Chapter 15 - 2#
The confidant said tremblingly: “That policeman is Brother Jiang’s biological cousin after all, maybe they don’t have so many scruples when getting along…”
“Shut the fuck up!”
Jin Yan hated it so much that he almost bled. He had been in the underworld for a long time and had seen all kinds of dark and dirty things. He knew that there was no lower limit when people were nasty, and blood relations and family affection were simply nothing. Even incest between men and women could make people dumbfounded, let alone cousins whose DNA branched out who knows how far?
Fang Yuan looked serious, but that was just looking. Who knows what kind of tricks he has inside? Looking at his superior economic status and handsome appearance, he is not married in his thirties, God knows what’s wrong with him!
Jin Yan simply dared not take any risks regarding his wife: Back then, Jiang Qin warned him that if he smoked in front of the child again, he wouldn’t be allowed to sleep in the bedroom at night. This was said only once, and Jin Yan quit most of his twenty-year smoking addiction; later, Jiang Qin saw a receipt for buying thirty military guns from Yunnan and asked him what was going on. Jin Yan immediately said it was a wrong invoice for buying sports air guns—actually, Jiang Qin didn’t think about military guns at all, and forgot about it as soon as he turned his head. But in order not to leave any hidden dangers, Jin Yan personally escorted the military guns to Yunnan overnight and exchanged them for a batch of worthless bird guns, losing nearly seven figures back and forth.
He endured the seven-figure loss just to eliminate the possibility of Jiang Qin’s suspicion.
Later, when Jiang Qin alienated him and didn’t sleep in the same bed with him, Jin Yan didn’t dare to touch him for a full nine months. In fact, with Jin Yan’s physique from fighting and brawling, if he really used force, only Jiang Qin would suffer; but he knew that once force was used, the relationship between the two would be ruined. Jiang Qin’s feelings for him for more than ten years could not be made up by anything. Even if Jin Yan was given another gut, he wouldn’t dare to take this risk.
So as soon as he heard that Jiang Qin went to live with Fang Yuan, he panicked immediately.
It would be fine if Fang Yuan was ugly, short, poor, and frustrated. The problem was that this person had been a policeman for a long time and was handsome. There was no shortage of little girls looking back when walking on the street. It would probably be easy to hook up with a few beautiful little boys. Jiang Qin was a bit of a lookist when he was a child. Could Jin Yan rest assured that he lived with someone like Fang Yuan?
If Fang Yuan wasn’t Jiang Qin’s biological cousin, he could have stuffed bullets and dead rats into his mailbox now!
Jin Yan pondered that he must take some action—how to take action was a problem. Dealing with Fang Yuan was just hitting a rat for him, but how to hit the rat without hurting the jade vase, there were many ways in it.
He thought about it later and felt that transferring Fang Yuan back to his original place was a good idea. The Jin family had reliable connections in the high-level police department. If Fang Yuan was really an ordinary policeman, a hundred of them could be transferred back.
However, before he started to act, another news came and completely stunned him.
—The things Jiang Qin sent to his parents this time were not returned.
Actually not returned!
Jin Yan almost choked on a mouthful of old blood in his throat. He wouldn’t be naive enough to think that this was a sign that Father Jiang and Mother Jiang began to soften and accept them. If Jiang Qin hadn’t stopped him back then, he would have died under the paperweight Father Jiang smashed on his head. Even if they wanted to soften, they would only accept Jiang Qin, not him, Jin Yan.
Why accept Jiang Qin? Jin Yan could figure out the answer with his toes: because Fang Yuan knew that their relationship was discordant and there was a breakup crisis. His mother was Mother Jiang’s biological sister. Once the two communicated, they knew everything!
That highly educated couple who regarded face as life and looked at people with the corners of their eyes felt that their son had taken a detour for so many years and was finally going back to the right path—in other words, he was finally going to break up with this unlearned hooligan and become a normal person who liked the opposite sex!
How could Jin Yan not spit blood!
He couldn’t help it all at once. What transferring Fang Yuan back to his original place, what hitting the rat without hurting the jade vase, by the time he finished deploying the plan, the cucumber dishes would be cold! What he needed now was speed! Before Jiang Qin completely publicly broke up with him, take a strong dose of medicine first!
During a meeting that day, Jiang Qin suddenly received a call from Li Meng.
He hung up at first, but the little crown prince had such a habit: if someone dared to hang up on him, he would call fiercely, even making dozens of calls in the next half hour. You either turn off the phone or wait for the battery to run out.
Jiang Qin used to think he really had the patience to call for half an hour. Later he found out that he had downloaded an automatic redial program, and carried a charger in his bag 365 days a year.
To go against the little crown prince, one must have the awareness of being struck by lightning into ashes…
When Jiang Qin received the thirteenth call, he picked it up with a splitting headache, only to hear Li Meng say indignantly: “Mom, don’t you love me anymore!”
Jiang Qin: “…”
“Not coming home! Not making breakfast! Not picking me up from school! Not signing my exam papers! Comrade Jiang Qin, the organization solemnly tells you: You have committed the crime of abandonment! You will be condemned by the people for doing this!”
Jiang Qin: “…”
“Rein in the horse at the edge of the cliff, turn back to the shore, your son Li Xiaomeng is still waiting for you on the shore! He is so innocent, cute, simple and kind, as pure and flawless as a white lotus on the Tianshan Mountains. Can you bear to abandon him him him him him him him!”
“…” Jiang Qin said: “Little student Li Xiaomeng, the devil incarnate, if you don’t talk seriously, I’ll hang up.”
“Don’t don’t don’t don’t don’t don’t—!” Li Xiaomeng softened instantly and asked pitifully: “Will you come home for my birthday next week?”
“…Yes.”
“Jin Yan wants to take me to the amusement park to ride the pirate ship, can you come too?”
Jiang Qin was silent for a moment. Li Meng’s tail almost stretched out through the telephone line to wag at him: “Come with us. Jin Yan said if you don’t go, he won’t be in the mood to take me either. Do you know how decadent Jin Yan is recently? He drank all the good wine you hid. That day he fell asleep drunk in the toilet all night. I also saw him crying with the photo album… Do you think it’s easy for me, Comrade Jiang Qin! With you unreliable parents, what sin did I commit in my previous life!”
Jiang Qin’s head started to hurt again. After a long while, he asked: “What time and which amusement park to meet?”
Li Meng cheered, cocked his little tail and reported a series of times and places, and finally instructed: “After riding the pirate ship, we have to go eat birthday cake. Don’t run away at the last minute.”
“Mmhmm.”
“Must come, not allowed to stand us up then.”
“Mmhmm.”
“Jiang Qin,” Li Meng asked pitifully, “You won’t abandon me, right?”
Raising such a child from a tiny baby to this big with his own hands, Jiang Qin softened unknowingly and said gently: “I will never abandon you.”
Li Meng immediately said: “I will never abandon Jin Yan either. So you promised not to divorce.”
Jiang Qin hung up the phone with a face full of black lines.
On Li Meng’s birthday, it was sunny and slightly hot. The golden sunlight sprinkled on the treetops. The wind blowing from the entrance of the amusement park was mixed with the sweet smell of candy.
Jiang Qin still valued today relatively. He came to the entrance of the amusement park early, but unexpectedly saw Jin Yan sitting on the steps with Li Meng from a distance.
Jin Yan actually looked younger than his actual age, wearing a white t-shirt, jeans, and a sports watch. His skin was slightly dark from years of outdoor aerobic exercise, and the muscles on his arms were firm and obvious, causing many little girls to look back one after another.
Interestingly, he and Li Xiaomeng each wore a baseball cap backwards on their heads. The big and small living treasures sat carelessly on the steps at the entrance of the amusement park eating ice cream.
Jiang Qin stood there looking at him, feeling slightly dazed in his heart.
This appearance reminded him of the teenage years long ago, that lawless, ruffian-like, but very gentle Jin Yan. He always sat at the class door like this as if no one else was around, waiting for Jiang Qin to finish school. As soon as they met, he would walk over carelessly, patting Jiang Qin’s head and calling: “Sister Rong, call me Brother Jin!” His school uniform shirt always had a corner sticking out from his waistband, his cuffs were dirty, his pants were dragging, but his smile was so handsome that it seemed a handful of male hormones could overflow with a twist.
He would pick up bricks and knives when he disagreed with others, and fought more ruthlessly than anyone else, but when it rained and he saw a puddle, he would always pick Jiang Qin up and step over it without a word. When shopping, he always walked on the outer edge of Jiang Qin. On the bus, he could always find a seat for Jiang Qin, and then stood beside him smiling roguishly at him.
Once Jiang Qin picked up a nest of little mice in the school and foolishly wanted to take them away. It was raining heavily at that time. When Jin Yan found him, he found that he didn’t bring an umbrella, so he took off his coat and covered him and the nest of little mice, getting wet in the rain himself, scolding him for picking up everything he saw while walking, threatening to get a spotted cat another day to eat all the mice he raised.
They walked together in the rain, as if they would support each other and walk on like this for the rest of their lives.
This Jin Yan, to whom he poured all his feelings in this life, exhausted the most golden years of his life, took away all hope in his life, and made him empty his heart and pay everything.
He gave everything he had, emptied everything except this life, until his hands were empty and he had nothing, only to find that everyone knew that when this man was in front of him, he had a completely different face.
—That feeling was simply creepy, nothing could be more terrible.
In an instant, Jiang Qin had the urge to turn around and leave. He didn’t even know how to go up and simply say hello—if Jin Yan spoke to him, was the one speaking the Jin Yan he thought he knew well, or the other Jin Yan that everyone knew?