The Landlady and The Amnesiac

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Luo Bei and Zhou Jianguo embarked on their journey home again. Since it was only the 4th, the highway was not as congested as on the 1st. It took them ten hours to get there, but it should only take seven or eight hours to return if they didn’t encounter any accidents.

After two days of cooling down, Zhou Jianguo had lost his initial excitement when he thought about the dream.

However, he still occasionally looked at Luo Bei, and he probably looked at her more often than usual. Zhou Jianguo comforted himself that since he was sitting next to a beautiful woman, any normal man would take a few more glances, so there was no need to be too alarmed.

Luo Bei also sensed that Zhou Jianguo had been acting strange these past few days, but he was a strange person to begin with. She had asked him a few times, but since he didn’t say anything, she didn’t bother asking anymore.

They had lunch at a service area, but instead of eating fast food, they bought two buckets of instant noodles and paired them with ham sausage and pickled vegetables. Instant noodles were okay to eat once in a while, but they couldn’t eat them too often.

Zhou Jianguo thought of a good way to distract himself, and he chatted with Luo Bei non-stop along the way. Of course, they avoided talking about their relationship this time and mainly discussed business, such as buying a house and a car.

“I told my boss that I want to quit my job, but he asked me to stay for another week. I agreed because I can still earn a lot of money in a week. After I quit, I’ll go to the car beauty shop to learn the ropes and also do some market research.” This method seemed to work, and Zhou Jianguo no longer had the eyes of a man looking at a woman, “Since we have a car now, you can go around nearby and see what the prices and services are like for getting a membership and doing car beauty treatments.”

Luo Bei had no objections. The profits of unmanned stores were increasing month by month, especially in the month of Qixi1Qixi is like a Valentine’s Day in China based on a local folklore. It falls on the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, which usually falls someday in August… the profits were simply breaking through the roof.

Before long, it will be Singles’ Day2as its name said, it’s a day for singles…. It falls on November 11th and Christmas again, and the new year will start with Valentine’s Day. Selling adult products along with lingerie can bring in considerable profits.

Zhou Jianguo had always wanted to change his conditions, and Luo Bei had known this all along. He didn’t want to keep working on construction sites and didn’t need to be at an unmanned store every day. So he wanted to open another store as his main business, and Luo Bei naturally understood and supported him. After all, Zhou Jianguo was a restless person.

“If this store really opens, we’ll probably need someone experienced in this field,” Zhou Jianguo sighed. “It’s not like an unmanned store. We can accumulate experience by exploring, and we don’t need technical personnel. Luo Bei, I have confidence in this, but I don’t know if you’re willing to take a gamble with me and try our best together.”

“Isn’t doing business all about taking risks? Is there really such a thing as a completely risk-free business in this world?”

Luo Bei had already made up her mind. She had nothing to lose since she had started her business with lottery winnings. Even if things went wrong, she would only go back to square one. She was still young, and she could afford to take risks.

After working with Zhou Jianguo, she became different. This is what her Grandma said, but she could also feel it herself.

Although she had goals and ambitions before, she had always lived a life of conformity. Now she was truly taking action.