Depressed wife runs with the ball

Before eating, Chu Yue took out a plum from his pocket and put it in his mouth.

"You've already eaten, and you're still eating snacks?" Zhou Xingzhi washed the dishes for her and handed them to her.

Chu Yue didn't want to talk, so she simply said "hmm", took the dishes he had washed, and thanked him softly.

Manager Wang, who had just been at the door, came to serve the food and stared at Chu Yue. He said, "Mr. Zhou rarely brings a girl here. How old is she?"

Zhou Xingzhi coughed and rebuked unhappily: "Ahem, Aunt Wang."

"Hey, hey, hey, okay, Auntie won't ask, Auntie won't ask." Manager Wang covered his mouth and laughed, then went out to urge the food to be served.

Although she didn't know the relationship between this store and the person opposite, Chu Yue had no interest in exploring it. She didn't want to get involved in anyone's private life, let alone the private life of her future boss.

"Auntie Wang was the live-in aunt who took care of me, and Uncle Cui was her husband. After I went to study in the United States, the couple opened this store, and I'm considered a half-shareholder."

He himself started to explain first.

Chu Yue just nodded slightly and ate slowly.

He didn't mention the job offer. After dinner, he took her back to Cuiyuan. Before getting out of the car, he said, "I'll bring you beer chicken tonight."

Forget it, let him do whatever he wants, there is no way to stop him.

She stood outside the car door, paused, didn't close the door, thought for a long time, and said, "I...actually, I don't like strangers in my house. You..."

"I'm just here to bring you food. I'm not going upstairs." Seeing her embarrassed look, Zhou Xingzhi had to take a step back.

Chu Yue sighed deeply. Not only did she dislike having strangers in her house, she also disliked going out. However, this person was here to bring her food, so she couldn't push him too far. Besides, she really didn't get to eat beer chicken today.

Close the door and go home.

Zhou Xingzhi turned down another meeting that afternoon just to go home and make beer chicken for Chu Yue. Jiang Tao shook his head repeatedly and complained privately, "There's a lot of scheming in the business world. I didn't expect him to be so love-brained. Even if someone doesn't appreciate it, he can still hypnotize himself."

I don't know if it was because I was anticipating it, but I woke up around 6 p.m. After taking a shower, I dragged my easel to the sofa and sat cross-legged on it, looking at the unfinished Chinese painting. I felt a little powerless to start.

No message popped up on her phone. She turned her head and lay down on the sofa, hugging her phone to comfort herself: "Maybe lunch was not tasty, so I feel hungry."

She leisurely sat on the sofa, playing with her phone until after seven in the evening. Uncle Jia did send her a few messages, asking about bidding matters. From upstairs came the aroma of cooking, the noise of children, and the patter of an elderly man climbing the stairs with a cane. Lights shone from every other house, but here, she was completely silent.

Zhou Xingzhi's call had given her an unprecedented sense of anticipation. She hoped she wouldn't be so alone in this world that the world would forget her. When he answered the phone, his voice was filled with unprecedented joy.

I went downstairs and saw him standing across the street. He was wearing a gray shirt, a navy blue suit, and a matching tie. He was holding a cooler bag and leaning against the car door, typing on his phone in one hand. The dim light from the street lamps cast a shadow on him, making him look like a painting.

Seeing Chu Yue across the street, a warm smile spread across her lips. She took the thermal bag from him and quietly thanked him. Inside the bag was her dinner for the day. This scene was like when her grandmother walked to school to bring her food during her first year of high school.

Chu Yue lowered her head and smiled, feeling a little sad. It took almost an hour to walk from home to school. Grandma was old and it was still dark, so she must have walked for more than an hour.

There were still many cars on the road, and her eyesight was poor, so she didn't know how she walked past them.

Her throat was a little itchy, and her heart felt like a stone was stuck. She quickly shifted her attention and looked at Zhou Xingzhi and said, "Have you eaten? Or... should we go upstairs and eat something?"

Before she finished speaking, Zhou Xingzhi agreed, "Okay."

Uh... I seem to have been fooled.

The old man at the gate gave Zhou Xingzhi a thumbs-up, watched the two walk away, nodded and said, "You are a teachable kid."

Zhou Xingzhi took the thermal bag and was in a good mood. This was probably the first time she invited him into her home.

After opening the door and changing his shoes, Chu Yue sat at the dining table and went to the kitchen to get the dishes.

When the thermal bag was opened, a burst of fragrance wafted out.

"My grandma used to make this dish for my grandpa and didn't let me eat too much." She stared at the casserole on the table, feeling a little sad.

"Why?" Zhou Xingzhi handed her the bowl and chopsticks.

"Because I'm underage." She had been eating with her bowl in hand. After answering this, she felt she had said too much and looked up at Zhou Xingzhi with a strange look. He didn't seem so annoying today.

He nodded and ate. Minors were not allowed to drink. "Didn't grandma make this dish for you when you were an adult?"

"Yeah." Chu Yue lowered his head and ate his rice in big mouthfuls. Before he swallowed the food in his mouth, he added: "Grandma passed away before I went to college."

She said it as if she didn't care, but in fact her eyes were red and filled with tears.

Zhou Xingzhi's heart tightened, and he felt a surge of pity. He reached out to wipe her tears.

Chu Yue frowned, looked at the outstretched hand, and asked warily: "What are you doing?"

"Wipe your tears." After saying that, he took out a piece of tissue and handed it to her.

Chu Yue didn't answer. She wiped away her tears with her hands, sniffed, and continued eating.

Zhou Xingzhi knew that her father was Chu Jie'an, who ran a small company in Qiancheng. It wasn't big, but their living conditions weren't bad, but he had never heard her mention it. Plus, the incident with Xie Yanzhou last time, it seemed like she had a bad relationship with her parents.

"Your parents..."

"Eat." Chu Yue lowered his head to eat. He had indeed talked a lot today.

After dinner, Zhou Xingzhi washed dishes in the kitchen while Chu Yue drew pictures. She told him, "Take the garbage down with you after you clean up."

After he finished cleaning up, he walked over to the back of the sofa to watch her drawing and said, "Let's go downstairs and buy some things."

"What to buy?" Chu Yue suddenly became alert again. Could it be that this person really treated this place as his own home?

"I don't see much in the refrigerator. You need breakfast and lunch, right? Let's go buy some together." He took off his apron.

"No, I won't buy it. It will expire if I buy it." Chu Yue continued to paint his own picture.

"Don't you cook for yourself?"

"I don't know how." She had no talent in this area and could only cook noodles at most. The pots and pans in the kitchen were bought by Chu Jinyue when he came back to visit her.

"Then I'll come over and make it for you tomorrow. Let's go." He cleaned up the garbage in the kitchen and urged her to go out together.

"Come tomorrow? Don't you have to go to work?" Although he's the CEO of Xinghui, he should be very busy, right? Is his working time so flexible?

"If you don't do the onboarding process, I'll come here every day."

Are all businessmen so shameless, taking advantage of every opportunity to get more? No wonder they are capitalists.

“…” Chu Yue put down his paintbrush, changed his shoes and went out.

When they arrived at a supermarket, Zhou Xingzhi followed her pushing a shopping cart.

The things here are really expensive. Anyway, with Chu Yue's salary, she probably can't afford it. I wonder if a playboy like Ji Yan has ever been here.

There weren't many people around, and everyone was dressed brightly and beautifully, which made her look rather shabby. She stuffed her hands into her pockets, not knowing what to buy and not daring to take anything.

Passing by the fruit section, Zhou Xingzhi carefully selected apples. Chu Yue looked at the price and saw that he had picked up several apples, so she quickly stopped him and said, "Uh...are you going to take these back to eat?"

"Of course. Put it in the refrigerator and it will keep for a few days."

He thought she was referring to Cuiyuan when she said she was going back. Wasn't she coming here just to buy things to put in her refrigerator?

Chu Yue thought he was going to take her back to his home, so he stopped worrying about it and let him choose.

After a round, he picked out a bunch of ingredients. Chu Yue just took a bottle of pure milk, lactose-free, and kept it for himself.

"Just this?" Zhou Xingzhi thought she didn't cook, so she wasn't picky about food. Seeing that she only took milk, he asked uncertainly many times.

"Yeah." Chu Yue is unemployed now, and he doesn't dare to spend money recklessly in such an expensive place. After choosing and choosing, this is the only one that suits him.

Zhou Xingzhi took the milk from her hand, threw it into the shopping cart, handed her the car keys, pointed outside the checkout counter and said, "Wait for me outside."

There were many people queuing at the cashier counter, and it was difficult for her to squeeze in, so she had to take the car keys and wait outside the cashier counter.