.

However, after six years, she had no way to let go.

So she had to make concessions.

"I never thought of marrying into the Huo family."

"You haven't thought about it, doesn't mean the second doesn't want to," chief of general staff Huo snorted. "Believe it or not, he may be thinking about how to visit Ye's house now."

Ye Zhiqiu opens her lips. Huo Zhanming has raised his hand to stop her from talking.

"Including the two of you, do you think you won't be poked out if you don't get married? As long as you still have this relationship one day, others can make use of it anytime and anywhere," said Huo Zhanming. Later, Huo Zhanming's eyebrows gradually relaxed and his face relaxed: "I should talk to my second son about this. Now when I tell you these words, you may think I'm an old man aggressive, but no one knows more about my second son's temper than me, so I can only come back to you with a shy face."

Ye Zhiqiu: "do you want me to leave him?"

Huo Zhanming raised his head. "You young people like adventure and gambling. I'll bet with you today, too. How about it?"

“……”

Ye Zhiqiu clenched her hands slightly, which should be why chief of staff Huo came to her, but her luck was not good. Besides... The bet was too big for her to lose. Take a deep breath, ye Zhiqiu whispered, "I don't like gambling, and I don't want to gamble."

Huo Zhanming supported his legs with both hands and looked at her with sharp eyes. "Do you have any other choice now?"

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