Chapter: 4586
Leaf Chen smiled and asked, "Is Miss Liu wondering if I'm single now?"
"Not." Liu Manjiong's brow furrowed slightly as she opened her mouth to say, "I just want to know if Mr. Leaf knows the meaning behind what was mentioned multiple times at the dinner table about roasted goose."
Leaf Chen felt like Liu Manjiong was somehow aware of what he said, and so he shook his head: "I just blurted it out without thinking, I don't know if there's any deeper meaning behind it, nor do I know if Miss Liu can enlighten me?"
Liu Manjiong spoke in a low tone: "My father used to have an employee named Chen Zhaozhong. Later, this Chen Zhaozhong ran off with my current stepmother to the United States, where they opened a roasted goose shop in Chinatown. Their elopement was something that bothered my father deeply, so roasted goose became an avoidable topic for him."
Leaf Chen skirted around the issue and said: "Miss Liu, if I may be frank, your stepmother doesn't seem like someone who can handle hardships well."
"Indeed." Liu Manjiong said. "She's always too lazy to wash her own clothes and needs multiple maids to attend to her every day."
As she spoke, Liu Manjiong couldn't help but sigh: "But it's precisely this kind of indulgent personality that allowed her and Chen Zhaozhong to start a roasted goose shop in the United States for several years. This is something I never thought possible."
Leaf Chen chimed in casually: "So it seems like she was truly in love with Chen Zhaozhong."
Liu Manjiong shook her head: "I don't know about that."
As she spoke, she glanced at Leaf Chen and asked: "Mr. Leaf, do you really not know anything?"
Leaf Chen shrugged: "I knew that Mrs. Liu had run off with someone before this. Everyone in Hong Kong has probably heard of it, and many businesspeople will even bring it up as a gossip topic over tea. But I don't know what she did after running off."
Leaf Chen noticed that Liu Manjiong was not an ordinary woman, so he didn't want to let her suspect his true motives.
In reality, Leaf Chen's opening a roasted goose store in America was something that even Liu Jiaohui had only recently learned about, and this information hadn't spread back to Hong Kong. As an outsider, acknowledging knowledge of it would be equivalent to admitting his connection with Leaf Chen.
Liu Manjiong felt some uncertainty, thinking that Leaf Chen seemed to have a purpose when mentioning roasted goose at the dinner table, but hearing him say so didn't seem to have any logical loopholes.
After all, Leaf Chen's identity was as a high-ranking assistant at Isuzu Maritime, and he was from inland. It wasn't likely for him to know about American Chinatowns.
So she put this aside and told Leaf Chen, "Mr. Leaf, if you don't have a specific destination in mind, we can go to Tsim Sha Tsui first. I and my classmates are organizing a charity bazaar there, and I'll deliver the goods from my car over to them."
Leaf Chen nodded, saying, "No problem."
Tsim Sha Tsui is one of the most prosperous commercial centers on Hong Kong Island and a shopper's paradise.
According to Liu Manjiong's introduction, she and her classmates had been working together in the central area of Tsim Sha Tsui Commercial Street for the past few days to raise funds.
As originally planned, she was supposed to come back tomorrow, but she happened to be called back home by Liu Jiaohui from school at noon yesterday, and then agreed to accompany Leaf Chen on a tour later that afternoon, so she decided to bring along all the prepared goods for the charity bazaar and deliver them over.
Moreover, Liu Manjiong was really unsure where to take Leaf Chen, as most of her time was spent between home and school, with no entertainment activities outside of charity work. So she decided to let Leaf Chen be her tour guide, but she also felt a bit helpless, so she just busy herself with things first, taking Leaf Chen along for the ride.
Leaf Chen had been to Hong Kong Island as a child several times, feeling that due to its small size, there were many people and cars, and most of the streets were narrow and crowded. As a result, he didn't have much interest in exploring the island's tourist resources, so he also decided to follow Liu Manjiong around.
Liu Manjiong parked her car in the parking lot of a shopping mall in Tsim Sha Tsui and got out of the car with Leaf Chen.
Leaf Chen went to the trunk of the car and opened it to help Liu Manjiong collect her personal belongings.
At this time, a black Mercedes-Benz SUV suddenly stopped in front of Liu Manjiong's Tesla, with the driver opening the window. A well-dressed young man with perfectly combed hair exclaimed in surprise: "Manjiong, aren't you coming tomorrow? How are you here now?" JrNovels.com