CH 79

Luo Bei didn’t know why Jiang Hui had such a hysterical expression. This person gave her a feeling of being mentally abnormal, but despite that, Luo Bei still had a sixth sense exclusive to women. She felt that there must be some truth in what Jiang Hui said. There are still unsolved mysteries, such as why Jiang Hui knew about Zhou Jianguo’s amnesia and why Jiang Hui had such inexplicable and strong hostility towards her. What was the reason behind it?

For the time being, in Jiang Hui’s opinion, she and Zhou Jianguo were a couple. However, the problem was that Jiang Hui was definitely not Zhou Jianguo’s fiancée, and she couldn’t even say his real name. This meant that it was very likely that she didn’t know or hadn’t even met him before. So where did her somewhat paranoid love for Zhou Jianguo come from?

Most importantly, Jiang Hui’s expression when she spoke just now didn’t seem like she was making things up. Jiang Hui said that even if Luo Bei had worked hard all her life, but in the eyes of outsiders, she was just a small person climbing the ranks for power and wealth. Jiang Hui said that Luo Bei was just lucky. Could it be that Jiang Hui really knew who Zhou Jianguo was before he lost his memory? Or could it be that these words indirectly reflected that Zhou Jianguo was not simple?

It wasn’t that Luo Bei was narrow-minded, but she felt that Jiang Hui’s love for Zhou Jianguo was mixed with too many things unrelated to love. So, could it be speculated that Jiang Hui knew how powerful Zhou Jianguo was, and that he was possibly a very important person? Therefore, she originally wanted to take advantage of Zhou Jianguo’s amnesia to take advantage of him. However, she had miscalculated, as Zhou Jianguo may have lost his memory, but he was not stupid enough to believe everything that others said.

In Luo Bei’s opinion, even if Zhou Jianguo had a blank memory, he was still very intelligent and confident. He believed in his intuition and judgment and would not be led by anyone’s nose. Therefore, Jiang Hui’s plan had failed.

Luo Bei was already tired of talking nonsense with this person.

She always thought that as women, they should be more tolerant of each other. Even when Yu Wei had said those things to her before, she could still calmly talk to her, just because of that one sentence, why make things difficult for women?

But Jiang Hui’s actions made Luo Bei unable to respect her and unable to give her any tolerance.

Jiang Hui still wanted to say something, and even wanted to do something, but she didn’t expect Fang Jingzhou, who had been in the room all along, to suddenly rush out and push Jiang Hui away. He even childishly kicked her.

Fang Jingzhou clenched his little fists and glared at Jiang Hui. He raised his fists and said, “I heard everything! Don’t you dare bully Beibei!”

Jiang Hui was furious and raised her hand to slap Fang Jingzhou. However, before she could do anything, Luo Bei reacted faster and grabbed her wrist, fiercely slamming her hand against the door on the other side.

Although Luo Bei was very thin, she had been carrying heavy loads recently and had already developed strength. At least in a fight between the two of them, Jiang Hui was not her opponent.

Luo Bei was now cold as ice, and she protected Fang Jingzhou behind her. “I dare you to try.”

Jiang Hui sneered. What was the point? She couldn’t compete with the female lead’s halo no matter how hard she tried.

After Jiang Hui went upstairs, Luo Bei took Fang Jingzhou back to their room and solemnly asked him, “Did you really hear everything?”

Fang Jingzhou nodded, feeling a little sad. He hugged Luo Bei’s arm and said, “Beibei, I don’t like it when people talk about you like that.”

“I don’t like it either.” Luo Bei patted his hair and pinched his chubby little hand. “But we live in this world, not everyone will like us. There will be people who like us and people who hate us. But we don’t have to care about what these people think or do. We just need to cherish the people who like us.”

Fang Jingzhou nodded in agreement, “I just wanted to protect Beibei and prevent her from being bullied by bad people.”

“I know, and Beibei is very touched. However, Beibei wants to tell you that we can’t just resort to violence to solve our problems in the future…” Luo Bei pointed to his nose, “Although in this society, sometimes others won’t listen unless you use force, it doesn’t mean that using violence is the best solution. Beibei is a bit foolish and hasn’t figured out the best solution yet, so I’ll leave this problem to you. If you figure it out someday, let me know, okay?”

Fang Jingzhou nodded seriously, “Okay, I’m sure I can come up with something. Everyone says I’m smart.”

Jiang Hui appeared and disappeared within a few days.

Luo Bei still couldn’t understand Jiang Hui’s paranoid feelings towards Zhou Jianguo, and why she gave up so quickly. But that didn’t matter anymore. Life wasn’t a TV drama, and not everything needed to be explained. At least this person who had been causing her headaches had moved out, which was a cause for celebration.

After finding out that Jiang Hui had moved out, Zhou Jianguo praised Luo Bei, “Although I don’t know what method Sister Bei used, your efficiency in handling this matter is really impressive. I’m truly amazed. If I ever encounter someone like her again, I’ll leave it to you to deal with.”

“I didn’t use any method at all. After causing a commotion in the shop, she came back and told me she wanted to move out. Who knows what she was thinking? She didn’t even ask for her deposit back and just packed up her things and returned the key the next day.”

Zhou Jianguo was surprised, but his focus was always peculiar. “She didn’t ask for her deposit back? I remember that for a one-bedroom apartment, you have to pay a two-month deposit and one-month rent in advance. So she didn’t ask for three months’ rent? Let me think, your one-bedroom apartment rent is about 1,300 yuan per month, so three months’ rent would be 3,900 yuan?”

“…Hmm, yes. I planned to transfer the money to her account, but she didn’t leave her card number…”

Luo Bei didn’t have the tendency to take advantage of others.

Zhou Jianguo glanced at her and said, “No need to refund anything, let’s just consider it as compensation for emotional distress.”

“But that’s not right”

“What’s not right? She made a scene in the shop and went around saying that she’s my fiancée. The cost of damage to reputation and emotional distress amounts to more than just a few thousand.”

“Should I split the cost with you?”

Zhou Jianguo waved his hand, “No need, I’ll give it all to you. But we should celebrate getting rid of the jinx with a nice meal.”

“Alright, what do you want to eat?”

“Let’s go to the market and buy some pork, chives, cabbage, and flour. I want to eat dumplings.”

So this is what Zhou Jianguo considers a feast?

Okay, he has the final say. After all, his reputation has been damaged, and it’s only right to comfort him and celebrate a bit.

The day before, they made a batch of dumplings, and there were still plenty left the next day. So, Luo Bei took a bag of them over, planning to have them for lunch. Since the apprentice and the master had tasted Grandma Luo’s dumplings before, they had been looking forward to having another bite.

There was a microwave and a rice cooker in the shop, and when it was time to eat, Luo Bei went to cook the dumplings. She cooked a large pot of them, enough to satisfy everyone’s hunger.

She also prepared garlic, soy sauce, vinegar, and chili sauce. The whole store was filled with the aroma of dumplings, making the apprentice take deep breaths and exclaim, “If only we could have Grandma Luo’s dumplings every day.”

Who would still want to eat rice bowls?

Coincidentally, when they were ready to eat the dumplings, Teacher Zhou came again. He leaned over and sniffed the aroma, paused for a moment, and said, “Dumplings? Pork and cabbage filling?”

Zhou Jianguo took the opportunity to ridicule him, “Teacher Zhou, your nose is as good as a dog’s. You can even smell that out.”

In fact, Teacher Zhou had tasted all kinds of delicacies over the years, but as he grew older, he could only remember the flavors from the past.

The driver knew him well and quickly whispered, “Boss, Dr. Chen said that you have to…”

“Shut up.” Teacher Zhou lowered his voice and walked up to Luo Bei with a smile, “Beibei, I haven’t had lunch yet.”

If Zhou Jianguo hadn’t seen it with his own eyes, he wouldn’t believe that there could be such a shameless person in this world. He hadn’t even been invited, and he was already licking his face to eat dumplings? Did he really not consider himself an outsider?

Luo Bei nodded hurriedly, “Great, I cooked a lot of dumplings. I’ll bring you a disposable bowl and chopsticks.”

Zhou Jianguo taunted him again, “You really don’t consider yourself an outsider.”

Teacher Zhou was very frank, “I was never an outsider to begin with.”

“Haha.”

In fact, the dumplings really couldn’t compare to all the delicacies Teacher Zhou had eaten. After all, no matter how good a dumpling tasted, it couldn’t completely conquer someone who had tasted all kinds of delicacies from mountains and seas.

However, Chinese people have a very special affection for dumplings. Teacher Zhou ate the dumplings and said, “It’s this taste. When I was young and doing business with people, I only focused on work and went hungry for a long time. When I got back home, my grandmother cooked me a bowl of dumplings, and I still remember the taste to this day.”

“You’re getting old, don’t eat too much, be careful of indigestion.”

Teacher Zhou immediately picked up a few more dumplings, “Thank you for your concern.”

These two seemed to have a natural dissonance, and they had to bicker whenever they got together.

After eating and drinking enough, Teacher Zhou went to the restroom. Luo Bei saw his coat casually placed on the sofa and wanted to hang it up to prevent it from wrinkling.

But as soon as she picked it up, his wallet fell out inexplicably.

There should have been a photo in the wallet, which happened to fall out too.

Luo Bei picked it up and wanted to put it back, but inadvertently glanced at the photo and was suddenly stunned.

In the photo, a man was wearing a bachelor’s gown, looking at the camera with no expression on his face, but standing upright with a straight back.

This wasn’t particularly strange, but what was strange was that the man in the photo was Zhou Jianguo.

To be precise, it was a younger Zhou Jianguo.