The more Su Lingyun thought about it, the more she felt that her sonâs words were true. Others might be clueless about her family but she perfectly knew about Su Shangwen! Even if her restaurantâs business was good and thriving recently, but it was after all, only a family restaurant⊠saying that it was a restaurant was pleasant to hear. But the unpleasant word for it was actually a canteen. How much money would it make? With such a big business that Su Shangwen had, how could his money be fewer than hers?
After having thought through about this matter, Su Lingyun firmly nodded and said, âSonny, youâre really good in your study. Mom hasnât read many books and my education is not as good as yours. What you said did make sense. It seems like the intention Su Shangwen had in coming to our restaurant is indeed not to borrow money, but to humiliate me. You can rest assured that I will never lend him a penny later.â
Tang Xiu raised his thumbs up and exclaimed, âMom, you indeed are able to realize it clearly. Iâm really afraid that you wouldnât understand, I had even prepared a lot of words to argue with you!â
Su Lingyun said with a smile, âI look like those people who donât understand the essence of the issues, donât I?!â
Tang Xiu said with a laugh, âNo, absolutely not. Who dares to say it, Iâll find and kick him. Anyway, are you still going to continue to do the accounting?â
Su Lingyun shook her head and said, âNo, since Iâve already realized it, why would I do that? Anyway, letâs forget it, Youâve just come back sonny, are you hungry? Mom will cook something delicious for you in the kitchen. Besides, the meals outside are not better than the flavor and taste our family has.â
Tang Xiu replied with a smile, âI do think the same Mom, nobody in this world can cook deliciously as you.â
âMouthy, eh!â
With such words from Tang Xiu, it made Su Lingyun happy as the smile on her face was getting brighter.
Shortly afterâŠ
4 dishes and one soup was delivered to the box as Tang Xiu asked Su Lingyun to accompany him to have a meal together and chat about their familyâs daily life, after which, Tang Xiu then prepared to leave.
âKnock, knockâŠâ
The door was knocked as Dingzi then pushed the door open. He greeted Tang Xiu and spoke in a low voice, âBig Boss, Su Shangwenâs son has come and is wandering in our lobby!â
Su Lingyun said with a confused expression, âWhat is he doing?â
Su Lingyun did not have the slightest good impression of her nephew. Previously, he framed her son and said that her son stole 3,000 yuan from his family. Not only was she humiliated in public, even her son was injured due to that.
Tang Xiu stood up and lightly spoke, âIâll go out and see it myself!â
Su Lingyun quickly said, âSon, although I donât like Su Xiangfei, but donât go too far in handling this matter. Whoever he is, heâs stillâŠâ
Tang Xiu interrupted his mother and spoke with a sinking tone, âMom, I know what you want to say. I wonât clean him up, but we donât welcome him at the restaurant. Donât you worry about it, I still have some sense of discretion.â
Su Lingyun nodded. But still, she was somewhat uneasy and followed Tang Xiu to the private boxâs door.
After Tang Xiu went out the box, he saw Su Xiangfei speak something to the approaching waiter. He strode over in front of him and spoke with a sinking and deep tone, âWhat are you doing here?â
Upon seeing Tang Xiu, Su Xiangfei spoke with a surprised expression, âCousin, arenât youâŠâ
âShut the fuck up!â
Tang Xiu interrupted Su Xiangfei and said with a deep tone, âSu Xiangfei, donât speak in such a cordial manner. I donât buy it. Besides, our familyâs restaurant doesnât welcome you. Did you forget what Iâve told you? If you dare to come to us and I see you once again, Iâll fuck you up badly.â
Su Xiangfeiâs neck shrunk. Even though he was full of resentment inside toward Tang Xiu, but recalling about his fatherâs urges about the matter, he squeezed out a smile and said, âCousin, please donât do this! We are of the same family and everything was just a joke and only quarrels between family members. I admit that I did have wronged you. But youâve always been mature and generous, please just forget and donât bother about my former attitudes.â
Tang Xiu said with a laughing sneer, âHeh, leave those niceties words. Your family is yours and my family is mine. I wonât come out to seek any friendship from you. Now, you get the fuck out, else Iâll order some people to kick you out forcefully.â
In an instant, Dingzi and a few others aggressively swarmed over toward Su Xiangfei. Their gestures were as though they were ready to beat Su Xiangfei savagely had Tang Xiu sent out his order.
Su Xiangfeiâs complexion turned extremely ugly as he looked at Dingzi and the other men. He also looked at the cold frost expression Tang Xiu and finally got scared. He stepped back a few steps. However, when he saw Su Lingyun, he quickly shouted, âAuntie, Iâm your very own nephew! You wouldnât drive me away, would you? I admit that I was in the wrong before, I promise I wonât do that again later.â
The tenderhearted Su Lingyun suddenly showed a hesitating expression as she heard Su Xiangfeiâs words.
Tang Xiu shouted with a sinking tone, âDingzi, you guys hit him a few times and kick him out. Do remember that as long as you all donât kill him, Iâll take the responsibility if you break his arms and legs.â
âDone!â
Dingzi and the others rolled up their sleeves and prepared to move.
Su Xiangfeiâs pupils shrunk. He did not tarry to wait for Su Lingyunâs answers as he turned around and bolted toward outside of the restaurant. The last time at school, he was hit and injured by a criminal. Only after having been treated seriously was he discharged from the hospital. Never again did he wanted to pass even another day being bedridden on a hospital sickbed.
âHahahaâŠâ
Everyone looked at the running away Su Xiangâs back and suddenly burst into laughter. A few waiters who knew Su Xiangfeiâs âvirtuous well-doingsâ gathered and ridiculed him.
âSu Shangwen is not good stuff and his son is a coward. Our little boss only scared him and I never thought that he will be that damn terrified. How could our big boss have such a nephew?!â
âWhat a disgrace! Such a handsome young man unexpectedly has no balls. I donât know whether his head got squeezed by the door or not. He clearly knows that we donât welcome him here, but still, he came here to be slapped in the face. He doesnât dislike to be bashful, but Iâll be much more bashful than him!â
âOur little boss is really awesome, a few words are enough to scare him away. Our big bossâs heart is way too kind and she canât withstand the pleads and praises from them. I wanna say that our little boss just did rightly. Thereâs no way that kind of crooked people can be given any face!â
âJust like subordinates imitate their superiors, itâs like father like son! That guy really is one of the same species with Su Shangwen!â
ââŠâ
Tang Xiu turned his head and looked at Su Lingyun. Seeing such an ugly expression on his motherâs face, he waved to the few waiters nearby, motioning that they did not need to join in on the fun and to take care of their work.
âMom, we have our time and days, and Su Shangwenâs family has theirs. The more we got pestered by them, the messier the problems weâll have to face. So you donât need to take them seriously in the future. Sooner or later they will court big troubles for themselves, and those kind of troubles are not what you will be able to help even if you want to.â
Su Lingyun sighed deeply as she said with a smile: âI donât understand what you were saying! But⊠letâs just forget it. It would be difficult for us to hide from whatever will happen. But I wonât give them any face in the future should they come to find me.â
Tang Xiu nodded. Before he left, he specially called Banshou and Dingzi to the side and told them to protect his mother. If anyone sent by Su Shangwen came to made trouble, then they had to directly report it to him.
In the evening.
On the way back to South Gate Town, Tang Xiu received a call from Yuan Chuling. He knew that Tang Xiu had just come back from Jingmen Island and wanted to see him immediately. However, he was still at school and he could not easily leave school. So Tang Xiu told him that he would go back to school at the latest in the day after tomorrow.
Tang Xiu could ignore other people, but he could not help but care about Yuan Chuling. After all, Yuan Chuling was like an iron hardcore-good brother for him since he had helped and defended him countless of times, which, this was a kindness and benevolence that made Tang Xiu feel grateful.
In fact, after he had returned to Earth, Tang Xiu had always been avoiding making friends with others to the best of his abilities. After having been betrayed by his good friends, it caused his heart to have some detachment and to guard against anyone.
He was not afraid to have a few friends, but he feared in having a lot of friends that would plan and scheme against him!
Tang Xiu did not want to repeat the same mistakes as in the past and neither would he ever let it happen again.
After having gotten back to the South Gate Town, Mu Qingping reported to him that the medicinal ingredients from Jingmen Island had been shipped and that she already signed and received them to the warehouse. Just when he was about to prepare to concoct the Golden Bell Liquid, Mu Qingping came to find him again and told him that a guest had come visit.
âWhoâs the guest?â
In the warehouse, Tang Xiu asked with a puzzled expression.
He did not have many friends and only few people knew that he lived in South Gate Town. So he could not figure out who came to visit him.
âHe said that heâs called Long Zhengyu.â
Mu Qingping said.
Tang Xiuâs brows wrinkled. He did not expect that it was Long Zhengyu who came here. The first time he came visiting, it was after he gave this villa to him.
After having thought for a moment, he left the warehouse and came to the villaâs living room, he saw Long Zhengyu sitting on the sofa, drinking tea.
âWhy have you come here?â
Tang Xiu went over to the opposite side of Long Zhengyu and sat down.
Long Zhengyu said with a laugh, âI just heard that youâve come back, so I come here and wanted to talk with you. How are things? Have you gotten used to living here?â
âNot too bad!â Tang Xiu said lightly.
Not too bad?
Long Zhengyu secretly smiled wryly inside his heart. Had it been someone else get such a villa, they would have already wild with joy and jaw-dropped. But for Tang Xiu here, it turned out that it was only ânot too badâ.
âBrother Tang, the reason I looked for you here is because I have something to talk to you about.â
Tang Xiu said, âYou can speak frankly to me if you have something to say. But I donât have much time though. I need to do something shortly.â
Long Zhengyu nodded and said, âIt was because of you. I didnât know where Kang Xia inquired about me. But since she couldnât find you, she called me a lot of times. But I really have never thought that Kang Xia would really work for you. And yesterday evening, my father asked me and we talked a lot. He wanted me to ask you whether our Long Family could get a huge sum of money and buy some more shares again from you.â
âImpossible!â Tang Xiu shook his head and rejected directly.
Long Zhengyu rolled his eyes and snappily replied, âI knew that you would say that. Since you refused, then forget it.â
Tang Xiu said, âAre you done? If so, I canât keep you accompany any longer.â
Long Zhengyu quickly said, âNah, I havenât even started, I havenât even entered the main topic! In fact, my main purpose to look for you today is that I want to cooperate with you! Iâve developed a new project recently, as long as you can help me draw the blueprint design, Iâll give you 10% of the shares, how about it?â
Tang Xiuâs brows slanted and asked, âWhat kind of project?â