Chapter 10 - 2#
Jiang Qin took his hand off his shoulder and said indifferently, “You think everyone is like your family.”
That night, Jin Yan indeed got dead drunk—a large part of it was intentional. He knew that if he was unconscious from drinking, Jiang Qin wouldn’t leave him alone and go to a hotel, but would drive him home.
Jiang Qin didn’t trust drivers; this was his consistent habit.
As expected, when Jin Yan woke up the next morning, he was lying on the big bed in the bedroom. When he went out to wash up, he saw Li Meng watching cartoons while eating breakfast. Without looking up, Li Meng said, “Jiang Qin went to work. You’re quite something, Comrade Jin Yan. Getting drunk like that in front of your wife. Jiang Qin spent a lot of effort to help you change into your pajamas.”
Jin Yan said irritably, “I risked my life to down half a bottle of Moutai so you wouldn’t become a child of a single-parent family, understand—?!”
“Understood, understood. It’s just strange that someone said that day whoever doesn’t divorce is a grandson. What was that person’s name again? Why can’t I remember…”
“I’d rather be a grandson to Jiang Qin.” Jin Yan suddenly poked his head out of the bathroom again and warned, “If you don’t want a single parent, be a good grandson with me. Don’t be confused, I’m warning you!”
The bathroom door slammed shut. Li Meng stared at the door for a long while before curling his tail and snorting coldly, “Stupid humans, don’t you know that acting cute is the only journey to the stars and the sea?!”
Jin Yan didn’t go to work properly for a few days. He showed up at the company in the morning and then went to find his eldest brother.
Jin’s eldest brother is fifty this year and has a typical old-fashioned name called Jin Weiguo. Compared with Jin Yan, a conclusion can be drawn that the old man’s taste was keeping up with the times back then.
Comrade Weiguo is now in charge of a smuggling route. He used to deal in arms in his early years. Later, as the pharmaceutical industry flourished, he specialized in smuggling precious traditional Chinese medicine products. Last time, he sent a huge, top-quality blood bird’s nest to his sister-in-law. As a result, Jiang Qin didn’t eat it. Jin Yan was afraid that this thing was too nourishing, so he wanted to take it back to him.
The two brothers sat together drinking tea. Jin Weiguo nagged as usual about his sad feeling of having mistresses everywhere but unable to produce a son. Then he habitually criticized his nephew severely, and then naturally talked about Jiang Qin.
Jin Weiguo asked, “Sister-in-law still won’t let you touch him? How long has it been?”
Jin Yan simply didn’t want to mention it and waved his hand weakly.
“It’s not a solution to go on like this. How about finding you a young and beautiful girl? Sigh, you really are something. You have a large group of little stars under your command fighting to squeeze up. You can pick Yuhuan if you want Yuhuan, pick Feiyan if you want Feiyan. If that doesn’t work, there are so many handsome young actors enough for you to change your taste. Why have you been holding back your fire for more than half a year?”
Jin Yan once again had the thought of marital rape, but quickly suppressed it.
Jin Weiguo took a sip of tea and suddenly remembered something. He said mysteriously, “I got something good in Tibet this time. You’ve never heard of it. Don’t say big brother isn’t loyal. If you want it, I’ll give you a bottle cap.”
“Don’t mention it. That whatever Dzi bead you gave me last time, I took it home and casually put it on the shoe rack. As a result, little student Li Xiaomeng ate it as a jelly bean when I wasn’t looking. He had a nosebleed all night from the nourishment…”
“Who told you to put it on the shoe rack? I told you that thing can prolong life with just one lick. You… By the way, why does my eldest nephew eat everything?! Last time he dared to eat the chili oil your sister boiled. He picked up the sugar-coated breast enhancement pills your little sister-in-law wrapped and ate them. Is there anything in this world he doesn’t eat?!”
Jin Yan thought hard for a long time and said solemnly, “No.”
Jin Weiguo: “…”
God doesn’t love his Jin family. One nephew is an idiot, and the other nephew is a foodie. The ancestral grave must have been buried in the wrong place.
Jin Weiguo said, “This thing is more reliable this time, but you must not give it to my eldest nephew to eat. Do you know ‘Meng Tian Xiang’?”
“Insomnia medicine?”
“Screw your insomnia medicine. Let me tell you, go home, hold down your sister-in-law and pour a capful into him, and he will be yours for life. Actually, when I first got it, I felt it was immoral and hadn’t decided whether to sell it. If you are willing, give it a try. But don’t abandon him after more than ten years, that would be too cruel. It would be more merciful to just stab him to death.”
Jin Yan became alert, “You want to deal drugs?”
“It’s not considered a drug. Tibetans use it to treat soul loss. Later, the prescription was changed and it became a top-quality aphrodisiac. It also has a strong effect of addiction after one use and is difficult to quit for a lifetime. I can’t explain the details, it’s all done by the people in the lab under me. I’m just responsible for throwing money at them. How about it, do you want it?”
“No, no, no, you must not mess around…”
Jin Weiguo snorted and said, “Tempted, right?”
Jin Yan denied it flatly, “No.” Saying that, he picked up the teacup and took a sip.
“Actually, someone used it before. You know Xiao Ao who does Chinese medicine with me, right? He brought the prescription back from Tibet and immediately poured a bottle into his difficult assistant. It is said that the effect was very good.”
Jin Yan sprayed a mouthful of water instantly, “So that’s what happened?!”
“Ah? What?”
Jin Weiguo was confused. He only heard Jin Yan coughing for a long time before saying with a red face and thick neck, “His wife is unwatchable now. She is so thin that she doesn’t look human… It is said that her heart stopped several times. Xiao is going crazy. He went to Sweden last month to send blood samples to the laboratory for testing to see if he could make an antidote. Fortunately, you didn’t give him this thing, otherwise he would really kill you now!”
“…Ah?!”
“I thought his wife was taking drugs at first! Jiang Qin even sighed with him for half a day! Let me tell you, don’t mention this matter. Even I can’t stop Jiang Qin when he gets ruthless!”
Jin Weiguo opened his mouth wide. After a long while, he quickly made a zipper gesture on his mouth and said, “Then I’ll go back and burn the prescription.”
“You’d better be quick, otherwise if Jiang Qin knows, he will definitely help you burn it.”
Jin Weiguo nodded quickly, and suddenly asked tangledly, “Then… you just continue to hold back?”
Jin Yan smiled bitterly and didn’t speak.
“This won’t do. How about I talk to him? How can life be like this? You’ve become henpecked, damn it, and he’s still making a fuss all day? Big brother will help you enlighten him. Even for the sake of my eldest nephew, you can’t break up.”
“…I think you’d better rest,” Jin Yan dared not let a person like his big brother “enlighten” Jiang Qin. He waved his hand and said, “I know your sister-in-law best. Once he decides on something… I’ll talk to him again tonight when I go back.”
Jin Weiguo still wanted to help, but was persuaded back by Jin Yan quickly. The two brothers drank Kung Fu tea for a while longer and dispersed without eating.
Jiang Qin didn’t know he had escaped a disaster. After work, he thought about going back to the hotel.
However, as soon as he walked out of the office building gate, he saw Li Meng sitting on the steps with his tail cocked seriously. Seeing him, he immediately pounced over and said, “Mom—!”
Jiang Qin dodged instantly. Li Meng pounced headfirst onto the wall, almost smashing his nose to bleed.
“You don’t love me anymore…” Li Meng covered his nose and looked like he was about to cry, “I’m a child unwanted even by my own mother…”
The power of his pounce was actually unstoppable by anyone except Jin Yan, and even Jin Yan almost vomited his intestines out when pounced by him. With a physique like Jiang Qin’s, being hit once would probably cost half his life, and twice would send him directly to heaven.
“Little student Li Xiaomeng,” Jiang Qin said, “If I see you using disposable hair dye again next time, I will shave all your hair off. Try it if you don’t believe me.”
Li Meng, with a head of pink messy hair, said aggrievedly, “Isn’t this all because of your divorce with Jin Yan? Do you expect an adolescent child to maintain orthodox and upward good character after encountering family upheaval? It’s good enough not to become a delinquent. Tomorrow I’ll take a kitchen knife to Carrefour to rob sticky rice chicken to eat!”
Jiang Qin began to roll up his sleeves.
Before Li Meng had time to scream and run away, a voice rang out from below the steps: “—Jiang Qin!”
The two turned their heads at the same time and saw Fang Yuan wearing a police uniform, waving at them with a smile on his face.
“Just passing by on duty, didn’t expect to see you again.” Fang Yuan observed Li Meng while talking and asked friendly, “—Your son? Looks really like you, tsk tsk, look at these eyes.”
Jiang Qin didn’t know how to answer, so he could only smile and deal with it.
Li Meng narrowed his eyes and looked at Fang Yuan. He saw that this man was quite tall, about the same height as Jin Yan. His gestures had an indescribable tough flavor, just like the policemen on TV. He must have a high rate of turning heads when walking on the street.
So the little crown prince immediately became alert. Various melodramatic plots from TV dramas flashed through his mind instantly, from “Child, mom will live with this uncle from now on” to “Li Xiaomeng, call him dad!”
“Jiang Qin…” Li Meng dragged out his voice, a line of words clearly written in his eyes:
If you make me call him dad, I’ll jump off the steps and die for you to see right now!