Edited by: Akane, Koi, Pierce, Sha
Before Zhao Gongzi went on a business trip and left the capital, we had an argument.
Although the incident started with not being able to find a pair of scissors, the incident’s following was of the utmost importance.
There are great differences between Zhao Gongzi’s everyday habits and my own. I often put the scissors in the toolbox, while he often puts the scissors in the drawer. When he and I had first moved into the apartment, we had taken two months’ time to both reach a shared understanding of: either the scissors would be in the toolbox, or it would be in the drawer.
But this time, the scissors couldn’t be found.
In the end, I found it in a flower pot.
In the first place, this wasn’t a big deal and I just casually said, “Next time don’t forget it like this.”
Zhao Gongzi said, “What the hell do you mean ‘forget’, you’re the one who put it there.”
“I’m not the one who placed it somewhere random.”
“If it wasn’t you, was it me then?”
Of course it’s him.
He said, “It wasn’t me!”
I said, “It wasn’t me, either.”
It’s not as if there was a third person that could come into my home, right? Jin Xian’er was invited to perform out-of-town and has been gone for a month; I even quite miss him. He took Hamm with him. Cheeky.
Oftentimes, it is the little things that start arguments. After half an hour, Zhao Gongzi and I had already gone on to argue about whose clothes were uglier. After another half hour had passed, the debate turned to the fact that last month when he collected the laundry, he had once again lost one of my socks. Another half hour passed and the debate actually transformed into if I was or wasn’t secretly planning to kill him and then elope with Hao Da.
When Hao Da was brought up, he and I fell silent at the same time.
Hao Da was that third person who could have entered our house.
Zhao Gongzi made a phone call. “Fuck, yesterday when you came to fix the door lock, did you put my fucking scissors in a flower pot?!”
Hao Da answered that he did. Yesterday when he came to fix the door lock, no one was in the apartment, so he off-handedly swept the floor, washed the dishes, wiped the table, and trimmed the plants.
Zhao Gongzi viciously hung up the phone, then bellowed at me, “I already said it wasn’t me!”
“It wasn’t me either.”
And so, he and I were in a stalemate for the entire night, until the next morning when he left home to go on a faraway business trip.
Zhao Gongzi is extremely petty, the first two days of his business trip have passed, yet he didn’t give me a single phone call. Good thing I’m magnanimous, seeing as he was pitching in to pay the rent on the apartment, I asked Hao Da for the hotel’s phone number.
Hao Da very quickly found out the phone number of the hotel room that Zhao Gongzi was staying in. I phoned, but no one answered.
Every hour, I phoned once. I phoned him for a total of 24 hours, but no one answered the phone.
I asked Hao Da about it, and he said, “Oh no, I asked a colleague that went with them, and he said that Zhao Gongzi’s gone missing!”
Me: “……”
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San Ge said, “How could a whole living person just go missing? This—Ah！”
Me: “？”
“It’s nothing. Don’t worry. I’ll go find him. I’m hanging up. Goodbye.”
San Ge had gotten so panicked that he was saying everything in chopped-up sentences, yet he says that everything’s fine, I don’t believe that.
After hanging up, I carefully examined the case. Just as I was about to make my move, Master Zhao Si phoned. “Zhao Long is missing?”
I replied, “That’s right. I’m going to the train station to go to the capital immediately and find him.”
Master Zhao Si said, “There’ll be shit use if you go! You want to run away halfway, don’t you?!”
Zhao Gongzi’s bad habit of being suspicious and doubtful of everything was probably inherited from his dad.
Master Zhao Si, “Stay at home obediently and don’t go anywhere! Don’t take me for an idiot. One first runs, then the other uses the excuse of going to look for them and runs away as well. When I was using this trick, Zhao Long, that brat, hadn’t even been born yet.”
Me: “……”
Could this father and son duo not think of the nature of humanity as so malicious?
I could only stay at home and wait. However, the phone did not ring for a long time. I even wondered if the phone had been broken yet again. Every time Zhao Gongzi gets angry, he smashes the phone, so it’s very difficult for the phone not to break.
When I was young and had just gotten to the Zhao family for a short period, I saw him smash the phone. At that time, he always liked smashing phones.
One time, Master Zhao Si brought his brothers, sisters, and wives on a three-day vacation away from the manor. I stayed behind and looked after the house because I’d fallen sick with a cold. After I’d taken the medicine and drank some hot soup, I went to sleep. After a night passed, I was feeling better, so I comfortably sat in the garden and enjoyed the sunlight as I read a book. After all, this type of freedom was rare.
But then, this type of freedom ended because of annoying Zhao Gongzi.
He hollered at me from far away, “Why didn’t you fucking pick up the phone?!”
That scared me so much that I hurriedly got up from his garden recliner and said, “The phone didn’t ring.”
He hollered at me, “Laozi phoned for the entire night!”
But I really didn’t hear it.
Uncle Da Li, who had accompanied him back, very unhappily looked at me and said, “He really was calling for the entire night.”
I was even more ill at ease. I’m an orphan that was adopted by the Zhao family, yet I couldn’t even pick up the phone when I was looking after the house, they might even sell me off again because of this.
I hurriedly apologized and asked what big thing I had caused to be held up, in order to test and see if I was going to be thrown out of the Zhao family.
Zhao Gongzi coldly said, “It’s fine.”
I didn’t believe him. I must have done something, so much that he’s afraid to even tell me.
Zhao Gongzi impatiently said, “I said it’s fine!”
Now that it’s gotten to this point, don’t say such white lies.
Zhao Gongzi cursed at me, “Do you have a problem?! I already said it’s fine!”
I didn’t dare say anything after that. In any case, we’ll leave it to the heavens.
After he angrily went into his room, Uncle Da Li coldly said to me, “You didn’t pick up the phone the whole night, he thought you fainted from your cold, so he insisted on coming back.”
Me: “……”
Uncle Da Li said, “Next time, don’t cause so much trouble.”
I replied, “En.”
I went upstairs to find Zhao Gongzi. He coldly looked at me. “What is it?”
“Uncle Da Li said you were worried that I would faint from the illness, thank you.”
Zhao Gongzi coldly humphed.
“But I checked just now, it seems like the phone was broken by you when you smashed it before leaving.”
Zhao Gongzi flew into a rage born of embarrassment and shouted at me, “Scram!”
I was committed to finishing what I wanted to say before I scrammed. “And what’s more, you could have phoned Auntie Wang, and told her to come over here and take a look.”
Zhao Gongzi cursed at me, “Scram!”
He has such a mean mouth, but this is his affair, and I have to finish my own affairs. So I gathered my courage, went over, hugged him and said, “Thank you.”
Zhao Gongzi hollered by my ear, “Motherfucker, scram!”
“This is the first time that someone’s cared about me, thank you.”
He fell silent for a moment, then said, “Piss off.”
Seeing as he was so stubborn, I could only scram.
Thinking about the past, I suddenly realized something.
What if Master Zhao Si had correctly guessed half of what had happened? Zhao Long, he’s run away! He didn’t tell me and secretly ran away by himself! He left me here as a hostage to mislead Master Zhao Si, and ran away by himself in pursuit of freedom! Zhao Long is so annoying, he definitely is capable of doing something like that!
This wasn’t fair. I must immediately go to the capital and find him, then scold him for going back on his word. Then, I’ll hand him over to Master Zhao Si as a way to collect a reward, and go away alone as my reward, hmmph.
I got my wallet and prepared to go out to the train station. Just as I had put on my shoes, I heard the ringing of the telephone. San Ge said, “Ah, Yixin, I found Xiao Long. Don’t worry anymore.”
Perhaps San Ge and Master Zhao Si came to an agreement. San Ge would placate me and prevent me from leaving, then get money from Master Zhao Si as a reward for a job well done. And so, I calmly asked, “Where is he?”
San Ge said, “Xiao Long, Yixin wants to talk to you.”
Zhao Gongzi asked, “What is it?”
I cautiously asked, “Where did the scissors turn up in the end?”
Zhao Gongzi fell silent for a while. “Did you fucking really call so many times just to continue arguing with Laozi?! Is there something wrong with you?! Huh?! Once Laozi gets back, Laozi’s going to throw away all those flower pots of yours!”
Okay, it’s not someone San Ge ordered to impersonate Zhao Long, no one can act out a tenth of Zhao Long’s annoyingness. Even separated by the phone line, he can make people want to hit him.
“How come you went missing?” I asked.
Zhao Gongzi said, “Go missing my ass, I told that punk that came with me that I wouldn’t be back at the hotel for the entire day, fuck, he said that he was drunk at the time and forgot all about it after waking up from a nap, fuck, he can’t even measure up to half of Da Tou.”
“Oh.”
Zhao Gongzi swore at me, “It’s all your fault, I’m going to be lectured by my dad again when I get back! Fuck, all you do is cause me trouble!”
“Oh.”
“I’m hanging up! Fuck!”
San Ge snatched the phone away from him. “You can’t smash this, we’d have to pay for it——Ah, Yixin, everything’s fine now, don’t worry. He’s fine, he just went to the capital’s antique market to look for things to buy. That place is a bit far, and it was late, so that’s why he decided to just stay there for a night.”
Damn it, he definitely got scammed again.
I asked, “Then before, why did you suddenly seem to think of something and got so panicked?”
San Ge replied, “When I was phoning you, Professor Chen walked past me and dropped some notes, so I hurriedly went and chased after him to return them to him.”
“Oh.”
San Ge asked, “You know Professor Chen right?”
“I do.”
“Then I’ll wait for you to come and go to school with me!”
“I’ll find a chance to come over then.”
San Ge said, “Good, good, good.”
Zhao Gongzi shouted, “It’s not fucking good, you’re not fucking going!”
He is truly and perpetually annoying.
Zhao Gongzi’s Journal:
If it wasn’t for Qiu Yixin, I would have been able to get him some more rare antique books.
The author has something to say:
Yup, that’s right. Zhao Gongzi was scammed out of money again=_=
Rinrin: Aiya….Zhao Long, you….well…it’s the thought that counts…I guess….
everyone thinking he ran away xD
thanks for the chapter <3
I suddenly recalled a chinese 4 words saying:
人傻钱多
→_→
thanks for the chapter!
are they eloping again?
😅