My friend's uncle took a fancy to me

Chapter 113 The Burden of Love

Lu Xiaoqiao came upstairs.

When she reached the office door, the person inside seemed to have guessed her arrival. Just as she was about to raise her hand to knock on the door, it was opened from the inside.

Liu Zhengqiang smiled widely and said to Lu Xiaoqiao, "Xiaoqiao is here! Come on, come in and sit down."

"Happy New Year, little uncle!" After saying that, he turned around and saw Zhang Minzhi was also in the office. He smiled and said to her, "Happy New Year, aunt!"

"Haha! Happy New Year!" Liu Zhengqiang said to Lu Xiaoqiao with a smile.

When Lu Xiaoqiao sat on the sofa, she found two thermoses on the coffee table in front of the sofa. She just glanced at them and turned her eyes away.

"What do you want to talk to me about, little uncle?"

Liu Zhengqiang didn't answer her question, but asked, "Xiao Qiao! Have you had breakfast?"

Lu Xiaoqiao glanced at the thermos on the coffee table again, then realized what was happening and said, "Uncle, I've had breakfast. You and Aunt haven't had breakfast yet? Then you two can eat first, and I'll come over later."

"Your aunt and I have finished eating too. I brought this from home especially for you. Since it was just after the Lunar New Year and many restaurants weren't open yet, I was worried you wouldn't be able to have breakfast. So I asked your aunt to make you your favorite preserved egg and lean meat porridge, as well as pork ribs, taro, and corn soup. Save this for lunch."

After Liu Zhengqiang finished speaking, he personally served Lu Xiaoqiao a bowl of porridge and asked her to sit here and drink it.

Lu Xiaoqiao was embarrassed and at a loss. Since the day she came to Hangzhou, her uncle had never greeted her with a smile, let alone serving her porridge with such a loving face like he did now.

Faced with Liu Zhengqiang's sudden enthusiasm and care, Lu Xiaoqiao's heart was as clear as a mirror. It was nothing more than her relationship with Zhou Qizhen.

"Uncle-in-law, I really have finished breakfast." After Lu Xiaoqiao said this, he secretly glanced at Zhang Minzhi.

Zhang Minzhi felt even more embarrassed than Lu Xiaoqiao when she received the pleading look from her.

Ever since Liu Zhengqiang found out last night that Lu Xiaoqiao’s boyfriend was Zhou Qizhen, he has been in a state of excitement.

He woke up early in the morning and insisted that she make some of Lu Xiaoqiao's favorite breakfast and bring it over.

He usually doesn’t treat other people’s children very well, but now that he knows who their boyfriend is, he is as enthusiastic as their real father. What were he doing before?

The person who should be embarrassed is not embarrassed, but I am even more embarrassed!

Zhang Minzhi sighed inwardly and said to Lu Xiaoqiao, "Why don't you just drink a small bowl?"

After hearing what her aunt said, Lu Xiaoqiao could only reach out to pick up the porridge Liu Zhengqiang had prepared and drink it in small sips.

Liu Zhengqiang looked at Lu Xiaoqiao eating the breakfast he brought, and he felt very satisfied. He thought, I wish this was my own daughter.

I didn't expect that a man of Zhou Qizhen's status and position would fall in love with a little girl like Lu Xiaoqiao. I just don't know whether this relationship will last long.

"Xiao Qiao! You were the girl in Mr. Zhou's car in the parking lot before the Lunar New Year! Why didn't you say anything?"

Lu Xiaoqiao was afraid that Liu Zhengqiang would ask this, so she had already thought about how to answer on the way here.

In short, everything was pushed onto Zhou Qizhen because he was the boss and he was not afraid.

"Zhou Qizheng didn't let me say it."

Liu Zhengqiang frowned, then nodded: "Is that so! Mr. Zhou must have his reasons for doing this."

"Aunt, uncle-in-law, I've finished eating. If there's nothing else, I'll go back first." Lu Xiaoqiao stood up after saying that.

"Ah! Finished? Do you want another bowl?"

"No, I'm full!"

"Okay! Then you can go back. Oh, and take this soup back for lunch."

Lu Xiaoqiao tried to refuse several times but failed, and finally walked out with the thermos.

Liu Zhengqiang watched Lu Xiaoqiao walk away, sat back on the sofa and said, "If these two get together, will Chen Xin handle all of Jiang Heng's orders from now on?"

Zhang Minzhi glanced at him and said, "You have a nice idea. Now you regret it! Why didn't you treat the child better back then? Now you want to take advantage of the child's glory."

Liu Zhengqiang said nonchalantly, "Without me, would she be where she is today?"

"What do you mean?"

Liu Zhengqiang leaned back on the sofa, crossed his legs, and said while shaking his legs, "If Xiao Qiao hadn't come to work here, would she have had the chance to meet Mr. Zhou? Ha! She doesn't even know which way the Jiang Heng door opens."

"How do you know that they met through our company?"

"Needless to say, she went to Jiang Heng several times during his group purchase last year. She must have been noticed by Mr. Zhou at that time. Your little niece is very lucky to be noticed by Mr. Zhou."

Zhang Minzhi didn't want to say anything more to him. She just left with one sentence, "I think you are hopeless!"

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Lu Xiaoqiao returned to the office and was surprised and happy to see Lin Lin coming back to work.

"I thought you said you were coming back today, meaning you were coming back from abroad. The earliest you could come to work would be tomorrow."

Lin Lin stood up and hugged Lu Xiaoqiao, complaining a little: "I miss you so much! But you haven't contacted me since my uncle went to look for you."

Lu Xiaoqiao said a little embarrassedly, "Haha! I was wrong, I was wrong! I brought you a lot of delicious food when I came back. They are all in your uncle's car. I will share them with you when the car comes back."

"I brought you some delicious food too. Everything we bring is delicious. We are both real foodies."

Lin Lin then pointed at the thermos in Lu Xiaoqiao's hand and said, "Where have you been? Why are you still carrying a thermos?"

Lu Xiaoqiao smiled helplessly: "Don't mention it, this is the burden of love."

"what does it mean?"

Lu Xiaoqiao pulled Lin Lin back to her workstation and whispered, "My uncle-in-law knows that your uncle is my boyfriend."

Lin Lin understood. She was very familiar with this feeling. It was just like the friends she made when she was in school. All of them approached her and showed kindness to her with a purpose.

Some of them were instructed by their parents, hoping to make friends with her uncle through her, and some women who were about the same age as her uncle actually wanted to be her aunt.

It was for this reason that she escaped from the school arranged by her family and did not go to work in her own company after graduation.

From the beginning to the end, she finally made a good friend in the true sense, but somehow, she was targeted by her uncle, and her good friend turned out to be her real aunt!

"Then how can your uncle-in-law be so embarrassed? He treated you like that before, and now he's suddenly treating you well. Isn't he embarrassed?"

"I didn't see that he was embarrassed, so I was the one who was embarrassed."

"Does he want you to help him with something from my uncle?"

Lu Xiaoqiao frowned, thought for a moment, and said, "My uncle-in-law hasn't said anything yet, but if one day he really wants to use me to get something done with your uncle, I won't agree even if I have to quit my job."