He put his phone on the hood of the car and said, "It's Zhao Lao Er. Why is he here all of a sudden? Didn't you ask him to handle things at home?"
Zhou Xuan was also puzzled. Zhao Lao Er hadn't called, and he didn't know if things at home had been taken care of. His parents had been living a fulfilling life in Beijing all this time and had almost forgotten about things at home. No one had mentioned it.
The person with the most free time at home is Zhou Xuan's mother, Jin Xiumei, but these past few days, Fu Ying has been spending a lot of time with her, preoccupied with her son and daughter-in-law's wedding and adding a member to the Zhou family, busy with this and that. How could she possibly think about things back home?
After driving to the outskirts of the train station square, they saw Zhao Junjie at the south corner. Although there were many people in that row, both Zhou Xuan and he spotted him at a glance.
This guy's disguise isn't bad; floral shirt, casual shoes, the only thing missing is a slicked-back hairstyle. But given he's probably just traveling, he might only be... well, you know.
He pulled the car over to the side of the road and called out, "Second brother, get in the car!"
Zhao Junjie was still peering around, but didn't see the car approaching. He yelled, looked up, then smiled, opened the back door, tossed his travel bag into the car, and climbed in.
After driving the car onto the highway, Zhao Junjie unbuttoned his shirt, revealing his belt and underwear.
Zhou Xuan chuckled and said, "Second brother, are you really going to take your second brother out?"
Zhao Junjie spat and said, "I'll give you a piece of my mind. My manhood isn't for you to see. If you're going to give it to someone, you'll have to give it to them." He couldn't finish his sentence, as he hadn't thought of anyone to show it to yet.
He laughed and said, "The second brother's second brother is for the second daughter!"
"Bullshit!" Zhao Junjie cursed. "You two bastards, this is your family's money. The house sold for 64,000, and the entire Nanzi Forest was sold for 7,000. But the land didn't sell well all at once. Since it's all mountainous land, I'll have your second uncle rent it out for now." As Zhao Junjie spoke, he took a cloth belt from the waistband of his underwear. The belt was sewn very tightly, and it took a lot of effort to tear it open. Inside was a lot of money.
Zhao Junjie took out the money, which came in seven stacks. He handed it to Zhou Xuan, saying, "Little brother, go home and count it slowly. It's 71,000 in total. Luckily, you mentioned the house beforehand, so everyone knew. Otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to sell it easily, and the contract was just signed on behalf of someone else. People in the countryside don't have many rules. As long as they know it's not a scam, that's enough. The buyer is from our village too. The Li family has several brothers, and they don't have enough houses. Yours is quite spacious, and half of it has been newly built. This price isn't expensive."
Zhou Xuan was genuinely embarrassed. He had only meant to tease his second brother, but he hadn't expected him to hide his family's money in his waistband. He found it both funny and touching, and said, "Second brother, have you eaten yet? How about we find a place to eat now?"
“I don’t want to eat anything. I’ve been sitting and eating all the way on the train. I feel so suffocated and worried about the money. I haven’t slept. Now I just want to find a place to lie down and sleep for a day or two before I think about anything else!”
Zhao Junjie shook his head in response, then opened his mouth and let out a big yawn!
He snapped, "You coward, don't you know how to wire the money over?"
"You know nothing!" Zhao Junjie retorted without backing down. "I'm going to wire the money over. You guys are out there living it up in this glamorous world all day. You don't even remember me anymore? You, Boss Zhang, tell me the truth, since you guys came over, when have you ever called me?"
He hummed in response, but couldn't bring himself to say anything against it. It was true, he hadn't called him; no wonder he said that.
"Okay, okay!" Zhou Xuan quickly agreed. "You're here now, so don't say anything more. This is perfect, I have something for you to do, and we're short-handed!"
Upon hearing that something was wrong, Zhao Junjie immediately perked up and asked, "What is it?"
"We can talk about everything tomorrow. Your task right now is to get a good night's sleep!"
Zhou Xuan gave him no more chances; if he continued talking about these topics, Zhao Lao Er would probably lose all his sleepiness.
Zhou Xuan asked ** to drop them off at Hongcheng Garden Square and then got out of the car. He told ** to go back first, and then he walked into the residential area with Zhao Junjie.
Zhao Junjie exclaimed as he looked around, "Little brother, you don't live here, do you? This house doesn't look cheap. Even in our county town, apartments cost over eight thousand yuan per square meter!"
Zhou Xuan let him talk to himself, smiling but not answering. After walking for four or five minutes, they finally returned to his villa, number eight, to the south.
Zhao Junjie was stunned for a moment before asking, "Little brother, is this really your house?"
Zhou Xuan shushed him and said, "It's too late, everyone's asleep. I'll take you to your room on the third floor. You go to sleep first, we can talk about everything tomorrow!"
Zhao Junjie just followed Zhou Xuan to the third floor like a fool. There were still many empty rooms, and Zhou Xuan randomly picked one for him. Then he went in, turned on the light, went to the bathroom, adjusted the water temperature, filled the bathtub with hot water, gave Zhao Junjie a brief introduction, and quickly left.
Zhao Junjie wanted to ask a lot of questions, but before he could even open his mouth, Zhou Xuan had already disappeared. It was late at night, and everyone was asleep, so even if he wanted to find him, Zhao Junjie couldn't.
Zhou Xuan returned to his room, washed up, and lay down on the bed. He then carefully reviewed the events of the past few days. Although there were some minor flaws, everything was plausible, and no one suspected him. At least, no one, like **, suspected him; they just thought he was incredibly lucky. He also managed to cover up his mistake with Lao Wu perfectly.
What pleased Zhou Xuan the most was that he had dealt with Fang Zhicheng and Fang Zhiguo. He knew Fang Zhicheng was no good, and Fang Zhiguo was even worse. He had laid an ambush for him to fall into the trap and lose more than ten million without regret. He had dealt with these kinds of people, which was like helping God!
After doing this, Zhou Xuan felt no regret or pity for the first time.
After thinking for a long time, Zhou Xuan activated his ice energy again. All his happiness and wealth came from this powerful weapon. He needed to practice it diligently, strengthen it, and make sure it was solid. His hopes for making money today rested on his ice energy.
The next morning, Zhou Xuan didn't get up until nine o'clock. When she got to the living room, she was surprised to find that Zhao Junjie had also gotten up and was chatting happily with his mother.
Upon seeing Zhou Xuan, Jin Xiumei said, "Son, why didn't you tell your mother before letting Zhao's second son sell the house? Now look what's happened. We can't go back now, the house is gone!"
Seeing that Jin Xiumei didn't seem angry when she said this, Zhou Xuan chuckled and said, "Mom, if I had spoken up first, would you and Dad have agreed? I had no choice but to do it. Now, well, I'm already on the wrong boat, and what's done is done!"
Jin Xiumei laughed and scolded, "If it weren't for my wife's sake, I wouldn't have let you off today. You'll be sorry!"
When Zhou Xuan heard Jin Xiumei mention his wife, he realized he hadn't seen Fu Ying and asked, "Mom, where did Yingying go? Is she still asleep?"
Jin Xiumei said with a smile, "Early this morning, Xiaoqing came over and called her away, saying she was going out for a walk!"
Zhou Xuan paused for a moment, then asked, "Xiao Qing? What's she doing here?"
"Who knows!" Jin Xiumei said casually. She added, "Xiaoqing drove here. A Jeep, quite impressive!"
Zhou Xuan paused for a moment, then asked, "Xiao Qing came in a Jeep?" He had a bad feeling in his heart!
Volume 1, Chapter 137: Wei Xiaoyu's Two Choices
Si Shang was shocked when he thought of teaching Xiao Yu to be fierce and unreasonable, and Xiao Ci and Fu Jian were in a complete mess. Fortunately, Fu Ying had practiced and did not fall behind, but a situation where both were injured was inevitable. Zhou Xuan did not want to see this, especially not to see Fu Ying suffer even the slightest harm.
"Second son, you stay home and play, chat with Mom, I have to go out for a bit." Zhou Xuan hurriedly gave the instructions and ran out.
There were no taxis inside the residential area, so Zhou Xuan had to find a ride outside Hongcheng Garden. However, he decided to call Wei Xiaojing first to see if she knew what was going on.
Just as they reached the square of Hongcheng Garden, they heard a woman's voice call out, "Zhou Xuan, over here, get in the car!"
Zhou Xuan looked in the direction of the sound and saw Wei Xiaoqing, wearing a red sports car, waving at him from the right.
Zhou Xuan found Wei Xiaoqing's current state quite novel. Ever since those words she had spoken last time, Zhou Xuan had been somewhat afraid to see her, not for any other reason than that Wei Xiaoqing was a good girl, a good girl. Although she was willful and spoiled, she was kind, beautiful, and lovely, and Zhou Xuan was extremely unwilling to hurt her.