Chapter 68 Verse 42

  Chengzhou walked heavily towards home with slow steps.

  Chen Yan reluctantly agreed to let him take out the letter and photocopy a copy after much persuasion.

  He had the photocopy in his bag, and he had roughly read through its contents, feeling a heavy heart that was very uncomfortable.

  But what he liked most was the curse mentioned by Yao Fangqing and the method of cursing mentioned in her letter.

  Cheng Zhou slowed down his pace as he approached the entrance of the residential area and turned to buy some fruit at a nearby fruit stand.

  Apples must be bought, and they must be fragrant, crispy and juicy.

  Grapes should be bought from country A imports, because the sweetness is more than domestic ones.

  Watermelon... should I buy it or not? Out-of-season ones are so expensive, but that kid said he wanted to eat some a while ago...

  Chengzhou counted the money in his wallet, which was the living expenses that He Sheng had given him last time. Hongye had given He Sheng 5,000 yuan for living expenses, and after deducting the cost of buying vegetables, He Sheng gave him 3,000 yuan.

  After deducting the round-trip train ticket and expenses for these days, there are still over 2,000 left. The salary will be paid on the 10th, and now it is just the beginning of the month when the old and new salaries are not yet connected, but as long as he waits another week, he won't have to look at his son's face again - those gold coins, he doesn't plan to want them again, they were given by Situ Chong for the sake of Hong Ye's face, not really given to him.

  After receiving his salary, he returned the three thousand yuan that He Sheng had given him. He wanted to be a dignified father in front of Hong Ye and would never ask his son for money again!

  "Is it Chengzhou?" a hesitant male voice suddenly came from behind.

  Chengzhou holds a watermelon in his left hand, an apple and grapes in his right hand, and turns around.

  Is?

  "Cheng Zhou! Is that really you? Wang Fei, don't you remember? We were even desk mates in middle school." A slender man wearing a crisp suit, a beige trench coat of unknown material, and brand-name leather shoes, with an air of social elite about him, smiled as he reminded him.

  "Ah! Wang Fei! You've changed a lot!" Cheng Zhou also remembered, Wang Fei had changed greatly, but the outline of his face still showed traces of the skinny monkey-like classmate he used to be.

  "Long time no see, how are you now?" Wang Fei asked with a smile, sizing up Cheng Chou's eyes up and down.

  "It's passable." Cheng Zhou chuckled twice, he was also wearing a suit, but compared to the one on Wang Fei's body, it was obviously a street stall and a high-end store, not to mention the leather shoes on his feet and the coat on his body.

  "Where is he working now?" Wang Fei asked excitedly.

  “ahs。”

  "Oh? That's one of the world's top 500 companies, Cheng Zhou is doing pretty well."

  Cheng Zhou slightly puffed out his chest, and a hint of a smile appeared on his face. "It's nothing, just working as a small clerk inside, I'm doing better than many others. What about you?"

  "Ah, I've started a small company of my own, just barely scraping by."

  "Awesome! You're your own boss, what kind of business are you in?"

  "In finance, it's mainly helping some big clients with investment analysis. Here's my card." Wang Fei handed out his business card from his leather wallet.

  Cheng Zhou hastily put down the fruit and took over Wang Fei's business card.

  A business card with gold powder sprinkled on all four sides looks high-end at a glance, the front only has a name written on it, and the back only has a mobile phone number.

  "This is a private business card, only for friends." Wang Fei walked up and naturally helped him pick up the fruit on the ground, "It's been a long time since we met, let's go have dinner together tonight? On me."

  "No, no, no, don't bother. My son is waiting at home, next time, next time please." Cheng Zhou felt embarrassed and quickly reached out to grab the bag of fruit.

  "Do you all have sons?" Wang Fei looked a bit surprised. "When did you get married, I haven't heard anyone mention it at all."

  "Uh, I'm not married, the kid is adopted." Cheng Zhou said vaguely. To change the subject, he asked: "Are you still in touch with old classmates?"

  "Yes, once attended a reception for foreign enterprises organized by the municipal government, met Liu Xinping who was serving as secretary to the vice mayor, through him, got in touch with several junior high school classmates again, and asked if they had any news, but they all said they didn't know."

  "Liu Xinping is now the deputy mayor's secretary? That's impressive, worthy of our class monitor."

  Cheng Zhou saw that he couldn't grab the bag of fruit, so he followed Wang Fei and said as they walked: "You know about the annual reception of that foreign company? Our CEO is invited every year, but he doesn't want to go, and each time he lets the foreign employees attend in his place."

  "Haha, that's because they're wealthy and arrogant, so they wouldn't care about the reception hosted by the municipal government. Our company can't afford to do that, but it's also a great opportunity to expand our business."

  Wang Fei walked in front of Cheng Zhou and naturally asked if his home was in this neighborhood. Cheng Zhou could only answer yes.

  "It's already impressive that we were invited to the reception, isn't it? But wasn't it said that our company is...? Did we actually get backed by a foreign enterprise?" Moreover, the scale and investment amount of the foreign enterprise backing us must not be small, otherwise we wouldn't have been qualified to enter that reception.

  "That's right, we didn't rely on any foreign company, I went abroad when I was in high school, now holding a passport from country A, the company was also established there. Because I think the domestic market has a good prospect, so I came back and opened a branch." Wang Fei said with a calm face.

  Cheng Zhou's face was full of admiration and envy, "That's amazing!"

  "Which building is our home?"

  "Right in front of us, thirteen buildings."

  "This house was bought with a loan? It's pretty good." Wang Fei said, looking around the neighborhood.

  Chengzhou said out of a psychological unwillingness to lose face in front of his old classmates, "No loan, full payment." But he didn't say how much the full payment was.

  Wang Fei sighed, "It's really not bad, the house prices in Zijin City are so expensive, this community is in the city center and it's a new house, being able to pay the full amount is really impressive. Liu Xinping is one of the few junior high school classmates who did well, buying a house with a mortgage."

  "Come on, it was cheap, haha."

  As they were already at his building, Cheng Zhou couldn't just let her go like that, so he politely asked: "Would you like to come in and sit for a bit?"

  Wang Fei smiled and looked at him, "If you really want to invite the previous owner as a guest, you wouldn't ask if they want to or not, but instead directly open the door and pull them in."

  Cheng Zhou was embarrassed, this guy is still as talkative as before?

  "It's still the same as before, being pierced through lies and not even knowing how to defend. Wang Fei put the fruit on the ground, stood up straight, patted Cheng Chou's shoulder, "Leave your weekend schedule open, we'll have a good chat, I'll call you then."

  He finished speaking and refused to listen to any further discussion, waving his hand as he walked away.

  Cheng Zhou was helpless against this strong woman and could only sigh, open the door, pick up the fruit on the floor and go upstairs.

  As soon as I came out of the elevator, I saw that the door of my neighbor's house next door was ajar against the wall, and the dust and garbage on the ground had been cleaned up.

  Will it take a week to fix the door? Even if we speed up, it will probably take around three days. I wonder if that neighbor from J country will get so angry that he'll run back to his own country because of this?

  Chengzhou hadn't even taken out his keys when the front door of his house opened, and a savory aroma of food wafted into his nostrils.

  Situ took the heavy fruit bag from his hand, gave a cold smile to the opposite side, then showed a gentle smile to Cheng Zhou, "How come you're back so late? Did something happen on the way?"

  "Have you gone to the hospital to visit your colleague? How did He Sheng bring back Hong Ye?" Cheng Zhou was startled by the two extremely different expressions on his face, "Situ, the one in front of..."

  "He Sheng is cooking, Hong Ye is in the study room." Si Tu didn't respond to what was said about the opposite side, carrying two bags of fruit and heading towards the kitchen, "Go wash your hands, dinner will be ready soon, He Sheng said there's braised yellow croaker that you love to eat tonight."

  Chengzhou responded in a string of voices, happily changing his shoes and entering the house. As for what was going on with that door across from him... who cares!

  Chengzhou carried the clean grapes into the study.

  Hong Ye sat in front of a large computer desk, one hand on the keyboard and the other on the mouse, with a serious expression, fiddling with something.

  Cheng Zhou walked over to his side, took a peek, and saw that it was a homepage under construction. "Is your homework done?"

  Hong Ye ignored him.

  "How's school? Is anyone bullying you?" Cheng Zhou told himself to be patient with the little ones, trying his best to make conversation.

  The red leaf glanced at him with a silly look in his eyes.

  Alright, this question was asked incorrectly. With his son's abilities, it would be a surprise if he wasn't a bully in school, who could possibly bully him?

  "Cough, what's going on?"

  The child still ignored him.

  "I've never thought of it as a burden." Cheng Zhou sighed and said suddenly.

  Hong Ye's hand hesitated for a moment as she manipulated the mouse.

  "It doesn't matter if he's not a biological son. After raising him for half a year, you'd develop feelings even for a cat or dog, let alone a human being."

  Red leaves... furious! How dare he compare the great him to a kitten or puppy? Ignore him, continue, absolutely, stubbornly ignore him!

  Also knows it's not an evil spirit, and wouldn't want to harm, otherwise... Cheng Zhou reached out to touch Hong Ye's head.

  The red leaves flashed for a moment.

  Chengzhou firmly reached out and touched it! And then gently rubbed it a bit.

  "Is it also like He Sheng and the others, able to absorb the vital energy of others?" Cheng Chou asked, not giving himself a chance to regret it.

  The red leaf vigorously shook her head and waved away the hand on her head, without giving any response.

  The sound of typing on the keyboard rang out.

  "What is it? A ghost, or some kind of goblin?"

  Don't compare those little monsters! Idiot!

  "Alright, I won't ask what it is or why you're following such a useless guy. But now, please clearly tell me one thing that's very important!"

  Chengzhou turned the chair with red leaves, pressed his hands on the armrests, bent over and stared at Red Leaf's eyes, extremely serious, extremely solemn, and extremely solemnly asked: "Besides, will you find another father?"

  His face suddenly turned black with anger, and he really regretted why he didn't eat him the moment he saw this guy for the first time!

  "Are you an idiot?"

  "Huh?" Seventeen hours into the cold war, his son finally agreed to talk to him. Although he started cursing him as an idiot, Zhang was still excited. It's okay if Dad is an idiot, as long as the son is smart!

  "What kind of idiot would go out of their way to find themselves more than one father? One is already enough to worry about! If they get another, they'll be done for!"

  "Ah, son......!" Cheng Chou was so moved that he became incoherent, and indeed, Hong Ye was the only one in his heart!

  "I knew it was the best!" Cheng Chou immediately entered silly dad mode and hugged his son tightly.

  "Although they've always been shouting about wanting to eat something, they never really wanted to eat it, otherwise they wouldn't have ended up in the hospital due to malnutrition. Malnutrition is from not absorbing enough spiritual energy, right?"

  Hong Ye used her fingers to push open his face, without denying it.

  Chengzhou's imagination expanded rapidly, "I don't have enough vital energy, but to save Dad, I won't let other evil spirits eat him, and I've spent a lot of my own energy to put a protective seal on Dad. All this was told by He Sheng!"

  Red leaves... think whatever you want, stupid food reserve.

  "Although taking advantage of the fact that Xiao He Shang was killed, I didn't tell you beforehand because I was afraid you'd worry, right? Afraid you wouldn't believe my abilities, right? Don't worry, Daddy understands! When Daddy first found out, he was a little angry..."

  Cheng Zhou used his fingers to compare the distance, indicating that it was really a very small anger. "But Dad has now understood, so he will never get angry again."

  Should I say thank you? The red leaf silently stared at the creature in front of him, whose eyes were welling up with tears, and became more and more suspicious of his own decision. How did he think of living with such a being? And even calling him dad?

  He must still be in a long sleep and hasn't woken up yet, so he made such a stupid decision with a muddled head!

  "Good boy, if you need gas, Daddy can provide it for you, no need to be polite with Daddy."

  Don't worry, I've never been polite! The old man will be malnourished, it's just that there are too few foods around that make him want to eat, and... after eating, he'll be gone, but can still attract a lot of food, so we have to keep him.

  "We won't be cold anymore, haha, Dad is heartbroken. Come on, good son, Dad bought your favorite apples, grapes and watermelon, let's eat some grapes first, and we'll have the watermelon after dinner."

  The silly dad picked up his son from the chair and put him on his lap, sat down in his computer chair, pulled over the fruit plate on the table, and started peeling grapes for his son to eat.

  Hong Ye turned her head to look at him, opening her mouth as if to bestow a blessing. Forget it, although he's been foolish and has had too many wild ideas, but after all, she's raised him for almost half a year, even if it was just raising a pig's head, she couldn't bear to slaughter him now, so she might as well continue to raise him to fatten him up.

  He was overjoyed, he and his son could finally return to normal! Oh yeah!

  Sorry to keep everyone waiting.

  I tried to update last night for half an hour but couldn't get into the background, because I had to go out and do things during the day, so I could only sleep first. This morning I got up and tried again for ten minutes but still didn't work, it seems like the more anxious I am, the less it lets me in (hate!). Because time is running out, I can only put it off until tonight, now I'm trying again and again (I hate mobile networks!)...

  I should have explained it on Weibo, but the more anxious I got, the more confused I became, and I ended up forgetting, banging my head!

  Thank you, Han Qiaozi (two), Feng Lai, Ku Mu, Shu Ming, J, Awu and all the landmines from relatives ^^