Life in siheyuan era

Zhou Zhiyuan bid farewell to Wu Shan with a smile, "Lao Wu, sorry to bother you."

"Ha..." Wu Shan laughed heartily, saying cheerfully, "Your visit is an honor to me. We had a great time drinking last night. One day, I'll treat Section Chief Han, and you bring Comrade Shen Lanyin along."

Zhou Zhiyuan replied somberly, "I can't guarantee that. Lanyin is my personal leader. It's hard to say if she'll let me come."

At this moment, Zhou Zhiyuan stopped talking.

Shen Lanyin turned her head to look at him and asked in a low voice, "Are you stuffed?"

Zhou Zhiyuan sighed and replied, "I ate two meals' worth in one sitting. That's a waste."

He couldn't help but sigh. Now he knew how tiring it was to be a man. Shen Lanyin could be unreasonable, ordering dishes and then refusing to eat them, but he had to be reasonable. The result of not wanting to waste food was that he had to eat it, and the idea of teaching Shen Lanyin a lesson fell on his own head.

But Shen Lanyin changed the subject with a question, "Stay away from Wu Shan. I don't have a good impression of him."

Zhou Zhiyuan smiled and said, "It's good that you don't have a good impression. Precisely because I don't have a good impression, I can't stay away from him. I need to be in frequent contact."

Hearing him say that, Shen Lanyin asked in a low voice, "Is it a mission requirement?"

Zhou Zhiyuan pondered for a moment and slowly said, "To those with ulterior motives, Uncle Shen's work is not a secret. You must also be vigilant and wary of those who contact you."

Shen Lanyin immediately replied, "You want me to be wary of Hao Zhiwen, right?"

Zhou Zhiyuan said faintly, "I'm not specifically referring to anyone."

Shen Lanyin pondered for a moment and explained in a low voice, "I don't know any secrets."

"Information doesn't necessarily refer to specific things. It could be a word, an expression, or an action."

Zhou Zhiyuan spoke profoundly. Shen Lanyin stopped, turned to look at him, and asked in a low voice, "What does my expression reveal?"

Zhou Zhiyuan looked at her and said decisively, "I'm definitely not buying you leather shoes."

"Heh..." Shen Lanyin laughed.

Looking at that smiling face, Zhou Zhiyuan smiled and said, "This is much better. Don't let people feel like they owe you eight hundred yuan."

Shen Lanyin was puzzled, "Why eight hundred yuan?"

Zhou Zhiyuan told her, "It's a lucky number."

Then, looking at the hospital building ahead, he said lightly to Shen Lanyin, "I won't escort you upstairs. I'll go get the car. Go upstairs yourself."

Shen Lanyin reminded him, "Shouldn't you watch me go upstairs with a reluctant expression?"

Zhou Zhiyuan denied, "Watching your back, I will reveal a sunny smile. That's the expression of success."

Shen Lanyin said angrily, "You should laugh loudly three times."

Their conversation reminded Zhou Zhiyuan of someone. Using the past to allude to the present, he said, "It makes me think of Prime Minister Cao fleeing along Huarong Road."

Shen Lanyin said helplessly, "You have some knowledge."

Zhou Zhiyuan smiled, waved his hand, and said cheerfully in a low voice, "Thank you for your praise. Have a good walk."

Shen Lanyin walked inside. Zhou Zhiyuan watched her back with a smile. Seeing her enter the door, he turned and walked towards the parking lot. He spent twelve yuan on this meal and had to hurry to find Lou Xiao'e to earn that five hundred yuan.

So he rushed to the library, slowly walked in, and called out to Lou Xiao'e with a smile, "Sister Xiao'e."

Lou Xiao'e looked at him and then asked, "Do you have time to read during work hours?"

"I'm here to pick up the painting."

"I will report your problem to your leader."

The two spoke at the same time and stopped at the same time. Then Zhou Zhiyuan spoke first, "I'm here to pick up the painting."

"What painting?" Lou Xiao'e actually denied it.

Zhou Zhiyuan pondered for a moment and said in a low voice, "Let this painting be a birthday gift for your family's old man." After saying that, he put his hands together, bowed, and turned to leave.

Lou Xiao'e was stunned and immediately chased after him, grabbing his arm, saying, "Why are you so sensitive?"

Zhou Zhiyuan smiled and said, "Sister Xiao'e is a highly qualified talent. How could she not have one of my paintings? It must be that your father's birthday is coming up, and I'm very happy that this painting can be a birthday gift from Sister Xiao'e to your father."

His attitude made Lou Xiao'e embarrassed, and she hurriedly said, "I can't take yours for nothing."

Zhou Zhiyuan said sincerely, "It's your father's birthday. This is a small token of my appreciation. I can't take money."

Lou Xiao'e said anxiously, "This is a birthday gift I bought for my dad. I must give you money."

"Sister Xiao'e, you and I are like siblings. How can a brother take your money?"

"Close siblings settle accounts clearly. This is one hundred yuan. Keep it."

"I can't take it."

"You must take it."

Lou Xiao'e reached into her pocket, and Zhou Zhiyuan continued to refuse, "I can't take this little bit of money."

Lou Xiao'e said angrily, "Who told you it was a little bit of money?" As she spoke, she took out two more stacks of money from two other pockets and forcibly stuffed them into Zhou Zhiyuan's pocket.

Seeing three stacks of money in his pocket, Zhou Zhiyuan sighed and said, "Since Sister Xiao'e insists on giving me money, I'll accept it. In the future, if I have anything good, I'll give Sister Xiao'e a 40% discount."

After saying that, Zhou Zhiyuan turned and left, riding away on his bicycle. At this moment, Lou Xiao'e suddenly remembered something, "That's not right. I was going to give him one hundred yuan, how did I give him all the money?"

This was her original plan, but reality changed.

Last night, Lou Xiao'e brought the "Phoenix Facing the Sun" painting home. Her father, Lou Cheng, liked the painting very much, but didn't think it was worth five hundred yuan.

But Lou Xiaoning said, "Dad, have you forgotten the story of buying horse bones for a thousand gold pieces?"

Lou Xiaoning admired Zhou Zhiyuan and thought he could be won over. His words awakened Lou Cheng, who gave Lou Xiao'e five hundred yuan to buy the painting.

But Lou Xiao'e wanted to give Zhou Zhiyuan one hundred yuan, dividing the five hundred yuan into three parts, preparing to pay at most another one hundred yuan.

Zhou Zhiyuan's performance moved her, and in a moment of excitement, she stuffed all five hundred yuan into Zhou Zhiyuan's pocket. After he left, she suddenly realized something was wrong and shouted at Zhou Zhiyuan's back, "You liar."

Then she walked back angrily, and as she walked, she suddenly burst out laughing, muttering, "That little liar."

At this moment, Zhou Zhiyuan was riding his bicycle towards the street office. He had successfully completed his first transaction, and at the highest price.

Zhou Zhiyuan was enlightened. The key to a transaction is performance. A serious transaction doesn't make money.

At this moment, Liu Junling suddenly changed her tune, "It's good that you and Zhou Zhiyuan are together. It's safe to be with him. That guy won't lay a hand on you."

These words surprised Shen Lanyin. Liu Junling had just expressed strong opposition, "That kid is suitable as a friend. He's very loyal, but definitely not suitable as a partner, let alone marrying him, because that kid is ruthless. He can't stand being provoked. If he gets angry and makes a move, he'll kill someone. He might get arrested and executed one day."

Liu Junling's words made Shen Lanyin curious, and she asked in surprise, "His temper is pretty good. I kicked him several times last night and he didn't react."

"He doesn't hit women. By the way, why did you kick him?"

"He used two pairs of chopsticks and two bowls to serve me food, implying that I was very greedy. I kicked him out of anger, and then I found that kicking him was very happy, so I kicked him a few more times. I was in a good mood last night."

Hearing her explanation, Liu Junling affirmed, "That kid is sometimes quite slow."

After saying that, she immediately turned to look at Hao Zhiwen in the distance, turned her head back, and said a few more words, overturning all her previous objections, and then said in a low voice, "Although Zhou Zhiyuan is not suitable, he is stronger than Hao Zhiwen. He can dump the previous one and also let you down."

"There's really no need for you to keep harping on his relationship with his previous girlfriend. He felt that that senior sister wasn't suitable, couldn't they break up?"

Liu Junling was surprised by Shen Lanyin's statement and said in a low voice, "If that senior sister was assigned to our hospital, I wouldn't say anything if they broke up. Knowing that that senior sister was assigned to a frontier troops hospital, he immediately broke up with her. Is that even human?"

Speaking of this, Liu Junling pondered for a moment and continued, "Maybe he broke up with that senior sister because of you. Such a person is even less trustworthy. When you're old and past your prime, he'll definitely change his mind and fall for some beautiful junior sister."

Liu Junling didn't have a good impression of Hao Zhiwen and never said good things about him in front of Shen Lanyin.

And Shen Lanyin knew this and said in a low voice, "You just think that Direction is suitable? He has liked playing with beautiful girls since he was a child. He's quite flirtatious."

"It's not the same..." Liu Junling retorted, "With the relationship between your two families, you can get full support in the Fang family. What can Direction dare to do? You don't need to clean him up, his parents can beat him half to death, and Fang Nan and your brother won't let him go either."

"Direction understands this. He really likes you. You can use this momentum to manage him obediently. This is your personality, and you can only do it in the Fang family."

"And the unsuitable thing about Zhou Zhiyuan is this. This kid is humble on the surface, but arrogant to the core. You can't control him at all, even with your brother. He's not a peaceful person."

Liu Junling carefully analyzed the characteristics of the three men for her, but only for Zhou Zhiyuan did Shen Lanyin think her analysis was very pertinent.