Chapter 292: They Know Each Other Well
"Bring me a basin of water."
Cheng Zhigang narrowed his eyes, limped out to get a basin of water and came back.
Zhou Xia worked efficiently and in no time she had tidied up the small living room.
Cheng Zhigang didn't say a word during the whole process, just watched Zhou Xia do housework quietly.
"It looks much more comfortable now."
Cheng Zhigang pursed his lips: "What is your purpose in coming to see me?"
If someone shows kindness to you without any reason, he is either a traitor or a thief. Cheng Zhigang fully understands the meaning of this sentence.
Zhou Xia looked at him, thought for a moment, and then she said, "I came back yesterday and went to Leng's house this morning."
Cheng Zhigang frowned, cursing in his heart that the people who were following the Leng family were incompetent. At the same time, he also realized that the people he sent out did not do their job well.
If Zhou Xia hadn't come to visit, Cheng Zhigang would not have known that she had returned.
"What do you want to say?"
Zhou Xia smiled, took out a pack of cigarettes from her pocket and lit one.
Cheng Zhigang showed an unhappy look on his face, walked up to her, snatched the lit cigarette from her hand and put it out.
"Why do you smoke cigarettes, woman?"
Zhou Xia looked at him and wanted to light another cigarette, but Cheng Zhigang had taken away a pack of cigarettes and a matchbox.
"I don't like women smoking."
Zhou Xia took a deep breath and pretended not to hear him: "Are Leng Shuang and Leng Xue here with you?"
After learning that she had been to Leng's house, Cheng Zhigang guessed the purpose of Zhou Xia's visit to him.
"So what?"
Zhou Xia didn't expect him to admit it so frankly, and her heart couldn't help but relax.
"Can you please give the child back to me?"
Cheng Zhigang secretly raised his eyebrows: "Why?"
He has raised the two children for so many years and has already developed a deep affection for them, so it is difficult for Zhou Xia to take the children back.
"Because I am their mother."
Cheng Zhigang laughed sarcastically, "Are you qualified to be their mother? Have you ever cared about their lives over the years? If it weren't for me, they would probably be stranded in another place now..."
Zhou Xia became furious when she heard what Cheng Zhigang said.
"Why don't I care whether they live or die? Isn't it because of you?"
Cheng Zhigang froze, feeling a little guilty in the face of Zhou Xia's accusations.
"But it is an indisputable fact that you haven't come back to see the children for so many years."
Zhou Xia admitted this, because she hated the Leng family, so she didn't want to come back.
The living room suddenly became quiet. Zhou Xia raised her hand to support her forehead and said, "Tell me, how can you return the child to me?"
Zhou Xia forgot the plan she had agreed with Zhou Yong before coming here. She just wanted to resolve the matter as soon as possible and take her four children away from this sad place as soon as possible.
Cheng Zhigang stared at her for a moment and said, "Unless you marry me."
Zhou Xia was a little mad. She looked at Cheng Zhigang with a confused tone: "What do you like about me? With your conditions, as long as you open your mouth, there will be countless young girls who want to marry you..."
Cheng Zhigang did not answer her, but said: "I know your elder brother Zhou Yong is capable, but if you want to take the child away privately, don't blame me for being ruthless to you..."
He warned Zhou Xia in the form of a reminder, suggesting that she should not act rashly.
Zhou Xia was speechless and her heart sank.
"I am married."
Cheng Zhigang said calmly: "I don't care."
When he bought Zhou Xia from the Leng family, she was already the mother of several children. If Cheng Zhigang really cared about those things, he would not have anything to do with Zhou Xia.
Zhou Xia stared at Cheng Zhigang, her heart already in turmoil.
"You don't care, but I do."
Cheng Zhigang shrugged his shoulders: "Then there is nothing to talk about. Go away!"
Zhou Xia froze. What would happen to her two children if she died like this?
"Don't want to leave?"
Zhou Xia took a deep look at Cheng Zhigang and said, "Let me think about this matter."
Cheng Zhigang smiled and said, "It's up to you."
As long as he has the child in his hands, Cheng Zhigang doesn't believe that Zhou Xia will not obey.
This was also the reason why he saved the sisters Leng Shuang and Leng Xue. However, he did not expect that Zhou Xia, this cruel woman, would disappear for so many years before showing up.
Zhou Xia turned and left. Cheng Zhigang looked at her graceful figure and smiled.
Not far away, Zhou Yong saw Zhou Xia coming out of Cheng Zhigang's house, but he did not go forward immediately.
He waited until Zhou Xia turned a corner on her bicycle before he caught up with her on his bicycle.
"He didn't bully you, did he?"
Zhou Xia tightened her grip on the handlebars: "Brother, he didn't bully me."
Zhou Yong looked at Zhou Xia's expression, breathed a sigh of relief, and asked how things had progressed.
Zhou Xia recounted what happened truthfully, and Zhou Yong heard her grab the bicycle's handbrake.
"Brother, I'm so confused and don't know what to do."
Zhou Yong frowned: "It seems that my guess is right, he just hasn't let you go."
Zhou Xia sighed: "Brother, he knows your situation very well and warned me not to try to snatch the child..."
Zhou Yong pursed his lips and thought for a while: "In that case, I'll go talk to him."
Zhou Xia hurriedly said, "Brother, don't go. I will handle this matter myself."
Zhou Yong smiled slightly: "Since he said so, if I don't go to meet him, it would seem that I am afraid."
Cheng Zhigang has pointed out the whole thing, so it is indeed inappropriate for Zhou Yong not to show up.
Zhou Xia opened her mouth, but no one knew what she wanted to say, and she swallowed the words back.
Zhou Yong checked the time and said, "Go wait for me under the big tree in front."
Zhou Xia responded, and Zhou Yong rode his bike back.
Cheng Zhigang was not at all surprised by Zhou Yong's appearance. Instead, he invited him into the house without hesitation.
"Please take a seat."
Zhou Yong looked at Cheng Zhigang, who seemed to have a more easy-going personality, but did not bother to be polite with him. He turned around and sat on the wooden sofa.
Cheng Zhigang limped over to pour him a glass of water but was stopped by Zhou Yong.
"Cheng Zhigang, let me ask you, do you like my older sister Zhou Xia?"
Cheng Zhigang was stunned for a moment. He obviously didn't expect Zhou Yong to ask such a direct question.
He thought for a few seconds: "If I didn't like her, I wouldn't have bought her from the Leng family."
Zhou Yong thought of this. After all, he was also a man, and with a little thought, he could figure out Cheng Zhigang's intention.
"So after Zhou Xia left, you kept sending people to monitor the Leng family?"
Cheng Zhigang sat down quietly without refuting Zhou Yong's words.
Zhou Yong stared at him and slowly said, "Zhou Xia was a person with an unfortunate fate. She never received warmth at home, and suffered even more after getting married..."
Cheng Zhigang stared at Zhou Yong and said in a deep voice: "I know her past and experience, so I wanted to rescue her from the Leng family, but my approach was a little inappropriate..."
After just a few words of conversation, Zhou Yong's evaluation of Cheng Zhigang was that he was a man of temperament.
Zhou Yong glanced at Cheng Zhigang calmly and said, "I heard you were reselling antiques?"
Cheng Zhigang chuckled softly, "Did you hear it from your friend in the Public Security Bureau?"
Zhou Yong did not deny it, but Cheng Zhigang was frank: "It can't be considered as reselling antiques. I just tinker with some small things to earn some pocket money."
The two of them understood each other tacitly and knew each other's background very well.
As a result, neither Zhou Yong nor Cheng Zhigang dared to act rashly.
"So you want to continue on this path?"
Cheng Zhigang thought for a moment: "I don't know!"
For now, he lives a very carefree life, but he knows that this path will not last long.
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