Chapter 305
"You’re not being honest, are you? This morning you told me you’d be back in a few days, and now it’s changed to half a month. Do you want me to bring the brothers over for a showdown? We don’t have much, but we do have a few brothers who dare to fight and can take a punch."
"Nothing of the sort! That’s all for now, you handle the situation at home. Oh, any news on Xu Qingyang?"
"None. Ye Tian, isn’t it overdoing it a bit, just like that..."
"It’s nothing, just asking. Hanging up."
After hanging up, Ye Tian turned around and leaned on the telephone booth, his stiff suit now like cold armor, chilling to look at. Ye Tian lit a cigarette, glanced around through the grey smoke; it was desolate. With the year-end approaching, the city was getting more festive. Among the myriad of lights, which wasn’t brighter than the cigarette in his hand?
Taking a drag, the cigarette tip brightened up a bit but quickly dimmed down again.
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"Old Mo, this Zhang Bin you have isn’t simple, huh?"
"What simple or not simple. The girl brought him back, said he’s a college classmate, humph, even dares to deceive me, if they’re dating just admit it, but hiding it from me. Just looking at that boy I feel uneasy, he’s so timorous, sees people and doesn’t even fart, how is he going to get by in society, humph!"
It might have been something unpleasant he ate, Old Man Mo spat twice, several bits of bone spat out onto the table. Old Man Chen across the table looked at him meaningfully without a word, his eyes squinting like a slit.