Rifts in the Family: Marriage Under Lies

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"It's in the same place as Mi Yunyan. I used some threats, but that guy is also timid, and he was frightened when a few thugs passed by. But, you know, just go and see it tomorrow, aren't you Do you want to go back?" Xu Jingqiu said understandingly.

Zhou Hao went to Wang Bo at night without thinking about it, since he couldn't run away with Mi Yunyan anyway.

Glancing at Mi Yunyan, remembering that today is her birthday after all, the relationship between the two can be regarded as good friends now, so she said: "Stop drinking, go upstairs and change clothes, I will take you somewhere."

Xu Jingqiu was puzzled and asked, "Where are you going?"

"You'll know if you go, hurry up, or I'll go home." Zhou Hao urged.

Xu Jingqiu muttered twice and went upstairs to change without saying anything.It took more than ten minutes before Xu Jingqiu changed into clothes and came down. Zhou Hao complained a few words and then drove to the city with her.

Chapter 283 Passing by

The night in Haishi is beautiful, and the whole city will gradually start to quiet down after midnight.

But now it's just shortly after dinner, and it's summer again, and there are extremely many people in the urban area.Under the flickering neon lights, the illuminated place seems to add some extravagant taste.

Sitting in the passenger seat, Xu Jingqiu asked Zhou Hao beside him with a puzzled face, "Zhou Hao, where are you taking me?"

Zhou Hao smiled mysteriously, and said, "You will know when the time comes, and you don't have such patience!"

"No, you have to tell me now, otherwise, who knows that you will not seek money and sex from me, and even kill me!" Xu Jingqiu rolled her eyes and made a small joke.

Zhou Hao laughed, and said, "If I'm seeking money, sex, and death, I still need to take you out. Besides, I'm not that stupid here in the city."

Xu Jingqiu spat, but she was also full of curiosity about the place Zhou Haosuo wanted to take her to.

Not far from the destination, Zhou Hao finally said, "Do you know how people in the countryside celebrated their birthdays?"

Xu Jingqiu's eyes lit up slightly upon hearing Zhou Hao's words, did Zhou Hao mean to celebrate her birthday?

This is always the case when people are wronged. They are obviously happy because of some people's concern in their hearts, but they are unforgiving in their mouths.

"Zhou Hao, you're not going to celebrate my birthday, are you? I don't need your concern, and you're nothing like me." Xu Jingqiu stopped.

"Just be a friend and celebrate your friend's birthday, and you don't have to think about it. I don't have the time and I don't want to spend that money to give you a birthday party. I haven't given it to my wife yet. Hehe, I'm going to the place soon, and now I'll tell you how I celebrated my birthday when I was a child."

Zhou Hao said with a smile, but he didn't want Xu Jingqiu to roll his eyes at him again.Talking about another woman when facing a woman, and making comparisons, this is stupid enough, don't you know that women and women are easily jealous?

Now Xu Jingqiu is a little jealous of Li Man. Although she has never seen it, from Zhou Hao's smiling eyes, she can see that Zhou Hao likes Li Man very much.

Zhou Hao didn't pay attention to Xu Jingqiu's expression, and said: "When I was young, the children in the countryside didn't even see cakes. So every time it was my birthday, my mother would cook birthday noodles and add two more. Eggs. Tsk tsk, that taste is really nostalgic. Now that cakes are popular, no one likes to eat birthday noodles with eggs. But I think, the sweetness of cakes can’t compare to the feeling of being made for you by yourself. It's a pity that I just don't know how to make birthday noodles, otherwise I'll make you a bowl today, and I'll serve you two eggs, and I'm sure your mouth will be full of greasy food, haha!"

Maybe Zhou Hao couldn't help laughing when he talked about his happiness, but Xu Jingqiu's head was full of black lines.Eat birthday noodles?It's not that she has never eaten. Although she is many years older than Zhou Hao, she is still of the same generation. It is estimated that everyone in their generation has eaten.It's just that after so many years, I haven't eaten any delicacies from mountains and seas, and I really can't taste the noodles and eggs.

Seeing the dispirited look on Xu Jingqiu's face, Zhou Hao also knew that Xu Jingqiu was a very realistic woman most of the time.But another meaning of reality is truth. Xu Jingqiu has only two things that are too poisonous, either she likes it or she doesn't like it, simple and straightforward.

Finally arrived at the destination, which is a snack street in the urban area.There is a longevity noodle stall in the middle of this street. The proprietress and chef of the longevity noodle is an old lady in her 60s.The birthday noodles she cooked were the most authentic and the most rural style in Zhou Hao's opinion. Thinking of the smell of sesame oil, Zhou Hao felt like drooling.

Zhou Hao discovered this place by chance. After parking the car, he dragged Xu Jingqiu to sit at a somewhat greasy table.Xu Jingqiu took out a paper towel and kept wiping it with some apprehension, but Zhou Hao didn't say anything. I guess Xu Jingqiu hasn't eaten in such a place for a long, long time.

Not long after, the proprietress brought over two bowls of steaming hot birthday noodles, and Zhou Hao picked up the chopsticks and began to eat in big mouthfuls.Seeing how delicious his food was, Xu Jingqiu finally started to eat with his chopsticks.

Xu Jingqiu couldn't help frowning when she took the first bite, but she didn't want to show it in front of Zhou Hao, so she tried to take a second bite!

The noodles are boiled with sesame oil. The sesame oil is difficult to burn through, so it often has a smell mixed with it, but it is this smell that makes Xu Jingqiu want to eat more and more, because the noodles her mother used to make for her also have Such a smell.

In Zhou Hao's words, the birthday noodles here are not because they are delicious, but because the noodles here have an unforgettable taste in childhood.At that time, they were all as pure as a piece of white paper, with no worries or sorrows, and their eyes would always be fixed on the two eggs in the bowl while eating noodles!

What Zhou Hao didn't expect was that Xu Jingqiu burst into tears while eating.

Zhou Hao was startled when he saw this, and asked, "Why are you crying so well?"

Xu Jingqiu sniffed, quickly took out a tissue from her bag to wipe away her tears, and said, "You don't care if I cry or not, eat your noodles!"

Zhou Hao wanted to cry, but he could tell that Xu Jingqiu ate a lot behind him.Maybe it's because she really felt like eating, or maybe she just drank and didn't eat anything to fill her stomach tonight.

After eating the noodles, Zhou Hao paid the money and checked the time. Now he must go back.

"Xu Jingqiu, I won't take you shopping anymore, let's take you back now." Zhou Hao said, Xu Jingqiu nodded silently.

When returning to the mansion again, Xu Jingqiu pursed her lips and smiled before getting out of the car: "Zhou Hao, thank you for celebrating my birthday with me tonight. It’s all solved, maybe I should really think about my future.”

Zhou Hao is not a man of gods, it is impossible for him to fully guess what Xu Jingqiu needs, and when and what emotions will emerge.But he nodded happily when he heard her say that, and said without thinking too much: "Well, if you don't feel uncomfortable, go back and have a good rest, I have to go home."

"Go." Xu Jingqiu smiled, opened the door and got out of the car.

It's just that when Xu Jingqiu just stepped out of the car door, Xu Jingqiu suddenly turned around and kissed Zhou Hao's face, and said slyly, "Return your scent of sesame oil!"

Zhou Hao didn't know how to describe his mood for a while, after watching Xu Jingqiu get off the car, the two waved their hands and Zhou Hao went home.

What he didn't expect was that when his car just drove out of the mansion, another car passed him and drove into the mansion.

The other party recognized Zhou Hao at a glance, but Zhou Hao didn't see him, and there was a two-layer cake that cost a lot of money on the passenger seat of the man's car.

Chapter 284 Wife's Suspicion

Li Maohua drove slowly into the mansion, but for some reason, when he looked at the two-layer cake on the passenger seat, he felt extra ironic.

What is Zhou Hao doing here?Are you here to celebrate Jingqiu's birthday?Although the two of them know each other, they haven't gotten to this level yet!

Li Maohua's face was getting colder and colder. Xu Jingqiu called him today.Li Maohua also knows that today is her 41st birthday, wife and lover are two completely different roles.The wife would whisper in her ears that birthdays are not a complete waste of money, but lovers always like to use various festivals to act like a baby.

Although Xu Jingqiu's age has already surpassed youth, she has been used to the role of Li Maohua's lover for so many years.What's more, she has been alone all this time, so it's no wonder that Li Maohua didn't get angry when Li Maohua didn't accompany her on her birthday.

Li Maohua rejected Xu Jingqiu on the phone, because he didn't have that much time to spend with Xu Jingqiu.But after finishing work, he changed his mind.Putting himself in Xu Jingqiu's position and thinking for a while, he also felt that Xu Jingqiu's past few years had not been easy.The time he spends with him is getting less and less, she must be feeling uncomfortable, if he doesn't even accompany him on his birthday, it will be unreasonable.

Xu Jingqiu thought that Li Maohua had a new love outside, so she forgot her old love, but in fact, this was not the case at all.Apart from Li Maohua and his wife for so many years, Xu Jingqiu is the only woman outside.He is not the kind of man who is greedy for physical pleasure, his whole mind is on running his own business.As for Xu Jingqiu, maybe she still complied with that sentence, first love is always unforgettable.

In the past two years, I have been slowly reducing my company with Xu Jingqiu, also because I am worried that people will catch me, and it is true that I have lost the freshness of the past.

After driving into the mansion, Li Maohua let out a long breath, thinking that Zhou Hao might come to Xu Jingqiu for something!

After parking the car, Li Maohua knocked on Xu Jingqiu's door with a cake.Within a few seconds, Xu Jingqiu opened the door with a happy face and subconsciously asked, "Why are you running again..."

Xu Jingqiu swallowed the words halfway through, because the one standing at the door was not Zhou Hao as she thought, but Li Maohua!

I don't know why Xu Jingqiu, who should be happy to see Li Maohua, is not happy at this moment, and asked in surprise: "Maohua, why are you here!"

Although Li Maohua didn't hear Xu Jingqiu's words completely, he could think of who Xu Jingqiu was talking about, not to mention that he had already seen Zhou Hao!

His face turned slightly ugly, and he said, "Why, don't you want to see me?"

Xu Jingqiu quickly changed her expression and saw the cake in Li Maohua's hand, and said with a smile on her face: "Maohua, what are you thinking, how could I be unhappy when you came? You are here to celebrate my birthday?"

"Ah."

Li Maohua just hummed and walked into the room, Xu Jingqiu didn't care to close the door for him, from the beginning to the end Li Maohua didn't mention Zhou Haolai, and Xu Jingqiu secretly felt lucky that Zhou Hao left, otherwise if He didn't know what to think when he was hit by Li Maohua!