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Chapter 62




“Okay,” Fang Yu said. He went to get his coat, and Yang Lei pulled him to a stop.
“Yang Dahai, have you figured it out? This is someone else’s house! What right do you have to make someone else leave?”
When Yang Lei saw his dad ordering Fang Yu around, he was filled with anger!
“If you were willing to come back home to talk, I wouldn’t come up here.”
If Yang Lei didn’t go home this whole time, would Yang Dahai himself come to this place where a little gangster lived?
“You have to drive him away, right? Then okay, you can stay here alone. I’ll leave with him.”
Yang Lei was very disgusted by this condescending and scornful attitude that his dad always had. Now, this attitude was used on Fang Yu, and Yang Lei couldn’t stand it even more.
“Yang Lei, change your attitude!”
Fang Yu couldn’t stand it anymore. He knew that there was deep conflict between father and son, but he thought that the attitude Yang Lei used to speak with his father wasn’t the one to solve the problem at all.
“If you have something to say, say it well. I’ll go out for a walk.”
Fang Yu took his coat, nodded at Yang Dahai, and was about to leave.
“Wait.”
Yang Lei called Fang Yu to a stop, looking at Yang Dahai.
“Don’t you just want to talk about the ‘Lu Zhi’ matter? Okay, talk about it in front of my friend. I don’t have anything that he can’t listen to. This is his house. Can you respect people a little?” Yang Lei said…
Yang Dahai didn’t insist anymore.
That day, the conversation between the father and son was held in front of Fang Yu. Before Yang Dahai came to discuss, he had already decided that no matter what attitude Yang Lei had today, he had to speak with him calmly. Concerning Yang Lei’s future, as a father, he could tolerate his son’s hostile attitude towards him, but he couldn’t let him go further and further down a crooked road.
Several times, Yang Lei’s tone towards Yang Dahai was a little blunt, but he was stopped by Fang Yu, who was sitting next to him.
It was only now that Yang Dahai looked straight at Fang Yu.
He could tell that this young man had a great influence on Yang Lei. Yang Lei could actually immediately stop talking because of his words. Yang Dahai had never seen Yang Lei this obedient to others.
“I’ll express my thoughts again. Right now, I’m interested in the construction company work, and I can do it. This company is developing right now. Watch, after another few years, real estate development will be the brightest industry, no worse than the road you’ve prepared for me. I don’t have any interest in ‘Lu Zhi’ at all, and I’m not made for that. I thank you for doing that work for me, but if you’re really doing it for my own good, then please respect my thoughts. I can take responsibility for my own future!”
Yang Lei said this. It was also his first time talking with Yang Dahai so calmly.
“What is the nature of that company? What kind of person is the company’s boss? The gangdom and gangs. You want to be in these gangs for a lifetime. Are there the future and the prospects that you speak of here?”
Yang Dahai seriously asked in response.
“I didn’t say that I would stay in this company for a lifetime. In the future, I could also do something else. It’s just that I’ve never thought about going to the army.”
“What’s wrong with going to the army?” Yang Dahai furrowed his brow. “You were born in a military family! Your grandparents and parents were all upright, and they could keep their head up a whole lifetime! What you lack is training and this upright conduct. Look at you right now… improper and indecent!”
Yang Dahai had already restrained himself and spoke very politely. If this were the usual times, he would scold that the Yang family hadn’t had someone so self-degenerate and indifferent like Yang Lei in generations!
“I’m improper and indecent, and you can hold your head up? Is your head up? Don’t speak so pretentiously. I don’t like to hear it!”
Yang Lei suddenly got angry.
“I admit that on the issue of your mother and you, I owe you and your mother, but today, we are discussing your future. Don’t bring your emotions into it. This is taking responsibility for your future!”
Yang Dahai was also impatient. Every time Yang Lei mentioned this problem, Yang Dahai was unable to be calm.
“I can decide my own future! Since I was young, when have you listened to my thoughts? Before, you didn’t care about me. You wouldn’t even ask if I was alive or dead. Right now, you want to care, but do you know what I want? You only ask others to listen to your arrangements. Use this on your subordinate officials. Don’t use it on me!”
“Your way of thinking is wrong, so I have to correct you! I’m doing this for your good!”
Yang Dahai couldn’t help it, and his voice rose.
“Is this for my sake? This is being overbearing!”
“Yang Lei!”
Fang Yu shouted. Before, he had been sitting to the side and not speaking. Only when Yang Lei’s tone was truly too blunt, did he make a sound. He knew that on this kind of occasion, it would be inappropriate for him to open his mouth. But right now, seeing that there were problems with both people’s emotions, and if they kept talking, things would only become even more unyielding.
“Uncle, forgive me for interrupting. Yang Lei is impatient and his tone is blunt. He doesn’t have bad intentions. Don’t be angry. He hasn’t come around. Give him a little time and let him think it over,” Fang Yu said.
Yang Dahai was in the midst of anger. He stared at Fang Yu. His impression of Fang Yu changed, but he fundamentally disliked these little gangsters. It was because Yang Lei hung out with these people all day that he would become the way he was now!
“Xiao Fang, you are Yang Lei’s friend. You friends should help him, not lead him astray. Where are your parents? Don’t they care about you?”
Yang Dahai stared at Fang Yu and asked seriously.
“…”
Fang Yu was silent.
“Yang Dahai, aren’t you managing too much?”
Yang Lei jumped up like a cat that had its tail stepped on.
“What do you mean by leading me astray? You don’t know who made me fucking like this now?!”
In his irritation, Yang Lei swore. Fang Yu quickly stopped him: “Enough, you!”
“Don’t bother!”
Once Yang Lei heard Yang Dahai’s words, he blew up. This was exposing Fang Yu’s scars. This was sprinkling salt on Fang Yu’s heart!
“Don’t think that all parents under the heavens are like you. Other people’s parents are better than you in every aspect!”
“I’m taking responsibility for you!” Yang Dahai was upset. His own son was using this kind of tone to speak to him. How could he not be upset?
“You hang out with people like them all day,” Yang Dahai pointed at Fang Yu, his expression angry, “Can you learn to do good? Can you take the right path? If they learn to do good, if they were decent, would his hand be bound like that??”
“…”
It seemed like Yang Lei didn’t take it in. He paused for a moment.
“…Are you talking about his injury?”
His mood seemed to suddenly calm down, and the pitch of his voice dropped.
“You know where this injury came from?”
“Yang Lei!”
Fang Yu abruptly interrupted him.
“…Because your son was tied up and locked by people hundreds of kilometers away! This person you said who ‘can’t learn to do good,’ if he didn’t nearly lose his arm, would I be standing here and talking to you?! …”
Yang Dahai was shocked…
“Where were you then? All my friends know about this. Did you care? …”
Yang Lei stared at Yang Dahai with red eyes…
Yang Dahai left.
After Yang Dahai left, Fang Yu and Yang Lei were in the house, and they didn’t speak.
“You shouldn’t have that attitude towards your father,” Fang Yu said after a while.
“What do you know?”
Yang Lei still hadn’t come out of his emotions.
“He didn’t say anything wrong. He’s doing it for your sake.”
“Can you not speak for him? Didn’t you hear what he said about you?”
“You also shouldn’t say that about him. Can a father watch his son hang out with gangsters?”
Fang Yu could understand the gaze with which Yang Dahai looked at him. Ever since Fang Yu became a gangster, he had long become accustomed and numb to this gaze.
Which decent family liked seeing their child join the gangdom? Was it glorious to join the gangdom?
“…Who asked him to talk about you? …I just can’t stand to listen!”
Yang Lei firmly took out a cigarette and inhaled forcefully.
Though it had been many days and Yang Lei didn’t speak about Fang Yu’s arm and knife wound, had he felt well for one day??
Every time he changed medications and saw Fang Yu’s horrible wound, Yang Lei didn’t talk about his feelings, but in his heart, he couldn’t even think. He couldn’t even think about it.
Other than that time they came back, Yang Lei didn’t say anything to Fang Yu later. The two of them didn’t mention this matter. Although some things didn’t need to be talked about, this matter was a scar gouged out by a knife in Yang Lei’s heart. It was a scar that couldn’t be touched, which could stay for a lifetime!
But Yang Dahai stepped on this scar. How could Yang Lei stand it?
Fang Yu didn’t respond, like he was also thinking about something.
The house was very quiet. Yang Lei smoked for a while. He couldn’t hear Fang Yu’s voice and glanced at him.
“What are you thinking about?”
Fang Yu raised his head and looked at him.
“That military academy, is it a university?”
“Yes.”
Fang Yu hesitated for a moment.
“You really don’t want to go?”
“I don’t.”
Yang Lei was resolute.
Fang Yu was silent for a moment.
“Why don’t you consider it? I think it’s pretty good.”
After a while, Fang Yu said…
Yang Lei’s cigarette end was still in his mouth. He looked at him in astonishment…
Turbulent Times, disorderly music. Yang Lei sat alone at the bar and asked for a glass of wine distractedly.
“Lei Ge, you came out to play and didn’t call me?”
Chuan-zi was a frequent visitor at Turbulent Times. He just happened to meet Yang Lei.
“Have fun by yourself. I don’t have time!”
Yang Lei drove him away.
“What’s the matter with you? Are you in a bad mood?”
Chuan-zi and Yang Lei had been friends for nearly twenty years. He could tell at a glance.
“…”
Yang Lei ignored him. His mind was disorderly as he thought about things.
“Where’s Fang Yu? Not with you? I even bumped into Lao Liang just now. He’s looking for his Da Ge.”
Chuan-zi mentioned what shouldn’t be mentioned. When Yang Lei heard Fang Yu’s name, he was very distressed.
“I’m not his attendant. How do I know where he is?”
Yang Lei’s voice was gruff.
“Got into an argument? The two of you are that close, and you can still argue?”
Ever since he was young, Chuan-zi had this ability. The more you didn’t want to hear it, the more he spoke those words, and even spoke them very accurately.
“Scram!”
Yang Lei only gave him one word.
Yang Lei also hadn’t thought that he and Fang Yu would have such a big division over a matter.
Yang Lei had never thought that, for this matter, he and Fang Yu would separate in unhappiness.
“Do you know where that military academy is? It’s thousands of kilometers away from here.”
In Fang Yu’s house, hearing Fang Yu’s words, Yang Lei spoke to Fang Yu.
“Going to that school, it’s all militarized management. You can come back at most once or twice in a year. Usually, you can’t even ask for a leave.”
Yang Lei thought that Fang Yu only said this because he didn’t know about the military academy’s circumstances.
“I know. My veteran friends talked about it.”
“You know? …You know and you’re still telling me to go?”
“I’m not telling you to go. I said that you should think about it.”
“…Fuck, don’t be the same as my dad, okay?”
Yang Lei hoped that Fang Yu understood his meaning, but he thought that Fang Yu didn’t understand at all. The impatient flame in his heart came up again.
“Can you properly listen to people speak?”
Fang Yu was also very angry with Yang Lei’s hot temper.
“…After coming back from that thing last time, I thought about it.”
Fang Yu also took out a cigarette and put it in his mouth. Fang Yu’s mood also started to become impatient.
“…If you keep messing around like this, it won’t be okay!”
Fang Yu furrowed his brows, taking one drag after another.
“You can prevent being ambushed by someone once. Can you prevent it two or three times? …Sooner or later, you’ll get into trouble! …I’m just like this. In this lifetime, I have to follow Jiu Ge and repay his kindness. You’re different. Messing around isn’t good for you… Take a normal path as soon as possible! …Go get a diploma. In the future society, you have to rely on a diploma…”
Fang Yu said…