Big eyes staring at small eyes, Xu Qiao held her breath and stared at him.


    Cheng Lang retreated slightly and left her lips. His voice was low and slightly dumb: "can I solve it?"


    Why, your evil hand is still at the scene of the crime, and you''re innocent?


    "Isn''t that me?" Xu Qiao''s limbs are stiff and her face is strong enough to keep calm.


    Cheng Lang put it on her back and rubbed it with his fingers. His Adam''s apple rolled gently: "unexpected." Looking at her nervous look, she thought about it and said, "I''ll take it back for you?"


    Xu Qiao buried his hot face in his arms and nodded.


    Cheng Lang''s other hand also goes around her back, groping for the clasp through her gauze nightgown.


    Where his fingertips pass, it''s like a bunch of sparks.


    Xu qiaoke controlled a sensitive tremor and changed the topic: "are you OK just now?"


    "Well," Cheng Lang''s progress is a little slow because of a layer of cloth. "It''s better than last time."


    "Let''s stop here today."


    Cheng Lang looks down at her with disapproval.


    "Enough is enough. Don''t fish with all your might, darling." Xu Qiao raised her hand to scratch his chin.


    "Then don''t make me." Cheng Lang hides with a smile. Because of this action, the clasp of his hand loosens again.


    Xu Qiao turned to glance back: "ah, can you do it?"


    "It''s not easy to button across clothes."


    "When I untied it, I was wearing clothes. How could I see you so sharp?"


    Cheng Lang continued to fight with buckle, thinking, "it''s easy to go up the mountain, but hard to go down the mountain?"


    “……” This is the man.


    Cheng Lang finally buttoned up, picked up Xu Qiao who had slipped down, put her arms in her arms, and smoothed her hair: "will you sleep here tonight?"


    "Aren''t you afraid to be ill all night?"


    "I don''t think so. Just two quilts."


    Xu Qiao shook his head: "no, I don''t sleep well. I''m afraid it will kill you if I fall asleep and roll into a bed."


    “……”


    Other people''s girlfriend: No, I''m afraid of what you do to me.


    His girlfriend: No, I''m afraid I''ll do something to you.


    Xu Qiao crawled out of his arms and looked down at him: "wait till you get well!"


    Cheng Lang nodded: "I''ll take you back to your room."


    As soon as Xu Qiao was about to get out of bed, her feet had not touched the ground. She was beaten and held up by him.


    "Sooner or later, I will become a mermaid without feet." Xu Qiao put her arms around his neck and muttered.


    Cheng Lang smiles, hugs her and goes out, bows his head and emphasizes: "it should be a mermaid."


    When Xu Qiaogang wanted to praise her boyfriend for being really talkative, she suddenly thought of the mermaid jewelry series she had designed for the theme of "deep sea" fashion show from this sentence "Mermaid". She whispered, "Oh, no, I forgot to tell you something serious."


    "Well?" Cheng Lang carries her into the next bedroom and puts her on the bed.


    Xu Qiao sat up cross legged and said, "didn''t I go to see Mr. Pan de yesterday? The British Chinese fashion designer. He said that a jeweler was selling my college jewelry design drawings to him, but the original design drawings left in Xijiang mansion should have been thrown away as rags for a long time. Who would have leaked them out? "


    Cheng Lang frowned: "is the manuscript sold by the other party?"


    "No, it''s just a scanned copy. That''s why Mr. Pan thinks there''s something fishy here. He came to me to confirm it."


    Cheng Lang thought for a moment and said, "since we can''t get the original, it means that the scanned copy is left over from the past. You can recall who you gave the manuscript to, or whether you have scanned the drawings. "


    Xu Qiao shook her head and denied: "I thought about that yesterday. I just draw at home and put it in my study. I don''t take it seriously. "


    "Who can enter your study?"


    "I didn''t do business before, and there were no valuables in my study. All my family could come in, and the servants could clean it."


    Cheng Lang nodded thoughtfully.


    "Which servant is it?" Xu Qiao doubted, "but I didn''t show up at that time. Who could have guessed that I would be famous in the future? Scan my design in advance and prepare to sell money?"


    "This matter itself should not be a big problem. You should go to bed first. I''ll contact Mr. Pan early tomorrow morning to find out as soon as possible."


    Xu Qiao hugged Cheng Lang''s arm and gave him a kiss on the chin: "waves are always capable."


    -


    one of the things leaked was not the original manuscript, and the other was that Xu Qiao didn''t take these early immature draft works too seriously. With Cheng Lang''s reassurance that "the problem is not big", she didn''t care about it any more.


    But the next evening, Cheng Lang came to the studio to pick her up from work with a solemn look, which made her have a bad premonition.


    She sat in the back seat of Zeppelin and asked if he had found anything bad.


    "Shall we have dinner first?" Cheng Lang let the driver start the car.


    "Can''t I have dinner after I know?" Xu qiaomei said, "you''d better say it earlier. I don''t think I can eat it if I don''t listen."Cheng Lang was silent and breathed a sigh: "your father told me about this before he left. I hope I can keep it from you."


    Xu Qiao was in a daze. She didn''t expect the result of the Thousand Layer Wave: "what''s so serious..."


    "Your father first." Cheng Lang looked at her and said, "don''t you want to know his whereabouts? You never ask me these days. "


    Xu Qiao touched her nose: "I guess you and my father should be connected."


    This conjecture Xu Qiao had a long time ago.


    After all, Cheng Lang was the last person her father contacted before he left. Paying him the most important trust for her was equivalent to trusting her to him.


    Then it''s impossible for the two of them to cut off the connection.


    "But my dad left me a message saying, let me wait patiently for him to contact me. I think he certainly doesn''t want me to worry about him before his career is stable. I''m afraid that my question will put pressure on him instead. " Xu Qiao said in a low voice.


    Cheng Lang raised his hand and rubbed her hair.


    It seems that she is heartless to her family. In fact, she is the most considerate person in the Xu family.


    "In the past three months, he has been down-to-earth in Southeast Asia. Although he has not made achievements so quickly, his basic life has been stable. Five years ago, I asked him if he would like to arrange for him to come back to China to meet you. His meaning is similar to that of you. He said that he would like to come back to see you when his career has improved. He knew that you are well off and that he would show his talents. " Cheng Lang explained.


    "What did you just say he asked you to hide from me?"


    "The truth that your stepmother and your brother left."


    Xu Qiao Leng Leng: "isn''t my father arranging their mother and son to live abroad?"


    Cheng Lang shook his head: "your father used a vague statement in the text message to guide you to understand like this. I don''t want you to worry. In fact, your stepmother and your father had agreed to divorce before that. At that time, your stepmother took away the last working capital of the family and took your brother away. That''s why your father had to leave in a hurry. "


    Shocked too much, Xu Qiao looks at Cheng Lang and doesn''t say anything for a long time.


    "That is to say," because of her surprise, she spoke very slowly, "these days, my father does not know the whereabouts of my stepmother and my brother?"


    Cheng Lang nodded: "I have sent people to pay attention, but they deliberately hide their identity, there is no specific direction, so looking for someone is like looking for a needle in a haystack. But here comes the news today. They are in new state


    Xu Qiao seems to think of something: "so my design was leaked by my stepmother?"


    "Well, she heard about your fame in the United States and contacted a jeweler to exchange your work for money."


    "How could she have scanned my plans before?"


    "I guess," Cheng Lang thought, "she once consulted people in the industry with scanned copies of your design drawings and asked if these works were outstanding."


    Cheng Lang did not break the words, but Xu Qiao roughly understood.


    At the beginning, she was still in college and had no clear plan for her future career in jewelry industry. Yan Lizhen worried that she was too good at jewelry design and inherited her family business before her brother graduated, so she might have paid close attention to her works.


    After that, there may be a record of where the documents are kept.


    Xu Qiao was silent for a long time, but she didn''t know how to laugh.


    "Don''t worry, since this matter has been exposed, her business will not be done. What I want to discuss with you is another more difficult matter. "


    "What?" Xu Qiao suddenly accepted too much information, but she didn''t slow down, and her reaction was a little slow.


    "I remember last year when you were in trouble in the bar, your brother helped you. It seems that you are in a good relationship, isn''t it?"


    Xu Qiao nodded: "although he often bickered, he was protecting me. In fact, he didn''t want to fight for any property, but he was forced to learn from my stepmother when he was young. "


    Cheng Lang sighed: "do you want to take your brother back? He''s having a bit of a hard time now. "


    "What happened to him?" Xu Qiao instantly straightened his back, "didn''t my stepmother go with the money?"


    Cheng Lang browed, nodded and said: "the specific situation is not very clear. Generally speaking, it should be that your brother was cheated by your stepmother and went to the United States. After knowing the truth, he refused to use any of the money your stepmother took away, and he broke up with her."


    Xu Qiao took a cold breath: "how did he spend these months alone in a foreign country?"


    "Living in the street, doing illegal work everywhere, your stepmother has been looking for him, but he didn''t want to see her, so he hid from her."


    Such a life, Xu Qiaoguang even think suffocation.


    "How is he now? Is there anything wrong with him?" She grabbed Cheng Lang''s hand and asked.


    Cheng Lang patted her on the back of her hand and comforted her: "I found out that he was working in a bar recently. I''m fine. However, considering that I don''t know what your brother thinks, I haven''t asked anyone to show his identity for the time being. I''m afraid it will disturb him. In case he doesn''t want to see us, it will be more troublesome to hide in another place. Look, is it possible to talk to him on the phone and persuade him to come back to China? "Xu Qiao was stunned for a while: "my brother''s temper is a bit stubborn, and I don''t know the specific situation of him these days. To be on the safe side, maybe it''s better to go to meet someone in person. It''s not difficult for me to spare some time these days. Why don''t I go to Xinzhou? "


    Cheng Lang is also psychologically prepared for this: "OK, I''ll go with you."


    Xu Qiao looked at him and said, "that''s a lot of delay. This time, you can send an assistant to accompany me for at least two days."


    "It''s a big event at home. How can an assistant accompany you?" Cheng Lang calls Gao Rui and asks him to arrange a flight for them.


    He said "at home", it seems that everything is taken for granted, the Xu family''s business is his business.


    Xu Qiao shriveled his mouth, took his arm, and went into his arms like a cat. He was so moved that he sniffed.


    Yesterday''s call from my husband was really worth it.


    It turns out that Xu Qiao is not in heaven. She is spoiled by this man.