As evening fell, dazzling fiery clouds stretched across the horizon, and many children who had just been released from school gathered in the old neighborhood, playing and laughing.
There are many elderly people and children living here. After living here for a while, you can greet each other when you meet. It's full of life and warmth. That's the good thing about old neighborhoods.
After class, Liang Zhirou bought a lot of groceries and planned to cook for Chen Lu before going home.
Just as the girl was about to enter the building, a middle-aged woman with curly hair walked towards her.
"Are you Xiaolu's girlfriend? You're really pretty."
Liang Zhirou was startled. "Hello, Auntie..."
"Here, take this bag of peaches. I just bought a lot from the market."
"There are still some at home."
“Xiao Lu helped me carry rice before, I can’t let him do his work for nothing. Look at you! If you don’t get it, I’ll get angry, listen to me.”
"oh......"
Liang Zhirou, who had been forced to accept some unexpected gains, pouted angrily as soon as she entered the door and saw Chen Lu sitting calmly on the sofa.
"Oh, who's here?" Chen Lu said in a deliberately strange tone.
The more Liang Zhirou thought about Chen Lu's comments, the more ashamed she became. She walked to the sofa, put her hands on Chen Lu's shoulders, and then bumped her head hard against his chest.
"You're a bully at home, aren't you!" Chen Lu wailed twice and chased after her to tickle her.
Chen Lu thought Liang Zhirou was going to kiss him.
This idiot is now taking advantage of his abilities; he's so mean.
Liang Zhirou was held tightly in Chen Lu's arms and couldn't run away, so she could only look at him with a wronged expression and say coquettishly, "You can't bully me..."
This silly goose is getting better and better at being cute, and this time it really hurt Chen Lu's health bar.
Chen Lu was indignant. This idiot had already taken advantage of him before, and now he wanted to bump into him and run away?
He embraced the girl's slender waist, savoring the fragrance of her hair, and whispered, "Give me a reason to let you go."
This little guy has such a soft belly, I can pinch it.
"Your comment this afternoon caused me to be mocked by Miaomiao until I was forced to leave the school..." Liang Zhirou looked very aggrieved. "I'm just getting revenge."
Chen Lu didn't take it seriously. "Go ahead and deduct her salary. She earns 10,000 yuan a month now."
After he finished speaking, he put his mouth close to the girl's ear and continued to joke: "I'll teach you, every time you deduct 648, 648, she'll definitely feel sorry for you when she hears it."
"She's not working for me."
"You're the boss's wife."
"No, that's not it." Liang Zhirou was extremely frustrated. This person always took advantage of her from every angle, and she couldn't defend herself against it. "The way my classmates looked at me this afternoon was all strange."
“I could tell you didn’t like being talked about, so I stepped in. I couldn’t just yell at you all to stop chattering, could I? I had to be tactful.”
Liang Zhirou blinked blankly, and after thinking for a long time, she vaguely understood what Chen Lu meant. She pursed her lips, feeling a little like kissing him.
Chen Lu was preoccupied with the progress of the second game and had no interest in teasing her. He plopped back down on the sofa, leaving Liang Zhirou there in a daze.
"Why did you bring back a bag of peaches? My mom already brought so many." Chen Lu's eyes, which had been full of curiosity, immediately dimmed when he saw that the bag was full of peaches. He grinned listlessly and said, "Are you two raising monkeys here?"
They were all soft peaches, not as sweet and crisp as the kind.
"I didn't buy them," Liang Zhirou said earnestly as she put the groceries she had bought into the refrigerator.
Chen Lu found it amusing, "Could it be that someone gave it to you because you're good-looking?"
“It was a gift from an auntie…” Liang Zhirou reached out and touched her hair, then shook it gently twice. “It was from an auntie who had permed her hair.”
The girl thought for a long time but still couldn't match the names. This situation, where others recognized her but she couldn't recognize them, made her feel so embarrassed she wanted to die.
"Oh." Chen Lu pointed to the ground. "It should be the aunt downstairs. Her daughter is a counselor at our school, I think she's in the accounting department."
Liang Zhirou looked at him as if she had seen a ghost, "How do you know everything?"
"We talked about it while chatting. We run into each other often, so we can't just not talk to each other, right? Besides, this is a neighborhood near a university, so it's never a bad thing to get to know more people."
If you know enough people, as long as you keep talking, you'll eventually have the opportunity to connect with people you both know—that's what networking is.
The main reason is that he can't stand the conversation ending on his end. If the other person just says "oh" and then doesn't say anything more, then everyone's happy. But it can't be him who just says "oh" and then doesn't say anything more.
The advantage of doing this is that it seems polite to others, but the disadvantage is that it can go on and on if you encounter a talkative person.
Liang Zhirou didn't quite understand, but it sounded impressive. She gently kissed Chen Lu's cheek and then ran to the kitchen to cook.
......
It was only a little past six o'clock after dinner, and it wasn't even dark yet, so Liang Zhirou wasn't in a hurry to go back.
After washing the dishes, Chen Lu sat on the sofa and closed his eyes to rest. Now that the studio had gained some buzz and the second game was taking shape, it was time to consider some opportunistic marketing tactics.
Seeing that Chen Lu was deep in thought, Liang Zhirou obediently did not disturb him and sat down to draw.
She initially said it was just a hobby, but after hearing Lin Miaomiao say that she could earn a lot of money if she mastered it, she became even more motivated to learn.
Liang Zhirou still felt that finding a hobby wasn't suitable for her, nor was being a rich young woman kept by Chen Lu.
Although she realized that she was a bit dull compared to Chen Lu, she still did not give up her dream of keeping Chen Lu as her sugar daddy.
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