Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Speaking of Xue Jue, Zu Qi remembered that he and Xue Jue had not had any video call for a long time.
During this period of time, he was busy filming and taking care of the orchard, and rarely had time to talk to Xue Jue. At first, Xue Jue would talk to him from time to time about Xue Wanwan’s current situation, but later, maybe because he was too busy, he didn’t find him again.
He didn’t even know how Xue Jue was doing recently…
Thinking of this, Zu Qi suddenly felt extremely guilty.
Before he joined the crew, Xue Jue would come back to accompany him and Xue Wanwan no matter how busy he was at work, even if it was already one or two o’clock in the morning when he came back, and he would have to leave again before eight o’clock the next morning, but he would still lie down next to Zu Qi and rest for a few hours.
So Zu Qi naturally formed a habitual thinking. He thought that no matter how far he walked, as long as he looked back, he would see Xue Jue standing there waiting for him…
Zu Qi sighed, picked up his mobile phone and entered into the conversation between him and Xue Jue. In the WeChat chat box, he found that the last time they spoke was five days ago.
On the other hand, Weng Yuxiang sent Xue Wanwan’s videos every day, but never mentioned Xue Jue’s current situation.
Zu Qi was hesitating whether to call Xue Jue when he suddenly heard Xiao Dengzi’s urging from not far away.
“Brother Qi, come here quickly, let’s start work!”
“Coming right away!” Zu Qi responded, quickly put his phone in his pocket, took off his clothes and ran over shivering.
As a result, as soon as Zu Qi ran a certain distance, the cell phone in his pocket suddenly vibrated.
At the same time, Zhou Hai walked in slowly with a thermos bucket. He had just cooked a pot of porridge in the kitchen and wanted to bring some to Zu Qi and the others. Unexpectedly, he arrived a step late. Zu Qi had already followed Xiao Dengzi and Duan Kai and left.
Zhou Hai walked around the lounge with the thermos bucket, and then found a conspicuous place to put down the thermos bucket. Just as he was about to leave, he suddenly heard a vibration somewhere.
So Zhou Hai listened for a moment while holding his breath, and then found the chair where Zu Qi’s coat was hanging. He didn’t recognize what the sound was. After thinking about it, he picked up the coat and shook it twice.
A vibrating mobile phone rolled out of the coat pocket.
Zhou Hai was relieved when he saw the phone. He thought it was some strange thing making a noise.
“It’s really scary.” Zhou Hai muttered to himself, bent down to pick up the vibrating mobile phone, and prepared to stuff it back into Zu Qi’s pocket.
The next second, he accidentally caught a glimpse of the name on the screen and was stunned.
It was actually a call from Xue Jue.
Zhou Hai suddenly remembered that he had heard various rumors about Zu Qi and Xue Jue before and was a little hesitant to give the phone to Zu Qi, in case Zu Qi didn’t want to receive Xue Jue’s call and Xue Jue brought it to him afterwards. What to do if you want to have fun…
But after all, this was someone else’s family matter. As an outsider, he peeked at Zu Qi’s cell phone calls and took the initiative to ask Zu Qi to answer the phone. It was too lenient.
After much hesitation, Zhou Hai finally gave up the idea. He quickly stuffed the phone into the coat pocket with both hands, then he turned around and left Zu Qi’s lounge in a hurry.
….
Five hours later.
At 6:30 in the evening, Zu Qi and the crew finished work at the same time. He then asked the makeup artist to help remove his makeup in the dressing room before returning to the lounge.
As soon as he put on his coat, the guidance assistant poked his head out of the door with a smile: “Zu Qi, we will have dinner together later, don’t leave!”
“Okay.” Zu Qi responded.
The director’s assistant stuck out his tongue: “Then you clean up first. I’ll notify the others and we’ll meet outside in half an hour.”
After saying that, the director’s assistant ran away in a hurry.
After Xiao Dengzi and Duan Kai came back, Zu Qi told them about the impromptu dinner party, so the three of them sat in the lounge and waited.
Originally, Zu Qi would play mobile games or check Weibo when he was bored. So, now after changing his clothes, he was about to take out his mobile phone from his pocket when he suddenly saw Qiao Yang walking in from the door.
“Brother Qiao.” Zu Qi immediately retracted his hand that was about to touch the phone, stood up and went over to say, “The crew will have dinner later, will you go?”
Qiao Yang said, “Of course I want to go, New Year’s Eve will be in three days, so Director Wang said that tonight’s dinner should be a celebration of the Chinese New Year. How could I be absent from such an important moment?”
After saying that, Qiao Yang remembered the purpose of his visit, “By the way, Brother Zhou cooked the porridge for you. Are you done? I’ll take the thermos back.”
“Porridge?” Zu Qi asked doubtfully, “What porridge?”
At this time, Qiao Yang also saw the lonely thermos bucket forgotten on the table by Zu Qi and others. He felt angry and funny for a while, and hurriedly asked Xiao Dengzi to bring a few empty bowls and helped them divide the porridge.
After eating the porridge, the guidance assistant shouted loudly outside to gather.
The venue for this dinner was personally selected by Director Wang. It was a Chinese restaurant far away from the film and television city. They had heard that it had a good reputation and everyone who came to the film and television city would go to that restaurant.
Then, under the arrangement of several guides and assistants, the entire crew was divided into seven cars and rushed to the Chinese restaurant. Zu Qi and Qiao Yang sat in one car, as well as Duan Kai, Xiao Dengzi and Zhou Hai.
The few people were chatting and laughing along the way, while Zu Qi was leaning on the seat and chatting with Qiao Yang. He never touched his phone and had no idea that there were six missed calls on his phone.
Zhou Hai was sitting directly behind Zu Qi. While others were chatting, he remained silent with a complicated expression, staring at the back of Zu Qi’s head with his unspeakable gaze.
Zhou Hai was a smart man. He could guess just from Zu Qi’s reaction and performance that Zu Qi didn’t know that Xue Jue had called him.
Therefore, Zhou Hai was quite confused at this moment.
On the one hand, he wanted to remind Zu Qi, but on the other hand, he was afraid that Zu Qi would think he was nosy. If his talkativeness made Zu Qi unhappy, it would be a shame if Qiao Yang still wanted to eat mushrooms and apples in the future but there was no way out.
Just like this, Zhou Hai struggled with the decision until the car arrived at the destination and a group of people came to the reserved box.
He looked at Zu Qi’s smiling face, sighed silently, and had to swallow all the words that had been going around his mouth several times.
….
Zu Qi and Qiao Yang chose a suitable place to sit down. He naturally noticed Zhou Hai’s hesitant expression in his peripheral vision and thought that Zhou Hai was worried about Qiao Yang’s anorexia again.
So Zu Qi stood up, walked over, patted Zhou Hai on the shoulder and solemnly comforted him: “Brother Zhou, Brother Qiao’s illness is almost healed, so don’t worry anymore.”
Zhou Hai who was not comforted at all: “…”
Zu Qi was startled by Zhou Hai’s direct gaze. He couldn’t help but touch his face and said, “Is there something on my face?”
Zhou Hai shook his head honestly and said, “No.”
Zu Qi said: “Then why are you looking at me like this?”
“…” Zhou Hai was about to cry without tears. He wanted to roar and tell Zu Qi, please look at your mobile phone. Xue Jue called you several times. He called you. What would you do if the Xue Ju volcano erupted?
Someone come and save the child!
Although Zhou Hai wanted to get up and grab Zu Qi’s shoulders and shake him hard several times, he remained calm on the surface. He just put his fist to his lips, coughed lightly and asked, “By the way, what time is it now?”
“It seems to be seven o’clock?” Zu Qi said uncertainly, picked up the phone and took a look, “Oh, it’s almost half past seven…”
Then Zu Qi saw the six missed calls displayed on the screen of the phone. The calls received were all from Xue Jue.
Zu Qi’s expression changed slightly, and soon returned to his previous smile. Then he turned to Zhou Hai and said, “I’m going to the bathroom.”
Before he finished speaking, Zu Qi’s figure swayed two meters away. Not long after, he disappeared from Zhou Hai’s sight.
Zhou Hai watched Zu Qi hurriedly out of the box, with undisguised worry in his eyes.
Qiao Yang next to him quickly noticed Zhou Hai’s abnormality, so he turned around and asked: “What’s wrong with you? You have a weird expression.”
Zhou Hai sighed and thought about it again and again, but still couldn’t help but think about what happened at noon today. So, he told Qiao Yang to listen, and finally added distressedly: “Looking at Zu Qi’s face just now, I’m afraid Xue Jue will embarrass him.”
Qiao Yang had already learned some gossip from Zhou Hai and vaguely guessed that there was no good relationship between Zu Qi and Xue Jue. Although he felt unworthy of Zu Qi, Zhou Hai also said that it was other people’s family affairs, and outsiders like them had no qualifications or position to interfere.
Precisely because of self-hypnosis from beginning to end, Qiao Yang never mentioned Xue Jue in front of Zu Qi, let alone speak for Zu Qi on Weibo.
However, at this moment, he suddenly couldn’t bear it anymore.
Qiao Yang suddenly stood up, sullenly preparing to walk out.
Seeing this, Zhou Hai quickly stretched out his hand to hold Qiao Yang’s arm and opened his eyes nervously: “Where are you going?”
“I’ll go out and have a look.” Qiao Yang’s voice was very soft. He and Zhou Hai were alone. He could hear it, but he bit each word very hard, almost squeezing it out between his teeth, “Even if I can’t interfere in their husbands’ affairs, I can’t just watch Zu Qi being bullied.”
In the past, Zhou Hai would never have allowed Qiao Yang to go through such troubled waters, but now, he didn’t want to stop Qiao Yang, and even stood up and said, “I’ll go with you.”
But he had already left.
When Zu Qi arrived in the bathroom, he didn’t know what Qiao Yang and Zhou Hai had discussed in the box. He took a few deep breaths, calmed down his nervousness, and dialed Xue Jue’s number with some anticipation.
Unexpectedly, the beeping sound on the mobile phone continued for a long time until it was cut off.
Xue Jue didn’t answer the phone.
Zu Qi frowned and stood in front of the sink for a long time. After much deliberation, he decided to continue dialing Xue Jue’s number. As a result, he dialed Xue Jue’s number seven or eight times in a row, but no one answered.
As a last resort, Zu Qi had no choice but to call Weng Yuxiang’s number, and Weng Yuxiang was quickly connected.
“Hey Xiao Qi, are you done with today’s work?”
“Well, we’ve finished work and are preparing to eat in a restaurant.” Zu Qi smiled and chatted with Weng Yuxiang for a while before turning the topic to more serious matters, “Has Xue Jue come home? I haven’t been able to get through to him.”
“Xiao Jue?” Weng Yuxiang said, “Xiao Jue has taken Wanwan to find you. Haven’t you seen him yet?”
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