Chi Na thought I was a sycophant, a spineless nobody, and therefore looked down on me.
If integrity could be eaten as food, I’d definitely have more integrity than anyone.
Old Feng toyed with that hunting rifle and said carelessly, “No, you’re Party A. Even if he doesn’t like it, he has to like it.”
What the fuck kind of talk was that! They even dared to kill people.
I was just about to say something more when Old Feng suddenly raised the gun. A loud bang.
Yu Shixuan let out an extremely miserable scream. Everyone stood up.
The dog that Chi Na raised, called Yogurt, was lying on the ground, its four limbs still twitching.
It had just been running at high speed to catch the frisbee Chi Na threw out.
Chi Na stared at Old Feng deadly, his face involuntarily twitching. Several subordinates also gathered behind him.
“Sorry, I drank too much. I thought it was a yellow sheep!” Old Feng said lightly.
Then, aiming at Chi Na, he fired another shot.
After the huge roar.
Chi Na retreated a few steps. The dog closest to him fell in a pool of blood—a tiger-headed little Tibetan Mastiff.
“This was on purpose,” Old Feng said. “I don’t like it baring its teeth at me.”
In the deathly silence, Teng Qishier laughed heartily. “Brother! Your marksmanship is too accurate!”
“Practiced in the military,” Old Feng said. “But that’s just target practice. Dongxue is better than me. Two years ago in Africa, she shot and killed a bandit. That was a living person.”
Old Feng poured a glass of wine, crossed his legs, and smiled. “So, no one should give her a hard time.”
Later I learned that the reason Teng Qishier tolerated us so much was because Old Feng promised to give them the coal mine overburden removal contract for Jiaolong Village.
Yes, the Jiaolong Village coal mine overburden removal project was the main project Old Feng was responsible for.
Private individuals no longer had mining rights for coal mines.
But before mining, there was a large amount of sand and soil on the upper layers of the coal mine that needed to be removed. For any transportation company, this was a lucrative job.
No matter how arrogant North Cang was, their scale wasn’t big enough. Without Old Feng, they couldn’t possibly get this project.
So, forget two dogs—Teng Qishier wanted to enshrine Old Feng on a plaque and offer three incense sticks daily.
But Chi Na loved dogs like his life.
Having his dogs killed, he became like a starving wolf and wanted to fight Old Feng to the death.
In the end, he was held down firmly by his father’s subordinates and dragged away, still roaring something in Mongolian.
I only felt large amounts of sweat streaming down my back. My clothes were soaked through again and again.
Old Feng was still saying to Boss Teng, “Where are we staying tonight?” What kind of dancing-on-graves spirit was this?
——
That night, I insisted on staying with Yu Shixuan.
An old fox like Teng Qishier, a cunning merchant, would at least have some scruples.
But a young reckless hothead like Chi Na—in a moment of impulse, he could do anything.
I lived so diligently and obsequiously—I couldn’t accompany Old Feng to the underworld together.
However, he liked Yu Shixuan so much, he probably wouldn’t do anything like killing or arson in front of her… right?
Yu Shixuan agreed. We stayed in a specially built yurt with some unknown animal skins hanging on the walls.
She kept sobbing quietly. It seemed she really liked those wolf-like dogs.
I clumsily tried to comfort her, saying, “I… I’ll buy you one later.”
“Can you afford it? You only know construction site mutts. Yogurt cost 136,000 yuan,” she said between sobs.
I gasped. “Can I be your dog? I’m cheaper.”
It was finally deep into the night when she stopped crying.
We lay back to back, so awkward we could hear each other breathing.
She said, “Do you know why I’m sleeping with you?”
I said sincerely, “Because you’re kind-hearted.”
“Because he didn’t avenge Yogurt,” she said softly. “I don’t want to see him.”
I was stunned for a moment before realizing that “he” was Chi Na.
I said, “He wanted to fight Old Feng to the death, but wasn’t he held back?”
“If he really wanted to fight to the death, he would have gone already.” She laughed. “He looks like he’s afraid of nothing, but actually, he doesn’t dare disobey his father at all.”
That was true.
“Do you know why I’m with him?”
“I really can’t guess.”
Chi Na’s family was wealthy, but they did business that crossed lines. With Yu Shixuan’s family background and looks, she could be with any wealthy person without any problem.
“Because he beat up my university professor,” she said. “Cheng Xia also knows this person—Professor Meng from S University.”
I actually had some impression—a tall, thin old professor, quite an amiable person.
“Did you have a grudge against Professor Meng?”
“When I was eighteen, he raped me.” She turned her head. Her delicate, soft face was like a magnolia flower. “Does that count?”
I looked at her in shock.
“It probably doesn’t count as rape…” She tilted her head like a child pondering a problem. “Seduction, I guess. At that time, he often criticized me, saying my dad was such a famous architect, why was I so incompetent?
“He had high expectations for me, so he always controlled me, wouldn’t let me date. I had to report all my outings to him, otherwise he’d send very long WeChat messages criticizing me…”
“Why should he control you! He’s not your dad…”
“But he was too much like my dad,” she said. “Before I went to university, I was always controlled by my dad. It made me feel secure, so… I let him control me too.”
My heart ached. I didn’t know what to say.
“Every time he criticized me, I felt terrible. I wanted desperately to meet his requirements… until one day, he put his hand under my skirt.”
She turned over. Her body gave off the scent of shampoo, gentle and pure. “It’s strange—I don’t hate him.”
“Why?”
“Maybe I mistook violation for love. At that time I only thought, ah, I can finally please the teacher…” She said, “Pretty fucking stupid, right?”
In the darkness, her voice was calm as water. “But I hate my father.”