護花近衛 - 第455章 噩夢的開始 - 清風書屋

"Don't they say you turn red when you keep company with red, and black with black?" Feng Xiaoxiao said with a smile. "It's fine if you won't teach me to drive. I'll just stay by your side. You'll influence me without even trying, and I'll become more and more like you—and then I'll be able to drive!"

"..." Wei Zhao was struck speechless by her reasoning. "Suit yourself, then. I'm going home." He turned and headed for the snack street behind the school, where he had parked his car, while Feng Xiaoxiao followed along beside him, unhurried.

Wei Zhao frowned, afraid that Tang Zhi and her mother would see them and get the wrong idea. "Can you follow me tomorrow instead?"

"Isn't it nice to let me walk you home?" Feng Xiaoxiao had made up her mind to follow Wei Zhao, so whatever he said, she answered softly.

"You're just going to leave your car?" Wei Zhao was at a loss for words. Her attitude left him genuinely unable to get angry. It would have been easy if she were as she used to be—he could just kick her aside—but now, kicking this delicate little thing was something he truly could not bring himself to do.

"I'll walk you home first, then take the bus back for it!" Feng Xiaoxiao said.

"Feng Xiaoxiao, can you act like a normal person?" Wei Zhao had truly reached his limit. "If you keep acting crazy like this, I won't come tomorrow!"

"Then I won't walk you home—just don't stop coming. I want to be by your side every day!" Feng Xiaoxiao shook her head in a hurry. "I won't go home with you, isn't that enough? I'll go on ahead by myself..."

Wei Zhao finally got rid of Feng Xiaoxiao and let out a breath of relief, patting his forehead. What on earth had gotten into her? "Keep company with red and you turn red"—he simply didn't believe such nonsense. There had to be something else going on that he didn't know about.

What Wei Zhao never expected was that his nightmare had only just begun...

"Who was that girl just now?" Though Wei Zhao had been in a hurry to send Feng Xiaoxiao off, Tang Zhi had still caught sight of her as she helped her mother at the barbecue stand.

In fact, Tang Zhi had spotted Wei Zhao the moment he arrived at the snack street, but when she saw the girl beside him, she had hesitated to call out and pretended not to see him, though she was tense inside.

Now that Feng Xiaoxiao was gone, Tang Zhi could not hold back her question.

"My deskmate. She just transferred here," Wei Zhao said.

"Then why was she following you?" Tang Zhi felt she was being a little petty asking so much, but petty be petty—Wei Zhao was getting better and better, and she was growing more and more afraid that he might give his heart to someone else.

"She doesn't know her way around. She parked her car somewhere and couldn't find it," Wei Zhao said offhandedly.

"I see... She drives to school too? Her family must be quite well off, then?" Tang Zhi was startled. If Feng Xiaoxiao really meant to compete with her, she feared she would not stand a chance.

"Who knows. But once by chance she saw me driving on the street, thought I was a good driver, and wanted me to teach her. I haven't had the time to bother with her," Wei Zhao said.

"Oh, is that so." Hearing this, Tang Zhi grew nervous again. So Feng Xiaoxiao had come for Wei Zhao? A faint sense of crisis crept over her. "Never mind her—how's your aunt's business been lately?" Wei Zhao did not want to talk about Feng Xiaoxiao in front of Tang Zhi, so he changed the subject.

"Not bad. We're making three or four times what we used to—by that count, over ten thousand a month.

" At this, Tang Zhi looked delighted. It was the first time her family had ever earned so much money.

"Mm. Then save up a bit and rent a storefront—open a barbecue restaurant, so you won't have to work so hard," Wei Zhao said with a nod. He could easily have put up another sum of money to open a shop for Tang Zhi's family, but knowing her character, she would probably never accept it.