Jinge City.
White Wolf Street, Sunshine Convenience Store.
"Auntie, I'm heading out to make a delivery." Zhao Guoan, who had been ordered to secretly protect Luo Yan's mother, briskly picked up two large bags of goods and was about to leave.
Zhou Lijuan did not forget to remind him, "Be careful on the road, Guoan."
"Got it." Zhao Guoan gave a brief reply before walking out.
Xu Xiuying came over and tugged at Zhou Lijuan's sleeve with an embarrassed look.
"Sister Juan, can I ask you something?"
Zhou Lijuan was wearing her glasses and doing the accounts. She had worked as an accountant at a factory before, so organizing the convenience store's books was no difficult task.
"What do you think of Guoan?"
Hearing Xu Xiuying say this, Zhou Lijuan did not think much of it and casually replied, "He's pretty good. He's a fine young man—hardworking and honest. There aren't many people like him these days."
Suddenly.
Zhou Lijuan seemed to understand. She turned to look at Xu Xiuying. "Xiuying, you've taken a liking to Guoan, haven't you?"
Xu Xiuying's face flushed. Embarrassed, she said, "I'm not young anymore. Seeing how filial Little Luo is to you, I want to have a child too."
"But you know that I was blind before and married a gambling addict."
"So this time, I have to keep my eyes peeled. Of course I need Sister Juan to help me look him over."
Zhou Lijuan laughed and set down the account book. "Little Zhao? I think he'll do. He's the kind of man who knows how to run a household."
"Look at how he hasn't been here long, yet he's already done all kinds of work inside and out. If he marries you, then I, Sister Juan, can retire."
Xu Xiuying hurriedly said,