cast a peach

Chapter 86 Promise

When Zhao Guangshui came back, Tan Mingli was standing quietly on the spot, her eyes slightly lowered, her expression seemed to be covered in a hazy layer of smoke.

"Sister Pear..."

She hadn't seen such a cold emotion from Tan Mingli for a long time, she suddenly became flustered, ran over in a hurry, shook the woman's hand, and asked with concern, "What's wrong with you?"

The woman's hand was as cold as ice. Zhao Guangshui looked at her in a daze, kissed her hand tentatively, and then pressed her hand to his cheek, trying to warm her hand with his own body temperature:

"Sister, are you uncomfortable? You..."

Tan Mingli's expression slowly loosened, like ice floes melting on a river in spring.

She gently touched the girl's face, her eyebrows and eyes were soft, and she comforted in a low voice:

"I'm fine, Xiao Shui, don't be afraid."

"really?"

The woman was clearly saying that she was fine, but she could clearly see a well-disguised, faint tiredness in her eyes.

Sister Li didn't tell her the truth.

Zhao Guangshui rubbed her hand, uneasy and confused, and asked softly, "Did Assistant Lian tell you something just now?"

Apart from this reason, she couldn't figure out why Sister Li would suddenly show such an expression.

Tan Mingli's expression moved slightly, but he didn't answer her quickly.

She remembered what had just happened——

Xiao Shui went out first, wanting to lead the way for Lian Keqin.The tall and thin woman put her hand on the doorknob, but she didn't leave immediately, but turned around suddenly before she walked out the door, and looked directly at Tan Mingli:

"Tan Dong, I have another question. I don't know if it's convenient for me to ask you?"

Generally speaking, being able to say this kind of thing actually means that you have to ask regardless of your inconvenience.

It seems that it was just a small trial just now, and now what she wants to talk about is the real meal.

Tan Mingli felt tired.She withdrew her gaze from the girl's back, moved to her, paused, and then nodded:

"Okay. Go ahead."

"When are you going to tell Mr. Zhao about you and Ms. Zhao?"

Lian Keqin's tone was very flat, but what he said was like thunder on the ground, "And Grandpa Zhao. How do you tell him that the younger generation he admired most back then is now with his most cherished granddaughter?"

"What are you going to say?"

She looked at Tan Mingli carefully, then suddenly smiled and shrugged:

"Or, you didn't intend to say it at all, but wanted Xiaoshui to tell mom and grandpa by himself? You can't come out from hiding?"

"Or you can learn from Xiaoshui's father and ask Xiaoshui to give you a child... Anyway, now that technology is advanced, it is not impossible for women to have children. What's more, Xiaoshui is devoted to you and will never reject you. Cook raw rice and cooked rice, even Grandpa Zhao will have nothing to do with you, don’t you think?”

Lian Keqin spoke very calmly, with only a hint of sarcasm in his dark eyes.

She came at the wrong time and was well-prepared, and every word she uttered accurately pointed to those sweet issues that could not be ignored.

For the first time, Tan Mingli's expression became as cold as ice. She stared coldly at the woman in front of her, and said in a low voice:

"Ms. Lian, do you dare to say these words in front of Xiao Shui?"

"Of course I would."

Lian Keqin seemed to be amused by her words, and even bent his eyes a little—why didn't he dare?She stretched out her slender fingers and nodded, "It's just that I don't want to say it in front of her."

"She likes you so much, Tan Dong. I can't do anything about her."

Lian Keqin shook his head with a smile, "So let me ask you to see if you can do anything."

"I think, this is between me and Xiaoshui, it has nothing to do with you, Ms. Lian."

Tan Mingli's chest rose and fell slightly, but quickly calmed down again.Her tone was still very calm, but she had already clenched her teeth secretly.

"It has nothing to do with me, but it has something to do with my boss."

Lian Keqin pushed his glasses, and said quite naturally, "It has something to do with my boss, which means it has something to do with me."

"You haven't thought about these questions, have you?"

She suddenly sneered softly, with a sneer on her pale face, "You can't really fall in love with Ms. Zhao in a flash, and you don't even think about how to deal with your mother-in-law?"

Her every word is like a knife, and her words of cruelty make it hard to parry.

Tan Mingli stared at her deeply, but calmed down.

She remembered who the woman in front of her was.

They've... actually met before.

If she remembers correctly, this special assistant Lian should be the secretary of Sister Hua before.

She is very capable at work, cold-handed and hard-hearted, and she recognizes money but not people. She is loyal to Sister Hua and has a good reputation a few years ago.

At that time, Zhao Zhihua had just made a name for himself in Meishi, and he was in the limelight all of a sudden.

People called Zhao Zhihua "a tiger in Meishi", and the tall woman who was always by her side was called "Poisonous Scorpion".

At Xiaoshui's birthday party that year, she met her once.

It's just that Lian Keqin was still very young at that time, not as thin and pale as he is now, and he didn't wear glasses. When he saw Lian Keqin again a few years later, she was so focused on Xiaoshui that she didn't recognize her right away.

Sister Zhihua actually sent such a person to Xiaoshui's side.

"Ms. Lian."

Tan Mingli smiled softly and shook her head, "You broke the rules."

"What is the work ethic of an assistant?"

Tan Mingli smiled slightly, calm and dignified as if telling a story, "As the person of Sister Hua, you concealed the truth; as the person who took care of Xiaoshui, you meddled too much. Now, you still come to threaten me like this , Threatened Tan's current chairman. Ms. Lian, you have no professional ethics."

Lian Keqin didn't say a word, just watched her silently.

The beautiful woman stopped for a while, but did not take advantage of the momentum to pursue her. Instead, she suddenly softened her tone and said softly:

"But... Ms. Lian, I can see that you are kind to Xiaoshui and care about her. I am grateful to you, and I will not make things difficult for you. Even if you offend me like this today, I will not care about you. At least, you have a good heart for Xiaoshui."

"I understand your worries. After all, I'm a lot older than Xiaoshui. When I fall in love with Xiaoshui, it's always easier for me to have the upper hand."

Tan Mingli looked directly at Lian Keqin, frank and upright, "But it's not like I didn't make any preparations. I'm fully aware when I'm with Xiao Shui."

She turned around, took out a small medicine box from a side drawer, and handed it to Lian Keqin:

"Look, this is the medicine I usually take to treat arrhythmia."

Lian Keqin looked at the medicine box in front of him, but didn't reach out to take it.

She didn't understand why Tan Mingli suddenly gave her this.

"Take it."

Tan Mingli passed the medicine forward, "This is a promise, Ms. Lian."

"I promise you with my life that I will take care of all the things you just mentioned before Xiaoshui starts her sophomore year this year."

"I can't control the past. But now, I can assure anyone that from now on, Xiao Shui will never be wronged."

She whispered softly but firmly, "Whether it's me or someone else, no one can make her feel hurt."

After saying this, Tan Mingli suddenly smiled softly.Her expression became lax, and she leaned against her waist on the table beside her, and whispered casually:

"I'm not like you, Ms. Lian. I'm not very good at Chinese, so I can't imitate your eloquence and pressing every step of the way. I've always been more used to doing things directly than saying those beautiful words."

"Don't think that I promised you that you forced me to come here today. I have already arranged these things, but I don't want to tell others."

Tan Mingli looked at her carefully, and added softly, "Don't tell Xiao Shui what I just said."

She never wanted anything in return, especially for Xiao Shui, she just did everything silently by herself, and would not mention it to Xiao Shui, for fear of adding to her burden.

"Tan Dong, what if you can't do it then?"

Lian Keqin held the corner of the medicine box, ignored the sarcasm in her words, and just looked at her indifferently.

"Then you can take Xiao Shui with you."

Tan Mingli said in a low voice.

Lian Keqin stopped talking, just put away the medicine box with his head down, turned and left.

"Wait a moment."

Tan Mingli suddenly stopped her again.

Lian Keqin stopped in response.

"Ms. Lian, I want you to stay away from Xiaoshui in the future. You are not allowed to touch her, you are not allowed to talk to her casually, and you are not allowed to call her your sister again. Can you do it?"

Tan Mingli spoke in a calm tone.

Since she had given her promise, Lian Keqin couldn't just leave without paying anything.

It was the first time in Tan Mingli's life that he overwhelmed others like this, pressing hard and refusing to give in.

She really didn't like Lian Keqin.She gave her a vague sense of crisis.Although she undoubtedly believed that Xiao Shui was sincere and pure towards her without any reservations, she just didn't like her without any reason or reason.

She wanted Xiao Shui to never be around her again.

The tall woman seemed to sigh lightly. She lowered her shoulders and said without looking back, "It can be done, Director Tan."

……

Tan Mingli looked at the worried girl, smiled, hugged her into his arms and kissed her, and said softly:

"No. She didn't say anything to me."

"Let me hug you for a while, okay?"

The conversation with Lian Keqin just now made her extremely tired, Tan Mingli hugged her even tighter, kissed the girl's ear pinna faintly, "Xiao Shui, let me hug you..."

Her kiss fell gently on Zhao Guangshui's cheek, without any desire or ambiguous flirting, more like the unique intimacy between lovers.

She is as tolerant, soft and affectionate as water. No one can feel a kind of sweet dizziness in her heart when she hugs her in her arms and kisses her tenderly.

Zhao Guangshui bit his lip, tried his best to pull himself out of this harmonious atmosphere, to wake himself up.

She rejected Tan Mingli's intimacy for the first time, gently pushed the woman's body, shook her head to express her refusal, "No...Sister Li...I don't want to kiss now..."

She didn't like that Sister Li interrupted serious conversation with kisses, as if she could be coaxed by this way.

"Sister Li...you have something to hide from me, don't you?"

Zhao Guangshui asked softly.

"..."

After a long time, Tan Mingli sighed softly, covered her eyes with his hand, and replied in a low voice, "Yes."

Facing Xiao Shui's eyes, she couldn't lie.

But she found that even if she deceived herself and covered Xiao Shui's eyes and didn't tell her to look at her, she still couldn't coax Xiao Shui out of spite.

"Can't you tell me?"

Zhao Guangshui's eyelashes trembled slightly.

Obviously... she is not a borrowed child of Sister Li's house now, she is Sister Li's girlfriend, her lover, and she will work hard in the direction of her lover in the future, but Sister Li's first reaction when something happens Still hide it, instead of telling her, and bear it with her.

Tan Mingli hesitated for a moment, held the girl's face in his hands, and said softly, "Of course, but not now, Xiao Shui."

If she told Xiao Shui now, with Xiao Shui's temperament, she would definitely not accept letting her negotiate with Sister Zhihua and Grandpa Zhao alone.

Zhao Guangshui stared at Tan Mingli's face, although he felt sad, he still nodded slightly.

She believed in Sister Pear.Sister Li didn't want to say, she must have her reasons.She is not the one who will force elder sister Li to tell her.

She thought for a while, then moved a little closer to Tan Mingli, and said softly:

"Sister Li, I believe you have your own ideas. However, if there is really something important, please don't carry it alone..."

"We're in love now, aren't we?"

Zhao Guangshui touched Tan Mingli's neck, his tone was very soft, but his expression was firm.

"If there is any problem, we will bear it together."