Chapter 17 Chapter 17 Blind Date is Coming

In front of the busy market stall, Qingmei whispered something.

"Really? You really want to go on a blind date with my son?!"

Qingmei pursed her lips and said, "It's not really a blind date, just a meeting and a chat. Maybe we can just be friends."

Gu Qingzhou's photo was still in her pocket. She wanted to rewrite her life and told herself to be brave and give it a try.

Moreover, as a reader of the original novel, she was a fan of the male protagonist Gu Qingzhou. After the male protagonist died in the book, she was heartbroken for a long time.

Why wouldn't you agree to this opportunity to be up close and personal with your idol? As long as you don't harbor unreasonable expectations, I'm sure the heavens won't interfere.

Zhao Wuhe had been dozing off in front of the stall, but she suddenly stopped dozing off and took Qingmei's soft little hand and patted it: "My dear girl, I knew you would agree."

Qingmei sat on a small stool, and the shepherd's purse cakes were almost sold out and she could leave.

She noticed Zhao Wuhe's excitement and said awkwardly, "Just meeting once, can it be considered a blind date?"

Zhao Wuhe said, "Yes, of course. You go back first and I'll call that brat. Do you think you'll meet at the end of the month when you're on vacation, or when he comes back early?"

Qingmei had no objection to this and spent her time looking after Qingzhou. He was often inconvenienced in the army, and she was more relaxed than him.

Zhao Wuhe helped Qingmei put away her things. Seeing the bicycle parked behind her, she whispered, "Can you do it yourself?"

Qingmei said with a smile: "I can do it, I always do it myself."

Zhao Wuhe gave her a thumbs up, this girl is really energetic.

After seeing Qingmei off, Zhao Wuhe went to the guesthouse and spent fifty cents to borrow a phone to call 014.

Gu Qingzhou was still in a meeting. It was Mu Ran who answered the phone. Mu Ran listened to what was said on the phone and nodded repeatedly: "Okay, auntie, don't worry, I will definitely pass it on."

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At the same time, Zhou Wu got out of the car and walked to the faculty and staff family compound according to the address on the note.

He wore a gray felt hat, an old black padded jacket in the cold weather, a leather rope around his waist, and roe deer skin boots on his feet.

Zhou Wu limped in. The man wearing an armband at the door tried to stop him: "Who are you? Go away, this is not the place for you!"

Zhou Wu looked up and saw the man shivering while holding the hot water bag.

Zhou Wu asked him, "Where is Building 5?"

The middle-aged man in sleeves swallowed his saliva and pointed to the building in front and said, "That's it."

Zhou Wu didn't say anything else and continued to limp inside.

Hao Fan rushed home to get his meal ticket, having forgotten to bring it with him in his haste that morning. Thinking that Qian Ying and Zhong Anhua were still waiting for him to get their food, he hurried home during the break.

He went upstairs and found the door was open.

The ground was covered with blood-stained money. If one could count carefully, it was exactly 80 yuan. This was the money Zhou Wu had asked Li Xianjin to borrow from everyone on his knees before beating him.

Zhou Wu turned slowly, grinning with his crooked teeth, and said, "Is my father-in-law back?"

Hao Fan had been a teacher all his life and had never seen such a ferocious-looking person. It could be said that just the face was enough to scare away ordinary people without him speaking.

What's more, Zhou Wu deliberately smiled sinisterly, and the scars on his face showed what kind of dangers he had encountered.

"What father-in-law? Who are you? Why are you standing in my house?"

Hao Fan wanted to move towards the door, but Zhou Wu picked up the ashtray on the coffee table and hit him on the head. Hao Fan felt dizzy and his hand that was covering his forehead loosened, revealing a pool of blood.

"Ouch, that hurts! Why are you hitting me? I'm going to call for help!"

"Don't argue with me, close the door." Zhou Wu pulled a boning knife from his boot, pointed at Hao Fan and said, "Did you see the money? I came here to propose marriage to you."

Qian Ying howled, "Don't even think about it! My daughter already has a boyfriend, a military officer! You're courting death by bullying my family!"

Zhou Wu seemed to have just seen Zhong Anhua huddled on the sofa. He walked over, pinched her chin, and looked up at her: "Not very good."

Zhong Anhua stammered, "Then, then leave. I, I am not worthy of you."

Zhou Wu suddenly laughed and said, "I really don't like you. Let me ask you, who is Qingmei to you?"

Zhong Anhua said, "That widow?"

Zhou Wu grabbed her head and forced her to look up at him: "She is my wife, don't call her a widow anymore."

Qian Ying was going crazy, cursing Qingmei countless times in her heart. This little slut, how could she have provoked this evil spirit into her home?

"If you want to marry her, go ahead. We have no objection." Hao Fan squatted on the ground, holding his head and said, "As long as you don't touch Xiaohua, I agree that you can marry her."

Zhou Wusong let go of Zhong Anhua, walked over to Hao Fan, squatted down, played with the boning knife and said, "You are such a good father. You don't want your own daughter to have a cheap one. You are really a piece of shit."

Hao Fan felt his head swell up, as if his brains were about to be smashed out by that blow. He knew Zhou Wu was not someone to be trifled with, so he kept his mouth shut and didn't dare to say anything.

Zhou Wu stood up, pointed his boning knife at them, and said, "You should be her family. Let her meet me, or I will deal with you one by one."

Qian Ying was furious and shouted, "Qingmei provoked you, why don't you just go to her? Why do you have to come to our house to bully us!"

Zhou Wu said with a mean smile, "Because you are not good people like me, you have a way to force her to meet me."

He had shown up in Qingmei Village before, but now there were officers patrolling the village entrance, so he couldn't get in at all, and even if he did, he couldn't take Qingmei away.

Qian Ying was afraid that Zhou Wu would hurt Zhong Anhua, so she ran to Hao Fan, grabbed his arm, and said, "Hurry up and tell Qingmei to meet him!"

Hao Fan was about to hesitate when he heard Zhong Anhua's scream.

It turned out that Zhou Wu saw her trying to run to the bedroom, so he grabbed her and threw her to the ground.

He held the boning knife across Zhong Anhua's face, scaring her so much that tears and snot flowed. She didn't call him uncle, but called him by his full name: "Hao Fan, you better agree to it quickly, hurry up!"

Hao Fan had no choice but to nod and say, "Yes, you are right. I have a way to let her see you."

Zhou Wu calmly sat down in front of the coffee table, lit a cigarette, took a puff, and exhaled white smoke: "What's the solution?"

Hao Fan said, "Her mother's belongings... She's asked me for them many times before, but I refused. This time, I'll ask her to meet you. If she doesn't, I'll burn them. She'll definitely agree."

Zhou Wu snorted, "You're a piece of shit. Call Donghe Village now. I want to make sure she agrees to meet."

Hao Fan agreed repeatedly, staggered to his feet, walked to the door and said to Zhou Wu, "Don't touch my daughter."

Zhong Anhua yelled from the sofa: "Go make a phone call!"

Hao Fan nodded: "Hey."

After Zhou Wu finished smoking, he squinted his eyes and looked at Zhong Anhua. Zhong Anhua was so scared that she was like a chicken seeing an eagle. She hid in the corner and hugged herself without moving.

Twenty minutes later, Hao Fan stumbled back and said before he even entered the door, "She agreed. She agreed without saying a word!"

Zhou Wu stood up, spit out the cigarette he had just held onto the ground and crushed it, then pulled out a piece of paper from his pocket with a way to contact him written on it: "I'm going out for a couple of days, and I'm going to see her when I come back."

Hao Fan said quickly, "Okay, she said she's busy digging a canal and doesn't have time. She'll contact you once a date is set."

Zhou Wu walked to the door and put the boning knife back into his boots. He looked deeply at Zhong Anhua, who was trembling with fear, and left with a big laugh.

After he left, Qian Ying hugged Zhong Anhua and said, "Don't be afraid, your partner will be here soon. We are not afraid of him."

Zhong Anhua said with tears in her eyes: "He should have come a long time ago."

Just now she was thinking that her boyfriend might come and see Zhou Wu to rescue her, but who knew that there might be something urgent happening in the army and he was late again.

Just downstairs from them, Zhou Wu stopped and looked at the familiar person in front of him.

The man was wearing plain clothes and had the same short stubble as a soldier. When he saw Zhou Wu, he nodded and said, "Brother, why are you here?"

Zhou Wu whispered, "Are you the girl's boyfriend?"

The other party said with a smile: "I'm just trying to make some money. I haven't found a job in six months. If you rob me again, I'll be shot. Are the second and third brothers doing well?"

"I'm fine." Zhou Wu nodded slightly and said, "Don't let yourself get caught. They might even be counting on you to catch me."

The other party said with great joy: "They are a family of fools. They think I am a real officer. I can arrest them but I can't arrest you."

"Okay, I'm leaving." Zhou Wu didn't say anything more to him. He nodded and let the other party go upstairs first.

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Three o'clock in the afternoon.

014th Unit.

Gu Qingzhou returned to the office after the meeting.

Mu Ran suddenly stood up from the sofa, walked quickly to Gu Qingzhou, shook his hand vigorously, and said, "Congratulations, Comrade Gu Qingzhou. Please allow me to express my congratulations to you."

Gu Qingzhou rubbed his brows: "Talk nicely, is there a call for me?"

"Yes, I answered it."

Mu Ran said with a smile, "There's good news. Remember the young widow I mentioned last time? She's willing to go on a blind date with you. Her mother told you to get dressed and look respectable and clean. She told you to find a time to go back, the sooner the better."

Gu Qingzhou laughed angrily: "Whose mother?"

Mu Ran said: "In principle, it's your mother."

Gu Qingzhou waved his hand and said, "I think my mother met a scammer."

Mu Ran got excited, went over to close the door, walked over to Gu Qingzhou and said, "What do you mean?"

Gu Qingzhou said, "The last time I was on a business trip to Shanghai, there was a case there. The other party was posing as a widow to approach the family members of important personnel, using their sympathy to obtain work content and recent trends that others were unaware of."

Mu Ran thought for a moment and said, "That's possible. After all, we all agree that you will be the next leader of 014. It's possible that they've laid the pieces in advance."

Gu Qingzhou knew the depth of Zhao Wuhe's maternal love for him. Normally, a mother wouldn't repeatedly ask her son, who was in his prime and had a promising future, to marry a rural widow.

If his mother cared about the other person, she could have given her some help, or liked her more, or even adopted her as her goddaughter. Why did his mother insist that he marry her?

Is there something behind the scenes, or is it a brainwashing technique used by enemy spies?

Gu Qingzhou pondered, according to the report just now, his mother was running around the market carrying a bicycle...

This incident is enough to prove that one's mental state is not healthy.

Gu Qingzhou coughed lightly.

As soon as he finished the work at hand, he would immediately arrange for a vacation. It would be best if he could take his mother away from Donghe Village and stay in the army for a while to isolate her from any possibility of contact with other people.

Or you can set up the net in advance and you may catch a big fish.

Gu Qingzhou picked up the phone and asked the operator to call back. The person at the guesthouse told him that the woman who called had already left.

"Don't worry." Mu Ran saw that Gu Qingzhou was worried about his mother and said, "Your mother is not an ordinary person. She will be fine."

"I hope so." Gu Qingzhou opened the drawer and took out the documents that needed approval. He saw that there was also a report on the distribution of donated funds.

The last time he received a donation, he resisted pressure and didn't use it. His intuition told him that there was something behind the money and it wasn't something he could use at will.

Until he understands it, he will try not to use it unless absolutely necessary.

Besides...it definitely wasn't donated by his mother.

Given his mother's noisy personality, if she wanted a donation, she would definitely send it with fanfare and ask for a red certificate to hang at home. There was no way she would just leave it there and run away.

"I'm going to apply for leave in two days. Please hurry up and deal with the things on hand." Gu Qingzhou said, "I want to meet that widowed comrade."