"Tell me, how do you have to wrestle in order to lose a piece of flesh?!" Ye Zhou stood in front of Zou Ming. He laughed in anger, his voice trembling.
One of Zou Ming's arms was bandaged, and Zhou Yuanhe had already treated him.
Perhaps it was because Ye Zhou's reaction was too great. Except for Zou Ming, everyone else quietly left the lounge. Even Sarah was forcibly taken out.
Ye Zhou lowered his head and looked at Zou Ming who was sitting. The two looked at each other. Ye Zhou tried his best to control his temper and said softly, "Speak."
Zou Ming: “I just didn’t notice it.”
Before Ye Zhou could continue to lose his temper, Zou Ming said, "It was a mistake. Bringing Sarah along distracted me."
Zou Ming said calmly: "She has no ability and no experience now. She can do nothing but hold me back. The Duke is her mother after all. Any hesitation on her part would be fatal."
Ye Zhou was silent for a moment. He took a deep breath and moved a chair from the side. He sat down next to Zou Ming, grabbed one of Zou Ming's hands, and his expression calmed down.
"I didn't think it through carefully enough." Ye Zhou looked at Zou Ming's profile. "It's my fault. I apologize to you."
Zou Ming said, "It's not a big deal."
Ye Zhou: "A piece of meat is missing, isn't that a big deal?"
Zou Ming turned his head and their eyes met. Zou Ming's lips slightly opened. Ye Zhou looked at him expectantly, waiting to hear his next words.
But Zou Ming's mouth, which was clearly open, closed again.
Ye Zhou: “…”
"What happened? You can always tell me, right?"
"Sarah was scared to death." Zou Ming looked out the window and said softly, "I asked her to find a place to hide, but she didn't move."
Ye Zhou couldn't imagine the scene at all. Even though Sarah now was not the Sarah who could stand on her own, she had lived among vampires since she was a child. What kind of scene could scare her?
"The Duke no longer looks like a human being." Zou Ming recalled the scene at that time, and even he was stunned for a moment.
Rather than the Duke, it was more like a movable lump of flesh or tumor. The silver bullet still hit the Duke's heart, but she did not die immediately. Instead, she used her remaining breath to suck human blood.
Although it can maintain life, it cannot maintain its appearance.
Her body automatically discarded all organs that consumed energy but were not necessary.
For example, the hands, feet, and facial features, the only thing that can be barely recognized as the head is a pair of retracted ears and a slit-like mouth.
Most of her body was buried in the soil, leaving even her skin.
She turned into a disgusting monster.
But even so, the vampire's incredibly strong vitality still allowed her to attack Zou Ming and Sarah.
She was conscious and she knew Sarah was her daughter and she also knew that Sarah was easier to deal with.
So the first person she had to deal with was Sarah.
"I got injured when I saved her." Zou Ming looked at his arm.
He reacted quickly and the piece of flesh that was bitten off was only about the size of a baby's fist.
In Zou Ming's opinion, this was a minor injury - before he met Ye Zhou, he had suffered more serious injuries, and he didn't even get bandages or treatment, but he still survived.
Zou Ming held Ye Zhou's hand and comforted him in a rare gentle tone: "This is not your fault."
Ye Zhou said in a difficult voice: "It's my fault."
"I know that Sarah is not yet..." Ye Zhou did not finish his words, but Zou Ming knew what he meant. "I should have considered it more carefully. Even if she is a vampire, she has no fighting ability without experience."
Now Sarah can only bully humans and has no chance of winning against her own kind.
Otherwise she wouldn't have been bullied for so many years.
Ye Zhou looked at the back of Zou Ming's hand. There was a layer of calluses on the palm of Zou Ming's hand, which made him feel warm and rough.
These are not a pair of pampered hands. Even with just these two hands, one can tell how much hardship Zou Ming has gone through to become who he is today.
"You don't have to go to work during this period. Take good care of your injuries. You will be paid as usual. This is considered a work-related injury. I will compensate you for one year's salary. If you have any other needs, just tell me directly." Ye Zhou said with concern.
Zou Ming: "The Duke is not dead, she went underground."
"Is your previous promise still valid?"
Ye Zhou was stunned. He thought about it and finally remembered Zou Ming's promise before he left. He nodded and said, "It works. It always works."
Hearing this, Zou Ming's expression immediately relaxed, and he even curled up a barely noticeable smile at the corner of his mouth.
Ye Zhou: "What are you laughing at? You can still laugh after being injured so badly?"
Zou Ming shook his head gently: "Not heavy."
"I'll go get you a glass of water. If you want to eat anything, I'll get it for you." Ye Zhou was about to stand up, but was pulled back to his chair.
Zou Ming did not let go of the hand that he was holding, and it seemed as if he would never let go.
Ye Zhou looked at the two people's hands holding together, then looked up at Zou Ming.
Zou Ming's gaze also followed Ye Zhou's.
Seeing Zou Ming's "unaware" look, Ye Zhou couldn't help but say, "It's time to let go."
"Two grown men holding hands for such a long time." Ye Zhou's hair stood on end. "Don't you find it corny?"
It is okay for men to shake hands, but shaking hands for such a long time is no longer a handshake, it is simply holding hands.
Zou Ming then let go of his hand, but he said nothing and didn't explain.
He just stared at Ye Zhou with his dark eyes.
Ye Zhou panicked instantly. He stood up immediately, even forgetting that Zou Ming was a wounded soldier, and said hurriedly, "I'm going out."
He almost escaped from the lounge.
Ye Zhou closed the door of the lounge and leaned his back against the wall. He reached out and wiped his forehead, and he actually broke out in a cold sweat.
Zou Ming’s eyes just now made him feel unfamiliar, and Zou Ming’s actions also left him with lingering fears.
What does Zou Ming mean?
Is this a hint?
But aren't his actions too ambiguous?
Ye Zhou was a little confused. His emotional side told him that Zou Ming might have that kind of intention towards him.
But reason told him that if Zou Ming was just suddenly emotional after being injured, and he misunderstood what he meant, and asked rashly, he would be the one who would be embarrassed and ashamed.
The worst thing for people is to be too sentimental.
Besides, his charm shouldn’t be so great that it appeals to both men and women, right?
Ye Zhou touched his chest. His heart was still beating a little fast, probably because he was scared.
"Boss, what's wrong?" Chen Shu walked towards Ye Zhou, holding a box of medicine and a glass of water in her hand, "I'm here to give Brother Zou some painkillers."
Ye Zhou quickly said, "You go ahead. I have something else to do. I'll go check the bill first."
Ye Zhou said this and walked out without waiting for Chen Shu to answer.
Chen Shu shouted behind him: "Boss!"
It wasn't until Ye Zhou walked away that Chen Shu murmured, "The bill is in the computer, where are you going to see it?"
But it was impossible for Ye Zhou to answer her.
Chen Shu made a "tsk" sound and looked at Ye Zhou's expression. Could it be that Zou Ming had already made it clear?
That shouldn’t be the case. Given Zou Ming’s temper, as long as he isn’t going to die, he can wait for a hundred years.
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After Ye Zhou left the lounge, he found that he had nowhere to go - now he urgently needed to do something to distract himself, and didn't want to go back to his room in the dormitory and think about it, so he walked around the supermarket twice, and finally remembered that a new group of employees had come to the supermarket.
These employees are all children of nearby farmers. They are currently temporary workers in the supermarket and are undergoing induction training today.
The new employees have not yet entered the supermarket. They have to take a shower and change clothes in a makeshift tent.
——Almost everyone here has lice.
Supermarkets have to be disinfected and sprayed every day. Ye Zhou bought better pesticides in the system that can deal with several types of parasites and insect eggs, including lice and fleas.
It is harmless to the human body, colorless, odorless and will not irritate the nose.
But even so, since there is no way to remove the lice from the customers, Ye Zhou still hopes that at least the employees will not have lice and fleas.
After purchasing the new medicine, new employees only need to take a bath, change into clean clothes, and do not need to shave their heads before they can start working immediately.
But taking a shower takes a long time, and men and women have to be separated, so only three people have come out of the tent.
There were ten temporary workers, only two of whom were girls.
And they can come because there are no brothers in the family, and they have to be the main income earners in the family.
Although Cao'er said when she delivered the message that girls could come, families with both sons and daughters only sent boys.
Their thinking is normal and cruel in this era. After a girl gets married, she has to live with the man's family. If she gets married while working in a supermarket, whose family does the money she earns belong to? It can't be her own, right?
If a boy works in a supermarket, even as a temporary worker, he will find it easier to get married.
Cao'er let the girls take a bath and listened to them talk. She found that the girls here were not much better than the girls in the Daliang Dynasty. In any case, they could never be compared with the girls in Luoyang Base.
They have no property and no inheritance rights. When they are about to get married, their parents will ask the man for a sum of money or a piece of land.
Then they would leave home and become their husbands’ “property”.
However, unlike the Daliang Dynasty, noble women here have the right of inheritance, and they may retain their original surnames even after getting married, provided that their maiden family is strong enough.
If they have no brothers, they may also become heirs and obtain the title.
Although the possibility of this happening is very small, it is not impossible, and it is not something that no one has done.
But ordinary peasant girls seem to be the same everywhere, Cao'er thought silently.
She walked out with the second female employee, and as soon as she went out, she saw Ye Zhou standing not far away.
Cao Er immediately turned to the two girls and said, "That's our Xian...boss."
The girls nodded nervously, not knowing what to say. They just followed Cao'er's gaze, trying to remember Ye Zhou's appearance.
Ye Zhou took a step forward and walked towards the direction where the new employees were.
Although he had no idea what to say to them.
But as long as he isn't allowed to stay in the supermarket and see Zou Ming, it will be fine.
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