Li Sheng said nothing, and after eating he went back to the living room to continue working. Yuan Ye didn’t keep asking either, but his expression became cheerful instead of maintaining that rigid look, feeling that his cooking skills today were especially good.
“Do you have news of my brother?”
Yuan Ye sat on the sofa next to Li Sheng, looking down at him from above. “Your brother? Rest assured, your brother is at the military region waiting for assignments, no time to go to Myanmar, and your parents are also very well. Given your father’s status, not a single person in the military region dares to show him disrespect. You just need to worry about yourself.”
“What is there to worry about? In broad daylight, they’d still dare to blow my brains out with a gun?”
“Don’t forget, you were the one who got injured in broad daylight. There are quite a few capable people around. Tomorrow I’ll send someone to take you to the hospital, you still shouldn’t run around blindly by yourself.”
“Don’t, I’m not that fragile.”
“Tomorrow at nine, I’ll arrange for someone to pick you up.”
“I can manage myself, I…” Before Li Sheng could finish his sentence, Yuan Ye suddenly leaned over. Li Sheng was sitting in the crack between the sofa and the coffee table, and being pressed upon like this by Yuan Ye, he couldn’t move at all. The two of them were pressed very close, so close that he could see the peach fuzz on Yuan Ye’s face.
“I said, I want to protect you. This mouth of yours, how come you have so much to say?” Having said that, he kissed Li Sheng’s mouth. Li Sheng’s lips were very soft; whether it was because he was unprepared or not, Yuan Ye easily pried open Li Sheng’s lips and entwined with his tongue, making shameful sounds. Li Sheng originally wanted to resist, but once kissed by Yuan Ye, he instantly lost his strength. When Yuan Ye finally let him go, he really wanted to rush out the door without looking back, just to escape Yuan Ye’s line of sight.
“You don’t eat candy, yet this mouth of yours is still sweet.” Looking at the expression on Li Sheng’s face and his slightly red cheeks, he said somewhat contentedly, “Actually, the first time I saw you, I knew you would definitely like me.”
Li Sheng pushed Yuan Ye away, picked up his materials, and prepared to return to his room. “I really don’t know where you get your confidence from.”
Yuan Ye sat back down on the sofa, peeled a White Rabbit creamy candy from his pocket, with an expression that seemed like he was lingering on the aftertaste, and also like praise. “The taste is really good.”
When Yuan Ye went back to his room, Li Sheng was already lying down. He lay down beside Li Sheng, hugged him from behind, and rubbed against his soft hair at Li Sheng’s back. Li Sheng knew he couldn’t push him away, so he didn’t make a move. “Did you grow lice? What are you randomly moving around for?”
“Just hugging you, go to sleep.”
At nine o’clock the next day, sure enough, two tall men came to pick Li Sheng up. Li Sheng couldn’t help feeling a bit troubled; if others saw this, they would think he had gotten mixed up with the underworld. Even though he thought this way, he still went along to the hospital.
Yuan Ye pushed aside all his matters for the afternoon, because the two people who had caused trouble at Li Fan’s wedding were being released from prison today, so he personally went to pick people up and found the most convenient environment.
He recognized that young man who had thrown the punches; he wasn’t old, only around twenty-something. The other one clearly didn’t look Chinese, and it was unknown how he had managed to sneak in. Yuan Ye clapped the dust off his hands, and said to the young man, “Come on, tell me how it happened. After the police finished listening, I haven’t heard it yet, I want to listen to another version.”
The young man had long since been scared out of his wits. Originally they were supposed to be released at twelve, but it turned out they were let out an hour early. The people who were supposed to pick them up didn’t arrive, but instead he was picked up by Yuan Ye. “I, I really don’t know. The day before, there was a person, looking very rich. He said he wanted to hire two thugs, and had already hired one—that’s him—and said he still wanted to hire another. I’m a petty thief in the market, very familiar with this area’s terrain. He told me to go make trouble at the wedding, not needing to make too big of a commotion, just make some gestures will do. As a result, as a result, that man discovered I brought a knife with me, and in my panic I… Big Brother, I was wrong, I didn’t know what kind of status any of you had, I really didn’t know.”
Yuan Ye nodded. “No need to make too big of a commotion. You didn’t make too big of a commotion, but you should be quite glad that I also don’t like making too big of a commotion.” The young man watched as Yuan Ye took an iron hammer out from behind the chair, panicked in his heart, and actually peed his pants. “Big Brother, Big Brother, I really was wrong.”
“Mm, knowing your wrongs and reforming is being a good child, from now on just turn over a new leaf. But you made my people see blood, so I have to do something to repay you.”
“Ah!!!!!!!!!”
Yuan Ye smashed down fiercely, and the young man’s right arm completely deformed, groaning in agonizing pain as he lay on the ground. Yuan Ye nodded to the men beside him. “Take him to the hospital.” Immediately following that, he looked at the Burmese man who didn’t even blink his eyes. Yuan Ye knew he wouldn’t be able to ask anything out of him, so he simply didn’t bother wasting effort, pulled a gun out from his chest, attached a silencer, and gave him a quick release.