Chen Lu stared at his phone screen for a long time before finally pressing the screen-off button and hanging up the phone.
He had heard from Peng Leyun that Jiang Chao and Liu Yan had quarreled.
Liang Zhirou, who was walking beside him, tilted her head, but did not ask directly.
If Chen Lu wants to say it, he will say it himself.
Sure enough, as soon as Chen Lu put down his phone, he took a deep breath and took her hand again. "If there's anything important at the company, he'll call back later. If it's a relationship issue, he probably won't call again."
"They're arguing again? Aren't you going to help?" Liang Zhirou bent down and hugged Duoduo, who had been eyeing the trash can, back into her arms, asking with some doubt.
She wasn't sure if she was more confused about why Chen Lu hung up the phone more often, or about why the two of them were arguing again.
After all, even she knew that arguing wouldn't solve anything and would only make both of them miserable.
Although Chen Lu sometimes made her so angry that she wanted to bang her head against him, she couldn't bear to argue with him.
Chen Lu shrugged. "I'm helping out now too."
Seeing Liang Zhirou's incredulous expression, he couldn't help but laugh and said, "This isn't some ordinary little conflict between couples. It's just that one of them wants to go east and the other wants to go west, so they can only resolve it themselves. Even if you manage to mediate between them on the surface, they'll still argue next time."
If you can learn something in one go, Chen Lu really wanted to help him, which is why he decided to let Jiang Chao take a hard fall.
No one dictates which is more important, career or love, so Chen Lu didn't force his own ideas onto Jiang Chao, but he could give Jiang Chao a chance to think about it.
"Will they... break up?"
This was a completely unfamiliar term to Liang Zhirou, because she had never thought about it, and in fact, she didn't dare to.
Even saying it out loud feels a little awkward.
“Their relationship isn’t that shallow, they won’t suddenly break up. If he really can’t handle it, I’ll find a way to help him. We might even need your help.” As they chatted, they reached the supermarket entrance. He opened the door for Liang Zhirou and casually asked, “By the way, what do you think of Liu Yan?”
If Liang Zhirou didn't have a good impression of Liu Yan, he naturally wouldn't ask Liang Zhirou to help persuade her. Although, in terms of status, this simpleton was the most suitable, there was no need to force it.
“I think… she’s a good person.” Liang Zhirou pondered for a moment, then said seriously, “She bought me oden.”
"That's really in line with your style."
Chen Lu chuckled and made a sarcastic remark.
Most people would probably use some concise words to summarize, such as "this person has a sharp tongue but a soft heart, and is actually very kind to others."
Goodness, this simpleton is much more straightforward.
She is a good person.
Chen Lu became happier the more he thought about it, realizing that none of his many conclusions were as insightful as this one sentence.
Hilarious, his girlfriend is a genius.
"If you laugh at me again, I'll bite you." Liang Zhirou stepped aside from the spot Chen Lu had given her and walked through the door, opening her mouth fiercely at him at the same time.
"Okay, okay."
As soon as I entered, the chill on my body dissipated considerably, and a warm current enveloped me. With only a windproof curtain in place, it felt like a completely different world from the outside.
That's why supermarkets and shopping malls are such great places—warm in winter and cool in summer. They never skimp on spending money to encourage customers to linger and shop longer.
Liang Zhirou took off her hat and secretly stuffed it into Chen Lu's pocket.
Then Master Chen arrested him on the spot, and the hand that had been in his pocket was now completely stuck in his pocket.
The large supermarket was packed with people, standing everywhere. Many red lanterns made of folded paper hung from the ceiling, and even Spring Festival couplets and firecrackers were being sold on the counters.
Whether it's the increasing number of unfamiliar faces in the neighborhood or the scenery all around, it all points to the same thing.
It's already the sixteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, and the Spring Festival is really just around the corner.
Chen Lu stopped and looked around, but didn't see what he was looking for.
When I was a kid, supermarkets would sell a lot of those BB guns near the Lunar New Year. I think the brand was called Yellow River. They were incredibly powerful.
That thing was much more fun than firecrackers. He often led a group of mischievous kids to hunt sparrows, but even as he grew up, he never managed to catch a single one.
Unfortunately, supermarkets stopped selling this product at some point, and sparrows can no longer be seen in Hangzhou at any time.
He waved Liang Zhirou's hand toward the counter displaying Spring Festival couplets and whispered, "Shall we buy one too? We can put it on the door of our rented apartment."
Chen Lu felt that Liang Zhirou probably hadn't been interested in experiencing what it was like to celebrate the New Year over the years, and most likely just made do with whatever she felt like.
Of course, he himself has only ever known how to wait for the New Year's Eve dinner and has no experience in preparing for the New Year.
Let's try it together.
"OK."
Liang Zhirou found it novel and took her other hand out of her pocket, carefully rummaging through several items.
As she flipped through the pages, she quickly shrank further into the scarf, trying to hide the smile that she couldn't suppress.
She looked down at the Spring Festival couplets in her hand, then secretly glanced at Chen Lu, who was standing beside her with a shopping basket, looking around.
It feels like we're really living our lives...
They looked at themselves and saw no difference from the other young couples shopping together.
Before steam could rise from Liang Zhirou's head, Chen Lu quickly led her to the other side to buy meat.
You don't need to prepare too many things for pork and scallion dumplings. Just pick a piece of pork that looks good. You can buy other New Year's goods later when the end of the year is really here. I just grabbed a couplet and a bag of pork, and that was it for my grocery shopping mission.
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