"Captain, haven't you slept yet?" Mr. Deng waved to Li Qing, smiled and asked, "is it that Mo fool's crying father and mother bothered you to rest?"

"He's honest. I can't sleep myself." Li Qing replied, "what do you two want to do if you don't sleep?"

"Chat." master Deng said with a smile, "I haven't seen Yang Xun for several years. Have a good chat. Listen to him, you also fooled a girl under him. What's her name, Su Xiaomei, true or false?"

Li Qing glared at Yang Xun unhappily, then bypassed the two people and walked out: "I'll go out and make some calls by the way."

"Captain, don't go. Let's talk." Mr. Deng joked with a smile.

Li Qing ignored him and went out. Behind him came the cry of master Deng: "Hey! Be careful, the Acropolis can be curfew. Don't be taken away at night!"

With a slight pull from the corner of his mouth, Li Qing put his hands into his pockets and walked slowly along the alley.

Due to the curfew, the whole acropolis is in darkness, quiet like a dead city. Li Qing's footsteps echoed in the alley, just like a ripple on the calm lake.

He took out his cell phone and looked at it. There was still no signal. Li Qing had to sigh and go a little further.

When I came to the avenue, I could see the bright searchlight on the corner tower. At this time, the mobile phone finally showed a weak signal.

Li Qing leaned against the wall and hesitated for a while before dialing Lin Qiuqiu's mobile phone number.

"Qiuqiu, it's me." Li Qing said in a deep voice, "is it too late? Did you sleep?"

"There's something else. I haven't slept." Lin Qiuqiu seems a little dissatisfied. "Where have you died these days?"

Li Qing scratched his head, got up and walked along the street, cleverly avoided the moving searchlight, and then replied, "it's in Longxi."

"Ah, run so far? Weren't you still in Zhonghai a while ago?"

"Well, I've been here for some days. By the way, if you have time, call Anqing and tell me peace. I thanked her for taking care of me last time in Zhonghai. It's too late tonight, so I won't disturb her to rest."

"It's none of my business." Lin Qiuqiu shouted angrily, "you can be a good man. If you're afraid to disturb her rest, you're not afraid to disturb my rest?"

Li Qing's mouth slowly filled with a gentle smile: "Qiuqiu, you are my wife."

"All right, I see."

"How's Xiaoman? Are there any difficulties at home?" Li Qing couldn't help asking, "isn't anyone bothering you?"

Lin Qiuqiu elongated his tone and complained: "you really have the face to ask me when you become the shopkeeper? Don't worry, everything is going well in the Lin family, Xiaoman is much better, and the academic performance has also increased a lot. You used to be the penultimate in the past and the penultimate in the last exam."

The corners of his mouth twitched fiercely. Li Qing said in a stuffy voice: "really, that progress is really great..."

"Another student came to their class, which was worse than her, so the grade rose by one..."

Li Qing couldn't help laughing. He was silent for a while before he whispered, "Qiuqiu, it's hard for you."

"HMM." Lin Qiuqiu answered softly, "Li Qing, come back quickly. I miss you a little... A little."

Li Qing can imagine the attractive appearance of Lin Qiuqiu on the other side of the phone. She couldn't help feeling pity: "when I finish dealing with Longxi, I'll go back immediately."

"OK, I'm waiting for you. You should pay attention to safety." Lin Qiuqiu paused slightly for a while, "is there anything else?"

"No, nothing. I'll hang up."

"Yes."

Although he said so, Li Qing took the phone and quietly listened to each other's breathing, but he couldn't stop the call.

"Qiuqiu, you'd better hang up." Li Qing said pitifully.

"You're a big man..." Lin Qiuqiu shouted, "you hang up!"

"OK." Li Qing nodded helplessly. When she was about to hang up the phone, she suddenly heard Lin Qiuqiu's voice from the microphone again: "Li Qing!"

All over, Li Qing hurriedly asked, "what's the matter?"

After a moment of silence, Lin Qiuqiu sighed softly, "it's all right. When you come back, I have a lot to say to you."

"I see. Wait for me." Li Qing answered and immediately hung up the call.

Lin family, staring at the gradually darkened mobile phone screen, Lin Qiuqiu gently stroked his slightly raised belly, his body slowly leaned back on the chair, and his eyes couldn't help but turn slightly red.

Dong Dong!

A knock on the door rang out. Lin Qiuqiu quickly raised her hand and rubbed the red circles of her eyes. She whispered, "please come in."

The door opened gently and Uncle Zhang moved in: "madam, haven't you slept yet?"

"Oh, there's still some business to deal with."

"Alas, I've been away for so long. I'm tired of you." Zhang Boqing sighed. "You have to take care of yourself for the sake of the young master."

"Don't worry, Uncle Zhang. I'm fine." Lin Qiuqiu smiled gently at the corners of her mouth and began to sort out the materials on the table. She saw Uncle Zhang standing at the door and didn't leave. She immediately raised her head slightly and wondered in the depths of her eyes: "Uncle Zhang, what else?"

Rubbing his hands, Uncle Zhang nodded somewhat embarrassed: "madam, there's someone outside who wants to see you."

"Who is it?" Lin Qiuqiu looked at the time, some confused. Now it's more than 0:00 at night. Who will come to the door at this time?

After hesitating for a moment, Zhang Bo whispered, "it's Miss mu. She just came back from abroad. She said that if you sleep, she'll come back another day."

"Mu rou'er..." the jade hand trembled gently. Lin Qiuqiu stabilized her mind and said again: "it's all right. Please come in, Miss mu."

Zhang Bo nodded again and again, "OK, OK."

Just as he was about to turn around and go out, Uncle Zhang seemed to think of something and wanted to stop talking.

Lin Qiuqiu was so clever that he immediately asked softly, "Bo Zhang has something to say?"

"Madam, according to the rules, I'm only a servant of the Lin family. I shouldn't talk much."

"Uncle Zhang has never been an outsider in the Lin family. It doesn't matter if he has something to say."

"Then let me be frank." Uncle Zhang said with a smile, "madam, you must know the relationship between Miss Mu and the owner. To tell you the truth, before Mrs. Mu came to the Lin family, everyone in the Lin family thought that the owner and miss Mu were a natural couple."

Lin Qiuqiu nodded gently, but her face didn't change at all.

Uncle Zhang's face changed slightly and continued, "but now madam is in charge of the overall situation of the Lin family and pregnant with a young master. She has worked hard and made great achievements. Everyone in the family can see that you are the mistress of the family. What the housekeeper and miss Mu had in the past is a thing of the past. I hope you don't take too much care of her and don't despise yourself."

Lin Qiuqiu couldn't help but start slightly and stood up slowly: "thank you, Uncle Zhang. Don't worry, I can grasp this measurement."

"Madam, I'm relieved to say so." Uncle Zhang said and turned to go out.

Lin Qiuqiu sighed slightly. He came out from behind his desk and sat down gently next to the sofa. His white fingers gently brushed his slightly convex belly: "you child, it's really a little untimely to come. Your father doesn't know you're such a little thing now."

Having said that, Lin Qiuqiu's exquisite face raised a happy and beautiful smile.

After five or six minutes, the knock on the door rang again.

"Please come in," said Lin Qiuqiu, looking at the door. With the door opened, mu rouer walked slowly into the room. She stood in front of Lin Qiuqiu. They looked at each other for a moment, and both burst into a smile.

"Madam, it's too cold at night. You should pay more attention to your health." Uncle Zhang followed in, holding a blanket over Lin Qiuqiu.

"Thank you, Uncle Zhang." Lin Qiuqiu whispered, "it's late. Uncle Zhang is old. Let's have a rest early."

"OK, OK." Uncle Zhang nodded and glanced at mu rouer. "Madam, Miss mu, you two talk slowly. I'll go out first."

Uncle Zhang turned to go out and took the door with him.

"Miss mu, please sit down." Lin Qiuqiu smiled.

"Just call me rou'er." Mu rou'er went to Lin Qiuqiu, sorted out her long skirt, sat on the sofa and looked at her up and down. Finally, she stopped her eyes at Lin Qiuqiu's lower abdomen, with a trace of envy at the bottom of her eyes: "he... Know?"

Lin Qiuqiu shook her head: "he's too busy. I don't want to distract him."

After a moment of silence, mu rouer nodded slightly: "it's not easy to be a woman."

"What to drink?" Lin Qiuqiu directly cut off the topic.

"No." Mu rouer's eyes wandered around the room for a week and stopped on Lin Qiuqiu's pretty cheeks again, "I came here today just to see you. I've been abroad for so long, and I've been unwilling to know why I lost. Now I understand that I lost wrongly, and you are the one who is really suitable for Li Qing. You can help him and give him warmth. Unlike me, I have to rely on him everywhere and need his protection. I really... Really envy you."

"In love, there is no difference between winning and losing." Lin Qiuqiu smiled. "I like your songs very much, but you sang so many songs and attracted countless fans, but you can't sing through your heart after all."

The jade hand Shuer tightened, mu rouer gently bit her red lips: "what does this mean?"

Reaching out and pulling her hair, Lin Qiuqiu smiled bitterly, "you envy me, but why don't I envy you? How many decades have you had in your life? In the ten years since Li Qing left the Lin family, it was you who missed you day and night. As a woman, how can I not be jealous?"

"But he finally chose you, didn't he?" murou'er couldn't help but feel bitter.

Lin Qiuqiu shook her head slightly: "you have already taken root and sprouted in his heart. No matter how hard I try, I can only occupy half of his heart at most. It's incredible that love and responsibility appear on a man at the same time."

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