Chapter 26 Chapter 26 "You sound more like an alcoholic."...
Pei Xingyao was stunned, obviously confused by the sudden question. After he sat down on the low stool, Su Ting leaned over and took the tissue and chopsticks from Pei Xingyao's side. His breath just caressed Pei Xingyao's shoulders and arms, making people feel itchy.
Su Ting filled his beer and said, "I haven't had beer for a long time. Please drink a few more bottles with me."
Pei Xingyao couldn't help laughing: "You sound more like an alcoholic."
Su Ting thought of the fine wines he had stored on the first floor and rubbed his cheek without commenting: "Actually, you're right."
"You must have had a hard time all these years." Pei Xingyao's eyes always fell involuntarily on Su Ting's nose, where there was a very small mole on the tip of his nose. If you didn't look carefully, you would have to skip it, just like his and Su Ting's college days, parallel but never intersecting.
Su Ting didn't want to hide it, so he drank a cup and said, "Not bad."
"I remember that when you were in class, you always hid in the corner of the last row and seldom spoke. Something like this must be more painful than killing you." Pei Xingyao ate the skewers quietly, and dipped them in a lot of hot sauce before putting them in his mouth.
Su Ting's gentle and calm face showed no ripples, as if the matter was already over. "Let's not talk about these unpleasant things. Let's have a good meal. The taste of this barbecue restaurant has not changed in ten years. It's the right time to come today."
He waved to the boss and said, "Boss, bake me another one of the same kind and take it away."
Pei Xingyao raised his eyebrows: "Haven't you eaten enough? If not, I can continue to accompany you."
Su Ting: "No, I packed this for my son. His biggest hobby is eating."
To prevent Pei Xingyao from misunderstanding, he quickly said, "My adopted son."
Pei Xingyao thought this was a bit outrageous and sighed, "There are still people abandoning children nowadays. It's really not what people used to be. What's his name?"
Su Ting: "Ye Xiuming."
"Ye Xiuming..." Pei Xingyao muttered the name several times, as if he had seen it somewhere before. He asked seriously, "Was Ye Xiuming born in Jincheng?"
"I don't know, he doesn't want to say." Su Ting bit into the juicy and delicious grilled ribs, and the first thought in his mind was: I wonder how much Ye Xiuming will like eating the grilled ribs from this restaurant.
"Most of my business is in Longcheng. I seem to have heard of this name there. Would you like me to keep an eye out for it for you?" Pei Xingyao said.
Su Ting: "Longcheng...but Longcheng is so far away." His parents are too cruel.
They would do everything they could, no matter how hard it was, to cross hundreds of kilometers to abandon him.
"Then...thank you in advance."
Pei Xingyao took the takeaway bag for Su Ting and said with a smile, "Do you want to go for a walk in the school?"
Su Ting glanced at the bag in his hand and said, "Let's do it another day. I'm afraid my son will be waiting anxiously."
Pei Xingyao then parted ways with Su Ting at the intersection.
After arriving home, Su Ting carried the bag and walked around Ye Xiuming's room. Ye Xiuming was led to the dining table by the rich aroma. He watched eagerly as Su Ting peeled off the tin foil and handed him a skewer of grilled ribs.
Ye Xiuming's eyes lit up as he slowly chewed this delicacy. Just when his tail was about to lift up to the sky, he asked, "Little Dad, why aren't you eating?"
Su Ting: "I have eaten."
"Who did you eat with? Zhou Xubai?"
Su Ting stared at him in surprise: "Why don't you call me Daddy?" He wiped the greasy corners of Ye Xiuming's mouth with a tissue and said, "I'm not with him, I'm with my old classmate."
Ye Xiuming snorted, "No wonder he doesn't want to eat Western food and insists on eating barbecue."
"This is the most delicious barbecue at the school gate." Su Ting continued to wipe his mouth patiently, "What do you know."
"So, we still have a date at noon today?" Ye Xiuming picked out the bone from his mouth and motioned Su Ting to get him another tissue, which Su Ting did.
"It's not really a date. I almost hurt him due to some misunderstanding, so having dinner is my way of apologizing to him." Su Ting said, and he felt funny when he thought of the ridiculous interrogation at noon.
"How could you accidentally hurt someone? Are you going to hit someone with a golf club again?"
There was a long pause in the air.
Ye Xiuming quickly covered his face with a bunch of green peppers, not daring to look Su Ting in the eye. Su Ting took a long time to react before he vaguely understood: Ye Xiuming didn't skip school on the first day to eat barbecue, but to follow him to the western suburbs.
"What did you see that day?"
Ye Xiuming quickly put down the food, ran to his room, and locked the door.
Su Ting's cruelty returned to his eyes, and he slammed Ye Xiuming's door, filling the entire house with the clatter of knocks. The servants looked at each other, wondering what was wrong with Su Ting.
Su Ting just felt that the good mask he had maintained for so long had been lifted.
After a long time, Ye Xiuming finally reached the door, only one door separating him from Su Ting. He said, "Shi Fangyi deserves a lesson. Little Dad, you didn't do anything wrong. If it were me, I would beat him to a pulp, too."
Su Ting clenched his fists, which was a result of his self-blame after realizing that he had failed to set an example. Speechless, he immediately packed himself back into the cage, which was his best and safest retreat.
Sutin left home.
He was silently reciting the drill list Zhou Xubai had given him on the top floor of the office building. When he saw Zhou Xubai's handwritten words, "The exchange is not your enemy, but your most demanding partner," Ning Ding smiled calmly.
He opened a bottle of Romanee-Conti, enjoying the early joy of the successful launch. By then, Ye Xiuming would surely have forgotten the brutality of his private torture, and his authority as a father would have returned.
Zhou Xubai brought the CFO to a mock defense, and Su Ting, drunkenly, asked her a few irrelevant questions, none of which were on the drill list. Zhou Xubai, perplexed by this, took the CFO away, then walked up to Su Ting and confiscated his wine glass.
"It's not time to celebrate in advance."
Su Ting's eyes were a little out of focus, and he reached out to cut off Zhou Xubai's hand.
Zhou Xubai: "What's wrong with you? Did Pei Xingyao say something that irritated you?"
Su Ting: "No... not..."
He walked to the leather sofa and lay down with his legs raised. The pendant Ye Xiuming gave him hung to one side. Su Ting took action and forcibly straightened it, then prepared to go to sleep with a slightly drunk look on his face.
"Don't tell me it has anything to do with Ye Xiuming."
Su Ting: "Yes."
"What happened?"
"He saw us beating Shi Fangyi in the western suburbs." Su Ting turned his face to the side, his eyelashes casting a fence-like shadow on his cheek, and the dark shadow on the bridge of his nose looked very fragile.
"I hit you, and I don't regret it at all. Do you still care about your image in your son's eyes?"
Su Ting turned his head with resentment, and his eyes met Zhou Xubai's. "First, those pornographic photos, then beating up the teacher. Zhou Xubai, can you help me think of a way to make me taller quickly?"
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