Pretending to be cute

It was meal time, every house smelled delicious, and the twice-cooked pork next door was the most delicious. The news made Xiao Ling and Gu Lingyu almost drooling, they could only look at Mu Qing helplessly.

Mu Qing is an anchor of the gourmet section on a popular live broadcast platform. He has good cooking skills, good looks, and the quality of the food videos he makes is surprisingly high. He is very popular on the platform.Gu Lingyu and her can know each other because of the intersection of work and live broadcast.

Since Gu Lingyu and Xiao Ling came here temporarily, and Mu Qing lived alone, he didn't prepare too many ingredients, so he consulted the opinions of the two gluttonous ghosts, and simply made a small homemade hot pot, and put the vegetables in the refrigerator together, as three Personal dinner.

Mu Qing went to the kitchen to prepare hot pot, while Gu Lingyu and Xiao Ling were discussing business in the living room.Gu Lingyu knew that Xiao Ling was in a hurry, so she didn't hold back, arranged the materials she brought, and handed them to Xiao Ling one by one.

"The few people you asked to check have been found. Some of them are still in City C, some have gone to other cities to develop, and one or two have settled abroad. But I think you should not know their specific whereabouts. Too concerned?"

"Ah."

Xiao Ling carefully looked at the profiles of those few people, and indeed, as Gu Lingyu said, they all have their own places to go, and their development is not bad. The best one has already become the boss of a company.

Gu Lingyu waited for her to finish reading, and asked curiously: "These people have nothing in common, why are you looking for them?"

Xiao Ling didn't answer but instead asked, "Did you check Ming Xiao's company?"

Gu Lingyu said: "I checked, I was just about to tell you this, the strangest thing is this Mingxiao. I didn't develop in City C ten years ago, but when I checked Mingxiao, I found that this company was quite famous more than ten years ago. Yes, the scale is not small. But the strange thing is, I don’t know what happened ten years ago, and I can’t find it at all after that.”

She frowned and added: "If I hadn't asked a few up-and-down old men to ask, I wouldn't have known about Ming Xiao's fame! But they told me that they didn't know much about Ming Xiao's affairs. I understand, I only heard that something happened to the person in charge of Ming Xiao."

"Ming Xiao... is my parents' company." Xiao Ling put down the information and narrated in a very calm tone, "Ten years ago, they died in an accident, and I was the only heir. But for some reasons, Ming Xiao disappeared without my knowledge, just like what you found out now."

Gu Lingyu was stunned: "Then what do the people you asked me to investigate have anything to do with the company of my uncle and aunt?"

Xiao Ling slid her fingers over the faces of everyone on the information, and said softly: "This is the person my brother and I met when my parents were young. They have struggled together with my parents, and my father often said to my brother and me If not for everyone's support and dedication, there would be no Ming Xiao now."

However, it was the friend that Dad valued so much, but after Dad and the others had an accident, he lied to her, bullied her, and even tried to rob her of the wealth left by her relatives.

Gu Lingyu said: "According to what you said, these people were once the backbone of Mingxiao. Then even if the Xiao family is no longer in power, they shouldn't be torn apart... Besides, Mingxiao disappeared, not went bankrupt."

Xiao Ling hummed.

"Then, ask these people, don't you know what happened back then? And the reason why Ming Xiao disappeared." Gu Lingyu snapped his fingers.

Xiao Ling shook his head. When looking at those people, a trace of disgust and hatred flashed in his eyes: "If I am not forced to, I don't want to ask them, let alone contact them."

Gu Lingyu was silent, not knowing how to comfort the other party.Although Xiao Ling didn't describe her past experience in detail, she understood that this girl who was younger than her must have experienced many times the pain and sorrow.

"Come on, senior sister will give you a loving hug for free." Gu Lingyu didn't want the atmosphere to be stiff, so she opened her hands with a loving face.

Xiao Ling looked behind Gu Lingyu and said coolly, "Mu Qing, you're here."

Gu Lingyu immediately withdrew her hands and huddled together: "Mu Mu, you misunderstood me. I'm not talking about the love of love, but the love of comfort. It's a simple friendly hug. There is no other meaning. You must not..."

Xiao Ling chuckled: "Senior sister, you will be a strict wife in the future."

"Strict control over my wife is strict control over my wife. As long as Mu Mu wants to control me, I am willing to be controlled!" Gu Lingyu almost didn't swear to God, because he didn't hear Mu Qing's reaction, he was even more disturbed, and boldly glanced back, but It was found that there was no one behind.

Gu Lingyu frowned directly.

"Xiao, Ling! Do you still want to listen to me? Don't you want to listen to me leaving!"

Xiao Ling put his palms together quickly, and begged for mercy: "Senior sister, I should never have teased you. I was wrong. Long live my wife is strict. I really want to hear it. Tell me quickly, and my junior will listen to you."

"Humph."

Gu Lingyu's temper came and went quickly.She sorted out her thoughts, and continued: "I didn't find anything about Ming Xiao's follow-up, as if it disappeared in front of everyone. But, I discovered another very coincidental thing."

"what?"

Gu Lingyu said: "City C has a subsidiary with the same name as Mingxiao."

Xiao Ling's eyes narrowed: "Subsidiary company? Are you sure it's the same registered name? It has nothing to do with Mingxiao?"

Gu Lingyu nodded: "Yes, a subsidiary company, and this is the registered name. It has nothing to do with the Mingxiao created by your parents, at least on the surface. I didn't even know the existence of this subsidiary company. If you think about it, whether it will be acquired or acquired, you will not notice this fish that slipped through the net."

"Acquisitions, mergers... No way. Who is the parent company of this subsidiary?" Xiao Ling breathed heavily.

Hearing this, Gu Lingyu's expression was very strange, and he hesitated in speaking: "Sister, I didn't know what this Ming Xiao meant to you before, so I thought it would be okay to tell you. But now, you may not think much about this answer." listen……"

This reaction made Xiao Ling's bad premonition pop up again: "Don't tell me, it has something to do with her."

Gu Lingyu didn't start, and couldn't bear to pull out the bottom piece of information - Mingxiao, a subsidiary of Hongjiang, whose main business is...

The printed black and white words made Xiao Ling fall into an ice cellar.It's clearly not autumn yet, but there are bursts of coolness from head to toe, making it hard for her to breathe.

When Mu Qing came out with a small hot pot, Gu Lingyu was alone in the living room.

"Where's Xiao Ling?" Mu Qing motioned Gu Lingyu not to help, put the pot away, pressed the small fire button, and looked around.

Gu Lingyu lay on the table, absent-mindedly said: "She's gone."

"gone?"

Mu Qing frowned, and was about to ask if Gu Lingyu forced her to leave, but she heard Gu Lingyu say listlessly: "Mu Mu, do you know? There is a person in Xiao Ling who has liked for many years, she is not like me, she wants to confess to you , it is easy to propose to you, but it is difficult for her to even open her mouth. Even so, she still likes that person. "

Mu Qing listened silently.

Gu Lingyu said again: "But, that person...that person took away everything that Xiao Ling's family left for her. If Xiao Ling didn't want me to accompany her, if it wasn't for worrying about her accident, I wouldn't even want to contact that bastard Li Mi. Egg."

After saying the last sentence, Gu Lingyu stomped his feet resentfully.

Mu Qing focused: "Li Mi?"

Gu Lingyu felt a little guilty: "Uh, when I got excited, I accidentally said my name. Don't worry about it. Anyway, there is such a person."

Mu Qing smiled, sat down next to Gu Lingyu, and spoke softly, "Don't be so angry, Lingyu. I don't know the truth, and I don't intend to judge right and wrong, but if the Li Mi you mentioned is someone I know, Then I think it must be a misunderstanding."

"Are you talking about the one from Hongjiang? Isn't it the same name and surname?"

Mu Qing nodded: "It's her."

Gu Lingyu's eyes widened, and he said stubbornly: "Even if you know each other, it can't be a misunderstanding. I found out that's how it is. People can lie, but the truth can't?"

Mu Qing shook his head, and said lightly: "There is an old saying that what you hear is what you see, and that facts do not lie, but this fact may not necessarily be the 'truth' as ​​you think."

Gu Lingyu snorted, and said sourly: "Why, are you defending Li Mi inside and out? You haven't mentioned her before, and now it seems that the relationship is pretty good."

I don't know why Mr. Li's charm is so great, Xiao Ling is fascinated, and even Mu Qing helps to speak.After knowing her for so long, Mu Qing has never trusted her so much!

"Well...the relationship is really good, Li Mi has helped me a lot, and he is quite a nice person." Mu Qing replied solemnly.

Gu Lingyu pouted: "...Oh."

Even though Mu Qing was always used to being deserted, she still couldn't help being a little funny looking at Gu Lingyu's appearance: "Where are the big bowls of vinegar that fell from the sky, it's so sour, and the hot pot doesn't even need to be added."

Gu Lingyu squinted her eyes, and suddenly leaned in front of Mu Qing, pouted her mouth with a touch of teasing: "My mouth is even more sour, do you want Mu Mu to taste it?"

Mu Qing's eyes flicked over those pink lips very quickly, handed over a pair of chopsticks, and said without changing expression: "I don't like sour."

Gu Lingyu argued hard: "I'm very sweet."

"I don't like sweet ones either. I like spicy ones, such as this hot pot."

"..."

Can't talk anymore.

It was almost eight o'clock in the evening, the sky was as black as ink, and the dim street lamps could not dispel the haze, only the few dark clouds covering it could be illuminated.

The gust of wind poured in from the window of the car, and the whistling sound overwhelmed the ringtone that was playing all the time. Xiao Ling looked ahead, as if he didn't hear it, but the speed of the car was much faster than usual.

After half an hour, we arrived at our destination.

Pulling out the car key, Xiao Ling picked up the mobile phone that had been left aside for a long time, and got out of the car.When she saw 43 missed calls and more than 20 text messages, she was slightly absent-minded.But soon, she switched to silent mode and turned off the screen.

Following the memory and walking to the door, looking at the brightly lit courtyard, Xiao Ling recalled the first time he came here.A small, thin, restless girl was brought to this house by someone.

She had thought this would really be her home.

Xiao Ling closed his eyes and rang the doorbell, his fingers turned white.

"Who? It's so late..." The light screen lit up, and a well-dressed woman complained halfway, when she suddenly saw a girl waiting silently on the screen, her face full of surprise: "Lingling? You're back? Wait a minute Godmother, let Aunt Zhang, no, no, godmother open the door for you!"

Du Pianyan was watching the drama in the living room, but she didn't hear Wan Hong's words, only heard some opening and closing of the door, she couldn't help but wondered: "Mom? What's the matter? Who's here?"

There was a sound of footsteps.

"Sister, didn't you let me go home during the day, I have something to do during the day, so I told you to come over at night, did you forget?"

The girl was wearing slippers, looking at Du Pianyan with a smile, as if she was really chatting with her relatives, cute and intimate.

Du Pianyan slid her phone: "Wait, you didn't say that before...Xiao Ling, what are you doing?"

"Pianyan, you child, what are you talking about? You also said that Lingling played tricks on you during the day. Lingling is so good-natured, how could she play tricks on you? This is her home, and she will come back sooner or later, right?" Wan Hong ordered Aunt Zhang to bring fresh fruit, and pulled Xiao Ling to sit down on the sofa.

Xiao Ling casually glanced at the familiar arrangements around him, and said leisurely: "Yes, this is my home, and I will come back sooner or later."

Du Pianyan was dumbfounded by her two completely different attitudes: "You..."

Aunt Zhang came over with a plate, and Wan Hong took some of the best-looking grapes from it, and handed them to Xiao Ling, while glaring at Du Pianyan: "I see that the weather outside is not good, it should be raining Now, your sister is sleeping at home tonight, you go up and help her make the bed with Aunt Zhang, I have something to say to Lingling."

"Mom, she sure doesn't..."

Du Pianyan blushed with anger, and wanted to say something more, but seeing the strong warning in her mother's eyes, she could only swallow the rest of her words, and reluctantly followed Aunt Zhang upstairs.

Xiao Ling seemed to have not seen the silent contest between mother and daughter, and asked casually: "Godmother, why isn't godfather here?"

Wan Hong's eyes flickered slightly: "It's a coincidence that he went on a business trip and hasn't come back yet. Otherwise, if he knew that Lingling had returned home, he would definitely be happier than me."

"Indeed, you have always loved me very much. My sister used to joke with me that compared to her, my godfather and godmother are more tolerant to me." Xiao Ling had a deep meaning.

When she first came to this house, she got into trouble several times. Wan Hong and Du Qingnan never scolded her, but accused Du Pianyan of not taking good care of her.Xiao Ling once thought it was a preference, but later realized that there has never been any preference or preferential treatment.

Just an outsider who can be used.

"Of course, your parents entrusted you to us, we don't love you, who loves you." Wan Hong smiled unnaturally, then patted Xiao Ling's hand, and talked about business: "Lingling, I I heard from Pianyan that you always thought that we took your Xiao family property, but you misunderstood!"

Seeing that Xiao Ling was listening, Wan Hong stood up and said in great indignation: "The one who took all of this is actually Li Mi himself! You have been deceived for so many years!"