It took almost ten minutes since the text message was sent. It showed as read, but there was no reply.
Zhou Li almost crushed his phone to pieces.
Jiang Mingzhu saw the text message when she returned to the office. She deliberately didn't reply, making her awkward image come alive.
After being busy with work for a while, Jiang Mingzhu went to the bathroom and happened to hear the sound of Yuanye when she came out.
It sounded like a phone call.
"Sister Yubai didn't ask you to check Jiang Mingzhu? Are you sure?"
Jiang Mingzhu raised her eyebrows, are we talking about her now?
I don't know who Yuanye is talking to on the phone, but judging from his words, it seems that Zhan Yubai has checked her again in private?
"I'm looking at photos of her from middle school and things from her childhood."
Hearing this, Jiang Mingzhu's smile disappeared little by little.
It's not unusual for Zhan Yubai to check on her. Zhan Yubai should have checked on her when she suddenly appeared and entangled with Zhan Yanqing.
But what Yuanye was talking about was obviously a recent matter.
After Zhan Yubai met Liu Pei, he suddenly checked her out. It was hard not to think of something.
So, what did she find out? Listening to what Yuanye meant, he seemed to have seen something.
When Jiang Mingzhu thought about this, Yuanye outside had already finished talking on the phone.
Jiang Mingzhu followed him out and had a chance encounter with Yuanye.
Jiang Mingzhu: "Hi, we meet again."
Yuan Ye turned around and faced that troublesome face again. Remembering that Jiang Mingzhu was still arguing with Zhou Li, he subconsciously hid, "Why are you here?"
Jiang Mingzhu looked innocent: "I'm going to the bathroom, I can't come here to find you specifically."
Yuanye: "..."
Jiang Mingzhu: "If you insist on thinking so, it's not impossible... just give me a favor and have dinner together tonight?"
Yuan Ye was agitated again, "You can't even try to frame me."
Jiang Mingzhu: "?"
Yuan Ye: "Don't think I don't know that you and your fourth brother had a fight, and you deliberately seduced me to make him angry."
Jiang Mingzhu: "A quarrel? Is that what he said?"
Yuanye: "Then you didn't argue?"
Jiang Mingzhu suddenly laughed self-deprecatingly, and there was a bit of bitterness in that smile, "What right do I have to quarrel with him?"
After she finished speaking, she lowered her head, wiped her eyes quickly with her hand, and looked like she was crying.
Yuan Ye immediately blamed himself and coughed, "Don't cry, I didn't mean to mock you."
Jiang Mingzhu still lowered her head, looking like she was about to cry.
Yuan Ye: "...I'll treat you to dinner at the head office, right?"
Jiang Mingzhu finally raised her head, but there was obvious distrust in her eyes.
As if asking him: Aren't you afraid that Zhou Li will deal with you?
Yuanye has indeed considered this question: "When will you get off work? I'll go to the restaurant and wait for you in advance, otherwise my fourth brother will be in trouble if he sees me."
Jiang Mingzhu and Yuanye added each other on WeChat. After achieving their goal, they left first.
——
Five minutes before leaving get off work, Jiang Mingzhu received another text message from Zhou Li.
【Come to me after get off work】
It was still the same commanding tone, without even punctuation.
Jiang Mingzhu ignored it and deleted all his text messages.
As soon as one o'clock arrived, Jiang Mingzhu packed up her things and got off work, went straight to the basement, and drove to the Western restaurant Yuan Ye mentioned.
Yuanye booked a booth by the window, and when Jiang Mingzhu came over, he was already flipping through the menu.
The two of them discussed and finished ordering the dishes.
Yuanye: "I'll treat you to this meal. Don't worry about what I said before."
Jiang Mingzhu: "It's okay, I'm used to it."
Her tone sounded very calm, without any ups and downs, but if you look at it carefully, it became a little more poignant.
It was as if he was used to being "bullied" by Zhou Li.
Yuanye thinks of Xu Siyan and Jiang Mingzhu
Those comments made me couldn't help but ask, "Why are you approaching Fourth Brother?"
Jiang Mingzhu: "Do you also think that I have an ulterior motive in approaching him?"
Yuanye: "Me neither..."
"Because I like him." Jiang Mingzhu interrupted Yuanye, "I just like him and want to be with him. Is that wrong?"
Yuan Ye: "...That's right, but he already has a fiancée."
Jiang Mingzhu smiled bitterly, "Yeah, I can't compare."
This sentence is full of sadness and pitiful.
Yuanye felt compassion and couldn't help but remind her: "Sister Yubai has already started investigating you, please be more careful."
Jiang Mingzhu's expression paused, showing a bit of panic, "Why are you checking me?"
Yuanye: "Perhaps I have already begun to doubt you and Fourth Brother. By the way, let me ask, have you and Sister Yubai known each other before?"
Jiang Mingzhu: "I don't know."
Yuan Ye: "That's weird."
Jiang Mingzhu: "Did she say we knew each other?"
Yuan Ye: "That's not true. She just looked up a lot of photos of you when you were in school. Sister Yubai used to be in an orphanage. I thought you two knew each other."
——
Zhou Li waited for almost an hour, but Jiang Mingzhu still didn't come to find him.
He walked out of the office to find someone in person, and happened to run into Liang Cong.
Liang Cong: "Mr. Zhou, why haven't you left yet?"
Zhou Li: "Where is Jiang Mingzhu?"
Liang Cong: "Jiang Zhu left just after get off work today. Didn't she tell you?"
After speaking carefully, Liang Cong saw Zhou Li's face became a little gloomy, and immediately realized that he had said the wrong thing.
Liang Cong: "I'm going to check Jiang Zhu's current location."
Ten minutes later, Liang Cong stood in front of Zhou Li holding the photo he received, but he hesitated to speak.
Zhou Li: "If you have something to say, just say it."
Liang Cong handed over the photo tremblingly.
After Zhou Li saw the photo, his gloomy gaze became even more terrifying. Liang Cong was so frightened that he didn't dare to say a word.
Zhou Li threw down the photo, picked up the car keys and walked out.
Liang Cong rubbed his eyebrows, it looked like he was going to catch the girl.
Seeing Jiang Mingzhu and Yuanye eating together, Liang Cong didn't know which one of them was bolder.
——
After several personal contacts with Yuanye, Jiang Mingzhu felt that he was not bad.
Among the people around Zhou Li, Yuanye was probably the most careless one, and his attitude towards her wasn't too bad.
Taking advantage of this meal, Jiang Mingzhu asked Yuan Ye about some things about Zhan Yubai.
Similar to what he heard from Fu Xiaozhi, Yuanye also said that Zhan Yubai had been chasing Zhou Li for a long time.
But Yuanye didn't say anything about the kidney, he just told her that Zhan Yubai was very kind to the Zhou family, and Zhou Li would marry her just to repay his kindness.
Jiang Mingzhu's expression darkened little by little when she heard this.
Yuanye thought she was shocked by these words, so he comforted her: "Be more open-minded."
Jiang Mingzhu pursed her lips and said nothing.
Yuan Ye: "You are so beautiful, why are you worried about finding a man? The fourth brother is not interesting, and being with him is quite boring. In fact, you are not suitable for each other. You should find someone who can play with you. "
"Who can play with her, you?" As soon as Yuanye finished speaking, he suddenly heard Zhou Li's voice.
He was startled and almost jumped out of his chair.
Jiang Mingzhu also looked back, and after meeting Zhou Li's gaze, she looked away lightly, with an indifferent expression.
This attitude was nothing more than adding fuel to the fire for Zhou Li.
He walked up directly and grabbed Jiang Mingzhu's arm.
