Chapter 10: Rebuking the Lapdog
Zhou Peng was busy flattering Fang Yuqing beside her.
Obviously, however, Fang Yuqing wasn't interested in a man like Zhou Peng at all.
In terms of economic conditions, Zhou Peng was much worse off than Zhang Yi. He even rented his house.
Nevertheless, Fang Yuqing still said to him with a smile, "Thank you, Zhou Peng. But I've already made an appointment with friends that night. What a pity!"
A look of disappointment immediately flashed across Zhou Peng's face.
He had spent a whole month's salary on these two concert tickets!
He had originally hoped to take the opportunity to confess his love to Fang Yuqing at the concert.
But he didn't expect that all his efforts were in vain.
Zhang Yi saw this scene and a mocking smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
He knew that Zhou Peng, this lapdog, would end up getting nothing in the end.
However, when Zhou Peng was feeling dejected and saw Zhang Yi with a smile on his face beside him, he suddenly became furious.
To shift his own embarrassment, he immediately walked over to Zhang Yi and said, "Zhang Yi, you're really not decent in the way you do things!"
"You're a grown man, yet you let women help you move things. Aren't you ashamed?"
"Yuqing came to work today, constantly complaining that her back was sore. Next time there's something like this, I hope you won't trouble her!"
Zhang Yi glanced at Fang Yuqing.
So it was this woman who had spread the story around.
Fang Yuqing still put on an insincere look and said, "It's okay, it's okay. Actually, there's nothing wrong with my body."
"It's just that I'm not good at doing strenuous work, and it seems that I twisted my waist a bit."
As she said this, she even reached out and pinched her own waist, then frowned and showed a pained expression.
In order to show his masculinity in front of Fang Yuqing, Zhou Peng immediately pointed at Zhang Yi in a heroic manner and said, "You should quickly give Yuqing 500 yuan for medical treatment."
Unexpectedly, Zhang Yi's eyes turned cold, and he glared at Zhou Peng and cursed, "She offered to help me move things on her own. I didn't ask her for help."
"Besides, who do you think you are, pointing fingers at me here?"
"Do you really think you're somebody?"
Zhang Yi's scolding was so fierce and straightforward that it stunned both Zhou Peng and Fang Yuqing.
Zhou Peng was just an ordinary clerk in the warehouse, with no power or influence.
The reason he dared to scold Zhang Yi was that Zhang Yi usually had a good temper and didn't like to argue with others.
However, when he saw that Zhang Yi was really angry, Zhou Peng immediately became a bit timid.
"Why... why are you shouting so loudly?"
"I was just discussing it with you."
Zhang Yi sneered and turned around and left.
He didn't want to waste more words on Zhou Peng.
Because now, when Zhang Yi looked at anyone, it was as if he were looking at a dead person.
In a month's time, 99% of the people around him would die one after another in the extremely cold storm of the apocalypse.
Why should he waste words on the dead?
After Zhang Yi left, Zhou Peng ran up to Fang Yuqing and whispered, "Yuqing, I told you that Zhang Yi is not a good guy. You should stay away from him in the future."
Fang Yuqing frowned, and she also felt puzzled in her heart.
Because in recent days, Zhang Yi seemed to have completely changed into a different person.
He didn't take the initiative to come over and say hello when he saw her.
Even at night, he didn't chat with her or say good night to her anymore.
"There must be something strange!" Fang Yuqing thought to herself.
...
After getting off work, Zhang Yi drove to a five-star hotel in Tianhai City.
It happened to be the Hongfu Tianxia where he had ordered meals before.
When the manager of Hongfu Tianxia heard that Zhang Yi had come, he immediately arranged a guest room for him with a big smile on his face.
The guest room in a five-star hotel cost over a thousand yuan per night.
But Zhang Yi didn't feel any heartache at all.
Anyway, he still had several million yuan in his hands. He would feel it was a waste if he couldn't spend it all.
That night, Fang Yuqing, the white lotus, surprisingly took the initiative to send a message to Zhang Yi for the first time.
Fang Yuqing: "Zhang Yi, I passed by your house today and saw that someone was renovating it!"
Zhang Yi curled his lips and replied, "Yeah, that's right."
Fang Yuqing: "I feel you've been so strange recently. You started stocking up on things and renovating your house. Is something going to happen soon?"
Zhang Yi couldn't help but raise his eyebrows slightly.
Although this white lotus was bad, she wasn't stupid at all.
It seemed that her attention had been drawn by his strange behavior these days after all.
However, Zhang Yi didn't care. Other people's opinions meant nothing to him now.
"Nothing," he replied coldly and then threw his phone aside.
On the other end of the phone, Fang Yuqing felt very uncomfortable when she saw Zhang Yi's lukewarm attitude towards her.
In the past two years, Zhang Yi had always been very nice to her.
He always cared about her and would find various reasons to chat with her every night.
However, recently, he seemed to have completely changed into a different person towards her. Not only was his attitude cold, but he didn't even take the initiative to chat with her anymore.
This made Fang Yuqing feel very uncomfortable in her heart.
She could be uninterested in Zhang Yi, but she definitely wouldn't allow Zhang Yi to lose interest in her.
In Fang Yuqing's view, that meant one of the fish in her pond had escaped.
Although Zhang Yi wasn't a second-generation heir, he could still be regarded as a high-quality young man from a middle-class family.
If she couldn't find a second-generation heir to marry in the future, she could still consider Zhang Yi as a backup option.
Fang Yuqing picked up her phone and sent another message.
"I feel that recently, we've been in less contact. It makes me feel a bit lonely."
However, after waiting for a long time, she didn't receive a reply.
Fang Yuqing bit her lip, and she couldn't help but start to feel a bit irritable.
"This damn Zhang Yi, has he been possessed by something evil recently? I took the initiative to contact him, yet he dared not reply to my message!"
Beside her, her roommate Li Caining heard Fang Yuqing's complaint and walked over with a smile.
"Recently, Zhang Yi has indeed been a bit strange. God knows what he's buying so much food and drinks for, and he also ordered so many banquets from the hotel."
"It's as if there will be a shortage of supplies soon."
Fang Yuqing frowned slightly when she heard this.
She said to Li Caining, "Ningning, do you think something will really happen after a while? Did Zhang Yi start stocking up on things after getting some news?"
Li Caining was stunned for a moment when she heard this, and then she burst out laughing while covering her stomach.
"Yuqing, are you stupid? If something really happened, the authorities would definitely send out a notice."
"Let's just relax. If we stock up on supplies, others will laugh at us and think we're fools."
After hearing this, Fang Yuqing also laughed at herself.
"That's true."
...
Zhang Yi stayed in the suite of the five-star hotel for several days.
He didn't go anywhere. During these days, on the one hand, he continued to purchase banquets from various hotels on a large scale.
On the other hand, he started practicing how to use the compound bow and crossbow arrows in his room.
Fortunately, Zhang Yi used to like hunting and had a good foundation.
Now, within a range of fifteen meters, his shooting accuracy was particularly high.
Especially with a professional compound bow in hand, such modern equipment could enable an ordinary person to shoot an arrow comparable to that of an ancient archery master.
Not to mention dealing with humans, even if encountering wild boars, jackals, or large dogs, it could cause considerable damage.