The Queen of Romance: A Summer of Sweet Classics

Chapter 299

Poppy didn't dare to relax her nerves, and walked cautiously along the side of the road towards the main road. Before walking too far, she heard someone calling her name: "Poppy! This way!"

Poppy looked over at the prestige, under the dim street lights, there was a black car parked across the road.Seeing her slow down, the headlights of the car flashed twice, Lu Ming poked his head out of the car window and waved to her: "Get in the car!"

Poppy paused, and walked over slowly. Lu Ming was impatient and couldn't rush her, so he jumped out of the car and opened the rear door for her. Poppy approached, but didn't step in immediately, and held the door by himself , asked him: "Mr. Lu, why are you here?"

"I've been waiting for you here for a long time. Young Master Chu asked me to pick you up."

Poppy was silent for a while, and said, "Cui Zhixin is dead. I killed him."

"Young Master Chu expected you to do this a long time ago, otherwise, how could you have come out so smoothly?" Seeing that she was delayed getting into the car, Lu Ming was so anxious that he wanted to use force to push her in directly, but He didn't dare to make a real move, so he nodded his feet and urged, "We'll talk about the specifics when we get in the car. Now let's go back to Chu's residence."

Poppy took his words as deaf ears, and still stood there, tilting her head slightly, not knowing what she was thinking, and then slowly said after a while: "Where is Chu Xing now?"

She even changed her address. Lu Ming stared at her, opened and closed his mouth twice, and then said, "Young Master Chu is in the Chu residence. He is waiting for you to go back."

"Knowing that I will kill Cui Zhixin and let me come here, but after killing him, he doesn't tell me that there is still a response." Poppy stepped forward, stared at him and asked, "Is Chu Xing out of his mind?"

"..."

"say something."

She was too close, and Lu Ming couldn't help taking a step back: "Well, I don't know what Young Master Chu is thinking..."

"You know." Poppy still stared at him closely, "You must have a plan. Did Chu Xing have long planned to kill Cui Zhixin? I confessed it alone, isn't that the case?"

Lu Ming stood by the car door and had no choice but to retreat. Poppy's eyes were like blades, making cold sweat ooze from his forehead.Lu Ming complained incessantly, avoiding her eyes and persuading him: "It's nothing like that, don't think too much about it. Young Master Chu is saying that you've been a little too foolish recently, and you want to use this time to frustrate your spirit..."

"Damage my spirit?" Poppy sneered slightly, "How do you want to dampen your spirit? Will you personally hand me over to the Cui family after tomorrow morning?"

"It's not like this……"

Before Lu Ming could finish his sentence, Poppy suddenly approached her. The distance between the two of them was close enough for him to see clearly the fluff behind her ear.The faint smell of lemon on her body lingered in his nose, and Lu Ming only had time to start for a moment before feeling a dull pain in the back of his head.

Poppy withdrew her hand, took two steps back, and watched Lu Ming fall to the ground.He bent down and found the car keys in his jacket pocket, dragged him to the side of the road, started the car, and drove away.

At dawn the next day, when the Cui family launched a city-wide arrest warrant, Poppy was already in City A.

Chu Xing has a house in City A that has not been used for a long time, and it is in a community with strict security facilities. Poppy abandoned the car on the side of the road that night, and when she took the bus to City A, she had already made up her mind to go there.And because she rented out the house not long ago without telling Chu Xing, the facilities inside are still complete, except that there is a lot of dust, it is still possible to live in for a period of time after careful cleaning.

Poppy was short of money last year, so she turned her idea on Chu Xing.I hired someone to take care of all the houses that Chu Xing didn't usually live in in the outer city, and then listed them for rent without telling Chu Xing.Later, when Chu Xing came to City A to inspect the properties below, he suddenly thought of this house, but when he wanted to turn around to take a look, Poppy racked his brains to stop him.But in the end, they couldn’t hide it for long. A few months later, the two of them chatted on the bed, and Poppy let it go when he was sleepy, so Chu Xing tricked him into telling the truth.Chu Xing slapped her butt five times on the spot, and when she woke up the next day, her legs became soft and light, and she almost knelt on the ground when she got out of bed.

It was evening when Poppy had finished tidying up the house.She didn't eat anything all day, no matter how much she ate at Cui's house the day before, she was already hungry at this moment, and had to go to the supermarket outside the community to buy things.

She fled this time, taking nothing but a handbag for convenience.If she had known that there was a response, she would have brought a suitcase with her. Now she is empty-handed, and she has to buy all her daily necessities separately. She doesn’t have much cash, and she can’t go to the bank to withdraw cash. This is the most troublesome thing for Poppy right now. .

Poppy spent an hour in the supermarket and bought a cart full of things.After paying the money, he walked out with difficulty, and was suddenly stopped not far from the door. Turning his head, a young man in light gray casual clothes hurried up a few steps, with a smile on his mouth, and handed him a sticky hook : "Miss, this seems to be yours, right? You left it at the cash register."

Poppy looked at it, confirmed that it was hers, thanked her and took it.The other party looked at the two big plastic bags in her hand, and said, "You also live in this community, right? It's tiring to carry so many things back home. I happen to live in the innermost building of the community. Why don't I drive you there? It's always on the way." .”

"Thank you, I can do it myself."

He looked at Poppy's vigilant eyes, smiled twice, and raised his hand: "I'm not a bad guy. Although a bad guy never says he's a bad guy, I'm really not a bad guy. If I want to do something bad, I'll follow you from behind." Just go to your house, you don't need to take the initiative to help. Miss, you will make people very sad if you resist the kindness of a kind person like this. "

Poppy finally refused, thanked her and got into the car.Her ability in eloquence has never been strong, she can't quarrel with others, and she doesn't know how to politely refuse someone's persuasion in a soft voice.Especially when she instinctively thinks that this person is not a bad person, Poppy's ears will become softer. Once the other party can list more than two sufficient reasons, she will go against her original intention and follow the other party's suggestion in all likelihood.

This is the situation at hand.

Poppy was sitting upright at the back of the car. The person in the driver's seat looked at her through the rearview mirror and said with a smile, "My name is Li Youying. How about you?"

"Which Youying?"

"Most people can't guess these two words correctly. Why don't you try?"

Poppy thought for a while: "The phrase 'Dai Li Youying' in "Zuo Zhuan"?"

Li Youying raised her eyebrows in surprise, and said with a smile, "It's rare that you actually know."

Poppy smiled: "When I was young, I was recited."

Poppy memorized "Zuo Zhuan" only because Chu Xing liked it.In addition, Chu Xing also taught her to memorize the Four Books and Five Classics and Tang poetry and Song Ci.When she was a child, Poppy was often beaten by Chu Xing because she was too awkward to recite.After going to bed, Chu Xing once took this as a hobby, and often casually told her to recite an article. If she recited it, it would be a gentle and joyful burst, but if she recited a wrong sentence, it would be a painful and long nine shallow one deep.

The distance is not long, just a few minutes.Poppy got out of the car and thanked her again. Li Youying helped her take the things to the door and said with a smile, "You haven't told me your name yet."

Poppy hesitated for a moment, and said, "Su Pu. The Pu of uncut jade."

This is her original name.But since I was 12 years old, I haven't used it for too long.

It's been so long, I almost forgot about it.

Poppy stayed in the house obediently for a week, only going out once in the middle.

She was alone and didn't go out, so she had no way of finding out what was going on outside.But if she is a Cui family member, she believes that she will not give up in such a short time.It's just that it has nothing to do with Poppy watching TV quietly in the house for the time being.

Besides, no matter whether Chu Xing will hand her over to Cui's family or not, she doesn't want to go back to City C.Even though she knew that she would be found back one day, Poppy didn't want to just go back now.

In the middle, Li Youying knocked on the door a few times, asking for tea, dinner, and chat, but Poppy declined all of them.Until one time when Poppy went to the supermarket again, Li Youying happened to bump into him again. This time when he sincerely invited him to drink tea face to face, Poppy couldn't refuse and had to agree.

Poppy promised tea, and only tea.When Li Youying asked a question, she answered it, and didn't mention anything else.Li Youying didn't think she was too dull, but she was becoming more and more interested, and asked her with a smile: "Just now I saw you bought a lot of bags of salted mustard. Do you like this?"

"I don't like it. But it's cheap."

"Cheap?"

"That's right." Poppy nodded, "I'm short of money."

Li Youying was dumbfounded for a while: "Is this a joke or the truth?"

"Truth."

Li Youying stared straight at her, and then she was dumb for a while, before making a sound: "Then, do you need me to lend you some money?"

Poppy thought for a while, looked at him, and said seriously: "If you are willing, then my answer is yes. I will return it to you."

In the end, Li Youying really gave her all the cash in the wallet.Poppy took it, thanked her, thought for a while, and said, "Should we issue an IOU?"

"No need." Li Youying waved her hand, "It doesn't matter if you don't return it to me."

"Would you be generous with everyone like this?"

"No." Li Youying opened her mouth and said tentatively, "Su Pu, can I ask you a question?"

Seeing her nodding, Li Youying hesitated for a moment, and asked in a calm and gentle tone as much as possible: "Are you the young miss who grew up in a scholarly family and ran out in a fit of anger because of conflicts with the family?"

Poppy froze for a moment, then smiled: "You think too much. How could I be."

One late spring noon ten years ago, the crabapple flowers in the courtyard of the Chu family were in full bloom, and the sun was also gentle. Among the seven girls standing in a row, Chu Xing picked Su Pu at first sight.From then on, he took her by his side almost every step of the way. Within a month, everyone on the street knew that there was a little girl beside Young Master Chu, with a simple ponytail and a transparent jade bracelet. She was extremely favored, 12 years old, It's called Poppy.

At that time, Chu Xing specially invited someone to teach her knowledge of books and etiquette, gentleness and humility, and teaching her piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, tea and hops.He was teaching her carefully with the template of a standard classical lady, and Chu Xing even deliberately put away all the dark sides of the Chu family and stayed away from her, but in the end, he didn't know why she was still the way she is today.

Four years ago, Chu Xing finally gave up the expectation of Poppy becoming a lady of the family, and taught her how to shoot and assassinate. Before he taught her to shoot and assassinate, he once commented on her sharply in eight words in public, saying that she was beautiful and ruthless.

Poppy stayed in City A for more than half a month, and finally someone from the Cui family came to her.

That day, she couldn't bear the greed, so she went to a cake shop far away from the community to buy cream cakes. After returning to the community, she was suddenly covered by someone covering her mouth and nose in a quiet corner, and her hands were also tied together. A short knife was put on her neck, and a cool voice rang in her ears: "Miss Poppy, don't move around. The knife has no eyes, so it's hard to hurt you by mistake."

Poppy paused for a moment, then exerted strength with both hands, and suddenly broke away, with the back of her hand facing outwards, she grabbed the opponent's wrist, clasped the palm of the opponent's palm with her two thumbs on the back of her hand, and then combined her strength to break it outwards hard.

The other party roared in pain, and his wrist limply left his arm.Taking advantage of the time when the remaining two people were stunned, Poppy threw away the cake and ran forward quickly, but felt her feet slipped after only a few steps. The gravel ground fell.

The moment before she hit her knees, she was firmly held by someone in his arms, and the smell of perfume that quickly spread from the tip of her nose couldn't be more familiar. Poppy only heard three dull and low gunshots, and when she turned her head, the three men who were chasing and killing her Already out of breath.

Poppy closed her eyes, feeling that Chu Xing had put away the silencer pistol, dialed the phone, and ordered in a deep voice: "Drive to the west of the community within 2 minutes. There are three dead people who need to be dealt with."

When Chu Xing hung up the phone, Poppy immediately withdrew from his embrace.Because of too much force, this retreat made her sit directly on the ground.Chu Xing glanced at her, stretched out his hand to grab her, Poppy avoided her without a trace, met his gaze, and said coldly: "When did you know?"

"Twelve days ago." Chu Xing raised his eyebrows slightly, withdrew his hand, stood up by himself, recalled a little, and added lightly, "You seemed to eat instant noodles that night. It's instant noodles."

"..."

Poppy raised her face and stared at him, and shouted after a while: "Then why did you come to me now!"

Chu Xing said lightly: "Isn't it because you don't want to go home?"

Poppy choked again, and after a while, she yelled out the second sentence: "You won't look for me until I return, so what are you doing standing here now!"

Chu Xing put his hands in his pockets, looked down at her for ten seconds, nodded, turned and walked towards the gate of the community.After walking three meters away, he felt a stone hit his back. When he turned his head, Poppy was sitting on the ground, holding another stone in his hand, and was about to aim and hit him again.Seeing him stop, his neck got two stalks, and he uttered a sentence: "My ankle is sprained, carry me back!"

(End of this chapter)