Chapter 109: Chapter 85

“Really? Then tell me, how many hairs do I have on my body?” Yi Feng chuckled, making a teasing gesture.

“Or do you want to come in and count them yourself?”

Gu Muxi’s cheeks flushed red, and she rolled her eyes at him, “Hmph, I’m not that bored!”

With that, Gu Muxi turned and walked away.

Yi Feng snickered, closed the door, and continued with his shower.

After a comfortable bath and changing into fresh clothes, Yi Feng finally felt refreshed, though now he was hungry.

He hadn’t eaten breakfast or lunch, and his stomach was growling.

“Gu Muxi, come on, I’ll treat you to noodles,” Yi Feng called out to the living room as he dried his hair.

Gu Muxi stood up, puzzled, “Stinky Yi Feng, what’s gotten into you today? Is the sun rising from the west?”

“You’re specially inviting me to eat noodles?”

Yi Feng tugged at the corner of his mouth, “Please, am I that stingy?”

“You helped me clean this morning, so I should do something nice in return, right?”

“So, are you coming or not? If not, I’ll go by myself.”

Gu Muxi smiled slyly, “Eat, why wouldn’t I eat a free lunch?”

“I’m hungry too, let’s go, Yi Feng.”

The two left the house together and went to a noodle shop at the entrance of the staff residential area.

It was the lunch hour, and the noodle shop was quite crowded.

Fortunately, there were plenty of tables and chairs outside the small shop, or there wouldn’t have been anywhere to sit.

Yi Feng squeezed through the crowd to the cashier, “Two bowls of mixed pork noodles, please.”

“Six yuan.”

The shop owner quickly took the money and handed over the tickets, then greeted the next customer.

Yi Feng placed the tickets at the pick-up window and waited for his number to be called.

Gu Muxi found a spot at the entrance to wait for him.

“Today’s really busy!” Yi Feng wiped the sweat from his forehead, feeling the heat and the crowd.

Gu Muxi saw him sweating profusely and covered her mouth to laugh, “Look at you, Yi Feng, are you made of water? How can you sweat so much?”

Yi Feng glanced at her and retorted, “Aren’t you the same? And you have the nerve to say that to me?”

“Women are supposed to be made of water!”

“Look at you, even your pants are wet.”

Gu Muxi glared at him, “I, I didn’t know it would be this hot today. If I had known, I would have changed my pants before coming out!”

As they bantered, someone in the noodle shop called out a number.

“Number 36!”

Yi Feng responded, “Here!”

He got up to collect the noodles from the pick-up window.

After two trips, they finally got to eat. Yi Feng felt like his stomach was going to protest if he didn’t eat soon.

He slurped up the noodles with great satisfaction.

“Here, have some.” Gu Muxi put some noodle strips into his bowl.

Yi Feng smiled, picked out some pig liver from his bowl, and offered it to Gu Muxi.

This was a long-standing habit between them.

After exchanging their preferred foods, they eagerly dug in.

Then, four bicycles stopped by the roadside in front of the shop, and four middle-aged women came to eat noodles.

They sat at a table behind Yi Feng to the left.

“Hey, did you hear? Our Guangxi No.3 Rolling Mill is supposedly being bought out and merged by Shanghai Steel!”

“My husband Liu told me about it too, but I’m not sure if it’s true. He said that once the buyout happens, we’ll all be laid off!”

“No way, what are we going to do then? My whole family relies on Old Zhao’s salary!”

One of the women, wearing a red floral shirt and bell-bottom pants, with a plump face and thin lips, looked somewhat mean-spirited.

“I also heard that the vice factory manager, Gu Xingzhong, is in charge of the negotiation. Apparently, he took benefits from Shanghai Steel and sold our Guangxi No.3 Rolling Mill at a low price!”

Yi Feng and Gu Muxi stopped eating and listened intently.

Gu Muxi’s eyes flashed with anger.

She couldn’t stand people talking badly about her parents behind their backs.

Then, another woman exclaimed, “No way, Vice director Gu? That’s shameless and disgraceful!”

The thin-lipped woman scoffed, “I’ve always thought there was something off about Gu Xingzhong. If he really took benefits from Shanghai Steel, it wouldn’t surprise me at all!”

“But if he sells our factory like that, it’s our entire workforce that suffers!”

“Gu Xingzhong, that old fart, still calls himself a director?”

Another woman in a blue dress asked anxiously, “Ah Sangpo, what are we going to do? Are we just going to watch as that old kid sells us all out?”

Yi Feng realized who “Ah Sangpo’ was.

This woman was notorious in the residential area for her loud mouth and love of spreading rumors. She was brash and aggressive, and many people avoided her.

If not for her husband being the factory’s logistics and materials director, she would have been beaten up long ago.

“How dare they!” Gu Muxi was about to stand up in anger, but Yi Feng held her back.

“Wait a minute.” He glanced at the women and calmly said to Gu Muxi.

Let’s see what Ah Sangpo’s aim is here, spreading such slander.

Ah Sangpo, with a know-it-all look, said, “In two months, the factory is promoting a new vice director. Just go back and have your men support our Old Xie.”

“If Old Xie leads the negotiations with Shanghai Steel, it’s bound to be better than that traitor Gu Xingzhong, right?”

The other women nodded in agreement.

Gu Muxi, unable to bear Ah Sangpo calling her father a traitor, stood up angrily.

“Shut up!”

“Why are you spreading rumors about my dad?!”

“What has my dad ever done to you? Why are you cursing him?”

“Do you have any proof he’s selling out the factory?”

“Just spouting nonsense without evidence!”

“You heard? Who did you hear it from? I heard your mom’s dead too!”

Gu Muxi didn’t hold back her words, her fierce demeanor silencing the gossiping women, turning their faces purple with rage.

The bystanders were stunned by Gu Muxi’s verbal onslaught, impressed by her eloquence.

Who would have thought such a beautiful girl could be so formidable?

Yi Feng silently gave Gu Muxi a thumbs-up.

Gu Muxi, you’re awesome!

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