◇ Chapter 56: Chasing the Wife with a Shameless Manner

The day after the susceptible period, Lu Fangchi canceled his leave and returned to the company. Before he could even sit on the bench, he caused a commotion outside the office.

The secretary pushed the door open and reported, "General Lu, the new koi has arrived. Do you want to go and have a look?" As he spoke, his eyes were shining, as if he was very excited.

What koi? Lu Fangchi frowned in confusion for a moment, but soon he had a guess. He didn't bother to ask why he accepted the koi without checking it out, and he stood up and walked towards the reception room.

The reception hall was crowded with people, all talking among themselves. One of the employees noticed Lu Fangchi out of the corner of his eye and immediately raised his hand and poked the person next to him. Then, everyone raised their feet and took a half step back to make way for the sidewalk.

Lu Fangchi stepped into the reception hall and saw the huge glass fish tank in the reception hall. There were three koi in it, the colors were red and white, yellow and white, and pure yellow. Each one was huge and plump, about 80.90 cm long, weighing about 40 to 50 kg, and had a strong presence. Especially the pure yellow one, which should be called golden. The scales on its body were like metal reflections when it swam, and the golden brilliance was blinding.

Lu Fangchi doesn't know much about fish, but from the posture of the fish and the reactions of the people, he guessed that they were worth a lot.

A small exclamation fell clearly into the ear, "Fuck, this is an imported koi silver fox, it's so beautiful, the fish farmer shed tears of envy and jealousy."

“Is it expensive?”

"Of course. Judging from the quality of these fish, I'll have to take at least this one." He pointed up two fingers.

The confused employee boldly guessed: "Two hundred thousand?"

"Add another zero!" He curled his lips.

"Fuck," the employee's pupils trembled, "It's so expensive!"

"What do you think? Otherwise it would be so beautiful."

Lu Fangchi frowned and subconsciously took out his cell phone to call Zhou Zheng, but he noticed that the employees at the door of the living room were all staring at him, so he held back.

He walked out of the living room and returned to the office. He opened WeChat, found Zhou Zheng's name, clicked it, and sent a message: Take it away.

Zhou Zheng replied almost immediately:?

Zhou Zheng: I don’t understand. What did you take away?

Zhou Zheng: What do you mean?

What are you pretending to be? Lu Fangchi pressed the screen: Koi.

"The other party is typing..." He kept talking intermittently, and didn't utter a single word for a long time.

As if he could predict what was going on, Lu Fangchi sent him a message before he could come up with an excuse: Don't play dumb, it was you who sent the koi, right?

Zhou Zheng's message came late: Ah, that one. It should be sent by Assistant Liu.

Still trying to find loopholes, what's the difference between what Assistant Liu gave and what you gave. Lu Fangchi typed, pressing the keyboard hard: Take it!

Exclamation mark, very serious. Zhou Zheng dared not talk nonsense anymore, and replied honestly: Didn't I feed your koi to death? This is an apology.

Lu Fangchi: Not necessary.

"The other party is typing..." There was a half sound and then silence.

Lu Fangchi:?

This time, the input icon didn't even light up. Was he going to stop replying and start playing dead?

Lu Fangchi frowned and widened his eyes, marveling at the alpha's shamelessness, but he also had to admit that he really had no way to deal with the other party.

In short, he didn't want to have anything to do with Zhou Zheng anymore, let alone financial dealings. Doing the next best thing, Lu Fangchi licked his lips, slid his index finger across the screen to find Liu Zhu's name, and sent him a message: Are you there? Is it convenient to take a call?

About ten minutes later, Assistant Liu replied: "Yes."

Then a voice call popped up on the phone screen and Assistant Liu took the initiative to call.

Lu Fangchi pressed the green answer button, skipping the pretense and asking directly, "When will you have time to come and take those three koi?"

"Ah," Assistant Liu hesitated, visibly pausing, and then confirmed again, "The three I just sent over, right?"

Lu Fangchi nodded and agreed, "Yes."

"This was purchased by Mr. Zhou using his personal account. I am only responsible for helping with the transportation, so..." Assistant Liu's tone was a little embarrassed, and the unspoken implication was a refusal.

That's good, we're just passing the buck here.

Lu Fangchi took a deep breath and responded: "Please tell him to come and take it now."

Taking all the possible rejections into consideration, he added, "You can take the fish tank with you, too."

"Ah," Assistant Liu said in a tangled tone, "but Mr. Zhou is not here."

Lu Fangchi:?

Assistant Liu explained: "He seems to be sick. He said he hasn't been to the company recently and asked for a week's sick leave."

Lu Fangchi: ...

The first round of confrontation was lost.

"Okay, I got it." After hanging up the phone, Lu Fangchi tapped the phone with one hand, looking thoughtful.

Is it so serious that I have to take a week off?

Is he lying? It's hard to say. All I know is that there are sequelae when an alpha is bitten, but I don't know to what extent. Lu Fangchi has never experienced it, and he has no experience to speak of.

While Lu Fangchi was thinking, the office door was pushed open again, and the secretary came in with a bag of insulated boxes. She put it on the coffee table and said, "Boss Lu, I'll leave your errands here for you."

Lu Fangchi opened his mouth slightly, wanting to say that he did not ask the errand boy to run, but something suddenly came to his mind and he connected the dots. Then he waved his hand, signaling the secretary to leave.

The secretary left the office and closed the door. Only then did Lu Fangchi move. He stood up, walked to the sofa and sat down, then opened the thermal box in front of him.

A gigantic insulated box, three layers high. As soon as I removed the outer packaging bag, a strong fragrance rushed into my nose.

Each layer is divided into two parts. The first layer is shrimp and peas and grilled eel. The second layer is stir-fried potato shreds and lotus root slices and pork slices. The last layer is crystal clear white rice with a soft poached egg on top.

Just by looking at them, Lu Fangchi knew that these were all from Zhou Zheng's hand.

There seemed to be two small round bowls in the bag. I opened them one by one and saw that one bowl contained tomato egg drop soup, and the other bowl was filled with fruits, strawberries and blueberries. The colors were red and blue, and the strawberries were cut in half, showing the care of the cook.

There was a small pink note at the bottom. Lu Fangchi took it out and looked at it: Lovely little bento~

The word "love" is replaced by a graphic, which looks very cute.

Lu Fangchi pursed his lips, raised his hand with some force to cover the lunch box, then took out his mobile phone, took a photo of the lunch box in front of him, and sent two words: Take it away.

Of course Lu Fangchi could see that Zhou was trying to make peace with him, but he didn't need it. He didn't need an apology or compensation. He just wanted him to stay away from him. No, just not bother with him.

Lu Fangchi stared at his phone. The nickname column changed to "The other party is typing..." and it changed back and forth three or four times, but no white box popped up.

He's playing dead again.

The next half month was spent in this state. Zhou Zheng asked about my well-being every day, sending greetings three times a day on WeChat, morning, noon and night. The loving lunch he sent in real life was late but arrived.

Lu Fangchi took a series of defensive measures, such as tightening the control of errand running and specifically informing his secretary in advance that he would refuse all errand running.

As a result, it was changed to takeaway packaging the next day, and when I opened it, it was still Zhou Zhengpai's loving bento.

There was no other way, Lu Fangchi could only cut off all errands, takeout, and even express delivery. In the end, Zhou Zheng's loving lunch was saved, but it also caused a few small oolongs, resulting in the gift boxes sent by the partners being returned, and they protested that they were not welcomed.

Lu Fangchi finally appeased the partner, and secretly comforted himself that at least he had stopped Zhou Zheng. However, he didn't expect Alpha to change its tack and send a charity dinner instead.

Whenever Lu Fangchi stretched his legs and stepped out of the elevator, he could look up and see the love dinner hanging on the door handle.

When asked, she just refuses to admit it. When she gets angry, she just doesn't reply to messages. Anyway, she sends me loving meals every day. It's like a dog-skin plaster that can't be shaken off.

Lu Fangchi also went from being in denial and numb at first to being forced to accept it.

This is a competition of who is more shameless, and Lu Fangchi cannot bear to watch the food being wasted. He has refused cruelly before and just let the lunch box hang on the door handle. It will be the same the next morning as it was the night before, and he will even hang a new one in the evening.

If you don't pick it up in two days, the door handle will collect three lunch box bags.

Lu Fangchi sometimes wonders why Zhou Zheng doesn’t use disposable lunch boxes?

Until one day after I finished my meal, I took the thermal box to the kitchen sink, scrubbed it clean, wiped it dry, put it back into the bag, walked to the door with the bag, opened it, hung the bag on the door handle, and closed the door.

Lu Fangchi finally realized that he had been tricked by Zhou Zheng.

but--

There is no way!

There is really no other way!

There is no way at all!

Because if Lu Fangchi didn't do this, there would be an extra giant lunch box and two small round boxes in the house every day, and they would pile up like a mountain in two days.

Lu Fangchi didn't mind spending this little money, and he believed that Zhou Zheng didn't need it. But money doesn't mean you should spend it lightly, and his house is not a tableware warehouse, so it can't store so many thermos boxes.

On the twelfth day of this situation, Lu Fangchi went out as usual. When he passed by the living room, he stepped into it, admired the three koi worth two million yuan, and began to reflect on why things had developed to this point.

I couldn't refuse the love bento, but how could I send the koi back?

Oh, because Zhou Zheng is even more shameless.

The day after the Ai Xin Bento was forced to be purchased and delivered without any explanation, Lu Fangchi wanted to do the same thing and give the other person a taste of his own medicine. However, he had just called the workers when he heard news that the store next door was undergoing a technological management reform, with strict entry and exit, face and fingerprint recognition, and take-out couriers were placed downstairs for unified management. Construction and other maintenance personnel had to report to their superiors, blocking their way.

Lu Fangchi felt as if a ball of cotton was pressing on his chest. It wasn't heavy but its presence was very strong, sticking to him until he felt upset and confused. The more he thought about it, the more depressed he became.

Just before the incident broke out, Lu Fangchi's phone rang, and the caller ID showed "Sui Zhuoyang."

【Author’s words】

A little early today.

A shameless little transition in one chapter...