The Byoukidere Is Her Sweetie-Chapter 66 - : 066: Jiang Zhi Tests the Professional Errand Runner
Chapter 66: 066: Jiang Zhi Tests the Professional Errand Runner
Jiang Zhi said nothing.
Ah Wan chattered on and on, “Do you think Miss Zhou could be a fairy that descended from Heaven? Once she passes her ordeal, she’ll ascend back to Heaven.”
What an imagination!
Ah Wan even admired his own creativity; he could debut as a scriptwriter.
In the dead of night, the only sounds in the corridor were coughs and the boss’s cold, disdainful voice, “What kind of messy TV show have you been watching again?”
What do you mean messy!
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Ah Wan straightened up, “I’ve been following ‘Three Lives and Thirty Miles of Chrysanthemums’ recently.”
Jiang Zhi: “…”
Speaking of Three Lives and Thirty Miles of Chrysanthemums, Ah Wan’s mental fan fiction simply couldn’t stop.
“If Miss Zhou really is here for an ordeal, then it must be a romantic one,” Ah Wan, who didn’t know why he was so excited, was indeed very excited, “Boss, you’re Miss Zhou’s destined tribulation.”
If there really was a Heaven, he would build a nuclear bomb to blast it to pieces, and then get a spaceship to snatch Zhou Xufang over, whether she’s human or a fairy, he would claim her.
Jiang Zhi put a stop to this idiotic idea, turning around, “Are you an idiot?”
Ah Wan: “…”
You are! Your whole family is!
Ah Wan decided that once he got back, he would have Shuangxi call him ‘Grandpa’ and call Jiang Zhi ‘Chicken Dad’.
Back in the ward, the nurse came to administer an injection, which inevitably led to a gentle admonition about how Mr. Jiang’s health was weak and how he shouldn’t go out into the cold.
Jiang Zhi, annoyed by the noise, told the nurse to shut up.
“Go check on Jin Song.”
Ah Wan was still immersed in the fantasy of Shuangxi calling him grandpa and Jiang Zhi dad, and his brain didn’t switch gears right away, responding after a long pause, “Isn’t he one of the Jiang Family?”
“The Jiang Family isn’t that stupid.”
Jiang Zhi didn’t explain and just listlessly lay down.
Ah Wan didn’t understand, but he also didn’t dare to ask.
After Zhou Xufang got home, it was almost ten, and she hadn’t changed her clothes when she turned on her computer.
“Shuangjiang.”
Shuangjiang immediately typed back, “I’m here.”
“Did the surveillance catch me?”
Jiang Zhi, with his meticulous mind, would surely check. Zhou Xufang had contacted Shuangjiang by phone from the hospital during the filming, hoping to mend the situation, but she wasn’t sure if it was too late.
“Caught you.” Shuangjiang quickly added another line, “Don’t worry, I blocked the video for you.”
Zhou Xufang finally breathed a sigh of relief, “Thanks.” She stood up and took a can of cold milk from the fridge, “What about the car?”
“It was also caught on camera, but the snow was too heavy, you couldn’t see clearly, and the person driving was wearing a mask, couldn’t make out if it was a man or a woman.”
Zhou Xufang returned to the computer, “What about the car model?”
“I checked that too, a standard model BMW, nothing special.”
The license plate was also covered, meaning there wasn’t any usable evidence.
Zhou Xufang looked down, pondering.
Shuangjiang asked her, “Are you going to get involved in Jiang Zhi’s situation?”
She didn’t hesitate, “I will.”
She wouldn’t let anyone harm Jiang Zhi. No one could.
However, Shuangjiang was concerned, “But Jiang Zhi has become suspicious of you, and he’s cunning. I’m afraid he might figure something out.”
The wounds, the speed, her unusualness had already aroused Jiang Zhi’s attention.
Zhou Xufang stayed silent.
She was very afraid of people discovering her secret, scared of being seen as a monster, most of all afraid that Jiang Zhi would look at her with disgust, stop being her friend, stop talking to her, stop giving her candy, stop giving her lanterns.
“Ah Fang, if you don’t want to be exposed, you should keep your distance.”
Crack—
Zhou Xufang accidentally crushed the can in her hand, milk spilling everywhere, she pursed her lips in annoyance, “I know.”
A look of loss appeared on her face.
It was the first time Shuangjiang had seen such a vivid expression on her.
“Help me look up something else.” Zhou Xufang wiped her hands clean, “A square-shaped Peace Talisman charm, made from yellow satin, with a ‘Book’ character embroidered on the bottom left corner with blue thread.”
The person driving the car that hit someone was dressed entirely in black, the hat pulled down low, gloves and mask firmly in place, no distinguishing features at all. Zhou Xufang, with her good eyesight, remembered the charm on the car, about the size of half a palm.
She pulled out paper and pen to try to draw the Peace Talisman, but after several attempts, it ended up twisted and didn’t look right at all. She really had no talent for drawing.
Her cell phone, left to the side, rang.
She picked it up and saw a WeChat message from Jiang Zhi.
“Are you home yet?”
She replied, “Home.”
“Send me a photo,” Jiang Zhi sent another message, “to confirm your safety.”
Zhou Xufang stood up and snapped a picture of her front door for him.
Jiang Zhi: “…”
He didn’t want to see her house’s door!
“Take a picture of yourself.”
Oh.
Zhou Xufang sent him a half-face selfie.
In the photo, her gaze seemed absent and her expression was perplexed, as if she was searching for the camera lens but couldn’t quite find it.
Jiang Zhi: “…”
This girl probably had never taken a selfie before, possibly didn’t use a smartphone often. He had noticed the last time they video-chatted that she couldn’t find the camera lens.
So smart, yet so adorably clueless.
Jiang Zhi stopped typing and sent a voice message instead, “Did you finish the cotton candy?”
His voice sounded a bit hoarse.
Zhou Xufang rarely used voice messages and wasn’t very good at it, still slowly typing, “Almost finished.”
“You come to the set tomorrow, I’ll bring some for you.”
“Okay.”
She immediately transferred ten thousand yuan to Jiang Zhi.
Jiang Zhi didn’t accept it.
“Do you have a lot of money?”
Zhou Xufang thought for a moment, “It’s alright.” She couldn’t tell the truth; Jiang Zhi was too astute.
He then asked, “How did you earn it?”
She replied, “By working.”
“What kind of work?”
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His tone was casual, sounding like small talk.
Zhou Xufang didn’t hesitate for long and began to list them one by one.
“Applying screen protectors.”
“Delivering takeout.”
“Being an extra in films.”
“Modeling.”
“Distributing flyers.”
“Driving for hire.”
“Moving bricks.”
“…”
She listed a dozen more types of jobs.
Just not a professional errand runner.
Wait—
Jiang Zhi’s tone even escalated, “You actually move bricks?”
“Yeah,” she said, “it pays well.” Mainly because she was strong, able to move three times the amount a man could.
At that moment, Jiang Zhi envisioned a frail figure, wearing a red safety helmet among a bunch of stinky men, clad in ill-fitting clothes, wearing gloves with many holes, feet in liberation shoes, stooping dust-covered and pitifully moving bricks…
He couldn’t bear to think about it; it was heart-wrenching!
He almost shouted, “No more moving bricks in the future!”
Why not? Moving bricks was easy and profitable, Zhou Xufang couldn’t understand, but she agreed anyway, “Oh.”
Such a good girl.
If only she stayed this obedient.
Jiang Zhi said, “Xu Fang.”
Zhou Xufang said nothing.
“Go to sleep, it’s late.”
“Okay.”
“Goodnight.”
“Goodnight.”
Finally, Jiang Zhi sent an emoticon he had saved from Xue Baoyi, “As long as you’re obedient, I’ll buy you a ‘gai’.”
Zhou Xufang replied with a period.
Then the chat did not continue. Jiang Zhi had wanted to talk more, but when he thought about Zhou Xufang having to do so many jobs and even moving bricks, he didn’t want to delay her sleep.
He stared at that period.
The chat background was her picture, obtained from the hair salon owner. She rarely took photos; her expression was blank, her eyes empty, her face displaying the original expression pack—”Who am I, where am I, what am I going to do?!”
The room was dark, and Ah Wan came in to see a beam of mobile phone light illuminating his boss’s enchantingly beautiful face in the middle of the night, like a glamorous female ghost.
He didn’t know when his boss had developed the habit of staying up late.
Ah Wan friendly reminded him, “Boss, aren’t you going to sleep? It’s past ten.”
He was still staring at his phone, “How did the investigation go?”
“Miss Zhou doesn’t appear to have any properties registered in her name, nor is the house registered under her account.” Her bank savings were also pity-inducingly meager.
Jiang Zhi was silent, his finger lingering on the WeChat page, caressing Zhou Xufang’s pitch-black profile picture.
If she really was a professional errand runner, it was normal not to find anything.
But how could he explain the injury on her arm the other time?
And how could he explain her running across the street to him in just three seconds today?
He was utterly clueless.
Ah Wan felt it was time to express his thoughts, “Boss, do you suspect Miss Zhou is that scum who abducted you?” His tone was certain, “You must be mistaken, Miss Zhou is such a high-principled and righteous person, how could she be a scum?”
Jiang Zhi looked up, the light of the phone casting a cold white glow on his face, “Stop calling her ‘scum.’”
Hah! Protective much!
Hmph!
Ah Wan didn’t want to argue.
Jiang Zhi put down his phone and went back to lying on the hospital bed, “Pass a message to the old lady.”
“What message?”
“Just say,” his tone had a hint of mischief, “just say there’s always someone sinister trying to kill me.”
And then?
Was he expecting the old lady to help take down the sinister people?
Ah Wan was about to ask for clarification.
Jiang Zhi continued instructing, “Then add another line.”
“What line?”
His tone was languid, probably from the fatigue and sickness, soft and gentle, “Mention that you’re no match in strength or combat, and also tell the old lady that there’s a formidable professional errand runner in Imperial City recently, highly skilled, powerful in execution, a bodyguard a hundred times stronger than you.”
Ah Wan, who was no match in strength or combat, said, “…”
He really wanted to curse.
Hold it in, just hold it in.
Couldn’t hold back anymore!
Damn it!
