Tianshui bar usually opened at 7 pm. Lin Xue and her school friend had agreed to meet at the entrance at 6 pm.
Liu Yanbo drove Lin Xue to Tianshui Bar’s entrance.
There were two young women standing in front of the bar. One was dressed brightly, and the other was dressed boldly. She was smoking a cigarette and looked around from time to time as if waiting for someone.
As soon as the car stopped, Lin Xue hurriedly got out. "Sister, I’m here!"
“Airhead, I thought you stood me up.”
The smoking woman greeted her and was opening her arms to hug Lin Xue. Then she stopped for a moment as if remembering something. Quickly throwing away the cigarette she was holding, she gave Lin Xue a soft hug.
Liu Yanbo saw the woman's subtle move and smiled lightly: "The road was a bit blocked. I apologize for the delay."
The woman looked at Liu Yanbo and asked Lin Xue: "Airhead, who is this?"
Lin Xue hugged the woman's arm and introduced Liu Yanbo with a smile: "He’s my friend."
Liu Yanbo stepped forward, smiled, and extended his hand: "Nice to meet you. I’m Liu Yanbo."
"I’m Wang Yingying." She gently shook his hand, then retracted hers to introduce the woman next to her, "this is my friend Zhang Xiaoyun."
"Hello." Liu Yanbo once again extended his hand out to say hello.
Zhang Xiaoyun glanced at the Chery car before looking at Liu Yanbo. A slight contempt flashed in her eyes as she nodded.
There was no change of expression in Liu Yanbo’s face and he withdrew his hand without embarrassment.
The Chery car was bought by Liu Yanbo in the afternoon. He bought it with about 20,000 yuan in the second-hand market.
He, himself, didn’t have any money to buy a car. But Yin Hanruo did.
Knowing that Liu Yanbo didn’t have a car, Yin Hanruo gave him 100,000 yuan in the morning. Although her EQ wasn’t very high, she knew a bit about pride in ownership.
“Do you smoke?” Wang Yingying offered a lady cigarette and looked at Liu Yanbo carefully.
Wang Yingying was only three years older than Lin Xue but had already set a respectable reputation in Tianshui Bar. Naturally, she was very astute.
She noticed the odd interaction between Liu Yanbo and Zhang Xiaoyun.
She wasn’t very surprised by Zhang Xiaoyun's reaction. She had seen it many times before.
She was surprised by Liu Yanbo's reaction.
When faced with such a demeaning look, the first reaction would be embarrassment and displeasure. But Liu Yanbo did not.
The smile on his face when he reached out was sincere and friendly, and the smile on his face when he retracted was still sincere and friendly. In fact, it was even heartfelt, as if he had greeted a close friend.
"Thank you." Liu Yanbo took the cigarette and tried it. "This smoke tastes good, but it's not very energetic, nor addictive."
"Isn't it a lady's cigarette?" Wang Yingying also swiftly picked one and put it on her mouth.
"How about you try one of these?" Liu Yanbo took out a pack of cigarettes he had received from brother Biao at the airport.
There were many types of special cigarettes. The ones Liu Yanbo brought were standard issued, a kind that ordinary people couldn't get.
Wang Yingying took one, sniffed it gently, and smiled. "It’s good!"
An ordinary-looking man wearing ordinary clothes. There didn’t seem to be anything special about him. He drove an old-looking and cheap Chery car but smoked a special supply of cigarettes that was hard to obtain.
Interesting!
Wang Yingying glanced at Zhang Xiaoyun with a meaningful smile. Zhang Xiaoyun's eyes fell on the special cigarettes, and her eyes brightened. Drinking and smoking were her strengths.
Zhang Xiaoyun recognized those cigarettes. She once attended a mysterious foreign customer who smoked them.
She didn’t know what was that mysterious foreigner’s identity, she just knew that he had to be someone important.
“Ms. Zhang, would you like one too?” Liu Yanbo offered a cigarette with a smile.
"Thank you!" Zhang Xiaoyun hurriedly accepted and took the cigarette.
The taste is exactly the same!
Zhang Xiaoyun's eyes were sparkling diamonds. Yingying smiled and said, "Brother Liu, what do you do for a living?"
"I’m a driver." Liu Yanbo withdrew his cigarette and answered ambiguously.
Liu Yanbo was indeed a driver, but he doesn’t make it clear, who knows what kind of driver he was?
There were many kinds of drivers. There were some pretty superb ones out there! Pretending to be mysterious was sometimes an effective counter-attack.
Zhang Xiaoyun revealed what she thought was her most beautiful smile. She had made many presumptions about Liu Yanbo's identity as a driver, each of which was worthy of her.
She didn’t expect at all that Liu Yanbo was just an ordinary taxi driver.
Liu Yanbo doesn't really care if Zhang Xiaoyun looked down on him. It was true that money was worshipped, just for a better life.
But not today.
Today, he was Lin Xue's brother.
Lin Xue was not only beautiful but also very simple. After working here, there were naturally many opportunities for her to encounter Zhang Xiaoyun.
Liu Yanbo wasn’t disgusted with the money worshiper, but that didn’t mean he trusted her.
He needed the effect brought by this pack of cigarettes to give Zhang Xiaoyun a warning.
Don’t mess with my sister, don’t teach her anything bad. Otherwise, you won’t be able to afford the consequences.
"Sister Yingying, when will we start?" Of course, Lin Xue didn’t notice this secret confrontation and looked forward to her first day as a waiter.
"It officially opens at seven." Wang Yingying glanced at her watch. "It's half-past six, we have to go in and start the preparations."
"Brother Liu, would you like to enter with us?" Wang Yingying sent an invitation and joked: "I’m sure you wanted to be the first guest in our bar tonight anyways."
"Is that really okay?"
Before the bar officially opened, no outsiders were allowed to enter. Liu Yanbo planned to hang around outside for half an hour before entering.
“Of course! I invited you, why wouldn’t it be?”
...
It was the first time Liu Yanbo walked into Tianshui Bar. He looked around, left and right, he just couldn’t get enough!
Wang Yingying said: “Brother Liu, please make yourself comfortable. I will help Lin Xue with her registration then give her her work clothes.”
“Okay.” Liu Yanbo gave a thumbs-up sign with a smile.
Many waiters in the bar were doing pre-business preparations. Liu Yanbo sat down on a comfortable fancy chair, then called a waiter and asked for a glass of vodka and a glass of lemonade.
After waiting for about 20 minutes, Wang Yingying and Lin Xue came over with changed clothes.
"Brother Liu, aren’t these clothes pretty?" Lin Xue chirped happily, like a bird out of the cage.
High waist trousers paired with a white shirt and a pink vest made her look a little more mature.
Liu Yanbo sincerely said, "you look good in everything you wear."
"No way." Lin Xue lowered his head shyly.
Liu Yanbo smiled and asked Wang Yingying: "When do you get off work?"
"It closes at three o'clock in the morning." Wang Yingying saw Liu Yanbo's expression change slightly and added: "But the girl was registered as a student worker, so she’ll only work until eleven o'clock in the evenings. This was a rule set by our boss."
"Your boss is pretty reasonable." Liu Yanbo seemed to have forgotten about all the dirt he dug up in the morning.
“Why? Are you planning to accompany her all the way?” Wang Yingying curiously asked.
“Definitely, at least for today.” Liu Yanbo nodded and seriously said: “In the future, I’ll always try to pick up the girl on time when she gets off work, and I’ll visit often. While I’m away, please take good care of her, Ms. Wang."
In order to take good care of Lin Xue, Liu Yanbo not only bought a car, but he also planned to quit his job at the driving company.
He didn't know how to take care of people, so he had to do his best.
Wang Yingying extended her thumbs and praised Liu Yanbo.
"Good brother!"
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