The ultimate blue sea

Chapter 88

Su Qing was only frozen for a moment. Then he lowered his head. Seeming methodical, he locked the car, then leaned against the car door and put a cigarette in his mouth. He was spotted by Hu Bugui, who took the cigarette as he passed by him and quietly said, "How many have you smoked today? Aren't you finished?"

Su Qing smacked his lips, looked at him a little gloomily, and reached out to fish around in his pocket, but in the end he didn't dare to take out a second cigarette. Ji Pengcheng laughed silently as he looked at him. Su Qing glanced at him expressionlessly, and the old swindler couldn't keep laughing. He thought that there was hidden murderousness in the little fox demon's eyes.

Jiang Lan didn't want to say anything else to them. She went right in after the man who had met them to find somewhere to rest. Hu Bugui and Lu Qingbai carried Zheng Wan's body inside. Su Qing craned his neck and looked on. Seeing them go in, he immediately turned around and deftly lit a cigarette. Then he grabbed Ji Pengcheng by the collar and laughed nastily. "Come on, old man. The two of us are going to have a chat."

Ji Pengcheng struggled, fiercely hitting him over the head with the fan in his hand. "Respect the elderly! Respect the elderly, don't you understand?!"

Su Qing said, "Hmph."

He hauled Ji Pengcheng to a small pond in a corner. Two children were squatting there playing with rubber ducks. They simultaneously raised their heads and gave the two of them strange looks. Su Qing beamed and took some candy from his pocket. "Here, have some candy, kids. Uncle has some things to say to grandpa, you two go play somewhere else, all right?"

A prickly-headed little sprout stood up and looked at him disdainfully. "What candy? Are you humoring minors?"

The other one, a little girl with a long braid, rubbed two fingers together, putting on a vulgar expression inconsistent with her age. "Uncle, I can see that you're loaded. Put it here."

These tones very familiar. These two were simply Tu Tutu Number 2 and Tu Tutu Number 3. At a glance, it was obvious which scourge had taught them. Su Qing glared at the jeering Ji Pengcheng and silently took twenty yuan out of his pocket, putting ten into each child's hand. Only then did the two kids pick up their rubber ducks and bounce off happily.

Ji Pengcheng fixed his collar, which Su Qing had wrinkled, then sat down by the pond, shaking his head. "Well, brat? You don't seem especially surprised to see me."

Su Qing crossed his arms over his chest. With a cigarette in his mouth, he leaned back against a tree and looked at him coldly.

Ji Pengcheng waved a hand. "Hey, don't be like that. An old swindler can have something of a passionate youth, too—here, light shifu a cigarette."

Su Qing tossed a pack of cigarettes and a lighter at him. Ji Pengcheng clicked his tongue and slowly put a cigarette in his mouth, then rather pleasurably took a big drag.

"I've gotten old." He tilted his head up at a forty-five degree angle to look at the sky. Rather melancholically, he said, "When you ran away from the RZ Unit back then, Lao Xiong gave me a call and told me to find you."

Su Qing looked at him suspiciously.

Ji Pengcheng laughed mockingly. "Lao Xiong and those others, they spend their lives hemmed in by rules and regulations. They couldn't find you, but how could I not find you? They have people above. I have people below. There's no comparison."

"In other words...in those three years, when I thought I'd run pretty far, I was actually right under General Xiong's nose?"

"No, no." Feeling that there seemed to be shards of ice mixed into Su Qing's voice, Ji Pengcheng quickly denied it. "How could that be? He only told me to find you, then look after you when I'd found you. Anyway, I don't think you actually need anyone to look after you."