Love Apartment: The All-Around Comedian

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"Meijia, are you planning to become a waitress?"

A familiar voice rang out.

Everyone turned to look.

It turns out that Lü Ziqiao, who had walked 108,000 li (approximately 54,000 kilometers), has returned.

Following behind was Comrade Lu Zhanbo, who stayed by the landline all day long.

Chapter 213 Kicked by a Sow

"What kind of waiter is this! Can't he speak properly?"

Chen Meijia rolled her eyes at Lü Ziqiao, then widened her eyes and exclaimed, "Hey! What happened to your face?"

Upon hearing this, everyone looked over and saw that Lu Ziqiao's left cheek was somewhat red and swollen.

"nothing."

Lu Ziqiao waved his hand, "I ran into a shrew."

He felt a surge of anger when he recalled his experience on the bus; he had apologized, but the other person still wouldn't let it go.

"shrew"

Chen Meijia frowned, recalling what Su Mingyang had said that morning, and guessed, "I bet he got kicked for harassing a sow."

"Pfft, haha!"

Everyone burst out laughing.

These words almost made Lu Ziqiao choke on his breath. He retorted irritably, "What nonsense are you spouting, Meijia? You're the one who's flirting with a sow!"

"Tch, still won't admit it."

Chen Meijia pursed her lips.

Lu Ziqiao ignored her and sat down on the sofa.

"You must be tired, Ziqiao. I thought you wouldn't be back until tomorrow."

Su Mingyang handed Lü Ziqiao a glass of water.

Lu Ziqiao took the drink and downed it in one gulp, looking sullen. "You're one to talk, but if it weren't for you and Yifei..." he said. "Never mind, let's not talk about this."

Hu Yifei covered her mouth and chuckled, remaining silent.

Lu Ziqiao didn't mind, glanced at Lu Zhanbo beside him, and asked everyone, "By the way, what are everyone's plans for tomorrow night?"

"It's the same as usual, what else can it be?"

Su Mingyang said.

Lin Wanyu and the others nodded in agreement.

Zeng Xiaoxian suddenly pulled out his notebook, flipped through it, and said, "Let me see... I was watching TV first, and then I fell asleep while watching."

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Hu Yifei couldn't help but tease, "What else is written in your notebook about getting up to pee in the middle of the night?"

Upon hearing this, Zeng Xiaoxian rolled his dead fish eyes at Hu Yifei.

At this moment, Lü Ziqiao took out a few tickets and waved them in front of everyone to attract their attention: "Here's what happened, when I came back just now, Aunt Liu from the neighborhood committee gave me eight tickets to the neighborhood's senior citizens' art performance. It premieres tomorrow night at the Yunfeng Theater, and she told us we absolutely have to go and support them."

"Aunt Liu, are you kidding me? Giving away eight tickets for a bunch of us young people to see that movie for free..."

Su Mingyang asked doubtfully.

Lu Ziqiao's eyes darted around, and he said, "Aunt Liu and her family were originally going to go see it, but something came up at the last minute, so they gave it to me. I couldn't refuse it, so I had no choice but to accept it."

Su Mingyang nodded, not believing him at all, and played along to see what he was up to.

Lin Wanyu asked curiously, "What kind of performance is it?"

Lu Ziqiao explained with a smile, "It's an art group made up of people from the same family. The youngest of them was born when the war against Japan had just begun, and the oldest was born when Empress Dowager Cixi was still building the Summer Palace."

Lin Wanyu sighed, "That must have been very difficult."

Guan Gu Shenqi asked, "What are they going to act out?"

Seeing that everyone's curiosity had been piqued, Lü Ziqiao smiled slightly and immediately replied, "Pirates of the Caribbean!"

"What? I thought they were going to perform Peking Opera!"

Zeng Xiaoxian raised his eyebrows in disbelief.

Lu Ziqiao nodded: "That's right, it's... the new multimedia Peking Opera Pirates of the Caribbean!"

Hu Yifei frowned and said, "Pirates of the Caribbean, Panamanian style, Peking Opera version? No way!"

Lu Ziqiao waved his hand and said, "There's nothing we can do. It's market demand. Young people these days don't like watching movies like 'Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy' or 'Farewell My Concubine.' We need to put on some big-budget films to sell tickets."

"The entire ship of Caribbean pirates is probably several thousand years old in total."

Guan Gu Shenqi asked excitedly, "What I'm curious about is, how do they portray rock-paper-scissors in their fight scenes?"

Zeng Xiaoxian flipped through the newspaper, looking bored, and said, "I'm not interested. I was planning to stay home and sleep anyway."

Hearing this, Lü Ziqiao panicked and immediately urged, "Hey! Comrades, I guarantee you'll love it!"

Zeng Xiaoxian was still uninterested, nonchalantly saying, "What's the point of liking grandpas, grandmas, or Peking Opera? I much prefer sleeping. Spare me!"

Lu Ziqiao wanted nothing more than to slap Zeng Xiaoxian across the face; he wasn't cooperating at all! Taking a deep breath, he continued to persuade him, "You can't say that! This isn't just a performance; it's an act of charity. The elderly need our love. How can you be without love? Just think about how desolate we'll be when we're sixty and no one cares about us. Have you ever thought about that?"

His words surprised Hu Yifei greatly: "Wow, Ziqiao is not bad. This doesn't sound like something you would say."

"Yeah, I've known Ziqiao for so long, and I originally just thought he was a womanizer."

"Guan Gu Shenqi exclaimed, "I never expected you to be such a loving womanizer! I think Zi Qiao is right, I'm going to go see you!"

Lin Wanyu became interested and turned to Su Mingyang, saying, "Mingyang, I've never seen Peking Opera before, let's go together."

"it is good."

Su Mingyang nodded. He felt there was definitely something fishy going on, so he agreed first.

Hu Yifei and others also expressed their intention to go see it.

Seeing this, Lü Ziqiao smiled and closed the door.

When the ticket was handed to Zeng Xiaoxian, he waved it off, saying, "I'm not going. I want to stay home and sleep."

Stubborn to the end! Lu Ziqiao gritted his teeth in anger.

Wang Qian and Chen Meijia suddenly asked, "Ziqiao, are you going?"

"Of course I'm going! Not only am I going, but I'm going to cheer loudly! They used the best years of their lives to create all this for us, and now it's time for us to repay them."

As he spoke, Lu Ziqiao looked at Zeng Xiaoxian with disdain and continued, "After I die from sleeping, I'll have plenty of time to sleep. Why would I waste this precious time in bed? Is that even human?!"

Su Mingyang almost laughed. Although he didn't know what Lu Ziqiao was up to, he was truly impressed by his eloquence! Zeng Xiaoxian's lips twitched, and he softened his tone, saying, "You don't have to be so harsh, okay? I'll go, alright?"

After saying that, he helplessly reached out and took the ticket.

Lu Ziqiao's lips curled into a smile.

Hmph! Anyone who gets in my way of picking up girls, Ziqiao, shall perish!

Chapter 214 Treat it like an ancestor!

Seeing the sly smile on Lü Ziqiao's lips, Su Mingyang knew he hadn't guessed wrong, and called him aside.

"Ziqiao, come here, I need to talk to you about something."

Lu Ziqiao's eyes darted around, then he went over and put his arm around Su Mingyang's shoulder, grinning lewdly: "Mingyang, what's up? Are you going to introduce me to some beautiful women?"

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Su Mingyang rolled his eyes at him, annoyed, and said, "Speak, what kind of conspiracy are you plotting?"

"What conspiracy? I didn't understand."

Lu Ziqiao immediately pretended to be stupid.

"Still pretending?"

Su Mingyang said, "These eight tickets weren't given to you by Aunt Liu, were they? You must have bought them yourself!"

"How could that be? It was... given to me by Aunt Liu!"

Lu Ziqiao insisted.

"hehe."

Su Mingyang chuckled dryly, "Aunt Liu went back to her hometown to visit relatives a couple of days ago. Did they mail this ticket to you?"

Upon hearing this, Lü Ziqiao forced a smile, but remained speechless.

Fearing suspicion, he made up a story about the source of the money, but unexpectedly, Su Mingyang happened to know about Aunt Liu's whereabouts.

"What a blunder!" 200 slapped his forehead in annoyance. Suddenly, something occurred to him, and he frowned, saying, "That can't be right. I just saw Aunt Liu yesterday. How could she have gone back to her hometown a couple of days ago?"

Su Mingyang didn't speak, but the smile on his lips said it all.

Lu Ziqiao immediately understood and slapped Su Mingyang on the shoulder: "Hey Mingyang, you tricked me!"

"If you weren't guilty, how could I have fooled you and known you had ill intentions?"