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She looked at Qiao Ai carefully for a moment with something inexplicable in her eyes, and suddenly smiled: "You have a good personality, if..."


She almost murmured the last two words between her teeth, and they were all scattered when the wind blew, and no one else heard them except herself.


She quickly smiled again, and changed the subject calmly: "Come, see if there are any flowers here that you like."


As she spoke, she led Qiao Ai to walk.


Most of the flowers she planted are randomly placed in the open air, with one pot here and another pot at the west, which seems to be disorganized, but it is very pleasing to watch carefully.


Under her introduction, Qiao Ai realized that a bunch of common lilies can be divided into such types.


"How about it, which pot do you like, I'll have someone wrap it up for you later."


Qiao Ai glanced back and wondered sincerely: "The flowers here... I like any pot I see, why don't you give me a few more pots?"


Qiao Ai thought for a while: "I'm not greedy, you can just give me a pot of one variety."


Zhao Konglan glanced at her angrily: "Why didn't I see that you were so greedy before? Three pots at most, no more. Hurry up and choose the one you like the most carefully."


"Okay." Qiao Ai sighed pretending to be regretful, which caused Zhao Konglan to smile helplessly again.


Qiao Ai looked over carefully, and suddenly found something, she turned her head and asked suspiciously: "Aunt Zhao, don't you grow orchids?"


Zhao Konglan raised her hand to caress the delicate green leaves for a while, and then she still smiled calmly: "I'm allergic to orchids, so I didn't grow orchids."


"That's really a pity." Qiao Ai said: "Orchids are known as 'gentlemen among flowers', and they match your temperament very well, Aunt Zhao."


Zhao Konglan turned around and continued to look at her with the kind of eyes that made Qiao Ai feel a little weird, but she quickly looked away this time, and at the same time said nonchalantly: "Looking at you just now, you don't know much about flowers, so you must be picky." If there are no good flowers coming out, let me help you."


Qiao Ai pursed her lips in embarrassment: "Then thank you Aunt Zhao."


Zhao Konglan personally helped her choose three pots of flowers, Qiao Ai asked carefully how to take care of them, and only chose a pot of Phalaenopsis.


Qiao Ai explained: "Your flowers are too precious, and I don't have much experience, so I'd better take my time."


Zhao Konglan wiped her fingers, and was more satisfied with Qiao Ai's character. She glanced at the time and asked her to continue drinking a cup of fruit tea.


In the open-air environment, the air was filled with the refreshing fragrance of flowers, Qiao Ai smiled faintly, and asked curiously about Zhao Konglan's past.


A flash of nostalgia and loneliness flashed in Zhao Konglan's eyes, she shook her head: "It's all the past."


But she still answered Qiao Ai's question about what happened when she first took over her own business.


After drinking half a pot of fruit tea, the smile on Qiao Ai's face was still the same as before, Zhao Konglan put down the cup: "You can hold your breath."


Qiao Ai raised her hand to refill a cup of fruit tea for her, pretending to be puzzled: "What does Aunt Zhao mean by that?"


Zhao Konglan's personal temperament is just like her name, Lanhua, which is indifferent and detached from the world, but when she looks fixedly at a person, the sharpness that has been carefully concealed by time will show up again.


But this kind of gaze was only for a moment, so fast that people almost suspected that it was an illusion of her own, she lowered her gaze again: "Can't you solve Qiao's current situation?"


Qiao Ai couldn't help being startled by her gaze for a moment, she smiled, and said sincerely: "Aunt Zhao misunderstood, in fact, you have always been my idol, although you can get a glimpse of your past from the reports back then, But how can these compare to you speaking in person."


"Oh?"


The smile on Qiao Ai's face widened a little, and she continued: "Of course, it would be great if Aunt Zhao would not hesitate to teach you."


Zhao Konglan laughed, "You."


Thinking of the news in the past few days, she naturally guessed: "Do you want me to give you an idea on how to get rid of the competition with Li Lan?"


Qiao Ai completely vetoed it: "Of course not."


Facing Zhao Konglan's surprised gaze, the corners of Qiao Ai's raised lips were stained with a thin layer of coolness in the sunset that gradually fell into the horizon: "I want to ask Aunt Zhao how to completely get rid of those moths. "


"Now everyone—even you, is focusing on the design competition in a week's time. Who can imagine that my real purpose is to get drunk?"


Zhao Konglan froze for a moment, then supported her forehead and laughed out loud: "Qiao Ai, you really surprise me all the time."


"Aunt Zhao, would you like to teach me?"


Zhao Konglan put down her arms: "I don't know much about your Qiao family's internal affairs, but I can tell you what method I used back then."


Facing Qiao Ai's serious and cautious face, Zhao Konglan opened her lips lightly and uttered a word.


Qiao Ai showed a thoughtful expression.


Zhao Konglan let her think on her own, and slowly sipped the fruit tea in her cup.


After a long time, Qiao Ai looked up: "Thank you, Aunt Zhao, for your guidance."


"I just told you a word, what to do is up to you." She stood up, took a last look at the sunset with only a little light left in the world, and shook her head: "This is not helping you." .”


Qiao Ai shook her head: "No, a word of advice is enough."


"You say that, but it makes me feel sorry for you even more."


Just as Qiao Ai was about to speak, she heard Zhao Konglan continue: "How about, let me introduce someone to you."


Joel was a little startled.


When Zhao Konglan retired from power, because she had no husband, no children, and no relatives, she simply imitated the Zen position and directly occupied it with capable people. This incident was once passed down as a good story at the time.


However, it is precisely because the capable people live there, Zhao Konglan simply and neatly delegated power, and the capable people refused to obey anyone, and forcibly changed the Qiao family, which was as famous as the Zhou family back then, into one that can only be compared with the Xiang family. There is a situation where you can fight.


It's not that no one wanted to ask her to come out of the mountain again, but she didn't see her again, she was immersed in her own world, tending her own flowers and plants.


Only Mrs. Zhou can let her go out after her [-]th birthday.


Now, she said that she would introduce a friend to herself!

"He is a well-known design master." Zhao Konglan smiled slightly: "Do you want to get to know him?"


of course!


Qiao Ai suppressed her excited heart: "Then I will thank Aunt Zhao."


"follow me."


Qiao Ai followed behind Zhao Konglan, she didn't see anything on the surface, but she secretly thought about how she should start when she met someone later.


Until she walked into the villa——