Chu Chen pondered for a moment before replying, "You know I'm usually quite busy, and I can't say for sure what I'll be doing several days from now. How about this? If I have enough time then, I'll call you in advance."
"Okay, okay. Thank you, Teacher Chu." Wen Haoyang nodded repeatedly in delight as he thanked him.
Chu Chen smiled and waved his hand, indicating that there was no need to be so polite.
After that, Wen Haoyang asked Chu Chen a few more questions. At noon, he even treated Chu Chen and the others at the shop to lunch before taking his leave and returning home.
As the group walked from the restaurant toward the antiques shop, Zhou Wenping said with a smile, "Little Wen has a good personality, and he's eager to learn. He's pretty good."
Old Wu shook his head. "Hard to say. I feel like he's deliberately trying to curry favor with us."
Zhou Wenping replied, "Old Wu, that's not quite right. Since he wants to learn something from us, isn't it only natural for him to try to curry favor with us?"
Old Wu said, "The problem is, his attempts to curry favor feel deliberate to me—and not only deliberate, but forced. It makes me uncomfortable."
Uncle Wu joined in. "Don't say that. I have the same feeling as Old Wu."
"Uh... Boss, you have that feeling too?" Zhou Wenping asked in surprise.
Chu Chen gave a bitter laugh. "If I had Dad's and Old Wu's eye for people, I wouldn't have let him deceive me for so long."
"Huh?" Everyone looked extremely surprised upon hearing Chu Chen say that.
Uncle Wu asked in confusion, "Since you knew he was deceiving you, why were you still so polite to him?"
"Ah, it's like this..."