The story of Rose starts with being a brother

Chapter 372 A Fire

"Tsk, I wonder what the Gong family father and son were thinking? Since they decided to let Gong Ming take all the blame, why not just let him take all the remaining risks? In the end, they left such a loophole."

Nearing evening, on the campus of Magic City University, Jian Xi was walking holding Lin Quan's hand, while with the other hand he was holding a cell phone and talking to Ye Chuanping.

The little green tea girl beside him followed him quietly, holding a cup of jasmine milk tea in her other hand and nibbling on the straw. When he finished a sentence, the little green tea girl handed the milk tea to his mouth.

It was still early for sunset, and the sunlight with a suitable temperature penetrated the leaves of the camphor trees beside the road, casting mottled spots of light on the two people. Jian Xi wore a simple printed T-shirt and jeans, while Lin Quan had a thick braid and a man's jacket over her floral long skirt.

One of them has graduated almost two years ago, and the other has graduated almost a year ago. When they walk hand in hand, who wouldn't mistake them for a couple who haven't graduated yet?
Not knowing what Ye Chuanping said on the phone, Jian Xi let go of the straw and laughed, "Forgot? Maybe. The situation was urgent at the time, and Gong Ming really didn't have much time to transfer the risk."

When he said this, Lin Quan beside him suddenly swayed his hand back and forth, then Little Green Tea's hand circled in his palm with her fingers spread out, and then he felt that their fingers were now intertwined.

Jian Xi clenched her fists slightly and said to the phone, "But if you calculate the time, Gong Xun should be out of the police station by now, so unplugging the network cable won't take too long."

The breeze suddenly stopped, and Ye Chuanping's voice became clearer, and it also leaked out from the phone: "Jian Xi, I have already allocated funds to make a move. If we hold back for a while, the board of directors of the Constanly Group will have no choice but to kick the Gong family out."

Jian Xi nodded, thought for a moment and said, "Maybe it won't take long. We can't delay it too long this time. We need to increase our firepower."

"Increase?" Ye Chuanping on the phone fell into deep thought, "I just took over ME. Adjusting too much funds in a short period of time may also have an impact on Ye's."

"It's okay, Aunt Ye. We have reinforcements here." Jian Xi chuckled. No matter whether what Ye Chuanping said was true or false, they couldn't wait any longer at Yuan Yi's place.

"Reinforcements?"

After Ye Chuanping asked these two words, he fell silent. I wonder if he was wondering who this reinforcement was, or if it was another competitor who wanted to get involved?

After a long while, she did not directly ask Jian Xi who the other party was, but just smiled and said: "After the matter is over, you have to introduce to me who this reinforcement is."

"Don't worry Aunt Ye, she also admires your style very much."

"..."

The little green tea girl at the side looked at the sun that was gradually turning red in the distance, and then pursed her lips. Her boyfriend had called her a long time ago, and they agreed to come to the school for a walk on a date, but now if they delay any longer, the sun will set.

However, she also knew the importance of the matter. Seeing that Jian Xi's call had ended at some point, she thought for a moment and let go of Jian Xi's hand. Instead, she held his arm and, after transferring the milk tea to this hand, she took out her mobile phone with the other hand and turned on the front camera.

Xiao Lucha adjusted the parameters and wanted to take a photo of herself and her boyfriend facing the sunset. However, just as she pressed the shutter, she felt a warm touch on her face.

"ah!"

When Lin Quan turned his head, his lips just happened to touch Jian Xi's mouth. Then, without waiting for her to move away, the dog man put his arms around her waist and kissed her.

The surprise lasted less than a tenth of a second before the little green tea girl squinted her eyes and responded to the kiss.

Occasionally, there were students passing by on the roadside, but apart from rolling their eyes, they didn't do anything to ruin the atmosphere.

After a long while, the two separated their lips. The little green tea girl's face was slightly red, and her nose was trembling. She looked at the dog man in front of her and said coquettishly: "Senior, are you done with the call?"

"We're done. Since you want to take a photo, I'll cooperate with you." Jian Xi said with a smile, "How is it? This action should be suitable for taking a photo, right?"

Lin Quan looked down at the photo on her phone of the bastard kissing her secretly, and couldn't help laughing out loud.

But seeing that the other party was also smiling smugly, she immediately straightened her expression and said, "It's okay... I'll just make do with it. I'll barely mind the fact that you were on the phone with someone else just now."

"Don't force it!" Jian Xi squeezed her hand and said with a smile, "How can you feel forced to go out on a date? I have to solve this problem."

Hearing this, Little Green Tea raised her eyebrows and pursed her lips and said, "That depends on your performance."

"That's it, let me think about it."

The dog man pretended to be in deep thought and slowed down his pace again. The little green tea girl who was holding her arm took out the milk tea, took a sip and fed it to the other party.

The milk tea was almost finished, and the air in the straw made a "crunching" sound. Jian Xi turned around and said with a smile, "Then I'll buy you another cup of milk tea later. How much is left?"

Hearing this, Little Green Tea couldn't help but smile, but soon pouted and said, "There's still... 85 percent."

"Eighty-five? A cup of milk tea is worth this much? And there are even decimals and even whole numbers."

"Humph, it's already worth a lot." The little green tea who started swinging his hands again said, "Senior, do you know what you looked like when you were on the phone just now?"

"like what?"

"Like..." Lin Quan looked at him and said in a long voice, "Like when my dad picked me up from school when I was a kid and talked to his friends on the phone. He was mumbling something, and I was like a child being led by you."

"Really?" The dog man was stunned, and then immediately said in a mean way, "Then call me daddy."

"..."

The little green tea girl was stunned for a second, then she was so embarrassed that she hit him with her head: "Hateful!"

After a pause, she frowned again and said, "Now I am 95% reluctant again!"

“Why is it rising again?”

"Who told you to talk nonsense! Now milk tea is only worth 5%." Little Green Tea snorted and her expression began to become arrogant.

Jian Xi couldn't help but pinch her face and said with a smile: "What if I carry you on my back now?"

"Really?" Lin Quan immediately smiled, "That leaves 65 percent."

"Is it worth carrying you?"

Jian Xi smiled and leaned down slightly, and the little green tea girl happily jumped onto his back, with her pigtails hanging down from the side and rubbing against the face of the man under her.

"Of course it's worth it. Tell me the rest. There's still 65 percent left!"

Lying on her boyfriend's back, Lin Quan leaned over to his ear and urged him.

Jian Xi held Little Green Tea's thighs and walked slowly with her on his back. The breeze started to blow again in the evening. After walking a few steps, the dog man smiled and said, "How about I take a bath with you tonight?"

"Ah?" Lin Quan quickly covered his mouth, and when he quickly looked around and saw that no one was passing by, he breathed a sigh of relief, and then he said angrily, "Hate it, don't say such things so loudly."

"So how much reluctance do you have now?"

"Hmm... let me think, there's still 30 percent left."

"Thirty?" Jian Xi weighed his girlfriend on his back, adjusted her to a comfortable position, turned around and kissed her on the face, "What about now?"

The little green tea girl's laughter beside his neck became louder: "Twenty."

Jian Xi turned around and kissed her again.

"Ten percent."

So the dog man turned his head again, and this time the little green tea girl also tilted her head, and their lips touched directly.

Jian Xi stopped where he was, and after a long while, his lips parted before he continued to walk forward slowly. At this time, the little green tea on his back tightened her arms around his chest and blew into his ear, "Senior, I'm not forcing myself at all now. Fortunately, I like you."

"Haha, are you happy to be out on a date with me today?"

"happy!"

Lin Quan couldn't help but turn his head and kiss his neck again.

"After I enroll in graduate school, will you still have time to spend with me?"

"Of course. I always like to take a walk in my alma mater, and you are here."

"Hey, kiss me again."

The two of them were silent, only the wind was blowing. The setting sun finally disappeared under the tall buildings of Magic City. The evening sky gradually turned blue. I don't know when the street lights were turned on, so a touch of warm yellow appeared in the cold blue.

"Senior, are you very busy recently?"

"Okay, what's wrong?"

"You've been so busy lately, yet you still bring me out on a date? I'm afraid I'll waste your time."

"No." Jian Xi looked at the playground not far away, where many students gathered. Upon closer inspection, it turned out that students from the film club were playing a movie on the playground. "I like to find some free time in the busy life. This will make me feel more relaxed."

"That's good." Lin Quan moved his chin, put his face close to his, and laughed softly, "Then why did you only look for me? Didn't they also graduate here?"

"What? You want me to ask you if I love you the most again?" "Hehe, do I need to ask that?" Little Green Tea also saw the scene on the playground. She had once joined the film club and knew that this was the club's weekend tradition. She also knew the name of the movie that was being played at a glance - "Secret", a romantic love fairy tale that transcends time. It is a movie she likes very much.

"Senior, I just wanted to ask you that question just now!"

Jian Xi was walking towards the playground with Little Green Tea on his back. He smiled after hearing her words, and then replied: "Maybe... it's because it's lighter when I carry you on my back."

"Is that all? Is there anything else?"

"And if there's anything else going on... would it be more relaxing to take a walk with you?"

"Really?" Lin Quan narrowed his eyes into crescents again after hearing that. After thinking for a while, he said, "I heard that boys will feel more relaxed when they are with their mothers."

"Is that right?"

"Of course!" Walking onto the lawn, Little Green Tea touched the dog man's head and said, "Call me mom!"

……

A little earlier, when the sun was setting, unlike the relaxed and happy atmosphere of the date on Jian Xi's side, on the other side, the atmosphere inside a Maybach traveling on the elevated road was unusually heavy.

There were only two people in the car, a young woman driving and an old man with gray hair sitting in the back seat.

The source of the heavy atmosphere was the gloomy old man in the back seat.

"Why? Gong Ming didn't sort things out properly!"

Kitty's heart tightened when she heard the big boss speak. She glanced at him through the rearview mirror before she replied respectfully, "I'm sorry, Mr. Gong. It happened suddenly and Mr. Gong Ming didn't have time to finish it all!"

"Too late?" Gong Xun's voice became colder and colder. "Because he was too late, during the few hours I stayed in the police station, the Constanly Group suffered an even more violent attack!"

Kitty didn't dare to say anything and could only keep driving.

Gong Xun was obviously about to explode with anger. He slapped the armrest and said angrily, "That death countdown and the funeral went wrong right under his nose. If nothing had happened then, the Gong family wouldn't have come to this point today. Now he said he would take the blame, but why hasn't he even cleaned up the mess?!"

The Maybach is very airtight when it is not leaking, so much so that Mr. Gong's voice seems much louder after the mixed resonance.

After hearing his words, Kitty, who was driving in the front seat, did not look in the rearview mirror this time. However, there was a strange gleam in her eyes as she stared at the road ahead.

After Gong Xun continued to vent his anger and slapped the armrest several times, the anger on his face subsided, and what followed was fatigue and helplessness.

There were a lot of cars on the elevated highway in the evening. The Maybach followed the flow of cars, stopping and starting. When we got off the elevated highway, the sun was about to set. At this time, Gong Xun in the back seat frowned and said in a slightly tired voice, "Please help me book a flight to Los Angeles tomorrow."

"Okay, Mr. Gong." Kitty said respectfully.

"I have to go to Constanly in person." Gong Xun didn't know whether he was explaining the reason for booking the plane ticket or had other plans.

After saying this, he added in a deep voice: "By the way, that Gu Li also asked me to discuss something... Tell her later to come over tomorrow morning."

"Okay, Mr. Gong."

“Gu Yansheng… Sheng Gu…” Gong Xun murmured to himself, “What a pity.”

After getting off the elevated road, the Maybach said goodbye to the traffic and drove all the way to Sheshan Manor. Behind it, the sunset had already set, but it still left behind a series of red clouds.

It is extremely beautiful and gorgeous, but it slowly disappears, like a curtain about to fall on a stage.

……

It was dark at night, in an alley somewhere in Puxi, Tang Wanru sat in front of the dressing mirror, looking at herself in the mirror without saying a word.

She didn't know how long she sat there before she slowly raised her hand and gently placed it on the horrible scar at the corner of her mouth.

She knew that she was not good-looking, especially with Nan Xiang as her best friend, and Lin Xiao, who said she was the most ordinary beauty in Shanghai but was actually very extraordinary, and Gu Li, who was also very pretty when she was not speaking harshly, which made her look even uglier.

But many times, after spending a long time with her girlfriends, she felt as if she were one of the beauties.

But all the fantasies, all the unrealistic ideas were shattered when this scar appeared.

Is it just a narcissistic person being beaten into reality? No, it’s a confident person having his spine broken.

She didn't dare to swing the racket in the team anymore and could only clean the court when no one was around, for fear that others would see her current face.

It seemed as if everything was ruined by this scar.

But what else can exist?
Tang Wanru looked down at her phone, and the messages Lin Xiao sent her kept hitting her heart.

It's not like she hadn't thought about going out to look for them these days, but now she felt like a vampire and dared not appear in the sun.

But even when she occasionally mustered up the courage to go out, her mother would either ask her father to drive her to the team or forbid her to go out.

How could I allow myself to go find those girlfriends? !
……

April 17, morning.

The Bentley Continental GT sped along, leaving all the vehicles and pedestrians around it behind.

"Why are you driving so fast? Are you in a hurry to be reborn?"

In the passenger seat, Gu Li said to his younger brother unhappily.

If I got into a car accident, I would really go to hell in advance.

Once when she went to attend Gong Ming's birthday party, Gu Zhun drove even faster than she does now, but at that time she just felt very happy. But when she truly felt the threat of death in the near future, she now only holds on to the handrails.

Seeing his elder sister's defensive riding posture, Gu Zhun, who had been sullenly stepping on the accelerator all the way, slowed down, then forced a smile and said, "I'm sorry, sister, I couldn't help it."

Gu Li heaved a sigh of relief, but still said in a bad tone: "I have made an appointment with Gong Xun, and now I am taking you to Gong's house to find him. Can you tell me why you want to go to Gong's house?"

"..."

Gu Zhun opened his mouth and turned around to say something, but was immediately scolded by his elder sister: "What are you looking at? Look at the road!"

"..."

Gu Li took a deep breath. She suddenly felt that her bad luck might not be over yet. Her life, which was already in danger, seemed to be even more dangerous.

Thinking of the photos she had arranged to send out in the morning, she couldn't help but feel fortunate that she had completed these things.

After being scolded, Gu Zhun did not dare to be distracted anymore. When he was getting closer to his destination, he said in a muffled voice: "Sister, I will tell you when we get to Gong's house."

Even without covering his heart with his hands, he could feel his heart beating so violently in his chest that it constantly affected his emotions and he couldn't help but want to step on the accelerator to accelerate.

"You'd better behave yourself!" Gu Li glared at him, then turned around and sighed, "It just so happens that I also have something I want to ask Gong Xun."

So the brother and sister, each with their own thoughts, said no more and just waited to drive the car to the Gong family villa in Sheshan Manor.

As the number of surrounding vehicles decreased, the roadside green belts became more and more numerous and dense, and the two were about to reach their final destination.

With an advance reservation, they drove the car in smoothly.

After seeing the top of the villa from afar, Gu Zhun slowed down and finally spoke again:

"Sister, actually I... the reason why I came to the Gong family is because... because..."

Gu Li frowned. She felt a little angry when she heard her brother's hesitant way of speaking.

"Because of what?! My tongue is tied!"

However, Gu Zhun still did not reply to her at this time. He just stared blankly into the distance, so much so that he did not come to his senses even when the car hit the curb.

Gu Li was hit and almost hit the car window. When he was about to continue cursing, he saw his brother's appearance and looked in the direction he followed his gaze.

"Sister...fireworks..." Gu Zhun stuttered.

Gu Li's eyes were also stunned at this time. In the distance, from the Gong family villa that he had visited before, thick smoke was billowing out, and scarlet flames rolled out and licked a corner of the villa.

There's a fire in the Gong family? ! ! !

(End of this chapter)