Chapter 48 - Fifteen Thousand
Chapter 48 - Fifteen Thousand
Chong Lin and Dong Lingyan had a quarrel in front of Ning Fei.
They really didn't pay attention to controlling the volume, and the noise was so loud that the guards of the general's mansion quietly lifted the curtain and took a look inside. However, the two of them happened to have their backs to the door, and only Ning Fei met the guard's gaze. Seeing that Ning Fei was calm - even a little happy - and didn't look like he wanted to leave, the guard silently lowered the curtain.
Ning Fei did use their quarrel as an excuse to drink. There's no other way. There aren't many entertainment options these days, so this is the only way to have fun.
The level of their quarrel was really not very high. They just kept talking nonsense about "You said you gave up the mission but you still stabbed me in the back", and they couldn't get to the point at all. Ning Fei didn't even have the heart to comment. However, Ning Fei still found some information from their conversation, such as Dong Lingyan was once so unlucky that he almost died, but was later rescued inexplicably. Dong Lingyan said that "there was still a little luck left at the end", and Ning Fei suspected that this little bit of luck was Duan Yunhong.
There is nothing else worth remembering, and Ning Fei just let it go in one ear and out the other. When the two had almost finished their quarrel and Ning Fei had had enough of the wine and snacks, he pretended to be careless and knocked the wine glass away with one hand.
Bang!
The crisp sound of broken ceramics interrupted Chonglin and Dong Lingyan's conversation. The guards outside also lifted the curtain again to check: "Master Ning?"
"It's okay." Ning Fei said this, but blinked at him twice in a fairly natural manner.
The guard understood, "The time is approaching, Master Ning should prepare to return to the General's Mansion." After a pause, he remembered another line, "The thing that Master just stared at has been purchased and sent here by the servants. Will you check it out immediately?"
His tone was really stiff. Ning Fei didn't want to give Dong Lingyan and Chong Lin time to think, so he immediately continued with an unhappy tone: "That's something women use. Why buy it for me? Leave it here for your general to humiliate me?"
The guard had a cold face and said nothing.
"... What's the point of telling you?" Ning Fei sneered, "Bring the things here."
The guard brought in a brocade box and placed it on the table. Dong Lingyan and Chong Lin's attention were both attracted by the brocade box. Ning Fei said again, "You go out first, I have a few words to say to them," and the guard left the room.
Afterwards, Ning Fei opened the brocade box in front of the two of them.
In the box lay a jade bracelet, emerald green and transparent, with plenty of water, and it was obviously a top-quality product at first glance. The only problem is that the workmanship is obviously women's and is indeed not suitable for Ning Fei.
"Tsk." Ning Fei became more and more unhappy. He closed the brocade box and pushed it towards Dong Lingyan. "Here you go."
Dong Lingyan hadn't caught up with the development of the situation yet, his eyes were blank: "...Ah?"
"It's obvious that this bracelet has nothing to do with me. Should I take it back and wait for Duan Yunhong to laugh at me?" Ning Fei sneered, "This is suitable for a lady from a wealthy family. Take it back to please your fiancée, his sister."
"...Are you sure?" Dong Lingyan had seen it before, but the bracelet was so beautiful and really suitable for the prime minister's daughter, so Dong Lingyan was moved. "This bracelet should be very expensive. If you give it to me like this, will Duan Yunhong have any objections?"
"I said I smashed and threw it away. I just wanted to waste his money, and he doesn't care about it anyway." Ning Fei said, and stood up and said, "He also paid for this meal, you guys continue to eat and don't waste it, I have to go."
Chong Lin, who had been ignored for a while, saw him leaving and immediately asked, "Are you still going to do this mission?"
Ning Fei waved his hand, and it was unclear whether it meant "I don't want to do it anymore" or was a farewell, but he just walked out of the room anyway. Chong Lin wanted to ask more, but the guard who was helping Ning Fei hold up the bamboo curtain stared at him, and the words on his lips were choked and he couldn't come out.
Ning Fei just left the room like that, leaving Chong Lin and Dong Lingyan standing there looking at each other in bewilderment. They had just had an argument, and it was awkward for them to be alone together. Especially Dong Lingyan, whose disgust towards Chong Lin was at a high level. He could not sit still any longer, so he quickly stood up and said, "Then I will leave too. I have just been warned by the Second Prince that it is better for us not to meet for a long time for the time being."
Chonglin saw him take the brocade box and asked, "Do you really want to take this bracelet?"
"Or else?" Dong Lingyan turned around and looked at him, "Leave it to you? Or leave it here for someone else to pick up for nothing?"
"I don't want it. I just feel that its appearance is a little strange." Chong Lin said, "Why is it on the table? Why did he give it to you?"
"He made it very clear that you are the one who has a problem with him." Dong Lingyan no longer trusted Chong Lin and sneered, "From the way he talked, he is much smarter than you. If he had been the one who came in the first place, I might not have been unable to complete the task."
Chong Lin frowned and said, "You have no idea how crazy he is...!"
Dong Lingyan stopped listening to him, turned around and walked straight out of the room.
***
As soon as Duan Yunhong returned to the general's mansion, the housekeeper reported a huge incident to him.
Then he entered the room, lifted the book that was covering the face of the person on the couch, and asked, "You spent 15,000 taels just for a meal. You are really rude. What did you buy?"
"A bracelet." Ning Fei said lazily without even opening his eyes, "It's not tribute-level, but it's top-notch among the common people."
Duan Yunhong asked: "Where are the things?"
Ning Fei: “Give it away.”
Duan Yunhong: "To whom?"
Ning Fei: "Dong Lingyan's wife."
After saying this, Ning Fei couldn't help but open his eyes after waiting for a long time for the next word. This time, he was met directly by Duan Yunhong's condescending gaze.
"...You scared me!" Ning Fei sat up, "If you have something to say, say it. Why are you staring at me?"
"You didn't see the hesitant expression on the housekeeper's face when he reported the bill to me. It was as if I was playing tricks on the princes." Duan Yunhong sat down next to him. "Now you're spending money on someone else's wife, and you're not going to give me an explanation?"
"What's there to explain?" Ning Fei yawned and said leisurely, "Is it not okay for me to spend money to buy happiness?"
"Are you happy because you spend money, or are you happy because you borrow flowers to offer to Buddha?"
"What kind of Buddha is Dong Lingyan?" Ning Fei sneered, "You are kidding me."
"Are you kidding him? Is the bracelet fake?"
"No. But it's true, so there's a story." Ning Fei replied, "Dong Lingyan is a very self-centered and chauvinistic person. Even if he accepted my gift, he wouldn't explain the origin to the Prime Minister's daughter. He would definitely say that it was a gift he personally prepared for her."
Although his posture was lazy, his eyes were moving when he talked about how to scheme against others. Duan Yunhong looked at him and casually replied, "He said he prepared it himself, so what?"
"He has two wives, and he only gave one of them away. What would the other one think?" Ning Fei smiled gently. "I heard that Lan Li from the Haminke tribe has a bad temper and is jealous. I hope Dong Lingyan can stand it."
Duan Yunhong said: "...Do you still want to continue the mission?"
"I don't want to, I won't do it. I'll leave in three days." Ning Fei emphasized again, "I'm just finding him something to do."
After a pause, Ning Fei continued, "Come to think of it, when Dong Lingyan was in bad luck, he almost died. You saved him, right? If he died, the mission would have failed completely. Why would you save him?"
Duan Yunhong was silent for two seconds, then asked, "Why do you think I should protect him?"
"...Okay, you took a lot of effort to pull me over. I was forced to go from lying flat to struggling, hahaha." Ning Fei laughed and fell back on the couch, "Hey, then you must take away all of Dong Lingyan's luck this time, otherwise you will suffer a great loss."
Duan Yunhong looked at him silently.
Ning Fei finished laughing and glanced at him: "Why are you silent again? I'm not stopping you from speaking now."
"Even if you leave, it will take quite a while for this wish to be deemed a failure." Duan Yunhong stared at him, "I may not have the patience."
Ning Fei said: "Don't you like to relax in these worlds? Why do you suddenly lose your patience?"
Duan Yunhong: "There are things to do."
Ning Fei: “…”
Duan Yunhong: "Why don't you ask what's going on?"
"Ha, I won't be fooled by you." Ning Fei raised an eyebrow. "You are free to do whatever you want. Don't expect me to complain to the Administration and force the closure of Chonglin's mission. You want to finish it quickly and get the luck? That's a nice thought!"
"I don't want you to help me get a bad debt quickly." Duan Yunhong leaned over and supported his side with one hand, "Give me your positioning mark."
"What the hell? My location mark?!" Ning Fei opened his eyes wide, with a look of disbelief, "Do you think it's possible? None of my colleagues in the Administration have my mark!"
"I'm not your colleague." Duan Yunhong said, "Give it to me, and I'll let you pass directly next time we meet."
"Do you need me to?" Ning Fei sneered, "Don't tell me I can do it by myself. I won't sell out my position for a world mission."
"Then why don't you give it to me?" Duan Yunhong said, "Next time, we will have a fair fight."
"Are you lying to a three-year-old? You used my location just to have a fair game with me?" Ning Fei replied, "And then what? If you lose, you continue to chase me in the game until you win a game? Then wouldn't I have created a big obstacle for myself? I'm so bored?"
"Lose? I won't underestimate the enemy again." Duan Yunhong said, "If you don't give it to me, I will keep looking for your colleagues and ask them to specifically ask for your support. There is a limit to the number of times you can refuse, right? You will come eventually, and the rhythm of handling your own work will be completely disrupted."
"What the hell are you crazy about?" Ning Fei pushed him away and sat up. "Duan Yunhong, you don't want to chase me, do you? Or are you reluctant to part with me as your friend and want to enjoy a few more worlds?"
"You lied to me first, and you ask me why I'm crazy?" Before Ning Fei, Duan Yunhong hadn't suffered such a big setback in a long time. He gave experience to the management bureau for nothing and still got fooled. But he would not say these words out loud. He would only say: "I am giving you a chance now. Let's compete thoroughly. Otherwise, don't blame me for always creating some 'little troubles' for you. Anyway, you know that the Luck Bandits are still bandits, and bandits don't always like to be reasonable."
Ning Fei frowned and stared at him: "You look like the kind of elementary school student who refuses to accept defeat."
"Then, are you a primary school student if you just admit defeat because I'm in control of the situation?" Duan Yunhong said, "You don't agree because you're afraid of losing to me. Without my letting you off, you wouldn't have been able to do so smoothly with Su Cenxi."
"Bullshit!" Ning Fei felt that he had been tricked. If he agreed, he would lose face, and if he didn't agree, he would be ridiculed by him. Ning Fei never lingered in such a vicious circle, and immediately changed the subject: "Don't pretend to be so upright. You wanted to have a fixed relationship in that world, and now you want to position me. Isn't it because you haven't slept enough?"
"Only talking about me? Don't you want to go back to me too? Don't you want a stable relationship? What's the stability of a world?" Duan Yunhong saw that he always steered the topic in this direction, so he simply talked to him, "You lied to me and slept with me before, what's the problem with doing it again in the future?"
Ning Fei rarely lost to him in a sophistry: "Duan Yunhong, you are really shameless."
"How can you be a bandit if you have the guts? How did your administration train you?" Duan Yunhong grabbed his wrist and pushed him down. "You want to have the guts to spend 15,000 yuan from me, right? You used to know how to exchange things, but now you're going to take it for nothing?"
Ning Fei sneered: "You are ready to take it yourself, why are you still blaming me?"
"That's right. I'm going to take it myself. By the way, I want you to know that I'm not like those bed b*tches you had before. You can just walk away whenever you want." Duan Yunhong also said sarcastically, "You're not going to escape now, are you? If you run away early, it would be really ridiculous..."
"Stop talking nonsense."
Ning Fei interrupted him, hugged his neck and pulled him down.
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