Chapter 32

Zhao Zhizhi was negotiating with the second-generation rich men sitting in the booths. No matter what, he was powerless. This further aroused the desire of these dandies to play tricks on those who were like ants in their eyes. They regarded this as fun. They could n’t beat them. Half of them were sick. Even if they won, could they run away?

“Okay, then can I drink for my friend? She really can’t drink. You don’t want to kill anyone!”

Zhao Zhizhi finished speaking. A yellow-haired man sitting next to him started to curse: “Who the hell are you trying to scare? You want to kill someone. Is my wine a five-step drinker?” After he finished speaking, his accomplices all laughed. 𝕎🅆𝙬.𝓥𝕆𝙙🆃🆆1.ℂ🄲

“You can drink, but as a man you have to drink double, unless you say you are a woman and look like a woman.”

The group of people laughed even louder.

Zhao Zhizhi endured it, clenched his teeth, his body trembled slightly, and his hands clenched into fists at his sides, but the facts before him forced him to let go of his stubbornness and face it with his head down. Finally, he replied helplessly, “Okay.”

Zhao Jia tugged at Zhao Zhizhi’s clothes: “You took cefuroxime and drank alcohol. Are you crazy?”

Zhao Zhizhi sighed, “But there is no other way now.”

Zhao Jia stepped forward, pointed at Zhao Zhizhi, and said to several people, “He just took cefuroxime for a cold, I am allergic to alcohol, my sister is sick and can’t drink, and my friend is young and can’t drink, so could you please be merciful? We don’t want the money, can you let us go?”

The man in the burgundy shirt sneered, “Are you taking us for a fool? This year is not the Year of the Monkey! Why is only your friend sick? What disease? Cancer? Hahaha!”

After that, he raised his head in the direction of Lu Xiaoqiao, “Then let your friend drink. It’s okay if he’s young, as long as he’s an adult. If you get drunk and can’t walk, your brother will take care of you at night.” After that, he glanced up and down at Lu Xiaoqiao with ill intent.

“You…” Qin Momo couldn’t stand her friend being humiliated like this, but just as she was about to speak, she was stopped by Lu Xiaoqiao beside her.

Lu Xiaoqiao felt sick and wanted to vomit at the man’s gaze, but now she was the only pillar of the family. Fortunately, it was all beer, and the alcohol content was not high, so she drank it as kvass.

After hesitating for a long time, she stood up: “Okay, I drink it, but I also hope that you will keep your word and don’t regret it.”

Qin Momo grabbed her: “Xiaoqiao!”

Lu Xiaoqiao shook his head at her and told her that it was okay.

Zhao Jia felt sorry for her, but she was severely allergic and probably went into shock before she finished drinking.

Taking a deep breath, Lu Xiaoqiao took a sip of the glass. Fortunately, it was just an ordinary beer. After she felt relieved, she raised the glass and drank the wine in the glass in one breath. Then she reached for the second glass, the third glass… Zhou Qizhen’s already huge workload became even more complicated because of the hazelnut problem at noon. He had to change his plan to go back to the old house today because of overtime work after promising his father.

He took the elevator from the office to the parking lot. As soon as he sat in the driver’s seat, he received a call from Li Yuxuan.

“What are you doing? Still working overtime? Your boss works so hard that I, an employee, will feel embarrassed to leave work on time in the future!”

Zhou Qizhen fastened his seat belt and started the car: “You can work overtime with me every day in the future.”

“Then just pretend I didn’t say anything.” Li Yuxuan heard the engine sound and continued: “Since you are out, why don’t you come to the newly opened ‘Mei Ye’ bar to find me. It’s opened by Zi Yang’s friend. The bartender inside is said to have been poached from abroad with great effort. His bartending skills are first-class. Let’s go over and have a taste?”

“No.”

Hearing his refusal without any hesitation, Li Yuxuan’s tone was a little more teasing: “No, I said that you just turned 30, how come you live like an old man? Every day, you work and socialize. Why are you in such a hurry to go home? No one is waiting for you.”

Zhou Qizhen, who had just driven the car out of the parking lot, paused for a moment when he heard this obvious teasing.

Then he turned his eyes to the co-pilot, where the hazelnuts that Lu Xiaoqiao gave him were placed. Thinking of what Shen Yi said to him in his office during the day, he suddenly wanted to prove that he had made some progress.

“Send me the address.”

Hearing him ask for the address, Li Yuxuan was stunned for a moment. He just said he couldn’t come, but he just said something and agreed to come. Why didn’t he listen to others’ advice before? But he didn’t say anything, and smiled and told the geographical location.

Zhou Qizhen arrived at the main entrance of the “Mei Ye” bar. As soon as he parked the car, the parking boy quickly came to meet him.

After handing him the car keys, Zhou Qizhen walked towards the bar.

After finding Li Yuxuan at the bar, he sat next to him, then raised his hand and pretended to be careless, and placed the hazelnuts he brought in together with the tool clips in a more conspicuous position between the two of them.

“Why didn’t you call Shen Yi?” He had to let the two of them see it together.

“She’s getting engaged, and she’s busy with a lot of things. How can I dare to call her?” After saying that, he asked the bartender for two cocktails.

Zhou Qizhen glanced at him and pretended to move the bag of hazelnuts towards him casually. 𝕎𝙒🆆.𝙑𝓞🄳🅃𝙒1.𝙘ℂLi

Yuxuan finally found out: “What is this?” After saying that, he stretched out his hand to open it and take a look.

Zhou Qizhen patted his outstretched hand: “Don’t move.”

Li Yuxuan was even more curious: “What is it? Such a treasure.”

Zhou Qizhen opened the bag: “Hazelnuts.”

“Hazelnuts? Why are they so small? Where did they come from?”

“What do you know? These are wild ones. The big ones are all grafted and planted. They are not as delicious as these, and the nutritional value is not as high as these. This is a specialty of the Northeast.”

Li Yuxuan was confused at first. He was asked to come and drink, and how could he popularize the nutritional value of hazelnuts? It was not until he heard the last sentence that he suddenly understood.

“Did your sweetheart give it to you?”

“She was afraid that it would be inconvenient for me to eat it, so she specially brought me a small clip.” After saying that, as if she wanted to demonstrate to him, she took out a nut and gently clamped it open, peeling out the complete kernel. This was something he had practiced for a long time.

Li Yuxuan laughed angrily: “Are you here to show off to me? Old Zhou, are you childish?”

After the cocktail was mixed, Li Yuxuan took a glass for himself and pushed the other glass in front of him. Seeing that he had no intention of drinking, he just sat there with his eyes downcast and peeled the hazelnuts seriously.

“You don’t want to drink! Then why are you here?”

“I drove here.” After saying that, he peeled out a whole nut kernel and put it in his mouth to chew slowly.

“Is it delicious?”

“Of course.”

“Give me some! Why are you eating alone?”

After saying that, Li Yuxuan spread his palm and stretched it in front of him, the meaning couldn’t be more obvious.

“Don’t be so stingy! You said it yourself, because I have given you a lot of advice on your affairs, if you don’t give it to me, I will call her to ask for it myself tomorrow! I will ask her why she forgot her brother’s share when she had something delicious, and I might say something I shouldn’t say.” Hearing

him say threatening words seriously, I didn’t want to pay attention to him, but suddenly seemed to remember something, opened the bag, and took out a dozen hazelnuts from it: “Give you a few less to try first, and her mother will mail it to me in a few days, and then I will give it to you.”

Li Yuxuan: “…”

“Damn! Really good at showing off.” It feels like the past few decades of knowing each other were in vain.

Li Yuxuan bit open a hazelnut with his teeth, put the kernel into his mouth, and said while chewing: “It’s obvious that it can be opened with just one bite. Are you sure that the tool is not a gift? Or do you think you are old and your teeth are not good?”

Zhou Qizhen heard his tone of arrogance and said in a deep voice: “If you don’t want to eat it, give it back to me.”

Li Yuxuan was afraid that he would really come to grab it, so he quickly put the remaining less than ten hazelnuts into his pocket: “Tsk! Look, you can’t sit still when you talk about your age.”

Seeing that Zhou Qizhen ignored him, he picked up the wine glass and took a sip, looking around casually. When he turned his head to the left and back, his sight was fixed on a group of people in the booth.

The people sitting or standing around the booth were all surrounding a girl in a gray hoodie who was drinking in the middle. The girl was drinking one beer after another. Compared with this place, she looked out of place.

Maybe she drank a little too quickly, the girl was choked and coughed a few times with her mouth covered. When she turned back, Li Yuxuan was scared.

“Oh my god! Lao Zhou, look! Is that Xiao Qiao?”