Chapter 15 Revering the Divine and Illuminating the Mind

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  The man's profile was printed on the car window, with clear and beautiful lines, really good-looking.

  Ji Siyuan was secretly despising herself while appreciating the beauty, Qiao Yu turned his head to look at her and slightly curved the corner of his mouth.

  Ji Siyun knew that going back with the smell of wine on her would get her scolded by Empress Shen again, so she wanted to dissipate some of the alcohol outside. "Just drop me off up ahead."

  Qiao Yu turned his head to look at her during the red light, "I remember this place is still quite far from your home, why not go back so late?"

  "Is Brother Qiao being too nosy? Does he have to keep an eye on where his sister goes at night?" Ji Siyu said, unfastening her seatbelt and opening the car door. She jumped out nimbly and called out, "Goodnight, Brother!"

  Qiao Yu wanted to chase after her, just as the traffic light turned green. The honking of car horns rose and fell behind him. He glanced back at the figure that had merged into the night shadows, let out a sigh, and stepped on the gas.

  Ji Siyun walked for a long time, and the smell of wine on her body still hadn't dissipated. Fortunately, when she returned, Empress Shen had already fallen asleep. She took a bath, lay down in bed, and made a phone call.

  "I say, Director Xu, when is that Wei Xin guy finally arriving?"

  Xu Bingjun flipped through the emails in his mailbox. "According to plan, he should arrive tomorrow afternoon. He said in the email that he will go directly there when the time comes."

  Ji Siyuan thought for a moment, "Oh, then let's cancel tomorrow afternoon's meeting and change it to the afternoon."

  Xu Bingjun seemed to be in a hurry to get rid of Wei Xin as well, and quickly replied, "Agreed."

  The next afternoon, Qiao Yu saw a man dragging his luggage standing at the door of the conference room, looking around.

  He looked up and saw Qiao Yu, then asked, "Isn't the meeting of DFS Law Firm supposed to be here?"

  A Chinese face, but speaks Chinese with a somewhat awkward tone.

  Qiao Yu roughly guessed it. "The meeting was temporarily cancelled and postponed to this afternoon, you are... the person in charge who has been sweeping other projects abroad?"

  The man lowered his head and cursed, then the earring on his left earlobe shone brightly. He raised his head to introduce himself, "Yes, my name is Wei Xin."

  Qiao Yu smiled and extended his hand to one of the newly arrived project managers, "Hello, I'm Qiao Yu."

  This elegant and refined man suddenly jumped up, with an exaggerated expression of wide eyes staring at him, shouting "Qiao Yu? Qiao Yu?! Qiao Yu! Guardian deity! Where is Tian?!"

  Qiao Yu looked at the man spinning around in front of him with a puzzled expression, "What's wrong? Is my name strange?"

  Wei Xing quickly regained her usual elegant demeanor, staring at Qiao Yu for a long time with a hint of a meaningful smile on the corner of her mouth. She suddenly spoke up without warning, "In the Architecture Academy, there's a landmark building known as the 'altar' of the architecture department. Every year during the architect exams, students would go there to hang up cards with messages that are more or less the same - wishing for good luck on the exam and whatnot. But Ji Si Xuan's card was different from everyone else's. Coincidentally, she had exceptionally good grades in every subject, so some curious people took down her card to take a look, but they didn't understand Chinese. So they brought it to me to ask what it meant. Guess what our 'Xuan Emperor' wrote? Oh right, that's Ji Si Xuan - we all call her the 'Xuan Emperor'."

  Qiao Yuxin's heart skipped a beat, "What did you write?"

  Wei Xin smiled and said with a slight opening of her thin lips, "Two words, Qiao Yu."

  Wei Xin ignored Qiao Yu's silence and continued, "Others asked me what 'Qiao Yu' means in Chinese. Is it similar to 'Amen', a prayer? At that time, I didn't know Qiao Yu was you, but thought it should be a name. However, those foreigners misunderstood, thinking it was a protective deity. You don't know that from then on, every exam season, your name was plastered all over the building. It was quite a sight. I'm not sure if it's psychological, but after putting up your name, many people really passed their exams. From then on, it was unstoppable. The name 'Qiao Yu' has been revered by almost all architecture students as a deity, enduring and unwavering, even after I and Ji Siyu graduated. If you have time, you can go take a look."

  Qiao Yu lowered her eyelids, lost in thought, but was suddenly interrupted by the teasing voice of a girl beside her ear.

  "Hey, Qiao Yu, if I write on the exam paper that I'm your girlfriend, will the teacher give you face and let me pass?"

  "Hmm... really have ideas, am I your guardian angel?"

  "You were originally my guardian angel!"

  Memories flooded back, Qiao Yu's expression remained unchanged, but his downcast eyes quietly flowed with a hidden endurance that no one could see.

  "It's a funny thing, but on the night of graduation, I saw Xuan Huang standing in front of the building with a sad face, silently standing for a long time. I had never seen that expression on her face before, she was always... Wei Xin paused for a moment, as if thinking of an adjective, "bright, carefree, radiant! That's it, radiant! Later, I kept thinking about how sad a person must be to have that expression on their face. Now I understand, it was because of you, Qiao Yu."

  It's all because of you, Qiao Yu.

  Until the meeting in the afternoon, Qiao Yu's ears were still surrounded by this sentence.

  It's said that there are three people in charge, but Ji Siyuan and Xu Bingjun seem to be particularly unfriendly towards Wei Xing. You and I take turns attacking him with words.

  Xu Bingjun pointed with his pen and introduced Wei Xin to the people in Qiao Yu's department, "This stylish and handsome gentleman with talent is our chief architect Wei Xinwei Gong."

  Ji Siyun added, "Wei Xiaobao's Wei, Yi Xing's Xing, anyway they are not good people, put together and it's even more not a good person."

  Xu Bingjun nodded, "Wei Gong is a British Chinese, his Chinese isn't very good, so usually he can't say anything that makes sense, just ignore him."

  Wei Xing suddenly blew up before Ji Siyun could continue, "We've already met, okay?! We had a great conversation, didn't we, Qiao Bu? My Chinese is very good!"

  Everyone on Qiao Yu's side was stifling a laugh, thinking that the three people sent by DFS Architectural Firm were really interesting. One had a serious and cute look, one was a beautiful queen, and now there was a handsome and funny guy, they were all full of expectations for the project that was about to start.

  Qiao Yu turned his head and gave Ji Si Xuan a meaningful glance before smiling at Wei Xin, "Yes, Master Wei."

  The meeting in the afternoon was complicated and lengthy, and later because of Qiao Yu being called away by other things, it ended ahead of schedule. Before ending, they finalized to go to the resort for a field inspection two days later.

  At the end of the meeting, Wei Xin approached Ji Siyuan and gestured for her to look at Qiao Yu, who was hastily leaving. "An old friend has returned, how is it?"

  Xu Bingjun was surprised, "How did you know she and Qiao Yu were schoolmates?"

  Wei Xing smiled smugly, "Hmph, I was a classmate of Xuan Huang in graduate school, and I know many things you don't know, old man!"

  Xu Bingjun immediately turned his face and said, "I'm just a few years older than you, who let the two of you skip grades!"

  Ji Siyun glared at Wei Xing, "You're late and you still have so much to say!"

  Wei Xing continued to raise an eyebrow and bat her eyelashes, "The architectural school's sacred wonder oh."

  People around have already gathered, curiously asking, "What a wonderful sight?"

  Ji Siyuan dragged Wei Xin to the corner, suppressing her voice and speaking viciously, "I'm warning you, Wei Xin. If you dare to speak nonsense in front of Qiao Yu, I'll make sure you regret it! A British-Chinese person dares to be arrogant on Chinese people's turf?!"

  Wei Xing opened her big eyes, waving her arms for help, "Hey, excuse me, where is the nearest embassy from here? I need to seek help! Someone is intimidating me!"

  Ji Si Xuan let go of him, looked at him with a proud and arrogant gaze, then turned around and walked away with big strides.

  Qiao Yu arrived at Le Quan's place when it was already dark, and as soon as he got off the car, he saw Old Lady Le standing in front of the door under the dim light waiting for him.

  "Grandma" Qiao Yu quickly walked over to support the old man and walk inside, smiling and saying, "Why are you waiting here, I'm not unfamiliar with the road."

  Madam Le was a beauty in her youth, and her temperament was even more impressive. Old Master Le spent his life on horseback with iron bones clanking, but he listened to his wife's words and followed her plans, which shows one aspect of their relationship.

  The old lady patted her grandson's hand, with a kind face. "Just had dinner, also come out for a walk, and wait for you. Your grandfather has been thinking about you for half a day, in the study room, hurry up and go in."

  Qiao Yu nodded and turned his head to signal the people behind him to come up and support Old Lady Le, but he had only taken a few steps when he was called back.

  The old lady was heartbroken for her grandson and hinted at Qiao Yu, "Do you still remember those things your grandfather taught you?"

  From a young age, Lezhun taught him countless things, and Qiao Yu was asked to the point of being bewildered. It wasn't until they entered the study and saw Old Man Le writing with a brush that he suddenly understood.

  Le Quan was writing Lin Zexu's Ten Maxims, and upon hearing the sound of the door opening, didn't even lift his head. The characters flowed smoothly from his hand, yet didn't lose their elegance. Qiao Yu stood silently a few steps away, watching intently.

  "Brothers in discord, friendship without benefit, what's the next line?"

  Quiet and introverted as Qiao Yu was, he also had a mischievous youth. As a child, Qiao Yu didn't know how many times he was punished to copy these ten useless maxims, remembering them deeply, responding reflexively, "Behavior is not upright, reading books is useless, doing things is eccentric, being intelligent is useless."

  Le Quan's pen moved quickly as he wrote, and he continued to ask, "What else?"

  "Arrogant and proud, extensive learning is of no benefit; wealthy but not benevolent, accumulated wealth is of no benefit; cleverly taking others' property, charitable donations are of no benefit; not cherishing one's vital energy, taking medicine is of no benefit; indulging in luxury and extravagance, official career is of no benefit."

  Le Quan put down his pen after finishing writing the last sentence, smiled and raised his head to glance at Qiao Yu, beckoning him, "Come over for a cup of tea."

  Qiao Yu knew this was over the pass.

  Le Quan sipped his tea and slowly opened his mouth, "I went to see your brother today, his complexion is not good, I know he didn't tell the truth. In front of your grandmother, I couldn't ask him, afraid she would worry."

  Qiao Yu knew what Le Zhun wanted to ask, furrowed his brow, and after a moment of deliberation, said, "The situation isn't too good."

  "Does your father know?"

  "I don't know, brother has been keeping it from everyone."

  Even Lao Zai, who was used to seeing life and death on the battlefield, couldn't help but be moved, and for a long time he couldn't say a word.

  Qiao Yu's heart was also aching, seeing the old man like this originally wanted to comfort him with a few words, but after thinking about it, he couldn't find anything suitable to say, and his heart felt even more depressed.

  The old lady knocked on the door and quickly pushed it open, carrying a tray with two bowls of sweet soup, smiling and asking, "What are you two talking about, looking so gloomy?"

  Lao Zhen's cane struck Qiao Yu's calf, "This kid is killing me! He's so old and still doesn't know to bring a granddaughter-in-law back home."

  Qiao Yu also cooperated and stood up, taking the tray from Grandma's hand, smiling and saying, "Grandpa said that Le Xi is already a mother, so I should hurry up!"

  The old lady was very much in agreement, with a scolding expression on her face. "You, at your age, can start dating now, be more positive about it."

  Qiao Yu couldn't help but smile wryly, looking at the two old men with a helpless expression. "How can you be so enthusiastic? Bringing up two topics at once?"

  Lao Zhen's cane quickly beckoned him over, "You little scamp!"

  The three people burst out laughing after finishing speaking.

  Qiao Yu accompanied the two elderly people and chatted with them for a while before leaving.

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