Chapter 36: Splitting the Money

Wu Xianping also left. Zhou Andong, with a cigarette in his mouth, looked at the snowflakes drifting all over the sky and said: "It seems this snow won't stop for a while."

Yao Jun exhaled: "The weather forecast says the temperature will be minus twenty-seven degrees tomorrow. This damn weather, it's really going to freeze people to death."

"Let's go!" Zhou Andong stepped forward to walk home. "During this period, haven't you heard any rumors about me and Wang Ruomei?"

Yao Jun was stunned: "I heard them!"

Zhou Andong asked: "Why didn't you tell me?"

Yao Jun said: "It's spread all over the factory. Haven't you heard?"

Zhou Andong said irritably: "I'm the person involved. Besides Liu Yi and Zhang Zhanhai from the broadcast station, who would tell me these things? But I haven't been to the broadcast station for a while, and I haven't run into Liu Yi or Old Zhang, so how could I know?"

Yao Jun scratched his head and chuckled dryly: "It was my oversight."

Zhou Andong took a deep drag of his cigarette: "Wang Ruomei hasn't been to work for two or three days. You have Tang Wenjuan go to Wang Ruomei's house and take a look. After all, it was me who implicated her. If something really happened, I would be uneasy for the rest of my life."

When the name Tang Wenjuan was spoken by Zhou Andong, Yao Jun's heart skipped a beat, and his eyes flickered as he said: "I'm not close to Tang Wenjuan..."

Zhou Andong stopped in his tracks and stared at Yao Jun without blinking.

Yao Jun felt his scalp tingle from Zhou Andong's stare: "What are you looking at? I really don't know any Tang Wenjuan."

Looking at Yao Jun's innocent little expression, Zhou Andong laughed helplessly: "If you don't want people to know, you shouldn't have done it. You two have been hooking up for a long time, did you think I didn't know?"

Yao Jun opened his mouth wide, definitely enough to fit a big steamed bun: "You... you you you... you you..."

*Clap! *

Zhou Andong kicked Yao Jun on the butt: "What are you stuttering about?"

Tang Wenjuan wasn't very pretty, but she knew how to dress up. She was a famous vixen in the factory and was especially vain. Of course, there was no shortage of suitors around her.

However, love was truly something hard to fathom. Tang Wenjuan just happened to take a fancy to the short and stubby Yao Jun. After news of them dating spread, no one thought it would last.

Yet, in a situation where no one was optimistic, Tang Wenjuan, as if out of spite, married Yao Jun without hesitation and even gave birth to a son and a daughter for him. But she was still as vain as ever, spending all day criticizing Yao Jun for being incompetent and useless.

Later, when Yao Jun was not yet forty, he suddenly suffered a cerebral thrombosis. He was rescued for seven days, and more than a dozen critical illness notices were issued. Even the doctor advised Tang Wenjuan to give up, but Tang Wenjuan knelt in front of the doctor and kowtowed, begging the doctor to save Yao Jun. To pay for Yao Jun's medical treatment, she even sold the house they had just bought.

At that time, Zhou Andong finally understood that although Tang Wenjuan was vain and criticized Yao Jun all day, in that woman's heart, no one could replace Yao Jun. Suddenly, he envied Yao Jun very much for being able to marry a woman like Tang Wenjuan who loved him like her own life.

Yao Jun's life was saved. After more than two years of recuperation and exercise, he not only recovered as before, but his physical fitness was actually better than before he got sick. Except when it rained, he would exercise every morning.

Yao Jun's face turned as red as a monkey's butt: "I... I'll have Wenjuan go to Wang Ruomei's house to take a look tomorrow."

Looking at Yao Jun's pathetic look, Zhou Andong said: "What's there to be embarrassed about dating? When did your skin become so thin?"

Yao Jun opened his mouth and said hesitantly: "Wenjuan's reputation isn't very good. Don't you oppose me being with her?"

Zhou Andong rolled his eyes: "Who you date is your own business. What qualification do I have to oppose it? Besides, whether Tang Wenjuan's reputation is good or not, who has seen her do anything with any man? Don't listen to rumors. Just like me and Wang Ruomei, do you believe that's true?"

Yao Jun shook his head vigorously: "I don't believe it!"

"That's it then." Zhou Andong patted Yao Jun on the shoulder. "I believe Tang Wenjuan is a good woman. You must hold on tight and don't lose her, otherwise, you will regret it."

Hearing Zhou Andong's words, Yao Jun's expression became firmer than ever: "I will. No matter what anyone says, as long as Tang Wenjuan marries me, I will marry her."

Zhou Andong laughed loudly, took out the money Wu Xianping gave him from his pocket, counted it, and it was correct. Then he took out three thousand and gave it to Yao Jun: "This is for you and San'er."

Yao Jun took the money and counted one thousand back to Zhou Andong: "San'er and I discussed it. You take three thousand, and we'll just take one thousand each."

Zhou Andong didn't say anything and put the money in his pocket. Although Yao Jun and Chen Weimin's families weren't wealthy, they were much better off than his. However, he would definitely keep this brotherly sentiment in his heart.

At the City Hospital, Wolf Head and Big Worm were lying on hospital beds with casts on their legs, staring blankly at the ceiling.

These two guys had comminuted fractures of their leg bones. If that was all, it wouldn't be a big deal. The serious thing was that their legs had been run over by car wheels, causing large-scale skin avulsion injuries, and the muscles and bones had separated. If they hadn't been sent in time, they would have lost their lives. So, they would have to spend the rest of their lives in wheelchairs.

*Creak*, the old wooden door of the ward was pushed open. A young man wearing a suit, gold-rimmed glasses, fair skin, and looking very refined walked in.

This guy was called Huo Xing, Zhao Jianlong's strategist and the boss who controlled the underground forces in Jiangzhou. It could be said that without his existence, there would be no Zhao Jianlong today.

Wolf Head and Big Worm tilted their heads to see Huo Xing, and their expressions suddenly became excited.

"Brother Xing!"

Huo Xing asked: "How are you two feeling?"

Wolf Head said: "Feeling quite good."

"Hmm!" Huo Xing pulled a stool from the side, sat down, and took out two cards from his pocket: "There are one hundred thousand in each card, as your settlement fee. Brother Long said, when you get better, go to the nightclub and do some things you can handle."

The two took the cards with moved expressions: "Brother Xing, as long as we two are still alive, this life belongs to you and Brother Long."

Huo Xing smiled: "You two rest well and get discharged as soon as possible. The brothers are all waiting to welcome you."

"Damn it!" Big Worm cursed: "I haven't wanted to stay in this broken place for a long time. Not allowed to smoke, not allowed to drink..."

Huo Xing glanced at Big Worm, and Big Worm immediately closed his mouth, swallowing the words he hadn't finished saying.

"Hmph!"

Huo Xing snorted: "You two don't be stupid, damn it. Do whatever the doctor says, you hear me?"

"Heard you!" Big Worm muttered.

Wolf Head laughed, then his face turned gloomy again: "Brother Xing, how is that Zhou Andong being handled?"

Huo Xing said coldly: "Brother Long is currently being evaluated for the Top Ten Outstanding Youth of the Province. Wait until this matter is settled, then we'll deal with that Zhou Andong. When that time comes, how to deal with him will be up to you." ===== CHAPTER 37 =====