Chapter 21: 表白
[Confession]
Seeing this, the maid on the side hurriedly came over to serve Tang Xiaobao, “Young lady, young master went out early this morning, saying that you were tired yesterday, so you should rest a bit more today, he has already asked the kitchen to make those breakfasts you usually love to eat and wait for them, just waiting for madam to wake up so she can eat them.”
Hearing the maid’s words, Tang Xiaobao lifted his head and looked at her with great surprise, his tone very puzzled, “He didn’t say he was going out today?”
Hearing Tang Xiaobao’s words, the maid lowered her head and said very respectfully, “The slave girl doesn’t know, it’s just that the Young Master took Feng Ling out this morning.”
Hearing the maid’s words, Tang Xiaobao frowned, feeling a little uncomfortable at the bottom of his heart. Yesterday he was still entangled in how awkward it would be for the two of them to meet today, and Ji Ling actually ran away without a word. So, Tang Xiaobao ate his breakfast alone, bored and unhappy. As a result, Ji Ling didn’t come back at noon, which made his original fear disappear again, and he only thought about where Ji Ling had run off to, and actually didn’t even say hello.
At this moment, Ji Ling was sitting in Wang Jiang Lou, only that the person sitting opposite him was not the shopkeeper, but another slim middle-aged man.
“Boss Li, this is the highest price I can give you.” Ji Ling’s eyes looked at him for an instant, even when facing such an old and cunning character he did not have the slightest bit of stage fright.
Boss Li’s eyes turned a few times on the young man with outstanding appearance, then smiled and said: “Mr Ji, I’m afraid that the price you mentioned is still a little bit wrong, our Li family has the biggest pier here, and we also have the most workers, if according to this price, I’m afraid that we can’t get much benefit? Although your Ji family is the biggest merchant in the whole country, we can’t do this, after all, when it comes to business, one thing at a time (don’t mix them up…implies they are two(or more) different things).”
Ji Ling glanced at him, and then looked to the outside not far from the very calm water, thinking about this matter today has wasted their own time for almost a morning, talk about this and that is really a bit annoying, “Boss Li, ‘Honest people don’t speak in riddles’, how much overstatement in this talk is probably you know only too well aware and then say you have recently had a number of not too small things, if it is a chain of capital breaks the gap can not be found! I am afraid that the loss of more than a little something, if you recently had some big things, I’m afraid that if we can’t find a way to remedy the funding gap, we’ll lose more than that? It will be of great advantage to you, as well as to me, if I do so.”
Ji Ling’s tone was very light, but it made Boss Li’s eyebrows jump and his face look a bit ugly, then after thinking for a while, seeing that he couldn’t fool the people on the other side of the table, he laughed out very crisply, “Since Mr Ji has taken out his sincerity, then I, surname Li, can’t help but to follow it.”
Seeing that the agreement had been reached, Ji Ling looked at Boss Li and said something not salty or light, and the two of them ate a meal. Only then did they leave each other. Sitting on top of the carriage, he thought for a moment about how embarrassed he had made Tang Xiaobao yesterday, and wondered if he would still cook himself soup.
“Young master, since the Li family is already like this, why do we still want to co-operate with them?” Even though Ji Ling was still expressionless, Feng Ling, who had followed him all the way here, knew that he was in a good mood, so he took the opportunity to ask a question.
Ji Ling glanced at him and then said lightly, “The Li family won’t be able to collapse for a while, so in order not to collapse, they will do better and we will be able to gain a few more per cent of the profits.”
Hearing Ji Ling’s explanation, Feng Ling nodded his head, indicating that he was clear about it, and it was true that his own young master was formidable.
When Ji Ling came back, Tang Xiaobao, who had been sitting there chatting without a care in the world, stood up excitedly, and then, as if he had thought of something, sat down again with an angry face. When Ji Ling came in, he saw Tang Xiaobao looking at himself with a tangled face, which contained too many components for him to distinguish.
“What’s wrong?” As the maid removed his grey outer tower, he saw Tang Xiaobao staring at him with what he thought was a hidden look. When he saw himself looking over, he turned his face away as if he were a thief, and after repeating this a few times, Ji Ling sipped the tea presented by the maid while opening his mouth to ask.
After seeing Ji Ling come back, he finally looked at himself. Tang Xiaobao wanted to ask him why he kissed himself last night, and did those ambiguous things, causing him to not sleep well all night. But just when he wanted to open his mouth, his ears suddenly rang with the words that Ji Ling said to himself when he first came here, he said that he was his Fu Lang and Ji Ling was his husband. Thinking of this, Tang Xiaobao is a bit discouraged. To be fair, what Ji Ling did is not wrong, so he thinks Tang Xiaobao suddenly feels a little discouraged.
Remaining calm and collected as he looked at Tang Xiaobao all the way to change, Ji Ling also does not say anything, just faintly saying: “I’m hungry.”
Tang Xiaobao glanced at him listlessly, and then said with great reluctance; “I have cook the chicken soup, if you want to drink it, ask the subordinate to present it.”
Sure enough, the subordinate soon put the stewed very tasty chicken soup over, looking at the chicken soup, but Ji Ling did not praise him, Tang Xiaobao became more unhappy. Usually, when he made something delicious, Ji Ling would praise himself after eating it.
Seeing Ji Ling who naturally went to read a book after finishing the soup, Tang Xiaobao was even more depressed, and after sitting for a while, he got up and went to the garden.
After Tang Xiaobao went out, Ji Ling put down the book in his hand, looked at the remaining subordinate serving in his room, and faintly asked, “What did madam do today?”
The maid who waited for Tang Xiaobao to get up this morning stood out, bowed to Ji Ling, and then said, “After the madam got up, he asked the young master where he had gone, and then he ate breakfast alone, and then he went to stew soup and waited for the young master to come back.”
After listening to his narrative, Ji Ling waved his hand and told him to go down. After thinking about Tang Xiaobao’s angry face just now, he sat for a while, then got up and went out.
When he came to the garden, he saw that Cai Yue and others were standing far away from Tang Xiaobao’s place to guard, and Tang Xiaobao did not know what he was holding in his hand, and he threw it into the pool in anger, which led to the fish below chasing and puffing out a piece of water.
As Ji Ling approached, Cai Yue and the others who saw him were stopped when they were about to salute him. He ordered them to stand still, not to follow him, and walked towards Tang Xiaobao’s side.
Seeing that Ji Ling did not even look at himself, and walked all the way towards that man above, Cai Yue clenched her fists, and looked at Tang Xiaobao with eyes full of calculation in a place where the public could not see.
Tang Xiaobao looked at the fish below scrambling for food, clumsily began to fight, the heart of those unhappy receded a lot, so the way he threw became more and more energetic.
“They’ll die of exhaustion if you do that.” Ji Ling’s words rang out coldly from behind him, frightening Tang Xiaobao so much that the bun in his hand dropped unsteadily, splashing up a not-so-small splash of water.
Seeing this, Tang Xiaobao turned his head to look at Ji Ling, who was staring at him, and had the feeling of guilt of being caught by the teacher, so he hurriedly hid the buns that he hadn’t finished spreading by his side.
Ji Ling glanced at Tang Xiao Bao’s little action, not pointing out the fact that he couldn’t hide his buns on that big plate, but just staring at Tang Xiao Bao quietly.
See Ji Ling has been staring at himself, eyes full of oppression, has gone through the nine years of compulsory education, high school and university, his teacher in charge of a class oppress Tang Xiaobao, he do not know where it come from, the courage, the evil grew as he looked at Ji Ling and said: “Since you have not apologized to me, I will not forgive you.”
Seeing Tang Xiaobao who usually always been very timid, suddenly full of courage, shouted towards him, Ji Ling felt very interesting, the corner of his lips slightly hooked up, step by step towards him to go, only to see with their footsteps move, Tang Xiaobao gradually shrinking back, saw him about to fall against the railing, reached out to hold down his hand, lowered his head and looked at him, “I’m not wrong. “
Seeing such an unreasonable Ji Ling, Tang Xiaobao felt very aggrieved, and tears began to accumulate in his eyes.
Ji Ling looked at him without saying a word, yes, it is this kind of feeling of wanting to bully someone to tears. He reached out and touched the corners of Tang Xiaobao’s eyes, looking at the tears falling down, thinking that if someone else had cried like this in front of him, he would have turned away and left a long time ago.
Seeing that Ji Ling completely ignored himself, and played with his tears, looking very happy, Tang Xiaobao became more and more heartbroken. He took him as his brother, good food and drink to serve, he was so sad, actually he did not coax him.
Appreciating enough, Tang Xiaobao’s aggrieved look, Ji Ling only reached out from his own arms took out his own brocade handkerchief to Tang Xiaobao, gently wiped up the tears, said faintly: “You are my husband, you should get used to it.”
Hearing this, Tang Xiaobao was even more aggrieved to the point of no return, looking at Ji Ling who had never been so gentle and complaining; “But you don’t like me, and I don’t like you, so how can we do such a thing?”
Ji Ling’s hand paused, looked at Tang Xiaobao, looked at him seriously for a while, saw that the person didn’t cry anymore, lowered his head and kissed his forehead, “I like you, you’ll like me too.” At least, others didn’t manage to make himself rise the desire to get closer.
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