Chapter 82 Greed 25 I can't help it
Before Kong Yanze could figure out what these two people were planning, an invitation letter was handed to him. It was clearly stated that it was for Kong Yanze and signed by Zhou Man.
Kong Yanze opened the letter and took a quick look, then looked at Zhou Baiqiao who was busy with his head down and threw the invitation on his desk.
"Is your aunt going to throw me a check to get me to leave you?"
Zhou Baiqiao closed the pen cap, took it and took a look, then pushed his glasses up with his fingers, without changing his expression.
"Won't."
Kong Yanze has heard a lot from Zhou Baiyang recently. Zhou Baiqiao's parents died early, and he was raised by the old patriarch and Zhou Man. After the old patriarch died, Zhou Man has always firmly supported Zhou Baiqiao.
Although Zhou Boyang is afraid of him, he truly regards Zhou Boqiao as his own brother. I guess Zhou Man and he must have a very deep relationship?
"No? Your aunt probably knows that you have dealt with so many people in a row just for a bed partner, and she wants to meet a vixen like me."
Kong Yanze walked to his desk, swept his documents aside, sat down at his desk, and demonstrated with his own actions what a vixen is.
Zhou Baiqiao took his hand, just smiled, and checked the condition of his hand. The manor was very lively yesterday. Those families came with a group of lame young people to apologize.
Kong Yanze was still sleeping in, and Zhou Baiqiao didn't disturb him. He put a pillow for his back to lean on, tucked the quilt in, put on his coat and went out.
When Kong Yanze woke up and went downstairs, he saw a group of people sitting downstairs with their heads huddled. They were all acquaintances. Norton, with his head wrapped and his hands hanging, was kneeling on the ground, shaking violently, and dared not make a sound.
Zhou Baiqiao was sitting in the main seat with a cold expression, frowning and looking impatient. When he turned around and saw Kong Yanze, he immediately stood up and asked the butler to send the guest away.
Kong Yanze didn't go over, but he noticed out of the corner of his eye that the six of them, in addition to the injuries from him, all had their right hands bandaged. Kong Yanze retracted his gaze and looked at Zhou Baiqiao.
Zhou Baiqiao looked normal. He just whispered to him not to be picky about food and took him to the restaurant, as if the behavior of that group of people had nothing to do with him.
No matter how big the situation was outside, Zhou Baiqiao always just let it go without letting Kong Yanze know. As soon as Zhou Man's invitation was sent, Kong Yanze could guess that Zhou Baiqiao must have lost his temper outside and made some big moves.
"My hand is almost healed now."
The gauze on Kong Yanze's hand had been removed long ago, but the marks were still there. Zhou Baiqiao looked at it eight hundred times a day, and no one knew what he was thinking. Looking at it a few more times would not make it heal immediately.
"I'm talking to you. I'm not going to the party. I'm staying here."
Zhou Baiqiao rejected it directly: "No."
Kong Yanze raised his foot and stepped on his knee. The weather was getting colder and it was time to wear socks indoors. All of Kong Yanze's socks were red woolen socks. They were thick and warm and he just liked them for some reason.
"If she really gave you a check, would you accept it?"
Zhou Baiqiao spoke casually, as if he was just chatting casually. Kong Yanze thought for a moment, looked down at him, and answered him.
"I'll call you over and let the two of you bid openly. Whoever offers the highest price will win."
After listening to this, Zhou Baiqiao put his arm around his waist without saying anything. Kong Yanze stepped on his legs and laughed, then jumped down holding onto his desk.
*
After all, it was a banquet, and Kong Yanze rarely wore formal clothes. The color, pattern and fabric were exactly the same as Zhou Baiqiao's, only the cut and style were different.
Zhou Baiqiao wears a double-breasted suit with peaked lapels, and he looks tall and imposing. His three-piece suit is of retro British style, low-key and noble.
Kong Yanze looked more casual and youthful, and many small details were changed to be more comfortable. He didn't try to be too formal, and he didn't wear a shirt underneath. The high-necked white knitted bottoming shirt was gentle and soft. Kong Yanze's slightly long black hair was loose, and Zhou Baiqiao stood behind him and clumsily tied up half of it for him.
As soon as they appear like this, anyone except a blind person will know their relationship, there is no concealment at all.
Sure enough, when they arrived, the originally noisy hall fell silent for a moment. All the gazes and scrutiny, whether overt or covert, were blocked by Zhou Baiqiao, who pulled him towards the lady in the center of the crowd.
Zhou Man didn't look old at all. There was no smile on her face, and her arrogance and natural coldness were very relaxed. She didn't wear a slim dress, but only a vintage long skirt in the style of a flapper straight skirt with some tassels.
"Bo Qiao, you finally brought someone to see me."
Zhou Man patted his arm, turned to look at Kong Yanze, and smiled. It was a very standard smile, Kong Yanze thought, the same perfunctory and polite smile as Chang Qiuyi and the mistress of the Fang family.
Zhou Man was very cold to her own son who was following behind her and sent him away after a few words. Zhou Boyang wanted to ask his mother to help unfreeze his card, but he couldn't get a word in.
"I almost forgot." Zhou Man looked at Zhou Baiqiao with a smile, and the smile was a little more genuine. "I called You He as well. You haven't seen each other for a long time. Don't you want to catch up?"
Kong Yanze raised his eyebrows, and had a premonition in his heart. Zhou Baiqiao was very calm, and kept his arm around Kong Yanze's waist and had no intention of leaving.
"She wouldn't think to say hello to me."
Zhou Man patted his arm in disapproval and whispered to the waiter beside him to call someone over.
Kong Yanze jokingly glanced at Zhou Baiqiao while holding his wine glass, and happened to be caught by Zhou Baiqiao's eyes. He acted too calmly, so Kong Yanze uncomfortably avoided his gaze.
"Hello Aunt Man, hello Mr. Zhou."
Kong Yanze frowned subconsciously and looked in the direction of the voice. It was a black-haired girl wearing a white long dress with exquisite embroidery and a ruby brooch on her chest. She looked beautiful and unique.
Her voice was gentle, and her smile was very peaceful, but there was a kind of inexplicable rigidity after training, and her movements were elegant and generous. She didn't wear heavy makeup, her face was pink, her eyes were round, her nose and mouth were delicate and small, and she had Chinese looks, very gentle and beautiful.
Kong Yanze couldn't take his eyes away. Zhou Baiqiao's hands kept tightening, but Kong Yanze ignored him and just kept looking at her.
Could he say he had a feeling he had seen her somewhere?
And the time interval was not long, but he couldn't match it up for a while. However, he was sure that he had seen it somewhere. He had no basis, just a feeling.
"Who is this?"
She folded her hands in long gloves, nodded slightly and looked at Kong Yanze with a smile.
Zhou Baiqiao answered before they did. "My love."
He could say he was a friend, or even a boyfriend, and no one would think anything of it, but he was so decisive. Zhou Baiqiao looked down at Kong Yanze and held his hand affectionately.
Kong Yanze extended his hand to the girl and nodded slightly.
"Kong Yanze."
She smiled politely in return and extended her hand to shake his.
"Yao Youhe."
Kong Yanze couldn't feel anything through the lace gloves, and couldn't verify his guess. When they let go of each other's hands, Kong Yanze felt her fingers rubbing against his palm.
Kong Yanze curled his hands and didn't say anything more.
Zhou Man suddenly pulled Kong Yanze and said to Zhou Baiqiao, "I want to talk to this child alone. Baiqiao, please accompany Youhe for me."
Kong Yanze knew that Zhou Baiqiao would definitely not agree, so he took the initiative to extend his hand for Zhou Man to hold.
"It's an honor. I also want to talk to Aunt Man."
Zhou Baiqiao's face obviously darkened, but he just lowered his eyes to glance at Kong Yanze, frowned and responded in a low voice.
"You are very beautiful, no wonder he likes you so much." Zhou Man took him for a walk in the backyard, which was relatively quiet and there were not many guests.
"Thank you for the compliment." Kong Yanze was waiting for her to get to the point.
"Actually, I don't want you and Bai Qiao to continue to be together." Zhou Man didn't show any sign of buffering, and Kong Yanze just nodded when he heard it.
Zhou Man didn't care about his coldness, smiled and mentioned Yao Youhe.
"You He is the marriage partner I chose for Bo Qiao. What do you think of her?"
Kong Yanze thought for a moment and replied with a smile: "My first impression is very good, but I have only met him once, so it is not easy to make comments about others."
Zhou Man sighed: "You don't seem to mind? Aren't you afraid that he will give up on you one day and choose Xiaohe, the one your family arranged for him?"
Kong Yanze felt that these ladies in the upper class circles really all had a common problem: testing, being half-hearted, and pretending to be ignorant even though they had checked everything.
"You think I care?"
Zhou Man stopped and looked ahead, and Kong Yanze followed suit. Zhou Baiqiao was standing alone by the archway of the garden, frowning and holding an unlit cigarette.
"Did you see that?"
Zhou Man looked at Kong Yanze and smiled. Kong Yanze frowned and looked at her in confusion.
"Even if you don't choose him, he will only choose you."
"Last year I asked him if he was planning to get married for the Zhou family."
Zhou Man looked at his young and handsome face and continued to speak slowly: "He said no. He would not let anything, including the Zhou family's assets, force him to do anything."
"But a few days ago, he called me and told me that he had completed the property and trust procedures and that he was going to marry someone."
"I asked him why. It's been less than a year since you met. This is not a decision Zhou Baiqiao would make."
Zhou Man looked into his eyes, calm and gentle. Although she was born with arrogance, there was always a hint of tenderness between her brows when she talked about her nephew.
"He told me that he had no other choice." She lowered her eyelashes and almost sighed.
Kong Yanze's heart trembled, and he subconsciously curled up his hands and put them in his pockets to block it.
"Since childhood, you should be the first person who can make him lose like this."
Kong Yanze leaned against a pillar and smiled bitterly.
"It's an honor. It seems you are here to persuade me, not to waive a check to get me to leave him."
Zhou Man adjusted her hair, smiled and shook her head. "If it was Zhou Boyang, I would take action. But for Zhou Boqiao, no one can shake his decision."
"I only know a little about your affairs. He kept it a secret, so I can't judge right or wrong. But I can't help but be partial to him, so I have to come here today to complain."
"He is so stupid." Kong Yanze suddenly interrupted her. He glanced at Zhou Baiqiao in the distance and calmly looked away.
"Stupid and smart as hell."
Kong Yanze turned around and smiled at her again. Zhou Man frowned slightly and watched him lean over and walk towards Zhou Baiqiao who was not far away. Zhou Baiqiao had already seen them and had been waiting there.
Zhou Man saw the caution in Zhou Baiqiao's eyes, and she had to hold his brows with her hands before she relaxed, like a child who had to hold the corner of an adult's clothes in a strange place.
Kong Yanze let him pull him, indulging and acquiescing in all his little actions that showed his possessiveness. When Zhou Baiqiao didn't look at him, his eyes unconsciously became soft and gentle.
Zhou Man was stunned for a long time, remembering the phone call when Zhou Baiqiao sighed and said helplessly: "He hates me. No matter what I do, I can't make him love me and be willing to stay with me."
"I can't help it, aunt."
It is indeed stupid. He doesn't even know whether he loves or not, and he keeps making more mistakes by trying to be smart.
*
"It's not easy to find you when you're alone."
Kong Yanze was not surprised at all that she came to find him. He turned around and saw Yao Youhe holding a wine glass and smiling with raised eyebrows. She looked much more lively than when she was fake smiling at that time.
But this made Kong Yanze immediately confirm her identity. "You were the one who approached me at the bar that day, right?"
Yao Youhe covered her mouth and smiled with her eyes curved: "I don't understand what you are saying." Kong Yanze couldn't help but smile. The contrast between her and others was quite big.
She kept staring at Kong Yanze and sighed, "You are so beautiful, but it's a pity that I can't snatch you away."
Kong Yanze spread his hands, glanced at the people dancing in groups of three or four in the hall, bowed and put one hand behind his back in an invitation gesture.
"Then would you please dance to make up for it?"
Yao Youhe raised an eyebrow and motioned him to look at the second floor behind him. Zhou Baiqiao and Zhou Baiyang were standing on the second floor looking at them. Zhou Baiyang kept winking at them. Zhou Baiqiao put one hand on the railing and looked straight at them.
Kong Yanze pulled her waist and whispered an apology. Yao Youhe's eyes lit up and she immediately put her hands together and whispered to him, "Wow, so exciting, so exciting."
Kong Yanze originally studied ballet, so he was able to draw inferences from his past, and his movements were more graceful and relaxed than those of others. The two beautiful young people danced to the graceful and soothing violin music, attracting amazed eyes from all directions.
The sparkling crystal chandeliers in the hall made everything here shine like gold. Jewelry, diamonds, champagne, dresses, and perfume all seemed to be just insignificant accompaniments to the music and dance steps.
Yao Youhe was almost going crazy, the conservative white skirt spun up in a round arc, and the edge of the skirt brushed his calf. Yao Youhe took the opportunity to bend down and then pulled back, holding his shoulders and whispering in his ear.
"Zhou Boqiao looks like he's going to kill me. So vicious."
Kong Yanze tilted his head and smiled. Yao Youhe looked at him closely and her face turned red. She immediately took advantage of the change of tune to put her foot in, changed her arm, and put her arm around Kong Yanze's waist, looking up at the second floor and smiling provocatively.
Kong Yanze laughed out loud and immediately cooperated with her by changing to female steps and letting her dance male steps. They moved forward and backward one by one, separated and then touched each other's arms and separated again. The female steps were not feminine, and the male steps were not stiff. They looked harmonious and beautiful.
Zhou Baiyang was paying attention to Zhou Baiqiao at first, but now he is completely fascinated by him and he even feels a little eager to try.
"It's amazing, they have such tacit understanding when they first met."
When he turned around and saw Zhou Baiqiao's gloomy expression, he swallowed his words.
As soon as they finished, applause broke out all around. Yao Youhe took him to take a bow, unable to stop laughing.
She pulled him aside and confessed to him in a low voice.
"I'll tell you in secret. At first I thought I was called here to force a marriage with Zhou Baiqiao, so I thought of approaching you to see if I could get a solution from you."
"Later I found out you were getting married. Even though I knew you didn't want to, I still couldn't help but feel relieved... I'm sorry."
Kong Yanze smiled and shook his head, only glancing at her brooch: "The brooch is very beautiful, just do your job well, don't apologize."
He just heard Zhou Baiqiao mention that Yao Youhe had just set up a jewelry design studio, but she relied on family support and had no way to resist her family's arrangements. Now she had a little more time to breathe.
Yao Youhe felt unhappy, and suddenly lowered her voice and said to him quickly: "If you don't want to, I want to help you leave..."
"Yan Ze." A deep, tense voice interrupted their conversation.
Zhou Baiqiao pulled him over by his wrist, lowered his eyes to look at Kong Yanze, and walked out with his arm around his waist. "It's getting late, we should leave."
Yao Youhe subconsciously followed him two steps, Zhou Boyang pulled her back and whispered to her: "Auntie, don't mess with him."
Yao Youhe was completely furious. She tore off her ladylike mask and gave him the middle finger.
"You stand on Zhou Baiqiao's side, and I stand on Yan Ze's side. Don't stop me."
Yao Youhe chased after him in her high heels and shouted to Zhou Baiqiao, "If you have the guts, let him go and see if he will still miss you."
"Can you lock him up forever?"
Zhou Baiqiao suddenly stopped, Kong Yanze was held in his arms, his hands clasped on his back. He looked down at Kong Yanze, his dark blue eyes full of stubbornness, then turned to look at Yao Youhe and announced calmly.
"I can."
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