Sole decision

Zhou Ce is not worried that A Fei will let him go, Pei Zhaoxue is full of doubts about their agreement.On the night of the third day, Zhou Ce sat drinking tea in the front hall. The doors of the front hall were all open, and the moonlight streamed into the courtyard.He looked around and saw that the courtyard was really clear like stagnant water, with shadows of trees floating, thinking that the ancients would not deceive him.

"It's this time, do you think he will come?"

"Don't speak suddenly." Zhou Ce turned his head and saw Pei Zhaoxue in the shadows, "Pretending to be a ghost." He poured a cup of tea, then patted the place beside him to signal Pei Zhaoxue to come over.Pei Zhaoxue walked over but didn't sit down, just stood by Zhou Ce's side, and didn't take the cup of tea in his hand.There is a box on the table on the other side of Zhou Ce, which contains the gold that A Fei wants.

"It's just the two of us now, so don't be so rigid." Zhou Ce said, "I'm not my father, nor my brother. I'm a very casual person, and I hate rules the most."

"I know." Pei Zhaoxue said, "You are different from them."

Zhou Ce asked with a smile, "What's the difference?"

Pei Zhaoxue shook his head, and Zhou Ce did not continue to question him.Pei Zhaoxue glanced at the time, and it was only 10 minutes before twelve o'clock, so today will be over soon.He said to Zhou Ce: "Don't wait."

"Today isn't over yet," Zhou Ce replied.

"Will you trust a person who has only met once??"

"I don't believe it." Zhou Ce smiled, "But I believe in myself." His voice was very soft, and his tone was extremely confident, undoubted confidence.Pei Zhaoxue sighed, and decided to see if the last 10 minutes would go as Zhou Ce thought.

When the minute hand was about to coincide with the hour hand, there were bursts of noise in the courtyard. Zhou Ce and Pei Zhaoxue looked for the source of the sound, and a person came out from the shadow of the tree, it was A Fei.

"It's pretty punctual." Zhou Ce got up and said to A Fei loudly, "But next time you come, you can go through the gate, and no one will stop you."

Ah Fei said, "Where are my things?"

Zhou Ce patted the box: "Come here for inspection."

Ah Fei walked straight over, opened the box, and the gold bars inside were neatly arranged.He randomly picked one and shook it in his hand, put it back without looking carefully, closed the lid, and asked Zhou Ce: "What do you need me for?"

"Let me think about it." Zhou Ce pondered for a moment, then took a folded piece of paper from his coat pocket.He put the paper under his nose and sniffed it lightly, then handed it to A Fei, "Send a letter to Lu Ai for me."

A Fei glanced at it, didn't look at the contents at all, folded it in half and stuffed it into his pocket, and said to Zhou Ce: "I'm leaving."

"See you later." Zhou Ce said, "I'll treat you to dinner when I come next time."

Ah Fei is not interested in eating, so he leaves as he comes.Regarding Zhou Ce's actions, although Pei Zhaoxue didn't quite understand, he didn't ask too much. The development of the matter became more and more strange. He felt that he seemed to have gotten to know Zhou Ce from a certain moment recently.All the impressions from the past don't count, and maybe the Zhou Ce he sees at this moment is not necessarily him.

What the hell is he thinking?What kind of person is he?Pei Zhaoxue didn't dare to speak nonsense.

"What are you thinking about?" Seeing that Pei Zhaoxue was in a daze, Zhou Ce snapped his fingers in front of him.Pei Zhaoxue was startled, and instinctively took half a step back.

"Think about nothing," he said, "Go to bed early."

Pei Zhaoxue turned around to leave, but Zhou Ce stopped him: "Brother Pei, how is your injury?"

"It's nothing."

Zhou Ce got close to Pei Zhaoxue's back, and was about to reach out to touch his butterfly bone, but he countered him with lightning speed.This time, Zhou Ce was not angry because of being attacked, and looked directly into Pei Zhaoxue's eyes and asked, "Would you attack my dad like this?"

"..."

"You won't." Zhou Ce said admonishingly, "Then you can't treat me either."

Immediately afterwards, he shook off Pei Zhaoxue's hand.The movement of throwing it away is not large, like throwing it away at will.He raised his chin slightly, as if looking down on Pei Zhaoxue from a very high position.

"Go to bed early, Brother Pei." Zhou Ce said.

The letter Zhou Ce sent to Lu Ai was a line of poems he copied at random, and there was no important information in it, but only one day later, Lu Ai invited Zhou Ce to lunch, and Zhou Ce happily went to the appointment.

Lu Ai had a reserved table in this historic restaurant. Zhou Ce arrived early, but Lu Ai was already there waiting for him.He apologized to Lu Ai very embarrassedly, and kissed the back of her hand. Lu Ai just smiled slightly, and after sitting down, he said: "You are really not afraid of death, how dare you come to this kind of place alone?"

"I don't think anyone would glance at Miss Lu's interest so blindly, right?"

"I don't have that much face."

"But I feel that no one can take care of me now."

As soon as Zhou Ce said this, Lu Ai smiled lightly again.Big things did happen in the past day. Zhou Jian put pressure on the company's board of directors to stop the export of the investment business controlled by Zhou Ling, and made things difficult for Zhou Ling with various financial problems.Zhou Ling was not a vegetarian either, he expected that Zhou Jian would have such a trick sooner or later, the two sides collided fiercely on the same day, causing a lot of turmoil.

If it was just the Zhou family fighting within themselves, the others would be very happy to watch the fun, but unfortunately, their every move now involves the election of the president of the union, which makes the other families quite a headache.

Thinking of Zhou Jian and Zhou Ling, Lu Ai just wanted to sneer.Of course Zhou Ce could feel her attitude from her expression. It could even be said that when Lu Ai sent an invitation to him, he knew what Lu Ai meant.

"What? Want to make big news?" When Lu Ai asked Zhou Ce, there was a sly light in his eyes.

Zhou Ce didn't answer directly. He saw that the band next to the dance floor was about to perform, and said to Lu Ai, "I invite you to dance the first dance of the day."

Lu Ai raised her neck, and in her hand, Zhou Ce led her to the center of the dance floor, nodded to the band, then held Lu Ai's hand with one hand, and put the other hand behind Lu Ai's waist, palm down, The tiger's mouth lightly pressed against Lu Ai's waist.

"You were not such a gentleman the day you killed Wang Shijin." The advantage of the pas de deux is that the two parties are very close, and only each other can hear what they are saying. Lu Ai said in Zhou Ce's ear, "But you are quite calm, I like calm people .”

Zhou Ce said, "That's why you met me?"

"Not entirely." Lu Ai said, "The main reason is that I hate Wang Shijin. You shouldn't have cut his hand that day, but stabbed his heart. That way my ears will be clean."

"It's a pity you didn't tell me at the time." Zhou Ce's tone was casual and sarcastic, "If I had known at that time, I would never have let Wang Shijin walk out of the White Horse Hotel alive."

Lu Ai chuckled: "Zhou Ce, we're not that familiar yet, won't you be afraid that I'll turn around and sell you to the Wang family if you say such things to me?"

"Miss Lu, do you know what I like the most about women?" Zhou Ce also smiled, "I like that they always talk and behave in opposite directions, playing foolish men around, they are so cute." He knew Lu Ai won't tell anyone what happened with him today—or, she doesn't have to.Now it's a public occasion, maybe everyone in Lucheng's upper circle knows that Lu Ai had dinner with him and even danced with him.

Lu Ai is not an idiot, of course she knows what this means.

Lu Ai raised his eyebrows: "Then are you a stupid man or a smart man?"

"Me?" Zhou Ce said, "I'm a man you can use."

"You have nothing, what can I use you for?" Lu Ai said, "Zhou Ce, you are nothing in the Zhou family, you don't have any capital, I might as well go to Zhou Jian or Zhou Ling, whichever Not stronger than you?"

"But you are indeed dancing with me now." Faced with Lu Ai's pickiness and sarcasm, Zhou Ce still maintained his proper demeanor.Lu Ai turned around with the music, and distanced himself from Zhou Ce. With a little force from Zhou Ce, Lu Ai returned to his side.The two were no longer facing each other, Zhou Ce's chest was pressed against Lu Ai's back, and he bowed his head and whispered in her ear, "I am from the Zhou family, but I have nothing, which is the most valuable to you. You are in a difficult situation. You need someone whose status matches yours, but not too strong. This person needs to be about the same age as you, and he must not be as annoying as Wang Shijin. Looking at Lucheng, no one is more suitable for this than me. Role."

Lu Ai turned around to look at Zhou Ce, lowered his eyes slowly, and said, "But you didn't mention the most important condition."

"what?"

"You have to have a good skin." Lu Ai smiled, "Otherwise, how could it be so easy for me to fall in love with you?"

The dance music came to an end, the two people stopped at the last note, there was applause around, Lu Ai stood up straight and thanked everyone with her skirt, and then said to Zhou Ce: "If you have time, you can come to my house, we can talk about business. "

"Respect is worse than obedience."