Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Most of the furnishings in the lounge were smashed, and Xia Shouren was dodging in panic among the flying objects.
Fortunately, Wei Xi was not defeated in the end, but his treacherous fighting style and gnawing and biting tactics still caused considerable trouble to his opponent.
When he jumped onto his opponent’s back and was pulled down by the collar while trying to pull his head off, Wei Xi remained fearless and stared at Shuo Zong fiercely, ready to fight to the death.
However, the opponent did not take advantage of this to continue fighting as he had expected but stared at him with a dark face as if he was a retard, as if there were thousands of unfinished words in his eyes.
Wei Xi thought he was going to say something harsh, so he kept confronting him.
In the end, Shuo Zong just smoothed his messy hair in annoyance and threw him away: “You really are… you haven’t grown any brains in all these years.”
When Wei Xi saw that he dared to curse for no reason, he immediately became furious.
At this time, Tuan Tuanyi outside finally discovered that something was wrong. He rushed in in shock and confusion to try to stop the fight and managed to calm him down as he was worried about hurting his disciples by mistake.
Tuan Tuanyi asked indiscriminately: “What’s going on? Master, have you been bullied?” The man who just came in looked like he had lost a fight. He would never forgive the guy who bullied his master, even if he was the nation’s tallest, richest and handsomest man!
Shuo Zong’s face turned even worse when he saw him. He looked like he didn’t want to stay even for a second. He put on his coat, called out to Xia Shouren in an unpleasant tone, and prepared to leave.
Before he could open the door, Wei Xi stopped him again: “Give me back my apprentice’s cakes!”
Shuo Zong lowered his head and looked at him for a moment, then shouted, “Xia Shouren! Go pack up all the leftover food backstage for him!”
Then he asked in a deep voice: “Are you satisfied?”
Wei Xi was not the kind of person who would take advantage of a mile after being given an inch, so he felt that this kind of compensation was enough and withdrew his hand that was blocking the other person’s way.
Shuo Zong did not look happy about solving the problem. Instead, he looked like he was about to die of anger. Before leaving, he reached out and slapped him heavily on the forehead.
Wei Xi was unable to dodge and wanted to fight back, but the other party had already left with his coat on and a sullen face. He left without looking back, and only Xia Shouren, who was following behind him, kept looking back with a complicated expression.
Wei Xi’s head was hurt by the blow and he thought, how could this person be like this!
….
Of course, few people knew what was going on here. The banquet was at its busiest, so how many people would come to the lounge in the corner to waste time? When they wanted to come in the second half, they found that the lounge here was no longer in use.
No one thought much about it, after all, there was more than one place to rest in such a large venue.
Wei Tianyi didn’t rest the whole night. He drank all over the place and only said goodbye to Tan Fu reluctantly when the party was about to end.
Tan Fu was his old friend of many years. The significance of this friend to him was different from that of other businessmen he had met while working locally. He thus always valued him more.
Therefore, before leaving, he looked at his old friend’s face and couldn’t help but say with concern: “I can see that you haven’t had a good rest for a long time. At our age, we can’t just focus on work. Health is the foundation of revolution.”
“That’s what you’re talking about.” Tan Fu touched his eye bags and laughed at himself. “Alas, they weren’t that serious before. I don’t know why they’ve grown bigger recently. Maybe I’ve really been overusing my eyes? My eyes are really tired, and sometimes they swell and ache for no reason.”
But today was very strange. He didn’t feel any bloating or pain the whole night. Tan Fu didn’t know if it was a psychological effect. He couldn’t help but take out the membership card given by Wei Xi from his pocket and look at it. He then smiled and said, “I haven’t seen him for a few years. And Xiao Xi’s personality has changed a lot. He’s much more cheerful and even started a business.”
Upon hearing this, Wei Tianyi complained to his friend in a bad mood: “You know what? This bast**d is almost pissing me off. What kind of bullsh*t business is this? He actually uses my home as his office. Just wait and see. Sooner or later, I will have to tear down all the crap he has created. You too, don’t bother with him at all. Just throw the crappy card he gave you into a trash can when you get out.”
Tan Fu smiled and tried to persuade Wei Tianyi, who was getting angrier and angrier, but he didn’t quite believe it. To comfort his old friend, he immediately promised to throw away the card after a while.
Wei Tianyi finally found like-minded comrades-in-arms and thought to himself that there were still wise people in this world.
But his joy did not last long. Before leaving, he saw his eldest son holding a shopping bag which he had gotten from somewhere. When he opened it, he saw that the bag was full of pastries.
Was this a gift after a wedding? Who the hell came to this kind of business meeting and ate and took things? Wei Tianyi was going crazy, but his eldest son had an expression that said, “If you dare to throw it away, I will beat you and make you hungry for a month.” He really had no way to deal with it.
In the car, Wei Chengshu kept staring at his elder brother in silence, his eyes filled with thousands of words.
Each person gets half of the red envelope…
Wei Xi counted the cakes attentively and looked up to meet his gaze: “Why are you looking at me?”
Wei Chengshu turned his eyes away, his expression even gloomier than when he came.
….
After saying goodbye to his old friend, Tan Fu left the banquet hall drunk. When he walked down the stairs, there happened to be a trash can next to him. The assistant who had heard him chatting with Wei Tianyi asked kindly, “Mr. Tan, do you want me to take it away for you?”
Tan Fu was stunned for a moment, looked at the trash can, then looked at the ordinary card in his hand. He didn’t know what he was thinking at the moment but he stuffed the thing back into his pocket in a possessed manner: “No, let’s go.”
When he was going downstairs, he tripped and almost fell under the wheels of the car that came to pick him up. Fortunately, his assistant caught him in time. The driver hurriedly got out of the car to apologize. Tan Fu covered his eyes and shook his head, indicating that the other party should not be nervous. Recently, he always couldn’t see things clearly. Once when he was driving, he even misjudged the traffic light. If other cars on the road hadn’t honked wildly when he started, he would have almost driven straight out and been hit by a car. Just now, he suddenly felt that the steps in front of him were flat, so he stepped on empty ground.
Tan Fu sighed. He hadn’t touched a car for a long time because of this reason. He also felt that he had overused his eyes and that was why he made so many mistakes.
The driver and the assistant said goodbye to him downstairs of his apartment building. Tan Fu rubbed his eyes as he walked into the elevator. It might be because it was late, and there were no residents in the lobby except for a few property staff on duty.
He walked into the elevator and pressed the button for his own floor. As the elevator went up, his eyes began to swell and ache again. He blinked uncomfortably for a long time but saw no improvement. So, he simply took out the eye drops he had just bought at the drugstore and tried to put a few drops in his eyes.
When he was touching the eye drops, something seemed to be pulled out from his sleeve, and he heard a crisp sound of something falling to the ground.
Tan Fu subconsciously bent down to pick it up, but at this moment, there was a bang under his feet, the elevator suddenly stopped running, and the lights went out.
He remained bent over in a daze for a few seconds. Was the elevator out of order?
This was the first explanation that came to Tan Fu’s mind, so he immediately reached out to press the emergency call button, but there was silence on the other end of the intercom.
It was really weird. He was a little unhappy and thought, what’s wrong with the current property management? Not only is there no one on night shift in the monitoring room, but such an expensive community elevator can still have such a malfunction. He didn’t know what the property management fee of dozens of yuan per square meter was being used for.
While complaining, Tan Fu took out his cell phone, intending to call his family and tell the property management directly. These days, cell phones had signal even in elevators.
But before he could make the call, the light tube above his head made a crackling sound of electricity, and the lights in the elevator suddenly lit up again. Then came the feeling of rising after the stagnant operation returned, as it rose floor by floor and stopped steadily. The elevator doors slid quietly to the sides.
Damn, it’s normal again, Tan Fu thought. This fault is still intermittent. I must complain to the property management tomorrow. It’s okay if it breaks down at night, but what if it breaks down during working hours during the day? Wouldn’t that cause trouble?
His eyes were swollen and painful at the moment, and he was in a bad mood. He held the eye drop bottle, complained and walked out subconsciously. Suddenly, he felt like he stepped on something, and a thought flashed through his dizzy mind, wondering if he had dropped something just now.
This thought suddenly appeared, like a thunderbolt that split his chaotic thoughts. He immediately turned his head to look at the elevator wall and realized other inconsistencies.
The number of the floor he had reached jumped on the wall display. It was the 38th floor. The red font and lights kept flashing. Tan Fu felt strange. He had clearly pressed the 25th floor when he came in. How could he have walked out without noticing it just now? This was too strange. This wasn’t his own home.
How could he make such a mistake? Did he drink too much at the party?
This shouldn’t be the case…
He seemed to have finally regained the ability to see his surroundings clearly. Wait a minute, could the elevator door stay open for that long? Why hadn’t it closed yet? And wasn’t it a little too dark outside? There’s not even any lights?
Tan Fu looked at all this and suddenly felt a little cold.
No, no, no way…
His fingers began to tremble slightly and he began to feel indescribable fear. Everything in front of him was obviously illogical, and yet it all came together.
He was no longer able to believe it and could not care less. He quickly took out his cell phone to call someone. However, before the screen lit up, a shadowy figure suddenly appeared in the distance outside the dark elevator door.
The figure was a tall and thin man, walking slowly towards the elevator.
Tan Fu finally saw someone, and his nervousness immediately eased. He shouted to the other person, “Hey, do you live on this floor? Why aren’t the lights outside on?”
The man looked up at him. He was quite handsome and seemed to smile: “Oh, there might be a power outage. It’s dangerous for you to be in the elevator. Come out quickly.”
Tan Fu thought that this neighbor was quite welcoming and subconsciously wanted to go out. At this time, he thought of what he was stepping on. He looked down and found with a smile that what fell out of his pocket just now was the membership card given to him by the eldest son of the Wei family.
As a result, just as he was about to pick it up, the neighbor outside the elevator suddenly changed his mood and said, “Come out!”
Tan Fu was stunned for a moment. Why did this person’s voice suddenly become so sharp? Then he looked up and was immediately scared. The other person, who had just been standing far away in the dark, was now running towards him with a roar. His originally handsome face looked ferocious.
What the hell, how could someone go crazy just like that?
Tan Fu was so frightened by his sudden change in appearance that his whole body trembled. He sat down on the ground with weak legs, and his hand happened to grab the card that was originally under his feet.
Almost at the same time, the elevator shook violently, the floor display on the wall began to flash wildly, the elevator door made an alarm sound of stagnation, and then slowly began to close.
Seeing this, the young man outside the elevator roared in despair, then jumped up as if to burn his boats and rushed towards the elevator!
Tan Fu huddled in the corner of the elevator: “Ahhhhhhhhh!!!”
This psychopath seems to want to hit me!!! And how can you jump so high!! My friend, are you studying physical education!!!
Fortunately, the elevator closed quickly and blocked the lunatic outside the door at the last moment. In the last second before the door closed, Tan Fu only remembered that he was facing a pair of bloodshot and hateful eyes.
After that, there were no more accidents. Only the floor number keys were still flashing wildly, slowly going backwards, thirty-seven, thirty-six, thirty-five… until he reached the first floor and the door opened, Tan Fu then rushed towards the brightly lit lobby in shock. Damn it, this is a high-end apartment building, but the residents in the community are so complicated!!
He was scared and angry. When he thought about how he almost got beaten, he felt really unlucky. He ran to the lobby and complained to the front desk: “What’s wrong with you? You didn’t even inform us that the elevator was broken! I was sent to the 38th floor and almost got beaten by a psychopath, you know?!”
The front desk clerk looked confused: “Wait, you said you just went to the 38th floor?”
Tan Fu was indignant: “Yeah! I didn’t even know you had such dangerous residents here, and you didn’t even post a notice to remind us owners, what if someone gets hurt one day?!”
Who knew that as soon as the words fell, the girls at the front desk looked at each other and replied in confusion: “What are you talking about? We don’t have a 38th floor here!”
Tan Fu was shocked when he heard this and looked at these people in disbelief.
The palm of his hand suddenly hurt. He came to his senses and looked, only to find that the crudely made membership card that he had been holding in his palm all the way had a crack on the edge. It then cracked into two halves little by little right under his eyes.
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