Chapter 624: 614
Interrogating such matters naturally did not require Ye Tian and his colleagues to get involved; the National Security Bureau agents lurking in the vicinity took over. Indeed, just as Ye Tian had suspected, these two fellows were a pair of little ruffians blended into the Imperial Capital. They ca from the United States and were advised to leave their study abroad program due to excessive skipping of classes. Unable to return to their holand, they loitered in various bars, living as deadbeats. This ti, they were indeed exploited by soone. According to their confession, while socializing in a bar, a black man approached them, offering a thousand US dollars to spill a bit of blood on the old man, the more ruthless the action, the better, but it couldn’t pose a lethal threat.
When the interrogator brought the report over, everyone was sowhat puzzled. Since they ca all the way here, why not simply kill him? Why insist on no fatalities? As everyone was baffled, Gu Zhun, who was diligently savoring his roast duck, spoke up, “This is a warning, to caution to be more careful with what I say and do, otherwise, the consequences will be dire.”
This indeed was the conclusion reached by the comrades at the National Security Bureau, but clearly, the result didn’t seem sufficiently persuasive.
Unable to fathom a reason, everyone decided to put the matter aside for now; all they could do was to step up their vigilance.
“Mr. Ye, could you please co with ?”
Ling Rong said to Ye Tian, who shook his head quite decisively, “I can’t.”
“Why not?” Ling Rong asked, a tad irritated.
“I don’t want to, and I’m not willing to.”
Ye Tian turned to Qin Chuan behind him and asked, “Are you staying here tonight, or should I, or perhaps, we could both stay?”
“I’ll stay here, and you can co over tomorrow morning.”
“Alright. Then I’ll be heading back.”
Ye Tian left, followed by Ling Rong with an unpleasant expression.
Crossing two streets and circling around two alleyways, they eventually arrived at the riverbank with white marble railings. Many people were strolling in the coolness of sumr, mostly student couples. There were also old n and won singing operas and playing chess. Ye Tian leaned on the railings, watching people swimming in the clear sections of the river, although there were fewer in the murkier sections, so just flashing spotlights from boats collecting garbage.
“Speak up, you had sothing to say to , right?”
Standing by his side was Ling Rong, the girl with red hair, looking displeased, indeed a stubborn young woman. Perhaps she still thought at this point that Ye Tian had taken the pearl.
Since Ye Tian left, she had been following him, and he thought she was still concerned about the answer to the question from earlier in the day.
“What did he tell you at the restaurant? I really want to know, can you tell ?”
Hmm?
This question was sowhat unexpected for Ye Tian. Why would she ask about this? It shouldn’t be.
Ye Tian gazed at the swimming people in the distance, then at the elderly won practicing square dancing in the lights, and finally his gaze settled on Ling Rong, “What did you just say?”
“I just want to know what he told you at the duck restaurant.”
“Who? Your grandfather?”
“Gu Zhun, Mr. Gu.”
Ling Rong’s enunciation was very clear, clearly containing resentnt towards Ye Tian’s feigned ignorance.
A gentle breeze blew, but it didn’t bring Ye Tian much coolness, rather a touch of heat, “Can you stop being so hot-headed for a mont, I’m hot.”
Ling Rong retracted her fiery aura, and the air imdiately felt cooler; Ye Tian inwardly cursed her as a freak.
“Your grandfather didn’t say much, just told a story.”
“What story?”
“Ever heard of ‘Two Tigers’?”
“One without ears and one without a tail?”
Ye Tian laughed with a “puff”, maybe because she caught on too smoothly; he couldn’t help it, making the girl opposite him blush with embarrassnt and glare at him, teeth clenched. Ye Tian found that she was actually rather cute.
“Why would he tell you these things?”
Ye Tian shook his head, “No, he didn’t tell that story.”
Ling Rong clenched her teeth again, “Then tell what ‘Two Tigers’ ans!”
“I just wanted to tell you that the story he told was similar to that one. Who told you he talked about the story of ‘Two Tigers’?”
Ling Rong stood on a cluster of purple flas that flared up much larger than in the morning, she waved her hand quickly, “Stop stop stop, I’ll talk, I’ll talk, you girl, why are you so hot-tempered, how will you ever get married… I’ll talk, I’ll talk!”
The purple fla conveniently stopped right between the two of them and then disappeared.
Ye Tian had to admit that if he were to control that fla, he certainly wouldn’t handle it as adeptly as Ling Rong did.
“Can you talk now?”
Ye Tian glanced at the couple looking in their direction, smiled apologetically, then whispered, “Don’t be so impulsive all the ti, you should understand that… I’ll talk, I’ll talk.”
Startled by Ling Rong’s glaring eyes, Ye Tian felt uneasy.
“Your grandfather, the story he told , it wasn’t about two tigers, but about two ducks. You should know about it, right? Really don’t know?”
Seeing Ling Rong’s clueless look, Ye Tian asked in disbelief.
Impatiently, Ling Rong cut him off, “Keep talking.”
Ye Tian swallowed, “Your grandfather actually has always wanted to return to the Mainland, but it seems due to various reasons he can’t co back, and so people oppose his return, so over the decades he’s been just staring to the east, on full moon nights eating mooncakes, during the Dragon Boat Festival munching on zongzi, and then, as if possessed, determined to taste Beiping’s roast duck. So, he had soone from the Mainland send him two ducks, which turned out to be alive, and your grandfather raised them. Just like that, although it doesn’t exactly make a story. Anyway, I find it quite unusual, an old man’s special fondness for two ducks, could this be considered a post-modernist romanticism…”
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