Inferior by Nature

A group of big men in black quickly surged up all around, taking over the control of the middle-aged man from Ran Qingzhuang.

The man yelled indiscriminately, being dragged further and further away.

"Do you know how dangerous it was just now?" Ran Qingzhuang jumped off the table and walked towards me with frowns.

"I..." I was pushed to the front, not forced to stand out.I just wanted to persuade him with good intentions, but I didn't expect him to be so excited.If I knew there was danger here, I wouldn't come here, who can predict it?

The originally good mood suddenly fell to the bottom.

It is of course possible to argue with him about these things, but he will definitely think that I am sophistry, and the end is destined to be unhappy for both of us.

He hates me so whatever I do or say is wrong.

"...I'm sorry." I figured it out, and I didn't intend to argue with him anymore, so I apologized heartily.

Ran Qingzhuang didn't show his face when he heard the words, but his brows swelled even tighter, as if he was caught off guard by my blow, and he was full of scolding at me and didn't know how to vent it.

"Brother Yao, are you okay?"

"I'll go, bro, you're moving too fast, you'll disappear in a swish!"

While we were talking, a few young men rushed over from not far away, their faces were somewhat familiar, like the boys I saw at Mrs. Jin's birthday party before at Ran Qingzhuang.

"Brother Ning, brother Ning, are you alright? Are you not injured?" From the other side, Chen Qiao finally came over.

Everyone gathered together, and when the younger brothers saw Chen Qiao, they greeted him one after another and asked him why he was here.

"I accompanied Brother Ning to find Brother Yao." Chen Qiao saw that the younger brothers were stunned, as if they hadn't reacted, he hated the iron and said "tsk", and reminded, "Look at the shit, call someone , this is my sister-in-law!"

The younger brothers must have heard the rumors before, and after Chen Qiao's light touch, they all came back to the memory, and immediately lined up, put their hands on the seams of their trousers, and bowed respectfully to me.

"Hello, sister-in-law!"

I shrank my neck, and my ears seemed to be buzzing a little from their shock.Looking at Ran Qingzhuang again, he is obviously not willing, but because of some reason that only he knows, he has no choice but to be unwilling to acquiesce to the younger brothers to recognize me as a sister-in-law.

"Don't call me 'sister-in-law', just call me Ji Ning." Like Chen Qiao, I didn't accept the names my younger brothers called me.

"Clean it up quickly, pick up all the broken glass, and don't hurt anyone again." A tall woman in her 40s with neat short hair and a spotless white suit was followed by several bodyguards and assistants. People, push away the crowd and come over.

When the younger brothers saw her, they called "Sister Hua" and automatically dispersed from Ran Qingzhuang.

Sister Hua ignored them, walked straight to Ran Qingzhuang, and said with a smile: "Thanks to you today."

"It should, Miss Hua." Ran Qingzhuang said.

Sister Hua nodded appreciatively, glanced at me, raised her slender eyebrows, and asked, "Who is this?"

Ran Qingzhuang came over with a sharp look: "Aren't you called?"

In a daze, I seem to have returned to my childhood. My parents took me to visit relatives during the Chinese New Year. There were a lot of three aunts and six wives. Rebuke, say why you don't call someone.

"Hello, Sister Hua!" I hastened to imitate their example and called out obediently.

Chen Qiao seems to come here often, they are all acquaintances, and he has no relationship with Sister Hua, so he leans over and whispers.After I finished speaking, the way Sister Hua looked at me changed, becoming very loving.

"Oh, so you are Xiaoyao's old friend, hey, our Yaoer likes this one." She pinched my face as soon as she started, I was a little confused, and I didn't even have time to hide. "This little face is really smooth. I heard that you play the cello. No wonder your temperament is different from others."

"Hmm... um..." I was deformed by her face, and I didn't dare to move casually, so I could only falter and laugh at her.

"You have such a good temper." She patted my face with a smile, took out a golden chip from her trousers pocket and stuffed it into my hand, and said, "Hey, see you for the first time, I didn't prepare a meeting gift, this chip You take it, let's go play. Xiaoyao, come here for a while, I have something to tell you." After speaking, like when he came, he left with a group of people in a hurry.

I held the chip like a hot potato, so I asked Ran Qingzhuang for help with his eyes. He glanced at me and said lightly: "You take what is given to you. I will take care of it. You wait for me outside." Then Then he left with his younger brothers.

"That's the person in charge of the casino just now, Mr. Jin's right-hand man, Ou Hua. We all call her Sister Hua." Chen Qiao and others all left, and started to make up lessons for me, "She is very straightforward, as long as she doesn't get angry Easy."

The injured croupier left, the gaming tables were suspended, all the glass shards on the ground were cleaned up, and the casino resumed order.The guests who came in at this time probably couldn't have imagined that there was almost a murder here just 10 minutes ago.

"What will that person do?" Looking at the chips in my hand, I asked.

"Hurt someone and make such a big commotion, Sister Hua won't let him go." Chen Qiao looked at me staring at the chips, thinking that I didn't know how to deal with this thing, and suggested, "The golden chips cost 5000 yuan. If you want to play, I will take you to play a game, anyway Brother Yao is not well yet. If you don’t want to play, I will exchange it for cash for you, how about it?"

I put the chips in my trouser pocket, shook my head and said, "No, it's good to keep it as a souvenir."

Chen Qiao looked like he didn't understand what I was doing, but after all, he cared about my status as "sister-in-law" and didn't give any further advice.

We waited in the car for about half an hour, and Ran Qingzhuang finished his business and came out.

At night, the east and west sides of Lion King Island have two completely different atmospheres.From east to west, the more you drive, the darker it becomes. In the end, you can't see what's ahead even with high beams on.

All the way, Chen Qiao was talking, talking about what happened in the casino just now, about a certain brother, and about the recent weather.Ran Qingzhuang would answer him a few words from time to time, but most of the time he was very quiet.From beginning to end, neither of us had any dialogue.

When we arrived at the Red Building, we went home separately. Chen Qiao went down on the fifth floor, and Ran Qingzhuang and I continued to go up.After entering the door, Ran Qingzhuang took off his coat on the sofa, went to the kitchen refrigerator and opened a can of cold beer.

As if he was extremely thirsty, he raised his head and began to drink wildly, his Adam's apple couldn't stop rolling, the excess liquid slipped down his neck, almost falling into his vest, he burped, and roughly wiped the liquid off his neck , and at the same time crushed the empty wine can with bare hands.

"What are you looking at?" He frowned and asked me uncomfortably, only then did I realize that I had been standing at the kitchen door watching him for a long time.

"I..." I touched the ring box in my coat pocket, pursed my lips, and boldly walked towards him, "That person today, he might not have come this far. As long as someone gives him a hand and persuades him In a word, maybe everything can be salvaged."

All the big mistakes have signs at a very small age, and if they gather together, they will become a tower, and if they gather together, they will become more. Slowly, they will reach the point where it is difficult to turn back.

Ran Qingzhuang looked at me fixedly, his dark pupils showed no trace of emotion: "Why, are you going to give me an ideological education class at night?"

"It's not the right way after all."

It's about tonight, not tonight.We know it well, but no one exposes it.

He threw the beer can into the trash can, and said, "Since he has embarked on this path, he will have to suffer no matter what the outcome is. He has no right to call for injustice, and there is nothing wrong with it." As he spoke, he seemed to be prepared to End the conversation and go back to your bedroom.

I was just trying to persuade, and I was already mentally prepared, so it was not a surprise.

When he passed me, I grabbed his arm and said, "I have something for you."

He looked back at my hand, and before I could say anything, I consciously let go.

"What?" Not bad, he refused without even looking at it.

I lowered my eyes, nervously took out the ring box from my pocket, opened it and presented it to him.

"It's for you."

Ran Qingzhuang remained silent for a while, and silently took the ring box.

I am like a death row prisoner who has been sentenced to death, wearing a hood, being forced to the gallows, and my head has been obediently inserted into the collar, just waiting for the last blow.But at that time, waiting was more difficult than anything else, and it was more painful than anything else.

The time passes by little by little, and the sound of the "tick tick" second hand walking across the dial is in my ears.

It seems to have been waiting for a lifetime, until the nymphs have become pupae, and then emerge from the soil and turn into cicadas.

Then, finally, amidst Xia Chan's resounding cry, my time of death also came.

"Ji Ning, are you really out of your mind?" Ran Qingzhuang kicked me off the gallows, making my death very simple and peaceful.

He sneered, took out the platinum ring from the ring box, and said: "Yes, this ring looks much better and more expensive than my broken silver ring. But why do you think that if you give it to me, I will What do you want? I don’t even want that broken ring, do you think I’ll want you, a counterfeit?”

"Don't always do some inexplicable things to try to bring us closer to each other. I said, bridges return to bridges, roads return to roads, did you not listen at all? If you really want to make up for me, please forgive me, Well, you resign tomorrow, leave this island forever, and leave my presence."

He put the ring back into the ring box and threw it at me casually: "You keep this thing for yourself."

I stood up straight, let the ring box hit me, and rolled to the ground again.

Ran Qingzhuang turned and left, returned to the bedroom, leaving me alone in the kitchen.

The surroundings fell silent again.It's already quiet here, but now it's more like I'm the only one left in the sky and on the ground, I feel noisy even when I breathe.

I knew he wouldn't accept it, but I never give up... want to try.

He picked up the red box on the ground and blew it, then put it in the bedside cabinet.

What's the use of me keeping it?Might as well retreat.But it is also very troublesome to withdraw, Chen Qiao has to be troubled, and he may be suspicious because of this.Forget it, let's not refund it, let's keep it as an inheritance, and then it's up to my little sister and mother to deal with it.If the younger sister wants to give it to her future husband, that's not impossible.

The next day in his sleep, he heard the sound of the door opening and closing outside, presumably it was Ran Qingzhuang who went out early in the morning.

When I got up, I tried to knock on his door, but he wasn't there.

I contacted the maintenance guy in the building and said my ring had fallen in the pipe and asked him to come over with the tools.

The maintenance worker came to check and said that because the washbasin is a pillar type, the pipes are hidden in the pillars, and if you want to check the pipes, you must first remove the washstand.

At this point, he had a difficult time: "The pipes are all water-sealed in bends, and the ring should still be there, but I'm afraid that when I remove the basin, the pipe will be pulled and the ring will slide down."

I handed him the hammer: "Smash it."

As soon as the maintenance worker listened to my order, he took the hammer and smashed the sink.

Inside the ceramic column, the pipe is in an S-bend, and the maintenance worker shines a flashlight, and there is really a black shadow in the bend.

The subsequent operation is very simple, cut the tube, take out the ring, and it's done.

Without waiting for me to mention the loss of money, the maintenance man cleaned up the guy and said that he would replace me with a new basin in the afternoon, so that I don't have to worry about it.

That's just right, it saves me having to explain to Ran Qingzhuang why there is a big hole in the sink.

After sending the maintenance man away, I took the silver ring that had not seen the sun for a long time into the bedroom, took out the ring box in the drawer, and compared it with the platinum ring.

what do you think...

"It's still more beautiful than mine."

I stuffed the silver ring into the ring box and stacked it with the platinum ring. I rearranged the box carefully and closed the drawer.

When Ran Qingzhuang comes back, return it to him. I hope he can be happier and don't be embarrassing.