Chapter 28: This is my mother-in-law!

“Ah? No… he’s very good to me.” Liang Zhirou said seriously.

Seeing Liang Zhirou’s slightly shy appearance, Chen Mo wished he was a boy at this moment.

Chen Lu tapped Chen Mo’s forehead with a smile, then led Liang Zhirou out the door.

The door closed slowly, and the two of them waited silently for the elevator.

Liang Zhirou held her canvas bag, her expression a bit complicated.

“What’s wrong?” Chen Lu was very sensitive to the girl’s mood changes and asked.

“I, I thought about it for a long time yesterday but couldn’t figure out what to bring. It’s my first time here, and I didn’t bring anything…”

Chen Lu couldn’t help but laugh, “It doesn’t matter, you’re here to be a tutor anyway.

If you bring something, wouldn’t that make you look like a daughter-in-law coming to visit?”

He leaned down and looked into the girl’s eyes, “I understand. So you want to marry into my family?”

Liang Zhirou quickly turned her head away, her breathing becoming a little rapid, “That’s not what I meant…”

“My sister wasn’t being dishonest, was she?” He asked again.

“No, she was quite serious.” Liang Zhirou said softly, putting on her backpack, “She just chatted with me for a while before she was willing to study.”

“What did you talk about?”

“She told me not to tell you…”

Chen Lu was unhappy, he looked at her with a straight face, “Are we not best friends anymore?”

The girl nodded slightly.

“So are you going to tell me?” He asked with a serious expression.

“Don’t be angry… I’ll tell you…” Liang Zhirou’s tone became very anxious, she quickly confessed everything, “She asked us…”

Before she could finish her sentence, Chen Lu placed his index finger on her moist lips.

“Alright, I’m happy that you’re willing to tell me. As for what you talked about, that’s a secret between you two.” Chen Lu chuckled, his tone very gentle, “You don’t need to say things you don’t want to.”

Liang Zhirou blinked, a little confused.

But I’m willing to tell you everything.

……

Arriving at the parking space, Chen Lu slowly started the car, the girl sat obediently in the passenger seat.

Of course, this was Chen Lu’s strong request.

Like taking care of a child, Chen Lu pulled over the safety belt, looped it around her chest, and helped her buckle it in the seat.

Liang Zhirou remained motionless, afraid of accidentally making any inappropriate physical contact, she just occasionally glanced at the boy secretly.

For some reason, she felt… strange.

“Why are you so nervous? Do you look down on my driving skills?” Chen Lu asked Liang Zhirou with a smile as he reversed the car.

Then he froze there.

Even though the girl was wearing a loose T-shirt, her graceful figure was tightly hugged by the safety belt, she adjusted her sitting position somewhat shyly, trying to make it look less obvious.

Chen Lu cleared his throat, “Tell me the address, I’ll use the navigation.”

“Go to the supermarket near my house, I’ll buy some groceries…”

“Alright.”

After half an hour, the car stopped in front of a supermarket.

Looking at Liang Zhirou unbuckling her seatbelt, Chen Lu felt a bit complicated.

It takes so long to drive, I wonder how long this silly girl took the bus to get here.

A mistake, I should have tricked her into agreeing to let me pick her up.

The two of them walked into the supermarket together, Liang Zhirou carried the shopping basket, looking here and there, Chen Lu silently followed beside her.

This made him feel a little novel.

A feeling of living life together.

“What do you want to buy?” Chen Lu asked.

The girl thought for a moment, “Let’s buy some bitter melon first…”

“I don’t like bitter melon.” He shamelessly continued his role-playing.

The silly girl didn’t notice that she was being taken advantage of, her eyes blinked and she looked at him, asking, “What do you want to eat?”

Chen Lu smiled, “I was just kidding, I’m not going to eat at your house.”

Liang Zhirou finally realized, she turned her head away and continued to buy groceries.

This Chen Lu just knows how to bully her…

Although she quite likes it.

Liang Zhirou casually bought some vegetables, and then picked out a fish, as a way to improve their diet.

For each vegetable she picked, Chen Lu would ask her how she planned to cook it.

The girl didn’t find it annoying at all, she answered patiently every time.

The two of them asked and answered each other while shopping for a long time.

However, men generally don’t have much interest in supermarkets and shopping malls, Chen Lu’s interest quickly shifted elsewhere.

For example, the rocking car at the entrance of the supermarket.

This might be a bit childish for elementary school students, but it’s just right for college students.

He stood aside watching the children sitting on it, waiting for Liang Zhirou to finish buying groceries and come out.

Soon the girl came in front of him, he didn’t say a word and took the plastic bag from her, “Let’s go, I’ll walk you to the entrance.”

After taking a few steps, Chen Lu felt his shoulder being gently pushed, he turned his head curiously.

He saw the girl holding a bottle of Pepsi, reaching out to hand it to him.

Chen Lu was stunned, he didn’t expect Liang Zhirou to remember even this, she remembered that he liked to drink Coke, but she even remembered what brand he liked?

“…Thank you.”

“I got you a room temperature one, make do with it…” Liang Zhirou lowered her head, her voice still timid, “Your stomach isn’t good, drink less cold things, okay…”

“I’ll listen to you.”

The two of them chatted as they walked into a dark alley, the surrounding steel jungle blocked most of the sunlight.

After walking for a while, they arrived in front of a very old building.

Liang Zhirou’s rented house was on the first floor, unlike Chen Lu’s house which only had two households on one floor, this row had at least five or six doors.

Just as Chen Lu was curiously looking around, he suddenly heard someone yelling loudly.

“Don’t you have a daughter? Call her back and tell her to pack her things, pack them up and then you leave!”

“The lease isn’t up for another half year, you can see for yourself, I can’t walk well, it’s really hard to move… Please be understanding…”

“I’ve been understanding enough! I’ll refund you the rest of the money, and I’ll give you a few days to move out, are you still not satisfied? This is my house! I tell you to get out, you have to get out!”

A middle-aged woman wearing sunglasses, with curly hair and a fat figure, was yelling at the woman sitting in a wheelchair.

Contrary to her rich appearance, the woman in the wheelchair looked older, her face was haggard, and her expression was filled with helplessness.

She couldn’t even stand up to argue.

“Mom?” Liang Zhirou walked over and held her mother Xiao Xunfang’s hand, her voice trembling.

Xiao Xunfang felt the familiar touch and came back to her senses, only then did she realize her daughter, seeing the strange boy standing beside her, she was stunned again.

But she still said, “The landlord wants us to move out quickly……”

The middle-aged woman saw the two young people, her momentum didn’t decrease at all, “Why are you making yourself look so pitiful? This is my house! What, you’re going to stay here for a while and then it becomes yours?”

“But the lease isn’t up yet… We haven’t made any preparations, and we haven’t found a place yet…” Xiao Xunfang was very helpless.

Chen Lu listened silently for a few sentences, frowning, “Do you have a contract?”

Hearing this, the landlord was stunned.

Liang Zhirou and Xiao Xunfang were stunned, obviously they had been in the mountain village for a long time, they didn’t have much contact with this kind of thing.

They didn’t know the legal effect of this, they just subconsciously signed their names.

In Xiao Xunfang’s eyes, signing this was like signing her husband’s death notice, it was just a formality…

“Contract?” Liang Zhirou only remembered something at this time.

“When you rented the house, did you sign a contract?” Chen Lu said, while silently pushing the wheelchair to the shade beside him.

“Yes.”

Chen Lu nodded, “Bring it over.”

“What’s it to you?!” The middle-aged woman’s tone was very aggressive, she was sure she had never seen Chen Lu before.

Chen Lu looked at her with a calm expression, “This is my mother-in-law, what do you think it’s to me?”

Hearing this, the middle-aged woman didn’t know what to say for a moment, seeing Chen Lu carrying a bag of groceries, she believed it even more.

Soon Liang Zhirou ran out of the house, Chen Lu took the contract, carefully scanned it.

The lease was still valid for another half year.

Looking at the contract template… it must have been done through an intermediary.

Now there was no sign of the intermediary, it’s estimated that this person met someone who was willing to pay a higher price to rent the house privately, and then thought that the mother and daughter were easy to bully, so they came up with this.

Picking on soft persimmons, disgusting.

Chen Lu couldn’t imagine what would happen to the silly Liang Zhirou if she didn’t know him and encountered this.

“You can move out.” He looked at the contract, expressionless.

This made Liang Zhirou and Xiao Xunfang a little shocked.

Then he slowly said, “Pay the breach of contract fee, it’s written here, 30% of the contract price.”

The middle-aged woman’s face became even more ferocious, “You’re just a kid, what do you know!”

Chen Lu didn’t flinch at all, he smiled calmly, “Auntie, I’m studying this…”

“You can bully them because they don’t understand, but you can’t play this trick in front of me.”

Chen Lu said and handed the contract to Liang Zhirou beside him, “You can pull this kind of thing, it means you don’t understand at all. Or, you just think they are easy to bully.”

“I suggest you think about it carefully, if you really want to make it so ugly…

We’ll play along.

But I really don’t recommend you doing this, my teacher is very famous in the domestic legal field, the lawyer you hire might be my classmate.”

Seeing the other party standing there in a daze, Chen Lu changed his previous sharp tone, becoming much gentler.

“You need money and want to rent to someone who’s willing to pay a higher price, we understand. But we have our own difficulties, everyone is not easy, why not be understanding with each other?

If we go to court, you’ll spend a lot of money, and you might not win. Why bother, right?”

“When the lease is up, you move out! I won’t rent it to you anymore!”

The woman left with a final harsh word, completely losing her previous momentum.

She was originally sure that Xiao Xunfang and her daughter didn’t understand this, so she came to drive them away, she didn’t expect to meet someone who knew more than her.

And it was her son-in-law?!

The noise stopped abruptly, the surroundings became silent, only a few bird calls could be heard occasionally.

Liang Zhirou recalled Chen Lu’s words just now, she felt a little familiar…

That night when Chen Lu helped her out, it seemed like this too, soft and hard.

He’s really amazing… no wonder I’m always tricked by him, and even tricked into wearing those clothes…

Wait… didn’t he just call her mother-in-law?

The girl’s face immediately turned red to the roots of her ears, like a small red tomato, she lowered her head shyly.

But she still squeezed out a thank you.

“Auntie are you okay? In the future, if you encounter this kind of person, don’t let her get away with it.” Chen Lu looked at Xiao Xunfang and said with a smile.

“I’m fine, I’m fine, thank you so much.” Xiao Xunfang looked at the boy in front of her, feeling very grateful.

She, a middle-aged woman who couldn’t even stand, was with her daughter in a strange big city and encountered this situation, it’s impossible to say she wasn’t helpless.

“It’s my pleasure, Liang Zhirou has helped me a lot.”

“Are you called Chen Lu?” Xiao Xunfang asked tentatively.

Chen Lu was a little surprised, “Auntie, do you know me?”

Xiao Xunfang smiled, her eyes full of wrinkles, “I often hear my daughter mention you, you’re really a good boy.”

“What’s good about me, my mom wants to kick me out every day.”

Chen Lu handed the shopping bag to the girl beside him, and said seriously, “Let’s go, if you have anything else, call me, I’ll come over immediately.”

Liang Zhirou looked up at him, the words of retention were on her lips but suddenly got stuck, she could only look at his back, anxiously reaching out a hand.

“Stay and have dinner.” Xiao Xunfang said, “Try Zhirou’s cooking.”

Chen Lu turned his head and saw Liang Zhirou’s outstretched hand, he was stunned for a moment, then smiled slightly, and said, “Okay.”