Rescue the hero who was imprisoned by the cannon fodder sister

Chapter 159 Secrecy

After lunch, I went to the store as usual.

Lin Mei noticed that she didn't look very energetic and was concerned about whether she was feeling unwell.

Zhou Niantang shook his head helplessly, put on an apron, and sat with a few shop assistants to prune the new flowers that had arrived that day.

If it were usual, Zhou Niantang would have been chatting about gossip and everything in between with them by now.

She was unusually quiet today, which made the other three people feel that their boss was definitely worried.

Especially when another clerk, Zhao Xin, accidentally broke a Juliet rose that was airlifted in.

Chen Ying glanced at Zhou Niantang, who was still pruning the branches seriously, in a panic, and saw that she hadn't noticed yet.

Knowing the price of Juliet roses, she whispered to Zhao Xin: "Be gentle."

Who would have thought that Zhou Niantang, who had been silent all this time, suddenly looked up and asked, "Kiss what?"

Zhao Xin was confused by her reaction, but it was her fault after all, so she pointed to the flowers in her hand and said, "I accidentally broke the flowers, Sister Xiaoying asked me to be gentler."

Zhou Niantang: ...

She looked away: "It's broken, so be it."

Those nonchalant words, coupled with her reaction just now, made the other three people look at each other and they all felt that their young boss's worries seemed to be no ordinary matter.

Zhou Niantang appeared calm on the surface, but he was actually going crazy inside.

Trying to use work to clear your mind of thoughts doesn’t work at all!

It was past five in the afternoon before she left the store and went to Yunzhi's house. They had originally agreed to have a dinner together on New Year's Eve.

It was the end of the year and there were a lot of people everywhere. I hurried and finally arrived at Yunzhi's house at around six o'clock.

When she was getting on the elevator, she suddenly thought of a possibility. It was here that she met Pei Shi last time.

Yun Zhi probably didn’t invite him to the dinner this time, right?

To be on the safe side, she sent a message to Yun Zhi before getting on the elevator, asking her who would be attending the dinner today.

Yun Zhi took five minutes to reply, and she actually waited by the elevator for five minutes.

Afterwards, she carefully looked through the names Yun Zhi sent her, read them twice, and only breathed a sigh of relief when she was sure that Pei Shi's name was not on the list.

After going upstairs, it was Luo Ze who came to open the door.

She was changing her slippers at the entrance. Luo Ze noticed that her face looked a little pale. Knowing that she had not been in good health before, he was concerned about whether she was feeling unwell.

"No, I just didn't sleep well yesterday." Zhou Niantang changed his shoes and waved back at him.

Knowing that she was not feeling unwell, Luo Ze felt relieved and asked her to sit in the living room first.

When I arrived at the living room, I found that Ji Shen and Xie Xiaotang were also there.

She took out her cell phone and looked at the message Yun Zhi sent her. As expected, the names of these two people were there, but she was focused on finding Pei Shi's name and ignored them.

Ji Shen was chatting with two or three men and women who looked familiar but whom she didn't know, while Xie Xiaotang was sitting on the ground assembling a tank model.

Seeing her come in, they both nodded and continued to focus on what was happening at hand.

We grew up together and there is never any need for us to be polite.

Zhou Niantang found a place to sit for a few minutes, and when he felt that his thoughts were about to get out of control again, he decided to go to the kitchen to see if there was anything he could help with.

As expected, neither of the two people in the kitchen asked her to help.

We had hotpot for the gathering, so we just had to wash the ingredients and prepare to eat.

A few more people came to the door one after another, but among these people, Zhou Niantang was only a little familiar with Gu Junzhe.

After all, they are from the same class as Yun Zhi and her seniors.

When dinner started, Yun Zhi arranged for Zhou Niantang to sit next to her.

She used to praise Yunzhi's hot pot soup base very much and couldn't stop eating it, but now she was not interested.

Yun Zhi picked up some prawns for her and asked her, "Are you okay?"

"It's okay. What can happen to me?" Zhou Niantang put down his chopsticks, put on gloves and prepared to peel shrimp.

Other people who were not familiar with her might not think it was a big deal, but a few people who were more familiar with her could still notice something different.

Xie Xiaotang raised his head from the whole crab and glanced at her, and said calmly: "Don't make a fuss. Look at her red mouth. She must have got a fever."

Perhaps because they had opened up the conversation, Ji Shen, Xie Xiaotang and Luo Ze began to talk about how Zhou Niantang used to order spicy food when he was in junior high school and always got himself irritated by eating spicy food at school.

Zhou Niantang listened to them at first and didn't refute them. After all, it was not something that could not be discussed.

Later, Yun Zhi brought her a big crab, and she concentrated on eating the crab in the bowl.

Luo Ze drank a sip of Coke and asked Yun Zhi beside him: "Do you have any instant powder or something at home? I'll give her some later, the kind that clears away heat and detoxifies..."

Zhou Niantang, who hadn't heard what he said the whole time, suddenly started to deny subconsciously when a certain word came to his mind, "What kiss? There was no kiss!"

Everyone at the scene: ???

Zhou Niantang: ...

She was going crazy, she wanted to kill Pei Shi, that evildoer!

"No, what I mean is that I'm not getting angry. I just didn't sleep well last night." After explaining in a low voice, the others continued with their actions.

Except for Yun Zhi who looked at her suspiciously, the other straight men, because they knew her, thought that she reacted so strongly because she was afraid of the bitterness when she heard about taking medicine.

The meal didn't end until nearly nine o'clock in the evening.

Except for Zhou Niantang's own little thoughts, all other guests were having a great time.

After dinner, Zhou Niantang sat on the balcony enjoying the fresh air, inevitably worrying about what to do in the future.

Now things have completely exceeded her imagination.

So, if Pei Shi really likes her, will their family be completely safe?

Or is it that Pei Shi actually calculated the two things separately?

After thinking about it, she felt that the latter possibility might be more likely.

I feel even more upset.

She didn't notice when someone stood next to her. When the wind started to blow and she was about to go back to the house, she found Gu Junzhe standing a few steps away.

Seeing her startled, Gu Junzhe smiled and said, "Sorry, I scared you. I saw you were thinking about something, so I didn't disturb you."

"It's okay." Zhou Niantang thought of what happened the day before and asked him, "Senior Gu's mother, are you satisfied with the bouquet of flowers?"

Gu Junzhe nodded: "She was very satisfied and said it was very beautiful."

"That's good." Feeling that there was nothing to talk about, Zhou Niantang was about to go out.

Then I heard Gu Junzhe say, "You are in a bad mood, is it because you had a quarrel with him?"

Zhou Niantang didn't react for a moment. He frowned and thought for a long time before he understood what Gu Junzhe meant.

That day in the club, Gu Junzhe saw himself being taken away by Pei Shi, and he probably misunderstood the relationship between them.

She glanced at Ji Shen and the others in the living room, walked forward a few steps, moved a little closer to Gu Junzhe, and spoke to him in a low voice.

"Don't get me wrong. The relationship between me and that person is not what you think. Also, Senior Gu, can you please help me not to let Yun Zhi and other people know about this?"

The girl had a unique, light floral scent on her body. Gu Junzhe was so suddenly approached that he didn't even dare to breathe.

The smile on his face deepened when he heard her say that she had nothing to do with that man, and she was careful to ask him to keep it a secret.

"Okay," he said.