Author: Chai JiDan
Full Etrans: Anne Noh
The weather was getting colder in these past few days, Jiang Xiao Shuai's clinic was overcrowded with people, busied for the whole morning, just when he was about to sit down and have a drink, another voice came from behind.
"Doctor Jiang."
Jiang Xiao Shuai put down the glass and said habitually, "Yes, are you sick anywhere..."
After seeing the person behind him, he couldn't help from clenching his teeth in annoyance, and then he looked at his clothes, donning a suit, ironed flat collar, his hair was trimmed neatly...he couldn't resist from holding his hand, and jokingly said: "Director Wu, your honourable visit, forgive me to not going out to welcome you!"
Wu Suowei laughed heartily, and pinched Jiang Xiao Shuai's face firmly.
"Why are you free today?" Jiang Xiao Shuai asked.
Wu Suowei pointed outside and said: "there is a reconstruction at intersection of [1] District 48, the traffic lights will be standardized, and change to LED traffic signals, and our company accepted this project. In these past two days my staffs are [2] surveying the site, I come to supervise their work, also come to see you."
[T/N: [1] Northern Houhai at Xicheng District. [2] Engineering surveying for highway construction.]
Jiang Xiao Shuai smiled and poked at Wu Suowei's stomach, "you could take over government's project, you aren't a small feat!"
Wu Suowei said seriously, "This is the result of effort by all the employees at the company."
Jiang Xiao Shuai snorted, "isn't it should only be credited to Lieutenant Chi?"
"Who said that?" Wu Suowei denied, "he isn't in the Traffic Management Bureau, he had transferred to the [3] Finance Bureau."
[T/N: [3] in earlier chapters, CC is under Public Security Bureau (PSB) as a Chengguan. Then he became a traffic police under Ministry of Public Security (MPS). Now he transferred to Equipment and Finance Bureau in MPS. His father is a Secretary General in a State Council, even though he isn't the General Secretary, but he still has power in MPS.]
"What's the point of working in Traffic Management Bureau? The development prospect in the Finance Bureau is much better. Your man must have tried his best to transfer to this bureau now because of this project. First, he paved a smooth road for your, and then he snatched one of the official post at the Finance Bureau and provide a great political connection for your company's development and growth. Isn't this what he had planned?"
Wu Suowei coldly snorted, "You think highly of me, it was really easy for him to transfer to another post, why do you think too much? It is really impossible for him to prioritize me, it must those snakes, I guess he also realized, without a solid social status, it is impossible to establish a safe and comfortable living environment for his sons."
Jiang Xiao Shuai smirked at him, "see, you are being bitter."
Wu Suowei denied stubbornly, "why should I be bitter? I always looking forward to the time when he goes to see his snake sons every day, it is even better if he sleeps at the snake house, save the trouble from me since he will annoy me when he come back."
"Ai, that's right." Jiang Xiao Shuai remembered about an issue, "have you confess to him yet?"
Speaking of this matter, the corner of Wu Suowei's eyes dropped down in sorrow.
"That's what I was going to say that day, after he gave me a strong dose of love, I still couldn't open my mouth to say anything. And then I thought, forget it, just let it be, I have destroyed everything between me and Yue Yue. Chi Cheng and I are not living in a circle, the person we know is separated by poles apart, no one will expose the matter between me and Yue Yue to Chi Cheng."
"What about Yue Yue?" Jiang Xiao Shuai reminded him "What if she wants to revenge you?".
Wu Suowei shook his head, "she won't, she must think Chi Cheng well informed of everything, and deliberately helped me to retaliate against her. Just like when I thought Chi Cheng knew everything."
Jiang Xiao Shuai also thought that it was reasonable, "If you can conceal the truth, don't take any risk, when you guys have a stable relationship in the future, perhaps someday you will be able to talk about it, and brought out this matter."
"I think so too."
Another patient came to the door, Jiang Xiao Shuai went to treat that person, Wu Suowei sat on a chair and drink some water, he looked at Jiang Xiao Shuai while drinking and felt Jiang Xiao Shuai was getting thin, the white coat still hugging his body nicely in the summer, now that it was already winter, the white coat was still baggy even when his clothes were thick.
After giving medicine to the patient, Jiang Xiao Shuai sat back again.
Wu Suowei asked him, "What's going on between you and Guo Zi?"
"Just like that." Jiang Xiao Shuai answered ambiguously.
Wu Suowei asked worriedly, "you still think Guo Zi like Chi Cheng?"
"it's hard for us to have a nice talk, can we not talk about those disappointing matters?" Jiang Xiao Shuai looked meaningfully at Wu Suowei, "Tell me about your happy life."
Wu Suowei's face flushed from embarrassment, "what can I be happy about?"
"[4] You have a big company, [5] a fùèrdài protects you, not lack of money and love, what else do you want?"
[T/N: [4] JXS is teasing WS. He used a polite you 您 instead of normal you 你that he usually use. [5] fùèrdài (富二代), literally, "rich second generation," is the children from wealthy parents (first generation).]
Wu Suowei said, "I want a wife."
Jiang Xiao Shuai laughed, "You don't need one! You won't know what to do even if you have a wife! The thing around your crotch, had been abandon for so long, it is going to get rusty, right?"
Director Wu who was still composed before coming into the clinic, immediately flew into rage when he heard to Jiang Xiao Shuai's words.
"Who said that? My younger brother is always bursting with vigour! I am doing bodybuilding recently, I am aiming to top Chi Cheng soon." He said eloquently.
Jiang Xiao Shuai also didn't attack Wu Suowei's ego, and only laughed.
When they were chatting, Wu Suowei received a call from an unknown number, and turned out to be Chi Cheng when he picked it up.
"I have business outside, my phone is out of credit, help me to top up some credit."
Wu Suowei put down the phone bitterly and he looked annoyed.
Jiang Xiao Shuai asked, "What's wrong?"
"Do you think this person is doing it deliberately? Out of credit as soon as he goes out, he doesn't even have any cash in his pocket, always make me top up his credit, it must be a trick to extort money from me."
Jiang Xiao Shuai grinned, "how much did you paid for his credit? An impressive director, more than hundred thousand enters your account every day, but you still fuss over small amount of money? Besides, Chi Cheng is the person in your bed, and you still calculate everything so clearly?"
Wu Suowei became even angrier when talked about this matter.
"I don't really calculate everything so clearly at first, and then I realized that this won't work, and I completely suffer a loss. For example, when it is buying a meal, when it is his turn to buy a meal, he will only leisurely eat a few mouthfuls, when it is my turn to buy a meal, he will not stop eating."
"And last month, he doesn't even tell me when he finished up my mobile data, and made me exceed my mobile data quota, and so much money had been deducted from my credit."
"Pftt..." Jiang Xiao Shuai sprayed out the water in his mouth, "you are lashing out just for small amount of data?"
Wu Suowei was utterly flustered, "this isn't about money, the problem is his attitude. He did it on purpose! When he was at home, knew his balance isn't that much, and yet he deliberately didn't top up, insisted on waiting until his phone out of credit and make me top up for him. Besides, he usually brings his wallet when he goes out, but he goes out empty-handed when he is out of credit."
Jiang Xiao Shuai as a master, when he heard his disciple complaints about his hardship, not only he didn't have the slightest sympathy, yet he felt very funny.
Wu Suowei continued: "Last month he bought me a thermal underwear, I didn't give him anything back, and he became restless. This month he kept on fussing around with his cashmere underpants in front of my face, and also said it had shrunk, and already pilling, in fact, his cashmere underpants was made from a great material, the length is just right, he just deliberately pressured me to force me to spend money on him."
Jiang Xiao Shuai honestly felt that if it is someone else, he would feel very annoyed. But now that it happened to Chi Cheng, why did he feel it is so cute?
"Then do you buy a new one for him?" Jiang Xiao Shuai deliberately asked.
Wu Suowei looked indifferently, "no, I'm accustomed to his bad habit!"
Jiang Xiao Shuai laughed again, "then are you going to top up his credit? What if he run away while being outside, where are you going to find him?"
"It's good if he runs away!"
That being said, Wu Suowei still asked Jiang Xiao Shuai to help him top up his [6] credit online.
[T/N: [6] For more details refer below.]
"How much do you want to top up?" Jiang Xiao Shuai asked.
Wu Suowei signalled with his chin, "look at the overdue amount first."
Jiang Xiao Shuai received Chi Cheng's account number, and checked his bill, it showed that his overdue was 29.3 RMB.
Wu Suowei unexpectedly said, "top up 30RMB."
Jiang Xiao Shuai was surprised, "You want to top up 30RMB? The balance is only 70 cents, and it will be gone after sending a few messages!"
Wu Suowei thought for a while and said: "Then add another 4.9RMB."
Jiang Xiao Shuai almost slipped off the chair, "I said...Why are you so precise? Even if you don't top up 100RMB or 200RMB, would you at least get a whole number? Perhaps 10 RMB, or 5RMB?"
"Just 4.9RMB." Wu Suowei insisted on that amount.
Jiang Xiao Shuai wondered, "How do you come up with this amount?"
"His calling rate is 10 cents for two minutes, it is free if he receives a call, he never sends text message, and mostly talk to me on the phone. We only talk for 30 minutes at most, 12 cents per minutes, at most it will be 3.6RMB. When he is talking with someone else, it won't last more than a minute, 4.9RMB 3.6RMB will be 1.3RMB, plus the remaining 70 cents, that 2RMB is enough for him to make a business call, if he wants to talk with someone else, serve him right if he runs out of credit!"
Jiang Xiao Shuai looked respectfully at Wu Suowei with a worshipping eyes, he felt Wu Suowei already became a legend!
......
Leaving Jiang Xiao Shuai's place, Wu Suowei followed his employees to another location.
Passing by a department store, Wu Suowei stood outside hesitantly for a long time, and finally went in.
He went straight to the men's undergarment section, browsing around several shops, and most of them was too expensive. Browsing around, finally there was only one store left, and he wouldn't buy any if he didn't find anything suitable.
As a result, the price was the same as the previous shops, pants with high cashmere content cost more than 2000RMB. But if the cashmere content was low, Wu Suowei was afraid it wouldn't be warm.
Just as he wanted to leave, suddenly saw the special offer section near the entrance.
"All the cashmere underpants here are last stock, it is pure cashmere, contain cashmere up to 98%, the original price is 3000RMB to 4000RMB, now at 799RMB, this is the highest discount rate since the shop opened."
Wu Suowei went inside to look around, look like all the pants are in small size, with Chi Cheng's sturdy build, it definitely wouldn't fit. Rummaging around until the bottom, he finally found a large size pants.
"Not sure if it will fit..." Wu Suowei muttered.
The salesman asked, "Will you wear it to yourself or a gift to someone else?"
"A gift to someone else." Wu Suowei said.
The salesman asked again, "The what is his height and weight?"
Wu Suowei said ambiguously. "His height is 1.85 meter? 1.87 meter? Weigh at least [7] 160 jin...he is very sturdy by the way."
[T/N: [7] 160 jin is 80kg.]
The salesman pondered for a moment and said, "he should be able to wear this size, it's fine if it is a little tight, and this winter pants is very stretchy, and anyone bigger than him will still be able to wear it."
Wu Suowei was unsure and asked once again.
"If it doesn't fit, can I return it?"
The salesman said apologetically, "I'm very sorry, discount item couldn't be returned, if there is a quality problem, you can bring it over for a fix."
"Like that..."
Wu Suowei hesitated, he really couldn't resist the temptation of special offer, and paid for it.
[1] CJD used 小日子 which simply mean a simple life of a young couple. In another word, A Young Couple's Simple Life With Meticulous Budgeting. Meticulous Budgeting is from an idiom, usually used when a wife doing a home budget.
[6] Just like any normal sim card package, there are many packages that come with internet and call quota. If you exceed the plan's quota and use additional data, the service provider will calculate it according to their rate per data and it will be deducted from your balance in the SIM card. You can check any number's bill and quota if you know that person's password and phone account number. To top up simply use Taobao or WeChat since you only need to key in the phone number.
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