Chapter 23: Sadness of Parting
When he arrived at the repair shop, Zhang Nianzu opened the rolling door. He slept here most of the time.
"I'm here." said Zhang Nianzu.
Lei Tingting had been here during the day, so she followed in naturally and looked around curiously.
Zhang Nianzu said: "You..."
Lei Tingting said first: "I will leave at dawn."
Zhang Nianzu said, "Oh, then you can stay here with me for a while." It was already dawn.
Lei Tingting walked to the Ford car parked there and asked, "Is this your car?"
Zhang Nianzu said: "Well, if it hadn't been unable to get on the road the day I met you, we wouldn't have met."
"So we have to thank it." Lei Tingting asked, "What happened to it?"
Zhang Nianzu said: "That's another story."
The two of them hadn't said much since they entered the house, and the atmosphere began to become a little awkward. Although they had experienced a lot together, they had only known each other for less than 24 hours after all.
Finally, Zhang Nianzu pointed to his own bed and said, "Lie down for a while."
Lei Tingting asked: "What about you?"
Zhang Nianzu picked up a wrench and came to the front of the Ford car, poking and knocking here and there, frowning as if he didn't know how to start. In fact, the car was not broken at all, it was just a matter of sheet metal and paint.
Lei Tingting sat on the bed. Finally, she couldn't stand it anymore. She patted the seat next to her and said, "Come over and sit down. Why are you repairing the car in the middle of the night?"
Only then did Zhang Nianzu throw away the wrench and sit awkwardly next to Lei Tingting.
The two of them smiled at each other, but didn't know what to say. The atmosphere was a little ambiguous and a little awkward.
Zhang Nianzu made small talk: "What are your plans for the future?"
Lei Tingting said calmly: "In TV dramas, when girls with fiancés meet someone they like, they always say it's a pity that they didn't meet you earlier, but I can't say that, and it's useless to say it."
Lei Tingting's words were frank enough, and Zhang Nianzu also understood - she and he were too different. Even if Gu Changfeng was not there, Lei Xiaohu was an insurmountable obstacle. They were destined not to be together.
Zhang Nianzu had a complicated feeling, as if there were a myriad of thoughts swirling around inside, but also as if it was completely blank. His hands were rubbing helplessly at the edge of the bed, where there was an uncovered iron box. When his hand touched the iron box, the contents inside made a metallic rolling sound - there were four or five broken screwdrivers.
Those screwdrivers were all broken by him in recent years, including one he broke on the day Zhao Weiming came to see him. Zhang Nianzu often complained that things are being made less and less carefully nowadays. How could a screwdriver break under normal use? At this moment, he suddenly sat up straight.
Lei Tingting asked, "What's wrong with you?"
Zhang Nianzu said, "Let me borrow your arm." Then he lifted up Lei Tingting's right arm.
"What... do you want to do?" Lei Tingting asked in surprise, but did not resist.
"It won't hurt you. I'm just confirming my idea." He stroked Lei Tingting's arm gently with his right hand.
Lei Tingting felt a little itchy and wanted to laugh, but she was also a little shy and wanted to hide. She blushed and said, "You don't have any special fetishes, do you?"
"Huh?" Zhang Nianzu didn't understand what she meant at all, and just said, "I'm reviewing it." He deliberately used his right index finger to gently move back and forth on Lei Tingting's arm, but there was nothing unusual.
Lei Tingting suddenly got annoyed. She shook off Zhang Nianzu's hand and said angrily, "Don't interrupt me ! Zhang Nianzu, let me ask you, do you like me?"
Zhang Nianzu was stunned, and answered in his heart ten times faster than he spoke, "If I like it, how can I not like it?"
At this moment, Lei Tingting also knew the answer from the other person's eyes, and the two heads slowly moved closer...
“Hua La La—”
The shutter door was suddenly opened, and a burly man stood outside the door, followed by six or seven bodyguards. It was Lei Xiaohu's bodyguard leader. When he saw Lei Tingting in the room, he did not make any other expression, but put his hands on his lower abdomen and said expressionlessly: "Miss, you should go home."
"Uncle Bao...can you..."
Uncle Bao still had no expression on his face and said, "Brother Tiger is already angry, don't make it difficult for me, Miss."
Lei Tingting stood up absentmindedly, gave Zhang Nianzu a forced smile and said, "I'm leaving."
Zhang Nianzu sent her out the door and suddenly said, "If you don't want to leave, I can help you fight again."
Lei Tingting said sadly: "Don't be silly, I will hurt you." She suddenly threw herself into Zhang Nianzu's arms, rested her head on his shoulder for a second, and said in his ear, "Zhang Nianzu, I really like you, but..." Before she finished her words, she had resolutely walked towards Uncle Bao's car without even turning her head back.
Zhang Nianzu felt heartbroken, and he suddenly understood why Lei Tingting was reluctant to go home - she knew that this separation might be a farewell forever, so she was trying her best to spend more time with him.
Uncle Bao’s convoy roared away.
This scene was seen by Zhao Weiming and Zhao Meir.
Zhao Weiming looked around to see the convoy going away and said excitedly, "Who is this girl? I haven't seen her for a few days..."
Zhang Nianzu said fiercely: "Don't ask anything!"
"Oh." Zhao Weiming didn't delve into it, but after taking a look at Zhang Nianzu's face, he shouted, "Damn, how come the wound on your face is moving down?" The wound on Zhang Nianzu's forehead a few days ago had healed, but there were new wounds on his cheeks.
Zhang Nianzu ignored him and asked, "Why are you two here together?" If his emotions had not fallen to the freezing point, he might have jumped up long ago - Zhao Meir had never been polite to Zhao Weiming. Although she still looked like a tough female elite today, the two of them had obviously reached some kind of reconciliation.
"Oh, we're already allied, right, girl?"
Zhao Meier said coldly: "Hurry up and talk about business."
Zhao Weiming said hurriedly: "Yes, yes, let's get down to business."
Zhang Nianzu asked, "What's the matter?" The word "business" was meaningless when it came out of Zhao Weiming's mouth, but Zhao Meir would not follow him in making trouble.
"Let's talk inside." Zhao Weiming pulled Zhang Nianzu into the repair shop and asked Zhao Meier carefully, "Do you want to speak first or should I?"
Zhao Meier said simply: "You first."
"Good." Zhao Weiming said to Zhang Nianzu mysteriously , "There has been new progress in Grandpa's matter."
Zhang Nianzu frowned and said, "You still don't give up?"
Zhao Weiming said: "This time we are really just one step away from success."
Zhang Nianzu pulled him aside and whispered, "How much did you tell her about Lao Jiang?"
Zhao Weiming shook his head: "I didn't tell her."
Zhang Nianzu said angrily: "Do you want to take her life too?"
"Don't get excited, just listen to me first."
"You tell me! Let me be frank with you. If you can't convince me, I'm going to get angry!"
Zhao Weiming said confidently, "When it comes to finding someone, it's important to know who you are looking for, but it's also important to know who the financial sponsor is. Before, we only knew that the person we were looking for was called Zu Ye, so of course we had no clue. Now that we know who is looking for Zu Ye, isn't the scope narrowed down a lot?"
Zhang Nianzu was also curious at this time and asked, "Who is it?"
