Chapter 173
Xu Zhi was overturned to the ground with a slap, and was instantly baffled.
If it was Lin Ran who sneaked up on him before he wasn’t prepared, but this time the two were fighting head on, yet he still couldn’t even last one round, this was simply a crushing of strength.
“You …. Who the hell are you!”
Xu Zhi was being arrogant, but at this point he was also snapped out of it, knowing that he was simply no match for Lin Ran.
“Lin Ran.”
Lin Ran said indifferently.
Xu Zhi’s face was full of black lines, this reply was almost as good as not saying anything.
“Kid, I admit that you are more skilled than me, but if you dare to offend Laozi, you will regret it sooner or later!”
Xu Zhi said in a cold voice.
Lin Ran smiled blandly at his words and said.
“Is that so? Then I’ll wait for you to make me regret it! If you still want to come and have a slap at me!”
“You!”
Xu Zhi was speechless, his face was on fire at this moment, and when he heard Lin Ran’s words, he couldn’t help but rush to cover the other half of his face.
Lin Ran turned around and left, not bothering with this scum.
But right after Lin Ran left, Xu Zhi was the one who took out his phone and called out.
“Hey! Old Zhang, arrange a dozen workers for me and wait for me at noon at the neighborhood near Temperance University!”
“Brother Zhi, is this another job? The brothers are all waiting impatiently!”
A middle-aged man’s gruff voice rang out over the phone, making people very confused, a middle-aged man actually called out Brother Xu Zhi, this was a bit of a poor name for a generation.
“Cut the crap, this time it’s my own business, just bring your men and guys over, after the job is done, I have a big job waiting for you!”
Xu Zhi said.
“Okay! But Brother Zhi, you have to say the location, we have so many renovation tools here, mine will be shipped over in advance!”
Old Zhang said over the phone.
“Not decoration, just bring shovels, today is to fight a man!”
Xu Zhi said helplessly.
“Beat up someone? That man is near the university town?”
Old Zhang asked.
Xu Zhi said with a black line on his face, impatient.
“Which is so much nonsense, I’m going to a friend’s house for lunch, when I finish I’ll go straight to you guys, that kid is a client of our company, I can get his address!”
“Good!”
Old Zhang was not talking nonsense and immediately hung up the phone to get ready.
“Aren’t you crazy, I’m going to show you what it means to have a big fist today!”
Xu Zhi revealed a cold smile of satisfaction, and immediately hung up the phone and ran back to the company to check Lin Ran’s address.
…..
When he left the building materials city, Lin Ran first went to the supermarket and bought some ingredients, then went back home.
It was almost noon, and Song Nuan’s friends should be visiting the house, so he remembered that he was going to play the role of cook for this girl.
When he got home, before Song Nuan returned, Lin Ran dove into the kitchen and began to work.
It wasn’t until the time came around noon that the sound of the door opening finally came, followed by the chattering voices of a group of women, Lin Ran roughly judged from the voices that there were three women coming in.
“The food smells so good! Nuan, you still know how to cook!”
A tall, beautifully dressed woman asked, her name was Meiya and she was one of Song Nuan’s high school cla*smates.
“I didn’t make it, my friend did!”
Song Nuan laughed, while greeting the crowd and sitting down.
“A friend made it? It can’t be a boyfriend!”
Another average looking but very richly dressed woman laughed, she had a birthmark like a musical note on her face that looked very special, she was also one of Song Nuan’s high school cla*smates, her name was Li Yin.
“Don’t talk nonsense, I don’t have a boyfriend!”
Song Nuan said hurriedly, but her pretty face was uncontrollably red.
“Yo yo yo, still denying it, your face is blushing to the base of your neck!”
Meiya laughed.
Li Yin followed with two laughs, then hurriedly stopped the two and laughed.
“Come on, even you have a boyfriend, but our Yulan doesn’t have one yet, and you guys didn’t say anything to help introduce him!”
“Definitely help, definitely help!”
Song Nuan laughed, while looking at Yulan.
That’s right, her last high school cla*smate was none other than Yulan.
“Don’t make fun of me, I’m as busy as hell, how can I have time to find a date!”
Yulan laughed at herself, but in her mind she remembered that figure from last time.
“Alright, stop it!”
Song Nuan laughed, while looking at Li Yin.
“Didn’t you say your boyfriend was back too? Why hasn’t he arrived yet?”
“It should be soon!”
Li Yin said, while looking at her watch, just then there was a knock at the door.
Song Nuan quickly ran to open the door, and the person who appeared at the door was Li Yin’s boyfriend, Xu Zhi.
If Lin Ran was here at this time, I’m afraid he wouldn’t have been able to stop laughing, the two people he just met this morning were actually at his house again, I really don’t know if it was fate, or if they were just narrowing the path of injustice.
When he opened the door and saw Song Nuan, Xu Zhi was immediately stunned, he had never seen such a beautiful woman, even his girlfriend Li Yin, I’m afraid she was not even a tenth of the woman in front of him.
“You… Hello, my name is Xu Zhi, Li Yin told me to come!”
Xu Zhi said hurriedly, but his eyes were unblinkingly staring at Song Nuan.
“Ao, it’s all inside, come in!”
Song Nuan squeezed out a smile and said, but in her heart, she was a bit disgusted with this young man named Xu Zhi in front of her, the way she looked at herself just now already showed his character.
“Everyone’s here, sorry I’m late!”
Xu Zhi came in and saw the four women, he couldn’t help but feel happy in his heart, although his girlfriend Li Yin was also present, but this didn’t affect his mood in any way, after all, only if he knew more, he would have more chances, if none of them knew each other, I’m afraid there would be no chance.
“Yulan you’re here too!”
Xu Zhi acted as if nothing was wrong and greeted Yulan.
Yulan, however, nodded and did not say anything.
Li Yin, who was at the side, saw that the atmosphere was a bit off and opened her mouth to ask.
“What’s wrong?”
“Ao nothing, it’s probably because of work! Yulan she quit her job!”
Xu Zhi said with a smile, after he went back in the morning, he just happened to see Yulan quit her job, and for this reason, he didn’t stop laughing at her, so he naturally had to pull it out and talk about it again when he had the chance.
“How did she resign?”
Li Yin hurriedly asked, she was the one who introduced Yulan to work at Xu Zhi’s. When she heard that Yulan had left, she was very puzzled.
“Nothing! I just graduated from university, it’s normal that I can’t settle down, but I’m most worried about her father’s situation!”
Xu Zhi said pretending to be kind.
“His father? What’s wrong?”
Song Nuan asked curiously, she didn’t know the situation of Yulan’s family.
“Ao, her father has got …..”
Xu Zhi said at once, but before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by Yulan’s scolding from the side.
“That’s enough!”
Everyone looked at Yulan, and the atmosphere in the room became incomparably awkward for a while.
“Does it matter to you what’s going on in my house? If you have this energy, you might as well mind your own hands, and don’t blame me for being ungracious if you do those nasty things!”
Yulan was really angry, this guy Xu Zhi had bullied himself in the company before and that was fine, to talk about her own family in front of her friends, this she could not tolerate.
Lin Ran was working feverishly in the kitchen, when he heard the noise outside, he couldn’t help but walk out, when he saw Yulan and Xu Zhi, he immediately smiled.
“What a coincidence, I didn’t expect to run into the two of you here!”
Lin Ran’s words caused the crowd to be stunned, and then they only saw him walk up next to Xu Zhi, patting him on the shoulder and laughing.
“Brother, your face has healed quite quickly, earlier I was the one who hit too hard, had I known you were Song Nuan’s friend, I wouldn’t have hit you!”
Chapter 174
Lin Ran’s words were like a bolt from the blue, which instantly stunned all four women and one man present.
Especially Xu Zhi, from the moment Lin Ran came out, his head was just dumbfounded, he never thought in any way that the person he wanted to take revenge on would actually be the boyfriend of his girlfriend’s best friend, which ….
“You… You had a fight this morning?”
Song Nuan was the first to come back to his senses and asked Lin Ran.
Xu Zhi sobered up at his words and hurriedly opened his mouth to explain.
“No, I had some misunderstanding with this brother this morning, if I had known that he was your friend, I’m sure this wouldn’t have happened!”
Joking aside, if he didn’t speak up first, if Lin Ran told him about what happened this morning, then he would really be finished.
“Misunderstanding? What misunderstanding?”
Li Yin frowned and asked, although she was not clear about the matter, but she heard clearly that Lin Ran had beaten Xu Zhi, it was fine if it was someone else, but it was her own boyfriend who had been beaten, she did not want to let this go.
“It’s really nothing, forget it!”
“Forget it? Why just forget about it?”
Li Yin frowned, and Song Nuan, who saw this, spoke up.
“Or else forget it, Lin Ran is stubborn, it must be his problem!”
Song Nuan threw the blame onto Lin Ran first.
In response Lin Ran didn’t bother to argue, Song Nuan, as the owner of this place, this point of face still had to be given.
“Xiao Nuan, as your bestie and cla*smate, there are some things I have to remind you of!”
Li Yin began to lecture, Song Nuan all but threw the blame on Lin Ran, and the latter didn’t say anything, so naturally she couldn’t get angry, she could only side-step and belittle.
“The most important thing we women can do in this life is to find a capable man to marry, look at me as a living example, Xu Zhi is so capable, I’m living such a good life now!”
Said Li Yin looking to Yulan who was laughing at the side.
“Look at Yulan, she’s too strong, she’s not even looking for a boyfriend, so she has to carry everything by herself, what’s the use of being strong if a girl doesn’t find a good in-law!”
“I’m willing to carry the load, at least I don’t have to look at a man’s face!”
Yulan said with displeasure, this Li Yin usually likes to show off her wealth, but now she is talking about herself, who cares!
“Okay, okay, we’re all friends, forget it!”
Meiya said again.
But Li Yin looked at Song Nuan as if she hadn’t heard.
“Besides, your Xiao Nuan is so pretty and her family is so well off, what kind of man can she find, why did she find a son-in-law?”
“How do you know Xiao Nuan found a son-in-law?”
Xu Zhi asked, hearing that Song Nuan’s family was well off and that she was so pretty, his little heart couldn’t resist popping out again.
“Is that even a question?”
Li Yin showed a look like he was looking at an idiot, then said.
“This is the villa area! Look at his clothes, does he look like he can afford it? Not a door-to-door son-in-law or something!”
“That’s enough!”
Song Nuan listened with an ugly face, she hadn’t said anything just because she didn’t want to argue with Li Yin, today was supposed to be a friend coming over to the house for a sit-down, but it turned out that since Xu Zhi appeared, things had gone completely differently than expected.
Seeing that Song Nuan seemed to be angry, Li Yin hurriedly said.
“Well don’t get angry haha, I was worried for you too, nothing else!”
“Is the meal ready?”
Song Nuan didn’t bother with her and turned to ask Lin Ran, there was a hint of apology in his gaze, he didn’t even explode when Li Yin said that just now, obviously it was all for himself.
“It’s ready! This is on!”
Lin Ran smiled lightly, and then whirled back to serve the food, Song Nuan got up and laughed.
“I’ll go with you!”
“I’ll go too!”
Yulan said as she got up.
As the three left, the atmosphere at the table became even more awkward.
“Meiya see, this kid doesn’t know what tricks he used, he actually chased Xiao Nuan down!”
Meiya said as she gave her a frown.
“It’s not good to talk like that behind your back, besides it’s Xiao Nuan’s freedom to be with whoever she wants, so why should we care so much!”
“Not nice? What’s bad, even in front of him, I dare to say that, Xiao Nuan is my best friend, I can’t watch her jump into the fire”!
Li Yin said forcefully.
Xu Zhi patted her, gesturing for her to say less, but who knew that she was being glared at, and then dared not say anything more.
The meal was served quickly, the three of them only took three trips before all the dishes were served. I have to say that Lin Ran’s cooking skills were still very good, with all the colours and aromas, meat and vegetables and so on, but looking at and smelling the flavours, they all made people salivate.
“Nuan, your boyfriend is really good at his job!”
Meiya praised, and Yulan, who was standing by, laughed as well.
“Yeah, I couldn’t resist stealing a bite in the kitchen just now!”
“Really? It’s a good thing you didn’t eat it, otherwise your fantasy of deliciousness might have been shattered!”
Li Yin interjected in a very untimely manner.
Lin Ran frowned slightly, he had given Song Nuan face and didn’t want to get into trouble with these friends of hers, but the other party was repeatedly looking for trouble with him, which he couldn’t bear.
“Take a bite, maybe there are still illusions, if you don’t eat, then there is nothing!”
Lin Ran said indifferently.
Li Yin snorted coldly at his words and laughed.
“Heh, is that so? Then what if a bite later grosses me out? Does anyone pay for it?”
“There’s no money to pay for it, but there is a slap in the face to pay for the beating!”
Lin Ran said with a serious face, he really wasn’t afraid to play scoundrel.
“What, you want a beating for eating a meal? What kind of rule is that?”
Li Yin sneered.
Lin Ran looked at her with a bland smile, not bothering to pay attention, and followed to greet the crowd.
“Let’s all eat, and later on Xiao Nuan is going to take you all to sing!”
“Really?”
“I knew Xiao Nuan was the best!”
Meiya and Yulan both said excitedly, it had been a long time since they had gotten together and they were naturally all very happy at this point.
Li Yin was the only one who felt neglected by Lin Ran, and her face looked very pale.
“I’d like to see how good the food is!”
Li Yin’s face sank as she took the first bite.
“How was it?”
Meiya, who was at the side, asked.
Li Yin’s face became even more ugly, and after holding back for a long time, he said.
“It’s not bad, it’s almost better than the three-star restaurant’s!”
Meiya sniffed and took a bite herself, and her happy little face was as happy as a blossom as she hurriedly said.
“This is too good, it’s better than even the five star restaurant’s, how can it be worse than the three star’s!”
These words made Li Yin’s face even harder to hear, she knew it was delicious, but she just didn’t want to admit it.
“Come on! Little Nuan, I’ll take Li Yin’s place and give you a dish!”
On the side, Xu Zhi had long been unable to resist watching, and with Song Nuan ready to move her chopsticks, he immediately added a piece over, not forgetting to flag it down.
The crowd looked at Xu Zhi, feeling a bit strange, his own girlfriend was present, and Song Nuan’s boyfriend was also present, you helping someone to pinch the food is obviously a bit inappropriate.
But Song Nuan did not care, just want to say “thank you” but just said a “thank you ….” The word “thank you” was interrupted by Lin Ran at the side.
Lin Ran stretched out his chopsticks and caught Xu Zhi’s chopsticks, then looked at him and said with a smile on his face.
“Clip the vegetables will be exempt, your chopsticks, or better for your girlfriend to clip, otherwise afraid you clip addicted, every day run to clip the vegetables!”
“You!”
Xu Zhi’s face sank as he took back his chopsticks and glared at Lin Ran.
Seeing her boyfriend defeated, Li Yin at the side quit and stretched out her chopsticks to clip dishes for Song Nuan as well.
Lin Ran instantly laughed.
“What, do you two boyfriend and girlfriend like to dish out food to other people? Do you fancy someone else’s bowl, or do you think your own bowl is no good? Tired of it?”
“What do you mean by that!”
Li Yin stood up at the sound of her words and glared at Lin Ran questioningly.
