Chapter 21.2
The phrase “X incompetent” completely angered Jiang Li who was standing behind me; he pushed me away and sat down in front of my laptop, then quietly typed: “I am her X incompetent husband.”
This sentence sounded a bit familiar…..
From the other end, Wang Kai did not respond for a long time.
Then Jiang Li with his long and slender fingers rhythmically tapped the keyboard and said: “Today I will not show YOU my X strength.”
Jiang Li: “I will show my X strength to your computer only.”
I did not react, Jiang Li reopened that black window, quickly tapped some keys on the keyboard.
Then, from that black window a pile of symbols, completely undecipherable to me, jumped out.
I really wanted to pretend as if I understood everything that’s why I decided to watch him patiently from the side. However it was regrettable that some of those symbols had hypnotic effect, I had looked at them barely for a moment but it was already getting hard for me to stifle back a yawn. It looked like they had similar effect on Jiang Li as well but he was unable to hold back his yawn. Thus I went to the kitchen to brew a cup of coffee for him, as a token of gratitude.
Restarting the laptop Jiang Li took the coffee mug and casually spoke: “Your laptop is really worn out.”
I thought he had lost to Wang Kai so he was giving such excuses. I retorted back: “If you are not competent enough then say so, don’t put blame on my laptop. It’s not that old.” But it was indeed old, very old, in fact million years old!!
Jiang Li leisurely leaned back on the sofa and said: “Tomorrow make something delicious for me.”
Oh my goodness, his shamelessness was really boundless. Even though he was defeated he still had the nerve to ask for a reward?
By this time, the computer had restarted. Jiang Li shifted back to his original position and said: “the other side can only reinstall the whole system.”
With my eyes flashing like two stars (revering look reserved only for my idols) I looked at Jiang Li and exclaimed: “So you are really a software engineer, no wonder you are so strong.”
Rubbing the coffee mug in his hand, Jiang Li said: “used to be.”
Inquisitively, I asked: “you have changed your domain? So what do you do now?”
“Now I can do anything.” Jiang Li replied very arrogantly. Looking down at the coffee mug in his hand, he frowned: “At such ungodly hour why did you pour me a cup of coffee, to do what?”
Eh, it was way beyond my sleeping time and I was really tired but I still brewed coffee for him in order to refresh him. But this man’s attitude was extremely bad. Instead of thanking me he only knew how to utter nonsense!
Before I could answer his question, he drank his coffee and then frowned deeper: “this tastes really strange. From next time onward don’t make it with so much haste.”
Oh God, for the first time in my life I really wanted to punch someone hard on face!!!!
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When I went to bed at night, I got a message from Wang Kai. The entire message was full of ellipsis. Since I was feeling full of arrogance, I wanted to show off my cool side to him, so I smiled and texted back: ‘you are really affected by the whole ordeal. It can’t be helped; you need to fight a few more of such face-off rounds in order to get habitual of losing to Jiang Li.’
Wang Kai sent me a blank emoticon and then started neglecting me completely. He did not talk to me for the whole vacation. I thought getting defeated by Jiang Li must have injured his self-esteem deeply…….Aiya, he asked for it.
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Although I usually scorned Wang Kai’s actions but this time his words were not unreasonable. After all the October Holidays* comes only once an year and spending everyday alone at home was very boring. So I decided to go out for some jaunting.
*National Day holidays come in the month of October (1st Oct.)
Going out alone would be boring but going out with Jiang Li would be extremely boring. Plus, there was a high risk of getting bullied by him, He Zhi and her boyfriend were hitting off very nicely, they did not have time to accompany me. Wang Kai…..this fellow just faced a brutal loss at Jiang Li’s hands, so I did not have the nerve to go and look for him. Moreover this guy had always loved the company of beautiful women so why would he spend these long holidays only with the ‘old me’?
Well, there was still hope, my mother. One must respect and honor their elders so I decided to spend these hard-to-get holidays with her.
My mother thought that once again I had fought with Jiang Li, I tried to explain for a very long time but she did not believe me. Then she reluctantly (pretending to be reluctant) agreed to come along with me to the farm house on the city outskirt for a short trip…..this old woman was really pesky.
This farm house was a very good place, extremely beautiful scenery and scrumptious food mainly due to the freshness of the ingredients.
Although my mother had a crazy personality but still there was one good trait. Her hobby that was completely inconsistent with her character- Fishing. Earlier I could never understand why did she like fishing so much, since this activity required a lot of patience. Later on, when I followed her on her fishing excursions for a couple of times then I figured out what she truly liked was chatting while fishing. On several occasions, she was simply interested in talking to me without any care about hooking the fishes; until I reminded her then she would leisurely lift the fishing rod and replace the bait.
In short, it could be said that rather than fishing her hobby was to feed fishes.
On our second day at the farm house my mother could not hold any longer and asked me to accompany her for fishing. I obediently complied with her orders.
It was already autumn, on that day the weather was pretty good. With invigorating autumn air and clear lake I was feeling completely relaxed. Suddenly I thought that I should come out on such outdoor activities more frequently, always staying at home would only make me feel moldy.
My mother sat on a boulder, put on fishing bait on the rod and then threw the rod a few times. In such a grand way she began her fishing.
A moment later, she turned towards me, as if she wanted to say something but then she hesitated.
Strange, was there anything that even my mother found hard to talk about? Instantly I got curious and asked: “Mom, do you want to pee?”
“Ugh” my mother coughed a few times to hide her embarrassment and then said: “Xiao Yan, I want to tell you something.”
Me: “what?”
My mother said: “a few days ago your father came to meet me.”
I frowned: “Then what, did you knock out his teeth or not?”
My mother helplessly shook her head and said: “He is your father after all, why do you hate him so much?”
Me: “So you don’t hate him?”
My mother reverted back to her usual crazy-self and sighed: “Whatever happened is history, I don’t have the strength to hate him anymore.”
Me: “but he betrayed you.”
My mother did not answer but asked: “do you still hate Yu Zhi Fei?”
Yu Zhi Fei? Hearing his name I got a little upset. I did not want to see him, did not want to even mention his name but did I hate him?
Upon seeing my reaction, my mother said: “you see, you have also let go of Yu Zhi Fei. This world is full of things to love as compared to a few detestable things. All of us should live each and every day of our lives earnestly.”
I raised my head and said: “Who said anything about letting Yu Zhi Fei go? I hate him; I hate all those people who have abandoned me!!”
Her hands, which were holding fishing rod, trembled a bit. She said: “Xiao Yan ah, child you are too extreme. You should know that a person’s happiness is not determined by how others treat him but it is determined by how he treats the world.”
I silently looked down.
My mother added: “Silly child, only after letting others go you can release yourself from unnecessary reins.”
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