Chapter 1307 — Qiu Lingshan Is Very Worried
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"Can we really call this nothing? Let me see you stick a crab shell in your mouth!" At Sun Xiaoxing's words, Zhao Fafa flew into a rage. "You useless good-for-nothing - so these are the subordinates you found? Dropping the ball when it counts! I hand you a hundred thousand every month, and this is what I get back - a pack of ingrates?" "Well..." Sun Xiaoxing colored a little. "Fa, you can't really blame them for this - the only one to blame is that punk Wei Zhao, whose methods are far too vicious!"
"Hmph! Ruthless? I didn't want to drag my cousin into it, but Wei Zhao forced my hand - so don't blame me for playing rough! Once my cousin gets moving, Wei Zhao will be a cripple even if he doesn't die!" Zhao Fafa snorted.
"Sir, whatever happened to you?" The waiter who had settled the bill saw Zhao Fafa's mouth running with blood and hurried off to report it to the hotel's lobby manager.
Zhao Fafa was a regular, so the lobby manager took the report seriously and hurried straight over, eager to show a little concern.
Little did he know that Zhao Fafa was seething at that very moment. At the lobby manager's question he snapped in a thoroughly foul mood: "I cut myself on a crab shell - is that not allowed? Why must you make such a fuss? What's it to do with you?"
"Ah?" Bristling words left the lobby manager baffled and thoroughly deflated. He thought to himself that he must have been asking for it: he had only meant to offer a word of comfort and had come away with a dressing-down. All he could manage was, "Then do take care, sir..."
In the private room, Wei Zhao watched Feng Xiaoxiao eat her heart out - and he never tired of the sight.
He could not have said when it started, but watching Feng Xiaoxiao eat had become a pleasure in itself. Feng Xiaoxiao was a girl who never put on airs; at the table she never made a show of daintiness. She loved to eat her fill with gusto, never troubling herself over small proprieties.
And it was precisely her artlessness that made Wei Zhao love her more and more.
"Don't eat too much - we'll have the rest packed and taken home," Wei Zhao said. "Seafood is cold in nature. Eat too much of it and it adds yin-cold to your body, which can easily bring your illness on."
"I haven't got long to live anyway - if I don't eat more of what I love, it'll be a crying waste when I die!" Feng Xiaoxiao said without a care. But as soon as she had spoken, she sighed. "Ah, never mind, I'll stop eating. I can't bear to die this early after all - I haven't lived nearly long enough yet! Spending every day with you all makes me so happy."
"Heh, then let's have it packed up," Wei Zhao said. "We can have another meal tonight when we get back!"
"Mm! I'll do as you say!" Feng Xiaoxiao nodded. "By the way, hubby Wei - what was that Zhao Fafa business about?"
"Him..." Wei Zhao told Feng Xiaoxiao the whole story of Zhao Fafa. He had not given a man like that a moment's thought; going out with him today had been nothing but boredom and idle time, and along the way he could treat Feng Xiaoxiao to a free banquet!
In truth, Wei Zhao could easily have paid for the meal himself. What mattered was the different mood of it - bringing Feng Xiaoxiao to feast on someone else's tab left her positively giddy with delight. The girl simply loved swindling other people.
"Ha, so that's how it is - hubby Wei, you've learned to screw people over too!" Feng Xiaoxiao roared with laughter.
"And who do you think I learned it from?" Wei Zhao laughed.
Without anyone noticing, Wei Zhao's character was changing too - shaped by the people around him, he had become someone rather different from who he used to be...
Qiu Lingshan had been terribly busy lately. Following Yang Huaijun's analysis, she had aimed the sweep at the streets and alleys, sending large numbers of police through trade after trade, on a single line of inquiry: had anyone lately been waving enormous sums under people's noses, luring them into doing something...