Chapter 75: No one cares if you are stubborn
Chapter 75: No one cares if you are stubborn
Ning Fei opened the car door and, as expected, saw Duan Yunhong.
Ning Fei climbed into the car: "Mr. Duan didn't come back specially at the last minute, did he?"
"You're overthinking. I just happened to come back from something, and I heard that you didn't even have a means of transportation, so I came to see you." Duan Yunhong's eyes moved around him and commented coldly, "They said you were injured so badly that you couldn't even get a breath of wind, but you look so energetic, aren't you?"
Ning Fei knew that Luo Chenghong was the one who talked too much. He pointed at the gauze on his face and said, "Five stitches. My face is ruined."
"Are you afraid sometimes?" Duan Yunhong sneered, "Didn't you not care about these flesh wounds before?"
Ning Fei glanced at him: "Anyway, she's not ugly enough for me."
This is a complaint, but it also has a bit of flirting in it. Duan Yunhong was choked by him and was silent for two seconds before asking, "What did the doctor say?"
"Nothing much was said. Just change the bandage yourself and remove the stitches after a week." Ning Fei replied, "My injury is far from being a minor one. But one of those street urchins was slightly injured by me using a wine bottle and he tried to blackmail me."
"Want to sue you?" Duan Yunhong looked at the gauze on his face and squinted his eyes slightly. "How did you two start fighting? It can't be that you or that Lin Shengjia took the initiative to provoke others, right?"
Ning Fei didn't answer honestly after hearing his interrogative tone. He just leaned back in his chair and said, "Boss Duan, you asked me to get in the car just to interrogate me? You didn't even let me eat?"
"..." Duan Yunhong had no choice but to ask, "Do you have classes tonight? Do you have time to buy a cell phone after dinner?"
"I don't have classes. I'm just going to buy a cell phone." Ning Fei replied confidently, "Since Mr. Duan is here and asked me to get in the car, will Mr. Duan buy it for me?"
Duan Yunhong said: "Others are blackmailing you, but you are blackmailing me?"
Ning Fei thought that this person was being stubborn again: "No? Then I should go down?"
Duan Yunhong: "...Xiao Huang, drive to the city center."
The driver who had been sitting quietly in the front seat said: "Okay, Mr. Duan."
***
On the way and while eating, Ning Fei finally told Duan Yunhong everything that happened last night and his own guesses.
After listening to this, Duan Yunhong commented: "You must have guessed which of those bastards was the mastermind. Tell me."
Ning Fei swallowed the meat in his mouth and replied: "I am just guessing, there is no basis for this."
"Um."
"Then I guess it's Qin Ran." Ning Fei said, "Zhu Yueting has been kicked out of his circle of friends. If he can't use his best chess piece, he has to consider other people comprehensively. When I was targeted by the two little ghosts in your Ji family before, they mentioned Qin Ran and said something like that. Qin Ran should be the role of "elder" and "military advisor" in their small circle. He is also ruthless and decisive enough to pay someone to beat up Lin Shengjia. I feel that this is Qin Ran."
"No matter how cruel he is, can he be as cruel as you?" Duan Yunhong took a sip of white wine, "Besides, I'm not from the Ji family, so don't say 'your Ji family'."
"You just spent your luck to get the attribute of 'taking your mother's surname', but your surname should be 'Ji', isn't it 'your Ji family'?" Ning Fei snorted and laughed, "I wonder if the street kid I brought to the school gate today to identify people recognized his 'financial sponsor'."
Duan Yunhong asked: "Why did Ji Xingzhe suddenly take such heavy action against Lin Shengjia? He broke his bones in order to avoid the final exam and go to Shenzhen, so what was the purpose of doing that to Lin Shengjia? If he wanted to eliminate the trouble forever and make Lin Shengjia disappear completely, he shouldn't just beat him up."
"I don't know either. I don't know what happened here. After all, Ji Xingzhe is a weird and cowardly person. Even if he has some extreme ideas, he doesn't have the means or the courage to do it now." Ning Fei thought for a while, "Why don't you go back and see if there are any changes in the Ji family? Your nephew broke his leg. As an uncle, it's only natural for you to visit him."
"Do you want me to go visit him or scare him?" Duan Yunhong replied, "Aren't you afraid that if I go there, he will take more extreme measures due to the pressure?"
Ning Fei replied nonchalantly, "More extreme is good too. It would be best if it could get him 'in'. That way I don't have to be on guard against him doing something bad."
Duan Yunhong's voice was cold: "If he goes all out on Lin Shengjia, do you think you can run into him every time and get away unscathed every time? This time they only had small switchblades, and they didn't mean to kill anyone at first. What if they kill him directly next time? You don't need any special abilities or physical fitness, and you are so confident that you can fight against many people with your bare hands and save Lin Shengjia?"
"If you don't want to go, just say you don't want to go. Why are you scolding me?" Ning Fei looked at him in confusion. "How I want to set it up is my business. How I want to do the task is also my business. Even if I fail, it's my own business. And if I fail, won't you and Xie Baolin be happier? Is there any need to blame me here?"
Duan Yunhong looked at his face and said, "Do you think the injury on your face is not painful enough? Don't you feel pain?"
Ning Fei sneered: "Why, you feel sorry for me? Duan Yunhong, what position do you stand on to say such nonsense? You don't really want to do this, do you?"
"...Then you really think too much." Duan Yunhong also sneered, "It's just because you are half supported by me now, and I am too lazy to find another C partner in this world, so I hope you don't hurt yourself."
"Ha, are you afraid that you won't be able to enjoy yourself if I become disabled?" Ning Fei drank the white wine next to him. "Don't worry, I can't say anything else, but I know a little bit about this. I can still enjoy myself if I become disabled."
Duan Yunhong said coldly: "I don't want to discuss this with you."
"You brought up a topic, but you don't allow me to talk about it. Who did I offend?" Ning Fei picked up the bottle of wine next to him and refilled his glass. "Also, if you don't want to help me check, then don't check. Just buy me a new phone, and I'll take care of the rest myself. Don't act like an emperor and give orders."
Duan Yunhong said: "You can do it yourself? What can you find out by choosing this teacher identity?"
Ning Fei said: "If you can't investigate, let the police investigate. Why are you so arrogant?"
“Even if the police find the person who paid, can they find out what happened in the Ji family?”
"If you can't find out, then you can't find out. You won't die if you don't know the situation. I asked you to help find out, but you were not happy. I didn't let you find out, but you were also not happy. Did I beg you to come back? Did I beg you to listen to me talk about these things?" Ning Fei simply couldn't understand what Duan Yunhong was trying to do. He drank the wine in one breath and put the glass back on the table with a thump. "I don't think you need to buy me a cell phone. For a cell phone, I might have to listen to your bossing. I bought this cell phone so that I can contact you. I might as well just install a landline at home. Why should I get so angry just for a toy that is connected to you alone!"
Ning Fei stood up and said, "Thank you for the meal... no, half a meal. I'm going back now. Don't call the Lin family again. I'll tell you the number after I install the landline."
Duan Yunhong stared at him, frowning, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end no word came out. He just watched Ning Fei pull out the chair and walk out of his seat. Then he suddenly remembered something and walked to Duan Yunhong, leaning slightly over and whispering in his ear: "Also, don't come to see me recently, otherwise I'm afraid I'll become disabled and Mr. Duan will lose interest."
After saying that, this time Ning Fei really got up and left.
After several seconds, Duan Yunhong turned around and looked in the direction where Ning Fei left. His back was still tall, and his steps were unhesitating, without any intention of waiting for someone to call him. The waiter at the restaurant opened the door for him and he smiled at him. Duan Yunhong rushed back from today's flight and went straight to the school to pick him up. He had never seen him smile at him face to face.
The glass door of the restaurant slowly closed, and Duan Yunhong was left alone at the dining table.
***
In the next few days, Duan Yunhong really did not show up and did not contact Ning Fei, and he was not seen even on weekends.
Ning Fei was too lazy to ask about his whereabouts, and even left his landline phone until Saturday to reconnect with it, and the line was connected on Sunday. On Sunday afternoon, Ning Fei's new number finally called Duan Yunhong's cell phone.
As soon as the call was connected, Ning Fei didn't say any pleasantries and said directly: "This is my new number."
Duan Yunhong said "hmm" on the other end.
Ning Fei's next sentence was: "Then I'm hanging up."
Duan Yunhong: "So busy?"
"Normally. I have to tell the police about this call, so they don't call the Lin family to find me, and by the way, learn about the progress of the case." Ning Fei's tone was calm, as if the unpleasantness a few days ago had never happened. "Then I'll go to the Lin family for dinner. They want to thank me for saving Lin Shengjia, and they prepared a table of dishes and insisted that I come over."
Duan Yunhong asked: "Is Xie Baolin here too?"
"I don't know. It's better if he's not here. Even his eyes are annoying. I really want to dig his eyes out." Ning Fei replied casually, "By the way, is he your informant now? Are the relationships between you 'bandits' so good?"
"'Informant'? Tsk, how is that possible?" Duan Yunhong said mockingly, "He just wants to watch the fun."
"Watching the fun?" Ning Fei was puzzled. "Is that why he hasn't left? Isn't this just a waste of time? Or does he think that you will suddenly attack me and cause the last wish to go bad, so he is waiting to snatch your luck?"
"Even if it's a bad debt, I won't let him snatch the luck. He knows this very well." Duan Yunhong responded calmly. In fact, Luo Chenghong’s original words were “You actually help other people, and you’re a debt collector at that. It’s so funny. I must watch this fun.” But Duan Yunhong would never convey this to Ning Fei, so he said: "Maybe Xie Baolin just likes to waste time."
"I think you're not much worse." Ning Fei commented and quickly hung up the phone. Duan Yunhong had prepared a lot of excuses, including one about his whereabouts this weekend and the situation of the Ji family, but none of them were used. Obviously, Ning Fei had already assumed that Duan Yunhong would not care about this matter and was too lazy to talk nonsense with him. He was indeed "very efficient".
"Tsk..." Duan Yunhong frowned unhappily as he looked at the phone whose screen went dark after the call was hung up.
"Mr. Duan." The Ji family's nanny arrived at the garden gate and called out to Duan Yunhong, "The food is ready. Mr. Ji asked you to come over to eat."
Duan Yunhong put away his phone and went into the house. When he arrived at the restaurant, Ji Zhenwei and his wife were already sitting at the table. At the same time, there were "dong, dong" sounds coming from upstairs. It was Ji Xingzhe walking down the stairs slowly with crutches.
To be honest, this kind of "disabled but strong-willed" image still makes Ji Xingzhe look quite pitiful. However, Ji Zhenwei and Madam Ji must have gotten used to it after seeing it for a few days, and are no longer surprised by now. Duan Yunhong watched the boy's performance in silence until the boy saw him and looked shocked: "...Uncle? Why are you here?!"
"I came back to do something. I heard you broke your leg, so I came to see you." Duan Yunhong's tone was filled with a hint of smile, and it was hard to tell whether he was caring for the younger generation or joking, "Why didn't you ask someone to carry you down?"
"He loves to show off. Except for the first two days when he asked others to carry him, he insisted on walking on his own afterwards." Madam Ji scolded, "This child has been like this since he was young. He is very stubborn. Don't try to persuade him."
Ji Zhenwei said: "The children of our Ji family have all been independent and self-reliant since childhood."
"You should ask for help when you need it, otherwise you will get more injured. What will you do if your limp can't be healed?" Duan Yunhong replied meaningfully, and then changed the subject, "By the way, Xiaozhe has been injured for so many days, haven't his childhood friends come to visit him?"
Ji Xingzhe's heart skipped a beat when he heard that, and he forced a smile: "I came here yesterday. I was afraid that I would get tired, so I sat for a while and then left."
In fact, not everyone came, for example, Zhu Yueting and Qin Ran did not come, and Ji Xingzhe tried to obscure the matter. But Duan Yunhong didn't give him the chance and just said, "I'm a little confused about which child goes with which family. Did you take a group photo on your birthday last time? Point it out to me later."
Ji Xingzhe didn’t know what he was going to do, but this fake young master understood that Duan Yunhong’s request was definitely not well-intentioned.
However, in front of his parents, Ji Xingzhe couldn't think of any words to say no, so he could only stammer and agree: "Okay, okay..."
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