Chapter 63: The Furious Xu Damao

"Hmm? You know me?"

Lou Xiaoe was very surprised; she clearly had never seen the man in front of her before, yet she hadn't expected him to be able to call out her name.

"So you are Lou Xiaoe," Zhao Gangzi grinned, then continued: "Of course I've heard of you, you're the eldest daughter of the Lou Family! Who wouldn't know?"

"Besides, I also know that Xu Damao."

A strange look appeared on Zhao Gangzi's face.

Previously, when Xu Damao asked to borrow his house, wasn't it for this blind date with Lou Xiaoe? It was just a pity that Yi Zhonghai had used a dirty trick to ruin it.

He hadn't expected to run into the person herself today.

Moreover, this Lou Xiaoe seemed different from how she looked in the TV series; she had fair skin, a beautiful face, long legs, and wore the standard short hair of this era, and her figure could also be considered top-notch!

"Hey, you stinky hooligan, why do you keep staring at me? Alright, let's hurry up and go, make sure that Xu Damao doesn't follow me again," Lou Xiaoe rolled her eyes at Zhao Gangzi and scolded him with some anger.

Afterwards, she secretly glanced at the hiding Xu Damao and hurriedly pulled Zhao Gangzi's arm to walk away. Zhao Gangzi didn't agree to this; although he had a beauty by his side, he couldn't let himself be absent from work!

Didn't she know he was a model youth of the Rolling Mill?

He never arrived late!

"I say, Miss, I'm about to be late for work, and I don't have any shares in the factory. You be a good person and find someone else!" Zhao Gangzi said, somewhat unwillingly.

Lou Xiaoe was also stunned; she was a maiden, and she was pulling and tugging with a man like him—what was this, was he the one feeling aggrieved?

But Lou Xiaoe was not a woman who was all chest and no brains.

Although Zhao Gangzi was a tall man of one meter eighty and had a handsome face, he was dressed too plainly; looking at him, he was at most a newly arrived apprentice.

She had no choice but to say: "Just help me out. Which Workshop are you in? I'll have my father say a word later, and I definitely won't treat you badly!"

"This is what you said, I've noted it down. If something goes wrong, I'll go to your house to block your door."

Zhao Gangzi was satisfied then, and taking the opportunity to take advantage, he hooked his arm around Lou Xiaoe's shoulder and swaggered out of the Rolling Mill.

At this moment, Xu Damao, who was hiding behind the big locust tree, was dumbfounded.

What the hell was this situation?

How did Zhao Gangzi get hooked up with my girl? And they were walking arm-in-arm in broad daylight—adulterers!

"Ah! Ptooey! A pair of dogs!"

"Zhao Gangzi, oh Zhao Gangzi, it was in vain that I treated you as a good brother; you actually want to cuckold me. It hurts! It hurts so much!"

Xu Damao wailed toward the sky under the tree; if Zhao Gangzi had equipment, he would have played a song of "A Cut of Plum" for him.

He had been following her perfectly well, but he hadn't expected to be intercepted by someone else so suddenly.

Xu Damao was trembling with rage.

Now he even suspected that the previous incident was something this dog, Zhao Gangzi, had planned himself, just to ruin his good thing with Lou Xiaoe!

Otherwise, with his own handsome face, how could a loser like Zhao Gangzi compare?

Even Lou Xiaoe's father, Lou Bancheng, had explicitly demanded that he no longer associate with Lou Xiaoe. "Hmph, it really makes me furious. I, Xu Damao, have been poor for eight generations; isn't it more than enough to be a match for a capitalist's daughter?"

"To actually dare to reject me, a fine son-in-law—sooner or later you'll regret it!"

Xu Damao was beside himself with rage, cursing Zhao Gangzi and the Lou Family's ancestors for eight generations, and the bark of the big locust tree was even clawed off by this guy, Xu Damao.

"What are you doing! How dare you destroy public property in the factory!"

"Stop! Don't run!"

Suddenly, someone shouted angrily.

When Xu Damao saw it was someone from the Security Department, he bolted away in a flash; ever since he had streaked on the streets of Sijiucheng last time, he had been running exceptionally fast.

Not long after, he had vanished without a trace.

On the other side, Lou Xiaoe also latched onto Zhao Gangzi, forcing him to stroll around the Dashilan area.

Zhao Gangzi was happy to do so; after all, this was a good opportunity to build a relationship with the Lou Family. Although the Lou Family were big capitalists, the reputation of Lou Xiaoe's father, Lou Bancheng, didn't come from nothing.

According to the older generation, when the Lou Family was at its peak, half of Sijiucheng belonged to them.

Although this was an exaggeration, it also showed how powerful the Lou Family was.

After all, guys who were the same as Lou Bancheng during that period were all "in a box" now, while the Lou Family was still full of life, and even held a pivotal position in the Rolling Mill; this was enough to explain everything.

"Miss, how is your father's health lately? When will you arrange for me to be a director or something?"

Zhao Gangzi rubbed his hands and said with a wicked smile.

Lou Xiaoe glanced at Zhao Gangzi and then said nonchalantly, "My father's health? He could outlive you."

"As for wanting to be a director, forget it. My father was sidelined a long time ago; he hasn't attended a Rolling Mill meeting in over half a year."

"Uh, then goodbye."

Zhao Gangzi didn't hesitate at all and immediately turned to leave.

"Hey, don't go! It's my turn to ask you," Lou Xiaoe hurriedly grabbed Zhao Gangzi, refusing to let him leave no matter what.

"Even though our family doesn't have a say, we have money!"

Lou Xiaoe then shoved a ten-yuan bill into Zhao Gangzi's hand.

"Alright! Is there anything else, Miss?"

Zhao Gangzi's expression changed 360 degrees in an instant, and he looked at Lou Xiaoe with a fawning smile, thinking to himself that this young woman was really all chest and no brains, giving away ten yuan just like that.

With this ten yuan, he could go to Quanjude and order a duck.

If Yi Zhonghai, who was cleaning out latrines in the Siheyuan, saw this, he would be furious; that old thing only made ten yuan a month.

"Hey, Zhao Gangzi, has your family been poor for generations? Have there been any landlords among your ancestors?"

Lou Xiaoe asked seriously.

"Our family has been poor since Nüwa created humans; we are absolutely red-rooted and sprout-straight!"

Zhao Gangzi held the ten-yuan bill and kept checking it under the sun, and Lou Xiaoe nodded with satisfaction upon hearing the answer; it seemed his class background was even better than Xu Damao's family.

Most importantly, he was handsome and tall at one meter eighty, a whole head taller than that sleazy thing, Xu Damao.

If it weren't for the fact that Xu Damao had a good class background and a decent job, Lou Bancheng would not have let her go on a blind date with Xu Damao.

Seeing that Lou Xiaoe did not make a sound, Zhao Gangzi spoke up first: "Well, look, I helped you today, could you help me too..."

Afterwards, Zhao Gangzi told Lou Xiaoe about his desire to buy a bicycle.

And Lou Xiaoe agreed directly without even thinking about it.

Zhao Gangzi had originally just said it casually and was even waiting to be scolded, but he did not expect her to agree so easily?

"My family has plenty of these things; I just need to ask my father for one, but, hmph..."

Lou Xiaoe gave a light hmph, and Zhao Gangzi, who was to the side, immediately understood; wasn't it just sacrificing a bit of his looks? If it could be traded for a Bicycle Ticket, it would be worth it!

He directly took the initiative to link arms with Lou Xiaoe, and the two of them wandered around the area, with Zhao Gangzi even wanting to perform a goose-step march for Lou Xiaoe.