Chapter 23 Shi Huai, Congratulations, You Found a Treasure

Zhou Xu, who had just finished work and arrived at the hotel, received a video call from Zhou Jibai.

Zhou Xu frowned, hesitated for a moment, and finally clicked the answer button.

Why would Zhou Jibai call me so late?

The moment Zhou Jibai saw the call connected, a slightly unnatural expression appeared on his face. He glanced at Shi Huai who was sitting next to him, and to ease the awkwardness he pretended to cough twice: "Brother."

Through the thin gold-rimmed lenses, Zhou Xu's eyes were cold but not impatient: "Speak."

Zhou Jibai took a deep breath. How could he know what to say?

He looked at Shi Huai for help again.

Shi Huai looked at Zhou Jibai's uncomfortable expression and felt a little awkward and nervous. She lowered her voice and said, "Just ask indirectly."

Zhou Jibai: "Brother, have you eaten?"

Zhou Xu: "...eaten it."

"Oh. How's the weather where you are?"

Zhou Xu: “…”

"Nothing else, I'm hanging up."

No one comes to visit for no reason. Zhou Jibai suddenly called me, probably as a punishment for losing a game with a group of friends.

"Hold on." Zhou Jibai leaned lazily against the back of his chair, his expression unfocused. "Can I transfer five yuan to top up your phone credit later?"

Zhou Xu felt that the person on the other end of the video was acting strangely today.

The news that Shi Huai was framed by his stepmother spread in the circle. Everyone felt sorry for this poor man and also praised Zhou Jibai's heroic act of saving the beauty.

"How's your family doing lately?" Zhou Xu took the initiative to bring up a topic.

Zhou Jibai: "It's fine. No limbs are missing. I can eat and drink."

Shi Huai was trying so hard to hold back her laughter that she really wanted to remind Zhou Jibai to get to the point.

Hearing Zhou Jibai's answer, he thought his brother-in-law's affairs had been properly handled. He then had nothing more to ask.

"It's okay, I'm hanging up."

This was the second time Zhou Xu said this in the short video chat of less than three minutes.

Zhou Jibai hadn't finished his task yet, and his wife was watching him from the side. How could he dare to let his brother hang up the phone?

He laughed twice and jokingly said, "You're in such a hurry to hang up on me, is there someone hiding in the house? Be careful or I'll tell my sister-in-law."

Zhou Xu looked at Zhou Jibai with a look that looked like he was mentally retarded, "I'm hanging up."

"Don't--"

Before Zhou Jibai finished speaking, there was a knock on the door from Zhou Xu's end.

Immediately afterwards, Zhou Xu stood up and left his seat without hanging up the phone.

Zhou Jibai narrowed his eyes and looked suspicious.

Shi Huai quietly poked his head out to look at Zhou Jibai's phone video page.

Before he could stand firmly, Zhou Xu appeared in the video again with a file in his hand.

The next moment, a woman's voice rang out, "Zhou Xu, let's go downstairs for a midnight snack after we're done."

Zhou Jibai and Shi Huai looked at each other, both of them were silent, but their emotions were revealed on their faces.

Do, what to do?

Zhou Jibai opened his thin lips and said four words in a calm voice: "A beast in human form."

Zhou Xu glanced at Zhou Jibai, too lazy to explain further, and said, "Hang up."

After saying that, Zhou Xu hung up the phone neatly.

Looking at the hung-up call page, Zhou Jibai and Shi Huai looked at each other, not knowing how to break the awkward situation.

Zhou Jibai casually threw his phone on the table, looked up and smiled at Shi Huai: "Detective Conan should have asked you to act in two episodes."

Shi Huai was in no mood to listen to Zhou Jibai's jokes.

Late at night, a woman suddenly appeared in Zhou Xu's hotel and said this ambiguous statement. His wife was waiting for him to return home with the baby.

The more Shi Huai thought about it, the angrier he became: "I didn't expect that my brother would really be such a person!"

"I've already told you that there's no good man in this world except me. Shi Huai, congratulations, you've found a treasure." Zhou Jibai spoke slowly, without any sense of shame at all.

Shi Huai shrugged and threw the shawl on Zhou Jibai's face. "I'm sorry, but I'm not a good person."

She lowered her eyelashes and quietly fixed her gaze on the man sitting on the chair. Zhou Jibai held her shawl in his hand and slowly raised it to the tip of his nose. The faint fragrance of camellia lingered in his nose, and a faint smile appeared on the corner of his lips.

"Even if you are a bad woman, you are still my wife. If you kill someone, I will hand you a knife. If you set a fire, I will hand you a lighter."

Shi Huai's face turned red again. She turned her head to the side, not looking directly at Zhou Jibai. She hummed and said, "I would never kill anyone or set fire to anything!" Then she left.