Part 2 of Chapter 19
Jiang Yumo sneaked back to her room.
Yan Qing and Sun Mengting were already waiting there. They eagerly took the takeout boxes from Jiang Yumo and opened them one by one, exclaiming:
“Wow, Brother Duan actually bought barbecue! It looks like he bought it from Brother Hei’s barbecue stall. Let me tell you, the beef skewers from that place are amazing! Super tender!”
“And there’s watermelon shaved ice too! Except for the fact that they skimped a little on the condensed milk, it’s perfect!”
Jiang Yumo originally had a good appetite, but at the moment she was still immersed in her interaction with Duan Ye just now.
Yan Qing and Sun Mengting didn’t care about their image at all, sitting cross-legged in their nightgowns, happily eating barbecue skewers.
“I allow you guys to test my future boyfriend in this way from now on. Anyone who can’t be like Brother Duan, I’ll pass.” Yan Qing said contentedly. She noticed that Jiang Yumo was holding a skewer, seemingly lost in thought, so she leaned over and asked with a teasing tone, “So, did Brother Duan stare at you without taking his eyes off you? Hmm… did he fall for your charms?”
Sun Mengting quickly chimed in, “Brother Duan has never stopped staring at Yumo before.”
Jiang Yumo honestly replied, “I think he didn’t even notice that I was wearing pajamas.”
Yan Qing : “?”
Sun Mengting : “…”
The first day of the National Day holiday, the streets of Ningcheng were also bustling with activity.
Small red flags were hung everywhere.
Zhou Ji had nothing to do, having stayed up all night playing games. He came out in the morning to have breakfast with a few of his followers.
Liu Ming attentively handed disposable chopsticks to Zhou Ji, saying, “Brother Zhou, you haven’t been here for long, so you might not know that for breakfast, you have to come to the old town area. Not to mention anything else, just this place alone has been open for several years. The beef broth here is especially thick, something you can’t find in other places.”
Zhou Ji was lazy, not even bothering to lift his eyelids.
He wasn’t interested in what Liu Ming said at all.
He rarely had the patience to deal with people, and Liu Ming was used to it. Four people sat around a table, and another guy with black-framed glasses looked around and suddenly stood up, “Hey, Liu Ming, look, isn’t that girl who’s making noodles in the stall from Class 2?”
Liu Ming turned around and glanced at her. He was a bit nearsighted and squinted his eyes subconsciously trying to focus. “Seems like it, why is she here?”
“Damn, it’s really her!” The guy was excited as he gossiped, “In our freshman year, someone in our class pursued her for a long time but couldn’t get her.”
Liu Ming spoke frankly, “She’s focused on her studies, how could she be in a relationship?”
“People call her a bookworm, but she’s quite attractive.” The guy looked her up and down, making comments, “Her skin is fair and she’s quite thin. But, I think Jiang Yumo is more attractive.”
“What nonsense, who is Jiang Yumo?”
“However,” the guy paused and looked at Zhou Ji who was resting with closed eyes, “I think it would be more prestigious to pursue her. Think about it, she’s the top student in our grade, from Class 2. If Brother Zhou could catch her, he would be even more impressive than Duan Ye, and it would be quite face-saving to take her out.”
Liu Ming hesitated and spoke, “It’s hard to pursue someone like her, she wouldn’t be interested in students like us.”
“Not interested in you, not interested in me, that’s normal.” The guy exaggeratedly praised, “If she’s not interested in Brother Zhou, then she must be quite bold!”
Zhou Ji reluctantly opened his eyes. He had stayed up all night and looked a bit tired. “What are you talking about?”
The boy quickly pointed to the girl who was busy at the stall. “Brother Zhou, that’s the class flower of Class 2, Ning Zhiyu. She has excellent grades and ranks first in the whole grade.”
Zhou Ji looked over and frowned.
“Brother Zhou?”
Zhou Ji squinted his eyes. “She looks familiar.”
“Hahaha, all the beauties look like this. So, Brother Zhou, are you interested?”
Zhou Ji hooked his finger, motioning for the guy to come closer. The guy obediently approached, and Zhou Ji arrogantly said, “Do I still need to chase someone?”
The other three people at the table remained silent.
Ah.
What should they say…
But, Brother Zhou is really confident!
Although everyone fell silent after Zhou Ji’s words, after finishing breakfast, one of the gang members saw Zhou Ji passing by the breakfast stall and casting several glances at Ning Zhiyu, and suddenly understood: Brother Zhou must like her!!
As the followers, of course, they had to be resourceful.
So, without waiting for Zhou Ji to say anything, the group of followers gathered together to discuss whether they should help their boss chase Ning Zhiyu.
The boy with black-framed glasses said, “Let’s do it. If Ning Zhiyu becomes our sister-in-law, wouldn’t she give us the answers for the monthly exams? My dad said if I do well in the exams, he’ll double my pocket money.”
“That’s a good point.”
So, the group of them went to a flower shop to inquire about the price of roses.
After hearing the price, they all fell silent.
“What the heck! Roses are so expensive?”
But since they had already come this far, they couldn’t give up halfway. They even managed to get Ning Zhiyu’s home address. They pooled their money, with each person contributing twenty or thirty yuan, and managed to negotiate the price down with the flower shop owner after endless haggling and saliva flying.
“This is robbery! Just a few flowers and it’s a hundred yuan, this is robbery!”
Ning Zhiyu was called out by the little sister from the neighbor’s house.
In the alley, when Ning Zhiyu saw two boys holding a bouquet of roses, her usually calm face showed a rare expression of surprise.
“Our Brother Zhou gives this for you,” one of the boys said, “You know our Brother Zhou, right?”
Ning Zhiyu replied, “I don’t know him, I’ve never met him.”
The boy were confused.
He said with exaggerated tone, “You don’t know our Brother Zhou? Are you playing hard to get?”
Their Brother Zhou might soon be as famous as Brother Duan.
How could she not know?
Ning Zhiyu asked, “Why?”
“The roses are from Brother Zhou. Whether you want them or not, you have to take them,” the boy thought that a good student like Ning Zhiyu would definitely resist, so he had prepared his speech, “Hey, you better give us some face, you know? These roses are from our Brother Zhou…” Don’t be ungrateful.
He hadn’t finished speaking.
Ning Zhiyu had already accepted the bouquet of flowers and asked the boy calmly, “Is there anything else?”
The boy was taken aback, “Uh…”
“If there’s nothing else, I’ll be heading back,” Ning Zhiyu said.
The boy : “…”
During the National Day Golden Week, Father and Mother Jiang didn’t have a holiday. Jiang Yumo left home at exactly twelve o’clock to go to the bus station to deliver lunch to her father.
Usually, when she was on holiday at home, she would bring lunch to her father, as the boxed lunches at the bus station didn’t taste very good.
After delivering the lunch, Jiang Yumo came out of the bus station with an empty insulated container, walking briskly. Unexpectedly, she ran into Ning Zhiyu. She saw Ning Zhiyu giving a bouquet of flowers to an auntie. She hesitated for a few minutes, and then caught up with Ning Zhiyu, calling out, “Ning Zhiyu!”
Ning Zhiyu turned around, surprised and somewhat happy to see Jiang Yumo. “What a coincidence, what are you doing here?”
Jiang Yumo shook the insulated container in her hand. “My dad is a bus driver, I came to deliver lunch to him. And you, what are you doing?”
Ning Zhiyu guessed that Jiang Yumo had seen her earlier, so she casually said, “Selling flowers.”
She paused for a moment, glanced around, and smiled at Jiang Yumo, “Wait for me here.”
After saying that, Ning Zhiyu quickly ran to the small shop next to the bus station. When she came back, she was holding two ice creams in her hand and smiled happily at Jiang Yumo, “I don’t know what flavor you like, so I bought vanilla and mango flavors. Which one do you want to eat?”
Momo inadvertently replacing the ogML in the ogFl’s heart 🤭
Smart girl