Chapter 11#
Fang Yuan didn’t notice the weird thinking of little student Li Xiaomeng. He felt that the facial contours of this child were exactly like Jiang Qin’s when he was a child, especially the extremely pale eyes which were exactly the same as Jiang Qin’s, and he couldn’t help but feel a little affection.
Jiang Qin saw what Li Meng was thinking at a glance, and decisively patted him: “Why don’t you call him Uncle quickly?”
Li Meng opened his mouth wide: “…Ah?!”
“No need, no need, children are shy, don’t force him.” Fang Yuan bent down and patted Li Meng’s head, saying kindly: “How about Uncle treats you to dinner? The police station happens to be nearby, and I know a good mutton restaurant. It’s convenient for us to catch up while eating.”
Li Meng said: “Un-un-un-un-uncle?!”
Didn’t Jiang Qin cut off relations with his family? Where did this uncle come from? What kind of seniority is this? Oh no, I should call him cousin-uncle, right? Although they say nephews are close to uncles, is it really okay for a cousin-uncle to fall from the sky after more than ten years—?!
More importantly, the crisis of parents’ divorce has not been resolved yet, and the mother has contacted her maiden family. Isn’t this a sign of abandoning the family and running away—!!
Li Meng trembled and said: “No no no no no, I suddenly remembered that I left my homework in Jin Yan’s office. I have to hand it in tomorrow morning, so I have to go get it back quickly.” After speaking, without waiting for Jiang Qin to speak, he ran away into the distance, moving as fast as a rabbit with its tail fried.
Jiang Qin: “…”
Fang Yuan asked in a low voice with concern: “How does Jin Yan treat this child?”
“…Spoils him.”
“Oh, then I’m relieved. Sigh, the family has been worried that you haven’t been doing well all these years. It would be great if you could go back safe and sound.”
They chatted as they walked. A few minutes after passing the police station, they indeed saw a mutton restaurant on the street corner, emitting the enticing aroma of thick white soup.
Fang Yuan was a regular customer here. After entering, he asked for a private room and greeted the boss to bring two bottles of wine, insisting on not returning until drunk with Jiang Qin. Jiang Qin was not good at drinking, but Fang Yuan repeatedly promised that if he got drunk, he would drive him back to the hotel, so enthusiastic that he couldn’t refuse.
The mutton here was indeed unique in taste. With a dozen more juicy and fat mutton skewers, the taste with wine was really unspeakable. While recalling the experience of chasing and playing with each other in the alley when they were young, Fang Yuan kept toasting him with wine. Unknowingly, the two drank a bottle.
The aftereffect of white wine was strong. Jiang Qin didn’t feel much when sitting, but when he got up to go to the toilet halfway, the world spun immediately, and he almost fell back into his seat.
Fang Yuan laughed loudly: “Come, come, let me help you. You are really useless. You are a person of the scene anyway, your face turns red like this after just two sips…”
Jiang Qin couldn’t speak clearly anymore, only shaking his head weakly. The two supported each other to the toilet, washed their faces, and were much more sober when they came back.
Drinkers are most taboo about getting drunk again after sobering up. Fang Yuan happened to have a strong alcohol tolerance, and opened the second bottle as soon as he sat down. As a result, before drinking two cups, Jiang Qin was completely done for, ten percent more drunk than before washing his face, only lying on the seat smiling and waving his hand.
Fang Yuan laughed: “You can’t do this, not drinking to the fullest. Next time call Jin Yan out together, do you know how much he can drink?”
Jiang Qin couldn’t react, only nodding in agreement.
“But people like Jin Yan probably look down on us, haha. I always see him in the newspaper, really different from the past. He should be very developed now, right? What business does he do?”
“Who… who knows him.”
“Sigh, why are you still hiding it from your brother? You two are married, could I go back and unite with Uncle and Aunt to break up your family?”
Jiang Qin smiled vaguely: “Really not clear, he also hides many things from me.”
Fang Yuan poured a glass of wine and drank it all, gossiping: “Rich people have many tricks outside now. You have been law-abiding since childhood, you have to be careful when getting along with such people. Last time I heard a case solved in H city, a rich man used selling cigarettes as a cover, actually he was a big drug lord, keeping more than a dozen mistresses…”
Jiang Qin laughed and said: “Jin Yan doesn’t have the guts.”
“I know, I know, how could it be to that extent. But he is too rich recently. Is entertainment really so profitable? Is there any way to get rich to bring brothers along to share some light?”
Jiang Qin was already very drunk at this time, his temples throbbing with pain. Hearing this, he said without thinking: “Just say a word if you want to borrow money. It’s better to touch Jin Yan’s affairs less, really for your own good.”
Fang Yuan said “Yo”: “How do you say this?”
“People like him… just like that, can’t get too close to him. How does that saying go, distance is a kind of beauty…” Jiang Qin raised his hand to cover his eyes. The blush caused by alcohol spread from his face all the way to his neck, and even the skin on his hands was slightly red: “No, I can’t drink anymore… Today I really risked my life to accompany the gentleman…”
Fang Yuan leaned over to pry open his hand, only to see the corners of his eyes were red, as if a pool of water was flowing in his eyes, completely drunk without any falsehood.
Fang Yuan looked at him unblinkingly for a few seconds, suddenly asked: “Then you didn’t touch it with them, Ah Qin, you are a good boy who can’t bear to step on an ant.”
Jiang Qin couldn’t hear clearly anymore, smiled in a trance, and said: “Actually I…”
He closed his eyes, his breathing slowly became long.
He fell asleep.
Li Meng jumped out of the taxi, rushed into the front hall of Star Entertainment, and knocked the security guard into a stagger.
“Hey! Hey! Who are you, little student! Don’t you know idlers are not allowed in here!” Before the security guard could catch him, he saw Li Meng rushing towards the elevator like a wisp of smoke, saying without looking back: “I’m looking for your boss! No need to entertain me, thanks!”
The security guard shouted anxiously: “Catch him quickly!”
The receptionist hurriedly stopped Li Meng and asked busily: “Which boss are you looking for, little student?”
The little girl was delicate and pretty, wearing high heels. Li Xiaomeng couldn’t bump into her, so he had to stop and say righteously: “I’m looking for Jin Yan. I know where his office is. You don’t need to lead the way, thanks.”
“…Do you have an appointment?”
Appointment? Did you make an appointment with me when you brought me into this world fifteen years ago? Did you make an appointment with me when you argued and fought with my mom for a divorce and wanted to turn me into a child of a single-parent family? Did you make an appointment with me when the mistress who cheated on you came to our house?
(Jin Yan roared: “Nonsense—!”)
Li Meng cocked his tail and said: “No appointment. I am his son.”
Receptionist: “…”
Security guard: “…”
Li Meng rarely came to the company. Everyone knew there was such a little crown prince, but no one had seen what the little crown prince looked like. However, the name of the future young owner was very loud. After all, he was the person who would pay their wages in the next ten years or so. Although there was no figure of Li Meng in the Jianghu, there was a legend of Li Meng—the story of him eating a female star’s lipstick by mistake when he came to the company to play at the age of nine is still circulating.
The receptionist couldn’t recognize whether the person in front of her was the real little crown prince, so she could only say: “Then I’ll notify the secretariat first. Can you sit and eat some snacks first?”
Li Meng hummed and looked at the nameplate on her chest, the threat was quite obvious.
The receptionist could only tremble and call. As a result, Zhao Xue from the secretariat answered. Hearing that President Jin’s son came to see President Jin, she paused immediately and said: “Ask him to wait a moment, I’ll go ask for instructions and come back.”
“Oh, okay, little student…” The receptionist looked up, only to see Li Meng like a slippery little fish, instantly and flexibly drilled into the elevator.
“Hey—! You can’t go in! You haven’t passed the identity verification yet, you are really…”
Li Meng swaggered out of the elevator and came to the door of Jin Yan’s office with ease.
He was actually very familiar with the terrain here. Although he had never been here since he was rushed to the hospital for gastric lavage at the age of nine, just once was enough for Li Meng, who was born with a photographic memory, to know Star Entertainment like the back of his hand.
Zhao Xue was rushing out of the secretariat: “Is it Xiaomeng? Can you not go in first, President Jin has a visitor now…”
Li Meng was greatly surprised and asked: “What did you call me?”
Zhao Xue: “…”
“Go back to work, don’t think about slacking off all day. Besides, brother’s nickname is not Xiaomeng.”
Li Meng turned around righteously and banged on the door, shouting at the top of his lungs: “Comrade Jin Yan—! Open the door, your son is here—!”
There was a clatter in the office, followed by Jin Yan opening the door, looking at Zhao Xue coldly: “It’s okay, I’ll handle it here.”
Zhao Xue left submissively.
Li Meng was about to speak when Jin Yan glanced at him and asked: “What are you doing here?” Saying that, without waiting for his answer, he reached out and pulled him into the office.
This was actually a suite. There was a hallway and a file rack at the entrance. Inside was a large room separated by glass. Li Meng saw at a glance two subordinates holding down a kneeling man on the ground, and a pool of blood flowed on the marble floor.
Li Meng was startled, but Jin Yan pressed his shoulder and said: “Don’t be afraid, just teaching someone in the field a lesson.”
The man was about thirty years old, with a pale and sickly face, looking very weak. Jin Yan always paid attention to the image of his subordinates and was always willing to take money from the company to buy clothes for employees. But that man was dressed in cheap rags, not like someone working in Star Entertainment.
His mouth was stuffed with cloth, his palm was pierced by a knife, blood flowed all over the floor but he couldn’t scream in pain, looking very terrible. A pampered child like Li Meng was always somewhat soft-hearted. Seeing this, he couldn’t bear it and turned back to ask: “Dad, what did he do for you to torture him like this? If it’s not a big mistake, let him go. I have serious business to talk to you about.”
“He was selling drugs in your second uncle’s nightclub,” Jin Yan sneered: “Not small fights like ecstasy and stimulants, but serious selling of heroin.”
Li Meng was stunned.
“Fifty grams of heroin per bag, mixed with 70 to 80 percent talcum powder and glucose. Last time a drug addict almost lost his life by intravenous injection. Your second uncle is planning to sell half of the nightclub shares to me, so I handled this matter for him.”
Jin Yan patted Li Meng’s shoulder and said in a deep voice: “Jiang Qin and I only have you as a son. Won’t all the properties be yours in the future? There are some things you can choose not to do, but you must have the courage, understand?”
Li Meng’s heart was still beating fast. After a long while, he nodded and said: “I know.”
Jin Yan laughed and ordered his subordinates: “Chop off one of his hands.”
His subordinates didn’t hesitate at all, directly picked up the drug dealer’s hand and pressed it on the ground, then the knife fell, and with a crack, the whole hand fell off.
The drug dealer let out a muffled scream. If he hadn’t been held down, he would be rolling on the ground in pain now.
Li Meng’s face showed unconcealable intolerance, and he turned his head away not to look at the bloody scene. The two subordinates were also very tactful, asked Jin Yan for instructions with their eyes, and then one dragged the drug dealer and the other took the hand on the ground, quickly retreating from the office.
Jin Yan moved a chair and sat opposite his son, asking: “Do you want some water?”
Li Meng shook his head and sighed: “Too cruel, sigh, why sell drugs.”
Jin Yan didn’t speak. A few seconds later, he heard Li Meng say helplessly: “Really no way.”
Jin Yan laughed.
“Fortunately Jiang Qin doesn’t come to the company, otherwise he would be scared to death. Oh Dad, do you know, when I went to find Jiang Qin today, I saw a policeman claiming to be my uncle. Do you know this person?”
Jin Yan nodded casually and said: “I know.”
“He went to dinner with Jiang Qin. Dad, do you want to join them? Otherwise, what if Jiang Qin goes back to the hotel tonight? I just got ready to be a good child preparing breakfast for parents.”
“Where are they eating?”
Li Meng told him the approximate location. Jin Yan checked with his mobile phone and said: “Okay, I almost know where it is. Let’s go and see. But when you see Jiang Qin, don’t mention what happened just now. Your mom is soft-hearted and can’t stand blood the most. We can’t annoy him with this.”
Li Meng nodded, suddenly couldn’t help asking: “Did this kind of thing happen before?”
Jin Yan said lightly: “It happens every day, just depends on the size.”
“Then… does Jiang Qin know?”
Jin Yan didn’t speak at first. After a long while, he laughed and asked: “Is it necessary? He was scared enough when he was young. Why can’t we let him live happily and carefree for the rest of his life now?”
He patted Li Meng’s head and said: “Let’s go, pick up your mom home. Just happened not to have eaten dinner, I’ll buy you a hamburger for dinner on the way.”