Chapter 13

After that day, Yang Lei didn’t go to Fang Yu’s place again.

Soon, many people saw that pretty school flower from Ninth High going to Yan Ziyi’s construction company’s entrance every day to wait for Yang Lei.

“Lei Ge, is that your sweetheart?” ‘Sweetheart‘ was a word that local gangsters used, specifically referring to a pretty girlfriend.

“No.” It was useless even if Yang Lei denied it. This girl waited for him every day, because Yang Lei didn’t explicitly reject her.

“Can I be your girlfriend?” said the school flower shyly one day. Yang Lei looked at the beautiful girl before him, and his always smooth tongue was silent.

“…You shouldn’t come here anymore.” Yang Lei left.

Fang Yu didn’t notice at first, but he later realized that Yang Lei no longer went to find him.

“Several brothers are at Guangyang KTV. You should come!”

Fang Yu made a phone call to Yang Lei’s company.

“I’m not going. I can’t leave here.”

“We booked a large room until 12 at night. You can come later.”

“I really can’t leave.”

“…What happened to you?”

Fang Yu felt that something was wrong.

“Is there some trouble?”

“No. I’ve been really busy recently. Boss is watching.” Yang Lei made an excuse.

Fang Yu was quiet for a while.

“Call if there’s anything.” The meaning was if there’s any trouble, tell me.

“Okay.” Yang Lei was distressed.

The call ended.

One time when Yang Lei and the school flower were walking down the street, they ran into Fang Yu.

At that time, Yang Lei had just stopped visiting Fang Yu. When they passed by Fang Yu on the street, Fang Yu stopped the motorcycle, turned around and yelled, “Yang Lei!”

Yang Lei saw Fang Yu. He walked over somewhat stiffly to greet him.

Fang Yu looked at the girl waiting behind Yang Lei, smiling as he asked in a lowered voice, “Fuck, I was wondering why you finally stopped treating my house as a hotel. So you went to pick up girls?”

Fang Yu was very much a gangster, and even his words were crude.

“Your sweetheart looks pretty good!”

Fang Yu even gave a word of praise.

“She isn’t my sweetheart,” Yang Lei said immediately.

“Even pretending with me?”

“She really isn’t!” Yang Lei even became irritated.

“…” Fang Yu also didn’t know why Yang Lei was irritated.

“I’m leaving!” Fang Yu pulled down his face shield, racing away.

Here, the school flower spoke to Yang Lei. Yang Lei answered carelessly.

“He’s Fang Yu?”

The school flower had also heard of Fang Yu’s name. In those years, all the beautiful girls at school loved society’s gangsters.

“So handsome!”

Yang Lei glanced at the school flower.

“Does he have a girlfriend?”

The school flower was quite a gossip.

“…” Yang Lei wasn’t listening to what she was saying. He was thinking that the next time he saw Fang Yu, he had to make it clear to him that the reason he no longer visited him really wasn’t because he was seeking a sweetheart.

Yang Lei also didn’t know what had happened to him.

On one hand, he was hiding from Fang Yu. On the other, he also felt that he was acting honestly, and there was nothing to hide from.

That day, it was definitely because he had watched that kind of abnormal video that he would have that type of dream. But Yang Lei later had repeatedly had such dreams. Yang Lei felt that the problem was serious.

In these dreams, he sometimes hugged and kissed someone. Sometimes, he and that person would do the types of unseemly actions in the video… But no matter what kind of chaotic dream it was, the face of the person in the dream was always Fang Yu. They were all Fang Yu. It never became another person.

Now Yang Lei was scared of seeing Fang Yu. Every time he saw Fang Yu, he would remember those scenes in his dreams.

People say, “What you think of during the day, you will dream of at night.” Yang Lei couldn’t help but think, surely he couldn’t feel the same towards Fang Yu as that Hua Mao? …

No, definitely not the same. How could he be the same as an abnormal sissy?!

But ever since that night, Yang Lei’s whole world was in chaos.

He liked Fang Yu’s conduct, he liked sticking to him, acknowledging him, and even idolizing him a little…

Wasn’t that very normal? Just where was it abnormal?

Yang Lei remembered Fang Yu’s tears under the moonlight that night. He thought of when he carried him back and his silent, sleeping face after he had become drunk on wine. There was no hostility, no toughness, only solitude and loneliness…

Yang Lei instinctively avoided Fang Yu. He thought, as time went on, he would forget this ridiculous matter.

During that time, something happened.

Xiao Wu and Chuan-zi had another fight.

Originally, ever since Yang Lei and Fang Yu had become friendly, the relationship between brothers on both sides was also pretty good. Moreover, last time at the Grand Oriental Hotel, Fang Yu had driven away Ma Tu’s gang. He had actually helped Yang Lei’s people by coming forward, and the relationship between both sides was much better.

But Xiao Wu was a master who liked causing trouble, and he was very headstrong. By relying on Fang Yu’s protection, Xiao Wu had caused a lot of trouble for Fang Yu, and Fang Yu suffered many headaches from this little cousin.

That day, Xiao Wu and a few brothers brought a few girls to the Soldiers Club to skate. Chuan-zi also just happened to bring people to play there. The initial cause of the first fight at Bright Billiards Room was these two troublesome young people. Although later the big brothers on both sides became brothers, Xiao Wu and Chuan-zi never got along. When the brothers on Chuan-zi’s side saw that the girls on Xiao Wu’s side were very pretty, they went up to chat. They hadn’t actually said any improper words at first, just wanting to get to know each other and become friends. These girls weren’t girlfriends of Xiao Wu and them. Seeing that these young men were also quite pleasant, they started talking and smiling, and they taught several girls to skate. They soon became familiar.

On the other side, Xiao Wu became unhappy. He had brought the girls, so his reputation was on the line. Why should he let Chuan-zi and these people steal the scene? So, he went up to confront them. In front of girls, no one was willing to lose face. Each went against the other’s toughness. As a result, there was a violent fight.

Xiao Wu had fewer people. They suffered losses, getting beaten to the ground by Chuan-zi and them. Xiao Wu crawled up and made a phone call, and then fiercely said to Chuan-zi, “My cousin blew the whistle! Just you wait!”

Blowing the whistle was slang in Jianghu. It meant to gather up a group of people.

“I’m waiting!” Chuan-zi knew of Fang Yu and Yang Lei’s friendship, and he had seen Fang Yu’s conduct. He didn’t believe Fang Yu would really come to beat them up.

After Chuan-zi and them played in the skating city for over 20 minutes as usual, Xiao Wu really rushed in aggressively with 20 of his people.

“Beat them up!”

When Xiao Wu waved his hand, there was a fierce battle. Over 20 people against 5 people was an extremely unbalanced surrounding and beating. Not one of Chuan-zi’s people rushed out. At the end, they hugged their heads and curled up on the ground as they were beaten violently. Chuan-zi’s eyes went red. He pulled out a watermelon knife and stabbed Xiao Wu, who was rushing at the very front to cut him.

Xiao Wu went down.

Xiao Wu’s internal organ was stabbed, and Chuan-zi was seriously wounded from the beatings. Both of them went into the hospital.

Xiao Wu’s life was on the line. He was in the emergency room for one day and one night before he was rescued. Xiao Wu’s several close brothers’ eyes were red. They carried knives and went to the second hospital where Chuan-zi was to repay the stab. Chuan-zi, who was lying on the bed in the hospital, was forced to crawl up and jump down from the second floor, and his leg broke again.

This matter had become serious.

At first no one had thought that a few arguments in the skating rink would, at the end, become such an unmanageable situation.

As the older brothers of both sides, even if Yang Lei and Fang Yu didn’t want to meet, it wasn’t possible.

Yang Lei and Fang Yu were both very troubled.

On Yang Lei’s side, the people present that day all said they had seen with their own eyes Xiao Wu calling Fang Yu for help. It was Fang Yu who had blown the whistle. Over 20 of Fang Yu’s subordinates came to cut them.

On Fang Yu’s side, Xiao Wu took a trip to the gates of death, scaring Xiao Wu’s parents greatly. Fang Yu was also miserable in his heart. He knew the stabber was Yang Lei’s best brother, and the person had also been wounded severely. Fang Yu knew Yang Lei also wouldn’t let the matter pass like this.

Their subordinates were watching, and the other gangdom gangs were also watching. They had to come forward, to give the many brothers under their leadership an explanation.

According to Jianghu rules, Fang Yu and Yang Lei agreed to each bring people and meet outside.

The place they agreed to meet was in the second-floor room of a karaoke bar. During such gangdom negotiations, they would always reserve the whole floor. Outsiders knew there was a gang here negotiating, so no one would dare to come disturb them.

The negotiation was in the large room in the center. There were two rooms on the left and right. Yang Lei’s people sat in the left room, and Fang Yu’s people sat in the right room. They each gathered together, all carrying weapons of varying lengths.

These little brothers each sat in their own room, and they didn’t greet each other. Because according to Jianghu’s rules, if the big brothers couldn’t agree later, they would have to take up their weapons and rush out. The ones who should cut would cut, and the ones who should stab would stab.

In the very center room, Yang Lei and Fang Yu were separated by a table, sitting on opposite sofas. Each of their closest subordinates in their gangs stood behind them.

The two people looked at each other, both very silent.

They had lived in the same house, slept on the same bed, drunk, spoken their minds, and shed tears.

But now, they had to face each other coldly and conduct a Jianghu negotiation.