Chapter 35
Chapter 35: The Tomb of Emperor Hui of Jin [3]
Translator: Xah
“Where’s the courier?”
“Sir, the person sent
the letter then left.”
Lu Feng let the
housemaid aunt to go out first, the pointed to the invitation letter on the
table and said, “This is the invitation letter for the auction that I meant.”
Zhang Qiu looked back
and forth at the envelope and there was no sender’s name written down. He
looked at Li Shu and said, “Go or not?” Although he asked, his face obviously
showed an eagerness to go.
Li Shu smiled, “Why not
go?”
They were worrying
about the lack of invitations, and now they had it. Regardless of the purpose
of whoever it was, it was just perfect timing that they needed go to the
auction to achieve their goal.
–
Two days before the
auction, they stayed at the Senior Brother’s house.
Hua Hua had a good time
with Little Zongzi. In the afternoon, a little boy came over; a little handsome
brother with big eyebrows and big eyes. Zhang Qiu heard senior brother
mentioned that he was a child of a neighbor’s family called Yang Bao. Since his
health was not well enough to move to the mountain, Yang Bao’s parents moved
here with him.
What a rich people!
Zhang Qiu thought, the
villas in this area could not be own without a few tens of million.
After watching the
three children played for a while, Zhang Qiu discovered that Yang Bao was very
protective of Hua Hua and he was also secretly guarded against his son. So long
as Hua Hua kissed his son’s face, Yang Bao’s face was not happy and he would go
to kiss Hua Hua back.
Something’s wrong!
That was just a first
sign, Zhang Qiu quickly advised himself. These children are only five
or six years old, you are just so hopelessly impure ah!
It was Little Zongzi’s
first time to play with children, especially three people played well. Yang Bao
was generous to Little Zongzi besides guarding against him kissing with Hua
Hua. He let Little Zongzi flipped around his head and built a castle for Little
Zongzi with Hua Hua’s building blocks.
When they were tired of
playing, Hua Ting talked with Yang Bao at the side. “Xiao Jiang is so small
because he is not in good health and was born with illness. This is a secret.
You should keep it secret for uncle.”
Yang Bao patted his
chest and nodded. Afterwards, Lu Feng sent Yang Bao back.
Xiao Jiang’s skin was
still porcelain white, but it could be seen that he was really happy. He jumped
into Zhang Qiu’s palm; each jump was particularly adorable with shining big
eyes that impatiently stared at Zhang Qiu. “Baba, big brother is fun.”
“Nn, you’re
well-behaved. You can still play with big brother tomorrow.” Zhang Qiu pulled
his son’s skirt when it slid down to his waist with all the jumping. “Dear son,
Daddy will take you to buy clothes tomorrow.”
Little Zongzi was not
interested in buying clothes. He was very happy to hear that he could play with
big brother tomorrow. He was bouncing vivaciously until he reached Zhang Qiu’s
head, he sat cross-legged on top and propped up his hands to his cheeks, he
asked, “Baba, has tomorrow arrived?”
“Sleep and it will
arrive.” Zhang Qiu came back to his room with Little Zongzi on his head. Once
he saw Li Shu, he pulled Little Zongzi down. “You give him a bath.” Seizing the
opportunity, he lay on his stomach on the bed and did not get up. He was so
sleepy, and his body soreness had not receded.
Li Shu stared at
certain someone who had no self-awareness, sticking out his butt and moved it
around on the bed. Li Shu’s eyes could not help but darken a bit and faintly
congesting into dark red. On the bed, Zhang Qiu suddenly shivered. Li Shu went
to the bathroom with Little Zongzi.
Sure enough, he was so
tired that he hallucinated. He had felt hairy just now.
Li Shu got a basin full
of water. Who knew where Little Zongzi got a little yellow duck, he looked at
Li Shu, seeming impatiently eager to try something.
“Ducky.” The duckling
was given by Hua Hua to Little Zongzi.
Li Shu put the little
yellow duck into the basin. Little Zongzi immediately rode on the little yellow
duck and floated on the water. Li Shu smiled and put the basin in the corner of
the door. “Have a good time.”
Little Zongzi was very
happy.
Li Shu went straight to
the bed and touched Zhang Qiu’s neck with his hands that soaked in water. Zhang
Qiu shivered by the cold and said vaguely, “Xiao Jiang done bathing?”
“Still bathing, it’s
your turn.”
“You bath first; I’ll
sleep for another five minutes.” Zhang Qiu struggled to get up and finally gave
up.
Li Shu gave no room for
resistance. He picked up the person and said, “You sleep, I give you a bath.”
Zhang Qiu was not
feeling tempted, he was still quite pleased. Now Li Shu was becoming more and
more like a wife; taking care of his children, cleaning up his house and
waiting for him to take a bath.
The door of the
bathroom was closed tightly, and Little Zongzi who fluttered at the door looked
at it with some curiosity in his eyes, but after a second he was immersed in
the joy of riding the little yellow duck.
Inside bathroom was the
sound of water trickling.
“Song Bao, stand up
straight.”
“Can’t stand up.”
Li Shu’s voice carried
a little temptation, “Then you wrap your legs around my waist and I wash with
you in my arms.”
“Ok…” After a while,
Zhang Qiu shouted angrily in the bathroom, “Fuck your uncle[1] Li Shu!!!”
After Zhang Qiu took a
bath, he was too tired to lift his arms. His legs were wrapped around Li Shu’s
waist and carried back to the bed. Every step Li Shu took, he had the illusion
that he had just been ruthlessly topped in the bathroom. Zhang Qiu blushed and
felt something hard behind his butt.
“Li Shu, are you
human?!!”
Beast! He’s dying and Li
Shu was so energetic.
“I am originally not a
human being.” Li Shu saw that his SongBao had crumpled into a ball, he showed
mercy. “Sleep, I won’t do it.”
Zhang Qiu finally put
his heart back in his stomach and soon fell asleep wrapped in a quilt.
The unreliable Daddy
finally found Little Zongzi, who was blistered and wrinkled. He threw Little
Zongzi onto the bed, wrapped in a towel. After playing for half a day, Little
Zongzi was exhausted and fell asleep right next to Zhang Qiu’s head.
–
The next morning, Zhang
Qiu packed Little Zongzi into his small bag and went to the toy store with Li
Shu. He never knew that he had a hobby of changing clothes; all kinds of
clothes to buy. He took Little Zongzi’s picture while backing into the
surveillance camera’s blind spot. Little Zongzi really deserved to be his son;
he looked handsome in whatever he put on!
Little formal attire,
casual wear, pony boots.
Li Shu was in a good
mood today. He made a great show of being honest while commenting at the side;
this one not bad; this color is a little dark and something like that.
“There are even mini
villas!” Zhang Qiu’s eyes popped out when he saw the price tag. Nowadays,
little girl was really costly; just this small clothes was not cheap, unlike
adults’ clothes. He paid 100 yuan for two T-shirts but that was the price for
buying a set for Little Zongzi. If matched it on a pair of shoes, it would be
genuine leather.
Li Shu thought Zhang
Qiu wanted it, he said concisely, “Buy it.”
“I’m sorry, sir. This
doll house has been booked. If you want, you can order, but it may take a few
days to be transferred.” The salesperson said apologetically.
Zhang Qiu didn’t want
to buy such an expensive fake house. He waved his hand away, “No–”
“If Mr. Li Shu wants
it, I can give it to you.”
A crisp female voice
came from behind, and the salesperson said hello with a smile, “Miss Su, you
came.” He also said to Li Shu and Zhang Qiu, “Dear customers, this is Miss Su,
the owner of the doll house.”
Zhang Qiu turned to
look; this Miss Su looked to be young, about eighteen or nineteen year old,
with white melon seed face and lips curved upward, which was not smiling but
like smiling, slanting sweetly, but also not very similar because the
temperament of her body was somewhat cold.
“Hello, Mr. Li Shu, I’m
Su WanTing. I’ve heard your name for a long time and I’ve wanted to see you.”
Su WanTing reached out her hand and smiled with her lovely eyes bent.
The sense of
indifference to refuse people for thousands of miles away suddenly disappeared.
Zhang Qiu pouted his lips. Li Shu’s physique was really troublesome wherever he
go.
Li Shu was very
indifferent. He ignored Su WanTing’s outstretched hand and looked at Zhang Qiu.
“Are we done?”
“Done.” He did not want
to wait for Li Shu to attract bees and butterflies! Zhang Qiu put the clothes
at the checkout counter. “Check out.”
Su WanTing’s face was a
little stiff. She took her hand back without looking at Zhang Qiu she said with
a smile, “I have members of his family who can give discounts. Today I invited
them.”
“No need.” Li Shu
handed the card over.
Su WanTing, who had
been rejected several times, could not hang up her girl’s face, so she laughed
and did not speak.
Zhang Qiu thought it
was impolite to treat a gentle girl like this. However, if he was really to
inquire solicitously about the girl’s well-being, Li Shu would be more angry at
him. Therefore, between Li Shu’s anger and the girl’s loser face, he chose the
girl’s loser face.
Li Shu already has an
owner, girl, you are beautiful and rich, don’t have to worry if you can’t find
good man.
After checking out, Li
Shu carried the bag. Zhang Qiu apologetically smiled at the girl, but she
ignored him.
Li Shu, with a cold
face, said, “Song Bao, are your waist all right?”
“All ri–” Zhang Qiu saw
Li Shu’s ill-intention expression, blessed his soul that he stopped. He knew
what Li Shu meant, and hurriedly shook his head. “It’s still sore and painful,
no good, still no good.”
Li Shu hook up his lips
and smiled faintly. “Then we go back and I’ll massage it for you.”
Why are these words so
familiar? It
seemed Li Shu had once said it to him, and after that his waist hurt even more.
Zhang Qiu thought about
his hovering between life and death last night, and suddenly he had no back
pain but kidney pain!
–
When they were home, he
didn’t know what Li Shu was crazy about; once again he was tossed from side to
side. The two days he came to Beijing, he never went out; he was in bed all the
time. He woke up the next day limping and was laughed at by Pixian Hui Wang.
“Xiao Qiuqiu, the
hemorrhoid ointment is not enough?”
Zhang Qiu:… I’m tired
and lazy to fight.
–
The auction was held in
the evening at a hotel neared to Panjiayuan. Zhang Qiu, who had no formal
clothes, went to buy clothes in the afternoon and then went directly to the
hotel to join Lu Feng and Pei Qing. One card, two attendees; he and Li Shu, Lu
Feng brought Hua Ting and Pei Qing’s invitation card, and one of them,
naturally went to Pixian Hui Wang.
The hotel was
interesting and appealing. Their invitation cards were checked at the entrance,
and then they were guided by a specific person. The inside was similar the
front of a theater. There were two floors of boxes encircled in three sides.
The boxes were not hidden, but there were bamboo curtains. If it was pulled
down, the outsider could not see the inside but the insider could see the outside.
The stage had been set up and there was a row of seats in front of the patio.
They were lead to three
boxes; Pixian Hui Wang shook his head and said, “We’re together, just take us
to a big box.”
They were sitting in
the big box at the side of the first floor, with a view just above the seats.
Before long, a waiter
brought tea and cakes. Zhang Qiu took a piece of cake and ate it. It tasted
good. He put it in his small bag, Little Zongzi showed his head; like a chick
pecking the rice, his tiny mouth ate bit by bit neatly. Zhang Qiu served his
family’s Daye[1] and son to drink tea.
Several people were
chatting, especially Pei Qing, who they met for the first time. Just then, they
had just exchange simple greeting and didn’t have a proper chat.
“… After a few years in
the army, my leg’s injury relapsed, so I retired.” Pei Qing said.
No wonder that Pei Qing
was a person who was upright and whose temperament was not what ordinary people
could have; he looked particularly capable and vigorous, with a very big and
tall stature, and robust facial features. At first glance, he didn’t look very
good at all. But when Zhang Qiu looked at him carefully, he looked good;
typical of traditional aesthetics and looked like a tough man.
Zhang Qiu especially
admired the soldiers. He could not help looking at Pei Qing more. As a result,
he had a cold hand on his thigh. Zhang Qiu knew it was Li Shu. His family’s
wife loved to eat vinegar so much; he couldn’t do anything about it.
Zhang Qiu took back his
line of sight. Pei Qing changed the subject to the owner of the auction. “The
owner’s surname is Su Zhicai. He is over sixty years old and is from Hangzhou.”
As he was speaking, there was a noise outside. Pei Qing went to the curtain,
looked over it and said, “Here comes the boss.”
Lu Feng raised the
curtain and Zhang Qiu looked out curiously, just so happened to meet a glance
from outside.
“That girl looked
familiar…” The more Zhang Qiu tried to remember, the less he remembered it, but
he felt she was familiar, as if he had just seen her.
Li Shu said lightly,
“Shopping mall, Su WanTing.”
“Turned out it was her.
I just said she looked familiar, but with her style of dress today, no wonder I
didn’t recognized her.” Zhang Qiu said.
At yesterday’s
encounter, the impression that Su WanTing left him was of a beautiful and sweet
girl. Today, she was wearing a small golden tassel dress, her hair was permed
and pulled up, and her red lips were painted. There was a bit of purity mixed
with a woman’s charm.
Zhang Qiu glanced
around; many of the guests in the box had gone out. Most of the men looked at
Su WanTing.
“Su WanTing is Su
Zhicai’s only daughter.” Pei Qing explained.
Zhang Qiu was stunned
at first because Su Zhicai looked so old, if they stood together they would
look like grandparent and grandchildren not father and daughter. Not only Zhang
Qiu, who did not understand, but Hua Ting also felt strange.
Pei Qing explained, “I
heard that Boss Su had two sons, but they died one after another. Now only his
daughter is left.”
–
Not a moment later Su
WanTing supported Su Zhicai to come over, and Su WanTing stared at Li Shu and
said with a smile, “Mr. Li, we met again.” Then she faced Su Zhicai while
acting like a spoiled child, “Daddy, this was the one I mentioned, Mr. Li Shu.”
“Oh-oh, this is the
famous Mr. Li Shu on the road!” Su Zhicai’s eyes didn’t seem good. The person
circled around Li Shu, gave a few polite greetings so as to let them felt
welcome; said if there was anything, just tell his daughter what he needed, his
daughter always wanted to associate with Li Shu and so on.
Soon after, the auction
began. Su Zhicai and Su WanTing also sat down on the seat at the patio.
One antique was put on
the auction display on the stage. Among them, Lu Feng also took part to bid it
and gave it to Hua Ting’s parents. It was of good quality, but the map they
wanted was not on the display until the last one, it was still missing.
“We were tricked?”
Pixian Hui Wang’s face sank a little.
Pei Qing, who did this
line of business, murmured, “There are rules in this line. The things on the
auction book, there is no reason why they don’t appear. There may be a
follow-up.”
“The Su family used
this map to hook us up.” Li Shu said at the side.
As soon as the words
fell, the box’s door opened and a bodyguard pushed the door opened while
protecting Su WanTing to come in. Su WanTing held a wooden box in her hand and
stared directly at Li Shu. She got straight to the point and said, “I want to
make a deal with you.” After that, she raised the wooden box in her hand.
It seemed that the
purpose of today’s auction was very clear.
Footnote:
[1] 大爷 [dà yé] = arrogant idler; self-centered
show-off; uncle; term of respect for older man
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