20 years of restarting life

Chapter 3576 Iron Egg
The next morning, Zhao Chang'an drove Zheng Xi back to the golf villa, while Zheng Wenzheng and his wife went to the store to keep watch.

Although many high-rise buildings have been erected around the villa in the past two years, the area is still somewhat remote.

Zhao Chang'an wasn't a very particular person. He drove the car into a deserted construction site with low weeds and bushes over a meter tall. He had Zheng Xi, who was sitting in the passenger seat, lie down with her legs on the roof of the car.

Today, Zheng Xi was wearing a white sweater with lace trim, a short skirt, and trendy cuff pants. As she obediently raised her legs high, her beautiful face flushed with a blush and shyness, making her look incredibly charming.

When the car arrived, Zhao Chang'an stopped, got out, looked around, and then said to Zheng Xi, "The paint has been scratched quite a bit. This is really expensive; it's more expensive than staying in a hotel that costs five or six hundred."

Hearing this, Zheng Xi blushed and suppressed her laughter without saying a word.

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Zhao Chang'an drove back to the villa, bought a box of milk and a can of oil at the entrance of the community, dropped Zheng Xi off at her door, and then went to Liu Yihui's house.

Li Juan was also there. These days, Liu Yihui stayed home in the evenings, and Li Juan took care of him here in the mornings. She would cook lunch for him, and Jiao Fengyue, who had just finished her injection in the afternoon, was free to do as she pleased.

"Chang'an, you're already here, why buy anything? Earning money isn't easy. You're Tiedan's only friend, and I've never seen him be close to anyone else. You know about Qiuqiu and that girl, you need to talk to him properly and tell him to have a conscience and not forget his roots!"

Seeing that Jiao Fengyue, who had finally gained some weight, had become thin again and had even more white hair, Zhao Chang'an could only nod and say nothing.

"I don't like that female doctor who gives injections. Her face is covered up like a ghost, and the overpowering fragrance she smells like when she walks into the room makes me nauseous! Juan and I only use face cream. It's good, inexpensive, smells nice, and isn't overpowering. Wearing a doctor's skirt in this freezing weather, with bare legs, makes it look like you're not wearing anything underneath. She's definitely not a good woman!"

Jiao Fengyue continued speaking angrily.

"Auntie, this is how people dress in the city now, but she always gets so cold that her nose runs everywhere."

As she spoke, Li Juan laughed.

Like other villas, Liu Yihui's villa was equipped with a central air conditioning heating system. However, Jiao Fengyue thought it was unnecessary to waste money on it, so Liu Yihui specially bought a coal-fired stove for heating. In order to drill a round hole in the glass and run a ventilation hole in the sheet metal, he actually broke a huge tempered glass wall in the living room. He had no choice but to replace it with a regular thick glass and drill a hole in it.

What Jiao Fengyue didn't know was that just these two pieces of glass, plus the labor and transportation costs for installation, amounted to no less than 20,000 yuan.

Especially this thick glass, which was specially transported from the factory by a large truck. The freight cost was this much for one piece and about the same for a whole truckload, costing more than a thousand yuan.

"Serves her right, call her a vixen!"

Jiao Fengyue said through gritted teeth, “Don’t you dare defend her. I’ve seen plenty of girls in our neighborhood, and every single one of them dresses appropriately. Even those who wear clothes that expose their thighs are dressed for summer when it’s hot. I’ve never seen anyone dressed like that in winter. Look at Qiuqiu, that’s what I call appropriate and tasteful.”

"That's because you go to bed early. If you don't believe me, come with me to the door one night and see for yourself. After one or two in the morning, that's when it'll be truly outrageous. The girl in the building behind you, the one you call a 'good girl,' is wearing a super short puffy skirt and a tank top that shows her belly button, with most of her chest exposed."

Jiao Fengyue laughed upon hearing this and said to Li Juan, "Nonsense, I won't fall for your tricks. You just want to go eat Old Wu's kebabs tonight, but you're too scared to go alone, so you're trying to trick me into going with you. Old Wu is from our hometown, and he only sets up his stall at night."

"Forget it if you don't believe it."

Li Juan just smiled, opened the bag on the table and asked Zhao Chang'an, "Do you want some baked buns?" "Let me bake one."

Li Juan took out three steamed buns and placed them on the iron grate of the stove.

Although the stove was burning in the living room, the room was too large, and Jiao Fengyue was reluctant to keep the stove's ventilation cover open all the time, so the temperature was not high and it felt very cold.

However, Jiao Fengyue and Li Juan were both wearing cotton-padded jackets and trousers, so they didn't feel cold.

"Juan, open the grate and the lid underneath too. Chang'an, sit down and warm yourself by the fire."

Jiao Fengyue's words warmed Zhao Chang'an's heart; she truly treated him like one of her own.

She said with a smile, "Auntie, don't open this grate, it'll easily let carbon monoxide into the room. Just open the vent below."

"In such a big house, Tie Dan said that carbon monoxide tends to rise, so it's safe to leave the windows on the second-floor corridor open."

Jiao Fengyue was not so easily persuaded, and then said somewhat impatiently, "Why hasn't that vixen come yet? Juan said you like to eat pickled cabbage stir-fried with river shrimp, I'll make it for you at noon. If you want to eat anything else, just tell your aunt."

"I'm not eating, I have something to do at noon."

“You can’t leave for anything. How can you visit someone for the New Year without eating? If you leave, take your things with you.”

Jiao Fengyue said without waiting for a reply, "Tiedan said last night that you were coming today, so I've already soaked the river shrimp. The pickled cabbage is the arrow-stem white cabbage from our mountain city (a type of cabbage produced in northern Hubei and southern Henan). It's not sold here. My aunt grows some, but it's not as good as the ones from our area."

Zhao Chang'an looked at Li Juan expectantly, but Li Juan just smiled and said, "Don't look at me, this has nothing to do with me!"

"Auntie, it's really something. Duan Fengqing, the section chief from our mountain city, is coming over today, and I have to treat her to lunch."

Jiao Fengyue believed that Zhao Chang'an was really in trouble. After thinking for a moment, she cautiously asked Zhao Chang'an, "Chang'an, if we invite Duan Chang to our house for dinner, will he complain that our food is not good?"

"How could that be? I just randomly picked a small restaurant, ordered a pot, and had them cook two dishes. She doesn't drink alcohol either."

Zhao Chang'an certainly wouldn't be that simple. After all, Duan Fengqing had come all this way, and it was the first day of the Lunar New Year. Although Duan Fengqing probably didn't care what he ate, even a bowl of fried noodles would be fine, since no one seemed to care, why not make it a little more elaborate?
"That's easy. We'll have Duan-chang eat at our house for lunch today. It's just a matter of having one more pair of chopsticks if Auntie wants to entertain you."

Jiao Fengyue was overjoyed, but also worried, and asked Zhao Chang'an, "Is this long piece of writing a bit shabby?"

"How could that be, Auntie? Section Chief is a very casual person, it's just your body..."

Although Zhao Chang'an said this because he was worried about Jiao Fengyue's health, he also knew that he had to eat lunch at Tie Dan's house today.

(End of this chapter)