Chapter 455 — The Beginning of the Nightmare
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"That's what I was thinking too. I don't want Mother out in the wind and sun anymore. But Mother says opening a shop is risky and she doesn't want to lose the money we've earned." At this, Tang Zhi blushed. "She said... she said she wants to save the money for my dowry..."
"Dowry?" Wei Zhao was taken aback, then gave an odd laugh. "Then let me have a word with your mother. I'm not short a dowry—tell her not to bother saving."
"You?" Tang Zhi was startled too, but then it dawned on her, and her face burned even redder. She pounded her little fist against Wei Zhao. "What nonsense are you spouting? I never said I was going to marry you!"
"Ha ha!" Wei Zhao took Tang Zhi's hand. "Auntie has already agreed."
After helping Tang Zhi and her mother busy themselves for a while, the students gradually thinned out. Wei Zhao helped Tang's mother push the barbecue cart to a nearby warehouse, then drove her and Tang Zhi toward the shantytown.
"Xiao Yi, I hear the shantytown is going to be demolished and redeveloped. Tell me, should we take the compensation money or the resettlement housing?" Tang's mother had been unable to make up her mind for days. The compensation, people said, could run to several hundred thousand per household, but the resettlement option offered an apartment roughly the same size as their current place, which seemed the better bargain.
"The resettlement housing is fine too. This sort of thing isn't really my forte—give me a few days and I'll find someone to ask for you." The person Wei Zhao had in mind was Fatty Lai. Wasn't real estate exactly his line? Ask him, and he was bound to know.
Still, knowing Fatty Lai's style, if he learned that Tang Zhi was Wei Zhao's girlfriend, he might well deliver a villa to their door the very next day. Only, in Wei Zhao's view, Tang Zhi would never accept it.
"That works too, but it's all just rumor—whether the demolition even happens is hard to say." Tang's mother sighed. "The last few times they talked about redeveloping, it always fell through in the end because the developer's compensation never matched what we were asking."
"No matter. When the time comes and you need anything, just tell me. I have a friend in real estate—he'll surely be able to help." Wei Zhao assured her.
After dropping Tang Zhi and her mother off at the shantytown, Wei Zhao did not get out of the car. He simply drove straight back to Gu Mengyao's villa.
As for Wei Zhao's habit of leaving early and returning late, Gu Mengyao no longer cared to say anything about it. She gave him one cold glance, then went back to watching TV with Shen Yushu.
"Why are you following me? Tang Zhi and I agreed to meet for a meal." Wei Zhao had not expected that little tagalong Feng Xiaoxiao to trail after him again.
"I'm going to eat too!" Feng Xiaoxiao blinked. "It's the perfect chance to meet your girlfriend—we'll be seeing a lot of each other from now on, after all."
"What do you mean by that? You plan on being there every time I go on a date?" Wei Zhao's face turned green on the spot.
"Yep!" Feng Xiaoxiao nodded very seriously.