Chapter 792: Chapter 772: Kick Someone Out of Joint
Gongyang Che was kicked out and still looked incredulous, what? He was swept out of the shop??? Sitting on the ground, his face a dumbfounded expression—he had been so scared by the water thrown at him that he didn’t even have a chance to fight back.
What nonsense. You come to stir trouble in someone else’s store, and now that they’ve kicked you out, they’re already giving you a lot of face, okay?
"How is Jin Yuee?" Jimo Cheng asked, noticing the pained expression on Luo Qianqian’s face and quickly steadied her.
Luo Qianqian pursed her lips, looking like she was about to cry: "It hurts, my foot hurts, my leg hurts..."
Jimo Cheng’s face filled with concern: "Did you kick a hard bone? Let me handle these things next time, what are you fussing about as a little girl?"
"You’re the one making a fuss. Hurry up and help Jin Yuee sit down!" Jimo Cheng reproved, a look of disappointment on his face. He watched his grandson holding Luo Qianqian’s leg and Luo Qianqian herself standing on one foot with a face full of pain, feeling helpless.
The steward promptly brought over a stool for Luo Qianqian to sit down, took off her shoes, and rolled up her pants.
Jimo Cheng felt Luo Qianqian’s foot and leg, pinching inch by inch, and amid Luo Qianqian’s cries of pain, found the sore spot, his brow slightly furrowed. He pointed to Jimo Kong: "Ah, Jin Yuee, look, Grandpa is actually wearing floral cloth shoes today..."
Luo Qianqian was stunned and immediately turned to look at Jimo Kong. The next second, just as she caught sight of Jimo Kong’s black cloth shoes, she cried out in pain: "Owww..."
"That sounded like a wolf howl." Jimo Kong shook his head helplessly, looking at his own colorless shoes and sighing. No doubt, he had just been setting Luo Qianqian’s dislocated joint due to the kicking—there was nobody else...
Tears rolled down Luo Qianqian’s face: "Senior brother is a big meanie..."
With a face of helplessness, Jimo Cheng put her shoes back on: "Try walking."
Luo Qianqian was about to retort but suddenly realized, it didn’t seem to hurt that much, did it?
She got up and walked a little, wiping away her tears: "It seems like it doesn’t hurt anymore..."
"That’s why I said you were howling like a wolf," Jimo Kong said with a wry face, looking helplessly at the two: "What was that about just now?"
He then turned to Jimo Cheng with a face full of disapproval: "You were right here, how could you let Jin Yuee, a girl, take action?"
Jimo Cheng wore an expression of grievance; he couldn’t intervene at all as he was directly pushed aside by Luo Qianqian.
Luo Qianqian shook her head: "Grandpa Kong, senior brother can’t act."
"Why?" Jimo Kong asked with a wry face. Jin Nian, a boy, was just standing there, and you, a girl, were calling for a fight: "Do you think you’re Hua Mulan, refusing to let men monopolize heroism, claiming women are not inferior to men?"
"Grandpa Kong, that person’s surname is Gongyang," Luo Qianqian enunciated clearly: "So senior brother can’t make a move, I’m young and can easily be seen as a child who doesn’t know better, but senior brother can’t."
Jimo Kong frowned deeply upon hearing Luo Qianqian’s words: "Gongyang? What’s he doing here?"
Looking for trouble.
Luo Qianqian pursed her lips but said nothing more. She had said what needed to be said, leaving the rest for Jimo Cheng and the people at the shop.
After hearing the full story, Jimo Cheng frowned deeply: "He fancies Qianqian? That stinky old man sure is something. Not content with being one step ahead of me, he also wants his grandson to be ahead of my grandson? He already took my Emperor Green, and now he wants to snatch my granddaughter-in-law?"
At this moment, the waiter timidly returned Luo Qianqian’s card to her. She had actually taken the card and intended to pay, relieved that she was stopped in time. A look of unshed tears painted her face—why didn’t she recognize even three students of the shop owner?
After receiving her card, Luo Qianqian naturally slipped it back into her wallet.
Jimo Kong heaved a sigh, "Let’s go, let’s go, let’s go talk in the back." Then, he turned to the steward, "Close the shop, and clean the floor."
"Yes, Young Master Kong."
Luo Qianqian didn’t forget to pick up the three broken pieces of the Jade Bracelet, chuckling as she sidled up to Jimo Kong, "Grandpa Kong, do you think you could turn them into three similar jade pendants for me? I want to give them as Thanksgiving gifts to my three sisters-in-law."
Jimo Kong’s face was speechless as he took the fragments, "What if it had broken into four pieces?"
"Then I’ll come up with another sister-in-law before Thanksgiving." Luo Qianqian said with a nonchalant face.
Jimo Cheng also had a helpless look and shook his head slightly, "Grandpa, just agree, will you?" Although he felt resigned about Luo Qianqian’s ’recycling’ idea, he still interceded on her behalf.
"Did I refuse?" Jimo Kong looked at his grandson with a mix of frustration and helplessness, shaking his head and said earnestly to Luo Qianqian, "Jin Yuee, Grandpa is entrusting this silly boy to you. Don’t you dare not want him." His face actually showed fear that Luo Qianqian might leave Jimo Cheng.
Luo Qianqian frowned slightly and turned to look at Jimo Cheng, "Senior brother, isn’t Grandpa proposing a granddaughter here?"
Jimo Cheng also felt helpless, as if Grandpa Kong was suggesting Luo Qianqian would surely run off with Gongyang Che if he pursued her.
"You guys don’t understand," Jimo Cheng said, shaking his head helplessly, "The Jimo Family just can’t compare to the Gongyang Family now."
But Luo Qianqian understood. Due to Gongyang Chou, the Gongyang Family could obtain certain benefits that would give them an advantageous position over the Jimo Family.
She sighed, "Grandpa Kong, senior brother is much better than him. Not to speak of anything else, in terms of looks, one is a graceful gentleman, the other a sleazy youth, and I’m not blind, right?" Luo Qianqian revealed a smile, "I’m a person who judges by appearances, so Grandpa Kong, don’t worry needlessly and scare senior brother. If he gets frightened, someone will feel bad, won’t they?"
Jimo Kong was taken aback, then smiled helplessly, "You child..."
Jimo Cheng, however, touched his own face, "Should I start taking care of it?"
Hearing Jimo Cheng’s words, both Luo Qianqian and Jimo Kong laughed, with Luo Qianqian’s countenance full of reproach, "Look, look, it’s all your fault. If senior brother becomes even more delicate than me, won’t I end up worrying every day?"
The remark brought laughter to both grandfather and grandson, yet the concern on Jimo Kong’s face did not lessen. He didn’t understand why Gongyang Chou was fixated on Luo Qianqian.
Jimo Cheng was also not at ease. Although he appreciated the protection from Luo Qianqian, not feeling good about being protected, he suspected Luo Qianqian knew something he didn’t, something she wouldn’t share with him.
If she didn’t say, he couldn’t ask, which left him in a dilemma.
"Shall we eat here tonight? There are fresh crabs today," Jimo Kong suddenly suggested.
However, Jimo Cheng immediately interjected, "No, no, after Jin Yuee ate them last time, she inexplicably had stomach issues all day..." But meeting Luo Qianqian’s longing gaze, he softened and nodded reluctantly, "Then don’t eat too much, okay?"
Luo Qianqian nodded eagerly, her face brimming with happiness.
