Chapter 124

"Brother Lei, are you really not planning to go and take a look?" A-Qiang asked from the side.

Lei Tingjun threw the cigarette butt on the ground, stomped it out, and after a long while said, "No, thank you."

In the past few days, Lei Tingjun has been smoking more and more often.

Ji Wanmei didn't want to see him, which made Lei Tingjun inexplicably irritable.

When I feel irritable, I want to smoke.

Smoking only addresses the symptoms, not the root cause. Instead of improving his mood, he became even more frustrated.

Just now, he was standing across the street and saw that not long after Ji Xingguo and his group left, several old women came into the store to cause trouble for Ji Wanmei.

Ji Wanmei always speaks softly and gently, with a smiling face, and she loves to be polite and reasonable with people.

But she didn't know that the only way to scare those unreasonable, tantrum-throwing shrewish women is to fight fire with fire.

Lei Tingjun then sent Zhou Peng over with a group of brothers who were off work for the weekend. They scared the wicked women away with just a few words.

A-Qiang, watching Zhou Peng, Sun Xiaojun, and the others scrambling for posters of Hong Kong and Taiwanese stars, was itching to join in. Besides, Luo Chunyan was there too, and he wanted to go and join the fun.

If you go too late, you don't know if you'll still be able to buy them.

Lei Tingjun glanced at A-Qiang out of the corner of his eye and said, "Go if you want to."

"So, Brother Lei, am I really going?" A-Qiang immediately grinned, revealing his big white teeth.

Feeling a bit bad about leaving Brother Lei here alone, she asked again, "Brother Lei, I heard that Miss Ji and her friends have a Bruce Lee poster. He's an international kung fu superstar. Do you want me to bring one back for you later?"

Lei Tingjun paused for two seconds, then took out two coins from his pocket and tossed them to A-Qiang: "Buy whatever you think is appropriate."

Ah Qiang took the money, chuckled, and ran off, shouting, "Alright, Brother Lei, wait for me!"

A-Qiang crossed the road in a few steps, stepped over the fence, and walked to the Oriental Pearl store. Instead of fighting with a group of men for the celebrity posters, he went to greet Ji Wanmei and Luo Chunyan first.

After all, A-Qiang runs his own business on his own. Even without going through Lei Tingjun's connections, he's still a neighbor on the same street as Ji Wanmei.

Before he came, he prepared a small gift for him. Although it wasn't worth much money, it was still a token of his appreciation.

Ah Qiang took the congratulatory gift inside and presented it to Ji Wanmei, saying with a smile, "Miss Ji, congratulations on your store's opening today!"

Ji Wanmei was very happy to see Aqiang, after all, Aqiang had helped her a lot from taking over the shop to decorating it, and now he had specially brought her a congratulatory gift.

"Qiang, my dad has booked a banquet at a restaurant in the county town for lunch. Let's go eat together later."

Ah Qiang wanted to go, but Brother Lei was still waiting for him outside, so he could only say, "Oh, I'll just have a meal. I have to go back and get busy later; I have some goods to deliver."

"It's only half an hour. You can eat before you go back to deliver the goods. You'll need to eat anyway." Ji Wanmei warmly urged him to stay, as she also wanted to find an opportunity to thank A-Qiang for his help.

Luo Chunyan, who was standing nearby, also said, "Meimei invited you to dinner, and you're not giving her the courtesy!"

Ah Qiang scratched his head, his eyes darting outwards repeatedly: "Uh, well, I'll see how things go later. If I can go, I definitely will."

After saying that, he ran to the door, pushed Sun Xiaojun aside, and shouted, "Don't take them all, leave a few for me too!"

Ah-Qiang rushed in and, with his quick reach, snatched the last Bruce Lee poster.

It's a classic image: Bruce Lee in a yellow suit, holding nunchucks.

Ah Qiang was overjoyed and ran over to pick up one of each of the other celebrities' photos, then hugged them all to his chest.

"Miss Ji, how much are these? I'll take them all."

Ji Wanmei smiled and said, "These things aren't expensive. If you like them, I'll give them to you. Consider it a thank you for helping me during the renovation."

After saying that, Ji Wanmei said to Li Chunyan, "Just put these guys on my personal account."

Ah Qiang hurriedly said, "That won't do, I absolutely have to pay."

Besides, he came here with a mission from Brother Lei to buy it. If he didn't spend the money, how would he explain it when he got back?

A-Qiang was anxious and didn't care how much money it was. He put the few coins that Brother Lei had given him on the cashier's table in front of Luo Chunyan and hurried out.

After Zhou Peng and Sun Xiaojun finished making their selections and paid the bill, they said, "Miss Ji, we're leaving now. If you need any help, just let us know!"

"Qiang only bought a few posters, which only cost a few cents. Why did he give so much?" Luo Chunyan muttered to herself as she watched the large group of men walk away.

She said to Ji Wanmei, "Our store just opened today, and we haven't even had a chance to promote our products yet. How did they know we had them?"

Ji Wanmei remained silent.

She also recalled that when she was in Zhejiang, Lei Tingjun told her that the posters she had purchased would definitely sell very well when she took them back.

I'm afraid that if each of his brothers bought one, they could buy up all of her stock.

"Take out the extra money that A-Qiang gave you and find some time to return it to him later."

Luo Chunyan suddenly realized something and murmured, "Besides the two of us, only Lei Tingjun knows. Could those people just now have been called by Lei Tingjun...?"

Ji Wanmei turned around, glanced at her watch, and realized it was almost noon. Everyone had gone home for lunch, so there probably wouldn't be many people coming to shop anymore.

He then said to Luo Chunyan, "Alright, let's check the counter first. Let's go to the restaurant for dinner; Dad and the others must have been waiting for a long time."

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