Chapter 73 Chapter 73 Today there is a new hurdle...

There is no shortage of good houses near Central. Zhao Manzhi spent half a day looking at several houses and quickly decided on one. She contacted a truck to move her things back to where she lived with Yu Hansong.

Yu's parents also came to the house and waited, staring at her packing, as if they were afraid that they would take advantage of her.

Ding Qingzi was so angry that she wanted to curse, but Zhao Manzhi pulled the corner of her clothes and said, "Forget it, Mom, I'll settle the score with him later."

She has not been in Hong Kong for a long time, and she has always been minimalist. There are not many things in the house, and two 28-inch suitcases are more than enough.

Yu's mother looked at her with burning eyes, and suddenly said, "Hey, wasn't the Cartier in your hand bought by Hansong?"

The implication was that she couldn't take it away.

Zhao Manzhi packed the suitcases and buckled them up without paying attention, and handed them to the master of the moving company. Yu's mother rushed over to grab her, but was stopped by Ding Qingzi, "What are you doing? Do you really think our family cares about your money?"

"How much money has my son spent on her over the years? He is never late for gifts on major or minor festivals. If he doesn't care, don't accept it!"

Zhao Zhiwu pushed his glasses angrily, "Don't go too far!"

"How can you go too far? We have already torn our faces apart, so what can't we say?" Yu's mother said sarcastically, "Anyway, your daughter has married a rich man, why would she be reluctant to spend such a small amount of money--" "

Enough! Aren't you ashamed?" Yu's father stopped her, his face full of anger, "Shut up, how can you take back something you have given away?"

"If you don't feel sorry for her, then I do. The diamond rings that Hansong bought for her were several carats, but in the end, they became decorations. I would be happy to spend this money on my daughter-in-law, but now she is penniless, who else can I hold accountable if not her?" Yu Hansong

dared not breathe in the chaos. Even if he wanted to, he had no ability to stop them. Just like Ding Qingzi said, Zhuang Youkai kicked him so hard that he couldn't even stand up, let alone do anything.

If they weren't afraid of offending Huanye and having a bad influence, according to the character of the Yu family, they would have made a big fuss and demanded compensation.

Zhao Manzhi, who was being abused and attacked, took out her laptop from her bag without saying a word, opened the document, and pointed the screen at the two elders of the Yu family, "Don't you want to settle the accounts? Come, I'll help you settle them."

"Since I started dating Yu Hansong, we have always borne our own expenses, not to mention the various details of living expenses. He did give me a lot of New Year gifts, but I also gave me gifts of equal value in return. I expected that your family would keep this trick, and I rushed out this form overnight."

"A Cartier ring, right? This is a gift for our first anniversary, and I'm returning it to him."

She took off the couple rings and slammed them on the table. "I also gave him an LV discovery that year, which is several thousand yuan more expensive than this ring."

"On Valentine's Day of the first year, he gave me a YSL Valentine's Day gift box for more than a thousand yuan. I gave me a tie from Gi in return, which is about the same price."

"For his birthday, I gave him a pair of Montblanc cufflinks, and for my birthday he gave me a pair of RVs, which are a little more expensive, about two thousand yuan."

"And..."

It turns out that a relationship, even if it is torn apart, is nothing but a mess.

As Zhao Manzhi quoted the price one by one, Yu's mother's face became more and more ugly. She didn't expect that Zhao Manzhi really didn't want anything from her son. She returned all the gifts he gave her and tried her best to share the living expenses.

In the end, Zhao Manzhi calculated that Yu Hansong still owed her more than 60,000 Hong Kong dollars, including the rent for half a year.

She glanced at the Yu family members with different expressions and smiled contemptuously, "I don't want this money either. Consider it his breakup fee. Don't bother me and my family anymore."

"Goodbye, and we will never meet again."

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Perhaps because she had the idea of ​​breaking up long ago, Zhao Manzhi quickly returned to her normal life this time. A bad man was really not worth her time to miss.

Zhao Manzhi suddenly realized that she would also start to charge for her own time and energy to avoid unnecessary emotional consumption. Unconsciously, she was becoming more and more like Zhuang Youkai.

But when it comes to Zhuang Youkai, there is also a strange thing.

The place Zhao Manzhi lives in now is naturally better than the one she rented in Tolo Harbour before, and the price is more expensive, but it is far from high-end, even if it is a decent single-family apartment.

But that day, she heard the neighbors moving furniture and luggage in a big way, and when she was curious about what kind of new neighbors would move in, she ran into Zhuang Youkai.

Her first reaction was, could this building be bought to be used as a dormitory for Huanye employees?

"No, I want to move in." The man leaned against the door, his overly tall figure was out of tune with the cramped environment, "Studying with you, any objection?"

"Studying with you?"

The last time he heard this word was in Liuyuan, when he helped her revise papers every day.

So he has a habit of hunting female college students...

Seeing that Zhao Manzhi's little face was about to wrinkle into a ball, it was not difficult for him to guess that she was thinking about some messy things again, so he took the lead in clarifying his reputation, "It's Peiyi, she is studying in a nearby church school."

She quickly retorted, "But don't your family usually hire a tutor-"

Why is he so down-to-earth all of a sudden, and I haven't heard that Huanye has gone bankrupt?

"We're going to send her to England next year. We're afraid she won't be able to adapt to collective life directly, so we'll

give her a little transition." The movers came over with the bed frame, and Zhuang Youkai took a half step forward. The distance between them was shortened, and the faint woody scent hit her nose.

Zhao Manzhi stepped back a little, "So, are you really going to move in?"

Obviously, Mid-Levels Manor is also very close, so there's no need to squeeze into this "humble room" of less than a thousand feet.

"Don't you welcome new neighbors?"

"No." She smiled, "I was thinking, you're used to a life of luxury, how can you adapt to such a life. You have to wait for the elevator with so many people every morning, and when it's time to go to school, the elevator is full of chattering children. There are also water pipes that leak, toilets that get clogged, and you have to take care of Peiyi, can you really do it?"

Zhuang Youkai's expression was very indifferent, "That's because your landlord is unscrupulous and equipped low-end sanitary ware. It just so happens that I want to replace it with new ones, so I'll replace the ones in your house as well."

"..." I thought he was really here to experience life, but he still behaved like a young master.

But the eldest young master kept his word. In the afternoon, while Zhao Manzhi was applying a facial mask at home, he brought people to renovate her house.

She was not used to her neighbor's lack of sense of boundaries, and complained angrily, "I didn't agree to change it!"

"The landlord agreed."

The tenant paid for the upgrade of the sanitary ware, and of course he was happy to see it happen.

Zhao Manzhi didn't bother to ask him where he could get the information about the landlord. Anyway, in Hong Kong Island, Huanye is as ubiquitous as air. Every penny of flowing money may go into the pocket of the banker. He has many ways, and it's useless to ask.

She just thought, it was right to reject him last time, why does this person look like nothing happened?

"Zhuang Youkai," Zhao Manzhi said sternly, "There is no relationship between us now. You can't make decisions for me. This is disrespectful to me."

The person who was named looked at her like a landlady, her hair was tied up high with a dry hair towel, her face was covered with a layer of cement-like stuff, and the wide French nightgown hid her good figure. Only when she put her hands on her waist could you glimpse the exquisite waistline.

After leaving that unlucky star, it seemed that the whole person became lively and lovely, more like the Zhao Manzhi in his memory.

Zhuang Youkai hooked his lower lip imperceptibly, "Today we have a new relationship, a neighbor, right?"

"Then there are no neighbors who come to the door to make comments."

"You live alone, and difficult furniture will increase the difficulty of life. If you encounter something that cannot be repaired, the possibility of bothering the neighbors will also increase greatly." He seemed to have thought of this set of rhetoric a long time ago, and his words were logical. "So in order to reduce my troubles, I decided to pay for you to buy something good."

Is it an illusion? Zhuang Youkai, who was frustrated and distressed under the moonlight that day, disappeared. Now he is as annoying as before.

Zhao Manzhi looked at him steadily, gritting her teeth, "There will be no such day, don't worry."

Anyway, it must be difficult for him to adapt to this kind of ordinary life. Before she was defeated by the trivial troubles of living alone, Zhuang Youkai might have moved back to Mid-Levels or Deep Water Bay.

The man just replied calmly, "Really? Then we'll have to wait and see."

Later, he really stayed in Jingli Pavilion. When Zhao Manzhi went out in the morning and returned home in the evening, she would meet him.

The matter of accompanying her to study was also true. Most of the time when they met, he was accompanied by Zhuang Peiyi. The little girl was only twelve years old, and she had grown into a graceful girl. Her appearance was not very similar to Zhuang Youkai. She had an oriental beauty. Compared with the little glutinous rice dumpling-like doll in Zhao Manzhi's memory, she was now more girlish.

Zhuang Peiyi still remembered her, but she was not as familiar as when she was young. She only dared to look at her quietly.

Once she went to the G floor, and Zhuang Youkai wanted to take Peiyi downstairs. When she got out of the elevator, she heard Peiyi excitedly ask, "Are you dumping your beautiful sister?"

Zhuang Youkai threatened her to shut up.

Zhao Manzhi couldn't help laughing when she heard this. It is said that children talk without restraint. Zhuang Youkai usually pretended to be so nonchalant, but it turned out that he still couldn't tolerate being poked in the sore spot.

What she didn't know was that after the elevator car closed, the little girl proudly asked for credit to Zhuang Youkai, "I saw her smile, where is the pocket money she promised me?"

"I'll transfer it to your card tomorrow."

"Can you not be so stingy?" Peiyi gave him advice, "It's not easy for me to act with you, it's hard to get things done with such a small amount of money, big brother."

Zhuang Youkai knocked her forehead, "I shouldn't have asked Zhuo Wen to take you if I had known, and his tone was exactly the same as his."

Peiyi pouted and didn't dare to say anything else. She had no choice but to live in this place where the living room was not even as big as her bathroom. She

also had to act stupid and good so that she could get a good impression in front of her beautiful sister and be a good tool to facilitate her brother's gradual progress.

Before this, she was quite puzzled. In her brother's position, what was not at his fingertips? As long as he wanted, someone would immediately offer him something.

It turned out that there really was.

The unforgettable beauty of Sister Mandy amazed her in her youth and also left a deep impression on her brother who didn't care about anything.

Peiyi suggested more than once, "In fact, if you were willing to throw money at her like you threw money at me, you would have won her long ago."

"That's different. She's not someone who can be corrupted by money."

A little ghost who felt like he was being possessed screamed, "What about me?"

"You? Your taste is lower."

"..."

The desire to win was ignited in the heart of little Peiyi. She didn't believe that with her help, her brother couldn't win a woman.

In the evening, she was playing with her mobile phone while doing homework in the living room. When she heard the sound of the door opening and closing next door, she waited for more than ten minutes according to the time and pressed the doorbell of Zhao Manzhi's house.

According to her recent observation, Sister Mandy has a very regular life. If she comes home early, she will simply clean up and start cooking dinner. If she comes home late, it is mostly because of social events or dinner parties.

So she timed it and ran to eat for free.

The door opened quickly. After meeting frequently during this period of time, Zhao Manzhi had become familiar with her. Seeing her standing alone in front of the door, she was surprised and asked, "What's wrong, Peiyi?" "

Sister Mandy, do you have anything to eat at home?" She asked pitifully, as if she was really hungry. "I didn't like the lunch at school today, so I didn't eat much. Now I'm so hungry that my stomach hurts."

Without waiting for Zhao Manzhi to answer, she looked at the pot of Korean instant noodles on the dining table and sniffed exaggeratedly, "Wow, it smells so good, what are you eating, sister? Can I have some?"

"Of course you can..." It's not that Zhao Manzhi didn't want to share, but she was seriously considering whether this child who grew up in the Greater Bay Area could eat turkey noodles. "It's spicy, are you sure?"

Zhuang Peiyi looked at the pot of sticky, red noodles and nodded reluctantly, "No problem!"

"Then I'll give you some first, you try it." Zhao Manzhi was still a little worried, "If it doesn't work, I'll go downstairs and buy you some food, egg tarts and pineapple buns, how about it?"

"No, no, it's too much trouble, Sister Mandy." Today I'll just sacrifice my life for a gentleman, and I must give Zhuang Youkai a good lesson later.

Thinking of this, Zhuang Peiyi closed her eyes and ate the first mouthful of noodles. Almost the moment it touched her tongue, the spiciness quickly spread all over her body.

I used to hear people say that spiciness is actually a kind of pain. At this moment, Peiyi finally felt it.

This is too painful!

Her eyes were shallow, and tears and sweat flowed down at once. She felt dizzy and had tinnitus. She couldn't even hold the chopsticks. She just stuck out her tongue to breathe, like a very hot puppy.

Zhao Manzhi handed her water and paper, frowning and asked, "Are you okay? Do you want some chocolate? There are wontons in the refrigerator. Can I make you another bowl?"

Peiyi couldn't speak, and just nodded. Her little face was also red from the spiciness, and her earlobes seemed to be dripping with blood. This was a rare similarity with Zhuang Youkai.

Zhao Manzhi first took out the few sweets in the house to coax her, and then went to the kitchen to cook wontons. Although it was a frozen food, the picky eater Peiyi thought it was a rare delicacy.

"If you can't eat it, don't eat it. It's spicy and it hurts your stomach." Zhao Manzhi brought the turkey noodles in front of her and mixed them, then picked up a chopstick, "Your brother is smarter. He talks more when he eats spicy food, and finds ways to eat less so that people don't know that he can't eat spicy food."

Peiyi bit into a wonton, and the shrimp was tender and chewy. "Sister, have you ever cooked noodles for my brother?"

Zhao Manzhi realized that she was too talkative.

The memories of Zhuang Youkai seemed to come up so naturally, and when she told her, she didn't feel it was difficult to say it.

But thinking back later, why did she always think of him.

"It happened a long time ago."

"Then tell me about your past." Peiyi picked at the wontons but didn't eat them. There were only three or four left. She was thinking about how to eat as slowly as possible and wait for sister Mandy to finish their story.

But Zhao Manzhi just smiled, "We don't have any past."

It was just a flashy past.

"How is it possible? Even I know he likes you. I've never seen him like anything. Even when he works so hard, it's not because he likes you."

"You're still young, what do you know?"

"It's because I'm young that I can see through it!" The still childish girl said seriously, "And I also know that you have him in your heart."

The hand holding the water cup paused, and then she put the water into her mouth, with a hint of coolness mixed with bitterness, "Why did Peiyi say that?"

Her eyes rolled like black grapes, "You will think of him unconsciously, you just like him."

"But I will also subconsciously think of a lot of things, the unfinished proposal, the Portuguese tarts in the teahouse downstairs, and a passerby who looks like a celebrity, all of which just flashed through my mind, just like when I thought of your brother just now."

"You are lying." Peiyi couldn't argue with her, and felt a little embarrassed, "When you talk about my brother, it's obviously different--"

Before she finished speaking, the light bulb above her head flickered a few times and went out.