Chapter 67: The Two Beauties Arrive

  If we can't agree on the price, I'll sue you? Don't be ridiculous!

  The boss, looking like he was waiting for him to complain, waved his hand and said: "You hurry up and go complain, don't block me from doing business... Two beauties, want to buy something?" He smiled at Ning Lan and Meng Zidan standing behind Lin Zi.

  Beautiful girl? Lin Zile quickly turned his head to take a look, and saw two beautiful faces with suppressed smiles. He was stunned for a moment, and suddenly lost interest in haggling over the price. If he continued to fuss over it, people would think he had a problem. It's better to just play along quietly by himself, once someone sees through it, it won't be fun anymore.

  Li Ma turned back and coughed, saying: "Boss, radish, give me two catties."

  The boss stretched out three fingers and gestured to remind: "Three blocks for one catty!" The implication is that there is no room for negotiation, I won't sell it for less than three dollars.

  Lin Zi helplessly said: "Three pieces is three pieces! Come two catties."

  The boss finally recovered a bit of his temper, quickly weighed two catties for him and packed them in a basket. Lin Zixian took out some loose change from his pocket, counted six dollars and left, grabbed the basket and walked away.

  The boss wanted to entertain the two beauties, but found that the two beauties had already left with the little miser, one on each side. Suddenly, he showed a look of sudden realization, feeling that the little miser and the two beauties were acquaintances, and the little miser was generous because there were beauties around.

  Meng Zidan and Ning Lan, who were standing next to Lin Zilei, couldn't help but burst out laughing. Meng Zidan patted him on the shoulder and sneered: "Lin Zilei, you're really idle enough to be bored, why don't you do something useful? For five cents, you go to make things difficult for a small vendor selling vegetables? Lanlan, do you think this person is shameless or not?"

  Ning Lan smiled and nodded in agreement, her eyes gazing at Lin Zixian with an unclear expression, unable to discern what she was feeling. She found this man to be like a mass of clouds that couldn't be fathomed, sometimes stormy and thunderous, sometimes leisurely and carefree, entrancing people.

  Meng Zidan saw Ning Lan's gaze and couldn't help but slightly curl her lip, seemingly a bit disdainful of her infatuation.

  "It's hard to know the price of firewood, rice, oil and salt when one doesn't manage a household. This topic, I'm afraid we don't have a common language." Lin Zixian let out two cold hums, looked around and said: "Two of you came to the vegetable market at the same time looking for me, what's the honor?"

  "What? Not happy to see us? Fine! Then we'll leave, and don't look for me again if you need anything in the future." Meng Zidan's face was full of anger as she pulled Ning Lan away.

  "Ah! Don't get me wrong!" Lin Zixian grasped her hand and nodded repeatedly, saying: "Gladly, very gladly. A great beauty like Director Meng, I dream about it every day, drooling at the thought, hoping to see you every day. How could I not be glad to meet you? Very glad, extremely glad."

  Thinking of opening a shop still needs others' help, it's better not to offend them, so one has to compromise.

  Meng Zidan wouldn't be fooled by his flattering words, and meaningfully said "Oh? Really? Then just take me home as your wife, I guarantee you'll see me every day."

  "Uh..." Lin Zixian was momentarily speechless, what's going on here?!

  "This guy is a scoundrel, when he doesn't need you, he can't wait to get rid of you and stop bothering him, but when he needs you, he puts on an act, he's simply a beast and a brute!" Meng Zidan shook off his grasping hands and pointed at him, speaking bluntly to Ning Lan.

  Ning Lan burst out laughing, she found that these two people were completely unable to have a calm and peaceful conversation when they were together, they were like a pair of sworn enemies. She quickly mediated: "Lin Zile, it's like this. The store you wanted has been renovated almost to completion, Zi Dan asked me to find you to go take a look together and see if you're satisfied or not. If you're satisfied, then we can prepare to stock up and open for business. Do you have time to go take a look now?"

  "This thing! There's time, there's time, uh..." Lin Zixian found that he had spoken a bit too early, took out his broken mobile phone and looked at the time on it, and said with a smile: "Today everyone in the dormitory is on holiday, they are all waiting for me to buy food back to cook lunch, how about this afternoon?"

  This Ning Lan is somewhat inconvenient to be in charge, looked at Meng Zidan, and saw what she had to say, he himself had time today.

  "Alright! Then the two of us will go to your place and have a free meal." Meng Zidan raised an eyebrow and asked in a somewhat threatening tone, "You don't have any objections, do you?"

  "No opinion, no opinion, you wait a bit, I'll buy some more dishes." Lin Zixian didn't dare not to comply, threw down a sentence, and quickly quickened his pace, carrying a vegetable basket to search for suitable dishes everywhere.

  This time he didn't haggle anymore, as soon as he saw the dishes he liked, he immediately took out his money to buy them, and soon filled a whole basket. Ning Lan and Meng Zidan followed behind him, occasionally glancing at the vegetable basket in his hand, both of them were a bit impressed by this guy, it was their first time seeing someone like this.

  They bought good vegetables, and the three of them left the market together. Lin Zi idly pushed his bicycle and rode it, with the two beauties driving behind the fast-moving bike. Meng Zidan couldn't help but think of the scenes from that night when she saw the broken bicycle...

  A bicycle and a small car stopped in front of the Sakura Snow apartment. After getting out of the car, Ning Lan saw the license plate number of the BMW and was stunned: "Qiao's car?"

  Lin Zilei, carrying his bicycle through the gate, casually replied, "I'm here to borrow something from Qiao An Tian."

  "This guy is willing to be Joe's driver, I think he has ulterior motives, you'd better keep an eye on him." Meng Zidan whispered to Ning Lan and walked into the yard, took a look around, and exclaimed: "Wow! The outside looks shabby, but inside it's a different world. The grape arbor, the courtyard is secluded, with flowers, trees, wisteria, and an old well, all matching perfectly! This building must be from the Republic of China era! In this city of steel and concrete, you can find such an old place to live, Lin Zixian, you know how to enjoy life!"

  Lin Zi smiled secretly, revealing a "that's it" expression. Ning Lan also slid her fingers over the flowers, grass and trees, with a somewhat distracted look.

  Tong Yun ran out of the busy kitchen, saw two extraordinary beauties coming, and nodded slightly with some shyness. She took over the dishes from Lin Zixian's hands and ran back to the kitchen. Her face was still smeared with black stuff, feeling a bit embarrassed to meet people.

  Ning Lan and Meng Zidan saw her big flower face and were also stunned, unable to understand what it meant. Zhang Beibei in the kitchen also poked out a ghostly face, seeing that there were guests, she immediately stuck out her tongue and retreated back inside.

  As soon as they saw two big flower faces, the two beauties immediately thought of doing beauty treatments.

  Liu Yanzi, wearing slippers, also walked out of the living room at the sound, peeling an orange and stuffing it into her mouth. Seeing Ning Lan, she immediately widened her eyes, forced down the orange in her mouth, quickly put down what was in her hand, wiped her hands and ran over to shake hands, saying: "Hello Assistant Ning, I'm Liu Yanzi from the Business Department!"

  Ning's assistant was normally someone she couldn't get close to at the company, but unexpectedly this time he had come to the Sakura Snow apartment. Such a good opportunity, she didn't want to let it slip away.

  Ning Lan also knew her, and in the company, she had heard rumors that Lin Zi had broken off his friendship with Liu Yanzi. For this reason, she deliberately paid attention to Liu Yanzi, and immediately smiled and shook hands: "Hello!"

  "Please, Assistant Ning, come on in! Miss Zi Dan, you too." Liu Yan Zhi was very enthusiastic, but it was clear that her focus was on flattering Ning Lan. In her impression, Mong Zi Dan was just a leader from the Ivory Coast.

  Lin Zixian had already slipped into the kitchen, Ning Lan and Meng Zidan looked at each other in silence, and could only follow Liu Yanzhi into the living room with a sense of restraint.

  In the living room, only Qin Yue was accompanying Tong Feifei to play. Li Mingcheng usually wouldn't come during the day, and Xia Qiu had been busy outside for these few days, so he hadn't returned yet.

  Liu Yanzi asked the two to sit down, and then it was a busy scene! Serving tea and pouring water were a given, plus accompanying them in chatting. Ning Lan and Meng Zidan responded perfunctorily because they weren't familiar with each other, and due to the hierarchical distance created by their living environment, both sides really didn't have much common language.

  Before long, Lin Zilei, who was munching on a cucumber, walked in with a swagger, not disturbing them as they chatted enthusiastically. He headed straight upstairs. Ning Lan and Meng Zidan quickly found an excuse to get rid of Liu Yanzi and followed him up.

  When they arrived at Lin Zixian's room, the two women finally relaxed completely and sat directly on Lin Zixian's bed without being invited.

  The two of them didn't know what was going on, and they hadn't met Lin Zixian many times either. However, there was something about him that couldn't be put into words, a certain charm that wasn't quite right to call "affable". In short, no matter how high your social status or background, as long as you had formally interacted with him, you wouldn't feel any distance between you due to his words and actions or attire. Even if you were an emperor, he would treat you like a normal person, speaking freely, laughing freely, turning away freely, and riding a broken bicycle freely, making it impossible for others to feel distant from him. Perhaps this was what people meant by "charisma".

  Meng Zidan pulled the quilt over her back, took off her high heels, and crossed her two beautiful legs on the bed to prevent them from being exposed. She leaned against the headboard and asked: "Lin Zixian, it's very comfortable living among beauties, isn't it?" Ning Lan quietly glared at her, as if blaming her for messing up someone else's bed.

  Lin Zi put a small piece of cucumber in his mouth and chewed, wiping his hand and saying: "It's okay! Having beautiful women is better than being alone... forgot to add some white sugar."

  "What?" Meng Zidan said in shock, the other party's words were inconsistent and she didn't quite understand what they meant.

  "Ah!" Lin Zixian pointed to his mouth and said, "I'm saying that cucumbers are better with a bit of white sugar, the taste is more refreshing. When I was young, I often ate them like this." After finishing speaking, he lit a cigarette and propped up his leg on the stool.

  Ning Lan looked at Meng Zidan who was staring blankly and chuckled to herself, bending her waist. Lin Zixian had a puzzled expression on his face, not knowing what she was laughing about.

  Meng Zidan rolled her eyes, and suddenly a chaotic noise came from downstairs, the sound getting louder and sharper, like two women arguing. The two women looked at Lin Zixian in confusion, and Lin Zixian was also bewildered, as in his impression, the women of Sakura Apartments were all different in character but always got along harmoniously, not to the point of having a loud argument.