Rebirth: At the beginning, the cool school beauty was caught stealing in the supermarket

Chapter 784 There's still rice...

The others stared blankly at the scene, not yet realizing who Miss Luo was, when they saw the old man get into the cleaning cart and leave, laughing loudly.

Like a madman who is out of sync with the world.

Bai Qingxia stood still for a long time, blinking her calm eyes as she looked at the old man's back.

"Let's go." A voice came from the side; it was Lu Yuanqiu.

Bai Qingxia came to her senses and nodded gently.

They followed the secretary to Zhang Zhisheng's office, where Zhang Zhisheng had been waiting for a long time.

He looked at Lu Yuanqiu and Bai Qingxia, his gaze lingering on Bai Qingxia's face for a while. Seeing that Bai Qingxia turned her head away and wouldn't look at him, Zhang Zhisheng didn't say anything and went straight to getting down to business.

As agreed beforehand, he received the legally binding commitment letter prepared by the lawyer, signed it, and affixed his fingerprint to it. The lawyer even recorded a video of the process.

After capping the pen, Zhang Zhisheng looked up. He hesitated for a moment, then called out, "Xia Xia."

Bai Qingxia looked at him.

“I don’t expect you to call me Uncle Zhang. Actually, I’ve been suffering a lot these past few years. This time, I’ve found an excuse to put an end to it.”

Bai Qingxia shook her head, her fingers gripping her dress tightly: "But I will not forgive you."

Zhang Zhisheng smiled faintly: "I know."

After he finished speaking, he took a deep breath, lowered his head, walked to the French windows, and gazed at the scenery of the entire Lucheng.

“Power is too tempting,” Zhang Zhisheng sighed as he looked around. “It’s so tempting that I could abandon my brotherhood.”

"Do you know, Xia, your father and I came from the same orphanage. Our friendship back then was deeper than you can imagine. We would even save a hard-boiled egg for each other until it went bad."

"But everything changed when I grew up."

“That year, your father and I were presented with an option, and we held opposing opinions. He was too inflexible and didn’t know how to adapt…”

“I had a huge fight with him and finally made the tough decision to kick him out. At the time, I thought that under my leadership, White Rhino would definitely reach a new level. But I didn’t expect that I was wrong. Without the original formula, White Rhino has been going downhill.”

“I’m not reconciled. I don’t believe that someone as stubborn as your father is more capable of managing the company than me…” Zhang Zhisheng pressed his palm against the glass in front of him, frowning as if he wanted to grasp the entire city of Lucheng.

He suddenly laughed again: "I have worked diligently for more than ten years and have indeed proven that I am better than your father at managing the company, but I can still only protect the core of White Rhino."

"Because I've realized one thing: no matter how hard I try, I can never compare to a recipe..."

"A white rhinoceros can only have the surname Bai (白)."

"Just like you young people say now, hard work is worthless in the face of talent. The Bai family was born for the food industry."

After Zhang Zhisheng finished speaking, he lowered his head and sighed for a long time.

"My gamble failed, and I also lost the brotherhood I cherished most back then."

He turned around, looked at Bai Qingxia, and said with a complicated expression, "If time could turn back, I would probably only say one thing to your father: Brother Song, Xiao Chong will listen to you..."

His eyes were already wet when he finished speaking. He stared at Bai Qingxia for a moment, then silently sat back down in his previous seat.

Zhang Zhisheng bowed his head and said, "I'm sorry, Xia. I'm sorry to your family. Since you helped my daughter resolve her regrets this time, I will return the company to you." Lu Yuanqiu saw Bai Qingxia's tears, but his face remained expressionless. The letter of commitment stated that as long as Bai Songzhe could recover within six months, the power transfer would begin. If he did not recover within six months, Bai Qingxia would be the one to inherit the company.

But Lu Yuanqiu still felt that Zhang Zhisheng's ending was too easy. He shouldn't have been able to atone for his sins simply by returning what he had taken back.

"If you're truly sorry, words alone aren't enough," Lu Yuanqiu said. "What you said at home last time, about turning yourself in for all those schemes you plotted back then, does that still count?"

The uncle then looked at Lu Yuanqiu, wondering if Zhang Zhisheng would voluntarily surrender.

Zhang Zhisheng took a deep breath and didn't look this way: "I'm sorry, this is the only one I've changed my mind about, because I still have my family."

He looked up again: "But don't worry, even if you back out now and don't choose to help, I will still return Bai Xi to the Bai family. Bai Xi is the result of my and Song Ge's hard work. Since it can't flourish under my care, it can't fall into a trough under my care. It needs a proper leader."

Who the hell cares about that! Lu Yuanqiu frowned and clenched his fist. Just then, his uncle's hand landed on his shoulder. Lu Yuanqiu turned to look at his uncle, who said, "Don't worry, Mr. Zhang, we will help Dai Yidan too. But how exactly do you plan to have Xiaoqiu's mother help?"

Zhang Zhisheng: "I will tell Dandan that Su Xiaoya is her biological mother, but Su Xiaoya does not need to take the initiative to admit it. It will depend on Dandan's own thoughts. If she wants to acknowledge her, you can help her act it out."

Lu Cheng nodded: "Okay."

"If there's nothing else, we'll take our leave now."

"No delivery."

Seeing that Lu Yuanqiu hadn't moved, his uncle called out, "Xiaoqiu, let's go."

Lu Yuanqiu nodded, took Bai Qingxia's hand and walked to the door. Just then, he suddenly heard Zhang Zhisheng call out from behind, "Thank you."

Lu Yuanqiu stopped in his tracks, remained silent for a moment, then turned to look at him: "Let's put everything else aside for now. Let me ask you one more question: Did you cause the car accident?"

Zhang Zhisheng shook his head seriously: "It wasn't me."

Lu Yuanqiu knew his reply, and asked again now just to see his expression one more time. The two uncles and Bai Qingxia were also watching, and strangely enough, they also felt that there seemed to be 80 or 90 percent truth in Zhang Zhisheng's response.

Once outside the company, Lu Yuanqiu kept an eye on Bai Qingxia's emotions. Sure enough, Bai Qingxia wasn't quite at peace. Compared to Bai Xi's future, she cared more about whether Zhang Zhisheng could pay the price for his betrayal back then.

At this moment, it seems that returning the white rhinoceros is not necessarily a sign of Zhang Zhisheng's conscience. The market for white rhinoceroses is currently in a slump. To put it bluntly, Zhang Zhisheng has simply dumped a mess he couldn't handle back onto the market.

But it's better for the white rhinoceros to come back than for it to remain in his hands.

Lu Yuanqiu let out a long breath, and two questions once again lingered in his mind.

Who was responsible for the car accident?

Anyone who wants to harm Bai Ruoan must be after the formula, and frankly speaking, Bai Xi's faction is not the only one that wants the formula.

And there's rice stalks too...

In the food company, White Rhinoceros, Lu's, and Rice are the three major players. Apart from Lu's and White Rhinoceros, only Rice remains.

Another question: Is Dai Yidan's mother Li Yuntan...?

If it is Li Yuntan, then it means that Dai Yidan's biological mother is already dead, and Zhang Zhisheng's unwillingness to reveal the truth is understandable.

(End of this chapter)