Loving The Rival

CHAPTER 42: The One Getting Cheated Is You!

Wu Suowei's bright eyes instantly dimmed. He scrunched his forehead in tiredness and continued staring at Chi Cheng, pretending that he is a weak soul persevering to show that he is fine.

"Don't listen to his nonsense. I'm well and healthy!"

"I'm talking nonsense?" Jiang XiaoShuai continued to exaggerate, "Running out even when it's cold and raining and coming back full of sweat. With that rain and wind, is it possible to not catch a cold? Just to catch a few wild frogs, you jumped into the brook in this freezing weather, making you catch a fever of 41°C......"

Understanding what Jiang XiaoShuai was trying to do, Wu Suowei cut in, "Jiang XiaoShuai, you better stop talking!"

Jiang XiaoShuai continued rumbling, "This antic of cheapening yourself can be addictive. Wearing old, torn clothing on your own while sending all the good stuff into others' pocket. Now that you are sick, you don't even dare to show your face, afraid that you would infect the other person..." Turning his head to Chi Cheng, "Mr. Ferocious, if this guy froze to death in the brook, what a big loss it would be for the world of idiots?"

The memory of Wu Suowei playing basketball alone on the night it was raining floated into Chi Cheng's mind.

"Wu ge!"

The junior's voice rang out clearly and anxiously from the door.

Came at the perfect timing! Wu Suowei pushed Chi Cheng aside, adjusted his clothed and looked at his junior.

"What happened?"

The junior's face was filled with anxiety, "Another dozen of our snakes died again!"

This time round, Wu Suowei finally had some response. He jumped up from the sofa, worriedly put on his shoes and started walking out as he asked his junior, "What happened? How did it die?"

Chi Cheng followed them.

When they reached those two rooms and saw the dying snakelets, Chi Cheng asked Wu Suowei, "You also raise snakes?"

Wu Suowei was gritting his teeth in worry and didn't bother answering.

Chi Cheng lifted up one of the snakes, carelessly looked at its eye and threw it back.

"Stop wasting your effort. All your snakes won't survive."

Wu Suowei looked like this was the first time he was hearing this news and his eyes became watery immediately.

"Why? When my shifu sold me this batch of snakes, he said these are wild snakes and want me to feed them with wild feed. I followed his instructions and only used human-made feed at most twice."

"The feed doesn't matter." Chi Cheng calmly said, "It's the snake species that is bad. You got cheated."

"Nonsense!" Wu Suowei argued plausibly, "I was there as an apprentice for two months and know them very well. Why would they cheat on people that are close to them? The snakes must have eaten the wrong stuff."

After he said that, he made the junior minced up the wild toads and squirrels from the nearby bucket, planning to feed it to the snakelets in a while.

Chi Cheng also didn't continue to be nonsensical with Wu Suowei. He scooped up the bucket in one swoop and walked outside. His Er Bao had been craving for a few days, it's time to improve its diet.

Wu Suowei started to panic, "What do you want to do?"

Chi Cheng answered naturally, "Since your snakes are not going to survive, there is no need to waste the feed."

Wu Suowei chased him all the way out.

Chi Cheng stood outside his car and asked, "Which snake farm did you learnt your skills from?"

Wu Suowei answered adamantly, "Wang's Snake Farm! If you don't believe it, go and find out about it. They have a very good reputation and wouldn't do such a thing."

Chi Cheng did not say anything and drove off.

Please note that some part might be incorrect as we don't know how to translate the slangs and idioms to English and translators might rely on the pinyin. Mistakes are bound to happen and corrections are very welcome.