CH 64

After filling out the membership information for the old man, Zhou Jianguo and Luo Bei personally escorted him and his driver to the door. He was the biggest customer they had since opening the store. Most people only topped up with five hundred or one thousand, and it was really rare for someone to top up with five thousand all at once.

After all, nowadays many gyms and even fruit shops use this trick. They lure people into getting a membership card, but end up closing down in just two or three months, leaving people unable to find them. It is precisely because there are more and more things like this happening now that even though many people are tempted by the many benefits of getting a membership card, most of them do not take action.

Although the old man was picky, topping up with five thousand at once was certainly because he was rich, but on the other hand, wasn’t it also because he trusted them?

Luo Bei felt warm inside.

After experiencing some strange and extreme customers, how could she not feel grateful for a customer like this?

The old man’s driver opened the car door, but the old man didn’t immediately get in. Instead, he stood in front of the car and looked back at Zhou Jianguo again with a scrutinizing gaze. Even Zhou Jianguo felt uneasy.

“The car wash was very clean. Please keep it up in the future.”

Zhou Jianguo gave a faint smile. “Thank you.”

“The car wash next time should be even cleaner than today. As I said before, since you are in this line of work, you should strive for the best.” The old man emphasized again, “Either do it well or don’t do it at all.”

Zhou Jianguo : “…”

Why does this person like to lecture him? If he didn’t know any better, he would think that this person is someone important. Judging by his age, he couldn’t be his father, but he could be his grandfather.

“Teacher Zhou, have a nice day!” Zhou Jianguo shouted loudly, “Welcome back next time!”

The old man’s mouth twitched, but he still got into the car in a good mood. His driver was very strange, though. Before getting in the car, he bowed to Zhou Jianguo and the others, and then drove out of the car beauty shop.

Luo Bei walked up to Zhou Jianguo and whispered, “This old man is so weird.”

Zhou Jianguo shrugged, “Who cares if he’s weird or not? He recharged five thousand yuan, so it’s worth being lectured by him.”

Luo Bei couldn’t help but let her imagination run wild. “Your surname is Zhou, and his surname is Zhou. Could he be someone you know from the past?”

“I’ve told you to watch fewer TV dramas,” Zhou Jianguo knocked her head with his hand, “You don’t even know this? My surname is made up. Besides, if he really knew me, why would he act like he’s never seen me before? It can only mean that this old man loves to lecture people. Didn’t you see how his driver didn’t dare to say a word? He must have been tormented by him.”

Luo Bei thought about it and realized that Zhou Jianguo had been missing for so long that if someone really knew him, they would definitely recognize him at first glance and start talking to him, not like this.

“I just hope you can find your past,” Luo Bei said disappointedly.

Zhou Jianguo’s hands were frozen just now, but now they were warming up. He moved his red and swollen fingers and said to Luo Bei, “Let it be, memory is something that can’t be explained clearly.”

He actually wanted to recover his memory as soon as possible, of course, he didn’t have much interest in finding out about his past, he just wanted to confirm his identity as a single dog.

However, he also understood that this kind of thing couldn’t be rushed. When it was time to remember, it would naturally come to him. If he couldn’t remember, there was no need to put pressure on himself, wasn’t that just making trouble for himself?

“True,” Luo Bei thought of the old man’s luxury car and joked, “If he really knew you, then you must also be very rich and powerful. When a rich person disappears, someone will find them in minutes. It’s unlikely that no one has found you after so long.”

Luo Bei had always felt that with Zhou Jianguo’s aura and his way of speaking, he must have been a very powerful person in the past. However, the problem was that if a very powerful and wealthy person went missing, wouldn’t it be easy to find them? Why hasn’t anyone come looking for Zhou Jianguo after so long?

Zhou Jianguo also thought the same. In his fragmented memories, there were scenes of him driving a Porsche and living in a villa. If he really was that wealthy, his disappearance shouldn’t have gone unnoticed.

Heh.

Those fragments couldn’t have been just his imagination, right?

“Alright, let’s not talk about that. After work, I’ll buy you a hand cream from the supermarket. You really need to use it, washing cars every day is really harmful to your hands,” Luo Bei didn’t give Zhou Jianguo a chance to refuse, “I said I’ll buy it, and you have to use it. Think about it, how much does a hand cream cost? It’s only a few bucks. If your hand really gets frostbite or something else, going to the clinic will cost more than just a few bucks.”

“Sister Bei has spoken, can I still say no?”

In the dry winter climate, Zhou Jianguo didn’t want to use hand cream at first. It was only when his face was too dry that he started using it. Now, he really needed to apply some on his hands. Even the apprentice have a hand cream on hand every day.

The apprentice came over and heard the conversation about hand cream. He said, “Brother Zhou, you really need to use hand cream, otherwise your hands will not be presentable in the future. Even if you are a man, you still need to be delicate.”

Luo Bei was amused by this and said to the apprentice, “Do you want me to buy you some hand masks later? They’re very moisturizing.”

The apprentice immediately said, “Yes, please. Thank you, Sister Bei!”

Zhou Jianguo was not happy, “Who let you call her Sister Bei? She’s a year younger than you1the Sister being used here is 姐 (Jiě) which means older sister or used for calling older women in general, can also be used as a form of respect.”

The apprentice knew that both Zhou Jianguo and Luo Bei were nice people and had become familiar with them during this period of time. He smiled and said, “I’m just showing respect to Sister Bei.”

“Go wash the car,” Zhou Jianguo chased the apprentice away like a chicken.

They finished work early that day, so Zhou Jianguo accompanied Luo Bei to the supermarket to buy hand cream. As for the hand mask, he refused to use it, and using hand cream was already his biggest compromise.

In the evening, Luo Bei went to Zhao Pianpian’s room. Recently, Zhao Pianpian also took on some work to do at home. She used to work as a personal secretary and also studied accounting. It just so happened that someone in the urban village asked her to do their accounting, and while she didn’t earn much money, she believed that everything would gradually improve.

Zhao Pianpian also worked as an accountant for a small company, earning money each month to support her life.

They were both busy working and baby Chen had already gone to bed early, so they sat in the living room eating the crayfish and stir-fried clams that Luo Bei had bought, chatting aimlessly.

“What’s going on between you and Xiao Zhou?” Zhao Pianpian peeled a crayfish and glanced at Luo Bei. “Don’t tell me you’re just friends. Beibei, I can tell that your relationship with Xiao Zhou is not ordinary. At least your feelings for him are not just that of a simple friend, right?”

Luo Bei paused for a moment, her eyelids drooping. She said to Zhao Pianpian, “Our relationship is indeed just that of good friends and partners. But my feelings towards him… are very complicated. You know, if it were someone else, I might not consider so many things. Anyway, we are still young, so if we have feelings for each other, let’s just be together. It’s a simple matter of either working out or breaking up. But he is Zhou Jianguo, and I have to consider all aspects of the situation.”

“For example?”

“You see, we are in partnership and the profit distribution is also reasonable. No one has ever argued about it. But if we really get together, what if our personal feelings affect our work?” Luo Bei felt that she had a great imagination and strong ability to imagine. “Moreover, if we break up, can we still continue this business? I don’t believe that people who can’t be lovers can still be friends. If I break up with him, then we’ll just be strangers.”

Breaking up and not being able to be friends naturally means that we can’t continue to do business peacefully. At least for now, she can’t do it.

“What else?”

“I’m not sure if he likes me. Besides, I only have a good impression of him now, and it hasn’t risen to the point where I must be with him,” Luo Bei smiled, “Of course, I’m not being coy. If I find out one day that I really like him, even if we can’t continue the business after breaking up, I would still want to be with him. But for now, let’s focus on doing business well. As for our feelings, let’s take it one step at a time.”

Zhao Pianpian sighed, “You are thinking far ahead. When I was your age, I was actually quite naive. I knew that the other person wouldn’t like me, knew that he wouldn’t be with me, but I still went ahead anyway. If I had half of your rationality back then, maybe the outcome would be different now.”

“Maybe it was because he influenced Me. Thinking ahead is not a bad thing. At least we are responsible for each other.”

However, Luo Bei didn’t mention the most important reason.

No one can resist love, because everyone is human, but the difference between humans and animals is whether they can uphold their moral bottom line.

Zhou Jianguo is currently in an amnesic state, but that doesn’t mean he is a person without a past, nor does it mean he doesn’t have to take responsibility for his past.

Many things don’t just disappear because he doesn’t remember them.

If he had a girlfriend or even a wife before he lost his memory, what then? Does it mean he is single just because he doesn’t remember these memories? No, Luo Bei couldn’t do that.

A person can have feelings or even love for someone who is already in a relationship, but she cannot cross her own moral bottom line.

Because there are moral boundaries, everyone has to follow this rule.

She had never thought about this issue before, but it was Zhou Jianguo’s words that reminded her. He said he felt like he was single, but does that mean he is definitely single?

Luo Bei was still very grateful that because she was currently focusing most of her attention on her business and work, she didn’t have time to think about these things. Being busy is not a bad thing.